I ordered Tribes2 bundle from you last week, and I think I'll be ordering more games from you in the future. And it just so happens I ordered from you b/c Loki has made it clear that we can better support Linux gaming buy buying from their resellers (like yourself).
How much testing would you consider enough for production? Just about every unix service created has had some for of security problem, and it can happen years after it was originally created (bind/ftp/dns/yadayadayada).
Bugs won't show up until people are actually using things in production. If everyone takes the 'wait and see' approach, then it will just take longer for the developers to find the bugs.
Look how many put the last vulnerable version of wu-ftpd into production. I don't think a 'wait and see' would have helped that situation out much.
My favorite part about Ultima 7 was you could go to the casino in Buccaneer's Den and play roulette. After you spun, you could move your money to other squares, and it would still pay you if you won! I would:
Put 100 gold on a color
Wait until the wheel slowed and place the 100 on the most likely color.
I'd win 6x(+) what I put down, so I then had 600 gold to work with.
Gold got pretty heavy, so i disovered that you could place barrels between seats of the magic carpet, so I always had money on hand:)
The American plane was flying in an area that the Americans claim is International airspace. The Chinese claim that it was Chinese airspace. The conflict was not about where the plane was, but about who Really owns it.
That's not a very good argument. Apparently all countries have agreed upon 12 miles off their coast as being theirs. China is claiming more than that. By your logic if a Chinese plane files 100 miles off the coast of California we can shoot it down and claim it was fair game. I think that most countries would agree that the US was flying over International waters.
The US plane was intercepting electronic communications originating in China, i.e. spying.
One definition of spying (from Dictionary.com) defines spying as: One who secretly keeps watch on another or others.
They always knew were we there. We didn't have to hide, b/c we were in International waters. No secret here. Perhaps you could call it spying if they didn't know we were there (ie by sending something a tad more stealthy than the 4 prop job they sent to do their routine recon flights..
but the americans are sufficiently outside the recognized territory, that they can't do much other than make sure the american know that they know.....
So are you now saying that China is recognizing that the US was over International waters??
The americans decide to teach the fighter pilot a lesson and do a little wing waggle or the like to give him a scare. Nobody here has ever had the temptation to pull on their car's emergency brake while some idiot is tailgating, right?
The only people tempted to pull emergency brakes on a tailgater are the irresponsible ones. Perhaps that seems logical to you, but for something like organized military it makes no sense at all.
That being said, there wer 24 people on board that plane. That's alot of lives at stake.. You shouldn't base your thoughts on Top Gun.:)
The American public, due to cultural reasons and media induced propaganda won't stand for an apology, as it was obviously solely the responsibility of the Chinese pilot. I have heard no mention of the acceptability of the spying mission.
This is nonsense. If our fighters were flying around a big, slow Chineses plane and a collision occured, I'd be highly suspicious that our guy caused the collision. At any rate, if we thought that we were at fault, we would have apologized. We most certainly wouldn't hold someone for a mere 'apology'.
My guess is that the Fighter jock was trying to scare the bejesus out of the americans, and the americans reacted somewhat predictably.
I haven't heard anyone, from either sides, claim this.
Predictably? WTF? Maybe in a movie.
I don't think the US could say anything really, unless they were flying IN ther US.
The US would say something if they flew on US territory.
My opinion of the whole China-US standoff fiasco is that China send fighters to antagonize the US plane (since the plane wasn't trespassing, etc) and the Chinese fighter got too aggressive.. A fighter that was flying within a resonable distance from the US plane could have easily avoided it. If the fighter was getting REALLY close to the US plane, then maybe the fighter wouldn't have had time to react (which is his own fault).
Whatever. At any rate, the US plane was over international waters, an accident happened, and the plane HAD to land. The only thing that really makes it an issue is that China claims that the US plane was at fault, so now China has a reason to inspect the US plane. I'm sure the Chinese military looks at this as a big win for them.
This is akin to the "American dream".
The only references I hear anymore to the "American Dream" are from people like you, who are spouting their country's anti-American
propoganda..
tell Chinese they should return their spies,
Do you believe everything you hear on the news?
As someone stated above, they are not spies. If you want a good example of spying is you search for "China steals nuclear secrets" on google.. Not THAT'S spying. Flying a recon. plane on the border of a country isn't spying.
bomb sadam
And that's a bad thing? If Slashdot existed during WWII, you'd probably be bitching b/c the US was picking on the Nazi party too, right? Perhaps we should have kept to ourselves then too.
As for Germany considering intefering in foreign issues, well the US is doing it, why can't we?
You sound like a baby.
It's not about interfereing in foreign issues, it's about the tolerance for the good of the planet. You missed the what people are trying to say in this thread.
I hope that hot head Bush sends in a rescue mission into China to rescue the US "hostages" and gets his ass kicked with a warhead on the WhiteHouse.
You sound like a very nice person.
If I was as rude as you I would reply with something like "I hope you die from Mad Cow's Disease!!", but I won't..
Any companies in the US producing software/hardware that violates their
patent will have to pay royalties to Walid.
Last time I checked, the Internet was created here and most of the Internet population is located here. I don't think relocating the standards body is going to help us Americans out much.
What you all seem to say that even if the IETF was in Europe, USA would still be blocking the progress.. And thats EXACTLY what I'm pissed off about.
How can people think like that? I mean, just because over 50% of the Internet exists in the US doesn't mean the US should be considered when forming standards? (yes that was sarcastic)
Let's see in general. The majority of the world doesn't live in USA; but most of the money is in USA
Please accept my humble apology for my country's financial success. I'm sorry that you hold that against me.
In pure capitalism that means that USA has the control over the majority.
Well, you should be OK then b/c you don't live in a capalist society, right?
Somehow I don't think that it is fair.... but nobody can do anything about it.
That's nonsense. You can do everything about it. Your population can do everything about it. If your government is in the way, then you need to fix your government. In the end, it's all up to you and if you say otherwise without acting then you're just whining.
Now, that being said, can we do to make your life better? Would you like us to switch governments because we are making too much money this way? Would you like US citizens to pay a "World Fairness" tax so that we make sure we don't have too much money? What major US companies should we reloacte to your country? Please, let us know what we can do to make you happy!
"But it will be far too difficult for the average user. For them, the CD-ROM in their computer - the nemesis of the recording industry - just won't play our CDs."
Average users don't rip their own MP3's.
Most people ripping already know how to use a search engine to find a CD ripper. How hard will it be for them to find one that copys protected CD's?
How is making copying more difficult for 90% of a Napster population going to prevent those 90% from downloading a song from the other 10%'s hard drives?
This is a lost cause, and this is only going to affect the people who actually buy the CD. I don't see how this will keep copy protected CD's from showing up on Napster.
I'm working on a project whose goal is to create a game that gives a similar feel to the older Ultima games (3-6). There isn't much code yet but I'm looking for interested people who want to help out. It's being written in Python/SDL. You can find the very modest page for the project here.
I don't want to do a rip-off of an existing game, but would instead like to produce a game that had some of the mystique that the older Ultima's had. Huge worlds, lots of monsters, lack of a cheesy plot, etc.
Even though Linux has a CLI like DOS did, you are not supposed to just turn your computer off when you are done. You are supposed to shutdown properly, otherwise when you reboot Linux will have to fsck your disks, which can be a time-consuming process.
Take my advice, shutdown properly, it'll increase your Linux boot time 3 fold!
I got UO to run months ago under Wine. It didn't quite run as fast as the native version at that time, but it ran, with sound and everything. I'd be interested to see how well it runs now since much progress has been made since then.
Bad publicity is still publicity. It's better for Microsoft's marketing team to bash Linux than to not consider Linux as a threat at all (which was done before.) In the end, people are hearing about an alternate OS. IMHO this is good.
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No, no, you missed it again!
#include < stdio.h>
//I wonder if they'll include this one, which is just like all Linux programs known to man:
main()
{
printf("Segmentation Fault; Core Dumped.\n");// Don't forget to terminate your statements!!!
}
HAND
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WTF are you some kind of wuss?
Real men use telnet: It comes with everything, it's super lightweight, and I don't get all those stupid graphics and ads.. Sure, it takes some getting used to with having to parse HTML in your head, in real time, but it really does make browsing much better.
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I understood the concept of 'games' for as long as I remember what game was.
Why did I recieve hate emails with threats to my life after my K5 post?
Are you insinuating Loki sent you personal threats after you posted a negative comment about them??
Hey, ignore the trolls!
I ordered Tribes2 bundle from you last week, and I think I'll be ordering more games from you in the future. And it just so happens I ordered from you b/c Loki has made it clear that we can better support Linux gaming buy buying from their resellers (like yourself).
Also, how soon can we get Kohan?
Thanks!
How much testing would you consider enough for production?
Just about every unix service created has had some for of security problem, and it can happen years after it was originally created (bind/ftp/dns/yadayadayada).
Bugs won't show up until people are actually using things in production.
If everyone takes the 'wait and see' approach, then it will just take longer for the developers to find the bugs.
Look how many put the last vulnerable version of wu-ftpd into production. I don't think a 'wait and see' would have helped that situation out much.
I like your logic:
Linux distribution = osA for osB.
Bravo!
Gold got pretty heavy, so i disovered that you could place barrels between seats of the magic carpet, so I always had money on hand
Yes, I think 6 is my favorite too.
:) Glass swords were pretty fun to have.
I remember wandering around for hours, discovering new places and people..
Remember the Armagedon spell? If you cast it it would kill EVERYONE, and IIRC Lord British too!
I did do a little cheating here and there.. (SPAM SPAM SPAM HUMBUG!)
I used to play that game on my old Tandy 1000 HX on DD Floppyies. The good ole' days!
What a great game that was. Perhaps one day I'll get cracking on my Ultima project..
That's not a very good argument. Apparently all countries have agreed upon 12 miles off their coast as being theirs. China is claiming more than that. By your logic if a Chinese plane files 100 miles off the coast of California we can shoot it down and claim it was fair game. I think that most countries would agree that the US was flying over International waters.
The US plane was intercepting electronic communications originating in China, i.e. spying.
One definition of spying (from Dictionary.com) defines spying as: One who secretly keeps watch on another or others.
They always knew were we there. We didn't have to hide, b/c we were in International waters. No secret here. Perhaps you could call it spying if they didn't know we were there (ie by sending something a tad more stealthy than the 4 prop job they sent to do their routine recon flights..
but the americans are sufficiently outside the recognized territory, that they can't do much other than make sure the american know that they know.....
So are you now saying that China is recognizing that the US was over International waters??
The americans decide to teach the fighter pilot a lesson and do a little wing waggle or the like to give him a scare. Nobody here has ever had the temptation to pull on their car's emergency brake while some idiot is tailgating, right?
The only people tempted to pull emergency brakes on a tailgater are the irresponsible ones. Perhaps that seems logical to you, but for something like organized military it makes no sense at all. :)
That being said, there wer 24 people on board that plane. That's alot of lives at stake.. You shouldn't base your thoughts on Top Gun.
The American public, due to cultural reasons and media induced propaganda won't stand for an apology, as it was obviously solely the responsibility of the Chinese pilot. I have heard no mention of the acceptability of the spying mission.
This is nonsense. If our fighters were flying around a big, slow Chineses plane and a collision occured, I'd be highly suspicious that our guy caused the collision. At any rate, if we thought that we were at fault, we would have apologized. We most certainly wouldn't hold someone for a mere 'apology'.
My guess is that the Fighter jock was trying to scare the bejesus out of the americans, and the americans reacted somewhat predictably.
I haven't heard anyone, from either sides, claim this.
Predictably? WTF? Maybe in a movie.
Yes, I think we would send them back to China, especially if WE caused the collision.
This is funny, because it sounds like the old "Why use Linux, b/c the major players have gone with XYZ ?" argument.
The answer is because it does what you want it to do, because you like it.
I don't think the US could say anything really, unless they were flying IN ther US.
The US would say something if they flew on US territory.
My opinion of the whole China-US standoff fiasco is that China send fighters to antagonize the US plane (since the plane wasn't trespassing, etc) and the Chinese fighter got too aggressive.. A fighter that was flying within a resonable distance from the US plane could have easily avoided it. If the fighter was getting REALLY close to the US plane, then maybe the fighter wouldn't have had time to react (which is his own fault).
Whatever. At any rate, the US plane was over international waters, an accident happened, and the plane HAD to land. The only thing that really makes it an issue is that China claims that the US plane was at fault, so now China has a reason to inspect the US plane. I'm sure the Chinese military looks at this as a big win for them.
Why would China send recon planes along our coast? They're too busy stealing other technologies from us.
This is akin to the "American dream".
The only references I hear anymore to the "American Dream" are from people like you, who are spouting their country's anti-American
propoganda..
tell Chinese they should return their spies,
Do you believe everything you hear on the news?
As someone stated above, they are not spies. If you want a good example of spying is you search for "China steals nuclear secrets" on google.. Not THAT'S spying. Flying a recon. plane on the border of a country isn't spying.
bomb sadam
And that's a bad thing? If Slashdot existed during WWII, you'd probably be bitching b/c the US was picking on the Nazi party too, right? Perhaps we should have kept to ourselves then too.
As for Germany considering intefering in foreign issues, well the US is doing it, why can't we?
You sound like a baby.
It's not about interfereing in foreign issues, it's about the tolerance for the good of the planet. You missed the what people are trying to say in this thread.
I hope that hot head Bush sends in a rescue mission into China to rescue the US "hostages" and gets his ass kicked with a warhead on the WhiteHouse.
You sound like a very nice person.
If I was as rude as you I would reply with something like "I hope you die from Mad Cow's Disease!!", but I won't..
Any companies in the US producing software/hardware that violates their patent will have to pay royalties to Walid.
Last time I checked, the Internet was created here and most of the Internet population is located here. I don't think relocating the standards body is going to help us Americans out much.
What you all seem to say that even if the IETF was in Europe, USA would still be blocking the progress.. And thats EXACTLY what I'm pissed off about.
How can people think like that? I mean, just because over 50% of the Internet exists in the US doesn't mean the US should be considered when forming standards? (yes that was sarcastic)
Let's see in general. The majority of the world doesn't live in USA; but most of the money is in USA
Please accept my humble apology for my country's financial success. I'm sorry that you hold that against me.
In pure capitalism that means that USA has the control over the majority.
Well, you should be OK then b/c you don't live in a capalist society, right?
Somehow I don't think that it is fair.... but nobody can do anything about it.
That's nonsense. You can do everything about it. Your population can do everything about it. If your government is in the way, then you need to fix your government. In the end, it's all up to you and if you say otherwise without acting then you're just whining.
Now, that being said, can we do to make your life better? Would you like us to switch governments because we are making too much money this way? Would you like US citizens to pay a "World Fairness" tax so that we make sure we don't have too much money? What major US companies should we reloacte to your country? Please, let us know what we can do to make you happy!
This is a lost cause, and this is only going to affect the people who actually buy the CD. I don't see how this will keep copy protected CD's from showing up on Napster.
I'm working on a project whose goal is to create a game that gives a similar feel to the older Ultima games (3-6). There isn't much code yet but I'm looking for interested people who want to help out. It's being written in Python/SDL. You can find the very modest page for the project here.
I don't want to do a rip-off of an existing game, but would instead like to produce a game that had some of the mystique that the older Ultima's had. Huge worlds, lots of monsters, lack of a cheesy plot, etc.
He probably gets laid though.
Why so hostile towards us Americans? That being said, why are you posting on Slashdot?
Please, no AC's, you'll be ignored
I believe I know what your problem is:
Even though Linux has a CLI like DOS did, you are not supposed to just turn your computer off when you are done. You are supposed to shutdown properly, otherwise when you reboot Linux will have to fsck your disks, which can be a time-consuming process.
Take my advice, shutdown properly, it'll increase your Linux boot time 3 fold!
I got UO to run months ago under Wine. It didn't quite run as fast as the native version at that time, but it ran, with sound and everything. I'd be interested to see how well it runs now since much progress has been made since then.
I disagree
Bad publicity is still publicity. It's better for Microsoft's marketing team to bash Linux than to not consider Linux as a threat at all (which was done before.) In the end, people are hearing about an alternate OS. IMHO this is good.
No, no, you missed it again!
//I wonder if they'll include this one, which is just like all Linux programs known to man: // Don't forget to terminate your statements!!!
#include < stdio.h>
main()
{
printf("Segmentation Fault; Core Dumped.\n");
}
HAND
WTF are you some kind of wuss?
Real men use telnet: It comes with everything, it's super lightweight, and I don't get all those stupid graphics and ads.. Sure, it takes some getting used to with having to parse HTML in your head, in real time, but it really does make browsing much better.
I'm using Mozilla on Linux, and I too find the fonts a bit big...
:)
Netscape's default fonts for Linux are about 1/2 the size of those in any other browser, so that probably explains why they look fine to you.