a) Rockstar made the content for some reason.
b) The game was betatested to death, yet that content was left in, other content has cut.
c) Rockstar are aware of the modding community (they acknowledged MTA).
Therefore it's their liability, or better, that their executives. I hope none of the devs lose their jobs, although I secretly hope that whoever wrote that press release gets canned.
I'm sick of seeing the modding community praised and cuddled when things go right (and cash flows), but given shit when things turn out ugly. These guys are your biggest fans, for Gods sake!
>This was never intended by Rockstar and therefore the responsibility lies with the person who applied the mod to exercise judgement. And if they are not mature enough to do this, their parents should be monitoring their computing activites anyway.
Oh please, gimme a break. Rockstar deliberately left this in for someone to find. It's more than natural that somebody would stumble upon it, given the game mod community that's all over the PC versions of GTA and works better than Rockstar's own hyping machine in making money.
So responsibility lies with Rockstar that made that content (as a joke probably) and knowingly left it in.
Their moronic reaction comes from all the fuss opinionists and now politicians are making about this. They got scared out of their shit for the possible consequences, related but not limited to future PG ratings future sequels might receive. Right now, they're with stupid... and are a major disappointment for me who's been a longtime fan of the software house since the Lemming days.
>I should point out that Sega was first into console RPGs and had the first true real-time strategy game, and I bet a large number of the audience couldn't even guess what those games are. (Phantasy Star and Dune II if you're curious.)
You're right there, except that the first real time strategy game was Herzog Zwei, released for the Genesis in 1988. Phantasy Star was an JRPG, and a great one too for that matter.
It's not the same thing. One thing is an individual that modifies the game to provide new content that was never intended to be, another is unlocking content that was _deliberately_ left in by the developers as a fun prank so that someone would dig it up. A better comparision would be someone who writes "Heil Hitler" on the page of a book he bought and someone who finds it erroneously published as a mistake by the author, revealing the authors true political views.
Also, I cannot believe that Rockstar forgot about this, or believed that no-one would have been able to find it and unlock it, especially after acknowledging the existance of Multi Theft Auto which is one of the most clever hacks ever to come out for a game.
Most likely, they never thought that such a ruckus would emerge because of it, and were scared off by the idiotic reactions of politicians and clueless opinionists alike, forcing them to release an incredibly dumb statement saying that it was all teh work of a "hacker" that "dissassembled" the game and added the so called "obscene" content.
Come on Rockstar, you can't be seriously believing this bullshit in the first place. It's like your totally oblivious to your own code and content, like most marketing people in this business are.
Please don't betray people like this poor modder, he could have been me or anyone else given the skill needed to *unlock* that content. These guys make the up the backbone of your fan base and are instrumental in reaching the volume of sales San Andreas has.
>...why is this called Geforce 7? It behaves and performs more like a Geforce 6 refresh. It should've been a 6900.
Nice point. I thought the same upon reading the news. My guess is that they're going to introduce a new naming scheme along their next generation GPUs.
>Will this be the real end of innovation in videogames?
Well, for that to happen there should be some innovation to start with. Paradoxically, software patent could actually enforce some goddamn innovation in games, by preventing game developers from ripping each other off continuosly and rehashing the same stuff over and over again.
Hmmm, lets say more or less a year, if nVIDIA sued tomorrow? This mod has been around for this amount of time now, and I'm suprised this has made it to the main page as "news".
More or less the same happened back in the Quadro/MX days. Using a soft-mod similiar to the one discussed in the article, you could transform your cheapo-but-great Geforce 2 MX into a much more costly Quadro card for graphic professionals.
The difference between now and then is that this mod isn't guaranteed to work for each and every 6800 card out there. So unless you get to test the hack before buying don't think you can get away with a 6800 Ultra at a lower price. If you buy it, take it home and the mod doesn't work because the extra pipelines are defective, you're stuck with a really pricey card (check the V9999 from ASUS) that will perfom worse per dollar than a 6800GT (or probably even a 6600GT).
Also, please read the DMCA again: this kind of mod is perfectly legal, unless you plan to put up a shop that sells them. If it weren't so, even overclocking would be illegal.
About that last story about the girl and the freebsd daemon, isn't it peculiar that id Software is from Texas. I wonder what kind of stares John or Adrian Carmack usually get.
Police said copying scenes from Star Wars was 'the latest craze' among children and young people. Despite this, officers were keeping an open mind about the exactly what had happened.
If they had imitated a videogame, in a related news we would have heard about lawsuits and crusades.
his is what sets Game xStream apart from anything else the industry has seen.
Sorry, but I still can't understand what makes this service different than Steam. Looks like the marketing people have been locked up with their game in 3D Realms' basement for ten years.
Well, to avoid the rebooting problems you need redundacy - load balancing, etc - which obviously costs money. That means higher TCO than on *NIX, which fares better and is generally safer with less
"armor".
I'd really like to know what the study means by "cheaper to patch". Does it mean that, since time is money, the cheap is available sooner and installs faster? Are the guys doing the job available for less money? As the article points out, rebooting a mission critical server, especially on windows, after applying a patch, is a royal PITA, something that hardly happens on a *NIX machine.
did someone manage to get a copy of the PDF from Microsoft before it went down?
Will this version of Windows be the hardcore gamers OS of choice?
A stripped down, bare bones version of Windows XP is what the gamer masses have been claiming for since years. As long as there is the latest DirectX, this means more horsepower for resource intensive games without the hassle of tweaking Windows till it bleeds in order to acheive the maximum horsepower for resource intensive games.
Hell yea, bring it on! Since I do all my work on other operative systems, I'd be willing to part with some dough to add it to my multi-boot as the gaming OS of my rig, at least for those games that don't run well under the latest Cedega.
If Microsoft really cared about it users, this version would be available free of charge for registered Windows XP Home and Pro users.
however, if you've seen the trailer, you'll recall a horned boy shown in a split-second sequence, so it might be set in the same world of ICO and share the same mythology.
Sure, it's a 2D platform, but you won't be disappointed by the beautiful bitmap graphics, the impressive soundtrack by Akira "Silent Hill" Yamaoka and the unbeatable playability (only Super Metroid comes close).
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just throw 'em my way!
It only takes a little bit of common sense:
a) Rockstar made the content for some reason.
b) The game was betatested to death, yet that content was left in, other content has cut.
c) Rockstar are aware of the modding community (they acknowledged MTA).
Therefore it's their liability, or better, that their executives. I hope none of the devs lose their jobs, although I secretly hope that whoever wrote that press release gets canned.
I'm sick of seeing the modding community praised and cuddled when things go right (and cash flows), but given shit when things turn out ugly. These guys are your biggest fans, for Gods sake!
>This was never intended by Rockstar and therefore the responsibility lies with the person who applied the mod to exercise judgement. And if they are not mature enough to do this, their parents should be monitoring their computing activites anyway.
Oh please, gimme a break. Rockstar deliberately left this in for someone to find. It's more than natural that somebody would stumble upon it, given the game mod community that's all over the PC versions of GTA and works better than Rockstar's own hyping machine in making money.
So responsibility lies with Rockstar that made that content (as a joke probably) and knowingly left it in.
Their moronic reaction comes from all the fuss opinionists and now politicians are making about this. They got scared out of their shit for the possible consequences, related but not limited to future PG ratings future sequels might receive. Right now, they're with stupid... and are a major disappointment for me who's been a longtime fan of the software house since the Lemming days.
>I should point out that Sega was first into console RPGs and had the first true real-time strategy game, and I bet a large number of the audience couldn't even guess what those games are. (Phantasy Star and Dune II if you're curious.)
You're right there, except that the first real time strategy game was Herzog Zwei, released for the Genesis in 1988. Phantasy Star was an JRPG, and a great one too for that matter.
It's not the same thing. One thing is an individual that modifies the game to provide new content that was never intended to be, another is unlocking content that was _deliberately_ left in by the developers as a fun prank so that someone would dig it up. A better comparision would be someone who writes "Heil Hitler" on the page of a book he bought and someone who finds it erroneously published as a mistake by the author, revealing the authors true political views.
Also, I cannot believe that Rockstar forgot about this, or believed that no-one would have been able to find it and unlock it, especially after acknowledging the existance of Multi Theft Auto which is one of the most clever hacks ever to come out for a game.
Most likely, they never thought that such a ruckus would emerge because of it, and were scared off by the idiotic reactions of politicians and clueless opinionists alike, forcing them to release an incredibly dumb statement saying that it was all teh work of a "hacker" that "dissassembled" the game and added the so called "obscene" content.
Come on Rockstar, you can't be seriously believing this bullshit in the first place. It's like your totally oblivious to your own code and content, like most marketing people in this business are.
Please don't betray people like this poor modder, he could have been me or anyone else given the skill needed to *unlock* that content. These guys make the up the backbone of your fan base and are instrumental in reaching the volume of sales San Andreas has.
Well, that's why Marvel sued NCSOFT.
I can't say I'm distressed over the Judge's decision to dismiss the case. Sorry Marvel, it seems you'll just have to deal with some competition.
I want to know the following:
1) Did Intel have access to the technical details and specifications necessary to fully optimize code for the AMD processors?
2) If not, wouldn't this be a publicity stunt just waiting to be picked up by news sites like Slashdot?
Just curious.
> SCO actually sell something? I assumed they just litigate.
If you've got $699 to spare, yes...
I tried it out on Konqueror 3.4.0 and it is also affected. The only minor change is a blank popup window opening together with the javascript query.
> ...why is this called Geforce 7? It behaves and performs more like a Geforce 6 refresh. It should've been a 6900.
Nice point. I thought the same upon reading the news. My guess is that they're going to introduce a new naming scheme along their next generation GPUs.
> Although Microsoft seems to be pushing to have a say in the creative developement of the movie, I'm wondering how much they'll end up getting
The Covenant will run Linux.
Rumors are that Jeff Goldblum will have a leading role too...
So who is this Linus guy and why should i care what OS he is running ?
maybe i should submit a story about what OS my neighbour runs, or perhaps his brother and wife
>Will this be the real end of innovation in videogames?
Well, for that to happen there should be some innovation to start with. Paradoxically, software patent could actually enforce some goddamn innovation in games, by preventing game developers from ripping each other off continuosly and rehashing the same stuff over and over again.
So when is the Nintendo DS emulator coming out for the PSP?
Wasn't this already done in the early eighties with a fast-food chain where kids could eat pizzas and play videogames?
Hmmm, lets say more or less a year, if nVIDIA sued tomorrow? This mod has been around for this amount of time now, and I'm suprised this has made it to the main page as "news".
More or less the same happened back in the Quadro/MX days. Using a soft-mod similiar to the one discussed in the article, you could transform your cheapo-but-great Geforce 2 MX into a much more costly Quadro card for graphic professionals.
The difference between now and then is that this mod isn't guaranteed to work for each and every 6800 card out there. So unless you get to test the hack before buying don't think you can get away with a 6800 Ultra at a lower price. If you buy it, take it home and the mod doesn't work because the extra pipelines are defective, you're stuck with a really pricey card (check the V9999 from ASUS) that will perfom worse per dollar than a 6800GT (or probably even a 6600GT).
Also, please read the DMCA again: this kind of mod is perfectly legal, unless you plan to put up a shop that sells them. If it weren't so, even overclocking would be illegal.
About that last story about the girl and the freebsd daemon, isn't it peculiar that id Software is from Texas. I wonder what kind of stares John or Adrian Carmack usually get.
Police said copying scenes from Star Wars was 'the latest craze' among children and young people. Despite this, officers were keeping an open mind about the exactly what had happened.
If they had imitated a videogame, in a related news we would have heard about lawsuits and crusades.
Is The Elder Scroll series the new Ultima?
his is what sets Game xStream apart from anything else the industry has seen.
Sorry, but I still can't understand what makes this service different than Steam. Looks like the marketing people have been locked up with their game in 3D Realms' basement for ten years.
Well, to avoid the rebooting problems you need redundacy - load balancing, etc - which obviously costs money. That means higher TCO than on *NIX, which fares better and is generally safer with less "armor".
I'd really like to know what the study means by "cheaper to patch". Does it mean that, since time is money, the cheap is available sooner and installs faster? Are the guys doing the job available for less money? As the article points out, rebooting a mission critical server, especially on windows, after applying a patch, is a royal PITA, something that hardly happens on a *NIX machine.
did someone manage to get a copy of the PDF from Microsoft before it went down?
Will this version of Windows be the hardcore gamers OS of choice?
A stripped down, bare bones version of Windows XP is what the gamer masses have been claiming for since years. As long as there is the latest DirectX, this means more horsepower for resource intensive games without the hassle of tweaking Windows till it bleeds in order to acheive the maximum horsepower for resource intensive games.
Hell yea, bring it on! Since I do all my work on other operative systems, I'd be willing to part with some dough to add it to my multi-boot as the gaming OS of my rig, at least for those games that don't run well under the latest Cedega.
If Microsoft really cared about it users, this version would be available free of charge for registered Windows XP Home and Pro users.
however, if you've seen the trailer, you'll recall a horned boy shown in a split-second sequence, so it might be set in the same world of ICO and share the same mythology.
Be sure to pick up Castlevania Symphony of the Night then, widely regarded as the best in the series.
Sure, it's a 2D platform, but you won't be disappointed by the beautiful bitmap graphics, the impressive soundtrack by Akira "Silent Hill" Yamaoka and the unbeatable playability (only Super Metroid comes close).