Day of Defeat: Source Updated with New Map, Achievements, Other …
A beta update for Valve’s mod-turned-retail title Day of Defeat: Source (PC) has been announced, bringing a number of new additions to the World War II multiplayer shooter.
Included in the update are 51 achievements, player avatar support and detailed player statistics, along with a Team Fortress 2-style nemesis-revenge freeze cam and new particle effects that came out of TF2’s development.
The update also brings with it a new map, dod_Palermo, said to be “a remix of the most popular community map, dod_salerno.”
The beta client is currently available to Day of Defeat owners via Valve’s online delivery platform Steam.
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Saturday 24 May 2008 | Shana | Uncategorized
You are correct. Then again, my second paragraph, the one in parentheses, was meant to convey that I was not being really serious about this.(OTOH, given billions of dollars in potential revenue, programming a TCP/IP stack from scratch starts looking, ahem, feasible. Industry makes end runs around such obstacles all the time, much like a river when a rockslide starts blocking its usual flow course, and following much the same principles, minimum energy etc etc etc.)
Yes? They’re rich!
Think about the entry cost, though. Would Google have been possible if they had had to pay license fees for each copy of software they use?We have lots of new and exciting websites today precisely because the entry cost is so low. The entry cost is so low largely due to open source software.
I’m not positive, but I believe at least ftp.exe is basically straight from BSD.
Open source definitely helps the spread of technology and services, but as you say - there are plenty of commercial replacements, it would become a case of how cost effective using the commercial applications were as to how big the take up would be… there wouldn’t be a 100% conversion obviously, but nor would there be 0%.
Maybe Google would exist, maybe not. But I have no doubt that there would be search engines without free operating systems. By the way, Linux didn’t magically make their Google startup costs $0; according to their history page, they bought a terabyte of disks at 1998 prices, and presumably paid for a lot more stuff. Throwing the cost of a web server in there would almost certainly not break the deal, if they would have even had to buy a copy (software has been known to be obtainable without paying, either illegally or through school).
Microsoft employs at least three people who could write the TCP/IP stack from scratch.(Per Vista's Logout button drama, seems like it also employs at least three thousand people whose job is to make sure they fail at it.)
I agree (I hope I didn’t imply otherwise). Further to your sentiments, we would be better off without Java because it is expressed by people who are less influential. It is the very fact that they are easily influenced by hyperbole that keeps it alive!Whether or not this is true of Open Source is a topic of debate. For now, I take the opposing side but of course, I could have been tricked just like the Java users were (and still are).
Similarly, if Java magically disappeared, a lot of stuff would instantaneously disappear. However, this fact does not refute the proclamation, “I wish Java would disappear. It has caused more trouble than it is worth!”.