Last I heard it was based on the unreal engine, which means the game could feasibly be based on unreal tournament 2003/2004 technology by now. Since the unreal engine is a continuing product and not a stand-alone engine for each unreal game like the quake products, it's reasonable to assume DNF could come out even within a year and not be behind in any way...
I believe games like this have the potential of taking off in North America. Just look at the closest thing we have to it... the sims. The sims involves aspects of dating and romance and it has become an extremely popular title.
The real market for these games, I believe, is women. Games such as the sims were you design a house and decorate it while having your characters involed in romance seems to appeal to girls, who are social creatures. Men seem to prefer more action-oriented games such 3d shooters or complex strategy games such as RTS games.
I believe we have the market for men well taken care of, with action and stretegy games. However, there is a huge market for romance and "creature raising" games for women.
Viruses aren't a problem anymore for any intelligent computer user, just run a mac with OS X and viruses and worms become ancient legends you can tell your children about...
Thanks to ad-blocking features in some browsers like opera or mozilla, marketers now need new ways to deliver ads to the public. Ads are required to keep many people in business, and blocking them just forces marketers to use more intrusive tactics such as this. Why do you think internet explorer doesn't block ads by default? Because we should respect advertisers...
If you disagree with me, look at the ad at the top of this very page, even slashdot uses ads to stay in business.
I can say, I am not a zealot or open-source hippy, and I run windowsXP (patched up like hell), and my main browser is mozilla firebird. I like tabbed browsing and firebird is very fast and not bloated. It's easy to use and skinnable, and hasn't crashed once on me yet.
unreal 2003 might be an "old" engine, but engines can have a long lifetime... The original half-life is still popular, thanks to counter-strike, and it is based on the quake 1 engine.
The unreal 2003 engine is also pretty advanced, and could surely be pushed to the limits of today's hardware if someone wanted to.
The xbox is not a home computer, it is a video game device. It was not meant to be used as a home computer. Microsoft gives people no rights to modify it and use it as a linux box. Getting past the aspects of the xbox that blocks linux use is of a questionable legality (with the DMCA) anyway.
Microsoft loses money on each xbox sale, and they are not meant to be used as a home PC. So basically, quit whining, and buy a real computer if you want to run linux.
If a 12 year old murdered someone, they would still be charged. The charges would not be as heavy as an adults, of course. But a 2000$ fine is better than the multimillion dollar fine they could have been given.
12 year olds are old enough to know the difference between right and wrong. Brianna learned a hard lesson.
What a coincidence then that one of the finest blends of Earl Grey on the planet in general and in the UK in particular is Harrods' Earl Grey, Blend No.... 42
I wounder if slashdot got paid 42$ to post this Ad.
Unless there is only one desktop, you don't have a standardized system for businesses. Personally, I think KDE is a better option for businesses, since it's hardware requirements are much less than gnome's, but that is just my opinion.
It's still good to see companies making a drive to make linux more user friendly and usable for the masses.
In Canada, generally political decisions are made in the best interests of the people and not the best interests of companies.
I find it odd that America is considered a "Democratic Republic" when decisions relevant to government security are made in the best interest of one company.
Especially about red hat. Red hat is the closest to a profitable, properly run, professional company in the linux world. Suse is quite respectable too, and they have a great product to back it up. While other linux distros do matter, they don't show up on the professional radar for most people.
Arguing about whether or not to use GNU in your name, or which GUI is more "free" than the other is irrelevant to most companies. They want good products, not irrelevant nerd-speak. Red Hat and Suse have forged past the anarchistic free-for-all attitude of hackers and made Linux much more approachable. Anyone who says otherwise is probably just jealous of their success...
After reading this article, which I found quite interesting, I did come to a rather shocking conclusion. Although RMS is obviously a very talented and intelligent individual, he seems hellbent on enforcing his ethics and morals on others.
He refuses to have anything to do with anyone who even has the slightest relationship with a non-free program. In effect he and his cohorts are effective enforcing their beliefs on others or cutting them completely off from their organization.
How can you promote "free software" when you don't promote the "freedom to choose". Personally I think a person or company should be allowed to use free as well as non-free software together without reprimand from RMS and his organization.
It's better to use some free software then no free software, and RMS is effectively limiting his friends and support by enforcing his views on them. Maybe he needs to learn to respect that some people might want to go down a middle ground, and the results of doing that can be great neverless. For example, OS X, a brilliant combination of free as well as proprietary software.
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Last I heard it was based on the unreal engine, which means the game could feasibly be based on unreal tournament 2003/2004 technology by now. Since the unreal engine is a continuing product and not a stand-alone engine for each unreal game like the quake products, it's reasonable to assume DNF could come out even within a year and not be behind in any way...
In Canada, we call "noise pollution" AMERICAN TOURISTS. Why do you have to be so loud?
Americans shouldn't trust electronic voting because they cannot trust their own government at all.
In the last election, Bush won by fraud.
Bush and his government do not listen to the UN, detain prisoners with no charges, and therefore do not believe in democracy.
The government is a completely corrupt organization with many of the leaders in it comming from large companies such as the oil industry.
America cannot trust electronic voting because it cannot even trust it's current government.
1) Bully hurts nerd 2) Nerd makes website insulting bully 3) Bully hurts nerd worse
I believe games like this have the potential of taking off in North America. Just look at the closest thing we have to it... the sims. The sims involves aspects of dating and romance and it has become an extremely popular title.
The real market for these games, I believe, is women. Games such as the sims were you design a house and decorate it while having your characters involed in romance seems to appeal to girls, who are social creatures. Men seem to prefer more action-oriented games such 3d shooters or complex strategy games such as RTS games.
I believe we have the market for men well taken care of, with action and stretegy games. However, there is a huge market for romance and "creature raising" games for women.
you get a gold star, sir.
Not only is racing silly, it's also dangerous as hell! Even more dangerous than american football.
Imagine.. humans.. zooming around in half-million dollar 200 km/hour vehicles made of metal! Absurd!
Viruses aren't a problem anymore for any intelligent computer user, just run a mac with OS X and viruses and worms become ancient legends you can tell your children about...
Thanks to ad-blocking features in some browsers like opera or mozilla, marketers now need new ways to deliver ads to the public. Ads are required to keep many people in business, and blocking them just forces marketers to use more intrusive tactics such as this. Why do you think internet explorer doesn't block ads by default? Because we should respect advertisers...
If you disagree with me, look at the ad at the top of this very page, even slashdot uses ads to stay in business.
Because I was close to all out boycotting all apple products when I heard they were in business with McDonalds.
I will no way support any company that associates with animal-murdering empires like McDonalds.
I can't wait to download proper dvd-rips off kazaa of the first three movies...
Fuck the MPAA!
When you asked an unknowlagable computer user which ISP they used, and their answer was 'Netscape', well now they can actually say it and be right!
I can say, I am not a zealot or open-source hippy, and I run windowsXP (patched up like hell), and my main browser is mozilla firebird. I like tabbed browsing and firebird is very fast and not bloated. It's easy to use and skinnable, and hasn't crashed once on me yet.
If they advertised it, people would use it.
unreal 2003 might be an "old" engine, but engines can have a long lifetime... The original half-life is still popular, thanks to counter-strike, and it is based on the quake 1 engine.
The unreal 2003 engine is also pretty advanced, and could surely be pushed to the limits of today's hardware if someone wanted to.
The mt-32 sounds are so generic, why would roland even care about it?
Their now dated piano, organ, and guitar sounds have already been copied by hundreds of other people and companies...
Nobody would buy an mt-32 now, because you can get 100x the features simply using today's computer based sampling programs.
Shouldn't everyone be using the open-source jabber ?
I mean anyone who uses a proprietary network to do communication on is taking some pretty big chances...
A modded xbox could just as easily be modded in order to facilitate cheating on their network...
MS has every right to protect their networks from cheating gamers.
The xbox is not a home computer, it is a video game device. It was not meant to be used as a home computer. Microsoft gives people no rights to modify it and use it as a linux box. Getting past the aspects of the xbox that blocks linux use is of a questionable legality (with the DMCA) anyway.
Microsoft loses money on each xbox sale, and they are not meant to be used as a home PC. So basically, quit whining, and buy a real computer if you want to run linux.
I just tried it with my logitech optical mouse
and
it worked!
If a 12 year old murdered someone, they would still be charged. The charges would not be as heavy as an adults, of course. But a 2000$ fine is better than the multimillion dollar fine they could have been given.
12 year olds are old enough to know the difference between right and wrong. Brianna learned a hard lesson.
I wounder if slashdot got paid 42$ to post this Ad.
How many desktops does linux have now? 20?
Unless there is only one desktop, you don't have a standardized system for businesses. Personally, I think KDE is a better option for businesses, since it's hardware requirements are much less than gnome's, but that is just my opinion.
It's still good to see companies making a drive to make linux more user friendly and usable for the masses.
In Canada, generally political decisions are made in the best interests of the people and not the best interests of companies.
I find it odd that America is considered a "Democratic Republic" when decisions relevant to government security are made in the best interest of one company.
Truly the land of the free (enterprise).
Especially about red hat. Red hat is the closest to a profitable, properly run, professional company in the linux world. Suse is quite respectable too, and they have a great product to back it up. While other linux distros do matter, they don't show up on the professional radar for most people.
Arguing about whether or not to use GNU in your name, or which GUI is more "free" than the other is irrelevant to most companies. They want good products, not irrelevant nerd-speak. Red Hat and Suse have forged past the anarchistic free-for-all attitude of hackers and made Linux much more approachable. Anyone who says otherwise is probably just jealous of their success...
I understand freedom as a whole. Free software is not really free if you do not have the freedom to use it the way you want without reprimand.
After reading this article, which I found quite interesting, I did come to a rather shocking conclusion. Although RMS is obviously a very talented and intelligent individual, he seems hellbent on enforcing his ethics and morals on others.
He refuses to have anything to do with anyone who even has the slightest relationship with a non-free program. In effect he and his cohorts are effective enforcing their beliefs on others or cutting them completely off from their organization.
How can you promote "free software" when you don't promote the "freedom to choose". Personally I think a person or company should be allowed to use free as well as non-free software together without reprimand from RMS and his organization.
It's better to use some free software then no free software, and RMS is effectively limiting his friends and support by enforcing his views on them. Maybe he needs to learn to respect that some people might want to go down a middle ground, and the results of doing that can be great neverless. For example, OS X, a brilliant combination of free as well as proprietary software.