It's really a non issue - you resolve it the way most Windows games do, distributing the library *with* the game. IIRC, the SDL licensing (LGPL) allows you to distribute and link (dynamically) the library with the game, even if it means bundling it with the source:)
As for the rest, i agree - DX is a more complete solution, even without counting the current gap between DX and OpenGL. Still, SDL covers 90% of what DX can do. It can be used just fine; i was just pointing out it's probably not the reason game developers aren't taking Linux more seriously.
Linux is about choice and freedom. I find it highly unusual it would be deployed in a corporate environment unless the users were mostly self sufficient.
I guess you never worked in a corporate enviroment then. In my former work we used RedHat before we migrated to SuSE. The reasons? Besides having a commercial agreement with SuSE, corporations like things standarized. Flexibility and end-user comfort are a distant second.
A particular moment in Doom 3 did it for me...
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I don't recall the particular level, but it involved ghostly voices and bloody footsteps. It perturbed me so much i had to let go the game for the rest of the day, i swear.
I've recently started working in an automation consultant company, and the ammount of hacked, lousy set up Windows servers for SCADA scares the shit out of me. That, and people routinely creating OPC severs for special applications in.NET...
One thing to be learned from this. The Chinerse may be great tradesmen, but as investors, they have a lot to learn. Just watch their little eyes pop open when the US walks away from its foreign debt.
Don't expect that to happen anytime soon... if ever. You'd be underestimating the sheer size of China as an economy and its importance to the rest of the world, USA included. 1,3 billion people is not a market to sneeze at.
Welcome to the whacko world of international sovereignty!
So, without calling me an American hater, please; what would be so wrong with the chinese launching satelites, putting men into orbit and having nuclear weapons? Oh, and by the way, whos' fault is that chinese are financing USAs balances?
As someone said it before, this is no news at all. The novelity here is that China used laser to disable satelites, but i bet a lot of countries have done similar (if not worst) in the past.
Oh, grow up. It's a goddamn game. What might be "impossible" to you might very well be "challenging" for someone else. Throwing a hissyfit over the label, like it's a life or death situation, is overreacting.
Please, people. They're games. Treat them as such. Don't want to spend the rest of your life beating it? Play something else.
It's actually not a matter of speed. A realtime OSguarantees that a given external event will trigger a response in no more than x milliseconds. This might be slower (or faster) than a non-realtime OS, but it's not the point. There are a lot of applications where things must be attended within a given timeframe (radars, as mentioned, industrial automation, nuclear plant safety devices, etc.). Achieving this this is not a trivial excersice.
This is not about the response time after you click on your Office document - and in fact, the (huge) added complexity of a RTOS is nor needed nor desired in most desktop and even enterprise uses.
Sometimes i wonder if people who casts opinions about consoles on the net are retarded (Exibit A, with a very nice comment by the Penny Arcade guys).
People, this is Nintendo. The company that has been making profit on every single console they sold since the NES days, even with the "flop" the N64 was. They've consistently been in the spotlight of console gaming while other companies appeared and dissapeared, and, to this day, have a virtual monopoly in the portable gaming market. And most important, they are the only company with a product in the works that has people geniunely interested in, instead being more of the same with flashier graphics. I don't like consoles, and i'm genuinely considering getting a Wii, specially at the price it has been announced.
Can that be a typo? I don think you can push that ammount of air with a simple ionic setup like the one described in the article...
Anyway, it's a neat idea, but the system is setup so all the heat generating elements irradiate inside the case with a large ionic fan providing airflow. Unless the setup blows a LOT of air through the case, i'm guessing the large passive heatsinks are doing their work without a lot of help from the ionic setup. I'd also watch out for ozone generation (which can become a problem with HV setups in enclosed enviroments) and safety - most probably the HV generator is current limited to a few milliamps, but still.
Because the perceived wind harnessed by the turbine is generated by the cars' engine running - that's it, you're powering your turbine with the engine. Practically, this would be seen as a reduction in the engine efficiency, and you would gain no energy from the turbine (any more than you're "wasting" with the engine).
If you cant catch it there, just format and reinstall Windows--the standard fix for anything Microsoft. Cue the mac/linux comments!
You're being funny, but i had to fix a Windows system at work after years of both working with and using at home Linux desktops, and the experience was horrid. Horrid. I had to use three different spyware programs + Avast antivirus, spent a few hours, and i'm pretty positive they left crud behind.
I have a Windows partition i use when i'm really forced to, but i never managed to screw it that bad.... the fact that people are suggesting to record their monitors, format the harddisk or buy a new computer altogheter so they can use their systems comfortably just blows my mind.
I was forced to eat vegetables when i was a kid. I also hated every second of it. Doesn't mean i couldn't grow to like them, or that they where inherently bad,
My peeve is that those games turn awfully quickly into chores - where you spend time with them not because it's fun, but only because you have to. There's a (fake) sense of accomplishment. That people like this and feel okay about paying for the privilege just blows my mind.
By the way, all of the above holds true for fucking aswell - i just happen to find it healthier!;)
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It's really a non issue - you resolve it the way most Windows games do, distributing the library *with* the game. IIRC, the SDL licensing (LGPL) allows you to distribute and link (dynamically) the library with the game, even if it means bundling it with the source :)
As for the rest, i agree - DX is a more complete solution, even without counting the current gap between DX and OpenGL. Still, SDL covers 90% of what DX can do. It can be used just fine; i was just pointing out it's probably not the reason game developers aren't taking Linux more seriously.
In most areas. What's lacking is a DirectX equivalent to woo over the game developers.
Something like SDL? SDL is today a mature and stable library, already used by a lot of games, both commercial (notably the Unreal series) and OSS.
In my experience, games suported both on Windows and Linux run awfully smoother on Linux, for some reason. Load times are also reduced by half.
Linux is about choice and freedom. I find it highly unusual it would be deployed in a corporate environment unless the users were mostly self sufficient.
I guess you never worked in a corporate enviroment then. In my former work we used RedHat before we migrated to SuSE. The reasons? Besides having a commercial agreement with SuSE, corporations like things standarized. Flexibility and end-user comfort are a distant second.
I don't recall the particular level, but it involved ghostly voices and bloody footsteps. It perturbed me so much i had to let go the game for the rest of the day, i swear.
Quake II. To this day, the best (rock) soundtrack i've listened in a game.
For example, who would mistake Barbara Streisand for Shrek, or Lance Bass of N'Sync for a Teletubby?
So, i see it's working correctly!
I'm sold. Who should I make the check payable to?
I've recently started working in an automation consultant company, and the ammount of hacked, lousy set up Windows servers for SCADA scares the shit out of me. That, and people routinely creating OPC severs for special applications in .NET...
We can, as long as you only want it to print 'Hello World' to the screen and exit.
You forgot to check the return value of the print function!
It has about 1000 times the storage capacity and 100-1000 times the data transfer rate of RFID.
:)
Wow, so it can store, like, 100k!
(yeah, i know that a lot of storage isn't usually needed in RFID applications and the such, but still...)
The controller is innovative but it remains to be seen how innovative your shoulder will feel after an hour's play.
:)
God forbid console nerds get some exercise
One thing to be learned from this. The Chinerse may be great tradesmen, but as investors, they have a lot to learn. Just watch their little eyes pop open when the US walks away from its foreign debt.
Don't expect that to happen anytime soon... if ever. You'd be underestimating the sheer size of China as an economy and its importance to the rest of the world, USA included. 1,3 billion people is not a market to sneeze at.
Welcome to the whacko world of international sovereignty!
So, without calling me an American hater, please; what would be so wrong with the chinese launching satelites, putting men into orbit and having nuclear weapons? Oh, and by the way, whos' fault is that chinese are financing USAs balances?
As someone said it before, this is no news at all. The novelity here is that China used laser to disable satelites, but i bet a lot of countries have done similar (if not worst) in the past.
Oh, grow up. It's a goddamn game. What might be "impossible" to you might very well be "challenging" for someone else. Throwing a hissyfit over the label, like it's a life or death situation, is overreacting.
Please, people. They're games. Treat them as such. Don't want to spend the rest of your life beating it? Play something else.
It's actually not a matter of speed. A realtime OS guarantees that a given external event will trigger a response in no more than x milliseconds. This might be slower (or faster) than a non-realtime OS, but it's not the point. There are a lot of applications where things must be attended within a given timeframe (radars, as mentioned, industrial automation, nuclear plant safety devices, etc.). Achieving this this is not a trivial excersice.
This is not about the response time after you click on your Office document - and in fact, the (huge) added complexity of a RTOS is nor needed nor desired in most desktop and even enterprise uses.
Sometimes i wonder if people who casts opinions about consoles on the net are retarded (Exibit A, with a very nice comment by the Penny Arcade guys).
People, this is Nintendo. The company that has been making profit on every single console they sold since the NES days, even with the "flop" the N64 was. They've consistently been in the spotlight of console gaming while other companies appeared and dissapeared, and, to this day, have a virtual monopoly in the portable gaming market. And most important, they are the only company with a product in the works that has people geniunely interested in, instead being more of the same with flashier graphics. I don't like consoles, and i'm genuinely considering getting a Wii, specially at the price it has been announced.
Can that be a typo? I don think you can push that ammount of air with a simple ionic setup like the one described in the article...
Anyway, it's a neat idea, but the system is setup so all the heat generating elements irradiate inside the case with a large ionic fan providing airflow. Unless the setup blows a LOT of air through the case, i'm guessing the large passive heatsinks are doing their work without a lot of help from the ionic setup. I'd also watch out for ozone generation (which can become a problem with HV setups in enclosed enviroments) and safety - most probably the HV generator is current limited to a few milliamps, but still.
Because the perceived wind harnessed by the turbine is generated by the cars' engine running - that's it, you're powering your turbine with the engine. Practically, this would be seen as a reduction in the engine efficiency, and you would gain no energy from the turbine (any more than you're "wasting" with the engine).
If you cant catch it there, just format and reinstall Windows--the standard fix for anything Microsoft. Cue the mac/linux comments!
You're being funny, but i had to fix a Windows system at work after years of both working with and using at home Linux desktops, and the experience was horrid. Horrid. I had to use three different spyware programs + Avast antivirus, spent a few hours, and i'm pretty positive they left crud behind.
I have a Windows partition i use when i'm really forced to, but i never managed to screw it that bad.... the fact that people are suggesting to record their monitors, format the harddisk or buy a new computer altogheter so they can use their systems comfortably just blows my mind.
They simply believe that access to some information is better than access to no information.
Yeah. I presume the fact that China is more than an interesting market for Google had nothing to do with the decision. Come on!
Besides, is access to some information good when you're getting censored results? Kudos to Jimmy Wales.
I was forced to eat vegetables when i was a kid. I also hated every second of it. Doesn't mean i couldn't grow to like them, or that they where inherently bad,
...and yes in the end its just a game.
THANK YOU. Glad to see some common sense arround here.
I can't tell if were being facetious, but if you weren't i suggest you go out and give sport a try. ANY sport.
You'd be surprised.
Still, anyone with minor electonic knowledge can build a RS232 adaptor for it with a few bucks. It's not like it's hidden science from the 1700s...
Sleep. Eat. Fuck. Tell your friends about it.
;)
Exactly. Isn't life chore enough chore?
My peeve is that those games turn awfully quickly into chores - where you spend time with them not because it's fun, but only because you have to. There's a (fake) sense of accomplishment. That people like this and feel okay about paying for the privilege just blows my mind.
By the way, all of the above holds true for fucking aswell - i just happen to find it healthier!