My guess is that there are no 24 hour internet cafes in the West that's why no one dies. If you're forced to go home you can't play three days straight. With that said you could just play at home I guess.....Doesn't the guy have a job or something?
It won't happen because companies put too much proprietary stuff in their games to be able to release it. ID Software for example doesn't package proprietary stuff in their games for the specific purpose so they can release their games as open source if they choose to at later dates.
For a glimpse of the proprietary crap you have to deal with look at the mess with installing Neverwinter Nights 1 on Linux. Bioware couldn't provide a Linux installer simple because InstallSheild (the installer they used to let people install the windows client) had an agreement with them to provide the only installer program for Neverwinter Nights so they couldn't provide one even if they wanted to because they would have broken their agreement.
Torvalds says he rejects this goal; that's probably why he doesn't appreciate GPL version 3. I respect his right to express his views, even though I think they are foolish. However, if you don't want to lose your freedom, you had better not follow him.
Speak for yourself me and my girlfriend who is 8000 miles away have been trying numerous different voip and webcam services. I'm on Ubuntu with 1Mb and she's on Window's 56k at Home and a 1 Mb line at work.
It is a lot better then any other voip service Linux can offer. Ekiga sucks compared to Skype voice. Gtalk might be able to beat it in the future but the apps just arn't there and stable right now to support it out of the box. I found Ekiga which comes in a default Ubuntu install to be too quiet and doesn't work well on a 56k connection.
As for video I found Ekiga video to be faster then Yahoo or MSN but the quality wasn't as good as MSN and Ekiga didn't support my web cam properly so I only got the right hand corner of my webcam which would have been ok if it wasn't for the fact that it's difficult to know when people are online with Ekiga.
Yahoo webcam seemed to be the best choice by using gyachi but it can go up to 30% CPU usage with one person viewing my webcam.
To summarize.. GTalk - Apps still in dev - No video MSN & AMSN - Didn't try audio - Was having problems with closed ports for video but when it was working about Good quality 1 frame every 2 seconds Yahoo & Gyachi - Didn't try audio - Reasonable quality about 1 FPS sometimes it pauses and gives you 6 frames in super fast motion to catch up Skype - Works great even on 56k - No video for Linux Ekiga - Not good on 56k - Difficult to know when someone is online - Difficult to call them and they pick up
I am using a combination of Skype for Audio and Yahoo with Gyachi for webcam.
There are already 2 clients for linux that do everything (over most protocols) but voicemail, and voicemail isn't really that important or fun.
Both crash and suck, Tapioca for example just freezes for me.
Voicemail isn't important to YOU. I have a girlfriend in a different country and the ability to leave her voicemail messages is important for ME. I hate the BS arguments about the importance of features.
Gtalk with all the features available that the windows version has, such as chat logging and voicemail support. If there was ever going to be a killer app this would be it.
You must have been using a super old version of Ubuntu. The past four distributions of Ubuntu you have been able to apt-get install the nvidia drivers.
My installation was smooth. In less than 90 minutes, using Automatix,
There is no reason to use automatix any more as it screws up your system when you want to upgrade. You can download flash, java and video codecs by going to add / remove programs and searching for them.
So your point is that as a UK citizen of 23 years old I should be restricted from using interactive entertain in case I hurt someone by replaying the finger movements I made for a few hours while looking at a TV screen.
We already have laws stopping minors from buying games. Game stores won't sell games to minors here so please tell my why I as an adult should be restricted?
Would I buy this game? No, but that isn't the wider issue which is my rights are being taken away as a consumer. Today is lameass game no 2, tomorrow it's any game with a nipple and for what? To protect your imaginary children who shouldn't be playing this thing in the first place!
It's stupid that children can see fuck scenes in a James bond movie but if you put that exact stuff in a game it would get banned.
OpenAds is just for local site advertising. With OpenAds I have to set it up, configure it, paste the HTML into my web pages and then look for people that want to advertise on my website. With Google you just signup for an account and paste in the HTML.
Daengbo although this is offtopic to my actual point...
With the way things are going I would be surprised if the Microsoft shill of an ITC minister that knows nothing about IT (his speciality in manufacturing robotics isn't IT) actually allocates any money for the project. This guy has no knowledge of Linux which he is quoted saying "Buggy and useless" + "Thailand can do better" (yeah right!) and then later saying "He doesn't know [about Linux]".
He is too busy blocking websites to think about such matters anyway. Still no youtube.. oh but Microsoft soapbox works fine!
Since he has been head of the ICT the blocked websites list grew from 1050 blocked websites to over 35,000.
Last I heard he cancelled the one laptop project in Thailand after a meeting with Microsoft reps (There is new government transparency for you) anyway like you said corruption is always going to be there so why bother with it.
I am very well informed on what the new government is doing and all I can say is so what if some of these laptops get stolen? (Who the hell is going to buy this lame dinky green laptop off the black market anyway? It doesn't even run a "real" OS)
If there is a chance of these laptops giving education to those that previously had none isn't it worth spending the money on it?
Maybe I missed something further up but I don't think non-MS supporters are complaining. All the complaining about vista is coming from people who are using Microsoft products.
Just because people complain don't automatically assume they'd prefer something non-MS, which is supporters of Vista biggest mistake. This "you're either with us or against us" talk is getting old.
Remember the part where we just discussed PS & PS2 not using OpenGL?
The playstation does use openGL.
The playstation 3 uses OpenGL ES which is the openGL standard for Embedded Accelerated 3D Graphics. Its not proprietary.
OpenGL contained too many features that were unimportant for gaming so they developed a new standard for gaming specific devices without all the extra stuff.
Linux isn't a company. There are over 12,000 programs in Ubuntu (as an example). That is over 12,000 programmers.
Your assumption that everyone is waiting for Microsoft to die is such a windows user point of view. Linux users that only use Linux never even THINK of Microsoft, its out of sight, its out of mind. The only time it ever comes up is when Microsoft start spewing BS about patents and that is it.
Why do you need a reason to switch? If you want to try it out then just do it! You can download a vmware image, you can boot up on a CD. Its not like you're screwing up you life by trying something different.
why would (s)he have to be American. Couldn't (s)he be an equally ignorant person from another developed and rich country?
True, but you lose more mod points if you mention Americans, which is going to happen as the mods bump this ignorant pig up.
Also the old governments actions don't reflect the actions of the new government. Even under the old government the laptops would have reached the children. It would have just cost them twice as much for the project for no actual reason.
It is also off topic. Sure that might happen but saying, "meh we should teach them how to farm better because these poor people are too dumb to learn computers" is such and ignorant first world point of view.
I'm sorry but I have worked in Thailand for almost a year now and the quality of code is just poor with no attention for detail.
Hell I can get free internet in my wifi'ed building by logging in as 'admin' and 'password' and when I am done I just delete the logs!
checktime.php?action=delete&id=0 or username like 'admin'
Say good bye to the evidence and now there is no trace of my activity. This is a major ISP. You can also login to ToT's (an ISP) servers using telnet. arrgh!
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My guess is that there are no 24 hour internet cafes in the West that's why no one dies. If you're forced to go home you can't play three days straight. With that said you could just play at home I guess... ..Doesn't the guy have a job or something?
It won't happen because companies put too much proprietary stuff in their games to be able to release it. ID Software for example doesn't package proprietary stuff in their games for the specific purpose so they can release their games as open source if they choose to at later dates.
For a glimpse of the proprietary crap you have to deal with look at the mess with installing Neverwinter Nights 1 on Linux. Bioware couldn't provide a Linux installer simple because InstallSheild (the installer they used to let people install the windows client) had an agreement with them to provide the only installer program for Neverwinter Nights so they couldn't provide one even if they wanted to because they would have broken their agreement.
Speak for yourself me and my girlfriend who is 8000 miles away have been trying numerous different voip and webcam services. I'm on Ubuntu with 1Mb and she's on Window's 56k at Home and a 1 Mb line at work.
It is a lot better then any other voip service Linux can offer. Ekiga sucks compared to Skype voice. Gtalk might be able to beat it in the future but the apps just arn't there and stable right now to support it out of the box. I found Ekiga which comes in a default Ubuntu install to be too quiet and doesn't work well on a 56k connection.
As for video I found Ekiga video to be faster then Yahoo or MSN but the quality wasn't as good as MSN and Ekiga didn't support my web cam properly so I only got the right hand corner of my webcam which would have been ok if it wasn't for the fact that it's difficult to know when people are online with Ekiga.
Yahoo webcam seemed to be the best choice by using gyachi but it can go up to 30% CPU usage with one person viewing my webcam.
To summarize..
GTalk - Apps still in dev - No video
MSN & AMSN - Didn't try audio - Was having problems with closed ports for video but when it was working about Good quality 1 frame every 2 seconds
Yahoo & Gyachi - Didn't try audio - Reasonable quality about 1 FPS sometimes it pauses and gives you 6 frames in super fast motion to catch up
Skype - Works great even on 56k - No video for Linux
Ekiga - Not good on 56k - Difficult to know when someone is online - Difficult to call them and they pick up
I am using a combination of Skype for Audio and Yahoo with Gyachi for webcam.
Same reason they had to pay for using the image of the empire state building in spiderman for 2 seconds.
Voicemail isn't important to YOU. I have a girlfriend in a different country and the ability to leave her voicemail messages is important for ME. I hate the BS arguments about the importance of features.
Gtalk with all the features available that the windows version has, such as chat logging and voicemail support. If there was ever going to be a killer app this would be it.
You must have been using a super old version of Ubuntu. The past four distributions of Ubuntu you have been able to apt-get install the nvidia drivers.
Microsoft made a fail safe mode for X? Now that IS news.
Redhat, co are Grandpa's old distros. We use Ubuntu at work and it is much easier to manage because I already run it on the desktop.
The difference though is that GTA:SA is a 17+ game and James Bond movies are 12+.
So your point is that as a UK citizen of 23 years old I should be restricted from using interactive entertain in case I hurt someone by replaying the finger movements I made for a few hours while looking at a TV screen.
We already have laws stopping minors from buying games. Game stores won't sell games to minors here so please tell my why I as an adult should be restricted?
Would I buy this game? No, but that isn't the wider issue which is my rights are being taken away as a consumer. Today is lameass game no 2, tomorrow it's any game with a nipple and for what? To protect your imaginary children who shouldn't be playing this thing in the first place!
It's stupid that children can see fuck scenes in a James bond movie but if you put that exact stuff in a game it would get banned.
It is like comparing apples and oranges.
OpenAds is just for local site advertising. With OpenAds I have to set it up, configure it, paste the HTML into my web pages and then look for people that want to advertise on my website. With Google you just signup for an account and paste in the HTML.
Mod parent troll
If your hacked Microsoft operating system was Windows 95 no one would think it would be Microsoft's fault.
Daengbo although this is offtopic to my actual point...
With the way things are going I would be surprised if the Microsoft shill of an ITC minister that knows nothing about IT (his speciality in manufacturing robotics isn't IT) actually allocates any money for the project. This guy has no knowledge of Linux which he is quoted saying "Buggy and useless" + "Thailand can do better" (yeah right!) and then later saying "He doesn't know [about Linux]".
He is too busy blocking websites to think about such matters anyway. Still no youtube.. oh but Microsoft soapbox works fine!
Since he has been head of the ICT the blocked websites list grew from 1050 blocked websites to over 35,000.
Last I heard he cancelled the one laptop project in Thailand after a meeting with Microsoft reps (There is new government transparency for you) anyway like you said corruption is always going to be there so why bother with it.
I am very well informed on what the new government is doing and all I can say is so what if some of these laptops get stolen? (Who the hell is going to buy this lame dinky green laptop off the black market anyway? It doesn't even run a "real" OS)
If there is a chance of these laptops giving education to those that previously had none isn't it worth spending the money on it?
That is what the machines want you to think. First chess and then the world!!
Wait..How do I know you're not a machine?! ARRRR!
Maybe I missed something further up but I don't think non-MS supporters are complaining. All the complaining about vista is coming from people who are using Microsoft products.
Just because people complain don't automatically assume they'd prefer something non-MS, which is supporters of Vista biggest mistake. This "you're either with us or against us" talk is getting old.
Friends at University were getting shouted at for not replying to their email within 4 hours to their job placement adviser.
Just because it is instant doesn't mean your getting an instant reply.
The playstation 3 uses OpenGL ES which is the openGL standard for Embedded Accelerated 3D Graphics. Its not proprietary.
OpenGL contained too many features that were unimportant for gaming so they developed a new standard for gaming specific devices without all the extra stuff.
New flash..
Linux isn't a company. There are over 12,000 programs in Ubuntu (as an example). That is over 12,000 programmers.
Your assumption that everyone is waiting for Microsoft to die is such a windows user point of view. Linux users that only use Linux never even THINK of Microsoft, its out of sight, its out of mind. The only time it ever comes up is when Microsoft start spewing BS about patents and that is it.
Why do you need a reason to switch? If you want to try it out then just do it! You can download a vmware image, you can boot up on a CD. Its not like you're screwing up you life by trying something different.
Why do you feel you need to draw a line in the sand. Grow up.
Also the old governments actions don't reflect the actions of the new government. Even under the old government the laptops would have reached the children. It would have just cost them twice as much for the project for no actual reason.
It is also off topic. Sure that might happen but saying, "meh we should teach them how to farm better because these poor people are too dumb to learn computers" is such and ignorant first world point of view.
http://www.siamtube.com/
http://www.sanook.com/home.php
http://www.mrpavee.com/?p=58
I'm sorry but I have worked in Thailand for almost a year now and the quality of code is just poor with no attention for detail.
Hell I can get free internet in my wifi'ed building by logging in as 'admin' and 'password' and when I am done I just delete the logs!Say good bye to the evidence and now there is no trace of my activity. This is a major ISP. You can also login to ToT's (an ISP) servers using telnet. arrgh!
Also they copy stuff but badly..
http://www.thaibay.biz/ - an ebay clone