I read this yesterday and it provoked some thought. The main one being that Rambus had sued only Hitachi at this point. The reason? Rambus claims that all sdram and ddr-sdram infringes on their patents. Now the deal with Toshiba strenthens those claims (in court). But sdram has been produced for years with no lawsuits or harrasment from Rambus. They would have sued and collected patents long before now if their claim was clearly defined by their patents. Their patents only clearly define the Rambus technologies, which is why they had only pursued signing those agreements in the past.
If Rambus can get memory producers to sign sdram and DDR-sdram agreements too, then they will control both sides of the memory coin and will be able to force adoption of RDRAM. This is a common fear tactic. I'm sad that Toshiba was the first to crumble. So much for the largest of the Duramai group. Hopefully the others will stand strong, because Toshiba will now be charging more for their sdram and DDR-sdram memory because Rambus will be getting royalties. Mainly because of questionable links to RDRAM that had not been proven ( the hitachi case would not have lasted this long otherwise).
This type of incident may just be a 'burp' in the system to the security firm, but it has a very real impact on everyones lives. How many times has something like this happened already? If it isn't known and tracked by some method, then it won't get repaired or the attention it deserves. If it gets no attention, then it will still be [ab]used by employeers with possibly devistating results to *your* career.
Is this the same type of 'burp' that gets my check card declined at random even though I have more than enough funds to cover the purchase? That happens fairly often. Do businesses check again or with an alternate service when they get a indication of a criminal record? Should they be required too?
I bailed out a friend when he got arrested for public drunkeness. When his court date came, he was in jail again for the same thing, and they called me to collect their bond. He was in their custody already and they didn't take him to court. They didn't keep track of their own records, and *I* had the burden of proving them wrong. Now move the information down a couple of layers from the actual source and then try getting inaccurate information removed. Good luck.
The guy in the article is referring to a leased 530km line. This is what we ran into when we looked into starting an isp. I could get a t-1 from mci or sprint easily, but to lease a line to get the t-1 from the termination point to our location was going to cost almost as much per month as the t-1.
The guy in New Mexico would have to pay for this leased line and _then_ purchase the t-3 bandwidth. Your argument is flawed.
I have been playing with V gui since it was mentioned in Dr. Dobbs in '95 or so. It is quite nice these days and works well between WinXX, X windows and OS/2 for those that still have need to support it.
V is freeware and has many good tutorials to help get you started quickly. They even have some pretty good language guides if you need help in that area. Overall, not as polished as some commercial cross-platform toolkits I have seen, but quite extensive for a free package.
Wouldn't this type of protection be useful on large service installations *and* ISP's, colleges, etc... for outgoing data? The data could be analyzed and restricted until confirmation of just why someone needed to send 400,000 icmp packets in 30 seconds.
Analyzers at multiple points along the backbones could communicate and discover DDOS attacks and cease to route packets that could be nothing but a massive coordinated attack. Seems like backbone bots could be triggered by a plea for help by the network being attacked. That would help extinguish smurf attacks and could probably be used to actually help track down poorly configured networks.
This could also put the burdon on ISP's that have lousy security and allow forged packets to escape their domains. Sure, make them accountable for their insecurity.
If CmdrTaco 'suddenly' became infatuated with FreeBSD, then I am sure that he would post more FreeBSD story submissions and the rest would continue much like they presently do now.
The entire collection of people that comprise the slashdot crew give this site an overall flavor and style. Just like a recipe, change an ingredient or amount of an existing ingredient and the flavor will change. Sometimes a major change, sometimes just a subtle difference, *cough*DOJ*cough*. For you to assume that Slashdot & VA Linux will always be focused exclusively on Linux is as foolish as assuming that Microsoft will always be focused only on selling Windows versions for the PC market. They both will change to reflect evolutions in taste and market.
I think you would have to admit that it is usually the people involved that make a project or company sucessful, not a singular idea or concept.
Have you ever read the moderator guidelines? If you metamoderate all downward moderation of AC's regardless of content then you are hurting the moderation system by denying some future moderation points to those who are trying to weed out some of the trolling here.
From the guidelines: "What is a Good Comment? A Bad Comment? Good Comments are insightful. You read them and are better off having read them. They add new information to a discussion. They are clear, hopefully well written, or maybe amusing. These are the gems we're looking for, and they deserve to be promoted.
Average Comments might be slightly offtopic, but still might be worth reading. They might be redundant. They might be a 'Me Too' article. They might say something painfully obvious. They don't detract from the discussion, but they don't necessarily significantly add to it. They are the comments that require the most attention from the moderators, and they also represent the bulk of the comments. (Score:0-1)
Bad Comments are flamebait. Bad comments have nothing to do with the article they are attached to. They call someone names. They ridicule someone for having a different opinion without backing it up with anything more tangible than strong words. Bad comments are repeats of something said 15 times already making it quite apparent that the writer didn't read the previous comments. They use foul language. They are hard to read or just don't make any sense. They detract from the article they are attached to."
Notice that the _average_ comment is listed at 0 or 1. You, according to your own words, are not following the moderator guidelines. If you had posted as your user account rather than AC, I would forward your post to Mr. Malda. By posting as AC to make these comments, you seem to display a certain lack of confidence in your words. Then again, you could just be another troll and not even have a regular account.
Whoops, my bad. I was reading through the OpenUT maillist last night and read that he was on vacation, so no news on 4.20 just yet. Guess I can't believe everything I read.
On the other hand, I am glad to know that he is working for Loki now. Maybe things will get better for OpenUT. Hope, hope.
If you had read the announcment, you would have known that Loki is targeting $30USD for D3. I will pay that to have it running under Linux.
Loki is not just porting games at random, they are targeting games that are already successful and that appeal to the existing Linux community. They have already developed some very useful porting tools that make the task easier with each additional game they port. I think they did an outstanding job with Heavy Gear II; especially when you consider it started as a D3D native game and their port included converting the engine to OpenGL. Not a trivial task, but they did it well.
I think Loki has a couple of interesting areas to branch into depending on how the game companies view and embrace Linux. If they start developing Linux ports in-house, then Loki can license their porting tools and/or do consulting when the companies need help.
An anti-example to your original point is Unreal Tournament. I do really enjoy the game, but I only play it under Windows. The reason? Their Linux version is not stable or particularly speedy on my nVidia based card. Heavy Gear II on the other hand runs very well under Linux. Ditto for Quake3A. Epic had GreenMarine inhouse doing the initial Linux port and updates, but now he has left for 3DRealms to work on Duke Nukem Forever. OpenUT has a developer with NDA access to the UT source, but he is on vacation now and we don't know when we will see ver 4.20 for Linux. Having a commited third party could make much more sense for game companies wanting to port to and support Linux. Continuing support can be as critical as the original development if you have problems.
Alan has been running an Athlon since they first hit the market. The 2.4pre kernel series has specific Athlon optimizations thanks mainly to Alan. I have installed several Athlon/Linux systems and have *excellent* results too. Mighty fast for the money invested.
Where do these rumors get started? Probably from people that have been computer 'experts' since way back in the win95 days.
You don't need to know which order to install the rpm's. Go to the dir you dl'd the files into and type "rpm -Uhv *". Rpm is smart and will look at each package, then complain if any dependancies are left unresolved, otherwise, it will commence installing for you.
BTW, the "U" is for upgrading any previously gnome rpms, "h" to show the nice progress bar and "v" for verbose messages.
Surprise, surprise! Linux also has support for 64-bit file offsets. You failed to quote this comment I made though: "I know that there are ways around this with some filesystems, but there is a speed penalty when you get away from native cpu data sizes for variables."
I have indeed run into this speed difference myself when I wrote some code recently to assist data recovery on large (20gig+) hard drives. I ended up with a much simpler (and faster) program by doing my own buffering and using only relative 32-bit lseeks and blockreads instead of the llseek 64bit offset functions. Since I wasn't trying to read a filesystem, but instead, rebuild data chains and recover information, 32bit-ness wasn't a problem aside from speed ( this process did involve *much* seeking. Granted, I didn't use FreeBSD, which may not have had a speed penalty ( and my speed differences could have been entirely caused by my crappy code;o} ). Bottom line here is that for *my* application, 64bit-ness would have helped quite a bit in terms of getting the program written quickly and simply.
BTW, Linux 2.2.xx supports 64bit llseek, but has a 32bit vfs. The 2.3.99 series and more importantly the 2.4 release series has a 64bit llseek and 64bit vfs. Go here for a small, current discussion thread
With 32bit registers, a signed long is what limits file sizes to 2gigs. This is getting to be a bit of a limit for many applications (some of my custom apps and datafiles anyway). I know that there are ways around this with some filesystems, but there is a speed penalty when you get away from native cpu data sizes for variables. That is why a long on i386 is 32bit, and 64bit on 64bit cpus.
Data can also be handled quite nicely in a 64bit register and the Alpha architecture has many registers for the compilers and programmers to play within which decreases the need for more memory bandwidth by just a bit. I'm still hoping for more mainstream pricing for the Alpha family processors and motherboards.
My take is that this story highlights the technical oversights that CyberPatrol is making.
I have strong concerns about the methods they employ to select what content and sites to filter and this points to severe technical problems with their implementation. I think you read the wrong message into its/. submission. It is more like a headline of "Technically incompetent bomb maker blows off own foot" or "Neighborhood bully gets butt kicked, lunch money stolen", irony is quite humors as long as it wasn't your firewall. I would be quite pissed if it was my firewall they pooched.
All that security and I bet many of the boxes are running NT...:) But, humor aside, I wonder how many of the protected boxes are more secure physically than operationally. They are subject to much more danger via the internet than a terrorist wanting to damage the machine. Look at the DDOS attacks against/. last week. Shucks, the terrorist would take more systems offline by trying to find the network cable entry points and destroying those instead of trying to gain access to the physical boxes.
Green? Green!?! Everyone who knows anything about electronics knows that the blueberry iMacs are faster. Has something to do with the blue wavelength of light relaxing the electrons more than green light. Remember the Wizard of Oz? All that green light made people woozie. Same for electrons. That is why MS made the default background of W2K a light blue; to wring the last possible bit of speed out of the boxes.
When can a paraphrasing be considered illegal copyright infringment? This site was only conveying the original web sites from a different perspective. Will individuals now be held liable if they incorrectly misquote the contents of Bank of Amerika's website? What an arrogant and pompus group of companies and webmasters (made my fingers hurt to type that) that want a complete reign on the display of "their" contents. What kind of heat would a sweedish chef plugin for mozilla get? It would only be a client-side changing of the text. I bet they would freak if they knew something like this existed, but they would have no way of telling if someone was using it...:) We could all taunt BoA and they woudl be powerless to stop because it would be an anonymous taunting.
Therefore, I propose a whole range of text mutilation plugins for mozilla.
- mime plugin: Text is converted into a series of little pictures denoting movement.
- lawyer plugin: All text is made completely unintelligible, not that it would matter anyway, because the font size of 0.03 renders it invisible too.
- corporate plugin: All text would be converted into ass kissing phrases or legal disclaimers concerning use. Content itself dosen't matter in this context, only the control of the content.
- Slashdot plugin: Automatically filters out Ms. Portman, hotgrits and first post posts. Takes interesting posts and stories that match user preferences and fires up a web search for more relevant information in a new window.
That brings me to a question. Does the viewer of a website, tv or reader of a book have an obligation to the publisher to view only in the context said information was created and distributed? That seems to be the message behind the requests for exclusion that the dialectizer has gotten.
They still seem like a Linux friendly company ( Epic, NOT GT Games). Hopefully Loki could work with Epic to port games like they already did with the D3D only Heavy Gear II (excellent port to opengl) and like they did with Quake3 for id. I have purchased two copies of UT and like it very much. If Epic is listening, then please don't cut off the Linux community. We do play and pay for your games.
Actually this is a game that is already being played[out] most evenings in bars across the nation[planet]. The object of this game is to nail all the tail that err.. isn't nailed down. The fun really starts when you get "bonus" items during your nailing. The round is over when you get a "bonus" item and you have to go to the penalty box for a period of time. Some "bonus" items require a permenant departure from the game, and some relegate the player to the penalty box for the remainder of the game. Then you can only "play" with other penalty box members. You win the game if you can survive the dreggs and find a suitable mate and still produce viable offspring without having to have a crotch transplant.
There are many variations of play available, but the virii are varied and plentiful. Batter up!
Stealing is taking something that dosen't belong to you. If you used a high quality scanner to copy my drivers license and return my original copy without my knowing, you have still taken something that you had no right to take.
Breaking and Entering dosen't have to involve harm to a device. If you find a store key laying on the sidewalk and unlock the door and walk in, you can still be rightfully charged with B&E. The reason? You didn't belong there. You had no permission and having possesion of the key is not a free license to use it as you see fit. It is still a crime if no damage is caused.
If someone had a duplicate set of keys to your car, would you complain when they take it only because they can? What if they decide to just keep it because they like it?
Geez, I learned these things when I was a child. Do most people even care anymore?
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I read this yesterday and it provoked some thought. The main one being that Rambus had sued only Hitachi at this point. The reason? Rambus claims that all sdram and ddr-sdram infringes on their patents. Now the deal with Toshiba strenthens those claims (in court). But sdram has been produced for years with no lawsuits or harrasment from Rambus. They would have sued and collected patents long before now if their claim was clearly defined by their patents. Their patents only clearly define the Rambus technologies, which is why they had only pursued signing those agreements in the past.
If Rambus can get memory producers to sign sdram and DDR-sdram agreements too, then they will control both sides of the memory coin and will be able to force adoption of RDRAM. This is a common fear tactic. I'm sad that Toshiba was the first to crumble. So much for the largest of the Duramai group. Hopefully the others will stand strong, because Toshiba will now be charging more for their sdram and DDR-sdram memory because Rambus will be getting royalties. Mainly because of questionable links to RDRAM that had not been proven ( the hitachi case would not have lasted this long otherwise).
Serves you right for sticking your neck out for a dipshit like that.
:) Friends get more help than strangers. Family gets the most help, if needed. But limits do exist.
Bob?? Is that you? Don't be so hard on yourself.
This type of incident may just be a 'burp' in the system to the security firm, but it has a very real impact on everyones lives. How many times has something like this happened already? If it isn't known and tracked by some method, then it won't get repaired or the attention it deserves. If it gets no attention, then it will still be [ab]used by employeers with possibly devistating results to *your* career.
Is this the same type of 'burp' that gets my check card declined at random even though I have more than enough funds to cover the purchase? That happens fairly often. Do businesses check again or with an alternate service when they get a indication of a criminal record? Should they be required too?
I bailed out a friend when he got arrested for public drunkeness. When his court date came, he was in jail again for the same thing, and they called me to collect their bond. He was in their custody already and they didn't take him to court. They didn't keep track of their own records, and *I* had the burden of proving them wrong. Now move the information down a couple of layers from the actual source and then try getting inaccurate information removed. Good luck.
The guy in the article is referring to a leased 530km line. This is what we ran into when we looked into starting an isp. I could get a t-1 from mci or sprint easily, but to lease a line to get the t-1 from the termination point to our location was going to cost almost as much per month as the t-1.
The guy in New Mexico would have to pay for this leased line and _then_ purchase the t-3 bandwidth. Your argument is flawed.
I have been playing with V gui since it was mentioned in Dr. Dobbs in '95 or so. It is quite nice these days and works well between WinXX, X windows and OS/2 for those that still have need to support it.
V is freeware and has many good tutorials to help get you started quickly. They even have some pretty good language guides if you need help in that area. Overall, not as polished as some commercial cross-platform toolkits I have seen, but quite extensive for a free package.
Wouldn't this type of protection be useful on large service installations *and* ISP's, colleges, etc... for outgoing data? The data could be analyzed and restricted until confirmation of just why someone needed to send 400,000 icmp packets in 30 seconds.
Analyzers at multiple points along the backbones could communicate and discover DDOS attacks and cease to route packets that could be nothing but a massive coordinated attack. Seems like backbone bots could be triggered by a plea for help by the network being attacked. That would help extinguish smurf attacks and could probably be used to actually help track down poorly configured networks.
This could also put the burdon on ISP's that have lousy security and allow forged packets to escape their domains. Sure, make them accountable for their insecurity.
If CmdrTaco 'suddenly' became infatuated with FreeBSD, then I am sure that he would post more FreeBSD story submissions and the rest would continue much like they presently do now.
The entire collection of people that comprise the slashdot crew give this site an overall flavor and style. Just like a recipe, change an ingredient or amount of an existing ingredient and the flavor will change. Sometimes a major change, sometimes just a subtle difference, *cough*DOJ*cough*. For you to assume that Slashdot & VA Linux will always be focused exclusively on Linux is as foolish as assuming that Microsoft will always be focused only on selling Windows versions for the PC market. They both will change to reflect evolutions in taste and market.
I think you would have to admit that it is usually the people involved that make a project or company sucessful, not a singular idea or concept.
Have you ever read the moderator guidelines? If you metamoderate all downward moderation of AC's regardless of content then you are hurting the moderation system by denying some future moderation points to those who are trying to weed out some of the trolling here.
From the guidelines:
"What is a Good Comment? A Bad Comment?
Good Comments are insightful. You read them and are better off having read them. They add new information to a discussion. They are clear, hopefully well written, or maybe amusing. These are the gems we're looking for, and they deserve to be promoted.
Average Comments might be slightly offtopic, but still might be worth reading. They might be redundant. They might be a 'Me Too' article. They might say something painfully obvious. They don't detract from the discussion, but they don't necessarily significantly add to it. They are the comments that require the most attention from the moderators, and they also represent the bulk of the comments. (Score:0-1)
Bad Comments are flamebait. Bad comments have nothing to do with the article they are attached to. They call someone names. They ridicule someone for having a different opinion without backing it up with anything more tangible than strong words. Bad comments are repeats of something said 15 times already making it quite apparent that the writer didn't read the previous comments. They use foul language. They are hard to read or just don't make any sense. They detract from the article they are attached to."
Notice that the _average_ comment is listed at 0 or 1. You, according to your own words, are not following the moderator guidelines. If you had posted as your user account rather than AC, I would forward your post to Mr. Malda. By posting as AC to make these comments, you seem to display a certain lack of confidence in your words. Then again, you could just be another troll and not even have a regular account.
Have a good day.
Whoops, my bad. I was reading through the OpenUT maillist last night and read that he was on vacation, so no news on 4.20 just yet. Guess I can't believe everything I read.
On the other hand, I am glad to know that he is working for Loki now. Maybe things will get better for OpenUT. Hope, hope.
If you had read the announcment, you would have known that Loki is targeting $30USD for D3. I will pay that to have it running under Linux.
Loki is not just porting games at random, they are targeting games that are already successful and that appeal to the existing Linux community. They have already developed some very useful porting tools that make the task easier with each additional game they port. I think they did an outstanding job with Heavy Gear II; especially when you consider it started as a D3D native game and their port included converting the engine to OpenGL. Not a trivial task, but they did it well.
I think Loki has a couple of interesting areas to branch into depending on how the game companies view and embrace Linux. If they start developing Linux ports in-house, then Loki can license their porting tools and/or do consulting when the companies need help.
An anti-example to your original point is Unreal Tournament. I do really enjoy the game, but I only play it under Windows. The reason? Their Linux version is not stable or particularly speedy on my nVidia based card. Heavy Gear II on the other hand runs very well under Linux. Ditto for Quake3A. Epic had GreenMarine inhouse doing the initial Linux port and updates, but now he has left for 3DRealms to work on Duke Nukem Forever. OpenUT has a developer with NDA access to the UT source, but he is on vacation now and we don't know when we will see ver 4.20 for Linux. Having a commited third party could make much more sense for game companies wanting to port to and support Linux. Continuing support can be as critical as the original development if you have problems.
Alan has been running an Athlon since they first hit the market. The 2.4pre kernel series has specific Athlon optimizations thanks mainly to Alan. I have installed several Athlon/Linux systems and have *excellent* results too. Mighty fast for the money invested.
Where do these rumors get started? Probably from people that have been computer 'experts' since way back in the win95 days.
You don't need to know which order to install the rpm's. Go to the dir you dl'd the files into and type "rpm -Uhv *". Rpm is smart and will look at each package, then complain if any dependancies are left unresolved, otherwise, it will commence installing for you.
BTW, the "U" is for upgrading any previously gnome rpms, "h" to show the nice progress bar and "v" for verbose messages.
Surprise, surprise! Linux also has support for 64-bit file offsets. You failed to quote this comment I made though: "I know that there are ways around this with some filesystems, but there is a speed penalty when you get away from native cpu data sizes for variables."
;o} ). Bottom line here is that for *my* application, 64bit-ness would have helped quite a bit in terms of getting the program written quickly and simply.
I have indeed run into this speed difference myself when I wrote some code recently to assist data recovery on large (20gig+) hard drives. I ended up with a much simpler (and faster) program by doing my own buffering and using only relative 32-bit lseeks and blockreads instead of the llseek 64bit offset functions. Since I wasn't trying to read a filesystem, but instead, rebuild data chains and recover information, 32bit-ness wasn't a problem aside from speed ( this process did involve *much* seeking. Granted, I didn't use FreeBSD, which may not have had a speed penalty ( and my speed differences could have been entirely caused by my crappy code
BTW, Linux 2.2.xx supports 64bit llseek, but has a 32bit vfs. The 2.3.99 series and more importantly the 2.4 release series has a 64bit llseek and 64bit vfs. Go here for a small, current discussion thread
With 32bit registers, a signed long is what limits file sizes to 2gigs. This is getting to be a bit of a limit for many applications (some of my custom apps and datafiles anyway). I know that there are ways around this with some filesystems, but there is a speed penalty when you get away from native cpu data sizes for variables. That is why a long on i386 is 32bit, and 64bit on 64bit cpus.
Data can also be handled quite nicely in a 64bit register and the Alpha architecture has many registers for the compilers and programmers to play within which decreases the need for more memory bandwidth by just a bit. I'm still hoping for more mainstream pricing for the Alpha family processors and motherboards.
irony n 1: witty language used to convey insults or scorn; "he used sarcasm to upset his opponent"; "irony is wasted on the stupid" [syn: sarcasm, satire, caustic remark] 2: incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs: "the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated" 3: a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University
I think my usage falls neatly under # 2 and #3. Damn, do you all have to make me keep reliving my failures in English class???? 8^}
My take is that this story highlights the technical oversights that CyberPatrol is making.
/. submission. It is more like a headline of "Technically incompetent bomb maker blows off own foot" or "Neighborhood bully gets butt kicked, lunch money stolen", irony is quite humors as long as it wasn't your firewall. I would be quite pissed if it was my firewall they pooched.
I have strong concerns about the methods they employ to select what content and sites to filter and this points to severe technical problems with their implementation. I think you read the wrong message into its
All that security and I bet many of the boxes are running NT... :) But, humor aside, I wonder how many of the protected boxes are more secure physically than operationally. They are subject to much more danger via the internet than a terrorist wanting to damage the machine. Look at the DDOS attacks against /. last week. Shucks, the terrorist would take more systems offline by trying to find the network cable entry points and destroying those instead of trying to gain access to the physical boxes.
Green? Green!?! Everyone who knows anything about electronics knows that the blueberry iMacs are faster. Has something to do with the blue wavelength of light relaxing the electrons more than green light. Remember the Wizard of Oz? All that green light made people woozie. Same for electrons. That is why MS made the default background of W2K a light blue; to wring the last possible bit of speed out of the boxes.
When can a paraphrasing be considered illegal copyright infringment? This site was only conveying the original web sites from a different perspective. Will individuals now be held liable if they incorrectly misquote the contents of Bank of Amerika's website? What an arrogant and pompus group of companies and webmasters (made my fingers hurt to type that) that want a complete reign on the display of "their" contents. What kind of heat would a sweedish chef plugin for mozilla get? It would only be a client-side changing of the text. I bet they would freak if they knew something like this existed, but they would have no way of telling if someone was using it... :) We could all taunt BoA and they woudl be powerless to stop because it would be an anonymous taunting.
Therefore, I propose a whole range of text mutilation plugins for mozilla.
- mime plugin: Text is converted into a series of little pictures denoting movement.
- lawyer plugin: All text is made completely unintelligible, not that it would matter anyway, because the font size of 0.03 renders it invisible too.
- corporate plugin: All text would be converted into ass kissing phrases or legal disclaimers concerning use. Content itself dosen't matter in this context, only the control of the content.
- Slashdot plugin: Automatically filters out Ms. Portman, hotgrits and first post posts. Takes interesting posts and stories that match user preferences and fires up a web search for more relevant information in a new window.
That brings me to a question. Does the viewer of a website, tv or reader of a book have an obligation to the publisher to view only in the context said information was created and distributed? That seems to be the message behind the requests for exclusion that the dialectizer has gotten.
They still seem like a Linux friendly company ( Epic, NOT GT Games). Hopefully Loki could work with Epic to port games like they already did with the D3D only Heavy Gear II (excellent port to opengl) and like they did with Quake3 for id. I have purchased two copies of UT and like it very much. If Epic is listening, then please don't cut off the Linux community. We do play and pay for your games.
Actually this is a game that is already being played[out] most evenings in bars across the nation[planet]. The object of this game is to nail all the tail that err.. isn't nailed down. The fun really starts when you get "bonus" items during your nailing. The round is over when you get a "bonus" item and you have to go to the penalty box for a period of time. Some "bonus" items require a permenant departure from the game, and some relegate the player to the penalty box for the remainder of the game. Then you can only "play" with other penalty box members. You win the game if you can survive the dreggs and find a suitable mate and still produce viable offspring without having to have a crotch transplant.
There are many variations of play available, but the virii are varied and plentiful. Batter up!
Seen much Linux software for sale at Staples and Best Buy. Staples even had Civ:CTP for Linux.
If this trend continues, we will get more games and even better support from major ISVs.
You forgot the most obvious one. When you get in and close the door, a cheerful voice will announce:
"You've got gas!"
I send thanks. It is one of greatest new tools on the internet.
Stealing is taking something that dosen't belong to you. If you used a high quality scanner to copy my drivers license and return my original copy without my knowing, you have still taken something that you had no right to take.
Breaking and Entering dosen't have to involve harm to a device. If you find a store key laying on the sidewalk and unlock the door and walk in, you can still be rightfully charged with B&E. The reason? You didn't belong there. You had no permission and having possesion of the key is not a free license to use it as you see fit. It is still a crime if no damage is caused.
If someone had a duplicate set of keys to your car, would you complain when they take it only because they can? What if they decide to just keep it because they like it?
Geez, I learned these things when I was a child. Do most people even care anymore?