Sure, but the sentence is ambiguous enough that it appears to me to mean "All Linux geeks think this."
I don't agree with it at all. If you have a choice between an application on Windows or an application on GNU, I'd choose GNU any day of the week. Important applications are the ones that you SHOULD run open source, if possible, so that your documents and data is future-proof.
Joe Sixpack is going to want an alternative to Windows once Microsoft compeltely tightens the reigns on Windows licensing. When you have to pay real money out of pocket, and perhaps at the cost of the whole PC itself, for Windows...
But right now, it's almost free. Sure, you pay for it when you buy a packaged PC but at a very, very low cost. With computers these days staying relevant for more then a year, you're going to look for OS upgrades more often then in the past. You won't just get the upgrade with your yearly new PC.
Your original post seemed to insinuate that the single-player game was made out to be completely offline, and a surprise to anyone that purchased the game.
I'm not giving up a freedom. It's a video game. I won't tolerate phone taps without warrants, but I will tolerate Steam. It's not pay-per-play. If it were, I wouldn't buy it. Steam isn't the newfangled method to get you to pay to play - the ultra popular MMORPG's are where you should be looking. You already pay to play those games.
"Game companies don't care about what is "fair" and they especially don't care about what will happen when they go out of business."
Well, they kind of do. Game companies face extremely fierce competition from all angles. Valve isn't nor will ever be a Microsoft. If they push the line, piss off too many customers, or release a shitty product for too much money, there ARE alternatives and they WILL lose business. Take Everquest - it was the most popular MMORPG for a long time, but due to crappy game descisions and soso expansions, people were primed and ready for an alternative. Now, EQ2 isn't doing well and WoW is the king of the hill.
If there were to go out of business (which is unlikely anytime soon; another reason I don't worry about it) I don't see why they wouldn't release a patch. They'd know long before shutting the doors that it was going to happen, and it would probably take one programmer two hours to release it. I expect Half Life 2 to be well past it's end-of-life before that would happen, but game companies and other companies have done things like this in the past. It's not unprecedented.
I just don't see what's wrong with Steam. I hate copy protection, it's always a pain in the ass and it doesn't stop anyone from pirating software. However, if it MUST be there, I'd much prefer a system where I didn't have to insert the damned CD to play the game, which I could easily misplace or scratch. To make it more tolerable, Steam adds a handful of useful features such as automatic downloads of games. Have you read up on StarForce? If you want to bitch about copy protection, you should focus your attention to that. It's way worse then Steam - it actually installs a ring 0 driver on your PC and it also connects to internet servers to authenticate discs.
It was released first (although Ingres/Postgres came before PostgreSQL, MySQL was released a year before PostgreSQL.)
It has a better name.
PHP has always had great MySQL support.
MySQL is simple, small, quick, and easy. Combining that with the PHP compatibility and it makes a perfect DB for smal Web apps, which are what more web apps are. Small.
Might as well use Access of FileMaker? Well,.. I don't know where to start to answer such an ignorant comment. So I won't.
1) The game says on the box it requires an internet connection. It doesn't say "sometimes" or "only to play online." It says it's required. If you don't have one, you can't play this game. Plain and simple.
2) Offline mode does indeed work, but it does require that you connect periodically to authenticate your account. If this didn't happen, you could just firewall steam.exe and copy the game an unlimited number of times.
3) The counter-strike and HL2 deathmatch hacking prevention software is pretty damned lax. I've seen obvious examples of aimbotting and they aren't banned (although they probably will be if they keep doing it for long.) Anti-virus software on your PC is pretty exact these days, and this software requires an even more exact match then that. In other words: If your account is banned, it's because you were using a known and recorded cheat.
If you are banned from CS:S, you can still play the HL2 single-player game. Valve does not remove your ability to do that.
I believe that if Steam were to go out of business, they would release a patch that allows HL2/CSS/etc to run without Steam. It would only be right. Who knows, maybe they won't but if they abandon all the players it would be pretty easy to justify cracks that allow the game to run fine without Steam.
Well, I guess you need to standardize on *something*. MySQL has been fairly reliable and fast at what it does for a long time. Perhaps PHP had better support for MySQL at first (I think it did?) Who knows. But the fact is, a lot of web sites that run PHP and need a database also require the use of a web hosting company. These hosts all support MySQL databases.
It's the case of "market share" I suppose. PostgreSQL is nice, but events leading up to now prevented it from being the de-facto standard over MySQL.
You're still free to use whatever DB you want to, but having a sort of base-line standard database isn't a bad thing. At least most people are familiar with MySQL, and are able to use it almost anywhere they want.
I did at first, and I don't let it start with Windows and I close it when I'm done. But, it makes updating very, very easy and I like the fact that you can purchase steam games and add-ons right there, on the spot, and download it immediately. Steam is pretty fast when it comes to downloading new stuff, too.
Another nice thing about Steam is that if you lose all your media and your hard disk crashes, you can just download Steam, login, and automatically download everything you have available to your Steam account ID.
It's not spyware. It doesn't do anything else besides manage Steam games. If you don't mind paying for games, then Steam ain't bad at all. I can see why some people don't like it, and I am not exactly crazy about it, but it does have certian advantages.
It didn't take me close to five hours to finish Episode one. More like three. I'm not bragging, but if you actually played HL2 from start to end you'll find Episode 1 very easy.
I think I paid $50 for HL2. HL2's single-player game was good - it was long, the gameplay varied (some running in buildings, some driving a buggy, some boat stuff, etc.) It was interesting from beginning to end.
Episode 1 was $20. I was expecting maybe half of the length of HL2's game, since it's just about half the price. Well, it's very short. Extremely short. The size of the game is about 1/8th of HL2. It was definately fun, and they really do put a lot of work into Alex's facial expressions and small talk. There's a lot of neat things about the game, such as how Alex can't shoot monsters in the dark unless you shine the flashlight on them. It works.
While it was fun and I am glad I played it, it was not worth $20. Considering that Valve is releasing three episodes at presumably $20 each, it's a lot to swallow. Perhaps Episode 2 will have a lot more content, but I'm not buying it until I read more reviews this time.
Valve makes good games but I don't feel comfortable forking over $20 for a couple hours of game play. Heck, it's *cheaper* to go to the movies, and at least I get the full story in one shot there =)
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that there's very little hope that this clause could ever be enforced. However, if you do write software, compile it with the GPL version, and it ever got leaked out.. it could cause some grief.
I know what you mean! Digg is even worse. You should have seen some of the Nintento Wii posts on there after E3 or whatever it was. If you said something like "I think the new controller is interesting but I have a feeling I won't like it" you'd get buried with a -75, but if you said on a Sony story "I hope the PS3 is really nice" you'd get buried -75.
I don't hate Sony or their products. I'm not too fond of their music division but almost every Sony product I've ever owned, while not the absolute best, has been very nice. I've got this really nice Sony HDV Camcorder and the quality of the video is unmatched. I've got a ten year old Sony VHS deck that still works like it was new. The Playstation and PS2 were both very nice systems, and built very well. Sony TV's are always really nice as well.
So, what's the deal? The PS3 hasn't been released, and we haven't really seen too much real in-game video or specifics yet. It'll be a little expensive but are our memories so short that we can't remember the price of the "real" Xbox 360? (not the chopped down crappy one that was only released to say "look, Xbox 360 is only $300!"
Oh well. I have no loyalties to any company. I buy whatever products are good. This whole loyalty or hatred towards these big corporations is so dumb.
What I see happening is while everyone is watching the iPod product line and dismissing everything else, companies like Creative will start getting it right and offering competing products that are more feature rich, have more capacity, and don't have to be so tethered to a proprietary software product to get the most out of them. All of a sudden, we'll take a look around and say "hey, what am I doing spending all this money on an iPod when I can get xyz brand that does so much more?
After all, they're basically just MP3 players. Very nice ones, for sure, but it's not something that can't be done by anyone else.
You *do* know that patents are public record, right? Creative can go search on Apple patents if they want to, but if Apple's counter-suit doesn't mention which patents, it's almost as if Apple needs to go find one to use against them because they don't have a clue what to use at the moment. Because patents are often so vague and full of prior-art, it probably won't be very difficult to come up with something eventually.
Show me a cable box that allows you to copy all HD programming to your PC. They don't exist, unless your cable operator is not setting the 5C flag on your video.
I can hook up a FireWire cable to my cable box and copy down the stuff that's available OTA (some of it anyways) but none of the non-OTA channels.
So, besides OTA, how else can you capture HD content to your PC? Component HD capture may be the only way to do it. It ain't perfect but you can get some damned "good enough" captures from it.
"Suppose we completely set aside the goal of widespread adoption, and simply leave open the goal that people should be able to use Linux to do whatever they want."
You need to add "with whatever hardware they have no matter the source" to the end, because that's what you're saying. Look, you CAN do whatever you want to do with it. It's there. Download it. If it doesn't work 100%, well, you didn't pay for it.
Why is it the expectation that everything in Linux must work for everyone? There is no point to Linux. People, companies, universities, etc use Linux for all sorts of stuff. It's really enriched the world with a free OS that everyone can utilize. Because it doesn't support your video card, we should change all that? We should allow it to become closed source?
The things that have made Linux big and strong are the things you'd like to see changed. For me, I'd rather keep chugging along at a steady pace rather then forgo the driving force behind GPL software for the purpose of giving us a quick bump. Look how far things have come already? There's Open Source drivers for a lot of hardware now. Manufacturers are providing specs and the OSS hackers are writing their own drivers. It's amazing, really. nVidia and ATI will come around eventually. Until then, blame THEM for not supporting your Free OS in the licencing model of the Free OS; don't blame the Free OS.
You can find pirated high definition versions of many shows and movies online already.
Component/SDI capture boards are already coming down in price. There's some really nice ones available for about $1700, which is within reach of most people with HDTV's already.
Hey. The "Artist" should include the people involved in writing and performing the music. So I don't see your problem. Plus, there's all sorts of different types of bands. And there's all different agreements that the "artists" can make with one another. If I pay $30,000 for some great writer to write me a song, that's that. Flop or hit, he got paid. If he thinks it's a raw deal, then he just wouldn't write the song!
I don't think the sound mixer or audio mixers or other studio personnel need to be compensated with a percentage of record sales. They get paid for their work. Just because I might help get the product of our company ready for ship, doesn't mean I get a slice of every sale. Unless I'm the owner of the company (ie "Band") I don't think I'd feel entitled to any slice of the pie.
Why is it okay for the Government to keep secrets? Perhaps some aspects of the military; troop locations and such - are something that should be kept a secret. But for almost everything else, I don't see it. We ARE the government, supposedly. We The People. It's supposed to be the citizens that make up the country and the government - why should only a few people be granted more access to YOUR country then you? What makes them so special? They're just people too. Citizens of our country.
"The fact that a corporation is behind it doesn't mean it's bad."
You're right. Companies like Microsoft, the Oil companies, and other huge businesses have given the corporation a bad name. Corporations aren't inherently bad, and quite often they provide services or products that people want and really like. Or need. The corporation actually enables more small businesses to exist - limited liability is a big plus when you don't have millions of dollars in the bank.
Well, the thing sure looks damned cool. While all the PDA's are bulky (for the size of the screens) with no keyboards either, silver and lots of buttons you never use, the Nokia sits there looking damned nice. The screen is very high resolution compared to all the other devices sitting around it at the store. The unit just looks sharp.
I'll be interested to see how the next patch will improve stability. I think the unit has a lot of promise and I hope more devices go this way - open source OS with development tools available. Too many portable devices these days are locked down and I hate it!
At $350, all they need to do is fix a few stability problems and it'll become one damned attracitve device, considering that many PDA's are twice that with lesser hardware and closed (or, not as open) operating systems.
I have to agree with you on this. While Microsoft could go all out war on the Linux companies, if you put together IBM, Red Hat, HP, and even Sun together - they have a lot of IP they could go against Microsoft with. Not to mention all the TiVo's and other companies that use Linux in their embedded products.
It would be interesting to see how something like that played out, but I do agree with you - the destruction could potentially be so vast that not many would be willing to go for it. We see little spits and spats here and there; usually initiated by some small fry company trying to get rich off a much bigger one using patents. But the all out war isn't something we're likely to see anytime soon. The SCO case seems to have been a "testing the waters" type situation, and it's not going the way Microsoft would have liked.
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Sure, but the sentence is ambiguous enough that it appears to me to mean "All Linux geeks think this."
I don't agree with it at all. If you have a choice between an application on Windows or an application on GNU, I'd choose GNU any day of the week. Important applications are the ones that you SHOULD run open source, if possible, so that your documents and data is future-proof.
Joe Sixpack is going to want an alternative to Windows once Microsoft compeltely tightens the reigns on Windows licensing. When you have to pay real money out of pocket, and perhaps at the cost of the whole PC itself, for Windows...
But right now, it's almost free. Sure, you pay for it when you buy a packaged PC but at a very, very low cost. With computers these days staying relevant for more then a year, you're going to look for OS upgrades more often then in the past. You won't just get the upgrade with your yearly new PC.
Your original post seemed to insinuate that the single-player game was made out to be completely offline, and a surprise to anyone that purchased the game.
I'm not giving up a freedom. It's a video game. I won't tolerate phone taps without warrants, but I will tolerate Steam. It's not pay-per-play. If it were, I wouldn't buy it. Steam isn't the newfangled method to get you to pay to play - the ultra popular MMORPG's are where you should be looking. You already pay to play those games.
"Game companies don't care about what is "fair" and they especially don't care about what will happen when they go out of business."
Well, they kind of do. Game companies face extremely fierce competition from all angles. Valve isn't nor will ever be a Microsoft. If they push the line, piss off too many customers, or release a shitty product for too much money, there ARE alternatives and they WILL lose business. Take Everquest - it was the most popular MMORPG for a long time, but due to crappy game descisions and soso expansions, people were primed and ready for an alternative. Now, EQ2 isn't doing well and WoW is the king of the hill.
If there were to go out of business (which is unlikely anytime soon; another reason I don't worry about it) I don't see why they wouldn't release a patch. They'd know long before shutting the doors that it was going to happen, and it would probably take one programmer two hours to release it. I expect Half Life 2 to be well past it's end-of-life before that would happen, but game companies and other companies have done things like this in the past. It's not unprecedented.
I just don't see what's wrong with Steam. I hate copy protection, it's always a pain in the ass and it doesn't stop anyone from pirating software. However, if it MUST be there, I'd much prefer a system where I didn't have to insert the damned CD to play the game, which I could easily misplace or scratch. To make it more tolerable, Steam adds a handful of useful features such as automatic downloads of games. Have you read up on StarForce? If you want to bitch about copy protection, you should focus your attention to that. It's way worse then Steam - it actually installs a ring 0 driver on your PC and it also connects to internet servers to authenticate discs.
It was released first (although Ingres/Postgres came before PostgreSQL, MySQL was released a year before PostgreSQL.)
.. I don't know where to start to answer such an ignorant comment. So I won't.
It has a better name.
PHP has always had great MySQL support.
MySQL is simple, small, quick, and easy. Combining that with the PHP compatibility and it makes a perfect DB for smal Web apps, which are what more web apps are. Small.
Might as well use Access of FileMaker? Well,
There's some flaws here:
1) The game says on the box it requires an internet connection. It doesn't say "sometimes" or "only to play online." It says it's required. If you don't have one, you can't play this game. Plain and simple.
2) Offline mode does indeed work, but it does require that you connect periodically to authenticate your account. If this didn't happen, you could just firewall steam.exe and copy the game an unlimited number of times.
3) The counter-strike and HL2 deathmatch hacking prevention software is pretty damned lax. I've seen obvious examples of aimbotting and they aren't banned (although they probably will be if they keep doing it for long.) Anti-virus software on your PC is pretty exact these days, and this software requires an even more exact match then that. In other words: If your account is banned, it's because you were using a known and recorded cheat.
If you are banned from CS:S, you can still play the HL2 single-player game. Valve does not remove your ability to do that.
I believe that if Steam were to go out of business, they would release a patch that allows HL2/CSS/etc to run without Steam. It would only be right. Who knows, maybe they won't but if they abandon all the players it would be pretty easy to justify cracks that allow the game to run fine without Steam.
Well, I guess you need to standardize on *something*. MySQL has been fairly reliable and fast at what it does for a long time. Perhaps PHP had better support for MySQL at first (I think it did?) Who knows. But the fact is, a lot of web sites that run PHP and need a database also require the use of a web hosting company. These hosts all support MySQL databases.
It's the case of "market share" I suppose. PostgreSQL is nice, but events leading up to now prevented it from being the de-facto standard over MySQL.
You're still free to use whatever DB you want to, but having a sort of base-line standard database isn't a bad thing. At least most people are familiar with MySQL, and are able to use it almost anywhere they want.
I don't know. I don't hate Steam.
I did at first, and I don't let it start with Windows and I close it when I'm done. But, it makes updating very, very easy and I like the fact that you can purchase steam games and add-ons right there, on the spot, and download it immediately. Steam is pretty fast when it comes to downloading new stuff, too.
Another nice thing about Steam is that if you lose all your media and your hard disk crashes, you can just download Steam, login, and automatically download everything you have available to your Steam account ID.
It's not spyware. It doesn't do anything else besides manage Steam games. If you don't mind paying for games, then Steam ain't bad at all. I can see why some people don't like it, and I am not exactly crazy about it, but it does have certian advantages.
It didn't take me close to five hours to finish Episode one. More like three. I'm not bragging, but if you actually played HL2 from start to end you'll find Episode 1 very easy.
ps, I don't buy hardcovers =)
I think I paid $50 for HL2. HL2's single-player game was good - it was long, the gameplay varied (some running in buildings, some driving a buggy, some boat stuff, etc.) It was interesting from beginning to end.
Episode 1 was $20. I was expecting maybe half of the length of HL2's game, since it's just about half the price. Well, it's very short. Extremely short. The size of the game is about 1/8th of HL2. It was definately fun, and they really do put a lot of work into Alex's facial expressions and small talk. There's a lot of neat things about the game, such as how Alex can't shoot monsters in the dark unless you shine the flashlight on them. It works.
While it was fun and I am glad I played it, it was not worth $20. Considering that Valve is releasing three episodes at presumably $20 each, it's a lot to swallow. Perhaps Episode 2 will have a lot more content, but I'm not buying it until I read more reviews this time.
Valve makes good games but I don't feel comfortable forking over $20 for a couple hours of game play. Heck, it's *cheaper* to go to the movies, and at least I get the full story in one shot there =)
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that there's very little hope that this clause could ever be enforced. However, if you do write software, compile it with the GPL version, and it ever got leaked out.. it could cause some grief.
I know what you mean! Digg is even worse. You should have seen some of the Nintento Wii posts on there after E3 or whatever it was. If you said something like "I think the new controller is interesting but I have a feeling I won't like it" you'd get buried with a -75, but if you said on a Sony story "I hope the PS3 is really nice" you'd get buried -75.
I don't hate Sony or their products. I'm not too fond of their music division but almost every Sony product I've ever owned, while not the absolute best, has been very nice. I've got this really nice Sony HDV Camcorder and the quality of the video is unmatched. I've got a ten year old Sony VHS deck that still works like it was new. The Playstation and PS2 were both very nice systems, and built very well. Sony TV's are always really nice as well.
So, what's the deal? The PS3 hasn't been released, and we haven't really seen too much real in-game video or specifics yet. It'll be a little expensive but are our memories so short that we can't remember the price of the "real" Xbox 360? (not the chopped down crappy one that was only released to say "look, Xbox 360 is only $300!"
Oh well. I have no loyalties to any company. I buy whatever products are good. This whole loyalty or hatred towards these big corporations is so dumb.
What I see happening is while everyone is watching the iPod product line and dismissing everything else, companies like Creative will start getting it right and offering competing products that are more feature rich, have more capacity, and don't have to be so tethered to a proprietary software product to get the most out of them. All of a sudden, we'll take a look around and say "hey, what am I doing spending all this money on an iPod when I can get xyz brand that does so much more?
After all, they're basically just MP3 players. Very nice ones, for sure, but it's not something that can't be done by anyone else.
You *do* know that patents are public record, right? Creative can go search on Apple patents if they want to, but if Apple's counter-suit doesn't mention which patents, it's almost as if Apple needs to go find one to use against them because they don't have a clue what to use at the moment. Because patents are often so vague and full of prior-art, it probably won't be very difficult to come up with something eventually.
Yea, but it's only OTA stuff. If you want to capture anything else, you have little choice but to use a component HD capture card.
Show me a cable box that allows you to copy all HD programming to your PC. They don't exist, unless your cable operator is not setting the 5C flag on your video.
I can hook up a FireWire cable to my cable box and copy down the stuff that's available OTA (some of it anyways) but none of the non-OTA channels.
So, besides OTA, how else can you capture HD content to your PC? Component HD capture may be the only way to do it. It ain't perfect but you can get some damned "good enough" captures from it.
"Suppose we completely set aside the goal of widespread adoption, and simply leave open the goal that people should be able to use Linux to do whatever they want."
You need to add "with whatever hardware they have no matter the source" to the end, because that's what you're saying. Look, you CAN do whatever you want to do with it. It's there. Download it. If it doesn't work 100%, well, you didn't pay for it.
Why is it the expectation that everything in Linux must work for everyone? There is no point to Linux. People, companies, universities, etc use Linux for all sorts of stuff. It's really enriched the world with a free OS that everyone can utilize. Because it doesn't support your video card, we should change all that? We should allow it to become closed source?
The things that have made Linux big and strong are the things you'd like to see changed. For me, I'd rather keep chugging along at a steady pace rather then forgo the driving force behind GPL software for the purpose of giving us a quick bump. Look how far things have come already? There's Open Source drivers for a lot of hardware now. Manufacturers are providing specs and the OSS hackers are writing their own drivers. It's amazing, really. nVidia and ATI will come around eventually. Until then, blame THEM for not supporting your Free OS in the licencing model of the Free OS; don't blame the Free OS.
You can find pirated high definition versions of many shows and movies online already.
Component/SDI capture boards are already coming down in price. There's some really nice ones available for about $1700, which is within reach of most people with HDTV's already.
Hey. The "Artist" should include the people involved in writing and performing the music. So I don't see your problem. Plus, there's all sorts of different types of bands. And there's all different agreements that the "artists" can make with one another. If I pay $30,000 for some great writer to write me a song, that's that. Flop or hit, he got paid. If he thinks it's a raw deal, then he just wouldn't write the song!
I don't think the sound mixer or audio mixers or other studio personnel need to be compensated with a percentage of record sales. They get paid for their work. Just because I might help get the product of our company ready for ship, doesn't mean I get a slice of every sale. Unless I'm the owner of the company (ie "Band") I don't think I'd feel entitled to any slice of the pie.
Becuase that's all ESX Server does. It's a host OS who's sole purpose is to manage the virtual machines running on it.
I don't buy it.
Why is it okay for the Government to keep secrets? Perhaps some aspects of the military; troop locations and such - are something that should be kept a secret. But for almost everything else, I don't see it. We ARE the government, supposedly. We The People. It's supposed to be the citizens that make up the country and the government - why should only a few people be granted more access to YOUR country then you? What makes them so special? They're just people too. Citizens of our country.
Think of it - Multi-core CPU's bound to appear as a single CPU, and then Hyperthreading on top? =)
"The fact that a corporation is behind it doesn't mean it's bad."
You're right. Companies like Microsoft, the Oil companies, and other huge businesses have given the corporation a bad name. Corporations aren't inherently bad, and quite often they provide services or products that people want and really like. Or need. The corporation actually enables more small businesses to exist - limited liability is a big plus when you don't have millions of dollars in the bank.
Well, the thing sure looks damned cool. While all the PDA's are bulky (for the size of the screens) with no keyboards either, silver and lots of buttons you never use, the Nokia sits there looking damned nice. The screen is very high resolution compared to all the other devices sitting around it at the store. The unit just looks sharp.
I'll be interested to see how the next patch will improve stability. I think the unit has a lot of promise and I hope more devices go this way - open source OS with development tools available. Too many portable devices these days are locked down and I hate it!
At $350, all they need to do is fix a few stability problems and it'll become one damned attracitve device, considering that many PDA's are twice that with lesser hardware and closed (or, not as open) operating systems.
You seem cynical. Perhaps you don't have enough money.
I have to agree with you on this. While Microsoft could go all out war on the Linux companies, if you put together IBM, Red Hat, HP, and even Sun together - they have a lot of IP they could go against Microsoft with. Not to mention all the TiVo's and other companies that use Linux in their embedded products.
It would be interesting to see how something like that played out, but I do agree with you - the destruction could potentially be so vast that not many would be willing to go for it. We see little spits and spats here and there; usually initiated by some small fry company trying to get rich off a much bigger one using patents. But the all out war isn't something we're likely to see anytime soon. The SCO case seems to have been a "testing the waters" type situation, and it's not going the way Microsoft would have liked.