i was more talking of "traditional" gamemaking not making a mod
as far as i understand you would have still to pay valve to get the whole sourcecode of half-life
and can you sell a mod without some sort of agreement with the developers of the game it is based on????
and as i said half-life was a cool game as it came out.. but the engine is still not a cleaner or better implementation then battelfield
then there was counter-strike making half-life spread over almost every gamers desktop so it should not be very supprising to see a fair amount of mods for this game
i never noticed valve treat their userbase well and everyone i know who played counter-strike seriously complained about the engine
and i can't unterstand why anyone should complain about developers trying to make their own engine because this is the only way we get some good engines to make mods for
and half-life is not a horrible implementation????
"I" never played a 3d shooter with more problems...
but don't take me wrong... i really liked the game at the time it came out and counter-strike was my mostplayed game 'till the community got lame (or was it me???)
but don't try to tell me just because a lot of people are very fond of this game its engine is a good implementation.... it's like telling me windows is a cleanly implemented os because everybody uses it
maybe it is hard for a small(unknown) team to convince their investors to give them this amount of money at the start of the development because they have nothing to show and if they get nothing done the investors sit there with a licence for some gameengine they don't know what to do with
but when they start with their own engine will need their money in small pieces and everytime the ask for more money the investors can be shown what they achieved
and if you buy a engine like q3 (somewhere i read you pay about 300'000 for it) you can't rewrite all the code just for a feature you would like in your game because you allready spent a lot of money for the code you want to change now
i think game developers like to be free to decide what they want to do and they are allready pruned of a lot of their freedom because they have to get the money from somewhere
this are just my impressions as no-game developer and i would like to be enlightened by someone with experience in this field
i don't see how this should work...
in an older of their article they say Doom III will require a 1 GHz cpu at least
and what i have seen form the beta i cant imagine it with decent speed on a Xbox.....
pirating microsoft software is supporting them to!!
so stop pirate their shit and start using really free software!!!!
now someone could come and say how can pirating their software support them?????
money they have.... they gain more then enough revenue form selling software to companys and hosnest peoples
so pirating don't hurt them...
and if you think further
say 20% use windows or office without a licence these 20% help to consolidate the use of microsoft in their environment
they will request office files at work and from friends, they will buy/use windows software, they will teach friends how to use windows/office usw they will recommend windows
if this users would use say linux, they would not use windows software, games would buy hardware with linux drivers and would request documents in an open format would request webdesigners to fix their borken websites(ie only websites) yadda-yadda-yadda
20% is a free invented number (tm)
but the rate of privat users copying software is very high
i was in a pc shop of a mate when a cop came in and ordered a custombuild pc
after all hardware was altogether the sales assistant asked him about software that was needed
then the cop shyly asked would it be possible to put the ms windows/office on the pc without buying it the shop assistant was suspiciously and started to explain to the cop it was ilegal and so one then the cop argued that after buying a pc he can't afford the software to put on it..
finally the shop assistant agreed to install the software
and this wasn't a cheap undercover action or something... he had never any problems with the police.....
so
it is your interpretation that makes it gross generalisation
i don't think criminals will break into a house instead of robbing a bank because there is a lesser sentence but because it is less likely to be caught breaking into a house!!!!
btw i think people would switch to steal the ingredients of a sandwich
there is a
explanation of this chaos
it's german sorry.....
short:
there are to systems and one mixing them both..
Chuquet system: 10^9 = 1 Billion 10^12 = 1 Trillion
Pelletier system: 10^9 = 1 Milliard 10^12 = 1 Billion
the Chuquet system was invented 1484 by Nicolas Chuquet.
around 1550 Pelltier invented his system and Germany and GB started using it.
France and USA stayed with Chuquet
1961 France starts to use Pelltier!!!
and GB started to use Chuquet 1974 because it was used in many scientifical publications and economic press (US influence)
Italy and Russia uses some mix of both systems...
maybe it is now time for USA to leave the both french invented systems to some homebrew us thing.. may I suggest: 1 billion = 1 freedom, 1 trillion = 1 liberty!!!!!! feel free to copy this post to your favourite text editor and do the spellchecking yourself!!! i know me spelling is as bad as saddam (tm) there is no need to remind me.... and you may find some weapons of mass distraction (tm) in my post!!! search at your own risk
without a licence he can't prove he has the right to use this software!!!!!
what if BSA or MS comes after him for pirating the software???? if the microsoft employee was allowed to hand out the software everything should be ok... (don't forget it's microsoft and add this to the US law.... =)
or from where should he know if he is or isn't allowed to use this software commercial or to hand out copys to his mates???? or what ever...
i personally give a shit to licences (at least with companys like ms)
but maybe this one could really fuck his career up if he get a caught "pirating" a (shitlike) piece of ms software
bah such a car development will be banned by bush administration!!!!!
because it is possible to use such cars for terrorist attacks...
or maybe he tells us there are wmd in this cars....
that we cant see them doesn't mean they arn't there
my mother and my younger sister have no problem too with using linux!!!
there are a few points they complain about
they sometimes have problems with websites not working in mozilla or konqueror, and the office suites are still not as good as they should be
thinking of spellchecking and compatibility to ms office maybe i will install them ms office with crossover or wine...
btw they are both normal office computer users..
i totally agree =)))
debian is the only packagebased linuxdistro i was ever happy with for desktop use
on my workstation i use gentoo which rox!!!!
but i don't like to invest hours for configuring my laptop so there is debian the way to go:p
it looks like you would have to use reiserfs..
Resizing: It is possible to add storage space to already existing Logical Volume(s), increasing their size(s) during runtime. If the filesystem on the logical volume supports it (like ReiserFS on SuSE Linux does) it can be resized during runtime as well to immediately use the additional space, without unmounting it so that applications and users will not even notice the operation.
xfs is workin very well for me even with a lot of hard lookups caused by games and beta software =))
if i am right i just started one 2 hours again...
by mistake =))) on my mothers SuSE 8.1 machine
but i am not aware what it really can do... i just closed it because there was no need of repartitioning
sorry but i just can't see it....
how are such machines assembled???
my best guess is:
at some point they will install windows and the other software on the harddisk and i think this will happen before they put the harddisk into the computers
then they assamble the laptops put together all lose hardware...
at some time they will put all the parts in a box with software and everything included
then the box will be labled..(or it is labled before the packaging)
if this is just somewhat near reality everything they had to change is:
taking a clean harddisk to put into the laptop
dont put the windows disc into the box
make a new lable with no OS checkbox on it
they almost always sell notebooks with different versions of windows... so nobody can tell me it is not possible to make a no windows option too.
and as far as i am concerned it would be enough to sell this online if it is not popular enough for retail selling
but maybe they have already payed for windows and would be losing money if they sell notebooks without windows
in switzerland it is not much better...
we have 26 cantons with different tax rules
and this program is just for about 400'000 citizens
it should not be so hard to make a application with rulesets for the different states and not to expensive if you think of millions of people using it
i think what you understand as "black box concept" is better described as encapsulation
to encapsulate you have to describe interfaces
to describe the interfaces you have to have knowledge of the whole system if two programmer/teams describe between their capsules/"black boxes" without taking the whole system into account you will start having problems
to the cpu analogy
if the cpu designer don't take the whole system in account they will forget they need to build better cooling to their cpu the cooler designer have to check if the airflow in the case is big enough to take the heat away and i could continue endless but for now i don't think you have to take global climate changes caused by your cpu/cooling system into account =))))
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as far as i understand you would have still to pay valve to get the whole sourcecode of half-life
and can you sell a mod without some sort of agreement with the developers of the game it is based on????
and as i said half-life was a cool game as it came out.. but the engine is still not a cleaner or better implementation then battelfield
then there was counter-strike making half-life spread over almost every gamers desktop
so it should not be very supprising to see a fair amount of mods for this game
i never noticed valve treat their userbase well
and everyone i know who played counter-strike seriously complained about the engine
and i can't unterstand why anyone should complain about developers trying to make their own engine because this is the only way we get some good engines to make mods for
na they obviously trying to make a fortune out of this ... and he has to sell the data....
hope they will use the money to recover public finances
"I" never played a 3d shooter with more problems...
but don't take me wrong... i really liked the game at the time it came out and counter-strike was my mostplayed game 'till the community got lame (or was it me???)
but don't try to tell me just because a lot of people are very fond of this game its engine is a good implementation....
it's like telling me windows is a cleanly implemented os because everybody uses it
maybe it is hard for a small(unknown) team to convince their investors to give them this amount of money at the start of the development because they have nothing to show
and if they get nothing done the investors sit there with a licence for some gameengine they don't know what to do with
but when they start with their own engine will need their money in small pieces
and everytime the ask for more money the investors can be shown what they achieved
and if you buy a engine like q3 (somewhere i read you pay about 300'000 for it) you can't rewrite all the code just for a feature you would like in your game because you allready spent a lot of money for the code you want to change now
i think game developers like to be free to decide what they want to do and they are allready pruned of a lot of their freedom because they have to get the money from somewhere
this are just my impressions as no-game developer and i would like to be enlightened by someone with experience in this field
i don't see how this should work...
in an older of their article they say Doom III will require a 1 GHz cpu at least
and what i have seen form the beta i cant imagine it with decent speed on a Xbox.....
once i got to a machine that wasn't able to read cd-r..
that was sad.. i had to find my original win 98 disc instead of a my win/driver combi disc
do your homework
20 member states running it form all over Europe
the normal slashdot error factor =)) like 97.5 Trillion Dollars....
nothing to mind
pirating microsoft software is supporting them to!!
so stop pirate their shit and start using really free software!!!!
now someone could come and say how can pirating their software support them?????
money they have.... they gain more then enough revenue form selling software to companys and hosnest peoples
so pirating don't hurt them...
and if you think further
say 20% use windows or office without a licence these 20% help to consolidate the use of microsoft in their environment
they will request office files at work and from friends, they will buy/use windows software, they will teach friends how to use windows/office usw they will recommend windows
if this users would use say linux, they would not use windows software, games would buy hardware with linux drivers and would request documents in an open format would request webdesigners to fix their borken websites(ie only websites) yadda-yadda-yadda
20% is a free invented number (tm)
but the rate of privat users copying software is very high
i was in a pc shop of a mate when a cop came in and ordered a custombuild pc
after all hardware was altogether the sales assistant asked him about software that was needed
then the cop shyly asked would it be possible to put the ms windows/office on the pc without buying it
the shop assistant was suspiciously
and started to explain to the cop it was ilegal and so one
then the cop argued that after buying a pc he can't afford the software to put on it..
finally the shop assistant agreed to install the software
and this wasn't a cheap undercover action or something... he had never any problems with the police.....
so
it is your interpretation that makes it gross generalisation
i don't think criminals will break into a house instead of robbing a bank because there is a lesser sentence
but because it is less likely to be caught breaking into a house!!!!
btw i think people would switch to steal the ingredients of a sandwich
there is a explanation of this chaos
it's german sorry.....
short: there are to systems and one mixing them both..
Chuquet system: 10^9 = 1 Billion 10^12 = 1 Trillion
Pelletier system: 10^9 = 1 Milliard 10^12 = 1 Billion
the Chuquet system was invented 1484 by Nicolas Chuquet.
around 1550 Pelltier invented his system and Germany and GB started using it.
France and USA stayed with Chuquet
1961 France starts to use Pelltier!!!
and GB started to use Chuquet 1974 because it was used in many scientifical publications and economic press (US influence)
Italy and Russia uses some mix of both systems...
maybe it is now time for USA to leave the both french invented systems to some homebrew us thing..
may I suggest: 1 billion = 1 freedom, 1 trillion = 1 liberty!!!!!!
feel free to copy this post to your favourite text editor and do the spellchecking yourself!!!
i know me spelling is as bad as saddam (tm)
there is no need to remind me....
and you may find some weapons of mass distraction (tm) in my post!!!
search at your own risk
criminals don't plan to do something and plan to go to prison
they do something and expect not to be caught!!!
without a licence he can't prove he has the right to use this software!!!!!
what if BSA or MS comes after him for pirating the software????
if the microsoft employee was allowed to hand out the software everything should be ok... (don't forget it's microsoft and add this to the US law.... =)
or from where should he know if he is or isn't allowed to use this software commercial or to hand out copys to his mates???? or what ever...
i personally give a shit to licences (at least with companys like ms)
but maybe this one could really fuck his career up if he get a caught "pirating" a (shitlike) piece of ms software
bah such a car development will be banned by bush administration!!!!!
because it is possible to use such cars for terrorist attacks...
or maybe he tells us there are wmd in this cars....
that we cant see them doesn't mean they arn't there
looks like another "kde made to look like windows desktop"
what is so special about this one ????
my mother and my younger sister have no problem too with using linux!!! ...
there are a few points they complain about
they sometimes have problems with websites not working in mozilla or konqueror, and the office suites are still not as good as they should be
thinking of spellchecking and compatibility to ms office
maybe i will install them ms office with crossover or wine
btw they are both normal office computer users..
:p the house i'm living in is over 600 years old..
i totally agree =))) :p
debian is the only packagebased linuxdistro i was ever happy with for desktop use
on my workstation i use gentoo which rox!!!!
but i don't like to invest hours for configuring my laptop so there is debian the way to go
Resizing: It is possible to add storage space to already existing Logical Volume(s), increasing their size(s) during runtime. If the filesystem on the logical volume supports it (like ReiserFS on SuSE Linux does) it can be resized during runtime as well to immediately use the additional space, without unmounting it so that applications and users will not even notice the operation.
xfs is workin very well for me even with a lot of hard lookups caused by games and beta software =))
look at this
i don't know how well it works but looks promising
if i am right i just started one 2 hours again... ... i just closed it because there was no need of repartitioning
by mistake =))) on my mothers SuSE 8.1 machine
but i am not aware what it really can do
works really good for me!!! whats ur opinion???
just run to a store and grab one
like everybody does
how are such machines assembled???
my best guess is:
at some point they will install windows and the other software on the harddisk and i think this will happen before they put the harddisk into the computers
then they assamble the laptops put together all lose hardware
at some time they will put all the parts in a box with software and everything included
then the box will be labled
if this is just somewhat near reality everything they had to change is:
taking a clean harddisk to put into the laptop
dont put the windows disc into the box
make a new lable with no OS checkbox on it
they almost always sell notebooks with different versions of windows... so nobody can tell me it is not possible to make a no windows option too.
and as far as i am concerned it would be enough to sell this online if it is not popular enough for retail selling
but maybe they have already payed for windows and would be losing money if they sell notebooks without windows
in switzerland it is not much better...
we have 26 cantons with different tax rules
and this program is just for about 400'000 citizens
it should not be so hard to make a application with rulesets for the different states and not to expensive if you think of millions of people using it
to encapsulate you have to describe interfaces
to describe the interfaces you have to have knowledge of the whole system
if two programmer/teams describe between their capsules/"black boxes" without taking the whole system into account you will start having problems
to the cpu analogy
if the cpu designer don't take the whole system in account they will forget they need to build better cooling to their cpu
the cooler designer have to check if the airflow in the case is big enough to take the heat away and i could continue endless but for now i don't think you have to take global climate changes caused by your cpu/cooling system into account =))))