I can't wait until Google eats what's left of your market share. You deserve to lose out -- not just to Google, but any company with enough wit to understand that you can't do these kinds of things with real money and get away with them.
Not in Canada -- our laws cover "operating a motor vehicle" under the influence. That includes lying down in a turned-off motorboat while slammed. I would imagine an autopiloted Honda is against the rules too, unfortunately.
The gear is probably a separate model that's just "bolted" on top of your player model. Most games with viewable equipment do this, probably all the way back to Quake 2 (and the vwep mods for Quake 1).
I've had professors who harp on and on and on about their preference for Java over C++ or something of that ilk. I would imagine the political science thing is just as harmless, except the poli sci majors are more vocal. Perhaps they have more time on their hands.
Cell phone games would be a lot better if the MIDP standards were more strictly followed, and included some sort of requirement for screen resolution. My phone only supports MIDP 1.0, which is extremely irritating, because it doesn't even dictate things like supported image formats or whether or not phones should do alpha layer (mine does, others don't).
The keypads on these things also suck. They're stiff and small and not very conducive to good gaming technique. I'd prefer something like the IBM keyboard nipples over the little thumbstick on my T610.
Java starts up extremely slow on my phone, and once it's up, it takes a long while to stop working so I can make phone calls again. There's also not a lot in the way of games for my phone (most likely because it supports only the crippled MIDP 1.0). I'm not really impressed with writing for cellphones, nor am I impressed with what's available. All I've really liked so far is a clone of Jezzball.
I buy secondhand because I'm not paying $70 for a derivative first person shooter. If you put out an original game, I'll buy it at full market price. I purchased Civ 4, Deus Ex, and System Shock 2 at full market price. I purchased Deus Ex 2 for $10 secondhand from a seedy retailer.
Produce something I want to actually buy and then we can argue the economics of me buying it new. The chicken/egg argument isn't appropriate right now until these original games are actually getting killed by the secondhand market.
I'm not quite sure why they'd want to use it. End-users already trust Microsoft implicitly because they made the operating system, so if they wanted to, for instance, install some software on all Windows machines that reports home if it detects a pirated copy, they could just do it through a service pack update. Most people would willingly install it (or click the little automatic button in Windows Update), and there'd be none of this Tom Clancy technothriller intrigue.
I can't personally think of any kind of official reason why Microsoft would want to shove code onto Windows machines just from visiting their website. They've got tons of other ways of doing this.
He's clearly just there to ramp up the page impressions; Ziff-Davis is infamous for hiring people to do this sort of thing (remember Damon Brown saying that Linux was a programming language when covering the PS2 Linux kit?)
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If it's not using Direct3D for the renderer, it may be using DirectSound or DirectInput which are both major components of DirectX. I believe the DX9 standard claims a minimum amount of shader support, which is likely the easiest way to tell if your card is OK (most vendors don't tell you what billions of GL extensions their card supports on the box).
There are a couple areas in Vice City (like the golf course) where ambulances off in the distance will drive directly toward you, only to fall into a natural hazard (such as over a fence and into the river). It's rather amusing to watch.
In my experience, the PC game section of Gamestop is usually nonexistent. While this isn't much worse than EB's anemic PC offerings, it is still awful and will more likely than not hurt PC game sales further.
It appears that they've been selling these machines without an OS for awhile, but this is the first I've heard of it. I'm somewhat disappointed they're using ATI cards, and it's not much cheaper than the equivalent Windows machines, but I am glad to see Dell making inroads in that direction.
The university I go to has a wad of new Dell Optiplex n-series machines running Academic Linux and they seem to be very nice, but I have no understanding of the price deal they have.
How do you tune values for economics, damage, etc in your games? Is there a special rule of thumb to follow (other than the "double it, if it looks too small, double it again" rule)?
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I use my iPod for this, actually. It has the feature to inherit alarms from iCal, and you can create an alarm that plays music from its library when it goes off (as well as a slightly annoying buzzer).
If we had Civilization on the DS, the IT community would fall apart, traffic fatalities would vastly increase and the world would be plunged into a state of anarchy. It's best we don't have it.
The renderer and game code in id software games have usually been in seperate DLLs since Quake 2. I haven't taken a chance to look at it yet, but I'm assuming Quake III is along the same lines.
When NeXTStep went to multiple architectures, most binaries were provided in all architectures, even ones people didn't use (SPARC). My hope is that it will be the same this time around.
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I can't wait until Google eats what's left of your market share. You deserve to lose out -- not just to Google, but any company with enough wit to understand that you can't do these kinds of things with real money and get away with them.
Not in Canada -- our laws cover "operating a motor vehicle" under the influence. That includes lying down in a turned-off motorboat while slammed. I would imagine an autopiloted Honda is against the rules too, unfortunately.
C'mon, he wrote the visualization platform for the Xbox360 BIOS. He's instantly who I think of when I hear "European game developer".
The gear is probably a separate model that's just "bolted" on top of your player model. Most games with viewable equipment do this, probably all the way back to Quake 2 (and the vwep mods for Quake 1).
I've had professors who harp on and on and on about their preference for Java over C++ or something of that ilk. I would imagine the political science thing is just as harmless, except the poli sci majors are more vocal. Perhaps they have more time on their hands.
Cell phone games would be a lot better if the MIDP standards were more strictly followed, and included some sort of requirement for screen resolution. My phone only supports MIDP 1.0, which is extremely irritating, because it doesn't even dictate things like supported image formats or whether or not phones should do alpha layer (mine does, others don't).
The keypads on these things also suck. They're stiff and small and not very conducive to good gaming technique. I'd prefer something like the IBM keyboard nipples over the little thumbstick on my T610.
Java starts up extremely slow on my phone, and once it's up, it takes a long while to stop working so I can make phone calls again. There's also not a lot in the way of games for my phone (most likely because it supports only the crippled MIDP 1.0). I'm not really impressed with writing for cellphones, nor am I impressed with what's available. All I've really liked so far is a clone of Jezzball.
I buy secondhand because I'm not paying $70 for a derivative first person shooter. If you put out an original game, I'll buy it at full market price. I purchased Civ 4, Deus Ex, and System Shock 2 at full market price. I purchased Deus Ex 2 for $10 secondhand from a seedy retailer.
Produce something I want to actually buy and then we can argue the economics of me buying it new. The chicken/egg argument isn't appropriate right now until these original games are actually getting killed by the secondhand market.
I wasn't sure if this comment was supposed to be against grammar filters or not, but I'm sure as hell in favour of them now!
I'm not quite sure why they'd want to use it. End-users already trust Microsoft implicitly because they made the operating system, so if they wanted to, for instance, install some software on all Windows machines that reports home if it detects a pirated copy, they could just do it through a service pack update. Most people would willingly install it (or click the little automatic button in Windows Update), and there'd be none of this Tom Clancy technothriller intrigue.
I can't personally think of any kind of official reason why Microsoft would want to shove code onto Windows machines just from visiting their website. They've got tons of other ways of doing this.
He's clearly just there to ramp up the page impressions; Ziff-Davis is infamous for hiring people to do this sort of thing (remember Damon Brown saying that Linux was a programming language when covering the PS2 Linux kit?)
This could get addictive.
If it's not using Direct3D for the renderer, it may be using DirectSound or DirectInput which are both major components of DirectX. I believe the DX9 standard claims a minimum amount of shader support, which is likely the easiest way to tell if your card is OK (most vendors don't tell you what billions of GL extensions their card supports on the box).
There are a couple areas in Vice City (like the golf course) where ambulances off in the distance will drive directly toward you, only to fall into a natural hazard (such as over a fence and into the river). It's rather amusing to watch.
In my experience, the PC game section of Gamestop is usually nonexistent. While this isn't much worse than EB's anemic PC offerings, it is still awful and will more likely than not hurt PC game sales further.
It appears that they've been selling these machines without an OS for awhile, but this is the first I've heard of it. I'm somewhat disappointed they're using ATI cards, and it's not much cheaper than the equivalent Windows machines, but I am glad to see Dell making inroads in that direction.
The university I go to has a wad of new Dell Optiplex n-series machines running Academic Linux and they seem to be very nice, but I have no understanding of the price deal they have.
This appears to be done using GSM cell phone towers among other large, static objects.
One hopes those don't move the same way that wireless routers can (i.e. in a car)
What version of Python are you using? Is it a mainstream distribution or one of the performance-oriented distros like Stackless?
How do you tune values for economics, damage, etc in your games? Is there a special rule of thumb to follow (other than the "double it, if it looks too small, double it again" rule)?
I use my iPod for this, actually. It has the feature to inherit alarms from iCal, and you can create an alarm that plays music from its library when it goes off (as well as a slightly annoying buzzer).
If we had Civilization on the DS, the IT community would fall apart, traffic fatalities would vastly increase and the world would be plunged into a state of anarchy. It's best we don't have it.
I'm no fan of Microsoft or outshoring myself, but this is quite possibly the worst and most insulting article I've ever seen posted to Slashdot.
Editor and the OP need to have their heads examined, and possibly find something new to do with their time.
The renderer and game code in id software games have usually been in seperate DLLs since Quake 2. I haven't taken a chance to look at it yet, but I'm assuming Quake III is along the same lines.
Trackmania Sunrise might be a good modern option for you. Unfortunately it's Windows-only.
When NeXTStep went to multiple architectures, most binaries were provided in all architectures, even ones people didn't use (SPARC). My hope is that it will be the same this time around.