Ah ok that makes more sense. Fox News "broke" the story on Friday, and right-wing blogs had the weekend to froth and foam at the mouth about it. Nothing beats taking a comment out of context to proclaim that Obama has put "Muslim Diplomacy" as NASA's "top priority".
Ah good old Dave Vitter. He gets busted paying for prostitutes to spank him while he's wearing a diaper, and his madam ends up committing suicide in the scandal's aftermath. Yet here he is still in congress, in a position of power.
He also voted to impeach Clinton, and at the time time stated that Clinton deserved it for cheating on his wife. It's sad to think he has influence on the direction of our space program...
This doesn't pertain to the question at all. I'd also venture to speculate that Mr. King was ahead of his time.
Trent Raznor released an album on a 'pay what you want' plan, and he later commented that the album turned out to be profitable. Same with Radiohead.
It doesn't surprise me that 10 years ago an ebook failed with this model. At the time people didn't read ebooks much at all. Now there is an entire industry based on it.
The 1st amendment isn't there to protect your right to reading web pages while you're supposed to be working. I'd rather see my tax dollars spent on work, rather than browsing slashdot. You can do that on your own time...
If you're living in the country, it's your civilization too, you dolt. You are not an island, and someone else paid for the society that you now enjoy. Pay your share, like everyone else, and stfu. Either that or move to a country with no taxes, and tell us how much you enjoy it.
You're being intellectually dishonest in trying to compare Wine to a native Windows install. They're more or less identical, if you omit a vast chunk of modern games that don't run correctly under Wine...
Here is a challenge: Get Team Fortress 2 to run under wine. If you can figure out how, let me know because I've tried on and off for a month. The only results I get are something that looks like it's running on a half-finished emulator. TF2 isn't even that demanding of a game.
You do Linux no favors by exaggerating its capabilities. Wine is no replacement for Windows when it comes to gaming.
Yeah I don't see that coming close to something a gamer would replace Windows with. Like it or not, Windows beats the pants off of Linux when it comes to gaming. I wish it weren't true, but it is.
Because they're charging for stuff that used to be free. That's why.
The entire seasons for these shows have been on Hulu for a long time, at no cost. I'm not going to pay for shit that was free a week ago. Not to mention that they're leaving the ads in.
All Hulu did was save me a little hassle in finding something on usenet, but I'll just go back to doing things the way I used to.
Look at it this way. If we all adopted the purist attitude that everything should be 100% open, then you should forget about ever having entertainment software on Linux. Like it or not, piracy is a real concern for independent game developers like Valve, and if you expect them to forfeit copy protection in the name of Stallman-style zealotry, then gaming on Linux is never going to happen in a big way. Where Valve got their DRM right is that Steam also provides useful features for their games. It's not simply just DRM. Friends lists, saving your game settings to the Steam cloud, and opening it up for indie devs to sell their games all bring something substantial to the table. It's not like starforce or some crappy copy protection like that.
You'd be in for a surprise then. Gamers love to tinker with their systems, and most of my friends, and myself would be using Linux full time if we could. It wouldn't be 99%, that's a bit of a stretch, but I know it would be around 10-20%.
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Ah ok that makes more sense. Fox News "broke" the story on Friday, and right-wing blogs had the weekend to froth and foam at the mouth about it. Nothing beats taking a comment out of context to proclaim that Obama has put "Muslim Diplomacy" as NASA's "top priority".
I didn't know NASA had a Top 10 List. Are you sure you're not thinking of Letterman?
Let me guess. This is the top story on Fox News today.
Ah good old Dave Vitter. He gets busted paying for prostitutes to spank him while he's wearing a diaper, and his madam ends up committing suicide in the scandal's aftermath. Yet here he is still in congress, in a position of power.
He also voted to impeach Clinton, and at the time time stated that Clinton deserved it for cheating on his wife. It's sad to think he has influence on the direction of our space program...
Yeah gee I wonder why that didn't make it higher...
Probably because it's just more nonsense from right-wingers with no grip on reality...
Flamebait? Really?
Fucking magnets, how do they work? And I don’t wanna talk to a scientist Y’all motherfuckers lying, and getting me pissed!
This doesn't pertain to the question at all. I'd also venture to speculate that Mr. King was ahead of his time. Trent Raznor released an album on a 'pay what you want' plan, and he later commented that the album turned out to be profitable. Same with Radiohead. It doesn't surprise me that 10 years ago an ebook failed with this model. At the time people didn't read ebooks much at all. Now there is an entire industry based on it.
The 1st amendment isn't there to protect your right to reading web pages while you're supposed to be working. I'd rather see my tax dollars spent on work, rather than browsing slashdot. You can do that on your own time...
If you're living in the country, it's your civilization too, you dolt. You are not an island, and someone else paid for the society that you now enjoy. Pay your share, like everyone else, and stfu. Either that or move to a country with no taxes, and tell us how much you enjoy it.
Fine, then never use a public road, sidewalk, post office, police, go to a park, or use an internet line funded by tax money, and we'll call it even.
Dump Truck? Ted Stevens is that you?!
to live in a country where there is no more urgent worry than being able to fight for the right to piracy....
You're being intellectually dishonest in trying to compare Wine to a native Windows install. They're more or less identical, if you omit a vast chunk of modern games that don't run correctly under Wine...
Here is a challenge: Get Team Fortress 2 to run under wine. If you can figure out how, let me know because I've tried on and off for a month. The only results I get are something that looks like it's running on a half-finished emulator. TF2 isn't even that demanding of a game.
You do Linux no favors by exaggerating its capabilities. Wine is no replacement for Windows when it comes to gaming.
You will hold it like the turtle-neck overlord commands, and you will like it!
Yeah I don't see that coming close to something a gamer would replace Windows with. Like it or not, Windows beats the pants off of Linux when it comes to gaming. I wish it weren't true, but it is.
Same thing with Lost. The entire series was up there until about a month ago.
Hulu isn't entitled to my money!
If you think it's great, then by all means pay for it, but don't act surprised when not everyone thinks exactly like you do..
Because they're charging for stuff that used to be free. That's why.
The entire seasons for these shows have been on Hulu for a long time, at no cost. I'm not going to pay for shit that was free a week ago. Not to mention that they're leaving the ads in.
All Hulu did was save me a little hassle in finding something on usenet, but I'll just go back to doing things the way I used to.
Was nice knowing you.
Nope they haven't said a word about a Linux client. The only people who have are Phoronix.
It's not surprising people found references to Linux in Steam. Valve makes Linux servers for all of their games...
God forbid someone puts their money with their mouth is and supports a company actually producing a product for Linux...
Look at it this way. If we all adopted the purist attitude that everything should be 100% open, then you should forget about ever having entertainment software on Linux. Like it or not, piracy is a real concern for independent game developers like Valve, and if you expect them to forfeit copy protection in the name of Stallman-style zealotry, then gaming on Linux is never going to happen in a big way. Where Valve got their DRM right is that Steam also provides useful features for their games. It's not simply just DRM. Friends lists, saving your game settings to the Steam cloud, and opening it up for indie devs to sell their games all bring something substantial to the table. It's not like starforce or some crappy copy protection like that.
You'd be in for a surprise then. Gamers love to tinker with their systems, and most of my friends, and myself would be using Linux full time if we could. It wouldn't be 99%, that's a bit of a stretch, but I know it would be around 10-20%.
Yeah one sentence at the end of the article not attributed to anyone at Valve. Like I said. Valve has not confirmed the existence of a Linux client.