If they thought Sony would let them port Steam I expect they would hold their developers at gun point till everything they have ever written was ported to the PS3. In fact I expect the is a better business case for the OpenGL work in being ready to port to the PS3, then in releasing for the Mac.
What is interesting is that with Microsoft pushing back hard with Games for Windows - Live, Sony not letting them run Steam at all, and Apple ready and waiting with AppStore. It is just vaguely possible supporting a platform where they are not playing for second place would be appealing.
Valve games are already degrade better then most on weak hardware, the new generation of ARM+OpenGL netbooks/tablets due to compete with the iPad, might be a real opportunity for them.
Even the best servers are going to die in the long term. Designing a system which will let you easily move between hosts is a lot less work now, then when you eventually need to use it.
As someone who occasionally hires in the UK (IT), I rank OU degrees as well above average.
Anyone willing to put their own time and money into learning, is a lot more interesting then the average 'left school didn't know what to do' approach.
Whilst it was fun to have apparent parity with Windows games for ID's previous releases, it was always really a fake. Requiring propriety drivers which replace half of the kernel and half of X11 (which were defiantly needed for Tech 4) you may as well have been dual booting.
The recent rapid development of open sourced 3d drivers is far more important in the medium/long term. They are currently reaching the point were they can run modern Tech 3 derived games as often as not. An imminent release of the Tech 4 code could be instrumental in continuing this development.
Forcing Linux gamers back on the BLOB drivers would do far more harm then good.
I have only just got around to playing it though for the first time. Plays well with a PS3 controller, however I am still really missing the three-axis joystick I build for Decent 1.
Newer s60 (N95-1, N82 etc.) run Quake III Arena with full-screen anti-aliasing, TV out, Bluetooth HID, or the even cooler (with a bit of practice) accelerometer based mouse look:
If a site put the Ad there, it is safe to assume they want you to see it; if i installed AdBlock it is save to assume I don't.
The main situation the current system dose not cover is: some sites (like/., Google) almost certainly would prefer me to participate even with no ads then go strait to their competitors. Other sites would prefer me not to use their bandwidth. A meta tag for this might be useful.
The basic idea of an option to prompt for an allow exception after X visits in Y days seems sound - no need to involve the site.
I am sure it is pointless. But Kajar Laboratories should at least publicly state their willingness to assign all copyrights on any original work to Square for some nominal fee.
If it is truly of interest to the fans, how much could it cost Square to release it as a legit cart? (V. how much Valve made on CS:Source and TF2:Source)
Except they are both still using OpenOffice 1.1.4 code. Being 4 years and two milestone releases behind dose seem to qualify for leadership from the rear.
It had never even occurred to me to consider Windows on a NetBook (Dell Mini 9s with Ubuntu really are amazing machines), but how do you install Windows software without a CD-Drive?
The Ubuntu Mini 9 had 99% of the software pre-installed, and the rest a couple of clicks away, but I don't think they even have an option of pre-installing MS Office, and I have never seen a Windows game that didn't need the CD for copy-protection.
Interesting my government established monopolistic, money grabbing, no customer service providing, fiber obstructing, Phorm deploying telco., actually ships Fon on all its routers and gives you incentives for enabling it.
Wouldn't anyone running a server have access to half a dozen clients? Can't they just automate them to re-connect every 45 min - driving their scores though the roof?
The answer obviously depends on how you interpret 'no attachments'. From a purely technical point of view many mail clients send messages bearing very little similarity to RFC attachments. From a more pragmatic point of view, if you are sending an encoded image then it is an attachment even if it is transmitted as text in the main mail body.
I would try an comply with the spirit of the rule and forget about images. However blog posting and web page retrieval seem to comply with the spirit of the rule, whilst being very useful and none too hard to implement.
My solution would be to configure a mail server (even Win Pro has one built in) to handle this. Write a script that takes all mail send to a specific address, checks its cryptographic signature and, if valid, saves the mail as a script and executes it, then emails you the stdout back. (If you even need to ask why checking the cryptographic signature is needed please don't do this).
Web posting and reading ASCII rendered web pages can be handled with something like surfraw, or links.
I did something smiler when my mobile phone provider gave me free IM.
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Just like PowerGlove foretold the failure of the Wiimote?
This has to be a contender for the Darwin Award.
Via Yahoo's Pipes would probably be the easiest way:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?Exclude=kdawson&_id=925e9a8c43cad8992f1d949b228f01d9&_render=rss
If they thought Sony would let them port Steam I expect they would hold their developers at gun point till everything they have ever written was ported to the PS3. In fact I expect the is a better business case for the OpenGL work in being ready to port to the PS3, then in releasing for the Mac.
What is interesting is that with Microsoft pushing back hard with Games for Windows - Live, Sony not letting them run Steam at all, and Apple ready and waiting with AppStore. It is just vaguely possible supporting a platform where they are not playing for second place would be appealing.
Valve games are already degrade better then most on weak hardware, the new generation of ARM+OpenGL netbooks/tablets due to compete with the iPad, might be a real opportunity for them.
... you may be doing it wrong.
Even the best servers are going to die in the long term. Designing a system which will let you easily move between hosts is a lot less work now, then when you eventually need to use it.
i-ph-on-e sounds a bit rude to me, and at best promotes drugs.
How, the Nokia Eclipse/GCC/Perl based toolchain doesn't work on Linux?
Next they will introduce a non-Cartesian grid of ridges with hybrid haptic and aural feedback, featuring standardized cartographic symbols.
Unfortunately IBM may have some prior-art with their model-M.
As someone who occasionally hires in the UK (IT), I rank OU degrees as well above average.
Anyone willing to put their own time and money into learning, is a lot more interesting then the average 'left school didn't know what to do' approach.
(Though I don't have any degree myself.)
Whilst it was fun to have apparent parity with Windows games for ID's previous releases, it was always really a fake. Requiring propriety drivers which replace half of the kernel and half of X11 (which were defiantly needed for Tech 4) you may as well have been dual booting.
The recent rapid development of open sourced 3d drivers is far more important in the medium/long term. They are currently reaching the point were they can run modern Tech 3 derived games as often as not. An imminent release of the Tech 4 code could be instrumental in continuing this development.
Forcing Linux gamers back on the BLOB drivers would do far more harm then good.
Like your ISP, your client's ISP, both of their backbone providers - and that is just best case.
Unencrypted email is not secure, ever.
Freespace 2 is really still with us:
http://scp.indiegames.us/
I have only just got around to playing it though for the first time. Plays well with a PS3 controller, however I am still really missing the three-axis joystick I build for Decent 1.
Newer s60 (N95-1, N82 etc.) run Quake III Arena with full-screen anti-aliasing, TV out, Bluetooth HID, or the even cooler (with a bit of practice) accelerometer based mouse look:
http://www.noeman.org/gsm/symbian-os-9-1-games/78656-quake-3-arena-accelerometer-support.html
Hell I the x86 binaries of Wolf3d are playable under DosBOX:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/s60dosbox/
Ultima Underworld is slow but would be playable with a mouse, not tried Doom as I already had the native port.
I believe it is a Nintendo DS ROM, and as such would still have a significant market?
If a site put the Ad there, it is safe to assume they want you to see it; if i installed AdBlock it is save to assume I don't.
The main situation the current system dose not cover is: some sites (like /., Google) almost certainly would prefer me to participate even with no ads then go strait to their competitors. Other sites would prefer me not to use their bandwidth. A meta tag for this might be useful.
The basic idea of an option to prompt for an allow exception after X visits in Y days seems sound - no need to involve the site.
I am sure it is pointless. But Kajar Laboratories should at least publicly state their willingness to assign all copyrights on any original work to Square for some nominal fee.
If it is truly of interest to the fans, how much could it cost Square to release it as a legit cart? (V. how much Valve made on CS:Source and TF2:Source)
Much the same way as the iPod paved the way for Zune's runaway success.
Except they are both still using OpenOffice 1.1.4 code. Being 4 years and two milestone releases behind dose seem to qualify for leadership from the rear.
But that only begs the question why are they so big?
A flotilla of computer controlled single container sailing ships may make more sense.
It had never even occurred to me to consider Windows on a NetBook (Dell Mini 9s with Ubuntu really are amazing machines), but how do you install Windows software without a CD-Drive?
The Ubuntu Mini 9 had 99% of the software pre-installed, and the rest a couple of clicks away, but I don't think they even have an option of pre-installing MS Office, and I have never seen a Windows game that didn't need the CD for copy-protection.
Interesting my government established monopolistic, money grabbing, no customer service providing, fiber obstructing, Phorm deploying telco., actually ships Fon on all its routers and gives you incentives for enabling it.
Hint: BT Internet.
rDesktop is the equivalent to Windows Terminal Services Client, never had any trouble with it.
Ubuntu on my mini-9 had this this, and 'tsclient' a graphical frontend, pre-installed.
Because their current OS (Linux) has only had a full ARM distribution for nearly 10 years?
Wouldn't anyone running a server have access to half a dozen clients? Can't they just automate them to re-connect every 45 min - driving their scores though the roof?
The answer obviously depends on how you interpret 'no attachments'. From a purely technical point of view many mail clients send messages bearing very little similarity to RFC attachments. From a more pragmatic point of view, if you are sending an encoded image then it is an attachment even if it is transmitted as text in the main mail body.
I would try an comply with the spirit of the rule and forget about images. However blog posting and web page retrieval seem to comply with the spirit of the rule, whilst being very useful and none too hard to implement.
My solution would be to configure a mail server (even Win Pro has one built in) to handle this. Write a script that takes all mail send to a specific address, checks its cryptographic signature and, if valid, saves the mail as a script and executes it, then emails you the stdout back. (If you even need to ask why checking the cryptographic signature is needed please don't do this).
Web posting and reading ASCII rendered web pages can be handled with something like surfraw, or links.
I did something smiler when my mobile phone provider gave me free IM.