Give me a low level user account on your most vital important machine and access to use perl. Also a disclaimer that protects me from any legalities and lets see what happens.
The problem is your now allowing users the ability to write their own perl code into web pages, wich was my original argument. Thats no different than allowing people to use C/C++ but with C/C++ the bugs are in other programs were with perl the problems are in perl it's self as it's a parsed language and the buffer overflows and other exploits are in perl it's self. I dont run perl because I dont know it well enough to write good code, and I probably wont as I can do everything with PHP and the code is alreay writen well. I give my users access to upload their web pages, but not cgi or perl, nor shell access. Allowing mason would be like pasting the root password on my main web page.
You must be a little illiterate as I never said perl had a remote root explot, but now if your letting users use perl in their own web pages that opens the doors for soo much bad code that could result in various remote explots from the numerous (see cert advisories) local perl exploits.
I am an audio buff, and the only real way to be satisfied is to go to a store that has listening rooms. Not a chain like best buy though, you want some place were they will set up systems they way you want for you to sample them. Then listen to some of the units that meet your specifications criteria and price range. Pick the unit and speakers that you think give the best sound combination. Just looking at specsk and prices will do nothing for you. Take for instance Boss, I cant find lots of speakers that sound better than Boss and cheaper but may not be as big of name or high of specs but they just sound better. Not to mention what sounds good to one person may not sound good to the next. So the best thing you can do for yourself is to just listen to the equiptment, this way you get what you want and what you like. Also dont let anyone say 'oh thats garbage you could get this for a better price and it sonds better' because thats bull, you got what you liked, and anyone who tells you that is a dolt. No 2 human ears are the same. mostly have fun, thats why they call it entertainment system!!
If you have large multi-part code you can actualy just burn it to CD and it works well, you basicaly follow the same procedure as making the Linux kernel CD. This has been possible for a long time, and is part of what those warez kiddies lached onto to be able to copy their games. If only they would have been less greedy and focused their efforts towards helping the development of the Linux port we might have something by now. But I guess we are better off without them, and we'll have a nice linux port to be pround of, and with linux's awsome network support maybe companies will use it insted of that lame WinCE networking they are currently forced to use.
Yea, but since sony is so giving and all there are so many developers making drivers too right? Nope, as a mater of a fact unless thye purchase and official multi thousand dollar sony PS2 dev unit they arent allowed to make any software for the PS2, so it's unlikely that you will see these items working untill sony gets the burr out of their ass.
It has SCART out option, wich is useless if your in the US, but no Componet or Digital Video out. No progressive scan either. What about buffering for the layer swap so you dont get teh anoying pause in video, this is a VERY important feature if you ask me and almost no player has it, are DVD makers insane, Id pay a lil extra for that feature, and yea DTS is important. I had an apex because it was the thing of the moment and I hated it, I wont be fooled again, Ill wait till I find the right DVD player, untill then Ill just use my PS2, it's quality is fine for now, and it has DTS and Componet out.
You all do realize that not a single one of those fasion whores has a clue what it is they are realy wearing, let alone how to use it. Unfortunate as it is most geek chicks aren't that attractive. Ive know only 3 or 4. One was a phone phreak/modle that I met at the first PumpCon, the other some of you may know as she hung out in #2600-efnet. And though all those girls may be hott, I doubt I would be able to stand them if they couldn't hold a decent conversation with me. You can buy sex, you cant buy inteligence.
Dont any of you watch cartoons? You press the button and desk, monitor, keyboard, and chair pop out for you to ge busy on. IBM has the Linux Briefcase car on the way too!
Before any of you go off please read all I have to say. I do think napster should be banned fron UNIV's. Why? Well for starters most of the stuff on napster is there illegaly or downloaded illegaly meaning eitehr the person offering it does not have the original music or the person downloading it does not. Now that doesnt apply to all music as there are plenty of internet only musicians
Second, the bandwith. Walk onto a univ and measure how much bandwith is being taking up by students leaching off napster alone. This bandwith is ment for students to be able to do vital research in a manner much faster then a conventional library. With the bandwith being sucked away by napster this is not so fast and on some UNIV's it's even faster to use the library.
I know many of you think you have valid arguments aginst what Ive said, but you dont. Almost all of these UNIV's are State and Federaly funded wich means my tax mony is going to keep the bandwith at the UNIV's up. Im not aginst napster far from it. I just think if you want to use napster dont use the UNIV to do it, get a dialup account or something. Or maybe try studdying.
Here waer this tracking device, and you are not allowed to leave your house with out asking us first, you shouldnt mind unless your going out to commit a crime. Is such ignorance and stupidity that rampet in our world? Can I move to a more civil and intelectual one? Maybe we should just install cameras in everyones house, they wont mind unless they are commiting a crime. Not all things are black and white. If they were all crimes would be punished by death and you would be screwed. 'Sir, you were speeding back there, Im going to have to ask you to step out of the car so we can execute you.' Yea, your about as retarded as a lobotomised eggplant.
In that case it seems like Goodwin's law is mor a denial of all the events that took place durring Hitler's reign. That would go aginst the idea that we should learn from history. There are still MANY differances between out government and Hitler, the primary differance being that Hitler was actualy very intellignet and knew how to play the people. Our polliticians only know how to play the people and seem to have left their intelect behind. Either way you have to fight for your rights now, it's already becoming to late.
Excuse my speach, but FUCK that! If your loosing your rights of free speech, then you NEED to make a stand. Maybe it IS time for another revolution. Not that Im in favor of it, revolutions always suck and people get hurt, but if you cant speak your own mind it's time to rid ourselves of the new menace as we did Hitler. It use to be you had to fight to prove something shouldnt be free of speech and you notmal lost, now it's a given that it isnt free speech and you have to fight to the contrary and normaly lose. It's time for something to happen thats for damn sure!
Yes, actualy you can, it's still considered assult and holds a very hefty fine and possible inpriosnment. Not to mention that depending on how a paintball gun is used you can also do time for using one in public. Here are a few of my quotes to express some of my opinions:
Weclome to the United States, were you have the freedom to do as we tell you to do.
Bend over and take it like an american.
Basicaly the US sucks becasue it's human nature to go power crazy and we let it happen. Noone to blame but the US it's sellf. Best bet is to kill everyone and start from scratch, but the universe has already been poluted by our presence. This shows true in in the Linux community especialy. Goto an IRC linux channel and ask a simple question something basic be it in a howto or not, you will get flamed all to hell. Linux people now think they are better than everyone and as such should have this pompus asinine attitude.
Enough rambelining they are after all only opinions and you after all are just figments of my imagination created in a failed atempt to maintain sanity.
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You dont have to look like a perv! Get a Voice Recognition software, or code one up your self, and get a HMD (head mount display) that has an eye tracking mouse, a digital startack (because it's real small) so you can be online. Now if you can find a HMD that looks like semi normal sun glasses (they have those TV ones surly you can get a decent svga one as well, then get one of those mic/inner ear headphone units and you dont llok too bad, you look like an average Joe listing to a walkman with sunglasees singing along to his music.
The H+ and the DXR3 are exactly the same, but Im guessing you knew that. Well not exactly the bios on the card is different. Im using the w2k H+ drivers for my dxr3 and it works great thanks to a a small prog that makes the software ignore bios and region checks. But since creative basicaly has slow (note I didnt say this was bad, only that Im impatient) developers I elected to use this method to view my DVD's. It's also rumored that this allowes you to use the remote that a 3rd party has developed for the H+ card but I havent ordered on yet, but if these drivers work I may not need to since the drivers are open source ant there are several IRDA devices for linux. Wow if only the other programs I use were Linus (Asheron's Call, PhotoShop, 3DSMax).
Well the bitrate baffles me as it's only 128 and mp3's do higher bitrates, and Im asuming by polyphoic that they mean stereo, but will the compression distort 5.1 or surround encoding like mp3 does? All in all I have to agree it's a nice effort but unlikely to take off. After all I can already go out and buy a protable solid state mp3 player, and I know my APEX DVD isnt going to play ISO9660 burned cd's full of.OGG's. The thing I see here is it might be a possible alternative for streaming since it would be royalty free and you would only have to worry about your ASCAP royalties. Again only my opinions and thoughs, after all anything can happen.
No, if E-Toy is smart they will just take the nice publicity and let things be and co-exitst. After all, how many of you had heard of e-toy before this fiasco? I hadn't wich is sad, especialy if you knew me.
Do you call it cheating if you re-write some of your kernel code to be optimised and allow you features other linux users dont hav? Didn't think so. It's winning by intelectual abbility and now who can get to the rocket launcher first. If you aren't smart enough to go in and fix your code then be dumb zombie walking around blasting without a brain, else get busy and fix up that code to make the game more fun for you.
That terrifies me to no end! The fact that this could become mandatory is scary as hell. It is for your own safty after all, just as is eaves droping on international phone calls and reading our e-mail. Maybe this is drastic, but maybe if we impose an 'On Site Death Penalty' for any loaw enforcement agent who abuses the right to spy on us we would have less problems. Yes I know thats drastic and uncalled for, but it's an example to make a point that we dont have a good checks and balance system for out current law enforcement. We need to do something, the USA _USE to be_ a free country, now it's slowly becoming a slave society. If the government isnt put back in check there will inevitably be a revolution attempt, and that can't be a good thing with as many countries as we have pissed off by interfearing in their relations with other countries, and with this chip, they could simply pick off those who they see as a threat. I would assume we will quickly devise some way to block the signal though, but still.....
Hmm, gee your probably right, sound is probably only 1 dimensional, and only comes form the left and right, we'll just ignore that sound coming from the front or rear will sound different, and we wont even thing about 3D space and how that affects sound, because we want to listen to something from the 1970's that says quadraphonics is a waste of time, hell we might as well get rid of all these computers too because in 1970 I belive they said there was no way everyone would have a computer in their home. Maybe you should head over to Dolby Labs Technical Information, and have a look at some of the information there. You may also want to head over to WWW.THX.COM as there is some very good information there about 3D sound and THX in general. There are tons of other places you can find if you look, but those 2 are the ones that came to mind straight off the top of my head. I personaly plan to build a 7.1 surround home theater for myself. I wont go into room size/shape and acoustics as Im just now learning all about it and couldnt provide you with accurate information, but I do know it does affect how you hear sounds. Unfortunatly there are no Linux programs yet that allow you to edit 3D sound in either 5.1 or 7.1 surround, that I am aware of. If there are and you know of tehm please inform me as I would love to check them out.
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I have to agree that IE is soo much better than anything in linux for web browsing. I design web pages and they are designed with IE in mind and anyone using something else is unlikely to be able to even access the pages at all. My disclaimer that pops up for netscape users is simply:
WARRING: you are using netscape, a now inferior browser due to it's desier to try to compete with microsoft instead of doing what it did best. It was crushed and hasn't worked properly since version 3. Please change your browser as soon as possible.
This comming from someone who hates microsoft should be seen as a profound statement. Sure you are going to want to flame this post, but you know that I am correct, and that had netscape not tried to keep up with all the features IE had and just kept to HTML standards and did it well like it had in the past people would still be looking at IE as that annoying program microsoft makes you install when you install windows, and not the better choice.
MAD props to the Mozila team though, Im excited to see the first non beta version, it's looking good, and even the beta seems to crash only about 10% as much as netscape does.
If practice makes perfect, and noone is perfect, why practice?
Well this is a great step in the right direction, but what I would realy like to see is some of those powerful 3D tools ported to linux. Currently we have POVRAY, and Blender 3D as free, or virtualy free full fledged packages. There are some comercial packages that most of us can not afford like Houdini (sorry I dont know the url, I cant afford it so I dont keep it handy), but a good package in the smae price range is an absolute necesity. Blender 3D is nice, but it's modeler is not as easy to use as such *indo*s packages as Lightwave and 3D Studio Max. We have GIMP, now we need LinuxWave or 3D Studio Linux, and maybe this is a step in the right direction. Unfortunatly I doubt Maya will be affordable either and it's unfortunate, as it is an awsome program. If anyone with any pull is reading this or if someone wants to send me some other options I would be most happy to finaly dismiss windows as only needed to play Asheron's Call. What a wonderful day that will be and the masses shall rejoice and the evil giant will feel yet another foot being slamed into a most uncomfortable place!
The solution of course would be to not purchase or in any way use any ID Software products. Return anything you have that is returnable and let ID know how much you dislike their methods. Write e-mail to the company stating your refusal to BUY/USE their software for this specific reason. Let your voice be heard.
'The only way to win is not to play' - (you figure out were the quote is from)
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Give me a low level user account on your most vital important machine and access to use perl. Also a disclaimer that protects me from any legalities and lets see what happens.
The problem is your now allowing users the ability to write their own perl code into web pages, wich was my original argument. Thats no different than allowing people to use C/C++ but with C/C++ the bugs are in other programs were with perl the problems are in perl it's self as it's a parsed language and the buffer overflows and other exploits are in perl it's self. I dont run perl because I dont know it well enough to write good code, and I probably wont as I can do everything with PHP and the code is alreay writen well. I give my users access to upload their web pages, but not cgi or perl, nor shell access. Allowing mason would be like pasting the root password on my main web page.
You must be a little illiterate as I never said perl had a remote root explot, but now if your letting users use perl in their own web pages that opens the doors for soo much bad code that could result in various remote explots from the numerous (see cert advisories) local perl exploits.
I am an audio buff, and the only real way to be satisfied is to go to a store that has listening rooms. Not a chain like best buy though, you want some place were they will set up systems they way you want for you to sample them. Then listen to some of the units that meet your specifications criteria and price range. Pick the unit and speakers that you think give the best sound combination. Just looking at specsk and prices will do nothing for you. Take for instance Boss, I cant find lots of speakers that sound better than Boss and cheaper but may not be as big of name or high of specs but they just sound better. Not to mention what sounds good to one person may not sound good to the next. So the best thing you can do for yourself is to just listen to the equiptment, this way you get what you want and what you like. Also dont let anyone say 'oh thats garbage you could get this for a better price and it sonds better' because thats bull, you got what you liked, and anyone who tells you that is a dolt. No 2 human ears are the same. mostly have fun, thats why they call it entertainment system!!
If you have large multi-part code you can actualy just burn it to CD and it works well, you basicaly follow the same procedure as making the Linux kernel CD. This has been possible for a long time, and is part of what those warez kiddies lached onto to be able to copy their games. If only they would have been less greedy and focused their efforts towards helping the development of the Linux port we might have something by now. But I guess we are better off without them, and we'll have a nice linux port to be pround of, and with linux's awsome network support maybe companies will use it insted of that lame WinCE networking they are currently forced to use.
Yea, but since sony is so giving and all there are so many developers making drivers too right? Nope, as a mater of a fact unless thye purchase and official multi thousand dollar sony PS2 dev unit they arent allowed to make any software for the PS2, so it's unlikely that you will see these items working untill sony gets the burr out of their ass.
It has SCART out option, wich is useless if your in the US, but no Componet or Digital Video out. No progressive scan either. What about buffering for the layer swap so you dont get teh anoying pause in video, this is a VERY important feature if you ask me and almost no player has it, are DVD makers insane, Id pay a lil extra for that feature, and yea DTS is important. I had an apex because it was the thing of the moment and I hated it, I wont be fooled again, Ill wait till I find the right DVD player, untill then Ill just use my PS2, it's quality is fine for now, and it has DTS and Componet out.
You all do realize that not a single one of those fasion whores has a clue what it is they are realy wearing, let alone how to use it. Unfortunate as it is most geek chicks aren't that attractive. Ive know only 3 or 4. One was a phone phreak/modle that I met at the first PumpCon, the other some of you may know as she hung out in #2600-efnet. And though all those girls may be hott, I doubt I would be able to stand them if they couldn't hold a decent conversation with me. You can buy sex, you cant buy inteligence.
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You can stop by http://www.dave.com/</ a> and pick up some very nice aluminum cases for your PalmIII. Be warned these are price, mostly because I think he has to pay the machine off. I havent found any clear buttons but an aluminum case with clear buttons and the blue night rider led mod would be so sweet. If only palm would make a PalmIII indiglo insted of the green backlightin.
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Dont any of you watch cartoons? You press the button and desk, monitor, keyboard, and chair pop out for you to ge busy on. IBM has the Linux Briefcase car on the way too!
Before any of you go off please read all I have to say. I do think napster should be banned fron UNIV's. Why? Well for starters most of the stuff on napster is there illegaly or downloaded illegaly meaning eitehr the person offering it does not have the original music or the person downloading it does not. Now that doesnt apply to all music as there are plenty of internet only musicians
Second, the bandwith. Walk onto a univ and measure how much bandwith is being taking up by students leaching off napster alone. This bandwith is ment for students to be able to do vital research in a manner much faster then a conventional library. With the bandwith being sucked away by napster this is not so fast and on some UNIV's it's even faster to use the library.
I know many of you think you have valid arguments aginst what Ive said, but you dont. Almost all of these UNIV's are State and Federaly funded wich means my tax mony is going to keep the bandwith at the UNIV's up. Im not aginst napster far from it. I just think if you want to use napster dont use the UNIV to do it, get a dialup account or something. Or maybe try studdying.
Here waer this tracking device, and you are not allowed to leave your house with out asking us first, you shouldnt mind unless your going out to commit a crime. Is such ignorance and stupidity that rampet in our world? Can I move to a more civil and intelectual one? Maybe we should just install cameras in everyones house, they wont mind unless they are commiting a crime. Not all things are black and white. If they were all crimes would be punished by death and you would be screwed. 'Sir, you were speeding back there, Im going to have to ask you to step out of the car so we can execute you.' Yea, your about as retarded as a lobotomised eggplant.
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In that case it seems like Goodwin's law is mor a denial of all the events that took place durring Hitler's reign. That would go aginst the idea that we should learn from history. There are still MANY differances between out government and Hitler, the primary differance being that Hitler was actualy very intellignet and knew how to play the people. Our polliticians only know how to play the people and seem to have left their intelect behind. Either way you have to fight for your rights now, it's already becoming to late.
Excuse my speach, but FUCK that! If your loosing your rights of free speech, then you NEED to make a stand. Maybe it IS time for another revolution. Not that Im in favor of it, revolutions always suck and people get hurt, but if you cant speak your own mind it's time to rid ourselves of the new menace as we did Hitler. It use to be you had to fight to prove something shouldnt be free of speech and you notmal lost, now it's a given that it isnt free speech and you have to fight to the contrary and normaly lose. It's time for something to happen thats for damn sure!
Yes, actualy you can, it's still considered assult and holds a very hefty fine and possible inpriosnment. Not to mention that depending on how a paintball gun is used you can also do time for using one in public. Here are a few of my quotes to express some of my opinions:
Weclome to the United States, were you have the freedom to do as we tell you to do.
Bend over and take it like an american.
Basicaly the US sucks becasue it's human nature to go power crazy and we let it happen. Noone to blame but the US it's sellf. Best bet is to kill everyone and start from scratch, but the universe has already been poluted by our presence. This shows true in in the Linux community especialy. Goto an IRC linux channel and ask a simple question something basic be it in a howto or not, you will get flamed all to hell. Linux people now think they are better than everyone and as such should have this pompus asinine attitude.
Enough rambelining they are after all only opinions and you after all are just figments of my imagination created in a failed atempt to maintain sanity.
You dont have to look like a perv! Get a Voice Recognition software, or code one up your self, and get a HMD (head mount display) that has an eye tracking mouse, a digital startack (because it's real small) so you can be online. Now if you can find a HMD that looks like semi normal sun glasses (they have those TV ones surly you can get a decent svga one as well, then get one of those mic/inner ear headphone units and you dont llok too bad, you look like an average Joe listing to a walkman with sunglasees singing along to his music.
The H+ and the DXR3 are exactly the same, but Im guessing you knew that. Well not exactly the bios on the card is different. Im using the w2k H+ drivers for my dxr3 and it works great thanks to a a small prog that makes the software ignore bios and region checks. But since creative basicaly has slow (note I didnt say this was bad, only that Im impatient) developers I elected to use this method to view my DVD's. It's also rumored that this allowes you to use the remote that a 3rd party has developed for the H+ card but I havent ordered on yet, but if these drivers work I may not need to since the drivers are open source ant there are several IRDA devices for linux. Wow if only the other programs I use were Linus (Asheron's Call, PhotoShop, 3DSMax).
Well the bitrate baffles me as it's only 128 and mp3's do higher bitrates, and Im asuming by polyphoic that they mean stereo, but will the compression distort 5.1 or surround encoding like mp3 does? All in all I have to agree it's a nice effort but unlikely to take off. After all I can already go out and buy a protable solid state mp3 player, and I know my APEX DVD isnt going to play ISO9660 burned cd's full of .OGG's. The thing I see here is it might be a possible alternative for streaming since it would be royalty free and you would only have to worry about your ASCAP royalties. Again only my opinions and thoughs, after all anything can happen.
No, if E-Toy is smart they will just take the nice publicity and let things be and co-exitst. After all, how many of you had heard of e-toy before this fiasco? I hadn't wich is sad, especialy if you knew me.
Do you call it cheating if you re-write some of your kernel code to be optimised and allow you features other linux users dont hav? Didn't think so. It's winning by intelectual abbility and now who can get to the rocket launcher first. If you aren't smart enough to go in and fix your code then be dumb zombie walking around blasting without a brain, else get busy and fix up that code to make the game more fun for you.
That terrifies me to no end! The fact that this could become mandatory is scary as hell. It is for your own safty after all, just as is eaves droping on international phone calls and reading our e-mail. Maybe this is drastic, but maybe if we impose an 'On Site Death Penalty' for any loaw enforcement agent who abuses the right to spy on us we would have less problems. Yes I know thats drastic and uncalled for, but it's an example to make a point that we dont have a good checks and balance system for out current law enforcement. We need to do something, the USA _USE to be_ a free country, now it's slowly becoming a slave society. If the government isnt put back in check there will inevitably be a revolution attempt, and that can't be a good thing with as many countries as we have pissed off by interfearing in their relations with other countries, and with this chip, they could simply pick off those who they see as a threat. I would assume we will quickly devise some way to block the signal though, but still.....
Hmm, gee your probably right, sound is probably only 1 dimensional, and only comes form the left and right, we'll just ignore that sound coming from the front or rear will sound different, and we wont even thing about 3D space and how that affects sound, because we want to listen to something from the 1970's that says quadraphonics is a waste of time, hell we might as well get rid of all these computers too because in 1970 I belive they said there was no way everyone would have a computer in their home. Maybe you should head over to Dolby Labs Technical Information, and have a look at some of the information there. You may also want to head over to WWW.THX.COM as there is some very good information there about 3D sound and THX in general. There are tons of other places you can find if you look, but those 2 are the ones that came to mind straight off the top of my head. I personaly plan to build a 7.1 surround home theater for myself. I wont go into room size/shape and acoustics as Im just now learning all about it and couldnt provide you with accurate information, but I do know it does affect how you hear sounds. Unfortunatly there are no Linux programs yet that allow you to edit 3D sound in either 5.1 or 7.1 surround, that I am aware of. If there are and you know of tehm please inform me as I would love to check them out.
Listen, it's all around you!
I have to agree that IE is soo much better than anything in linux for web browsing. I design web pages and they are designed with IE in mind and anyone using something else is unlikely to be able to even access the pages at all. My disclaimer that pops up for netscape users is simply:
WARRING: you are using netscape, a now inferior browser due to it's desier to try to compete with microsoft instead of doing what it did best. It was crushed and hasn't worked properly since version 3. Please change your browser as soon as possible.
This comming from someone who hates microsoft should be seen as a profound statement. Sure you are going to want to flame this post, but you know that I am correct, and that had netscape not tried to keep up with all the features IE had and just kept to HTML standards and did it well like it had in the past people would still be looking at IE as that annoying program microsoft makes you install when you install windows, and not the better choice.
MAD props to the Mozila team though, Im excited to see the first non beta version, it's looking good, and even the beta seems to crash only about 10% as much as netscape does.
If practice makes perfect, and noone is perfect, why practice?
Well this is a great step in the right direction, but what I would realy like to see is some of those powerful 3D tools ported to linux. Currently we have POVRAY, and Blender 3D as free, or virtualy free full fledged packages. There are some comercial packages that most of us can not afford like Houdini (sorry I dont know the url, I cant afford it so I dont keep it handy), but a good package in the smae price range is an absolute necesity. Blender 3D is nice, but it's modeler is not as easy to use as such *indo*s packages as Lightwave and 3D Studio Max. We have GIMP, now we need LinuxWave or 3D Studio Linux, and maybe this is a step in the right direction. Unfortunatly I doubt Maya will be affordable either and it's unfortunate, as it is an awsome program. If anyone with any pull is reading this or if someone wants to send me some other options I would be most happy to finaly dismiss windows as only needed to play Asheron's Call. What a wonderful day that will be and the masses shall rejoice and the evil giant will feel yet another foot being slamed into a most uncomfortable place!
The solution of course would be to not purchase or in any way use any ID Software products. Return anything you have that is returnable and let ID know how much you dislike their methods. Write e-mail to the company stating your refusal to BUY/USE their software for this specific reason. Let your voice be heard.
'The only way to win is not to play' - (you figure out were the quote is from)