Morgan
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Not really. W32DASM is a popular disassembler/debugger, but you need to know Assembly to understand the output.
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The problem with that approach, Belisarivs, is that we would need to develop a lot of documentation to ensure that code contributions are up-to-par, and that all would-be contributors understand our quality standards. Moreover, quality management for a closed-source computer software project is problematic and difficult already. Quality management for an OSS project would require much more managerial work from us, and thus, you would never get a chance to play 0 A.D. as we would not have time to complete development of the title. You don't want that, do you?
I'm not firmly against the OSS option; however, at this stage in software development, transitioning to the OSS option would be quite unintelligent. Also keep in mind that OSS is not the equivalent of "free software". For example, post-final 0 A.D. we may decide to provide developers with licensable open source technology in the same manner as Epic Games' Unreal Technology licensing, Valve Software's Source Engine licensing, and id Software's Technology Licensing Program.
We have a solid team in place for development, and development is continuing.
There's no reason to throw the project to the wolves, even if the wolves are hungry.
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The ad is promoting that idea that Microsoft customers who purchase the XB360 can "have fun" (as kids do when they play "cowboys and indians") even in today's busy go-go-go world. The ad isn't "promoting make-believe guns". That's the spin that the Jack Thompson cult followers, Janet Jackson stunt critics, and paranoid prudes would like you to believe. Don't encourage them.
Actually makes me want to go buy a XBOX...but no.The ad is promoting make-believe guns and you will get those out there that will take things too far. Last week we had a hostage drama for over 5 hours and the culprit was using a toy gun.
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Where did you read that?How are they "continuing to develop" the game "at full speed" when they have closed up shop?
Extremely unlikely. B2B purchases of significant intellectual property and corporate takeovers are aggressively promoted. In this case, SSSI simply disappeared. The website was removed, and no press releases were issued. All that remains are a few (supposedly) former employees with a few words to say on an unofficial fan forum. There is immense room for speculation, but the quiet close of SSSI seems to be successful, if a subtle exit was initially desired.I assume they were bought out in some fashion. -
Honestly, you're joking, right?What type of games did they develop?
SSSI developed Empire Earth, Empires: Dawn of the Modern World, Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile, and were developing Rise & Fall: Civilizations at War. SSSI was established by Rick Goodman, who also co-established Ensemble Studios. Since you're a member of this forum, I shouldn't need list the games Ensemble developed.
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On November 25, 2005, Gamasutra reported that Stainless Steel Studios quietly ceased operations. The content of the official website was removed on November 24. Former SSSI employees Bob Scott and Daniel Higgins confirmed rumors appearing on the Heaven Games Rise & Fall fan site forum.
Higgins wrote in reply to questions about the credibility of the rumors, "This is true, SSSI is no more. I can't give details as to why, but I can tell you the product is in excellent shape, the team was in high morale and plowing ahead at full steam, and we were just weeks from gold disk."
- Gamasutra: Report: Stainless Steel Studios Closes Doors
- Heaven Games: Stainless Steel Studios has broken up
C'est la vie!
- Gamasutra: Report: Stainless Steel Studios Closes Doors
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When you start "discussing" beliefs, I'm out of the so-called discussion.If you associate inspiration with a full moon or the full moon actually has inspiring effects, the end result is the same so which one of those is true. I guess its in the beholder to believe the explanation that they can most relate to.
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For owners of the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system (“PS2”) models 30001, 30001R, 35001, 39001, 39010, 50001 and 50010, this might be interesting.
Disclaimer: This posting is neither an endorsement from me nor an endorsement from Wildfire Games.
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Well, I do my best critical thinking when I'm in the shower and I can concentrate more when I'm on the john. Heh. But anyway...
Creativity has nothing to do with the stages of Earth's moon. If you lived on Jupiter, would you be more creative? I mean, Jupiter is currently known to have 63 moons. Does more moons mean more creativity? And what are moons made of anyway? Certainly not cheese. In fact, our moon consists of elements that we find on Earth, and on many other planets and stellar objects. And why do some people report being more creative during a full moon while others do not? Would the moon only affect creativity for certain people? And why only those people?
What silly conjecture.
If you do more "creative" work when you see a full moon, you're doing more "creative" work because you've developed a perception of a full moon that emotionally sets you in the right mood to do "creative" work. Same goes for other methods of inspiration.
First of all, how do we define "creativity"? "Creativity" is nothing more than the methods and practice of applying knowledge to behavior, and how those methods, the application of knowledge, and the result of that application is perceived. How is creative thinking any different than the thinking that enables us to make decisions? It's not. "Creativity" is simply what we call thought that is concentrated on a particular issue or problem, and what we call "creative" is something that produces a solution to a particular issue or problem. Then what about artwork by master painters, sculpters, etc.? What issue or problem do those works solve? Many of the great artists were applied artists--production artists. The problems they faced were such things as their clientele's needs for cathedral ceilings and palace walls, or their clientele's needs for portraits that aren't embarassing, ugly, or overtly religious and/or political.
Then what of artists who simply create artwork? Are they also solving problems? Yes. The issues and problems non-commercial artists face are internal. The moment they set their artwork in a gallery, however, they become commercial artists just as a group of hobbyist game developers can become an official commercial game development studio/publisher, and just as a group of performing musicians can become recording artists and commercial performers. The issues and problems they faced in the beginning with their artwork were either solved or not, but now there are new issues and problems to solve, like how to attract prospective customers to the gallery, and how to get more and better press.
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Er, Hyborian, your post appears to lack relevance to the topic. By the way, "you are a bunch of filthy infidels" is grammatically incorrect. I can't possibly be more than one infidel!<blah>
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And still, I don't buy it what many of these teenagers are saying, that they do this because of what Sarkozy said. Many of them are just trouble-makers and because they now have the chance to make trouble on a large scale they're using this as an excuse. Sure, what Sarkozy said wasn't the most strategic or respectful thing to do, but if that's a reason to burn schools there's a serious problem.
In any disaster, there are criminals, but there are also those who are not criminals. I suspect that only a few instances of rioting and vandalism could be attributed to the "right" people. The other instances are likely that of copycats and other criminal-minded people who see rioting and vandalism as an opportunity to "have some fun."
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Er, the reason for the area-specific riots isn't necessarily race-related; in fact, local interviews with the French youth reveal that the problem is compounded by several issues: Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy described the poor and unemployed as "scum", two black teenagers were electrocuted while attempting to jump a fence surrounding a power station who may or may not have been chased by police, and the huge unemployment rates in certain sectors of France, particularly Paris.
Unlike popular American perceptions, Muslim and African residents in European countries aren't "new" or even subject to controversy.
There's no such thing as "Western Society" just as there's no such thing as "international law". Societies, cultures, and law differ from state-to-state and State-to-State. Because there's no such thing as "Western Society", integration of Muslims into Western nation is not a real blanket-problem.I am an optimist though, so I do believe that some point in the future we will be able to integrate Western muslims into our Western Society, but it won't happen if we bury our heads in the sand and continue to believe there is not a problem.I neither support segregation nor integration. I also do not support preservation. As a libertarian, I do not support state-mandated efforts to control and manage group identities. Such practices only fuel social fires and encourage incivility, hatred, and retrogression. State-mandated segregation is founded on bureaucratic prejudice (e.g., Native American reservations.) State-mandated integration is founded on dictatorial practice (e.g., assimilation.) State-mandated preservation is founded on beliefs in an ideal reality (e.g., the Christian far-right in U.S. government.) Management and defense of a social and/or cultural identity should be the responsibility of the individual.
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...not to intentionally be trollish, well, yeah, actually...Aye, the Romans had death by Crucifixion down to a science. They could control how long a person suffered on the cross just by positioning the legs in a certain way, or nailing the feet to a specific place. Truly one of the, if not the most, brutal methods of execution to this date.
What makes modern Christians strange is that they celebrate the death of their savior by toting mini-Roman death devices around their necks, in their hands, and atop hills. If they want to return to the days of ol' J.C., when the Romans enforced their moral superiority by military might, especially on whom they perceived as unbelievers (i.e. the Jews, Christians), then by all means go back!
But, hey, the most positive symbol of Christianity was the fish, which represents the charitable distribution of food to those in need. I don't know the exact date when the cross was adopted as a Christian symbol, but considering that the first symbols of Christianity were a triangle (to represent the Trinity) and the fish (to represent charity and goodwill), I think the adoption of the Roman death device as a symbol was historically recent. The most widely used Christian symbol was the overlapping of the Greek letters chi (X) and rho (P), sometimes with an added alpha (a) and omega (w). This symbol was made famous by Constantine.And just to show how Romans, like Constantine, treated Christianity as a religion:
As Constantine grew older, his private life seemed to degenerate. He grew fat and delighted in flattery and elaborate titles. His nephew Julian said he made himself ridiculous by his appearance: weird, stiff Eastern garments, jewels on his arms, a tiara on his head, perched crazily on top of a tinted wig.He waited until death drew near to be baptized as a Christian. His decision was not unusual in a day when many Christians believed one could not be forgiven after baptism. Since the sins of worldly men, especially those with public duties, were considered incompatible with Christian virtue, some church leaders delayed baptizing such men until just before death.
He gave his sons an orthodox Christian education and his relations with his mother were generally happy, but he continued to act as a typical Roman emperor. He ordered the execution of his eldest son, his second wife, and his favorite sister's husband. No one seems to be able to explain fully his reasons.
While many of his actions cannot be defended, he did bid farewell to the old Roman gods and make the cross an emblem of Victory in the world.
Source: Christian History; 1998, Vol. 17 Issue 1, p38, 3p, 2c, 1bw
There's a good article about how the cross, initially a symbol for sacrificial love, became a symbol of conquering hate through Christian warfar and its history of atrocities in Cross Currents; Spring94, Vol. 44 Issue 1, p5, 26p, published by the Association for Religion & Intellectual Life.
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Surprisingly, I typed in that URL to find that the user who posted that article has the alias "cptmorgan". And I thought my alias was unique! Bah!
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For me the "holy" cross is simply a miniature representation of yet another device used by the Romans to torture, execute, and instill obedience by fear. Ah, those were the days...For fundamentalists an upside-down cross represents Satanism or "anti-Christianity".
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Notice the Nazi swastika is borrowed from the French design?
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Unfortunately, Morning's Wrath is retail. 0 A.D. will be free!
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That document is outdated and contains incorrect information about testing. This thread is intended to help me gather questions for the new FAQs document specifically regarding testing. The questions by community members here will be answered in far more detail.Say hello to the FAQ. It wants to answer all your simple little questions.
Sorry Morgan...but someone needed to.
So I ask community members to continue inquiring about 0 A.D. testing while ignoring the answers provided on the current and outdated FAQs document that Quacker just posted.
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How pre-Nazi Germany antisemitism compared to other European countries' antisemitic societies is irrelevant.Germany before Hitler came to power was not really known (in comparrision with other european countries at that time) as an anti-semitic country.
Doris Bergen (of the University of Vermont) investigates the impact of National socialism on the significance of Christian antisemitism in Germany, attitudes of Christians toward Judaism and Jews, and analyzes pre-Nazi forms of antisemitism in her 20-page article Catholics, Protestants, and Christian Antisemitism in Nazi Germany. (Central European History; Sep94, Vol. 27 Issue 3, p329, 20p) Here are a few quotes. You can e-mail me for the PDF.
Some recent trends in the study of National Socialism tend to downplay the significance of antisemitism -- in particular of Christian antisemitism -- in producing the Holocaust. Indeed, it would be inaccurate and misleading to present the Christian legacy of hostility toward Judaism and Jews as a sufficient cause for Nazi genocide. Christianity, however, did play a critical role, not perhaps in motivating the top decision-makers, but in making their commands comprehensible and tolerable to the rank-and-file -- the people who actively carried out the measures against Jews as well as those who passively condoned their implementation. In his analysis of pre-Nazi forms of German antisemitism, Donald Niewyk concludes that, "The old antisemitism had created a climate in which the 'new' antisemitism was, at the very least, acceptable to millions of Germans."Niewyk's insight can be applied specifically to Christian attitudes toward Jews. As Gergory Baum has pointed out, for centuries the church had taught "an abiding contempt among Christians for Jews and all things Jewish, a contempt that aided Hitler's purposes." The traditional Christian view of the Jewish people as "blind, stubborn, carnal, and perverse" was "fundamental in Hitler's choice of the Jews as the scapegoat." Christian anti-Judaism was certainly not the sole factor, but without it, the Holocaust could not have occurred as it did.
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I've been watching this series since it premiered. I've seen all the seasons (and each episode in sequential order) of Stargate SG-1 and Stargate: Atlantis, and the first few episodes of HBO's Rome takes the cake. This is an incredible production with extremely talented actors who aren't A-list celebrities.
If you have HBO or HBO-On-Demand, watch the show!
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... it'd be nice if that leaf that is blocking part of the butterfly wasn't there.
Ah, "fix it in post!"
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I support capital punishment, but I don't support the misorganized, mismanaged, and fallible systems that currently administer capital punishment.
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Correction. The actors basically grow up while on-set. Films like Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter are in-development for at least 2-4 years until release. Just like games, but with the all the perks of celebrity and wealth. ;pIn the previews Harry doesnt really look like hes 14, more like 17. I guess they waited too long to make this movie
Anyone seen Chronicles of Narnia yet?
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I've never read the book, but I've seen the book cover!
I'm leaving in 15-30 minutes from this posting to the theaters.