Well, I've subscribed to Cedega. You know why? Because I want to run my games under linux. I'm absolutely fed up of the idiots who say "Dont buy it! It's because of this nobody ports games to linux!!". Well newsflash: Max Payne under cedega looks and plays better than windows. Dont ask me why, it just is. Would a native port be better? Dunno! You'd think so. But then, who cares?!? If it runs under cedega then who really gives a toss? Unless it's a political issue? You want the name on the box? Surely people don't care, they just want to play the game... If people can play their windows games on linux, people will be more likely to jump to linux (If that's the only thing holding them back). What happens? The number of people using Linux go up, the market gets bigger, companies start seeing it as a viable market not neccessarily filled with free-loading hippies and actually start THINKING about porting to it. If you don't support cedega then less people move over to linux and it ends up with a small gaming base. Which company would bother with that size of market? I would call that an own goal. I could go on, so forgive me, but I'm off to play the republic commando demo....yes under cedega.
Microsoft getting away with a fine because of prior art?!?!?!! Does that mean we'll get away with our patent infringments on things like Virtual Desktops???.
I stumbled accross this.
Interesting to say the least and answers a lot of questions. Of particular concern is: "* we need to accept responsibility for America's unique role in preserving and extending an international order friendly to our security, our prosperity, and our principles." ...from their Statement of Principles.
The worrying thing is, the chairman of this particular gang seems to work for the Weekly Standard, as shown by an entry in the WHOIS of the domain: Registrant Email:wkristol@weeklystandard.com
Scary stuff for us in the rest of the world!
But with the bizzare way in which the EU works, the wishes of both the people and of the member governments can be overridden by unelected beaurocrats, some of whom were appointed years ago by politicians who are no longer in power.
Can anyone find a definition of Democracy that allows for such a setup? The nearest thing I can find to this political setup is Dictatorship.
"(Gates) is one of the most important business leaders of his age," he said. "Microsoft technology has transformed business practices and his company has had a profound impact on the British economy."
I had a new hard disk a while back and I installed XP and Suse 9.2 on it. Windows XP took around 15 mins to install, with a couple of reboots. I then installed my nvidia drivers. Rebooted. I then installed my firewall. Rebooted. I then installed the drivers for the cisco aironet card. Rebooted. I then installed the drivers for my Delta-Audio 1010LT soundcard. Rebooted. I spent over an hour installing all the drivers I needed to make my system *functional*. Suse took ~20-25 mins to install with all the software I wanted. When I logged in, everything just worked...
People say they use windows because it just works. Bull. It's just that people have been conditioned to accept that installing drivers is not part of the installation process.
There may be more drivers available for windows, but I'll stick with the linux way of doing things and buy cautiously.
that has the effect of a barrier to poorer nations - such as Nigeria or Rwanda
Nigeria isn't poor! I got an email from one dude who's so stinking rich, that if I help him, he'd give me a large sum of money! Thinking about it, I've not heard back from him for a while....
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Duke Nukem Forever released today!
Now I'm legally using Linux and it only cost me $699!!!
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Well, I've subscribed to Cedega. You know why? Because I want to run my games under linux. I'm absolutely fed up of the idiots who say "Dont buy it! It's because of this nobody ports games to linux!!". Well newsflash: Max Payne under cedega looks and plays better than windows. Dont ask me why, it just is. Would a native port be better? Dunno! You'd think so. But then, who cares?!? If it runs under cedega then who really gives a toss? Unless it's a political issue? You want the name on the box? Surely people don't care, they just want to play the game... If people can play their windows games on linux, people will be more likely to jump to linux (If that's the only thing holding them back). What happens? The number of people using Linux go up, the market gets bigger, companies start seeing it as a viable market not neccessarily filled with free-loading hippies and actually start THINKING about porting to it. If you don't support cedega then less people move over to linux and it ends up with a small gaming base. Which company would bother with that size of market? I would call that an own goal. I could go on, so forgive me, but I'm off to play the republic commando demo....yes under cedega.
Microsoft getting away with a fine because of prior art?!?!?!! Does that mean we'll get away with our patent infringments on things like Virtual Desktops???.
I stumbled accross this. Interesting to say the least and answers a lot of questions. Of particular concern is:
...from their Statement of Principles.
"* we need to accept responsibility for America's unique role in preserving and extending an international order friendly to our security, our prosperity, and our principles."
The worrying thing is, the chairman of this particular gang seems to work for the Weekly Standard, as shown by an entry in the WHOIS of the domain: Registrant Email:wkristol@weeklystandard.com
Scary stuff for us in the rest of the world!
This is the prototype apparently...
...until this becomes legal in Europe! I'm so glad that the government is there looking after me and my business.
You put a link to somewhere called "Bent Comics" and you expect me to click it?
Damn! Where did I put my Spectrum?
Sounds a little similar to intermezzo
The concept of LiveDVD has already been done: Suse LiveDVD This is probably not the first.
Patents *HELP* inventions! Duh...
Yes, the people you were told were the 9/11 hijackers did have valid ID. But it's always difficult to know who they really were!
You're right, it must have been more than 15 minutes, making my entire point even more valid.
I found two in my toilet this morning!
I had a new hard disk a while back and I installed XP and Suse 9.2 on it.
Windows XP took around 15 mins to install, with a couple of reboots. I then installed my nvidia drivers. Rebooted. I then installed my firewall. Rebooted. I then installed the drivers for the cisco aironet card. Rebooted. I then installed the drivers for my Delta-Audio 1010LT soundcard. Rebooted. I spent over an hour installing all the drivers I needed to make my system *functional*.
Suse took ~20-25 mins to install with all the software I wanted. When I logged in, everything just worked...
People say they use windows because it just works. Bull. It's just that people have been conditioned to accept that installing drivers is not part of the installation process.
There may be more drivers available for windows, but I'll stick with the linux way of doing things and buy cautiously.
...every time I pay tribute to someone who dies?
Nigeria isn't poor! I got an email from one dude who's so stinking rich, that if I help him, he'd give me a large sum of money! Thinking about it, I've not heard back from him for a while....
At least now the EU can see the DAMAGING effect of Software Patents. Patents make the EU more competitive? Give me a break...