It's an LCD HDTV, and I'd rather have it be used as a separate desktop instead of cloning it. I've used the setup from your link before, the only difference being that i set the default resolution to something appropriate to the dimensions of a 32" LCD widescreen. Instead the resolution is something approaching huge and the color is strangely blue tinted. It's using HD cables on the output of the card.
Because Wine only recently started to focus heavily on how well applications or games were supported, where before they were focusing on how many. I would have happily given 10x the amount of money I gave to Transgaming to the Wine Project had they supported what I wanted at the time.
How, exactly, are we enemies to Free Software? I could just as well be playing the games in Windows, and not even using Linux at all. I submit bug reports, beta (and even alpha) test, though I'm not exactly the most knowledgeable person when it comes to using OSS. I donate to the projects I use, when I can. Perhaps you can help Transgaming go open source by convincing the gaming studios to use OpenGL, or petition for DirectX to be opened up. Or, better still, petition the game studios to develop for Linux? id does it, and does it well. Doom3 ran faster, natively, in Linux than it did in Windows on my machine.
I use Cedega to play WoW so I don't have to boot to the much maligned Windows partition on my machine. It's there so my girlfriend (I'm not a liar, I swear!) can watch her 'time shifted' television shows on our HDTV, since I have trouble getting dual head output to work on my nvidia card in Ubuntu.
On topic, kinda: I use Cedega because I'm lazy and don't mind the $5 it cost me to get a copy. I read the review linked in TFA, and I'm curious; how well does WINE play with WoW? Is it worth the (little, i'm sure) extra effort to get up and running to put that $5 towards something else the next time an upgrade comes around?
Perhaps I'm just daydreaming, but it seems to me that if the market wants what these 'pirates' are producing, wouldn't the companies being infringed upon be better off just buying them up? They could sell more, at a cheaper price and still make a huge profit. I'm not saying I'm for making the big, mean corporations bigger and meaner, but if they can't keep up with demand or sell for what people are willing to pay, then nuts to them. The products can't cost all that much to create or the 'pirates' wouldn't bother making it and selling it for 1/4 or less of it's value, unless there was a nice fat profit involved.
Now, I know there's a lot of way underpaid labor, harsh working conditions, etc. I don't agree with that either, but a person has to be realistic about such things. With as many homeless or poverty stricken people in the US, the land of the fat and docile, do you expect China to be able to supply all of it's 1+ billion people with jobs that pay our equivalent to minimum wage, or jobs at all?
I'd say that as long as any of those things don't directly affect me or people I care about they can do as they wish. Yes, I've read about employers scouring the web for information on their prospective employees, but do you think they would take a MySpace page like that seriously? Especially with high schoolers posting comments, like the one the young lady posted, on it? If the place I'm applying to can't discern fact from fiction when it comes to things like that, or if they decide to listen to what some random Joe has to say about me over the phone, then I'm not so sure I'd want to be working there.
How about we (Americans) suck it up and learn to take control of what our children do, instead of letting the courts do it for us. It is truly sad that we can no longer work things out among ourselves and litigate and the drop of a hat.
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It's an LCD HDTV, and I'd rather have it be used as a separate desktop instead of cloning it. I've used the setup from your link before, the only difference being that i set the default resolution to something appropriate to the dimensions of a 32" LCD widescreen. Instead the resolution is something approaching huge and the color is strangely blue tinted. It's using HD cables on the output of the card.
How, exactly, are we enemies to Free Software? I could just as well be playing the games in Windows, and not even using Linux at all. I submit bug reports, beta (and even alpha) test, though I'm not exactly the most knowledgeable person when it comes to using OSS. I donate to the projects I use, when I can. Perhaps you can help Transgaming go open source by convincing the gaming studios to use OpenGL, or petition for DirectX to be opened up. Or, better still, petition the game studios to develop for Linux? id does it, and does it well. Doom3 ran faster, natively, in Linux than it did in Windows on my machine.
On topic, kinda: I use Cedega because I'm lazy and don't mind the $5 it cost me to get a copy. I read the review linked in TFA, and I'm curious; how well does WINE play with WoW? Is it worth the (little, i'm sure) extra effort to get up and running to put that $5 towards something else the next time an upgrade comes around?
Perhaps I'm just daydreaming, but it seems to me that if the market wants what these 'pirates' are producing, wouldn't the companies being infringed upon be better off just buying them up? They could sell more, at a cheaper price and still make a huge profit. I'm not saying I'm for making the big, mean corporations bigger and meaner, but if they can't keep up with demand or sell for what people are willing to pay, then nuts to them. The products can't cost all that much to create or the 'pirates' wouldn't bother making it and selling it for 1/4 or less of it's value, unless there was a nice fat profit involved. Now, I know there's a lot of way underpaid labor, harsh working conditions, etc. I don't agree with that either, but a person has to be realistic about such things. With as many homeless or poverty stricken people in the US, the land of the fat and docile, do you expect China to be able to supply all of it's 1+ billion people with jobs that pay our equivalent to minimum wage, or jobs at all?
I'd say that as long as any of those things don't directly affect me or people I care about they can do as they wish. Yes, I've read about employers scouring the web for information on their prospective employees, but do you think they would take a MySpace page like that seriously? Especially with high schoolers posting comments, like the one the young lady posted, on it? If the place I'm applying to can't discern fact from fiction when it comes to things like that, or if they decide to listen to what some random Joe has to say about me over the phone, then I'm not so sure I'd want to be working there. How about we (Americans) suck it up and learn to take control of what our children do, instead of letting the courts do it for us. It is truly sad that we can no longer work things out among ourselves and litigate and the drop of a hat.