It is interesting to me that I cannot tell if you are a Republican or a supporter of Hillary Clinton. I suppose that speaks volumes about the Clinton campaign.
I should have been more clear, I don't care about proprietary in user space, as long as I can build and boot the mainline kernel of the moment and still play modern games (something I cannot do with nVidia).
I see lots of articles about how AMD plans to do this, that, and the other using open source components. What I want to know, is can I run 3D games using the in-tree kernel module with the proprietary user modules yet? This was promised a while back and I haven't seen any more about it. I want to support the effort, but I am not buying another AMD card until I see it actually work.
Indeed, a good programmer will be able to adjust the answer give to fit their needs. It is no different than many of the O'Reilly press books that walk you through a project.
The customer good will lost from shipping a broken product takes a long time to get back, far longer than the slip to included sufficient QA cycles. This is how it works for most products, eventually gamers will come around. Not asking for perfect, just not totally broken in obvious ways.
I don't want more of these games where launch day features include broken quests, random crashes, missing plot points, and other things that would have been caught if QA wasn't cut the make the launch schedule. I am willing to see fewer of these games made if that is the price of me waiting 18 months to buy them.
From the sounds of it, game companies are now so reliant on shipping a broken product and then patching it later, getting a new release is like being the beta testers.
It's true, the best time to buy a Bethesda game is 18 months later when it is 1/3 the cost and most of the big bugs are fixed. Nothing beats paying release prices to get access to the large public beta.
Sure, they will likely fix these bugs eventually, but why couldn't they fix the bugs _before_ release and ship a working product? As I said earlier, Bethesda has always worked this way. I have never played a Bethesda game that worked on release date (to be fair my first was Morrowind, maybe the earlier ones were better). Instead they throw out this thing held together by chicken wire and chewing gum with the promise to fix later. That is the problem, there are no consequences for shipping broken software because you can patch it later.
They cannot break their streak now. Not a single TES or Fallout game they released was ready on release date, why would they want to tarnish that pristine record?
See above about easy linux support and I want a keyboard. My 13" Dell is awesome and if you use a window manager that doesn't suck there is plenty of screen real estate to go around.
My wife tried the same, if you ever need to update the firmware on it you have the have the Windows partition around. We had to reinstall with Windows to update the bios after we discovered the USB firmware was hosed from the factory and did not work. I would steer clear of Samsung until they allow bios updates without Windows.
This is another in a long chain of articles that seem to assume all developers work on web frontend software. We do not. I have no use for jQuery and thankfully do not have to work on a single line of JavaScript in my day job. Maybe if you want to work on frontend-y stuff then it would be worth learning, but it is by no means required to be a developer.
It took them long enough to reverse something that should never have happened in the first place. Sorry Sourceforge, we had a good run, but this finally pushed me to move else where for project hosting.
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It is interesting to me that I cannot tell if you are a Republican or a supporter of Hillary Clinton. I suppose that speaks volumes about the Clinton campaign.
Because it breaks the 4th wall you insensitive clod
Which is a great theory, but the reality is that if the speed limit is set very low on a road for no apparent reason
Oh there is a reason, it just has nothing to do with safety.
I should have been more clear, I don't care about proprietary in user space, as long as I can build and boot the mainline kernel of the moment and still play modern games (something I cannot do with nVidia).
I see lots of articles about how AMD plans to do this, that, and the other using open source components. What I want to know, is can I run 3D games using the in-tree kernel module with the proprietary user modules yet? This was promised a while back and I haven't seen any more about it. I want to support the effort, but I am not buying another AMD card until I see it actually work.
Indeed, a good programmer will be able to adjust the answer give to fit their needs. It is no different than many of the O'Reilly press books that walk you through a project.
The customer good will lost from shipping a broken product takes a long time to get back, far longer than the slip to included sufficient QA cycles. This is how it works for most products, eventually gamers will come around. Not asking for perfect, just not totally broken in obvious ways.
I don't want more of these games where launch day features include broken quests, random crashes, missing plot points, and other things that would have been caught if QA wasn't cut the make the launch schedule. I am willing to see fewer of these games made if that is the price of me waiting 18 months to buy them.
From the sounds of it, game companies are now so reliant on shipping a broken product and then patching it later, getting a new release is like being the beta testers.
It's true, the best time to buy a Bethesda game is 18 months later when it is 1/3 the cost and most of the big bugs are fixed. Nothing beats paying release prices to get access to the large public beta.
Sure, they will likely fix these bugs eventually, but why couldn't they fix the bugs _before_ release and ship a working product? As I said earlier, Bethesda has always worked this way. I have never played a Bethesda game that worked on release date (to be fair my first was Morrowind, maybe the earlier ones were better). Instead they throw out this thing held together by chicken wire and chewing gum with the promise to fix later. That is the problem, there are no consequences for shipping broken software because you can patch it later.
They cannot break their streak now. Not a single TES or Fallout game they released was ready on release date, why would they want to tarnish that pristine record?
You presume that any of the firms involved give two shits about ethics. Legality is the _only_ way to make any of them care.
See above about easy linux support and I want a keyboard. My 13" Dell is awesome and if you use a window manager that doesn't suck there is plenty of screen real estate to go around.
My wife tried the same, if you ever need to update the firmware on it you have the have the Windows partition around. We had to reinstall with Windows to update the bios after we discovered the USB firmware was hosed from the factory and did not work. I would steer clear of Samsung until they allow bios updates without Windows.
Lie the equivalent of $1,200 and you go to prison, lie about $1,200,000,000 and you get to resign with your golden parachute. It's all about scale.
This is another in a long chain of articles that seem to assume all developers work on web frontend software. We do not. I have no use for jQuery and thankfully do not have to work on a single line of JavaScript in my day job. Maybe if you want to work on frontend-y stuff then it would be worth learning, but it is by no means required to be a developer.
a) the fact that most Linux users are cheapskates and rarely pay for software
The sales stats from the Humble Bundles suggest that Linux users do in fact pay for games.
Not only do they pay, on average they pay more than Windows or OSX users: Humble Bundle All Time Stats
I know that you must like living in your data free bubble, but seriously, the data for this was easy and you are an idiot.
Humble Bundle all time stats
Looks like windows users are the cheap skates...
It took them long enough to reverse something that should never have happened in the first place. Sorry Sourceforge, we had a good run, but this finally pushed me to move else where for project hosting.
Does the average /.er have anyone to share something with?
I wish I had mod points today...
You don't talk about fight club.
Cultivate a hobby. For me i moved into management as one is apt to do, and learned how to make soap.
Poster is forgetting the first rule.
I'll take two.
When their biggest revenue stream is patent infringement cases.