I still play D1 from time to time and I use a simple joystick (right hand) and the keyboard (left hand). The joystick for turning and firing, and these keys:
Tab: automap Caps: slide upward A: move forward LShift: slide left Z: move backward X: slide right LCtrl: slide downward
I had the same reaction when I read this news. But I wonder what Sun would gain by killing the OS/2 version. They'd piss off a lot of people and the X-platform technology is already there!
They'd better find a good replacement for film, otherwise the world's silver supplies would be depleted within several decades. At least that's what my chemistry teacher used to tell.
IIRC, the photo-sensitive substance in film is silver oxide. Once silver is oxidated it cannot be won back.
Of course, WINE continues to evolve - although very very slowly - and maybe we *will* have Win32 for Linux soon. I know this will offend the purists but being able to port something quickly to Linux can only help Linux's future, even if the resulting mess might not be very elegant.
Don't be too sure. Back in the time of OS/2 v2.x, IBM was pushing ISVs to release OS/2 versions of their windows software. This resulted in incredibly crappy ports (for example, WordPerfect 5.2 for OS/2), and OS/2 got blamed for the bad applications. (When in fact, good and native OS/2 applications were available from other vendors - the Describe word processor for example - but never got the attention they deserved.)
Of course it's an utopian idea but I meant: take away all guns.
As for having to defend yourself from outlaws, you are much less likely to get shot if you don't have a gun. Because in a situation where two people have a gun, one has to pull the trigger first.
Your post is very well thought out, that is at least until point 3. Will people never learn that death penalty is never a solution and does not help to stop people who are mentally ill in the first place, from killing?
Forgive me for being ignorant but I am puzzled about where IBM gets involved in this. Are they a stockholder in RealNetworks or something?
Which reminds me, some time ago IBM had their own streaming audio and video format, called Bamba. Did they abandon it? (like with so many good IBM technologies...)
The US tends to want to censor nudity and porn, while Europe tends to want to censor violence. ie the Euro version of Carmagedon has zombies with green blood while the US version has humans with red blood.
You mean the German version? Europe is bigger than just Germany you know.
I think KDE is/will be the desktop environment for converted windoze users. However, that file dialog is a clone of the windoze file dialog - one more example of braindead design AFAIC.
If you want to see how a real file dialog is done, take a look at X-file for OS/2.
Funny that the European proposal mentions Edith Cresson, the European Commissioner who has been under heavy fire the last couple of weeks for giving away jobs to close friends and other frauds.
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I am an OS/2 user but I've never heard about problems with AMD. I've been using AMDs myself since 1993. Can you elaborate?
I still play D1 from time to time and I use a simple joystick (right hand) and the keyboard (left hand). The joystick for turning and firing, and these keys:
Tab: automap
Caps: slide upward
A: move forward
LShift: slide left
Z: move backward
X: slide right
LCtrl: slide downward
You use CSS. See www.htmlhelp.com for more!
I had the same reaction when I read this news. But I wonder what Sun would gain by killing the OS/2 version. They'd piss off a lot of people and the X-platform technology is already there!
You got that wrong. Most buyers dont even know they have a choice!
They'd better find a good replacement for film, otherwise the world's silver supplies would be depleted within several decades. At least that's what my chemistry teacher used to tell.
IIRC, the photo-sensitive substance in film is silver oxide. Once silver is oxidated it cannot be won back.
That's embarassing. You spell Nick's last name in two different ways and both of them are wrong.
Don't be too sure. Back in the time of OS/2 v2.x, IBM was pushing ISVs to release OS/2 versions of their windows software. This resulted in incredibly crappy ports (for example, WordPerfect 5.2 for OS/2), and OS/2 got blamed for the bad applications. (When in fact, good and native OS/2 applications were available from other vendors - the Describe word processor for example - but never got the attention they deserved.)
Any statistics available as to the % of hits on slashdot which come from an OS/2 agent?
/.)
(but that still wouldn't tell much because there are also many linux users who use windows at work to read
As for having to defend yourself from outlaws, you are much less likely to get shot if you don't have a gun. Because in a situation where two people have a gun, one has to pull the trigger first.
Hmm... and what if I would decide right now that you are mentally ill and can't be treated, therefore I'll just kill you?
This matter is a bit more complicated as you can hopefully see...
Your post is very well thought out, that is at least until point 3. Will people never learn that death penalty is never a solution and does not help to stop people who are mentally ill in the first place, from killing?
But if it were up to me, I'd take away the guns!
Think about it.
Forgive me for being ignorant but I am puzzled about where IBM gets involved in this. Are they a stockholder in RealNetworks or something?
Which reminds me, some time ago IBM had their own streaming audio and video format, called Bamba. Did they abandon it? (like with so many good IBM technologies...)
You mean the German version? Europe is bigger than just Germany you know.
If you want to see how a real file dialog is done, take a look at X-file for OS/2.
Funny that the European proposal mentions Edith Cresson, the European Commissioner who has been under heavy fire the last couple of weeks for giving away jobs to close friends and other frauds.