The seem to be doing it everywhere, so no matter where you talk about it's happening. I also believe that the musicians went on strike awhile back to stop this from happening in NYC, perhaps the same will happen in London.
Since pretty much all the well known musicals today are found in New York City on Broadway. This presents a problem because people aren't going to New York as much as they use to due to terrorism concerns. Some musicals had to close because no one was going to NYC. I don't know if the audience numbers have returned to pre-Sept 11th levels or not, but saving a little money can be helpful. However, it really does ruin the experiance, sure the music may be accurate everytime, but I think that the a real musician is a hell of a lot better because he or she can add a whole lot more to the music than prerecorded music can.
young buyers have to take the time to squirrel away $50 for a typical purchase.
You make it sound like it's so terrible. Even though development costs have risen drastically for a game, especially ones that are based off a franchise like Star Trek(where they have to hire the actors for the voices), and piracy has risen drastically over the years with the introduction of broadband, the game still only costs $50. Infact game prices actually went down. I remember Star Trek Judgement Rites was $70. PC Gamer had a breakdown of where your money goes, some of it foots the bill of the piraters. Some goes to the devs, some goes to advertising, and some will go to paying the retail outlets for space to put up those big displays. I usually wouldn't bother with something like this, but people make out like $50 is too much.
they use a layer of conductive ink that heats up when an electrical current runs through it
Now I know why I got first degree burns on the tips of my fingers from using the tester too long.
Yeah I haven't seen the blue screen for years, I think the last time it blue screened was 2000(the year). As much as I hate to admit it 2k/XP are relatively stable. 98 was pretty stable too, until you started installing bad drivers.
Seriously, why not just take the cash and give it to the people who would have been employed there, and cut out the AMD middleman?
It's obvious, just giving the money to the people shows people that they do not have to work, and the government will just give them money. Atleast with this they are more productive then just sitting at home and watching television and getting fat. I believe that Germany's obese population is going to double within the next 10 years and just giving them money will not help it.
So, does Nasa like these blatent StarTrek References?
The first shuttle's name wasn't originally Enterprise. It was Constitution, but a lot of Star Trek fans had a write in campaign to change the name to Enterprise.
Because I'm sure framing someone else is such an ingenious origninal idea. Now if someone made a virus that changed your background to a picture of the goatse.cx man, well that would truely be ingenious.
It is really hard to get into the gaming industry, my brother knows a guy who now makes maps for a living. He was involved in American McGee's Alice. He also worked in Ritual, Rogue, and Gearbox. I think he was also working on Counterstrike:CZ, but go canned when they stopped developement, which is another issue all on it's own. This guy who I'm not mentioning names, only got a job in the industry because John Carmack played his map.
Another issue is job security, you have to make your own, but then again pretty much in every job today you have some degree of doing that. However, even if you have made your job security there is nothing that can protect you from being laid off when you finish the game your working on(ie Ritual employees after Elite Force 2). Those people were quickly hired by others but I don't know if you want to be moving around so much.
So to wrap things up, you better be good at what you do, you better have a contact in the industry, or hope someone recognizes you. Lastly, your going to always run the risk of being let go and have to move somewhere else.
They started doing this before SCO even filed their case.
It's nice to see though OEMs are trying to pull away from Microsoft, it may be a slow process but still it will eventually happen, the only problem is Microsoft may pull a fast one the OEMs saying the must ship Windows. However it seems unlikely because someone will pick up on it and since it's pretty much anti-trust, and something tells me the OEMs will just not renew their agreements, hopefully the majority won't renew, and they will start selling Linux by default. That's some wishful thinking right now though, but it might happen.
I can see Microsoft inside being anti-Linux, people usually hate and fear what they don't understand.
But wouldn't it be obvious that your stealing their IP? If Intel found out, they can just sue them. I'm sure the tech is patented so AMD would have to license it to use it anyway.
I would hope that even though these people are annoyances that they don't go to jail, and just have a large fine, jail is for dangerous criminals, ones that murder and rape people, and I shouldn't have to pay taxes to support someone who isn't a danger to society.
What Microsoft is thinking about this, IBM is one of the largest players in the computing field and something like this is sure to catch Linux/IBM's competitor. Doing something like this shows that IBM stands behind the product they support 100%(Remember that commercial with Avery Brooks). IBM will probably be doing some tweaking to the desktop and will probably send the changes back to the respected projects, and that will be good for everyone.
Tivo alot but saying you're not wanting to litigate people while suing them seems kinda silly.
Well it's either sue them and protect your IP, or don't and loose your IP. It didn't say in the article if they try to settle out of court with the EchoStar, but if they did, then it's kind of a last resort option.
Forgotten Realms, I'll be happy. NWN and Baulder's Gate were and still are cool games, and from what they said in the interview there will be another Forgotten Realms game(they said based on NWN and Baulder's Gate), hopefully they will put out a Linux port for it too.
I thought Savage was one of the best, blending both RTS/FPS together. While you might say that it copied Natural Selection, development for Savage started way before NS. Not only was it a good game, it came with a Linux port right on the CD.
For $99 now, it's a good deal. My younger brother just got one for Christmas, and it game with a game, well many games when you think about it, The Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition(Original Zelda, through Majora's Mask, and the demo of the newest one). For the price it beats both X-BOX and PS2, and you won't find SuperMario or Zelda on either of those, and those are two characters, I grew up with playing as. It's very unlikely that Nintendo will be going away anytime soon. Nintendo's sales have increased since the price cut, and their marketshare is about 37 percent of the market for consoles(atleast that's what they claim).
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The seem to be doing it everywhere, so no matter where you talk about it's happening. I also believe that the musicians went on strike awhile back to stop this from happening in NYC, perhaps the same will happen in London.
Since pretty much all the well known musicals today are found in New York City on Broadway. This presents a problem because people aren't going to New York as much as they use to due to terrorism concerns. Some musicals had to close because no one was going to NYC. I don't know if the audience numbers have returned to pre-Sept 11th levels or not, but saving a little money can be helpful. However, it really does ruin the experiance, sure the music may be accurate everytime, but I think that the a real musician is a hell of a lot better because he or she can add a whole lot more to the music than prerecorded music can.
young buyers have to take the time to squirrel away $50 for a typical purchase.
You make it sound like it's so terrible. Even though development costs have risen drastically for a game, especially ones that are based off a franchise like Star Trek(where they have to hire the actors for the voices), and piracy has risen drastically over the years with the introduction of broadband, the game still only costs $50. Infact game prices actually went down. I remember Star Trek Judgement Rites was $70. PC Gamer had a breakdown of where your money goes, some of it foots the bill of the piraters. Some goes to the devs, some goes to advertising, and some will go to paying the retail outlets for space to put up those big displays. I usually wouldn't bother with something like this, but people make out like $50 is too much.
they use a layer of conductive ink that heats up when an electrical current runs through it Now I know why I got first degree burns on the tips of my fingers from using the tester too long.
Aren't they, and what if they win, will Microsoft indemify Disney, or will Intertrust try and collect their "$699" from Disney?
Yeah I haven't seen the blue screen for years, I think the last time it blue screened was 2000(the year). As much as I hate to admit it 2k/XP are relatively stable. 98 was pretty stable too, until you started installing bad drivers.
Seriously, why not just take the cash and give it to the people who would have been employed there, and cut out the AMD middleman?
It's obvious, just giving the money to the people shows people that they do not have to work, and the government will just give them money. Atleast with this they are more productive then just sitting at home and watching television and getting fat. I believe that Germany's obese population is going to double within the next 10 years and just giving them money will not help it.
Damn Rush fans always getting into everything!
So, does Nasa like these blatent StarTrek References? The first shuttle's name wasn't originally Enterprise. It was Constitution, but a lot of Star Trek fans had a write in campaign to change the name to Enterprise.
that the one with the higher price tag is better. :)
I think they know it looks bad, that's why Plastik was made, and I'm pretty sure it will be the default in 3.2, but I'm not 100% sure.
Because I'm sure framing someone else is such an ingenious origninal idea. Now if someone made a virus that changed your background to a picture of the goatse.cx man, well that would truely be ingenious.
So, people created OpenGl hacks for Call of Duty with out the source.
It is really hard to get into the gaming industry, my brother knows a guy who now makes maps for a living. He was involved in American McGee's Alice. He also worked in Ritual, Rogue, and Gearbox. I think he was also working on Counterstrike:CZ, but go canned when they stopped developement, which is another issue all on it's own. This guy who I'm not mentioning names, only got a job in the industry because John Carmack played his map.
Another issue is job security, you have to make your own, but then again pretty much in every job today you have some degree of doing that. However, even if you have made your job security there is nothing that can protect you from being laid off when you finish the game your working on(ie Ritual employees after Elite Force 2). Those people were quickly hired by others but I don't know if you want to be moving around so much.
So to wrap things up, you better be good at what you do, you better have a contact in the industry, or hope someone recognizes you. Lastly, your going to always run the risk of being let go and have to move somewhere else.
It said award winning KDE, not Koffice specifically, and in that case what real awards has KDE won?
Seems a dollar is worth less, so Microsoft could be paying much more that what it seems due to the exchange rate.
They started doing this before SCO even filed their case.
It's nice to see though OEMs are trying to pull away from Microsoft, it may be a slow process but still it will eventually happen, the only problem is Microsoft may pull a fast one the OEMs saying the must ship Windows. However it seems unlikely because someone will pick up on it and since it's pretty much anti-trust, and something tells me the OEMs will just not renew their agreements, hopefully the majority won't renew, and they will start selling Linux by default. That's some wishful thinking right now though, but it might happen.
I can see Microsoft inside being anti-Linux, people usually hate and fear what they don't understand.
But wouldn't it be obvious that your stealing their IP? If Intel found out, they can just sue them. I'm sure the tech is patented so AMD would have to license it to use it anyway.
It means that SCO has been out of the picture for to long as PR goes, they need something to boost their declining stock.
I would hope that even though these people are annoyances that they don't go to jail, and just have a large fine, jail is for dangerous criminals, ones that murder and rape people, and I shouldn't have to pay taxes to support someone who isn't a danger to society.
What Microsoft is thinking about this, IBM is one of the largest players in the computing field and something like this is sure to catch Linux/IBM's competitor. Doing something like this shows that IBM stands behind the product they support 100%(Remember that commercial with Avery Brooks). IBM will probably be doing some tweaking to the desktop and will probably send the changes back to the respected projects, and that will be good for everyone.
Tivo alot but saying you're not wanting to litigate people while suing them seems kinda silly.
Well it's either sue them and protect your IP, or don't and loose your IP. It didn't say in the article if they try to settle out of court with the EchoStar, but if they did, then it's kind of a last resort option.
Forgotten Realms, I'll be happy. NWN and Baulder's Gate were and still are cool games, and from what they said in the interview there will be another Forgotten Realms game(they said based on NWN and Baulder's Gate), hopefully they will put out a Linux port for it too.
I thought Savage was one of the best, blending both RTS/FPS together. While you might say that it copied Natural Selection, development for Savage started way before NS. Not only was it a good game, it came with a Linux port right on the CD.
For $99 now, it's a good deal. My younger brother just got one for Christmas, and it game with a game, well many games when you think about it, The Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition(Original Zelda, through Majora's Mask, and the demo of the newest one). For the price it beats both X-BOX and PS2, and you won't find SuperMario or Zelda on either of those, and those are two characters, I grew up with playing as. It's very unlikely that Nintendo will be going away anytime soon. Nintendo's sales have increased since the price cut, and their marketshare is about 37 percent of the market for consoles(atleast that's what they claim).