Why why oh lordy I ask why doesn't Lucas Arts care that this game, SOE and the utter arrogance and apathy they constantly display towards thier players old and new is not doing the Star Wars license any good at all!?
I mean, of all franchises, of all pop-culture icons, how can George Lucas allow this to happen to the one that made him king? The game is not canon, it changes every year, it's currently losing subscribers new and old no matter what the latest spin from SOE's PR department says. All those things sum to one thing, a series of bad decisions and a temporary loss of what the "Ultimate Star Wars Experience" really is. It's not playing yet another game where you are given a lightsabre and led around like a mindless drone through a pre-set path, it's playing whatever it is that was in every fan's head all these years without some hapless market-driven game developer getting in the way.
George, show up at SOE's offices with the can of whoop-ass that only you can carry and make it right.
I'm going to go re-arrange my clone trooper action figures now.
At some point movies that cost $200 million will only cost $15 million due to the wonders of technology. This is great for people like Lucas who may make as much or more money on franchise merchandise ($500 for a prop replica stormtrooper blaster anyone?) than the movie sales themselves... oh and don't forget the booming DVD secondary market.
Regardelss of what point in the timeline the game is placed... until more content is added, current issues are resolved and customer service / development is no longer oblivious to what *actual* subscribers want, Star Wars: Galaxies will still be a horrid abomination of a game.
It's really a personality trait brought to behavioral practice.
I'm so tired of people trying to describe things as art when they have no place being referred to as such. I drive cars with manual transmissions really well, am I a stick-shift artist? Please.
One percent is only realistic if your new employer can guarantee that nothing unexpected will ever happen. One percent may cover the routine log-grazing and backup rotation as well as a few other tasks but if your mail server goes down, a switch dies or an operating system update takes down 75% of of your staff... well you get the idea.
The OpenBSD crew are looking for documentation, Adaptec is twisting this into demands for support. Theo is fighting so people who use OpenBSD will have a better system that supports more hardware.
Frankly, if it means pissing some people off at Adaptec then so be it. Vendors need to realize that if they don't give the people what they want... people will go elsewhere.
Why Adaptec is resisting providing documentation to a group that will do the work for them so their products are better supported and thus *PURCHASED* more is beyond reason.
Find some suppliers that are flat-out chuckleheads.
There are boards out there that support 16GB of memory and resellers that are happy to sell them to you.
Keep looking and I'd suggest looking at Tyan's web site first then asking around for a supplier who can source their large memory boards for your system(s).
...that more SUV driving, republican voting, steak eating, three-putting meatheads won't want to trust their leased pride and joy to some automated parking garage.
Do you have any idea how long Sun has already been around? Your comments come off like the final script for a great film that was hacked apart, glued together and then jammed into theatres.
I just do not see Sun and SGI going backwards in order to run Linux on their proprietary mid to high-end systems. Why would they abandon or por resources into duplicating what they already have?
That said, I do see Linux and perhaps *BSD becoming more prominent running on new hardware from the above and a couple of other vendors.
Can you justify all the equipment in what sounds like a rather small shared space? I mean, if you have a need for all this gear that's one thing, but if you are just littering the house with "geek toys" because you can, you may want to stop trusting your technolust.
I'd like an SGI, PRS Custom 24 and Marshall 1/2 stack in every room of my apartment too, however even though my wife is also a geek (programmer)and into music (bassist) I don't think I'd even try to do that kind of thing.
I will not pay for a subscription. I will not use an ad. filtering proxy unless the ad. situation goes over my acceptable limit. If this happens I will send $20 to CmdrTaco himself.
The same cost as a one year subscription.
Seriously.
This subscription scheme is a badly formulated one that reads like this:
We need money. Lets bring in more ads. Hmm, people probably won't like that... so let's make 'em pay to remove the ads from their pages.
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Why why oh lordy I ask why doesn't Lucas Arts care that this game, SOE and the utter arrogance and apathy they constantly display towards thier players old and new is not doing the Star Wars license any good at all!?
I mean, of all franchises, of all pop-culture icons, how can George Lucas allow this to happen to the one that made him king? The game is not canon, it changes every year, it's currently losing subscribers new and old no matter what the latest spin from SOE's PR department says. All those things sum to one thing, a series of bad decisions and a temporary loss of what the "Ultimate Star Wars Experience" really is. It's not playing yet another game where you are given a lightsabre and led around like a mindless drone through a pre-set path, it's playing whatever it is that was in every fan's head all these years without some hapless market-driven game developer getting in the way.
George, show up at SOE's offices with the can of whoop-ass that only you can carry and make it right.
I'm going to go re-arrange my clone trooper action figures now.
At some point movies that cost $200 million will only cost $15 million due to the wonders of technology. This is great for people like Lucas who may make as much or more money on franchise merchandise ($500 for a prop replica stormtrooper blaster anyone?) than the movie sales themselves... oh and don't forget the booming DVD secondary market.
Regardelss of what point in the timeline the game is placed... until more content is added, current issues are resolved and customer service / development is no longer oblivious to what *actual* subscribers want, Star Wars: Galaxies will still be a horrid abomination of a game.
It's really a personality trait brought to behavioral practice.
I'm so tired of people trying to describe things as art when they have no place being referred to as such. I drive cars with manual transmissions really well, am I a stick-shift artist? Please.
One percent is only realistic if your new employer can guarantee that nothing unexpected will ever happen. One percent may cover the routine log-grazing and backup rotation as well as a few other tasks but if your mail server goes down, a switch dies or an operating system update takes down 75% of of your staff... well you get the idea.
The OpenBSD crew are looking for documentation, Adaptec is twisting this into demands for support. Theo is fighting so people who use OpenBSD will have a better system that supports more hardware.
Frankly, if it means pissing some people off at Adaptec then so be it. Vendors need to realize that if they don't give the people what they want... people will go elsewhere.
Why Adaptec is resisting providing documentation to a group that will do the work for them so their products are better supported and thus *PURCHASED* more is beyond reason.
Thanks Theo, keep up the good work!
Whoops... that should be *aren't* flat-out chuckleheads. :)
Find some suppliers that are flat-out chuckleheads.
There are boards out there that support 16GB of memory and resellers that are happy to sell them to you.
Keep looking and I'd suggest looking at Tyan's web site first then asking around for a supplier who can source their large memory boards for your system(s).
Lets just say that with some home-brew hardware I know where all you naughtly little monkeys are at all times!!!!
Taco... steer clear of Graceland for chrissakes!
I mean really, would you put it past SCO at this point?
...that more SUV driving, republican voting, steak eating, three-putting meatheads won't want to trust their leased pride and joy to some automated parking garage.
Do you have any idea how long Sun has already been around? Your comments come off like the final script for a great film that was hacked apart, glued together and then jammed into theatres.
...saying *BSD is dead is dead.
Something like a quad-G4 machine with support for three 23" cinema displays and a case that floats 4" above your desk.
Otherwise it will be more interesting hardware and clever software that I cannot afford.
Theo de Raadt and Steve Jobs could rule the world if they got together. No really.
I just do not see Sun and SGI going backwards in order to run Linux on their proprietary mid to high-end systems. Why would they abandon or por resources into duplicating what they already have?
That said, I do see Linux and perhaps *BSD becoming more prominent running on new hardware from the above and a couple of other vendors.
C'mon guys it's boring after the first few matches.
:)
Now... when the 'bots are Mech. sized with full armament that's a whole new ball game.
Andrew
As a matter of fact I did spend nearly a hundred hours on one of the favored QNX IRC channels among other users and several QNX employees.
I never demanded attention and asked very few questions. My comments come from my first-hand observations of other users and "QNX Elite".
Now experienced QNX users will have even more new users to bitch at when they ask for help getting QNX to run on their Dreamcasts.
Stick to nuclear reactors and whiz-bang PDA's that no one can afford.
You can plaster Slashdot with horrid Star Wars and Lord of the Rings spoof ads. but you cannot check the spelling and grammar of the posts.
Scary
Apple, you are such a good company when you want to be. Why can't you allow people to assist you in giving the people what they want?
I used to agree with Bob Metcalfe that "Steve Jobs could do no wrong" but every now and then I have to eat his words and it is getting tired.
I think the site is gone with the death of reality.sgi.com but they used to have an O2 genterating random numbers using lava lamps.
Can you justify all the equipment in what sounds like a rather small shared space? I mean, if you have a need for all this gear that's one thing, but if you are just littering the house with "geek toys" because you can, you may want to stop trusting your technolust.
I'd like an SGI, PRS Custom 24 and Marshall 1/2 stack in every room of my apartment too, however even though my wife is also a geek (programmer)and into music (bassist) I don't think I'd even try to do that kind of thing.
Especially in the bathroom. WTF are you thinking?
Death, taxes and regular OpenBSD releases.
I will not pay for a subscription. I will not use an ad. filtering proxy unless the ad. situation goes over my acceptable limit. If this happens I will send $20 to CmdrTaco himself.
/.'s staff can do better than that.
The same cost as a one year subscription.
Seriously.
This subscription scheme is a badly formulated one that reads like this:
We need money. Lets bring in more ads. Hmm, people probably won't like that... so let's make 'em pay to remove the ads from their pages.
That's dumb.