The quote "This is no ordinary PC-to-console port though, think bigger guns, better characters, more maps and the obligatory mass-carnage, and you're nearly there - this is one to watch! Couple all this with the ability to play online on Xbox Live and you are talking about one seriously frag-happy affair. Prepare yourself, this one is going to be massive." Is hilarious!! My linux box can ALREADY play UT2003 (I don't have to wait for it to "be released"). I also can play online and download and save so many sustom maps that it is silly... I wonder how many custom maps I could store on an "x"box? Actually, I don't wonder.. and don't care.
I have a friend that works for a Govt. agency, he is always bragging about how stable his windows servers are and how he has "major uptime". I asked him.. "So, are you not patching them? Or just not rebooting to have the patches applied properly?".
Sorry, but watching true innovators (little guys) being put out of business (or at least having their market drastically stolen) by a certain company in Redmond has made me change my previously optomistic view. Having worked at a dotbomb wireless company and having friends at MP3.com.. just further cemented my current theory that the "little guy" in software today rarely gets his due.. For the USA to continue to be the great contry that it is, we need to encourage innovators and "little guys", not encourage the current "bodyshop" mentality (Imaging if the silicon valley boys hadn't been able to fins a market without it being whisked away from them? What about HP/Cisco/etc..?)
Other startup companies...
Winamp (Microsoft produced mediaplayer and put it on the desktop) Netscape (Microsoft productd IE and put it on the desktop) Winzip (MS is now including a zip application in it's filesystem) Real Networks (MS has cloned their technology and they are almost out of business) Their are a zillion others (some not so small) ie: Word Perfect/Lotus/Novell/Sun (java is the new target)...
And I suppose the film industry (which is using more and more inexpensive linux clusters to render 3d animation) is going to just let OpenGL go to MS? I think not. (if OpenGL isn't truly open and if it does go to MS, the community will start another TRULY open graphics solution.)
Not too long ago, Microsoft was being sued by some company for BLATENTLY STEALING a design idea (cool it have been apple (desktop), word perfect (Word processor), Lotus (Lotus 1-2-3 Spreadsheet), The whole OSS world (the internet and all it's protocols)? Anyway, Bill Gates made the statement "Every Car has a steering wheel, you can't patent the steering wheel..." while defending that it was ok for them to steal (as opposed to create/innovate themselves).. Perhaps it's time for the OpenSource world to take the same tactic...
I admin 200 + PC's and 200 + Unix systems, my users ALL have Admin access on their PC's and root on the Unix systems. My servers are well backed up and secure (and the users don't have admin on them). I have NEVER had problems with security because of this policy.. actually, expecting the users to behave like adults and holding THEM responsible for what is on their PC's makes my job easier (there is just me... ONE admin for them all). This whole "take away control" to "help" users is Bass-Ackwards! I realize that a shitty admin might feel threatened if users have control, but the rest of us don't.
The Constitution protects us from the Govt.trying to force any ONE religion on the people. It doesn't intend to force athiesm on the MAJORITY that are religious.
The Majority of our founders were Christians (see the following LINK.
The majority cannot (and should not) force religion on the minority, however.. the majority can define the rules of a society and if the minority is unhappy about those rules, they can choose to live elsewhere.
Just that the State is supposed to leave the Church alone. It is not to prevent the Church from being part of the state. Think about it.. the people who wrote the document swore on the BIBLE that they would support it, not on some "non-religious" book.
The USA was founded and has risen to power as a "Under God" (not God-Less) nation. Our laws are based on the Judeo-Christian Ten Commandments, our founding fathers were (almost entirely) Christian, the simple fact that this country has been a nation where 90+% of the population profess to being Christian makes it a country "Under God". In a democracy, the MAJORITY decides what is acceptable. In THIS DEMOCRACY, no "established religion" may be forced on the people, but the people CAN (and always have) include religion in society (we are NOT COMMUNISTS--yet). They can also choose to profess (the fact that) America is "One Nation, Under God".
Let's see.. If I follow, someone willing to "have a baby" that they couldn't otherwise have may get that opportunity (In the process, increase the already out of control population. Rather than adopting one of the thousands of poor kids who need homes). Of course, the baby the couple would be having will have only been able to be created using NAZI like science to study the possibility of such "breakthroughs". Kill a baby today, and you can have one tommorrow... not very good science (or ethics).
Sounds like an oxymoron to me.. XP and technology?
I can see the future of hacking..."my new cpu was cool untill some script kiddies hacked it and overclocked it."
Really, what is "XP" technology doing in a CPU? I remember when this was tried with "win"modems.. they were a REALLY BAAaaaDD idea. But then again, MS can talk companies into including their proprietary garbage.. money talks.
I am no "benchmark" but I am certain that my PIII-600 with (recently upgraded) 512Megs of RAM runs considerably slower on XP than on 2K. So let me see.. I upgraded my RAM, have a "new" OS and the PC is SLOWER... how is this an "upgrade"? I've not had the same difficulties with the system when I dual boot to my Linux partition and update the kernel. (As a matter of fact, with the memory upgrade, Linux actually is faster than before! Weird eh?)
I can already use online calendars, email, checking, banking, stock quotes, etc FOR FREE... so what exactly is the rational by which I would justify PAYING for these?
Let's see... Robinhood=take from the rich give to poor, MS=take from poor and give to the rich. They want to take free services and charge people for them. If society is dumb enough to go for that, then we deserve what we get.
While I agree with his comments about the encryption and monitoring of citizens, I couldn't disagree more with his (obviously biased "unelected president".. what is that crap? a liberal that is still bitter that BUSH carried the electorate BY FAR?) opinion about the congress deciding to permit the President to make decisions regarding our nation. Afterall, that is the job of the Congress.. to support the President, and voice the desires of the people. If they felt he was not able to handle the responsibility or if they felt he would misuse the position that he is in, then they could have voted "nay". Instead, they voted UNANIMOUSLY "yea". I own "The Cathedral and The Bazaar", I generally love Stallmans writings.. but in this case, his left-wing biases are truly "bazaar" and HE needs to realize that the unity our govt. is showing exactly what makes this country great. Not some opportunistic left-wing bologna.
I have read about a Linux Client/Server, anyone know when? Didn't ID port it's previous games to Unix flavors FIRST? I hope this isn't a new habit.. (porting to windows first).
Cool!! I look forward to the Linux Port (and to being able to try out the game). I will NOT be using a windoze machine to test it.. even tho windoze boxes do seem to make pretty good game consoles.
This guy must be on Crack.. I can't believe that such losers even get attention on news sites.
1. There is NO empirical evidence that stem cells are better than regular cells for helping in curing diseases.
2. Regardless, (even if they were) WITHOLDING 60 Million won't help cure anything.
3. This kook needs to keep his political hat off and either give or not give. (but not indian give).
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The quote "This is no ordinary PC-to-console port though, think bigger guns, better characters, more maps and the obligatory mass-carnage, and you're nearly there - this is one to watch! Couple all this with the ability to play online on Xbox Live and you are talking about one seriously frag-happy affair. Prepare yourself, this one is going to be massive." Is hilarious!! My linux box can ALREADY play UT2003 (I don't have to wait for it to "be released"). I also can play online and download and save so many sustom maps that it is silly... I wonder how many custom maps I could store on an "x"box? Actually, I don't wonder.. and don't care.
I have a friend that works for a Govt. agency, he is always bragging about how stable his windows servers are and how he has "major uptime". I asked him.. "So, are you not patching them? Or just not rebooting to have the patches applied properly?".
Sorry, but watching true innovators (little guys) being put out of business (or at least having their market drastically stolen) by a certain company in Redmond has made me change my previously optomistic view. Having worked at a dotbomb wireless company and having friends at MP3.com.. just further cemented my current theory that the "little guy" in software today rarely gets his due.. For the USA to continue to be the great contry that it is, we need to encourage innovators and "little guys", not encourage the current "bodyshop" mentality (Imaging if the silicon valley boys hadn't been able to fins a market without it being whisked away from them? What about HP/Cisco/etc..?)
Other startup companies...
Winamp (Microsoft produced mediaplayer and put it on the desktop)
Netscape (Microsoft productd IE and put it on the desktop)
Winzip (MS is now including a zip application in it's filesystem)
Real Networks (MS has cloned their technology and they are almost out of business)
Their are a zillion others (some not so small) ie: Word Perfect/Lotus/Novell/Sun (java is the new target)...
But as you all know, they are NOT a monopoly...
And I suppose the film industry (which is using more and more inexpensive linux clusters to render 3d animation) is going to just let OpenGL go to MS? I think not. (if OpenGL isn't truly open and if it does go to MS, the community will start another TRULY open graphics solution.)
Change our defense tactic that is.. not our innovation tactic! (We want to continue to truly innovate..unlike MS)
Not too long ago, Microsoft was being sued by some company for BLATENTLY STEALING a design idea (cool it have been apple (desktop), word perfect (Word processor), Lotus (Lotus 1-2-3 Spreadsheet), The whole OSS world (the internet and all it's protocols)? Anyway, Bill Gates made the statement "Every Car has a steering wheel, you can't patent the steering wheel..." while defending that it was ok for them to steal (as opposed to create/innovate themselves).. Perhaps it's time for the OpenSource world to take the same tactic...
I admin 200 + PC's and 200 + Unix systems, my users ALL have Admin access on their PC's and root on the Unix systems. My servers are well backed up and secure (and the users don't have admin on them). I have NEVER had problems with security because of this policy.. actually, expecting the users to behave like adults and holding THEM responsible for what is on their PC's makes my job easier (there is just me ... ONE admin for them all). This whole "take away control" to "help" users is Bass-Ackwards! I realize that a shitty admin might feel threatened if users have control, but the rest of us don't.
The Constitution protects us from the Govt.trying to force any ONE religion on the people. It doesn't intend to force athiesm on the MAJORITY that are religious.
The Majority of our founders were Christians (see the following LINK.
The majority cannot (and should not) force religion on the minority, however.. the majority can define the rules of a society and if the minority is unhappy about those rules, they can choose to live elsewhere.
Just that the State is supposed to leave the Church alone. It is not to prevent the Church from being part of the state. Think about it.. the people who wrote the document swore on the BIBLE that they would support it, not on some "non-religious" book.
The law covers the establishment of religion, it doesn't say that religion is "un-American". As many would like us to think.
The USA was founded and has risen to power as a "Under God" (not God-Less) nation. Our laws are based on the Judeo-Christian Ten Commandments, our founding fathers were (almost entirely) Christian, the simple fact that this country has been a nation where 90+% of the population profess to being Christian makes it a country "Under God". In a democracy, the MAJORITY decides what is acceptable. In THIS DEMOCRACY, no "established religion" may be forced on the people, but the people CAN (and always have) include religion in society (we are NOT COMMUNISTS--yet). They can also choose to profess (the fact that) America is "One Nation, Under God".
I suppose the next step is blocking ANY and ALL access to windoze by other OS's? But really... they DON'T HAVE a MONOPOLY.. no, REALLY..
Let's see.. If I follow, someone willing to "have a baby" that they couldn't otherwise have may get that opportunity (In the process, increase the already out of control population. Rather than adopting one of the thousands of poor kids who need homes). Of course, the baby the couple would be having will have only been able to be created using NAZI like science to study the possibility of such "breakthroughs". Kill a baby today, and you can have one tommorrow... not very good science (or ethics).
Sounds like an oxymoron to me.. XP and technology?
I can see the future of hacking ..."my new cpu was cool untill some script kiddies hacked it and overclocked it."
Really, what is "XP" technology doing in a CPU? I remember when this was tried with "win"modems.. they were a REALLY BAAaaaDD idea. But then again, MS can talk companies into including their proprietary garbage.. money talks.
Does this mean that my (outdated) Diamond RIO 3 is now worth more because I CAN copy cdrom music to it?
Is Microsoft up to no good? Well, does a Bear.. you know.
Here is a link to my site that has more info on the "security thru obscurity" discussion.
It also has the email addresses of some of the companies that have jumped on the "anti-disclosure" bandwagon.. just click and mail them how you feel!
Where is the .tar/.rpm/etc... for linux? I can't wait to try it out!
I am no "benchmark" but I am certain that my PIII-600 with (recently upgraded) 512Megs of RAM runs considerably slower on XP than on 2K. So let me see.. I upgraded my RAM, have a "new" OS and the PC is SLOWER... how is this an "upgrade"? I've not had the same difficulties with the system when I dual boot to my Linux partition and update the kernel. (As a matter of fact, with the memory upgrade, Linux actually is faster than before! Weird eh?)
I can already use online calendars, email, checking, banking, stock quotes, etc FOR FREE... so what exactly is the rational by which I would justify PAYING for these?
Let's see... Robinhood=take from the rich give to poor, MS=take from poor and give to the rich. They want to take free services and charge people for them. If society is dumb enough to go for that, then we deserve what we get.
While I agree with his comments about the encryption and monitoring of citizens, I couldn't disagree more with his (obviously biased "unelected president".. what is that crap? a liberal that is still bitter that BUSH carried the electorate BY FAR?) opinion about the congress deciding to permit the President to make decisions regarding our nation. Afterall, that is the job of the Congress.. to support the President, and voice the desires of the people. If they felt he was not able to handle the responsibility or if they felt he would misuse the position that he is in, then they could have voted "nay". Instead, they voted UNANIMOUSLY "yea". I own "The Cathedral and The Bazaar", I generally love Stallmans writings.. but in this case, his left-wing biases are truly "bazaar" and HE needs to realize that the unity our govt. is showing exactly what makes this country great. Not some opportunistic left-wing bologna.
I have read about a Linux Client/Server, anyone know when? Didn't ID port it's previous games to Unix flavors FIRST? I hope this isn't a new habit.. (porting to windows first).
Cool!! I look forward to the Linux Port (and to being able to try out the game). I will NOT be using a windoze machine to test it.. even tho windoze boxes do seem to make pretty good game consoles.
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This guy must be on Crack.. I can't believe that such losers even get attention on news sites.
1. There is NO empirical evidence that stem cells are better than regular cells for helping in curing diseases.
2. Regardless, (even if they were) WITHOLDING 60 Million won't help cure anything.
3. This kook needs to keep his political hat off and either give or not give. (but not indian give).