I wouldn't be surprised if sales of Quake 3 for windows were proportionately disapointing. With more and more companies doing GREAT 3D GAMES, the Quake series just doesn't have what it takes anymore to create the kind of demand it's first release have had.
More eye candy and impressive rendering technique is not what makes a great game and the very soon, the PC game reviewers will stop liking id's boots and begin to talk about how much fun their games really are.
Some people here have been posting that we should buy all the games that come out for Linux even if some suck. Well excuse me but I pay 70$ for a game to be entertained, not to make some company's CEO happy about how much money he made. I've bought Quake 3 for Linux because I beleived the good reviews but now I won't be buying anything from id again until I see a major revolution in the way the make games.
I'll be sure to buy Tribes 2 though!! I just bought a 1000Mhz, 256Mb RAM, Geforce2 GTS, Reh Hat 7 monster for the express purpose of playing this game on Linux!:-D
Mozilla allows you to select which cookies to block and it remembers your choices. Same thing for image. right clicking on an image gives you the choice to "block this image" so you can basically turn off banner ads on site you visit frequantly.
You know, I have never heard of IT managers that don't use software because of some company's stock valuation. The stock market is not representative of how much linux is being adopted since it's free. At best, it reflect how companies are struggling to make a profit in the Linux support buisness.
Is this an attempt at trolling or something? 3dfx has been supporting linux way before it bought STB. Get your facts straight before you post trash like this.
Hum, hello? A few months ago, I read some articles on Cnet/ZDNet about a lot of people abandoning Xeons for regular PIII because because the performance/price gap was rarely worth it. There *is* a strong market for x86 CPUs with lots of cache but prices ahve to go down because there usually are less costly alternatives.
The problem I see with Python is that it's an interpreted language so if I want to sell a binary closed source app, I can't use it.
Although I have to admit I'm not very familiar with it so if it can be compiled, then please clue me in...
You make me a shame to be a Canadian. Why must every god damned moron in this country have an inferiority complex towards the states? Grow out of it already!
That will *never* happen. The day AOL decides to charge for their IMs, MSN Messenger takes over a big chunk of it's maket share. IMs will remain freeware forever.
Hmm, I understand your point but try to tell that to most of the dictatorial regimes that maintaint most of the African continent in the feodal age. Right now thousands of children are enroled in dictatorial armies in Africa. Only an elite there can get decent access to education and rise above the brainwash and aspire to something better (which usually results in moving to Europe or America).
There isn't much of a problem in Africa that can be solved by software, free or not.
I seriously doubt the whole shebang gets compiled in one shot. I woyld geuss you'd have to compile it module by module. As for compile time, at least you're compiling on Alpha...
I really don't see what all the fuss is about. I work on a C++ commercial library and I compile the same code on g++, Visual C++ and C++ Builder. As long as you keep the implementation specific code in different files, your program is just a few #ifdef's away from being portable.
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That not what he meant. He wants to be able to use an application's *existing* functions with a scripting language. Kind of like OLE Automation does for VBA + Office.
From what I read in the mailing list, there seems to be someone working on this for Bonobo. King of like a Windows Scripting Host for GNOME.
Ho please get off your cross, if you truly read the GNOME posts, you'd see that it's full of "Qt rules, GNOME is bloated" propaganda.
One thing I noticed though is that when GNOME didn't have as much attention, most KDE folks were welcoming the competition and at the same time claiming that KDE is becoming a UNIX desktop standard. But now that the tables have turned, I expect more whiners complaining in the threads. Don't be surprised if this get moderated down.
You're right, there's nothing wrong with TrollTech charging for their toolkit but some of us like to think that it's better not to be charged when we develop commercial software to a desktop's native toolkit. GNOME is that choice.
Who would beleive that MS would actually share it's Windows source code with some other company just so that it doesn't have to do the job itself. This whole story is actually the dumbest hoax I ever read here. I mean, doesn't anyone ask themselves is maybe M$ has enough qualified staff to port it's applications to other platform? Is really sharing the source (under NDA but still) of IE, Office, and Windows with some other company the best solution they could think of to get a port of their software to Linux?
GNOME 1.2 *is* a great desktop right now. Live with it.
Sun said pretty much the same thing for Motif/CDE.. and look where that went.
CDE is not free software so the same rules don't apply.
Will KDE ever have a corporate-backed "foundation" deciding it's future?
It has had one from the start: Troll Tech pays developers to work on KDE so that it's propietary GUI tool can become a standard.
Commercial entities may sponsor development on various aspects of KDE, but they will never be allowed to decide what KDE will become
Try to ask the KDE project founder to consider changing GUI toolkits to a Free one. since he's a paid Troll Tech employee, I don't expect anything more than a niased excuse to come out of his mouth.
You're not a programmer are you? GTK is a program used by other programs called a library. It sits on top of X and it does not do the same thing. X is used to render primitives. GTK is a GUI toolkit used to display graphical widgets like drop down lists, buttons, menus, etc.
Geez, I feel embarassed about such lameness (the post you replied to) being moderated up. I hope you realize that a lot more people appreciate the work you are doing but it looks like it's much more easy to complain then to say thank you.
It's one of those days when all the Trolls get to be moderators:-(
Alexandre Leduc
I like Galeon for the simple fact the it's only a browser but it definitely needs cookie support and an option to not underline links before it can replace NS4.
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More eye candy and impressive rendering technique is not what makes a great game and the very soon, the PC game reviewers will stop liking id's boots and begin to talk about how much fun their games really are.
Some people here have been posting that we should buy all the games that come out for Linux even if some suck. Well excuse me but I pay 70$ for a game to be entertained, not to make some company's CEO happy about how much money he made. I've bought Quake 3 for Linux because I beleived the good reviews but now I won't be buying anything from id again until I see a major revolution in the way the make games.
I'll be sure to buy Tribes 2 though!! I just bought a 1000Mhz, 256Mb RAM, Geforce2 GTS, Reh Hat 7 monster for the express purpose of playing this game on Linux! :-D
Actually, Mozilla is made up mostly of Netscape engineers. You can't blame them for management decisions.
> Isn't it all that glitters is not gold?
Mozilla allows you to select which cookies to block and it remembers your choices. Same thing for image. right clicking on an image gives you the choice to "block this image" so you can basically turn off banner ads on site you visit frequantly.
Anyone of the other companies that are into Linux support. That's the beauty of it.
You know, I have never heard of IT managers that don't use software because of some company's stock valuation. The stock market is not representative of how much linux is being adopted since it's free. At best, it reflect how companies are struggling to make a profit in the Linux support buisness.
Wow! It's very cool! Man, I want a GIMP plu-in that allows me to convert images to ACSII
Well the widespread acceptance of KDE means more buisness opportunity for TrollTech, which pays some developers to develop it.
Is this an attempt at trolling or something? 3dfx has been supporting linux way before it bought STB. Get your facts straight before you post trash like this.
Hum, hello? A few months ago, I read some articles on Cnet/ZDNet about a lot of people abandoning Xeons for regular PIII because because the performance/price gap was rarely worth it. There *is* a strong market for x86 CPUs with lots of cache but prices ahve to go down because there usually are less costly alternatives.
The problem I see with Python is that it's an interpreted language so if I want to sell a binary closed source app, I can't use it. Although I have to admit I'm not very familiar with it so if it can be compiled, then please clue me in...
You make me a shame to be a Canadian. Why must every god damned moron in this country have an inferiority complex towards the states? Grow out of it already!
Hehe, of couse dude, we all have always been wondering about this. :P
That will *never* happen. The day AOL decides to charge for their IMs, MSN Messenger takes over a big chunk of it's maket share. IMs will remain freeware forever.
There isn't much of a problem in Africa that can be solved by software, free or not.
Hmm, and where would all the melted snow go? Around the driveway and it would form huge and dangerous parches of ice.
I seriously doubt the whole shebang gets compiled in one shot. I woyld geuss you'd have to compile it module by module. As for compile time, at least you're compiling on Alpha...
I really don't see what all the fuss is about. I work on a C++ commercial library and I compile the same code on g++, Visual C++ and C++ Builder. As long as you keep the implementation specific code in different files, your program is just a few #ifdef's away from being portable.
That not what he meant. He wants to be able to use an application's *existing* functions with a scripting language. Kind of like OLE Automation does for VBA + Office. From what I read in the mailing list, there seems to be someone working on this for Bonobo. King of like a Windows Scripting Host for GNOME.
One thing I noticed though is that when GNOME didn't have as much attention, most KDE folks were welcoming the competition and at the same time claiming that KDE is becoming a UNIX desktop standard. But now that the tables have turned, I expect more whiners complaining in the threads. Don't be surprised if this get moderated down.
You're right, there's nothing wrong with TrollTech charging for their toolkit but some of us like to think that it's better not to be charged when we develop commercial software to a desktop's native toolkit. GNOME is that choice.
Please people, think.
GNOME 1.2 *is* a great desktop right now. Live with it.
Sun said pretty much the same thing for Motif/CDE.. and look where that went.
CDE is not free software so the same rules don't apply.
Will KDE ever have a corporate-backed "foundation" deciding it's future?
It has had one from the start: Troll Tech pays developers to work on KDE so that it's propietary GUI tool can become a standard.
Commercial entities may sponsor development on various aspects of KDE, but they will never be allowed to decide what KDE will become
Try to ask the KDE project founder to consider changing GUI toolkits to a Free one. since he's a paid Troll Tech employee, I don't expect anything more than a niased excuse to come out of his mouth.
"by the people and for the people"
You're not a programmer are you? GTK is a program used by other programs called a library. It sits on top of X and it does not do the same thing. X is used to render primitives. GTK is a GUI toolkit used to display graphical widgets like drop down lists, buttons, menus, etc.
It's one of those days when all the Trolls get to be moderators :-(
Alexandre Leduc
I like Galeon for the simple fact the it's only a browser but it definitely needs cookie support and an option to not underline links before it can replace NS4.