However, some of us, as linux zealots/advocates/users, have a limited choice of games we are able to use/enjoy/whatever...
You are only Bioware's customer if you purchased the game. If you purchased the game because they said they were developing a Linux client, good for you... They did what they said they would do... Did they say there were going to make it easy? Did they say that a Linux installer would be released?
Look at the box for your NWN cd's...
I don't imagine you'll find 'Linux' under supported operating systems, regardless of what you read on Bioware's website...
I personally, was eagerly awaiting release of the linux client so that I could stay in my SuSE distro more than my WinXP installation. I applaud Bioware's efforts to release a Linux client, as my friends and I enjoyed playing multiplayer on my Slackware server using the dedicated Linux server.
Instead of bashing Bioware for a less than perfect Linux implementation, how about applauding them for bothering to support linux at all?
I was happy with my Live! Value as well (4 years old) but I bought a set of 5.1 speakers and didn't have 5 channel support with the Value... Of course I could have bought a Live 5.1 for 1/4 of the money I paid for the Audigy 2, but I have a friend who had a live and got the original Audigy and said he found the audio much clearer...
Anyway, the Audigy2 works and sounds great with my Klipsch Promedia 5.1 system... I just wish the Klipsch had digital/optical in...
For someone who "distinctly remember[s] it" you don't sound real sure of yourself...
"Oh, I know it's real because I think I still have a copy of the magazine in which it first appeared. It was either 'Time' or 'Wired'. It was a highly amusing read, and had questions that only a non-American popular media journalist would've asked at the time. I believe the interviewer was German."
So which was it, Time or Wired? You *believe* the interviewer was German, while the link posted in this article explicitly states the magazine was German...
If it looks like a troll, walks like a troll and sounds like a troll...
There is no way MS is going to endorse running Linux on the XBox gaming platform... They lose money on every console sold, so the way they make money is to sell games...
That being said, the XBox is a pretty cheap PC, and if MS would enable the XBox to run Linux w/o modding it, they would be helping to shoot themselves in the foot...
Even disregarding the money issue (MS losing money per XBox, not gaining $100k for helping to get Linux running on XBox) MS is not going to support running an OS on XBox... It's not like you can run WinXP on your XBox either. Why? Because they want you to buy an entire PC, and pay for a windows license...
Really? Someone on/. agreeing with an anti-Microsoft comment?? That's a new one...
I wish I had a nickel for everytime someone used the 'M$' abbreviation around here... You can basically write-off anything said as being biased from there-on...
I think the linux fan-base needs to sit back and think about this...
At least Bioware RELEASED a Linux Ded-Server, almost as soon as the game was released... They could have just waited and developed/released it when the client is ready
As soon as the publisher changed, they could have just said 'Infogrames has made us cease development on the Linux ver, sorry guys' People would have been pissed, but I for one, would still be buying all future products released by Bioware... I have so many hours of gameplay into NWN, it's unbelievable... Replay value (for me) is almost infinite due to the differences between one char and the next...
As far as 'seasonal' release dates, it's called a 'ballpark' figure... They give you a range, so that we have a date to look forward to the release, and they have some breathing room... They could have been like 3drealms, and just said when its done':P
In any event, I'm more inclined to appreciate the effort Bioware is putting into getting the Linux client out, and not so prone to attack them for the delay....
I would assume since the reviewer said it uses what resembles a p2p style app to download the file... "no" Unless maybe you can DL it with the windows client and then play it through linux, but from what he wrote, that seems unlikely as well...
Anybody passing judgement on the cooling system should be made aware that the card you've seen today is a REFERENCE design... Manufacturers are free to modify that design to suit their needs.
With that having been said, please, reserve your judgements for when reviewers have actual production cards to review... I can't wait to see the benchmarks
I had worked for a company as a database programmer for a number or years, and was offered a better position at another company. After giving 2 months notice, and training my 'replacement', away I went... Almost immediately after I left, they came to me, and said they needed one final project done. I told them $50 an hour, they said no, we'll give you a flat fee of $1000... I agreed, pretending to be hesitant... 10 hours later, the project was done, and they had 'bargained' themselves out of an extra $500;)
Moral of the story, your ex-bosses will always look for once last chance to short-change you. Find a way to use that against them and capitalize on their greed.
And now we see Sony moving fast to innovate in areas that Microsoft basically can't... namely, they've gone and asked IBM for a radically different kind of chip.
You don't think MS could go to IBM, Intel, AMD or any other manufacturer and wave money in their faces, and get them to design a new processor from the ground up?? And while I'm responding to your post, how is Sony going to IBM an example of *sony* innovating? IBM is doing all the grunt-work...
Until recently I worked as a technician in a retail computer shop, and we had terrible luck with Fujitsu hard drives, the MPG3204AT in particular. Some drives wouldn't detect at all on POST, most just had the "click of death", and as a result were subjected to the "freezer of doom" so we could try and rescue some of the customer's data (not that it usually helped)
Maxtor/Seagate/WD drives seem to be quite a bit more reliable, but one of the OEM's we were buying premade systems from was using "Fush*tsu" drives, so we encountered quite a few of them (I'd say at least 50% failure rate)
We also had problems with MSI K7T Pro mainboards we recieved from the same OEM, so it could just be we were getting shafted w/ known-bad product.
In any event, in the past few months I've seen the same articles on The Reg and other spots, and I'm not at all surprised to have seen it.
It may be news to some of you that Fujitsu has subsequently pulled out of the desktop HDD business (they still manufacture laptop and enterprise drives) Fujitsu's Hard Drive Lineup
I would imagine this distributed computing effort will be conducted using Ca*NET, which isn't really what I'd consider a public network. As such, I don't think they'd really have to worry about hackers and such.
Who the heck is going to buy a used network card?? You can pick up a realtek 8139x based card for $10 CDN retail, and probably for close to the price of a pack of gum online;)
People pointing out spelling and grammar errors on/. are about as observant as people who point out how many bugs/security flaws there are in windows.
You could select posts with spelling and/or grammatical errors with a dotted-line and get every other post.
Your time would be much better spent thinking of something useful to post.
Anyway, eveyone is going on about how hard drives are 'near disposable' nowadays... Perhaps the hardware itself is, but the data stored on the drives is quite often more valuable than the media it is stored on.
I really couldn't care if my sound card died, it's cheap to replace, and I can get a better one without any loss of personal data. Same for speakers, etc... Losing a hard drive can be quite distressing to average users, who don't have a backup system implemented.
A friend of mine bought a modchip for his PS/2 (I'm not sure about all the flavours of modchips, but his was an advanced one [at the time anyway], worked on PSOne/PS2 DVD/CD releases, just needed to boot off of a legit disc)
Anyway, he's about ready to graduate from Electrical Engineering, and couldn't do the soldering himself due to the small size of the pins/traces inside the PS2... Ended up getting some EE grads who do lab tutoring to do it for him... I agree that everyone and their dog could mod an original Playstation... not everyone can mod a PS2
If I had to take a guess (which I am) I'd say that all of these figures are failing to take into account whether people who frequently use p2p clients for obtaining music ever bought CD's in the past...
I know a lot of people who use kazaa and such, but never bought CD's BEFORE the p2p scene errupted. People have been making dubs of friends' music since recording devices were available to the public... The internet only changed the method in which the music was pirated, and probably not the numbers...
I've got 30 or so gigs of Albums on my drive, some of which I own, some which I don't (many hard to find, indies and such) Looking at the $10,000 or more (CDN, so about a buck fifty those of you in the states;) of CD's in my CD case, I really don't feel bad about it having 'near CD quality' copies of a few albums...
I play pirated games, if they're good, I buy them... the same goes for music... Piracy is just a tool to help me make educated purchases.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Sharp Corp, Japan's largest maker of liquid crystal displays, said on Friday its researchers in Britain had developed a
flat-panel display for either two- or three-dimensional viewing that does not require special glasses.
Last I checked, flat-panel meant LCD, not Flat CRT
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$200 in free audiobooks!! cool!!
It's hardly a spoiler when the official page lists the information...
We all as consumers have a choice...
However, some of us, as linux zealots/advocates/users, have a limited choice of games we are able to use/enjoy/whatever...
You are only Bioware's customer if you purchased the game. If you purchased the game because they said they were developing a Linux client, good for you... They did what they said they would do... Did they say there were going to make it easy? Did they say that a Linux installer would be released?
Look at the box for your NWN cd's... I don't imagine you'll find 'Linux' under supported operating systems, regardless of what you read on Bioware's website...
I personally, was eagerly awaiting release of the linux client so that I could stay in my SuSE distro more than my WinXP installation. I applaud Bioware's efforts to release a Linux client, as my friends and I enjoyed playing multiplayer on my Slackware server using the dedicated Linux server.
Instead of bashing Bioware for a less than perfect Linux implementation, how about applauding them for bothering to support linux at all?
I was happy with my Live! Value as well (4 years old) but I bought a set of 5.1 speakers and didn't have 5 channel support with the Value... Of course I could have bought a Live 5.1 for 1/4 of the money I paid for the Audigy 2, but I have a friend who had a live and got the original Audigy and said he found the audio much clearer...
Anyway, the Audigy2 works and sounds great with my Klipsch Promedia 5.1 system... I just wish the Klipsch had digital/optical in...
For someone who "distinctly remember[s] it" you don't sound real sure of yourself...
"Oh, I know it's real because I think I still have a copy of the magazine in which it first appeared. It was either 'Time' or 'Wired'. It was a highly amusing read, and had questions that only a non-American popular media journalist would've asked at the time. I believe the interviewer was German."
So which was it, Time or Wired? You *believe* the interviewer was German, while the link posted in this article explicitly states the magazine was German...
If it looks like a troll, walks like a troll and sounds like a troll...
There is no way MS is going to endorse running Linux on the XBox gaming platform... They lose money on every console sold, so the way they make money is to sell games...
That being said, the XBox is a pretty cheap PC, and if MS would enable the XBox to run Linux w/o modding it, they would be helping to shoot themselves in the foot...
Even disregarding the money issue (MS losing money per XBox, not gaining $100k for helping to get Linux running on XBox) MS is not going to support running an OS on XBox... It's not like you can run WinXP on your XBox either. Why? Because they want you to buy an entire PC, and pay for a windows license...
Really? Someone on /. agreeing with an anti-Microsoft comment?? That's a new one...
I wish I had a nickel for everytime someone used the 'M$' abbreviation around here... You can basically write-off anything said as being biased from there-on...
I think the linux fan-base needs to sit back and think about this...
:P
At least Bioware RELEASED a Linux Ded-Server, almost as soon as the game was released... They could have just waited and developed/released it when the client is ready
As soon as the publisher changed, they could have just said 'Infogrames has made us cease development on the Linux ver, sorry guys' People would have been pissed, but I for one, would still be buying all future products released by Bioware... I have so many hours of gameplay into NWN, it's unbelievable... Replay value (for me) is almost infinite due to the differences between one char and the next...
As far as 'seasonal' release dates, it's called a 'ballpark' figure... They give you a range, so that we have a date to look forward to the release, and they have some breathing room... They could have been like 3drealms, and just said when its done'
In any event, I'm more inclined to appreciate the effort Bioware is putting into getting the Linux client out, and not so prone to attack them for the delay....
I would assume since the reviewer said it uses what resembles a p2p style app to download the file... "no"
Unless maybe you can DL it with the windows client and then play it through linux, but from what he wrote, that seems unlikely as well...
Anybody passing judgement on the cooling system should be made aware that the card you've seen today is a REFERENCE design... Manufacturers are free to modify that design to suit their needs.
With that having been said, please, reserve your judgements for when reviewers have actual production cards to review... I can't wait to see the benchmarks
I had worked for a company as a database programmer for a number or years, and was offered a better position at another company. After giving 2 months notice, and training my 'replacement', away I went... Almost immediately after I left, they came to me, and said they needed one final project done. I told them $50 an hour, they said no, we'll give you a flat fee of $1000... I agreed, pretending to be hesitant... 10 hours later, the project was done, and they had 'bargained' themselves out of an extra $500 ;)
Moral of the story, your ex-bosses will always look for once last chance to short-change you. Find a way to use that against them and capitalize on their greed.
You don't think MS could go to IBM, Intel, AMD or any other manufacturer and wave money in their faces, and get them to design a new processor from the ground up?? And while I'm responding to your post, how is Sony going to IBM an example of *sony* innovating? IBM is doing all the grunt-work...
"Money talks..."
Until recently I worked as a technician in a retail computer shop, and we had terrible luck with Fujitsu hard drives, the MPG3204AT in particular. Some drives wouldn't detect at all on POST, most just had the "click of death", and as a result were subjected to the "freezer of doom" so we could try and rescue some of the customer's data (not that it usually helped)
Maxtor/Seagate/WD drives seem to be quite a bit more reliable, but one of the OEM's we were buying premade systems from was using "Fush*tsu" drives, so we encountered quite a few of them (I'd say at least 50% failure rate)
We also had problems with MSI K7T Pro mainboards we recieved from the same OEM, so it could just be we were getting shafted w/ known-bad product.
In any event, in the past few months I've seen the same articles on The Reg and other spots, and I'm not at all surprised to have seen it.
It may be news to some of you that Fujitsu has subsequently pulled out of the desktop HDD business (they still manufacture laptop and enterprise drives) Fujitsu's Hard Drive Lineup
A 16 year old kid won a GeForce out of it...
Lighten up.
I would imagine this distributed computing effort will be conducted using Ca*NET, which isn't really what I'd consider a public network. As such, I don't think they'd really have to worry about hackers and such.
Hey, look on the bright side guys, at least CmdrTaco didn't post the same article twice, I think we've seen that before ;)
Who the heck is going to buy a used network card?? You can pick up a realtek 8139x based card for $10 CDN retail, and probably for close to the price of a pack of gum online ;)
People pointing out spelling and grammar errors on /. are about as observant as people who point out how many bugs/security flaws there are in windows.
You could select posts with spelling and/or grammatical errors with a dotted-line and get every other post.
Your time would be much better spent thinking of something useful to post.
Anyway, eveyone is going on about how hard drives are 'near disposable' nowadays... Perhaps the hardware itself is, but the data stored on the drives is quite often more valuable than the media it is stored on.
I really couldn't care if my sound card died, it's cheap to replace, and I can get a better one without any loss of personal data. Same for speakers, etc... Losing a hard drive can be quite distressing to average users, who don't have a backup system implemented.
A friend of mine bought a modchip for his PS/2 (I'm not sure about all the flavours of modchips, but his was an advanced one [at the time anyway], worked on PSOne/PS2 DVD/CD releases, just needed to boot off of a legit disc)
Anyway, he's about ready to graduate from Electrical Engineering, and couldn't do the soldering himself due to the small size of the pins/traces inside the PS2... Ended up getting some EE grads who do lab tutoring to do it for him... I agree that everyone and their dog could mod an original Playstation... not everyone can mod a PS2
If I had to take a guess (which I am) I'd say that all of these figures are failing to take into account whether people who frequently use p2p clients for obtaining music ever bought CD's in the past...
;) of CD's in my CD case, I really don't feel bad about it having 'near CD quality' copies of a few albums...
I know a lot of people who use kazaa and such, but never bought CD's BEFORE the p2p scene errupted. People have been making dubs of friends' music since recording devices were available to the public... The internet only changed the method in which the music was pirated, and probably not the numbers...
I've got 30 or so gigs of Albums on my drive, some of which I own, some which I don't (many hard to find, indies and such) Looking at the $10,000 or more (CDN, so about a buck fifty those of you in the states
I play pirated games, if they're good, I buy them... the same goes for music... Piracy is just a tool to help me make educated purchases.
Yes it *is* flat, but nobody calls a Plasma display a 'Flat-Panel Display', they call it a 'Plasma Display'
Yup, I'm sure we'll all be here in 2007, re-reading week old news...
Well considering MSNBC reports on security flaws and bugs in MS products, I don't think there's any conspiracy...
Believe it or not, MSNBC usually seems to throw dirt on Microsoft...
Ever see Johnny Mnemonic?
Johnny navigated through his 'virtual environment' using a set of gloves, and he could reach in and 'grab' information, programs, etc...
That'd be an awesome way to work with a 3d 'desktop'
Last I checked, flat-panel meant LCD, not Flat CRT