The first problem facing open source game development is the fact that art, unlike code, can't be collaboratively made. Sure, you can stick a bunch of guys in a room and say, 'make me a rocket launcher!', but you can't do it over the Internet with the same efficiency.
The second problem is that artists, modellers and musicians rarely work for no immediate payment.
What the community needs in order to show that 'Linux has game' is to have a group create and publish a full game that people would buy in the shops.
We have plenty of 'game distro' CDs that contain Neverball, Wesnoth, SuperTux, et al, but we don't have anything that you could get attached to like people get attached to Half-Life, Deus Ex, Diablo.
Give me a singleplayer game with a plot for Linux! Yes, sir, I am willing to contribute.
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That's right, Donny!
Nurse, have you been letting Donny watch TV again?
One, is it feasible for nuclear energy to replace fossil fuel energy within a generation or two, given a currently softened (well, sort of) public opinion of it? (NOOCLAR! BAD!@`)
Two, if we were to run out of oil Right Now and we had the energy problem licked with the Magic of Technology, would it possible (more importantly, economical) to make enough plastic for, say, a computer with non-oil plastic?
It "has a frequency of about 1420 megahertz - one of the main frequencies at which hydrogen, the most common element in the universe, readily absorbs and emits energy."
Parent. I'm excited by this, too.
Against:
From the Scotsman article: Other questions arise over the signal's frequency, which oscillates by between eight and 37 hertz a second.
Paul Horowitz, a Harvard University astronomer who looks for alien signals using optical telescopes, believes that the drift in the signal makes it "fishy".
It could be a natural phenomenon that we haven't seen before yet.
Now, where do I find me an ansible so I can talk to these guys?
The guy who posted this, Q3Man, posted this followup:
With some help from cyph in #cedega, I've come to the conclusion that the builds are infact watermarked, although simply tagged might be a better description.
Bytes 0x10 through 0x23 in the tgz are the signature. They are unique in every download and are probably recorded by transgaming to know who downloaded what archive. Also, all hopes of using md5 or any other form of checksumming to verify valid files are out the window.
FUD stands for 'Fear, Uncertainity and Doubt'. It's a tactic used by some businesses to get their customers to avoid competitor's products, by putting out propaganda that said products are not very usable, or liability prone, or Might Kill Puppies. More information is available from the Wikipedia article on it.
I'm sure I'm not going to be the first to mention, but I felt a sudden surge of excitment when I read 'Counter Strike Source'... bah, why must Valve name their engine after what every geek loves?
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Save games, patches, mods, high scores, online game profiles.
Try saving that on a CD.
The first problem facing open source game development is the fact that art, unlike code, can't be collaboratively made. Sure, you can stick a bunch of guys in a room and say, 'make me a rocket launcher!', but you can't do it over the Internet with the same efficiency.
The second problem is that artists, modellers and musicians rarely work for no immediate payment.
What the community needs in order to show that 'Linux has game' is to have a group create and publish a full game that people would buy in the shops.
We have plenty of 'game distro' CDs that contain Neverball, Wesnoth, SuperTux, et al, but we don't have anything that you could get attached to like people get attached to Half-Life, Deus Ex, Diablo.
Give me a singleplayer game with a plot for Linux! Yes, sir, I am willing to contribute.
So, basically it's a toothbrush-cum-vibrator.
Haha. Ha.
I fear the person who modded this 'Interesting'.
SENDER ID... Power UP! Kill the spammer scum. Captin we just don have the power! Engines to full throttle scotty.. Makes out with captin janeway humm lil offtopic GOGO Sender ID Ranger!
That's right, Donny!
Nurse, have you been letting Donny watch TV again?
Triple clicking appears to be the way to go, then.
Unless MS already patented 'Repeated clicking on a window in order to elicit response'.
http://www.iworkwithfools.com/
I fear the people who modded this interesting.
Publishers have pretty much accepted electronic book formats, so what's wrong with the RIAA and the MPAA?
I think they have got digital formats already...
*continues watching Shrek on DVD*
Say hat you will
Hat.
One, is it feasible for nuclear energy to replace fossil fuel energy within a generation or two, given a currently softened (well, sort of) public opinion of it? (NOOCLAR! BAD!@`)
Two, if we were to run out of oil Right Now and we had the energy problem licked with the Magic of Technology, would it possible (more importantly, economical) to make enough plastic for, say, a computer with non-oil plastic?
I don't see what goatse has to do with this story.
Please hand in your geek card on the way out.
- They got the signal three times.
- It "has a frequency of about 1420 megahertz - one of the main frequencies at which hydrogen, the most common element in the universe, readily absorbs and emits energy."
- Parent. I'm excited by this, too.
Against:- From the Scotsman article: Other questions arise over the signal's frequency, which oscillates by between eight and 37 hertz a second.
Paul Horowitz, a Harvard University astronomer who looks for alien signals using optical telescopes, believes that the drift in the signal makes it "fishy".
- It could be a natural phenomenon that we haven't seen before yet.
Now, where do I find me an ansible so I can talk to these guys?Oh. I know that as 'stoking'. Turns out that reading Slashdot at 1 AM is more educational than my parents would have me think! :D
Surely the poster meant 'stoking the GNOME fires'. Last I heard, fire's not liquid :)
Sod the photo manipulation detection article, does anyone know where I can find a copy of the alien photoshopped image the post mentions? :D
Spam? Don't you mean a packet flood?
FUD stands for 'Fear, Uncertainity and Doubt'. It's a tactic used by some businesses to get their customers to avoid competitor's products, by putting out propaganda that said products are not very usable, or liability prone, or Might Kill Puppies. More information is available from the Wikipedia article on it.
I'm sure I'm not going to be the first to mention, but I felt a sudden surge of excitment when I read 'Counter Strike Source'... bah, why must Valve name their engine after what every geek loves?
Actually, they weren't robots. They were mutated creatures controlling the robot-like shell. Aftereffects of the irradiation of Skaro, you see.
But it appears you just did congratulate them..
It's nerd gossip. We've got to get our celebrity entertainment from somewhere, and I don't like reading the ads in Women's Weekly. Er, I mean..
Let's just do a brain scan of everyone. I mean, you can forge fingerprints, voice prints, etc, but you can't beat a mind probe!