Crickets are the consciences of little wooden children? What aspect of my liberal arts eductaion has been severely neglected to the point that I have no idea what you're talking about??
You'll find it between the "1880s Italian century children's literature" section and the "1940s American feature animation" section.
If they won't do business on MY terms, they won't do business with me.
Try telling that to the company that provides your electric power, or to any other regulated municipal monopoly. If they require IE for Windows, then you had better buy a computer that can run IE for Windows, or you can't run any computer because you don't have any power.
I beleive the Xbox has multiplayer internet option.
Xbox Live costs $300 per year: $50/year for the Xbox Live subscription, and $250/year for the upgrade from dial-up Internet access to cable or DSL Internet access, provided that you even have a good cable or DSL provider in your area. If not, you'll have to fork over even more for a fractional T1.
Anyway, don't forget the (absolutely horrid) price of Photoshop.
Though the full version of Photoshop retails for $600, Photoshop without prepress support is called Photoshop Elements, and it retails for $100. GIMP retails for $5 (cost of media and packaging).
Any decent application for Windows costs money - Winzip, ws-ftp, Office, and the list goes on.
Many have free clones on Windows - Freezip, FTP Explorer, OpenOffice.org, and the list goes on.
Also, try and find good audio/video software for Windows that doesn't cost a small fortune. For Linux, there's the excellent transcode program and it's utilities.
VirtualDub? Flask MPEG?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the original P2P program GNUtella was for Linux first.
No, it was a windows app first. It has no connection to the GNU project. It was being developed within AOL's Nullsoft division, but AOL's Warner Bros. Records division shut down the project before it could release source code.
And I believe Quake 1, Quake 2, Quake 3 are all available for Linux?
Tried Gnucash? If that doesn't fit your needs, does Quicken work with WINE?
the kids for games.
Get the kids a GameCube. Most (not all, most) of the genres thought to be better on PCs than on consoles aren't well suited for minor children. PC first-person shooters are typically rated Mature (video game equivalent of MPAA R rating for movies) for gore, and multiplayer online role-playing games may cost more per month than some kids get for allowance. That is, unless your kids are like I was at that age, writing their own computer games.
Secondly, there are no such things as secretive APIs. Saying there are makes you look incompotent. APIs exist solely to be exposed to be programmers to make programming easier for them, to draw them to the platform.
There exist Microsoft applications that rely on some functions within Windows that don't fit your definition of API. These are kernel syscalls that Microsoft does not document but which improve the speed of Microsoft applications on Windows vs. competing applications on Windows.
Need a good MIDI sequencer? There're four really really good ones for Windows under $100 but ZERO on Mac.
Apple Computer had to remove the MIDI Manager from Mac OS because of a trademark lawsuit from Apple Corps (the Beatles' record label) alleging that by including robust MIDI support in Mac OS, Apple Computer "had entered the recording industry", violating the agreement between the two companies. Thus, the publishers of each sequencing program for the Mac have to include separate drivers licensed from each MIDI adapter manufacturer, and that costs money.
Were you perhaps hoping to play UT2K3 in a window and do your taxes while capturing the enemy flag? I think not.
No, but if I'm doing my taxes and somebody invites me to play Q3A, I should be able to minimize my taxes, fire up Q3A, and when I'm done playing, come back to my taxes.
You still didn't answer my question about simpler games such as Tetris.
Many stupid websites shut you out, if you don't use Netscape or IE.
In your particular situation, after all attempts of polite evangelism of standards-based web authoring have failed, why can't you just tell them "You've lost a customer"?
How about just about anything else of the shelf? I'll give you Unreal 2k3, but anything not written for Linux is doomed to crash and take hours of fooling with it
Really? When I want a 2D platformer, I just go to the "Game Boy Advance" section, pick out a game I want, put it in my GBA, and play it. It's even easier than Windows XP's so-called "plug and pray". If I want to play it on a big screen, I plug my GBA into my computer, dump the cartridge, and fire up VisualBoyAdvance.
Since [Microsoft Windows 98 was] the last good versions of windows, why would you use any others?
Don't tell me you think Windows 98 SE is a better OS than the newer NT 5.x series (Windows 2000 SP3 and Windows XP). In memory and CPU use on old hardware (200 MHz, 64 MB RAM), yeah, the Windows 9x series has the edge. But in stability, 9x can't touch NT and WINE based operating systems.
Trademarks don't expire. They last as long as the name has not become generic.
Copyrights don't expire. Disney can usually get the EU Parliament and the US Congress to pass repeated blanket copyright term extension laws.
Patents, on the other hand...
Digital imaging and printing has been around for a long time. Hasn't the patent [on color matching] expired by now, or due to expire shortly?
...don't expire. There is a practice called "patent evergreening" where a patent holder makes minor additional disclosures, such as the process or an intermediate product. It's even worse in the drug world, where once a drug has fallen out of patent and the slightly improved replacement with fewer side effects is on the market, the pharmaceutical company lobbies to get the older drug ruled "unsafe" and pulled from the market before generics pop up. It happened with Seldane.
That's why GIMP won't support color matching for the foreseeable future.
Photoshop has good support for translation of the different color models and calibration to match colors as precisely as possible. Gimp sucks ass at that.
Photoshop Elements lacks those features as well, and guess what? The reason it's $500 cheaper than Photoshop is precisely the same reason that GIMP doesn't support accurate color space conversion: it's patented, and the patent holders are not willing to license the patents royalty-free.
Some of us don't have an extra $609 laying around to buy a mac license.
Photoshop Elements (which does everything Photoshop does except prepress and is quite useful for work on web and game graphics, from what I'm told) is only $99.
MYSQL IS NOWHERE NEAR THE LEVEL OF ANY COMMERCIAL DATABASE SERVERS. Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted! Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
I won't give up Windows until there's a decent amount of games I can live with for Linux.
Want games on Linux? Buy a Game Boy Advance system, an "MBV2" link cable from Lik Sang, and some GBA games. Then dump the games to your computer with mb -w 300 -1 game.gba, and run them in VisualBoyAdvance (which, incidentally, just went GPL).
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there would be a market here for it.
Xbox Live requires broadband Internet access. Isn't broadband Internet access really, really expensive in Australia?
Crickets are the consciences of little wooden children? What aspect of my liberal arts eductaion has been severely neglected to the point that I have no idea what you're talking about??
You'll find it between the "1880s Italian century children's literature" section and the "1940s American feature animation" section.
Have you ever read the story of Pinocchio?
Now you are inviting crickets
Not really. They're all too busy acting as consciences to little wooden children.
one game in particular: MECHWARRIOR
MECHWARRIOR is also available on the Super NES console. You don't need Windows to run a Super NES game; all you need is either a Super NES or SNES9x.
Well, they have IE for MacOS's, no?
IE for Mac OS X does not support ActiveX because ActiveX controls are Win32/x86 binaries. Any web site that requires ActiveX won't work on a Mac.
If they won't do business on MY terms, they won't do business with me.
Try telling that to the company that provides your electric power, or to any other regulated municipal monopoly. If they require IE for Windows, then you had better buy a computer that can run IE for Windows, or you can't run any computer because you don't have any power.
I beleive the Xbox has multiplayer internet option.
Xbox Live costs $300 per year: $50/year for the Xbox Live subscription, and $250/year for the upgrade from dial-up Internet access to cable or DSL Internet access, provided that you even have a good cable or DSL provider in your area. If not, you'll have to fork over even more for a fractional T1.
Anyway, don't forget the (absolutely horrid) price of Photoshop.
Though the full version of Photoshop retails for $600, Photoshop without prepress support is called Photoshop Elements, and it retails for $100. GIMP retails for $5 (cost of media and packaging).
Any decent application for Windows costs money - Winzip, ws-ftp, Office, and the list goes on.
Many have free clones on Windows - Freezip, FTP Explorer, OpenOffice.org, and the list goes on.
Also, try and find good audio/video software for Windows that doesn't cost a small fortune. For Linux, there's the excellent transcode program and it's utilities.
VirtualDub? Flask MPEG?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the original P2P program GNUtella was for Linux first.
No, it was a windows app first. It has no connection to the GNU project. It was being developed within AOL's Nullsoft division, but AOL's Warner Bros. Records division shut down the project before it could release source code.
And I believe Quake 1, Quake 2, Quake 3 are all available for Linux?
True.
My fiancee wants to use it for Quicken
Tried Gnucash? If that doesn't fit your needs, does Quicken work with WINE?
the kids for games.
Get the kids a GameCube. Most (not all, most) of the genres thought to be better on PCs than on consoles aren't well suited for minor children. PC first-person shooters are typically rated Mature (video game equivalent of MPAA R rating for movies) for gore, and multiplayer online role-playing games may cost more per month than some kids get for allowance. That is, unless your kids are like I was at that age, writing their own computer games.
Secondly, there are no such things as secretive APIs. Saying there are makes you look incompotent. APIs exist solely to be exposed to be programmers to make programming easier for them, to draw them to the platform.
There exist Microsoft applications that rely on some functions within Windows that don't fit your definition of API. These are kernel syscalls that Microsoft does not document but which improve the speed of Microsoft applications on Windows vs. competing applications on Windows.
Need a good MIDI sequencer? There're four really really good ones for Windows under $100 but ZERO on Mac.
Apple Computer had to remove the MIDI Manager from Mac OS because of a trademark lawsuit from Apple Corps (the Beatles' record label) alleging that by including robust MIDI support in Mac OS, Apple Computer "had entered the recording industry", violating the agreement between the two companies. Thus, the publishers of each sequencing program for the Mac have to include separate drivers licensed from each MIDI adapter manufacturer, and that costs money.
Were you perhaps hoping to play UT2K3 in a window and do your taxes while capturing the enemy flag? I think not.
No, but if I'm doing my taxes and somebody invites me to play Q3A, I should be able to minimize my taxes, fire up Q3A, and when I'm done playing, come back to my taxes.
You still didn't answer my question about simpler games such as Tetris.
Many stupid websites shut you out, if you don't use Netscape or IE.
In your particular situation, after all attempts of polite evangelism of standards-based web authoring have failed, why can't you just tell them "You've lost a customer"?
How about just about anything else of the shelf? I'll give you Unreal 2k3, but anything not written for Linux is doomed to crash and take hours of fooling with it
Really? When I want a 2D platformer, I just go to the "Game Boy Advance" section, pick out a game I want, put it in my GBA, and play it. It's even easier than Windows XP's so-called "plug and pray". If I want to play it on a big screen, I plug my GBA into my computer, dump the cartridge, and fire up VisualBoyAdvance.
Since [Microsoft Windows 98 was] the last good versions of windows, why would you use any others?
Don't tell me you think Windows 98 SE is a better OS than the newer NT 5.x series (Windows 2000 SP3 and Windows XP). In memory and CPU use on old hardware (200 MHz, 64 MB RAM), yeah, the Windows 9x series has the edge. But in stability, 9x can't touch NT and WINE based operating systems.
once the downloads were done, it turned out that these packages required more packages. After the 2nd round, I gave up.
This happens mostly with RPM based Linux distributions that don't use APT-RPM. APT goes out and downloads a package's dependencies automatically.
Get ahold of Win4Lin. It's cheap
$100 for Win4Lin and $100 for Windows 98 OEM? I could almost buy a second computer for that amount of money.
Trademarks don't expire. They last as long as the name has not become generic.
Copyrights don't expire. Disney can usually get the EU Parliament and the US Congress to pass repeated blanket copyright term extension laws.
Patents, on the other hand...
Digital imaging and printing has been around for a long time. Hasn't the patent [on color matching] expired by now, or due to expire shortly?
That's why GIMP won't support color matching for the foreseeable future.
Photoshop has good support for translation of the different color models and calibration to match colors as precisely as possible. Gimp sucks ass at that.
Photoshop Elements lacks those features as well, and guess what? The reason it's $500 cheaper than Photoshop is precisely the same reason that GIMP doesn't support accurate color space conversion: it's patented, and the patent holders are not willing to license the patents royalty-free.
Some of us don't have an extra $609 laying around to buy a mac license.
Photoshop Elements (which does everything Photoshop does except prepress and is quite useful for work on web and game graphics, from what I'm told) is only $99.
MYSQL IS NOWHERE NEAR THE LEVEL OF ANY COMMERCIAL DATABASE SERVERS. Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted! Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
Is PostgreSQL better or worse?
If there were as many games for Linux as Windows, I would happily throw all my M$ software away forever.
That's why there's emulation.
I won't give up Windows until there's a decent amount of games I can live with for Linux.
Want games on Linux? Buy a Game Boy Advance system, an "MBV2" link cable from Lik Sang, and some GBA games. Then dump the games to your computer with mb -w 300 -1 game.gba, and run them in VisualBoyAdvance (which, incidentally, just went GPL).
If you run a server on your gaming rig, and the server goes down because your game crashes, don't be surprised.
Why should a little game of tetris take down a server, even on Windows?
When you are using a computer for gaming, it's supposed to be the only thing you're doing on your machine, for a variety of reasons.
Then why did Microsoft ever add the ability for DirectDraw to run in a window?
3D games crash computers. They do it on ALL platforms with no exceptions.
Even GameCube?