Fly! is the one I want. It also has an SDK that allows people to develop addons for it like MSFS. In terms of actual simulation, it knocks the wind out of MSFS with its fully functional panels. All that for almost half the price!
Go visit the Fly! website, drool a little, and then bug the developers about making a version for Linux!
I downloaded the demo for the original Quake, and it made me so sick, that I wrote off the possibility of buying it. I didn't even try Quake 2.
For some reason, though, I decided I'd sit through the download and try Quake 3. It has so much more motion than Quake, and yet doesn't make me queasy. Could it be the increased amount of wide open spaces?
I can see how a virtual motion device may be helpful in Quake, but would proabably be downright brutal in Quake 3 (see my "Q3A tier 6" message below).
Please DON'T make this thing work with Quake 3. I can already see myself clinging to the floor for dear life on Q3DM19...
Mr disco was in the wrong place.
AAAAHHH!!!!
And what happens if I use a teleport while I'm falling? The blow involved in the transition from free fall to standing on solid groud would probably knock me unconscious...
On the other hand, it brings new meaning to force feedback. I'd actually have to moderate my use of the rocket launcher.
I think it would be wonderful if they open-sourced the OS.
Unfortunately for them, however, I don't think it would be of much benefit. 30 million lines of buggy code does not sound like an appealing project to work on.
What would probably end up happening is someone would port the APIs and some of the drivers to Linux and that would be the end of that.
On the other hand, encrypted credit card packets have the potential to be seen by a whole lot more eyes than the credit card you hand to your waiter...
That analogy isn't as good as one might think by the way it was presented.
I've been a stickler for Red Hat for a while now, and their latest graphical installer really disappointed me. The older ncurses-based version always worked well for me. However, this new gtk installer didn't do anything I asked it to do.
It wouldn't set the correct LILO default partition. If I picked the DOS partition as default, it would still default to the Linux boot partition.
The X setup simply wouldn't work. I had to run Xconfigurator or restore my old XF86Config file.
When choosing packages to install, many of the packages that should've been checked by default weren't checked... but they installed anyway. This made it difficult to tell which packages were truly selected to be installed.
I hope Mandrake's installer doesn't suffer from similar problems. I never had any problems with Red Hat until 6.1.
If the stock is made more accessible, then smaller investors are more likely to buy it, thus making it more attractive. Granted, it's not much, but it can drive the price up slightly. Also, splitting is a sign that the stock price has gone up considerably, and thus is doing well.
Free TV is free as in beer, but not free as in speech... i.e. I don't have to pay for it, but I can't put my own show on it unless I kiss some big-wig's ass or shell out big bucks.
The Internet is free as in speech, but not free as in beer... i.e. I can put up my own page that can be accessed just as easily as anyone else's (the Internet's most important quality), but I have to pay for access.
But... Mozilla IS free. Unless you're one of those who subscribes to the view that it's not free unless it's GPL. Other than Netscape and KDE, does Red Hat Linux have any non-free packages on its freely-distributable CD?
I think this just goes to show that having a big public voice like you do, Bruce, is a big responsibility. When you talk, everyone listens. That is, of course, a sign of your credibility and a result of your accomplishments. However, that could also be your credibility's worst enemy. You've done a lot to further the cause of free software, and we respect you for that. However, it's not us you need to impress anymore. You're becoming a major player in the software industry, and with that comes the responsibility of knowing that everything you say in a public forum is a press release.
What about ARPANet? This started as a telephone connection between two DEC PDP's and eventually evolved into what we're communicating with right now.
Then, of course, there's the tons of hacks that were put together so normal people could use it, like sendmail, BIND, etc...
The IBM PC probably qualifies as a top hack, as well, seeing as it was just thrown together to compete with Apple, yet people are still using them (and their descendants) to this day.
Hm... Also keep in mind Thomas Edison, one of the great hackers of all time, and his ideas of electric light and recorded sound, both of which were truly simple ideas (just about anyone can build a wax phonograph or a light bulb, given the right materials). Yet, both ideas created entire industries around them and changed the world as we know it. Notice, I didn't credit him with the motion picture, but that one probably qualifies as well.
Also, in the tradition of Menlo Park, Xerox PARC came up with some hacks of their own, including the desktop computer before it existed in the real world, ethernet, word processing, object-oriented programming, GUI/mouse computing, and the laser printer -- the one thing Xerox actually liked.
Of course there's countless others that are too numerous to list, but changed the course of history.
Medeival monks invented mechanical clocks to get them up on time for their morning prayers, and our time has been divided up into tiny units ever since.
The Wright brothers threw together some wood and fabric and made a contraption that took them off the ground for 12 seconds. Since then, the world has been constantly shrinking.
I'm a big music buff, so I think the Minimoog synthesizer qualifies as a top hack, since it made electronic music portable and affordable, and for the first time available at musical instrument shops, where actual musicians went.
Anyway, those are just a few suggestions for the list...
It's kinda funny to see MS say the same things we've been preaching at them for years. It makes me wonder what their real intentions are. However, as much as I like seeing MS's unscrupulous tactics backfire on them, I still think AOL is wrong on this one, and I have since the beginning of this whole mess. Most people (at least on this forum) are vehemently anti-Microsoft, and I am, too, to an extent. However, I think AOL has contributed more negativity to the computing industry. They've censored the internet, exposed security holes to client information, and devoured and squandered Netscape, which offered the only real competition to IE5. It kinda makes you wonder if the Netscape buyout was a deal with MS. Would you rather have Windows as your only option for an OS, or AOL as your only option of an ISP? I wish they would both drop off the face of the earth.
Not so fast... IEEE-1394 can only do about 50MB/s max so far. USB-2 is supposed to be a little faster but not much. Current USB-1 only does 1.5MB/s
I prefer my 528MB/s AGP slot for video, thanks.
IEEE-1394 and USB-2 do show promise for other traditionally card-based interfaces like telephony, audio and low-end networking. It's not quite fast enough to kill PCI (132MB/s bus) just yet, though.
USB-1 is still only half the throughput of ECP parallel, so it's not really viable for networking or other medium bandwidth applications. So far, it's been pretty successful at becoming the new printer/scanner port. My Zip drive is staying on my parallel port for now, though. Wait for USB-2 before connecting drives to it.
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Fly! is the one I want. It also has an SDK that allows people to develop addons for it like MSFS. In terms of actual simulation, it knocks the wind out of MSFS with its fully functional panels. All that for almost half the price!
Go visit the Fly! website, drool a little, and then bug the developers about making a version for Linux!
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I downloaded the demo for the original Quake, and it made me so sick, that I wrote off the possibility of buying it. I didn't even try Quake 2.
For some reason, though, I decided I'd sit through the download and try Quake 3. It has so much more motion than Quake, and yet doesn't make me queasy. Could it be the increased amount of wide open spaces?
I can see how a virtual motion device may be helpful in Quake, but would proabably be downright brutal in Quake 3 (see my "Q3A tier 6" message below).
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Mr disco was in the wrong place.
AAAAHHH!!!!
And what happens if I use a teleport while I'm falling? The blow involved in the transition from free fall to standing on solid groud would probably knock me unconscious...
On the other hand, it brings new meaning to force feedback. I'd actually have to moderate my use of the rocket launcher.
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So, when will I be able to play Quake III on my TNT2???
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Unfortunately for them, however, I don't think it would be of much benefit. 30 million lines of buggy code does not sound like an appealing project to work on.
What would probably end up happening is someone would port the APIs and some of the drivers to Linux and that would be the end of that.
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Security on open source products like Apache and Linux work for precisely that reason. They DO trust the end-users to solve their security problems.
"Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" -- Linus' law (as dubbed by Eric S Raymond)
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That analogy isn't as good as one might think by the way it was presented.
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It wouldn't set the correct LILO default partition. If I picked the DOS partition as default, it would still default to the Linux boot partition.
The X setup simply wouldn't work. I had to run Xconfigurator or restore my old XF86Config file.
When choosing packages to install, many of the packages that should've been checked by default weren't checked... but they installed anyway. This made it difficult to tell which packages were truly selected to be installed.
I hope Mandrake's installer doesn't suffer from similar problems. I never had any problems with Red Hat until 6.1.
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Free as in beer = gratis; no price tag
Free as in speech = unencumbered; open
Free TV is free as in beer, but not free as in speech... i.e. I don't have to pay for it, but I can't put my own show on it unless I kiss some big-wig's ass or shell out big bucks.
The Internet is free as in speech, but not free as in beer... i.e. I can put up my own page that can be accessed just as easily as anyone else's (the Internet's most important quality), but I have to pay for access.
I could be wrong, but I think as long as network TV remains completely free (as in beer), it'll stick around for a while.
Online streaming media still requires an internet connection.
I'm going to patent the process of surfing the web using a mouse.
Start learning those keyboard shortcuts, fellas!
But... Mozilla IS free. Unless you're one of those who subscribes to the view that it's not free unless it's GPL. Other than Netscape and KDE, does Red Hat Linux have any non-free packages on its freely-distributable CD?
I think this just goes to show that having a big public voice like you do, Bruce, is a big responsibility. When you talk, everyone listens. That is, of course, a sign of your credibility and a result of your accomplishments. However, that could also be your credibility's worst enemy. You've done a lot to further the cause of free software, and we respect you for that. However, it's not us you need to impress anymore. You're becoming a major player in the software industry, and with that comes the responsibility of knowing that everything you say in a public forum is a press release.
What about ARPANet? This started as a telephone connection between two DEC PDP's and eventually evolved into what we're communicating with right now.
Then, of course, there's the tons of hacks that were put together so normal people could use it, like sendmail, BIND, etc...
The IBM PC probably qualifies as a top hack, as well, seeing as it was just thrown together to compete with Apple, yet people are still using them (and their descendants) to this day.
Hm... Also keep in mind Thomas Edison, one of the great hackers of all time, and his ideas of electric light and recorded sound, both of which were truly simple ideas (just about anyone can build a wax phonograph or a light bulb, given the right materials). Yet, both ideas created entire industries around them and changed the world as we know it. Notice, I didn't credit him with the motion picture, but that one probably qualifies as well.
Also, in the tradition of Menlo Park, Xerox PARC came up with some hacks of their own, including the desktop computer before it existed in the real world, ethernet, word processing, object-oriented programming, GUI/mouse computing, and the laser printer -- the one thing Xerox actually liked.
Of course there's countless others that are too numerous to list, but changed the course of history.
Medeival monks invented mechanical clocks to get them up on time for their morning prayers, and our time has been divided up into tiny units ever since.
The Wright brothers threw together some wood and fabric and made a contraption that took them off the ground for 12 seconds. Since then, the world has been constantly shrinking.
I'm a big music buff, so I think the Minimoog synthesizer qualifies as a top hack, since it made electronic music portable and affordable, and for the first time available at musical instrument shops, where actual musicians went.
Anyway, those are just a few suggestions for the list...
It's kinda funny to see MS say the same things we've been preaching at them for years. It makes me wonder what their real intentions are. However, as much as I like seeing MS's unscrupulous tactics backfire on them, I still think AOL is wrong on this one, and I have since the beginning of this whole mess. Most people (at least on this forum) are vehemently anti-Microsoft, and I am, too, to an extent. However, I think AOL has contributed more negativity to the computing industry. They've censored the internet, exposed security holes to client information, and devoured and squandered Netscape, which offered the only real competition to IE5. It kinda makes you wonder if the Netscape buyout was a deal with MS. Would you rather have Windows as your only option for an OS, or AOL as your only option of an ISP? I wish they would both drop off the face of the earth.
Not so fast... IEEE-1394 can only do about 50MB/s max so far. USB-2 is supposed to be a little faster but not much. Current USB-1 only does 1.5MB/s
I prefer my 528MB/s AGP slot for video, thanks.
IEEE-1394 and USB-2 do show promise for other traditionally card-based interfaces like telephony, audio and low-end networking. It's not quite fast enough to kill PCI (132MB/s bus) just yet, though.
USB-1 is still only half the throughput of ECP parallel, so it's not really viable for networking or other medium bandwidth applications. So far, it's been pretty successful at becoming the new printer/scanner port. My Zip drive is staying on my parallel port for now, though. Wait for USB-2 before connecting drives to it.