Agreed the recent releases from the gaming community of open source games has really made it harder to justify being a pirate. Unfortunatly some of the companies are footing the bill for the whole community.
Case in point: ID released the doom 1 + 2 code (also quake1?) 6-7 years after their release(Copyright law says 2 years but America has it's head so far up it's ass this is saintly by comparison), Siera on the other hand hasn't released any of their orignal adventure games (Wizardrys recently repackaged, Leisure suit Larry still in boxes, King's Quest rereleased). Also they've been experimenting with all kinds of shit like Steam, now I can't have lan parties at the cottage anymore.
Solution:Buy Doom 3, Pirate HL2 and mod communities please make mods for free engines, it really makes more sense.
The drug trade and the warez trade are both safety valves for society. People want distractions and so drugs are allowed to propogate, they aren't allowed to become the norm because they ruin lives and cause people to be unproductive members of society.
The government understands that intelligent people crave information. The software industry seems to be continuing to produce and the music industry continues to produce so who needs to step in.
It involves an interesting system where you pay to download cards. And they keep the cards in a vault somewhere, basically it adds the colector aspect which some people seem to enjoy.
Magic the gathering can be played for free using Magic Workstation. You have access to all the cards and graphics, if you register you get access to the more advanced deck building tools such as cross deck card analysis (I'm not making this shit up).
Since everyone has access to the same cards it becomes clear who is good at making decks, of course there are problems with people who simply copy the decks of pro's and the game isn't actually deep enough to render that tactic invalid. Good decks basically exploit flaws in the rules.
Screw the isp's, get 2 access points and some ethernet cable. Get some reasonable speed dsl $70 a month or 2 if you want two sets, hook the Dsl up through a central router or (the 2 router/access points), depending on the kinds of traffic you tend to deal with (bittorrent ftp server's etc.) you may want a server to dynamically allocate ports and bandwidth.
Breakdown:
1.)2 Access points $220 2.)$260 wireless routers
2.)Bandwidth $80-160 a month (bandwidth is like cable it doesn't cost them significantly more if it always runs so unlimited means unlimited.IMHO)
3.)Ethernet cable $40 for 2 100ft
4.)Wireless cards $80 each. ($30 for laptops go figure).
5.)Server $420 SFF Athlon 64 3000 256megs internal vid, small HD.
6.)Win2K Pro $Ridiculous(like $300-600, or cough free)
7.)Linux Free
Time:
Physical setup (and purchase), 4 hours, (2.5 with assistant)
Network cards 15 min each
Windows set up (2 hours depending on networking needs)
Linux (12 hours, it's just not there yet)
I think having everyone chip in $25 a month until things are paid for is very reasonable, and they should but their own network cards.
Compatibility is a bigger selling point for people who haven't owned the prior console. The weak point of any new system is the lack of games right at introduction. Compatibility lets you play some of those older games that you haven't played before (i.e., Spyro) while you wait for all the nice, shiny new "next-gen" games for your brand new console.
Well since backwards compatibility applies to people old enough to have owned two consoles they may not have the space for two consoles. Also in this case Xbox is the most powerful system of it's generation and it seems like Next will be first out, so Xbox 1 games will still be the best around even with no enhancements.
I decided to buy the Xbox over the PS2 because I knew the PS3 would have backwards compatibility, so I patiently waited for PS3. Xbox live has been quite succesful and it would set a bad precident if MSoft didn't have backwards compatability on this one (Stupid Cube). I'm sure they will.
Dune 2
Warcraft 2
Homeworld
Stronghold
Lord of the Realm 2
Total Annihilation
Starcraft
WarZone 2100
Shogun:Total War(Need to try medieval)
Speed Chess (Give the old boys their due)
Accessories like memory cards and controllers are expenses that most people don't think about when buying a console Bad/Stupid companies exist because of Bad/Stupid consumers.
I was thinking of making an operating system based on a audio interface that could be controlled over a cell phone. But then I had a terrible though, what if M$ made one. And I couldn't really submit people to that kind of horror.
But as far as gaming is concerned, people can't organize with each other very well what makes us think we can do it with a computer.
As someone who owns a considerable amount of AMD stock let me just say phew. These processors are crap, Intel screwed the pooch again.
The chances of them now bringing a competitive product to market before the 64 bit revolution hits are approximating 0.
Second the AMD performance ratings, as has been said before they are compared to an overclocked thunderbird (Old athlon). So a 2100+ is a little faster than a Thunderbird would be at 2.1ghz.
Of course they are changing all that with the new Athlon 64's (Above 3400+) but I'll keep you updated when I know what they are doing. Until that time just think of a very very fast thunderbird. It's easier if you remember that XP's still run on socket A.
Um dude, if you think the way chess pieces move has any relation to the way things move in reality you need to take like 2 make that 3 steps back from your computer:)
Reality has a certain logic. If you are willing to accept that all games follow basic principles of thermodynamics then geis is a logical game:)
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Agreed the recent releases from the gaming community of open source games has really made it harder to justify being a pirate. Unfortunatly some of the companies are footing the bill for the whole community.
Case in point: ID released the doom 1 + 2 code (also quake1?) 6-7 years after their release(Copyright law says 2 years but America has it's head so far up it's ass this is saintly by comparison), Siera on the other hand hasn't released any of their orignal adventure games (Wizardrys recently repackaged, Leisure suit Larry still in boxes, King's Quest rereleased). Also they've been experimenting with all kinds of shit like Steam, now I can't have lan parties at the cottage anymore.
Solution:Buy Doom 3, Pirate HL2 and mod communities please make mods for free engines, it really makes more sense.
The drug trade and the warez trade are both safety valves for society. People want distractions and so drugs are allowed to propogate, they aren't allowed to become the norm because they ruin lives and cause people to be unproductive members of society.
The government understands that intelligent people crave information. The software industry seems to be continuing to produce and the music industry continues to produce so who needs to step in.
Damn I've been stealing coffee from work and I never noticed till now. Thanks for the update.
Almost no proffesionals play quake 2. It's the ugly ugly third child.
It involves an interesting system where you pay to download cards. And they keep the cards in a vault somewhere, basically it adds the colector aspect which some people seem to enjoy.
Upstream downstream conflicts?
Well there is the slightly crappier Apprentice which a friend got working on Linux, dunno if he used a windows emulator.
Magic the gathering can be played for free using Magic Workstation. You have access to all the cards and graphics, if you register you get access to the more advanced deck building tools such as cross deck card analysis (I'm not making this shit up).
Since everyone has access to the same cards it becomes clear who is good at making decks, of course there are problems with people who simply copy the decks of pro's and the game isn't actually deep enough to render that tactic invalid. Good decks basically exploit flaws in the rules.
Stick to Chess or Go.
Ah the wireless revoultion is sweeping the U.S. lawyers applaud.
Screw the isp's, get 2 access points and some ethernet cable. Get some reasonable speed dsl $70 a month or 2 if you want two sets, hook the Dsl up through a central router or (the 2 router/access points), depending on the kinds of traffic you tend to deal with (bittorrent ftp server's etc.) you may want a server to dynamically allocate ports and bandwidth.
Breakdown:
1.)2 Access points $220 2.)$260 wireless routers
2.)Bandwidth $80-160 a month (bandwidth is like cable it doesn't cost them significantly more if it always runs so unlimited means unlimited.IMHO)
3.)Ethernet cable $40 for 2 100ft
4.)Wireless cards $80 each. ($30 for laptops go figure).
5.)Server $420 SFF Athlon 64 3000 256megs internal vid, small HD.
6.)Win2K Pro $Ridiculous(like $300-600, or cough free)
7.)Linux Free
Time:
Physical setup (and purchase), 4 hours, (2.5 with assistant)
Network cards 15 min each
Windows set up (2 hours depending on networking needs)
Linux (12 hours, it's just not there yet)
I think having everyone chip in $25 a month until things are paid for is very reasonable, and they should but their own network cards.
*Cough* Selecting more than one unit is kinda useful though.
Another great game brought to you on the Sega Genesis.
Compatibility is a bigger selling point for people who haven't owned the prior console. The weak point of any new system is the lack of games right at introduction. Compatibility lets you play some of those older games that you haven't played before (i.e., Spyro) while you wait for all the nice, shiny new "next-gen" games for your brand new console.
Well since backwards compatibility applies to people old enough to have owned two consoles they may not have the space for two consoles. Also in this case Xbox is the most powerful system of it's generation and it seems like Next will be first out, so Xbox 1 games will still be the best around even with no enhancements.
I bet you think the dreamcast was a failure too.
Best System EVA!
I decided to buy the Xbox over the PS2 because I knew the PS3 would have backwards compatibility, so I patiently waited for PS3.
Xbox live has been quite succesful and it would set a bad precident if MSoft didn't have backwards compatability on this one (Stupid Cube). I'm sure they will.
Dune 2 Warcraft 2 Homeworld Stronghold Lord of the Realm 2 Total Annihilation Starcraft WarZone 2100 Shogun:Total War(Need to try medieval) Speed Chess (Give the old boys their due)
Behind, infront it's all marketshare. We all know where the price performance ratio rests and it's green not blue :)
Accessories like memory cards and controllers are expenses that most people don't think about when buying a console
Bad/Stupid companies exist because of Bad/Stupid consumers.
Don't look at Valve. It'll burn your eyes what they are doing.
VDR anyone? I mean if you have a decent videocard and a HD in there.
No one bought the gamecube to play DVD's.
Meh they could get in touch with the miniPod people. I don't care as long as there is HD support I put a 120 gig in the first day I got mine.
:(
Oooo and it would be nice if Xbox2 supported 200gb+ HD's huge problem with old system
If you liked Dragon Dictate you'll love Dragon Naturally Speaking. They were the formost authority on voice recognition but they got bought out :(
I was thinking of making an operating system based on a audio interface that could be controlled over a cell phone. But then I had a terrible though, what if M$ made one. And I couldn't really submit people to that kind of horror.
But as far as gaming is concerned, people can't organize with each other very well what makes us think we can do it with a computer.
As someone who owns a considerable amount of AMD stock let me just say phew. These processors are crap, Intel screwed the pooch again.
The chances of them now bringing a competitive product to market before the 64 bit revolution hits are approximating 0.
Second the AMD performance ratings, as has been said before they are compared to an overclocked thunderbird (Old athlon). So a 2100+ is a little faster than a Thunderbird would be at 2.1ghz.
Of course they are changing all that with the new Athlon 64's (Above 3400+) but I'll keep you updated when I know what they are doing. Until that time just think of a very very fast thunderbird. It's easier if you remember that XP's still run on socket A.
Um dude, if you think the way chess pieces move has any relation to the way things move in reality you need to take like 2 make that 3 steps back from your computer :)
Reality has a certain logic. If you are willing to accept that all games follow basic principles of thermodynamics then geis is a logical game :)
Chess, Tron, and Warioware.
silly post.