The point he made is valid...many hardware companies still use floppies for their drivers.
And many more use CD's for their drivers. I haven't had to use floppies for Mac hardware in over 4 years. Even on my PC, all the drivers have come on CD's in the last two years....except for one old ethernet card, but I needed to download the drivers anyway because the disk was currupted.
His second point is incredibly valid and it is a point that lots of people on these tech boards miss. Many people still use floppies
Which is too bad for them. Floppies are a unreliable, limited method of transferring data that need to die. If people weren't so hung up keeping them, we might have something better....like (better) zip disks for $3, cheap flashcards or standard CD-RW. Sometimes you just have to kill something to make way for something better, like ISA slots or the x86 instruction set that let you run code compiled in 1980. 3.5 inch floppies should have been taken to the hardware graveyard five years ago and put next to the 5.25 floppies.
According to the Clemson web site, Clemson is a state supported land grant university. This means a LARGE part of the university's funds come from taxes on the residents of the state of South Carolina. It also means that the taxpayers of the state of South Carolina own this network. NOT the students.
Think about it for a second: say Clemson get's $3 per year from the average taxpayer, and $5,000 from the average student(all of whom ARE taxpayers). Damn straight the students own part of the network and should have a say in how it is used.
Now if I were a resident of the state of South Carolina I would have to question the use of my tax dollars for any non-academic pursuits, including providing subsidized internet access where any significant fraction of such access is being used for non-academic purposes.
(vader)I have you now.(/vader) If you were a Carolina taxpayer, using internet dialing would be saving you money. How? Because the University's long distance network is almost certainly subsidised by the same tax dollars that subsidise the computer network. Say the call costs 15 cents a minute: either the University pays for it (through taxes and tuition) or Dialpad can pay it. If Dialpad uses decent compression, an hour long phone call would take up less bandwidth than a typical hour of browsing the web.
The rights of the student at Clemson do not include tax subsidized internet access for non-academic pursuits.
Well, since the vast majoraty of email is probably not acedemicly related, lets ban it and block all access to hotmail or mail.yahoo.com. Yeah, and while we're at it, lets get rid of homecoming and all sports teams. My point is, this is not a black and white issue, and the administration lacked suffecient justification to make such a decision.
He was not talking about software, he was talking about drivers. Did you even bother to read the post?
Did you even bother to think about mine? Drivers ARE software!
Second, oh come ON! I would rather have a floppy. (Say I write a paper and need to take it to school cuz my printers broken. You're not telling me that is a rare occurance?
I happen to work in the labs in my school, and here is a common occurence for you: student saves work to disk. Student loses five hours of work when his disk gets currupted. Thats progress for you.
Alot of people, including me, were pulling their hair out trying to figure out how to install drivers on these things where the drivers needed a floppy disk to install.
It was awfully premature for Apple to just rip support for floppies,
I'm going to have to disagree with you here. Floppies were already dead a couple years before the iMac came out, sans floppy. I can't think of any Mac software put out in the last four years that has not come on CD (exept for morons like Intuit and Quark).
Maybe its different in the business world, but I don't want to pay for extra hardware that I'm never going to use.
It seems everyone thinks they are entitled to everything, either for free or virtually nothing. Clemson, and every other University, has the right to ban every site they want, serve the beverage, or charge what they want for phone access.
No, they don't. Not without good reason, and banning free long distance calling so you have a monopoly is not a good reason.
You have 5,000 ports on a network, with lots of bandwidth (I think we have a couple T3's, 2 T1's, and a seperate OC3 to another school), but if everyone starts pushing a gig an hour, that bandwidth is going to be gone in no time.
Again, do you have any sense of proportion? I don't know what kind of compression this site was using, but Roger Wilco uses about 500k an hour for a two person conversation, and its meant to be used while playing games over a modem. In many cases, long distance calling would take up less bandwitdh than ordinary browsing.
And who pays for the networks? The students, through tuition and taxes. They have every right to have a say in how that network is used. Especially in cases where there is a blatant conflict of interest on the part of the University.
This doesn't have anything to do with Republicans, and you know it.
Uh, lets see, who is pushing this? A Republican.
Which party does the most ass kissing to the religious right? (especially in the current presidental elections) Republicans.
Ten Commandments in the classroom, internet censorship, naming Jesus as a favorite American philosopher? Republicans Republicans Republicans
There are idiots in all parties.
Of course there are, but that's changing the subject (and wasn't the point to begin with). This issue has everything to do with Republicans, and you know it.
Well, assuming you have better things to do with your time than to pull stuff like that out of your ass, I'll take your word for it. The other guy in this font discussion muttered something about typefaces.....care to elaborate on that?
Well, assuming that we're talking about the US here, you're the one who's wrong.
No he's not.
However, in the US fonts are not copyrightable in the first place. They can be patented, but this is very rare, because letters of the alphabet tend to have prior art;)
The issue isn't over the letters themselves, its over their presentation. If I come up with a new, origional font, yes I do have copyright protection on it. Maybe you're thinking of fonts that have been around for decades, like Courior or Times. You can't copyright them because any copyrights on them have long since expired, but you can patent how they work (like Apple's TrueType fonts).
I don't think you can make a sucessful case if the trademarks in question are for entirely different products, like pizza in beer. For example, Apple Computer couldn't stop a produce company from using the word macintosh in a trademark, since its a kind of apple......
So the Russians should be able to get away with calling their beer Windows, but what about the knock off of MS's naming scheme?
That's true:) My point is that Mac Advocates tend to suggest (if not outright assert) that Macs are the _only_ option for high-end color and prepress.
Just like some Wintel bigots insist that you have to be using Windows to run a business, or Unix bigots who insist its the only option for running servers. You'll find bigots anywhere.
My assertion is that though Macs may be an industry standard, they are a very _poor_ industry standard - this is analogous to the dominance of Windows 95/98 in the office world.
Ever hear this quote on democracy? "It's the worst form of government, except for all the others."
Our shop was an Apple beta site for many years through the late 80s/mid 90s. The amount of sheer BS from their technical departments (which should really be termed 'technical marketing') is amazing. Their support was terrible. Customer feedback was met by derision and insults (on the level of "Our software is perfect, you must be doing something terribly stupid, because you're terribly stupid.", etc.) They employed us as a beta site and our real-world feedback was derided and consistently ignored!
And Microsoft is any better? Call for support on a system and most of the time they'll tell you to go bug Gateway or Dell or whoever you bought the it from. And how long have you been waiting for NT 5? Or how they basically made Compaq do most of the porting of NT to the Alpha chip, while charging them for the OS at the same time.
We haven't looked back since. Our productivity is magnitudes better since we dumped the Macs.
Sure you aren't falling into the habit of most mac bigots and comparing current PC hardware/software to the Mac equivilants of 15 years ago?:)
At the risk of sounding redundant, that Macs are entrenched in the publishing industry is a lot more attributable to Mac bigotry than measurable technical advantage.
And because Apple works hard to maintain that hold as a core market. Adobe is definatly at the top of Apple's most important devleopers list, probably followed by Quark and Macromedia. For Microsoft, its just another market to conquer but they don't really put effort into it.
Most importantly, get qualified color people (NOT DESIGNERS). Get people who truly understand color theory, composition, and all phases of lithography (from proofing to layout to press).
Of course you have to be qualified; that's true if you're a prepress man, a sysadmin or an auto mechanic.
_Little_ better on heavy memory use? Though not even close to our Irix boxes (still running Photoshop 3.0), NT is _magnitudes_ better handling large CTs - under heavy usage, we reboot once weekly. So much as a Unix bigot (and former Mac bigot) as I am, this is no lie.
NT is a hoary bitch when it comes to playing with video, but I have to admit that I haven't seen Photoshop crash and take down the whole machine, so long as the amount of memory was at least equal to the size of the file. But NT has a tendancy to do boneheaded things like erase your password file and assign the same irq to both your video and network card.
Forget multiple monitors. Forget MacOS. Get used SGI Octanes/O2s + Photoshop 3.0 We've got (and kept) most of their clients, despite being somewhat pricier...
Sounds like you've turned into an anti-mac bigot, or Apple pissed you off at one time or another. Multiple monitors are great for doing work on a computer, even coding, and what if I need Photoshop 5?
Macs can't do everything; Apple let a lot of the video editing market slip over to Windows, and I'd go with an SGI box if I wanted to do rendering. But Macs are very good at publishing and will continue to be as its one of Apple's core markets. Hell, whenever they want to show off new machines, they do it with Photoshop.
Colorsync is one reason why Macs have dominated and will continue to dominate the publishing market.
I think this has been the trend for some time as more color professionals are becoming increasingly frustrated with the MacOS.
Even in the color/prepress world, NT and other OSes are slowly but surely becoming feasible alternatives to the current MacOS because other OSes are _sooo_ much more reliable. With the deadlines we're under, we cannot afford to reboot two, three, five times daily because of the cryptic 'Type #' errors are just plain freezing. Our Irix and NT boxes seldom ever require rebooting (once a week, if even that often).
Um, no. When it comes to heavy memory use with graphic apps, NT is little better than the Mac OS as far stabitlity goes. And losing 20 mintutes a day to reboots is nothing compared to losing 4 hours because you can't get your output to match what you have on the screen.
There are a couple of other big reasons why Macs dominate the industry: Applescript and better support for multiple monitors than you'll find on any other platform.
The G4 and G5 are Motorola chips. IBM is still pouring their development dollars into the G3.
No they aren't. The G3, like the 603e, was meant to be a cheap consumer processor, and you don't put those in high end servers.
IBM has and is working on the G4's and 5's, there's just been some confusion as to what a G4 is. In simplified terms, for Motorola it meant having Altivec, and for IBM it meant having the processors run at a higher clock speed.
And if you had any wits you might have guessed that that's where I got the idea from. Have a young person take you to a doctor for senility and overt crankiness.
Both of those stories were annoying, but what bothered me the most was ABC's general attitude that hackers will do malitious cracks because they can.
It's like saying the FBI should keep a close watch on Alan Cox because he convievably could add a backdoor hack to the Linux kernel allowing him to break into any system that used it.
But not the Bond character - I like Brosnan as Bond, but I don't want another case of 'A View To A Kill', in which Roger Moore played Bond at a time when he was 58 (!).
Probably should have mentioned that. IMHO, Bond should be played by someone in his late 30's or 40's, which is why you don't want to change the rest of the cast any more than you have to.
M was played consistantly by Bernard Lee from Dr. No through Moonraker (11 times)
And Lois Maxwell, not Dench, was Moneypenny through all the Connery's and Moore's (and the Lazenby)
I was just going from memory; it didn't occur to me to pop over to IMD and check. But then again, I wasn't expecting my post to get uped to a score of 5.:-):-)
I guess the point I wanted to make is Bond's family (M, Monney Penny, Q) add a lot to the series and it helps if they keep the same actor in the role for a long period of time. I also like how M was one of the main charachters in TWINE instead of a beaurcrat behind a dsk.
As others have said, Llewelyn was the constant in the series; everyone else has changed. I think the current M actress has had the part longer than any other, one Money Penny actress had a long run at it but there have been 3 different ones in the last four movies, and everbody knows how many different Bond actors we've had. Hell, Bond's friend in the CIA, Feilix Lighter (sp) even managed to change races between movies.
How fortunate (for the Bond fans anyway) that they set up Q's succession in The World Is Not Enough. Cleese is a good choice, not only because he's a good actor but because he wont try to be like Llewelyn's Q. He'll be geeky and techy, but it looks like he has a low opinion of Bond and I look forward to watching them quibble in furture movies.
I hope Cleese will be able to stay on as long as Llewelyn did, and I also hope the other actors (like the one that plays M) stick around for a long time. I think it adds a lot to a running series if you keep the same people or objects around, like Llewelyn as Q or the Tardis in Dr. Who. Now they just need to find some Sophia Loren type chick (one that still looks great in her 60's) at the age of 18 to play Money Penny.:-)
Goodbye Desmond, thanks for helping to make Bond into what he his today. You will be missed as one of the great geek heroes of this century.
THIS IS NOT PIRACY! id gets EXACTLY the same amount of money wether you buy the Windows disk and download the Linux binaries or if you buy the boxed Linux version! For gods sakes, they're even going to release the executables after Christmas!
The only reason to hold out is to show distributors and retailers that consumers will buy games for alternative platforms. And as any Mac user will tell you, trying to impress retailers is by and large a futile guesture. I bought the Mac versions of games from Best Buy for over two years, but that didn't stop them from replacing all the Mac software with Barbie merchandise. The Linux boxes probably wont even make it that far.
Forget distributors and retailers. Buy the Linux or Mac version to impress the right group of people, the devlopers.
I put a 12 meg Voodoo 2 in the 400 mhz PII in our ACM office, and there is almost no difference in performace between Windows and Linux in both Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament.
I haven't seen a Voodoo 3 under Linux, but 3dfx apparantly has an accelerated X server for it.
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The point he made is valid...many hardware companies still use floppies for their drivers.
And many more use CD's for their drivers. I haven't had to use floppies for Mac hardware in over 4 years. Even on my PC, all the drivers have come on CD's in the last two years....except for one old ethernet card, but I needed to download the drivers anyway because the disk was currupted.
His second point is incredibly valid and it is a point that lots of people on these tech boards miss. Many people still use floppies
Which is too bad for them. Floppies are a unreliable, limited method of transferring data that need to die. If people weren't so hung up keeping them, we might have something better....like (better) zip disks for $3, cheap flashcards or standard CD-RW. Sometimes you just have to kill something to make way for something better, like ISA slots or the x86 instruction set that let you run code compiled in 1980. 3.5 inch floppies should have been taken to the hardware graveyard five years ago and put next to the 5.25 floppies.
According to the Clemson web site, Clemson is a state supported land grant university. This means a LARGE part of the university's funds come from taxes on the residents of the state of South Carolina. It also means that the taxpayers of the state of South Carolina own this network. NOT the students.
Think about it for a second: say Clemson get's $3 per year from the average taxpayer, and $5,000 from the average student(all of whom ARE taxpayers). Damn straight the students own part of the network and should have a say in how it is used.
Now if I were a resident of the state of South Carolina I would have to question the use of my tax dollars for any non-academic pursuits, including providing subsidized internet access where any significant fraction of such access is being used for non-academic purposes.
(vader)I have you now.(/vader) If you were a Carolina taxpayer, using internet dialing would be saving you money. How? Because the University's long distance network is almost certainly subsidised by the same tax dollars that subsidise the computer network. Say the call costs 15 cents a minute: either the University pays for it (through taxes and tuition) or Dialpad can pay it. If Dialpad uses decent compression, an hour long phone call would take up less bandwidth than a typical hour of browsing the web.
The rights of the student at Clemson do not include tax subsidized internet access for non-academic pursuits.
Well, since the vast majoraty of email is probably not acedemicly related, lets ban it and block all access to hotmail or mail.yahoo.com. Yeah, and while we're at it, lets get rid of homecoming and all sports teams. My point is, this is not a black and white issue, and the administration lacked suffecient justification to make such a decision.
He was not talking about software, he was talking about drivers. Did you even bother to read the post?
Did you even bother to think about mine? Drivers ARE software!
Second, oh come ON! I would rather have a floppy. (Say I write a paper and need to take it to school cuz my printers broken. You're not telling me that is a rare occurance?
I happen to work in the labs in my school, and here is a common occurence for you: student saves work to disk. Student loses five hours of work when his disk gets currupted. Thats progress for you.
Alot of people, including me, were pulling their hair out trying to figure out how to install drivers on these things where the drivers needed a floppy disk to install.
It was awfully premature for Apple to just rip support for floppies,
I'm going to have to disagree with you here. Floppies were already dead a couple years before the iMac came out, sans floppy. I can't think of any Mac software put out in the last four years that has not come on CD (exept for morons like Intuit and Quark).
Maybe its different in the business world, but I don't want to pay for extra hardware that I'm never going to use.
It seems everyone thinks they are entitled to everything, either for free or virtually nothing. Clemson, and every other University, has the right to ban every site they want, serve the beverage, or charge what they want for phone access.
No, they don't. Not without good reason, and banning free long distance calling so you have a monopoly is not a good reason.
You have 5,000 ports on a network, with lots of bandwidth (I think we have a couple T3's, 2 T1's, and a seperate OC3 to another school), but if everyone starts pushing a gig an hour, that bandwidth is going to be gone in no time.
Again, do you have any sense of proportion? I don't know what kind of compression this site was using, but Roger Wilco uses about 500k an hour for a two person conversation, and its meant to be used while playing games over a modem. In many cases, long distance calling would take up less bandwitdh than ordinary browsing.
And who pays for the networks? The students, through tuition and taxes. They have every right to have a say in how that network is used. Especially in cases where there is a blatant conflict of interest on the part of the University.
too bad I didn't get the message in the first 50 comments instead of 200+. :)
The filesystem supports long file names, but the OS currently does not.
This doesn't have anything to do with Republicans, and you know it.
Uh, lets see, who is pushing this?
A Republican.
Which party does the most ass kissing to the religious right? (especially in the current presidental elections)
Republicans.
Ten Commandments in the classroom, internet censorship, naming Jesus as a favorite American philosopher?
Republicans Republicans Republicans
There are idiots in all parties.
Of course there are, but that's changing the subject (and wasn't the point to begin with). This issue has everything to do with Republicans, and you know it.
It's not a contender for proprietary distributions such as Red Hat
What, exactly, is proprietary about Red Hat? Everything they do is GPL'd back into the community. Do you mean more *comercial* distributions?
Well, assuming you have better things to do with your time than to pull stuff like that out of your ass, I'll take your word for it. The other guy in this font discussion muttered something about typefaces.....care to elaborate on that?
Well, assuming that we're talking about the US here, you're the one who's wrong.
;)
No he's not.
However, in the US fonts are not copyrightable in the first place. They can be patented, but this is very rare, because letters of the alphabet tend to have prior art
The issue isn't over the letters themselves, its over their presentation. If I come up with a new, origional font, yes I do have copyright protection on it. Maybe you're thinking of fonts that have been around for decades, like Courior or Times. You can't copyright them because any copyrights on them have long since expired, but you can patent how they work (like Apple's TrueType fonts).
I wonder how many ./ers have offered to be her server administrator or to check her "hardware" for Y2K problems.
:-)
I don't think you can make a sucessful case if the trademarks in question are for entirely different products, like pizza in beer. For example, Apple Computer couldn't stop a produce company from using the word macintosh in a trademark, since its a kind of apple......
So the Russians should be able to get away with calling their beer Windows, but what about the knock off of MS's naming scheme?
That's true :) My point is that Mac Advocates tend to suggest (if not outright assert) that Macs are the _only_ option for high-end color and prepress.
:)
Just like some Wintel bigots insist that you have to be using Windows to run a business, or Unix bigots who insist its the only option for running servers. You'll find bigots anywhere.
My assertion is that though Macs may be an industry standard, they are a very _poor_ industry standard - this is analogous to the dominance of Windows 95/98 in the office world.
Ever hear this quote on democracy? "It's the worst form of government, except for all the others."
Our shop was an Apple beta site for many years through the late 80s/mid 90s. The amount of sheer BS from their technical departments (which should really be termed 'technical marketing') is amazing. Their support was terrible. Customer feedback was met by derision and insults (on the level of "Our software is perfect, you must be doing something terribly stupid, because you're terribly stupid.", etc.) They employed us as a beta site and our real-world feedback was derided and consistently ignored!
And Microsoft is any better? Call for support on a system and most of the time they'll tell you to go bug Gateway or Dell or whoever you bought the it from. And how long have you been waiting for NT 5? Or how they basically made Compaq do most of the porting of NT to the Alpha chip, while charging them for the OS at the same time.
We haven't looked back since. Our productivity is magnitudes better since we dumped the Macs.
Sure you aren't falling into the habit of most mac bigots and comparing current PC hardware/software to the Mac equivilants of 15 years ago?
At the risk of sounding redundant, that Macs are entrenched in the publishing industry is a lot more attributable to Mac bigotry than measurable technical advantage.
And because Apple works hard to maintain that hold as a core market. Adobe is definatly at the top of Apple's most important devleopers list, probably followed by Quark and Macromedia. For Microsoft, its just another market to conquer but they don't really put effort into it.
Rather, the high-end shops use good _people_
Most importantly, get qualified color people (NOT DESIGNERS). Get people who truly understand color theory, composition, and all phases of lithography (from proofing to layout to press).
Of course you have to be qualified; that's true if you're a prepress man, a sysadmin or an auto mechanic.
_Little_ better on heavy memory use? Though not even close to our Irix boxes (still running Photoshop 3.0), NT is _magnitudes_ better handling large CTs - under heavy usage, we reboot once weekly. So much as a Unix bigot (and former Mac bigot) as I am, this is no lie.
NT is a hoary bitch when it comes to playing with video, but I have to admit that I haven't seen Photoshop crash and take down the whole machine, so long as the amount of memory was at least equal to the size of the file. But NT has a tendancy to do boneheaded things like erase your password file and assign the same irq to both your video and network card.
Forget multiple monitors.
Forget MacOS.
Get used SGI Octanes/O2s + Photoshop 3.0
We've got (and kept) most of their clients, despite being somewhat pricier...
Sounds like you've turned into an anti-mac bigot, or Apple pissed you off at one time or another. Multiple monitors are great for doing work on a computer, even coding, and what if I need Photoshop 5?
Macs can't do everything; Apple let a lot of the video editing market slip over to Windows, and I'd go with an SGI box if I wanted to do rendering. But Macs are very good at publishing and will continue to be as its one of Apple's core markets. Hell, whenever they want to show off new machines, they do it with Photoshop.
Colorsync is one reason why Macs have dominated and will continue to dominate the publishing market.
I think this has been the trend for some time as more color professionals are becoming increasingly frustrated with the MacOS.
Even in the color/prepress world, NT and other OSes are slowly but surely becoming feasible alternatives to the current MacOS because other OSes are _sooo_ much more reliable. With the deadlines we're under, we cannot afford to reboot two, three, five times daily because of the cryptic 'Type #' errors are just plain freezing. Our Irix and NT boxes seldom ever require rebooting (once a week, if even that often).
Um, no. When it comes to heavy memory use with graphic apps, NT is little better than the Mac OS as far stabitlity goes. And losing 20 mintutes a day to reboots is nothing compared to losing 4 hours because you can't get your output to match what you have on the screen.
There are a couple of other big reasons why Macs dominate the industry: Applescript and better support for multiple monitors than you'll find on any other platform.
The G4 and G5 are Motorola chips. IBM is still pouring their development dollars into the G3.
No they aren't. The G3, like the 603e, was meant to be a cheap consumer processor, and you don't put those in high end servers.
IBM has and is working on the G4's and 5's, there's just been some confusion as to what a G4 is. In simplified terms, for Motorola it meant having Altivec, and for IBM it meant having the processors run at a higher clock speed.
And if you had any wits you might have guessed that that's where I got the idea from. Have a young person take you to a doctor for senility and overt crankiness.
Both of those stories were annoying, but what bothered me the most was ABC's general attitude that hackers will do malitious cracks because they can.
It's like saying the FBI should keep a close watch on Alan Cox because he convievably could add a backdoor hack to the Linux kernel allowing him to break into any system that used it.
But not the Bond character - I like Brosnan as Bond, but I don't want another case of 'A View To A Kill', in which Roger Moore played Bond at a time when he was 58 (!).
Probably should have mentioned that. IMHO, Bond should be played by someone in his late 30's or 40's, which is why you don't want to change the rest of the cast any more than you have to.
M was played consistantly by Bernard Lee from Dr. No through Moonraker (11 times)
:-) :-)
And Lois Maxwell, not Dench, was Moneypenny through all the Connery's and Moore's (and the Lazenby)
I was just going from memory; it didn't occur to me to pop over to IMD and check. But then again, I wasn't expecting my post to get uped to a score of 5.
I guess the point I wanted to make is Bond's family (M, Monney Penny, Q) add a lot to the series and it helps if they keep the same actor in the role for a long period of time. I also like how M was one of the main charachters in TWINE instead of a beaurcrat behind a dsk.
As others have said, Llewelyn was the constant in the series; everyone else has changed. I think the current M actress has had the part longer than any other, one Money Penny actress had a long run at it but there have been 3 different ones in the last four movies, and everbody knows how many different Bond actors we've had. Hell, Bond's friend in the CIA, Feilix Lighter (sp) even managed to change races between movies.
:-)
How fortunate (for the Bond fans anyway) that they set up Q's succession in The World Is Not Enough. Cleese is a good choice, not only because he's a good actor but because he wont try to be like Llewelyn's Q. He'll be geeky and techy, but it looks like he has a low opinion of Bond and I look forward to watching them quibble in furture movies.
I hope Cleese will be able to stay on as long as Llewelyn did, and I also hope the other actors (like the one that plays M) stick around for a long time. I think it adds a lot to a running series if you keep the same people or objects around, like Llewelyn as Q or the Tardis in Dr. Who. Now they just need to find some Sophia Loren type chick (one that still looks great in her 60's) at the age of 18 to play Money Penny.
Goodbye Desmond, thanks for helping to make Bond into what he his today. You will be missed as one of the great geek heroes of this century.
THIS IS NOT PIRACY! id gets EXACTLY the same amount of money wether you buy the Windows disk and download the Linux binaries or if you buy the boxed Linux version! For gods sakes, they're even going to release the executables after Christmas!
The only reason to hold out is to show distributors and retailers that consumers will buy games for alternative platforms. And as any Mac user will tell you, trying to impress retailers is by and large a futile guesture. I bought the Mac versions of games from Best Buy for over two years, but that didn't stop them from replacing all the Mac software with Barbie merchandise. The Linux boxes probably wont even make it that far.
Forget distributors and retailers. Buy the Linux or Mac version to impress the right group of people, the devlopers.
I put a 12 meg Voodoo 2 in the 400 mhz PII in our ACM office, and there is almost no difference in performace between Windows and Linux in both Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament.
I haven't seen a Voodoo 3 under Linux, but 3dfx apparantly has an accelerated X server for it.