If you want to throw UNIX on a server, why the hell did you buy it with a WinNT or Win2k license?...and you say this took place on hundreds of them...which translates to hundreds of thousands of dollars to Microsoft in licensing.
"hackers, programmers and open source advocates are sounding the alarm about the Microsoft-ing of the Net."
Why is it that Linux is considered to have a numerical edge on M$ products when someone is actually talking about webservers.....yet it suddenly becomes oppressed when someone wants to call in the banners?
I've owned a number of Dell laptops and never had a worry...
Taco got a lemon and blames an entire company for a single issue.....how very open minded for a Linux zealot.
First off, Half-Life was created by a company named Valve...not Blizzard. Blizzard doesn't have a single game on the market that even vaguely resembles the Half-Life engine, playstyle, or storyline. They're simply rehashing their own innovative ideas from years ago.
In case you're unaware, EverQuest has a playerbase of over 300,000 people paying $40 for the game, $20 for each expansion, and $10 a month to Sony for the ability to continue playing. Once again, a wildly successful PC Gaming model that doesn't even come close to Half-Life.
I'm sorry, I felt that the Sci-Fi miniseries was horrid. I had been looking forward to seeing it since first hearing rumors of it's production. Most fans I know personally felt the same way, and don't see the point in wasting their time on any of the sequels. So we're looking at sequels that have a dissatisfied fan base and lack the name recognition of "Dune" itself. Sounds like a recipie for failure if you ask me.
In case it comes up, here is a quick rundown of my dislikes from the miniseries:
1. Overacting. Every member of the cast felt like someone pulled directly off the stage, not understanding that camera closeups allow for nuances of expression rather than gross exaggeration that is required when delivering a performance to people thirty meters away. Seeing the fremen portrayed as idiot savages turned my stomach. Skulking about in hooded capes in broad daylight like charactatures from an old black and white movie. BAH!
2. Poor adherence to the storyline/environment of the book. 'nuff said.
3. Weak character development. Every character appeared to be an oversimplified version of the character in the novel. Baron Harkonen should have had a black cowboy hat on and Luke..er..Paul should have had a lightsaber and a visible chip on his shoulder. He wasn't a messiah, he was an annoyingly shallow kid drunk on revenge.
4. Sad soundstages. The LOOKED like soundstages. I admit that they were operating on a finite budget, but less money could have been spent on the facade design and more on the functional design of the stages themselves. Once again, this is a TELEVISION production, not a damned play on a stage.
Basically it boils down to the fact that they had six hours to tell a story that was better done in the three hour director's cut of the Dune movie. It's sad, really.
I'm glad to see I'm not the only one that felt that this miniseries is in danger of falling flat. So far the director's cut of the Dune movie was much more accurate and easier to follow....
I think the breaking windows comparison is handling cracking with kid gloves.
Think of it like this, someone walks up, breaks the window. Walks through the broken window and commences rifling through your corporate files. Before this k1dd1e is done, he paints grafitti all over the inside of your offices.
Breaking and entering, Vandalism, and Theft of IP are just the first three things to come to mind. Tough measures are what we need....maybe if more script kiddies get their asses beaten with billyclubs and serve as bubba's love slave in the pen we'll see a drop in the 'cool' factor of cracking.
Though I'm sure that the Clintons and the JonKatz of the world would rather support these poor misdirected children with social programs.
....said individuals immediately made a purchase off Amazon.com, started downloading IE5.5, and in the meantime went to WalMart to pick up some diapers for their rugrats.
I'm 20. If I can do the same job as you, I expect to be paid the same as you, regardless of how long you've been warming a chair. If you are more qualified than me, then you should (and will) be paid more.
I think this quote effectively renders all of your mewlings as null and void. It shows a distinct lack of experience in the business world and illustrates that you really don't have a clue as to what's actually going on in the real world as opposed to your utopian view of business.
Try to simply think things out from the perspective of a pointy haired boss that has a budget and gets a pat on the head for cutting costs, while spewing excuses for a work schedule that's running behind...
Mark Rein-Hagen has had maybe two original thoughts in his entire life. The man based his entire system and world off the blood, sweat and tears of other authors, gamers and enthusiasts. He also quickly let his sucess go to his head and became a rather pompus asshole.
Two perfect examples of what I'm talking about:
1. The Tzmitsce (sp) are blatant rips of the wampyre found in Lumley's Necroscope series...right down to the aeries they live in.
2. Mind's Eye Theatre was developed based of the LRP design created by The Renegade Project at Continuity. Mark was there and praised the system mightly...and didn't give a single word of credit when he published.
Christ, these aren't stories, they're gaming worlds....and they've been available for public consumption for years. Even so, they were thrown together when the writing on the wall was very clear to anyone well read and aware of technical trends of the times.
What? JonKatz take a years old concept, twist it, try to put a new face on it, and make it appear to be some kind of sociopolitical statement? Nawwwww....
That is about the worst account of the cause of the American Civil War that I've ever heard. It's almost as bad as the delusional fools that claim it was fought over slavery. It was a war brought about by economic controls being put into place by an oppressive government. I would think that with all the issues currently in Slashdot's spotlight, this woudl be well understood.
>sigh
Maybe if more people in the Linux community would admit to the fundamental faults in Linux and work toward improving them, instead of spending time hyping product or detracting from their competitors....
I run Linux on a 486 at home for my DSL. It's stripped down to do nothing but use ipchains for NAT and forward a few ports through to my web server. I have no performance issues whatsoever and cannot notice a difference between a direct connection and going through the 486.
Using this scenario, security is as tight as you want to make it.
seriously, since linux is still disproportionally made up of geeks (aka smart people), don't you think that they'd be disproportionally made up of people who get tired of the same damn thing over and over again, with the big distinction in newer versions being that they require even more hours of practice to get a modicum of skill?
I know that I have better things to do than to play occasionally, and if you're anything but a dedicated quake player, your ass is going to be smeared on the wall pretty constantly.
Linux sales of quake might be more of a metric of how many people have nothing constructive to do with any of their time, rather than a how-many-people play games on linux. A more interesting question would be for games which don't have such a high skill bar for entry, and thus are playable by those with jobs, relationships, responsibilities, etc.
You're right. You're simply so high on the evolutionary scale that entertainment really doesn't apply to you.
I'm married, have two weimaraners (a high energy sporting breed), a medium maintenance home, a technical career, and a child on the way....but even with this limiting my free time I can still crank out a competitive CounterStrike match. Please save your pathetic attempts at equating 'smart people' or 'people with jobs, relationships, responsibiilities' with people who have no gaming skills.
Your attempt at rationalizing the reason why QuakeIII sales for Linux were low is a classic example of why the general populace becomes turned off by Linux. It's the homo-sapien/superior attitudes like this that will continue to hamper the progress of Linux in the desktop arena. Please take your wonderful social skills and promote something else.....like drinking the Kool-Aid.
Halflife's storyline was amazing, but give credit where credit is due. It's topping the charts because of the multiplayer aspect of it. CounterStrike and TeamFortress 1.5 are what are propelling it onward and upward.
Think about it, either cooperative play where puzzles require two players to work together, or a competitive situation where one player serves up for another player. This could be an excellent use for the Neverwinter Nights engine and the Aurora toolset.
The gaming industry is what we make of it as consumers...and right now multiplayer games glut the market. Why? Because they offer replayability and unique experiences from game to game.
Slashdot Mirror
If you want to throw UNIX on a server, why the hell did you buy it with a WinNT or Win2k license? ...and you say this took place on hundreds of them...which translates to hundreds of thousands of dollars to Microsoft in licensing.
"hackers, programmers and open source advocates are sounding the alarm about the Microsoft-ing of the Net."
Why is it that Linux is considered to have a numerical edge on M$ products when someone is actually talking about webservers.....yet it suddenly becomes oppressed when someone wants to call in the banners?
I've owned a number of Dell laptops and never had a worry... Taco got a lemon and blames an entire company for a single issue.....how very open minded for a Linux zealot.
Primalchrome
Post intelligently or don't post at all.
First off, Half-Life was created by a company named Valve...not Blizzard. Blizzard doesn't have a single game on the market that even vaguely resembles the Half-Life engine, playstyle, or storyline. They're simply rehashing their own innovative ideas from years ago.
In case you're unaware, EverQuest has a playerbase of over 300,000 people paying $40 for the game, $20 for each expansion, and $10 a month to Sony for the ability to continue playing. Once again, a wildly successful PC Gaming model that doesn't even come close to Half-Life.
PrimalChrome
In case it comes up, here is a quick rundown of my dislikes from the miniseries:
1. Overacting. Every member of the cast felt like someone pulled directly off the stage, not understanding that camera closeups allow for nuances of expression rather than gross exaggeration that is required when delivering a performance to people thirty meters away. Seeing the fremen portrayed as idiot savages turned my stomach. Skulking about in hooded capes in broad daylight like charactatures from an old black and white movie. BAH!
2. Poor adherence to the storyline/environment of the book. 'nuff said.
3. Weak character development. Every character appeared to be an oversimplified version of the character in the novel. Baron Harkonen should have had a black cowboy hat on and Luke..er..Paul should have had a lightsaber and a visible chip on his shoulder. He wasn't a messiah, he was an annoyingly shallow kid drunk on revenge.
4. Sad soundstages. The LOOKED like soundstages. I admit that they were operating on a finite budget, but less money could have been spent on the facade design and more on the functional design of the stages themselves. Once again, this is a TELEVISION production, not a damned play on a stage.
Basically it boils down to the fact that they had six hours to tell a story that was better done in the three hour director's cut of the Dune movie. It's sad, really.
Primalchrome
Primalchrome
Uhm....perhaps because they're both sci-fi messiah flicks? Star Wars is a reference point for 95% of people....
Think of it like this, someone walks up, breaks the window. Walks through the broken window and commences rifling through your corporate files. Before this k1dd1e is done, he paints grafitti all over the inside of your offices.
Breaking and entering, Vandalism, and Theft of IP are just the first three things to come to mind. Tough measures are what we need....maybe if more script kiddies get their asses beaten with billyclubs and serve as bubba's love slave in the pen we'll see a drop in the 'cool' factor of cracking.
Though I'm sure that the Clintons and the JonKatz of the world would rather support these poor misdirected children with social programs.
PrimalChrome
Intent vs Action
Try to simply think things out from the perspective of a pointy haired boss that has a budget and gets a pat on the head for cutting costs, while spewing excuses for a work schedule that's running behind...
PrimalChrome
Two perfect examples of what I'm talking about:
PrimalChrome
What? JonKatz take a years old concept, twist it, try to put a new face on it, and make it appear to be some kind of sociopolitical statement? Nawwwww....
PrimalChrome
That is about the worst account of the cause of the American Civil War that I've ever heard. It's almost as bad as the delusional fools that claim it was fought over slavery. It was a war brought about by economic controls being put into place by an oppressive government. I would think that with all the issues currently in Slashdot's spotlight, this woudl be well understood.
PrimalChrome
Karma whore.
Primalchrome
PrimalChrome
PrimalChrome
Using this scenario, security is as tight as you want to make it.
PrimalChrome
A variety of tissues have already been used in cross-species transplants. Valves from pig's hearts just being the tip of the iceberg.
PrimalChrome
You're right. You're simply so high on the evolutionary scale that entertainment really doesn't apply to you.
I'm married, have two weimaraners (a high energy sporting breed), a medium maintenance home, a technical career, and a child on the way....but even with this limiting my free time I can still crank out a competitive CounterStrike match. Please save your pathetic attempts at equating 'smart people' or 'people with jobs, relationships, responsibiilities' with people who have no gaming skills.
Your attempt at rationalizing the reason why QuakeIII sales for Linux were low is a classic example of why the general populace becomes turned off by Linux. It's the homo-sapien/superior attitudes like this that will continue to hamper the progress of Linux in the desktop arena. Please take your wonderful social skills and promote something else.....like drinking the Kool-Aid.
PrimalChrome
PrimalChrome
PrimalChrome
Think about it, either cooperative play where puzzles require two players to work together, or a competitive situation where one player serves up for another player. This could be an excellent use for the Neverwinter Nights engine and the Aurora toolset.
The gaming industry is what we make of it as consumers...and right now multiplayer games glut the market. Why? Because they offer replayability and unique experiences from game to game.
PrimalChrome