Deux Ex! That game was so good.. Why, why hasn't there been a game like that recently?
I played it three times and patched XMMS so it would play the deus ex theme music. This game truly raised the bar of the FPS genre so high hardly anyone has been able to touch it for years.
I certainly did not say that someone would "overreact". That was your assumption, not mine.
I think if anyone here is overreacting it might be you.. I mean, I don't see how anything I wrote compares with "How do you function in today's modern life, then?"
Neither did I say, "take the answer you've been given, it's a dead issue and not worth further investigation". You're putting words in my mouth to suit your position..
Just a hint- When you have to resort to ad-hominem attacks to make your point, and start assuming an author's intentions go far beyond their actual words.. it's time to step back and take a deep breath.
What I did actually say in my earlier post, is that it is both smart and wise to make oneself aware of a situation before making broad statements in a public forum. That way, if one has a critical position it can be an informed one, instead of one that simply betrays one's own ignorance.
That's why it's called the FREE software foundation and not the Somewhat-Free, Mostly-Free, Free-This-One-Time, Momentarily-Free, or Free-Enough-So-Take-It-Or-Leave-It Foundation.
One interesting thing about the GPL, is that it protects the software itself, not necessarily the authors. The FSF has come up with a unique and powerful mechanism for insuring that code and/or an application will *always* be freely distributable over its entire lifetime.
It's perfectly reasonable for them to stand up for this important principle. Many times RMS and the FSF have pointed out flaws in only slightly more compromising licenses, and many times their warnings have turned out to be farsighted.
We should all be thanking them for selflessly taking on the role of a watchdog. They serve the public good and have an excellent track record. You should really pick up a membership
In true software-development form, 3.0 introduced tons of new, poorly tested ideas. Even the copyediting quality was abysmal. If you turn to the combat section you will find the same information repeated again and again, without any clear organization. In some cases the exact same paragraphs repeat.
3.5 is a cleanup, both on the production quality and on the rule balancing. I think it's much better, I only regret that more time wasn't spent making sure 3.0 was ready. There's a quite a bit of nerfing, but again that is 3.0's fault, not an intrinsic problem in 3.5.
Always consider the source and agenda of such claims. It's been my experience that some "experts" latch on to one or two details of a many-faceted civilization and extrapolate it to make the case for a liberal, enlightened, politically-correct utopia.
As they say, the good old days weren't always good. That goes triply so for ancient cultures.
I think in this case, I was thinking, "This topic sounds interesting, lets see what people came up with for ideas."
Pontifications on antimatter aren't something I would go out of my way to seek out. The only time I really run across these kinds of discussions is on slashdot.
If he hadn't asked the question, I wouldn't have been able to read the answers, so I wanted to defend people who ask these kinds of questions out of self interest.
I think it's a fine idea for people to solicit ideas on slashdot. It is an open forum, and many of the popular posts express sympathy for the free expression of ideas.
I wish more people would do so. I don't look forward to a society where everyone is afraid to ask questions in public for fear of being sued.
Errrr... SCO has not attempted to sue any Linux end-user with no direct relationship to SCO.
They are suing their former partner IBM for contract violations. If you were a former partner with SCO and could have conceivably broken your contract with them, then some caution may be in order.
From a Linux end-user's perspective, SCO has not demonstrating anything, other than an imfamous PR campaign.
You're statement doesn't address the earlier point, that in the US, anyone can choose to sue you for any reason whatsoever, irregardless of whatever agreement you have with your vendors.
Avoiding a product because someone with credibility on par with SCO in this case threatens to sue you is not a sound tactic, and would be ruinious strategy.
In the US, anyone can sue you for any reason. There's nothing you can do about that. It's the risk you take for existing over here.
I work for a few companies that use Linux, and I can tell you that not one of them believe they are "putting themselves at risk" due do SCO's actions. It's only unsubstantiated fear. Remember, fear is the mind-killer! *grin*
Garter should know better. There's no sense is believing SCO when they have not presented any scientific* evidence. Clearly, Garter and any other so-called analyst should have a higher standard than "he said-she said". Totally ridiculous.
* = able to be substantiated by an independent third party.
I've spent some time in Quebec, and noticed with a great deal of alarm to extent to which the language police operate.
When I travel, I'm used to natural language barriers. But in Quebec, the barrier is anything but natural. Blatantly legislating cultural barriers to the extent that Quebec has, is something entirely different. It's a form of active, in-your-face prejudice, as evil and as wrongheaded as racism. It's only one step away from forcing english speakers to use different busses and restrooms. Quebec was a shameful mar on my otherwise wonderful experience with Canada.
Every time a distribution is released, someone invariably says, "I have XXX hardware set up like YYY and the installer didn't work for me". I think every OS that attempts to support large numbers of peripherals has these kinds of issues.
A good place to report this is the distrubtion's support forum.
There more [operating systems|programming langugages] one knows the more the similar they seem to be.
Any so-called IT professional who only knows one solution and refuses to learn another is a moron and a dangerous liability, because the whole nature of IT is keeping up with change and knowing more than one solution to a problem.
What a horrible example these people are setting for their students!
I don't see how anyone could turn down free Macintosh hardware. It is generally of higher quality than typical PC systems sold to pre-college institutions and requires less maintenance, plus apple has one of the best support services in the industry.
On top of that MacOS X can be used for all the usual user applications, and you get a full-fledged unix development environment built in for classes that can take advantage of it.
Show me someone who willingly turns down systems like this and I'll show you someone who doesn't deserve their job.
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The correct answer to this question is RTFM. If you have to ask this question, you're not competent to plan out a large network.
Looks like some of that "defacement" is happening close to home.
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If you actually look closely at the article's benchmarks, the ATI card is ahead more often than not..
Remembers, for a lot of the graphs lower numbers are better.
Deux Ex! That game was so good.. Why, why hasn't there been a game like that recently?
I played it three times and patched XMMS so it would play the deus ex theme music. This game truly raised the bar of the FPS genre so high hardly anyone has been able to touch it for years.
I certainly did not say that someone would "overreact". That was your assumption, not mine.
I think if anyone here is overreacting it might be you.. I mean, I don't see how anything I wrote compares with "How do you function in today's modern life, then?"
Neither did I say, "take the answer you've been given, it's a dead issue and not worth further investigation". You're putting words in my mouth to suit your position..
Just a hint- When you have to resort to ad-hominem attacks to make your point, and start assuming an author's intentions go far beyond their actual words.. it's time to step back and take a deep breath.
What I did actually say in my earlier post, is that it is both smart and wise to make oneself aware of a situation before making broad statements in a public forum. That way, if one has a critical position it can be an informed one, instead of one that simply betrays one's own ignorance.
Despite what Microsoft might say, there is a great deal of value in Free.
It would seem less strange to you if you read up on what the industry is doing.
Plenty of people from all over the world are paid to improve and author free software.
to be rather offensive. Perhaps the author of that comment should check the research on personality theory before making that kind of remark.
After all, you wouldn't run up to someone who is gay and tell them that you doubt whether their homosexuality is truly hard-wired, would you?
That's why it's called the FREE software foundation and not the Somewhat-Free, Mostly-Free, Free-This-One-Time, Momentarily-Free, or Free-Enough-So-Take-It-Or-Leave-It Foundation.
One interesting thing about the GPL, is that it protects the software itself, not necessarily the authors. The FSF has come up with a unique and powerful mechanism for insuring that code and/or an application will *always* be freely distributable over its entire lifetime.
It's perfectly reasonable for them to stand up for this important principle. Many times RMS and the FSF have pointed out flaws in only slightly more compromising licenses, and many times their warnings have turned out to be farsighted.
We should all be thanking them for selflessly taking on the role of a watchdog. They serve the public good and have an excellent track record. You should really pick up a membership
In true software-development form, 3.0 introduced tons of new, poorly tested ideas. Even the copyediting quality was abysmal. If you turn to the combat section you will find the same information repeated again and again, without any clear organization. In some cases the exact same paragraphs repeat.
3.5 is a cleanup, both on the production quality and on the rule balancing. I think it's much better, I only regret that more time wasn't spent making sure 3.0 was ready. There's a quite a bit of nerfing, but again that is 3.0's fault, not an intrinsic problem in 3.5.
Always consider the source and agenda of such claims. It's been my experience that some "experts" latch on to one or two details of a many-faceted civilization and extrapolate it to make the case for a liberal, enlightened, politically-correct utopia.
As they say, the good old days weren't always good. That goes triply so for ancient cultures.
Heh, well some of those are good points.
I think in this case, I was thinking, "This topic sounds interesting, lets see what people came up with for ideas."
Pontifications on antimatter aren't something I would go out of my way to seek out. The only time I really run across these kinds of discussions is on slashdot.
If he hadn't asked the question, I wouldn't have been able to read the answers, so I wanted to defend people who ask these kinds of questions out of self interest.
Cheers,
-OT
I think it's a fine idea for people to solicit ideas on slashdot. It is an open forum, and many of the popular posts express sympathy for the free expression of ideas.
I wish more people would do so. I don't look forward to a society where everyone is afraid to ask questions in public for fear of being sued.
Errrr... SCO has not attempted to sue any Linux end-user with no direct relationship to SCO.
They are suing their former partner IBM for contract violations. If you were a former partner with SCO and could have conceivably broken your contract with them, then some caution may be in order.
From a Linux end-user's perspective, SCO has not demonstrating anything, other than an imfamous PR campaign.
You're statement doesn't address the earlier point, that in the US, anyone can choose to sue you for any reason whatsoever, irregardless of whatever agreement you have with your vendors.
Avoiding a product because someone with credibility on par with SCO in this case threatens to sue you is not a sound tactic, and would be ruinious strategy.
Sad but true.
I don't think so. I would think that making business decisions based on unsubstantiated, unproven gossip is much more irresponsible.
In the US, anyone can sue you for any reason. There's nothing you can do about that. It's the risk you take for existing over here.
I work for a few companies that use Linux, and I can tell you that not one of them believe they are "putting themselves at risk" due do SCO's actions. It's only unsubstantiated fear. Remember, fear is the mind-killer! *grin*
Garter should know better. There's no sense is believing SCO when they have not presented any scientific* evidence. Clearly, Garter and any other so-called analyst should have a higher standard than "he said-she said". Totally ridiculous.
* = able to be substantiated by an independent third party.
I've spent some time in Quebec, and noticed with a great deal of alarm to extent to which the language police operate.
When I travel, I'm used to natural language barriers. But in Quebec, the barrier is anything but natural. Blatantly legislating cultural barriers to the extent that Quebec has, is something entirely different. It's a form of active, in-your-face prejudice, as evil and as wrongheaded as racism. It's only one step away from forcing english speakers to use different busses and restrooms. Quebec was a shameful mar on my otherwise wonderful experience with Canada.
Every time a distribution is released, someone invariably says, "I have XXX hardware set up like YYY and the installer didn't work for me". I think every OS that attempts to support large numbers of peripherals has these kinds of issues.
A good place to report this is the distrubtion's support forum.
Who the heck uses CNET for finding free linux software? Who still calls open source software "freeware"?
Someone just fell off the turnip truck, I expect.
HINT: The answer you are looking for is a lot easier to find on slashdot than the "submit a story" link.
I can't believe I just saw someone say "inst" and "avoid dependancies" in the same sentence!
Gotta love SGI's inst packages.. Never the same upgrade twice, circular dependencies, and a 10 minute per install cleanup routine.
The only thing it's good for is job security.
I thought that coffee was discovered in the area of what is now Ethiopia.
There more [operating systems|programming langugages] one knows the more the similar they seem to be.
Any so-called IT professional who only knows one solution and refuses to learn another is a moron and a dangerous liability, because the whole nature of IT is keeping up with change and knowing more than one solution to a problem.
What a horrible example these people are setting for their students!
I don't see how anyone could turn down free Macintosh hardware. It is generally of higher quality than typical PC systems sold to pre-college institutions and requires less maintenance, plus apple has one of the best support services in the industry.
On top of that MacOS X can be used for all the usual user applications, and you get a full-fledged unix development environment built in for classes that can take advantage of it.
Show me someone who willingly turns down systems like this and I'll show you someone who doesn't deserve their job.