Contrary to the original post, ET, though a good game is not Open Source, and as the grand parent stated (albeit in a confusing manner), it is also not "Free Software". It is, however, available for zero cost. You may download it from Splashdamage, id software, or probably 3dgamers. There are some pretty good mods for it as well, since it is basically a free Quake 3 engine that anyone can use.
If all you are ever testing kids on is what year the declaration of independance was written and how many ounces are in a cup (both fine fact, to be sure:)
This is happening with some games, and is even more likely to occur in the future. More mega-cross platform games like PoP2 would not surprise me either.
However, in a combat situation where the controls and hardware manner (like FPS games), pitting Console vs. Computer would generally be unfair at best. At the very least it would have to state who was using a console and who was using a computer.
With consoles, everyone has basically the same hardware and controls (before the use of HDTV becomes popular), so they are all about equal. With computers, the person with the fastest computer generally has a very good advantage in these types of games. Mixing the two would be a recipe for unhappiness.
RIAA:
But then you have also degraded the sound quality. How cruel.
You:
Y'know what? None of my MP3 collection has "degraded sound quality."
Some guy:
MP3 degrades sound quality.
You:
No, not really. Technically, compared to the fidelity of a hi-fi system with massive and perfectly calibrated speakers... yes. But ripped in a sufficiently high bitrate, to be run into my car stereo or a pair of headphones? I'll live.
If you don't notice the degradation in quality due to using MP3s, I doubt you'd notice the quality degradation due to transcoding your songs from the iTunes music store. So perhaps what you mean to say is: "All my music already has degraded quality, and I don't notice that, so I doubt I'll notice a bit more degradation...bitch."
But the only people who need food and shelter from the government are those who can afford neither. So fine, give those people internet access, but you'd probably need to give them computers too. Meanwhile, everyone else would be buying their own internet (and paying for the poor person internet too).
People freaked the fuck out when they first invented the atomic bomb too. The thing is, it's been 60 years, and everyone's used to it. Besides that, killing people has never been wrong from a religious point of view, as long as the people you're killing are your enemies. So the bomb is just peachy, but genetically modifying animals? That's 'playing god' in a different manner than has been done before.
The reason you fail to understand the people of whom you speak is that you lack the clarity of vision imparted by religion.
"It's pretty much just agreed the world over that science will be constantly used to create new and horrible weapons that could kill increasingly large numbers of people in increasingly horrible ways, but that strangely enough it's expected will never be used. You tell someone about Russia restarting its nuclear weapons research program and people just shrug and go, meh, they do that."
Jut because it's agreed that something happens doesn't mean it should, from a 'moral' standpoint, happen. It's agreed the world over that guns are used to kill people.
"The worldwide march of technology and progress has brought a lot of horrible things, but we shrug, decide we don't care, and eat our chicken mcnuggets anyway."
Obviously someone cares because they are the people you are talking about. Of course, there are a lot of people who complain about chicken mcnuggets.
"So why freak out so much over these sheep?"
I don't think the average person has a choice, they seem to freak out regardless of reason. People are more of a statistical phoenomena rather than individuals. You could ask 'why do people freak out so much over these sheep?' Humans treat other humans as a special case, since they are the same species. Killing other humans (who aren't your enemies) is generally considered a Bad Thing. When you start engineering near-human creatures, you have to work a lot harder to draw the line between human and non-human. For the vegetarians and vegans, that line already covers most animals. See also the abortion debate.
If we had such a tax where I live, I think I would not buy music CDs because I'm already paying for the copyright infringement.
Which causes a few problems: I don't listen to RIAA music, or for that matter, terribly popular music. How do the musicians that I do listen to get compensated? And whatever they are compensated will surely not equal what they would have if they had just sold records the normal way. For instance, at current rates $260 is a pretty good deal, if I download at least 20 CDs.
And also, how do you address artists who just make crappy music that no one listens to? Are they also entitled to a recording industry stipend?
Remember, the meaning of life is not "get as much as possible, enjoy as much as possible, and do as little as possible", it is to further the SPECIES. You further the species by contributing to it.
I'm afraid that's subjective. I'm pretty sure there is still some debate over the meaning of life. And there will probably be so for a long time. Your non-meaning appears to be the real meaning for a lot of people I know. I don't care for our species all that much myself.
You have an error there, you should have "because anyone who'll bring up a boring technical discussion in the middle of a boring technical discussion isn't much fun." Which is something, I, personally, do not entirely agree with. Fun is pretty much subjective.
Don't like other people? I understand.
But it's a good thing you didn't play the original TA, you probably would have hated it, horrible AI and middling campaign.
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Shhhhhh, if they actually come up with a system that encourages fixing vital software errors, then how are we going to do the exploiting?
Contrary to the original post, ET, though a good game is not Open Source, and as the grand parent stated (albeit in a confusing manner), it is also not "Free Software". It is, however, available for zero cost. You may download it from Splashdamage, id software, or probably 3dgamers. There are some pretty good mods for it as well, since it is basically a free Quake 3 engine that anyone can use.
Would it rock? Or just find lots of rocks?
That elepant clearly has at least 5 tusks.
Unless you deny root logins over ssh...
Because you don't have to dick around with them to make them work?
Just like cottage cheese and tuna!
A smile? Jesus, I thought that was an arrow.
Contriwise, I bet he feels that the FBI is more clever now than he used to.
Could you please post your source for the information about how Sony loses money on its consoles?
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This is happening with some games, and is even more likely to occur in the future. More mega-cross platform games like PoP2 would not surprise me either.
However, in a combat situation where the controls and hardware manner (like FPS games), pitting Console vs. Computer would generally be unfair at best. At the very least it would have to state who was using a console and who was using a computer.
With consoles, everyone has basically the same hardware and controls (before the use of HDTV becomes popular), so they are all about equal. With computers, the person with the fastest computer generally has a very good advantage in these types of games. Mixing the two would be a recipe for unhappiness.
If you don't notice the degradation in quality due to using MP3s, I doubt you'd notice the quality degradation due to transcoding your songs from the iTunes music store. So perhaps what you mean to say is: "All my music already has degraded quality, and I don't notice that, so I doubt I'll notice a bit more degradation...bitch."
In an emergency, your ears should suffice.
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But the only people who need food and shelter from the government are those who can afford neither. So fine, give those people internet access, but you'd probably need to give them computers too. Meanwhile, everyone else would be buying their own internet (and paying for the poor person internet too).
People freaked the fuck out when they first invented the atomic bomb too. The thing is, it's been 60 years, and everyone's used to it. Besides that, killing people has never been wrong from a religious point of view, as long as the people you're killing are your enemies. So the bomb is just peachy, but genetically modifying animals? That's 'playing god' in a different manner than has been done before.
The reason you fail to understand the people of whom you speak is that you lack the clarity of vision imparted by religion.
"It's pretty much just agreed the world over that science will be constantly used to create new and horrible weapons that could kill increasingly large numbers of people in increasingly horrible ways, but that strangely enough it's expected will never be used. You tell someone about Russia restarting its nuclear weapons research program and people just shrug and go, meh, they do that."
Jut because it's agreed that something happens doesn't mean it should, from a 'moral' standpoint, happen. It's agreed the world over that guns are used to kill people.
"The worldwide march of technology and progress has brought a lot of horrible things, but we shrug, decide we don't care, and eat our chicken mcnuggets anyway."
Obviously someone cares because they are the people you are talking about. Of course, there are a lot of people who complain about chicken mcnuggets.
"So why freak out so much over these sheep?"
I don't think the average person has a choice, they seem to freak out regardless of reason. People are more of a statistical phoenomena rather than individuals. You could ask 'why do people freak out so much over these sheep?' Humans treat other humans as a special case, since they are the same species. Killing other humans (who aren't your enemies) is generally considered a Bad Thing. When you start engineering near-human creatures, you have to work a lot harder to draw the line between human and non-human. For the vegetarians and vegans, that line already covers most animals. See also the abortion debate.
If we had such a tax where I live, I think I would not buy music CDs because I'm already paying for the copyright infringement.
Which causes a few problems: I don't listen to RIAA music, or for that matter, terribly popular music. How do the musicians that I do listen to get compensated? And whatever they are compensated will surely not equal what they would have if they had just sold records the normal way. For instance, at current rates $260 is a pretty good deal, if I download at least 20 CDs.
And also, how do you address artists who just make crappy music that no one listens to? Are they also entitled to a recording industry stipend?
I'm afraid that's subjective. I'm pretty sure there is still some debate over the meaning of life. And there will probably be so for a long time. Your non-meaning appears to be the real meaning for a lot of people I know.
I don't care for our species all that much myself.
You have an error there, you should have "because anyone who'll bring up a boring technical discussion in the middle of a boring technical discussion isn't much fun." Which is something, I, personally, do not entirely agree with. Fun is pretty much subjective.
You'd think so, but he doesn't have the wrong CFLAGS, he has the wrong CHOST, which you can't change in anything that isn't a Stage 1 install.
Don't like other people? I understand. But it's a good thing you didn't play the original TA, you probably would have hated it, horrible AI and middling campaign.
Conversely, my friend a Computer Scientist installed it and on the 4th reinstall it was working okay. Still installed i386 instead of i686.
I think I prefer Orange Juice to pills, you wacky kids these days with your pills and electronic music.
That's what Emacs is for!