Only geeks unfortunate enough to work on customer sites and such need to wear the corporate uniform. The rest are better off being allowed to stay comfy...
After the 5th layoff, I said "screw it". Not going to work around the clock 24/7/365 saving the bosses ass anymore when the payment is a pat on the shoulder and being escorted out of the building because some dickhead decided to send your job overseas.
I'm now back in school and completely fed up of the rotten business IT has become.
Seriously, if you want a *NIX laptop, get an iBook or a Powerbook where everything just works.
On the positive side, I've been using an IBM T41 laptop wise SuSE 9.1 Pro exclusively for a year and a half now for work (I do Windows/Linux SA stuff), and I have had very, very few issues. As always, though, workarounds have to be made for certain in-house 'business critical apps' that will only work in WINE or IE...
Linux on a laptop is great. But not as great as OSX on my iBook...
I'm wondering how many of these people would be playing offline games for about the same amount of time if there were no MMORPGS? Wouldn't they be "Gaming Addicts" instead of "internet addicts"?
I know for myself that before I got sucked into the good MMORPG on the market today, I'd still spend hours at the 'puter playing "offline" games...
As I remember, we said exactly the sametime four years ago too, when Loki started porting and selling Linux ports... I haven't noticed much of an improvement. In fact, since Loki shut down, Linux gaming has gotten less coverage than before. Loki could at least push out their ports quickly. The few companies still porting gamesfor Linux are too slow, and can't seem to get licenses for any of the bit names in gaming. The exception is Icculus. Without him, Linux gaming would be an even sader story than itis today...
This is the worst kind of squatting as it is deliberately being used to disinform voters. He should be jailed and fined. Trust me, that's what he'd be calling for if the situation was the opposite...
Why can't someone please release a commercial DVD player for Linux? I'm sick & Tired of messing with libraries & compiles & more missing libraries just wo watch a damn movie on one of my fav OS'es...
Java is uncool for many reasons:
- When it first came out, there were memory leaks ALL over the place.
- Java is still sluggish.
- Most Enterprise-level Java apps are really, really poorly coded, hangs often and are extremely sluggish.
- There are STILL memory leaks ALL over the place.
- Java is overused.
Sorry, but does anyone have a review that actually includes:
1. Never games. The games listed pretty much worked fine in previous versions of WineX.
2. Installing games from CD as opposed to downloaded demos?
3. Cut scenes working?
4. MMORPG's such as the latest Evercrack and Dark Age of Crackalot (New Frontiers)?
The review was lacking ("Hey, let me try some demos and some games from 1994!") and too short. Screenshots of installation is good, but what about some shots from the actual GAMES (ideally including FPS)... And some mention about the distro the review was performed on etc...
Cut back on the gaming. One of the reasons I recently left my SO was because of her non-stop LARP'ing. (Oh, and the LARP'ers she fucked, off course.)
Anyways, don't patronize the SO with Zoo Tycoon. From my experience, girls are not all for that cutsey-wutsey stuff we think they are. They like to smash baddies and monsters with a giant sword just like the rest of us. And also, they like the social aspects of such games. So my advice is: cut back on gaming before she blows your non-gaming buddy, and test her on EQ, DAoC and the like...
If this could end up banning cell phones from movie theaters, then (and I nver though 'd say this), I'm all behind the Evil Empire.
Nothing worse than cell phones going off or beeping during a movie... I hate cell phones...
Dude, only a very few developers even consider porting to Linux. The rest don't care if it runs on Winex. If it does, great. If not, who cares.
Really, native ports might come about if we go out and buy the linux version of games. Vote with your cash.
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Launching Firefox...
You're bored...
You're horny...
You're horny...
You're disgusted!
You're horny...
You need a cigarette...
You're bored...
Oh boy! I'm sure the new package is revolutionary enough to warrant another upgrade!
Only geeks unfortunate enough to work on customer sites and such need to wear the corporate uniform. The rest are better off being allowed to stay comfy...
Does this mean we can FINALLY put that Java crap where it belongs? In the trash?
This is exactly the kind of reasoning that makes me WANT to pirate music...
After the 5th layoff, I said "screw it". Not going to work around the clock 24/7/365 saving the bosses ass anymore when the payment is a pat on the shoulder and being escorted out of the building because some dickhead decided to send your job overseas. I'm now back in school and completely fed up of the rotten business IT has become.
Seriously, if you want a *NIX laptop, get an iBook or a Powerbook where everything just works. On the positive side, I've been using an IBM T41 laptop wise SuSE 9.1 Pro exclusively for a year and a half now for work (I do Windows/Linux SA stuff), and I have had very, very few issues. As always, though, workarounds have to be made for certain in-house 'business critical apps' that will only work in WINE or IE... Linux on a laptop is great. But not as great as OSX on my iBook...
But DAoC STILL has WoW beat in this (and most other departments)...
I'm wondering how many of these people would be playing offline games for about the same amount of time if there were no MMORPGS? Wouldn't they be "Gaming Addicts" instead of "internet addicts"?
I know for myself that before I got sucked into the good MMORPG on the market today, I'd still spend hours at the 'puter playing "offline" games...
As I remember, we said exactly the sametime four years ago too, when Loki started porting and selling Linux ports... I haven't noticed much of an improvement. In fact, since Loki shut down, Linux gaming has gotten less coverage than before. Loki could at least push out their ports quickly. The few companies still porting gamesfor Linux are too slow, and can't seem to get licenses for any of the bit names in gaming. The exception is Icculus. Without him, Linux gaming would be an even sader story than itis today...
Outsourcing is the devil. Don't export jobs, a lot of the times, you get shitty work.Please keep the jobs within the borders.
...so maybe with Oracle, we can finally have Peoplesoft SW that doesn't suck quite so horribly, ghastly, insanely bad?
... of being able to use my iBook as my primary workstation at work...
Hey, whatever makes us feel better, eh?
You WILL be assimilated...
Anyone else tired of this stuff?
This is the worst kind of squatting as it is deliberately being used to disinform voters. He should be jailed and fined. Trust me, that's what he'd be calling for if the situation was the opposite...
Why can't someone please release a commercial DVD player for Linux? I'm sick & Tired of messing with libraries & compiles & more missing libraries just wo watch a damn movie on one of my fav OS'es...
Java is uncool for many reasons:
- When it first came out, there were memory leaks ALL over the place.
- Java is still sluggish.
- Most Enterprise-level Java apps are really, really poorly coded, hangs often and are extremely sluggish.
- There are STILL memory leaks ALL over the place. - Java is overused.
Sorry, but does anyone have a review that actually includes: 1. Never games. The games listed pretty much worked fine in previous versions of WineX. 2. Installing games from CD as opposed to downloaded demos? 3. Cut scenes working? 4. MMORPG's such as the latest Evercrack and Dark Age of Crackalot (New Frontiers)? The review was lacking ("Hey, let me try some demos and some games from 1994!") and too short. Screenshots of installation is good, but what about some shots from the actual GAMES (ideally including FPS)... And some mention about the distro the review was performed on etc...
Has anyone else had a situation where the danger of technology loosing you business outweigh the efficiencies gained?
If the tech industry will continue to be ruled by Business Major idiots, we'll see this every day or every week, and more of it all the time... *sigh*
I've been in the business for only 10 years, but I've seen this stuff every-day...
thus forcing them to use a diskette and/or the CD drive? This iMac has a floppy drive?
Cut back on the gaming. One of the reasons I recently left my SO was because of her non-stop LARP'ing. (Oh, and the LARP'ers she fucked, off course.)
Anyways, don't patronize the SO with Zoo Tycoon. From my experience, girls are not all for that cutsey-wutsey stuff we think they are. They like to smash baddies and monsters with a giant sword just like the rest of us. And also, they like the social aspects of such games. So my advice is: cut back on gaming before she blows your non-gaming buddy, and test her on EQ, DAoC and the like...
(Hey, YOU asked...)
If this could end up banning cell phones from movie theaters, then (and I nver though 'd say this), I'm all behind the Evil Empire. Nothing worse than cell phones going off or beeping during a movie... I hate cell phones...
Dude, only a very few developers even consider porting to Linux. The rest don't care if it runs on Winex. If it does, great. If not, who cares. Really, native ports might come about if we go out and buy the linux version of games. Vote with your cash.