...that this article was really just a big advertisement for GarageGames and Torque?
It didn't really seem to have anything to say other than that GarageGames exists, that Torque is cross-platform, and it would be nice if more games were made that ran on Linux-based systems.
He wasn't screwed out of money. He created something while working for the state, so the state owned it, since that's how Communism worked. He wasn't upset and surprised by it. That's just how things were where he came from, and he was fine with that.
Gish isn't an amazing side scroller because it stars a ball of tar. What's done well is that it is based on physics and uses it in a way to make the game incredibly fun. Have you even played it?
good for their customers, and judging from the horrible customer service I got from them when I emailed them months ago, I can see that this is in keeping with their apparent business plan.
And I wasn't arguing against it. I was simply taking a single sentence out of context and commenting on what people can actually do that would help more than simply shutting up. It may have helped if I just put "Slightly OT" in the subject line.
I do agree. If a product isn't going to meet with requirements, no amount of whining will make it better. Even RMS had to use closed source Unix while making the Gnu system. If doubt that anyone would have just created stubs compilers and stub text editors and then said, Well we should use these nowhere-near-finished "programs" instead of the closed versions available because it is the right thing to do.
Similarly, free/open solutions exists, but if they don't do what the user wants, they won't get used. This is why I think Gnucash isn't being picked up by most people. Besides not being available for Win32 platforms (AFAIK), they don't support closing accounts directly. I love Gnucash, but that is a glaringly missed feature.
Gnucash is not available for Windows AFAIK and it still doesn't close accounts at the end of a business cycle properly (you have to work around that currently) but it otherwises interoperates with Quicken and Money.
Microsoft had legal issues before because they didn't indemnify. Now they have legal issues because of indemnification. So they just have more legal issues, which means you should pay SCO a license to avoid infringement of their copyright in using Microsoft's products.
SCO sues Linux users, prompting fears that Linux is legally scary to have deployed commercially in your business.
Microsoft says, "See? TCO for Linux rises because you need to be ready to pay the legal costs of defending yourself. We at Microsoft, however, will do such defending for you."
Quit being a whiny little bitch and contribute some code, documentation, consultation, or just shut the hell up.
Actually, shutting the hell up isn't going to help anyone. Speak up. Don't like how a program works? Let the developers know what you want. Feature requests are important. Found a bug? Speak up.
Shutting up only prevents the knowledge from getting to who needs it.
I understand the point of the previous post, but having a dialogue with developers is important. Mailing lists, IRC channels, etc all exist to help contribute to software which is made by community rather than marketing/legal.
Can't you logically conclude that you don't need those public web sites since you have bittorrent?
Bittorrent is great for huge files such as ISOs because you aren't sucking up the bandwidth from a single server.
Just put up more servers? What about small developers who don't have the money to put up more servers and more bandwidth? Bittorrent looks great for distribution of their content.
So bittorrent has its place, and just because you can access the same content elsewhere doesn't make bittorrent any less "needed" than anything else.
I can buy bread at the local grocer, major chain, Walmart, or get it free from my grandma. Are any one of those options not needed since I can get the bread from any public store?
Bittorrent is different in that it actually redistributes the bandwidth costs instead of just requiring everyone to suck up the bandwidth usage for a single company or organization. That alone makes it viable and, for some, necessary.
How about controversial documents, like arguments against the authenticity of the moon landing, or against evolutionary theory?
I know bittorrent is used a lot for television shows, which is a gray area. I am allowed to copy a broadcast with my VCR and my Tivo-like devices. Television is publicly broadcast, and if I download the episode I can argue that it is time shifting and under fair use. Of course, it is also redistribution of copyrighted content without permission, so it is probably illegal. I haven't heard about any cases regarding this though.
Still, if I make my own show and want it to be distributed freely, bittorrent would be a good way to do so.
Similarly with freeware, free software, open source software, shareware, demos, etc.
And in response to someone below, I'd get the Linux/BSD ISO from a bittorrent rather than from the "source" because it is probably going to be faster, especially when it is a new release.
A relative bought me one of those systems. An N64-looking controller, along with a Sega Genesis-looking controller and a small pistol lightgun.
The name of the system? I don't know. It had one name on the box, another on its side, and the system itself had a different name completely.
The N64 controller had a slot which allowed you to play expansions...turns out that the slot was for Famicom games, which meant that it wasn't meant for American audiences really.
Also the thousands of games weren't really thousands of games. They were maybe 60 games, listed thousands of times by different variations on their names.
But that was not what irked me the most. What irked me the post was the game they called Pacman. It was actually a Mappy Land clone, which was weird because Mappy Land was one of the games listed! I want my Pac-man!!!
I'm one of those people with a job that takes up a lot of time. MMORPGs would be great if I didn't have to worry about paying for time I won't use. I wouldn't mind paying if I could guarantee I'd be making use of that time. Does anyone know if it is possible for me to pay for a month, disappear for a month, and come back again and still have the same character?
Saddam's regime was bribing members of the UN. That we now know. But how would those bribes have prevented the US from throwing its weight around and pushing to keep sanctions up?
If sanctions were lifted, how likely would Saddam's efforts have been to procure most of the world's oil supply? Was the world simply going to say, "Ok, we're lifting sanctions. Have at!"? No, I don't believe so.
Bush's catastrophic victory has removed Saddam Hussein from power...but it is fallacy to think that all of a sudden Iraq is a safer place for either the Iraqis or the world. The US wasn't ready for a second war in the region. Elections by January? We can be inspired by Afghanistan and the will of the people to vote while under threat of violence, but are we supposed to be happy with that result? Iraq will be even worse. Insurgents are infiltrating security forces, so now the Iraqis that are supposed to be on our side are a mix of trusted and untrustworthy individuals.
As for bin Laden...while I don't think there is evidence he was in Tora Bora like Kerry says, I do believe that Bush should have seen him as a bigger threat than to say, "I'm not that concerned about him." We had him on the run, we lost him, and now we don't know about his whereabouts.
Put in place the seeds for politically strong middle eastern governments...So now the Bush agenda is nation building? I love how people make the argument that because of Bush, the Iraqis are free. Well for over 10 years we couldn't care about freeing the Iraqis. Now all of a sudden we do. Well what about freeing other people from their tyrannical governments? I noticed that both Bush and Kerry kind of wavered when it came to Sudan.
So if you had a study to see if Kerry supporters have the world view you give, yeah, you would probably find that most of them don't see it that way. The point of the study was to show that Kerry supporters tend to be more realistic.
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...that this article was really just a big advertisement for GarageGames and Torque?
It didn't really seem to have anything to say other than that GarageGames exists, that Torque is cross-platform, and it would be nice if more games were made that ran on Linux-based systems.
He wasn't screwed out of money. He created something while working for the state, so the state owned it, since that's how Communism worked. He wasn't upset and surprised by it. That's just how things were where he came from, and he was fine with that.
Not according to
this history.
Check 1.3.1 and search for Mucus Pig. B-)
Thanks! Now I know about nerdbooks.com too!
"Ooogedy boogedy people"
Don't ever say that again. B-)
Gish isn't an amazing side scroller because it stars a ball of tar. What's done well is that it is based on physics and uses it in a way to make the game incredibly fun. Have you even played it?
good for their customers, and judging from the horrible customer service I got from them when I emailed them months ago, I can see that this is in keeping with their apparent business plan.
for users of JDS, everyone else can use the Loki installer just fine, right?
And I wasn't arguing against it. I was simply taking a single sentence out of context and commenting on what people can actually do that would help more than simply shutting up. It may have helped if I just put "Slightly OT" in the subject line.
I do agree. If a product isn't going to meet with requirements, no amount of whining will make it better. Even RMS had to use closed source Unix while making the Gnu system. If doubt that anyone would have just created stubs compilers and stub text editors and then said, Well we should use these nowhere-near-finished "programs" instead of the closed versions available because it is the right thing to do.
Similarly, free/open solutions exists, but if they don't do what the user wants, they won't get used. This is why I think Gnucash isn't being picked up by most people. Besides not being available for Win32 platforms (AFAIK), they don't support closing accounts directly. I love Gnucash, but that is a glaringly missed feature.
Gnucash is not available for Windows AFAIK and it still doesn't close accounts at the end of a business cycle properly (you have to work around that currently) but it otherwises interoperates with Quicken and Money.
Still, just shutting up isn't going to help make the situation any better, right?
Following their logic:
Microsoft had legal issues before because they didn't indemnify. Now they have legal issues because of indemnification. So they just have more legal issues, which means you should pay SCO a license to avoid infringement of their copyright in using Microsoft's products.
A summary of some posts below:
SCO sues Linux users, prompting fears that Linux is legally scary to have deployed commercially in your business.
Microsoft says, "See? TCO for Linux rises because you need to be ready to pay the legal costs of defending yourself. We at Microsoft, however, will do such defending for you."
A summary of other posts: "Screw you, M$!"
Quit being a whiny little bitch and contribute some code, documentation, consultation, or just shut the hell up.
Actually, shutting the hell up isn't going to help anyone. Speak up. Don't like how a program works? Let the developers know what you want. Feature requests are important. Found a bug? Speak up.
Shutting up only prevents the knowledge from getting to who needs it.
I understand the point of the previous post, but having a dialogue with developers is important. Mailing lists, IRC channels, etc all exist to help contribute to software which is made by community rather than marketing/legal.
Can't you logically conclude that you don't need those public web sites since you have bittorrent?
Bittorrent is great for huge files such as ISOs because you aren't sucking up the bandwidth from a single server.
Just put up more servers? What about small developers who don't have the money to put up more servers and more bandwidth? Bittorrent looks great for distribution of their content.
So bittorrent has its place, and just because you can access the same content elsewhere doesn't make bittorrent any less "needed" than anything else.
I can buy bread at the local grocer, major chain, Walmart, or get it free from my grandma. Are any one of those options not needed since I can get the bread from any public store?
Bittorrent is different in that it actually redistributes the bandwidth costs instead of just requiring everyone to suck up the bandwidth usage for a single company or organization. That alone makes it viable and, for some, necessary.
You should be able to access suicide girls now since no one has posted about them recently...Crap.
Um...no. Why? My point is that these are legal uses of bittorrent.
How about controversial documents, like arguments against the authenticity of the moon landing, or against evolutionary theory?
I know bittorrent is used a lot for television shows, which is a gray area. I am allowed to copy a broadcast with my VCR and my Tivo-like devices. Television is publicly broadcast, and if I download the episode I can argue that it is time shifting and under fair use. Of course, it is also redistribution of copyrighted content without permission, so it is probably illegal. I haven't heard about any cases regarding this though.
Still, if I make my own show and want it to be distributed freely, bittorrent would be a good way to do so.
Similarly with freeware, free software, open source software, shareware, demos, etc.
And in response to someone below, I'd get the Linux/BSD ISO from a bittorrent rather than from the "source" because it is probably going to be faster, especially when it is a new release.
if the patent application does get rejected, the company/patent holder has the right to keep it as a trade secret.
A relative bought me one of those systems. An N64-looking controller, along with a Sega Genesis-looking controller and a small pistol lightgun.
The name of the system? I don't know. It had one name on the box, another on its side, and the system itself had a different name completely.
The N64 controller had a slot which allowed you to play expansions...turns out that the slot was for Famicom games, which meant that it wasn't meant for American audiences really.
Also the thousands of games weren't really thousands of games. They were maybe 60 games, listed thousands of times by different variations on their names.
But that was not what irked me the most. What irked me the post was the game they called Pacman. It was actually a Mappy Land clone, which was weird because Mappy Land was one of the games listed! I want my Pac-man!!!
I've actually sent an email to one of them asking about it.
Main questions:
Will there be hourly rates, which might be more attractive to working people?
How long can I be absent before my account is deleted?
Thanks for the offer though. B-)
I'm one of those people with a job that takes up a lot of time. MMORPGs would be great if I didn't have to worry about paying for time I won't use. I wouldn't mind paying if I could guarantee I'd be making use of that time. Does anyone know if it is possible for me to pay for a month, disappear for a month, and come back again and still have the same character?
It could be that you say foking more than anything else that makes you sound funny. B-)
or the Microsoft. That one drives me crazy.
Well, I imagine none.
Saddam's regime was bribing members of the UN. That we now know. But how would those bribes have prevented the US from throwing its weight around and pushing to keep sanctions up?
If sanctions were lifted, how likely would Saddam's efforts have been to procure most of the world's oil supply? Was the world simply going to say, "Ok, we're lifting sanctions. Have at!"? No, I don't believe so.
Bush's catastrophic victory has removed Saddam Hussein from power...but it is fallacy to think that all of a sudden Iraq is a safer place for either the Iraqis or the world. The US wasn't ready for a second war in the region. Elections by January? We can be inspired by Afghanistan and the will of the people to vote while under threat of violence, but are we supposed to be happy with that result? Iraq will be even worse. Insurgents are infiltrating security forces, so now the Iraqis that are supposed to be on our side are a mix of trusted and untrustworthy individuals.
As for bin Laden...while I don't think there is evidence he was in Tora Bora like Kerry says, I do believe that Bush should have seen him as a bigger threat than to say, "I'm not that concerned about him." We had him on the run, we lost him, and now we don't know about his whereabouts.
Put in place the seeds for politically strong middle eastern governments...So now the Bush agenda is nation building? I love how people make the argument that because of Bush, the Iraqis are free. Well for over 10 years we couldn't care about freeing the Iraqis. Now all of a sudden we do. Well what about freeing other people from their tyrannical governments? I noticed that both Bush and Kerry kind of wavered when it came to Sudan.
So if you had a study to see if Kerry supporters have the world view you give, yeah, you would probably find that most of them don't see it that way. The point of the study was to show that Kerry supporters tend to be more realistic.