I work for the Italian GSP in charge of selecting the our country's national team and sending them to San Francisco. A lot of the hassles came from the young age of the partecipants (some of them only recently turned 18) and the fact that, for the first time, it was going to be a BYOC LAN. For this reason we had a hard time finding sponsors willing to give the team some decent hardware on which to play. We didn't have any luck so the players had to scout ahead and fin a place where to rent some monitors. Good luck in finding a place where to warm up and practice a bit.
Another problem was that the hotel is no way in a decent walking distance from the place where the games will be played. So players not only have to drag along their stuff to the battlefield, but also have to walk quite a bit to get there.
Fortunately, our guys seem to be quite positive about it. It's great to travel so far and represent your country. Even if it's videogames we're talking about. And, believe me, you get pretty popular with girls about the whole thing. "What? You came all the way from Italy to play... videogames? charming!"... hehe, pretty amusing stuff.
This frequently spurrs "Matrix"-like discussions and situations where characters are trying to determine what is real and what isn't.
This comment is very unfair towards GITS and Masamune Shirow himself. The W. brothers have acknolwedged GITS as a major source of inspiration for the Matrix trilogy. So it would Matrix that frequently spurrs "GITS" like discussions, not the opposite.
it isn't suprising for me to discover that cs:source is only it's revamped predecessor.
What vALVE did was shift from what was born and is a basically free game to a pay-for-play model. Everyone needs an income, that's why they hired Gooseman in the first place.
It's ok after all. They make great games and they deserve an income out of it. Still, I wonder what outrage this will cause among the community when vALVE will ditch CS1.6 as they did recently with CS1.5 (the WON version, that worked without installing digital delivery on demand tool STEAM).
Time will tell... I'm still waiting for the linux client;)
Seriously, how much would bayesian porn detection be useful today? Nowadays a parent must purchase 3rd party applications that almost never work because these don't have the necessary sofistication to detect if a page is acceptable for a minor or not.
A feature like this, complete with safe browser locking and unlocking, would give Firefox another boost over its competitors and provide a better web for children and people living in places where pornograhpy is illegal.
Valve's choice isn't totally out of context if you consider what Valve means by "source".
Wind back and think about "Steam", a content distribution system. "Source", the game engine, is meant to be the basis for a whole variety of games: HL2, CS, DoD, you-name-the-game. It's meant to a platform and be game independent. Right now the so called "Half-Life" engine the basis for CS, DoD and Half-Life itself. "Source" instead is the game skeleton that's meant to be game-independent.
Steam: delivers the game content and infrastructure
I bought my very first Sony Walkman when I was about 13, after I had saved money for over a year. I was so proud of it, although it was big, bulky and made an awful whirring noise while playing. Still it survived water, dust, various people sitting on it and even being dropped the 4 fourth floor of a building. Actually, it works to this very day.
Turns out Cliffe is a star in South Korea, as many players and game designers are in a nation with the highest broadband penetration in the world and the biggest mmorpg, in terms of registered users, ever (Lineage ~ 4 million subscribers). It's good to see talented young people get the credit and the fame they deserve, even in a country where pop songs are all about Starcraft...
Slashdot Mirror
another mirror, no reg required, for the trailer
http://www.ngi.it/filebrowser3.php?f=3278
> But does it run Linux?
The real question is "does it run Mono?"
that's a parody, not the true story of the development, which in no way dates back to 1987!!!
nopes. the correct formula is
In Japan, Robots are only for old people.
Over here: http://www.ngi.it/filebrowser3.php?f=3253
...can it run DooM3?
Another good, fast mirror over here:
http://www.ngi.it/filebrowser3.php?f=3223
Konqueror (kde3.3.1) is actually already patched against the only vulnerability, the field-form-focus, that affects the browser.
Way to go KDE!
I work for the Italian GSP in charge of selecting the our country's national team and sending them to San Francisco. A lot of the hassles came from the young age of the partecipants (some of them only recently turned 18) and the fact that, for the first time, it was going to be a BYOC LAN. For this reason we had a hard time finding sponsors willing to give the team some decent hardware on which to play. We didn't have any luck so the players had to scout ahead and fin a place where to rent some monitors. Good luck in finding a place where to warm up and practice a bit.
Another problem was that the hotel is no way in a decent walking distance from the place where the games will be played. So players not only have to drag along their stuff to the battlefield, but also have to walk quite a bit to get there.
Fortunately, our guys seem to be quite positive about it. It's great to travel so far and represent your country. Even if it's videogames we're talking about. And, believe me, you get pretty popular with girls about the whole thing. "What? You came all the way from Italy to play... videogames? charming!"... hehe, pretty amusing stuff.
Anyway, check out the pics
exactly.
it's like saying there's no WindowsXP market based on a console survey.
here
This frequently spurrs "Matrix"-like discussions and situations where characters are trying to determine what is real and what isn't.
This comment is very unfair towards GITS and Masamune Shirow himself. The W. brothers have acknolwedged GITS as a major source of inspiration for the Matrix trilogy.
So it would Matrix that frequently spurrs "GITS" like discussions, not the opposite.
here come the fucking jokes
Now that's just silly. It's like blaming firemen for setting peoples houses on purpose.
it isn't suprising for me to discover that cs:source is only it's revamped predecessor.
;)
What vALVE did was shift from what was born and is a basically free game to a pay-for-play model. Everyone needs an income, that's why they hired Gooseman in the first place.
It's ok after all. They make great games and they deserve an income out of it. Still, I wonder what outrage this will cause among the community when vALVE will ditch CS1.6 as they did recently with CS1.5 (the WON version, that worked without installing digital delivery on demand tool STEAM).
Time will tell... I'm still waiting for the linux client
...does this mean I need to start over again with the "Litigious bastards" thing?
linux?
best text adventure around.
Seriously, how much would bayesian porn detection be useful today? Nowadays a parent must purchase 3rd party applications that almost never work because these don't have the necessary sofistication to detect if a page is acceptable for a minor or not.
A feature like this, complete with safe browser locking and unlocking, would give Firefox another boost over its competitors and provide a better web for children and people living in places where pornograhpy is illegal.
Wind back and think about "Steam", a content distribution system. "Source", the game engine, is meant to be the basis for a whole variety of games: HL2, CS, DoD, you-name-the-game. It's meant to a platform and be game independent. Right now the so called "Half-Life" engine the basis for CS, DoD and Half-Life itself. "Source" instead is the game skeleton that's meant to be game-independent.
Steam: delivers the game content and infrastructure
Source: the game infrastructure
HL2, CS, etc: the game content
Seems pretty intuitive to me.
Sponsored by spam.
Seriously, I wonder if this might hurt the company's meaty feelings.
... that will be eclipsed when someone installs Wolfestein: Enemy Territory on that box.
I bought my very first Sony Walkman when I was about 13, after I had saved money for over a year. I was so proud of it, although it was big, bulky and made an awful whirring noise while playing. Still it survived water, dust, various people sitting on it and even being dropped the 4 fourth floor of a building. Actually, it works to this very day.
I prefer more fragile stuff.
first & second video (rename .zip to .wmv)
Turns out Cliffe is a star in South Korea, as many players and game designers are in a nation with the highest broadband penetration in the world and the biggest mmorpg, in terms of registered users, ever (Lineage ~ 4 million subscribers). It's good to see talented young people get the credit and the fame they deserve, even in a country where pop songs are all about Starcraft...
... you might want to learn a thing or two on the filmmaker.