And during this time they have built an infrastructure for porting games from Windows, even Direct X based games. Linux wasn't exactly a
game friendly OS to begin with, but Loki has overcome those problems and made a lot of progress.
I don't know that Loki is targeting the hard core gamer. I think they are targeting people who have chosen to use Linux (or FreeBSD) as their desktop operating system and want to play games without having to boot another operating system. In that case, I can't see that the delay is a problem.
If your primary goal is game playing, use Windows.
If your primary goal is using Linux, and you would
like to play some games as well, then Loki is there to fill that need.
I've been wearing my Datalink for about 4 years. In looking at Linux wristwatches (to get rid of that Microsoft logo on my wrist!), I think I've decided that I'd really rather just have a watch that gives me time, really really accurate time!
I'm a former Republican who switched to the Libertarian Party two years ago. The fact is, the two party system is obsolete. Two parties aren't enough to represent the diverse political views of Americans. If you are a liberal, you're a lot better off voting for Nader than Gore. If you believe in the free-market, vote for Harry Browne. Don't waste a vote on GW Bush or Al Gore!
My point is that the United States should be the country with the most freedom in the world. Not that it is. There was more freedom here in the past than there is now. It would be a mistake to try to emulate the socialist and statist governments. Freedom is worth more than better cell phone, or any other technology. And I define freedom as being able to do what you want as long as it doesn't harm others, with government only existing to protect the rights to life, liberty, and property.
The world is big enough for socialist and free societies to co-exist. Most innovations in the last 200 years has developed out of this lassiez-faire country. The telegraph, electricity, the mass produced automobile, the transistor, integrated circuits, all came as a result of a free society and free markets. If anything, its the government granted monopolies that has held back our cell phone industries. Until a few years ago, due to regulation, there wasn't much competition in cell phones. Now that there is, innovative networks are springing up. What we need in America is far less socialism and government interference and more freedom.
The rest of the world can follow socialist utopianism for all I care, but America should remain the last bastion of freedom in the world.
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless, tempest-post to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door !"
by Emma Lazarus, New York City, 1883
I think I read somewhere that VMWare had made a deal with Microsoft to sell licensed copies of Windows with VMWare. If that's true, they'll probably sell you a copy of Windows for your VMWare that will only work with that particular VMWare key. Oh well, VMWare works great to try out other Linux distros and FreeBSD! And, we still have old Windows CD's to use until they are no longer necessary and everything we want is available for Linux!:)
Georgia started a "No-Call List" back in 1998. For $5 a resident can be put on this list for two years, during which time a company cannot call to solicit business if they do not already have a relationship with you. I signed on at the very beginning and it has cut down the number of telemarketer calls tremendously. Non-profits and polls can still call you, but at least the spammers can't. I really like the fact that this is voluntary. For more info see: http://www.ganocall.com/
Libertarianism values the rights of the individual above everything else. If Pinkerton had any concept of Libertarianism, they would be horrified at the thought of becoming a tool of tyranny.
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How long has Loki been porting games for Linux?
2 years or so?
And during this time they have built an infrastructure for porting games from Windows,
even Direct X based games. Linux wasn't exactly a game friendly OS to begin with,
but Loki has overcome those problems and made a lot of progress.
I don't know that Loki is targeting the hard core gamer.
I think they are targeting people who have chosen to use Linux (or FreeBSD)
as their desktop operating system and want to play games
without having to boot another operating system. In that case,
I can't see that the delay is a problem.
If your primary goal is game playing, use Windows.
If your primary goal is using Linux, and you would like to
play some games as well, then Loki is there to fill that need.
I've been wearing my Datalink for about 4 years. In looking at Linux wristwatches (to get rid of that Microsoft logo on my wrist!), I think I've decided that I'd really rather just have a watch that gives me time, really really accurate time!
I'm a former Republican who switched to the Libertarian Party two years ago. The fact is, the two party system is obsolete. Two parties aren't enough to represent the diverse political views of Americans. If you are a liberal, you're a lot better off voting for Nader than Gore. If you believe in the free-market, vote for Harry Browne. Don't waste a vote on GW Bush or Al Gore!
My point is that the United States should be the country with the most freedom in the world. Not that it is. There was more freedom here in the past than there is now. It would be a mistake to try to emulate the socialist and statist governments. Freedom is worth more than better cell phone, or any other technology. And I define freedom as being able to do what you want as long as it doesn't harm others, with government only existing to protect the rights to life, liberty, and property.
The world is big enough for socialist and free societies to co-exist. Most innovations in the last 200 years has developed out of this lassiez-faire country. The telegraph, electricity, the mass produced automobile, the transistor, integrated circuits, all came as a result of a free society and free markets. If anything, its the government granted monopolies that has held back our cell phone industries. Until a few years ago, due to regulation, there wasn't much competition in cell phones. Now that there is, innovative networks are springing up. What we need in America is far less socialism and government interference and more freedom.
The rest of the world can follow socialist utopianism for all I care, but America should remain the last bastion of freedom in the world. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-post to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door !" by Emma Lazarus, New York City, 1883
Why did they come? Freedom
>I'm sure if a commercial Brazillian soccer team tried to steal corinthians.org, they would have had a harder time, and rightly so.
Especially since Corinthians.org seems to be taken by the Corinthian Sailing Association of Lake Pontchartrain New Orleans, LA....?
I think I read somewhere that VMWare had made a deal with Microsoft to sell licensed copies of Windows with VMWare. If that's true, they'll probably sell you a copy of Windows for your VMWare that will only work with that particular VMWare key. Oh well, VMWare works great to try out other Linux distros and FreeBSD! And, we still have old Windows CD's to use until they are no longer necessary and everything we want is available for Linux! :)
Yeah, I had a CoCo 3, with 512K ram, and a 40MB HD hooked up with a Burke & Burke XT interface. I learned operating systems running OS-9 Level II.
I had to downgrade to MS-DOS...then Windows...and now I'm actually back up to a real multitasking OS with Linux!
In some ways, Linux fulfills a lot of the dreams that CoCo/OS-9 users had.
Georgia started a "No-Call List" back in 1998. For $5 a resident can be put on this list for two years, during which time a company cannot call to solicit business if they do not already have a relationship with you. I signed on at the very beginning and it has cut down the number of telemarketer calls tremendously. Non-profits and polls can still call you, but at least the spammers can't. I really like the fact that this is voluntary. For more info see: http://www.ganocall.com/
Libertarianism values the rights of the individual above everything else. If Pinkerton had any concept of Libertarianism, they would be horrified at the thought of becoming a tool of tyranny.