It would be good if an artist could make some professional looking poster/flier advertisements of Linux in general (not a specific distribution). Microsoft and other companies all have very professional looking propaganda, I'd like some of our own:)
Here's my guesses (and none of these are based on what I've heard): 1. It's not a moddable version of RTCW, it's a complete game 2. Activision has payed Id for the license already, so it's Activision's choice if they want to lose money to give us a freebie 3. It won't detract from sales of the engine to other companies
If there's a questionable area, there's no way you can reason your way to the correct answer. You have to ask GW because the rules don't make sense. They give reasons for it, but those reasons don't fit with what they've said elsewhere.
And the staff give you differing answers on rules too - ask two different stores and you get two different answers.
Slashdot is far from being just an American site. Sure, it's hosted there, but it could easily be hosted somewhere else.
I see no problem with representing these things as should be. There are a number of europeans here, and it's not hard to understand once informed - whereas Kanji is clearly unacceptable because: 1. Almost everyone here wouldn't have a hope of reading it 2. You can't quickly explain in one post how to read Kanji
I don't see what the problem is, really. If people pirate their servers (I for sure won't install it anywhere) and use them, then that's exactly what they need. I'd much rather it were true that only people who legitimately purchase the software can use it.
Then I wouldn't have to worry about Microsoft software in so many places.
That's exactly why I'm not worried about her analysis of Linux, from the perspective of one who is looking to implement it into business desktops.
I'll be installing Linux and setting it up. I'll get the configuration working. All they will have to do is read e-mails, open up their office suite (OpenOffice, MSOffice or whatever they need), and do whatever it is their organisation does. They don't need to worry about video card support or XFree configuration files or anything.
In fact, I don't know of any clueless user that installs an OS - windows or Linux, themselves.
Loading MS Word in Linux using codeweaver's office it loads very fast, just like in windows, so I'm assuming that something else is going on here.
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Did they actually manage to avoid being audited?
This study means that we draw the conclusion that pay-per-package software is inefficient, because a society can perform it's tasks with less people when it pirates. That means that opensource software is a more efficient solution, meaning that humans can spend their times working on more important things - like creating new software, technology, building warships, whatever.
It just proves that the pay-per-package software model is obsolete and bad for a countries' productivity.
That seems irrelevant to me - all things were learned apart from school/education if you go far back enough. All through history amazing things have been done by those who defied the normal qualification systems we have in place.
A kid who can write 5 lines of perl, or a tech support person can call themselves an engineer if they like, but we'll laugh at them when we hear how their script wiped out their partition. It's like my martial arts teacher said, in ancient China they didn't have belts - one was judged by their ability to fight.
Let's separate the wheat from the chaff on the battlefield. There's some truly incompetent people who are qualified, just like the reverse exists. As they say in the hacker's portrait, the self taught hacker is often more motivated and more respected.
Woe to the companies who cannot escape before the time is up, for they shall be captured in the snares of that wicked serpent, and he shall show no mercy.
How much longer? Enlightenment was my second window manager, Afterstep being my first. I loved enlightenment, made my system look so smooth.
I've been waiting for e17 for so long, tried cvs occasionally but it's always got faults (unsurprising) making it not worth the effort. Especially now it's been declared as a glorified "test program":)
Evas looks promising though. I've just never found a home since Afterstep/Enlightenment. Ion was very, very desirable but a few applications are irritating. Still I think the pros outweigh the cons.
By artifical success, I mean one that would fail as soon as charity purchases ceased. Microsoft would still survive, along with thousands of other companies.
As for distributions, i'd be more than happy to contribute to make sure Gentoo was able to work by offerring services for free, as many others do. Mandrake is not asking for donations, it's asking for people to purchase it's product so they can make a profit. Lokigames said I think that they didn't want people to buy games they didn't like just to support the company. That's what I'm talking about.
And your first point, it has services good. If it can't make money off those either they are taking the wrong approach or need to fix up their business model. Either way, the crux of my point still hasn't been destroyed in my eyes - that there is no point supporting a company-for-profit through charitable sympathy purchases unless those purchases are merely to hold it through a tough time. If I saw that Mandrake was just going through a tough patch, but an upturn was around the corner, then I wouldn't be saying what I am. If that's true, then good.
Selling a distribution seems an old fashioned method. Services, hardware, etc, this is where money lies. If Mandrake wants to offer a good quality distribution in the spirit of opensource, then let them do that. We believe in open source because we believe it is superior - that quality software can come out of people with little finances. Now if we need to carry a company on our back because they are asking for sympathy purchases, then we are demonstrating that open source software, or at least this model, does not work. It can only succeed when people artificially induce success, and therefore seems more like a burden than a success.
I just think selling software boxes is a dying paradigm. I don't see why the community should burden itself carrying a dying dinosaur on longer. I like mandrake, it was my favorite of rpm based distribution, but can only last too long. The time will come when people will not purchase it out of sympathy. It will then have to survive on it's own two feet or die.
At least, that's the way I see it. I'm happy to acknowledge I could be wrong.
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Is it like a race to point out that it's a dupe? At least put a joke in your post to make it worth reading!
Especially for those of us who don't think any can be found.
It would be good if an artist could make some professional looking poster/flier advertisements of Linux in general (not a specific distribution). Microsoft and other companies all have very professional looking propaganda, I'd like some of our own :)
Here's my guesses (and none of these are based on what I've heard):
1. It's not a moddable version of RTCW, it's a complete game
2. Activision has payed Id for the license already, so it's Activision's choice if they want to lose money to give us a freebie
3. It won't detract from sales of the engine to other companies
Buy? This game, from the beta to the final release, is free and doesn't require RTCW! I've just been playing it in Linux and it runs fine.
It's not like these terrorist states couldn't pirate commercial software.
I agree with the rules...
If there's a questionable area, there's no way you can reason your way to the correct answer. You have to ask GW because the rules don't make sense. They give reasons for it, but those reasons don't fit with what they've said elsewhere.
And the staff give you differing answers on rules too - ask two different stores and you get two different answers.
Slashdot is far from being just an American site. Sure, it's hosted there, but it could easily be hosted somewhere else.
I see no problem with representing these things as should be. There are a number of europeans here, and it's not hard to understand once informed - whereas Kanji is clearly unacceptable because:
1. Almost everyone here wouldn't have a hope of reading it
2. You can't quickly explain in one post how to read Kanji
Precisely the reason why I avoid and am scared of MMORPG's.
I may be the odd one out, but I never considered EverQuest players to be largely geeks.
I imagined them to be ordinary people who use computers in their spare time, not those who make a career out of it.
I don't see what the problem is, really. If people pirate their servers (I for sure won't install it anywhere) and use them, then that's exactly what they need. I'd much rather it were true that only people who legitimately purchase the software can use it.
Then I wouldn't have to worry about Microsoft software in so many places.
but is it even hygenic?
That's exactly why I'm not worried about her analysis of Linux, from the perspective of one who is looking to implement it into business desktops.
I'll be installing Linux and setting it up. I'll get the configuration working. All they will have to do is read e-mails, open up their office suite (OpenOffice, MSOffice or whatever they need), and do whatever it is their organisation does. They don't need to worry about video card support or XFree configuration files or anything.
In fact, I don't know of any clueless user that installs an OS - windows or Linux, themselves.
Loading MS Word in Linux using codeweaver's office it loads very fast, just like in windows, so I'm assuming that something else is going on here.
Did they actually manage to avoid being audited? This study means that we draw the conclusion that pay-per-package software is inefficient, because a society can perform it's tasks with less people when it pirates. That means that opensource software is a more efficient solution, meaning that humans can spend their times working on more important things - like creating new software, technology, building warships, whatever. It just proves that the pay-per-package software model is obsolete and bad for a countries' productivity.
Got a screenshot of the smooth scrolling? :)
According to Dilbert, the engineer said "You put your lips on my glass? Luckily I kept half in a redundant glass"
A kid who can write 5 lines of perl, or a tech support person can call themselves an engineer if they like, but we'll laugh at them when we hear how their script wiped out their partition. It's like my martial arts teacher said, in ancient China they didn't have belts - one was judged by their ability to fight.
Let's separate the wheat from the chaff on the battlefield. There's some truly incompetent people who are qualified, just like the reverse exists. As they say in the hacker's portrait, the self taught hacker is often more motivated and more respected.
I'm setting up the 9000 with Gentoo. And it's slowly getting there. Use the 2.4.21pre6 or so kernel for the via sounds, the 2.4.20 doesn't work.
Video I'm still working on, thinking of using the pci slot, but then I can have some OpenGL games too like tuxracer.
Woe to the companies who cannot escape before the time is up, for they shall be captured in the snares of that wicked serpent, and he shall show no mercy.
Their blood shall be upon their own hands.
I don't understand, if a firewall blocks a port how can you access it?
How much longer? Enlightenment was my second window manager, Afterstep being my first. I loved enlightenment, made my system look so smooth.
:)
I've been waiting for e17 for so long, tried cvs occasionally but it's always got faults (unsurprising) making it not worth the effort. Especially now it's been declared as a glorified "test program"
Evas looks promising though. I've just never found a home since Afterstep/Enlightenment. Ion was very, very desirable but a few applications are irritating. Still I think the pros outweigh the cons.
By artifical success, I mean one that would fail as soon as charity purchases ceased. Microsoft would still survive, along with thousands of other companies.
As for distributions, i'd be more than happy to contribute to make sure Gentoo was able to work by offerring services for free, as many others do. Mandrake is not asking for donations, it's asking for people to purchase it's product so they can make a profit. Lokigames said I think that they didn't want people to buy games they didn't like just to support the company. That's what I'm talking about.
And your first point, it has services good. If it can't make money off those either they are taking the wrong approach or need to fix up their business model. Either way, the crux of my point still hasn't been destroyed in my eyes - that there is no point supporting a company-for-profit through charitable sympathy purchases unless those purchases are merely to hold it through a tough time. If I saw that Mandrake was just going through a tough patch, but an upturn was around the corner, then I wouldn't be saying what I am. If that's true, then good.
I'm not even close to convinced, really.
Selling a distribution seems an old fashioned method. Services, hardware, etc, this is where money lies. If Mandrake wants to offer a good quality distribution in the spirit of opensource, then let them do that. We believe in open source because we believe it is superior - that quality software can come out of people with little finances. Now if we need to carry a company on our back because they are asking for sympathy purchases, then we are demonstrating that open source software, or at least this model, does not work. It can only succeed when people artificially induce success, and therefore seems more like a burden than a success.
I just think selling software boxes is a dying paradigm. I don't see why the community should burden itself carrying a dying dinosaur on longer. I like mandrake, it was my favorite of rpm based distribution, but can only last too long. The time will come when people will not purchase it out of sympathy. It will then have to survive on it's own two feet or die.
At least, that's the way I see it. I'm happy to acknowledge I could be wrong.