Seems to me whoever it is that got ahold of the Bard's Tale franchise has ruined it. Those games were great but another shitty top-down Diablo game it didn't need to become. How about some innovative features instead of a stripped down Baluder's Gate?
Best all time franchises: Ultima (III was the first RPG I ever played outside of D&D on pen & paper early 80's) Bard's Tale Wizardry (the game listed in the article by this developer looks interesting) Thief Hitman Neverwinter Nights (not really a series but lots of expansions)
I'd be pissed if I just paid $500k and they released the engine GPL a week later too. Carmack has to keep his clients happy first, the free/gpl scene can wait. The fact that he/id is one of very few that release anything related to old software means we should hold him in very high regard.
They aren't trying to profit they are trying to break even. If Russia had the budget NASA has I would be willing to bet they could create a reusable shuttle. How the hell does Bush think we can get to Mars when we need to borrow Russia's space fleet to get to ISS? What a joke.
Kids spray paint shit. Most stores won't sell spray paint to you if you're under 18 to help mitigate this problem. I had a friend who spray painted his middle school and almost got caught. His parents have always thought he was the golden child, he just never got caught doing anything bad. The funny thing is they always thought I was the "bad influence" when we were kids, the opposite was sometimes true. We were both hell raisers, he just played the "good son" part better.
I learned to program in basic then assembly on my apple//e when I was in elementary/middle school. That was between 9-13 years old. Hell if I can do it anyone can, it just takes patience (that is the hard part when you're a kid).
I wasn't trying to be rude but this was an Apple thread. And Garage Band has been heavily publicized in the Apple universe (which you apparently don't belong to). It's a pretty cool toolset for creating music.
Most companies see the TCO of Windows versus Linux as immaterial. Employee's cost 1000's of times what software does. That is the main thing most of the Linux versus Windows TCO studies I see. I guess it is dependent on the available software engineers in your area that actually *know* the platform you are targeting. My guess is UNIX-based developers run for a bit more than Windows developers. Although I could be wrong and frequently am according to my wife;)
Use ATI driver and setup using XConfigurator then repoint the X.org file to that one and it works fine. I found this in a blog somewhere and worked like a charm.
Yes and no, the internet is a major cause in outdated business models. The same as telephone killed the telegraph. It doesn't make it any less true that it may have been a good model until the internet took it away.
Stripped down? I use XP Home on my laptop and develop software for a living. The only thing you cannot do on Home that you can on Pro is localhosting of web-apps. I see no need since I have development servers to host them on (plus if my laptop gets stolen I don't have to worry about what HIPAA related data might have been on it).
OEM is the same as buying it retail from Best Buy. No support. Additional hardware can be something as cheap as a $1.49 ATA Cable
If you need support you certainly shouldn't be installing an OS yourself. Xandros offers 60 Days for the Deluxe version and 30 Days for the Standard version. This support is INSTALL SUPPORT ONLY. Microsoft offers the same OEM or Retail (you pay).
My comparison was primarily on cost. How the hell can you simply program a few interfaces for things like VPN take 10's of thousands of hours of someone elses work and charge the same as the Evil Empire? It doesn't make sense to me.
I've downloaded Firefox 1.0 for these machines> 2 Co-lo server 1 & 2 2 Personal Computer (Dual boot Linux & Windows) 1 Old games box (pre Direct X 8) 1 Laptop 1 G4 Tower 1 iBook G3 1 Wife's Computer
9 just by me. Maybe reduce it by a factor of 10 to be close to a true estimate of users using Firefox. It bugs on my Mac though since the middle click on my mouse (yes I use a 3 button mouse) doesn't open tabs but it will in Safari? Strange. Safari needs to add a block-popup allowed filter like Mozilla/Firefox too.
The better safe than sorry reason. Paying a premium for a laptop isn't a problem. Paying a premium for an unknown item is not a good choice. I guess that is what I get for working in risk management.
When I worked at Andersen they used Compaq and IBM laptops. I got lucky and got an IBM. The compaqs were breaking so often that they were switching completely to IBM (then they fucked up and got shut down!).
When are people going to realize the best support you can have is hiring someone actually qualified to do the damn job in the first place. Just for fun I like to apply for jobs and get interviews to see how the market is doing in my area. I always get the "How important is it that you make what you currently do?" line. My favorite part is when other employees interview and are so proud of their projects that are minor at best.
When you hire the best that is what you get. When you hire the cheapest that is what you get. Quality isn't free. I guess when all the software development jobs are in India/China we might start to understand there is more to being an excellent employee/partner than just understanding how to program. Or maybe not! Either way I'm on my way out of programming asap.
I've yet to meet a CFO that isn't a penny pinching dumbfuck that would rather save 100K this year but risk 100 Million in the future. You know you have to meet this quarters numbers, fuck what's good for the company.
10 ?"This is a program by a 10 year old!" 20 GOTO 10
There you go. First program on an Apple. You used GOTO's kind of like function calls now in old BASIC programs. Apparently you're a bit too young to have worked on an Apple ][ or the like. The coolest Apple fact is that Woz wrote the whole BASIC compiler out on paper for their system before implementing it on a ROM (in 6502 Assembly). Pretty impressive in my opinion.
It's free if you happen to be running 10.3. Unless you've bought a computer from them in the last year the price is $129 for the OS upgrade (which I purchased specifically for XCode).
I wonder why the x86 (via VirtualPC) can be emulated so well by (the former Connectix) software but PPC instructions cannot be done on the x86 architecture? I run OS 10.3 on my G4 733MHz and it's very fast and my iBook 900 (G3) runs it well too.
Maybe you shouldn't be in the IT industry then. When you have a passion for something you tend to enjoy doing it when ever the opportunity is available. I cannot imagine an artist saying I cannot wait to quit painting or drawing...
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Seems to me whoever it is that got ahold of the Bard's Tale franchise has ruined it. Those games were great but another shitty top-down Diablo game it didn't need to become. How about some innovative features instead of a stripped down Baluder's Gate?
Best all time franchises:
Ultima (III was the first RPG I ever played outside of D&D on pen & paper early 80's)
Bard's Tale
Wizardry (the game listed in the article by this developer looks interesting)
Thief
Hitman
Neverwinter Nights (not really a series but lots of expansions)
I'd be pissed if I just paid $500k and they released the engine GPL a week later too. Carmack has to keep his clients happy first, the free/gpl scene can wait. The fact that he/id is one of very few that release anything related to old software means we should hold him in very high regard.
They aren't trying to profit they are trying to break even. If Russia had the budget NASA has I would be willing to bet they could create a reusable shuttle. How the hell does Bush think we can get to Mars when we need to borrow Russia's space fleet to get to ISS? What a joke.
Kids spray paint shit. Most stores won't sell spray paint to you if you're under 18 to help mitigate this problem. I had a friend who spray painted his middle school and almost got caught. His parents have always thought he was the golden child, he just never got caught doing anything bad. The funny thing is they always thought I was the "bad influence" when we were kids, the opposite was sometimes true. We were both hell raisers, he just played the "good son" part better.
I learned to program in basic then assembly on my apple //e when I was in elementary/middle school. That was between 9-13 years old. Hell if I can do it anyone can, it just takes patience (that is the hard part when you're a kid).
So if he says breathing is unethical I suppose you should stop that too.
Ethics are pointless too much grey area.
I wasn't trying to be rude but this was an Apple thread. And Garage Band has been heavily publicized in the Apple universe (which you apparently don't belong to). It's a pretty cool toolset for creating music.
It's not too hard to track down, if you try.
ps -auxw | more is better in VMWare.
;)
Most companies see the TCO of Windows versus Linux as immaterial. Employee's cost 1000's of times what software does. That is the main thing most of the Linux versus Windows TCO studies I see. I guess it is dependent on the available software engineers in your area that actually *know* the platform you are targeting. My guess is UNIX-based developers run for a bit more than Windows developers. Although I could be wrong and frequently am according to my wife
Here's what I did: /etc/X11 /dev/input/mice
telinit 3
fglrxconfig
cd
mv xorg.conf xorg.conf.bak
ln -sf xf86Config -4 xorg.conf
telinit 5
(for mouse)
mice =
Use ATI driver and setup using XConfigurator then repoint the X.org file to that one and it works fine. I found this in a blog somewhere and worked like a charm.
Just realize because these academic types will always need you, your job is secure into the forseeable future. Everyone should be so lucky.
Yes and no, the internet is a major cause in outdated business models. The same as telephone killed the telegraph. It doesn't make it any less true that it may have been a good model until the internet took it away.
Stripped down? I use XP Home on my laptop and develop software for a living. The only thing you cannot do on Home that you can on Pro is localhosting of web-apps. I see no need since I have development servers to host them on (plus if my laptop gets stolen I don't have to worry about what HIPAA related data might have been on it).
OEM is the same as buying it retail from Best Buy. No support. Additional hardware can be something as cheap as a $1.49 ATA Cable
If you need support you certainly shouldn't be installing an OS yourself. Xandros offers 60 Days for the Deluxe version and 30 Days for the Standard version. This support is INSTALL SUPPORT ONLY. Microsoft offers the same OEM or Retail (you pay).
My comparison was primarily on cost. How the hell can you simply program a few interfaces for things like VPN take 10's of thousands of hours of someone elses work and charge the same as the Evil Empire? It doesn't make sense to me.
BTW Ubuntu is comparable and it's free. Like Fedora... and many more
You can get Windows XP Home for $92.25
I'd be willing to pay around $30 for an OS that 99% of it they didn't develop but $89.95 is a joke.
I've downloaded Firefox 1.0 for these machines>
2 Co-lo server 1 & 2
2 Personal Computer (Dual boot Linux & Windows)
1 Old games box (pre Direct X 8)
1 Laptop
1 G4 Tower
1 iBook G3
1 Wife's Computer
9 just by me. Maybe reduce it by a factor of 10 to be close to a true estimate of users using Firefox. It bugs on my Mac though since the middle click on my mouse (yes I use a 3 button mouse) doesn't open tabs but it will in Safari? Strange. Safari needs to add a block-popup allowed filter like Mozilla/Firefox too.
The better safe than sorry reason. Paying a premium for a laptop isn't a problem. Paying a premium for an unknown item is not a good choice. I guess that is what I get for working in risk management.
When I worked at Andersen they used Compaq and IBM laptops. I got lucky and got an IBM. The compaqs were breaking so often that they were switching completely to IBM (then they fucked up and got shut down!).
When are people going to realize the best support you can have is hiring someone actually qualified to do the damn job in the first place. Just for fun I like to apply for jobs and get interviews to see how the market is doing in my area. I always get the "How important is it that you make what you currently do?" line. My favorite part is when other employees interview and are so proud of their projects that are minor at best.
When you hire the best that is what you get. When you hire the cheapest that is what you get. Quality isn't free. I guess when all the software development jobs are in India/China we might start to understand there is more to being an excellent employee/partner than just understanding how to program. Or maybe not! Either way I'm on my way out of programming asap.
I was going to buy a Thinkpad T42 but now I'll get an Apple Powerbook on it's next rev (January in all likelihood).
BTW Apple is #1 in Laptop customer satisfaction. I love Thinkpads (I have 2 right now) but I won't buy a Levono Thinkpad.
So long IBM, it was nice knowing you. Who would have thought Apple would out live IBM in the PC market? Didn't see that coming.
I've yet to meet a CFO that isn't a penny pinching dumbfuck that would rather save 100K this year but risk 100 Million in the future. You know you have to meet this quarters numbers, fuck what's good for the company.
Mind you I used to work at Arthur Andersen.
10 ?"This is a program by a 10 year old!"
20 GOTO 10
There you go. First program on an Apple. You used GOTO's kind of like function calls now in old BASIC programs. Apparently you're a bit too young to have worked on an Apple ][ or the like. The coolest Apple fact is that Woz wrote the whole BASIC compiler out on paper for their system before implementing it on a ROM (in 6502 Assembly). Pretty impressive in my opinion.
on x86? That is what I want.
Here's another review from GameSpot
Expensive in my opinion.
It's free if you happen to be running 10.3. Unless you've bought a computer from them in the last year the price is $129 for the OS upgrade (which I purchased specifically for XCode).
I wonder why the x86 (via VirtualPC) can be emulated so well by (the former Connectix) software but PPC instructions cannot be done on the x86 architecture? I run OS 10.3 on my G4 733MHz and it's very fast and my iBook 900 (G3) runs it well too.
He left off speaking Indian to train your future counterpart (sans the attitude). Other than that your post was dead on.
Maybe you shouldn't be in the IT industry then. When you have a passion for something you tend to enjoy doing it when ever the opportunity is available. I cannot imagine an artist saying I cannot wait to quit painting or drawing...
Just my 2 cents.