Maybe if more Senators were playing games and actually using computers instead of hiding from them, we could get some common sense opposition to some of the more absurd tech related legislation.
No matter how a person might feel about the games using the engine or the engine itself, this is a good thing.
If it does something wonderful for open source gaming, however, it will be through a more competent content creation pipeline. There are loads of excellent open source engines out there but getting your content into them can be a serious challenge.
If it isn't released with solid import options and content creation tools it will just be another engine choice in a growing pool of already competent engines. Again, that's not a bad thing at all, it just isn't anything new.
This is the answer.
Anyone with sufficient aptitude to ask the question can pick up syntax and basics in a weekend, so determining strengths and weaknesses against ultimate goals is the only way to narrow down the broader answer, 'All of them.'
that we deserve.
Some developers make games they want to play and others make games that they think will sell. Oddly enough, they probably have similar ratios for success and miserable failure. Do you think Bay 12 or Notch studied demographics before making wildly fun and popular games? Equally, some of those FTP shooters are pretty fun right up until the point you realize that the only reason L33tb3@v3r69 killed you was because he dropped 20 bucks on the AK 47++. Then you get some extra gratification from the revenge of penetrating his puny douchebag hitbox with your bullets made of hate and Internet.
Somewhere behind the scenes there is a developer who cares and against all odds they put out a good game for a greedy company, meanwhile some indie dev manages to code his or her dream in spite of limited time, limited motivation, and spiteful software patents. Those are the games we remember.
Obviously the port change idea is unpopular because it's just obscurity, which != security.
However, most, of not all, of those attempts are probably from scripts rather than actual human attackers actively attempting to compromise your servers. The script kiddies rely on automation to rapidly find vulnerable hosts using easily-scripted vulnerabilities or brute force. The simple act of changing your ssh port will render those kinds of attacks useless against you.
I had a similar scenario where my logs were full of failed ssh attempts and by changing the ssh port, they all stopped. ALL OF THEM. I haven't had an unknown IP attempt to log in via SSH in around five years.
fail2ban, strong passwords, or whatever additional security you want to apply is great, and recommended, but a port change will solve more of the problem than you might think.
The 8600GT 512 has been available for a while now, I have one myself, and it was ~$120. They're even cheaper these days. That card can handle about anything you care to throw at it, unless you're running Vista, at which point you shouldn't care about the cost, because you're already paying Mistress Xanthia hundreds per month to kick you in the beans.
"Well, if you need to get a CD and reboot your computer, just to play a simple old game, that's a pretty big hurdle for me. Much easier to just "apt-get install quake3" or "emerge quake3". Of course, quake3 isn't open source software, so it will never happen that you can just apt-get or emerge it. The problem with linux, if you agree that it's a problem, is that it doesn't make it easy for people to package non-free software. Many people view that as a strength, and those are the ones we call zealots."
You're right on except that you can emerge quake3 and get the 1.32 point release. From there you can play quake3 in demo mode or emerge a handful of available mods. Getting your demo quake3 to the full version is as easy as inserting the cd and copying the relevant pk3 files. I've heard that you can instruct the ebuild to look for cd content and copy it automatically, but I've never felt the need to try it. Also, the sound issue in quake3 comes from the use of/dev/dsp, which is becoming deprecated. That said, ALSA comes with some OSS friendly addons that could stand to be more complete on modern sound cards.
I think the OP might have more valid points if he'd written that three or four years ago.
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I spent my yesterday morning screwing around with IE 7 and the truth is, it wants to be firefox really bad, but it's just not good enough. I admit that I am biased, but I have always used the browser I thought was superior, which means I used IE6 for a long time.
After rebooting twice from the installation, it broke trillian and anything with a web browser control, that's probably related to it being a beta product though. The browser itself isn't even a reasonable duplicate of firefox. The tabs are an afterthought at best. I didn't find a way to bookmark tabgroups and the top two bars were locked in place, only the file menu and nav buttons could be moved. It was generally disagreeable and I had to remove it.
This is my opinion: IE7 is a steaming turd that has been roughly molded to resemble firefox, just don't touch it, smell it, or _use_ it and it's fine.
I'm sick of this entire attitude that people aren't responsible for their actions. This extends beyond this video game BS. If there's anything you don't want to take responsibility for, call a big drug company and they'll push your "condition" into the diagnostic manual.
Let's just clarify this real quick. The devil did NOT make you do it.
php.net has the best documentation for php, it's free and easy.
I guess I'm obligated to plug an editor like nano, vi, or whatever. This off topic so I'll stop there.
I emerged kde 3.3 on a naked gentoo box in about 6 hours. I don't think that's too bad for compiling kde and company on a system that barely has more than the base system on it.
That said, the first time I emerged kde on gentoo was a year or so ago and it took two days with X already installed.
These days I'm running an AMD643k with 1gb ram, that probably helps also.
"If you have a camera phone, you may soon have to take a picture of yourself before making a call or accessing data stored on the device."
This is such BS. Why do people insist on taking mediocre news and bloating it into an apocalyptic event?
I should make RFID toilet paper rolls that, in conjunction with a pocket RFID device, can transmit info back to the government about who's ass it's wiping, then we'd have news warning people about shitting in public restrooms.
It's also useful to note that the Redhat distros are maintaining updates for software they didn't write. The battle of Linux vs Windows where security updates are concerned is more appropriately Open Source vs Windows. MS patches software they produce, but open source as an entity is significantly larger and has a wider variety of solutions. If RH is publishing twice the bugfixes, it's because they provide 20 times the software.
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Maybe if more Senators were playing games and actually using computers instead of hiding from them, we could get some common sense opposition to some of the more absurd tech related legislation.
No matter how a person might feel about the games using the engine or the engine itself, this is a good thing. If it does something wonderful for open source gaming, however, it will be through a more competent content creation pipeline. There are loads of excellent open source engines out there but getting your content into them can be a serious challenge. If it isn't released with solid import options and content creation tools it will just be another engine choice in a growing pool of already competent engines. Again, that's not a bad thing at all, it just isn't anything new.
Recognizing this reference probably means you're already flashing.
This is the answer. Anyone with sufficient aptitude to ask the question can pick up syntax and basics in a weekend, so determining strengths and weaknesses against ultimate goals is the only way to narrow down the broader answer, 'All of them.'
This happened with Daikatana as well, so I hear. You have to go to option and find the, 'sucks balls' option. Uncheck it.
that we deserve. Some developers make games they want to play and others make games that they think will sell. Oddly enough, they probably have similar ratios for success and miserable failure. Do you think Bay 12 or Notch studied demographics before making wildly fun and popular games? Equally, some of those FTP shooters are pretty fun right up until the point you realize that the only reason L33tb3@v3r69 killed you was because he dropped 20 bucks on the AK 47++. Then you get some extra gratification from the revenge of penetrating his puny douchebag hitbox with your bullets made of hate and Internet. Somewhere behind the scenes there is a developer who cares and against all odds they put out a good game for a greedy company, meanwhile some indie dev manages to code his or her dream in spite of limited time, limited motivation, and spiteful software patents. Those are the games we remember.
Obviously the port change idea is unpopular because it's just obscurity, which != security. However, most, of not all, of those attempts are probably from scripts rather than actual human attackers actively attempting to compromise your servers. The script kiddies rely on automation to rapidly find vulnerable hosts using easily-scripted vulnerabilities or brute force. The simple act of changing your ssh port will render those kinds of attacks useless against you. I had a similar scenario where my logs were full of failed ssh attempts and by changing the ssh port, they all stopped. ALL OF THEM. I haven't had an unknown IP attempt to log in via SSH in around five years. fail2ban, strong passwords, or whatever additional security you want to apply is great, and recommended, but a port change will solve more of the problem than you might think.
In linux that is.
You might need to include limits.h in PtexCache.cpp and various combinations of stdio.h, stdlib.h, and string.h in the tests for it to build.
The 8600GT 512 has been available for a while now, I have one myself, and it was ~$120. They're even cheaper these days. That card can handle about anything you care to throw at it, unless you're running Vista, at which point you shouldn't care about the cost, because you're already paying Mistress Xanthia hundreds per month to kick you in the beans.
"Well, if you need to get a CD and reboot your computer, just to play a simple old game, that's a pretty big hurdle for me. Much easier to just "apt-get install quake3" or "emerge quake3". Of course, quake3 isn't open source software, so it will never happen that you can just apt-get or emerge it. The problem with linux, if you agree that it's a problem, is that it doesn't make it easy for people to package non-free software. Many people view that as a strength, and those are the ones we call zealots."
/dev/dsp, which is becoming deprecated. That said, ALSA comes with some OSS friendly addons that could stand to be more complete on modern sound cards.
You're right on except that you can emerge quake3 and get the 1.32 point release. From there you can play quake3 in demo mode or emerge a handful of available mods. Getting your demo quake3 to the full version is as easy as inserting the cd and copying the relevant pk3 files. I've heard that you can instruct the ebuild to look for cd content and copy it automatically, but I've never felt the need to try it.
Also, the sound issue in quake3 comes from the use of
I think the OP might have more valid points if he'd written that three or four years ago.
[yoda]
Not buy a witch will I.
[/yoda]
I spent my yesterday morning screwing around with IE 7 and the truth is, it wants to be firefox really bad, but it's just not good enough. I admit that I am biased, but I have always used the browser I thought was superior, which means I used IE6 for a long time. After rebooting twice from the installation, it broke trillian and anything with a web browser control, that's probably related to it being a beta product though. The browser itself isn't even a reasonable duplicate of firefox. The tabs are an afterthought at best. I didn't find a way to bookmark tabgroups and the top two bars were locked in place, only the file menu and nav buttons could be moved. It was generally disagreeable and I had to remove it. This is my opinion: IE7 is a steaming turd that has been roughly molded to resemble firefox, just don't touch it, smell it, or _use_ it and it's fine.
I'm sick of this entire attitude that people aren't responsible for their actions. This extends beyond this video game BS. If there's anything you don't want to take responsibility for, call a big drug company and they'll push your "condition" into the diagnostic manual. Let's just clarify this real quick. The devil did NOT make you do it.
You're thinking too small. It's beer() called with various flavor bitflags. He'd be a portable micro-brewery.
I have 32 bit firefox binaries on my gentoo box for this reason.
php.net has the best documentation for php, it's free and easy. I guess I'm obligated to plug an editor like nano, vi, or whatever. This off topic so I'll stop there.
I emerged kde 3.3 on a naked gentoo box in about 6 hours. I don't think that's too bad for compiling kde and company on a system that barely has more than the base system on it.
That said, the first time I emerged kde on gentoo was a year or so ago and it took two days with X already installed.
These days I'm running an AMD643k with 1gb ram, that probably helps also.
"If you have a camera phone, you may soon have to take a picture of yourself before making a call or accessing data stored on the device." This is such BS. Why do people insist on taking mediocre news and bloating it into an apocalyptic event? I should make RFID toilet paper rolls that, in conjunction with a pocket RFID device, can transmit info back to the government about who's ass it's wiping, then we'd have news warning people about shitting in public restrooms.
It's also useful to note that the Redhat distros are maintaining updates for software they didn't write. The battle of Linux vs Windows where security updates are concerned is more appropriately Open Source vs Windows. MS patches software they produce, but open source as an entity is significantly larger and has a wider variety of solutions. If RH is publishing twice the bugfixes, it's because they provide 20 times the software.