Damn right.. for americans it is. If you want your copy of Kohan cheaper, hop over to www.canux.com. After tax and delivery it comes to $69 to deliver it here. Since he uses canada post it wouldn't be much more to get it into the states. If I bought it directly from Loki like I would prefer in this case I would pay the following:
Game: $75 CDN
Shipping: Approx $10 (give or take)
GST on above: $5.95 (applied at the border and paid to the post office when delivered).
That puts the game at about $90.95 after taxes in canadian dollars.
I was going to buy my first Linux based game when Kohan came out. This frusterates me. I'm sure they will be around for this release, but UGH!
Perhaps its time to change the business model. Maybe they should focus on becoming a service for game manufacturers that ports the games for a fee but doesn't sell them?
Another thought would be to get away from the damn 1st person shooters. I'm sick of them. Its getting old. Perhaps they could get in with a windows gaming company before a game is released (wishful thinking..) and simultaneously release.
Another thought would be to release bare bones versions with a CD only and a PDF of the manual for a lower price. Kohan is bloody expensive for me to buy in Canada (so I'm not going to purchase it from Loki). Maybe they should throw a wad of cash that they don't have into marketing with large chains. Up here Business Depot carries Linux of various flavours.. maybe they could get in there.
What it comes down to is this is/will be a big kick to the crotch of linux gaming.:(
Sometimes it sucks to be Canadian
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I want this game... until now I've been a Westwood whipping boy playing Tiberian Sun and Red Alert (not the lack of anything written after the year 2000).
I realize that making games costs money. But $50 USD?? By the time that gets shipped to me, duty, GST and the good honest reaming that the the good ol canadian beaver will get from good ol uncle sam at the banks. This game will cost me somewhere in the area of $90 CDN. I can run down to Business Depot and buy a win32 version for much less including gas.
This frustrates the hell out of me because there is no way the wife of this poor sap will let him live if she see's this on next months VISA statement.:(
www.mls.ca is the site I used to hunt down my house. You will never really get rid of the estate agents. They get paid to watch your ass. They also give your home more exposure when its on the market. All this costs money. Personally I'd rather pay some schmuck who knows what they are doing to do it then stick a 'house for sale by owner' sign on my doorstep.
Why did I use mls.ca? Simple. I don't like sales people. This limits my time with the necessary evil of dealing with them.
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"While it is nice to know that the site got hacked, aren't we rewarding the hacked by posting all to info in a public forum?"
YES!
By rewarding the hacker and putting a little more egg on the faces of both the site owners and the authors of the software (I'm generalizing here) you are essentially forcing them to fix it.
This is what makes the software world go round. Both MS type monopolies and the 'little' guys like VA, apache and Themes.org
We as users and them as providers are better off in the long run because of it.
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Context! I was breaking it down in the context that it was being used... sheesh
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Just looked it up and you are wrong:) Alice Kreig was in both. Explain THAT! HA HAH!
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*blink*
But they looked so alike?!
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I agree with what you say to a point. Consistancy is very important, but it can go too far. We are talking about a series of TV shows and movies that span 30 years or more. Therefore your book argument is on too small of a scale to be accurate. In my opinion that is.
Speaking of inconsistancies.. I'm curious.. the Queen Borg... whats up with that? She has now died in 2 different events. Thats the only thing I would like some explanation for. I'd be willing to accept that she isn't actually flesh and blood and simply an AI stashed in the middle of Borgdom. I realize that she is supposed to be the Borg, but how's she(it) coming up with the same flesh and blood drone body. I'm doing it aren't I?:)
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Sci-fi doesn't need to have any realism.. none what-so-ever!
Lets break it down shall we...
Science: technological in nature... spaceships, time machines, cyborgs etc..
Fiction: Make believe... not true... not real... fictictious (what do i look like, a bloody thesauraus?)
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Good lord people. Its a TV show. Its meant to do nothing more then entertain us. Why is it that people these days are jaded by technicalities? The Sci-Fi genra was created by people who wish to push the limits of our imagination and 'go where no man has gone before' (sorry).
Sit down... watch the show and enjoy it for what it is. A story. It doesn't need to be realistic. It doesn't have to follow a set of rules throughout the season saying that you can't do this because in show 42 so and so did this and that therfore making the thought of time warp using potatos and lemon juice is impossible.
Whatever happened to the time when we watched a program/play/movie with no thought for minor inconsistancies or outlandishly cool toys like holodecks.
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I've been running a board on and off for 13 years now.. steady for the past 7. I remember having 2 nodes (reasonably big for my city) and pulling in 100+ calls a day. Then the net came to town and everyone migrated and we went to 1 node and 20- calls a day.
Well I got myself a DSL connection to the net and wammo.. back up to 100+ calls a day. 90% of them are using the doors, which is fine. I didn't put a board up to force Message ratios or file ratios on people. Its nice to say that I can look at my board and see that people are enjoying themselves.
Adultry or not adultry... its a matter of opinions... and opinions are like assholes... everybody's got one. Because of this there is no wrong answer, its really what a couple would consider to be too far.
Personally if I found out my wife was having an online sexcapade I would be mildy worried.. I'd be asking myself the following...
Is it because there is something wrong with our marriage?
-or-
Is she just being her nymphy little self?
I'd like to think that our relationship is pretty open. If I piss her off I hear about it... oh god do I hear about it (stupid comments I've made 7 years ago get brought up when its appropriate). What it comes down too is that you need to discuss this with your partner.. you've got to live with them for the rest of your life (if your lucky) so communication is the key. For some people it may just be kinky.. kinda like safe swinging...
I met my wife online about 7 years ago.. back when a BBS was online and unless you where on a multinode system real time chat didn't happen. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.. We've lived together for 6 years.. been married for 3.5 years and are starting a family. So online romances can be a good thing.. I knew my wife 10 times better on the day we met in person then I've known anyone after 6 months or more.
If you feel you need to vent sexually this way, why not arrange a time to go chat with your spouse.. hell, I fire up ICQ at least 2-3 times a day just to sexually torment my wife so she's ripe for the pickin's by the time i get home:)
To add to your post I would like to point out that a lot of medical research has been done in space. Many of the experiments performed have benefitted humanity and will continue to benefit us in the future.
To respond to an earlier post about perspective, how many lives could have been saved due to experiments performed in space that where put off for 2 years or more?
While loosing a large amount of people in an earthquake is no less important, it isn't as preventable as this. I hate to say it, but it also isn't relevant to SlashDot.
Hi, My name's !Xabbu and I would like to welcome you to North America. Over here any time you throw a kid into any kind of murder / rape / sex act (or any kind of illegal act) against their will you can't collect $200, go straight to jail.
Children are amongst one of the only sacred things in this world in the eye's of the law. Lets enjoy that lack of freedom for a while.
Sure, open source it, but don't GPL it. Let companies like MS and Real etc. adopt aspects of the player into existing closed source programs. If you GPL the player they most likely won't adopt it, and if it isn't adopted then all of their efforts are for nothing. Best case if the code was GPL'd would be that they create their own player over time and by the time that happens something new will come out. Just a thought.
Good luck! Sounds like a nice toy! maybe we can get rid of Quicktime or RAM's..
Lets face it... portals are still profitable. What does Netscape have that makes them serious profit? Their servers? Web servers? Email Sever backends? Hardly... it may pay the bills, but it doesn't get their shareholders off.
When you use Netscape you are getting the product you prefer at the tradeoff price of ads. Sure they sell it at Staples(TM), but how many people are going to shell out $40+ bucks for a web browser when you can use IE or a downloaded copy for free. They know this and are capitalizing on it. Personally speaking I don't use any of the crap they offer.. I turn off the "My Sidebar", don't use Messenger (to avoid the ad in my preview pane) and I redefine my homepage on the first startup of Netscape. What this leaves me with is a nicely bloated web browser just like the rest.
Back to why they do it.. profit.. its quite simple.. they aren't gonna make a dime off netscape if they don't shove their corporate identity in your face. I honestly don't blame them. Your average internet user likes these things... the average Slashdot reader doesn't. Thats about 1 or 2 million of us.. and about 40 Million plus of them.. you do the math.
Sofar I'm impressed with NS 6.0, now all I want to do is wait until the big webdesigners tell me whats wrong with how it renders pages so I can fix mine accordingly.
In order for online voting to be reasonably secure it would still require polling stations. You would have to put up Keosks that would allow them to do it easily enough.. touchpad or whatever. The major problem is spitting packets over a public network. The only secure way to do it would be to create a private ATM type network for voting only.
The initial capitol needed for this would be high, but the keosks would be upgradeable and programmable from one central location in each region. The person would vote, the vote would go out over the private network and votes would be tallied immediately at breaknet speeds. Because this is so quick and easy it would allow for very inexpensive referendums... the keosks could be used for regional/citywide elections as well, thus saving each city several hundred thousand + dollars per year. Not to mention the trees that get to live..
Ahh.. but 790 is now GAY and in love with Kai. Well.. I wouldn't say he's gay because he doesn't have a body with genetalia.. but he was straight before.. or maybe gay... oh geez, what a world.. I don't know whats PC anymore...
ANYWAY!... I watch LEXX and yes.. it was the exact first thing to pop into my mellon.
As for overclocking, I think it would most likely cause a lot of stress on the brain thus you would need shrinks for all of our brain powered computers... I can just picture in 20 years, me bringing my Pentium XIV into a shrink because it was having OS issues... saying that its builder never loved it...
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Game: $75 CDN
Shipping: Approx $10 (give or take)
GST on above: $5.95 (applied at the border and paid to the post office when delivered).
That puts the game at about $90.95 after taxes in canadian dollars.
Perhaps its time to change the business model. Maybe they should focus on becoming a service for game manufacturers that ports the games for a fee but doesn't sell them?
Another thought would be to get away from the damn 1st person shooters. I'm sick of them. Its getting old. Perhaps they could get in with a windows gaming company before a game is released (wishful thinking..) and simultaneously release.
Another thought would be to release bare bones versions with a CD only and a PDF of the manual for a lower price. Kohan is bloody expensive for me to buy in Canada (so I'm not going to purchase it from Loki). Maybe they should throw a wad of cash that they don't have into marketing with large chains. Up here Business Depot carries Linux of various flavours.. maybe they could get in there.
What it comes down to is this is/will be a big kick to the crotch of linux gaming. :(
I want this game... until now I've been a Westwood whipping boy playing Tiberian Sun and Red Alert (not the lack of anything written after the year 2000). I realize that making games costs money. But $50 USD?? By the time that gets shipped to me, duty, GST and the good honest reaming that the the good ol canadian beaver will get from good ol uncle sam at the banks. This game will cost me somewhere in the area of $90 CDN. I can run down to Business Depot and buy a win32 version for much less including gas. This frustrates the hell out of me because there is no way the wife of this poor sap will let him live if she see's this on next months VISA statement. :(
Why did I use mls.ca? Simple. I don't like sales people. This limits my time with the necessary evil of dealing with them.
- Xabbu - Sysop: clockworkorangebbs.org
- Tradewars - LoRD - FidoNet and much more!
YES!
By rewarding the hacker and putting a little more egg on the faces of both the site owners and the authors of the software (I'm generalizing here) you are essentially forcing them to fix it.
This is what makes the software world go round. Both MS type monopolies and the 'little' guys like VA, apache and Themes.org
We as users and them as providers are better off in the long run because of it.
- Xabbu - Sysop: clockworkorangebbs.org
- Tradewars - LoRD - FidoNet and much more!
- Xabbu - Sysop: clockworkorangebbs.org
- Tradewars - LoRD - FidoNet and much more!
First Contact
Endgame
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But they looked so alike?!
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Speaking of inconsistancies.. I'm curious.. the Queen Borg... whats up with that? She has now died in 2 different events. Thats the only thing I would like some explanation for. I'd be willing to accept that she isn't actually flesh and blood and simply an AI stashed in the middle of Borgdom. I realize that she is supposed to be the Borg, but how's she(it) coming up with the same flesh and blood drone body. I'm doing it aren't I? :)
- Xabbu - Sysop: clockworkorangebbs.org
- Tradewars - LoRD - FidoNet and much more!
Lets break it down shall we...
Science: technological in nature... spaceships, time machines, cyborgs etc..
Fiction: Make believe... not true... not real... fictictious (what do i look like, a bloody thesauraus?)
- Xabbu - Sysop: clockworkorangebbs.org
- Tradewars - LoRD - FidoNet and much more!
Sit down... watch the show and enjoy it for what it is. A story. It doesn't need to be realistic. It doesn't have to follow a set of rules throughout the season saying that you can't do this because in show 42 so and so did this and that therfore making the thought of time warp using potatos and lemon juice is impossible.
Whatever happened to the time when we watched a program/play/movie with no thought for minor inconsistancies or outlandishly cool toys like holodecks.
- Xabbu - Sysop: clockworkorangebbs.org
- Tradewars - LoRD - FidoNet and much more!
Well I got myself a DSL connection to the net and wammo.. back up to 100+ calls a day. 90% of them are using the doors, which is fine. I didn't put a board up to force Message ratios or file ratios on people. Its nice to say that I can look at my board and see that people are enjoying themselves.
telnet://clockworkorangebbs.org
http://www.clockworkorangebbs.org
TradeWars, Lord and many other games.
FidoNet and a few other nets...
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Since the TWGS that is up there is most likely .\ then go to my bbs..
telnet://clockworkorangebbs.org
- Xabbu
ReLive your past! Come play the real TradeWars 2002 here!
telnet://clockworkorangebbs.org
http://clockworkorangebbs.org
TradeWars, LoRD, Operation Overkill ][, BRE, Falcons Eye!
FidoNet, AdventureNet, JustaXNet, MicroNet!
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Adultry or not adultry... its a matter of opinions... and opinions are like assholes... everybody's got one. Because of this there is no wrong answer, its really what a couple would consider to be too far.
:)
Personally if I found out my wife was having an online sexcapade I would be mildy worried.. I'd be asking myself the following...
Is it because there is something wrong with our marriage?
-or-
Is she just being her nymphy little self?
I'd like to think that our relationship is pretty open. If I piss her off I hear about it... oh god do I hear about it (stupid comments I've made 7 years ago get brought up when its appropriate). What it comes down too is that you need to discuss this with your partner.. you've got to live with them for the rest of your life (if your lucky) so communication is the key. For some people it may just be kinky.. kinda like safe swinging...
I met my wife online about 7 years ago.. back when a BBS was online and unless you where on a multinode system real time chat didn't happen. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.. We've lived together for 6 years.. been married for 3.5 years and are starting a family. So online romances can be a good thing.. I knew my wife 10 times better on the day we met in person then I've known anyone after 6 months or more.
If you feel you need to vent sexually this way, why not arrange a time to go chat with your spouse.. hell, I fire up ICQ at least 2-3 times a day just to sexually torment my wife so she's ripe for the pickin's by the time i get home
- Xabbu
So who cares:
To add to your post I would like to point out that a lot of medical research has been done in space. Many of the experiments performed have benefitted humanity and will continue to benefit us in the future.
To respond to an earlier post about perspective, how many lives could have been saved due to experiments performed in space that where put off for 2 years or more?
While loosing a large amount of people in an earthquake is no less important, it isn't as preventable as this. I hate to say it, but it also isn't relevant to SlashDot.
- Xabbu
Hi, My name's !Xabbu and I would like to welcome you to North America. Over here any time you throw a kid into any kind of murder / rape / sex act (or any kind of illegal act) against their will you can't collect $200, go straight to jail.
Children are amongst one of the only sacred things in this world in the eye's of the law. Lets enjoy that lack of freedom for a while.
- Xabbu
Sure, open source it, but don't GPL it. Let companies like MS and Real etc. adopt aspects of the player into existing closed source programs. If you GPL the player they most likely won't adopt it, and if it isn't adopted then all of their efforts are for nothing. Best case if the code was GPL'd would be that they create their own player over time and by the time that happens something new will come out. Just a thought.
Good luck! Sounds like a nice toy! maybe we can get rid of Quicktime or RAM's..
...I had a dream!
- Xabbu
http://clockworkorangebbs.org
This HOWTO is a good start on getting doors up and running with another BBS program. All you need is the Doors and the BBS program :)
I have also had Telegard running under DOSEMU as well using basically the same methods in the HOWTO
Have fun!
telnet://clockworkorangebbs.org
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Oh... and did I mention we are a LINUX BBS running our doors under DOSEMU?
If your a sysop and need help with doors under Linux, go HERE:
http://clockworkorangebbs.org/dosemu.html
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You want a little bit of the old nostalgia you can always call a real BBS. :) ASCII and ANSI Text!
- Tradewars 2002
- Legend of the Red Dragon
FIDONet - AdventureNet - MicroNet - JustaXNet
We've got it all baby! Up and running 7 years and still going strong!
Come and play!
telnet://clockworkorangebbs.org
- Xabbu
When you use Netscape you are getting the product you prefer at the tradeoff price of ads. Sure they sell it at Staples(TM), but how many people are going to shell out $40+ bucks for a web browser when you can use IE or a downloaded copy for free. They know this and are capitalizing on it. Personally speaking I don't use any of the crap they offer.. I turn off the "My Sidebar", don't use Messenger (to avoid the ad in my preview pane) and I redefine my homepage on the first startup of Netscape. What this leaves me with is a nicely bloated web browser just like the rest.
Back to why they do it.. profit.. its quite simple.. they aren't gonna make a dime off netscape if they don't shove their corporate identity in your face. I honestly don't blame them. Your average internet user likes these things... the average Slashdot reader doesn't. Thats about 1 or 2 million of us.. and about 40 Million plus of them.. you do the math.
Sofar I'm impressed with NS 6.0, now all I want to do is wait until the big webdesigners tell me whats wrong with how it renders pages so I can fix mine accordingly.
- Xabbu
The initial capitol needed for this would be high, but the keosks would be upgradeable and programmable from one central location in each region. The person would vote, the vote would go out over the private network and votes would be tallied immediately at breaknet speeds. Because this is so quick and easy it would allow for very inexpensive referendums... the keosks could be used for regional/citywide elections as well, thus saving each city several hundred thousand + dollars per year. Not to mention the trees that get to live..
- Xabbu
Ahh.. but 790 is now GAY and in love with Kai. Well.. I wouldn't say he's gay because he doesn't have a body with genetalia.. but he was straight before.. or maybe gay... oh geez, what a world.. I don't know whats PC anymore...
ANYWAY!... I watch LEXX and yes.. it was the exact first thing to pop into my mellon.
As for overclocking, I think it would most likely cause a lot of stress on the brain thus you would need shrinks for all of our brain powered computers... I can just picture in 20 years, me bringing my Pentium XIV into a shrink because it was having OS issues... saying that its builder never loved it...
- Xabbu