This is the same reason I keep copies of the latest RedHat on hand which I loan out for students to copy/install. I collect a $5 "ransom", which they get back if they return the CD.
The GPL doesn't ALLOW for a ransom cost, you fucking capitalistic pig!! Give it away for FREE! You're NO BETTER than Bill Gates!
Actually, pad're the Trident 9750s did OKey on the early *nix releases, while N-vidia like you had their nose-up-butt. It's a solid vidcard, that doesn't mind M$ either -- I still have one limping along on an old K-6 humping WinME.
Heh typical poor Linux loser with a crappy old system. Your opinions mean nothing, pauper!
Since when has Trident put out any videocard that didn't suck? Even in their prime, their chips were pretty bottom-of-the-barrel.. Like pre-Rage128 ATI, they never would have had any of the market if it weren't for the fact that they supplied cheap OEM solutions for bargain PCs.
The proponents and owners of the "fascist" licenses are now trying to enlist the governments of the world to help them maintain a stranglehold on the market and people's freedoms to use computers to their full potential. The DMCA is a product of your ideal world.
Yeah, and many Open Source zealots have been advocating laws forcing the government, et al, to use Open Source software... which is just as bad.
There are extremist that should be ignored on both sides, and I think RMS is one of them, as he advocates a world in which ALL software is "Free", thus stripping developers of THEIR freedom to license code however they want. I'm not anti-GPL, but I have no patience for people who proclaim that the GPL is the One True Way any more than I have patience for people who proclaim that closed-source licensing is the One True Way.
Make sure that they understand that Linux can be a great gamming PC. Be sure that you demo Linux on a decent PC with an accelerated graphic card, the correct drivers for it and then demo Quake 3.
Yeah, a great gaming PC!!! If you want to play 4 year old games!!
Just a wild guess, but I'd be inclined to bet that UBC takes computer games relatively seriously. Being in the home town of EA doesn't hurt much either.
(actually, EA is based in Burnaby -- a siamese suburb of Vancouver, and UBC is essentially it's own town at the other end of Vancouver, but that's picking nits).
EA may have an office in Burnaby, but their headquarters is in Redwood City, California. Just sayin'
There's really not much need for 64bits even in gaming. The side-effects of going to these 64 bit chips (Hammer and Itanium), like executing more instructions per cycle, will help out, but the 64-bitness of the chips is not at all important for games for the foreseeable future.
It's funny, I drove the 20 miles downtown and double parked in order to buy concert tickets a while back. I still got charged a "convenience fee" although it was the venue's box office. WTF is that all about?
Well you didn't have to drive 25 miles did you? Just the 20, right? Sounds convenient to me...
Agreed. ASCII is fine for some things (read: your average novel), but it absolutely sucks for works with art interspersed with the text, or works where the formatting of the text is very important (many Romance-era poems are meant to be laid out in very specific ways that would be impossible to exactly reproduce with plain-old-ASCII).
And even if poems aren't you thing, what about math/science books? As the poster above has stated, ASCII is horrible for drawing out figures and margin notes, it is also horrible for formatting even simple math equations.
ASCII is nice and all, but it is not The Answer.
Personally I'd be much quicker to recommend XHTML, with PNG images, if any inline images are required within the text. HTML browsers are going to be with us for a long time and PNG is well specified format with no restrictions, so while we might move to better image formats in the future (and surely we will), it should be fairly easy to do any future conversions. Likewise, if the HTML is properly specified XHTML, when HTML is eventually phased out it will still be pretty easy to parse it as an XML document and then convert it to some other format.... Another suggestion would be to skip the XHTML and use XML/XSL, which keeps things very open, but it means you'll have to do more work to get the document viewable _now_, whereas with XHTML you can just load it into any old browser.
It depends where, not every nation has a wonderful constitution like the US and not every nation follows the UNs thingy about human rights.
Yeah, and how many of those nations that don't heed the UN human rights guidelines bother to respect copyright law? The original poster's point still stands.
The Sims Online is arguably not even a game, just a large virtual world chat system. Your typical gamer won't "get it", but the public is going to eat it up. EA's got a money printing machine on their hands with this one.
Not exactly. I recognized the parent as a cheap troll before responding, but the fact that it was modded up to 3 (Insightful..not Funny) at the time I replied caused me to post a follow-up anyway.
Hah hah hah! Are you on crack, son? Disney is a BUSINESS. These decisions are based on MAKING MONEY. Disney will release Spirited Away if they think they will make a significant RETURN ON INVESTMENT from doing so. Being nice to geeks doesn't even factor into the equation.
So what you're saying is when Microsoft gives users an option it is bad, but if Linux gives users an option, that's good? Typical Linux zealot bullshit. Get a life, you fat fucking loser!
Man, that sucks that that was such a big risk for Square. To this day I'm still surprised at just how crappy the Spirits Withins' script was, I mean it was surprising, I think they simply got caught up in the visuals, and were "oohhhhh" and "ahhhhhhhh"-ing themselves......
If Spirits Within were a GAME, even with the same plot, it would probably be considered the most amazing RPG ever, story-wise (oooh!! sweeping epic!).
Which is not to say I thought the plot was good for a movie.. it isn't. All I'm saying is games and movies are very different at a core level as far as what story-telling techniques can and should be used, and Square ignored that difference at their own peril.
The most efficient way of using the mouse is to keep it in the upper-left of the window for easy access to the menubar, titlebar, and toolbar. If the close button is on the lower-half or the right side of the window then the mouse must be moved far for that operation.
Sorry but you're full of shit. It SHOULD be a little bit difficult to close a window. If I am aiming for the File menu and I miss by a bit and click the close window button, I'm going to be pretty pissed off. Of course your obvious counter for this is saying that you should have to double click to close the window, ala Win3.1, etc, but if that's the case, why not just use the 'Close Window' menu item that IS part of the window drop down on the top-left-hand side of the Window (on Windows at least, and most WMs that ape Windows functionality)?
In other words, STFU. You're not a UI expert, don't play one on Slashdot.
This just in, Sun says No to Java standardization!
My point being...BFD? Of course Microsoft isn't keen to join up. Just like any other for-profit company wouldn't join a committee whose purpose was to weaken their market position...
Well, Microsoft didn't originate PowerPoint. PowerPoint was originally a separate company in Silicon Valley. Microsoft bought their company and then integrated their product into Office.
Of course, by saying this that doesn't mean I agree with the parent post that says Microsoft doesn't ever come up with original software.. While somewhat true, it is a stupid statement. Name any piece of software made in the past 20 years and I can list the earlier software it "ripped off", whether it was made by Microsoft or anyone else. Realistic progress is based on improving what has come before, this is true in software as well as anything else.
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I am the poster of the post that is the first. And you all suck compared to me!
This is the same reason I keep copies of the latest RedHat on hand which I loan out for students to copy/install. I collect a $5 "ransom", which they get back if they return the CD.
The GPL doesn't ALLOW for a ransom cost, you fucking capitalistic pig!! Give it away for FREE!
You're NO BETTER than Bill Gates!
Heh typical poor Linux loser with a crappy old system. Your opinions mean nothing, pauper!
Since when has Trident put out any videocard that didn't suck? Even in their prime, their chips were pretty bottom-of-the-barrel.. Like pre-Rage128 ATI, they never would have had any of the market if it weren't for the fact that they supplied cheap OEM solutions for bargain PCs.
Yeah, and many Open Source zealots have been advocating laws forcing the government, et al, to use Open Source software... which is just as bad.
There are extremist that should be ignored on both sides, and I think RMS is one of them, as he advocates a world in which ALL software is "Free", thus stripping developers of THEIR freedom to license code however they want. I'm not anti-GPL, but I have no patience for people who proclaim that the GPL is the One True Way any more than I have patience for people who proclaim that closed-source licensing is the One True Way.
Yeah, a great gaming PC!!! If you want to play 4 year old games!!
EA may have an office in Burnaby, but their headquarters is in Redwood City, California. Just sayin'
Care to name some? Didn't think so, asshat!
There's really not much need for 64bits even in gaming. The side-effects of going to these 64 bit chips (Hammer and Itanium), like executing more instructions per cycle, will help out, but the 64-bitness of the chips is not at all important for games for the foreseeable future.
Well you didn't have to drive 25 miles did you? Just the 20, right? Sounds convenient to me...
And even if poems aren't you thing, what about math/science books? As the poster above has stated, ASCII is horrible for drawing out figures and margin notes, it is also horrible for formatting even simple math equations.
ASCII is nice and all, but it is not The Answer.
Personally I'd be much quicker to recommend XHTML, with PNG images, if any inline images are required within the text. HTML browsers are going to be with us for a long time and PNG is well specified format with no restrictions, so while we might move to better image formats in the future (and surely we will), it should be fairly easy to do any future conversions. Likewise, if the HTML is properly specified XHTML, when HTML is eventually phased out it will still be pretty easy to parse it as an XML document and then convert it to some other format.... Another suggestion would be to skip the XHTML and use XML/XSL, which keeps things very open, but it means you'll have to do more work to get the document viewable _now_, whereas with XHTML you can just load it into any old browser.
Particularly, this one.
Yeah, and how many of those nations that don't heed the UN human rights guidelines bother to respect copyright law? The original poster's point still stands.
The Sims Online is arguably not even a game, just a large virtual world chat system. Your typical gamer won't "get it", but the public is going to eat it up. EA's got a money printing machine on their hands with this one.
My post is the post that is first. Suckas! BOW DOWN!
Text muds are for fags!! LIKE YOUR MOTHER!
Not exactly. I recognized the parent as a cheap troll before responding, but the fact that it was modded up to 3 (Insightful..not Funny) at the time I replied caused me to post a follow-up anyway.
Hah hah hah! Are you on crack, son? Disney is a BUSINESS. These decisions are based on MAKING MONEY. Disney will release Spirited Away if they think they will make a significant RETURN ON INVESTMENT from doing so. Being nice to geeks doesn't even factor into the equation.
So what you're saying is when Microsoft gives users an option it is bad, but if Linux gives users an option, that's good? Typical Linux zealot bullshit. Get a life, you fat fucking loser!
If Spirits Within were a GAME, even with the same plot, it would probably be considered the most amazing RPG ever, story-wise (oooh!! sweeping epic!).
Which is not to say I thought the plot was good for a movie.. it isn't. All I'm saying is games and movies are very different at a core level as far as what story-telling techniques can and should be used, and Square ignored that difference at their own peril.
By the same logic CmdrTaco followed in his write-up, Slashdot says BSD is dying. Spread the word!
The most efficient way of using the mouse is to keep it in the upper-left of the window for easy access to the menubar, titlebar, and toolbar. If the close button is on the lower-half or the right side of the window then the mouse must be moved far for that operation.
Sorry but you're full of shit. It SHOULD be a little bit difficult to close a window. If I am aiming for the File menu and I miss by a bit and click the close window button, I'm going to be pretty pissed off. Of course your obvious counter for this is saying that you should have to double click to close the window, ala Win3.1, etc, but if that's the case, why not just use the 'Close Window' menu item that IS part of the window drop down on the top-left-hand side of the Window (on Windows at least, and most WMs that ape Windows functionality)?
In other words, STFU. You're not a UI expert, don't play one on Slashdot.
This just in, Sun says No to Java standardization! My point being...BFD? Of course Microsoft isn't keen to join up. Just like any other for-profit company wouldn't join a committee whose purpose was to weaken their market position...
Of course, by saying this that doesn't mean I agree with the parent post that says Microsoft doesn't ever come up with original software.. While somewhat true, it is a stupid statement. Name any piece of software made in the past 20 years and I can list the earlier software it "ripped off", whether it was made by Microsoft or anyone else. Realistic progress is based on improving what has come before, this is true in software as well as anything else.
CLOS is for fags. Like your mother!