It's Qt with a small t, pronounced "cute". Off-topic, for which I apologise, but these things need to get pointed out I suppose or none of us would ever learn.
I just played Half-life for the first time due to comments like yours. I have to say Doom3 is far more cinematic and, frankly, fun. I think I must have missed the point in time when Half-Life was revolutionary. I can imagine it was incredible at the time, but really, it aint that great anymore.
I was going to buy this. It was going to hurt me because I know it'll cost a lot. However I refuse to fund this kind of behaviour so I'll just grab a copy from suprnova.org instead. Cheers Valve, you saved me some cash!
Are thieves that steal car stereos and resell them on the black market "competition" for stereo manufacturers?
Yes but if a thief sells a radio he stole, the radio-company still sold a stereo! In fact they may sell another stereo when the victim claims on the insurance and buys another radio!
This is another example of why stealing property and violating copyright should not be confused. I'm sure you're an intelligent person, and the common technique of calling music piracy "stealing" has caused even you to mix up analogies.
Actually this is statistically proven. All scientists, engineers, even poets produced their best work before raising families.
Of course it could be a youth thing or even a male thing, as statistically histories "greatest achievements" have been done by men. Please don't label me as sexist, I assure you I am not.
In fact it makes more sense if it is only men who are affected by this as it is young men who are trying to appear impressive in order to get a mate. Hmm, it makes you reconsider your timeplan for marriage etc. eh?
What's the point in making it so exactly logical it is no fun? If you don't enjoy the darkness fine, just say so. But saying the darkness aspect of the game is silly because it is easy to tape a torch to the gun and thus it is not enjoyable is just daft. It's a game. It would be less fun if it was 100% believable. If you disagree with that statement then I am sure there are other games for you, but it seems daft.
Did you get similarly annoyed that in Doom1/2 you could jump of a ledge of any height and not die? Or that in mario just touching a goomba would kill you? Or that in doom3 exiting the mars base into a very low atmosphere didn't make you explode due to the pressure differences?
There always has to be a certain level of compromise when it comes to believe with any work of fiction. Surely you know this?
Yeah quite. I'm quite a way into the game now. At first I couldn't hack the darkness too well and struggled to fight/find my way about. Now it is easy, I've got the hang of it and it is awesome. You need to encourage the monsters to come into the light in order to fight them more easily, it adds a whole new strategy element I haven't seen in other games before.
Graphically it rules with the darkness too. And boy is it scary. Rules.
This mod is for people who have no patience in my humble opinion.
Initially I was thoroughly pissed too. But I've calmed down, I think Id will be fine. I've even joined the torrent as I want to play it (UK release is 13th August), I've already paid for a pre-ordered copy I should add.
I also agree a demo would have helped, and in fact you have to wonder if the time-tested Id method of shareware would have prevented this too. You get a third of the game for free with the shareware method Id have always used. Would the 30,000 member torrent be for the shareware package rather than the full game if a shareware version was released first?
People like you will hold the world back and make it a less pleasant place in which to live when almost all goods come in a digital form.
Copying digital media is easy, cheap and, within reason, will not bankrupt people who depend on sales of said media. Compromise and allowance is required in our new digital age, not twisting of words.
Do note I say copying within reason. But in my experience it always is within reason. The people who make the most noise are usually those suffering from greed.
People like you seem to have forgotten what it's like to be forgiving/charitable. Some guy is making a few bucks of their work while they have made millions. Big fricking deal.
Obviously they need to say something or they risk other people seeing this inaction and abusing it. But what's wrong with some respect or kindness. This world makes me sick.
And I take back the always works comment anyway, The KDE KWrite part is buggy in 3.2 and sometimes doesn't copy to the clipboard whatever you do to persuade it.
Also I'm miffed you caught my latest "KDE rules!" comment Mike, I admire your netural approach to this free software world and do try to emulate it, although seemingly with less success than I would like..
It's not as much a problem as people say. I used to pirate a lot of games, but guess what, I was a kid. I couldn't afford any games! So me and my mates shared them around. Our group piracy led to us becoming obsessed with games as it happens, and I reckon we ended up buying more games between us because we pirated them around.
Nowadays I can afford games and I buy them. However I do play less games than I used to, I have less time, and perhaps it is also because it is harder to pirate the games heh. But nowadays I have money and will pay if I like something.
Software is an funny industry, you have to accept that some copying will go on because it is easy to do so. If the industry can't turn a profit with the traditional one person - one sale business model then perhaps they are looking at the economics of the industry incorrectly?
This is what a patent is supposed to do... to stop people from stealing your invention and making money off of it.
No, patents are supposed to encourage people to innovate by giving companies or individuals a small amount of time where they can be anti-capitalist and produce a situation that is worse for the consumer, ie a monopoly.
Generally it seems to me though that companies are extremely willing to innovate, that's how they make money afterall, producing new products. They seem to only use patents to make extra bucks or as a diplomatic "we could stop your business" message to other companies.
Patents are practically needless in most industries. Industries with major research costs should be granted the rights to patents in certain situations, not willy-nilly. Even then i reckon that they would be huge amounts of innovation without the damn things. People want to make money, they'll innovate like mad patents or not.
I don't where that rant came from. Apologies. As must be apparent, it is not aimed at you.
So does that mean SCO wouldn't be suing AutoZone if they'd never used proprietry software in the first place? Sounds like an excellent argument for staying clear of software with restricted licenses to me.
Please don't abbreviate it to KDE-QT, it's a nightmare of confusion waiting to happen! Of course if everyone spelled Qt correctly (lowercase t) it wouldn't be so bad. That's not likely though... thanks!
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I don't think Arch's kind of usage is going to catch on--it's certainly counterintuitive to me.
SuSE do it the same way, I'd say it caught on.
It's Qt with a small t, pronounced "cute". Off-topic, for which I apologise, but these things need to get pointed out I suppose or none of us would ever learn.
I just played Half-life for the first time due to comments like yours. I have to say Doom3 is far more cinematic and, frankly, fun. I think I must have missed the point in time when Half-Life was revolutionary. I can imagine it was incredible at the time, but really, it aint that great anymore.
I was going to buy this. It was going to hurt me because I know it'll cost a lot. However I refuse to fund this kind of behaviour so I'll just grab a copy from suprnova.org instead. Cheers Valve, you saved me some cash!
a = ? b : c
Is that really legal c? What does the ternary operator operate on?
Are thieves that steal car stereos and resell them on the black market "competition" for stereo manufacturers?
Yes but if a thief sells a radio he stole, the radio-company still sold a stereo! In fact they may sell another stereo when the victim claims on the insurance and buys another radio!
This is another example of why stealing property and violating copyright should not be confused. I'm sure you're an intelligent person, and the common technique of calling music piracy "stealing" has caused even you to mix up analogies.
Actually this is statistically proven. All scientists, engineers, even poets produced their best work before raising families.
Of course it could be a youth thing or even a male thing, as statistically histories "greatest achievements" have been done by men. Please don't label me as sexist, I assure you I am not.
In fact it makes more sense if it is only men who are affected by this as it is young men who are trying to appear impressive in order to get a mate. Hmm, it makes you reconsider your timeplan for marriage etc. eh?
What's the point in making it so exactly logical it is no fun? If you don't enjoy the darkness fine, just say so. But saying the darkness aspect of the game is silly because it is easy to tape a torch to the gun and thus it is not enjoyable is just daft. It's a game. It would be less fun if it was 100% believable. If you disagree with that statement then I am sure there are other games for you, but it seems daft.
Did you get similarly annoyed that in Doom1/2 you could jump of a ledge of any height and not die? Or that in mario just touching a goomba would kill you? Or that in doom3 exiting the mars base into a very low atmosphere didn't make you explode due to the pressure differences?
There always has to be a certain level of compromise when it comes to believe with any work of fiction. Surely you know this?
Yeah quite. I'm quite a way into the game now. At first I couldn't hack the darkness too well and struggled to fight/find my way about. Now it is easy, I've got the hang of it and it is awesome. You need to encourage the monsters to come into the light in order to fight them more easily, it adds a whole new strategy element I haven't seen in other games before.
Graphically it rules with the darkness too. And boy is it scary. Rules.
This mod is for people who have no patience in my humble opinion.
The recent Icons documentary claimed id only make 20% of their revenue through licensing. This surprised me - I expected the figure to be higher.
Initially I was thoroughly pissed too. But I've calmed down, I think Id will be fine. I've even joined the torrent as I want to play it (UK release is 13th August), I've already paid for a pre-ordered copy I should add.
I also agree a demo would have helped, and in fact you have to wonder if the time-tested Id method of shareware would have prevented this too. You get a third of the game for free with the shareware method Id have always used. Would the 30,000 member torrent be for the shareware package rather than the full game if a shareware version was released first?
I couldn't guess.
Your posts suck.
People like you will hold the world back and make it a less pleasant place in which to live when almost all goods come in a digital form.
Copying digital media is easy, cheap and, within reason, will not bankrupt people who depend on sales of said media. Compromise and allowance is required in our new digital age, not twisting of words.
Do note I say copying within reason. But in my experience it always is within reason. The people who make the most noise are usually those suffering from greed.
1. He didn't say it justified it
2. It is not theft
3. Depends who we are murdering doesn't it?
That sums me up exactly. I'm at 55% right now and have the game pre-ordered and paid for at the shop already.
I joined the torrent when I found out this morning that the 13th August release date was true and not just a terrible rumour.
Yeah same. Didn't bother trying again after reading your comment. Missing 576000 bytes apparently.
People like you seem to have forgotten what it's like to be forgiving/charitable. Some guy is making a few bucks of their work while they have made millions. Big fricking deal.
Obviously they need to say something or they risk other people seeing this inaction and abusing it. But what's wrong with some respect or kindness. This world makes me sick.
Hmm. What a pain. Thanks for the info.
And I take back the always works comment anyway, The KDE KWrite part is buggy in 3.2 and sometimes doesn't copy to the clipboard whatever you do to persuade it.
Also I'm miffed you caught my latest "KDE rules!" comment Mike, I admire your netural approach to this free software world and do try to emulate it, although seemingly with less success than I would like..
If you want working cut/paste you should use KDE. It just works. Really. Your emacs cut/paste woes will dissapear all thanks to Klipper.
It's not as much a problem as people say. I used to pirate a lot of games, but guess what, I was a kid. I couldn't afford any games! So me and my mates shared them around. Our group piracy led to us becoming obsessed with games as it happens, and I reckon we ended up buying more games between us because we pirated them around.
Nowadays I can afford games and I buy them. However I do play less games than I used to, I have less time, and perhaps it is also because it is harder to pirate the games heh. But nowadays I have money and will pay if I like something.
Software is an funny industry, you have to accept that some copying will go on because it is easy to do so. If the industry can't turn a profit with the traditional one person - one sale business model then perhaps they are looking at the economics of the industry incorrectly?
Or perhaps one of the few times a comment deserves +5?
No, patents are supposed to encourage people to innovate by giving companies or individuals a small amount of time where they can be anti-capitalist and produce a situation that is worse for the consumer, ie a monopoly.
Generally it seems to me though that companies are extremely willing to innovate, that's how they make money afterall, producing new products. They seem to only use patents to make extra bucks or as a diplomatic "we could stop your business" message to other companies.
Patents are practically needless in most industries. Industries with major research costs should be granted the rights to patents in certain situations, not willy-nilly. Even then i reckon that they would be huge amounts of innovation without the damn things. People want to make money, they'll innovate like mad patents or not.
I don't where that rant came from. Apologies. As must be apparent, it is not aimed at you.
So does that mean SCO wouldn't be suing AutoZone if they'd never used proprietry software in the first place? Sounds like an excellent argument for staying clear of software with restricted licenses to me.
Please don't abbreviate it to KDE-QT, it's a nightmare of confusion waiting to happen! Of course if everyone spelled Qt correctly (lowercase t) it wouldn't be so bad. That's not likely though... thanks!
I never usually bother requesting mod-ups, but this one is pretty funny and apparently unnoticed too :)