Epinions is great and all, but it doesn't cover everything. What if I want to know which brand of salsa is the best? Or if Budweiser sucks as much as I hear it does? Or if Crest is better than Colgate?
Rateitall.com does that stuff, to an extent, but their site isn't as polished as it could be.
I want a site that categorizes every product under the sun by UPC and lets people comment on and rate them.
You've given no source for your statement, and I've looked around and asked elsewhere, and I can't seem to find the statement you're referring to.
In fact, it seems quite unlikely that Valve ever seriously considered porting to Linux, since the basis of their engine is DirectX 9. I'd say it's more likely that they saw the Linux market as too small to justify writing an OpenGL rendering option.
Wine may have added a small tidbit of justification in hindsight (Cedega wasn't a viable option until only very recently), but I doubt anything that made them change their mind.
Of course, if you actually have a source stating that Wine was the major reasoning behind some decision to go Windows-only, please share.
From what I've seen while configuring kernels, ext3 (and others) support "extended attributes", which I believe are per-file metadata.
Is this metadata usable for the kinds of things WinFS (or other database filesystems) would use its metadata for? If so, why aren't these extended attributes being put to use for such a purpose? Or are they?
Well, yeah, but just be aware that it's not the complete Cedega. The CVS doesn't includes some binaries that deal with copy protection and stuff like that, so it may not work in situations that full Cedega would.
"Thanks for deflating your own argument by even mentioning the "taking" requirement of the definition. When a copy is made of something, that something is not "taken": it still remains."
take:
1 : to get into one's hands or into one's possession, power, or control
Not sure what you mean there... downloading a song certainly qualifies as 'taking' it. I mean, I'm getting the music into my possession.
No, really, it's an idiotic argument by people trying to rationalize their behavior.
The definition of 'stealing', like all other common definitions, changes with time. In the age of intellectual property and copyright infringement, it has because useful to describe such activity. Not that the word is being used in a literal sense most of the time, anyway. It's conversation, man, not a technical legal discussion in a scientific journal.
BTW, here's Mirriam-Webster:
1 : to take the property of another wrongfully and especially as an habitual or regular practice
Intellectual property is considered just that: property, and taking such wrongfully is stealing. So get over it.
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Epinions is great and all, but it doesn't cover everything. What if I want to know which brand of salsa is the best? Or if Budweiser sucks as much as I hear it does? Or if Crest is better than Colgate?
Rateitall.com does that stuff, to an extent, but their site isn't as polished as it could be.
I want a site that categorizes every product under the sun by UPC and lets people comment on and rate them.
http://www.xpde.com/
New GNOME releases still take a month or two to filter down to the stable branches.
So we might get it at the end of April or the beginning of May, sooner if you want unstable packages.
I agree. I don't buy from iTMS now because I'm somewhat broke and $.99 adds up fast. I also don't download, because I can't stand the ethics of it.
But if songs were $0.05 each, not only would I not feel bad for buying a few, I would probably listen to (and buy) more music period.
Nope, sorry. I may look into it if I come across it, though.
I haven't noticed this in any stats I've viewed... does MSN Explorer use IE's UA string, or can it be counted on its own?
It would be helpful for determing how many people out there actually want a candy-interface all-in-one browsing/email/chat experience.
You've given no source for your statement, and I've looked around and asked elsewhere, and I can't seem to find the statement you're referring to.
In fact, it seems quite unlikely that Valve ever seriously considered porting to Linux, since the basis of their engine is DirectX 9. I'd say it's more likely that they saw the Linux market as too small to justify writing an OpenGL rendering option.
Wine may have added a small tidbit of justification in hindsight (Cedega wasn't a viable option until only very recently), but I doubt anything that made them change their mind.
Of course, if you actually have a source stating that Wine was the major reasoning behind some decision to go Windows-only, please share.
Source?
"is killing"?
Do you have evidence of a company considering a Linux port, but opting not to because of the existance of Wine?
Perhaps this hasn't occurred to you guys, but maybe -- just maybe -- WordPerfect was a better solution for the DoJ than OOo was.
Do you know what their requirements are? Were you in the board room when this deal was being discussed?
A question about this concept:
From what I've seen while configuring kernels, ext3 (and others) support "extended attributes", which I believe are per-file metadata.
Is this metadata usable for the kinds of things WinFS (or other database filesystems) would use its metadata for? If so, why aren't these extended attributes being put to use for such a purpose? Or are they?
Here's the list of entrants for the 2005 festival.
If you want to try any out, start with Alien Hominid. It's a great side-scroller that they've ported to PS2 and GameCube.
Too bad they don't tell which games work on which platforms, though. I'm always looking for some new Linux games.
Well, yeah, but just be aware that it's not the complete Cedega. The CVS doesn't includes some binaries that deal with copy protection and stuff like that, so it may not work in situations that full Cedega would.
Should work under anything. You do have to pay $15 (3-month sub.) for the privilege of downloading, though.
But when you do, they offer rpm, deb, and tar.gz.
On Gentoo, it's a simply 'emerge point2play' after you download the .tar.gz and copy it to the right directory.
.deb and a .rpm for other distros, so I would guess it's a simple one-step process.
It's available as a
On the chance that this isn't a troll... WineX is the old name of Cedega. Same thing.
Or even better, Icculus' list of actual commercial games that run natively on Linux.
Doh, you're right, I screwed it up. And yeah, Secunia was what I was aiming for.
Thanks!
FYI, 1.0.1 still has 3 unpatched and 5 partially patched security vulnerabilities.
Is it still based on Motif? Or have they switched to GTK+ or Qt (or something else)?
Besides, it'll get the kids into the library in the first place.
I wonder if this will be console only, or if it's PC too. I wouldn't mind taking out a PC game from my local branch...
"They make sense to me. /usr/sfw -- sunfreeware."
/usr/ccs/* stand for?
Sun newbie here, just curious: what does the
You can keep your opinion, but at least get the facts straight.
Costa Rica is not particularly impoverished (at least compared to all of its neighbors), and it isn't an island.
The definition of 'stealing', like all other common definitions, changes with time. In the age of intellectual property and copyright infringement, it has because useful to describe such activity. Not that the word is being used in a literal sense most of the time, anyway. It's conversation, man, not a technical legal discussion in a scientific journal.
BTW, here's Mirriam-Webster:Intellectual property is considered just that: property, and taking such wrongfully is stealing. So get over it.
I've wasted enough time on crap like this...