. While it's good to see them give back to the gaming community, I'd rather have DNF than DN3D source anyday. Also, who is going to use the Duke3D engine? Quake 1 source code has been released for a while and it's newer, prettier, and actually 3D.
Google is successful because it yields accurate and pertinant results, not because it loads fast on 56K. Google also is successful because it doesn't have pay-for-placement results. Google has some ads (unobtrusive at that), but if MS was running a search engine, they can afford to have no paid links, and no annoying ads.
Slashdot truly is broken... This utter shit, written by a angry, 14 year-old asstard, has a karma bonus. This comment is not funny, not insightful, and not even close to being worth reading. SHEENmaster, never speak again, ever. You are a worthless turd and are an embarrassment to the world.
Or they could just set up a school website... This is a good example of needlessly including linux, when there are better, easier tools that would make the same result. I know linux is cool, but for each and every use you cited, its an overkill and frankly a dumb idea.
This comment is probably the most correct, insightful comment I have ever seen on slashdot. Thank you for this oasis in the wasteland of utter tripe that is slashdot.
Fascinating, I'm kind of wondering what effect the repeated image is supposed to have??? It doesn't seem to do anything on my XP+SP1 box though? I see all the number up through 5, am I missing something?
On another note, how exactly does that JPEG link work? The effect is badass, but what is the code involved??
If anything I'd think Intel would be pushing for overclockers to fry more chips so they'll have to buy a replacement.
Actually, this is more of a problem than a blessing. I know many overclockers that have no qualms about RMAing hardware they have fucked up from overclocking/overvolting.. These asshats cost intel money and are ruining it for the rest of us. I also know many that try to get a certain batch of processor, and return the chip if its not in one of the "good" batches.
Overclocking with no expectations is fine, but returning a chip because it doesn't perform as far past THE SPEED YOU FUCKING BOUGHT as you hoped is the sign of a true fucktard. [/rant]
I'm kind of curious why Diamond and its offshoots have such a tough time staying afloat in today's market. Diamond made really good video cards, then got bought S3 (and hasn't been seen since). Now Sonicblue (Diamond Rio) has gone under. I really want to know if they just weren't as popular a brand as I thought or if they were very poorly managed.
You still need a Windows installation in order to copy the game data, but the good news is that the downloadable is only 4.4 MB
This begs the point, why even bother with a linux version at all? Its nice that Bioware did make the game playable on Linux, but shelling out for a copy of windows to be able to play it seems counter-productive. Second, why didn't Bioware make a linux installer for the game files. I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to have a hard-drive based installer that looks to the CD for the data.
At any rate, Bioware did make good on their promise to support Linux and Linux gamers should be grateful.
but if you tell you "client" that you can't read the file and that your company has decided not to purchase the software required to be able to do so
You probably won't be able to keep that client (or get their business). Example: our family business does all drawings on AutoCAD, and many of our clients also use it. One of our very best (and profitable) clients however, has switched all their engineers over to Pro-E (many thousands of dollars per seat) and will only send us files in that format. We have two options: tell the customer that we won't purchase Pro-E (they will take their business to our competitors; we lose much $$$), or we can bite the bullet and get some seat licenses for Pro-E (we keep their thousands/millions in business, but we buy software we don't want).
Most businesses don't see your not purchasing needed software as saving consumers money, they see you as a penny-pincher who doesn't understand the concept of overhead (you have to spend money to make money).
If you decide not to purchase Office, thats your decision, but you shouldn't expect others to bend over backward because you're a cheap-skate or an idealist.
AMD needs to cement some deals with some major OEMs and fast. They released a mobile processor before, but I can't name anyone that sells athlon laptops. Hopefully somebody big like gateway or hp, etc. will pick these new chips up post haste. AMD is still lagging in the desktop world (Hammer where are you?) and they are bleeding cash like a sieve, hopefully, they can gain some footing here and give intel a run for their money.
It maintains the monopoly and charges what it likes.
Yeah, except in this case, the cost is zero. How are you hurt? Lets say MS has a monopoly on the browser market. If MS is an abusive monopoly (one that is hurting consumers), they should be charging an exhorbinant price for IE. They aren't. They currently charge $0 for IE.
This raises two points; either MS is not a monopoly and the true value of a web-browser is zero, or they are a monopoly and aren't abusing consumers (since even though they have a monopoly, they are charging $0 for IE). Either way, there isn't much ground for a lawsuit.
As an example - your memory chips. Everyone makes SDD RAM, and its cheap. Look for Rambus RAM - "hey, this memory is hideously expensive".
Yes, but in the MS system it's not that way. Only MS makes IE, yet it costs nothing. You don't even have to own windows to get a copy of it! (Check their page for mac downloads). The memory example you pointed out is one where the monopolist charges a higher price than true market value (RDRAM is expensive for other reasons, but we'll ignore that). In the case of Microsoft, they are charging less. Again, how are you hurt?
This one's easy... Why alienate 1% when using a standard format, you could alienate 0%? DVD playback isn't bundled with windows, but it enjoys decent success. Content and codecs will be the driving force behind the player, not the other way round. As much as I loathe the quicktime player, I dl'ed it to see the Mario Sunshine videos. The only people that really have control over what player is used, is the content creators.
Isn't the danger more with the proprietary windows media formats (.wm.wma.wmv) potentially displacing other non-MS formats?
IMHO, no... The reason people use different media players is because they support the playback codec of the content. As long as content creators use standard file formats (mpeg, avi, ogg, mp3), MS can't force them to use a different format. If media player only supports wma playback, I'll listen to my mp3s on some other player.
As a consumer, the content is much more important than the way its encoded. If I can't play it with media player, I'll use something else. If someone makes an audio file, I don't really care if they paid MS an encoding fee, I will enjoy their content even if I have to play it on something non-MS made. As long as people encode media that I want in non-prop. formats, MS really can't do anything.
Would you expect to be able to charge for a media player in today's marketplace? Good luck!
That's the issue: other potential vendors are prevented from selling their products.
And??? Anti-trust/monopoly laws were established to keep monopolies from harming consumers, not their competition. How does having the market value of a media player equaling 0 hurt the consumer?
When you go to buy memory modules do you think "These prices are too low, these memory makers must be making almost no money" or do you think "Hey, this is great, I can get memory for really cheap"???
Also,if you care about companies well being, do you buy a higher priced product to keep the lower priced one from getting a monopoly or being unfairly competive. Do you use Paintshop Pro or the GIMP? If you use Gimp (which is free like Media PLayer), do you worry that Jasc can't sell their product??
I'm sorry, but quicktime sucks ass... You can't go full screen, files don't play automatically when you double-click open them, the quality is shit, the list goes on and on. With realplayer, your viewing window is surrounded in crap, and it is generally annoying. I love when MS integrates software like this because it has no additional cost and doesn't shower me with ads.
Everytime microsoft integrates something to the os (and it is pretty decent), I don't have to cough up dough for a third-party product. I'm not going to pay $30 for quicktime pro when I get a superior media player for free.
I think open-source will provide constant, unbeatable competition to MS, and the end result won't be the downfall of MS, but a very dramatic increase in the quality of their operating system.
OS will be like a pace partner in running, they won't ever beat you, but they will make damn sure you are running hard the entire time.
I think MS should be allowed to package any additional software it wants with windows as long as it is removable. MS does this to some extent already (some stuff can be chosen during install), but they could do a fair amount more.
I think the stability and security of Windows could also be greatly enhanced from the ability to remove parts from windows. Sick of IE vulnerabilities, uninstall it. I use a fair amount of additional software that is installed with windows (movie maker, media player, IE, etc.), but I wouldn't object is someone else wanted to remove those components from their system.
The flip side of the coin is the handiness of having things integrated. I like having the OS be feature rich out of the box. I don't like having to download additional software to perform basic tasks. I'm sure there are better calculators out there, but the one bundled with windows is ok for what I need it to do.
I don't understand the deal with windows media player. You can use different software to play media files (the Playa, WinAMP, etc.), so what's the big deal? Most OEM PCs come with different jukebox software installed, so media player isn't mandated. This sounds like a pretty dumb thing, I would say most consumers like having a media player built in, who cares if its an MS player or not?
daeley, If you are going to call someone an asshole after they respond to your comment. Grow some balls and don't post it anon. Don't be a pathetic, karma protecting douche. Real men stand behind their flamebait; pussies only use their login name when they know they will get positive karma.
I don't use jabber because none of my friends do. Ubiquity is the entire point of IMing, to be able to talk to as many people as possible. I don't care about which protocol is used or if it's free or open if I'm the only person I know using it.
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. While it's good to see them give back to the gaming community, I'd rather have DNF than DN3D source anyday. Also, who is going to use the Duke3D engine? Quake 1 source code has been released for a while and it's newer, prettier, and actually 3D.
Are you talking about the paid links that appear to the side of the main results???
I was referring to pay-for-placement being not obvious from algorythmic results.
Google is successful because it yields accurate and pertinant results, not because it loads fast on 56K. Google also is successful because it doesn't have pay-for-placement results. Google has some ads (unobtrusive at that), but if MS was running a search engine, they can afford to have no paid links, and no annoying ads.
Slashdot truly is broken... This utter shit, written by a angry, 14 year-old asstard, has a karma bonus. This comment is not funny, not insightful, and not even close to being worth reading. SHEENmaster, never speak again, ever. You are a worthless turd and are an embarrassment to the world.
I'm kind of curious how a beach ball is representative of busyness or waiting. Plz explain.
Or they could just set up a school website... This is a good example of needlessly including linux, when there are better, easier tools that would make the same result. I know linux is cool, but for each and every use you cited, its an overkill and frankly a dumb idea.
This comment is probably the most correct, insightful comment I have ever seen on slashdot. Thank you for this oasis in the wasteland of utter tripe that is slashdot.
Fascinating, I'm kind of wondering what effect the repeated image is supposed to have??? It doesn't seem to do anything on my XP+SP1 box though? I see all the number up through 5, am I missing something?
On another note, how exactly does that JPEG link work? The effect is badass, but what is the code involved??
If anything I'd think Intel would be pushing for overclockers to fry more chips so they'll have to buy a replacement.
Actually, this is more of a problem than a blessing. I know many overclockers that have no qualms about RMAing hardware they have fucked up from overclocking/overvolting.. These asshats cost intel money and are ruining it for the rest of us. I also know many that try to get a certain batch of processor, and return the chip if its not in one of the "good" batches.
Overclocking with no expectations is fine, but returning a chip because it doesn't perform as far past THE SPEED YOU FUCKING BOUGHT as you hoped is the sign of a true fucktard.
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I'm kind of curious why Diamond and its offshoots have such a tough time staying afloat in today's market. Diamond made really good video cards, then got bought S3 (and hasn't been seen since). Now Sonicblue (Diamond Rio) has gone under. I really want to know if they just weren't as popular a brand as I thought or if they were very poorly managed.
You still need a Windows installation in order to copy the game data, but the good news is that the downloadable is only 4.4 MB
This begs the point, why even bother with a linux version at all? Its nice that Bioware did make the game playable on Linux, but shelling out for a copy of windows to be able to play it seems counter-productive. Second, why didn't Bioware make a linux installer for the game files. I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to have a hard-drive based installer that looks to the CD for the data.
At any rate, Bioware did make good on their promise to support Linux and Linux gamers should be grateful.
but if you tell you "client" that you can't read the file and that your company has decided not to purchase the software required to be able to do so
You probably won't be able to keep that client (or get their business). Example: our family business does all drawings on AutoCAD, and many of our clients also use it. One of our very best (and profitable) clients however, has switched all their engineers over to Pro-E (many thousands of dollars per seat) and will only send us files in that format. We have two options: tell the customer that we won't purchase Pro-E (they will take their business to our competitors; we lose much $$$), or we can bite the bullet and get some seat licenses for Pro-E (we keep their thousands/millions in business, but we buy software we don't want).
Most businesses don't see your not purchasing needed software as saving consumers money, they see you as a penny-pincher who doesn't understand the concept of overhead (you have to spend money to make money).
If you decide not to purchase Office, thats your decision, but you shouldn't expect others to bend over backward because you're a cheap-skate or an idealist.
AMD needs to cement some deals with some major OEMs and fast. They released a mobile processor before, but I can't name anyone that sells athlon laptops. Hopefully somebody big like gateway or hp, etc. will pick these new chips up post haste. AMD is still lagging in the desktop world (Hammer where are you?) and they are bleeding cash like a sieve, hopefully, they can gain some footing here and give intel a run for their money.
It maintains the monopoly and charges what it likes.
Yeah, except in this case, the cost is zero. How are you hurt? Lets say MS has a monopoly on the browser market. If MS is an abusive monopoly (one that is hurting consumers), they should be charging an exhorbinant price for IE. They aren't. They currently charge $0 for IE.
This raises two points; either MS is not a monopoly and the true value of a web-browser is zero, or they are a monopoly and aren't abusing consumers (since even though they have a monopoly, they are charging $0 for IE). Either way, there isn't much ground for a lawsuit.
As an example - your memory chips. Everyone makes SDD RAM, and its cheap. Look for Rambus RAM - "hey, this memory is hideously expensive".
Yes, but in the MS system it's not that way. Only MS makes IE, yet it costs nothing. You don't even have to own windows to get a copy of it! (Check their page for mac downloads). The memory example you pointed out is one where the monopolist charges a higher price than true market value (RDRAM is expensive for other reasons, but we'll ignore that). In the case of Microsoft, they are charging less. Again, how are you hurt?
This one's easy... Why alienate 1% when using a standard format, you could alienate 0%? DVD playback isn't bundled with windows, but it enjoys decent success. Content and codecs will be the driving force behind the player, not the other way round. As much as I loathe the quicktime player, I dl'ed it to see the Mario Sunshine videos. The only people that really have control over what player is used, is the content creators.
Isn't the danger more with the proprietary windows media formats (.wm .wma .wmv) potentially displacing other non-MS formats?
IMHO, no... The reason people use different media players is because they support the playback codec of the content. As long as content creators use standard file formats (mpeg, avi, ogg, mp3), MS can't force them to use a different format. If media player only supports wma playback, I'll listen to my mp3s on some other player.
As a consumer, the content is much more important than the way its encoded. If I can't play it with media player, I'll use something else. If someone makes an audio file, I don't really care if they paid MS an encoding fee, I will enjoy their content even if I have to play it on something non-MS made. As long as people encode media that I want in non-prop. formats, MS really can't do anything.
Would you expect to be able to charge for a media player in today's marketplace? Good luck!
That's the issue: other potential vendors are prevented from selling their products.
And??? Anti-trust/monopoly laws were established to keep monopolies from harming consumers, not their competition. How does having the market value of a media player equaling 0 hurt the consumer?
When you go to buy memory modules do you think "These prices are too low, these memory makers must be making almost no money" or do you think "Hey, this is great, I can get memory for really cheap"???
Also,if you care about companies well being, do you buy a higher priced product to keep the lower priced one from getting a monopoly or being unfairly competive. Do you use Paintshop Pro or the GIMP? If you use Gimp (which is free like Media PLayer), do you worry that Jasc can't sell their product??
I'm sorry, but quicktime sucks ass... You can't go full screen, files don't play automatically when you double-click open them, the quality is shit, the list goes on and on. With realplayer, your viewing window is surrounded in crap, and it is generally annoying. I love when MS integrates software like this because it has no additional cost and doesn't shower me with ads.
Everytime microsoft integrates something to the os (and it is pretty decent), I don't have to cough up dough for a third-party product. I'm not going to pay $30 for quicktime pro when I get a superior media player for free.
I think open-source will provide constant, unbeatable competition to MS, and the end result won't be the downfall of MS, but a very dramatic increase in the quality of their operating system.
OS will be like a pace partner in running, they won't ever beat you, but they will make damn sure you are running hard the entire time.
I think MS should be allowed to package any additional software it wants with windows as long as it is removable. MS does this to some extent already (some stuff can be chosen during install), but they could do a fair amount more.
I think the stability and security of Windows could also be greatly enhanced from the ability to remove parts from windows. Sick of IE vulnerabilities, uninstall it. I use a fair amount of additional software that is installed with windows (movie maker, media player, IE, etc.), but I wouldn't object is someone else wanted to remove those components from their system.
The flip side of the coin is the handiness of having things integrated. I like having the OS be feature rich out of the box. I don't like having to download additional software to perform basic tasks. I'm sure there are better calculators out there, but the one bundled with windows is ok for what I need it to do.
I don't understand the deal with windows media player. You can use different software to play media files (the Playa, WinAMP, etc.), so what's the big deal? Most OEM PCs come with different jukebox software installed, so media player isn't mandated. This sounds like a pretty dumb thing, I would say most consumers like having a media player built in, who cares if its an MS player or not?
daeley,
If you are going to call someone an asshole after they respond to your comment. Grow some balls and don't post it anon. Don't be a pathetic, karma protecting douche. Real men stand behind their flamebait; pussies only use their login name when they know they will get positive karma.
Are you a man or a pussy?
I don't use jabber because none of my friends do. Ubiquity is the entire point of IMing, to be able to talk to as many people as possible. I don't care about which protocol is used or if it's free or open if I'm the only person I know using it.
Atari had something like that in the ill-fated Jaguar console, it had co-processors named "Tom" and "Jerry"
Because we're all too lazy to copy/paste