That WAS how it went in the beginning. The reason they removed the free Windows version is becuase too many people used it to write commercial, non GPL software, which goes against the license agreement.
What is utterly annoying in some games, is not that the game is too hard, but the fact load times are between 30 secs and minute sometimes! It's very frustating.
I think this auto-difficulty has made my MP2 play harder. I am a perfectionist when it comes to games, I don't like getting hit too much and if I do, I just play it out without care, cuz I don't mind dying. And then, when I finish a section well enough, the enemies in the next one become even tougher and tougher.... even on the first maps!
Ofcourse there is a Hebrew localized version. Hebrew localization is one of the things that made M$ products much more popular from OSS which hardly had (past form) any of this support.
"what is to stop a zillion people from pirating it?" Nothing does! Office is warezed all around the country.
To tell you the truth, the reason why their started distributing OO and OSS is because the following story: The treasury department had a couple of badly licensed machines, M$ then got pissed and made unreasonable claims and made them pay alot. One of the head directors said: "screw it! i'm not going to give a single $ to micro$oft anymore."
Not only that super-kung-fu-firing-fireballs-from-fingertips-fly ing-about-kicking-people-through-mountains, but also all the truly disturbing material, which is many times masked as cute shows or seamingly harmless series. It's the Japanese culture that allows for that. Things don't always have to be shallow. Or stuff like fanservice (pantsu!) or shows that are specifically ecchi (lotsa cases of a boy mistakenly sees girl in "indecent" situations, get a nosebleed and kicked out:-P) that never appear in US animation.
Japanese have the quality to sometimes combine seriousness with utter foolishness in a very pleasing way.
Forget about Cartoon Network and DBz. The real Japanophiles prefer higher quality anime which in many cases doesn't even get to the states... and then get it from Fansub Groups for unlicensed material. I personally dwell channels well over 1000 people at a time.
The game offers, technologically, all the features expected from a new fps (dynamic lighting using bumbmaps, realistic physics and such) and a feature most games don't apply (except maybe Serious Sam): huge enviroments. You have a field of view to miles away, real-time rendered. You find yourself in an island full of people that want you dead. You can go wherever you want in a huge and very detailed landscape.
Instead of talking just check out the tech demo movie and the new trailer. It can speak for itself.
The only difference (and from what I gathered from the posts), is that the "game masters" are actually nice people that listen to what people have to say. If there is a major dispute about features, i'm pretty sure they will be glad to help. Moreover, in real-life you don't have these "gods". In the game, you (probably) can't get sick and need aid or need to eat and starve. Life is good.
It would be interesting tho, if someone made an item/script X and sells it for Y money, and then someone makes a competing item/script Z and sells it for less. You will see real-life economics!
Hell, what might happen next is that someone makes a building which he will call a "company" and let people make stuff for money he'll pay, and then sell it for more to other people. (the workers will be those "artists")
I'm also having sex atleast twice a day, even nowadays! And not only that, I'm doing it with twins. And not only that, I think it can be considered incest!
(if you don't get the joke, you're not a real geek)
How can one "adjust" his phone bill through the phone, as you say? All the billing information is held in the provider's computer, somewhere far from your phone and reach. However, you might be able to activate "test mode" like in old phones, and by that listen to other calls in the area and such. But that was possible with all the previous generations of phones aswell.
The only question is if it's worth writing? Who needs ANOTHER flashing bar with useless data? or stupid pictures on HUGE icons in your file browser? Who the hell needs to show the docs as stacks? Is it really more important to see who has a bigger stack or to see a fast and brief file list? etc etc etc.......
If there's some OSS developer that wants to do those stuff, he should feel free... but will anyone ever use it?!
Hmm.. that code shouldn't even compile. char str[5] makes str a permanent pointer to a specific memory location in the size of 5 chars. The assignment str = anything; is illegal because str is a permanent pointer. Also, even if str was only a char*, then it would still crash, since "hello world!" is a temporary pointer to a temporary array of chars in the memory.
Well, if the program's intention is to show bad, uncompilable code, then sure. If the intention is to make a prog that prints "hello world!" to stdout, then it sure as hell needs a patch.
Obviously... They follow the RIAA state of mind... Market something that's easily overcome (copy-protection and the need to buy a physical CD) and then sue everyone that circumvents it. Think of all the out-of-court settlement money they can get from this!
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That WAS how it went in the beginning. The reason they removed the free Windows version is becuase too many people used it to write commercial, non GPL software, which goes against the license agreement.
What is utterly annoying in some games, is not that the game is too hard, but the fact load times are between 30 secs and minute sometimes! It's very frustating.
I think this auto-difficulty has made my MP2 play harder. I am a perfectionist when it comes to games, I don't like getting hit too much and if I do, I just play it out without care, cuz I don't mind dying. And then, when I finish a section well enough, the enemies in the next one become even tougher and tougher.... even on the first maps!
Ofcourse there is a Hebrew localized version. Hebrew localization is one of the things that made M$ products much more popular from OSS which hardly had (past form) any of this support.
"what is to stop a zillion people from pirating it?"
Nothing does! Office is warezed all around the country.
To tell you the truth, the reason why their started distributing OO and OSS is because the following story:
The treasury department had a couple of badly licensed machines, M$ then got pissed and made unreasonable claims and made them pay alot. One of the head directors said: "screw it! i'm not going to give a single $ to micro$oft anymore."
Not only that super-kung-fu-firing-fireballs-from-fingertips-fly ing-about-kicking-people-through-mountains, but also all the truly disturbing material, which is many times masked as cute shows or seamingly harmless series. It's the Japanese culture that allows for that. Things don't always have to be shallow. Or stuff like fanservice (pantsu!) or shows that are specifically ecchi (lotsa cases of a boy mistakenly sees girl in "indecent" situations, get a nosebleed and kicked out :-P) that never appear in US animation.
Japanese have the quality to sometimes combine seriousness with utter foolishness in a very pleasing way.
Forget about Cartoon Network and DBz. The real Japanophiles prefer higher quality anime which in many cases doesn't even get to the states... and then get it from Fansub Groups for unlicensed material. I personally dwell channels well over 1000 people at a time.
That's a commercial for Arinamin V-Drink ofcourse!!
Far Cry.
The game offers, technologically, all the features expected from a new fps (dynamic lighting using bumbmaps, realistic physics and such) and a feature most games don't apply (except maybe Serious Sam): huge enviroments. You have a field of view to miles away, real-time rendered.
You find yourself in an island full of people that want you dead. You can go wherever you want in a huge and very detailed landscape.
Instead of talking just check out the tech demo movie and the new trailer.
It can speak for itself.
Iraq's first OpenSource project will probably be named something like "MyWMD"
Already been done in a plugin called Tabbrowser Extensions:_ tabextensions .html.en#download
http://white.sakura.ne.jp/~piro/xul/
It has MUCH more than that feature. It pretty much has anything you'd ever need from tabs.
The only difference (and from what I gathered from the posts), is that the "game masters" are actually nice people that listen to what people have to say. If there is a major dispute about features, i'm pretty sure they will be glad to help. Moreover, in real-life you don't have these "gods". In the game, you (probably) can't get sick and need aid or need to eat and starve. Life is good.
It would be interesting tho, if someone made an item/script X and sells it for Y money, and then someone makes a competing item/script Z and sells it for less. You will see real-life economics!
Hell, what might happen next is that someone makes a building which he will call a "company" and let people make stuff for money he'll pay, and then sell it for more to other people. (the workers will be those "artists")
Naaa... that's what robots do :)
(The Second Renaissance)
I don't have the exact, solid, proof. But it was written on Slashdot that SCO got $50,000,000 from a child company of Microsoft.
You mean something like MagnaTune that was linked some time ago on Slashdot?
Their moto: "We're a record label. But we're not evil."
"Dollar varlue" ?
;)
Will I get a 50$ check from you?
"and none of these devices play Oggs, which is a technically supieror format."
How about the iRiver or the Neuros?
They both play ogg.
What about the iRiver iHP-120?
Well... That _IS_ a block.
Like the original Windows logo was kinda like a window... (and now it's a butterfly trying to escape through windows)
I'm also having sex atleast twice a day, even nowadays!
And not only that, I'm doing it with twins. And not only that, I think it can be considered incest!
(if you don't get the joke, you're not a real geek)
How can one "adjust" his phone bill through the phone, as you say? All the billing information is held in the provider's computer, somewhere far from your phone and reach.
However, you might be able to activate "test mode" like in old phones, and by that listen to other calls in the area and such. But that was possible with all the previous generations of phones aswell.
They did say the first Quantum Computers will come in around 10-100 years... Last time I checked "Forever" is longer than that.
The only question is if it's worth writing?
Who needs ANOTHER flashing bar with useless data? or stupid pictures on HUGE icons in your file browser? Who the hell needs to show the docs as stacks? Is it really more important to see who has a bigger stack or to see a fast and brief file list?
etc etc etc.......
If there's some OSS developer that wants to do those stuff, he should feel free... but will anyone ever use it?!
What says it won't be the next clippy?
Hmm.. that code shouldn't even compile.
char str[5] makes str a permanent pointer to a specific memory location in the size of 5 chars. The assignment str = anything; is illegal because str is a permanent pointer. Also, even if str was only a char*, then it would still crash, since "hello world!" is a temporary pointer to a temporary array of chars in the memory.
Well, if the program's intention is to show bad, uncompilable code, then sure. If the intention is to make a prog that prints "hello world!" to stdout, then it sure as hell needs a patch.
Obviously...
They follow the RIAA state of mind...
Market something that's easily overcome (copy-protection and the need to buy a physical CD) and then sue everyone that circumvents it. Think of all the out-of-court settlement money they can get from this!
That will just make compile time longer. ;)
Since foo isn't volatile, the compiler will notice that code does nothing and will remove it
Before school, in kindergarten, they told me to share my toys.
I guess now that sharing is bad.