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Quake 4 Linux
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I was wondering if I was living under a rock since I never heard of quake4?
Turns out Raven software made the port and modified the doom3 engine. For the older slashdoters who remember doom1 and doom2, raven developed heretic and then hexan on the doom1 and doom2 engines and added multiplayer capability. I forgot all about these guys.
Newer competition and startups is where all the innovation is. It seems once there is a trend for ROI for a big organization things go downhill as they become too conservative. Take IBM and HP. They are not the same as their old counterparts.
I think ROI is just a fad needed in this environment of uncertaintity on wall street. In the early 1990's and 1980's the opposite happened with innovation as HP, SUN, Ibm, and Microsoft innovated and the small guys came out with junky products.
It will change as economic conditions improve and if not, then its not a failure of capitalism. Just that the prize goes to the smaller guys and not big corp which frankly doesn't deserve it. Personally I think that is not a bad idea as more competition is better for consumers.
Well they listen to their shareholders here in the states.
The problem I see is accountants and not mba's are running companies and dictating business decisions.
I read posts here from IT managers fighting tooth and nail for a backup server with a new email one. The accountants would come in and say a backup is not needed because it offers no RIO and one is fine. Then the IT manager had to hire a consultant for $10k to tell them to implement a backup so it gets done. Mind you the backup server is worth probably $5,000 so in essence the redtape cost the company $5,000. Nice
But its just a general phase to only care about short term costs and RIO since the stock market isn't doing good and investors want a %15 return every year. IT is the first budget that gets slashed to meet this goal and forgot about investing for the long term.
Portals are not just for search engines folks and are powerfull in that requiring a manual install per computer is not an issue as long as the pc has a browser.
I knew people as early as 1996 using intranets over a windows gui because of the time it saves on development and its great for remote access for offices far away.
Windows gui's are the problem not the answer. Idiot.
I highly doubt this guy really is a senior person in IT.
Rumor has it that Microsoft realized that it would be impossible to invoke gui oriented programs from the command line. NT has no concept of pipes or text redirection. Instead monad deals with interfacing with objects used by programs on the desktop and will use an api that programmers will use to interface with the com objects.
In other words its not scripting but just another programming language. It sounds like a nightmare that still does not provide a simple way to use lots of command line tools and pipe the outputs together for a result like you could under unix.
That was years ago when macs were dieing and adobe didn't want to port photoshop to macosx from classic due to support and upgrade costs.
They tried switching to windows to lower costs, but mac users rioted and Apple paid Adobe to port photoshop for MacOSX by purchasing %10-15 stock since they refused.
I could be wrong but this is what I remember hearing back in 2000.
Apple could be in big trouble over this and I personally would not develop such an app if I were Steve Jobs for obvious reasons. Its risky and could kill the macintosh in their core market if Adobe gives them the finger again.
The doj tried that and no pc manufactor dared go up agaisnt MS out of fears they would be priced out of windows and office. The only thing they could go on was an email from balmer talking about cutting off netscapes air supply.
... but I kid you not there will be folks waiting at midnight at the local compusa for WIndows Vista assuming it will be the os to fix their problems.
MS won and is a monopolist and will do everything to keep people in. Until people leave software developers will only target windows. People dont care about oses and use whatever comes with their computer.
This has everything to do with Microsoft promising user data in addition to advertising to all of google's customers. Not about boasting stock prices.
MS is trying to choke off google's air supply by going after AOL and other advertisers. If you were an advertiser who would you go for?
Google which will not give you third part info or Microsoft which would? My guess is MS is going to give away free copies of Windows and Office as well and how can google compete agaisnt this?
If hacker jon 19 years old out of highschool wants to hack code do you think he is going to chose VS.net or something free? Well more than likely he will pirate it... but the point is accessibility and low cost will get more people using it since pirating is a pain and you never know what you are going to get.
Also if you oversupply a market you will bring down demand. If there were no ide's at all out there you would probably be more willing to pay more for an ide. ALso which ide would you chose if netbeans and eclipse did not exist? Probably VS.net as its what everyone uses (in business).
The lower the demand the less money microsoft makes. IBM wants people to use Java anyway as it increases demands for their global services consulting and lowers the demand for Microsoft consultants.
Windows has improved dramatically and its not the pile of turds it was once.... well it is if you ask any system administrator.:-)
You neglect custom software such as their app to display and search legal documents written for Windows that the lawyer needs.
Or the fact that they are busy and charge $120 an hour and do not have the time to rpm or apt-get some apps and recompile a kernel to use their special all-in-one keyboard/pendrive thingie.
It comes with their computer so its already paid for. This is why MS is a monopoly. They just want to start and go and get on with business. When you buy a car do you want to open the hood and do a tuneup and customization? Or do you want to drive it off the lot?
People use Windows so developers only write for windows. That is the world we live in and why the government was nervous in its anti-trust case. If I recall the only thing they could go on was the IE integration. They tried bundling negotations too but ms already reformed after their monopoly was estabilished with Windows.
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Yes I was trying to be funny with the other comment but there is a difference in philisophy between emacs and vi.
Korn, the developer of the korn shell was asked by a slashdoter if he prefered vi or emacs. His response was he wanted a great editor that just edits text, but has the ability to use the external unix commands and shell scripting for the complex things.
There is a debate if people who prefer emacs get used to the emacs interface rather than unix, due to the differences between reflexes. I think this is why so many users love emacs of loathe it.
I like unix and doing a:w:sh:q and:make to anyfile in vi with quick editing.
My point is spellchecking should be done on the command line or with the spell script. It was difficult to learn unix as it is and emacs is whole different system based on some lisp os. (at least thats how it feels to me)
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With me, I am waiting for the upgrade that will add obscure unlogical keystrokes mixed with a ton of mediocre packages that do everything unix can do but require strange meta key combo's to access.
They want instant returns on quarterly basis as a measure of success. Accoutants from investment firms and not MBA's make decisions on growth of a company.
Also what another poster mentioned is its more profitable to outsource and devalue American workers since they are no longer as efficient due to their high salaries, compared to third world countries.
Does X even run now without a resort to going on google trying to figure out how to compile it by hand because the ports used the FreeBSD version which was incompatible. By the way this was the 1.0 stable version.
FBSD is having alot of trouble and controversy with its kernel designs and many users such as myself left. NetBSD is small, clean, and simple, but lacks native java, good smp, and 3d support.
Dragonfly as a fork of FBSD is trying to provide all of that but its very unstable and mess because all of the talent is still at FBSD or swtiched to NetBSD.
I would like a NetBSD/DRagonfly merging. Dragonfly works great smp wise and has all the drivers of FBSD and netbsd could provide the stability of its pkg's that Dragonfly lacks.
The industry is not patenting methods but how the gene works.
They want to lock out competitors and charge you thousands of dollar for drugs that your body needs because geneX is responsible for your problem. Its a way for them to screw you.
A gene patent is used for the purpose of overcharging for prescription drugs by the pharmaceutical industry and to lock out competitors.
For example let's suppose a particular gene is discovered that produces proteins which aid cancer? Company A owning the patent on that gene could develop the drug for $1000 a dose in order to combat the protein causing the cancer to spread. As a consumer you have no recourse as any other drug targeting that gene can not be developed because company A owns part of you so to speak.
In other words it's a form of slavery! I find it horrific that genes can be patented at all. At first only actual inventions could be patented, then it's the designs, then it was concept, and its generic objects. It's no different than patenting copyrighted text and cooking recipes at this point and only affirms why the patent system needs to be redone.
I had spyware installed via a buffer overlfow from a codec that installed a rootkit. Not all use EULAs since spywware makers just buy a mailbox in Bulgaria and they are magically no longer an American company that can play by American rules. There are tons of loopholes to avoid EULAs alltogether.
The link looks suspicious. I found a story there stating that colder climates cause an increase in hurricane strength which is unscientifically based if you aks any meterologist. I researched it and found out that the president of www.friendsofscience.org is Doug Leahey.
Is it the same Doug Leahey who is an oil/energy consultant listed here at this company also based in Alberta Canada?
The link is probably another lobbying group hiding under a psuedo-name like the wetlands coalition that wants to destroy it for gas/oil developlment, or senior citizens for lower priced druges (I think thats the name) which is owned by the pharmacutical industry. Well swift boat vets for truth hurt Kerry even though no swift boat vets are on the board which is made up of oil company executives. Who knows.
From a former employee I would say no to aol. It has no soul whatsoever. It has no future and I cringe about the quality of its software.
I want the AOL culture as far and I mean AS FAR as possible from the innovative high moral of google. Look what happened to netscape after AOL bought them out? Need I say more?
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I was wondering if I was living under a rock since I never heard of quake4?
... or commonly known as the level where the cheaters with auto-aim and the rail gun whip your butt in.:-)
Turns out Raven software made the port and modified the doom3 engine. For the older slashdoters who remember doom1 and doom2, raven developed heretic and then hexan on the doom1 and doom2 engines and added multiplayer capability. I forgot all about these guys.
A full review and screenshots are here. I find it pecuilar that Raven ported this classic level of quake3 to quake4.
Yep
Newer competition and startups is where all the innovation is. It seems once there is a trend for ROI for a big organization things go downhill as they become too conservative. Take IBM and HP. They are not the same as their old counterparts.
I think ROI is just a fad needed in this environment of uncertaintity on wall street. In the early 1990's and 1980's the opposite happened with innovation as HP, SUN, Ibm, and Microsoft innovated and the small guys came out with junky products.
It will change as economic conditions improve and if not, then its not a failure of capitalism. Just that the prize goes to the smaller guys and not big corp which frankly doesn't deserve it. Personally I think that is not a bad idea as more competition is better for consumers.
Well they listen to their shareholders here in the states.
The problem I see is accountants and not mba's are running companies and dictating business decisions.
I read posts here from IT managers fighting tooth and nail for a backup server with a new email one. The accountants would come in and say a backup is not needed because it offers no RIO and one is fine. Then the IT manager had to hire a consultant for $10k to tell them to implement a backup so it gets done. Mind you the backup server is worth probably $5,000 so in essence the redtape cost the company $5,000. Nice
But its just a general phase to only care about short term costs and RIO since the stock market isn't doing good and investors want a %15 return every year. IT is the first budget that gets slashed to meet this goal and forgot about investing for the long term.
what??
Has this guy even used yahoomail or gmail before?
Portals are not just for search engines folks and are powerfull in that requiring a manual install per computer is not an issue as long as the pc has a browser.
I knew people as early as 1996 using intranets over a windows gui because of the time it saves on development and its great for remote access for offices far away.
Windows gui's are the problem not the answer. Idiot.
I highly doubt this guy really is a senior person in IT.
Have you seen or heard about Monad?
Its not unix.
Rumor has it that Microsoft realized that it would be impossible to invoke gui oriented programs from the command line. NT has no concept of pipes or text redirection. Instead monad deals with interfacing with objects used by programs on the desktop and will use an api that programmers will use to interface with the com objects.
In other words its not scripting but just another programming language. It sounds like a nightmare that still does not provide a simple way to use lots of command line tools and pipe the outputs together for a result like you could under unix.
That was years ago when macs were dieing and adobe didn't want to port photoshop to macosx from classic due to support and upgrade costs.
They tried switching to windows to lower costs, but mac users rioted and Apple paid Adobe to port photoshop for MacOSX by purchasing %10-15 stock since they refused.
I could be wrong but this is what I remember hearing back in 2000.
Apple could be in big trouble over this and I personally would not develop such an app if I were Steve Jobs for obvious reasons. Its risky and could kill the macintosh in their core market if Adobe gives them the finger again.
Its more profitable for HP to lose a sale then it is to lose 10 sales because the price of their laptop went up to pay the increase in the MS tax.
Until more people demand for unix this will not change.
HP is just doing what is more profitable.
Yet you can't prove it.
The doj tried that and no pc manufactor dared go up agaisnt MS out of fears they would be priced out of windows and office. The only thing they could go on was an email from balmer talking about cutting off netscapes air supply.
This is just business as usual.
... but I kid you not there will be folks waiting at midnight at the local compusa for WIndows Vista assuming it will be the os to fix their problems.
MS won and is a monopolist and will do everything to keep people in. Until people leave software developers will only target windows. People dont care about oses and use whatever comes with their computer.
This is how ms won.
This has everything to do with Microsoft promising user data in addition to advertising to all of google's customers. Not about boasting stock prices.
MS is trying to choke off google's air supply by going after AOL and other advertisers. If you were an advertiser who would you go for?
Google which will not give you third part info or Microsoft which would? My guess is MS is going to give away free copies of Windows and Office as well and how can google compete agaisnt this?
Its just what google needs to stay alive.
Mindshare and demand settings
... but the point is accessibility and low cost will get more people using it since pirating is a pain and you never know what you are going to get.
If hacker jon 19 years old out of highschool wants to hack code do you think he is going to chose VS.net or something free? Well more than likely he will pirate it
Also if you oversupply a market you will bring down demand. If there were no ide's at all out there you would probably be more willing to pay more for an ide. ALso which ide would you chose if netbeans and eclipse did not exist? Probably VS.net as its what everyone uses (in business).
The lower the demand the less money microsoft makes. IBM wants people to use Java anyway as it increases demands for their global services consulting and lowers the demand for Microsoft consultants.
I disagree
... well it is if you ask any system administrator. :-)
Windows has improved dramatically and its not the pile of turds it was once.
You neglect custom software such as their app to display and search legal documents written for Windows that the lawyer needs.
Or the fact that they are busy and charge $120 an hour and do not have the time to rpm or apt-get some apps and recompile a kernel to use their special all-in-one keyboard/pendrive thingie.
It comes with their computer so its already paid for. This is why MS is a monopoly. They just want to start and go and get on with business. When you buy a car do you want to open the hood and do a tuneup and customization? Or do you want to drive it off the lot?
People use Windows so developers only write for windows. That is the world we live in and why the government was nervous in its anti-trust case. If I recall the only thing they could go on was the IE integration. They tried bundling negotations too but ms already reformed after their monopoly was estabilished with Windows.
Looks like its time to switch back to IE.
Yes I was trying to be funny with the other comment but there is a difference in philisophy between emacs and vi.
:w :sh :q and :make to anyfile in vi with quick editing.
Korn, the developer of the korn shell was asked by a slashdoter if he prefered vi or emacs. His response was he wanted a great editor that just edits text, but has the ability to use the external unix commands and shell scripting for the complex things.
There is a debate if people who prefer emacs get used to the emacs interface rather than unix, due to the differences between reflexes. I think this is why so many users love emacs of loathe it.
I like unix and doing a
My point is spellchecking should be done on the command line or with the spell script. It was difficult to learn unix as it is and emacs is whole different system based on some lisp os. (at least thats how it feels to me)
With me, I am waiting for the upgrade that will add obscure unlogical keystrokes mixed with a ton of mediocre packages that do everything unix can do but require strange meta key combo's to access.
They want instant returns on quarterly basis as a measure of success. Accoutants from investment firms and not MBA's make decisions on growth of a company.
Also what another poster mentioned is its more profitable to outsource and devalue American workers since they are no longer as efficient due to their high salaries, compared to third world countries.
Appearently you have never ran it.
Does X even run now without a resort to going on google trying to figure out how to compile it by hand because the ports used the FreeBSD version which was incompatible. By the way this was the 1.0 stable version.
Would lsysol work? I am thinking of sprying my matress. Its the same one I had for years in addition to my pillows
FBSD is having alot of trouble and controversy with its kernel designs and many users such as myself left. NetBSD is small, clean, and simple, but lacks native java, good smp, and 3d support.
Dragonfly as a fork of FBSD is trying to provide all of that but its very unstable and mess because all of the talent is still at FBSD or swtiched to NetBSD.
I would like a NetBSD/DRagonfly merging. Dragonfly works great smp wise and has all the drivers of FBSD and netbsd could provide the stability of its pkg's that Dragonfly lacks.
The industry is not patenting methods but how the gene works.
They want to lock out competitors and charge you thousands of dollar for drugs that your body needs because geneX is responsible for your problem. Its a way for them to screw you.
A gene patent is used for the purpose of overcharging for prescription drugs by the pharmaceutical industry and to lock out competitors.
For example let's suppose a particular gene is discovered that produces proteins which aid cancer? Company A owning the patent on that gene could develop the drug for $1000 a dose in order to combat the protein causing the cancer to spread. As a consumer you have no recourse as any other drug targeting that gene can not be developed because company A owns part of you so to speak.
In other words it's a form of slavery! I find it horrific that genes can be patented at all. At first only actual inventions could be patented, then it's the designs, then it was concept, and its generic objects. It's no different than patenting copyrighted text and cooking recipes at this point and only affirms why the patent system needs to be redone.
I had spyware installed via a buffer overlfow from a codec that installed a rootkit. Not all use EULAs since spywware makers just buy a mailbox in Bulgaria and they are magically no longer an American company that can play by American rules. There are tons of loopholes to avoid EULAs alltogether.
The link looks suspicious. I found a story there stating that colder climates cause an increase in hurricane strength which is unscientifically based if you aks any meterologist. I researched it and found out that the president of www.friendsofscience.org is Doug Leahey.
Is it the same Doug Leahey who is an oil/energy consultant listed here at this company also based in Alberta Canada?
The link is probably another lobbying group hiding under a psuedo-name like the wetlands coalition that wants to destroy it for gas/oil developlment, or senior citizens for lower priced druges (I think thats the name) which is owned by the pharmacutical industry. Well swift boat vets for truth hurt Kerry even though no swift boat vets are on the board which is made up of oil company executives. Who knows.
Try a better source
From a former employee I would say no to aol. It has no soul whatsoever. It has no future and I cringe about the quality of its software.
I want the AOL culture as far and I mean AS FAR as possible from the innovative high moral of google. Look what happened to netscape after AOL bought them out? Need I say more?
Oh come on!
How dare you rip a good quality source like uncyclopida. Its the only source where I can have an actual representation of FreeBSD
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD