If that's the case, imagine all the excuses M$ can use to make competative software rendered useless, especially Realplayer and Winamp! All they have to say is "This program isn't a trusted program to be used in proper DRM." and you're fucked. Of course that only DRM-approved program will be... drum roll, please! Windoze Media Player!
Not to mention VIII had too much of a soppy story line... you know, even though I loved the Junctions and not having to pay for armour and weapons and stuff, I got tired of Rinoa and Squall going through "young love". Blech.
NOTE: This is a rant, not a troll. I hope that I'm not modded-down.
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Good, I happen to like RH the best, but now I can have what all those l33t Debian ppl always complain about RH for... Even though I have the chance to go after more RPMs (and even with Alien on their system, I know they'll work on my RH) and they having the flexability of both packaging systems, I still prefer RH. Why? I don't like Debian... and I don't wish to use "unstable". ("Oh but it's -stable enough-!" is unacceptable for me and my boss unfortuately.)
Now I can hear those l33t Debian users just STFU over their stupid apt being an exclusive to Debian. Now what do they have?:-D
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Of course I jumped the M$ ship when Win98 came out... oh how I didn't want the instability, and now I get to avoid all the crap that goes into XP, which plays DivX's upside down, would cause my 1 GHz Athlon to crawl and my 30 GB HD to be 1/6th full! Not to mention that I'm an assumed pirater that needs to be babied into everything and be assumed to only have the intellecutal ability of a toddler with the GUI.
Instead I use Linux. It's lightning-quick, has commerical and free apps, and even Windoze Gaming Support along with Native Linux Games and all the office tools I want. Why should I switch back? It's getting worse all the time.;-)
I have recently read your post and have found that you are encouraging the usage and distrobution of a Bronze Age emmulator; a blatent infringement of MY copyright within my Divine Rule.
Therefore, under my counsil of Superior Outright New Yearning US Association (SONY USA), we have placed a lawsuit on your company for copyright infringment. Since I am above all your mortal laws, I have already condemned you to the firey pits of hell for eternal damnnation since I don't have a need to get rich. Of course, your eternal damnnation can be reversed if you purchace a licence in any of my religions: Christianity (I go by "God/Jesus/Holy Spirit"), Judiasm (I go by "Yaweah"), Islam (I go by "Allah"). Usually this is a lifetime membership to the religions where doing such emmulation is unacceptable, anyway. So while I implore you to join to save your souls, I will ask you this one time to cease and desist distrobution of an emmulator of my Intelectual Property, because I have a monopoly on creation and the time-space continuum.
Yes, perl is a great language for many thing... even slashdot uses it. But in all seriousness, how many languages is enough? What I've noticed is that there are too many languages, and people only use a handful because of a few things: One, the popularity; Two, the ability a language has to market yourself in the job market (C/C++, Java, Perl, Python, SQL, and in some cases, assembler for embedded work are the most popular.); Three, for the above mentioned people are willing to put up with it caevets. These programming languages fill the vast void of what everyone ever wanted or needed -- they are general enough to be swiss army knives, they are targeted enough to have a desire to learn them, and they are expandable enough to allow for everyone to add libraries to it. The more popular the language, the more libs there are -- btw, smalltalk's a good language; see anyone program in that? Not many. Same goes for lisp, COBOL, Ada (which is total crap), etc. I'm afraid Ruby will be doomed on that path due to the fact that there really is no need to have it.
...are they? Honestly, I swear over the last 6-8 months there have been at -least- 1 article/month on *Ruby*. So what's the big deal? Another scripting language; how many of those do we got now? C'mon!
(For the humour impared, I'm not trying to be a troll. Thank you, and now your regularly scheduled saracsm.)
I think we ought to use the 1.0 series of kernels. That way we can only have a 386 in there with an FPU co-processor, and we -know- how stable the 1.0 series of kernels are. We have it all simplistic and it allows for us to use something that has been tried-and-true. We can't be having those buggy 2.4 kernels in there; oh no, we gotta have something that's Bug Free(TM)!
According to various reports, RTCW works in WineX quite well (a 4 out of 5, which means that probably is some *minor* at worst irritants. This is also the same rating as a lot of good games such as Diablo II.) This off of transgaming's site... of course, YMMV.
hehe... I can see it now. All those campaign ads being sent into your brain spreading political propoganda... "And don't belive the ACLU; we're not mail sniffing with Carnavore! NO! It's a patriotic symbol to america so we can weed out the terrorists!"
That some 5c2|p7 k|dd|3 bet $5 with each of his/her friends that he/she could write something out of a worm kit that he could get a LOT of corperate data and that most people can't set a password?
Seriously, hang the dork that EVER sets blank passwords. This will help clean out the gene pool. Thank you, and God Bless.
...yet no one mentions Squaresoft. Why do I have a PS2? Squaresoft. They make some *real* kick-ass games, especially RPG. These guys always get the attention of the hard-core gamers because of how they use the platform they design for, their story plots, and how much fun their console RPGs really are! Seems to me the critical company is Squaresoft, and Sony's got them. Not M$, not Nintendo, and certainly not Sega. Nintendo had their chance to keep them for the N64, but since Nintendo wanted to dictate to them their releases, Squaresoft jumped ship and went to Sony's camp. Let that be a lesson to Sony so they don't lose out on a critial player in their age market, because M$ will be more than happy to take them in and take a seige at the market.
Personally, if M$ can't get Squaresoft, they can't dominate. This isn't the OS industry, M$ -- you can't do it all in-house; you need a huge backing.
This can be taken two ways: 1) Linux screws over M$'s plans for the future, or 2) The Linux community is going to help capitalize on M$'s plans to move into the game community. This post may seem a little redundant, but I'll make some points here that I haven't seen scrolling through previous comments:
* The gateway may not be the best thing to see for those that would rather see the X-Box go away. This only strengthens its position for anyone with broadband; immediately jumping into the online world where Sega and possibly Sony have already entered, and Nintendo is lagging behind... I haven't heard about its broadband, but Nintendo best have something.
* This little Linux program should allow for more than JUST X-Box -- especially if other services out there can too be taken away and allow for more of a P2P gaming experience. No middle man for Phantasy Star Online, for example. I feel if it gets more fanfare it'll spark more projects to be done for other consoles, which is totally a Good Thing(TM).
* Misc. points: It would as been said before spark a Game Spy-ish service, but I would not be suprised of Game Spy themselves took intrest in tapping into this market for consoles if we got more of a P2P way of finding games. I know I would have some intrest along with my brother and our PS2's to be able to find opponents in say, Tekken Tag that we have sitting there collecting dust because we've beat all our friends in it.
Oh well, in the end Billy G. may get shafted out of another subcription service:-D
We... bought... this... government yeaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!
(Yeah, I'm sickened by this. Just in time for the holidays too; we can all let M$ get a pat on the ass for good deeds as the settlement for being naughty -- just like sentancing a mass-murderer to 40 hrs of community service.)
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Well and there's the l33t factor of customizing your own gaming system, and this little bugger is perfect for that... if you wanna go on the cheap, a simple Celeron can be had with some PC133 RAM so later you could fit in a 733 MHz or so P3 if you wanted. I like the idea, and if I had mod points I'd mod you up. Though what is annoying is only one PCI slot for expansion... blech. Can't complain when it's so compact as it is.
Uncle Bill says that if it is off of eBay it's probably pirated, and I don't want a pirated X-Box... I'm going to be a good boy and overpay for it at a department store! That way I can check the holographic inside of the box to make sure it's genuine!!!
I already get that with my server room and the air conditioning on too cold! Why would I want to be in the blue room and have the same thing? I never thought of wearing a suit, but then again I wanna wear a t-shirt and shorts!
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They got a CLUE!!! omg, excuse me, I gotta wake up now... this can't be happening.
Only if they are using an Athlon and the heatsink wasn't firmly attached... :-)
Looks like M$ is up to no good again :-/
Not to mention VIII had too much of a soppy story line... you know, even though I loved the Junctions and not having to pay for armour and weapons and stuff, I got tired of Rinoa and Squall going through "young love". Blech.
NOTE: This is a rant, not a troll. I hope that I'm not modded-down.
:-D
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Good, I happen to like RH the best, but now I can have what all those l33t Debian ppl always complain about RH for... Even though I have the chance to go after more RPMs (and even with Alien on their system, I know they'll work on my RH) and they having the flexability of both packaging systems, I still prefer RH. Why? I don't like Debian... and I don't wish to use "unstable". ("Oh but it's -stable enough-!" is unacceptable for me and my boss unfortuately.)
Now I can hear those l33t Debian users just STFU over their stupid apt being an exclusive to Debian. Now what do they have?
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Instead I use Linux. It's lightning-quick, has commerical and free apps, and even Windoze Gaming Support along with Native Linux Games and all the office tools I want. Why should I switch back? It's getting worse all the time. ;-)
I have recently read your post and have found that you are encouraging the usage and distrobution of a Bronze Age emmulator; a blatent infringement of MY copyright within my Divine Rule.
Therefore, under my counsil of Superior Outright New Yearning US Association (SONY USA), we have placed a lawsuit on your company for copyright infringment. Since I am above all your mortal laws, I have already condemned you to the firey pits of hell for eternal damnnation since I don't have a need to get rich. Of course, your eternal damnnation can be reversed if you purchace a licence in any of my religions: Christianity (I go by "God/Jesus/Holy Spirit"), Judiasm (I go by "Yaweah"), Islam (I go by "Allah"). Usually this is a lifetime membership to the religions where doing such emmulation is unacceptable, anyway. So while I implore you to join to save your souls, I will ask you this one time to cease and desist distrobution of an emmulator of my Intelectual Property, because I have a monopoly on creation and the time-space continuum.
Sincerely,
God
A way to combat the /. effect! Yippie!!!
:-P
"Hey guys! I'm going to post a plug on slashdot -- wanna replocate me?" -- this I'm sure won't get a lot of "Sure!" responces...
Otherwise great way to set up mirrors in a hurry.
Yes, perl is a great language for many thing... even slashdot uses it. But in all seriousness, how many languages is enough? What I've noticed is that there are too many languages, and people only use a handful because of a few things: One, the popularity; Two, the ability a language has to market yourself in the job market (C/C++, Java, Perl, Python, SQL, and in some cases, assembler for embedded work are the most popular.); Three, for the above mentioned people are willing to put up with it caevets. These programming languages fill the vast void of what everyone ever wanted or needed -- they are general enough to be swiss army knives, they are targeted enough to have a desire to learn them, and they are expandable enough to allow for everyone to add libraries to it. The more popular the language, the more libs there are -- btw, smalltalk's a good language; see anyone program in that? Not many. Same goes for lisp, COBOL, Ada (which is total crap), etc. I'm afraid Ruby will be doomed on that path due to the fact that there really is no need to have it.
...are they? Honestly, I swear over the last 6-8 months there have been at -least- 1 article/month on *Ruby*. So what's the big deal? Another scripting language; how many of those do we got now? C'mon!
(For the humour impared, I'm not trying to be a troll. Thank you, and now your regularly scheduled saracsm.)
I think we ought to use the 1.0 series of kernels. That way we can only have a 386 in there with an FPU co-processor, and we -know- how stable the 1.0 series of kernels are. We have it all simplistic and it allows for us to use something that has been tried-and-true. We can't be having those buggy 2.4 kernels in there; oh no, we gotta have something that's Bug Free(TM)!
C|N>K! That's the funniest thing I've ever read on /.! Mod this post up, people...
According to various reports, RTCW works in WineX quite well (a 4 out of 5, which means that probably is some *minor* at worst irritants. This is also the same rating as a lot of good games such as Diablo II.) This off of transgaming's site... of course, YMMV.
Sure, and you'll *still* forget your girlfriend's birthday!
hehe... I can see it now. All those campaign ads being sent into your brain spreading political propoganda... "And don't belive the ACLU; we're not mail sniffing with Carnavore! NO! It's a patriotic symbol to america so we can weed out the terrorists!"
sheesh...
That some 5c2|p7 k|dd|3 bet $5 with each of his/her friends that he/she could write something out of a worm kit that he could get a LOT of corperate data and that most people can't set a password?
Seriously, hang the dork that EVER sets blank passwords. This will help clean out the gene pool. Thank you, and God Bless.
Not KDE, though if you like Afterstep, this is an alternative to the Lose9x shell at least. http://www.litestep.net/
...yet no one mentions Squaresoft. Why do I have a PS2? Squaresoft. They make some *real* kick-ass games, especially RPG. These guys always get the attention of the hard-core gamers because of how they use the platform they design for, their story plots, and how much fun their console RPGs really are! Seems to me the critical company is Squaresoft, and Sony's got them. Not M$, not Nintendo, and certainly not Sega. Nintendo had their chance to keep them for the N64, but since Nintendo wanted to dictate to them their releases, Squaresoft jumped ship and went to Sony's camp. Let that be a lesson to Sony so they don't lose out on a critial player in their age market, because M$ will be more than happy to take them in and take a seige at the market.
Personally, if M$ can't get Squaresoft, they can't dominate. This isn't the OS industry, M$ -- you can't do it all in-house; you need a huge backing.
This can be taken two ways: 1) Linux screws over M$'s plans for the future, or 2) The Linux community is going to help capitalize on M$'s plans to move into the game community. This post may seem a little redundant, but I'll make some points here that I haven't seen scrolling through previous comments:
:-D
* The gateway may not be the best thing to see for those that would rather see the X-Box go away. This only strengthens its position for anyone with broadband; immediately jumping into the online world where Sega and possibly Sony have already entered, and Nintendo is lagging behind... I haven't heard about its broadband, but Nintendo best have something.
* This little Linux program should allow for more than JUST X-Box -- especially if other services out there can too be taken away and allow for more of a P2P gaming experience. No middle man for Phantasy Star Online, for example. I feel if it gets more fanfare it'll spark more projects to be done for other consoles, which is totally a Good Thing(TM).
* Misc. points: It would as been said before spark a Game Spy-ish service, but I would not be suprised of Game Spy themselves took intrest in tapping into this market for consoles if we got more of a P2P way of finding games. I know I would have some intrest along with my brother and our PS2's to be able to find opponents in say, Tekken Tag that we have sitting there collecting dust because we've beat all our friends in it.
Oh well, in the end Billy G. may get shafted out of another subcription service
We... bought... this... government yeaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!
(Yeah, I'm sickened by this. Just in time for the holidays too; we can all let M$ get a pat on the ass for good deeds as the settlement for being naughty -- just like sentancing a mass-murderer to 40 hrs of community service.)
No, it's the GNU/Linux ZBox. We gotta get it right!
Well and there's the l33t factor of customizing your own gaming system, and this little bugger is perfect for that... if you wanna go on the cheap, a simple Celeron can be had with some PC133 RAM so later you could fit in a 733 MHz or so P3 if you wanted. I like the idea, and if I had mod points I'd mod you up. Though what is annoying is only one PCI slot for expansion... blech. Can't complain when it's so compact as it is.
This is true, but in case you couldn't see the sarcasm, it's moreso about some "other" product M$ has... which shall go unnamed
I already get that with my server room and the air conditioning on too cold! Why would I want to be in the blue room and have the same thing? I never thought of wearing a suit, but then again I wanna wear a t-shirt and shorts!