Don't blame your lack of ability to setup an excellent set of drivers on the OS.
More like my lack of willingness to reconfigure, and possibly DOWNGRADE, my whole goddamned kernel, just for a game.
Why would I spend an hour (kernel config, compile, driver config, compile, etc) just to have the POS nVidia driver give me ~30sec of accelerated video before puking and locking the machine hard?
I don't consider drivers that lock up my machine to be "excellent" by any stretch of the imagination.
I know how to set up drivers, but I don't know how to debug binary-only modules.
nVidia's linux shit supposedly works pretty well with cutting-edge hardware, but, as I'm not a l33t g4m3r k1dd!e, that's not something I have, nor do I care enough to buy, when windoze works with my existing hardware.
The longer the "community" continues with the "linux is perfect" rhetoric, the less chance linux will have of becoming a decent desktop OS.
Because Linux is not up to the task of being a gaming OS.
There are very few high-performance video drivers for linux, and the ones that do exist (nVidia)
are terribly picky about configuration.
I'm not going to spend days working on getting 3D working under X,
when I can reboot into wintendo and be playing in 5 minutes.
X itself is a PITA, mostly because it's being pushed to to things (like high-speed graphics)
that it was just never intended to do.
Loki made great software, but unfortunately, the OS support just isn't there.
I bought a copy of Q3A/linux and was never able to get it working because the nVidia drivers were
(and prolly still are, but I gave up long ago) crap.
Luckily, I was able to use the Q3 data files under win tho, so I didn't waste any money -
however, I have not bought (or even considered buying) any linux games since.
It's just too much of a hassle to deal with X and nVidia and all the associated crap.
I'm not going to recompile, downgrade, or otherwise mangle my kernel and/or system just to play a goddamn game of Quake, when I have wintendo a re-boot away.
The problem does not lie in Loki's games, but in the platform they're designed to run on.
In short, linux sucks for gaming (or any high-speed 3D task).
If ya'll can do it for free, what does Dolby have to offer anyone?
Nothing.
So fucking what. Corporations have no inherent right to exist.
If JoeBob Hacker can code up a compatible format, good for him.
Saying noone should have the right to code an AC3 CODEC is like saying Samba should be banned because it replaces NT SMB servers, or Linux should be banned because it can replace Solaris.
It's not about "open source" or "free software" it's about my freedom to code any goddamned thing I want.
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It's not as if Dell machines with linux pre-installed cost $90 less.
In effect, you're still be paying for Windoze, just not getting it.
It doesn't matter anyways - linux is free, and widely available.
So Dell's not gonna install it for you anymore.
Most of the people I know (myself included) that run linux prefer to install it themeselves anyways,
so they can be assured of a reasonably stable and secure system.
I'd estimate 90+% of workstations/laptops Dell sells are destined to be windoze boxes,
so it just wasn't cost-effective for them to continue installing linux.
Not as if it matters, because someone clueful enough to consider ordering
a Linux install prolly has the skills to install it themself.
If DTV owns the cards, then they certainly reserve the right to send anything they want to them, including signals that will 'contaminate' non-subscribed cards.
Oh, I have no problem with ECMs, better encryption, etc.
I say more power to 'em,
they have the right to drop any sort of signals
they like through their transmitters, and if the broadcasters can defeat the unsanctioned decoding, let them!
I just don't think it should be/illegal/ to decode a signal.
1) Pirating TV signal that is subscription based is considered a form of Theft.
I think that's bullshit.
If a signal is being broadcast onto my property (without my consent, I should add), I should have every right to recieve it and process it any way I like.
Even if that means doing something a corporation doesn't like.
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(FWIW, I don't do any unsanctioned decoding of DTV, but I think we need to take the corporate influence out of government. The problem now days is not seperation of church and state, but seperation of business and state.)
Other organizers top out at 320x320 or 320x240; while that seems to be the limit of the density we can pack into such a small surface area, I sometimes need more.
I want a PDA based on the OLED display tech IBM uses on it's "wristwatch linux" prototype...
IIRC, it's something like 700DPI(!) mono,
meaning that I could fit a lot of text on a 4x3 display...
Is with all the "teen", "preteen" and "lolita" shit on gnutella?
I mean, fuck, all this goddamn noise makes it hard to find good, wholesome, all-american, 21-25 year old pr0n chicks.
You know, chicks that have b00b1ez?
Aside from that, I almost shat myself when I saw the top 3 search expressions:
Generally, when something pops up, it's gonna be:
a) pr0n (stupid pay site, of course)
b) credit cards
c) geoshitties/turdpod/analfire/etc
or
d) video cameras
None of which I want or need.
There will always be free content to peruse, simply because people like creating.
That said, there are somesites I would pay a small fee to read, provided I could view the site completely ad-free.
And stop bitching about XBOX just because it comes from Microsoft. Look past the freakin' name for once and see that MS might just have something good on their hands.
It doesn't matter.
I'd rather give Nintendo my money than Microsoft, just so I know my cash won't help finance a company that produces shite software and plans on extorting even more money out of users.
At least Nintendo's business practices are slightly less evil, and mostly confined to the toy market, anyway.
Besides, (IIRC)the Gamecube will cost $50-100 less, looks fucking killer, AND Nintendo is known for making some of the best games ever.
Microsoft can take their box (oh, sorry, BOX) and shove it.
Thank you for using your +1 bonus on that drivel. I appreciate you wasting my time; after all, I browse at +2 so I can see stupid, pointless comments like yours.
That doesn't change the fact that it's rendering engine still sucks sweaty donkey balls.
I can't think of one reason to keep using the dinosaur that is NS4 now that Moz is fairly stable.
Just out of curiosity, where do you live? Here (Southern California)
Outside of Denver, CO. You prolly heard a lot about my home town a couple years ago.
the racer types tend to be sticklers for doing it right. However, they also expect the same from drivers!
Well, I never said the annoying jerks were actually racers.:)
The obnoxious cyclists come from the same crowd that buys 4WD, 12MPG SUVs[1] to commute in...It's all about image.
A couple coworkers of mine actually do ride in events and such, and they *ARE* courteous and safe, but I have to be/extremely/ cautious around ALL cyclists because I just can't know if one's gonna pull something stupid.
[1] The SUV is HUGE here. Like 1 in 7 vehicles is an SUV, IIRC we have/had the highest ratio in the nation.
You'd have to define "cyclist" - the serious ones know the vehicle code, and well. It's the helmetless redneck riding facing INTO traffic running red lights you need to worry about.
Actually, most of the ones I see violating traffic laws aren't the dirty hippie types,
but the arrogant yuppie "wannabe pro" types.
They're like the riceboys of the cycling world - flashy spandex, expensive bikes, logos slapped all over themselves/their equipment...and absolutely no idea that bikes have to follow the same traffic laws as motorized vehicles do.
OK. I would happily pay $300 / month even for 9.6kbps, if it was unmetered -- I could ride my BikeE the world around with a headmounted display, a twiddler, and a solar-charged laptop in the cargo bin.
<montypython>You're a loony.</montypython>
Silliness aside, cyclers have a hard enough time obeying basic traffic guidelines
(riding on the right side of the road, signaling, etc) WITHOUT computers or cell phones.
I'd hate to have to watch out for even more traffic stupidity from this crowd.
Yes, it's a "feature". Yes, it causes the game to be unreadable by some CD-ROM drives.
I thought a feature was something that was beneficial to the user, not something that breaks standards and has the potential to make the product I bought totally useless.
SafeDisk is not a feature, it's just more consumer-unfriendly "rights" management shit that loudly and happily pisses on interoperability standards.
I believe the correct term for this is "wart" or "bug", not "feature".
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SGI says [...]
And they're absolutely right.
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Don't blame your lack of ability to setup an excellent set of drivers on the OS.
More like my lack of willingness to reconfigure, and possibly DOWNGRADE, my whole goddamned kernel, just for a game.
Why would I spend an hour (kernel config, compile, driver config, compile, etc) just to have the POS nVidia driver give me ~30sec of accelerated video before puking and locking the machine hard?
I don't consider drivers that lock up my machine to be "excellent" by any stretch of the imagination.
I know how to set up drivers, but I don't know how to debug binary-only modules.
nVidia's linux shit supposedly works pretty well with cutting-edge hardware, but, as I'm not a l33t g4m3r k1dd!e, that's not something I have, nor do I care enough to buy, when windoze works with my existing hardware.
The longer the "community" continues with the "linux is perfect" rhetoric, the less chance linux will have of becoming a decent desktop OS.
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Because Linux is not up to the task of being a gaming OS.
There are very few high-performance video drivers for linux, and the ones that do exist (nVidia)
are terribly picky about configuration.
I'm not going to spend days working on getting 3D working under X,
when I can reboot into wintendo and be playing in 5 minutes.
X itself is a PITA, mostly because it's being pushed to to things (like high-speed graphics)
that it was just never intended to do.
Loki made great software, but unfortunately, the OS support just isn't there.
I bought a copy of Q3A/linux and was never able to get it working because the nVidia drivers were
(and prolly still are, but I gave up long ago) crap.
Luckily, I was able to use the Q3 data files under win tho, so I didn't waste any money -
however, I have not bought (or even considered buying) any linux games since.
It's just too much of a hassle to deal with X and nVidia and all the associated crap.
I'm not going to recompile, downgrade, or otherwise mangle my kernel and/or system just to play a goddamn game of Quake, when I have wintendo a re-boot away.
The problem does not lie in Loki's games, but in the platform they're designed to run on.
In short, linux sucks for gaming (or any high-speed 3D task).
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BTW, why are so many Slashdotters so obsessed with drinking and partying until practically dawn?
Because it's fun?
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If ya'll can do it for free, what does Dolby have to offer anyone?
Nothing.
So fucking what. Corporations have no inherent right to exist.
If JoeBob Hacker can code up a compatible format, good for him.
Saying noone should have the right to code an AC3 CODEC is like saying Samba should be banned because it replaces NT SMB servers, or Linux should be banned because it can replace Solaris.
It's not about "open source" or "free software" it's about my freedom to code any goddamned thing I want.
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Oh, and if that was just a troll, Click Here.
It's not as if Dell machines with linux pre-installed cost $90 less.
In effect, you're still be paying for Windoze, just not getting it.
It doesn't matter anyways - linux is free, and widely available.
So Dell's not gonna install it for you anymore.
Most of the people I know (myself included) that run linux prefer to install it themeselves anyways,
so they can be assured of a reasonably stable and secure system.
I'd estimate 90+% of workstations/laptops Dell sells are destined to be windoze boxes,
so it just wasn't cost-effective for them to continue installing linux.
Not as if it matters, because someone clueful enough to consider ordering
a Linux install prolly has the skills to install it themself.
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If DTV owns the cards, then they certainly reserve the right to send anything they want to them, including signals that will 'contaminate' non-subscribed cards.
/illegal/ to decode a signal.
Oh, I have no problem with ECMs, better encryption, etc.
I say more power to 'em,
they have the right to drop any sort of signals
they like through their transmitters, and if the broadcasters can defeat the unsanctioned decoding, let them!
I just don't think it should be
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Man, I wish I got the goatse.cx channel!
All prolapsed rectums - ALL THE TIME!
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1) Pirating TV signal that is subscription based is considered a form of Theft.
I think that's bullshit.
If a signal is being broadcast onto my property (without my consent, I should add), I should have every right to recieve it and process it any way I like.
Even if that means doing something a corporation doesn't like.
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(FWIW, I don't do any unsanctioned decoding of DTV, but I think we need to take the corporate influence out of government. The problem now days is not seperation of church and state, but seperation of business and state.)
Other organizers top out at 320x320 or 320x240; while that seems to be the limit of the density we can pack into such a small surface area, I sometimes need more.
I want a PDA based on the OLED display tech IBM uses on it's "wristwatch linux" prototype...
IIRC, it's something like 700DPI(!) mono,
meaning that I could fit a lot of text on a 4x3 display...
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I am disappointed by the lack of X,
Heh. I think that's the coolest thing about AtheOS:
they're doing something NEW, not just cloning UNIX.
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Is with all the "teen", "preteen" and "lolita" shit on gnutella?
I mean, fuck, all this goddamn noise makes it hard to find good, wholesome, all-american, 21-25 year old pr0n chicks.
You know, chicks that have b00b1ez?
Aside from that, I almost shat myself when I saw the top 3 search expressions:
DiVX
Porn
(and of course)
Star Trek
Can you say NNNNNNEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRDDDDDDDDDDSSS?!
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...Just recently at Dave and Buster's.
It's a virtuacop style plastic-gun-shooter, but it can track your movements, allowing you to duck, dodge, etc.
Pretty cool stuff, but even with all this technology, they still don't make
game guns with trigger switches that feel realistic.
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A pop-up window with an ad worth clicking.
Generally, when something pops up, it's gonna be:
a) pr0n (stupid pay site, of course)
b) credit cards
c) geoshitties/turdpod/analfire/etc
or
d) video cameras
None of which I want or need.
There will always be free content to peruse, simply because people like creating.
That said, there are some sites I would pay a small fee to read, provided I could view the site completely ad-free.
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And stop bitching about XBOX just because it comes from Microsoft. Look past the freakin' name for once and see that MS might just have something good on their hands.
It doesn't matter.
I'd rather give Nintendo my money than Microsoft, just so I know my cash won't help finance a company that produces shite software and plans on extorting even more money out of users.
At least Nintendo's business practices are slightly less evil, and mostly confined to the toy market, anyway.
Besides, (IIRC)the Gamecube will cost $50-100 less, looks fucking killer, AND Nintendo is known for making some of the best games ever.
Microsoft can take their box (oh, sorry, BOX) and shove it.
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Thank you for using your +1 bonus on that drivel. I appreciate you wasting my time; after all, I browse at +2 so I can see stupid, pointless comments like yours.
Heh...I love having +1 just for that reason.
Hah-hah!
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....now we will get links to http://www.spaceport.cx/ hidden all over the place.
Yeah, and when people load up the page they'll be greeted by a picture of a gaping rocket motor nozzle...
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even Netscape 4.7 becomes rock stable
That doesn't change the fact that it's rendering engine still sucks sweaty donkey balls.
I can't think of one reason to keep using the dinosaur that is NS4 now that Moz is fairly stable.
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Just out of curiosity, where do you live? Here (Southern California)
:)
/extremely/ cautious around ALL cyclists because I just can't know if one's gonna pull something stupid.
Outside of Denver, CO. You prolly heard a lot about my home town a couple years ago.
the racer types tend to be sticklers for doing it right. However, they also expect the same from drivers!
Well, I never said the annoying jerks were actually racers.
The obnoxious cyclists come from the same crowd that buys 4WD, 12MPG SUVs[1] to commute in...It's all about image.
A couple coworkers of mine actually do ride in events and such, and they *ARE* courteous and safe, but I have to be
[1] The SUV is HUGE here. Like 1 in 7 vehicles is an SUV, IIRC we have/had the highest ratio in the nation.
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You'd have to define "cyclist" - the serious ones know the vehicle code, and well. It's the helmetless redneck riding facing INTO traffic running red lights you need to worry about.
Actually, most of the ones I see violating traffic laws aren't the dirty hippie types,
but the arrogant yuppie "wannabe pro" types.
They're like the riceboys of the cycling world - flashy spandex, expensive bikes, logos slapped all over themselves/their equipment...and absolutely no idea that bikes have to follow the same traffic laws as motorized vehicles do.
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OK. I would happily pay $300 / month even for 9.6kbps, if it was unmetered -- I could ride my BikeE the world around with a headmounted display, a twiddler, and a solar-charged laptop in the cargo bin.
<montypython>You're a loony.</montypython>
Silliness aside, cyclers have a hard enough time obeying basic traffic guidelines
(riding on the right side of the road, signaling, etc) WITHOUT computers or cell phones.
I'd hate to have to watch out for even more traffic stupidity from this crowd.
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Yes, it's a "feature". Yes, it causes the game to be unreadable by some CD-ROM drives.
I thought a feature was something that was beneficial to the user, not something that breaks standards and has the potential to make the product I bought totally useless.
SafeDisk is not a feature, it's just more consumer-unfriendly "rights" management shit that loudly and happily pisses on interoperability standards.
I believe the correct term for this is "wart" or "bug", not "feature".
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My favorite is the contraction of "Joystick" and "Nipple"...Leading to the...
JOYNIPPLE!
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Just hope it won't suck as much as "The Lost World" did!
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Ads? I find that very strange. Perhaps they meant they were going to place ads on their service's pages, do you know?
Nope, not strange at all. There are at least a couple windoze programs that have banner ads embedded into them...
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