Oh... ok... you've heard of a linux version of vmware being pirated. So you are going to base your opinion about people who run linux on something you heard and had never seen. Why did you word your comment like a flame? You are just rude... oh wait I just saw that it was an AC post. Of course. HEY ROB! GET RID OF AC POSTS!
somewhere I heard the Japan pirates like 42% (rough guess) of all the worlds pirated software. Now they can just go to Freshmeat and download anything GPLed.
In all acutality I have never seen a Linux warez site... I guess people have too much respect for the software developers. Lets hope Japan doesn't start a movement.
Where are my damn moderator points when I need them?
I hate to be the one/. poster who always has to question the validity of the article. First he says that its not very stable. Then he runs all these processor intensive benchmarking programs. I'm sorry... anyone can fake a processor speed by touching up the pics with some photoshop work. I dunno I don't trust overclocking stories without some pictures of the cooling setup or at least a picture guy himself. This could just be an add for Vapochill. I didn't even see a temperature that he got the processors chilled to.
this internet boom is exactly what it is... a boom... and like all booms they become diluted and more spread out. Everybody pays a whole lot of attention to a boom, but not its' after effects. The internet will eventually become as widespread as telephone service, and people will stop obsessing over it.
Where would the world be now without the Internet? I'm sure the stock market would be doing so well without those day traders. We would still be under the opression of shopping from local retail stores when we know that "Widgets Inc. of Some town far away" has your widgets for half price. Also where would Linux be without the internet? Widespread open source development would be nearly impossible, and we would all be paying $79.99 for Redhat 6.1 (of course we cold still burn copies).
I just think the internet isn't harming society at all. At the time people in Europe said Gutenburg Printing Press is making people read too much when they could be out farming. What they didn't know is that advanced farming techniques were coming from Africa by way of printed books. The internet will better civilization and we won't even know it in our lifetime.
I have been following these debates also, and none of the ones I have seen actually tell the reader who to go to if your trademark/copyright has been infriged upon by cybersquatters. Could anyone help me out? I have been cyber squatted by these schmucks
does anyone know if this law is retro-active? cause I have a guy who is squatting on the ".com" of my domain and he isn't budging until I write him a check...
how about kasparov vs. every computer in the world? We can do a seti@home type of thing where computers user their idle time to come up w/ checkmate. That would have been more interesting
It still showed other devolopers that it was possible. Square pushes the limits of the consoles they develop for. After FF7 came out gamers started viewing FMV's as a must have. That led to better looking games and a higher overall standard.
Sony and Nintendo can live together. The have since the playstation came out. Sony has all the older population who is more into games like parasite eve, and the Final Fantasy series, while Nintendo has the "cute" factor. The mascots of Nintendo (eg. Pokemon, Mario, Donkey Kong, Zelda) all appeal to a younger audience (although I catch myself pulling $100 out of my wallet to buy a color gameboy and pokemon blue every now and then).
The article made a good point about how some companies might shy away from developing for the playstation 2 becuase of the simple fact that you will need a masters degree in PSX2 development to do anything astounding. Although in all actuality big compaines like Square will always impress us with whatever they can wrench out of the console. Weren't you guys seriously impressed with the FF7 FMV's? That was groundbreaking... The people I talked to about it didn't even know the PSX could handle that type of graphics.
Anyway... all I'm saying is, a console is only worth its games. If the PSX2 is too hard to make visually stunning games, then the Dolphin will get a larger market share. The dreamcast will always have its place becuase there are die hard sega users that won't have anything else.
look... I was just saying that it shouldn't be released as a "working" program. There are still too many bugs. 2.3.* kernels are labeled as development. They are acknowledged as not being useable. If they opensourced UT, then I would see releasing it. Then we could hack at the code and fix these problems...
as soon as I get home I am going to start up some vmware sessions running windows NT, and BFG them into oblivion!!!!
I wonder what the windows monster would look like? Oh yeah... it would be a 50-ton blob called bad code that eats nothing but RAM. He also loses his balance and crashes onto the floor alot. He has to reboot to get back up and that takes a while. He is a very easy target
... Usually Linux UT will safely catch nasty things like segmentation faults... | USUALLY?!?!?! |
... you'll experience something like a hang... | something like a hang?!?!?!? |
... When an unprotected crash like this happens chances are your audio device will be left open and busy... | so if it does crash I have to reboot to kill off the UT audio processes?!?! |
... If you get a nice happy crash... | I've never been happy with anycrash. Thats just funny |
These people have no idea what the standards are for Linux software. These warnings are unacceptable. This is the sort of stuff you would find in a Windows 9x disclaimer (if microsoft were forced to write one). There is no way I would load this on my Linux server. I must have guaranteed stability. That is why I run Linux.
This should come from the stuff-to-play-in-3-years-when-it-doesn't-kill-your -server-dept.
at least they didn't try and release a shoddy product. This goes to show that game developers have standards when it comes to releasing good products. This is very unlike "business solutions" software being ported to different OSes. The only business software that works on both windows and MAC is sad to say is made by microsoft. They rewrite the code from scratch, and it works great.
On the other hand, in the world of design software, Adobe and Macromedia's software is horrible on the windows platform. I hate to say this, but companies should take the microsoft approach and rewrite it from scratch.
Also, someone should tell the makers of halflife that they should opensource the engine, and let the public port it to any OS they please. They still retain the rights to all the other pieces of software in the package. I don't understand why companies just don't opensource the important parts of the software.
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yeah... hehe... then people will think they are getting a discount
$0 x 200 for the workstations = $0
1 x 140 = $140
Microsoft network = $95,792
Linux Network = $140
That is 683 times more expensive. And when you want to bring in new servers it will only make that number increase.
he was talking about the computer
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Oh... ok... you've heard of a linux version of vmware being pirated. So you are going to base your opinion about people who run linux on something you heard and had never seen. Why did you word your comment like a flame? You are just rude... oh wait I just saw that it was an AC post. Of course. HEY ROB! GET RID OF AC POSTS!
oh yeah... why would having a large IT department stop people from pirating software? The only "warez" guys I know are in the IT business.
no... it was specifically japan. It was some consumer computer mag like 2 years ago talking about the evils of computer software piracy.
somewhere I heard the Japan pirates like 42% (rough guess) of all the worlds pirated software. Now they can just go to Freshmeat and download anything GPLed.
In all acutality I have never seen a Linux warez site... I guess people have too much respect for the software developers. Lets hope Japan doesn't start a movement.
Where are my damn moderator points when I need them?
Sun has a 64 bit chip called the UltraSparc. Ever heard of it?
Where are my moderator points when I need them?
I hate to be the one /. poster who always has to question the validity of the article. First he says that its not very stable. Then he runs all these processor intensive benchmarking programs. I'm sorry... anyone can fake a processor speed by touching up the pics with some photoshop work. I dunno I don't trust overclocking stories without some pictures of the cooling setup or at least a picture guy himself. This could just be an add for Vapochill. I didn't even see a temperature that he got the processors chilled to.
that is what the Nazi's did. They advocated killing jews b/c of thier beliefs. So apparently this guy has a little more Nazi in him than he thinks.
this internet boom is exactly what it is... a boom... and like all booms they become diluted and more spread out. Everybody pays a whole lot of attention to a boom, but not its' after effects. The internet will eventually become as widespread as telephone service, and people will stop obsessing over it.
Where would the world be now without the Internet? I'm sure the stock market would be doing so well without those day traders. We would still be under the opression of shopping from local retail stores when we know that "Widgets Inc. of Some town far away" has your widgets for half price. Also where would Linux be without the internet? Widespread open source development would be nearly impossible, and we would all be paying $79.99 for Redhat 6.1 (of course we cold still burn copies).
I just think the internet isn't harming society at all. At the time people in Europe said Gutenburg Printing Press is making people read too much when they could be out farming. What they didn't know is that advanced farming techniques were coming from Africa by way of printed books. The internet will better civilization and we won't even know it in our lifetime.
okay... the we just hack the temperature controls with some compressed air and get a coke for $.11
I have been following these debates also, and none of the ones I have seen actually tell the reader who to go to if your trademark/copyright has been infriged upon by cybersquatters. Could anyone help me out? I have been cyber squatted by these schmucks
does anyone know if this law is retro-active? cause I have a guy who is squatting on the ".com" of my domain and he isn't budging until I write him a check...
he does have the power of executive order, which is a very direct way of getting crap done. Quickly.
how about kasparov vs. every computer in the world? We can do a seti@home type of thing where computers user their idle time to come up w/ checkmate. That would have been more interesting
it says beta nowhere on the page... it says demo
It still showed other devolopers that it was possible. Square pushes the limits of the consoles they develop for. After FF7 came out gamers started viewing FMV's as a must have. That led to better looking games and a higher overall standard.
Sony and Nintendo can live together. The have since the playstation came out. Sony has all the older population who is more into games like parasite eve, and the Final Fantasy series, while Nintendo has the "cute" factor. The mascots of Nintendo (eg. Pokemon, Mario, Donkey Kong, Zelda) all appeal to a younger audience (although I catch myself pulling $100 out of my wallet to buy a color gameboy and pokemon blue every now and then).
The article made a good point about how some companies might shy away from developing for the playstation 2 becuase of the simple fact that you will need a masters degree in PSX2 development to do anything astounding. Although in all actuality big compaines like Square will always impress us with whatever they can wrench out of the console. Weren't you guys seriously impressed with the FF7 FMV's? That was groundbreaking... The people I talked to about it didn't even know the PSX could handle that type of graphics.
Anyway... all I'm saying is, a console is only worth its games. If the PSX2 is too hard to make visually stunning games, then the Dolphin will get a larger market share. The dreamcast will always have its place becuase there are die hard sega users that won't have anything else.
look... I was just saying that it shouldn't be released as a "working" program. There are still too many bugs. 2.3.* kernels are labeled as development. They are acknowledged as not being useable. If they opensourced UT, then I would see releasing it. Then we could hack at the code and fix these problems...
whatever man...
as soon as I get home I am going to start up some vmware sessions running windows NT, and BFG them into oblivion!!!!
I wonder what the windows monster would look like? Oh yeah... it would be a 50-ton blob called bad code that eats nothing but RAM. He also loses his balance and crashes onto the floor alot. He has to reboot to get back up and that takes a while. He is a very easy target
I was talking about running the server... you also have a point. I really should phase games out of my life...
VIII. Bad Stuff That Happens When You Crash
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... Usually Linux UT will safely catch nasty things like segmentation faults
| USUALLY?!?!?! |
... you'll experience something like a hang
| something like a hang?!?!?!? |
... When an unprotected crash like this happens chances are your audio device will be left open and busy
| so if it does crash I have to reboot to
kill off the UT audio processes?!?! |
... If you get a nice happy crash
| I've never been happy with anycrash.
Thats just funny |
These people have no idea what the standards are for Linux software. These warnings are unacceptable. This is the sort of stuff you would find in a Windows 9x disclaimer (if microsoft were forced to write one). There is no way I would load this on my Linux server. I must have guaranteed stability. That is why I run Linux.
This should come from the stuff-to-play-in-3-years-when-it-doesn't-kill-you
at least they didn't try and release a shoddy product. This goes to show that game developers have standards when it comes to releasing good products. This is very unlike "business solutions" software being ported to different OSes. The only business software that works on both windows and MAC is sad to say is made by microsoft. They rewrite the code from scratch, and it works great.
On the other hand, in the world of design software, Adobe and Macromedia's software is horrible on the windows platform. I hate to say this, but companies should take the microsoft approach and rewrite it from scratch.
Also, someone should tell the makers of halflife that they should opensource the engine, and let the public port it to any OS they please. They still retain the rights to all the other pieces of software in the package. I don't understand why companies just don't opensource the important parts of the software.
whoa... this was a joke... why is it moderated down so much?