But on the bright side, they do rank number one for potential to worship you as a God. When they aren't busy riding around on seahorses and playing volleyball that is.
That's funny, my advice is the exact opposite. With two cats (brothers), I've found the cat owning experience to be far better than with one. If one wants to play and I'm busy, they'll imediatly go wake the other one up to play with instead of getting upset with me.
I might just be lucky, but neither of them have ever urinated on anything other than their litter box.
To some extent I'd agree. They do seem to pick up new technology and ideas faster than the average person. On the other hand though, on most gaming boards I tend to see a complete ignorance of such simple concepts as capitalising the letter I if they're referring to themselves. I don't want to even think of what's being done with the letter "u".
I used to work in a pharmacy. One thing that never ceased to amaze me was that people refused to even take time to learn about what they were taking. They'd refer to the drug by the brand name and have no idea what the drug was really named, have no idea what the drug was doing to their body and no intention of learning, and get mad at you if you dared to tell them what they should avoid eating or drinking while taking it if they didn't wait to, you know, die.
My point is that you can't even make the average person take ten minutes to learn about something that is keeping them from dying. Thinking they'll take five minutes to learn how to record a show is way too optamistic.
You saved $$ on the software -- but how much $$ is the time needed to cope with that desktop arrangement worth to you?
I'm getting very tired of that argument. Unless you're the kind of person that shouldn't be using Linux in the first place, it's not going to take much time to get things set up to be enjoyable.
I don't think it'd make much difference, because suddenly OSX aplications would be splintered into versions for different processors.It might not be as difficult for the average person to understand than compiling a program in Linux would be, but it'd still be enough for me to not be able to recomend it to people trying to get away from windows.
Out of curiosity, anyone managed to get this working in wine? Everything seemed to be going fine on my try up to the point of picking a station, and at that point wine crashes.
2) Is there a decent, free alternative for Windoze that people here would recommend for video files?
Back when I was using windows I remember trying to find the same thing. My result was over and over again finding video players that in fact were little more than front ends for windows media player, in the same vein as the many browsers for windows that are little more than a new gui around internet explorer. Great player in any case though, which I rank ahead of media player both in usability, gui design and handling broken or odd files.
One alternitive might be sasami2k. Great player, but I'm not sure just how wmp free it is. At the very least though they're not just writing a gui and throwing in some directShow code, their updates show a lot of very specific work being done.
DivX.coms player is pretty good at this point as well. Pretty unstable in Linux right now, but I think the windows version is a lot more stable.
OK, for people not aware of the situation, there's a company called tuxgames which sells games for Linux. Right now one of their highest selling items is a game called, yes, neverwinter nights. But, they're not shipping the windows version of neverwinter, which is needed to play the linux version of neverwinter until bioware releasses Linux binaries. This is good because it isn't rewarding bioware for not releasing anything for Linux, which is what happens if Linux users order from anywhere else.
My question was regarding the release mentioned in this article, for whoever was ignorent of the situation and still thought it'd be fun to mod just because they could.
I know it's bad form complaining about moderation, but I'm tired of people coming home drunk late at night and moderating articles they're ignorent of! Now this reply would be sutable for modding down, or up, whatever, but not the parent!
Does anyone know if tuxgames will be shipping out boxes now, or if they'll be waiting untill the client is released as well?
I doubt anyone reading this wouldn't at least be aware of the option, but I think it's extrealy important to support Linux as a viable gaming platform by ordering from tuxgames. Show bioware that even if a low percentage, they can still get a chunk of money from us, and get some cash flowing to a good Linux related store in the process.
I really hadn't thought of it that way. In that light it does seem like it might be of benifit. I'm seeing a lot more people wanting to get away from microsoft latley, but whom I don't think are quite up to understanding installing software from either rpm or source when dependency issues come up. I've been wishing for something like BeOS, and who knows, this might be right what I've been looking for to recomend to people who are looking for that kind of experience.
Still, I have to say the whole idea of it running root all the time does disturb me. I can just see people thinking because they're running a linux distro they'll never have to worry about viruses again, even though they're running outlook express and as root. I'm sure the popular press would have a field day reporting about how virus prone "linux" is, instead of the important note that it's lindows that's so easy to infect, not Linux.
Darn! When you mentioned Neverwinter, for a minute there I thought you meant bioware had officially commented on their missing in action Linux software, or even released something. Timing the release to coincide with gnome2 would have made me forgive everything:)
I'd say it's got at least a fighting chance. I think enough people were annoyed by the DivX 5.x encoding software no longer being freeware in it's full featured version that there's been increased interest in xvid lately. And that might easily move over to interest in Theora as well.
The name recognition of divX could go for them either way I think. To this day, when talking to non tech people if I mention divX they think I'm talking about the dvd format at first. Heavy computer users might recognize DivX as simply being a video codec usable for anything wmv or real could be used for, but the average user tends to either think of it as Circuit City's failed product, or an evil hacker way to steal money from the movie industry, stolen from Microsoft. Theora will lack the automatic user base a divX release will have, but it might have an easier time gaining a foothold commercially.
I'm sure they're out there, but I don't personally know anyone who codes much client-side Java anymore, and I'm guessing it's for this reason.
For me that was pretty much it. A copule years ago I thought it'd be fun to write a little game in Java, both to get porting time down and because I thought it might be neat to set it up as an aplet on my page as well. Unfourtunatly even with a warning right on the page for the demo that they'd need suns jvm, and a link there, I'd still get complaints from people about it not working. "i didnt goto that link because my browser ie comes with java already and thta jar thing dosnt do anything on the desktop thingy 2. u need to learn 2 code lolol plz help plz". The sad thing is just how little I'm exagerating that reply.
The people who wouldn't download suns JVM in the first place are the same people who can't be bothered to use windows update.
If microsoft was serious about it, they'd be sending out crappy cd's with Java 1.1.3, best jvm EVER! written in big shiny letters.
What surprised me was the processor requirements. With the ps2 running at only around 300mhz, while I'd expected higher PC requirements I didn't expect that much extra. Phantasy Star Online required a 400mhz processor for the PC port, which I thought was still somewhat high but still reasonable. I know you really can't directly compare the different systems so directly, but I can't help but wonder a little at anything much larger than a doubling of the requirements.
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But Sea Monkeys aren't cuddly.
But on the bright side, they do rank number one for potential to worship you as a God. When they aren't busy riding around on seahorses and playing volleyball that is.
That's funny, my advice is the exact opposite. With two cats (brothers), I've found the cat owning experience to be far better than with one. If one wants to play and I'm busy, they'll imediatly go wake the other one up to play with instead of getting upset with me.
I might just be lucky, but neither of them have ever urinated on anything other than their litter box.
That's wonderful! I love how the typical user makes only just about as much sense as AOLiza, and has far worse spelling ability.
Backing out of the result, and hitting the submit key will get you there though.
As a wheel of time fan, no sympathy for them!
To some extent I'd agree. They do seem to pick up new technology and ideas faster than the average person. On the other hand though, on most gaming boards I tend to see a complete ignorance of such simple concepts as capitalising the letter I if they're referring to themselves. I don't want to even think of what's being done with the letter "u".
I used to work in a pharmacy. One thing that never ceased to amaze me was that people refused to even take time to learn about what they were taking. They'd refer to the drug by the brand name and have no idea what the drug was really named, have no idea what the drug was doing to their body and no intention of learning, and get mad at you if you dared to tell them what they should avoid eating or drinking while taking it if they didn't wait to, you know, die.
My point is that you can't even make the average person take ten minutes to learn about something that is keeping them from dying. Thinking they'll take five minutes to learn how to record a show is way too optamistic.
"Right, it's the computer that's stupid, not you?"
You saved $$ on the software -- but how much $$ is the time needed to cope with that desktop arrangement worth to you?
I'm getting very tired of that argument. Unless you're the kind of person that shouldn't be using Linux in the first place, it's not going to take much time to get things set up to be enjoyable.
I don't think it'd make much difference, because suddenly OSX aplications would be splintered into versions for different processors.It might not be as difficult for the average person to understand than compiling a program in Linux would be, but it'd still be enough for me to not be able to recomend it to people trying to get away from windows.
Just like Alf!
I don't care if I do get modded down, sometimes an alf/pog joke must be said!
Out of curiosity, anyone managed to get this working in wine? Everything seemed to be going fine on my try up to the point of picking a station, and at that point wine crashes.
2) Is there a decent, free alternative for Windoze that people here would recommend for video files?
Back when I was using windows I remember trying to find the same thing. My result was over and over again finding video players that in fact were little more than front ends for windows media player, in the same vein as the many browsers for windows that are little more than a new gui around internet explorer. Great player in any case though, which I rank ahead of media player both in usability, gui design and handling broken or odd files.
One alternitive might be sasami2k. Great player, but I'm not sure just how wmp free it is. At the very least though they're not just writing a gui and throwing in some directShow code, their updates show a lot of very specific work being done.
DivX.coms player is pretty good at this point as well. Pretty unstable in Linux right now, but I think the windows version is a lot more stable.
OK, for people not aware of the situation, there's a company called tuxgames which sells games for Linux. Right now one of their highest selling items is a game called, yes, neverwinter nights. But, they're not shipping the windows version of neverwinter, which is needed to play the linux version of neverwinter until bioware releasses Linux binaries. This is good because it isn't rewarding bioware for not releasing anything for Linux, which is what happens if Linux users order from anywhere else.
My question was regarding the release mentioned in this article, for whoever was ignorent of the situation and still thought it'd be fun to mod just because they could.
I know it's bad form complaining about moderation, but I'm tired of people coming home drunk late at night and moderating articles they're ignorent of! Now this reply would be sutable for modding down, or up, whatever, but not the parent!
This is most certainly not the way to get microsoft to donate $750 million to them.
Does anyone know if tuxgames will be shipping out boxes now, or if they'll be waiting untill the client is released as well?
I doubt anyone reading this wouldn't at least be aware of the option, but I think it's extrealy important to support Linux as a viable gaming platform by ordering from tuxgames. Show bioware that even if a low percentage, they can still get a chunk of money from us, and get some cash flowing to a good Linux related store in the process.
I really hadn't thought of it that way. In that light it does seem like it might be of benifit. I'm seeing a lot more people wanting to get away from microsoft latley, but whom I don't think are quite up to understanding installing software from either rpm or source when dependency issues come up. I've been wishing for something like BeOS, and who knows, this might be right what I've been looking for to recomend to people who are looking for that kind of experience.
Still, I have to say the whole idea of it running root all the time does disturb me. I can just see people thinking because they're running a linux distro they'll never have to worry about viruses again, even though they're running outlook express and as root. I'm sure the popular press would have a field day reporting about how virus prone "linux" is, instead of the important note that it's lindows that's so easy to infect, not Linux.
Darn! When you mentioned Neverwinter, for a minute there I thought you meant bioware had officially commented on their missing in action Linux software, or even released something. Timing the release to coincide with gnome2 would have made me forgive everything :)
Time to grab some Moby CDs and book a flight!
I'd say it's got at least a fighting chance. I think enough people were annoyed by the DivX 5.x encoding software no longer being freeware in it's full featured version that there's been increased interest in xvid lately. And that might easily move over to interest in Theora as well.
The name recognition of divX could go for them either way I think. To this day, when talking to non tech people if I mention divX they think I'm talking about the dvd format at first. Heavy computer users might recognize DivX as simply being a video codec usable for anything wmv or real could be used for, but the average user tends to either think of it as Circuit City's failed product, or an evil hacker way to steal money from the movie industry, stolen from Microsoft. Theora will lack the automatic user base a divX release will have, but it might have an easier time gaining a foothold commercially.
I think the real question here is once the Adrian Barbeaubots take over, will the robot tigers have to live in zoos?
I still maintain faith that Rover, Shelly the turtle, and all the Microsoft Bob gang will show us the way to a new userfriendly future!
I'm sure they're out there, but I don't personally know anyone who codes much client-side Java anymore, and I'm guessing it's for this reason.
For me that was pretty much it. A copule years ago I thought it'd be fun to write a little game in Java, both to get porting time down and because I thought it might be neat to set it up as an aplet on my page as well. Unfourtunatly even with a warning right on the page for the demo that they'd need suns jvm, and a link there, I'd still get complaints from people about it not working. "i didnt goto that link because my browser ie comes with java already and thta jar thing dosnt do anything on the desktop thingy 2. u need to learn 2 code lolol plz help plz". The sad thing is just how little I'm exagerating that reply.
The people who wouldn't download suns JVM in the first place are the same people who can't be bothered to use windows update. If microsoft was serious about it, they'd be sending out crappy cd's with Java 1.1.3, best jvm EVER! written in big shiny letters.
What surprised me was the processor requirements. With the ps2 running at only around 300mhz, while I'd expected higher PC requirements I didn't expect that much extra. Phantasy Star Online required a 400mhz processor for the PC port, which I thought was still somewhat high but still reasonable. I know you really can't directly compare the different systems so directly, but I can't help but wonder a little at anything much larger than a doubling of the requirements.