My mother uses Ubuntu and likes it. I've also found Puppy and Sabayon to be great distros to give to grandparents, kids, and other people with no computer knowledge. Heck, I use Ubuntu MYSELF, because I like the fact that it's easy to use on the surface, but lets me hack away at things deep down. Mint is a good alternative to Ubuntu, but I find the Ubuntu guys are starting to outpace them. Good distro though.
All they ACTUALLY need to do is include the license for the VM in the game's documentation, along with the source code adapting ScummVM to the Wii and whatever additional extensions to it they wrote.
Nintendo has gone from being the only reasonable company in the industry to being another bunch of scumbags. My DS is the last piece of Nintendo hardware I will buy until they get back with the whole "human race moving forward" thing.
www.robots-everywhere.com
If you need actual DESIGN done, we're pros. Matteo's one of the best CEs in the US right now and Reason...well he's Reason Bradley and needs no introduction.:P
Want it done right, price negotiable? Talk to us and we'll help you get what you need.:)
How about Wing Commander Universe? It's going to be persistent-world multiplayer soon, so you can have all your multiplayer RPG without the Massive number of idiots.
My company makes sure that doesn't happen by continually inventing things. Sure, a lot of people are afraid of big corps and patent troll fake-outs, but we've decided we're not, and we're moving.
Seconded, proud owner of two. Not using them though, as I find the springback to be hard on my fingers during gaming sessions. I prefer softer keyboards and will probably go over to scissor keys.
First thing I thought of when I heard "military" and "rocket powered bionics". It's not actually a rocket, but a steam-powered bionic arm is hella badass too! Auto-mail?
I'm a telecom SE guy, and I can tell you right now that this is bullshit. 90% of the fibre installed in North America is not currently in use, and is in fact locked down by treaties between the telcos and the US government because everyone was afraid it'd cause such a stock market crash that we'd be in 1932 all over again...which was bullshit, but either way, there will NOT be a bandwidth crisis in our lifetimes.
Agreed - this is why I tend to advise companies that their stuff not be exported to or used in the United States. It's just too damn much liability until they learn to behave like civilized people. If you don't think we can't stay in business just because we're not marketing to 100 million or so US gamers? Pfffffffffft, cost of marketing in the US states that we'd barely be making a profit anyway. No big deal!:)
That would be fine, the open-source community would immediately boom again like it did a couple of years ago, and very quickly overtake the market, because the vast majory of people quite literally can't afford that type of computing environment unless the cost of everything drops considerably. This is, of course, what most companies attribute to "losses due to copyright infringement".
Wow...that's just silly. Of course there's more to life than playing video games, most of us should know that. That said...video games are still fun, and someone with a whole pile of consoles just wants to make it easier to just get playing. If you DON'T think video games are fun...then really, why the heck are you posting in a thread about video games?:p
The best way to do that, by the way, would be just a simple switchbox to handle everything, of course then you're still dealing with the rat's nest of wiring as far as the switch box. not much you can do about that, though.
Some classics:
- Icewind Dale. My lady basically told me "play it"...so I guess I should.
- Smash Bros. Brawl. I'm curious what they did with it, and I wouldn't quit completely before I at least tried it.
- Crusader: No Remorse and No Regret.
You don't have to sign it for it to be a contract, in most countries. You simply have to have acknowledged your agreement to the other party. This is usually as simple as saying (or clicking) "okay".
The trick is, as soon as a contract stipulates something unlawful, it is null and void. If you go over most EULAs these days, they usually have some means of arbitrary enforcement, penalty, or other crap that's questionably legal at best, if it doesn't constitute a criminal offence.
As usual, IANAL, but this isn't a difficult legal concept for anyone who's taken a bit of law.:)
I'm personally going for the Master's in CS. I also don't even LOOK at what degrees people have when I consider them for a project. One of my best developers is bombing out of college right now, and he's my right-hand guy. He probably always will be, because he's that damn bloody good.
I'd mod this up if I had mod points, this guy's right. I for one am strongly concerned about some of the applications here, we've seen similar idiocy in the past.
Which I believe puts it against their charter to demand royalties from anyone using their research. That's GENERALLY the case for such research agencies. If it's not in Australia, then it's back to patent reform.
It's reasonable, I just agree with the comments that it's probably a more inefficient way to handle it than others. I don't say "don't do it", I say "actually THINK before doing it" - watch them screw up as badly as the Canadian Gun Registry fiasco with this, only multiplied to American scale (say...$3 trillion waste?).:p
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One more reason I'm sick of McDonalds-cramming, identity-stealing, drive-by-shooting North America.
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Also Japan, which is why their system software market tanked in the 90s and they're mostly doing embedded and entertainment stuff.
My mother uses Ubuntu and likes it. I've also found Puppy and Sabayon to be great distros to give to grandparents, kids, and other people with no computer knowledge. Heck, I use Ubuntu MYSELF, because I like the fact that it's easy to use on the surface, but lets me hack away at things deep down. Mint is a good alternative to Ubuntu, but I find the Ubuntu guys are starting to outpace them. Good distro though.
Don't worry, you sound like a great candidate for President.
All they ACTUALLY need to do is include the license for the VM in the game's documentation, along with the source code adapting ScummVM to the Wii and whatever additional extensions to it they wrote. Nintendo has gone from being the only reasonable company in the industry to being another bunch of scumbags. My DS is the last piece of Nintendo hardware I will buy until they get back with the whole "human race moving forward" thing.
www.robots-everywhere.com If you need actual DESIGN done, we're pros. Matteo's one of the best CEs in the US right now and Reason...well he's Reason Bradley and needs no introduction. :P
Want it done right, price negotiable? Talk to us and we'll help you get what you need. :)
You guys have forgotten about the game that is frustration incarnate. That's right, N! http://www.thewayoftheninja.org/n.html Get your ninja on.
How about Wing Commander Universe? It's going to be persistent-world multiplayer soon, so you can have all your multiplayer RPG without the Massive number of idiots.
Mod parent up. This is a hell of a game.
My company makes sure that doesn't happen by continually inventing things. Sure, a lot of people are afraid of big corps and patent troll fake-outs, but we've decided we're not, and we're moving.
Seconded, proud owner of two. Not using them though, as I find the springback to be hard on my fingers during gaming sessions. I prefer softer keyboards and will probably go over to scissor keys.
If they're mocking the ones with the NVidia chipsets, maybe the fakes will work better than the originals!
I'd say my favourite low-bloat software would be Fluxbox, the greatest speedy window manager ever made! :D
First thing I thought of when I heard "military" and "rocket powered bionics". It's not actually a rocket, but a steam-powered bionic arm is hella badass too! Auto-mail?
I'm a telecom SE guy, and I can tell you right now that this is bullshit. 90% of the fibre installed in North America is not currently in use, and is in fact locked down by treaties between the telcos and the US government because everyone was afraid it'd cause such a stock market crash that we'd be in 1932 all over again...which was bullshit, but either way, there will NOT be a bandwidth crisis in our lifetimes.
Agreed - this is why I tend to advise companies that their stuff not be exported to or used in the United States. It's just too damn much liability until they learn to behave like civilized people. If you don't think we can't stay in business just because we're not marketing to 100 million or so US gamers? Pfffffffffft, cost of marketing in the US states that we'd barely be making a profit anyway. No big deal! :)
That would be fine, the open-source community would immediately boom again like it did a couple of years ago, and very quickly overtake the market, because the vast majory of people quite literally can't afford that type of computing environment unless the cost of everything drops considerably. This is, of course, what most companies attribute to "losses due to copyright infringement".
Wow...that's just silly. Of course there's more to life than playing video games, most of us should know that. That said...video games are still fun, and someone with a whole pile of consoles just wants to make it easier to just get playing. If you DON'T think video games are fun...then really, why the heck are you posting in a thread about video games? :p
The best way to do that, by the way, would be just a simple switchbox to handle everything, of course then you're still dealing with the rat's nest of wiring as far as the switch box. not much you can do about that, though.
Mmm, quite probably, and it's too bad. It's quite a useful technique when it's used for legitimate surveillance.
Some classics: - Icewind Dale. My lady basically told me "play it"...so I guess I should. - Smash Bros. Brawl. I'm curious what they did with it, and I wouldn't quit completely before I at least tried it. - Crusader: No Remorse and No Regret.
You don't have to sign it for it to be a contract, in most countries. You simply have to have acknowledged your agreement to the other party. This is usually as simple as saying (or clicking) "okay". The trick is, as soon as a contract stipulates something unlawful, it is null and void. If you go over most EULAs these days, they usually have some means of arbitrary enforcement, penalty, or other crap that's questionably legal at best, if it doesn't constitute a criminal offence. As usual, IANAL, but this isn't a difficult legal concept for anyone who's taken a bit of law. :)
I'm personally going for the Master's in CS. I also don't even LOOK at what degrees people have when I consider them for a project. One of my best developers is bombing out of college right now, and he's my right-hand guy. He probably always will be, because he's that damn bloody good.
I'd mod this up if I had mod points, this guy's right. I for one am strongly concerned about some of the applications here, we've seen similar idiocy in the past.
Which I believe puts it against their charter to demand royalties from anyone using their research. That's GENERALLY the case for such research agencies. If it's not in Australia, then it's back to patent reform.
It's reasonable, I just agree with the comments that it's probably a more inefficient way to handle it than others. I don't say "don't do it", I say "actually THINK before doing it" - watch them screw up as badly as the Canadian Gun Registry fiasco with this, only multiplied to American scale (say...$3 trillion waste?). :p
One more reason I'm sick of McDonalds-cramming, identity-stealing, drive-by-shooting North America.