"He also offered $10k to charity if anyone who would develop some ridiculous murder spree game."
So what is the incentive to develop this game for the people to actually take the time and effort to do it?
Also - don't tell Jack about the game by Running With Scissors called "POSTAL". He just might fall over dead.
I love Ubuntu for the soothing warm earth toned theme...
Sick of the neon blue-green crap.
I love wool sweaters and hot cocoa too. Mmmmm... hot cocoa...
We all use Firefox... We have no spyware problems. But since we are a computer shop, we make our bread and butter out of removing spyware from machines running IE.
Firefox might not be the most secure browser out there, but it sure is a lot more so than IE.
IE7 is just nasty.
Who needs MS Office anyways? Spend 399 for that? Open Office does it just as for everything I do with it... and it does it for free.
Why would I taint my TuxBox with Microsoft?
SpellForce 2 does this... RPG RTS combo.
It is a very special kind of suckage... games rarely suck that bad. In fact, I don't think any game sucks that bad. It's like a new discovery voyage of suckage.
No, I didn't like it.
So for these guys to say that's what they are doing... I have some serious doubts.
"The method is horribly inefficient but Williams is hoping it could yield helpful results in areas where electricity is really not an option."
Solar pannels are not an option, but this is? Where would this be a viable method?
The problem that the gaming industry needs to somehow resolve is the knee-jerk reaction/impression that Video Games are just for kids.
The rating thing isn't seeming to do it.
Movies, it's a given, that some are for kids, others for families, and others are for Dates, Chicks, Guys, and sicko-freaks. The "Summer Movies" are well known to be for guys that like big hair and big boobs on girls who are holding guns... and thusly not really movies for kids. But in essence there are movies that are not for everyone... and everyone pretty much knows that.
With Video Games, the general opinion is that they are all for kids.
Considering that the Gaming Industry is starting to take in more money that the Movie Industry (Look at the $ numbers for Halo II compaired to what the movies brought it) and we can see that obviously they have some financial power if they pulled together on some things like propper marketing strategies that divided the audiences. So that eventually people would just get used to the idea that Games are not just kiddie stuff.
Funny how Congress got worked up over Hot Coffee, yet have no problem with the readily available porn on the Net. This stems from a base misunderstanding of the nature of the Gaming Industry, the games themselves, or the people playing the games.
I am a Linspire PC builder... and I love this OS.
As far as Linux distros go, it might not be the "best" out there, but for Windows Refugees just turning to Linux - its perfect.
Fricken SWEEET!
SUSE has long been my favorite distro... this means it has a good chance of getting even better.
Now if we could just resolve this little DVD playback on Linux thing.
I took a ride in a Russian APC once. A BTR 80 I think it was.
Transfer case screwed up. Brakes failed. Had problems shifting.
Take a ride in space? No freaking way.
When you get broadband out to Lapoint, Utah... wake me up.
When you even find Lapoint, Utah on a map, give yourself a pat on the back./just moved to lapoint... I miss my cable internet.
Really, unless I'm building ATM machines, why would I give a rat's ass about an open source version of OS/2?
What would I be able to do with it that I can't already do with Ubuntu, Gentoo, Linspire, Slax, or any of the other distros of Linux that have support, software, bundled apps, device drivers, and everything else that makes an OS actually usable. Serious question, not just breezing. Why would I even bother to burn a fresh Open OS/2 ISO? Why is this important?
I've not even seen a box running OS/2 since 1998, and that was in a Bank running an little application that uploads transaction data to some mainframe in another city. Not even on a desktop.
I played with OS/2 WARP CONNECT and it was spiffy... but we didn't have any software for it.
If these contestants realize that the winning robot will pretty much go straight into military R&D.
Not that there is anything wrong with that. It just smacks of "Real Genius".
If a robot could do this out on the battle field, we could save a lot of lives just in ambulance roles alone. Other applications abound, but just think of it... just in an automated ambulance roll... the robot rushes in, get's loaded up with casualties, races back to the field hospital, all without concern for enemy fire. That alone justifies all the effort./Still waiting for all that popcorn.
Now, if the joint Cisco/CIA joint development project Bullets Over IP, or BOIP would have some successful field tests.../The Man With The Golden Cable Modem
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How do I get this thing to install in Linspire 5.0?
"He also offered $10k to charity if anyone who would develop some ridiculous murder spree game." So what is the incentive to develop this game for the people to actually take the time and effort to do it? Also - don't tell Jack about the game by Running With Scissors called "POSTAL". He just might fall over dead.
I love Ubuntu for the soothing warm earth toned theme... Sick of the neon blue-green crap. I love wool sweaters and hot cocoa too. Mmmmm... hot cocoa...
Linux can not use the Smily Face Spyware? I'm fine with that.
Then Windows Vista will never be released. Not like that would be a bad thing.
We all use Firefox... We have no spyware problems. But since we are a computer shop, we make our bread and butter out of removing spyware from machines running IE. Firefox might not be the most secure browser out there, but it sure is a lot more so than IE. IE7 is just nasty.
Who needs MS Office anyways? Spend 399 for that? Open Office does it just as for everything I do with it... and it does it for free. Why would I taint my TuxBox with Microsoft?
SpellForce 2 does this... RPG RTS combo. It is a very special kind of suckage... games rarely suck that bad. In fact, I don't think any game sucks that bad. It's like a new discovery voyage of suckage. No, I didn't like it. So for these guys to say that's what they are doing... I have some serious doubts.
Is this Slashdot or Fark?
"The method is horribly inefficient but Williams is hoping it could yield helpful results in areas where electricity is really not an option." Solar pannels are not an option, but this is? Where would this be a viable method?
The problem that the gaming industry needs to somehow resolve is the knee-jerk reaction/impression that Video Games are just for kids. The rating thing isn't seeming to do it. Movies, it's a given, that some are for kids, others for families, and others are for Dates, Chicks, Guys, and sicko-freaks. The "Summer Movies" are well known to be for guys that like big hair and big boobs on girls who are holding guns... and thusly not really movies for kids. But in essence there are movies that are not for everyone... and everyone pretty much knows that. With Video Games, the general opinion is that they are all for kids. Considering that the Gaming Industry is starting to take in more money that the Movie Industry (Look at the $ numbers for Halo II compaired to what the movies brought it) and we can see that obviously they have some financial power if they pulled together on some things like propper marketing strategies that divided the audiences. So that eventually people would just get used to the idea that Games are not just kiddie stuff. Funny how Congress got worked up over Hot Coffee, yet have no problem with the readily available porn on the Net. This stems from a base misunderstanding of the nature of the Gaming Industry, the games themselves, or the people playing the games.
I am a Linspire PC builder... and I love this OS. As far as Linux distros go, it might not be the "best" out there, but for Windows Refugees just turning to Linux - its perfect.
Call of Cthulhu... when is it really coming out?
This is like worrying about not enough people knowing how to use a Butter Churn or repair a Steam Locomotive.
Why would you really want this?
So your battery life can drop from 2 hours to 1?
So the laptop can be heavier?
No thanks.
What I'd really like to see is an iPaq with an 80 gig HD in it.
Means you can't find kids in high school that know how to fix it.
Fricken SWEEET! SUSE has long been my favorite distro... this means it has a good chance of getting even better. Now if we could just resolve this little DVD playback on Linux thing.
When told about OSX for PC... "Keep it secret. Keep it safe." Still waiting to run OSX on an AMD 64.
I took a ride in a Russian APC once. A BTR 80 I think it was. Transfer case screwed up. Brakes failed. Had problems shifting. Take a ride in space? No freaking way.
I want to run XP on a G4 Cube. But I don't know why.
When you get broadband out to Lapoint, Utah... wake me up. When you even find Lapoint, Utah on a map, give yourself a pat on the back. /just moved to lapoint... I miss my cable internet.
Really, unless I'm building ATM machines, why would I give a rat's ass about an open source version of OS/2? What would I be able to do with it that I can't already do with Ubuntu, Gentoo, Linspire, Slax, or any of the other distros of Linux that have support, software, bundled apps, device drivers, and everything else that makes an OS actually usable. Serious question, not just breezing. Why would I even bother to burn a fresh Open OS/2 ISO? Why is this important? I've not even seen a box running OS/2 since 1998, and that was in a Bank running an little application that uploads transaction data to some mainframe in another city. Not even on a desktop. I played with OS/2 WARP CONNECT and it was spiffy... but we didn't have any software for it.
If these contestants realize that the winning robot will pretty much go straight into military R&D. Not that there is anything wrong with that. It just smacks of "Real Genius". If a robot could do this out on the battle field, we could save a lot of lives just in ambulance roles alone. Other applications abound, but just think of it... just in an automated ambulance roll... the robot rushes in, get's loaded up with casualties, races back to the field hospital, all without concern for enemy fire. That alone justifies all the effort. /Still waiting for all that popcorn.
"In Russia, the keyboards stroke YOU!" Just wondering.
Now, if the joint Cisco/CIA joint development project Bullets Over IP, or BOIP would have some successful field tests... /The Man With The Golden Cable Modem