The games aren't being manufactured anymore. LucasArts isn't getting money for the SCUMM games, anymore. The only person getting money is the guy that gave you his used copy of the game for $2.
MS Articles are either "BSOD bug! Hurray!" or "MS Tries to fix a bug, so lets bitch about it" or "MS Overhauls system to make it better, so lets bitch about it!"
I've written it once, and I'll write it again:
Slashdot users hate MS cause it crashes
Slashdot users hate MS cause its insecure
Slashdot users hate it when MS tries to fix crashes
Slashdot users hate it when MS tries to fix security
Most slashdot users that complain are "going with the flow" of what everyone else is saying, especially those that haven't even used an MS product in years!
I truely believe that if MS opened its source, BSD style license, 90% of slashdot users wouldn't touch it, even if the open source community fixed everything.
Its like trying to convert a fundamentalist creationist to evolution or vice versa.
Oh, and if you are calling me a troll cause I'm thinking against the "slashdot think", then guilty as charged.
Which is why its too bad that Microsoft hasn't ever done much of it.
What, exactly, is Longhorn immitating?
Microsoft tends to copy ideas poorly.
Like MS Office? Honestly, I find it the best all-around office suite out there. Sure, they copied the old word processors and spreadsheets and stuff, but did a good job making it userfriendly, and a nice product.
You sound like the whole point of Longhorn is to give Linux the big F-U. Honestly, that might be a side-thought, but the main thought is to improve their OS. You guys bitch and moan about BSOD, but when they say, "OK, lets overhaul the bastard from scratch, and make it better" all you can say is, "but it won't be compatible with..."
Some how, I think the open source community will be able to make a new version of samba (or another app altogether) that will be compatible with Longhorn before it becomes popular. If there is a need for it, the open source community will eventually get it out.
Since sites like slashdot don't like to give out their statistics, I'd like to ask, what percent of users use what web browser? Also, what percent of users use what OS?
And d/l the Java & J2EE SDK, run on Linux with Apache, Jakarta's Tomcat, JBoss, and use an open source DB like postgres or mySQL.
There are full open source options for J2EE (in fact, I have been toying the idea of making a weblogging program similar to slashcode or scoop with J2EE, under the GPL, of course).
And as a side note, J2EE on windows, linux, unix, or mac isn't different, you know. Did this article just get approved cause it has a tutorial in linux? The only thing that you'll have to deal with is installing the side software in linux (websphere, essentially).
My concern is simply this, I have seen A LOT of Id bashing these past few weeks since E3. Frankly, the PA guys aren't helping much with the whole "I wish they would make a game out of the engine sometime" attitude
My understanding is the PA guys did watch the demo, and they thought it was a standard DM FPS.
I don't care if its playable or not, but just adding prettier graphics to a DM FPS is crap. The gaming community doesn't want that, they want SUBSTANCE. Innovation is about to get a second wind in the gaming industry (and I mean innovation in game play, not graphic engines). Just watch.
But when they try to install Windows software on their shiny new computers, we should laugh at them. The same way that 'hillbillies', as people have called them, would laugh at you if you put the wrong fuel mixture in your chainsaw. Read and learn, or be a fool. There is no excuse for ignorance, and it doesn't take much brainwork to figure out what kind of operating system you are running. Read the fucking manual.
Before I say anything, I must tell you, that if this is a troll it was well written.
Instead of writing a whole schpeel about how your "eye for an eye" attitude is pointless and silly, and how you think that the best way is to even, instead of giving linux a good reputation, I'll simply say: Your elitest attitude is why linux will never be the major operating system.
Helping the users is what we need, but it sounds like you're the type of person that doesn't want them using it in the first place. Gotta be better than them some how, eh?
When the customer buys the PC and goes to the computer software section and picks up MS Word for their kids, cause they need to type up papers (or games to play, etc...), and it doesn't install on their new shiny boxes, what are they going to think?
When they want to get online, and put in the AOL CD they got in the mail, and nothing happens, what are their impression of Linux?
Software is what makes windows big. Its how they stomped Mac. Is your average Wal-Mart shopper going to be able to know to pick up linux software, and will they be able to install it by themselves?
I'm not going anti-linux, pro-ms, I'm just getting you people to think before patting yourselves on the back.
a way to pressure governmental agencies to switch to software other than that from Microsoft
Isn't "pressuring people to do things" what got MS into trouble in the first place? Do you want linux pressured onto people? Wouldn't you rather they made the choice on better terms?
Microsoft's time to patch a remote hole where the attacker can gain complete access to your computer: two months. Open Source's time to patch a much less serious bug where the attacker can merely crash your computer: three days.
Give michael some credit. He stated two facts. I can eat an apple in 2 minutes and an orange in 5 minutes. The facts just don't rationally coordinate with each other, thats all;-)
It isn't that bad. I went through college from 1995-2000, and had a graphing calculator, but only used it for mulitplication and division of numbers that were large. Yeah, I'm lazy like that, but in hindsight I wish I would just bought a simple solarpowered little calculator, which woulda saved me over $100.
Sure, when perl was booming, CGI was all about the web, but now-a-days you find more PHP in use than perl for quick projects (or ASP for IIS users), and ColdFusion or J2EE for large web apps (I prefer J2EE with struts and taglibs, as they are cleaner).
Hate to sound like a "*BSD is Dead" troll, but CGI is a dying breed (NOT PERL, just CGI). I'd suggest skipping this book in lew of a more popular web-app language.
I thought Pro/E was simply a file format standard for drafting and design. I also thought the standard was open. Why hasn't an open source project undergone making a CAD program that read/wrote Pro/E files? Is the need that little?
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Java, on anything other than sparc hardware, is utterly slow and bulky.
How true this was in 1998. But after Java1.2 came out (we're on java 1.4 atm), its been compairable to C++.
I can't stand it when people talk about how slow java is. When was the last time you coded any java?
might result in someone PURCHASING OUR PRODUCT!!!
The games aren't being manufactured anymore. LucasArts isn't getting money for the SCUMM games, anymore. The only person getting money is the guy that gave you his used copy of the game for $2.
Bank! Pray tell. Did you know these poor cash machines?!?
Now that's a fantastic idea. You're gaming machine with your TiVo in one box.
I'm a person that has both and wouldn't mind them together.
Who said copying and putting stuff together isn't innovation?
Follow a microsoft bashing article with software to run your iPod on Windows?
You guys kill me!
The OS will know more about you... this scares me.
Agreed, but this isn't what I'm arguing about (I just hope I can turn that "feature" off).
I'm serious.
MS Articles are either "BSOD bug! Hurray!" or "MS Tries to fix a bug, so lets bitch about it" or "MS Overhauls system to make it better, so lets bitch about it!"
I've written it once, and I'll write it again:
Slashdot users hate MS cause it crashes
Slashdot users hate MS cause its insecure
Slashdot users hate it when MS tries to fix crashes
Slashdot users hate it when MS tries to fix security
Most slashdot users that complain are "going with the flow" of what everyone else is saying, especially those that haven't even used an MS product in years!
I truely believe that if MS opened its source, BSD style license, 90% of slashdot users wouldn't touch it, even if the open source community fixed everything.
Its like trying to convert a fundamentalist creationist to evolution or vice versa.
Oh, and if you are calling me a troll cause I'm thinking against the "slashdot think", then guilty as charged.
The real question is, "What do Windows users think? Will it switch them?"
Which is why its too bad that Microsoft hasn't ever done much of it.
What, exactly, is Longhorn immitating?
Microsoft tends to copy ideas poorly.
Like MS Office? Honestly, I find it the best all-around office suite out there. Sure, they copied the old word processors and spreadsheets and stuff, but did a good job making it userfriendly, and a nice product.
If the open source community has nothing like it, then lets point out all the flaws to make ourselves not feel so jealous.
Cry me a river.
..."
You sound like the whole point of Longhorn is to give Linux the big F-U. Honestly, that might be a side-thought, but the main thought is to improve their OS. You guys bitch and moan about BSOD, but when they say, "OK, lets overhaul the bastard from scratch, and make it better" all you can say is, "but it won't be compatible with
Some how, I think the open source community will be able to make a new version of samba (or another app altogether) that will be compatible with Longhorn before it becomes popular. If there is a need for it, the open source community will eventually get it out.
Bottom line: Innovation is not a bad thing.
Since sites like slashdot don't like to give out their statistics, I'd like to ask, what percent of users use what web browser? Also, what percent of users use what OS?
Whats the google language of choice for web page building. I'd assume speed is the most important, so what language makes google so fast?
And d/l the Java & J2EE SDK, run on Linux with Apache, Jakarta's Tomcat, JBoss, and use an open source DB like postgres or mySQL.
There are full open source options for J2EE (in fact, I have been toying the idea of making a weblogging program similar to slashcode or scoop with J2EE, under the GPL, of course).
And as a side note, J2EE on windows, linux, unix, or mac isn't different, you know. Did this article just get approved cause it has a tutorial in linux? The only thing that you'll have to deal with is installing the side software in linux (websphere, essentially).
My concern is simply this, I have seen A LOT of Id bashing these past few weeks since E3. Frankly, the PA guys aren't helping much with the whole "I wish they would make a game out of the engine sometime" attitude
My understanding is the PA guys did watch the demo, and they thought it was a standard DM FPS.
I don't care if its playable or not, but just adding prettier graphics to a DM FPS is crap. The gaming community doesn't want that, they want SUBSTANCE. Innovation is about to get a second wind in the gaming industry (and I mean innovation in game play, not graphic engines). Just watch.
But when they try to install Windows software on their shiny new computers, we should laugh at them. The same way that 'hillbillies', as people have called them, would laugh at you if you put the wrong fuel mixture in your chainsaw. Read and learn, or be a fool. There is no excuse for ignorance, and it doesn't take much brainwork to figure out what kind of operating system you are running. Read the fucking manual.
Before I say anything, I must tell you, that if this is a troll it was well written.
Instead of writing a whole schpeel about how your "eye for an eye" attitude is pointless and silly, and how you think that the best way is to even, instead of giving linux a good reputation, I'll simply say:
Your elitest attitude is why linux will never be the major operating system.
Helping the users is what we need, but it sounds like you're the type of person that doesn't want them using it in the first place. Gotta be better than them some how, eh?
When the customer buys the PC and goes to the computer software section and picks up MS Word for their kids, cause they need to type up papers (or games to play, etc...), and it doesn't install on their new shiny boxes, what are they going to think?
When they want to get online, and put in the AOL CD they got in the mail, and nothing happens, what are their impression of Linux?
Software is what makes windows big. Its how they stomped Mac. Is your average Wal-Mart shopper going to be able to know to pick up linux software, and will they be able to install it by themselves?
I'm not going anti-linux, pro-ms, I'm just getting you people to think before patting yourselves on the back.
Ever tried to by a tape of your favorite new album?
a way to pressure governmental agencies to switch to software other than that from Microsoft
Isn't "pressuring people to do things" what got MS into trouble in the first place? Do you want linux pressured onto people? Wouldn't you rather they made the choice on better terms?
This is why most OS projects are done as a hobby, not as a job. You give back to the community on your own time, but still put food on the table.
Microsoft's time to patch a remote hole where the attacker can gain complete access to your computer: two months. Open Source's time to patch a much less serious bug where the attacker can merely crash your computer: three days.
;-)
Give michael some credit. He stated two facts. I can eat an apple in 2 minutes and an orange in 5 minutes. The facts just don't rationally coordinate with each other, thats all
It isn't that bad. I went through college from 1995-2000, and had a graphing calculator, but only used it for mulitplication and division of numbers that were large. Yeah, I'm lazy like that, but in hindsight I wish I would just bought a simple solarpowered little calculator, which woulda saved me over $100.
Sure, when perl was booming, CGI was all about the web, but now-a-days you find more PHP in use than perl for quick projects (or ASP for IIS users), and ColdFusion or J2EE for large web apps (I prefer J2EE with struts and taglibs, as they are cleaner).
Hate to sound like a "*BSD is Dead" troll, but CGI is a dying breed (NOT PERL, just CGI). I'd suggest skipping this book in lew of a more popular web-app language.
I thought Pro/E was simply a file format standard for drafting and design. I also thought the standard was open. Why hasn't an open source project undergone making a CAD program that read/wrote Pro/E files? Is the need that little?
I'd find it even more clever if they put subliminal messages in the repeated tracks. Way to use technology against people to do your evil bidding ;-)