The reason they made a linux dedicated server but no linux client is twofold:
1: The dedicated server is simpler and easier to port because most of the source remains unchanged and you don't have to fuss with OS-specific API's and graphics libraries beyond the very rudimentary GUI
2: Linux is sucessful in the realm of servers, but is not yet a mainstream primary desktop operating system. Sure, maybe there are 10% as many linux desktop installs as windows, but the vast majority of those linux users also have a windows partition or another computer running windows, therefore it's not worth porting the client to take advantage of an extra 1% of market space.
Sure, Elite sort of got the ball rolling, but Escape Velocity perfected the formula. It's kind of like the relation between the original Warcraft and Starcraft, or between Wolfenstein 3D and Counter-Strike.
...If they weren't so often given to people for doing the equivalent of being the first cave man to crack open a coconut with a sharp rock. Any company that tries to patent something like "1-click buying" should be sent a present from the unibomber.
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They run linux, they have wireless communications...
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Everybody knows SCO will lose all those cases if they actually go to court, but SCO is just trying to scare some companies into avoiding legal fees by paying up. The only way to avoid that kind of legal blackmail is to make the initiator of the lawsuit pay all the defendant's legal expenses if the lawsuit is found to be frivolous.
You forget that 80% of computer users (and 99% of elderly computer users) don't even know how to change the text size in their browser. Hell, a lot of them don't even know how to set their homepage.
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hmm... good busines model
1.) hack the online voting system
2.) ??? Something obvious
3.) Profit!
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The reason they made a linux dedicated server but no linux client is twofold:
1: The dedicated server is simpler and easier to port because most of the source remains unchanged and you don't have to fuss with OS-specific API's and graphics libraries beyond the very rudimentary GUI
2: Linux is sucessful in the realm of servers, but is not yet a mainstream primary desktop operating system. Sure, maybe there are 10% as many linux desktop installs as windows, but the vast majority of those linux users also have a windows partition or another computer running windows, therefore it's not worth porting the client to take advantage of an extra 1% of market space.
I am certainly looking forward to having Natalie Portman lick hot grits off of my penis.
Sure, Elite sort of got the ball rolling, but Escape Velocity perfected the formula. It's kind of like the relation between the original Warcraft and Starcraft, or between Wolfenstein 3D and Counter-Strike.
6.75in length x 1.6in diameter is above average, especially among slashdot trolls.
*BSD is perfectly alive and well. Why else would the developers of GNOME bother to make a new version for it? You trolls can suck my big fat cock.
Escape Velocity takes the cake for the best open-ended gameplay ever and the seamless integration of strategy, action/adventure, and RPG elements.
I'm sick of CPU thermal diodes that are only accurate to +/- 10 degrees C
The well trained FPS player can practically see the individual frames in a standard 24fps movie. It's just too slow.
...If they weren't so often given to people for doing the equivalent of being the first cave man to crack open a coconut with a sharp rock. Any company that tries to patent something like "1-click buying" should be sent a present from the unibomber.
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They run linux, they have wireless communications... It's only a matter of time before someone makes a beowulf cluster of them!! Imagine a closetfull of these in a beowulf cluster!!!
how can it be redundant if I was the first one to mention it in the comments of this article?
Everybody knows SCO will lose all those cases if they actually go to court, but SCO is just trying to scare some companies into avoiding legal fees by paying up. The only way to avoid that kind of legal blackmail is to make the initiator of the lawsuit pay all the defendant's legal expenses if the lawsuit is found to be frivolous.
You forget that 80% of computer users (and 99% of elderly computer users) don't even know how to change the text size in their browser. Hell, a lot of them don't even know how to set their homepage.
Cardinal rule of commercial website design:
Don't assume the users know jack shit, because the majority of them won't.
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There is no way in hell online anonymous voting can EVER be done securely.
that's what decent googling skills are for. It took me under a minute to find the top 3 XviD binaries.
open sores?? As in GNU/Syphilis?
hmm... good busines model 1.) hack the online voting system 2.) ??? Something obvious 3.) Profit! no, seriously, since any software will be hacked sooner or later, the only way to maintain online voting security is to link each vote to a name and SSN, then make sure no one voted twice and nobody who's dead or doesn't exist voted, then send snail mail confirmation letters (with a hotline to call or something) to every voter to make sure they didn't just stay home on voting day and get voted by some hacker
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