I'd have to disagree with you there. While the motorcycle is nothing more than a motorcycle, try telling that to thier owners. The company doesn't dictate that culture or lifestyle, the owners do. How many bike clubs are there for Harley owners? Probably too many to list in this space. How many people have a lifestyle that partially or entirely revolve around thier "bikes"? A helluva lot. Now, is that because of the company? Absolutly not. I certainly haven't bought into the "synergetic-cross-branding-co-hosted-sponsership-m ega-deal-day" garbage. I've witnessed it by listening to the enthusiasm of the owners, and paying attention to what my wife has told me about the people she dealt with on a daily basis, the owners of the bikes, not the company. Owning a Harley for the majority is more than owning a motorcycle, and if you think that's false then you are fooling yourself.
my wife used to work for Harley Davidson financial, and the Harley Davidson Insurance, and I'm very familiar with thier sales model and upgrade cycle. There is a bit of a differance here though. There is a lot that goes along with buying a Harley, it is more than a motorcycle, it's a culture, it's a hobby, it's a lifestyle. I think that's a bit differant than a video game (though maybe not for some).
Well, other than MS didn't do a ton with AC except on the network end (at least initially), from what I understand anyway, that does surprise me. Another differance with AC was the open beta which AO kinda sorta did with beta4 which was too short to really call it a Beta.
The point I'm trying to make is that it's not just this genre of game that is getting released in an unfinished state. Even Black and White was released in an unplayable fashion for a lot of people. I couldn't play it when the game was released under win2k because of an error with the copy protection. This left me repartitioning my drive and installing 98 so I could play the game. Now, Black and White has been out a long time, and the official patch was only released today, I know this cause I just got the email about it today. So, overall, the MMORG's are the worst, but the game companies (software industry?) get's away with murder and people put up with it.
I've met quite a few devious programmers, but I don't think it's thier decision to release the half finished game or application. I think the blame for that lies on the shoulders of the bean counters and marketeers. I just wish more people would vote with thier dollars and protest the unfinished program. Doing a lot of IT consulting it's amazing how many people think technology has to be painfull, whe it honestly shouldn't be.
point in their defense. I dunno about the rest of the people out here, but the whole "ease of use" of windows is BS. Windows is easy to use once you've used it over and over again. Take three people with no computer experience. Sit one down in front of a Mac, one in front of MS Windows 2k, and the other in front of a linux box with KDE 2 or Gnome or even E. Now, train each of those individuals on how to use the tools in front of them for the next 8 hours. At the end of this you'll find that they are going to have an easier time using what they have the 8 hours of training in than the other OS's. Certain aspects may carry over, but for the most part "ease of use" is nothing more than familiarity. I know people that hate GUI's cause they've been using command line tools for so long, they find the gui's to be harder to use than the command line. Once again, it's all familiarity and not "ease of use".
Now, not all of MS is evil, a portion of thier business practices are very questionable, and when you are as big as MS is you get generalizations. Look at how many people hated IBM (Big Blue) when they were on top. If you want to break down and find out what's good about MS, go take a look at thier hardware, I'm sititng in front of an original MS Natural keyboard (with the full size keys and the lift in the front, none of that Elite crap) and a MS Intellimouse Pro. It's excellent hardware. Look at the games the MS has published (note published and not developed) such as Age of Empires and Asherons Call. Whoever is running publishing appears to know what they are doing.
I think I'm just arguing that yes, MS isn't all evil. However your post doesn't point to those things. Ease of use isn't one of them, and even if it was they stole it from Apple which can be considered evil.
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Also for those don't want to load the page they have three interesting news bits, the first is titled "Credit where Credit is due. They acknowledge the following sites
http://hiroko.ee.ntu.edu.tw/
http://www.freeamp.org/
http://www.flaskmpeg.net
http://www.virtualdub.org/
http://www.mp3dev.org/mp3/
Then they have a link to the source at this url
http://www.vidomi.com/download.php?op=mydown&did=3
The next item reports that they will no longer allow download of the GPL'd items with the non GPL'd items, and that they will shortly release a GPL kit.
Where's the problem?
I certainly hope that Tribes 2 plays better under Linux than it does under windows. I can't count the number of problems I've had with it, not to mention how many my friends have had. That's one piece of software I regret buying.
Actually considering the amount of Dreamcast ISO's, and now the PS2 ISO's, and the fact that the xbox is fairly standard hardware, that it will be long at all before warez can be run on it =P
I actually had a copy of Ready to Rumble by Midway that locked the Dreamcast hard. If I recall correctly Midway recalled thousands of the initial release of the game.
I'm not sure where you came up with that implication. I honor every member of the Armed Services that has fought to protect our freedoms. I have family members that have served in all of the branches of the military, and while I have not I would gladly serve if my nation needed me to, especially to protect our freedoms.
If spielberg wanted the movie to be realistic and acurate, and remind people what has been done to protect our freedom, then maybe the movie should have portrayed something other than just realistic violence.
I personally enjoyed Private Ryan, and the violence while extreme didn't bother me. There are quite a few people that felt there were certain scenes that were too realistic and questioned the R rating. I simply wanted to point out that the R rating could be considered questionable and is not comparable to the type of violence seen in D&D or Star Wars.
Actually, it didn't remind any of the people I saw it with of a campaign. How many times did your characters survive against odds like that? Or have portals directly into the badguy's lair? This is one of those stories that you may have found a scroll or artwork depicting, but never take part in. I played a few games where we went after items that were used in battles like this, but I don't ever remember being part of one.
I really have a hard time seeing your logic. Let's start with the kids portion. PG-13 and not for kids. The last time I checked humans ages 13-18 are still considered to be children (at least in the US) or to be politically correct I'm sure I have to say young adults, but what's the differance.
To compare the violence in either D&D or Star Wars or any other movie with those ratings to Private Ryan also doesn't make any sense. Private Ryan was rated R, and the level of violence was so extreme I'm not sure that the R rating was sufficient.
Ok, now onto the movie being SHIT. What's your basis? The plot was thin, the acting was weak, the CG was beautiful, not the best but still good. The dragons were the best I've seen so far even if they did look a little Jurrassic Parkish. It was a fun movie. I didn't have the highest expectations when I went in and so they were exceded, upon analyzing the movie a bit afterward my friends and I realized something important. We would continue to have enjoyed the movie if we just stopped ananlyzing it and took it for what it was. A short story about a kingdom in trouble, a hero, and his companions.
The truth of the matter is that most terrorists are probably smart enought to not send their buddies an email saying "Hey guy's I've got some plutonium and am ready to start Operation blow up the white house." Any filtering system looking for crap like that would be a waste of time, money, and effort.
I think the closest Debian comes to being easy for newbies is Storm Linux from stormix it's based on debian yet has an easy to use graphical install. It also has the Storm Administration System which I didn't bother to try out. While I'll stick to Debian, I would gladly recommend this distro to a newbie looking to try out Debian. dselect would probably scare most newbies away.
Those pages remind me of when I first got ont the net with a (sudo)graphical browser. All I had was a shell account, so I used slipknot in conjunction with lynx to see what all the excitement was about. I now remember that it wasn't all that exciteing.
Actually, the source is included and in the source there are directions on how to compile the module for you kernel version. I currently have the driver in place on 3 debian (potato) boxes running 2.2.12 and 1 stormix box with 2.2.12 as well. Next is to put it on our turbo linux 3.6 and suse 6.2 boxes.
If I was you I would not get the sound blaster live value. I have one and although creative labs has released a beta driver for linux, it only works with kernels 2.0.36 or 2.2.5 by default (I've gotten it to work with 2.2.5 - 2.2.9, but anything newer doesn't work). The driver is not only beta, but fairly crappy. Only one of the speaker outputs is available, and I've had some problems with the line in. I would recommend either a sb16 or an sb pci 128 or something like that. There are already drivers in the kernel for those cards, and I havent' had any troubles with them.
I agree. I got my MCSE a couple of years ago for the sole purpose of making some extra money. I've only been using Linux since the 1.2.x series, but I have to admit it's been much more interesting that getting my MCSE or my CNA (Novell) for that matter. all you have to do to get an MCSE is pay a bunch of money and know the text book answers. Every day I meet more and more MCSE's who don't have a lick of real experience, and don't know what to do when the Microsoft answer doesn't work. It's really scary to think how much people charge because they are MCSE's.
I've had masking set up on more networks than I can count, and I've never had a problem with any ICQ options (after updating the module), games (Quake2, Quake3, Tribes, Civilization: Call To Power), or most other things. Even passive mode ftp can work well with a little setup time.
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I'd have to disagree with you there. While the motorcycle is nothing more than a motorcycle, try telling that to thier owners. The company doesn't dictate that culture or lifestyle, the owners do. How many bike clubs are there for Harley owners? Probably too many to list in this space. How many people have a lifestyle that partially or entirely revolve around thier "bikes"? A helluva lot. Now, is that because of the company? Absolutly not. I certainly haven't bought into the "synergetic-cross-branding-co-hosted-sponsership-m ega-deal-day" garbage. I've witnessed it by listening to the enthusiasm of the owners, and paying attention to what my wife has told me about the people she dealt with on a daily basis, the owners of the bikes, not the company. Owning a Harley for the majority is more than owning a motorcycle, and if you think that's false then you are fooling yourself.
Well, other than MS didn't do a ton with AC except on the network end (at least initially), from what I understand anyway, that does surprise me. Another differance with AC was the open beta which AO kinda sorta did with beta4 which was too short to really call it a Beta.
The point I'm trying to make is that it's not just this genre of game that is getting released in an unfinished state. Even Black and White was released in an unplayable fashion for a lot of people. I couldn't play it when the game was released under win2k because of an error with the copy protection. This left me repartitioning my drive and installing 98 so I could play the game. Now, Black and White has been out a long time, and the official patch was only released today, I know this cause I just got the email about it today. So, overall, the MMORG's are the worst, but the game companies (software industry?) get's away with murder and people put up with it.
I've met quite a few devious programmers, but I don't think it's thier decision to release the half finished game or application. I think the blame for that lies on the shoulders of the bean counters and marketeers. I just wish more people would vote with thier dollars and protest the unfinished program. Doing a lot of IT consulting it's amazing how many people think technology has to be painfull, whe it honestly shouldn't be.
Now, not all of MS is evil, a portion of thier business practices are very questionable, and when you are as big as MS is you get generalizations. Look at how many people hated IBM (Big Blue) when they were on top. If you want to break down and find out what's good about MS, go take a look at thier hardware, I'm sititng in front of an original MS Natural keyboard (with the full size keys and the lift in the front, none of that Elite crap) and a MS Intellimouse Pro. It's excellent hardware. Look at the games the MS has published (note published and not developed) such as Age of Empires and Asherons Call. Whoever is running publishing appears to know what they are doing.
I think I'm just arguing that yes, MS isn't all evil. However your post doesn't point to those things. Ease of use isn't one of them, and even if it was they stole it from Apple which can be considered evil.
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That would require that the slashdot effect not kill the servers. Which appears to have already happened.
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Also for those don't want to load the page they have three interesting news bits, the first is titled "Credit where Credit is due. They acknowledge the following sites
http://hiroko.ee.ntu.edu.tw/
http://www.freeamp.org/
http://www.flaskmpeg.net
http://www.virtualdub.org/
http://www.mp3dev.org/mp3/
Then they have a link to the source at this url http://www.vidomi.com/download.php?op=mydown&did=
The next item reports that they will no longer allow download of the GPL'd items with the non GPL'd items, and that they will shortly release a GPL kit.
Where's the problem?
I certainly hope that Tribes 2 plays better under Linux than it does under windows. I can't count the number of problems I've had with it, not to mention how many my friends have had. That's one piece of software I regret buying.
Actually considering the amount of Dreamcast ISO's, and now the PS2 ISO's, and the fact that the xbox is fairly standard hardware, that it will be long at all before warez can be run on it =P
I actually had a copy of Ready to Rumble by Midway that locked the Dreamcast hard. If I recall correctly Midway recalled thousands of the initial release of the game.
Maybe gladly was the wrong word, however I believe my point came across appropriatly.
If spielberg wanted the movie to be realistic and acurate, and remind people what has been done to protect our freedom, then maybe the movie should have portrayed something other than just realistic violence.
I personally enjoyed Private Ryan, and the violence while extreme didn't bother me. There are quite a few people that felt there were certain scenes that were too realistic and questioned the R rating. I simply wanted to point out that the R rating could be considered questionable and is not comparable to the type of violence seen in D&D or Star Wars.
Actually, it didn't remind any of the people I saw it with of a campaign. How many times did your characters survive against odds like that? Or have portals directly into the badguy's lair? This is one of those stories that you may have found a scroll or artwork depicting, but never take part in. I played a few games where we went after items that were used in battles like this, but I don't ever remember being part of one.
To compare the violence in either D&D or Star Wars or any other movie with those ratings to Private Ryan also doesn't make any sense. Private Ryan was rated R, and the level of violence was so extreme I'm not sure that the R rating was sufficient.
Ok, now onto the movie being SHIT. What's your basis? The plot was thin, the acting was weak, the CG was beautiful, not the best but still good. The dragons were the best I've seen so far even if they did look a little Jurrassic Parkish. It was a fun movie. I didn't have the highest expectations when I went in and so they were exceded, upon analyzing the movie a bit afterward my friends and I realized something important. We would continue to have enjoyed the movie if we just stopped ananlyzing it and took it for what it was. A short story about a kingdom in trouble, a hero, and his companions.
I think Mandrake would be the lucky sob with the nikon d1 as you can see in this picture.
The truth of the matter is that most terrorists are probably smart enought to not send their buddies an email saying "Hey guy's I've got some plutonium and am ready to start Operation blow up the white house."
Any filtering system looking for crap like that would be a waste of time, money, and effort.
Here is a breif post on rumors of ethernet for the dreamcast.
I think the closest Debian comes to being easy for newbies is Storm Linux from stormix it's based on debian yet has an easy to use graphical install. It also has the Storm Administration System which I didn't bother to try out. While I'll stick to Debian, I would gladly recommend this distro to a newbie looking to try out Debian. dselect would probably scare most newbies away.
Those pages remind me of when I first got ont the net with a (sudo)graphical browser. All I had was a shell account, so I used slipknot in conjunction with lynx to see what all the excitement was about. I now remember that it wasn't all that exciteing.
Actually, the source is included and in the source there are directions on how to compile the module for you kernel version. I currently have the driver in place on 3 debian (potato) boxes running 2.2.12 and 1 stormix box with 2.2.12 as well. Next is to put it on our turbo linux 3.6 and suse 6.2 boxes.
Jeez.. that reminds me of leaving the Las Vegas Airport after Comdex 98. Several of the screens at the Reno Air terminal had BSOD's on them.
If I was you I would not get the sound blaster live value. I have one and although creative labs has released a beta driver for linux, it only works with kernels 2.0.36 or 2.2.5 by default (I've gotten it to work with 2.2.5 - 2.2.9, but anything newer doesn't work). The driver is not only beta, but fairly crappy. Only one of the speaker outputs is available, and I've had some problems with the line in. I would recommend either a sb16 or an sb pci 128 or something like that. There are already drivers in the kernel for those cards, and I havent' had any troubles with them.
I agree. I got my MCSE a couple of years ago for the sole purpose of making some extra money. I've only been using Linux since the 1.2.x series, but I have to admit it's been much more interesting that getting my MCSE or my CNA (Novell) for that matter. all you have to do to get an MCSE is pay a bunch of money and know the text book answers. Every day I meet more and more MCSE's who don't have a lick of real experience, and don't know what to do when the Microsoft answer doesn't work. It's really scary to think how much people charge because they are MCSE's.
I've had masking set up on more networks than I can count, and I've never had a problem with any ICQ options (after updating the module), games (Quake2, Quake3, Tribes, Civilization: Call To Power), or most other things. Even passive mode ftp can work well with a little setup time.
this is c code.... if you compile it and run it, it prints DAVID to the screen.... Very Cool.