I played Sam & Max and Day of the Tentacle a little while ago when I got myself vdmsound. The reason why I love these games is the same why I love cartoons like Roadrunner, Bugs Bunny, etc. There's no need for realism, everything is a caricature of itself, colours just clash. The whole idea is to have an adventure just for laughs, not to save the world from demons from hell (sort of). Now I have to admit I haven't been looking much into the games section in the stores, but I haven't seen games like this for quite some time.
That would be knowingly stealing from them, which is different from using what you payed for the way you want to. They don't steal money from Blizzard, they just want to be able to play a multiplayer game where ever they want to, not having to use an internet connection. Like some other already posted, they even asked Blizzard for help with implementing a cd=key check, but they were turned down. I think if I owned Blizzard, I'd want to let as much people play (buy and use) my games as possible. (think lanparties and such)
This isn't about them providing servers or bandwidth, it's about people wanting the opportunity to run their own private gameserver just to be able to do multiplayer with their friends. I play Unreal Tournament at work about once a week after office hours with colleagues and friends, and because we want to keep it private, and we can't connect to gameservers outside I've set up our own gameserver. I've even thought of going for Starcraft or Warcraft, but after hearing this, I'm not going to buy those games because I can't use them the way I want to. I think for a multiplayer game to be successful, it needs to have a simple gameserver that can be set up anytime, anywhere, and not be dependent on a single company and a specific connection type.
I could have bought any other if our company would have opted to just pay the bill for anything we bought ourselves, but since neither company nor project rules allowed for me to get the whopper instead of the happymeal, I'm allowed to bitch some. The only advantage I have had was exchanging a few of the many vacation days I have left for it instead of having to lay down the cash itself.
Not everyone has the option "none". When I bought my laptop through a private pc project at work, we were limited to Dell, and there was no option to leave Windows out of it. And speaking of Dell, where a lot of people buy their pc's from, they only have an alternative to Windows on specific business pc's, not the consumer versions.
I agree. If I can't find some way to joke and laugh about things, they really pull me down in a depression. For that reason I want the people that know me to have a good laugh and party when I die, and not mourn or feel bad because I should be at a much better place.
Besides, they'll just be too happy to finally be rid of me anyway.:-P
Maybe they don't want to admit they're not as happy with their distro as they say? Or maybe they're just the kind of poeple that want to "oohhh shiny!" kick from installing something new. (and maybe installing stuff is the only thing they do with it because they use their Windows box for games) And then there might still be people who want to try them all because they can.
Well, the FTC can try banning it, but I doubt they'd get it done outside of the US. I think at that point the internet would break into a US, and a non-US part. Most likely because people are getting tired of the industry driven agenda currently dominating the US itself. Another option might be the birth of a new, free internet as it was in the beginning.
Seeing that about 75% of mail is handled by open source mta's, they can't afford to go with ip, moneygrabbing, patentfilled solutions. The only standard that will get accepted will be an open, patentfree one supported by the free software community. Any closed or patented ones could only be used between the commercial mta's, so it would have little effect on the amount of spam.
Mozilla can start on boot, but that also means the time to finish Windows loading completely also takes longer. And I believe Firefox is partly memory hungry because it caches more in memory, and IE already has more functions loaded at boot because of its integration with the OS.
Mozilla/Firefox can do this as well, but so far I haven't encountered sites that had trouble with these browsers. Did you also try setting your useragent to Mozilla/Firefox and visit these pages?
Reading through the presentation I realised I'll be reinstalling my FreeBSD firewall again after 5 becomes officially STABLE, heh. Yes, I always do a fresh install and not an upgrade.
Actually, whether it's unix or Windows, networked clients are very much alive nowadays. For instance, the company I work for has one division with a headquarters in one town, and 11 smaller offices scattered across the country. At first they each had their own server and network, now all they have are mostly citrix clients and a connection to our main network. It saves us a load on support and troubleshooting problems with users running applications. It might be somewhat slower than straight from the desktop, but there is no loss on productivity. (unless the connection is breaking down *cough*damnedversatel*cough*) Giving everyone a fullblown pc with every bit of software on it isn't always a good thing. Some things work better that way, some work better in a client/server environment, and it'll be even better if we can do it in a secure, stable environment without all the usual Windows hassles. (even with extensive security measures) btw, I run KDE on FreeBSD on a Celeron 700 with a Matrox G200 videocard without problems.
Exactly what I was thinking of, if I think of all the components together as X and KDE/Gnome, etc., it still feels like it's going much faster than the complete package of Windows. The FreeBSD itself is smaller, but even then, a few weeks seems very short.
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I played Sam & Max and Day of the Tentacle a little while ago when I got myself vdmsound. The reason why I love these games is the same why I love cartoons like Roadrunner, Bugs Bunny, etc. There's no need for realism, everything is a caricature of itself, colours just clash. The whole idea is to have an adventure just for laughs, not to save the world from demons from hell (sort of).
Now I have to admit I haven't been looking much into the games section in the stores, but I haven't seen games like this for quite some time.
That would be knowingly stealing from them, which is different from using what you payed for the way you want to.
They don't steal money from Blizzard, they just want to be able to play a multiplayer game where ever they want to, not having to use an internet connection. Like some other already posted, they even asked Blizzard for help with implementing a cd=key check, but they were turned down.
I think if I owned Blizzard, I'd want to let as much people play (buy and use) my games as possible. (think lanparties and such)
This isn't about them providing servers or bandwidth, it's about people wanting the opportunity to run their own private gameserver just to be able to do multiplayer with their friends.
I play Unreal Tournament at work about once a week after office hours with colleagues and friends, and because we want to keep it private, and we can't connect to gameservers outside I've set up our own gameserver. I've even thought of going for Starcraft or Warcraft, but after hearing this, I'm not going to buy those games because I can't use them the way I want to.
I think for a multiplayer game to be successful, it needs to have a simple gameserver that can be set up anytime, anywhere, and not be dependent on a single company and a specific connection type.
I could have bought any other if our company would have opted to just pay the bill for anything we bought ourselves, but since neither company nor project rules allowed for me to get the whopper instead of the happymeal, I'm allowed to bitch some.
The only advantage I have had was exchanging a few of the many vacation days I have left for it instead of having to lay down the cash itself.
Not everyone has the option "none".
When I bought my laptop through a private pc project at work, we were limited to Dell, and there was no option to leave Windows out of it.
And speaking of Dell, where a lot of people buy their pc's from, they only have an alternative to Windows on specific business pc's, not the consumer versions.
I agree.
:-P
If I can't find some way to joke and laugh about things, they really pull me down in a depression.
For that reason I want the people that know me to have a good laugh and party when I die, and not mourn or feel bad because I should be at a much better place.
Besides, they'll just be too happy to finally be rid of me anyway.
Maybe they don't want to admit they're not as happy with their distro as they say? Or maybe they're just the kind of poeple that want to "oohhh shiny!" kick from installing something new. (and maybe installing stuff is the only thing they do with it because they use their Windows box for games)
And then there might still be people who want to try them all because they can.
Well, the FTC can try banning it, but I doubt they'd get it done outside of the US.
I think at that point the internet would break into a US, and a non-US part. Most likely because people are getting tired of the industry driven agenda currently dominating the US itself.
Another option might be the birth of a new, free internet as it was in the beginning.
I thought it was an anti-internet-terrorism drill?
/. a terrorist organisation? (not looking at the many extremists it already consists of..)
Would that also make
:-P
Will precision bombing be optional?
Seeing that about 75% of mail is handled by open source mta's, they can't afford to go with ip, moneygrabbing, patentfilled solutions.
The only standard that will get accepted will be an open, patentfree one supported by the free software community.
Any closed or patented ones could only be used between the commercial mta's, so it would have little effect on the amount of spam.
$3000!?!?!?
I don't even make that much in a month! Damnnn...
...the 3 cd's I downloaded wasn't the demo!?
No, the first rule is never talk about /.
Oh shit...
Now if we could just get the politicians and the general public to know about it
Excuse me, but I don't want them to know about my sexual fantasies involving an armadill... SHIT! *hides*
it'll get rooted when booted
Damn you! Now that rhyme will be stuck in my head for a very long time!
:-P
Mozilla can start on boot, but that also means the time to finish Windows loading completely also takes longer.
And I believe Firefox is partly memory hungry because it caches more in memory, and IE already has more functions loaded at boot because of its integration with the OS.
Mozilla/Firefox can do this as well, but so far I haven't encountered sites that had trouble with these browsers.
Did you also try setting your useragent to Mozilla/Firefox and visit these pages?
*sighs at the dream of having that policy at his work, being able to be just as happy*
Talk about Slashdot overlords...
Aren't scientists nerds too?
Reading through the presentation I realised I'll be reinstalling my FreeBSD firewall again after 5 becomes officially STABLE, heh.
Yes, I always do a fresh install and not an upgrade.
Actually, whether it's unix or Windows, networked clients are very much alive nowadays.
For instance, the company I work for has one division with a headquarters in one town, and 11 smaller offices scattered across the country. At first they each had their own server and network, now all they have are mostly citrix clients and a connection to our main network. It saves us a load on support and troubleshooting problems with users running applications. It might be somewhat slower than straight from the desktop, but there is no loss on productivity. (unless the connection is breaking down *cough*damnedversatel*cough*)
Giving everyone a fullblown pc with every bit of software on it isn't always a good thing. Some things work better that way, some work better in a client/server environment, and it'll be even better if we can do it in a secure, stable environment without all the usual Windows hassles. (even with extensive security measures)
btw, I run KDE on FreeBSD on a Celeron 700 with a Matrox G200 videocard without problems.
Exactly what I was thinking of, if I think of all the components together as X and KDE/Gnome, etc., it still feels like it's going much faster than the complete package of Windows. The FreeBSD itself is smaller, but even then, a few weeks seems very short.
You mean like it's worshipping its Slashdot overlords right now?