Before this happened - or kind of happened as in this case. No search engine can be perfect, but Google is still the best: no banners, adverts, pop-up windows, huge graphics, pointless flash, etc.
If it gets conned into indexing some page higher than it deserves, it doesn't take long to check out the next link. The pr0n industry will always try to beat these things because they exist purely to make money (apparently some 70% of online-transactions), so they have more to gain by this kind of tactic.
Maybe (in a couple of years) when it does get re-written, they can remove the definite "Windows" feel to it and make it look like the OS it's actually running under (on, in?). -----
They aren't installed by default because zip is not exactly a standard format on Linux.
The kdeutils package wants them because it includes a frontend.
Maybe not the standard like tar-balls, but so much stuff is only distributed in zips that not installing by default is mighty odd.
It's not as if they're really huge libraries. RH installs so much other crud that most users will never use, but zip support they almost certainly will.
Oh well, something for us mere mortals to ponder in the hours of darkness.
That's the best thing about standards - there's so many to choose from.
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PC is hardly dead - but it may not be very well.
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Unfortunately I have to agree with most of this site. Almost all games on the PC fall into the categories described - most of these are clones of games which have been around for years.
The only truly original computer games I can remember were Lemmings and Wolfenstein 3D (the precursor to Doom). Both were truly original (at the time). Even a game like Tombraider is basically a platform game in 3D: jump from platform to platform, collect stuff, open doors...exactly the same as all those games on my Acorn Electron 10 years ago. Except looking a lot better.
Which is obviously the problem at the moment: all games seem to focus on looks and not on gameplay.
While I don't think the PC is dead as a games platform - it does need some more imagination.
Hopefully they will allow their source to be publicly modified, as video drivers can make or break a graphics card.
One of the major problems with OS/2 was the video drivers. With good drivers it was rock-solid, but with the matrox drivers I had to use it crashed regularly - I eventually found this was the driver and not OS/2. But because Matrox regarded OS/2 as unimportant they never updated them - this was the main reason I abandoned it. If a Windows user tries Linux and discovers it crashes all the time because of an old driver - they're unlikely to come back.
If Matrox want the unix world to use their cards they'll have to release the sources.
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If it gets conned into indexing some page higher than it deserves, it doesn't take long to check out the next link. The pr0n industry will always try to beat these things because they exist purely to make money (apparently some 70% of online-transactions), so they have more to gain by this kind of tactic.
Not going to stop me using it though.
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Maybe (in a couple of years) when it does get re-written, they can remove the definite "Windows" feel to it and make it look like the OS it's actually running under (on, in?).
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The kdeutils package wants them because it includes a frontend.
Maybe not the standard like tar-balls, but so much stuff is only distributed in zips that not installing by default is mighty odd.
It's not as if they're really huge libraries. RH installs so much other crud that most users will never use, but zip support they almost certainly will.
Oh well, something for us mere mortals to ponder in the hours of darkness.
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Can't wait for the media to get hold of this one. If there's one group of people who know how to blow things up out of all proportion it's them.
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That's the best thing about standards - there's so many to choose from.
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The only truly original computer games I can remember were Lemmings and Wolfenstein 3D (the precursor to Doom). Both were truly original (at the time). Even a game like Tombraider is basically a platform game in 3D: jump from platform to platform, collect stuff, open doors...exactly the same as all those games on my Acorn Electron 10 years ago. Except looking a lot better.
Which is obviously the problem at the moment: all games seem to focus on looks and not on gameplay.
While I don't think the PC is dead as a games platform - it does need some more imagination.
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Hopefully they will allow their source to be publicly modified, as video drivers can make or break a graphics card.
One of the major problems with OS/2 was the video drivers. With good drivers it was rock-solid, but with the matrox drivers I had to use it crashed regularly - I eventually found this was the driver and not OS/2. But because Matrox regarded OS/2 as unimportant they never updated them - this was the main reason I abandoned it. If a Windows user tries Linux and discovers it crashes all the time because of an old driver - they're unlikely to come back.
If Matrox want the unix world to use their cards they'll have to release the sources.
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