Red flag linux can be HUGE in a way that even MS should be worried. If china is serious about setting it as the standard OS then in a country with a billion+ people wich of course requires a gigantic administation the number of linux machines could be staggering.
So together with all the other distro's mentioned I think SuSe is just dreaming about their being only two distro's. Perhaps they want to be the european Microsoft?
I am one of the few linux users who is not looking forward to mainstream adoptation of linux. Sure call me elitist but I don't need my favorite OS polluted by WinModem drivers, binary only drivers and grahical boot screens.
The reason I have stopped using first redhat, mandrake and Suse is that they all seem to insist on going the MS way installing web based configuration tools for apps I can control infinitly better from a config file.
From the team that brought you Deep Blue, now comes the ultimate challenge, Deep Bot.
Come on. If they are even going to do it as a sort of pet project IBM seems to have an abudance of geeks doing oddbal stuff for this to become one lethal bot.
In other related news IBM invested 2 billion dollars in cybernetic research.
In yet other future news McBride is kinda puzzeled why his house seems to be surrounded by skiny blue robots.
Like the recent/. article about nintendo of america censoring Manic Mansion, the lucasarts game. They objected to the a nude statue, art in an art exhibit, being in the game.
I wasn't really talking about current, more to show that in that the past they went their own way, after all they do now use cd's.
Oh and yes the load times for cartridges are lower, after all the game is already in memory, but you make the production costs skyrocket. Of course this helped keep piracy down. \
It just shows that Nintendo in the past did their own thing. In the past it worked and they were the kind. Now it doesn't seem to work anymore. Maybe it is temporary, maybe they can survive it, maybe they will change. Fact is that Sony is now what nintendo once was and sony is looking to become even bigger. So nintendo has sony in front and MS coming in from behind.
I don't know where this is gonna lead. I just don't think that upsetting say, europe by not releasing games. Upsetting people by leaving out headphones on a portable game platform, releasing only a handfull of worthwhile games, are signs Nintendo still thinks they are number one. Lets just pick this conversation up around after christmas when noone will have a new hardware out and people will purely be buying games.
But what you seem to forget that both Sony and Microsoft are different type of companies. They can afford to loose a console race. Can nintendo? It wouldn't be the first time a game company goes bust because it lost out in the console wars. History has generally shown you don't get a second chance.
As for anti-nintendo articles well cry me a river. This article made an observation and one that is not entirely unvalid.
Do people really buy a console based on if it can play dvd's or indeed do anything except play games? Hard to say but the fact that Nintendo left it out while everyone else included it says something. It tells you that nintendo likes to go its own way, like sticking to cartridges when CD's are so much cheaper to produce. Like censorship in games when the other allow any type of game.
Do these strategys work? Well not according to sales figures. You can compare it all you like to the X-box but the fact is that X-box is a loser as well. The one to beat is the PS2 and that one is miles ahead.
The one area they do well is in the handheld area. Now sony is moving in on this as well. A lot of people seem to think sony will botch this up. After all it is unthinkable that sony can beat nintendo on doing a game console:)
The profits nintendo shows are indeed not bad. But a substantial part of this is the handheld area, if they face the same kind of competiotion as they faced with the PS1 and PS2 then they are done for. They may hold out a long time but have we ever seen a game company come back from a lost war?
Yes, there is thanks, for the upload I got the file in under a minute. Thanks.:)
Perhaps a bad firewall setting? Oh and I to used the linux client (the one you get with gentoo).
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You might be suprised to learn this, but army bases tend to have their own power generators. Silly but for some reason they object to being depended for power on an installation hundreds of miles away.
So yes the original setup of the internet was to survive stuff like this. As indeed it did. In areas not nuked it continued to work just fine.
The entire point after all was for the network to survive even if a big hole was punched into it. We just saw that happen. And talked about on the net while it happened showing that the bits around the hole kept working.
Social animals like say monkeys while start an alarm call when they spot a snake in the grass. This alarm is then taken up by the whole group as they keep track of the snake. This not only help to assure that the whole group is alert, and any animals that monkeys tend to live with, but also that the snake knows it has been found out and can just give up.
Since this snake doesn't seem to take the message we should continue the alarm to make sure everyone knows and doesn't dose off.
Tsk, obviously you are a small cog in the world. If you are a big cog people send you information the way you want it.
I know this for a fact because I was involved with a procurement program. Several large retailers simply told their suppliers to become a part of it. If they didn't then those retailers would stop buying. Become big enough and anyone will do it the way you want it to. You don't get much bigger then china.
Sure they will encounter a few problems. No doubt they will keep a windows machine in each ministery to handle the odd document. But by and large if a us company wants to talk to a chinese goverment it will probably have to do it in a format that is accepted by the chinese. Pretty much the same as it is done in the rest of the world.
For the oil? Make friends with the worlds largests oil, indeed any raw material except fish, holding nation. Russia.
Russians got more oil then what they know what to do with. The problems are getting it, drilling rigs are expensive and moving it, pipelines are even more expensive. They are already working on this. Try google
As for the US lashing out. Well don't forget that they don't want to anger the chinese because
China is BIG
they need china to keep a leash on North-Korea.
China is BIG
An awful lot of american companies have their production in china. So anything that hurts the chinese hurts these companies.
China is BIG
A pissed off china might decide to reclaim taiwan. If they win, america looses mosts of its semiconductor plants. Bit hard to fight a tech war when all your weapon chips are in enemy hands.
Did I mention china is big?
America is corrupt. China who infringes human rights in the most brutal ways is most favored trading nation. Cuba wich is tiny in all respects is most hated nation. Why? China can afford bigger bribes.
We will just have to see what is going to happen. Personally I will be most intrestted PC's will be sold that are not just made in china but are really chinese. Perhaps it will do the same thing as japanese cars did. Then again didn't all the japanese car company's end up in the hand of americans?
You seem to have a very odd perception of how products are released here. You mention holidays. In holland we have "Sinterklaas" on the 5th of december, a saint who rides a white horse over the rooftops and delivers presents. Do you think a single movie, book or game has ever been redesigned to use sinterklaas instead of santa claus? Of course not. Same with many other slight variances found all over the world.
The world today is far more global then you give people credit for. Don't forget that they also had to this work for the american version, there are a hell of a lot more differences between america and japan then between american and europe. If nintendo had a clue they would have could have done it at the same time.
As for multilingual, this is a valid point to a certain extent. Very few games are fully translated over here. Don't forget that most of us learn english as a second language early in school and that most of popular culture comes from the US.
Oh well great way to get people to buy your stuff. I guess they are okay with coming in third.
People undertake training and a test to verify that they can drive a car. How many people die on the road each year due to people being incapable of handling their car? So much for testing people.
What I find really odd is that we threat computers so differently from the real world. If a real product is found to have a defect then a recall notice is published in all major newspapers (in europe don't know about rest of world) and you can return the faulty product for either a replacement or your money back.
Granted if software companies had to do it this way they would all have gone bust. Or maybe they would invest in real testing. Real testing is not to see if something works but to see if you can break it. When I hear excuses like people using the product wrong as an explantion for bugs I get pissed off. You are not supposed to bite the nose of a teddy bear and then swallow it. Nonetheless this is exactly what is tested against. A product should be safe to use or clearly labelled to indicate who it shouldn't be used by.
I think it says it all that unlike almost everything we buy in the netherlands, software is not tested by a goverment/indepedent organisation. Everything else is. Clothes, cars, books, movies, toys, furniture, food etc etc. But software and hardware are not.
Think this is a strange notion to test software by a central organisation? This what all the consoles do for their software. Oh and please don't mention MS certification, this are just logos you can buy.
Well, if you want to debate why companies would want to release linux versions of their games, why not look at the three companies that did. ID, Bioware and whoever does unreal. So why did they bother, well in all three cases as far as I know it was because at least one coder wanted to do it and was prepared to work on it in their free time.
So why did the companies allow it? Why not? All it did was generate good publicity, no support costs, no development costs.
But there may be another reason why companies should look at linux/mac. Microsoft is a direct competitor to every game company. It has been producing games for a long time but since directx it also controls the enviroment in wich games play. It has been found guilty in the past of using hidden parts of windows api to give itself an advantage over competitors in the desktop market. Is it really beyong belief that MS is doing or doing to do the same thing with DirectX?
With them now also involved in hardware it may be to any games company advantage to be flexible on hardware. It is already perfectly normal for games to be crossplatform why not include two more and cover 100% off all computer owners?
A dream? Years ago I read an article on OSes in a gaming mag. Linux was mentioned as a geek plaything that could barely play solitaire. Now many Multiplayer games depend on it for reliable servers. Who knows what will happen in the next few years.
What I am still wondering about is why no game company has created the selfbooting game. No problem without to date drivers or thousand of background services causing crashes blamed on youre game. But then I suppose that would be like expecting hardware manufacturers to include software for a bootdisk with the bios files.
Sigh, and where would these fuel cells get their fuel from? From the local gas station, ah. And where does this station get it from? From a truck, yes okay. How many trucks do you think it would take to supply a cityblock with fuel?
Of course you could pump the fuel via pipes but that would just be another type of grid. Hell the trucks would form a grid. Ever notice how during say very heavy winters trucks have difficulty moving? So one heavy snowstorm, like the ones NY has been having, and everyone would be running out of fuel? Very handy.
There is a reason sci-fi fans are often looked down upon by the rest of society as barely functioning morons. This guy is the reason:)
To be fair I seen a number of posts suggestion the fuel cell as the solution. Ain't gonna happen.
Sigh, the french example is wrong and it shows just how badly informed both you and the original poster are about the rest of the world. No matter.
Just like you seem to share the power grid with canada we share our powergrid over all the whole freaking continent. Yes that means from sweden down to italy. Some lines even go into russia. So who is more likely to get a failure?
European media have of course been discussing if this could happen in europe to. Conclusion, "of course not we are so much better it could never happen here" by the officials. Digging a little bit deeper and staying away from the bullshit there was for instance one guy who illustrated a potential weekspot.
My own country the netherlands has at the moment a high need for power, so we get this power from france. This is transported via belgium and some engineers there warned that this was putting a lot of stress on their lines.
We seem to be slightly more resiliant against what happened in the US because most companies here were only recently privatised and so are still the slow moving behemoths of yesterday who made sure they had plenty of backups in the system since to supply reliable power was their one and only job.
But I can say that as an individual that this year alone I have had 4 power outages, that is more then in the entire rest of my life. So I am not exactly thrusting that it won't happen here. Just not yet, we are always a decade behind the US.
Oh and way is nobody up in arms about this? Why is nobody up in arms about the DMCA? You can ask this about pretty much any article on/. The answer? Same reasons zebras don't band together to kill of the lions. Cattle is cattle because they behave like cattle and human beings are cattle and yes that includes me to.
Original games become ever more impossible. There are after all only so many things a person can do that is still fun.
The only thing left is to make hybrids, putting more then one game genre together, or to improve an existing genre.
Is this bad? No. All my favorite games had been done before, just not as well as those games did it.
As for sequels, well it is easy isn't it. Try selling a game to a company it is easier if you can say, hey the previous version did a X amount of sales rather then trying to convince them that yes people will love a fat italian plumber.
So this research falls into the category, "Women buy more dresses then men" AKA the "No shit sherlock" category. Still nice to see someone taking the time to put it all in writing.
I am sorry, you crashed and eh, you shot up a lot of thingies because they were shooting at you. Same as in all the other games from ID. None of them has ever had a story, more a pretext.
Oh well I guess they got to put something in those press releases. Wonder why they just don't say the truth.
"Our story sucks, we have no plot nor developmonts, the characters are stereotypes, we have graphics that make youre jaw drop and will earn more on licensing the engine then you will ever earn in a live time. Message ends."
mmm, but I didn't say anything about open/closed being good or evil. I just asked in the interest of completness. Why do I ask? Perhaps I should have explained. Openoffice and projects like it have trouble competing with MS because of installed userbase, support, and mainstream awareness. A huge orginasation like the chinese goverment, you don't get much bigger then the chinese on this planet, could be a nice boost to an open document format.
Maybe if this product becomes widespread enough in china it might even force MS to include support for its document format into office (to allow MS office users to read chinese documents) instead of the way it is now that everyone making an office suite has to figure out how to read and write the closed MS office document format. And yes I do know that RTF is a full widely supported open document format, ever tried sending someone an rtf one? They think it is a virus and please send a.doc version instead so they open it in word.
mmm, and since when does ugly and unportable say anything about speed? I presume here with ugly you mean lots of hags, lousy variable names and incosistent layout style stuff.
None of this has anything to do with efficiency. You sound like those people who say a clean desk is better then a cluttered one. It isn't it is just a reflection on style, not on work efficiency.
Of course you may be using ugly as in badly coded in wich case I hang my head in shame.
Ah well at least he will rake up his frequent flyer miles.
The company kingsoft in chinese only with no option to change to english it seems. Found a dictionary type program that is sold in an english version but no english pages.
However a few keyword sprung out. Linux for one. You see it seems this office suit runs on linux, this is significant because it is only hinted at in the forbes article. It means that they are not only replacing the office suite but the OS itself as well, since MS office doesn't run on linux they must have been using windows, and since this product seems only to run on linux and not on windows.
Can anyone with an understanding of chinese or with better googling skills confirm this (that wps office2003 runs only on linux)?
Also is this office product opensource or closed source?
You are forgetting that all the newbie light linuxes, lindows for one run as root by default. The biggest problem however seems to be with windows opening ports and services with them wich are not neccesary. I got XP as my game machine. Scanned it from my linux workstation and it had port 135 open. But a router is between it so it should be safe. Anyway why is the port open? I obviously don't need it since the router blocks it anyway. This is the only reason unix can be better. It is setup usually by paranoid admins or distrubtion creators. Remember on the web they ARE out to get you.
Lets see, nintendo's market is japan. Japan loves gadgets and things they can use in trains where space is limited but where you spend some time.
A current extension allows you to watch videos on youre gba but lets face it is has never been designed for this.
So maybe a small, think between gba/ipod size entertainment center? A bigger screen, perhaps lighting. A decent battery, maybe even a hd or something like mini discs to store the movies on? Add as gba cartridge slot and you got all the entertainment you ever need. I think that in japan self you can also hook up the current gba's to youre phone.
What kind of OS is this machine running(installing a OS X trojan on OS Y is only going to consume diskspace)?
Is it accessible from the outside?
What if any firewall style rules does the company use?
Do other people have access to the machine in question?
Do other people even know how to run it?
Wich ports where involved, how often? A range of ports? The example line you give could simply be you accessing the bloody website.
Until you provide more detailed technical information about what they accuse you of doing you are just going to get a lot of INAL advise on you being fired.
I remember playing the demo of a previous FF game. It may have been 8. The hype had made me look forward to it but the interface just blew it for me. I am on a pc. A device with a multitude of input devices many with more buttons then all the consoles put together.
Please please remember this in porting a game to this most costly of all gaming platforms. I do not enjoy holding a joystick left or right to enter my name when I got a perfectly working keyboard in front of me.
Neither do I want to hold some pad, or use control keys to navigate through a menu structure or to manange an inventory. I got a bloody mouse. It has been used for 2 decades or so now, learn to use it.
I mean seriously, with all the coding that needs to be done to adopt to a totally different hardware structure, can they at least use allow the use of the default input hardware on a pc?
Midnight run for the PC did it right for me. First console port that realised that on PC's we got wheels. force feed back wheels with seperated pedals. (oh and I know that they also exists for consoles, sadly very few games apperantly, like say vice city use them)
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So together with all the other distro's mentioned I think SuSe is just dreaming about their being only two distro's. Perhaps they want to be the european Microsoft?
I am one of the few linux users who is not looking forward to mainstream adoptation of linux. Sure call me elitist but I don't need my favorite OS polluted by WinModem drivers, binary only drivers and grahical boot screens.
The reason I have stopped using first redhat, mandrake and Suse is that they all seem to insist on going the MS way installing web based configuration tools for apps I can control infinitly better from a config file.
Sorry, I started ranting. Never mind.
Come on. If they are even going to do it as a sort of pet project IBM seems to have an abudance of geeks doing oddbal stuff for this to become one lethal bot.
In other related news IBM invested 2 billion dollars in cybernetic research.
In yet other future news McBride is kinda puzzeled why his house seems to be surrounded by skiny blue robots.
I wasn't really talking about current, more to show that in that the past they went their own way, after all they do now use cd's.
Oh and yes the load times for cartridges are lower, after all the game is already in memory, but you make the production costs skyrocket. Of course this helped keep piracy down. \
It just shows that Nintendo in the past did their own thing. In the past it worked and they were the kind. Now it doesn't seem to work anymore. Maybe it is temporary, maybe they can survive it, maybe they will change. Fact is that Sony is now what nintendo once was and sony is looking to become even bigger. So nintendo has sony in front and MS coming in from behind.
I don't know where this is gonna lead. I just don't think that upsetting say, europe by not releasing games. Upsetting people by leaving out headphones on a portable game platform, releasing only a handfull of worthwhile games, are signs Nintendo still thinks they are number one. Lets just pick this conversation up around after christmas when noone will have a new hardware out and people will purely be buying games.
As for anti-nintendo articles well cry me a river. This article made an observation and one that is not entirely unvalid.
Do people really buy a console based on if it can play dvd's or indeed do anything except play games? Hard to say but the fact that Nintendo left it out while everyone else included it says something. It tells you that nintendo likes to go its own way, like sticking to cartridges when CD's are so much cheaper to produce. Like censorship in games when the other allow any type of game.
Do these strategys work? Well not according to sales figures. You can compare it all you like to the X-box but the fact is that X-box is a loser as well. The one to beat is the PS2 and that one is miles ahead.
The one area they do well is in the handheld area. Now sony is moving in on this as well. A lot of people seem to think sony will botch this up. After all it is unthinkable that sony can beat nintendo on doing a game console :)
The profits nintendo shows are indeed not bad. But a substantial part of this is the handheld area, if they face the same kind of competiotion as they faced with the PS1 and PS2 then they are done for. They may hold out a long time but have we ever seen a game company come back from a lost war?
Perhaps a bad firewall setting? Oh and I to used the linux client (the one you get with gentoo).
So yes the original setup of the internet was to survive stuff like this. As indeed it did. In areas not nuked it continued to work just fine.
The entire point after all was for the network to survive even if a big hole was punched into it. We just saw that happen. And talked about on the net while it happened showing that the bits around the hole kept working.
Since this snake doesn't seem to take the message we should continue the alarm to make sure everyone knows and doesn't dose off.
I know this for a fact because I was involved with a procurement program. Several large retailers simply told their suppliers to become a part of it. If they didn't then those retailers would stop buying. Become big enough and anyone will do it the way you want it to. You don't get much bigger then china.
Sure they will encounter a few problems. No doubt they will keep a windows machine in each ministery to handle the odd document. But by and large if a us company wants to talk to a chinese goverment it will probably have to do it in a format that is accepted by the chinese. Pretty much the same as it is done in the rest of the world.
Russians got more oil then what they know what to do with. The problems are getting it, drilling rigs are expensive and moving it, pipelines are even more expensive. They are already working on this. Try google
As for the US lashing out. Well don't forget that they don't want to anger the chinese because
We will just have to see what is going to happen. Personally I will be most intrestted PC's will be sold that are not just made in china but are really chinese. Perhaps it will do the same thing as japanese cars did. Then again didn't all the japanese car company's end up in the hand of americans?
The world today is far more global then you give people credit for. Don't forget that they also had to this work for the american version, there are a hell of a lot more differences between america and japan then between american and europe. If nintendo had a clue they would have could have done it at the same time.
As for multilingual, this is a valid point to a certain extent. Very few games are fully translated over here. Don't forget that most of us learn english as a second language early in school and that most of popular culture comes from the US.
Oh well great way to get people to buy your stuff. I guess they are okay with coming in third.
What I find really odd is that we threat computers so differently from the real world. If a real product is found to have a defect then a recall notice is published in all major newspapers (in europe don't know about rest of world) and you can return the faulty product for either a replacement or your money back.
Granted if software companies had to do it this way they would all have gone bust. Or maybe they would invest in real testing. Real testing is not to see if something works but to see if you can break it. When I hear excuses like people using the product wrong as an explantion for bugs I get pissed off. You are not supposed to bite the nose of a teddy bear and then swallow it. Nonetheless this is exactly what is tested against. A product should be safe to use or clearly labelled to indicate who it shouldn't be used by.
I think it says it all that unlike almost everything we buy in the netherlands, software is not tested by a goverment/indepedent organisation. Everything else is. Clothes, cars, books, movies, toys, furniture, food etc etc. But software and hardware are not.
Think this is a strange notion to test software by a central organisation? This what all the consoles do for their software. Oh and please don't mention MS certification, this are just logos you can buy.
So why did the companies allow it? Why not? All it did was generate good publicity, no support costs, no development costs.
But there may be another reason why companies should look at linux/mac. Microsoft is a direct competitor to every game company. It has been producing games for a long time but since directx it also controls the enviroment in wich games play. It has been found guilty in the past of using hidden parts of windows api to give itself an advantage over competitors in the desktop market. Is it really beyong belief that MS is doing or doing to do the same thing with DirectX?
With them now also involved in hardware it may be to any games company advantage to be flexible on hardware. It is already perfectly normal for games to be crossplatform why not include two more and cover 100% off all computer owners?
A dream? Years ago I read an article on OSes in a gaming mag. Linux was mentioned as a geek plaything that could barely play solitaire. Now many Multiplayer games depend on it for reliable servers. Who knows what will happen in the next few years.
What I am still wondering about is why no game company has created the selfbooting game. No problem without to date drivers or thousand of background services causing crashes blamed on youre game. But then I suppose that would be like expecting hardware manufacturers to include software for a bootdisk with the bios files.
Of course you could pump the fuel via pipes but that would just be another type of grid. Hell the trucks would form a grid. Ever notice how during say very heavy winters trucks have difficulty moving? So one heavy snowstorm, like the ones NY has been having, and everyone would be running out of fuel? Very handy.
There is a reason sci-fi fans are often looked down upon by the rest of society as barely functioning morons. This guy is the reason :)
To be fair I seen a number of posts suggestion the fuel cell as the solution. Ain't gonna happen.
Just like you seem to share the power grid with canada we share our powergrid over all the whole freaking continent. Yes that means from sweden down to italy. Some lines even go into russia. So who is more likely to get a failure?
European media have of course been discussing if this could happen in europe to. Conclusion, "of course not we are so much better it could never happen here" by the officials. Digging a little bit deeper and staying away from the bullshit there was for instance one guy who illustrated a potential weekspot.
My own country the netherlands has at the moment a high need for power, so we get this power from france. This is transported via belgium and some engineers there warned that this was putting a lot of stress on their lines.
We seem to be slightly more resiliant against what happened in the US because most companies here were only recently privatised and so are still the slow moving behemoths of yesterday who made sure they had plenty of backups in the system since to supply reliable power was their one and only job.
But I can say that as an individual that this year alone I have had 4 power outages, that is more then in the entire rest of my life. So I am not exactly thrusting that it won't happen here. Just not yet, we are always a decade behind the US.
Oh and way is nobody up in arms about this? Why is nobody up in arms about the DMCA? You can ask this about pretty much any article on /. The answer? Same reasons zebras don't band together to kill of the lions. Cattle is cattle because they behave like cattle and human beings are cattle and yes that includes me to.
The only thing left is to make hybrids, putting more then one game genre together, or to improve an existing genre.
Is this bad? No. All my favorite games had been done before, just not as well as those games did it.
As for sequels, well it is easy isn't it. Try selling a game to a company it is easier if you can say, hey the previous version did a X amount of sales rather then trying to convince them that yes people will love a fat italian plumber.
So this research falls into the category, "Women buy more dresses then men" AKA the "No shit sherlock" category. Still nice to see someone taking the time to put it all in writing.
Oh well I guess they got to put something in those press releases. Wonder why they just don't say the truth.
"Our story sucks, we have no plot nor developmonts, the characters are stereotypes, we have graphics that make youre jaw drop and will earn more on licensing the engine then you will ever earn in a live time. Message ends."
Maybe if this product becomes widespread enough in china it might even force MS to include support for its document format into office (to allow MS office users to read chinese documents) instead of the way it is now that everyone making an office suite has to figure out how to read and write the closed MS office document format. And yes I do know that RTF is a full widely supported open document format, ever tried sending someone an rtf one? They think it is a virus and please send a .doc version instead so they open it in word.
None of this has anything to do with efficiency. You sound like those people who say a clean desk is better then a cluttered one. It isn't it is just a reflection on style, not on work efficiency.
Of course you may be using ugly as in badly coded in wich case I hang my head in shame.
The company kingsoft in chinese only with no option to change to english it seems. Found a dictionary type program that is sold in an english version but no english pages.
However a few keyword sprung out. Linux for one. You see it seems this office suit runs on linux, this is significant because it is only hinted at in the forbes article. It means that they are not only replacing the office suite but the OS itself as well, since MS office doesn't run on linux they must have been using windows, and since this product seems only to run on linux and not on windows.
Can anyone with an understanding of chinese or with better googling skills confirm this (that wps office2003 runs only on linux)?
Also is this office product opensource or closed source?
And finally, is it any good?
You are forgetting that all the newbie light linuxes, lindows for one run as root by default. The biggest problem however seems to be with windows opening ports and services with them wich are not neccesary. I got XP as my game machine. Scanned it from my linux workstation and it had port 135 open. But a router is between it so it should be safe. Anyway why is the port open? I obviously don't need it since the router blocks it anyway. This is the only reason unix can be better. It is setup usually by paranoid admins or distrubtion creators. Remember on the web they ARE out to get you.
A current extension allows you to watch videos on youre gba but lets face it is has never been designed for this.
So maybe a small, think between gba/ipod size entertainment center? A bigger screen, perhaps lighting. A decent battery, maybe even a hd or something like mini discs to store the movies on? Add as gba cartridge slot and you got all the entertainment you ever need. I think that in japan self you can also hook up the current gba's to youre phone.
Probabaly not but one can hope can't you.
Until you provide more detailed technical information about what they accuse you of doing you are just going to get a lot of INAL advise on you being fired.
Please please remember this in porting a game to this most costly of all gaming platforms. I do not enjoy holding a joystick left or right to enter my name when I got a perfectly working keyboard in front of me.
Neither do I want to hold some pad, or use control keys to navigate through a menu structure or to manange an inventory. I got a bloody mouse. It has been used for 2 decades or so now, learn to use it.
I mean seriously, with all the coding that needs to be done to adopt to a totally different hardware structure, can they at least use allow the use of the default input hardware on a pc?
Midnight run for the PC did it right for me. First console port that realised that on PC's we got wheels. force feed back wheels with seperated pedals. (oh and I know that they also exists for consoles, sadly very few games apperantly, like say vice city use them)
Well for the linux "protection" you should have paid youre SCO protection money, shouldn't you?
And your as/400 is perfectly safe. The playstation does not come with a internet connection.
Somehow I am imagined judgement day as slightly more impressive then a thousand crashed porn browsing sessions.