Pirates Suck

[Kenshin]

you know looking at all the software pirates I know and seeing the post about p2p warez I have to say pirates are going to kill this industry. My friend shawn already pirates xbox games on his hacked out xbox which pisses me off.

Since i'm going into game programming I wouldn't want little bastards ripping my games off I swear one day i'll snap and take out a whole group of pirates when i decided to randomly visit china for no apparent reason what so ever.

[Crazygamer]

ummm... yeah...

[Kenshin]

oh sorry random though :D

but heres somthing that does go with software devo. I've learned that no one in the world actually knows what Java does. They're like hey look we can type all these methods in and use javax.swing.*; and somone else is like Hey whats it do? and the other guys like I dunno but it sure is good to know that we can type in information from javax.swing.*; seriously i've been to freaken 20 sites today and all they give is the class heirarchy but they never say what each method does. This pretty much tells me that no one in thier right mind knows what these damn things do.

[LavisBlade]

Ahh yes game downloading the one thing I dont download illegally. Maybe it's because I take gaming real to serious or I have to much respect for gaming because I've done it my whole life I dont know.

The thing that really kept me going back to GameStop/EBgames to buy my games was this fact I saw in Yahoo's news strip about 2 years ago, I'll never forget it.

This news article was about the Revenue the Gaming Industry took in for the Year 2001.

They were talking about the Leader in the Gaming Industry, which was EA games at the time... I dont like EA either... I think their games are low in quality. Anyway I continued to read and of course they had a paragraph about Net lose because of Priacy. The Article said somthing like this.

The gaming industry lost 3 billion dollars in revenue for the past year from illegal downloading. Thats 1/3 of the Total Revenue the Entire gaming industry makes in one year. Then it continued on about expected 2002 revenue intake, which I dont remember.

but then I see stuff like this

The video game industry created more than 219,000 jobs worth $7.2 billion in wages in 2000.

The gaming industry is supposed to surpass the Movie industry soon. In four to five years it is thought that the gaming industry is going to grow 50% to 75% larger.

And just for a side note games in 8 to 10 years are going to look like Gaming trailers from today, which makes me shiver. Not shitty trailers either the Hi-Res trailers that make you melt on the floor... trailers like THIS ONE (http://www.gametrailers.com/gt_vault/t_finalfantasy7_ac_2.wmv)

[TuckerXE]

I wish I could remember where I left that link to the awesome anti-pirating video from the '80s, "Don't Copy That Floppy!"

[XBusLive]

LOL @tucker!!!

anyone remember the wheels and manuals you needed as copy protection from piracy???

**YOU ARE ABOUT TO MAUL THE EVIL BEAST, BUT YOU MUST TYPE IN THE MAGIC WORD (magic word located on page 26 of your users manual)***

-bus

[Kenshin]

Originally posted by LavisBlade
And just for a side note games in 8 to 10 years are going to look like Gaming trailers from today, which makes me shiver. Not shitty trailers either the Hi-Res trailers that make you melt on the floor... trailers like THIS ONE (http://www.gametrailers.com/gt_vault/t_finalfantasy7_ac_2.wmv)

One thing though Lavis thats for a CGI movie not an actual game, a movie that i cannot wait to come out. But i think that were a little bit clsoer than 8 to 10 years just watch this (http://www.doom3.com/play_small.html)


Remember kids I'm DJ DP The Disk Protect so don't copy that floppy.

[LavisBlade]

It's hard to imagen what games will actually look like in the future. Microsoft is already putting out their new XNA (http://www.microsoft.com/xna/multimedia.aspx) software which is supposed to revolutionize how games are made.

[Kenshin]

wow that looks pretty sweet. I don't understand why all the computer science classes are pushing Java while alot of the computer game companies are pushing C# because of its new .net framework support and Directx9 support.

[TeMpEsT]

I download mp3s, but not games, movies, or software that's too expensive.

[Kenshin]

the RIAA doesn't actually lose money by mp3 piracy because many people who pirate also buy the CDs they pirate after they download the music.

[TuckerXE]

Originally posted by XBusLive
**YOU ARE ABOUT TO MAUL THE EVIL BEAST, BUT YOU MUST TYPE IN THE MAGIC WORD (magic word located on page 26 of your users manual)***

Hah! I had totally forgotten about that. Sam & Max had the best version, IMHO: they gave you paper dolls of Sam & Max and you had to dress them up like they appeared on a certain page of the manual.

[Kenshin]

hahaha yeah my uncle had some games like that form before my time...well actually it wasn't before my time just that my family was to technology challenged to get a computer let alone games.

[WolfmanNCSU]

Oh yeah....Dont Copy that Floppy. DJ Rap guy. HAHAHA

Watch it!!!
http://www.ninjaculture.com/downloads/dctf-1.wmv

Also, as far as knowing all the JAVA methods, check out the APIs straight from the source. http://java.sun.com/reference/api/index.html

That should help you guys.

[Kenshin]

i checked the references they are about useless because thye tell you all the methods and what they do but they don't have anything to corrolate them like the JButton has a shit load of methods but never tells you how to set up actionListeners in that entire refernce to JButtons and thats what gets the button to work. If they as I have looked at the actionListener class they don't actually tell you how to implement it :(.

[MoX]

I download...


...stuff.

[WolfmanNCSU]

Originally posted by Kenshin
i checked the references they are about useless because thye tell you all the methods and what they do but they don't have anything to corrolate them like the JButton has a shit load of methods but never tells you how to set up actionListeners in that entire refernce to JButtons and thats what gets the button to work. If they as I have looked at the actionListener class they don't actually tell you how to implement it :(.

Yeah, thats what APIs do. They never actually use them in examples. There might be some sample code though on that same site. http://java.sun.com

[Kenshin]

checked it i've found 1 site with sample code and its really helped me and what i've learned is there is no way to put buttons on a JApplet and no way to put graphics in a JFrame cause they are form 2 different libraries

java.awt.Graphics

and

java.awt.Components

well java.sun.com does have some sample code but it kinda looks like this

public class stuff(Action perform)
{
//does some stuff here
}

thats about thier explanation of how to right an action listener

[8 Ball]

I download music and I downloaded Adobe Photoshop 7.0. Thats all though. I dont download games.