No. Game designers have to know their systems they create the games on inside out -- how to make the game run on it even under the worse circumstances. Take for example, when John Carmack was creating the original Quake engine, he had a hard time making it work best on the computer, but eventually he twinked it enough to make it work. It wasn't Commodore's fault that their computer's hardware was slow.
What!? Why the hell would anyone want to do that!? The Halo engine sucks! Not to be a flamebait, but there's nothing special about it! Graphics and Lighting are still owned by Valve's Half-Life engine and idSoftware's Quake 3 engine. I don't really see why anyone would want to license this... but I guess since he used to work on it, he may know it a lot better and have some better ideas on how to "twink" it into being better.
I'm sorry. I'm not a fan of Halo. There's just nothing there that I can't get more anywhere else.
Wow. From what I've seen, that's a very powerful console. It looks as if the Xbox 2 is shaping up to be just another power-house console, as its predecessor was. Hopefully they can release a good set of games to go with the excellent hardware though.
Maybe we'll be seeing computers and consoles competing once again? Very doubtful, but just remember back when idSoftware wrote Dangerous Dave in Copyright Infringement? That was a work of art, and a large leap in the computer-gaming industry. Since then, computers have down-shifted and took off past consoles... but you never really know when that day will come when they are side by side again. I doubt it will ever come though...
In some terms, no, it's not bad at all. A lot of people just don't know how to judge them. Take for instance, House of the Dead. Sure, it didn't have a good plot and it had a lot of senseless violence, but you have to know where it's coming from. It was based after the game, so in judging it from that factor, I think it's a pretty good movie. Also, I enjoyed Resident Evil for the same fact.
There are occasions where a movie is just plain horrible though, such as Final Fantasy. But I'd rather see a movie made after a game than games being made after movies.
Very good point. Even when the day comes that E-Voting is perfect, senior citizens will still bitch and complain about it -- saying that someone probably hacked it -- calling for recount after recount after recount. When the day comes that we finally see good from this, I hope I'm still young enough to vote. Ha.
"Personnaly I just discovered 6 audio cassettes with the voice of my late grandfather, talking about old times. These tapes are copies of reel to reel recorded in 1971, and they are still in excellent shape. I was thinking about digitizing everything, do a little noise reduction, and burning this on CD's, for my childrens and great grand-childrens enjoyment, but it seems that old analog tech from the '70 is more reliable than digital."
Good for you. That statement has proven a fact -- old analog still works. But does it make it better? Of course not. Digital works also -- at a faster and more stable pace. Compare them in different contexts -- digital video editing is better than analog, because you can just dump everything that you want into it, change it as many times as you want, save it as many times as you want, and back up and fast forward at A LOT QUICKER SPEED! Besides, analog tapes die out a lot faster than CDs do -- if you really want to preserve those memories, grow up and use new technology by dubbing them over to a digital format. It's not hard.
Hopefully it'll be free, like America's Army was! Even though I'm not joining the army, I wouldn't mind training under it just incase I ever wanted to kill a few Iraqi Thugs.
Yeah, I remember when it failed -- I was really bummed. I've read the book several times and I was really looking forward to actually playing everything out. I'm a huge Sonic fan though, so I got over it quick with games like Sonic Jam and Sonic R. I guess we all just have to learn to move on...
"'ve always found that GUIs are resource hungry, generally slower and more importantly they often allow multitasking and they are very unpleasant without a mouse!"
Sure, GUIs hog more resources, but that means absolutely nothing now -- as technology has advanced, we see more powerful computers than we did in the past. Sure, if we threw a GUI on an older model computer, we'd be seeing a big difference in it's performance, but don't you think that TUI is just obsolete now? I respect everything that it has done for us, and I can use it myself, but for the good of the people, it's just... dead.
Yeah, I like LED Mousepads because I have one. I don't see what's so special with this one though -- mine came from ThinkGeek.com!
Heh, they are great for your late night gaming/hacking/programming sessions, but sometimes your mouse cord wants to catch that little button on the top. It should have been moved to the side or something.
Nothing was removed, because SCO could not prove shit against them. They wanted certain lines removed, but they never specified which lines they were OR which lines the Linux source code had allegedly violated.
I don't see how the two languages could be completely compatible with each other. I've never really seen a language that was -- even though Python and C++ really relates to each other, they aren't one in the same as one may think. Even C and C++ aren't close to the same language. But D? Hm. What more can you want? C++ pretty much gives us everything that we need so far. I don't think our technology is really far enough to need something else. Of course, I could be wrong...
That sounds a lot like self-advertisement to me. And there are A LOT more than just five companies! Take MetaCrawler and DogPile for instance -- they aren't on his list.
I'm sure they would have some sort of thing against this though. Maybe you would have to sign up for it -- reducing the people that will just grab about 10 CDs for the hell of it. It's still possible though... it just lessens how many people might actually do it.
We have about five televisions in this household (three people live here, including me), but I hardly ever watch cable television. The only time I really use them is for when I watch movies, watch a few shows on cable, or play console video games.
If anything, you'd think that people who skip watching television for a week would only watch it more. It would only show them how miserable their life is without it. It's sort of similar to cigarettes in a way... you can't just slow down in a short time. (I don't smoke. I just know a ton of people that do.)
Do you honestly think that will pass with other Linux developers though? Of course not.
Even though that was an Insightful comment about why we may need insurance, I'm not really sure if I think it's a good or bad thing yet. Sure, we can replace it all we want, but that's only if it gets broken... one thing that Linux rarely does.
It may be a good idea for small open-source developers though. What happens if someone takes their source code, improves it, and sells it to make $1,000,000? (Anti-Trust is a great movie.)
I couldn't have said it better myself. I work at the theaters, and I would wear the night vision goggles to stop people like that anyday.
I'm not saying that I've never pirated software -- which I have -- but I'm a lot more mature about it nowadays. I have a DVD burner and a VERY LARGE DVD collection (all of which are NOT burnt). Hell, I don't even use my DVD burner for anything other than backing up my harddrive and clearing up some space. 4.7 gigs is a lot of space to store. I'd much rather use it this way, instead of wasting those expensive disks on a movie. A movie that has to fit on two of them, by the way...
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How long has the PS2 been out before the GameCube and the Xbox? A year and a half? Thought so.
Well yeah, but how about for the PC? I'm sure Quake 3 would be a lot better, just because it's John Carmack, but it's not really on the XBox.. soo...
I've never been much into Perl myself when I was large into website design, because I never really saw how it could do more for me than PHP could.
For me, PHP, HTML, MySQL, and Photoshop are the Kings of website design. Maybe I should write a book... ha.
But Linux is also what we call all the distros to sum it all up. It's like calling MoZilla, Firefox. It's the exact same thing.
You never hear someone say "Mandrake... based on the Linux kernel!" do you?
It's also like calling the Nissan Skyline a car. Sure, it's not JUST a car, it's a specific TYPE of car, but in general, it has to be set somewhere.
No. Game designers have to know their systems they create the games on inside out -- how to make the game run on it even under the worse circumstances. Take for example, when John Carmack was creating the original Quake engine, he had a hard time making it work best on the computer, but eventually he twinked it enough to make it work. It wasn't Commodore's fault that their computer's hardware was slow.
What!? Why the hell would anyone want to do that!? The Halo engine sucks! Not to be a flamebait, but there's nothing special about it! Graphics and Lighting are still owned by Valve's Half-Life engine and idSoftware's Quake 3 engine. I don't really see why anyone would want to license this... but I guess since he used to work on it, he may know it a lot better and have some better ideas on how to "twink" it into being better.
I'm sorry. I'm not a fan of Halo. There's just nothing there that I can't get more anywhere else.
Wow. From what I've seen, that's a very powerful console. It looks as if the Xbox 2 is shaping up to be just another power-house console, as its predecessor was. Hopefully they can release a good set of games to go with the excellent hardware though.
Maybe we'll be seeing computers and consoles competing once again? Very doubtful, but just remember back when idSoftware wrote Dangerous Dave in Copyright Infringement? That was a work of art, and a large leap in the computer-gaming industry. Since then, computers have down-shifted and took off past consoles... but you never really know when that day will come when they are side by side again. I doubt it will ever come though...
In some terms, no, it's not bad at all. A lot of people just don't know how to judge them. Take for instance, House of the Dead. Sure, it didn't have a good plot and it had a lot of senseless violence, but you have to know where it's coming from. It was based after the game, so in judging it from that factor, I think it's a pretty good movie. Also, I enjoyed Resident Evil for the same fact.
There are occasions where a movie is just plain horrible though, such as Final Fantasy. But I'd rather see a movie made after a game than games being made after movies.
Very good point. Even when the day comes that E-Voting is perfect, senior citizens will still bitch and complain about it -- saying that someone probably hacked it -- calling for recount after recount after recount. When the day comes that we finally see good from this, I hope I'm still young enough to vote. Ha.
"Personnaly I just discovered 6 audio cassettes with the voice of my late grandfather, talking about old times. These tapes are copies of reel to reel recorded in 1971, and they are still in excellent shape. I was thinking about digitizing everything, do a little noise reduction, and burning this on CD's, for my childrens and great grand-childrens enjoyment, but it seems that old analog tech from the '70 is more reliable than digital."
Good for you. That statement has proven a fact -- old analog still works. But does it make it better? Of course not. Digital works also -- at a faster and more stable pace. Compare them in different contexts -- digital video editing is better than analog, because you can just dump everything that you want into it, change it as many times as you want, save it as many times as you want, and back up and fast forward at A LOT QUICKER SPEED! Besides, analog tapes die out a lot faster than CDs do -- if you really want to preserve those memories, grow up and use new technology by dubbing them over to a digital format. It's not hard.
Hopefully it'll be free, like America's Army was! Even though I'm not joining the army, I wouldn't mind training under it just incase I ever wanted to kill a few Iraqi Thugs.
Yeah, I remember when it failed -- I was really bummed. I've read the book several times and I was really looking forward to actually playing everything out. I'm a huge Sonic fan though, so I got over it quick with games like Sonic Jam and Sonic R. I guess we all just have to learn to move on...
"'ve always found that GUIs are resource hungry, generally slower and more importantly they often allow multitasking and they are very unpleasant without a mouse!"
Sure, GUIs hog more resources, but that means absolutely nothing now -- as technology has advanced, we see more powerful computers than we did in the past. Sure, if we threw a GUI on an older model computer, we'd be seeing a big difference in it's performance, but don't you think that TUI is just obsolete now? I respect everything that it has done for us, and I can use it myself, but for the good of the people, it's just... dead.
Depends on what kind it is. You could probably get easier sex by paying them money instead. I'd rather do that than give up my passwords, heh.
Yeah, I like LED Mousepads because I have one. I don't see what's so special with this one though -- mine came from ThinkGeek.com!
Heh, they are great for your late night gaming/hacking/programming sessions, but sometimes your mouse cord wants to catch that little button on the top. It should have been moved to the side or something.
Nothing was removed, because SCO could not prove shit against them. They wanted certain lines removed, but they never specified which lines they were OR which lines the Linux source code had allegedly violated.
Because the newer versions = the older versions + new stuff, to sum it up.
I hope this really means the good news that my mind is considering it to be right now. Could SCO's reign of BS lawsuits finally be over?
Well, aren't you just a rocket science. Want to tell me how I might be, or do you just want to try to make yourself look smarter by saying that?
I don't see how the two languages could be completely compatible with each other. I've never really seen a language that was -- even though Python and C++ really relates to each other, they aren't one in the same as one may think. Even C and C++ aren't close to the same language. But D? Hm. What more can you want? C++ pretty much gives us everything that we need so far. I don't think our technology is really far enough to need something else. Of course, I could be wrong...
That sounds a lot like self-advertisement to me. And there are A LOT more than just five companies! Take MetaCrawler and DogPile for instance -- they aren't on his list.
I'm sure they would have some sort of thing against this though. Maybe you would have to sign up for it -- reducing the people that will just grab about 10 CDs for the hell of it. It's still possible though... it just lessens how many people might actually do it.
We have about five televisions in this household (three people live here, including me), but I hardly ever watch cable television. The only time I really use them is for when I watch movies, watch a few shows on cable, or play console video games.
If anything, you'd think that people who skip watching television for a week would only watch it more. It would only show them how miserable their life is without it. It's sort of similar to cigarettes in a way... you can't just slow down in a short time. (I don't smoke. I just know a ton of people that do.)
Do you honestly think that will pass with other Linux developers though? Of course not.
Even though that was an Insightful comment about why we may need insurance, I'm not really sure if I think it's a good or bad thing yet. Sure, we can replace it all we want, but that's only if it gets broken... one thing that Linux rarely does.
It may be a good idea for small open-source developers though. What happens if someone takes their source code, improves it, and sells it to make $1,000,000? (Anti-Trust is a great movie.)
And who says that doing two different things can never end in the same results?
I couldn't have said it better myself. I work at the theaters, and I would wear the night vision goggles to stop people like that anyday.
I'm not saying that I've never pirated software -- which I have -- but I'm a lot more mature about it nowadays. I have a DVD burner and a VERY LARGE DVD collection (all of which are NOT burnt). Hell, I don't even use my DVD burner for anything other than backing up my harddrive and clearing up some space. 4.7 gigs is a lot of space to store. I'd much rather use it this way, instead of wasting those expensive disks on a movie. A movie that has to fit on two of them, by the way...