I think Loki was too much ahead of it's time. Linux's penetration into the desktop market is probably ten times higher than in the late nineties. Maybe another compnay will step in. Actually I was thinking, couldn't Id recruit some linux enthusiasts to sign an NDA and port the game to Linux for free, if the man hours roi is the issue?
Unfortunetly Linux is still a complete no go for a serious gaming enthusiast. Despite myths of technical superiority common on slashdot, Linux performace lacks in many fundamental key areas, in order to get acceptable performance on Linux, Nvidia didn't just write a regualr binary driver, they had to rewrite a large chunk of Xwindow and package the resulting mess in a large drop-in binary blob, unstable and heavily dependant on the kernel version. It's a nightmare. In addition, the multitude of overcloking and stability testing tools that arre bread and butter to windows performance gamers are completely non-existant on Linux and windows (non)emulation can not keep up with Microsofts technical progress on directx. So many recent AAA games in every genre are listed as 'bronze' or 'garbage'. The PC gaming market is small enough to justify p[orting to a platform that is a tiny fraction (about 1%) of users. Aspyre may port the idtech5 games to Mac, who will port it Linux?
My Toshiba G900 windows mobile was bought several years ago and it has an 800x480 screen and full qwerty slide-put keyboard, can be programmed using the awsome visualc development environment, has wi-fi,3g and goforce5500 3d accelrator (same as in iphone) and runs any app I throw at it unrestricted. There is very new stuff little hardware that n900 brings to the table.
First of all - they don't all disagree with each other. Secondly, the irony is that physics itself is aproaching the limits of practical application of scientific method. To be meaningfully tested some of the theories already require energies beyond what can be obtained by us. And what is the string theory flavour of the year? There are multiple and none can be tested. So what is theoretical physics today? is it still science, or is it math? Purhaps theology?
The idea that scientific method is the ONLY true way of obtaining knowledge is a recent one. There are other valid ways such as direct expreince and mystic studies. I put two years toward physics major and switched to math after becoming disgusted with the blind faith in scientific method (and the way physisists use and abuse math). There is overwhelming evidince that homeopathy saved millions during the spanish flue pandemic and I've seen accupancure perform what can only be deascribed as miracles by the westerners during my travels in China. Scientific method has it's uses but when it goes against ny commion sesne, well I go with common sense.
All you friends, heh? I hope they are enjoying playing on their XBOXs games such as Galactic civilizations 2, Hearts of Iron 3, Supreme Commander, Arma 2, Sins of the Solar Empire and of course the real Civ4 not the castrated version consoles got.
Could be sabotage. The plant was supplying 10% of Siberian electricity and what's more important provided electricity for major alluminum smelters in the region which are notoriously power hungry.
Sure as a user I prefer begging on support forums for patches and God forbid software is a few years old, then you better forget about support, go buy the new shiny version instead which mayve fixes more bugs than it introduces. Long live proprietory development! (Currently begging Bohemia Interactive to fix bugs in Arma 2. I understand they are a small outfit and don't have many resources and I bought the game knowing it would be buggy just because I support their team dedicated to milsims, but why on Earth they wouldn't let me and MANY other developers playing their games HELP them is beyond me)
This sounds like an old Russian joke. The Jews have sold the Motherland, so where do I get my share?? I contributed to FS projects and according to you it's the Corporate money that keeps FOSS going, so dude, where is my cut??
Taking advantage of sick and gullible people for profits is NOT free speech. According to a recent reuters article http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N03411375.htm the use of prescription antidepressants DOUBLED in the USA in recent years. Now 1 in 10 americans is on frigging psychiatric medication, so yeah just keep bubbling about "free speach" while your country is going to hell. What is wrong with you??
Google couldn't even make people switch to their own branded Chrome browser, Google apps is currently is a non-starter. I therefore sense that their Chrome OS running Linux kernel and using the Chrome browser for it's gui running Google apps will be even a greater failure.
Because it's not true. Infact we can readily observe the opposite. Genetically similar people slaughtering each other over minor differences in theology - Sunni Arbas killing Shiite Arabs, Muslim Pakistanis killing Christian Pakistanis (same shit goes on in Africa), many other examples.
Yet, subjectively, Linux netbooks all but have dissapeared from store shelves after initially making a big splash 2 years ago. Every local store i visit I see multitudes of netbooks from asus, acer, samsung, lenovo and ALL run WXP. I think linux has lost this one.
This is small potatoes that every country of any aspiration is involved in, in the 70s and 80s Western countries had thousands of military advisers all over Asia, Africa and Latin America. Not even in the same league as invading another country, something neither China nor Iran was involved in. At least in the case of China you could theoretically count the Korean War, but even in that case it was the West that was running around in it's backyard.
Well whose fault is it really? When was the last time you saw a US university graduate program in hard sciences that had more than a token share of US citizens? It's not his fault that most of his students are Chinese, Russians and Iranians. I'm surprised the professor himself wasn't Chinese.
For a second I though you were describing the US. What countries did Iran use it's military to take over exactly? On the other hand Iran did see US and NATO take over a country it borders in the east and just two years later the same warmongers took over a country it borders in the west. And then they try to incite a figging "Orange" Revolution. I'd be worried and developing nuclear weapons like mad.
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I think Loki was too much ahead of it's time. Linux's penetration into the desktop market is probably ten times higher than in the late nineties. Maybe another compnay will step in. Actually I was thinking, couldn't Id recruit some linux enthusiasts to sign an NDA and port the game to Linux for free, if the man hours roi is the issue?
I think you confusing freedom with force choice.
Unfortunetly Linux is still a complete no go for a serious gaming enthusiast. Despite myths of technical superiority common on slashdot, Linux performace lacks in many fundamental key areas, in order to get acceptable performance on Linux, Nvidia didn't just write a regualr binary driver, they had to rewrite a large chunk of Xwindow and package the resulting mess in a large drop-in binary blob, unstable and heavily dependant on the kernel version. It's a nightmare. In addition, the multitude of overcloking and stability testing tools that arre bread and butter to windows performance gamers are completely non-existant on Linux and windows (non)emulation can not keep up with Microsofts technical progress on directx. So many recent AAA games in every genre are listed as 'bronze' or 'garbage'. The PC gaming market is small enough to justify p[orting to a platform that is a tiny fraction (about 1%) of users. Aspyre may port the idtech5 games to Mac, who will port it Linux?
My Toshiba G900 windows mobile was bought several years ago and it has an 800x480 screen and full qwerty slide-put keyboard, can be programmed using the awsome visualc development environment, has wi-fi,3g and goforce5500 3d accelrator (same as in iphone) and runs any app I throw at it unrestricted. There is very new stuff little hardware that n900 brings to the table.
First of all - they don't all disagree with each other. Secondly, the irony is that physics itself is aproaching the limits of practical application of scientific method. To be meaningfully tested some of the theories already require energies beyond what can be obtained by us. And what is the string theory flavour of the year? There are multiple and none can be tested. So what is theoretical physics today? is it still science, or is it math? Purhaps theology?
The idea that scientific method is the ONLY true way of obtaining knowledge is a recent one. There are other valid ways such as direct expreince and mystic studies. I put two years toward physics major and switched to math after becoming disgusted with the blind faith in scientific method (and the way physisists use and abuse math). There is overwhelming evidince that homeopathy saved millions during the spanish flue pandemic and I've seen accupancure perform what can only be deascribed as miracles by the westerners during my travels in China. Scientific method has it's uses but when it goes against ny commion sesne, well I go with common sense.
All you friends, heh? I hope they are enjoying playing on their XBOXs games such as Galactic civilizations 2, Hearts of Iron 3, Supreme Commander, Arma 2, Sins of the Solar Empire and of course the real Civ4 not the castrated version consoles got.
The exploding Hungarian tree cannon was pretty awsome too.
Could be sabotage. The plant was supplying 10% of Siberian electricity and what's more important provided electricity for major alluminum smelters in the region which are notoriously power hungry.
Some people would like to look *good* in the coffin.
This is how CENTOS killed Redhat business... oh wait???
Sure as a user I prefer begging on support forums for patches and God forbid software is a few years old, then you better forget about support, go buy the new shiny version instead which mayve fixes more bugs than it introduces. Long live proprietory development! (Currently begging Bohemia Interactive to fix bugs in Arma 2. I understand they are a small outfit and don't have many resources and I bought the game knowing it would be buggy just because I support their team dedicated to milsims, but why on Earth they wouldn't let me and MANY other developers playing their games HELP them is beyond me)
This sounds like an old Russian joke. The Jews have sold the Motherland, so where do I get my share?? I contributed to FS projects and according to you it's the Corporate money that keeps FOSS going, so dude, where is my cut??
Taking advantage of sick and gullible people for profits is NOT free speech. According to a recent reuters article http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N03411375.htm the use of prescription antidepressants DOUBLED in the USA in recent years. Now 1 in 10 americans is on frigging psychiatric medication, so yeah just keep bubbling about "free speach" while your country is going to hell. What is wrong with you??
Google couldn't even make people switch to their own branded Chrome browser, Google apps is currently is a non-starter. I therefore sense that their Chrome OS running Linux kernel and using the Chrome browser for it's gui running Google apps will be even a greater failure.
Because it's not true. Infact we can readily observe the opposite. Genetically similar people slaughtering each other over minor differences in theology - Sunni Arbas killing Shiite Arabs, Muslim Pakistanis killing Christian Pakistanis (same shit goes on in Africa), many other examples.
His mom is living with him. Big difference.
Unless you cannot travel back in time before the time machine was created.
Sure VLC plays everything you throw at it but it got shitty built-in codecs, so I would only use it as a last resort.
Yet, subjectively, Linux netbooks all but have dissapeared from store shelves after initially making a big splash 2 years ago. Every local store i visit I see multitudes of netbooks from asus, acer, samsung, lenovo and ALL run WXP. I think linux has lost this one.
IAAMG (I'm a married geek), so take my simple advice - Patience, forgiveness, always count to 10.
What if you depended on renting this car for money? Would it still be OK with you to let people use it under stated conditions?
This is small potatoes that every country of any aspiration is involved in, in the 70s and 80s Western countries had thousands of military advisers all over Asia, Africa and Latin America. Not even in the same league as invading another country, something neither China nor Iran was involved in. At least in the case of China you could theoretically count the Korean War, but even in that case it was the West that was running around in it's backyard.
Well whose fault is it really? When was the last time you saw a US university graduate program in hard sciences that had more than a token share of US citizens? It's not his fault that most of his students are Chinese, Russians and Iranians. I'm surprised the professor himself wasn't Chinese.
For a second I though you were describing the US. What countries did Iran use it's military to take over exactly? On the other hand Iran did see US and NATO take over a country it borders in the east and just two years later the same warmongers took over a country it borders in the west. And then they try to incite a figging "Orange" Revolution. I'd be worried and developing nuclear weapons like mad.