*sigh* You're missing the point of the game. It's single player game is like Quake3's... to teach you how to play.
Grab 3 friends and a dungeon master and play a campaign together. Or head over to Neverwinter Connections and find a game. You won't miss henchmen and you'll find the real strength of NWN, multiplayer.
a) Groove was actually used by anybody and b) It wasn't such horrible software
then I would say yes. Unfortunately Groove is a solution looking for a problem, and how many people get excited when you hear "designed by the guy that designed Notes."
Indeed. People are quick to jump on Bioware but they're making progress, the client is damn good, and although this does suck, I only need to see the movies once, since the real value is the multiplayer aspect anyways.
I just hope that whatever they learn from this game makes it into their future titles. Maybe hire some ex-Loki guys? *hint*
If you say so... I never expected to find anything about SAIC on/. it just happened to be here when the story popped up.
Now if you don't mind I need to go, Agent Smith is here and we need to hurry if we're going to tap your phone line.
SAIC rocks.
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I work for SAIC, and employee ownership is pretty kickass, and the long list of "cool shit" that we do keeps getting larger and larger. My favorite part by far is that since everyone is an owner, the "retard rate" is alot lower - that guy slacking off is costing you money, so everyone busts ass.
The company is VERY conservative, lots of ex-military folks, but even conservative companies understand saving money, so at our division Open Source reigns supreme.
At our office we use Redhat, Debian, PostgreSQL, Bugzilla, and CVS almost exclusively. We all have linux desktops and laptops, even though the "corporate standard" is Exchange. We can get away with this because SAIC acts more like a cluster of tiny companies rather than a monolith. As long as we remain profitable, we can really do almost what we want.
My boss donates space to the local LUG at night to hold meetings, because they recognize the value of fostering professional development, AND it gives them a nice steady hiring pool.
If you ever have a chance to interview for SAIC then do it.
Find a LUG, you can learn more listening to experienced admins than from sitting in IRC all day or pouring over tons of lists. Plus its nice to know a group of people locally that can always save your ass in case you do something stupid. IRC and lists are horrible to get _detailed_ help with. You'll spend 60 minutes explaining your problem over IRC and then you'll get a half dozen opinions. Having real people troubleshoot your system and teaching how it all works is the best way to learn. Sure they'll have a half dozen opinions too but at least in person people can show you things they can't over IRC.
Our LUG has regular installfests and it's not uncommon for people to bring their machines in if they want to do something complicated. Plus LUGs are good places to network professionally, trade hardware, and meet new people.
Btw, MDLUG if you're in the Detroit area, stop by our table during Penguicon in May.
They lied to the community more than once about the state of the Linux client and that made many very mad...so...wise up!
I'm amazed and grateful that Bioware shipped this client at all, with such mature and supportive community members as yourself berating them and their developers.
People already donate CPU cycles, if you really want to donate, try clicking on things in Kazaa, you'll know your donating enough cycles when you get a nice gray window that repaints your desktop as you move it. Take that distributed.net.
At least now, I can have my PC slow to a crawl AND help artists.
Knoppix has saved my skin on my windows boxen on many occassions.
i've also used Openoffice to "repair" broken office files. Take broken MS Office file, open in Openoffice, Save As whatever MS format, then reopen in MS Office. It even slims down powerpoint files. Pretty useful at the office.
Hmm, I can go pick up a box copy of Redhat 8.0 for $29 at a local store and get a real distro instead of these flash in a pan wannabe's that think that CrossOver Office + Wine = "Runs Office great."
Bite the bullet - It's easier to use Openoffice than support a MS Office-on-linux solution. Joe Blow has a hard enough time with Office on Windows, let alone some hack (as neat as it may be).
And you can find 2000/XP at thhis price point as well. Win2kSP3 with OpenOffice is a better value than these distros. At $30, Redhat with OpenOffice is unbeatable, even for newbies, 8.0 is _easy_. For the rest of us, Debian isn't going anywhere.
I've done an IMAP to IMAP backup before with mozilla. Setup a new IMAP account in mozmail, and then do one huge drag and drop. It takes a while, but it works.
Antother options, if you have a shell account and they setup maildirs in your/home, then all you really need to do is tarball that up.
And in typical LucasArts fashion, only two of them would be good. Only Star Trek has had worse games. XWing and Tie Fighter (honorable mention to JK2) are the only good star wars games....
*stares at his Star Wars - Masters of Teras Kasi*
Shit, I'd settle for remakes of the older games....
Anyone have any experience with this Services For Unix thing?
It is pretty cool. It's nice to have an NFS share tab right along the SMB tab, all integrated into the GUI and MMC.
Of course, it's pretty pathetic that you have to spend another hundred bucks on TOP of the ~$800 you paid for 2000 Server just to get it export NFS shares, like every other OS on the planet.
A few hours with a LUG will do wonders. Yeah, people harp about 'certs' and 'proper training', but noone knows linux better than the people who love it and are willing to help others.
If this is indeed true - does this surprise anyone?
It has been said time and time again that SCO/Caldera (and to some extent UnitedLinux) would end up bringing the worse part of proprietary systems (like moronic licensing policies) to Linux. Now it's finally here and we can go ahead and stick a fork in what used to be a pretty good company.
Looks like the decision makers at SCO/Caldera have Ransom Love on the brain.
Some people complain about Red Hat's "market dominance". I guess some companies are just content in making decisions that are so stupid, that they're making it easy to dump their product. RH is going to wipe the floor with what's left of SCO. Who in their right mind would pay per processor fees for linux?
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*sigh* You're missing the point of the game. It's single player game is like Quake3's ... to teach you how to play.
Grab 3 friends and a dungeon master and play a campaign together. Or head over to Neverwinter Connections and find a game. You won't miss henchmen and you'll find the real strength of NWN, multiplayer.
If
a) Groove was actually used by anybody and
b) It wasn't such horrible software
then I would say yes. Unfortunately Groove is a solution looking for a problem, and how many people get excited when you hear "designed by the guy that designed Notes."
Granted he's never been a man who's to court publicity
And that is why he's the man.
Indeed. People are quick to jump on Bioware but they're making progress, the client is damn good, and although this does suck, I only need to see the movies once, since the real value is the multiplayer aspect anyways.
I just hope that whatever they learn from this game makes it into their future titles. Maybe hire some ex-Loki guys? *hint*
If you say so ... I never expected to find anything about SAIC on /. it just happened to be here when the story popped up.
Now if you don't mind I need to go, Agent Smith is here and we need to hurry if we're going to tap your phone line.
I work for SAIC, and employee ownership is pretty kickass, and the long list of "cool shit" that we do keeps getting larger and larger. My favorite part by far is that since everyone is an owner, the "retard rate" is alot lower - that guy slacking off is costing you money, so everyone busts ass.
The company is VERY conservative, lots of ex-military folks, but even conservative companies understand saving money, so at our division Open Source reigns supreme.
At our office we use Redhat, Debian, PostgreSQL, Bugzilla, and CVS almost exclusively. We all have linux desktops and laptops, even though the "corporate standard" is Exchange. We can get away with this because SAIC acts more like a cluster of tiny companies rather than a monolith. As long as we remain profitable, we can really do almost what we want.
My boss donates space to the local LUG at night to hold meetings, because they recognize the value of fostering professional development, AND it gives them a nice steady hiring pool.
If you ever have a chance to interview for SAIC then do it.
Bah, my bad ... Penguicon.
Find a LUG, you can learn more listening to experienced admins than from sitting in IRC all day or pouring over tons of lists. Plus its nice to know a group of people locally that can always save your ass in case you do something stupid. IRC and lists are horrible to get _detailed_ help with. You'll spend 60 minutes explaining your problem over IRC and then you'll get a half dozen opinions. Having real people troubleshoot your system and teaching how it all works is the best way to learn. Sure they'll have a half dozen opinions too but at least in person people can show you things they can't over IRC.
Our LUG has regular installfests and it's not uncommon for people to bring their machines in if they want to do something complicated. Plus LUGs are good places to network professionally, trade hardware, and meet new people.
Btw, MDLUG if you're in the Detroit area, stop by our table during Penguicon in May.
They lied to the community more than once about the state of the Linux client and that made many very mad...so...wise up!
I'm amazed and grateful that Bioware shipped this client at all, with such mature and supportive community members as yourself berating them and their developers.
On debian "apt-get install mozilla-xft" to get XFT support if you don't have RH8.
People already donate CPU cycles, if you really want to donate, try clicking on things in Kazaa, you'll know your donating enough cycles when you get a nice gray window that repaints your desktop as you move it. Take that distributed.net.
At least now, I can have my PC slow to a crawl AND help artists.
Flash popups anyone? That's innovation for ya.
I get neither Flash nor popups in Mozilla, to me that's innovation.
killev.
Best script ever. Bring on the IMAP rewrite.
more than one group is trying to organize a boycott
The market has been "boycotting" SCO and it's crap for years, not like there needs to be a special effort.
I'm using totem, a xine frontend version .95, and my xine shows up as .9.18.
I'm using debian sid and those are the latest packages plus all the goodies from marillat.
The .mov is playing fine for me in xine/totem, but not in mplayer.
The first episode one was audio-only in mplayer and sync problems in xine/totem - I'm just glad one of them plays it right this time.
Knoppix has saved my skin on my windows boxen on many occassions.
i've also used Openoffice to "repair" broken office files. Take broken MS Office file, open in Openoffice, Save As whatever MS format, then reopen in MS Office. It even slims down powerpoint files. Pretty useful at the office.
My manager to our customer:
"We chose Oracle and Java because of it's robusticity."
That's not as sad as the people sitting there nodding pretending they know what the hell he's talking about.
Hmm, I can go pick up a box copy of Redhat 8.0 for $29 at a local store and get a real distro instead of these flash in a pan wannabe's that think that CrossOver Office + Wine = "Runs Office great."
Bite the bullet - It's easier to use Openoffice than support a MS Office-on-linux solution. Joe Blow has a hard enough time with Office on Windows, let alone some hack (as neat as it may be).
And you can find 2000/XP at thhis price point as well. Win2kSP3 with OpenOffice is a better value than these distros. At $30, Redhat with OpenOffice is unbeatable, even for newbies, 8.0 is _easy_. For the rest of us, Debian isn't going anywhere.
I've done an IMAP to IMAP backup before with mozilla. Setup a new IMAP account in mozmail, and then do one huge drag and drop. It takes a while, but it works.
/home, then all you really need to do is tarball that up.
Antother options, if you have a shell account and they setup maildirs in your
And in typical LucasArts fashion, only two of them would be good. Only Star Trek has had worse games. XWing and Tie Fighter (honorable mention to JK2) are the only good star wars games ....
....
*stares at his Star Wars - Masters of Teras Kasi*
Shit, I'd settle for remakes of the older games
Anyone have any experience with this Services For Unix thing?
It is pretty cool. It's nice to have an NFS share tab right along the SMB tab, all integrated into the GUI and MMC.
Of course, it's pretty pathetic that you have to spend another hundred bucks on TOP of the ~$800 you paid for 2000 Server just to get it export NFS shares, like every other OS on the planet.
Where are people going for this stuff?
A few hours with a LUG will do wonders. Yeah, people harp about 'certs' and 'proper training', but noone knows linux better than the people who love it and are willing to help others.
"Someone forwarded the message to us and that was the first we heard or read about it."
"Thanks for the idea though!"
If this is indeed true - does this surprise anyone?
It has been said time and time again that SCO/Caldera (and to some extent UnitedLinux) would end up bringing the worse part of proprietary systems (like moronic licensing policies) to Linux. Now it's finally here and we can go ahead and stick a fork in what used to be a pretty good company.
Looks like the decision makers at SCO/Caldera have Ransom Love on the brain.
Some people complain about Red Hat's "market dominance". I guess some companies are just content in making decisions that are so stupid, that they're making it easy to dump their product. RH is going to wipe the floor with what's left of SCO. Who in their right mind would pay per processor fees for linux?