WoW runs perfectly in -opengl mode, and Ventrilo has a hack to make it work (under wine) with working keybindings. It used to be on Gentoo-wiki, but they lost their database recently and I'm not sure if it's still there.
This assumes you have a graphic card which has decent drivers (In my case this was the nvidia-drivers package with a 8800 GTS). I never got it to work right with an ATI card.
Oh and before you pull the "Vista fanboy" card, I use Windows XP, Gentoo and Ubuntu at home. I don't randomly insult stuff I know nothing about, though.
Since you apparently know nothing about Vista, here's a few things you might want to know:
-The extra memory that caches all the crap you never use is freed if it is required. Which means it's used only to speedup your computer, and you won't notice the microsecond it takes to free it.
-The hard drive indexing can be turned off. Windows XP has a similar feature, this isn't new.
-Redrawing aero effects doesn't happen when you're running a fullscreen game. If you launch Half-Life 2 for example, aero will idle until you alt-tab back in, and thus there is no loss of performance.
No problem! Glad I could get some myths out of your head!
These limitations are present on about every game out there. Very rare are the games that allow you to resell them - People do it because they don't read the EULA (Really, who does?), but most games out there state specifically that you only own a license to use the game and the install CD to play that game, but are not allowed to sell that CD to someone else because the license to play the game on it is non-transferable.
On the other hand, Steam DOES allow you to play at a friends house on your account, assuming you are able to have an internet line there. This is MUCH less limiting than not being able to play the game at all.
You're right. You don't own the game, just like you don't own 90% of the games you play. I assumed you stopped playing anything from every major publisher out there by now, though, so it's no surprise you weren't aware of these details.
So yeah, Steam limits you a lot less than other publishers, as I said.
Might giving a reason for all that worthless critic? Steam is a kickass platform for game delivery, and has been widely adopted by multiple high-profile companies now.
Its DRM is a LOT less limiting than pretty much every alternative on the market (except no DRM), and it brings a load of features to boot.
But hey, you can just stop playing some of the greatest games ever made because you *gasp* need an internet connection (ONCE). Nobody will stop you.
Maybe you should stop installing every single thing that comes up on your screen. I don't use FireFox, but I'm not stupid enough to think spyware magically happens if you're on IE. I used it for years and never had any problems.
> Because they won't work on 2.0 anymore. It will not be supported and
> will no longer receive security updates. How hard is that to understand?
It's not difficult to understand.
It's also not relevant.
It is relevant. It's the very reason they're not upgrading 2.0 to the new anti-phishing module. If they were, we wouldn't even be discussing this.
It's going to End of Life. They won't upgrade an obsolete product. Either they turn it off in the next update and get some people to upgrade, or they leave it on giving a false sense of security since it won't even work.
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I'd do that but then I'd be stuck fixing Linux issues and teaching people how to use a new OS instead.
Just because you're apparently not very good at using Windows doesn't mean other people with better tools can't do a good job. Ever heard of nLite?
Because no games out right now use 6 Gb of RAM. However, plenty of games are still limited by CPU and GPU power.
WoW runs perfectly in -opengl mode, and Ventrilo has a hack to make it work (under wine) with working keybindings. It used to be on Gentoo-wiki, but they lost their database recently and I'm not sure if it's still there.
This assumes you have a graphic card which has decent drivers (In my case this was the nvidia-drivers package with a 8800 GTS). I never got it to work right with an ATI card.
Oh and before you pull the "Vista fanboy" card, I use Windows XP, Gentoo and Ubuntu at home. I don't randomly insult stuff I know nothing about, though.
Since you apparently know nothing about Vista, here's a few things you might want to know:
-The extra memory that caches all the crap you never use is freed if it is required. Which means it's used only to speedup your computer, and you won't notice the microsecond it takes to free it.
-The hard drive indexing can be turned off. Windows XP has a similar feature, this isn't new.
-Redrawing aero effects doesn't happen when you're running a fullscreen game. If you launch Half-Life 2 for example, aero will idle until you alt-tab back in, and thus there is no loss of performance.
No problem! Glad I could get some myths out of your head!
He wants real DX. Not Shader Model 2 which nobody cares about.
Games don't "allow" you to resell them. The LAW allows you to sell them. Even if the EULA says you cannot, you can.
Considering the EULA has been upheld in court several times for that exact reason, I'm going to have to go with "No".
Thus, Steam has less restrictions.
Well, Linux isn't supported, so that's no surprise. It might have to do with where it puts its data for offline mode and maybe WINE doesn't like it.
These limitations are present on about every game out there. Very rare are the games that allow you to resell them - People do it because they don't read the EULA (Really, who does?), but most games out there state specifically that you only own a license to use the game and the install CD to play that game, but are not allowed to sell that CD to someone else because the license to play the game on it is non-transferable.
On the other hand, Steam DOES allow you to play at a friends house on your account, assuming you are able to have an internet line there. This is MUCH less limiting than not being able to play the game at all.
You're right. You don't own the game, just like you don't own 90% of the games you play. I assumed you stopped playing anything from every major publisher out there by now, though, so it's no surprise you weren't aware of these details.
So yeah, Steam limits you a lot less than other publishers, as I said.
Your analogy fails hard. It's gonna be quite harder to rebuild a bank than it is to submit a software patch.
Might giving a reason for all that worthless critic? Steam is a kickass platform for game delivery, and has been widely adopted by multiple high-profile companies now.
Its DRM is a LOT less limiting than pretty much every alternative on the market (except no DRM), and it brings a load of features to boot.
But hey, you can just stop playing some of the greatest games ever made because you *gasp* need an internet connection (ONCE). Nobody will stop you.
You can put it in offline mode. Don't criticize things if you don't even know how they work.
Steam DRM doesn't limit you at all compared to modern DRM. You can play without an internet connection, at your friends house, etc.
What games are we talking about here? Anything that runs on Source?
*I use FireFox
Maybe you should stop installing every single thing that comes up on your screen. I don't use FireFox, but I'm not stupid enough to think spyware magically happens if you're on IE. I used it for years and never had any problems.
Erm. Linux has been able to RW to NTFS partitions for a long time now.
Nope. I was about to make the same comment myself.
> Because they won't work on 2.0 anymore. It will not be supported and > will no longer receive security updates. How hard is that to understand? It's not difficult to understand. It's also not relevant.
It is relevant. It's the very reason they're not upgrading 2.0 to the new anti-phishing module. If they were, we wouldn't even be discussing this.
I know it doesn't happen often on Slashdot, but your answer can be found by R'ing TFA.
They're not exactly preventing you from upgrading the phishing module. They're just dropping support for their own existing version of the code.
I still don't see why they're pushing people so hard to upgrade to 3.0.
Because they won't work on 2.0 anymore. It will not be supported and will no longer receive security updates. How hard is that to understand?
The version 3.0 still seems slower and more buggy than the version of 2.0 I have been using for some time.
Except it's faster. Java Script improvements, less memory leaks, a garbage collector of sorts, etc. FF 3.0 requires less resources.
I would argue that FF 2.0 is not and obsolete product
By definition, it is. It will reach End of Life.
It's going to End of Life. They won't upgrade an obsolete product. Either they turn it off in the next update and get some people to upgrade, or they leave it on giving a false sense of security since it won't even work.
I'm kinda glad we have to pay for incoming text messages now. At least that guy who wants to ampute me will have to think twice before pressing send!