the game industry is very tight, and according to some interviews with various developers, its actually relatively easy to see if people are borrowing code.
at the same time, I really don't think anything that valve has in there is so incredibley revolutionary that no other developer given 5...
i'm curious, what is the incentive to do that? I mean, clearly people care about this because HL2 is so highly anticipated, but does anyone actually think this is worth it?
do they really think this is somehow allowing them to "play the game" earlier? I just don't understand.
there is a 1.4 gig file floating around.
some morons think its the beta.
those people who have downloaded it have discovered the truth...it is gay pr0n.
I'm not joking, it really is gay porn.
valve isn't responsible unless ppl can prove that they were negligent in their security.
now before some idiot says that obviously they were negligent since they used windows and outlook, shut up.
also, havok et al don't really need to worry about stolen source code. a lot of other...
If steam is the cause, they didn't realize the problem until steam 1.0 was released in the middle of september. so that doesn't give them much time.
They scramble like mad to find content servers, but fileshack won't do it, nvidia is probably threatening to pull theirs if valve doesn't stfu...
No, not paranoid at all. It's perfectly normal to not like the .00000000005 second delay that one day's worth of fragging will cause. If I were you, and really wanted to run HL2 in "decent" framerates, I would just buy a brand-new computer for a dedication HL2 machine.
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edit: this...
of course, every movie/game with a jail in the history of the world is loosely based on alcatraz, so....
we'll just have to wait and see. I doubt it would actually *be* alcatraz, since we seem to be in a fictional setting to begin with....but maybe it's not REALLy fictional, and...OMG