Err, I believe that UO1 was going to continue for awhile after UO2 started, and after UO2 came out I doubt many would be playing UO1 much anyway. And with this, UO1 isn't gaining any resources. OSI had 80-some people fired because of this, not more put on the UO Live team.
The problem with that, however, is that people are going to be leaving UO1 anyway, to the next generation of MMORPGs. Only, with UO2 gone, they will not be going to a EA.com product.
UO has far too many underlying problems to be fixed by more and more patches. UO2 looked quite nice. But, now the dancing is dead.
They are stopping development of what they have been working on for years so they don't compete with their older product? Did competition with earlier products stop id from releasing Quake 2, in fear of losing sales on Quake? Does Ford not release new cars every year, even if it reduces the number of previous models sold?
Anyways, most UO players are just waiting for something else to come up. Once Shadowbane, Anarchy Online, Neocron, and all the other upcoming MMORPGs come out, UO will be dead. This is a bad move by EA.com.
I don't know why the lack of Apple DVD support is so awful. In all Windows releases, MS doesn't provide a DVD player. You have to buy one separetly. Apple will provide one in the future, and that's better than what MS provides.
However, as a computer manufacturer Apple should be including a DVD player. But! Apple isn't shipping OS X on new computer on the 24th! By Summer or whenever they release computers with OS X standard, there almost certainly will be DVD support. What's the big deal?
they want you to sign up to learn why your account was banned, they have banners (just seems odd for an industry site, and the name copyright.net sucks too. Who is this run by anyways? It's approach to copy control seems very Draconian.
Timecube.com is far more retro than that lame excuse for a retro home page. Where, other than timecube, can you learn about NATURE'S HARMONIC
SIMULTANEOUS 4-DAY
TIME CUBE in 24pt bolded Arial Black, eh?
By the way, thanks for saying that the system's real name is GNU/Linux. However, it really helps to make things clear if you refrain from abbreviating it to "Linux". Then you can distinguish between GNU/Linux, the whole system, and Linux, the kernel. That would only have required 16 more characters in this article--and you could have won most of them back by replacing "usually known as just plain Linux" with "often called `Linux'"
This has always seemed to me to be one of the stupider things that RMS always harps on. I wish he would just give it a rest. Sure, GNU/Linux is technically more correct, but the world has standardized on Linux.
I mean....Maxed out G4 - $15,000...maxed out PC - ~$8,000.
WTF are you comparing maxed out configs for? anyways, if you wanted to, you could config a workstation PC for far more than $15000. There is a price difference, but it is not $7000 as you seem to be suggesting. It is closer to $300-500. Also, OS X is interesting because it will have far more commercial application support than Linux. Microsoft will release its Office apps for OS X, and all major Mac OS 9 commercial apps will also be on OS X. So you will be able to run commercial software on a Unix base. Linux with X isn't quite close enough.
"We follow all the rules and regulations, and we've had full compliance with the law," Nace said, describing the 17 e-mail messages he says he sends over his two T1 lines each second. "All they have to do is say, 'we want off the list,' and they're off." Nace takes exception to being called a spammer , a term he associates with pornographers. UUNet's reaction, he said, was unwarranted. "This is a clear-cut case of the big corporations telling the small operator, 'screw you.' "
LOL!
Why did this get modded up as insightful when post #1 said the exact same thing and has not been modded at all? This post should be (-1, Redundant), not Insightful.
yes, but not everyone wants a cell phone regardless of what features it has. of course, new features would increase the number of replacements, but cell phones dont last very long anyway
this case reminds me of etoy vs etoys.com. etoy existed far longer than etoys.com, but etoys still sued etoy for taking etoy.com. Society is really screwed up. -- "One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer" - Adolf Hitler
Apple has released a new, buttonless, optical mouse. A new keyboard also. Full sized keyboard! Multiproc systems (2 G4s, 7 Gigaflops). PowerMac G4s are going to have 2 procs. Gigabit Ethernet on the motherboard. Halo will come out on Mac, as will many other Microsoft games (AOE2, etc.) 4 new iMacs. iMovie 2. I love MacWorld --It's more than a link. It's a way of life.
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Uh, right. I'm sure that Photoshop 7 for OS X will run on Mac OS 6.0.8.
Err, I believe that UO1 was going to continue for awhile after UO2 started, and after UO2 came out I doubt many would be playing UO1 much anyway. And with this, UO1 isn't gaining any resources. OSI had 80-some people fired because of this, not more put on the UO Live team.
The problem with that, however, is that people are going to be leaving UO1 anyway, to the next generation of MMORPGs. Only, with UO2 gone, they will not be going to a EA.com product.
UO has far too many underlying problems to be fixed by more and more patches. UO2 looked quite nice. But, now the dancing is dead.
They are stopping development of what they have been working on for years so they don't compete with their older product? Did competition with earlier products stop id from releasing Quake 2, in fear of losing sales on Quake? Does Ford not release new cars every year, even if it reduces the number of previous models sold?
Anyways, most UO players are just waiting for something else to come up. Once Shadowbane, Anarchy Online, Neocron, and all the other upcoming MMORPGs come out, UO will be dead. This is a bad move by EA.com.
You remember doing all this when you were 4? Bright kid.
I don't know why the lack of Apple DVD support is so awful. In all Windows releases, MS doesn't provide a DVD player. You have to buy one separetly. Apple will provide one in the future, and that's better than what MS provides. However, as a computer manufacturer Apple should be including a DVD player. But! Apple isn't shipping OS X on new computer on the 24th! By Summer or whenever they release computers with OS X standard, there almost certainly will be DVD support. What's the big deal?
they want you to sign up to learn why your account was banned, they have banners (just seems odd for an industry site, and the name copyright.net sucks too. Who is this run by anyways? It's approach to copy control seems very Draconian.
ah! didnt notice that Timecube was in the quickie itself! damnit!
Timecube.com is far more retro than that lame excuse for a retro home page. Where, other than timecube, can you learn about NATURE'S HARMONIC SIMULTANEOUS 4-DAY TIME CUBE in 24pt bolded Arial Black, eh?
By the way, thanks for saying that the system's real name is GNU/Linux. However, it really helps to make things clear if you refrain from abbreviating it to "Linux". Then you can distinguish between GNU/Linux, the whole system, and Linux, the kernel. That would only have required 16 more characters in this article--and you could have won most of them back by replacing "usually known as just plain Linux" with "often called `Linux'"
This has always seemed to me to be one of the stupider things that RMS always harps on. I wish he would just give it a rest. Sure, GNU/Linux is technically more correct, but the world has standardized on Linux.
You can ask Apple all you want, but it is Sorenson that would actually have to do the work, so it might be more prudent to ask Sorenson.
AFAIK, there is no deal with Apple. I also highly doubt they have one.
I mean....Maxed out G4 - $15,000...maxed out PC - ~$8,000. WTF are you comparing maxed out configs for? anyways, if you wanted to, you could config a workstation PC for far more than $15000. There is a price difference, but it is not $7000 as you seem to be suggesting. It is closer to $300-500. Also, OS X is interesting because it will have far more commercial application support than Linux. Microsoft will release its Office apps for OS X, and all major Mac OS 9 commercial apps will also be on OS X. So you will be able to run commercial software on a Unix base. Linux with X isn't quite close enough.
Insignia made SoftWindows, RealPC, and another of the older PC emulation programs. Connectix won that battle though.
I would love to believe this. Truly. Unfortunately, it is probably a troll. Oh well.
"We follow all the rules and regulations, and we've had full compliance with the law," Nace said, describing the 17 e-mail messages he says he sends over his two T1 lines each second. "All they have to do is say, 'we want off the list,' and they're off."
Nace takes exception to being called a spammer , a term he associates with pornographers. UUNet's reaction, he said, was unwarranted. "This is a clear-cut case of the big corporations telling the small operator, 'screw you.' " LOL!
provide law enforcement authorities with the ability to conduct computer searches and seize computer data. better remember rm -rf /
seems like the PC card interface would make it hard to use with a desktop.
thats nothing compared to a pentium 4's heat:)
Why did this get modded up as insightful when post #1 said the exact same thing and has not been modded at all? This post should be (-1, Redundant), not Insightful.
yes, but not everyone wants a cell phone regardless of what features it has. of course, new features would increase the number of replacements, but cell phones dont last very long anyway
There isnt an infinite number of consumers who want one, after all.
"Mac OS X uses fully preemptive multitasking. It's core is Unix BSD." Not exactly true. The microkernel is Mach, and BSD runs on top of that.
this case reminds me of etoy vs etoys.com. etoy existed far longer than etoys.com, but etoys still sued etoy for taking etoy.com. Society is really screwed up. -- "One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer" - Adolf Hitler
Apple has released a new, buttonless, optical mouse. A new keyboard also. Full sized keyboard! Multiproc systems (2 G4s, 7 Gigaflops). PowerMac G4s are going to have 2 procs. Gigabit Ethernet on the motherboard. Halo will come out on Mac, as will many other Microsoft games (AOE2, etc.) 4 new iMacs. iMovie 2. I love MacWorld --It's more than a link. It's a way of life.