Well, for a lot of people Mortal Kombat was fun. I think entertainment is a very, very valuable contribution. Yet, for other people, it was a senseless gorefest. Should you care for them, or for the former?
In a nutshell, IMHO, no, game designers should not have a moral responsability to their consumers, because morals vary wildly among them. You can't please everyone at once.
They might choose to, but that's a whole different issue.
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That's the sweetnes of the notorious USE flags in Gentoo. If you want Alsa support on your programs, add it to the USE flags; if it's not there, packages compiled that don't require Alsa functionality (i.e, have it as an option), won't have it - it might be, just like you describe it, with a proper switch at compile time. It's simple, sleek design, and it works wonderfuly. The guys who designed Portage deserve a lot of recognition, it's one of it's many treats.
Also, the very nature of Gentoo (building packages from source) implies that you'll end up installing pretty much what you need, and what you need alone. I've found a lot of other distributions end up installing a lot of unneeded services on a default install - which is what the article discussed. My first Linux experience (early RedHat) was awful because of this - the default install had everything running, including Apache IIRC. My PII crawled.
So, before the flaming begins. Yes, i like Gentoo. No, i don't think it's the ultimate Linux distro, and i don't think it's for everyone - for example, i wouldn't really trust Gentoo on a server. But what it does, it does damn well. It's not a popular distro only because you compile packages from source - there's a couple others that do the same.
And yes, i've learned a lot from Gentoo. I learned a damn lot from Slackware as well - not because you compile, but because they force you to have atleast a slight idea of what you're doing. OTOH, you can install a modern release of, say, Mandrake, and use it pretty much as a Windows machine, zero issues. Not better, not worst. Just different.
I don't know... there's a market for quality shows. It's just not very big anymore.
Thing is, networks doesn't fund shows because of the desire of making a quality product (most of the time, at least). They want them to make money. That's why you see so many teen-soap-operas and reality shows: they have a limited life, but they milk every cent out of them in the meantime. When the cash cow is dead, they just raise a new one. Quality shows do have it's place and audience, it's just not big enough anymore.
It's a pitty. To be honest, i never cared much about Star Trek, but i hated to see Firefly go - similar deal. I just got hooked on BSG, and like it a lot aswell; The shield is another show (outside sci-fi) that i love unconditionally. I hate to never know if they're gonna be cancelled out of the blue someday. Hell, it happened to Family Guy.
I never really owned a Mac, but every time i tried one (from the original Mac to the newer ones running OSX) i am floored by their user interface. When Apple jokes everyone steals UI ideas from them, they do it with reason.
I just saw the first chapter (from the site - i couldn't get it to zoom it fullscreen with Linux Realplayer).
It's good. Very. You'll have to read a bit of what's happening in the very beggining, as otherwise the story won't make a lot of sense from the start, but it carries on just fine after that. Lots of very interesting characters, locations, and, as you said, CGI shots. The characters are great, specially Dr. Baltar (James Callis) - i can't spoil it, but he's part of much what's going on, in a rather clever way.
The "muffled" sound of the CGI space shots was clever as well. It doesn't go as far as making space mute (like it should), but somehow gives that feeling.
I liked it a lot. I'll download the rest - but looks like a must-buy-DVD so far.
I'll download it off BT if that's the case - i'm no saint, and i have downloaded/download my fair share off BT/P2P, but i end up buying what i like. What i've seen / readed about BG so far sounds extremely promising.
Seriously. BG doesn't air where i live, and i keep hearing about how good the show is - so the idea of watching it for free and legally appealed to me a lot. I hate RealMedia with passion though.
This is still a remarkable thing - i just hoped it was something i could watch outside a tiny window.
You poured liquid nitrogen down my spine as you told me you didn't love me any more and run off with the girl next door You poured liquid nitrogen in my heart and you told me it wouldn't hurt, what a liar You promised you'd always be true
You said you'd be mine 12 months a year, 24 hours a day You said I'd be yours each week my dear, until the end of time But then you found her and you left me here To cry and to run of tears And now here I wait 12 months a year But I'm hoping one day you'll come back and stay
You can almost hear the nerds orgasming at once while reading those.
IBM is just protecting their interests. They beleive (like most people here) that most software will become a comodity in the near future, and instead of fighting it they roll along. I happen to beleive it's wise, but's quite a bold move.
Anyway, yes, it is weird. Not to long ago IBM was as hatred as Microsoft is now...
The one great thing both Arcanum and Fallout had running for them were the settings: either the apocalyptic post-war world of Fallout and it's dark humor or the fantasy-world-ongoing-industrial-revolution one of Arcanum. I always hated fantasy settings with passion, and both games not only tried something new but did it well and were fun to play.
Am i the only one who readed this quickly and thought the germans were searching for some kind of self-regulating engine? "Gee, another perpetual motion wannabe" was my first thought.
I know, i know. I just woke up.
Anyway, dangerous stuff. It's about freedom of speech: instead of censoring what you can say they're censoring what you can listen, which limits the FoS of a third party. I can understand if they want to kill child pornography, but if a white supremacy retard wants to have a site with WS literature, as much as i hate it, he's well entitled to.
Really? What else uses them? Nothing comes to mind... Gnome used to use imlib in 1.x, but not for many years...
Well, this is from grepping the Gentoo's portage tree: linux packages that require imlib/imlib2 as a dependence, or can use it for extra functionality. Took a while - it might have errors, and i removed some stuff that doesn't count, like imlib bindings to different languages../ won't let me post the whole list, but some highlights are:
Doom lately has been running on just about anything with a microprocessor - i can't find a link, but some guy posted how to flash his digital camera so it ran Doom. Beyond cool!
Well, a lot of e16 libraries are widely used on *NIX. ImLib2 is the top example. If the e17 core libraries are half as good as promised, you can bet you'll see them used a lot aswell.
Yesterday, just for the sake of it, i emerged (installed on Gentoo) Evidence, e17's to-be file manager. I was hoping to get a glimpse of the e's login manager (Entrance), but for some reason i typed Evidence. It looks great, and even silly things like clicking on an icon and see it zooming transparently in the background makes you see what these guys can do with e's core libraries. Rasterman is right, what the X team is talking about as "next gen rendering", they can do now. He's well entitled to want to make it public.
And yes, one has to give kudos to Rasterman and the whole e17 team for that matter. They are putting a lot of work into e17, and it shows. I just hope they just finish it someday;)
I can atleast understand if Gillete want to defend themselves, as techically the razor is the hardest part to manufacture. The grip is just plastic. And even then, i gladly pay the replacements for my Mach3 becasue it's the better shave experience you can get.
Ink though, is basically water with pigments. They sell you half filled tanks (seriously, i've opened a few Epson and Lexmark ones) for outrageous prices, and actually try to stop the sale of third party ink cartigades, which in my experience work just as better as the "serious" ones. They are insane - stop selling printers for $80 and try a new buisness model.
As for printing less, i do that. I print whatever i need on a trusty Laserjet (whose toner doesn't seem to want to give up), which is usually a few pages a month.
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Just piss off those aliens. You know, it wasn't enough with people.
Well, for a lot of people Mortal Kombat was fun. I think entertainment is a very, very valuable contribution. Yet, for other people, it was a senseless gorefest. Should you care for them, or for the former?
In a nutshell, IMHO, no, game designers should not have a moral responsability to their consumers, because morals vary wildly among them. You can't please everyone at once.
They might choose to, but that's a whole different issue.
That's the sweetnes of the notorious USE flags in Gentoo. If you want Alsa support on your programs, add it to the USE flags; if it's not there, packages compiled that don't require Alsa functionality (i.e, have it as an option), won't have it - it might be, just like you describe it, with a proper switch at compile time. It's simple, sleek design, and it works wonderfuly. The guys who designed Portage deserve a lot of recognition, it's one of it's many treats.
Also, the very nature of Gentoo (building packages from source) implies that you'll end up installing pretty much what you need, and what you need alone. I've found a lot of other distributions end up installing a lot of unneeded services on a default install - which is what the article discussed. My first Linux experience (early RedHat) was awful because of this - the default install had everything running, including Apache IIRC. My PII crawled.
So, before the flaming begins. Yes, i like Gentoo. No, i don't think it's the ultimate Linux distro, and i don't think it's for everyone - for example, i wouldn't really trust Gentoo on a server. But what it does, it does damn well. It's not a popular distro only because you compile packages from source - there's a couple others that do the same.
And yes, i've learned a lot from Gentoo. I learned a damn lot from Slackware as well - not because you compile, but because they force you to have atleast a slight idea of what you're doing. OTOH, you can install a modern release of, say, Mandrake, and use it pretty much as a Windows machine, zero issues. Not better, not worst. Just different.
I don't know... there's a market for quality shows. It's just not very big anymore.
Thing is, networks doesn't fund shows because of the desire of making a quality product (most of the time, at least). They want them to make money. That's why you see so many teen-soap-operas and reality shows: they have a limited life, but they milk every cent out of them in the meantime. When the cash cow is dead, they just raise a new one. Quality shows do have it's place and audience, it's just not big enough anymore.
It's a pitty. To be honest, i never cared much about Star Trek, but i hated to see Firefly go - similar deal. I just got hooked on BSG, and like it a lot aswell; The shield is another show (outside sci-fi) that i love unconditionally. I hate to never know if they're gonna be cancelled out of the blue someday. Hell, it happened to Family Guy.
I never really owned a Mac, but every time i tried one (from the original Mac to the newer ones running OSX) i am floored by their user interface. When Apple jokes everyone steals UI ideas from them, they do it with reason.
My deepest condolences to his family and friends.
The bigger the lie...
I just saw the first chapter (from the site - i couldn't get it to zoom it fullscreen with Linux Realplayer).
It's good. Very. You'll have to read a bit of what's happening in the very beggining, as otherwise the story won't make a lot of sense from the start, but it carries on just fine after that. Lots of very interesting characters, locations, and, as you said, CGI shots. The characters are great, specially Dr. Baltar (James Callis) - i can't spoil it, but he's part of much what's going on, in a rather clever way.
The "muffled" sound of the CGI space shots was clever as well. It doesn't go as far as making space mute (like it should), but somehow gives that feeling.
I liked it a lot. I'll download the rest - but looks like a must-buy-DVD so far.
Ohh, goodie! I really liked Firefly...
I'll download it off BT if that's the case - i'm no saint, and i have downloaded/download my fair share off BT/P2P, but i end up buying what i like. What i've seen / readed about BG so far sounds extremely promising.
Seriously. BG doesn't air where i live, and i keep hearing about how good the show is - so the idea of watching it for free and legally appealed to me a lot. I hate RealMedia with passion though.
This is still a remarkable thing - i just hoped it was something i could watch outside a tiny window.
Warning! You're gonna make it to the Profanity blacklist!. BOOOOO!
Come on, have you seen the bands' lyrics?
You poured liquid nitrogen down my spine
as you told me you didn't love me any more
and run off with the girl next door
You poured liquid nitrogen in my heart
and you told me it wouldn't hurt, what a liar
You promised you'd always be true
You said you'd be mine 12 months a year, 24 hours a day
You said I'd be yours each week my dear, until the end of time
But then you found her and you left me here
To cry and to run of tears
And now here I wait 12 months a year
But I'm hoping one day you'll come back and stay
You can almost hear the nerds orgasming at once while reading those.
I hate when someone beats me to a good joke *grrrr*
I swear, if i had a buck for each time a Microsoft product damaged my dat...
Oh... wait...
IBM is just protecting their interests. They beleive (like most people here) that most software will become a comodity in the near future, and instead of fighting it they roll along. I happen to beleive it's wise, but's quite a bold move.
Anyway, yes, it is weird. Not to long ago IBM was as hatred as Microsoft is now...
I know people buying Macs just because of iLife.
I knew some people need to get a life, but Mac prices these days...
The one great thing both Arcanum and Fallout had running for them were the settings: either the apocalyptic post-war world of Fallout and it's dark humor or the fantasy-world-ongoing-industrial-revolution one of Arcanum. I always hated fantasy settings with passion, and both games not only tried something new but did it well and were fun to play.
I'll miss Troika.
Am i the only one who readed this quickly and thought the germans were searching for some kind of self-regulating engine? "Gee, another perpetual motion wannabe" was my first thought.
I know, i know. I just woke up.
Anyway, dangerous stuff. It's about freedom of speech: instead of censoring what you can say they're censoring what you can listen, which limits the FoS of a third party. I can understand if they want to kill child pornography, but if a white supremacy retard wants to have a site with WS literature, as much as i hate it, he's well entitled to.
Really? What else uses them? Nothing comes to mind... Gnome used to use imlib in 1.x, but not for many years...
./ won't let me post the whole list, but some highlights are:
,fluxbox, fvwm, icewm, pekwmm, waimea &
Well, this is from grepping the Gentoo's portage tree: linux packages that require imlib/imlib2 as a dependence, or can use it for extra functionality. Took a while - it might have errors, and i removed some stuff that doesn't count, like imlib bindings to different languages.
gkrellm (and all it's plugins), endeavour, entity
freeciv, kdegraphics (yes!), kuickshow
sylpheed & sylpheed-claws, balsa
gimageview, scrot, iv & qiv, feh
zphoto, digikam & gphoto
kakahai, qvwm
xzgv
scigraphica, frontline, epsilon
mplayer, ffmpeg
gnophone
amsn, bitchx
idesk, 3ddesktop
fluxspace
mlterm & eterm
qtpixmap
amaya
Hope that's enough. Imlib1/2 is not as common as it used to be, but it's still a very useful library, used in a lot of packages.
Because it would be convinient for the customers?
Will there be a Linux port? Say what you want about AA, but at least it was one of the very few quality games ported to the penguin recently.
I know the answer is "no", but one can dream...
The closest i could find to a "link" - just so no one says i'm making stuff up...
Doom lately has been running on just about anything with a microprocessor - i can't find a link, but some guy posted how to flash his digital camera so it ran Doom. Beyond cool!
Well, a lot of e16 libraries are widely used on *NIX. ImLib2 is the top example. If the e17 core libraries are half as good as promised, you can bet you'll see them used a lot aswell.
;)
Yesterday, just for the sake of it, i emerged (installed on Gentoo) Evidence, e17's to-be file manager. I was hoping to get a glimpse of the e's login manager (Entrance), but for some reason i typed Evidence. It looks great, and even silly things like clicking on an icon and see it zooming transparently in the background makes you see what these guys can do with e's core libraries. Rasterman is right, what the X team is talking about as "next gen rendering", they can do now. He's well entitled to want to make it public.
And yes, one has to give kudos to Rasterman and the whole e17 team for that matter. They are putting a lot of work into e17, and it shows. I just hope they just finish it someday
I can atleast understand if Gillete want to defend themselves, as techically the razor is the hardest part to manufacture. The grip is just plastic. And even then, i gladly pay the replacements for my Mach3 becasue it's the better shave experience you can get.
Ink though, is basically water with pigments. They sell you half filled tanks (seriously, i've opened a few Epson and Lexmark ones) for outrageous prices, and actually try to stop the sale of third party ink cartigades, which in my experience work just as better as the "serious" ones. They are insane - stop selling printers for $80 and try a new buisness model.
As for printing less, i do that. I print whatever i need on a trusty Laserjet (whose toner doesn't seem to want to give up), which is usually a few pages a month.