Well I can answer the question from my point of view: I have never *ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhver* seen a linux game in EB, Game, HMV, Virgin, wherever. Maybe that's why the aren't selling. Buying from online stores isn't as cool, and anyway, isn't the point to linux more shelf space (which with PSX2 coming up can't be much).
I guess you'd better tell the deluded motherfucking idiots at Dell, IBM, Compaq, Oracle, HP, and SAP that they need to get the shipping orders of antipsychotics in, pronto
You are damn right they do. Big names don't mean shit other than a bunch of sort of ricvh companies trying to become really rich companies by jumping on something that they don't think will cost them much money.
I guess you're one of those fuckers who found out the new AmigaOS in the past year or so and think its fucking brilliant, eh?
No I am not. And I have 1460.dlls on my Win98 system, and I hate it, but I just tend to be able to get more done in Windows. I would like if there was a solid development plan for linux, rather than the haphard way of developing. Either Linus Torvalds or someone needs to say "OK, we need fully ass-kicking USB support by such and such a date" but because no-one is paid to develop it, it's slower to get done. It's a shame, and I know that buying RedHat in a boxed set isn't going to solve it. The Linux standards groups don't seem to have any real impetus.
And as far as my use is concerned, while linux doesn't crash much (at all?), neither does Win2k. The problem lies in the fact that the apps (the big ones, not small CLI binaries like ping or whatever) for GNU/linux tend to not be as stable as the ones for Windows. I would love to buy Photshop for Linux, because Gimp, while excellent considering it's roots, has problems because the developers aren't getting paid to do it, are they? No incentive other than righteousness.
I don't really trust any of these things. Partly because there are a number of charities that request money, etc., but after a lot of "administrative" costs, the end-receiver does not get the main chunk of cash. Maybe this is different, but I don't know. In my experience, small amounts of cash + Visa = skimming.
Also, the fact that my Visa card bank has a minimum charge of £5 means that I will pay more to the bank than to the actual company or artists!
Thank you! I was wondering this myself. Okay, so maybe I should have said it politely, but IMHO I prefer Intuition to GTK, which I do think is bloated and crap. There you go. Opinions are like assholes. There are many like this one, but this opinion is *mine*!
Hey, this can't be right. I'm about to check, but last time I looked at my interstellar database there was no gas giant - it was a bunch of normal rocky planets and two space stations. But I could be wrong.
Well, I got Windows 95. Then the upgrade to to Windows 98 - but in reality it was the core Win32 APIs with bells on that I didn't wanty and needed me to get a bigger HD. Then the Win98SE came out, again with the same core OS (and this is like the 6th time I've bought DOS as well if you count that too), and with Windows ME, I'll be buying the same core OS, only this time without DOS, but they are still going to charge as much as they did for Windows 98SE which included DOS.
There is definitley a point I am trying to make here though.......
Now I know why she was complaining earlier when she tried to connect and it wouldn't. First I am going to sue you for the theft of the internet. Then I am going to sue AOL for trying to sell a product they no longer owned.
But "Deus Ex" is so damn good it makes up for the loss of stupid hairy puzzle-em-ups. I think what's more important is: Where are all teh graphic adventures gone? Where are the *real* sequels to Monkey Island 2 and Indiana Jones & The Fate Of Atlantis? And why am I living in 1991?
Isn't that sort of like bribing though? I would hope for more "above-board" means of business in modern times. It's like Vito Corleone not wanting to get involved in the drug trade because the people he pays off will only keep their mouths shut for the less obviously criminal and huge profit making activities like gambling.
"What a man does to make a living is no concern of mine" - Vito Corleone.
AFAIK a few months ago Peter Molyneaux announced that the last ever final PC/Computer game Black and White will be open-sourced.
I suppose it's a sort of legacy to Molyneux's/Bullfrog's history as they jump to consoles forever. I wonder how much it will cost to develop for an X-Box.........
The weird thing about human brains is like this - when you look at say, a desk, or something, you can estimate how long it is. You probably don't have a chance in hell of getting it right, but you might be close.
Now, 10% of autistic people have "Rainman" abilities - massive mathematical powers, etc., and apparentrly the current theory is that theses autistics are merely missing the final "step" in calculating things like humans do - the can't get that final estimate which allows us to get by in society easily.
Are really cool machines that are trying to mimic humans ever going to get to stage where they can estimate things, or will they be like Data from Star Trek TNG. Hmmmm....
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I think this is an awesome idea. I never understood why even MS didn't decide to do something like this whe installing Windows (as a few years ago it was all you could get and was commonly mistaken that Windows/DOS = PC anyway).
It'll be like an Amiga "Kickstart" - putting the core OS in hardware. Dammit, I like this kernel in the BIOS a lot. If only that it means my Amiga SDK will boot lighteningly fast.
I say it's about time - now if only supported my mobo........
Is that from that Shockwave from Ernie's House of Whoop Ass? That napsterbad shockwave app was awesome.....
And my own personal opinion is that Courtney Love was cool for saying all that. Whether it's true or not, Kurt would have done the same thing (well, that or blowing his brains out, go figure........)
I don't really think there is a future in the traditional arcades, with mad 3D games, etc., . Instead, pinball is sort of like gambling and casino's except without the money - you do it for a high score instead of (nowadays) getting the cool video sequence.
It's a bit eerie reading that (c) 1991 Linus Torvalds, almost a decade ago.
Think about, Win32 didn't exist, and IBM didn't know MS were going to screw them over with OS/2. Amiga were fighting with Atari.
The Gulf War was on...threats of bombing and the stealth plane made it's debut.
Slashdot didn't exist. Heck, Tim Lee was thinking maybe Hypertext mught be a cool way to store his university notes, thus was born the web.
Usenet didn't contain thousands of porn pictures, BBS systems were alive and well.
Sort of wierd, that unknown to all the mainstream and even tech groups Linus + some people were working on the only OS that would ever threaten Microsoft.....that Microsoft would even *need* threatening.
And still 10 years later, MacOS still is cludgy and can't multitask....I suppose some things just don't change.
I have not read such a load of psychophantic drivel in weeks, and I write a fair load of Amiga-is-best drivel, so that's saying something.
The IRQ comment? I mean, clearly the author doesn't even know what an interrupt request *is* if he thinks that all problems will magically go away with MacOS X - if anything it's merely USB that will help reduce indicence of problems.
Secondly, the comment about how Darwin will keep open-source fans happy. Yeah, I'm sure it will. For the happy ZDNet-reading Microsoft-loving company kissing pop-computer users who think they know how to hack by using rootshell's scripts.
Give me a break. A non-X GUI in this day and age is such an 80's paradigm. Even the Amiga SDK is taking advantage of the massive leaps Linux has made with regard to graphics (DRI and X 4.0, for example). I for one don't like bloaty environments like Gnome or KDE (preferring Blackbox), but why the heck would I get MacOS X for my x86 box if I am forever *stuck* with one?
I am firm believer in two things about the future of computing: 1. Linux is essential 2. Amiga will be in it
Linux has changed development of OS's worldwide. It has singlehandedly attacked Microsoft's dominance in such a short space of time the likes of which MacOS could not achieve in the extra 10 years or so it had.
Nothing suits everyone - hence why I like being able to pick and choose Blackbox as my Wm, I will like to able to develop for AmigaNG on linux/X, but I sure as hell do not believe that closed source *traditional* OS development has a hope in hell of ever gaining to even comparitive levels of Microsoft ever again, and that's the bottom line, 'cos Stone Cold says so.
Virus is a latin word, I did latin for six years, and 2nd declention nouns first person plural is virii. End of story. After that, you get into modern slang, which is where sentences like "i had gotten a few virues from that stupid pirate warez CD" come from, where both the word gotten is a common incorrect Americanism, and viruses is just plain stupid.
Linux has come a long way in it's own right, but getting 3D acceleration like in X 4.0 is simply playing catchup with WIndows, for example.
Linux is essentially reinventing the wheel - and one that is 30 years old. If it's wasn't free (and I mean in the money sense), I wouldn't be using it. I am merely biding my time until I can get an Amiga again - something that *is* truly innovative.
Just to let interested people know that this is teh company who are partnered with Amiga for the NG OS.
Also, given the actual nature of the article, I am going to quote from the Amiga site from last Friday before the Elate/Amiga SDK was announced -
It was with this heavy attitude that I attended an impromptu meeting with a group of visiting Japanese consumer electronics companies.
I had never met them before, but they had heard what we were doing, and they remembered the Amiga fondly.
After our presentation, one of the gentlemen sat back, and informed me that what he had just heard, and saw was the most exciting opportunity that he had seen in years, and that we were absolutely the correct company for them to work with.
What they had not told us until after that, was that these three gentlemen were actually representing a group of over 50 consumer electronics companies, and they were looking for a long term partner!
Let's just say that they liked what they saw, and heard. There are many things that appear to be going on behind closed doors.....
I am comparing it to say bootign Workbench off a floppy, which loads a full GUI as well. I am talking user-friendly GUI OS off one disk. SHow me that on GNU/linux.
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Well I can answer the question from my point of view: I have never *ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhver* seen a linux game in EB, Game, HMV, Virgin, wherever. Maybe that's why the aren't selling. Buying from online stores isn't as cool, and anyway, isn't the point to linux more shelf space (which with PSX2 coming up can't be much).
You are damn right they do. Big names don't mean shit other than a bunch of sort of ricvh companies trying to become really rich companies by jumping on something that they don't think will cost them much money.
I guess you're one of those fuckers who found out the new AmigaOS in the past year or so and think its fucking brilliant, eh? No I am not. And I have 1460 .dlls on my Win98 system, and I hate it, but I just tend to be able to get more done in Windows. I would like if there was a solid development plan for linux, rather than the haphard way of developing. Either Linus Torvalds or someone needs to say "OK, we need fully ass-kicking USB support by such and such a date" but because no-one is paid to develop it, it's slower to get done. It's a shame, and I know that buying RedHat in a boxed set isn't going to solve it. The Linux standards groups don't seem to have any real impetus.
And as far as my use is concerned, while linux doesn't crash much (at all?), neither does Win2k. The problem lies in the fact that the apps (the big ones, not small CLI binaries like ping or whatever) for GNU/linux tend to not be as stable as the ones for Windows. I would love to buy Photshop for Linux, because Gimp, while excellent considering it's roots, has problems because the developers aren't getting paid to do it, are they? No incentive other than righteousness.
As far as Win2k and older NT goes, they all had pre-emptive multitasking from the start. Then again, so had AmigaOS in 1985.
I don't really trust any of these things. Partly because there are a number of charities that request money, etc., but after a lot of "administrative" costs, the end-receiver does not get the main chunk of cash. Maybe this is different, but I don't know. In my experience, small amounts of cash + Visa = skimming.
Also, the fact that my Visa card bank has a minimum charge of £5 means that I will pay more to the bank than to the actual company or artists!
Thank you! I was wondering this myself. Okay, so maybe I should have said it politely, but IMHO I prefer Intuition to GTK, which I do think is bloated and crap. There you go. Opinions are like assholes. There are many like this one, but this opinion is *mine*!
Hey, this can't be right. I'm about to check, but last time I looked at my interstellar database there was no gas giant - it was a bunch of normal rocky planets and two space stations. But I could be wrong.
There is definitley a point I am trying to make here though.......
Now I know why she was complaining earlier when she tried to connect and it wouldn't. First I am going to sue you for the theft of the internet. Then I am going to sue AOL for trying to sell a product they no longer owned.
Maybe this would be a cool way to store fingerprints for ATM terminals or something. Has anyone ever considered ASCII?
My sister says she has the internet on her iMac, which has only got a 6 gig HD, so how the hell could it be growing if she's never upgraded?
But "Deus Ex" is so damn good it makes up for the loss of stupid hairy puzzle-em-ups. I think what's more important is: Where are all teh graphic adventures gone? Where are the *real* sequels to Monkey Island 2 and Indiana Jones & The Fate Of Atlantis? And why am I living in 1991?
"What a man does to make a living is no concern of mine" - Vito Corleone.
Yes, this was a *very* bad joke.
I suppose it's a sort of legacy to Molyneux's/Bullfrog's history as they jump to consoles forever. I wonder how much it will cost to develop for an X-Box.........
Now, 10% of autistic people have "Rainman" abilities - massive mathematical powers, etc., and apparentrly the current theory is that theses autistics are merely missing the final "step" in calculating things like humans do - the can't get that final estimate which allows us to get by in society easily.
Are really cool machines that are trying to mimic humans ever going to get to stage where they can estimate things, or will they be like Data from Star Trek TNG. Hmmmm....
It'll be like an Amiga "Kickstart" - putting the core OS in hardware. Dammit, I like this kernel in the BIOS a lot. If only that it means my Amiga SDK will boot lighteningly fast.
I say it's about time - now if only supported my mobo........
And my own personal opinion is that Courtney Love was cool for saying all that. Whether it's true or not, Kurt would have done the same thing (well, that or blowing his brains out, go figure........)
Hmmm.
Think about, Win32 didn't exist, and IBM didn't know MS were going to screw them over with OS/2. Amiga were fighting with Atari.
The Gulf War was on...threats of bombing and the stealth plane made it's debut.
Slashdot didn't exist. Heck, Tim Lee was thinking maybe Hypertext mught be a cool way to store his university notes, thus was born the web.
Usenet didn't contain thousands of porn pictures, BBS systems were alive and well.
Sort of wierd, that unknown to all the mainstream and even tech groups Linus + some people were working on the only OS that would ever threaten Microsoft.....that Microsoft would even *need* threatening.
And still 10 years later, MacOS still is cludgy and can't multitask....I suppose some things just don't change.
The IRQ comment? I mean, clearly the author doesn't even know what an interrupt request *is* if he thinks that all problems will magically go away with MacOS X - if anything it's merely USB that will help reduce indicence of problems.
Secondly, the comment about how Darwin will keep open-source fans happy. Yeah, I'm sure it will. For the happy ZDNet-reading Microsoft-loving company kissing pop-computer users who think they know how to hack by using rootshell's scripts.
Give me a break. A non-X GUI in this day and age is such an 80's paradigm. Even the Amiga SDK is taking advantage of the massive leaps Linux has made with regard to graphics (DRI and X 4.0, for example). I for one don't like bloaty environments like Gnome or KDE (preferring Blackbox), but why the heck would I get MacOS X for my x86 box if I am forever *stuck* with one?
I am firm believer in two things about the future of computing: 1. Linux is essential 2. Amiga will be in it
Linux has changed development of OS's worldwide. It has singlehandedly attacked Microsoft's dominance in such a short space of time the likes of which MacOS could not achieve in the extra 10 years or so it had.
Nothing suits everyone - hence why I like being able to pick and choose Blackbox as my Wm, I will like to able to develop for AmigaNG on linux/X, but I sure as hell do not believe that closed source *traditional* OS development has a hope in hell of ever gaining to even comparitive levels of Microsoft ever again, and that's the bottom line, 'cos Stone Cold says so.
Come on, flame me. I care.
Linux is essentially reinventing the wheel - and one that is 30 years old. If it's wasn't free (and I mean in the money sense), I wouldn't be using it. I am merely biding my time until I can get an Amiga again - something that *is* truly innovative.
Also, given the actual nature of the article, I am going to quote from the Amiga site from last Friday before the Elate/Amiga SDK was announced -
It was with this heavy attitude that I attended an impromptu meeting with a group of visiting Japanese consumer electronics companies.
I had never met them before, but they had heard what we were doing, and they remembered the Amiga fondly.
After our presentation, one of the gentlemen sat back, and informed me that what he had just heard, and saw was the most exciting opportunity that he had seen in years, and that we were absolutely the correct company for them to work with.
What they had not told us until after that, was that these three gentlemen were actually representing a group of over 50 consumer electronics companies, and they were looking for a long term partner!
Let's just say that they liked what they saw, and heard. There are many things that appear to be going on behind closed doors.....
Yes I know *that*.
I am comparing it to say bootign Workbench off a floppy, which loads a full GUI as well. I am talking user-friendly GUI OS off one disk. SHow me that on GNU/linux.