The thing is, downloading something for free doesn't mean that you're never going to buy it. I run a small record label and we've made one full release freely downloadable, but people still buy it.
It's not all as simple as that. I think that if small groups of people working in their spare time
can write something that competes with commercial software, that just goes to show how much we're being over-charged for software. $700 or whatever for Photoshop? C'mon....
I like the idea of Gobo Linux, I'm just not very impressed by the implementation. I really think that some of the 20 year old UNIX crustiness should be scraped off the top, but slapping symlinks all over the place seems sort of like a recipe for disaster to me.
I absolutely love Python. Yeah sure, everyone always says the same thing about how much slower than C++ it is, but for every program I've written in Python so far (including games), speed has not been even the slightest issue. Plus, if you ever do need the extra speed, it's pretty easy to re-code the bottlenecks in C.
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Two things. They said "better console", not "console with a better controller". Also, who's to say they're not talking about GameCube?
As of 11:03p.m. EST, it still says "Torent" on the front page.
Not being real is what makes a game a game...
The thing is, downloading something for free doesn't mean that you're never going to buy it. I run a small record label and we've made one full release freely downloadable, but people still buy it.
Great idea. To me that sounds like even more of a viable option than RTS gaming.
I think you meant linuxgames.com. linuxgames.org is just advertising. By the way, I prefer The Linux Game Tome, but that's just me.
If your drinking a coffee to impress people, your going to be a dick no matter what level of roast you drink. Well put.
Stupidest... classic, total classic.
It's not all as simple as that. I think that if small groups of people working in their spare time can write something that competes with commercial software, that just goes to show how much we're being over-charged for software. $700 or whatever for Photoshop? C'mon....
I'm thrilled, but why do you care if I "enjoy a good game for once"?
I like the idea of Gobo Linux, I'm just not very impressed by the implementation. I really think that some of the 20 year old UNIX crustiness should be scraped off the top, but slapping symlinks all over the place seems sort of like a recipe for disaster to me.
I absolutely love Python. Yeah sure, everyone always says the same thing about how much slower than C++ it is, but for every program I've written in Python so far (including games), speed has not been even the slightest issue. Plus, if you ever do need the extra speed, it's pretty easy to re-code the bottlenecks in C.
I guess it doesn't matter if you're the only one reading the code, but I can't see how macros can do anything other than make code harder to read...