You are correct. The only people complaining are the dippy high schoolers and college kids who grew up on Windows, found Linux, and now think they should make Unix look, feel, and operate like Windows. That's not Unix or X's purpose in life.
"This makes a huge impact on my strategizing, as I have been deliberating with my partners about whether to pursue psx2, psx1, Dreamcast or PC. We aren't even thinking about Dolphin or N64 for what are to me obvious reasons. "
And what reasons are those? Do you even know anything about the Dolphin? I'd wager that PS2, and PC would be the two losing contenders this time around. Make sure you target the two losers.
If you're looking to do a PC game and then a quick port to the XBox you're going to be disappointed. Console games are significantly different than PC games in terms of development, gameplay, marketing, etc... Even M$ knows this and has said they don't want ports - they want games developed _for_ a console context...
So you think that they should release an inferior product on secondary platform so that their _paying_ customers can sit around with broken software and slog through weeks/months of gdb sessions trying to simply FIND the problem, then another few weeks/months of analyzing the source-code so that they can understand it well enough to make a good fix?? Please, for the love of God, whatever you do don't go into business. I can't believe you people still _believe_ that anyone is going to want to do this. If you _pay_ for software it should work. If it breaks, the company should fix it. You think everyone will want to do this. Have _you_ ever paid for broken software and spent the time learning, debugging, patching, and then submitting? Who has the time for this? Every minute you spend trying to fix someone else's broken software is costing your company money. So now you're not only paying for broken software, but essentially you're paying to fix it also. Additionally, I think linux users are perhaps more capable at being clooless since the clooless form a larger percentage of the user base.
If you already own 100 Playstation games, most likely you already own a PLAYSTATION and can still play your games ANYWAY. Buying a PS2 simply because it's a PS2 and can play your old Playstation games is a dumb reason for buying one. Also, _not_ buying an XBox simply because it won't play your old Playstation games is just as dumb. I suggest you check out the actual power of each system and then decide. The more and more I learn about the PS2, the more and more I want a Dolphin and XBox.
I can always find what I'm looking for, pay for what I've found, and find my way out of WalMart. Maybe WalMart is just too advanced for you. Start simpler, maybe try 7-11. There's only 4 or 5 aisles and the cash register is always visible.
I'm saying that just because a technique is proven doesn't make it good. The technique of chopping down a tree with a handmade copper axe probably got people by for 1000 years, so why invent a chainsaw?
Linux is modelled after Unix which was designed for the "developers" of the 1970's. So I guess Linux is okay if you like using development methods that are now 30 years old.
You may inherit the code, but you also inherit all the bugs, all the gameplay, and all the limitations. There's a _reason_ why Quake engine games are so easy to spot. You can't just keep regurgitating the same old engine over and over again. You lose big points for unoriginality because it's essentially the same fucking game over and over again, just a different face... Unless you modify the engine so heavily that you can't tell it from the original. But if you're going to do that, why not just create a new, better engine anyway?
"They" can do whatever they want. They're their chips. They don't owe you SMP. Why don't you start your own processor company and make cheap multi-processor systems and come back and tell us how easy it is....
I think most people do it for status. If you think about it, all the money you spend on extra cooling, added electricity, new cases, etc... doesn't really buy you any more processing power than spending $100 and upgrading the CPU. But with that $100 upgrade, you can't brag about how hardcore you are. It's kind of like souping up your car. So you've installed fancy headers, carbs, turbos, intakes, and now you have a 500hp monster car. But what good does that do you? How often do you really _need_ to go 180mph? Unless of course you're into drag-racing which is ALL (99%) about competition and status... You can also buy stock ~500hp cars and not spend one minute working on it, but you don't get to brag because any chump with $100,000 can buy a car like that, but it actually takes some skill to do it yourself...
Napster's entire business model is based on their users pirating music. Even their executives admit it. If every artist subitted to Napster a list of accounts that traded their music illegally and had those users banned, Napster would quickly run out of users! Banning and then re-subscribing users validates this. If they don't re-subscribe them then they run out of users. They know it. You know it. Suck it down.
You're forgetting that to the Linux-zealot, any criticism of Linus Torvalds is heresy and will get you burned at the stake. Welcome to the religion of the future.
I would recommend Motif or a Motif based framework. While programming in Motif isn't the most pleasant experience, it is extremely portable. Nearly every major OS has a Motif implementation.
Neither. What's really driving this is you morons who blatantly and _publicly_ steal from the record companies and artists. If you had any sense at all you would conduct all your illegal business over _private_ channels instead of in plain sight of the people who will seek to destroy you.
There are laws against that obviously (but remember that there didn't used to be). There are no laws against monitoring network traffic, however. It doesn't matter if you like it or not. They _can_ do it. You _know_ they can do it. Thus if you send private data over the Internet and they log it, nobody forced you to do it and you _knew_ they could monitor it so you can't whine about it. My advice would be, if you really don't like people monitoring your traffic, stop using the Internet and wait until it is illegal for them to monitor (you may be waiting a while). OR find an ISP who guarantees via contract that they won't monitor traffic. Your pocketbook has just as much power (maybe more) than your vote. OR take some responsibility yourself and just stop sending sensitive info over the frigging Internet, or encrypt it. Duh.
Yes they can. They can read all your email. They can sniff out all your passwords. They can do almost _anything_ they want to the traffic that passes through _their_ network. If your ISP does in fact do this, there's nothing you can do about it, except stop giving them your business. Most ISP's offer a contract that says they won't monitor the traffic unless the FBI asks them to or whatnot. If they break this contract then you have legal recourse. Otherwise you're SOL. Find a new ISP...
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Or maybe a NES emulator written for the Playstation running on Bleem ported to NetBSD running on Dreamcast.
You are correct. The only people complaining are the dippy high schoolers and college kids who grew up on Windows, found Linux, and now think they should make Unix look, feel, and operate like Windows. That's not Unix or X's purpose in life.
"This makes a huge impact on my strategizing, as I have been deliberating with my partners about whether to pursue psx2, psx1, Dreamcast or PC. We aren't even thinking about Dolphin or N64 for what are to me obvious reasons. "
And what reasons are those? Do you even know anything about the Dolphin? I'd wager that PS2, and PC would be the two losing contenders this time around. Make sure you target the two losers.
If you're looking to do a PC game and then a quick port to the XBox you're going to be disappointed. Console games are significantly different than PC games in terms of development, gameplay, marketing, etc... Even M$ knows this and has said they don't want ports - they want games developed _for_ a console context...
So you think that they should release an inferior product on secondary platform so that their _paying_ customers can sit around with broken software and slog through weeks/months of gdb sessions trying to simply FIND the problem, then another few weeks/months of analyzing the source-code so that they can understand it well enough to make a good fix?? Please, for the love of God, whatever you do don't go into business.
I can't believe you people still _believe_ that anyone is going to want to do this. If you _pay_ for software it should work. If it breaks, the company should fix it.
You think everyone will want to do this. Have _you_ ever paid for broken software and spent the time learning, debugging, patching, and then submitting? Who has the time for this? Every minute you spend trying to fix someone else's broken software is costing your company money. So now you're not only paying for broken software, but essentially you're paying to fix it also.
Additionally, I think linux users are perhaps more capable at being clooless since the clooless form a larger percentage of the user base.
If you already own 100 Playstation games, most likely you already own a PLAYSTATION and can still play your games ANYWAY. Buying a PS2 simply because it's a PS2 and can play your old Playstation games is a dumb reason for buying one. Also, _not_ buying an XBox simply because it won't play your old Playstation games is just as dumb. I suggest you check out the actual power of each system and then decide. The more and more I learn about the PS2, the more and more I want a Dolphin and XBox.
I can always find what I'm looking for, pay for what I've found, and find my way out of WalMart. Maybe WalMart is just too advanced for you. Start simpler, maybe try 7-11. There's only 4 or 5 aisles and the cash register is always visible.
I'm saying that just because a technique is proven doesn't make it good. The technique of chopping down a tree with a handmade copper axe probably got people by for 1000 years, so why invent a chainsaw?
Linux is modelled after Unix which was designed for the "developers" of the 1970's. So I guess Linux is okay if you like using development methods that are now 30 years old.
Try running Maya on your Voodoo3...
You may inherit the code, but you also inherit all the bugs, all the gameplay, and all the limitations. There's a _reason_ why Quake engine games are so easy to spot. You can't just keep regurgitating the same old engine over and over again. You lose big points for unoriginality because it's essentially the same fucking game over and over again, just a different face... Unless you modify the engine so heavily that you can't tell it from the original. But if you're going to do that, why not just create a new, better engine anyway?
Yea, god forbid you have to actually pay for your music...
"They" can do whatever they want. They're their chips. They don't owe you SMP. Why don't you start your own processor company and make cheap multi-processor systems and come back and tell us how easy it is....
I think most people do it for status. If you think about it, all the money you spend on extra cooling, added electricity, new cases, etc... doesn't really buy you any more processing power than spending $100 and upgrading the CPU. But with that $100 upgrade, you can't brag about how hardcore you are. It's kind of like souping up your car. So you've installed fancy headers, carbs, turbos, intakes, and now you have a 500hp monster car. But what good does that do you? How often do you really _need_ to go 180mph? Unless of course you're into drag-racing which is ALL (99%) about competition and status... You can also buy stock ~500hp cars and not spend one minute working on it, but you don't get to brag because any chump with $100,000 can buy a car like that, but it actually takes some skill to do it yourself...
I think C makes me extremely resitable to women.
Maybe you can give me a list of open-source operating systems as good as BeOS that were developed from scratch, and not just cheap Unix imitations.
BTW, your "for" loop is an infinite loop. Way to go open-source!
Uhh, let me get this straight. You want to buy a 128-bit Sega Dreamcast so that you can play 4 and 8-bit games from the 1980's?
Napster's entire business model is based on their users pirating music. Even their executives admit it. If every artist subitted to Napster a list of accounts that traded their music illegally and had those users banned, Napster would quickly run out of users! Banning and then re-subscribing users validates this. If they don't re-subscribe them then they run out of users. They know it. You know it. Suck it down.
You're forgetting that to the Linux-zealot, any criticism of Linus Torvalds is heresy and will get you burned at the stake. Welcome to the religion of the future.
Who the hell is Linux?
I would recommend Motif or a Motif based framework. While programming in Motif isn't the most pleasant experience, it is extremely portable. Nearly every major OS has a Motif implementation.
"When I first installed Linux, I instantly realized it was superior to Windows"
Simply because it initialized your sound card, it is superior? Too bad the whole computer industry doesn't have such low standards.
Neither. What's really driving this is you morons who blatantly and _publicly_ steal from the record companies and artists. If you had any sense at all you would conduct all your illegal business over _private_ channels instead of in plain sight of the people who will seek to destroy you.
There are laws against that obviously (but remember that there didn't used to be). There are no laws against monitoring network traffic, however. It doesn't matter if you like it or not. They _can_ do it. You _know_ they can do it. Thus if you send private data over the Internet and they log it, nobody forced you to do it and you _knew_ they could monitor it so you can't whine about it. My advice would be, if you really don't like people monitoring your traffic, stop using the Internet and wait until it is illegal for them to monitor (you may be waiting a while). OR find an ISP who guarantees via contract that they won't monitor traffic. Your pocketbook has just as much power (maybe more) than your vote. OR take some responsibility yourself and just stop sending sensitive info over the frigging Internet, or encrypt it. Duh.
Yes they can. They can read all your email. They can sniff out all your passwords. They can do almost _anything_ they want to the traffic that passes through _their_ network. If your ISP does in fact do this, there's nothing you can do about it, except stop giving them your business. Most ISP's offer a contract that says they won't monitor the traffic unless the FBI asks them to or whatnot. If they break this contract then you have legal recourse. Otherwise you're SOL. Find a new ISP...
That's why Michigan isn't in Scandinavia.