Are you kidding me? The 7-11 down the way has atomic robot dogs that've been rolling up and down that thing since before Snow Crash was a twinkle in ol' Neal's eye.
If the BSA/Microsoft win and home users are forced to pony up for Windows and Office, way more than 7.5% of them will switch to linux anyway. Actually stopping piracy will be the death of these guys, and they have no real interest in doing it.
They have zero authority. All they have the right to do is call bullshit on the election, and submit a report about the things that they saw. The people of Europe can do with that information what they wish. I think every country should do this to every other country. In a perfect world, outside oversight helps ferret out corruption. In the real world, it will probably just provide every country with mud to sling at each other.
I'm picturing a spirited bout of "I don't have to deal with you, you're not even the real president" between the US and France next time someone wants to start a war.
You assume that they wouldn't all sink to an approximately equal level of shadiness leaving the 'consumer' with a choice between screwed, fucked or reamed.
I really dislike cockroaches and scorpions (it's the babies on the back thing), but the worst kinds bugs I can think of are earwigs. They compromise your ears!!!
Who are we and how are we going to stop these sons of bitches from creating distros. The first step, I think, is to form a comittee. We'll call it the Distro Police. We'll flame every slashdot post about new distros. How dare people be allowed to take software that they're allowed to do whatever they want with and do whatever they want with it.
I don't think the Ubuntu guys and gals are doing this because they think they're going to put redhat and suse out of business. They're doing it because they want to. If you get an itch, I promise I won't complain if you scratch it.
Also, maybe this Ubunto thing is it. Gentoo was nothing just a couple of years ago. Same with Lycoris and Linspire.
I've invested in this product 3 seperate times. So we're looking at 45 bucks at this point, and it's worked HORRIBLY every time.
They've also been dishonest about not competing with native ports. Yet Quake and RTCW were, last time I looked, on the list of supported games.
I'm glad you're having such good luck with the product. For me, even games with a '4' rating generall work horribly, or are such a PITA to install that it's not worth it.
You're also very lucky to get one new release with a three month subscription. I'd feel way less decieved by these guys if they'd just sell the product for 10 or fifteen bucks and not pretend that I was becoming a 'member' of something.
Just last week I put Word, Abiword and Ooffice head to head on outlining a project. All I want is simple, collapsible outlines that I can easily modify and are labeled I., A., 1., a., etc...
The result... nobody wins. Word comes closest, but I still spent so much time wrestling with the software that I just grabbed a piece of paper and got my work done in record time. (course it was way harder to email)
Send you 13.88 to your local senator along with a letter asking for help against the RIAA/MPAA. It won't help much, but if a lot of people did it... the industry fills their suitcases of bribe money out of your pocket.
Ah yes. '82. That's when we taught the terrorists the critical lesson; their tactics work on us. Cowboy Ronnie ran from Lebanon like a bitch after the bombing. Same way we pulled out of Somalia.
All over the world, people know that if you give the U.S. a big enough black eye, we'll turn tail.
The Iraqis know it too. How many GIs would they have to send home in a day to end this thing? Fifty? A hundred? Think tet. All they need is one big PR victory and the war's over and it won't be for the best.
These problems are solved with cash. Big fat fucking sacks of it. CIA finds the most radical mullahs and buys them off. Trust me, they're for sale. Next stop, make life livable in those countries, shit make it comfortable. Nobody with 500 channels straps a bomb on. People with air conditioned malls don't want to breed a generation of martyrs, they want to breed a generation of consumers. We win this thing by making nice, not by making more terrorists.
Is anybody making money on these games anymore? I haven't looked at the economics of it but, from an entertainment industry perspective, it seems to be a fear game. 'We must pay whatever it costs for the olympics because we always have.' Same with the advertisers. As far as I can tell, these games are a flop from the profit point of view. Everybody's losing.
What I'm thinking is, now that there's a world class venue in athens, start a new sanctioning body and a better run set of games that happen in greece every four years. Ditch all the politics and decades of aggragate crap rules and start over with sports.
Aw hell, it's a dream isn't it?
I can think of lots, but not the way you're looking at it. Communism works on farms and art colonies and the hippies made it work a few times/places. It's like town hall democracy, it doesn't scale past a few thousand people without big problems.
I don't know what the problem is, Transgaming already has the best copy protection system there is. Their product sucks ass. Why the hell would anyone want to copy this steaming pile? To find out that 2% of your games work, and most of those both work poorly and already have a native linux port.
You know what, I hope this works. I hope they shut everybody who was copying the software out of the picture so that maybe, just maybe, someone else will take a stab at making linux gaming better.
If anyone's going to get my pennies it'll be icculus.
I think the law that most people are going to be following in this particular instance is the law of natural selection.
I've not gone computer shopping in China, Cambodia or Vietnam, but I have a strong suspicion that the piracy is happening at the comp-u-shop.
I submit to you all that this isn't about consumers at all. This is about Microsoft being able to tell 3rd world governments (and the US Gov't) that "we're doing our part" by making a cheap version available, now do your part by cracking down on the piracy. Expect this version of Windows to be followed by some serious bribery/lobbying for stronger IP enforcement in the 3rd world.
Doom 3 soon is one of my favorite games. Indeed, it ranks only slightly under Doom 3 Now. That and the $125 patches... Forget it, why am I posting here when I can be playing Doom 3 Now. Have fun.
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Are you kidding me? The 7-11 down the way has atomic robot dogs that've been rolling up and down that thing since before Snow Crash was a twinkle in ol' Neal's eye.
If the BSA/Microsoft win and home users are forced to pony up for Windows and Office, way more than 7.5% of them will switch to linux anyway. Actually stopping piracy will be the death of these guys, and they have no real interest in doing it.
I'm picturing a spirited bout of "I don't have to deal with you, you're not even the real president" between the US and France next time someone wants to start a war.
You assume that they wouldn't all sink to an approximately equal level of shadiness leaving the 'consumer' with a choice between screwed, fucked or reamed.
I really dislike cockroaches and scorpions (it's the babies on the back thing), but the worst kinds bugs I can think of are earwigs. They compromise your ears!!!
You're missing the point. You're not in charge of their time. They can spend/waste it however they want to.
I don't think the Ubuntu guys and gals are doing this because they think they're going to put redhat and suse out of business. They're doing it because they want to. If you get an itch, I promise I won't complain if you scratch it.
Also, maybe this Ubunto thing is it. Gentoo was nothing just a couple of years ago. Same with Lycoris and Linspire.
server works for me. slow but works. downloading the isos as i write this.
They've also been dishonest about not competing with native ports. Yet Quake and RTCW were, last time I looked, on the list of supported games.
I'm glad you're having such good luck with the product. For me, even games with a '4' rating generall work horribly, or are such a PITA to install that it's not worth it.
You're also very lucky to get one new release with a three month subscription. I'd feel way less decieved by these guys if they'd just sell the product for 10 or fifteen bucks and not pretend that I was becoming a 'member' of something.
Yes but how would you compare your Hattori Hanzo sword to mine?
It's my dream to one day, science and god willing, successfully land on the surface of the earth.
The result... nobody wins. Word comes closest, but I still spent so much time wrestling with the software that I just grabbed a piece of paper and got my work done in record time. (course it was way harder to email)
They are, however, easy. The reason they're being suggested is because that's what's out there and available for free.
Also, didn't he promise to retire jay and sbob after their terrible solo movie?
Send you 13.88 to your local senator along with a letter asking for help against the RIAA/MPAA. It won't help much, but if a lot of people did it... the industry fills their suitcases of bribe money out of your pocket.
Usually when i have to work I xinit the word processor and at least make cheating a little harder on myself.
Now back to work for 5 minutes.
All over the world, people know that if you give the U.S. a big enough black eye, we'll turn tail.
The Iraqis know it too. How many GIs would they have to send home in a day to end this thing? Fifty? A hundred? Think tet. All they need is one big PR victory and the war's over and it won't be for the best.
These problems are solved with cash. Big fat fucking sacks of it. CIA finds the most radical mullahs and buys them off. Trust me, they're for sale. Next stop, make life livable in those countries, shit make it comfortable. Nobody with 500 channels straps a bomb on. People with air conditioned malls don't want to breed a generation of martyrs, they want to breed a generation of consumers. We win this thing by making nice, not by making more terrorists.
Is anybody making money on these games anymore? I haven't looked at the economics of it but, from an entertainment industry perspective, it seems to be a fear game. 'We must pay whatever it costs for the olympics because we always have.' Same with the advertisers. As far as I can tell, these games are a flop from the profit point of view. Everybody's losing.
What I'm thinking is, now that there's a world class venue in athens, start a new sanctioning body and a better run set of games that happen in greece every four years. Ditch all the politics and decades of aggragate crap rules and start over with sports.
Aw hell, it's a dream isn't it?
How come people who say this never seem to want to pay taxes?
It would however be very easy to confuse the Rat Olympic Committee with these Olympic Comittee Rats.
Remember Olympics of the Mind?
I've always liked 'black and bitter' or 'ground up in the freezer'.
I can think of lots, but not the way you're looking at it. Communism works on farms and art colonies and the hippies made it work a few times/places. It's like town hall democracy, it doesn't scale past a few thousand people without big problems.
I don't know what the problem is, Transgaming already has the best copy protection system there is. Their product sucks ass. Why the hell would anyone want to copy this steaming pile? To find out that 2% of your games work, and most of those both work poorly and already have a native linux port.
You know what, I hope this works. I hope they shut everybody who was copying the software out of the picture so that maybe, just maybe, someone else will take a stab at making linux gaming better.
If anyone's going to get my pennies it'll be icculus.
I think the law that most people are going to be following in this particular instance is the law of natural selection. I've not gone computer shopping in China, Cambodia or Vietnam, but I have a strong suspicion that the piracy is happening at the comp-u-shop. I submit to you all that this isn't about consumers at all. This is about Microsoft being able to tell 3rd world governments (and the US Gov't) that "we're doing our part" by making a cheap version available, now do your part by cracking down on the piracy. Expect this version of Windows to be followed by some serious bribery/lobbying for stronger IP enforcement in the 3rd world.
Doom 3 soon is one of my favorite games. Indeed, it ranks only slightly under Doom 3 Now. That and the $125 patches... Forget it, why am I posting here when I can be playing Doom 3 Now. Have fun.