You misunderstand. I am saying open source is ineffective. Netscape and IE made leaps and bounds, then Netscape wigged out, opened the source, and lost any chance of broswer dominance it has had. With a few exceptions, the closed-source flavor of a given app is more advanced/more stable/more bug-free then a given 'competitor' in the open source world.
Sigh....People so often say that 'having the source' will allow the open source community to take these drivers and do everything AND make coffee with them. New bugs are showing in Bind...Interbase has one or two flaws, the list of MAJOR open source releases which are significantly flawed and stay that way is rather long. How many l337-hax0rz cry and scream for source code VS. How many people actually even look at it, much less do anything with it.
Open Sourcing under GPL will not cure any woes. People who know what they are doing need to take that code and do some hacking. A very small slice of people here on slashdot have a clue as to what to do with gobs of released code...
Also, show a user WHY any other given OS is superior...Better IP stack, the BSD's say...I don't use IP, I use AOL!, the users say...etc. I REALLY likied corel linux for its utter simplicity. If I knew linux better, my parents would now be using it. But for the VAST majority of users, win9x will be 10times more OS then they need (or know how to use)
In the magical land of Open Source fantasy land, Microsoft now makes laundry detergent and your choice of *nix is available preinstalled at bestbuy....Now in the REAL world, things are a bit different, but damnit man, can't they dream!?!?!
1) Halflife, Systemshock1/2, Dues Ex, the list of madern games with plot goes on and on...
2)Halflife, Systemshock1/2, Dues Ex, Swat3, Rogue Spear....Hard pressed to find a modern game where you don't have to reload
3)Counterstrike allows 2 pistols...Rather unrealistic though. Goto a range and fire one pistol. With 2, you miss more then twice as often. Point of personal preference, I admit.
4)*Shrug* I stay as far away from macs aas possible.
5)see above, but I don't know if sound can be more all-immersive then halflife...
6)Doom? Dunno about the timeline...
7)The hardware reqs of quake (I) servers is really high... P133/64mb ram was what I used to host games fulltime...
I'll admit, this will be a great game..for Linux. Win9X/2K has absolutly fantastic games, even you diehard linux folks have to admit.
Ya, if america gets any richer, in a few years we'll buy up some eurotrash countrys and have em pull rikshaws for us. We have 40 hour work weeks, and only about 2 weeks off a year. And some goddamned foriegn puke has the gall to say americans are lazy?
I come from the world of Windows...MCSE 2k, I'm an exchange admin. To me, and I know it is because of extensive use, the win way of doing things seems fairly logical, I know and understand it. At home, I have messed around with various open source distros. Red Hat always seemed to kaka out on me. Debian ran fine, but seemed WAY arcane to me, as far as location of configuration files and whatnot. FreeBsd hit the spot. Very straight-forward, logical. I still have no idea what the hell I am doing with it, but it seems easier...I know it all depends on experience, but FreeBSD is my foot in the door of *nix's. Linux is just too damned varied it seems...
http://www.gamespot.com/features/macvspc
Equal speed processors, yet the PC was almost twice as fast benchmarking quake....And I bet some mac freak will shreik and cry that the test was rigged..blah blah blah...Can anyone give me ONE, just one, good reason why a mac is to be preferred over a pc?
FOUR HUNDRED MILLION??? WHo the hell eats that much spam!??! Although I must admit, fried spam and eggs, maybe with a touch of last nights ramen, is the breakfast of kings!!
I'm always a little embarrassed at the check out lane when I have 4 or 5 cans of spam....
If that sounds complicated to you, then stay far away from all electronics.
You are against gui's? I suppose you use Lynx as your only browser? I guess when you do any graphic work, you just do it from the command line? ASCII art does rock I'll admit. And if you do any sort of system management work, you just look at a bunch of scrolling text all day, instead of a simple map with some green/red lights?
The CLI has its place, but as a window in gui, not as a primary interface.
Meech Lake...Does that belong to france or something goofy like that...I heard somewhere that france still has territory in canada (quebec I would think). Is this true?
AMEN. Every kid with redhat on their shiny new dell's crys 'Open the source! GPL or death', but the vast majority do NOTHING with it once they get it. Not that I look at source, but you'll never catch me crying for source anyways.
You say the 17th century chinese army was powerfull? The only major battle fought by them was in Korea against the japanese Warlord Hideyoshi. The chinese lost. Lets see, in 1839 they took on the British, and lost. Then in 1856 they took on the French and Americans, and, yes, they lost again. Then in 1894 they lost all of Korea to the Japanese. I don't see any victories in there, do you?
As for knowing how they are trained and equipped, anybody can subscribe to Janes Defence Weekly (I do). Anybody can visit www.strategypage.com. I do. Anybody can read. I do, and unless your country has banned books or something, get a good military history book (Keegan and Dunnigan are excellent), and read.
P.S. In America, we don't watch eurotrash tv, we have our own entertainment industry. (The lucky of us here get BBC America, but that is another story).
Only because the chinese army is tradionaly of VERY poor quality. They built the great wall to keep out mongols and others because the leaders of the day knew that the army, while the largest in world (even then) was patheticaly trained and equiped. Still they are horribly trained, and, contrary to media propaganda, horribly equipped and orginized.
And I don't remeber the Great Antarctic war, could you refresh my memory?
1) Was not democratically elected, was a left-wing junta. Just because commies say "the peoples this and that" a lot does NOT make them democratic.
2)We did not sponsor them, we only trained certain units in counter-inssurgency tactics. Their own lack of morals did the rest.
3)The UN is about as useful as the League of Nations was. Lots of talk, only the big-boys have a real say. Why invest money in a bad idea?
4)War makes for strange bedfellows. At the time, it was a perfectly sound decision to fund Irans opponent. Actually, it was probably a misunderstanding that Iraq invaded Kuwait at all. Saddam supposedly thought that the US tacitally supported such a move. Can't be right all the time I guess!
Even if all of the above is true, which I would hop it is not, we are still a saint among nations. I like Brits, Canuks (I live in detroit, we goto windsor or toronto more then anywhere for fun/vacation), even the much reviled french. I was in Nice for a while, then in Montreal, both places, people were extremely nice and hospitable. But what about the great nations such as, oh, ANYTHING in africa? Modt of asia has a less then stellar human-rights record. Mideast? All have bad records, isreal included. Compared to most, we are The Good Guys.
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You misunderstand. I am saying open source is ineffective. Netscape and IE made leaps and bounds, then Netscape wigged out, opened the source, and lost any chance of broswer dominance it has had. With a few exceptions, the closed-source flavor of a given app is more advanced/more stable/more bug-free then a given 'competitor' in the open source world.
Sigh....People so often say that 'having the source' will allow the open source community to take these drivers and do everything AND make coffee with them. New bugs are showing in Bind...Interbase has one or two flaws, the list of MAJOR open source releases which are significantly flawed and stay that way is rather long. How many l337-hax0rz cry and scream for source code VS. How many people actually even look at it, much less do anything with it. Open Sourcing under GPL will not cure any woes. People who know what they are doing need to take that code and do some hacking. A very small slice of people here on slashdot have a clue as to what to do with gobs of released code...
"RISC architecture has outperformed the usual CISC for years now..." Oh really? Expect on the really high end stuff, explain?
And I can say, with great precision, that the cables will be stolen and sold at a pawnshop.
That some of the more rabid linux-ers(?) will soon be using a 'win'-modem....
Also, show a user WHY any other given OS is superior...Better IP stack, the BSD's say...I don't use IP, I use AOL!, the users say...etc. I REALLY likied corel linux for its utter simplicity. If I knew linux better, my parents would now be using it. But for the VAST majority of users, win9x will be 10times more OS then they need (or know how to use)
In the magical land of Open Source fantasy land, Microsoft now makes laundry detergent and your choice of *nix is available preinstalled at bestbuy....Now in the REAL world, things are a bit different, but damnit man, can't they dream!?!?!
1) Halflife, Systemshock1/2, Dues Ex, the list of madern games with plot goes on and on... 2)Halflife, Systemshock1/2, Dues Ex, Swat3, Rogue Spear....Hard pressed to find a modern game where you don't have to reload 3)Counterstrike allows 2 pistols...Rather unrealistic though. Goto a range and fire one pistol. With 2, you miss more then twice as often. Point of personal preference, I admit. 4)*Shrug* I stay as far away from macs aas possible. 5)see above, but I don't know if sound can be more all-immersive then halflife... 6)Doom? Dunno about the timeline... 7)The hardware reqs of quake (I) servers is really high... P133/64mb ram was what I used to host games fulltime... I'll admit, this will be a great game..for Linux. Win9X/2K has absolutly fantastic games, even you diehard linux folks have to admit.
Because they don't implement it, you dumb rube.
Tolken ring actually allows for several packets to circulate...depends on the MAUs you are using.
Amen
Ya, if america gets any richer, in a few years we'll buy up some eurotrash countrys and have em pull rikshaws for us. We have 40 hour work weeks, and only about 2 weeks off a year. And some goddamned foriegn puke has the gall to say americans are lazy?
I come from the world of Windows...MCSE 2k, I'm an exchange admin. To me, and I know it is because of extensive use, the win way of doing things seems fairly logical, I know and understand it. At home, I have messed around with various open source distros. Red Hat always seemed to kaka out on me. Debian ran fine, but seemed WAY arcane to me, as far as location of configuration files and whatnot. FreeBsd hit the spot. Very straight-forward, logical. I still have no idea what the hell I am doing with it, but it seems easier...I know it all depends on experience, but FreeBSD is my foot in the door of *nix's. Linux is just too damned varied it seems...
http://www.gamespot.com/features/macvspc Equal speed processors, yet the PC was almost twice as fast benchmarking quake....And I bet some mac freak will shreik and cry that the test was rigged..blah blah blah...Can anyone give me ONE, just one, good reason why a mac is to be preferred over a pc?
I didn't mean to insult all artists...My buddy is a graphic designer, he swears by macs. "Macs are for idiots and SOME artists"
FOUR HUNDRED MILLION??? WHo the hell eats that much spam!??! Although I must admit, fried spam and eggs, maybe with a touch of last nights ramen, is the breakfast of kings!! I'm always a little embarrassed at the check out lane when I have 4 or 5 cans of spam....
If that sounds complicated to you, then stay far away from all electronics. You are against gui's? I suppose you use Lynx as your only browser? I guess when you do any graphic work, you just do it from the command line? ASCII art does rock I'll admit. And if you do any sort of system management work, you just look at a bunch of scrolling text all day, instead of a simple map with some green/red lights? The CLI has its place, but as a window in gui, not as a primary interface.
Meech Lake...Does that belong to france or something goofy like that...I heard somewhere that france still has territory in canada (quebec I would think). Is this true?
AMEN. Every kid with redhat on their shiny new dell's crys 'Open the source! GPL or death', but the vast majority do NOTHING with it once they get it. Not that I look at source, but you'll never catch me crying for source anyways.
You say the 17th century chinese army was powerfull? The only major battle fought by them was in Korea against the japanese Warlord Hideyoshi. The chinese lost. Lets see, in 1839 they took on the British, and lost. Then in 1856 they took on the French and Americans, and, yes, they lost again. Then in 1894 they lost all of Korea to the Japanese. I don't see any victories in there, do you? As for knowing how they are trained and equipped, anybody can subscribe to Janes Defence Weekly (I do). Anybody can visit www.strategypage.com. I do. Anybody can read. I do, and unless your country has banned books or something, get a good military history book (Keegan and Dunnigan are excellent), and read. P.S. In America, we don't watch eurotrash tv, we have our own entertainment industry. (The lucky of us here get BBC America, but that is another story).
Only because the chinese army is tradionaly of VERY poor quality. They built the great wall to keep out mongols and others because the leaders of the day knew that the army, while the largest in world (even then) was patheticaly trained and equiped. Still they are horribly trained, and, contrary to media propaganda, horribly equipped and orginized. And I don't remeber the Great Antarctic war, could you refresh my memory?
1) Was not democratically elected, was a left-wing junta. Just because commies say "the peoples this and that" a lot does NOT make them democratic. 2)We did not sponsor them, we only trained certain units in counter-inssurgency tactics. Their own lack of morals did the rest. 3)The UN is about as useful as the League of Nations was. Lots of talk, only the big-boys have a real say. Why invest money in a bad idea? 4)War makes for strange bedfellows. At the time, it was a perfectly sound decision to fund Irans opponent. Actually, it was probably a misunderstanding that Iraq invaded Kuwait at all. Saddam supposedly thought that the US tacitally supported such a move. Can't be right all the time I guess! Even if all of the above is true, which I would hop it is not, we are still a saint among nations. I like Brits, Canuks (I live in detroit, we goto windsor or toronto more then anywhere for fun/vacation), even the much reviled french. I was in Nice for a while, then in Montreal, both places, people were extremely nice and hospitable. But what about the great nations such as, oh, ANYTHING in africa? Modt of asia has a less then stellar human-rights record. Mideast? All have bad records, isreal included. Compared to most, we are The Good Guys.