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Loki Files For Chapter 11 Protection
yamla writes: "Loki is dead!" and points to a Linux Review article which says the gaming company has filed for protection from creditors under bankruptcy laws. Yamla continues: "Read about it here. This is terrible news! I have paid for some of their games and they were always at least as good as the Windows versions. I hope Loki can pull out of bankruptcy and keep going but if not, it will be our loss." There is also a story at LinuxToday (pointed out by reader Beee) which draws from the Linux Review report. Meanwhile, the Loki site appears business-as-usual. Filing for bankruptcy protection is not the same as being "out of business," but it's uncomfortably close.
How come your web page makes you come as so intelligent? Then I see you post this drivel..."real operating system"...referring to Linux..pfft.
Stupid cockwad. The reskit gives you all the virtual desktops your puny brain can handle, and there is little that cannot be done from the command line (if you know what you are doing, which you obviously don't).
You know, for the law being quite common and available to everyone and anyone who wants to invest their time and effort, lawyers do a pretty dammed good living.
On the first day of college, the Dean addresses the students, pointing out some of the rules.
"The female dormitory will be out-of-bounds for all male students, so too the male dormitory to the female students. Anybody caught breaking this rule will be fined $20 the first time. Anybody caught breaking this rule the second time will be fined $60. Being caught a third time will incur a hefty fine of $180."
"Are there any questions?"
At this, a male student in the crowd inquires, "How much for a season pass?"
A woman walks into the doctors office with a huge boil on her arse.
The doctor squeezes it, pushes it, and then looks at the hard white pus core. He says this is too big a job for me so he sends her to Gus the pus sucker.
The woman goes to Gus who looks at the bulging red, inflamed boil festering with pus and says "this is no problem" and he proceeds to press his lips to her arse and sucks out the pus and core of the boil.
Halfway through, the woman drops a mammoth fart. Gus stops what he's doing, looks up and says "You know lady, its people like you that make this job fucking disgusting."
Real shell? Virtual Desktop? On Windows 2000 Pro? Where?
A man is finishing a physical exam and his family doctor asks:
"Everything looks okay; is there anything else you can think of?"
"Well, yes, I'd like a birth control prescription for my daughter."
"Your daughter? Why she's only 12...you don't mean she's sexually active?"
"Nah...she just lays there like her mother."
You're a fucking idiot if you think a box and registration card cost more than a few coins per unit.
There was this sick guy, he used to come back from parties on Sunday morning early and wank as he watched this really cute crippled girl in the special school opposite from his bedroom window.
Well one day his hormones got the better of him and he dicided to get well coked up and with an excellent bullshit story that he cooked up with his twisted mates, he strolled on over to the director's office.
"Excuse me Sir," he said "I've noticed that pretty young blonde girl in the wheelchair so often and it seems that no-one ever comes to visit her."
"Well son," he kindly replied "unfortunately both her parents were killed in the same accident that put he here in the first place, and with no other living relatives, the poor girl has no-one"
Shit the bed, he thinks and goes for the strike..."well I was wondering if it would be possible to take her out for the day?"
The director agrees instantly and he arranges to pick her up the next day. When the time comes he drives over and sticks the wheel chair in the boot and heads out for the country side. After a while he pulls up in a little lay-by in the middle of nowhere and cuts to the chase.
"Have you ever been kissed?" he asks her.
"No" she replies "I was only 13 when I was crippled."
She soon agrees to being kissed as this seems quite exciting to her.
"Have you ever been touched between the legs?" he asks slyly.
"Well...er..no" she replies slightly worried, but she soon agrees as she really wants to keep her new friend.
"Have you ever been fucked?" he asked soon after.
"ummmm...er......no" she replies knowing nothing else to say.
He gets out of the car, carries her into her wheel chair and pushes her down into a near by field where he undresses her and lies her spread eagled on the grass.
He stands up, throws her wheelchair into the river and as he walks off to his car he shouts back... "Well you're fucked now!"
THEY'RE OUT F BUSINESS
This guy goes out to Las Vegas, and wins really big in one of the casinos. When you win big in Vegas the casino will give you free things, like meals, show tickets, or rooms, this is all designed to keep you there so that you will lose what money you have won.
After winning fifty thousand dollars at the crap table, the casino decides to give the guy a night in the penthouse suite. The guy goes up to the room, opens the big double doors, and steps into a three room suite. The room is on a corner of the hotel and two walls are nothing but windows, with a fantastic view of the city. There's a wet bar in one corner, with a big screen TV. The guy drops his bag on money in a chair and stands looking out the windows at the city. He realizes he is all alone and needs someone to share his good fortune with. He calls down to the front desk and tells the clerk to send up one of the best high-priced call girls in the city.
Thirty minutes later there's a knock on the door. The guy opens it and there is the most gorgeous girl he has ever seen. Long blond hair, short red dress, and spiked heels. She walks into the room. The guy goes over to the bar and fixes two drinks, he gives one to the hooker, and drinks one himself.
"Now, down to business," he says. "How much for a hand job?"
The hooker says, "Honey, a hand job is $500.00"
"What? That's outrageous."
"Come over here," she says walking towards one of the windows. "See that strip mall over there," pointing out the window, "I own the last two stores on the end. I was able to buy those stores with the money I saved from giving hand jobs. I must be pretty damn good."
"All right, screw it, money is no object."
A half hour after she's done the guy is sitting on the couch reveling in ecstasy. He gets up, goes to the bar and makes two more drinks. He gives one to the hooker and drinks one himself.
"That was the best hand job I have ever had. How much for a blow job?"
"Honey, a blow job is $5000.00"
"What? That's outrageous."
"Come over here," she says walking towards another one of the windows. "See that hotel and casino over there on the corner," pointing out the window? "I own that. I was able to buy it with the money I saved from giving blow jobs. I must be pretty damn good."
"All right, what the hell, it's only money." The guy gives her $5000.00
An hour after she's done, the guy is laying on the couch, head rolled back, eyes rolled up inside his head, a little drool coming out of the corner of his mouth. He gets up, barely able to stand, staggers over to the bar, mixes two more drinks, gives one to the hooker, and drinks one himself.
"My god, that was the best blow job I have ever had, I've gotta know, how much for some pussy?"
The hooker looks at him and says, "Honey, if I had a pussy I would own this whole city............"
A woman was shaking out a rug on the balcony of her 17th floor condominium when a sudden gust of wind blew her over the railing. "Damn, that was stupid," she thought as she fell. "What a way to die."
As she passed the 14th floor, a man standing at his railing caught her in his arms. While she looked at him in disbelieving gratitude, he asked, "Do you suck?"
"No!" she shrieked, aghast.
So, he dropped her.
As she passed the 12th floor, another man reached out and caught her. "Do you screw?" he asked.
"Of course not!" she exclaimed before she could stop herself.
He dropped her, too.
The poor woman prayed to God for one more chance. As luck would have it, she was caught a third time, by a man on the eighth floor. "I suck! I screw!" she screamed in panic.
"Slut!" he said, and dropped her.
He is Loki after all. You know, the Norse god who enjoyed causing trouble for his fellow gods. And, since Linux users are no less than gods, you should have known he would screw with ya sooner rather than later. For shame.
What are you talking about? I just went to there web page and it came up just fine.
my f1rst p
I sure hope they haven't purchased any Aeron's recently.
Please mod down.
Now 501. I just ordered.
Oh I don't know about that. I'd say at least 75% dual boot. 9 chances out of 10 you already have a copy of Windows or you're able to easily pirate one so it's a matter of "might as well just in case" installing it. I've actually found the exact opposite... I haven't found a reason to boot into the Debian installation on my system. I stay in Win2k 99% of the time at home. When I look at the things I do with my system: browsing the web (IE), doing my checkbook (Quicken 2001), photo editing (photoshop), pirating mp3's (winamp), Autocad, Counter-strike, etc. I don't really have any need to boot into Linux. Not to mention Win2k's USB support is about a million times better than Linux as I can hotsync my Palm M505 to it, use my USB connected Epson Stylus Photo 1280 to print graphics, etc. Win2k is very nice I say.
Q: What's sicker than driving over a baby?
A: Skidding
Q: What's even sicker?
A: Picking it out of the tires
Q: Why do the doctors always have a bowl of hot water nearby when they deliver babies?
A: So that if the baby dies, they can make some soup.
I bet you have a gigantic salad bar
A kid comes home from school and says to his mom, "Mom I've got a problem."
She says "Tell me." He tells her that the boys at school are using 2 words he doesn't understand. She asks him what they are.
He says "well, pussy and bitch".
She says "Oh That's no big deal, pussy is a cat like our little Mittens, and bitch is a female dog like our Sandy."
He thanks her and goes to visit dad in the workshop in the basement. He says to his dad, "Dad the boys at school are using words I don't know, and I asked mom and I don't think she told me the exact meaning."
Dad says "Son, I told you never to go to mom with these matters, she cant handle them. What are the words?"
Dad says "OK" and pulls a Playboy down from the shelf, takes a marker and circles the pubic area of the centerfold and says, "son, everything inside this circle, is pussy."
"OK dad, so what's a bitch?"
"Son" he says, "everything outside that circle."
Just as the communist companies collapsed, so will all of your commie OS companies.
Your just an idiot. You paid money for your hardware, right? You think that BIOS isn't proprietary?
A young woman married and had 13 children. Her husband died. She soon married again and had 7 more children. Again, her husband died. But, she remarried and this time had 5 more children. Alas, she finally croaked.
Standing before her coffin, the preacher prayed to the Lord above, thanking him for this loving woman who fulfilled his commandment to "Go forth and multiply."
In his final eulogy, he noted, "Thank you Lord, they're finally together."
Leaning over to his neighbour, one mourner asked... "Do you think he means her first, second or third husband?"
The other mourner then replied... "I think he means her legs."
or you install bash!
worth the hassle of rebooting
Are you saying that the majority of Linux users have no patience and can't wait a minute or so to boot Windows? Why is it such a hassle? Is this some uptime ego trip or something else?
A man who just got a raise decides to buy a new scope for his rifle. He goes to a rifle shop, and asks the clerk to show him a scope. The clerk takes out a scope, and says to the man, "This scope is so good, you can see my house all the way up on that hill."
The man takes a look through the scope, and starts laughing.
"What's so funny?" asks the clerk.
"I see a naked man and a naked woman running around in the house." the man replies.
The clerk grabs the scope from the man, and looks at his house. Then he hands two bullets to the man and says, "Here are two bullets, I'll give you this scope for nothing if you take these two bullets, shoot my wife's head off and shoot the guy's dick off."
The man takes another look through the scope and says, "You know what? I think I can do that with one shot!"
You get the same fps running wine as you do in windows? fucking liar.
DESIRED QUALITIES FOR GAMING
1. Games need to be written to open APIs like OpenGL, OpenAL, OpenPlay, and so on. Games that are written to open APIs are more portable to different operating systems which supports consumer choice and are more accessible to open source development.
2. UNIX gaming. I love UNIX because it's elegant, powerful, widely implemented, open, and standards-based. I want to game on UNIX, I don't want to dual boot.
3. Wide availability of games.
HOW MAC OS X SUPPORTS THESE
1. Apple isn't pushing a lot of proprietary APIs needlessly. Sure, there are some, but in general, games on the Mac using 3D graphics use OpenGL, games that use 3D sound frequently use OpenAL, Apple is pushing for an open API for networking called OpenPlay, and because it's UNIX, POSIX and standardized UNIX APIs are bound to be widely used for threading, sockets, filesystem I/O, and so on.
2. OS X is UNIX. Huge chunks of it are even open source. (Not as open source as Linux of course, but a lot better than nothing.)
3. The Mac has a wide variety of games available to it. The following is a small sampling (this list also includes games scheduled to come out for the Mac):
FPS
Doom 1-3
Quake 1-4 and Quake: Team Arena
Unreal
Unreal Tournament
Rune and Rune: Halls of Valhalla
Alice
Oni
Halo (widely believed to be coming)
Deus Ex
Descent 3
Heavy Metal FAKK 2
Tomb Raider series including Tomb Raider: Chronicles
Max Payne (coming sometime)
RPG
Diablo 1-2 and D2X
Baldur's Gate
Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast
Icewind Dale
Baldur's Gate II (coming in a few weeks)
Neverwinter Knights
MMORPG
Shadowbane (widely considered to be the most promising MMORPG)
World War III Online
RTS
Starcraft and Starcraft: Brood War
Warcraft 1-3 (including WC2: Beyond the Dark Portal)
Age of Empires 1 (and 2 coming this fall)
Total Annihilation
Summoner
Black and White (coming later this year most likely)
Myth 1-3
Tropico
Giants: Citizen Kabuto
Sacrifice
Earth 2140
Majesty
TBS
Heroes of Might and Magic III (and the two expansion packs)
Civilization 2-3
Civilization: Call to Power
Alpha Centauri
Masters of Orion 2-3
ADVENTURE
Escape from Monkey Island III
Myst 1-3
Realmyst (coming sometime this year)
Vampire: The Masquerade>br> Star Wars games (Pod Racer, etc.)
Star Trek games (like DS9: The Fallen)
Rogue Spear/Rainbox Six
Dragon's Lair 3D
OTHER
The Sims (and most of the other Sim-series like City/Theme Park/Tower/Ant/...)
Railroad Tycoon II
Soldier of Fortune
Tony Hawk
Driver
4x4 EVO
a ton card/boardgames (like Monopoly, Monopoly Casino, etc.)
a ton of arcade games (Centipede 3D, Atari 2600 action pack, and other arcade remakes of classics)
and a ton of educational games and kids games which I don't really get into and don't know the names for
Anyway, the only game I seriously miss on the OS X is Everquest and it looks like Shadowbane should satisfy that (and Neverwinter Knights).
The Mac also gets a lot of games simultaneously (Blizzard in particular has gotten progressively better and better about this and is 100% simultaneous now).
A NOTE ON HARDWARE
The Macs have both the Creative Labs Soundblaster Live and the Nvidia Geforce 3 cards available to them which are more or less the state of the art in PC gaming.
SUMMARY
Again, what's really important is that games get written to open APIs. Supporting both Linux and Mac gaming both accomplish this.
I bought my first ever Mac 5 months ago (because of OS X) and haven't looked back since. It's worked out a lot better than I thought and I've since become quite the Apple fan surprisingly enough. I've also found that I really enjoy the Apple community (read a couple of issues of http://www.appleturns.com for an example).
The Mac isn't perfect, but I've been really happy with it.
I also want to say that I think that the whole WINE approach to gaming is horribly flawed in my opinion. We need games written to open APIs!
I'm not advocating that people ditch Linux for the Mac, but I do think that people who genuinely care about open APIs should at least CONSIDER the Mac if they're currently playing their games under Windows.
(real shell, could handle multiple CPUs, virtual desktop, great stability) I see you are familiar with Windows 2000 Pro?
Loki sucked ass. Seeya ya talentless fuckwits.
A husband, one bright sunny morning, turns to his lovely wife, "Wife, we're going fishing this weekend, you, me and the dog."
The wife grimaces, "But I don't like fishing!"
"Look! We're going fishing and that's final."
"Do I have to go fishing with you... I really don't want to go!"
"Right I'll give you three choices... 1 You come fishing with me and the dog... 2 You give me a BLOW JOB.... 3 or you take it up the ass!"
The wife grimaces again, "But I don't want to do any of those things!"
"Wife I've given you three options.. You'll HAVE to do one of them! I'm going to the garage to sort out my fishing tackle, when I come back I expect you to have made up your mind!"
The wife sits and thinks about it. Twenty minutes later her husband comes back, "Well! What have you decided? FISHING with me and the dog, BLOW JOB, or ass?"
The wife complains some more and finally makes up her mind, "O.K. I'll give you a blow job!"
"Great!" He says and drops his pants. The wife is on her knees doing the business. Suddenly she stops, looks up at her Husband, "Oh! It tastes absolutely disgusting... It tastes all shitty!" "Yes!" says her husband "The dog didn't want to go fishing either."
A man and his wife go to their honeymoon place for their 25th anniversary. As the couple reflected on that magical evening 25 years ago, the wife asked the husband: "When you first saw my naked body in front of you, what was going through your mind?"
The husband replied: "All I wanted to do was to fuck your brains out, and suck your tits dry."
Then, as the wife undressed, she asked: "What are you thinking now?"
He replied: "It looks like I did a pretty good job."
My girlfriend called me a pedophile.
I said, "That's a pretty big word for a 13-year old."
IF I EVER MEET YOU I WILL KICK YOUR ASS!!!
I know what you mean. I just played through the demo of Kohan and was going to check out Loki's site for more information on it. So I pulled up Mozilla and my homepage (Slashdot) loads and what do I see: Loki is dying! Gah! I really hate dual booting to play games, and the Kohan demo ran great on my (fairly meager by todays standards) system.
Now it seems like the only thing that will save Loki is either a killer title or just a sudden surge in Linux gaming popularity. I'm not enthusiastic about the second possiblity, but the first has happened before (although as a game porting company Loki is not going to have an easy time making any sort of killer app).
By the way, for those of you who don't know, Loki's demo system is pretty cool, it keeps a list of all of the available demos in a central app and lets you automaticaly download, install, play, and uninstall them. It's really quite nice.
I read the internet for the articles.
There was this construction worker on the 3rd floor of this unfinished building. He needed a hand saw, but was too lazy to go down and get it himself, so he tried to call his fellow worker on the ground to get it for him, but this guy could not hear a word he said. So he started to give a sign so the guy on the ground could understand him.
First he pointed at his eyes (meaning "I") then pointed at his knees (meaning "need), and moved his hand back and forth describing the movement of a hand saw. Finally, the guy on the ground started nodding his head like he understood and dropped his pants and started to jerk off.
The guy on the 3rd floor got pissed-off and ran down to the ground and started yelling at this guy, "You idiot, I was trying to tell you I needed a hand saw."
The other guy replied, "I know, I was trying to tell you that I was coming."
How is this flamebait when it talks the truth. As a whole, people refuse to buy software for Linux. If this werent the case then Loki wouldnt have had to file. I mean really, the vast majority of Linux users are in the gaming age bracket, yet we can't support a single game company? What is the first thing that comes out of everyones mouth around here when new software is offered. Is it Free?
The way to support a commercial company is to buy it's product. That's it. Nothing else to it.