I don't know what they are talking about losses...
Piracy isn't necessarily a good thing, or a bad thing. It is if it's done by a company for profit-making reasons.
Individuals downloading and using illegal software isn't exactly good, but it isn't totally bad either. (stick with me, I know you can)
I, personally have used 3dsmax. I can't afford the $1000+ educational license, much less the $6000+ commercial license. If I had not gotten it from *elsewhere*, I would never have been able to try such an amazing tool for MANY years. My machine can barely run it (Win98. so sue me.).
I wouldn't buy this software. I can't. But what I have done is tried it, and I like it. I like it a LOT. Now I will never use this copy for commercial purposes (NEVER. If I had to use this for commercial purposes, I would get it legitimately!!! And like legit software I have bought, it will probably just sit here unused for a LONG time). But I would reccomend this software to companies. I also know how to use it now. So what they have gained is a) a person who knows how to use it and would gladly reccomend it be purchased, and b) potential future customers. At no loss to them. Why no loss? Like I said. I would never have been able to afford it.
I personally would be more worried about companies pirating software, which is where a lot of damage could come from. IE: X software is given to 1000 people to be used in a fairly profitable business. That's a LOT of money.
Now some of you out there may hate my guts. Some may agree. Please don't spew venom at me. Just my opinion.
Or in the future pay $5 for a song you can only listen to while you are at home in front of your cmoputer (in Windows ONLY, cause MS won't make an ASF player for Linux.)
I have a p2-400, voodoo3, 128mb of ram, and it runs fine. 1024x786 is still asking a lot, so 800x600 does fine for me. I get 40-50, sometimes 100fps framerates in indoor levels (lower res, tho). Granted, the features it offers are what bring it down at times. turn them down. And for outdoor levels, I suggest you turn down the rendering distance. Single player is fun as hell (and hard), and multiplayer, IMO, is a LOT better than any Quake game. Descent3 is one of the few games i have seen that has run wonderfully out of the box, and kept my attention until i finished it.
What difficulty settings did you have it at? I consider myself to be a pretty good descent pilot, but i had to drop the difficulty a bit just to keep playing. And are you talking about humunculous? Just go over/under him with afterburners.
Yes! And we must ban the use of gasoline powered engines! They may arc and cause rapid explosions which may send tons of debris everywhere and kill and maim people!
I'd personally worry about the Radon that might be in your basement . The concentration of that in your basement is probably more hazardous than 75lb of plutonium + ceramic dust lost to the atmosphere (considering a lot of that will probably land in an ocean or some other less populated area).
That's assuming it hit the earth. Which it didn't. Which i'm pretty sure that the people at NASA made quite sure that would be an insanely remote possibility. Those guys at NASA are damn good with plotting courses like this.
I must say that Descent3 (i have played all 3) IMO (read: IMO), Descent3 is a far more interesting game than any of the other FPS games, simply because dogfights are a lot more interesting in 3 unrestricted dimensions. Now all I need is support for my MS Sidewinder PPRO (yes, MS hardware 'cept for the natural KB is actually quite good).
Businesses and home users will jump on it, because of the illusion of saving money (instead of one big transaction, there are many smaller transactions, hiding the actual cost).
There is no AOL client because anyone using Linux would be too smart for AOL to be of any use. I wouldn't be suprised if Linux couldn't connect to AOL dialup servers. NT(P.o.S.) can't.
$500? where do you see the price? They couldn't compete at that price. I don't really like going thru the CLI installs, especially when your system doesn't match theirs, and for some reason, MAKE INSTALL doesn't work... Besides, GUI-fied is WindowsNT, with the GUI as an integral part of the os, which is BAD.
If you consider NOT having to use Fdisk, and name the very cylinders it can make the partition in handholding, i don't see what you like about linux? hours getting it up and running? or installing it and having it work? Last time I tried debian, ls didn't work after the install. silly thing forgot to set any PATH statements. This doesn't say anything about debian (linux IS linux), but it does say something about how good the installer is.
Bill of rights? It's been utterly disregarded by our government left and right. Only after people stuck the book in their face and rubbed their noses in it did they have a clue that these government agencies/corporations are trying to legally control our every thought/moment/choice.
I know one small business guy who said this "you know, this law doesn't seem as important as everyone makes it out to be..." I said that wasn't true, and he asked how could it be. Mind you he uses AutoCAD daily. I said "because they will OWN you" and I "defined" what I meant to him (software hostage-taking). He got scared, to say the least.
Of course, everyone has been paying more attention to RedHat, and ignoring the other IPOs (who are they, anyways?). They may soar then plumment, but they hopefully won't drop like a brick, then forever sink....
Has anyone considered spreading this talk load over to some other service (IRC, maybe?), because i think/. is, sadly, being squashed (it's been 6 hours since it's posted that SPAM article).
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If you offer the hardware/software to use it, that's a hell of a bet :)
I forgot to mention that almost all of my legit software is games, THE most highly pirated software out there.
I don't know what they are talking about losses...
Piracy isn't necessarily a good thing, or a bad thing. It is if it's done by a company for profit-making reasons.
Individuals downloading and using illegal software isn't exactly good, but it isn't totally bad either. (stick with me, I know you can)
I, personally have used 3dsmax. I can't afford the $1000+ educational license, much less the $6000+ commercial license. If I had not gotten it from *elsewhere*, I would never have been able to try such an amazing tool for MANY years. My machine can barely run it (Win98. so sue me.).
I wouldn't buy this software. I can't. But what I have done is tried it, and I like it. I like it a LOT. Now I will never use this copy for commercial purposes (NEVER. If I had to use this for commercial purposes, I would get it legitimately!!! And like legit software I have bought, it will probably just sit here unused for a LONG time). But I would reccomend this software to companies. I also know how to use it now. So what they have gained is a) a person who knows how to use it and would gladly reccomend it be purchased, and b) potential future customers. At no loss to them. Why no loss? Like I said. I would never have been able to afford it.
I personally would be more worried about companies pirating software, which is where a lot of damage could come from. IE: X software is given to 1000 people to be used in a fairly profitable business. That's a LOT of money.
Now some of you out there may hate my guts. Some may agree. Please don't spew venom at me. Just my opinion.
Or in the future pay $5 for a song you can only listen to while you are at home in front of your cmoputer (in Windows ONLY, cause MS won't make an ASF player for Linux.)
Idiot. Read the story. It's a bunch of .pdf files. There are .pdf viewers for almost EVERY operating system including Linux.
I have a p2-400, voodoo3, 128mb of ram, and it runs fine. 1024x786 is still asking a lot, so 800x600 does fine for me. I get 40-50, sometimes 100fps framerates in indoor levels (lower res, tho). Granted, the features it offers are what bring it down at times. turn them down. And for outdoor levels, I suggest you turn down the rendering distance. Single player is fun as hell (and hard), and multiplayer, IMO, is a LOT better than any Quake game. Descent3 is one of the few games i have seen that has run wonderfully out of the box, and kept my attention until i finished it.
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What difficulty settings did you have it at? I consider myself to be a pretty good descent pilot, but i had to drop the difficulty a bit just to keep playing. And are you talking about humunculous? Just go over/under him with afterburners.
Yes! And we must ban the use of gasoline powered engines! They may arc and cause rapid explosions which may send tons of debris everywhere and kill and maim people!
;P
I'd personally worry about the Radon that might be in your basement . The concentration of that in your basement is probably more hazardous than 75lb of plutonium + ceramic dust lost to the atmosphere (considering a lot of that will probably land in an ocean or some other less populated area).
That's assuming it hit the earth. Which it didn't. Which i'm pretty sure that the people at NASA made quite sure that would be an insanely remote possibility. Those guys at NASA are damn good with plotting courses like this.
I must say that Descent3 (i have played all 3) IMO (read: IMO), Descent3 is a far more interesting game than any of the other FPS games, simply because dogfights are a lot more interesting in 3 unrestricted dimensions. Now all I need is support for my MS Sidewinder PPRO (yes, MS hardware 'cept for the natural KB is actually quite good).
Rock on Outrage!
Businesses and home users will jump on it, because of the illusion of saving money (instead of one big transaction, there are many smaller transactions, hiding the actual cost).
Kinda brings to mind "Only five payments of $33!
There is no AOL client because anyone using Linux would be too smart for AOL to be of any use. I wouldn't be suprised if Linux couldn't connect to AOL dialup servers. NT(P.o.S.) can't.
$500? where do you see the price? They couldn't compete at that price. I don't really like going thru the CLI installs, especially when your system doesn't match theirs, and for some reason, MAKE INSTALL doesn't work... Besides, GUI-fied is WindowsNT, with the GUI as an integral part of the os, which is BAD.
odd. must have been an old fdisk...
Vomit in corel's trashcan and they may decide to remove it.
It'd probably be as bad as the "final" versions of software are.
If you consider NOT having to use Fdisk, and name the very cylinders it can make the partition in handholding, i don't see what you like about linux? hours getting it up and running? or installing it and having it work? Last time I tried debian, ls didn't work after the install. silly thing forgot to set any PATH statements. This doesn't say anything about debian (linux IS linux), but it does say something about how good the installer is.
He means along the lines of the RPM/DEBS. Requiring everyone to know how to extract and compile source will obviously limit Linux's adoption.
Bill of rights? It's been utterly disregarded by our government left and right. Only after people stuck the book in their face and rubbed their noses in it did they have a clue that these government agencies/corporations are trying to legally control our every thought/moment/choice.
I know one small business guy who said this "you know, this law doesn't seem as important as everyone makes it out to be..." I said that wasn't true, and he asked how could it be. Mind you he uses AutoCAD daily. I said "because they will OWN you" and I "defined" what I meant to him (software hostage-taking). He got scared, to say the least.
Wow. I think the one that has really gotten people's attention is RedHat.
(either that or it's just me)
And hotjobs.com? Didn't they JUST start up a little while ago (just before the superbowl? or are they not that new?)
Of course, everyone has been paying more attention to RedHat, and ignoring the other IPOs (who are they, anyways?). They may soar then plumment, but they hopefully won't drop like a brick, then forever sink....
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Has anyone considered spreading this talk load over to some other service (IRC, maybe?), because i think /. is, sadly, being squashed (it's been 6 hours since it's posted that SPAM article).