If Wine Is Not an Emulator, then a game built on a native Wine platform would be.......
Wine is an implementation of Windows APIs. It might not be a native port in the truest sense (not using native APIs DIRECTLY), but the code is running natively on your platform.
If you really want to get technical, most games "natively ported" to Linux rarely make direct use of features unique to Linux. Loki was IMHO the best, but is porting to SDL much different than porting to Wine? How does not porting all the features of the original game (NWN cut scenes, mod tools) count towards a "native port"? Heh, Linux games with "native" Windows ports _probably_ won't touch much of the Win32 API directly either...
Anyway, ports are ports, PCs, consoles, whatever. They're rarely "native" to anything but the first platform they were developed on.
because monopolies don't naturally exist for a long period of time Why do we have anti-monopoly laws again? Oh right, the market doesn't fix everything.
just like Microsoft has/had most of the market share because they are quite simply the best at offering OS users the compatibility and efficiency and reduced learning curve that they desire Reality distortion field detected...
one that is quickly going the way of the do-do Wishful thinking.
only because the people who spend time pretending that Microsoft has a temporary monopoly have forgotten about IBM, Compaq, Ford, and all the previous monopoly fears that were destroyed by competition. In reality, the future of the OS has Microsoft greatly scared of what likely will be a return to a client-server environment, the same environment that Microsoft temporarily destroyed because people wanted power on the desktop, and now they want power in an interactive environment. Who the hell forgot? WTF is your definition of temporary, and why should consumers suffer THAT long? You're confusing the definition of a monopoly with 'people abusing monopolies.' Fuck, that's like saying slavery was a temporary social imbalance, but "the market works" so we should have waited until slavery was 'naturally' socially unacceptable, or nobody needed cotton & tobacco anymore. Lets just overlook the whole damned problem because in time it will iron itself out? Fuck you.
Abusive monopolies deserve to be cut to pieces, PERIOD.
There are no monopolies in the long run, regardless of how slow government is to react OK, listen. Monopolies aren't the problem. It's when a monopoly BECOMES a problem, that WE have a problem.
Give it time, and the entire sphere of influence will return to its roots in shared resources. All we need is the bandwidth. Jesus, some companies might not WANT that to ever happen, ya think? You don't suppose they might use the power they have TODAY to restrict where the market goes in the FUTURE? We'll be waiting until they either give up, or technological progress changes the market place. Just pray to God a monopoly doesn't get big enough to be able to stifle innovation too, or we'll never get there. Oh, ohhh shit, that's what happened. Just bend over while Microsoft figures out what the future of your OS will be and hope a competitor decides to go for market share instead of high margins.
We must build strong armed forces through science and technology. To attain the strategic objective of building computerized armed forces and winning IT-based warfare, we will accelerate composite development of mechanization and computerization, carry out military training under IT-based conditions, modernize every aspect of logistics, intensify our efforts to train a new type of high-caliber military personnel in large numbers and change the mode of generating combat capabilities. I think that's exactly what he means. Or that's what the translation means anyway. He's not talking about scary cyber-warriors, but using IT to modernize their armed forces. This could mean the ability to deploy computer networks in the field, more hi-tech R&D, or stronger intel efforts.
intensify our efforts to train a new type of high-caliber military personnel in large numbers and change the mode of generating combat capabilities Train more engineers in their military?
All I can think of is that someone high up just saw the Land Warrior System on Discovery and got jealous. I don't get why it's news, they've been copying our technology for years and years already, this is a cry to catch up.
Time Machine doesn't work properly with File Vault. It only performs backups when you log out (and how often do laptop owners do that? Once a month?) and you don't get any of the nice revision control stuff: you can do a full restore by booting from the install CD, but that's it. This forces laptop users to make a choice between security and safety for their data. Good call Apple. To be fair, that sounds like a feature. Creating unencrypted backups of your home directory would defeat the purpose of File Vault wouldn't? There must be an option somewhere to back them up anyway if you really trust your backup destination, or organizational policies allow. When you log out, your home directory is unmounted and the encrypted disk image is backed up.. sounds like a good compromise of security/convenience.
It's never safe to assume encrypted files can be copied unprotected.
Dude, you're talking about their own software AND hardware. Has been for a very long time. Nothing in the whole damned world forces someone to buy a Mac. If Apple has a monopoly, then Sun has a monopoly in the Sparc server market, and Ford has a monopoly with the Mustang market.
It's trivially easy to install OS X on PC hardware, and certainly didn't get harder with Leopard. They even HELP you install Windows on your Mac. What does that mean to you?
Microsoft flat out abused it's monopoly. I'm not sure what "acting like a monopoly" means to you, but until Apple stifles innovation and development in several software markets at once for years on end, your Microsoft analogy fails.
I'm not quite sure what a modern word processor _should_ be, but Word isn't it. Nobody ought to be cloning Word's design. The rest of Office is pretty much in the same boat.
Plain old text with basic formatting should go into a plain old text editor, or a "plain old text" mode in a fat editor. I think Apple's TextEdit is about as complex as a basic editor needs to be. Marked up text should have style _enforcement_, not auto styles. Controlling the layout should be MUCH easier. What's the point of embedding a file if you have to hold it's hand to adjust the layout? Why do I have to adjust my embedded object proportions to be the same ratio as the embedded document itself, MANUALLY? I could print both documents and paste them together quicker than I can do it through Word and friends. What the hell is a tab stop on a real piece of paper? Why can't I put text where I f'ing want it? Even some of the OLDEST word processors let you type where ever you put the cursor. Today's "word processors" feel like BASIC and Visual BASIC did when I was young and getting into programming. Lots of convenient features that bite you in the ass, and a product that tries to fulfill both casual use and professional use at the same time, BADLY. Do you want array(x) to go from 0 to x-1 or 1 to x? Here, have any array with x+1 elements, 0 to x just in case. Type enforcement? Sure turn it on manually at the top of every module. The other branching statements too confusing? Here, have a goto.
"Word processing" is beyond the bloated, "do whatever the user wants in a brain-dead simple manner" stage. Best practices are clear now, so make them easier to use, and encourage them. We need a Java or C# of word processors, and not the Swiss Army Knife crap we get now. (please, I know all the Java jokes) Someone needs to really rethink the office application workflow.
Forgive me, I haven't tried the iWork suite yet.. It does seem to break some old molds though, kudos to Apple for that.
Jeff Raskin, teach someone how to design an office suite, PLEASE!!!!!
but since Apple has switched to mostly commodity hardware that doesn't seem to be as much of an issue anymore I think you'd be amazed what they do with commodity hardware. I mean, that's almost like saying BMW's have an engine, windshield, four doors, and four wheels, so what makes it any better than the next car...
Because you have a monitor, you can't buy an iMac? Are you kidding? I had TWO lcd monitors, I use one as a second display on my iMac, and the other for my Linux machine.
MS is crucified on/. for not making DX10 backward compatible to XP, why isn't this brave? That wasn't bravery, they want to force gamers into upgrading. As it turns out, the single thing pinning it to Vista is now optional now, but don't hold your breath for DX10-XP, because Microsoft is so "brave".
Obviously there are issues with MS being able to use FLOSS. So this strikes me as disingenuous. Yes, 'personal' issues.
That's just exaggeration. ETW which does what DTrace does has been around since Win2K. Yes, that's a perfect example.
ETW is designed for C and C++ developers who write user-mode applications. From a Sun article titled "End-to-End Tracing of Ajax/Java Applications Using DTrace"
DTrace is a Solaris (10 and above) tracing infrastructure with scripting capabilities, which enables high observation capabilities into both system and user activities. It allows probing of almost every system (I/O, network, scheduling, memory) operation, as well as tracing user native and Java programming language code. It also has an easy-to-implement and straightforward mechanism, called USDT, to add user probes to a C program.
The pride of Linux is running on ancient and obscure hardware, why is this no good for MS? Sure they take pride in that, but that's not WHY anyone uses it unless you happen to only have ancient and obscure hardware on hand, and are afraid of contracting a BSD. -joke Running on obscure hardware is not the reason MS is afraid of Linux. If that's all it were good for, they wouldn't have cause for concern.
The Pro is really a workstation, not a desktop PC. Xeon, ECC memory, etc.
iMacs have a little screwed in panel covering the ram slots, and are very easy to change.
As for the Mac Mini, yes it looks difficult to do the upgrade yourself, and if you don't want to buy the upgrade from Apple, try the 1GB and decide if that's enough for what you do. Crucial sells a 2GB kit suitable for the Mini here for $59.99. RAM prices change very fast btw, the prices jumped up near what Apple was charging for a few months at least after the Intel iMacs started using this package.
If you really want to dip your toe in, why don't you buy a used iMac? With the new aluminum ones out now, there ought to be a lot of old ones up for sale.
So where exactly do your old watch batteries or PC components go? At least someone is using the old Mac for some time.
This is what people do with cars. Imagine if there was no used car market, and everyone just bought new cars and swapped out parts every couple years. You'd have enough junk parts in a few years to build a whole used car. Who would use the junk parts if they were always upgrading? You know someone isn't going to 'upgrade' to that old Athlon Thunderbird you just threw out. Even if people commonly built 'new' whole PCs out old parts, you still have the same total component count in circulation, just a lot of wasted time building PCs.
With your method, the net effect might be that some components stay in circulation longer than the whole computer otherwise would.. That would be limited almost entirely to stuff that doesn't change every six months, power supplies and cases. Cases are very recyclable. Hey, lots of car parts outlive the cars too, but they go to junk yards with the rest of the car, where people can re-use what they want.
Re-using old machines (whole) works out better for most people, all components age at the same time, but everyone saves a LOT of work.
Truth is, all OS's out there now have this problem, but in different areas. OS X is a great mix of hackability and UI, Linux is king of hackability, Windows... Windows needs a damned soul or to drink blood to survive, I don't know how to fix that. Given Mac OS X and Linux, Windows is irrelevant.
Ironic, I've used OS X for years and years and the numerous issues have pushed me more towards Windows, Linux and the BSDs. Are you sure you're talking about Mac OS X? I don't find it ironic, I find I find it very odd. Not that you might have problems with it, but that you think any of those systems you mentioned would alleviate any of them.
I'm genuinely curious, what would switching your primary desktop to any of them fix for you?
I used Linux as my primary desktop for years and years (started on Caldera), but I must confess that my Mac with OS X leaves all of 'em in the dust. I started with RH 5.something but I'm otherwise in the same boat. I keep Ubuntu in a VM right now, and someday might build another desktop PC with either Fedora or Ubuntu on it (I do miss winex/cedega), but do I expect it to beat the experience I've had with my iMac & OS X? Heeeelll no.
They ARE wasting their lives, they're just being paid to do it. You sound as if every bum on the street, prostitute, meth dealer, or prison inmate isn't wasting their lives because they get paid to do something vaguely resembling work.
Who in their right f'ing mind would pay retirement or medical benefits for a "professional gamer" anyway? The Professional Gamer's Union?
You're better off keeping a real job and going to Las Vegas every year or so than wasting your life as a "cyberathlete" trying to win the big tournament jackpot.
Do you have the game? I was kind of hoping they might have built in a "live video" toggle or something to quickly verify the opponents cards online or something.
I guess you just can't take online games with strangers very seriously then.
What's keeping you from copying with any other card game? The players, copyrights, etc. It's hard to believe WOTC or Sony hadn't thought of copying, and didn't balance the game mechanics appropriately. Very, very, very... hard.
All I see this really affecting are online tournaments. There probably wont be any. Big whoop, hold tournaments in meatspace like any other CG.
I think you're overlooking something. Card games are more fun to play in person, with friends. To me, that's the entire point of a console game that uses a physical medium like cards... to play with other people in the same room. If you don't want to do that, then yup, the whole thing could have been cold and digital.
It wouldn't be all that difficult for Sony to run a two way video feed of the two boards to verify obvious fakes, that is what the camera is used for outside the game. Is that necessary though?
When the hell was Valve representative of the console game development community? They got started with a mod to a popular PC game, and a couple of Windows PC hits.
Other than this newly released Orange Box for the 360, how many cross platform titles have they developed? 0...
On a side note, does a XBox 360 & PC release even count as "cross platform"?
I don't see wheelchair anywhere, but here's their actual summary. They have a long list of complaints for this car in the rest of their review.
Despite the sporty styling, the redesigned Eclipse isn't particularly fun to drive. It's essentially a Galant coupe. The handling lacks agility, but the car is ultimately secure. The 2.4-liter, four-cylinder engine is noisy, and the manual transmission is clunky. The V6 in the GT paired with the automatic is more pleasant. The hatchback body style adds versatility. The driver's seat doesn't provide enough support, and the driving position and visibility fall short. The rear seat is pretty much unusable for adults. Reliability has been above average, but the Eclipse scored too low in our testing for us to recommend it. IIHS crash-test results for the convertible are impressive.
You're right: Ubuntu kicks Apple's ass not just in terms of included functionality, graphics, and price, but also in terms of smooth upgrades. I use Windows, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X all on a fairly regular basis. Mac at home, Linux on work laptop, Solaris on servers at work, and Windows on my workstation and coworkers' that I help troubleshoot. I love Linux and hope it continues to grow and gain industry support, but statements like the above quote are just sickening. The quoted individual needs a reality check. Thankfully, the Ubuntu team isn't as batshit f'ing looney as some of their fans, and comprehends the huge amount of work needed to compete with its commercial rivals.
Even with regular maintenance, I still get unexpected interruptions of service now and then.
Nothing technically 'just works' all the time if you want to bitch and moan about all the corner cases where it can break, but there are things designed to work with very little fuss, for a reasonably long time.
Point is, 'just works' doesn't have anything to do with occasional bugs, but describes how something was designed/is intended to happen, and the reliability to work as intended. That's where Mac OS X, and my car wins the title. For the most part, they work very simply, as intended.
Windows getting taken down by Antivirus software is one thing. If a Vista upgrade failed because an unsupported version of WindowBlinds was installed, no tears would be shed.
Don't be blind to the fact that the escalating number of new Mac users are mostly former Windows admins and users. Fewer Mac users are ignorant to the pros and cons of Windows than vice-versa.
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If Wine Is Not an Emulator, then a game built on a native Wine platform would be.......
Wine is an implementation of Windows APIs. It might not be a native port in the truest sense (not using native APIs DIRECTLY), but the code is running natively on your platform.
If you really want to get technical, most games "natively ported" to Linux rarely make direct use of features unique to Linux. Loki was IMHO the best, but is porting to SDL much different than porting to Wine? How does not porting all the features of the original game (NWN cut scenes, mod tools) count towards a "native port"?
Heh, Linux games with "native" Windows ports _probably_ won't touch much of the Win32 API directly either...
Anyway, ports are ports, PCs, consoles, whatever. They're rarely "native" to anything but the first platform they were developed on.
Fuck, that's like saying slavery was a temporary social imbalance, but "the market works" so we should have waited until slavery was 'naturally' socially unacceptable, or nobody needed cotton & tobacco anymore.
Lets just overlook the whole damned problem because in time it will iron itself out? Fuck you.
Abusive monopolies deserve to be cut to pieces, PERIOD. There are no monopolies in the long run, regardless of how slow government is to react OK, listen. Monopolies aren't the problem. It's when a monopoly BECOMES a problem, that WE have a problem. Give it time, and the entire sphere of influence will return to its roots in shared resources. All we need is the bandwidth. Jesus, some companies might not WANT that to ever happen, ya think? You don't suppose they might use the power they have TODAY to restrict where the market goes in the FUTURE? We'll be waiting until they either give up, or technological progress changes the market place. Just pray to God a monopoly doesn't get big enough to be able to stifle innovation too, or we'll never get there. Oh, ohhh shit, that's what happened. Just bend over while Microsoft figures out what the future of your OS will be and hope a competitor decides to go for market share instead of high margins.
All I can think of is that someone high up just saw the Land Warrior System on Discovery and got jealous. I don't get why it's news, they've been copying our technology for years and years already, this is a cry to catch up.
It's never safe to assume encrypted files can be copied unprotected.
"GNOME Office" or KOffice ought to be quite a bit slimmer than OO or MS Office and fit for at least basic office needs.
Dude, you're talking about their own software AND hardware. Has been for a very long time. Nothing in the whole damned world forces someone to buy a Mac.
If Apple has a monopoly, then Sun has a monopoly in the Sparc server market, and Ford has a monopoly with the Mustang market.
It's trivially easy to install OS X on PC hardware, and certainly didn't get harder with Leopard. They even HELP you install Windows on your Mac. What does that mean to you?
Microsoft flat out abused it's monopoly. I'm not sure what "acting like a monopoly" means to you, but until Apple stifles innovation and development in several software markets at once for years on end, your Microsoft analogy fails.
I'm not quite sure what a modern word processor _should_ be, but Word isn't it. Nobody ought to be cloning Word's design. The rest of Office is pretty much in the same boat.
Plain old text with basic formatting should go into a plain old text editor, or a "plain old text" mode in a fat editor. I think Apple's TextEdit is about as complex as a basic editor needs to be. Marked up text should have style _enforcement_, not auto styles. Controlling the layout should be MUCH easier. What's the point of embedding a file if you have to hold it's hand to adjust the layout? Why do I have to adjust my embedded object proportions to be the same ratio as the embedded document itself, MANUALLY? I could print both documents and paste them together quicker than I can do it through Word and friends. What the hell is a tab stop on a real piece of paper? Why can't I put text where I f'ing want it? Even some of the OLDEST word processors let you type where ever you put the cursor.
Today's "word processors" feel like BASIC and Visual BASIC did when I was young and getting into programming. Lots of convenient features that bite you in the ass, and a product that tries to fulfill both casual use and professional use at the same time, BADLY. Do you want array(x) to go from 0 to x-1 or 1 to x? Here, have any array with x+1 elements, 0 to x just in case. Type enforcement? Sure turn it on manually at the top of every module. The other branching statements too confusing? Here, have a goto.
"Word processing" is beyond the bloated, "do whatever the user wants in a brain-dead simple manner" stage. Best practices are clear now, so make them easier to use, and encourage them. We need a Java or C# of word processors, and not the Swiss Army Knife crap we get now. (please, I know all the Java jokes)
Someone needs to really rethink the office application workflow.
Forgive me, I haven't tried the iWork suite yet.. It does seem to break some old molds though, kudos to Apple for that.
Jeff Raskin, teach someone how to design an office suite, PLEASE!!!!!
Read post titled "Leopard just as easy if not easier to hack" please. When did Apple get all pissy?
Because you have a monitor, you can't buy an iMac? Are you kidding? I had TWO lcd monitors, I use one as a second display on my iMac, and the other for my Linux machine.
Running on obscure hardware is not the reason MS is afraid of Linux. If that's all it were good for, they wouldn't have cause for concern.
The Pro is really a workstation, not a desktop PC. Xeon, ECC memory, etc.
iMacs have a little screwed in panel covering the ram slots, and are very easy to change.
As for the Mac Mini, yes it looks difficult to do the upgrade yourself, and if you don't want to buy the upgrade from Apple, try the 1GB and decide if that's enough for what you do.
Crucial sells a 2GB kit suitable for the Mini here for $59.99. RAM prices change very fast btw, the prices jumped up near what Apple was charging for a few months at least after the Intel iMacs started using this package.
If you really want to dip your toe in, why don't you buy a used iMac? With the new aluminum ones out now, there ought to be a lot of old ones up for sale.
So where exactly do your old watch batteries or PC components go? At least someone is using the old Mac for some time.
This is what people do with cars. Imagine if there was no used car market, and everyone just bought new cars and swapped out parts every couple years. You'd have enough junk parts in a few years to build a whole used car. Who would use the junk parts if they were always upgrading? You know someone isn't going to 'upgrade' to that old Athlon Thunderbird you just threw out. Even if people commonly built 'new' whole PCs out old parts, you still have the same total component count in circulation, just a lot of wasted time building PCs.
With your method, the net effect might be that some components stay in circulation longer than the whole computer otherwise would.. That would be limited almost entirely to stuff that doesn't change every six months, power supplies and cases. Cases are very recyclable. Hey, lots of car parts outlive the cars too, but they go to junk yards with the rest of the car, where people can re-use what they want.
Re-using old machines (whole) works out better for most people, all components age at the same time, but everyone saves a LOT of work.
Short, but excellent point.
Truth is, all OS's out there now have this problem, but in different areas. OS X is a great mix of hackability and UI, Linux is king of hackability, Windows... Windows needs a damned soul or to drink blood to survive, I don't know how to fix that. Given Mac OS X and Linux, Windows is irrelevant.
Not that you might have problems with it, but that you think any of those systems you mentioned would alleviate any of them.
I'm genuinely curious, what would switching your primary desktop to any of them fix for you? I used Linux as my primary desktop for years and years (started on Caldera), but I must confess that my Mac with OS X leaves all of 'em in the dust. I started with RH 5.something but I'm otherwise in the same boat. I keep Ubuntu in a VM right now, and someday might build another desktop PC with either Fedora or Ubuntu on it (I do miss winex/cedega), but do I expect it to beat the experience I've had with my iMac & OS X? Heeeelll no.
They ARE wasting their lives, they're just being paid to do it. You sound as if every bum on the street, prostitute, meth dealer, or prison inmate isn't wasting their lives because they get paid to do something vaguely resembling work.
Who in their right f'ing mind would pay retirement or medical benefits for a "professional gamer" anyway? The Professional Gamer's Union?
You're better off keeping a real job and going to Las Vegas every year or so than wasting your life as a "cyberathlete" trying to win the big tournament jackpot.
Do you have the game? I was kind of hoping they might have built in a "live video" toggle or something to quickly verify the opponents cards online or something.
I guess you just can't take online games with strangers very seriously then.
What's keeping you from copying with any other card game? The players, copyrights, etc.
It's hard to believe WOTC or Sony hadn't thought of copying, and didn't balance the game mechanics appropriately. Very, very, very... hard.
All I see this really affecting are online tournaments. There probably wont be any. Big whoop, hold tournaments in meatspace like any other CG.
I think you're overlooking something. Card games are more fun to play in person, with friends. To me, that's the entire point of a console game that uses a physical medium like cards... to play with other people in the same room. If you don't want to do that, then yup, the whole thing could have been cold and digital.
It wouldn't be all that difficult for Sony to run a two way video feed of the two boards to verify obvious fakes, that is what the camera is used for outside the game. Is that necessary though?
When the hell was Valve representative of the console game development community? They got started with a mod to a popular PC game, and a couple of Windows PC hits.
Other than this newly released Orange Box for the 360, how many cross platform titles have they developed? 0...
On a side note, does a XBox 360 & PC release even count as "cross platform"?
It was a joke, you fucking douchebag...
My car 'just works'
Even with regular maintenance, I still get unexpected interruptions of service now and then.
Nothing technically 'just works' all the time if you want to bitch and moan about all the corner cases where it can break, but there are things designed to work with very little fuss, for a reasonably long time.
Point is, 'just works' doesn't have anything to do with occasional bugs, but describes how something was designed/is intended to happen, and the reliability to work as intended. That's where Mac OS X, and my car wins the title. For the most part, they work very simply, as intended.
Windows getting taken down by Antivirus software is one thing. If a Vista upgrade failed because an unsupported version of WindowBlinds was installed, no tears would be shed.
Don't be blind to the fact that the escalating number of new Mac users are mostly former Windows admins and users. Fewer Mac users are ignorant to the pros and cons of Windows than vice-versa.