IBM and Sun are *not* open source allies. This is not a war you retard it's business. They will only support open source and free software when it is profitable for them to do so. IBM sells a commercial database and has no interest in MySQL.
What would happen if say... Doom 3, or something similar, was Linux only?
Well, in this specific case, it would probably mean the id software would go out of business, if you think most people would give up the ability to play every other game just to get Doom 3, you grossly mis-estimate id software's influence.
You think the only choices for programming in the Windows world are Notepad and Visual Studio? What a fucking retard.
I bet... no wait, I fucking guarantee we have more text editors than Linux users do. Well, at least more *complete* text editors, I'm sure SourceForge is cluttered with 10,000 half completed ones.
How about this: Textpad vs. UltraEdit, both of which kick the shit out of any GUI text editor on Linux. Or if you prefer console, we have... wait... Vi and Emacs! because they both run under NT you dumb gitbag.
Windows computers make up 90%+ of the desktops of the world, and on those computers, you are functionally illiterate. Congratulations fuckwad, like the Simpsons character you so closely resemble, you've wasted your life.
Are you out of your fucking mind? Do you have any idea how much the government (over)pays for custom software? I was a government contractor for several years (software, no less). I have never seen such grotesque waste.
There is a reason they buy off the shelf equipment, because it is cheaper than trying to re-invent the wheel.
If I wanted to play with friends, why not get together and enjoy the camraderie as well?
I stand by my point: the multi-player isn't very useful, and this game will *not* spawn a big community.
I built the website for, and helped run a company that sells discount diamonds on the web. Over the course of working for them, I became pretty cynical about the industry. The diamond market is incredibly over-priced and price-fixed. It was very easy for us to undercut retail jewelers because they typically mark up diamonds by 3x wholesale. (this is actually recommended by all of the wholesalers I've seen).
On the other hand, diamonds do look much better than CZ, and you can always tell the difference when they are next to each other, especially under natural lighting. Moissanite, however, look very close and can even fool less skilled jewelers.
Diamonds *do* have resale value. Some dealers won't want your diamond, because they don't want to risk getting de-frauded, but many dealers do buy good used diamonds, and it isn't hard to sell a decent diamond in the newspaper or forums.
I personally think stones like ruby, sapphire or emerald are more beautiful and more rare. I bought my fiancee a diamond (wholesale for me of course) because I was concerned that she would be self-concious around friends if I didn't. Would they think I didn't value her as much?
In the end, I think buying a diamond is one of those things that doesn't make much sense, but you will take a lot of crap if you ignore it, kinda like women changing their last name when they get married or celebrating Christmas. But if your fiancee doesn't mind, and you don't mind taking some crap from friends, then you can save the money.
I was going to get out the flamethrower to defend myself, when I realized that, at least in some respects, you are right.
I guess I was hoping NWN would be BG3. Not literally, of course, but a spiritual successor if nothing else. It isn't the single player game is decent, but pretty repetetive.
The problem with depending on a multi-player feature in an RPG is that most people you meet on the 'net are assholes. This is fine in Quake3, because you get to kill them, but in a cooperative type game, it's a killer.
Oh well, I had some fun with NWN, but I really felt like it didn't live up to the hype.
I hate to tell any Linux holdouts, but NWN isn't that great and if you've been waiting with baited breath, you'll be dissapointed.
It is probably about as good as Icewind Dale, but not nearly as good as BG2.
Actually, Windows XP will auto-configure everything, and my Mom can (and has) installed it with no problems.
BTW: Windows 2000 requires zero boot floppies, the CD is bootable.
Additionally, he used the newest version of RedHat against a two-year old version of Windows. Windows XP is considerably easier to install than Windows 2000 is.
If Linux users want to be taken seriously they need to give up their straw-man arguments.
That's a fucking ingenious idea! Why don't they hire a developer to completely re-write a competing office suite as a set of automatable COM components instead.
Wait a second, I know why. Because that would be incredibly fucking stupid.
What litigation? There is no lawsuit. There is no threatened lawsuit. There is not even a hint of a lawsuit.
"We already knew Microsoft was concerned about the competition linux might offer"
What are you talking about? This has nothing to do with Linux. OpenGL is a crossplatform standard, but there are many more OpenGL implementations on Windows than Linux. Linux is not a significant threat in the Graphics and Gaming markets where OpenGL is most important. If anything, this could be seen as an attack at the Mac market, where OpenGL is very important.
From here on out, you're pretty much just babbling. Suffice to say, someone wasted a moderation point on you.
> and sometimes to view pornographic content
> on the web, which is illegal anyway
That's the problem. Pornography is illegal because your government is evil.
MS didn't steal any code for use in DoubleSpace. Stac bought some old patents and abused them to force MS to stop using technology that neither of them had invented.
I think it is terrible the way you/. trolls flame other companies for patent abuse, but not if they are attacking Microsoft.
With serial ATA, the design is point-to-point, with only one device per channel. With fewer pins, each channel will be cheaper to implement, so you will have more channels per controller.
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Actually, Half-Life was based on Quake II, but for all I know they may both derive heavily from the original Quake.
IBM and Sun are *not* open source allies. This is not a war you retard it's business. They will only support open source and free software when it is profitable for them to do so. IBM sells a commercial database and has no interest in MySQL.
Perhaps NAMBA wasn't a very good choice for the association name.
I don't really have much to say about that
Well, in this specific case, it would probably mean the id software would go out of business, if you think most people would give up the ability to play every other game just to get Doom 3, you grossly mis-estimate id software's influence.
Of course, because it simply isn't possible that someone could honestly not like DDR is it? What a fucking prick.
You think the only choices for programming in the Windows world are Notepad and Visual Studio? What a fucking retard.
I bet... no wait, I fucking guarantee we have more text editors than Linux users do. Well, at least more *complete* text editors, I'm sure SourceForge is cluttered with 10,000 half completed ones.
How about this: Textpad vs. UltraEdit, both of which kick the shit out of any GUI text editor on Linux. Or if you prefer console, we have... wait... Vi and Emacs! because they both run under NT you dumb gitbag.
Windows computers make up 90%+ of the desktops of the world, and on those computers, you are functionally illiterate. Congratulations fuckwad, like the Simpsons character you so closely resemble, you've wasted your life.
Have you ever noticed that when someone says "Not to be a troll, but" they are *always* being a troll.
Hmmm... I also see Java being seven years old and .NET being essentially 0. Not a really fair comparison.
Are you out of your fucking mind? Do you have any idea how much the government (over)pays for custom software? I was a government contractor for several years (software, no less). I have never seen such grotesque waste. There is a reason they buy off the shelf equipment, because it is cheaper than trying to re-invent the wheel.
If I wanted to play with friends, why not get together and enjoy the camraderie as well? I stand by my point: the multi-player isn't very useful, and this game will *not* spawn a big community.
No, he got to *get* anal.
I built the website for, and helped run a company that sells discount diamonds on the web. Over the course of working for them, I became pretty cynical about the industry. The diamond market is incredibly over-priced and price-fixed. It was very easy for us to undercut retail jewelers because they typically mark up diamonds by 3x wholesale. (this is actually recommended by all of the wholesalers I've seen).
On the other hand, diamonds do look much better than CZ, and you can always tell the difference when they are next to each other, especially under natural lighting. Moissanite, however, look very close and can even fool less skilled jewelers.
Diamonds *do* have resale value. Some dealers won't want your diamond, because they don't want to risk getting de-frauded, but many dealers do buy good used diamonds, and it isn't hard to sell a decent diamond in the newspaper or forums.
I personally think stones like ruby, sapphire or emerald are more beautiful and more rare. I bought my fiancee a diamond (wholesale for me of course) because I was concerned that she would be self-concious around friends if I didn't. Would they think I didn't value her as much?
In the end, I think buying a diamond is one of those things that doesn't make much sense, but you will take a lot of crap if you ignore it, kinda like women changing their last name when they get married or celebrating Christmas. But if your fiancee doesn't mind, and you don't mind taking some crap from friends, then you can save the money.
I was going to get out the flamethrower to defend myself, when I realized that, at least in some respects, you are right. I guess I was hoping NWN would be BG3. Not literally, of course, but a spiritual successor if nothing else. It isn't the single player game is decent, but pretty repetetive. The problem with depending on a multi-player feature in an RPG is that most people you meet on the 'net are assholes. This is fine in Quake3, because you get to kill them, but in a cooperative type game, it's a killer. Oh well, I had some fun with NWN, but I really felt like it didn't live up to the hype.
I hate to tell any Linux holdouts, but NWN isn't that great and if you've been waiting with baited breath, you'll be dissapointed. It is probably about as good as Icewind Dale, but not nearly as good as BG2.
Actually, Windows XP will auto-configure everything, and my Mom can (and has) installed it with no problems. BTW: Windows 2000 requires zero boot floppies, the CD is bootable.
Additionally, he used the newest version of RedHat against a two-year old version of Windows. Windows XP is considerably easier to install than Windows 2000 is. If Linux users want to be taken seriously they need to give up their straw-man arguments.
That's a fucking ingenious idea! Why don't they hire a developer to completely re-write a competing office suite as a set of automatable COM components instead.
Wait a second, I know why. Because that would be incredibly fucking stupid.
Darwin is merely one part of OSX.
Please, show some decency here. This is about as far from funny as imaginable.
"they will litigate their way to victory."
What litigation? There is no lawsuit. There is no threatened lawsuit. There is not even a hint of a lawsuit.
"We already knew Microsoft was concerned about the competition linux might offer"
What are you talking about? This has nothing to do with Linux. OpenGL is a crossplatform standard, but there are many more OpenGL implementations on Windows than Linux. Linux is not a significant threat in the Graphics and Gaming markets where OpenGL is most important. If anything, this could be seen as an attack at the Mac market, where OpenGL is very important.
From here on out, you're pretty much just babbling. Suffice to say, someone wasted a moderation point on you.
Why the hell else would they name it that? For the fun of it?
> and sometimes to view pornographic content > on the web, which is illegal anyway That's the problem. Pornography is illegal because your government is evil.
MS didn't steal any code for use in DoubleSpace. Stac bought some old patents and abused them to force MS to stop using technology that neither of them had invented. I think it is terrible the way you /. trolls flame other companies for patent abuse, but not if they are attacking Microsoft.
With serial ATA, the design is point-to-point, with only one device per channel. With fewer pins, each channel will be cheaper to implement, so you will have more channels per controller.