The first prince of persia was excellent and totally revolutionary. I was really impressed with it, and I'd love to see what they can do if they don't stoop to ripping off other games and bring back Jordan Mechner, the person responsable for making the franchise great.
Who incidently was quoted as saying ov the new games, "I'm not a fan of the artistic direction, or the violence that earned it an M rating. The story, character, dialog, voice acting, and visual style were not to my taste."
microsoft could never write a real progress meter, so most ov the time they don't even try. think ov it more like the hourglass - it just sits and spins.
the d20 System Guide doesn't let you describe the process for creating a character, describe the process for applying experience to a character, and cannot be an interactive game.
This is true. There are several tools but they are all inferior; but this will change over time. I am not an audio guy tho, so I didn't need to wait for audio tools to switch. YMMV
I predict some middle eastern terrorists trying to get wmd to iran vs a US version ov Public Security Section 9 with a heavy action / maximum bodycount twist.
It will never work without alienating the hard core fan base, but the mainstreamers will love it because it has boobs and guns and the US always wins.
Funny you mention BET in connection to a story about how African Americans spend more money and time playing video games than whites. Black Entertainment Television and Microsoft had a joint venture called MSBET; one would wonder if microsoft used its position to market the xbox to urban youth.
One must wonder is all ov this is a page from Alexandro Jordorowsky's Technopriests: Gaming has become a tool to imprison its inhabitants in a complacent trance of mediocrity.
mechwarrior 3 was made by microsoft games and released six months before windows xp. It still can not be played on windows xp. System shock 2 ran fine on windows 98 / me but windows xp, not unless you want to patch the kernel.
Those 2 games were the reason I stuck to windows me instead ov switching to xp. I use linux now; wine plays mechwarrior 3 and System Shock 2 just fine.
>The problem is not whether Microsoft bosses see these things as a cost of doing business, but whether their shareholders, who actually own the company, are willing to put up with large quantities of _their_ money being pissed away on anti-trust fines, winning litigation by patent holders, and various other _avoidable_ legal problem
If the alternitave is microsoft loosing most ov their market share to linux and foss then i think they will be willing to put up with it.
>Please don't take issues when I defend someone else who thinks the program sucks. Because it does, and you just don't want to acknowledge that. What's so hard about it?
It works fine on my computers, it suits my needs, I don't think it sucks. It is nice that in your opinion the program sucks. Thanks for sharing, personal preference is great. While we are sharing opinions, let me share mine : if people actually liked good products and not just products with expensive marketing then maybe britney spears wouldn't be so popular.
>Those companies have a whole team of usability specialists who scrutinize every single pixel on the screen. Are you saying they're all idiots?
I have worked with companies before. PHB's call the shots. Do you think that usability specialists design software? Do you think the usability specialists get the final say? DO you think the usability specialists have more say in what gets signed off on then the marketing department? How do you think that the focus groups ov randomly chosen photoshop users would respond to an interface change? I mean photoshops interface hasn't had a major change since 5.5. And I am sure that no matter what any usability specialist says macrodobie will never remove their stupid logo off the toolbar.
Do you forget what program you are using much? Nice.
I post facts, you reply with opinions, I make jokes. In order to get all the categories you have to flame me now.
>NVIDIA needs a massive reality check: they're in the *hardware* business - the drivers just make their cards more marketable.
The drivers make their cards *work*. Without drivers, the cards are less then worthless.
>given that those drivers are known to be a major PITA on some environments (Linux and now Vista)
NVIDIA's linux drivers have worked flawlessly for me, ever since I put togeather a slackware 8.1 box for evaluation back in 2002. In fact, the reason I chose to migrate from windows to linux instead ov Beos was a lack ov nvidia drivers for that platform.
> would it sink down into the earth? would it slowly consume the atmosphere?
Oh, come on. Everyone knows what happens when you drop a Sphere of Annihilation in an ocean.
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>How many game libraries are available in BSD though?
only the best...
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/license.html
The first prince of persia was excellent and totally revolutionary. I was really impressed with it, and I'd love to see what they can do if they don't stoop to ripping off other games and bring back Jordan Mechner, the person responsable for making the franchise great.
Who incidently was quoted as saying ov the new games, "I'm not a fan of the artistic direction, or the violence that earned it an M rating. The story, character, dialog, voice acting, and visual style were not to my taste."
lets see how starcraft 2 fares versus Dawn of War 2 before we decide what we should base our comparisons on.
microsoft could never write a real progress meter, so most ov the time they don't even try. think ov it more like the hourglass - it just sits and spins.
I manage my new 3g nano in slackware using amarok; I just needed to recompile with an updated lib.
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It seems like the useage ov 'Open Source' in this case is totally wrong; how much money did microsoft cost Mozilla by giving away internet explorer?
By my calculations, it is someware in the rage ov $300,000,000,000USD. (three hundred billion).
Or to put it another way: I wonder how much money Ford would loose if Toyota started giving away free cars?
the d20 System Guide doesn't let you describe the process for creating a character, describe the process for applying experience to a character, and cannot be an interactive game.
The ogl does.
>NOTHING on Linux rivals the Adobe CS collection.
For print, maybe; as a web programmer I find the gimp and mtasc/flex3 allow me to do everything I need. And if it didn't, CS3 works in wine.
>NOTHING on Linux rivals AVID (or even Final Cut Pro).
Autodesk has a line ov high grade professional video editing software for linux. http://images.autodesk.com/adsk/files/linux_wp_2006.pdf
NOTHING on Linux rivals ProTools.
This is true. There are several tools but they are all inferior; but this will change over time. I am not an audio guy tho, so I didn't need to wait for audio tools to switch. YMMV
I use Slackware, you insensitive clod!
I predict some middle eastern terrorists trying to get wmd to iran vs a US version ov Public Security Section 9 with a heavy action / maximum bodycount twist.
It will never work without alienating the hard core fan base, but the mainstreamers will love it because it has boobs and guns and the US always wins.
If I recall correctly the Aegis system control software was running SunOS at launch and later upgraded to Solaris.
>The real reason is rap music and BET.
Funny you mention BET in connection to a story about how African Americans spend more money and time playing video games than whites. Black Entertainment Television and Microsoft had a joint venture called MSBET; one would wonder if microsoft used its position to market the xbox to urban youth.
One must wonder is all ov this is a page from Alexandro Jordorowsky's Technopriests: Gaming has become a tool to imprison its inhabitants in a complacent trance of mediocrity.
mechwarrior 3 was made by microsoft games and released six months before windows xp. It still can not be played on windows xp. System shock 2 ran fine on windows 98 / me but windows xp, not unless you want to patch the kernel.
Those 2 games were the reason I stuck to windows me instead ov switching to xp. I use linux now; wine plays mechwarrior 3 and System Shock 2 just fine.
>The problem is not whether Microsoft bosses see these things as a cost of doing business, but whether their shareholders, who actually own the company, are willing to put up with large quantities of _their_ money being pissed away on anti-trust fines, winning litigation by patent holders, and various other _avoidable_ legal problem
If the alternitave is microsoft loosing most ov their market share to linux and foss then i think they will be willing to put up with it.
>If you want tight, fast code and your project doesn't need OOP, use C.
Just use c++ as a better c. You don't have to write everything in oop.
that troll was acceptable.
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>Please don't take issues when I defend someone else who thinks the program sucks. Because it does, and you just don't want to acknowledge that. What's so hard about it?
It works fine on my computers, it suits my needs, I don't think it sucks. It is nice that in your opinion the program sucks. Thanks for sharing, personal preference is great. While we are sharing opinions, let me share mine : if people actually liked good products and not just products with expensive marketing then maybe britney spears wouldn't be so popular.
>Those companies have a whole team of usability specialists who scrutinize every single pixel on the screen. Are you saying they're all idiots?
I have worked with companies before. PHB's call the shots. Do you think that usability specialists design software? Do you think the usability specialists get the final say? DO you think the usability specialists have more say in what gets signed off on then the marketing department? How do you think that the focus groups ov randomly chosen photoshop users would respond to an interface change? I mean photoshops interface hasn't had a major change since 5.5. And I am sure that no matter what any usability specialist says macrodobie will never remove their stupid logo off the toolbar.
Do you forget what program you are using much? Nice.
I post facts, you reply with opinions, I make jokes. In order to get all the categories you have to flame me now.
>NVIDIA needs a massive reality check: they're in the *hardware* business - the drivers just make their cards more marketable.
The drivers make their cards *work*. Without drivers, the cards are less then worthless.
>given that those drivers are known to be a major PITA on some environments (Linux and now Vista)
NVIDIA's linux drivers have worked flawlessly for me, ever since I put togeather a slackware 8.1 box for evaluation back in 2002. In fact, the reason I chose to migrate from windows to linux instead ov Beos was a lack ov nvidia drivers for that platform.
> Could it possibly be because the hardware is seriously flawed when it comes to implementing DX10?
Maybe. It could also possibly be because DX10 is seriously flawed.
how do you get good karma here if you don't have sock puppets to mod yourself up?
Every time i bash m$ i get modded as a troll. my karma has declined faster then microsoft's brand.
McDonalds doesn't make their money selling burgers. They make their money selling franchises.
Apple has 14% ov the market by volume, but more like 28% by price.
> would it sink down into the earth? would it slowly consume the atmosphere? Oh, come on. Everyone knows what happens when you drop a Sphere of Annihilation in an ocean.