Did they let the undersexed designers of these devices meet the models? I would figure out how to cram a beowulf cluster into a bikini if it meant I could hang with Vendela.
You can order Q3A for Linux (in the metal box, of course!) from Handeye.com for US$47.99. We're quite a bit more supportive of the Open Source movement than, say, Electronics Boutique. Jab jab.
Ooh, right, we wrote a review, too. Read all about Q3A here.
I'd have to agree with this idea. Mine is 37, baby.
Seriously, though: Sure, VA is working with a well-tested and certainly proven model, and this move will turn profitable for them, but VA isn't pushing anything new. Red Hat had name recognition even before their ridiculous IPO, and once they filed, they benefited from the fact that there weren't any other publicly-traded free-software companies. VA can't count on the same kind of reception, since Dell and others are already dealing in Linux-compatible hardware
My own curiosity, which I'm sure will be my downfall someday, directs me to ask how on earth one actually fixes such an expensive piece of cable. I always fix ethernet wires by just re-stripping and connecting the RX and TX pairs anew; what's it like for fat pipes? Duct tape?
It's probable that someone reading this has fixed a broken line before. Raise up... you know who you are.
Or something like that. Here are some appealing ideas.
For each domain "squatted" upon by a "squatter," said "squatter" shall be forced to "squat" on a lit candle for no less than thirty full seconds.
An algorithm shall be developed which endlessly dials the phone numbers of known squatters and suggests that he or she should purchase [x].com, where [x] is an arbitrarily long randomly-generated integer, until which time as the squatter files for bankruptcy or Z-space is exhausted.
Companies shall not register separate domain names for their stupid products ( Oldsmobile, you know who you are !!!), on pain of guerilla registration of [company name]sucks.com.
That's why we have those two-letter ISO country codes. I wish people outside the US would honor them more often!
Sure, it makes sense that a titanic global organization like Demon Internet in the UK should own corresponding three-letter domains, but when I research new domain names and see coffee shops in the Netherlands (for example) using the one(s) I want to use, it frosts me. I'm in the 01, and it doesn't make sense for me to register my domains in.nl, so why should it be kosher for the converse to happen?
We ( handeye.com) are one of the sites that sells this game. Our sales have thus far been pretty healthy, considering that everything up 'til now has been a pre-order. We have around 1000 copies of Civ:CTP, about 20% of which were pre-ordered. As of today, when we actually receive the boxes from Loki (and ship out the games), we expect our sales to perk up a little.
News like this (the porting of these two games) makes me very happy, as a long-time Linux enthusiast and occasional gamer. It's great to see that there's a market for Linux games and a growing market for commercial Linux software in general. (What else is new, though, right?)
<kiss target="ass"> I'd like to thank quite a few of you (you know who you are) for making us a well-trafficked web site. We've gotten about 400,000 hits since our public launch in late April/early May, and people have been sending positive feedback. We especially get warm feelings when people tell us we're giving back to the Linux community. Anyway, I'll keep churning out the Perl as long as you folks are interested in buying games. </kiss>
-Ben (who hopes his lt's and gt's don't get mangled when he submits this)
I've just discussed it with my cohorts, and we at handeye.com plan to sell these games on our web site, just like we're selling Civ:CTP now.
By the way, if you're one of our Civ:CTP customers, sit tight, because your game is on the way. I finished Perl-ifying our shipping process a few hours ago, and conveniently the boxes should be arriving today (5/18) from Loki. We'll slap labels on 'em and shoot 'em out the door as soon as we can see cardboard.
Excuse me if this announcement is a little premature, but we're like really excited, primarily because we're such Linux nerds. So bear with us. (And go to our web site.)
Well, the second idea wouldn't work. Once you've registered a domain, you control all the hostnames in that domain. So if somebody owns the BUSHSUCKS.COM domain, they can make www.bushsucks.com, bushsucks.com, ftp.bushsucks.com, everyone-knows.bushsucks.com, whatever they want, ad infinitum.
Oh well. Please don't encourage cracking, by the way. Cracking is bad. And it's not constructive, either. And anyone who cracks for political reasons can get in really deep doo-doo. So don't do it.
Slashdot Mirror
a friend suggested i post this
Come on, folks, "Slashdot" the handeye.com box. We dare you. :-)
Hopefully everybody will pre-order these games from us. Meanwhile, we still have metal-boxed Quake III Arena; those are really nice.
- snack
Did they let the undersexed designers of these devices meet the models? I would figure out how to cram a beowulf cluster into a bikini if it meant I could hang with Vendela.
You can order Q3A for Linux (in the metal box, of course!) from Handeye.com for US$47.99. We're quite a bit more supportive of the Open Source movement than, say, Electronics Boutique. Jab jab.
Ooh, right, we wrote a review, too. Read all about Q3A here.
I'd have to agree with this idea. Mine is 37, baby.
Seriously, though:
Sure, VA is working with a well-tested and certainly proven model, and this move will turn profitable for them, but VA isn't pushing anything new. Red Hat had name recognition even before their ridiculous IPO, and once they filed, they benefited from the fact that there weren't any other publicly-traded free-software companies. VA can't count on the same kind of reception, since Dell and others are already dealing in Linux-compatible hardware
Be wary, in any case. Don't get too excited.
-Ben
My own curiosity, which I'm sure will be my downfall someday, directs me to ask how on earth one actually fixes such an expensive piece of cable. I always fix ethernet wires by just re-stripping and connecting the RX and TX pairs anew; what's it like for fat pipes? Duct tape?
It's probable that someone reading this has fixed a broken line before. Raise up... you know who you are.
That's why we have those two-letter ISO country codes. I wish people outside the US would honor them more often!
.nl, so why should it be kosher for the converse to happen?
Sure, it makes sense that a titanic global organization like Demon Internet in the UK should own corresponding three-letter domains, but when I research new domain names and see coffee shops in the Netherlands (for example) using the one(s) I want to use, it frosts me. I'm in the 01, and it doesn't make sense for me to register my domains in
Now it says "In Stock"... I forgot to enter that into our database.
Sorry for any confusion.
-Ben
Ah, nuts... they got mangled.
Que sera sera...
/me crunches some numbers...
We ( handeye.com) are one of the sites that sells this game. Our sales have thus far been pretty healthy, considering that everything up 'til now has been a pre-order. We have around 1000 copies of Civ:CTP, about 20% of which were pre-ordered. As of today, when we actually receive the boxes from Loki (and ship out the games), we expect our sales to perk up a little.
News like this (the porting of these two games) makes me very happy, as a long-time Linux enthusiast and occasional gamer. It's great to see that there's a market for Linux games and a growing market for commercial Linux software in general. (What else is new, though, right?)
<kiss target="ass">
-Ben (who hopes his lt's and gt's don't get mangled when he submits this)I'd like to thank quite a few of you (you know who you are) for making us a well-trafficked web site. We've gotten about 400,000 hits since our public launch in late April/early May, and people have been sending positive feedback. We especially get warm feelings when people tell us we're giving back to the Linux community. Anyway, I'll keep churning out the Perl as long as you folks are interested in buying games.
</kiss>
I've just discussed it with my cohorts, and we at handeye.com plan to sell these games on our web site, just like we're selling Civ:CTP now.
By the way, if you're one of our Civ:CTP customers, sit tight, because your game is on the way. I finished Perl-ifying our shipping process a few hours ago, and conveniently the boxes should be arriving today (5/18) from Loki. We'll slap labels on 'em and shoot 'em out the door as soon as we can see cardboard.
Excuse me if this announcement is a little premature, but we're like really excited, primarily because we're such Linux nerds. So bear with us. (And go to our web site.)
-BenWell, the second idea wouldn't work. Once you've registered a domain, you control all the hostnames in that domain. So if somebody owns the BUSHSUCKS.COM domain, they can make www.bushsucks.com, bushsucks.com, ftp.bushsucks.com, everyone-knows.bushsucks.com, whatever they want, ad infinitum.
Oh well. Please don't encourage cracking, by the way. Cracking is bad. And it's not constructive, either. And anyone who cracks for political reasons can get in really deep doo-doo. So don't do it.
Handeye.com sells it too, and it's cheaper than at GameCellar. So if you haven't picked up a copy, well, you know what to do.
-Ben, handeye.com programming geek
Reload this kid's screenshots page a lot.
:-)
What's a morperson? ;-)
I wonder what they consider a "hack attempt" such that there are 20 or 30 per day? Just curious...