Far from that, how do you expect to get a Windows x86 binary DLL compiled from C++ to run verbatim on a multithreaded dual core Power Architecture processor?.NET for gaming is what Microsoft would love you to do, and this is a solution, but I really really doubt you could make mods simply port across from the Windows code that easily, considering the architecture of it all.
However there is a decent incentive for Valve and Microsoft to work on this; you can sell mods on XBox Live. If MS could tie in the free XNA Studio release for homebrew development.. they would be onto a winner here.
mmm, what you just said conflicts with everyone else who replied and said you can pick whereever you wanna go, because Google have lots of offices.
I've never been hired to a company where I got to pick where I lived. The job is at one site and I have to be there, or no job. I doubt Google is much different.
Now, MySQL.. you can work from your mom's basement in Australia if you are geeky enough..:)
Having pissed off their previous publisher because they wanted to do things the publisher hated, and hating everything the publisher did anyway, and knowing that every other game developer hates the way the publisher treats them, being a Good Publisher should be very easy for Valve.
And at the end of the day, giving them a feature list:
* We are not assholes like Vivendi or suchlike. * No box costs! No crappy CD copyprotection breaking the game for 25% of your users! Automatic patching so you can keep the games notbreaking for the paying public! You get more money!
I think that is a compelling set of two-ish arguments to put your game on Steam and rake in some well-earned cash.
Microsoft also has free caffeinated soda machines and the food on campus is pretty cheap:)
I would rather live in Redmond or Seattle than the Bay area.
I think that should be the decision to make; given two identical job opportunities with practically identical pay and benefits, where do you want to live in the world?
Here, every comment I have had on this is proceeding from the point "if he should die".
There is a possibility he could be executed for his crime if he even committed it, but that takes years. He could even commit suicide? But basically he is just going to go to jail for a very long time if it's true, and only after a longish trial. Namesys can be transferred in that time if he so needs it to happen, if he isn't legally entitled to do it himself while under arrest, he can sure get his lawyer to handle it.
"I do not think that just being arrested will affect anything so long as Hans is not actually convicted," says Oleg Drokin, the former release manager at Namesys. "If he is convicted, that might cause problems for Namesys [because] it is operated solely by Hans."
I don't understand. If the guy who runs the company goes away usually it's fairly easy process (albeit longwinded and boring) to get a new general manager, CEO or whatever. Namesys isn't a public company, so they could name their Thanksgiving turkey the CEO. The problem might be, if Hans acted as accountant etc. and did some funny number crunching that is going to drive them into the dirt; of course that would add to Hans' problems, too, if they were ever revealed:D
Is Hans really that important to ReiserFS? Isn't this the whole beauty of GPL code, that there are thousands of people out there who can pick his work up without even involving him, Namesys etc., and continue the 'legacy'?
Yes. Journalist gets a Reuters news feed, remembers stuff he half-=read one day on the same subject, cobbles together article, publishes, collects paycheck.
They haven't even met their $100 target even without the laptop. Maybe Libya will buy them for $100, but they don't "cost" that on the BOM even without the handcrank:D
But you're missing the whole POINT; Consoles were never designed in the first place to "allow people to play games without upgrades".
Maybe that is the advantage of a console for a lot of PC Gamers TODAY, but when consoles first arrived.. who had a PC? Who had to upgrade the OS to play the games anyway?
Your Famicom didn't have an 'OS'. On reset, the CPU jumped to an address in memory which just so happened to be exactly where the cartridge was hardwired to be..:)
The entire point of video game consoles is NOT to avoid updating them. The entire point of video game consoles is to have a video game device on your TV or in your entertainment center. If it has an OS? So be it. These days it needs one at least to throw up a menu, connect to the internet for multiplayer (unless every game wants it's own TCP/IP stack..) and maybe play some media files. Even memory card management would come under this.
You know the Playstation went through several OS revisions, as did the Playstation 2. There was NO way to upgrade it without buying a new system (Sony did not have an upgrade program:) and if you had an old firmware.. well.. if you wanted the HD attachment you may have been screwed. Some cheapshit memory cards quit working on newer ones, some DVDs don't play on older ones. I would say that is a lot more hassle than "connect to the net and transparently update" as most games consoles are wont to do these days.
Three solutions.. one is filtering and the other is processing.... that's TWO solutions.
Also while the rumble filter would not cost anything, surely LICENSING IMMERSON CORP'S PATENT is pretty expensive in the first place. Easier not to have the technology at all than have to pay for it, and then pay for engineering time on all thr^H^Hwo solutions..
Indeed. Tesco used to sell fruit and veg though, the explosion into DVDs and clothing lines etc. is Wal-Mart alike but considering the UK has an ACTIVE WAL-MART SUBSIDIARY and REAL WAL-MART BRANDED STORES, Tesco is about as far from the UK equivalent of Wal-Mart as my local supermarket in Texas is the Texas equivalent of Wal-Mart (there is a real Wal-Mart about 6 blocks away, natch)
If Wibree is dual-mode then it's not bad, is it? Nobody is going to lose Bluetooth on Wibree devices, in fact they are going to gain battery life. Which is good!!
ZigBee using the 2.4Ghz band does not mean it is "compatible". Wibree is compatible in that it HAS Bluetooth functionality, not that it is going to further clutter the 2.4GHz band with more devices..
Firstly, there can't be one standard which fits all devices. It's impossible to define without creating a bunch of semi-compatible subsets which need bridging devices.. which would defeat the object of a standard for all.
Secondly, Wibree is also Bluetooth compatible, but lower data rate, and lower range than the higher end protocols.
Thirdly, ZigBee is for *extremely* low data rates and focussed on home automation.
I would expect Game Assets means they get the ability to produce Earthworm Jim 6 or something, based around the characters and storylines.
But not rights to existing games themselves, so whoever is going to pick these up for Wii/PS3 Virtual Console doesn't talk to F9E but to.. I dunno.. who works at Shiny these days?
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Far from that, how do you expect to get a Windows x86 binary DLL compiled from C++ to run verbatim on a multithreaded dual core Power Architecture processor? .NET for gaming is what Microsoft would love you to do, and this is a solution, but I really really doubt you could make mods simply port across from the Windows code that easily, considering the architecture of it all.
However there is a decent incentive for Valve and Microsoft to work on this; you can sell mods on XBox Live. If MS could tie in the free XNA Studio release for homebrew development.. they would be onto a winner here.
You never did complete Half-Life did you?
mmm, what you just said conflicts with everyone else who replied and said you can pick whereever you wanna go, because Google have lots of offices.
:)
I've never been hired to a company where I got to pick where I lived. The job is at one site and I have to be there, or no job. I doubt Google is much different.
Now, MySQL.. you can work from your mom's basement in Australia if you are geeky enough..
Having pissed off their previous publisher because they wanted to do things the publisher hated, and hating everything the publisher did anyway, and knowing that every other game developer hates the way the publisher treats them, being a Good Publisher should be very easy for Valve.
And at the end of the day, giving them a feature list:
* We are not assholes like Vivendi or suchlike.
* No box costs! No crappy CD copyprotection breaking the game for 25% of your users! Automatic patching so you can keep the games notbreaking for the paying public! You get more money!
I think that is a compelling set of two-ish arguments to put your game on Steam and rake in some well-earned cash.
Then I would ask if they could move the job to a less shitty part of the world :D
Depends if he got offered a job at that Google, doesn't it?
:D
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Still, location is still key. If it's the same location, well... why not Google? It will look cooler on your resume
If you get sick of it you can always move to Microsoft. I hear the other way around gets you sued
http://news.com.com/Microsoft+sues+over+Google+hi
Microsoft also has free caffeinated soda machines and the food on campus is pretty cheap :)
I would rather live in Redmond or Seattle than the Bay area.
I think that should be the decision to make; given two identical job opportunities with practically identical pay and benefits, where do you want to live in the world?
Here, every comment I have had on this is proceeding from the point "if he should die".
There is a possibility he could be executed for his crime if he even committed it, but that takes years. He could even commit suicide? But basically he is just going to go to jail for a very long time if it's true, and only after a longish trial. Namesys can be transferred in that time if he so needs it to happen, if he isn't legally entitled to do it himself while under arrest, he can sure get his lawyer to handle it.
You think Hans Reiser won't let his employees take over the company if he went to jail?
"I do not think that just being arrested will affect anything so long as Hans is not actually convicted," says Oleg Drokin, the former release manager at Namesys. "If he is convicted, that might cause problems for Namesys [because] it is operated solely by Hans."
:D
I don't understand. If the guy who runs the company goes away usually it's fairly easy process (albeit longwinded and boring) to get a new general manager, CEO or whatever. Namesys isn't a public company, so they could name their Thanksgiving turkey the CEO. The problem might be, if Hans acted as accountant etc. and did some funny number crunching that is going to drive them into the dirt; of course that would add to Hans' problems, too, if they were ever revealed
Is Hans really that important to ReiserFS? Isn't this the whole beauty of GPL code, that there are thousands of people out there who can pick his work up without even involving him, Namesys etc., and continue the 'legacy'?
Yes. Journalist gets a Reuters news feed, remembers stuff he half-=read one day on the same subject, cobbles together article, publishes, collects paycheck.
:D
They haven't even met their $100 target even without the laptop. Maybe Libya will buy them for $100, but they don't "cost" that on the BOM even without the handcrank
But you're missing the whole POINT; Consoles were never designed in the first place to "allow people to play games without upgrades".
Maybe that is the advantage of a console for a lot of PC Gamers TODAY, but when consoles first arrived.. who had a PC? Who had to upgrade the OS to play the games anyway?
Your Famicom didn't have an 'OS'. On reset, the CPU jumped to an address in memory which just so happened to be exactly where the cartridge was hardwired to be.. :)
:) and if you had an old firmware.. well.. if you wanted the HD attachment you may have been screwed. Some cheapshit memory cards quit working on newer ones, some DVDs don't play on older ones. I would say that is a lot more hassle than "connect to the net and transparently update" as most games consoles are wont to do these days.
The entire point of video game consoles is NOT to avoid updating them. The entire point of video game consoles is to have a video game device on your TV or in your entertainment center. If it has an OS? So be it. These days it needs one at least to throw up a menu, connect to the internet for multiplayer (unless every game wants it's own TCP/IP stack..) and maybe play some media files. Even memory card management would come under this.
You know the Playstation went through several OS revisions, as did the Playstation 2. There was NO way to upgrade it without buying a new system (Sony did not have an upgrade program
That would be the other 100 search engines, then?
Three solutions.. one is filtering and the other is processing.. .. that's TWO solutions.
Also while the rumble filter would not cost anything, surely LICENSING IMMERSON CORP'S PATENT is pretty expensive in the first place. Easier not to have the technology at all than have to pay for it, and then pay for engineering time on all thr^H^Hwo solutions..
If I had a choice I'd go NetBSD, not Linux :)
Nothing wrong with OpenBSD itself. Nice OS.
Just the guy in charge likes to piss on everything more than anything in the world.
There is nothing you can do right for Theo, be you Genesi or Jesus himself.
Like.. umm.. little black kid and his friend go shooting green ooze on things using Super Soakers?
Or was that McDonalds?
Indeed. Tesco used to sell fruit and veg though, the explosion into DVDs and clothing lines etc. is Wal-Mart alike but considering the UK has an ACTIVE WAL-MART SUBSIDIARY and REAL WAL-MART BRANDED STORES, Tesco is about as far from the UK equivalent of Wal-Mart as my local supermarket in Texas is the Texas equivalent of Wal-Mart (there is a real Wal-Mart about 6 blocks away, natch)
What's wrong with making money?
If Wibree is dual-mode then it's not bad, is it? Nobody is going to lose Bluetooth on Wibree devices, in fact they are going to gain battery life. Which is good!!
ZigBee using the 2.4Ghz band does not mean it is "compatible". Wibree is compatible in that it HAS Bluetooth functionality, not that it is going to further clutter the 2.4GHz band with more devices..
> I have not succeeded in making this code do anything more than cause a crash and eat up system resources
:D
Okay so it's not a bug at all, just normal Firefox behaviour. Fine, we can all rest easy
Firstly, there can't be one standard which fits all devices. It's impossible to define without creating a bunch of semi-compatible subsets which need bridging devices.. which would defeat the object of a standard for all.
Secondly, Wibree is also Bluetooth compatible, but lower data rate, and lower range than the higher end protocols.
Thirdly, ZigBee is for *extremely* low data rates and focussed on home automation.
The UK equivalent of Wal-Mart is ... ASDA Wal-Mart.
Next you will be saying the dolphins in a football field circling the moon equivalent, right?
That Bluetooth isn't cheap or power efficient enough for certain devices.
:)
That's about all
Not that Bluetooth isn't good and that Nokia don't like promoting it or using it, but Bluetooth is not a panacea - just a standard.
I would expect Game Assets means they get the ability to produce Earthworm Jim 6 or something, based around the characters and storylines.
But not rights to existing games themselves, so whoever is going to pick these up for Wii/PS3 Virtual Console doesn't talk to F9E but to.. I dunno.. who works at Shiny these days?