This is a project that needs to shit or get off the pot.
I'm sick of having to use a crappy 3+ year old browser in linux. Based of MOTIF no less. The Mozilla project was soposed to bring the best browser of them all to every platform know to man. This was years ago.
Where is Mozilla now? It doesn't even have helper aplication support for Christ's sake. This is the broswer that the zealots scream USE MOZILLA, IE SUCKS! Internet Explorer is buggy? IE has the stability of a linux kernel compared to Mozilla.
This is a project that will never have a stable product. Why? Who the hell needs another crappy IRC client? Unstead of a stable browser, the Mozilla developers would rather work on things like an "application enviroment" and making it's own widgets. Seems like the mozilla project bought into the Mircosoft idea that the browser will be the OS. Like they will be the leaders in some sort of open sourced.NET project.
Linux needs a decent broswer TODAY. I've already known people that have tried linux, and gave it up because there wasn't a decent broswer. It's hard to use IE 5.5, and then take two steps back and use Netscape 4 on linux.
So the Mozilla project needs to shit or get off the pot. If they aren't going to realse a BROWSER anytime in the near future(and looking at their rodemap, they aren't) We need to rally behind a project(like Konquror, or Nautalis*) and just forget about Mozilla and leave it rot.
*Nautalis using the only decent thing to come out of the whole Mozilla project, Gekko
John Carmack said it best when he refered to Nvidia's XFree 4.0 situation. In a nutshell is said that most linux users want a good working driver over an open-sourced one. That's something I tend to agree with.
If it's a GOOD driver, I don't have any problem using a binary driver. The problem comes in most cases when it's not a very good driver to begin with, adn poorly supported. I'll use the SB Live! drivers before they were open as an example.
They released so-so binary only drivers. They also weren't updated. Which leaves a big hole in even the number of people that can even use it. Drivers have to be compiled for every kernel version, and SMP versions. Creative assumed everyone ran a stock RedHat 6.1 install, and just forgot about everyone else. Although I aplaud Crative's opening their drivers, I would have been happy with closed source drivers that did everything their Windows counterparts do(read Liveware 4.0).
Most dont' want drivers open so they can hack them and make them better. As the case with my Live!, I couldn't even USE them unless I had the source. Since they just supported the 2.2.12 kernel that's on a stock RedHat 6.1 install, I had to re-compile it for 2.2.13-SMP.
So my point being. If it's a WELL SUPPORT DRIVER, most will use it, and like using it. The driver has to be kept right in line with everything your Windows drivers will do, and the same preformance. You also have to release a version for all the recient kernel versions. If it's some crappy hack like what Creative tossed out there before they opened their driver, that's when you'll get the backlash.
1) There is a pretty good majority that want Windows only games in their own catagory. Windows only games are something that's mentioned alot and there should be it's own icon. Picture of a Sidewinder maybe, or that "pc cd-rom" symbol that is on Windows game packaging. Quake has it's own section, other specialized things have their own. The same should hold true for Windows only games such as Diablo 2.
2) Nice to hear the vast majority of the Slashdot crowd supporting Windows only games. What better way to show that you want Linux ports of games then ot rush out and get Windows games the day they come out.
I respect that people run Windows and they buy games for their platform. But most of us run linux, FreeBSD, etc. and want games for OUR os. But most don't back up our words with our pocket books and rush out and buy games on the first day that will never see the light of day on anything else but Windows.
Do I have "sour grapes" over what games are avaliable for Linux over Windows? No. I'm happy with Sim City 3k Unlimted, Solider of Fortune, Quake 3, Unreal Tourney, and the load of other fine games that will apear on shelves for linux this year. These are the games that will get my gaming dollars.
All those that support Windows gaming will get a reward. It will be more Windows games. My reward for supporting Linux games is that there will be many ohter Linux games to purchase. Most of the slashdot readership WANTS more linux ports of games. Show that support by not buying Windows only games, and spend it on a game for your platform.
Most people tend to then "if Quicken doesn't run thouse wine, then it won't run". That's not the case. Executor has been running Quicken for MacOS for many moons.
ARDI has beed selling their Linux version for $75 that INCLUDES the MacOS version of Quicken, and says if has full compatbility, with the execption of the online banking options.
No, I don't work for ARDI, or to tell the truth, own Executor. But if GNUCash doesn't quite float your boat, and are stuck in Windows for the sole fact of Quicken, this wouldn't be a bad program to try. And at only $75 including Quicken, not a bad deal. I just don't want to see people not use linux, because they don't know that Quicken will run in linux, and that's the only program that's keeping them in Windows.
Also on a site note, I do use GNUCash. It's served me well in managing what little money a lowly student can make =) I'd give GNUCash a try before you fork over the $75 to run Quicken though Executor.
nifty little program called lm_sensors. Lm_sensors...not just for cpu temp monitoring anymore =)
you can get lm_sensors here you will also need the i2c package they have there. Screw RTFM, and just make and make install to the i2c source, then make and make install to the lm_sensors source. The default install is what you want, to compile everything as kernel modules and put them into/lib/modules/2.2.16. Then depmod -a
Now, just modprobe i2c-voodoo3, and modprobe bt869. Now, when you are in X, you can use the TV out. But wait...it's all static, how do I get it to work?
You need to add NTSC modelines into you XF86Config. there are as follows
Now, what I did was make my 640x480 Modeline NTSC all the time. That way, I could activate it by just a ctrl-alt-(+/-), and then programs like snes9x will automaticly use that 640x480, and be in NTSC mode. Remember, if you don't change your normal 640x480 modelines to the NTSC, and want to use them as is, put 640x480NTSC into your "screen" section of your XF86Config file. And also, as always, restart X after you change your config
Use the skined interface. I tried the gtk one, and it was nothing but problems. No fullscreen, aobut a 50/50 chance the movie would even load, horrible sync, etc.
Changed to the skined interface, and it was like night and day. Can do fullscreen, the sync problems went away, and it was interesting to see The Matrix trailer playing full screen thought my V3 3k's TV out =)
from my understanding of it, AIM has two protocols. Oscar, and TOC.
TOC is what AOL had all the docs for, and what thier TiK client used. It's also what gaim uses to communicate with.TOC basicly being a "front-end" so to speak for the real protocol
Oscar is their closed protocol they use for their own official clients. Probably better then TOC, I'm not sure on the specifics, hopefully others will post. This has NEVER been open, and subject to change. I'm sure all gaim users remember a couple weeks ago, when they changed to login sequence and we couldn't get in for a few days until the gaim guys figured out how they changed it.
If it's just TOC they are re-releasing, then it's not much more then all the info that's already out there. If it's Oscar, then it should let all clents such as gaim, and even the un-offical icq clients, like licq and gnomeicq, to intergrate AIM support.
But I have a feeling it's TOC, and not Oscar they are going to open up. Hopefully others will post and set all the technical details straight.
If you're a MacOS oriented house, I'd assume you are going to support OS X. With the unix nature of OS X, I'd assume a GTK would be fairly easy to port, if not already done.
There is also GTK for Windows. I'm not sure how well the port is done, but if it's good enough for Mozilla......
The cross-platform nature of GTK is why Mozilla had the exact same look and feel across platforms. I'm not sure how well it would work for you, but it's something to look into.
The real problem here with these kinds of things isn't just Outlook. Or just moronic users.
The whole security system in Win9x is flawed. Windows9x was never intended to be on a network. Win98 is just a rehashed version of Win95, wich is just a rehashed Win 3.1. Single user OS's that had "root" access everywhere were fine in the early and mid '90s. That's not the case anymore. Now that everyone is hooked up to the itnernet, and other people have access to these single-user OS's such as Win9x. it's didn't matter that you had "root" back in the day, you were the only one using the system. Now many people can run code on you computer. Be it a vbs, java, etc.
A *nix variant doesn't have this problem. Unix was deigned with networks and network security in mind for over 30+ years. I couldn't if I tried to screw up my system like these vbs files do to Windows computers.
Even Win2k security is lax. For instance, how many times does a typical linux install(be it Redhat, Debian, or anything else) go "DON'T USE ROOT AS A USER!" and foces you to make a regular user account? Now look at Win2k's installation, that gives you your user name with admin. privs.
If Microsoft really wants to stop stuff like this, they need update their entire network security model to the 21st century....or at least the 1970's. Windows9x was not designed to be on a network. That's the reason it has no security. "access zones" and what have you in programs like Outlook are just a cheap hack to hide the real problem of the Windows security model. The problem being, it wasn't designed to have one.
I'm like a alot of people that read slasdhot. We don't run Windows, or care about Windows-only games. This isn't a flame saying that "blah Windows sucks", but myself, and alot of other readers don't run it. We also don't care about games that are Windows-only, and will never see linux versions.
I think it's time for a new icon for Windows-only games. Maybe Gates holding a sidewinder or something. I would LIKE to filter out Windows-only game articles, but it just falls under "games", and I'd miss stuff I'd want to read.
It's also another opinion of mine, that Slashdot shouldn't be giving free good publicity to a company like Blizzard, that has pretty much given free-software and the whole linux community the finger. Does that mean not reporting on certain things Blizzard does, or only the bad? No, but you also don't have to treat Diablo 2 like it's the second comming of Jesus either.
I'll step off my Blizzard bashing soapbox, but this opionion of "WIndows sucks, but it's ok when Diabalo 2 comes out, and I don't care if it only runs on Windows" is so hypocritical, it's not funny. That very idea is why you don't see more games in linux. Why go though the trouble of making a linux version if the vast majority of linux users are willing to keep Windows around and buy Windows versions of games?
Perl is Perl, expecially for what the Camel book covers. That book will be the staple of every programing library for years to come =)
It's the same as you can go out and get a 5 year old book on C and start. The basics never change. And alot of the info in the camel book actually refers you to sepecific perl man pages, so some of the information it refers to is only as out of date as your man pages are.
So needless to say, your money is still well invested.
This government thing is HUGE...it goes all the way to the president!!!
Good...weeded out the idiot day traders
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When you don't investigate EVERY company you want to buy stock in, it's a gamble. These gambling day traders, trying to hop on the next big IPO inflated the market so much, that a huge correction was going to happen.
I don't feel sorry for the people that lost thier shirt one bit. People that invested in "dotcom" stocks that never had any good business plan, never any proftis, never any THOUGHT of profits, just some spiffy URL, deserved what they got when the bottom fell out. And for the people that lost big on Microsoft. If you couldn't see this drop coming months ago, you also deserved to lose what you did. A fool and their money are soon parted.
What happened was, these day traders started to realize that when the ruling came out, and these companies that depended on Microsoft started to drop with Microsoft, they realized that the market isn't some sort of game anymore, where their account balance was bragged about like a high score on Galaga. Those numbers they saw on e-trade, etc. was their retirement going down the shitter, and it scared the hell out of them. So the same jabronis that inflated the market with idiot buying, took it back down with idiot selling.
So I say good for them, maybe now they will realize that trading is just not hopping on the next big thing, and gambling your money away. It's something left to people that know every little company like the back of their hand, the brokers. If brokerage fees are something you have to worry about, you shoulnd't be in the market to begin with.
Not flamebait, just an observation..... Why does anyone even care?
For a movie that most/.'ers couldn't stand to watch, sure are making a big fuss about not being able to get it on DVD. For a movie that's as bad as it soposedly it(from posts when the movie was out in theaters), why would you care two pieces of monkey crap if it ever came out on DVD. Or can Lucas put shit in a handbag, toss a "Star Wars" label on it, and it's suddenly a must buy?
Look at the praise this is getting. 3/4 of the slashdot community is drooling over a Windows game they want to pre-order. If they get your money with a Windows version, why bother with linux? Knowing damn well most of you would never buy a Linux version when you went out and got the Windows version. Which isn't TOTALLY your fault, you shouldn't have to buy a Windows version in the first place.
If a company doesn't want to support my OS, why should I have to change to run their products? If they want my $50, they will have a linux port. I'm not going to install Win98 because I get some goofy soundtrack, a pretty box, and a "special edition" of a Windows version. It's just a little candy the big boys get to keep most of you would be linux version buyers happy with the Windows version. Same people that will by this, are the same people that don't mind their rights are being violated buy the MPAA, and buy DVDs because they look pretty. Yet they will bitch and moan about CSS until the cows come home, when it doesn't affect them because they already sold out to the MPAA.
So Blizzard, keep you pretty-ed up Windows version, we don't want it. We want a game that will run on our computers and on our OS. If you won't support us, we won't support you.
It's been reported on MANY sites, like slashdot and linuxgames.com that you are porting games such as Soilder of Forutne, Sim City 3000, among others. Tuxgames.com is even taking pre-orders for these games. Yet there is nothing on your website about relase dates, or even that you are doing anything with these games at all.
Are these just rumors that got out of hand? Or are you in fact porting these games? If so, why is there no mention on your website about release info, demos, screenshots, etc.?
I'm excited to see such games get ported to linux, but when in comes to facts, I like to hear it from the horse's mouth. It just seems kinda odd that many trustworty sites report this info, and no mention is mentioned on the one place it should be, lokigames.com
How hard would it to put a word ignore in our prefrences? With defautls of "Natalie Portman", "hot grits" and "beowulf", and an excessive caps ignore? If a post contains any of the words, it doesn't get displayed, regardless of the score.
Then I could read the couple decent AC posts without having to read at +2 and hoping some poort sap that reads at 0 or 1 moderates them up.
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This is a project that needs to shit or get off the pot.
.NET project.
I'm sick of having to use a crappy 3+ year old browser in linux. Based of MOTIF no less. The Mozilla project was soposed to bring the best browser of them all to every platform know to man. This was years ago.
Where is Mozilla now? It doesn't even have helper aplication support for Christ's sake. This is the broswer that the zealots scream USE MOZILLA, IE SUCKS! Internet Explorer is buggy? IE has the stability of a linux kernel compared to Mozilla.
This is a project that will never have a stable product. Why? Who the hell needs another crappy IRC client? Unstead of a stable browser, the Mozilla developers would rather work on things like an "application enviroment" and making it's own widgets. Seems like the mozilla project bought into the Mircosoft idea that the browser will be the OS. Like they will be the leaders in some sort of open sourced
Linux needs a decent broswer TODAY. I've already known people that have tried linux, and gave it up because there wasn't a decent broswer. It's hard to use IE 5.5, and then take two steps back and use Netscape 4 on linux.
So the Mozilla project needs to shit or get off the pot. If they aren't going to realse a BROWSER anytime in the near future(and looking at their rodemap, they aren't) We need to rally behind a project(like Konquror, or Nautalis*) and just forget about Mozilla and leave it rot.
*Nautalis using the only decent thing to come out of the whole Mozilla project, Gekko
John Carmack said it best when he refered to Nvidia's XFree 4.0 situation. In a nutshell is said that most linux users want a good working driver over an open-sourced one. That's something I tend to agree with.
If it's a GOOD driver, I don't have any problem using a binary driver. The problem comes in most cases when it's not a very good driver to begin with, adn poorly supported. I'll use the SB Live! drivers before they were open as an example.
They released so-so binary only drivers. They also weren't updated. Which leaves a big hole in even the number of people that can even use it. Drivers have to be compiled for every kernel version, and SMP versions. Creative assumed everyone ran a stock RedHat 6.1 install, and just forgot about everyone else. Although I aplaud Crative's opening their drivers, I would have been happy with closed source drivers that did everything their Windows counterparts do(read Liveware 4.0).
Most dont' want drivers open so they can hack them and make them better. As the case with my Live!, I couldn't even USE them unless I had the source. Since they just supported the 2.2.12 kernel that's on a stock RedHat 6.1 install, I had to re-compile it for 2.2.13-SMP.
So my point being. If it's a WELL SUPPORT DRIVER, most will use it, and like using it. The driver has to be kept right in line with everything your Windows drivers will do, and the same preformance. You also have to release a version for all the recient kernel versions. If it's some crappy hack like what Creative tossed out there before they opened their driver, that's when you'll get the backlash.
Two points I want to make.
1) There is a pretty good majority that want Windows only games in their own catagory. Windows only games are something that's mentioned alot and there should be it's own icon. Picture of a Sidewinder maybe, or that "pc cd-rom" symbol that is on Windows game packaging. Quake has it's own section, other specialized things have their own. The same should hold true for Windows only games such as Diablo 2.
2) Nice to hear the vast majority of the Slashdot crowd supporting Windows only games. What better way to show that you want Linux ports of games then ot rush out and get Windows games the day they come out.
I respect that people run Windows and they buy games for their platform. But most of us run linux, FreeBSD, etc. and want games for OUR os. But most don't back up our words with our pocket books and rush out and buy games on the first day that will never see the light of day on anything else but Windows.
Do I have "sour grapes" over what games are avaliable for Linux over Windows? No. I'm happy with Sim City 3k Unlimted, Solider of Fortune, Quake 3, Unreal Tourney, and the load of other fine games that will apear on shelves for linux this year. These are the games that will get my gaming dollars.
All those that support Windows gaming will get a reward. It will be more Windows games. My reward for supporting Linux games is that there will be many ohter Linux games to purchase. Most of the slashdot readership WANTS more linux ports of games. Show that support by not buying Windows only games, and spend it on a game for your platform.
Most people tend to then "if Quicken doesn't run thouse wine, then it won't run". That's not the case. Executor has been running Quicken for MacOS for many moons.
ARDI has beed selling their Linux version for $75 that INCLUDES the MacOS version of Quicken, and says if has full compatbility, with the execption of the online banking options.
No, I don't work for ARDI, or to tell the truth, own Executor. But if GNUCash doesn't quite float your boat, and are stuck in Windows for the sole fact of Quicken, this wouldn't be a bad program to try. And at only $75 including Quicken, not a bad deal. I just don't want to see people not use linux, because they don't know that Quicken will run in linux, and that's the only program that's keeping them in Windows.
Also on a site note, I do use GNUCash. It's served me well in managing what little money a lowly student can make =) I'd give GNUCash a try before you fork over the $75 to run Quicken though Executor.
Some British company, and some goofy story about how they are going to use patents to destory the web in their attempt to own it.
Thought I was reading The Register for a second =)
nifty little program called lm_sensors. Lm_sensors...not just for cpu temp monitoring anymore =)
you can get lm_sensors here you will also need the i2c package they have there. Screw RTFM, and just make and make install to the i2c source, then make and make install to the lm_sensors source. The default install is what you want, to compile everything as kernel modules and put them into /lib/modules/2.2.16. Then depmod -a
Now, just modprobe i2c-voodoo3, and modprobe bt869. Now, when you are in X, you can use the TV out. But wait...it's all static, how do I get it to work?
You need to add NTSC modelines into you XF86Config. there are as follows
ModeLine "640x480NTSC" 28.195793 640 656 658 784 480 520 525 600
ModeLine "800x600NTSC" 38.769241 800 812 814 880 600 646 649 735
and for all you PAL people (poor saps (^_^) )
ModeLine "640x480PAL" 29.50 640 675 678 944 480 530 535 625
ModeLine "800x600PAL" 36.00 800 818 820 960 600 653 655 750
Now, what I did was make my 640x480 Modeline NTSC all the time. That way, I could activate it by just a ctrl-alt-(+/-), and then programs like snes9x will automaticly use that 640x480, and be in NTSC mode. Remember, if you don't change your normal 640x480 modelines to the NTSC, and want to use them as is, put 640x480NTSC into your "screen" section of your XF86Config file. And also, as always, restart X after you change your config
That's it, have fun =)
Just a quick comment:
Use the skined interface. I tried the gtk one, and it was nothing but problems. No fullscreen, aobut a 50/50 chance the movie would even load, horrible sync, etc.
Changed to the skined interface, and it was like night and day. Can do fullscreen, the sync problems went away, and it was interesting to see The Matrix trailer playing full screen thought my V3 3k's TV out =)
So when you try this, use the skined interface =)
from my understanding of it, AIM has two protocols. Oscar, and TOC.
TOC is what AOL had all the docs for, and what thier TiK client used. It's also what gaim uses to communicate with.TOC basicly being a "front-end" so to speak for the real protocol
Oscar is their closed protocol they use for their own official clients. Probably better then TOC, I'm not sure on the specifics, hopefully others will post. This has NEVER been open, and subject to change. I'm sure all gaim users remember a couple weeks ago, when they changed to login sequence and we couldn't get in for a few days until the gaim guys figured out how they changed it.
If it's just TOC they are re-releasing, then it's not much more then all the info that's already out there. If it's Oscar, then it should let all clents such as gaim, and even the un-offical icq clients, like licq and gnomeicq, to intergrate AIM support.
But I have a feeling it's TOC, and not Oscar they are going to open up. Hopefully others will post and set all the technical details straight.
If you're a MacOS oriented house, I'd assume you are going to support OS X. With the unix nature of OS X, I'd assume a GTK would be fairly easy to port, if not already done.
There is also GTK for Windows. I'm not sure how well the port is done, but if it's good enough for Mozilla......
The cross-platform nature of GTK is why Mozilla had the exact same look and feel across platforms. I'm not sure how well it would work for you, but it's something to look into.
That comment made me thing of this question:
Is it a good sign that a major update to my operating system is delayed because someone went on vacation?
I guess if one vice president(Al Gore) can invent the internet, another vice president(Dan Qualye) must have taught alot of /.'ers how to spell.
It's potato, not potatoe =)
The real problem here with these kinds of things isn't just Outlook. Or just moronic users.
The whole security system in Win9x is flawed. Windows9x was never intended to be on a network. Win98 is just a rehashed version of Win95, wich is just a rehashed Win 3.1. Single user OS's that had "root" access everywhere were fine in the early and mid '90s. That's not the case anymore. Now that everyone is hooked up to the itnernet, and other people have access to these single-user OS's such as Win9x. it's didn't matter that you had "root" back in the day, you were the only one using the system. Now many people can run code on you computer. Be it a vbs, java, etc.
A *nix variant doesn't have this problem. Unix was deigned with networks and network security in mind for over 30+ years. I couldn't if I tried to screw up my system like these vbs files do to Windows computers.
Even Win2k security is lax. For instance, how many times does a typical linux install(be it Redhat, Debian, or anything else) go "DON'T USE ROOT AS A USER!" and foces you to make a regular user account? Now look at Win2k's installation, that gives you your user name with admin. privs.
If Microsoft really wants to stop stuff like this, they need update their entire network security model to the 21st century....or at least the 1970's. Windows9x was not designed to be on a network. That's the reason it has no security. "access zones" and what have you in programs like Outlook are just a cheap hack to hide the real problem of the Windows security model. The problem being, it wasn't designed to have one.
Isn't this what Homer Simpson tried to push the Springfield Nuclear Powerplant to do when he grew hair and became an executive?
I'm like a alot of people that read slasdhot. We don't run Windows, or care about Windows-only games. This isn't a flame saying that "blah Windows sucks", but myself, and alot of other readers don't run it. We also don't care about games that are Windows-only, and will never see linux versions.
I think it's time for a new icon for Windows-only games. Maybe Gates holding a sidewinder or something. I would LIKE to filter out Windows-only game articles, but it just falls under "games", and I'd miss stuff I'd want to read.
It's also another opinion of mine, that Slashdot shouldn't be giving free good publicity to a company like Blizzard, that has pretty much given free-software and the whole linux community the finger. Does that mean not reporting on certain things Blizzard does, or only the bad? No, but you also don't have to treat Diablo 2 like it's the second comming of Jesus either.
I'll step off my Blizzard bashing soapbox, but this opionion of "WIndows sucks, but it's ok when Diabalo 2 comes out, and I don't care if it only runs on Windows" is so hypocritical, it's not funny. That very idea is why you don't see more games in linux. Why go though the trouble of making a linux version if the vast majority of linux users are willing to keep Windows around and buy Windows versions of games?
Nope.
Perl is Perl, expecially for what the Camel book covers. That book will be the staple of every programing library for years to come =)
It's the same as you can go out and get a 5 year old book on C and start. The basics never change. And alot of the info in the camel book actually refers you to sepecific perl man pages, so some of the information it refers to is only as out of date as your man pages are.
So needless to say, your money is still well invested.
/. effect? Or a vast conspiracy?
This government thing is HUGE...it goes all the way to the president!!!
When you don't investigate EVERY company you want to buy stock in, it's a gamble. These gambling day traders, trying to hop on the next big IPO inflated the market so much, that a huge correction was going to happen.
I don't feel sorry for the people that lost thier shirt one bit. People that invested in "dotcom" stocks that never had any good business plan, never any proftis, never any THOUGHT of profits, just some spiffy URL, deserved what they got when the bottom fell out. And for the people that lost big on Microsoft. If you couldn't see this drop coming months ago, you also deserved to lose what you did. A fool and their money are soon parted.
What happened was, these day traders started to realize that when the ruling came out, and these companies that depended on Microsoft started to drop with Microsoft, they realized that the market isn't some sort of game anymore, where their account balance was bragged about like a high score on Galaga. Those numbers they saw on e-trade, etc. was their retirement going down the shitter, and it scared the hell out of them. So the same jabronis that inflated the market with idiot buying, took it back down with idiot selling.
So I say good for them, maybe now they will realize that trading is just not hopping on the next big thing, and gambling your money away. It's something left to people that know every little company like the back of their hand, the brokers. If brokerage fees are something you have to worry about, you shoulnd't be in the market to begin with.
Not flamebait, just an observation.....
/.'ers couldn't stand to watch, sure are making a big fuss about not being able to get it on DVD. For a movie that's as bad as it soposedly it(from posts when the movie was out in theaters), why would you care two pieces of monkey crap if it ever came out on DVD. Or can Lucas put shit in a handbag, toss a "Star Wars" label on it, and it's suddenly a must buy?
Why does anyone even care?
For a movie that most
This sounded like something really cool to get, if for no other reason then to have it.
But, they don't sell them =( Maybe someone will pick up the ball and make them?
does this mean we can stop going Micro$oft and start saying Ci$co?
that an anti-website group has their own website?
Look at the praise this is getting. 3/4 of the slashdot community is drooling over a Windows game they want to pre-order. If they get your money with a Windows version, why bother with linux? Knowing damn well most of you would never buy a Linux version when you went out and got the
Windows version. Which isn't TOTALLY your fault, you shouldn't have to buy a Windows version in the first place.
If a company doesn't want to support my OS, why should I have to change to run their products? If they want my $50, they will have a linux port. I'm not going to install Win98 because I get some goofy soundtrack, a pretty box, and a "special edition" of a Windows version. It's just a little candy the big boys get to keep most of you would be linux version buyers happy with the Windows version. Same people that will by this, are the same people that don't mind their rights are being violated buy the MPAA, and buy DVDs because they look pretty. Yet they will bitch and moan about CSS until the cows come home, when it doesn't affect them because they already sold out to the MPAA.
So Blizzard, keep you pretty-ed up Windows version, we don't want it. We want a game that will run on our computers and on our OS. If you won't support us, we won't support you.
It's been reported on MANY sites, like slashdot and linuxgames.com that you are porting games such as Soilder of Forutne, Sim City 3000, among others. Tuxgames.com is even taking pre-orders for these games. Yet there is nothing on your website about relase dates, or even that you are doing anything with these games at all.
Are these just rumors that got out of hand? Or are you in fact porting these games? If so, why is there no mention on your website about release info, demos, screenshots, etc.?
I'm excited to see such games get ported to linux, but when in comes to facts, I like to hear it from the horse's mouth. It just seems kinda odd that many trustworty sites report this info, and no mention is mentioned on the one place it should be, lokigames.com
How hard would it to put a word ignore in our prefrences? With defautls of "Natalie Portman", "hot grits" and "beowulf", and an excessive caps ignore? If a post contains any of the words, it doesn't get displayed, regardless of the score.
Then I could read the couple decent AC posts without having to read at +2 and hoping some poort sap that reads at 0 or 1 moderates them up.
The 3D filemanager as seen on Jurrasic Park. THAT'S what I want to see open-sourced =)