Sadly, the DMCA makes engaging in what would otherwise qualify as fair use a crime if the content is protected by an "effective copy protection measure" (i.e. CSS, among others). Thus, to circumvent the fair use defense in copyright cases, all media conglomerates have to do is encrypt the data. I'm sure this fact was well understood by the industry that pushed the bill, but it seems to be little understood by the general population. They took away our rights and made exercising them a crime.
SecondLife is free, though there are premium plans.
When you buy land, you have in fact bought a portion of a SecondLife sim, so yeah, it is *theirs*. This isn't like WoW or EQ.
Lindens are bought an sold for real money. Yes, the $10.95 is real money and Linden Labs is a real business, but Lindens are real money as well, and the businesses people pursue in SL are real businesses. I forgot the numbers, but there is some staggering number of people that make their entire "real" income in SL as players/users (i.e. NOT Linden Labs).
SL differentiates itself quite a bit from WoW, EQ, etc. Conflating their business models is a mistake; they are quite different.
The reason lawyers (and programmers, incidentally) have jobs is because capturing intent in a formalized language is difficult. When we evaluate legal documents like legislation and contracts, there are always two aspects: what the document says, and what it meant to say. The shear between these two ideas in law is "unintended consequences", and it is one reason I believe that fewer laws in general is a good thing. This is also true in programming: the shear between the intent of a program and the reality is observed in bugs (or "features". =)
In any case, the "spirit" of the GPL (as mentioned above) is really a reference to the author's (RMS, in this case) intent, nothing more.
Also speaking as a vet, I disagree. What makes democracy beautiful is that it is not the responsibility of each person to vote in the interest of everyone else. It is each individual's responsibility to vote *in their own interest* (whether or not they can even determine that is another question). We draw an arbitrary line at 18, but I know of plenty of people that will *never* be able to "discern which is the better course for the nation to take". In general, I think the question should be "how early can we reasonably get the citizens involved in the direction their country is going?" rather than "How many people can we find to remove from the voting pool for one reason or another?" We all live here, and one of the founding principles of the US is that each citizen can have a say in how the country is run, even people with whom you disagree or believe to be incompetent.
That is the point: it is within the framework of the GPLv2, but not within its spirit. Tivo did try to exploit a loophole: the intention of the GPL (any version) is to preserve the rights of the end users to modify the software they receive and make use of that modified software. Tivo found a (legal) way to avoid having to do this while still technically complying with the GPLv2. GPLv3 is written to close that loophole and preserve the idea that GPL'd software is software the end user can modify to create a new version and then make use of that modification in the same way they made use of the original software as it was supplied to them. So, legally, there is no "loop hole or end run", but as far as the intent of the license, some perceive that there was.
Meh, I use trackballs at all my workstations, but thumb-trackballs are no good, I agree. I use the Logitech Marble Mouse on my laptop and at work, and the Logitech Cordless Trackman Optical ($60) at my home workstation (KVM'd between Windows and Linux).
Neither use the thumb for pointing, they use the pointer and middle finger for pointing, the thumb for clicking and the ring finger for right-click. They have solved all my RSI issues in short order.
Well, you'd better tell the industry that, because there are millions of people who have bought the same material again and again (vinyl, cassette, CD,...) and that doesn't seem to make the recording industry think they won't be able to sell it again in a new format.
Yeah, not only is the content there, they automatically moved my account there as well, along with my balance...talk about customer service! =) I didn't even have to ask.
JavaFX was announced in the General Session this morning, but this afternoon, during a pseudo-general session run by Bob Bruin, the Java SE lead (his name escapes me at the moment) mentioned that they are in the middle of a push towards "faster, faster, faster" for Java 6. This doesn't just mean performance running, but he specifically mentioned startup times. This project should be released sometime aroud 6 months from now as something like "consumer JRE" - which is supposed to reduce startup times to "near zero" (read: comparable to native apps). Remains to be seen if it pans out, but it is moving in the right direction, to be sure.
This is along the same lines as the question that's been cropping up in my mind as I read this thread:
Unix shell implementations are not what's holding us back from doing the whole "passing an object" thing between programs, right? I mean, wouldn't all the command line utilities have to support passing objects as well? Wouldn't this mean a rewrite of most of the GNU collection of programs, for example?
This very much flies in the face of what Unix stands for. We configure everything using text - text is the universal language in Unix. Once we established that, we mastered the art of creating tools that can do everything imaginable in text - Emacs and Vi are a testament to the importance of text editors. One huge advantage of text is that it is both machine readable and human readable - when something goes wrong, I can always hit up the.*rc or.conf file and figure out what's up - often without know much about the file format.
If we move to objects, isn't their translation to text (.toString() in Java, __repr__ in python, (display) in Scheme) going to be lossy? It certainly is in every other OO system I've used. The advantage of text is that it's WYSIWYG - literally...there is nothing more and nothing less to it than what you see on the screen.
So, assuming we get to the place where the conversion isn't lossy (we can view the contents of objects and understand their behavior with certainty for debugging), and ALL programs support the use of objects, and objects can be viewed/edited as well as we edit text today with tools that are as mature as Emacs and Vi are today. What then? What have we bought ourselves that iPython doesn't offer right now? I'm really quite curious because I just don't know if the all that work is worth what we get back in return.
OTOH, I completely understand the desire for command line access to GUI programs in Linux. I have often wished I could script GUI actions in Linux on the command line, and was kind of surprised this need wasn't more mainstream.
He's referring to the dilution of the term "cross-platform". To me, it means that it runs on Linux, OS X and Windows (any variety) and possible *BSD.
This is the Java/Python/Scheme/Ruby/etc. "cross-platform" meaning.
Somehow, when MS uses "cross-platform", they mean "XP, Vista, IE, Firefox (maybe), and perhaps we'll throw in OS X, maybe, but even then only on Intel".
The hope, of course, would be that would could get our hands on a "real" cross-platform CLR. That would certainly encourage me to look at.NET, but I don't plan on it until then (or if Mono develops a bit more and can some out from under the shadow of the patent gods).
I use "sleep" mode exclusively by symlinking the sleep.sh script over to the the lid.sh script.
I can keep my laptop in sleep mode for a little over 6 days with no external source of power. Traveling, I once used my computer for a total of 4 hours on a set of flights spanning 2 days with only sleep mode being engaged between uses. It was at 17% when I opening it up and plugged it in at the hotel.
This is a 12" laptop, and I was using the extended battery available from Dell.
I use sleep as my preferred option for periods of inactivity anywhere between 5 minutes and 24 hours. Under 5 minutes, I leave it running. Over 24 hours, I tend to shut it down if I know it will be that long. Sometimes, I guess wrong, and leave it in sleep mode for days. I've never lost data because I drained the battery.
No, it's more like the car deciding to wait until you pulled into your driveway (near your home) and then explode. That is a better analogy. Not only do you not get the car, but part of your own property is destroyed because you didn't make the payments. Incidentally, you don't see this method of collection practiced by banks very often.
Ubuntu isn't really proprietary. CNR isn't a bad move, honestlly (and I'm as much an OSS zealot as almost anyone). CNR itself is open source, it simply gives you access to closed source software, should you want to interoperate with someone who uses such software (Opera, Skype, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Flash, etc.) Many of these pieces of software many Linux users will install anyway, but now at least they are manageable via Linux's own mechanism: package management.
In the end, no closed source software has been added to the distro by default, the entire CNR add-on is optional (at least in it's use), and we may even stand to gain some ground in the OS wars. I'll count it as a win.
I think the plan is to make CNR part of many "big" distros: openSuse, Fedora, Freespire (duh), Linspire (duh), Ubuntu to name those listed at the top of CNR.com. At least when people try to switch, they will see some familiar applications available.
I think he was bundling in things like *BSD with the Linux group, all being free, open source kernels on *nix systems. In that case, OS X is based on BSD, and hence part of the "Linux" movement. Linux is sometimes used a placeholder. If you were looking for more precise language, I understand, but I think his point about Apple is valid.
Matrix Reloaded had a very good storyline. If I had asked you at the end of Matrix what you loved about it, one thing might have been that it showed us a world reality beyond the reality we know now. It was cool when Morpheous showed us the real world. ("Welcome to the desert of the real.")
But if I had also asked you to predict the next movie, the last thing you would have said was that *they could do it again*.
They managed to, however. Once again, something we took to be the reality beyond the matrix was shattered. The architect explained much of it, and for once, Hollywood didn't bother pandering to the lowest common denominator in society. The architect explained something well, and in clear terms, but didn't hold the audiences hand through the explanation. Great, I say. It was the first instance in a movie that I can recall where I felt like what I was watching could come from great literature. I was almost reminded of Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow".
Actually, after a few viewings, Matrix Reloaded stands up very well to a literature-type analysis. I know quite a few people that hated the movie because they simply didn't understand it.
In any case, *none* of that has to do with CG. The storyline is great. The CG is great too, though.
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KDE was the open source alternative to CDE, the Common Desktop Environment. In the grand tradition of much Open Source software, they modified the name slightly, to keep with the original's name enough to avoid recognition problems. Incidently, KDE doesn't stand for anything.
As spinoffs of the switch from C-->K as done with KDE, folks wanted recognition that their software was meant to work with KDE, hence the K in the names. GNOME does the game thing with G (GPhoto, GQView, Eye of the Gnome, to list a few graphics related examples.)
As far as "Its not a KDE application, it's a Qt application" - KDE was written with Trolltech's Qt library (in large part) and so I don't think the disitinction is really that strong. I think they use a common (Kommon??) set of libraries, and that is the extent to which they are related (excepting that Aethera is using some KDE PIM related stuff under the hood...)
There are many different ways to twist statistics...if there is one thing I learned being an Operations Research major, it is that statistics tell the story you *want* them to tell... There many elements to this analysis: 1) What percentage of servers run Linux vs. Windows? This is key to understanding the percentages of exploited servers. 2) Define security. I'm not so sure defacement==security, and certainly it might be shown that while Windows and Linux are both exploitable, the nature of the majority of the exploits present on each system differs greatly. 3) The security of an OS may be best represented by *fully updated* versions of that OS. I doubt many of the defacements on Linux systems were using the most recent patches, but I believe SoBig took advantage even of the most updated Windows machines. MS released another patch AFTER the virus was out there, to my knoweldge. If I'm mistaken, great, but the point stands that it is not fair to rate the security of an OS based on old versions that are known to have exploits. Its always important to keep systems updated no matter what you choose to run. Security is not a scale of where the software is, as much as it's an attribute that is determined by the deployment of the OS, and how well the authors of the software, and the administrators of the servers keep up with the scene. There will always be new exploits.
We certainly have shown that proprietary software has one serious weakness: when an exploit is found, the patch is coming primarily from one source, and worms are learning to exploit that weakness. While SoBig didn't do it well, there will come one that will. The idea is certaihnly out there.
Honestly, I *was* a hardcore gamer, and then ditched windows because I was tired of the BS, so now I run Linux and still maintain my self image as a hardcore gamer, playing things like MoH beta, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Quake 3, Rune, Unreal Tournament 2003, Neverwinter Nights, and Kohan. Good times.
I'm a hardcore gamer and I use exclusively Linux, so I try to follow card performance... NVIDIA, in my experience, has always provided the best drivers, especially in Linux. I guess this could be chalked up to inferior hardware performance on NVIDIA's side of things, but I'm not sure that would account for a vast difference that you're describing. As someone who's looking for what new card to buy for my Linux box in anticipation of things like Doom 3, what do you folks recommend?
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...that the link is to phrack.org but when you actually go there, their current site name is a bit different? =P I like some of what they stand for (intellectual curiosity, hacking (in the real sense) and freedom) but a lot of what they *do* with those ideas is a bit dissapointing. In this case however, its not only right on target, but funny as well.
I never ran ShowEQ in the 2 years I played EQ. I stopped playing EQ a year ago.
"Granted you can run win98 on your little 486 or pentium 1 computer but linux is easy too and frankly I don't think it limits the masses." Linux limits the spread of ShowEQ. I'm not asking if it does, I'm not saying it should, I'm not rating the difficulty of installing and running linux. I'm stating the simple fact that Linux is not run by 95% of desktop users. That limits the use of software programmed for it.
"Well I do defend my "stupid enough to pay" statement in the regard that you just have to pay to play this game so you can cheat and have an unfair advantage over other people." The fact that people have to pay for the game is in no way related to the fact that they run ShowEQ, as you make it seem.
"I bet about 400,000 people could find better things to do with their time" I couldn't agree more. That's why I stopped playing. It was fun, though. =)
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Sadly, the DMCA makes engaging in what would otherwise qualify as fair use a crime if the content is protected by an "effective copy protection measure" (i.e. CSS, among others). Thus, to circumvent the fair use defense in copyright cases, all media conglomerates have to do is encrypt the data. I'm sure this fact was well understood by the industry that pushed the bill, but it seems to be little understood by the general population. They took away our rights and made exercising them a crime.
sudo -i
Well, for starters, it's in English.
SecondLife is free, though there are premium plans.
When you buy land, you have in fact bought a portion of a SecondLife sim, so yeah, it is *theirs*. This isn't like WoW or EQ.
Lindens are bought an sold for real money. Yes, the $10.95 is real money and Linden Labs is a real business, but Lindens are real money as well, and the businesses people pursue in SL are real businesses. I forgot the numbers, but there is some staggering number of people that make their entire "real" income in SL as players/users (i.e. NOT Linden Labs).
SL differentiates itself quite a bit from WoW, EQ, etc. Conflating their business models is a mistake; they are quite different.
The reason lawyers (and programmers, incidentally) have jobs is because capturing intent in a formalized language is difficult. When we evaluate legal documents like legislation and contracts, there are always two aspects: what the document says, and what it meant to say. The shear between these two ideas in law is "unintended consequences", and it is one reason I believe that fewer laws in general is a good thing. This is also true in programming: the shear between the intent of a program and the reality is observed in bugs (or "features". =)
In any case, the "spirit" of the GPL (as mentioned above) is really a reference to the author's (RMS, in this case) intent, nothing more.
Also speaking as a vet, I disagree. What makes democracy beautiful is that it is not the responsibility of each person to vote in the interest of everyone else. It is each individual's responsibility to vote *in their own interest* (whether or not they can even determine that is another question). We draw an arbitrary line at 18, but I know of plenty of people that will *never* be able to "discern which is the better course for the nation to take".
In general, I think the question should be "how early can we reasonably get the citizens involved in the direction their country is going?" rather than "How many people can we find to remove from the voting pool for one reason or another?" We all live here, and one of the founding principles of the US is that each citizen can have a say in how the country is run, even people with whom you disagree or believe to be incompetent.
That is the point: it is within the framework of the GPLv2, but not within its spirit.
Tivo did try to exploit a loophole: the intention of the GPL (any version) is to preserve the rights of the end users to modify the software they receive and make use of that modified software. Tivo found a (legal) way to avoid having to do this while still technically complying with the GPLv2. GPLv3 is written to close that loophole and preserve the idea that GPL'd software is software the end user can modify to create a new version and then make use of that modification in the same way they made use of the original software as it was supplied to them.
So, legally, there is no "loop hole or end run", but as far as the intent of the license, some perceive that there was.
Meh, I use trackballs at all my workstations, but thumb-trackballs are no good, I agree. I use the Logitech Marble Mouse on my laptop and at work, and the Logitech Cordless Trackman Optical ($60) at my home workstation (KVM'd between Windows and Linux). Neither use the thumb for pointing, they use the pointer and middle finger for pointing, the thumb for clicking and the ring finger for right-click. They have solved all my RSI issues in short order.
Well, you'd better tell the industry that, because there are millions of people who have bought the same material again and again (vinyl, cassette, CD, ...) and that doesn't seem to make the recording industry think they won't be able to sell it again in a new format.
Yeah, not only is the content there, they automatically moved my account there as well, along with my balance...talk about customer service! =) I didn't even have to ask.
JavaFX was announced in the General Session this morning, but this afternoon, during a pseudo-general session run by Bob Bruin, the Java SE lead (his name escapes me at the moment) mentioned that they are in the middle of a push towards "faster, faster, faster" for Java 6. This doesn't just mean performance running, but he specifically mentioned startup times. This project should be released sometime aroud 6 months from now as something like "consumer JRE" - which is supposed to reduce startup times to "near zero" (read: comparable to native apps). Remains to be seen if it pans out, but it is moving in the right direction, to be sure.
This is along the same lines as the question that's been cropping up in my mind as I read this thread:
.*rc or .conf file and figure out what's up - often without know much about the file format.
Unix shell implementations are not what's holding us back from doing the whole "passing an object" thing between programs, right? I mean, wouldn't all the command line utilities have to support passing objects as well? Wouldn't this mean a rewrite of most of the GNU collection of programs, for example?
This very much flies in the face of what Unix stands for. We configure everything using text - text is the universal language in Unix. Once we established that, we mastered the art of creating tools that can do everything imaginable in text - Emacs and Vi are a testament to the importance of text editors. One huge advantage of text is that it is both machine readable and human readable - when something goes wrong, I can always hit up the
If we move to objects, isn't their translation to text (.toString() in Java, __repr__ in python, (display) in Scheme) going to be lossy? It certainly is in every other OO system I've used. The advantage of text is that it's WYSIWYG - literally...there is nothing more and nothing less to it than what you see on the screen.
So, assuming we get to the place where the conversion isn't lossy (we can view the contents of objects and understand their behavior with certainty for debugging), and ALL programs support the use of objects, and objects can be viewed/edited as well as we edit text today with tools that are as mature as Emacs and Vi are today. What then? What have we bought ourselves that iPython doesn't offer right now? I'm really quite curious because I just don't know if the all that work is worth what we get back in return.
OTOH, I completely understand the desire for command line access to GUI programs in Linux. I have often wished I could script GUI actions in Linux on the command line, and was kind of surprised this need wasn't more mainstream.
He's referring to the dilution of the term "cross-platform". To me, it means that it runs on Linux, OS X and Windows (any variety) and possible *BSD.
.NET, but I don't plan on it until then (or if Mono develops a bit more and can some out from under the shadow of the patent gods).
This is the Java/Python/Scheme/Ruby/etc. "cross-platform" meaning.
Somehow, when MS uses "cross-platform", they mean "XP, Vista, IE, Firefox (maybe), and perhaps we'll throw in OS X, maybe, but even then only on Intel".
The hope, of course, would be that would could get our hands on a "real" cross-platform CLR. That would certainly encourage me to look at
I have a Dell 700m running Kubuntu Edgy Eft.
I use "sleep" mode exclusively by symlinking the sleep.sh script over to the the lid.sh script.
I can keep my laptop in sleep mode for a little over 6 days with no external source of power. Traveling, I once used my computer for a total of 4 hours on a set of flights spanning 2 days with only sleep mode being engaged between uses. It was at 17% when I opening it up and plugged it in at the hotel.
This is a 12" laptop, and I was using the extended battery available from Dell.
I use sleep as my preferred option for periods of inactivity anywhere between 5 minutes and 24 hours. Under 5 minutes, I leave it running. Over 24 hours, I tend to shut it down if I know it will be that long. Sometimes, I guess wrong, and leave it in sleep mode for days. I've never lost data because I drained the battery.
No, it's more like the car deciding to wait until you pulled into your driveway (near your home) and then explode. That is a better analogy. Not only do you not get the car, but part of your own property is destroyed because you didn't make the payments. Incidentally, you don't see this method of collection practiced by banks very often.
Ubuntu isn't really proprietary. CNR isn't a bad move, honestlly (and I'm as much an OSS zealot as almost anyone). CNR itself is open source, it simply gives you access to closed source software, should you want to interoperate with someone who uses such software (Opera, Skype, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Flash, etc.) Many of these pieces of software many Linux users will install anyway, but now at least they are manageable via Linux's own mechanism: package management.
In the end, no closed source software has been added to the distro by default, the entire CNR add-on is optional (at least in it's use), and we may even stand to gain some ground in the OS wars. I'll count it as a win.
I think the plan is to make CNR part of many "big" distros: openSuse, Fedora, Freespire (duh), Linspire (duh), Ubuntu to name those listed at the top of CNR.com. At least when people try to switch, they will see some familiar applications available.
I think he was bundling in things like *BSD with the Linux group, all being free, open source kernels on *nix systems. In that case, OS X is based on BSD, and hence part of the "Linux" movement. Linux is sometimes used a placeholder.
If you were looking for more precise language, I understand, but I think his point about Apple is valid.
Matrix Reloaded had a very good storyline. If I had asked you at the end of Matrix what you loved about it, one thing might have been that it showed us a world reality beyond the reality we know now. It was cool when Morpheous showed us the real world. ("Welcome to the desert of the real.")
But if I had also asked you to predict the next movie, the last thing you would have said was that *they could do it again*.
They managed to, however. Once again, something we took to be the reality beyond the matrix was shattered. The architect explained much of it, and for once, Hollywood didn't bother pandering to the lowest common denominator in society. The architect explained something well, and in clear terms, but didn't hold the audiences hand through the explanation. Great, I say. It was the first instance in a movie that I can recall where I felt like what I was watching could come from great literature. I was almost reminded of Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow".
Actually, after a few viewings, Matrix Reloaded stands up very well to a literature-type analysis. I know quite a few people that hated the movie because they simply didn't understand it.
In any case, *none* of that has to do with CG. The storyline is great. The CG is great too, though.
As I recall, RealMYST used the Unreal engine...
KDE was the open source alternative to CDE, the Common Desktop Environment. In the grand tradition of much Open Source software, they modified the name slightly, to keep with the original's name enough to avoid recognition problems. Incidently, KDE doesn't stand for anything.
As spinoffs of the switch from C-->K as done with KDE, folks wanted recognition that their software was meant to work with KDE, hence the K in the names. GNOME does the game thing with G (GPhoto, GQView, Eye of the Gnome, to list a few graphics related examples.)
As far as "Its not a KDE application, it's a Qt application" - KDE was written with Trolltech's Qt library (in large part) and so I don't think the disitinction is really that strong. I think they use a common (Kommon??) set of libraries, and that is the extent to which they are related (excepting that Aethera is using some KDE PIM related stuff under the hood...)
There are many different ways to twist statistics...if there is one thing I learned being an Operations Research major, it is that statistics tell the story you *want* them to tell...
There many elements to this analysis:
1) What percentage of servers run Linux vs. Windows? This is key to understanding the percentages of exploited servers.
2) Define security. I'm not so sure defacement==security, and certainly it might be shown that while Windows and Linux are both exploitable, the nature of the majority of the exploits present on each system differs greatly.
3) The security of an OS may be best represented by *fully updated* versions of that OS. I doubt many of the defacements on Linux systems were using the most recent patches, but I believe SoBig took advantage even of the most updated Windows machines. MS released another patch AFTER the virus was out there, to my knoweldge. If I'm mistaken, great, but the point stands that it is not fair to rate the security of an OS based on old versions that are known to have exploits. Its always important to keep systems updated no matter what you choose to run. Security is not a scale of where the software is, as much as it's an attribute that is determined by the deployment of the OS, and how well the authors of the software, and the administrators of the servers keep up with the scene. There will always be new exploits.
We certainly have shown that proprietary software has one serious weakness: when an exploit is found, the patch is coming primarily from one source, and worms are learning to exploit that weakness. While SoBig didn't do it well, there will come one that will. The idea is certaihnly out there.
Well, I'll be honest...it's a rough life. =)
Honestly, I *was* a hardcore gamer, and then ditched windows because I was tired of the BS, so now I run Linux and still maintain my self image as a hardcore gamer, playing things like MoH beta, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Quake 3, Rune, Unreal Tournament 2003, Neverwinter Nights, and Kohan. Good times.
I'm a hardcore gamer and I use exclusively Linux, so I try to follow card performance... NVIDIA, in my experience, has always provided the best drivers, especially in Linux.
I guess this could be chalked up to inferior hardware performance on NVIDIA's side of things, but I'm not sure that would account for a vast difference that you're describing.
As someone who's looking for what new card to buy for my Linux box in anticipation of things like Doom 3, what do you folks recommend?
...that the link is to phrack.org but when you actually go there, their current site name is a bit different? =P
I like some of what they stand for (intellectual curiosity, hacking (in the real sense) and freedom) but a lot of what they *do* with those ideas is a bit dissapointing. In this case however, its not only right on target, but funny as well.
I never ran ShowEQ in the 2 years I played EQ. I stopped playing EQ a year ago.
"Granted you can run win98 on your little 486 or pentium 1 computer but linux is easy too and frankly I don't think it limits the masses."
Linux limits the spread of ShowEQ. I'm not asking if it does, I'm not saying it should, I'm not rating the difficulty of installing and running linux. I'm stating the simple fact that Linux is not run by 95% of desktop users. That limits the use of software programmed for it.
"Well I do defend my "stupid enough to pay" statement in the regard that you just have to pay to play this game so you can cheat and have an unfair advantage over other people."
The fact that people have to pay for the game is in no way related to the fact that they run ShowEQ, as you make it seem.
"I bet about 400,000 people could find better things to do with their time"
I couldn't agree more. That's why I stopped playing. It was fun, though. =)