Doom III? Come on, give us a break. Isn't the FPS thing done to death by now?
Totally, just like the RTS thing, the RPG thing, flight games, sim games, sports games and hunting games. Honestly, I don't know why all these game comapnies put out hundereds of these titles a year, you'd think people bought them or something.
Innovate. Just goes to show that no matter how talented the id Software developers are, their talent doesn't make up for originality.
And what would you suggest they do, oh armchair game developer?
Raise your hand if you're sick of running around blasting everything in sight?
Maybe thats why they have things like involving missions a la Rainbow Six and good plots like Half Life or SOF?
I was really looking forward to something other than another FPS from id, even if it's Doom III.
They do what they're good at. And why not? Id makes very flexible engines that fans can use for free and commecial developers can license so they can spend their time on other parts of the game and not worry about the engine.
I always thought John had *control* of id, now it's obvious that he does not.
He controls the technology side, but there's a lot more to producing a game than making great engines.
If two rogue employees hold more than 50%
They are't rogue employees, I belive both Adrian and Kevin were co-founders of id (correct me if I'm wrong about that) with John Carmack and John Romero.
What's next, Carmack is fired because he wants to use reflective light sources that Kevin and Adrian are totally against?
Carmack has the last word on anything having to do with engine technology. Kevin (I belive) does the art for the games and Adrian is more on the business side (again, correct me if I'm wrong.)
Romero did a lot on game design, which IMHO is why the atmosphere of Doom and Quake kicked ass while the atmosphere of Quake 3 and especially Quake 2 blows nuts.....
Deathmatch is simply old and boring now and co-op is where it's at, at least for me and my friends when we do LAN parties.
Good for you, but I don't expect them to spend a lot of time on it because multiplayer is where its really at for most gammers. Get tired of deathmatch, try CTF or team fortress or one of the zillions of mods comming out for Quake 3, along with all the ones available for Quakes 1 and 2.
Curiously, when I did this in my Linux install of Q3 demo, I got.3 fps less with r_smp set to 1 than I did with it on zero. I run a dual PII 333 setup with Mandrake 7.0. Is there any trick to getting Q3 to use both processors?
You need to have r_smp set to 1, and either put it in your config file or reset the video after the r_smp command. On my dual 450 celeries running 2k on a TNT2, I get about about 20 more frames per second.
- Where was the "stability" round? (no elaboration required)
- Where was the "system recovery" round? (I'm dealing with this right now, and let me tell you: at the best, diagnosing an ill Mac is a hair-rending, tooth-gnashing occation - and fixing it is worse, often involving three or four third-party apps).
Hmmm, have a Mac crash on me every three days (just hit the reset switch and in less than a minute be back at what I was doing) or have a linux box crash once a month (from a bug or power out, whatever) and spend 40 minutes manually fscking all my partitions, potentially losing some. Contrast that to the Mac OS, where a simple "rebuild the desktop" at system startup and a run of Disk First Aid (free from Apple and installed with the OS) will fix 98% of the problems that will pop up.
- Where was the official bugfix round? It takes Apple weeks/months to release patches for buggy software, as opposed to a couple hours...
Apple released a fix in a couple of hours for that DDos attack possible with OS 9.
- Where was the free support round? (Visit alt.linux, your problem is usually solved right there before you even have to post a question.)
- Where was the free documentation round? I can find out anything about linux for free, and usually right after I do a Google search. When I had questions about Mac, I had to BUY a book.
Are you dumb or just lazy? As a couple people pointed out below, there are plenty of newsgroups and websites for Macs. Apple has the Tech Info Library containing info all the way back to 80's hardware and software (see you do that for a 1.1 Linux kernel), the product spec page and the tech exchange board if you want to ask questions.
LINUX CAN DO *EVERYTHING* A MAC CAN DO FOR exactly $0.00.
Just because it can do the same job doens't mean it can do it as well.
Graphic work? Free.
The Gimp may be a neat open source graphic app, but Photoshop it is not.
View PC files? Free. Internet? Free. All of these cost money on the Mac, and will *only* cost a Linux user if you're paying modem costs per minute.
Really, I was under the impression that Macs ability to read PC files and floppies was built into the os, and internet apps like Netscape and ICQ were free for the Mac just like they are for Windows. And of course Mac users are forbidden to use freeware or open source software of their own, only UNIX users can do that. Thanks for enlightening me.
"The Mac has offered USB support from day one." Day 1 would be when?? the coming of Christ? some time in the early 80's or at the inception of the IMac sometime within the last 2 years. Seems like history is a bit vague here. How could i have missed that usb adapter on the Mac+ or the MacII, Any 680X0 Mac. How about the first 4 years of Power Macs. they all had USB too. As far as you know.
Since USB was introduced, duh. What else would he be referring to?
They invented Cdroms, local area networks and floppy drives?
Don't know about the lan's, but he said pioneered, not invented. Apple was the first comapny to ship standard 3.5 floppies and cdroms, and of course mice.......
wow.. so thats where the mouse came from. And all this time I was sure that they had taken it from xerox just like everyone else.
So long as you remember that Xerox got paid with Apple stock. And we're still talking about pioneering; just how many desktop computers has Xerox made?
There is no place where they talk about the power of linux as a server.
No shit. When I read the "Internet" section, my first thought was, has cnet never heard of sendmail, nfs or routing? Obviously the section was only about user software, like web browsers, email clients and messengers like icq. They should have made that clear thou, or at least mentioned the server capabilities of Linux......many of which you can do on Mac OS 9, but generally only if you shell out hundereds of dollars for commercial, closed source applications.
Apple doesn't make G4's, Motorola and IBM do. And you can get G4 specs from Moto.
Firewire licensing fees.
How is an open industry standard closed or propreitary? And Apple fucking invented Firewire, they have the right to make money off of it. And at 25 cents PER SYSTEM, that licensing fee is really going to break your wallet.
Its nVidia's hardware and nVidia's choice to release drivers in whatever fasion they choose.
If they are using GPL'd code that someone else wrote as part of these close source drivers, then you have a valid case and the Free Software Foundation (or somebody) should go after them.
If they aren't using GPL'd code, then you are simply a fool and a blowhard. No where does it say that if you want to release a program or a driver for linux, that it has to be open source.
I'm sure there may be many parents that don't want their kids exposed to a liberal agenda untill they're old enough to make their own decisions. A political affiliation is a decision to be made by an educated and informed adult, not by little skulls full of mush.
Of course, we have to take that mush and turn all these kids into good little clones of Jesse Helms and Rush Limbagh(sp). Can't have them see liberal sites because children shouldn't be allowed to form opinions of their own until they reach the age of 18. If they try, they'll be beaten into comas so they'll know better next time.
OK, there, I said it. Now bring on the bleeding wallet liberal whining.
Actually, I"m hoping there will be on unrush of moderators and they mark you post down to -1, flamebait.
Aside from the usual arguments against the principles of censoring, the group that decides what to censor is going to end up taking sides, even if they don't do it intentionally. I wouldn't be surprised if Cyber Patrol had similar biases on religion, abortion and philosophy.
Its entirely possible that Cyber Patrol took sides in the Elian controversy, the Kosovo/Serbia conflict or the fallout of the Columbine killings. I think this would make another good argument for the anti-censorware people, in addition to the issue of sites that are fairly/unfairly blocked.
Everybody see the episode of South Park when the school tries to put on a play, but parents kept demanding that parts get removed (and the school kept caving in) until there was nothing left? As the biggest isp in the US, AOL has a large and diverse customer base. It would be ironic if those customers complained that the censor software blocks sites that cater to their beliefs, and AOL kept giving in until nothing was blocked.
You find a guy in a chatroom with a good connection and large collection. You download some stuff to sample, like it, and then go out and search for more stuff from the same artist.
Thats how you can find songs from unkown bands. There are some artists that activly encourage trading of mp3's and other bootlegs, like the Grateful Dead and (I think) Ice T. Many more arists would (some have tried) encourage mp3 trading if they weren't owned by labels.
Sorry, but he's completely correct in avoiding any URL with obvious sexual content when surfing from work. You must be aware that many companies monitor net access and might flag that as inappropriate.
Funny, he didn't mention any of that, he was just whining because he was "tricked" by Slashdot into going to a site with "gay" as a part of the url.
From the origional post:
This is not a staight-gay issuse, but a censorship issuse, why does slashdot want me to goto........
The fact is, this is a great wrong and they should not be censerored, but the fact also is I don't goto anything with the word "gay" in the url. There is nothing wrong with that, but turning off staight readers to their cause by not hosting things on a netural site?
Why shouldn't the news be posted on a site devoted to gay news? Its about a gay online magazine (Outcast) being bullied by another gay online magazine (Pink Paper), both of whom are presumably active in the gay UK online community.
If you guys only want to get your news off cnet and www.yahoo.com/news, thats your problem, not mine, and not Slashdot's.
In this case, the paper has remedies. They can have their content hosted in one of dozens of countries in the world that don't have laws and legal precedents making hosts liable for content.
Save the Slashdot effect for important battles.
What's not important about this? These people aren't living in China, they should be able to have a web site hosted in their own country without living in fear of being shut down.
Whereas any x86 AltOS can be adopted by merely buying some cheap software and installing it. You can turn any $100 PC you might find in computer renassaince into a Be or Linux box. That makes it really cheap to try out.
That's a good part of why Linux is growing so fast. It's something where the stakes are very low for trying it out. This contrasts to the Macintosh.
Duh. You could also spend that same $100 on an old Mac and install Linux or BSD on it.
I can think of only one part of any modern Mac that is closed: the ROM chips for booting the computer. Everything else is a common, open standard: PCI, AGP, ATA, Ethernet, USB, Firewire, PC100 memory etc etc.
And that one proprietary piece of hardware doesn't prevent Linux or BSD from running fat and happy on G3/G4 hardware. Be could do it to if they'd get off their lazy asses and do some programming instead of expecting Apple to hold their hand.
Speaking as someone who does moderate periodically, I'd disagree. That _was_ flamebait.
The hell it was. Its not my fault that you and the moron who moderated me down misunderstood what I said.
One sentence in particular:
"95% of Microsoft's OS releases are bug fixes, and the other 5% are featrues they stole from other people, but you have to pay for it!"
This implies that only 1 OS release in 20 adds functionality and that NONE of the functions they're adding are there own idea. Not just the good ideas they're adding, the bad ones too.
No, dumbass, I was still talking about Microsoft. i.e. 95% of Windows 2000 is made up of bug fixes to Win98 and NT 4, and the other 5% of Windows 2000 is made up of features copped from other os's.
Both of those statements are demostrably false, the comment's flamebait.
No, you just took it the wrong way. Keep in mind I was respond to someone who was bitching about how Linux is no better than WinXX because they both have a constant stream of patches and updates. I was just pointing out that you don't have to pay anything for Linux updates, while Microsoft expects you to periodically give them some money for theirs.
not at all like the endless barrage of patches and updates that lives on. i love linux to death, but get a fucking clue.
But with linux you don't have to pay a cent for upgrades and patches. 95% of Microsoft's OS releases are bug fixes, and the other 5% are featrues they stole from other people, but you have to pay for it! (if you want to be legal)
IMHO, it would help the Linux game market temendously if you would include Windows installers on your cd's, for people who will spend most of their time playing games in Windows but want to support the Linux game market.
This is especially for important for games that use hardware acceleration, as Linux is far behind Windows in this area, unless you have a Voodoo card. For example (and I know this was mostly Carmack's decision) Quake 3 was released on platform specific cd's. I dual boot Debian and Win2000 on my main PC, and have an iMac at home that I hawl along to lan parties. I really wanted to buy the Mac or Linux (I wanted the tin box!) version of the game, but ended up getting the Windows box instead. I have a TNT2 card, which is awsome in the Evil OS but is pittiful under X.
I want to support the Linux and Mac platforms (or Linux on Mac, even better, and thanks for porting some games to LinuxPPC). But I think I'm a typical consumer and gamer in that I want to play the game now more than I want to support alternative platforms. I don't want to wait for XFree 4.0, I don't want to wait for Carmack to get around to releasing platform binaries, which he said he would release in late January (unless they're burried on id's site, I just looked....). I want to play the game *now* with my friends while its new and cool, with acceptable performance; while I hate it, the only option for me now is Windows. Including installers might not be possible for all games, but for some it would seem very easy to do, ie Quake 3 and Myth 2.
I hope the Linux game market grow by leaps and bounds, and I think including Win and Mac binaries on your CD's would go a long way to accomplish that goal (and boost your income), by increasing sales among poeple who want to support Linux but want to play under Windows.
But we all know the truth. The best movie doesn't win at the Oscars. The most popular or lucrative does.
Its all a conspiracy man. How else could "Shakespear in Love" beat out "Saving Private Ryan" last year.
That made me lose all respect for the Oscars, and Catherine Keener's nomination for Best Supporting Actress cemented it. She played Maxine in "Being John Malcovich", a really dumb movie.....the only funny parts were hearing Cameron Diaz say "suck my dick!" and the scenes with Charlie Sheen musing on dead lesbian witches.
That, and Billy Crystal is not, nor has he ever been, funny or a good host of the Oscars.
After all, if your theory were true, the clone manufacturers could've kept making Mac clones. Instead, Apple sued them out of existence.
Apple didn't have to sue anybody because you had to use ROM chips to run the Mac OS. So, while it would have been perfectly legal for Power Computing to include off the shelf copies of the Mac OS with thier computers, it wouldn't have done any good if they weren't able to get ROM chips from Apple.
Apple had contracts with the cloners allowing them to use the Mac OS up to version 8, at which point the licenses would be renegociated. So Apple just called the next version of the OS version 8, bought off Power Computing and shut everyone else out. End of story.
Not that I'm defending Job's decisions here, we'd have much faster Macs today if he hadn't pissed of Motorola (who had invested a lot of $ in making Mac clones), but make sure you get your history right.
And as for the tired argument about how Apple should have become a software company like Microsoft, that wouldn't have worked. Microsoft does make a small profit on thier operating systems, but they earn the big bucks on thier applications, like MS Office. Apple has never had big money making apps, so they get thier money off hardware sales.
First of all, I don't think all of Darwin is Open Source. The important (i.e. proprietary) parts will be closed source.
Why didn't you just post a message saying "I'm an Apple bigot and will always hate them, no matter what" and get it over with. Darwin is the core of the OS, and yes, all of it is open source. It doesn't include the GUI, but it contains the kernel, the networking stack, file system etc.
The thing that really gets me is that this guy things that the Roman Senate convened in Athens, Greece. is this just proof that i don't need to send my kids to school to get them jobs? "Its OK Billy, so you failed out of the third grade. You can still write columns for the Washington Post."
It's probably too late for Billy, my friend, since he already has your dumbass genes.:-)
The article never stated that the Roman Senate conviened in Athens, but that the hangwringing was taking place in Athens. And its entirely probable that the Greeks would have pestered the Roman Senate, since they were a part of the Roman Empire.
I don't know if they made an error in the timeline or not, thou. I don't know if Greece was part of RE by 276 BC or not.........
isn't the revamped Powerbook or the notched up iBook, its the great support of the Japanese language by the Mac OS. Before, you apparantly would've had to spend $10,000 per machine for software that would provide the same functionality.
As this expo is in Tokyo, you can see why it would be a big deal.
ISP stands for Internet Service Provider. If the college is providing internet access, of COURSE its an ISP!
The primary goal of institutes of higher learning is education.
Depends on the institution. At many schools, the most important goal is to have a good sports team.
High bandwidth connections are NOT free
Internet phone calls are NOT high bandwidth connections. If decent compression is used, it shouldn't take up any more bandwidth than a typical hour of web browsing.
Do sites like Napster foster educational value? It's debatable, but I'd lean towards ``no.''
But we aren't talking about napster, we're talking about internet phone calls.
Any sane network administrator on the planet will tell you that when the network starts to become overutilized - you figure out why it's overutilized before you buy a bigger pipe.
More important than why is who. Lets see, who should we stomp on first: the guy who moves ten gigs of mp3's a week, or the guy who spends a few hours a week calling his parents back home. Hmmmmm......
I've noticed in the past that people throw up their arms in protest without keeping the simple fact that they're not an ISP in mind.
And what you need to realise is that if you're providing access to the internet, than you are an ISP.
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duh.
Doom III? Come on, give us a break. Isn't the FPS thing done to death by now?
Totally, just like the RTS thing, the RPG thing, flight games, sim games, sports games and hunting games. Honestly, I don't know why all these game comapnies put out hundereds of these titles a year, you'd think people bought them or something.
Innovate. Just goes to show that no matter how talented the id Software developers are, their talent doesn't make up for originality.
And what would you suggest they do, oh armchair game developer?
Raise your hand if you're sick of running around blasting everything in sight?
Maybe thats why they have things like involving missions a la Rainbow Six and good plots like Half Life or SOF?
I was really looking forward to something other than another FPS from id, even if it's Doom III.
They do what they're good at. And why not? Id makes very flexible engines that fans can use for free and commecial developers can license so they can spend their time on other parts of the game and not worry about the engine.
I always thought John had *control* of id, now it's obvious that he does not.
He controls the technology side, but there's a lot more to producing a game than making great engines.
If two rogue employees hold more than 50%
They are't rogue employees, I belive both Adrian and Kevin were co-founders of id (correct me if I'm wrong about that) with John Carmack and John Romero.
What's next, Carmack is fired because he wants to use reflective light sources that Kevin and Adrian are totally against?
Carmack has the last word on anything having to do with engine technology. Kevin (I belive) does the art for the games and Adrian is more on the business side (again, correct me if I'm wrong.)
Romero did a lot on game design, which IMHO is why the atmosphere of Doom and Quake kicked ass while the atmosphere of Quake 3 and especially Quake 2 blows nuts.....
Deathmatch is simply old and boring now and co-op is where it's at, at least for me and my friends when we do LAN parties.
Good for you, but I don't expect them to spend a lot of time on it because multiplayer is where its really at for most gammers. Get tired of deathmatch, try CTF or team fortress or one of the zillions of mods comming out for Quake 3, along with all the ones available for Quakes 1 and 2.
Curiously, when I did this in my Linux install of Q3 demo, I got .3 fps less with r_smp set to 1 than I did with it on zero. I run a dual PII 333 setup with Mandrake 7.0. Is there any trick to getting Q3 to use both processors?
You need to have r_smp set to 1, and either put it in your config file or reset the video after the r_smp command. On my dual 450 celeries running 2k on a TNT2, I get about about 20 more frames per second.
- Where was the "stability" round? (no elaboration required)
- Where was the "system recovery" round? (I'm dealing with this right now, and let me tell you: at the best, diagnosing an ill Mac is a hair-rending, tooth-gnashing occation - and fixing it is worse, often involving three or four third-party apps).
Hmmm, have a Mac crash on me every three days (just hit the reset switch and in less than a minute be back at what I was doing) or have a linux box crash once a month (from a bug or power out, whatever) and spend 40 minutes manually fscking all my partitions, potentially losing some. Contrast that to the Mac OS, where a simple "rebuild the desktop" at system startup and a run of Disk First Aid (free from Apple and installed with the OS) will fix 98% of the problems that will pop up.
- Where was the official bugfix round? It takes Apple weeks/months to release patches for buggy software, as opposed to a couple hours...
Apple released a fix in a couple of hours for that DDos attack possible with OS 9.
- Where was the free support round? (Visit alt.linux, your problem is usually solved right there before you even have to post a question.)
- Where was the free documentation round? I can find out anything about linux for free, and usually right after I do a Google search. When I had questions about Mac, I had to BUY a book.
Are you dumb or just lazy? As a couple people pointed out below, there are plenty of newsgroups and websites for Macs. Apple has the Tech Info Library containing info all the way back to 80's hardware and software (see you do that for a 1.1 Linux kernel), the product spec page and the tech exchange board if you want to ask questions.
LINUX CAN DO *EVERYTHING* A MAC CAN DO FOR exactly $0.00.
Just because it can do the same job doens't mean it can do it as well.
Graphic work? Free.
The Gimp may be a neat open source graphic app, but Photoshop it is not.
View PC files? Free. Internet? Free. All of these cost money on the Mac, and will *only* cost a Linux user if you're paying modem costs per minute.
Really, I was under the impression that Macs ability to read PC files and floppies was built into the os, and internet apps like Netscape and ICQ were free for the Mac just like they are for Windows. And of course Mac users are forbidden to use freeware or open source software of their own, only UNIX users can do that. Thanks for enlightening me.
"The Mac has offered USB support from day one."
Day 1 would be when?? the coming of Christ? some time in the early 80's or at the inception of the IMac sometime within the last 2 years. Seems like history is a bit vague here. How could i have missed that usb adapter on the Mac+ or the MacII, Any 680X0 Mac. How about the first 4 years of Power Macs. they all had USB too. As far as you know.
Since USB was introduced, duh. What else would he be referring to?
They invented Cdroms, local area networks and floppy drives?
Don't know about the lan's, but he said pioneered, not invented. Apple was the first comapny to ship standard 3.5 floppies and cdroms, and of course mice.......
wow.. so thats where the mouse came from. And all this time I was sure that they had taken it from xerox just like everyone else.
So long as you remember that Xerox got paid with Apple stock. And we're still talking about pioneering; just how many desktop computers has Xerox made?
There is no place where they talk about the power of linux as a server.
No shit. When I read the "Internet" section, my first thought was, has cnet never heard of sendmail, nfs or routing? Obviously the section was only about user software, like web browsers, email clients and messengers like icq. They should have made that clear thou, or at least mentioned the server capabilities of Linux......many of which you can do on Mac OS 9, but generally only if you shell out hundereds of dollars for commercial, closed source applications.
Proprietary. G4 chipset info.
Apple doesn't make G4's, Motorola and IBM do. And you can get G4 specs from Moto.
Firewire licensing fees.
How is an open industry standard closed or propreitary? And Apple fucking invented Firewire, they have the right to make money off of it. And at 25 cents PER SYSTEM, that licensing fee is really going to break your wallet.
Its nVidia's hardware and nVidia's choice to release drivers in whatever fasion they choose.
If they are using GPL'd code that someone else wrote as part of these close source drivers, then you have a valid case and the Free Software Foundation (or somebody) should go after them.
If they aren't using GPL'd code, then you are simply a fool and a blowhard. No where does it say that if you want to release a program or a driver for linux, that it has to be open source.
I'm sure there may be many parents that don't want their kids exposed to a liberal agenda untill they're old enough to make their own decisions. A political affiliation is a decision to be made by an educated and informed adult, not by little skulls full of mush.
Of course, we have to take that mush and turn all these kids into good little clones of Jesse Helms and Rush Limbagh(sp). Can't have them see liberal sites because children shouldn't be allowed to form opinions of their own until they reach the age of 18. If they try, they'll be beaten into comas so they'll know better next time.
OK, there, I said it. Now bring on the bleeding wallet liberal whining.
Actually, I"m hoping there will be on unrush of moderators and they mark you post down to -1, flamebait.
Aside from the usual arguments against the principles of censoring, the group that decides what to censor is going to end up taking sides, even if they don't do it intentionally. I wouldn't be surprised if Cyber Patrol had similar biases on religion, abortion and philosophy.
Its entirely possible that Cyber Patrol took sides in the Elian controversy, the Kosovo/Serbia conflict or the fallout of the Columbine killings. I think this would make another good argument for the anti-censorware people, in addition to the issue of sites that are fairly/unfairly blocked.
Everybody see the episode of South Park when the school tries to put on a play, but parents kept demanding that parts get removed (and the school kept caving in) until there was nothing left? As the biggest isp in the US, AOL has a large and diverse customer base. It would be ironic if those customers complained that the censor software blocks sites that cater to their beliefs, and AOL kept giving in until nothing was blocked.
You find a guy in a chatroom with a good connection and large collection. You download some stuff to sample, like it, and then go out and search for more stuff from the same artist.
Thats how you can find songs from unkown bands. There are some artists that activly encourage trading of mp3's and other bootlegs, like the Grateful Dead and (I think) Ice T. Many more arists would (some have tried) encourage mp3 trading if they weren't owned by labels.
Sorry, but he's completely correct in avoiding any URL with obvious sexual content when surfing from work. You must be aware that many companies monitor net access and might flag that as inappropriate.
Funny, he didn't mention any of that, he was just whining because he was "tricked" by Slashdot into going to a site with "gay" as a part of the url.
From the origional post:
This is not a staight-gay issuse, but a censorship issuse, why does slashdot want me to goto........
The fact is, this is a great wrong and they should not be censerored, but the fact also is I don't goto anything with the word "gay" in the url. There is nothing wrong with that, but turning off staight readers to their cause by not hosting things on a netural site?
Why shouldn't the news be posted on a site devoted to gay news? Its about a gay online magazine (Outcast) being bullied by another gay online magazine (Pink Paper), both of whom are presumably active in the gay UK online community.
If you guys only want to get your news off cnet and www.yahoo.com/news, thats your problem, not mine, and not Slashdot's.
In this case, the paper has remedies. They can have their content hosted in one of dozens of countries in the world that don't have laws and legal precedents making hosts liable for content.
Save the Slashdot effect for important battles.
What's not important about this? These people aren't living in China, they should be able to have a web site hosted in their own country without living in fear of being shut down.
Whereas any x86 AltOS can be adopted by merely buying some cheap software and installing it. You can turn any $100 PC you might find in computer renassaince into a Be or Linux box. That makes it really cheap to try out.
That's a good part of why Linux is growing so fast. It's something where the stakes are very low for trying it out. This contrasts to the Macintosh.
Duh. You could also spend that same $100 on an old Mac and install Linux or BSD on it.
I can think of only one part of any modern Mac that is closed: the ROM chips for booting the computer. Everything else is a common, open standard: PCI, AGP, ATA, Ethernet, USB, Firewire, PC100 memory etc etc.
And that one proprietary piece of hardware doesn't prevent Linux or BSD from running fat and happy on G3/G4 hardware. Be could do it to if they'd get off their lazy asses and do some programming instead of expecting Apple to hold their hand.
Speaking as someone who does moderate periodically, I'd disagree. That _was_ flamebait.
The hell it was. Its not my fault that you and the moron who moderated me down misunderstood what I said.
One sentence in particular:
"95% of Microsoft's OS releases are bug fixes, and the other 5% are featrues they stole from other people, but you have to pay for it!"
This implies that only 1 OS release in 20 adds functionality and that NONE of the functions they're adding are there own idea. Not just the good ideas they're adding, the bad ones too.
No, dumbass, I was still talking about Microsoft. i.e. 95% of Windows 2000 is made up of bug fixes to Win98 and NT 4, and the other 5% of Windows 2000 is made up of features copped from other os's.
Both of those statements are demostrably false, the comment's flamebait.
No, you just took it the wrong way. Keep in mind I was respond to someone who was bitching about how Linux is no better than WinXX because they both have a constant stream of patches and updates. I was just pointing out that you don't have to pay anything for Linux updates, while Microsoft expects you to periodically give them some money for theirs.
not at all like the endless barrage of patches and updates that lives on. i love linux to death, but get a fucking clue.
But with linux you don't have to pay a cent for upgrades and patches. 95% of Microsoft's OS releases are bug fixes, and the other 5% are featrues they stole from other people, but you have to pay for it! (if you want to be legal)
IMHO, it would help the Linux game market temendously if you would include Windows installers on your cd's, for people who will spend most of their time playing games in Windows but want to support the Linux game market.
This is especially for important for games that use hardware acceleration, as Linux is far behind Windows in this area, unless you have a Voodoo card. For example (and I know this was mostly Carmack's decision) Quake 3 was released on platform specific cd's. I dual boot Debian and Win2000 on my main PC, and have an iMac at home that I hawl along to lan parties. I really wanted to buy the Mac or Linux (I wanted the tin box!) version of the game, but ended up getting the Windows box instead. I have a TNT2 card, which is awsome in the Evil OS but is pittiful under X.
I want to support the Linux and Mac platforms (or Linux on Mac, even better, and thanks for porting some games to LinuxPPC). But I think I'm a typical consumer and gamer in that I want to play the game now more than I want to support alternative platforms. I don't want to wait for XFree 4.0, I don't want to wait for Carmack to get around to releasing platform binaries, which he said he would release in late January (unless they're burried on id's site, I just looked....). I want to play the game *now* with my friends while its new and cool, with acceptable performance; while I hate it, the only option for me now is Windows. Including installers might not be possible for all games, but for some it would seem very easy to do, ie Quake 3 and Myth 2.
I hope the Linux game market grow by leaps and bounds, and I think including Win and Mac binaries on your CD's would go a long way to accomplish that goal (and boost your income), by increasing sales among poeple who want to support Linux but want to play under Windows.
Sure you don't want to be in the next story about heavy rockets? This one is for Mac-bashing, I mean discussion of Naunosar's linux port......
But we all know the truth. The best movie doesn't win at the Oscars. The most popular or lucrative does.
Its all a conspiracy man. How else could "Shakespear in Love" beat out "Saving Private Ryan" last year.
That made me lose all respect for the Oscars, and Catherine Keener's nomination for Best Supporting Actress cemented it. She played Maxine in "Being John Malcovich", a really dumb movie.....the only funny parts were hearing Cameron Diaz say "suck my dick!" and the scenes with Charlie Sheen musing on dead lesbian witches.
That, and Billy Crystal is not, nor has he ever been, funny or a good host of the Oscars.
It's amusing how the only people who ever put out "what is the significance of age" arguements are people who are underage.
That's because once someone turns 21 they figure they don't have to worry about it anymore and they forget about it.
I'm 21 and I know there's a lot of bullshit out there...course it helps that my sister is just turning 16 and vents her frustrations to me.......
After all, if your theory were true, the clone manufacturers could've kept making Mac clones. Instead, Apple sued them out of existence.
Apple didn't have to sue anybody because you had to use ROM chips to run the Mac OS. So, while it would have been perfectly legal for Power Computing to include off the shelf copies of the Mac OS with thier computers, it wouldn't have done any good if they weren't able to get ROM chips from Apple.
Apple had contracts with the cloners allowing them to use the Mac OS up to version 8, at which point the licenses would be renegociated. So Apple just called the next version of the OS version 8, bought off Power Computing and shut everyone else out. End of story.
Not that I'm defending Job's decisions here, we'd have much faster Macs today if he hadn't pissed of Motorola (who had invested a lot of $ in making Mac clones), but make sure you get your history right.
And as for the tired argument about how Apple should have become a software company like Microsoft, that wouldn't have worked. Microsoft does make a small profit on thier operating systems, but they earn the big bucks on thier applications, like MS Office. Apple has never had big money making apps, so they get thier money off hardware sales.
First of all, I don't think all of Darwin is Open Source. The important (i.e. proprietary) parts will be closed source.
Why didn't you just post a message saying "I'm an Apple bigot and will always hate them, no matter what" and get it over with. Darwin is the core of the OS, and yes, all of it is open source. It doesn't include the GUI, but it contains the kernel, the networking stack, file system etc.
The thing that really gets me is that this guy things that the Roman Senate convened in Athens, Greece. is this just proof that i don't need to send my kids to school to get them jobs? "Its OK Billy, so you failed out of the third grade. You can still write columns for the Washington Post."
:-)
It's probably too late for Billy, my friend, since he already has your dumbass genes.
The article never stated that the Roman Senate conviened in Athens, but that the hangwringing was taking place in Athens. And its entirely probable that the Greeks would have pestered the Roman Senate, since they were a part of the Roman Empire.
I don't know if they made an error in the timeline or not, thou. I don't know if Greece was part of RE by 276 BC or not.........
isn't the revamped Powerbook or the notched up iBook, its the great support of the Japanese language by the Mac OS. Before, you apparantly would've had to spend $10,000 per machine for software that would provide the same functionality.
As this expo is in Tokyo, you can see why it would be a big deal.
ISP stands for Internet Service Provider. If the college is providing internet access, of COURSE its an ISP!
The primary goal of institutes of higher learning is education.
Depends on the institution. At many schools, the most important goal is to have a good sports team.
High bandwidth connections are NOT free
Internet phone calls are NOT high bandwidth connections. If decent compression is used, it shouldn't take up any more bandwidth than a typical hour of web browsing.
Do sites like Napster foster educational value? It's debatable, but I'd lean towards ``no.''
But we aren't talking about napster, we're talking about internet phone calls.
Any sane network administrator on the planet will tell you that when the network starts to become overutilized - you figure out why it's overutilized before you buy a bigger pipe.
More important than why is who. Lets see, who should we stomp on first: the guy who moves ten gigs of mp3's a week, or the guy who spends a few hours a week calling his parents back home. Hmmmmm......
I've noticed in the past that people throw up their arms in protest without keeping the simple fact that they're not an ISP in mind.
And what you need to realise is that if you're providing access to the internet, than you are an ISP.