...if you manage to keep the "kiddies" out so that they don't clog up the forums with lots of repeated/redundant questions then everything goes quite smoothly....Community support > paid support any day.
You realize that you just contradicted yourself, right?
If community support is so great what do you propose to get the Linux "kiddies" up to the levels of everyone else? Paid support?
...from this entire discussion. Game Developers nurturing online games. Taking Valve Games completely out of this reply. (CS, DoD, etc) Many game companies come out with a great idea but fail to capitalize on a great idea like Valve has done with Counter Strike.
Great game that used the Half-Life 1 engine. AWESOME multiplayer. You had your choice of death match and CTF maps to choose from. One of the maps was a killer re-creation of the Fort Knox scene from Goldfinger and you got to play any of the major villians from across the 007/James Bond franchise. This game was generating tons of buzz online and got even more buzz when the game makers said that they were going to release an SDK within weeks of the release of the game.
SDK = More killer maps.
The online community started planning on making maps from every single game starting with Dr. No.
However, weeks became months and months and months. Then all of a sudden they stopped supporting the game online.
I know I'm repeating something everyone already knows about EA but EA doesn't know how to garner interest by keeping their online games that could make them money in the long run. They could have made a boat load of money if they had kept with the franchise. The 007 franchise has the ability to make lots of money with online multiplayer games but no one has stepped up to the plate yet.
This was 2002. Not much has changed since.
If you look at any of the Battlefield PC game boxes there's fine print on it that basically says we reserve the right to pull the multiplayer servers at any time.
No kidding. Don't forget Load Runner. I can still remember making a single sided floppy double sided with a knife so I could fit the Ultima ][ Galactic Disk on the floppys I had.
It's just that Nintendo doesn't want you to know that they're Developing 'Super Link Cart' for the DS!
Dolemite
Mama's got a squeezebox! She wears on her chest..
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...and when daddy gets home. Darn it all to hell he never gets no rest.
Cause she's playin' all night And the music's all right
Mama's got a squeeze box Daddy never sleeps at night
Well the kids don't eat And the dog can't sleep There's no escape from the music In the whole damn street Cause she's playin' all night And the music's all right
Mama's got a squeeze box Daddy never sleeps at night
One dimensional games that are short in length and aren't very graphically appealing?
P.S. GBA games last at least 11 hours on DS systems. The most I've gotten on one DS Battery Charge is 12 3/4 hours playing Final Fantasy - Tatics Advanced before the battery died.
I know this may get a flame mod but try playing the DS first before commenting on it.
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Bah! Here's the real indicators of....
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...the DS and PSP's success.
DS - Will Nintendo pull it's proverbial head out of it's backside and develop games that aren't amied at 12 year olds and start developing games that challenge the marketplace. This is the age old story of Nintendo not moving out of consistent 'Mario' releases.
PSP - Will the US public be willing to slap down $250 (US) for the PSP and another $250 (US) for 1GB + Memory Cards. This is even before games or movies are even purchased.
I personally have a DS and am sickened by the lack of attention that Nintendo is STILL giving to the crap titles that are coming out.
The DS is an amazing product but no one has even shown that they can not only take advantage of what the DS has to offer but to push the limits of the console with an amazing game.
From what I've seen so far, the types of titles that have come out or are coming out are either kiddie games or re-packaging of old games that have come out of previous incarnations of Nintendo products.
Xbox had Halo to show off what their console can do, I have yet to see an equivelant for not only the Nintendo DS but for the PSP as well.
1) The difference between the first three movies (Ep 1-3) and the second three movies (Ep.4-6) is that we know what's going to happen in the first three movies before they're even shot. The second three movies were always a mystery as to what the plots were.
2) When coming out of self-imposed directing retirement after Star Wars, Lucas should have directed a non-Star Wars Movie or two before trying to tackle bringing the first three episodes to life. He himself has stated that the digital technologies were new to him when he began episode 1.
I tried to install Quake 3 Gold on my XP Pro PC and even though the installation completed sucessfully, I couldn't get any updates or be able to update my Punkbuster installation because of a 'Default Behavior' on the primary partition.
Look up Microsoft KB article 326549 for a workaround.
From what I've read, this 'feature' was enabled due to more and more viruses installing them selves and propagating on systems that didn't have a 'read-only' tag on the system.
Personally, I think it's one of the dumber ideas for an operating system since there's not a workaround for power users of XP who know how to tweak their systems properly.
I had this same problem with SMTP servers in a previous job.
The DNS server would fail and because of an unpublished bug in Windows 2000 where the secondary DNS server assigned to the NIC wouldn't be used and lookups would fail in large numbers if the primary server went down.
Load Balancing Multiple Unix Based DNS servers over UDP did the trick!
Well, 1) Rockstar Games made a ton of money when they ported GTA3/GTA Vice City to the Xbox. 2) The Xbox user base is not exclusive to Japan. There are other countries in the world that sell the Xbox.
It's true that Companies like Square Enix base their game development on Japanese based Consoles. However, there would be a larger demand for their games if games were developed for multiple platforms.
I STRONGLY suggest buying or Renting a copy of 'Wallace and Gromit - Project Zoo' and let me know how you do. This game, available on most consoles, is one of the hardest and most intense games ever made.
One thing you should know is that the intro to programming courses are simply designed to weed out people who might not be fully interested in CS.
Once you get past the two or three intro courses (you need to practically get a 4.0 in both of them) and get into the Department, then the cool classes beging.
Long story short, you gotta pay your dues and prove to the Department that you've got some serious 'game'.
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NT Emacs (now GNU Emacs for Windows) - University of Washington Computer Science and Engineering
.htaccess.NET?
...if you manage to keep the "kiddies" out so that they don't clog up the forums with lots of repeated/redundant questions then everything goes quite smoothly....Community support > paid support any day.
You realize that you just contradicted yourself, right?
If community support is so great what do you propose to get the Linux "kiddies" up to the levels of everyone else? Paid support?
...from this entire discussion. Game Developers nurturing online games. Taking Valve Games completely out of this reply. (CS, DoD, etc) Many game companies come out with a great idea but fail to capitalize on a great idea like Valve has done with Counter Strike.
Example.
007 Nightfire by EA for the PC.
http://pc.gamezone.com/gamesell/p20312.htm
Great game that used the Half-Life 1 engine. AWESOME multiplayer. You had your choice of death match and CTF maps to choose from. One of the maps was a killer re-creation of the Fort Knox scene from Goldfinger and you got to play any of the major villians from across the 007/James Bond franchise. This game was generating tons of buzz online and got even more buzz when the game makers said that they were going to release an SDK within weeks of the release of the game.
SDK = More killer maps.
The online community started planning on making maps from every single game starting with Dr. No.
However, weeks became months and months and months. Then all of a sudden they stopped supporting the game online.
I know I'm repeating something everyone already knows about EA but EA doesn't know how to garner interest by keeping their online games that could make them money in the long run. They could have made a boat load of money if they had kept with the franchise. The 007 franchise has the ability to make lots of money with online multiplayer games but no one has stepped up to the plate yet.
This was 2002. Not much has changed since.
If you look at any of the Battlefield PC game boxes there's fine print on it that basically says we reserve the right to pull the multiplayer servers at any time.
No kidding. Don't forget Load Runner. I can still remember making a single sided floppy double sided with a knife so I could fit the Ultima ][ Galactic Disk on the floppys I had.
It's just that Nintendo doesn't want you to know that they're Developing 'Super Link Cart' for the DS!
Dolemite
...and when daddy gets home. Darn it all to hell he never gets no rest.
Cause she's playin' all night
And the music's all right
Mama's got a squeeze box
Daddy never sleeps at night
Well the kids don't eat
And the dog can't sleep
There's no escape from the music
In the whole damn street
Cause she's playin' all night
And the music's all right
Mama's got a squeeze box
Daddy never sleeps at night
(With Apologies to The Who)
Dolemite
One dimensional games that are short in length and aren't very graphically appealing?
P.S. GBA games last at least 11 hours on DS systems. The most I've gotten on one DS Battery Charge is 12 3/4 hours playing Final Fantasy - Tatics Advanced before the battery died.
I know this may get a flame mod but try playing the DS first before commenting on it.
Dolemite
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...the DS and PSP's success.
DS - Will Nintendo pull it's proverbial head out of it's backside and develop games that aren't amied at 12 year olds and start developing games that challenge the marketplace. This is the age old story of Nintendo not moving out of consistent 'Mario' releases.
PSP - Will the US public be willing to slap down $250 (US) for the PSP and another $250 (US) for 1GB + Memory Cards. This is even before games or movies are even purchased.
I personally have a DS and am sickened by the lack of attention that Nintendo is STILL giving to the crap titles that are coming out.
The DS is an amazing product but no one has even shown that they can not only take advantage of what the DS has to offer but to push the limits of the console with an amazing game.
From what I've seen so far, the types of titles that have come out or are coming out are either kiddie games or re-packaging of old games that have come out of previous incarnations of Nintendo products.
Xbox had Halo to show off what their console can do, I have yet to see an equivelant for not only the Nintendo DS but for the PSP as well.
Dolemite
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How many people have installed the following operating systems on an Alpha Based server?
- NT 4.0
- Apple Operating Systems
- AT LEAST two different flavors of Unix?
(Dolemite Raises his hand!)
Dolemite
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1) The difference between the first three movies (Ep 1-3) and the second three movies (Ep.4-6) is that we know what's going to happen in the first three movies before they're even shot. The second three movies were always a mystery as to what the plots were.
2) When coming out of self-imposed directing retirement after Star Wars, Lucas should have directed a non-Star Wars Movie or two before trying to tackle bringing the first three episodes to life. He himself has stated that the digital technologies were new to him when he began episode 1.
Dolemite
_________________
I tried to install Quake 3 Gold on my XP Pro PC and even though the installation completed sucessfully, I couldn't get any updates or be able to update my Punkbuster installation because of a 'Default Behavior' on the primary partition.
k b; EN-US;326549
Look up Microsoft KB article 326549 for a workaround.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=
From what I've read, this 'feature' was enabled due to more and more viruses installing them selves and propagating on systems that didn't have a 'read-only' tag on the system.
Personally, I think it's one of the dumber ideas for an operating system since there's not a workaround for power users of XP who know how to tweak their systems properly.
Dolemite
__________________
I had this same problem with SMTP servers in a previous job.
The DNS server would fail and because of an unpublished bug in Windows 2000 where the secondary DNS server assigned to the NIC wouldn't be used and lookups would fail in large numbers if the primary server went down.
Load Balancing Multiple Unix Based DNS servers over UDP did the trick!
Dolemite
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...they understood the humor behind X-Play's spiritual leader 'Dik Dik Van Dik' and why guys drool over Morgan Webb (Insert Cat Calls here)!
Dolemite
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Come on, where's the Attention to Detail?
LOL
Dolemite
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When you get bored of the PS2, you can just turn it off.
Dolemite
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Well, 1) Rockstar Games made a ton of money when they ported GTA3/GTA Vice City to the Xbox. 2) The Xbox user base is not exclusive to Japan. There are other countries in the world that sell the Xbox.
It's true that Companies like Square Enix base their game development on Japanese based Consoles. However, there would be a larger demand for their games if games were developed for multiple platforms.
Dolemite
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Here's a real simple way Square Enix could go to another level with their company.
Develop games for the Xbox!
Dolemite
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This new version crashes hard (drwatson) after adding songs from a directory and then trying to play them in WinAmp.
Vulnerablity or not, I'm going back to the old version.
Dolemite
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So this is where all the out of work 'Star Trek' episode writers went to.
Dolemite
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I STRONGLY suggest buying or Renting a copy of 'Wallace and Gromit - Project Zoo' and let me know how you do. This game, available on most consoles, is one of the hardest and most intense games ever made.
Dolemite
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There's no images at all when you follow the link. Did Lucas put the hammer down or what?
Dolemite
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One thing you should know is that the intro to programming courses are simply designed to weed out people who might not be fully interested in CS.
Once you get past the two or three intro courses (you need to practically get a 4.0 in both of them) and get into the Department, then the cool classes beging.
Long story short, you gotta pay your dues and prove to the Department that you've got some serious 'game'.
Dolemite
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That will keep them from chewing on the wires.
Dolemite
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I like the upgrades for the new version. However, the main place were the GIMP fails time and time again is the documentation.
I don't know how many times I've run into broken links or people who don't work on a give part of the documentation any more.
If the GIMP team are going to get more people to switch over, the documentation needs to be WAY more solid than it is right now.
Dolemite
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