I appluad MS for doing this. (-1 Troll i know) I would like to see it happen much more often.
They can't be making money off this game anymore, so why not give back to the community. Let those who love the game make it better, or atlest better to them.
Relic recently released the source to HomeWorld 1, and i know many people (including myself to a small extent) have been pouring through it to implement the features that we thought should be in the game. Right click movement, better combat, simpler camera control, better UI, ect.
The multiplayer nature of Allegaince may make it less friendly to such changes, but i do look forward to seeing the creativity of the community at work. (and who knows, an allegiance single player campaign may come from this)
Malice was one of the titles used to show of the power of the XBox before it was released . If you paid attention to the XBox hype, chances are you saw some Malic screenshots.
It was widely expected to be a release title in fact. But here 3+ years latter, no release date ia availibe, the Official webpage no longer exists, and we've heard nothing from Argonaut Games in the last year or so.
Dear god. They put out a half finished game and made you wait 6 months before it was playable. The AI was laughable. It was so poor at resource management it cheated on every difficulty level, evey easy. It was totaly incapable of building an army, it would simply spam buildings and vills with the occasional military unit thrown it. Nealry every age was hopelessly unbalanced, for a game that stressed how important counter units were, Persian cavarly would dominte everything on the battle field for 3 or 4 ages only to finaly be replaced by another unstoppable army.
Maybe they fixed it in 2.0 patch/Expansion pack but i never stuck around to find out. There were far better games out there, like ones that a person could stand to play.
To put EE on there and snub good games like Warcraft II or Stronghold Crusader or even Cossaks, is inexplicable.
GF graphics card somewhere between GF3 and GF4 power.
64mb DDR ram.
A mod Chip is required to bypass the normal startup routine and allows you to install a custom version of Linux on your Xbox, most of them will play XBox games, along with allowing you to place and play most types of media on your Xbox. Often even including the ability to ftp files up to your Xbox via ethernet connection. The bad part is you can't play XBox live with a mod chip running. (unless you enjoy being banned from MS severs...)
ET is an excpetional game (arguably the best team based shooter around) but none of the vitals were scripted in the.pk3 files. Only cosmetic things like sounds and models can be changed. The actual game play stuff, rate of fire, damage, splash damage, weapon type and class, objective types, player classes ect were hard coded. Which pretty much prevented us from making and underlying changes to the actual play of the game. Hopefully this source will change that.
Can A paper map be updated with the locations of all friendly and reported enemy units in your area in real time automatically? Can it update your position with everyone who needs to know in real time automatically? Can it be updated in real time to include new areas should the need arise?
I absolutely agree that a paper map is still a requirement, you can't count on high tech gadgets to work flawlessly all the time, but the amount of information small, flexible, simple to use devices like this can put into the infantry soldier's hands is incredible.
not as good as the xbox No hard drive for easy locale storage. And may not be as simple as flipping a switch to boot from linux or from the default enviorment (i'm not sure how they're overriding the default start up) but for gc owners a nice addition to it's funconality. The ability to stream music, and / or video via a silent (and micro) computer. No real fan noise in the background when listening to music, and a much better video out quality than S-Video on the typical video card.
So 940 gets moved to opteron only 939 encompasses both Athlon64/FX chips, starting in Q2. 754 is relegated to the next gen AthlonXPs (with the on die memory controller, but only 32 bit) 462 dies a slow death.
Why can't every CPU made just fit on Socket 7...:)
paper (pdf)
on detection of steganographic messages based on simple statistical analisys of the image.
It seems to work well against 2 of the 3 major steganographic endodings they tried.
show that global warming is in fact a result of man's industrialization before we go screwing the with the planet?
I mean it would kind of suck to lower the planets temperature only to find out in a few hundred years that this a natural cycle and have everything freeze when it cools off...
with some very welcome additions, like the ability for thread proritization.
So a low priority thread won't (in the long run) have the same number of CPU resources as a high priority one.
And the ability to switch between SMT and single threaded execution on the fly
i found this note on a previous survey for p2p downloading:
In the March-May 2003 survey, 21% of Internet users responded "yes" to the question, "Do you allow
others to download files from your computer, such as music or video files?"
I noticed the consipcous lack of the word 'copyrighted' there.
Just wondering if they had changed that.
A day on Mars, which is known as a "sol," consists of 24 hours, just like a day on Earth. Each hour contains 60 minutes; each minute 60 seconds. There's nothing magical about that. Scientists simply got together and declared it to be so.
But there's a catch. A martian second is a smidge longer than what you're used to on Earth. Think of it this way: Instead of counting, "One Mississippi, two Mississippi" count "One Mississippis, two Mississippis."
yes, because redefining the basic elements by which we measure time is SOOOOO much simpler than making a Martian day 24 hours and 40 minutes long...
A meter is defined as distanced traveled by light in a vaccum in an amount of time, is a meter longer on mars now?
Maybe they should give him the gas. Then send a bill to him for the full cost of making a special delivery to replenish exactly what he took. Maybe a 5 figure gas bill would to more to discourage morons like this than free room and board.
... the reports we've seen here in the past seem to indicate the overwhelming majority of pirated movies come from 'insiders' who have access to it in production/editing/promotion, wouldn't the logical extension of this to be prohibit all camera's on movie sets?
Now i realize that kind of defeats the prupose of a 'visual' medium, but hey, the **AA has said repeatedly we need to be tougher on piracy.
we will all have to make sacrafices...
that they'll produce some of the same public domain type code we saw in the SCOforums to the judge, then claim that if it was stolen from their System V code or is a matter of fact for a jury to decide...
computers can be an extrodinary tool for the teacher. We've come a long way since our 'computer class' in grade school was 45 minutes of Oregon Trail on those new fangled Apple IIs.
What they should not be is a means of replacing teachers. You don't install a math and english tutor programs, stuff 60 kids into a class room then let them fill in what they don't understand on a computer.
Both sides--owners and users--must benefit in real ways for DRM to take hold.
Impossible.
DRM exists specifically to deny 'right's' to users. How can any device that is used (in this context) only to limit the ways in which I can use a device benefit me?
DRM serves only the needs of the rights holder (and even that is debatable if you consider the 'benefit' is soley profit based and pissing off customers doesn't benefit profit). And that's why users, atleast informed ones, will fight adoption of DRM on devices targeted at individuals.
Forget economics for a minute.
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Just building such an aircraft would be an engineering marvel.
You're talking about building a commercial aircraft that flies faster than the SR-71, and potentially higher. And instead of moving 2 guys in pressurized flight suits and some cameras with the need for refueling every ~2 hours, you want it transport a few hundred people in relative comfort half way around the world?
Just getting any airfram to 4 MACH without melting is quite an accomplishment of materials and aerospace engineering.
The title of his address Tuesday night to the Computer Digital Expo at Mandalay Bay was: "There's No Free Lunch
funny, isn't that exactly what McBride is looking for?
Rather than build a viable buisness on the merits of their own product he's taken to filing lawsuit after lawsuit, each more insane than the last to drive up his stock prices in the hope that he can cash out before the perverbial house of cards comes crashing down.
I for one hope there is no free lunch here, i hope McBride and his band o' nuts aren't able to profit by slandering the hard work of the open source community.....But then again, not to many investment bankers read/.
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I appluad MS for doing this. (-1 Troll i know)
I would like to see it happen much more often.
They can't be making money off this game anymore, so why not give back to the community.
Let those who love the game make it better, or atlest better to them.
Relic recently released the source to HomeWorld 1, and i know many people (including myself to a small extent) have been pouring through it to implement the features that we thought should be in the game. Right click movement, better combat, simpler camera control, better UI, ect.
The multiplayer nature of Allegaince may make it less friendly to such changes, but i do look forward to seeing the creativity of the community at work. (and who knows, an allegiance single player campaign may come from this)
Malice was one of the titles used to show of the power of the XBox before it was released . If you paid attention to the XBox hype, chances are you saw some Malic screenshots.
It was widely expected to be a release title in fact. But here 3+ years latter, no release date ia availibe, the Official webpage no longer exists, and we've heard nothing from Argonaut Games in the last year or so.
Dear god.
They put out a half finished game and made you wait 6 months before it was playable.
The AI was laughable. It was so poor at resource management it cheated on every difficulty level, evey easy. It was totaly incapable of building an army, it would simply spam buildings and vills with the occasional military unit thrown it.
Nealry every age was hopelessly unbalanced, for a game that stressed how important counter units were, Persian cavarly would dominte everything on the battle field for 3 or 4 ages only to finaly be replaced by another unstoppable army.
Maybe they fixed it in 2.0 patch/Expansion pack but i never stuck around to find out. There were far better games out there, like ones that a person could stand to play.
To put EE on there and snub good games like Warcraft II or Stronghold Crusader or even Cossaks, is inexplicable.
P3 733
GF graphics card somewhere between GF3 and GF4 power.
64mb DDR ram.
A mod Chip is required to bypass the normal startup routine and allows you to install a custom version of Linux
on your Xbox, most of them will play XBox games, along with allowing you to place and play most types of media on your Xbox. Often even including the ability to ftp files up to your Xbox via ethernet connection.
The bad part is you can't play XBox live with a mod chip running. (unless you enjoy being banned from MS severs...)
ET is an excpetional game (arguably the best team based shooter around) .pk3 files. Only cosmetic things like sounds and models can be changed.
but none of the vitals were scripted in the
The actual game play stuff, rate of fire, damage, splash damage, weapon type and class, objective types, player classes ect were hard coded. Which pretty much prevented us from making and underlying changes to the actual play of the game.
Hopefully this source will change that.
Can A paper map be updated with the locations of all friendly and reported enemy units in your area in real time automatically?
Can it update your position with everyone who needs to know in real time automatically?
Can it be updated in real time to include new areas should the need arise?
I absolutely agree that a paper map is still a requirement, you can't count on high tech gadgets to work flawlessly all the time,
but the amount of information small, flexible, simple to use devices like this can put into the infantry soldier's hands is incredible.
I mean, Senators seem to be much Cheaper these days.
I'd take 2 or 3 of those over a President any day....
if they had allowed for a decent video card. /.ed)
nice small form factor
pretty funtional
light (i assume, site is
but restricted to a Radeon 9100 IGP... that's just no good.
not as good as the xbox
No hard drive for easy locale storage. And may not be as simple as flipping a switch to boot from linux or from the default enviorment (i'm not sure how they're overriding the default start up)
but for gc owners a nice addition to it's funconality. The ability to stream music, and / or video via a silent (and micro) computer. No real fan noise in the background when listening to music, and a much better video out quality than S-Video on the typical video card.
the labels will just double the price of CDs and blame it on file swapping.
You didn't think the consumer would get out of getting screwed did you?
So 940 gets moved to opteron only
:)
939 encompasses both Athlon64/FX chips, starting in Q2.
754 is relegated to the next gen AthlonXPs (with the on die memory controller, but only 32 bit)
462 dies a slow death.
Why can't every CPU made just fit on Socket 7...
EB Games just recently changed the 'ships on date' to 7/14....
paper (pdf) on detection of steganographic messages based on simple statistical analisys of the image. It seems to work well against 2 of the 3 major steganographic endodings they tried.
show that global warming is in fact a result of man's industrialization before we go screwing the with the planet?
I mean it would kind of suck to lower the planets temperature only to find out in a few hundred years that this a natural cycle and have everything freeze when it cools off...
The IBM Power 5 will have SMT (along with CMP)
with some very welcome additions, like the ability for thread proritization.
So a low priority thread won't (in the long run) have the same number of CPU resources as a high priority one.
And the ability to switch between SMT and single threaded execution on the fly
i found this note on a previous survey for p2p downloading:
In the March-May 2003 survey, 21% of Internet users responded "yes" to the question, "Do you allow others to download files from your computer, such as music or video files?"
I noticed the consipcous lack of the word 'copyrighted' there.
Just wondering if they had changed that.
Tim Berners-Lee Attains Knighthood does that come with +2 armour?
A day on Mars, which is known as a "sol," consists of 24 hours, just like a day on Earth. Each hour contains 60 minutes; each minute 60 seconds. There's nothing magical about that. Scientists simply got together and declared it to be so. But there's a catch. A martian second is a smidge longer than what you're used to on Earth. Think of it this way: Instead of counting, "One Mississippi, two Mississippi" count "One Mississippis, two Mississippis."
yes, because redefining the basic elements by which we measure time is SOOOOO much simpler than making a Martian day 24 hours and 40 minutes long...
A meter is defined as distanced traveled by light in a vaccum in an amount of time, is a meter longer on mars now?
Maybe they should give him the gas.
Then send a bill to him for the full cost of making a special delivery to replenish exactly what he took.
Maybe a 5 figure gas bill would to more to discourage morons like this than free room and board.
... the reports we've seen here in the past seem to indicate the overwhelming majority of pirated movies come from 'insiders' who have access to it in production/editing/promotion, wouldn't the logical extension of this to be prohibit all camera's on movie sets? Now i realize that kind of defeats the prupose of a 'visual' medium, but hey, the **AA has said repeatedly we need to be tougher on piracy. we will all have to make sacrafices...
that they'll produce some of the same public domain type code we saw in the SCOforums to the judge, then claim that if it was stolen from their System V code or is a matter of fact for a jury to decide...
computers can be an extrodinary tool for the teacher. We've come a long way since our 'computer class' in grade school was 45 minutes of Oregon Trail on those new fangled Apple IIs.
What they should not be is a means of replacing teachers. You don't install a math and english tutor programs, stuff 60 kids into a class room then let them fill in what they don't understand on a computer.
Both sides--owners and users--must benefit in real ways for DRM to take hold.
Impossible.
DRM exists specifically to deny 'right's' to users. How can any device that is used (in this context) only to limit the ways in which I can use a device benefit me?
DRM serves only the needs of the rights holder (and even that is debatable if you consider the 'benefit' is soley profit based and pissing off customers doesn't benefit profit). And that's why users, atleast informed ones, will fight adoption of DRM on devices targeted at individuals.
Just building such an aircraft would be an engineering marvel. You're talking about building a commercial aircraft that flies faster than the SR-71, and potentially higher. And instead of moving 2 guys in pressurized flight suits and some cameras with the need for refueling every ~2 hours, you want it transport a few hundred people in relative comfort half way around the world? Just getting any airfram to 4 MACH without melting is quite an accomplishment of materials and aerospace engineering.
The title of his address Tuesday night to the Computer Digital Expo at Mandalay Bay was: "There's No Free Lunch funny, isn't that exactly what McBride is looking for? /.
Rather than build a viable buisness on the merits of their own product he's taken to filing lawsuit after lawsuit, each more insane than the last to drive up his stock prices in the hope that he can cash out before the perverbial house of cards comes crashing down.
I for one hope there is no free lunch here, i hope McBride and his band o' nuts aren't able to profit by slandering the hard work of the open source community.....But then again, not to many investment bankers read