Just a note so there's no confusion.. This is NOT the complete source code of the game, so no one can take this and make it run on FreeBSD or BlueOS or something. It is merely the mod source, so that mod writers can make mods now. Just about every FPS releases this type of source code moments after or even before the release of the game is on store shelves.
This is a non-news item.
Re:PowerPC Linux users had compiled boot 'scripts'
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Gentoo has gone a long way towards faster booting already. It doesn't have compiled boot scripts, but it has a much more sophisticated runlevel management system than is described in the article. It has real dependencies and whatnot, and boots very very quickly.
Good physical theories are generally intuitive enough to be understood by most people on high level. Will they be able to calculate values and forces and whatnot? No, but the theory still makes intuitive sense. You are right to say that anyone acting like an authority on a subject without knowing the math is overstepping their knowledge. But the avergage layperson really can get the gist of gravity, strings, spacetime, etc.
Just because someone doesn't understand the math (diff eq) doesn't mean they can't understand the concepts.
First, it is a viral license. I personally think that's fine. Viral is maybe a bad word, but it's an accurate depiction. I think the GPL is great, but I still think it's viral.
Second, SCO's claim is utterly bunk, because they have been distributing the GPL'ed kernel and other programs for quite some time.
Think of it this way: Let's say that SCO has a case and there's proprietary UNIX code throughout the kernel (bull, I believe, but anyway). They've had access to that source, they understand the GPL, and they have still distributed said code under the GPL. So, quite frankly, if they missed it, that's their problem. Tough luck. Did they somehow not look at the code THEY were distributing?
I think SCO is gonna have a very hard time in court, especially against the mountain of lawyers that is the IBM legal department.
I really thought that Venice was a really inappropriate example. I've spent a couple of days there, but it seems it's not really much of a real, functioning city. All the businesses I saw there were ice cream shops, jewelry stores, little restaurants, or museums. Just touristy stuff.
As I understand it, the city of Venice is pretty much a tourist town, with modern Venice on the mainland (actually a different city, with a diifferent name that eludes me), an ugly blight of post-industrial wasteland, and a vast contrast to the gorgeous nearby Po river valley.
In summary, Venice is a very poor example of a real city without cars. I really do like the premise of this website, but Venice is a bad example. Venice is for tourists anymore, not regular people living regular lives.
Re:Super Mario Brothers 3...
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Wrong.
I'm gonna try not to be too infalmmatory here, but you're wrong. SMB3 was a NES game, and was later released as part of Super Mario All-Stars on the SNES (with SMB1, SMB2 and the Lost Levels). Please don't "correct" people when you don't know what you're talking about yourself. We're trying to keep the signal to noise ratio high here.
Unless you're just trolling. In that case, carry on, cuz I know you just will anyway..
Thank goodness for moderators, and the fact that this thread will never get high enough to be read by normal people...:)
Debain, of all distributions, comes with lots of console games in the bsdgames package. At least that's the name under the current stable. Also try task-games under debian. At last count, my/usr/games directory has 74 games, most of them being console text games.
Summary: switch up to a real distro..:)
Re:simple, or not...
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Remember, Wine Is Not an Emulator... It will only run windows programs on x86 hardware.. The win32 binaries still run natively (sort of) under linux. Wine does not translate machine instructions from x86 to whatever you're running, it just moves them around more to linux's (or BSD, or hypothetically any other x86 native OS's) liking. So, as long as MacOS only runs on PPC (foreseeable future, which is fine...) it will never run wine in its current incarnation. There would have to be a true emulator in there somewhere to do that...
So a media company that sells advertising doesn't want to sell advertising to their direct competition (even if they have competition in many different markets). Who cares? If you ran an ISP, would you advertise for some other ISP on your website? If you said "Yes" then maybe you shouldn't look into starting your own business. Anyone who is getting ruffled about this issue answered "yes." Is there something deeper to this thing, because it seems like another knee-jerk response to big bad AOL/TW, just because they're big, not neccessarily bad in this case.
Businesses don't advertise for their competition. It would be really weird if they did. If AOL/TW was openly advertising for Earthlink or someone, I would guess they were planning on buying them soon, or at least something else odd was up. Basically, this is business as usual.
The example given by Microsoft was giving away your most valuable property (your software)
I think RMS is saying that software isn't the most valuable property, and not the thing that should be effectively sold. Sell service. All these companies make their money on service contracts. Do you have any clue how much money a company like Sprint pays for service contracts to vendors like IBM? Lots and lots and lots and lots.
Some one who would say "I'd use this if it were free" probably aren't very serious about using Linux (or any OS) for business purposes. For me at least, Linux is pretty much a hobby. I don't run a website or an "e-business" or anything; tasks that Linux is well suited for. People can, though, use Linux and know that there are enterprise level solutions for their real-world needs. And us geeks get a cool OS to hack at that actually works. Everyone wins, right?
I saw on ZDTV (The ScreenSavers) that they like the drive alot, so I would guess it's fairly reliable. I emailed Castlewood's tech support about Linux compatibility. The drive has two modes: removable and fixed. In fixed mode, it acts just like a regular hard-drive, and currently that's the only way it works under Linux. I don't know if you'd need to remount to get to another disk, or completely reboot (which, of course, would Suck(TM)). Tranfer rates are/much/ better than almost any removable drives (12.2 MB/s avg, 16.6 MB/s peak). Also, a quip to the stated story, I've seen the standard price of ORB disks as $30 plus shipping, not $40 as previously stated. Overall, this thing sounds pretty snazzy to me, I think I'll be getting myself one when I get my tax return back.
What about the often-forgotten, but incredibly cool game, Conquests of Camelot? Is this bad-boy comeing for X11? You got to go through a beautiful game full of Arthurian legends and myths and there was tons of info on all the legengs in-game. This was one of the last games I could run on my 8088 based Tandy 1000SX, and it filled almost half of the 20 MB harddrive, but it was more than worth it. If anyone's got a copy of this classic, let me know!!
WINE is great in that those of us who switched from windows, or are in the process thereof, (like me...) can still retain the functionality of their current crop of windoze programs. but the fact of the matter is that we want developers to start developing for Our Favorite OS(tm), no for an implementation of a lesser OS on linux!! WINE is becoming a crutch to converting everyone to linux. That's not the point. WINE has to regain its focus!
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Just a note so there's no confusion.. This is NOT the complete source code of the game, so no one can take this and make it run on FreeBSD or BlueOS or something. It is merely the mod source, so that mod writers can make mods now. Just about every FPS releases this type of source code moments after or even before the release of the game is on store shelves.
This is a non-news item.
Gentoo has gone a long way towards faster booting already. It doesn't have compiled boot scripts, but it has a much more sophisticated runlevel management system than is described in the article. It has real dependencies and whatnot, and boots very very quickly.
Here is Gentoo's own explanation..
Pretty swanky really, and very easy to use.
Good physical theories are generally intuitive enough to be understood by most people on high level. Will they be able to calculate values and forces and whatnot? No, but the theory still makes intuitive sense. You are right to say that anyone acting like an authority on a subject without knowing the math is overstepping their knowledge. But the avergage layperson really can get the gist of gravity, strings, spacetime, etc.
Just because someone doesn't understand the math (diff eq) doesn't mean they can't understand the concepts.
First, it is a viral license. I personally think that's fine. Viral is maybe a bad word, but it's an accurate depiction. I think the GPL is great, but I still think it's viral.
Second, SCO's claim is utterly bunk, because they have been distributing the GPL'ed kernel and other programs for quite some time.
Think of it this way: Let's say that SCO has a case and there's proprietary UNIX code throughout the kernel (bull, I believe, but anyway). They've had access to that source, they understand the GPL, and they have still distributed said code under the GPL. So, quite frankly, if they missed it, that's their problem. Tough luck. Did they somehow not look at the code THEY were distributing?
I think SCO is gonna have a very hard time in court, especially against the mountain of lawyers that is the IBM legal department.
Screw you SCO.
I really thought that Venice was a really inappropriate example. I've spent a couple of days there, but it seems it's not really much of a real, functioning city. All the businesses I saw there were ice cream shops, jewelry stores, little restaurants, or museums. Just touristy stuff.
As I understand it, the city of Venice is pretty much a tourist town, with modern Venice on the mainland (actually a different city, with a diifferent name that eludes me), an ugly blight of post-industrial wasteland, and a vast contrast to the gorgeous nearby Po river valley.
In summary, Venice is a very poor example of a real city without cars. I really do like the premise of this website, but Venice is a bad example. Venice is for tourists anymore, not regular people living regular lives.
Wrong.
:)
I'm gonna try not to be too infalmmatory here, but you're wrong. SMB3 was a NES game, and was later released as part of Super Mario All-Stars on the SNES (with SMB1, SMB2 and the Lost Levels). Please don't "correct" people when you don't know what you're talking about yourself. We're trying to keep the signal to noise ratio high here.
Unless you're just trolling. In that case, carry on, cuz I know you just will anyway..
Thank goodness for moderators, and the fact that this thread will never get high enough to be read by normal people...
Debain, of all distributions, comes with lots of console games in the bsdgames package. At least that's the name under the current stable. Also try task-games under debian. At last count, my /usr/games directory has 74 games, most of them being console text games.
:)
Summary: switch up to a real distro..
Remember, Wine Is Not an Emulator... It will only run windows programs on x86 hardware.. The win32 binaries still run natively (sort of) under linux. Wine does not translate machine instructions from x86 to whatever you're running, it just moves them around more to linux's (or BSD, or hypothetically any other x86 native OS's) liking. So, as long as MacOS only runs on PPC (foreseeable future, which is fine...) it will never run wine in its current incarnation. There would have to be a true emulator in there somewhere to do that...
So a media company that sells advertising doesn't want to sell advertising to their direct competition (even if they have competition in many different markets). Who cares? If you ran an ISP, would you advertise for some other ISP on your website? If you said "Yes" then maybe you shouldn't look into starting your own business. Anyone who is getting ruffled about this issue answered "yes." Is there something deeper to this thing, because it seems like another knee-jerk response to big bad AOL/TW, just because they're big, not neccessarily bad in this case.
Businesses don't advertise for their competition. It would be really weird if they did. If AOL/TW was openly advertising for Earthlink or someone, I would guess they were planning on buying them soon, or at least something else odd was up. Basically, this is business as usual.
I think RMS is saying that software isn't the most valuable property, and not the thing that should be effectively sold. Sell service. All these companies make their money on service contracts. Do you have any clue how much money a company like Sprint pays for service contracts to vendors like IBM? Lots and lots and lots and lots.
Some one who would say "I'd use this if it were free" probably aren't very serious about using Linux (or any OS) for business purposes. For me at least, Linux is pretty much a hobby. I don't run a website or an "e-business" or anything; tasks that Linux is well suited for. People can, though, use Linux and know that there are enterprise level solutions for their real-world needs. And us geeks get a cool OS to hack at that actually works. Everyone wins, right?
I saw on ZDTV (The ScreenSavers) that they like the drive alot, so I would guess it's fairly reliable. I emailed Castlewood's tech support about Linux compatibility. The drive has two modes: removable and fixed. In fixed mode, it acts just like a regular hard-drive, and currently that's the only way it works under Linux. I don't know if you'd need to remount to get to another disk, or completely reboot (which, of course, would Suck(TM)). Tranfer rates are /much/ better than almost any removable drives (12.2 MB/s avg, 16.6 MB/s peak). Also, a quip to the stated story, I've seen the standard price of ORB disks as $30 plus shipping, not $40 as previously stated. Overall, this thing sounds pretty snazzy to me, I think I'll be getting myself one when I get my tax return back.
What about the often-forgotten, but incredibly cool game, Conquests of Camelot? Is this bad-boy comeing for X11? You got to go through a beautiful game full of Arthurian legends and myths and there was tons of info on all the legengs in-game. This was one of the last games I could run on my 8088 based Tandy 1000SX, and it filled almost half of the 20 MB harddrive, but it was more than worth it. If anyone's got a copy of this classic, let me know!!
WINE is great in that those of us who switched from windows, or are in the process thereof, (like me...) can still retain the functionality of their current crop of windoze programs. but the fact of the matter is that we want developers to start developing for Our Favorite OS(tm), no for an implementation of a lesser OS on linux!! WINE is becoming a crutch to converting everyone to linux. That's not the point. WINE has to regain its focus!