Last I checked there are over 250,000,000 people in this country.... There were around 300,000 casualties in World War II alone.... Is it worth chipping away at the freedoms of the other 250,000,000 people in this country... is it worth stomping all over the sacrifice of those 300,000 people. The answer is No.
Thousands fought and died for those freedoms that you so carelessly and thoughtlessly toss away. Safety is not worth it. Neither your nor my life is worth it.
And if you just do not understand that, you have my pity, sir.
I'm not sure if I agree with the first part of your statement:
Usually going something like "Do A, then B will be ready" when in fact there is so crucial step to get "B" ready that it is assumed the user will just "know".
But, I surely do with the second. Why is it that half the time the help IRC channels are full of people that are never around their keyboards??
On a side note, it seems to be true that any time one says something to the effect of "I'm going to get flamed/modded to hell/loose karma" Then the exact opposite will happen. Moral of the story, for good karma, insert this:
Karma shield 3.0:
"To hell with my karma, this just has to be said!!"
"I know I'll be modded to hell for this..."
What free Palm apps? I remember when I had a palm, admittedly awhile ago, and I could never find anything useful that wasn't shareware or some other bit of commercial software.
Though I know this isn't the standard ROM, but you may wish to check out the OPIE project. I love their latest ROM. However, the older one isn't so good.
I just want to know who these people are that can afford $400 and $500 for a video card!?!?!? I know there are people out there that do it, else they wouldn't make them. But, really... I built a computer for someone recently and the whole machine, monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers, printer, everything, was less than $1300 and it was a pretty kick ass machine. I guess they can't run UT2004 at BIGNUMxBIGNUM but damn!
And yes, it was a linux machine. As that is what I always try and build/recommend. And yes, we do support it ourselves.
What you need is the right people, just like table top gaming. I don't think, barring exceptional conditions, one is going to find good gaming just playing random servers.
I think what NWN really enables is the same kind of play one can have with a group that knows each other.. just not having to worry about dice rolls or distance.
You could get your old group back together no matter where you are.
To me NWN is more of a engine for new worlds then just a simple game.
Not that I really wanted to reply to you in particular, but it's as good a place as any.
First, no I'm pretty sure no one here would give two shites beyond saying it's a dumb game.
Second, to the main topic. If there weren't haitian gangs running around florida, they wouldn't be in the game. Therefore, fsck the haitians doing this!
Just my thoughts on the matter.
Weapons and games don't kill people, stupid people kill people.
Not likely anyone will see this at this point but I just had to say something.
What pisses me off are the, as was said, hardheaded people who are of the immovable position that either a driver is open source or it's evil. Or worse, those who say that either it should be open source or not exist!
You correctly, finally someone did it, pointed out that even if nvidia wanted to release their drivers under the GPL they can't! The owners of S3TC would own them inside of a week.
And it is not a bloody solution to just say people with such hardware can just bite off. I want to see Linux on the desktop, not just relegated to the server room, and that is only going to happen with good driver support across the board.
I'm sorry, not everyone who makes a board wants to GPL their drivers. They all have their reasons, right or wrong.
I would rather see such drivers then have to tell someone when they ask me about linux,
"Yes, it's a great OS. It's stable, runs fast, isn't full of bloat, blah, blah, blah. But you can only buy a model blah video card, model blah sound card. Because those are the only ones there are drivers for." Keep in mind that model blah and blah would likely be pretty old and out of date.
And to those saying that nothing "important" would have to be released to OS their drivers, that would logically mean it should be pretty easy to write OS drivers that are just as good as the, in this example, Nvidia binary drivers. Why is it then I haven't seen such drivers? (I am not a programmer, so I am likely off base on this, feel free to reply if I'm wrong)
Thank you no, I'll take my fully working, yes with binary nvidia drivers, system anyday.
bah!
I just wanted to point out the fact that at 16 and 14 years old you are not a bloody "little kid". Several people have made comments that contain this idea or closely related ones. Yes, you are still young. But, I'm pretty sure that you have a full idea of what death is at that age. We're not talking about 8 year olds here. These kids knew what they were doing.
As I post this from my perfectly working Mandrake box. I have to wonder the same thing. I cannot say that Linux is any more difficult to use/install than windows. Even when you give windows the one up of already being on the computer in most cases!
I know someone else is going to say this, but:
Never Winter Nights, Enemy Territory, UT2003, Quake 3, Return to Castle Wolfenstein. I could go on but you see the point. There are "decent" games for Linux. There just aren't bloody enough.:) But, at least that will change. Last year we didn't have these. Next year we'll have even more.
It's funny you should say it just that way. My step son and I were talking last night and he, who claims to be a Linux advocate, was saying that vary thing. Why bother using any thing else than the software that comes with windows, after all, it's already there! A lot of people are lazy that way and that is the single largest reason I think alternative software often doesn't have a fair chance.
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As to not buying books from them.. I know they are on my ban list. I doubt I'm alone.
The Congressional Budget Office has this to say about it.
Just as a point of order, it's Billions, not trillions. The entire Federal budget is just a couple Trillion (still too much for the fed though..)
Thousands fought and died for those freedoms that you so carelessly and thoughtlessly toss away. Safety is not worth it. Neither your nor my life is worth it.
And if you just do not understand that, you have my pity, sir.
Perhaps, if licenses permit, it should be included with the box when you buy it. Or as part of the download when you download some version of Linux. :)
But, I surely do with the second. Why is it that half the time the help IRC channels are full of people that are never around their keyboards??
On a side note, it seems to be true that any time one says something to the effect of "I'm going to get flamed/modded to hell/loose karma" Then the exact opposite will happen. Moral of the story, for good karma, insert this:
Karma shield 3.0:
"To hell with my karma, this just has to be said!!"
"I know I'll be modded to hell for this..."
What free Palm apps? I remember when I had a palm, admittedly awhile ago, and I could never find anything useful that wasn't shareware or some other bit of commercial software.
Though I know this isn't the standard ROM, but you may wish to check out the OPIE project. I love their latest ROM. However, the older one isn't so good.
I just want to know who these people are that can afford $400 and $500 for a video card!?!?!?
I know there are people out there that do it, else they wouldn't make them.
But, really...
I built a computer for someone recently and the whole machine, monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers, printer, everything, was less than $1300 and it was a pretty kick ass machine.
I guess they can't run UT2004 at BIGNUMxBIGNUM but damn!
And yes, it was a linux machine. As that is what I always try and build/recommend. And yes, we do support it ourselves.
What you need is the right people, just like table top gaming. I don't think, barring exceptional conditions, one is going to find good gaming just playing random servers.
I think what NWN really enables is the same kind of play one can have with a group that knows each other.. just not having to worry about dice rolls or distance.
You could get your old group back together no matter where you are.
To me NWN is more of a engine for new worlds then just a simple game.
Not that I really wanted to reply to you in particular, but it's as good a place as any.
First, no I'm pretty sure no one here would give two shites beyond saying it's a dumb game.
Second, to the main topic. If there weren't haitian gangs running around florida, they wouldn't be in the game. Therefore, fsck the haitians doing this!
Just my thoughts on the matter.
Weapons and games don't kill people, stupid people kill people.
What pisses me off are the, as was said, hardheaded people who are of the immovable position that either a driver is open source or it's evil. Or worse, those who say that either it should be open source or not exist!
You correctly, finally someone did it, pointed out that even if nvidia wanted to release their drivers under the GPL they can't! The owners of S3TC would own them inside of a week.
And it is not a bloody solution to just say people with such hardware can just bite off. I want to see Linux on the desktop, not just relegated to the server room, and that is only going to happen with good driver support across the board.
I'm sorry, not everyone who makes a board wants to GPL their drivers. They all have their reasons, right or wrong.
I would rather see such drivers then have to tell someone when they ask me about linux,
"Yes, it's a great OS. It's stable, runs fast, isn't full of bloat, blah, blah, blah. But you can only buy a model blah video card, model blah sound card. Because those are the only ones there are drivers for." Keep in mind that model blah and blah would likely be pretty old and out of date.
And to those saying that nothing "important" would have to be released to OS their drivers, that would logically mean it should be pretty easy to write OS drivers that are just as good as the, in this example, Nvidia binary drivers. Why is it then I haven't seen such drivers? (I am not a programmer, so I am likely off base on this, feel free to reply if I'm wrong)
Thank you no, I'll take my fully working, yes with binary nvidia drivers, system anyday. bah!
I just wanted to point out the fact that at 16 and 14 years old you are not a bloody "little kid". Several people have made comments that contain this idea or closely related ones. Yes, you are still young. But, I'm pretty sure that you have a full idea of what death is at that age. We're not talking about 8 year olds here. These kids knew what they were doing.
As I post this from my perfectly working Mandrake box. I have to wonder the same thing. I cannot say that Linux is any more difficult to use/install than windows. Even when you give windows the one up of already being on the computer in most cases!
I know someone else is going to say this, but: Never Winter Nights, Enemy Territory, UT2003, Quake 3, Return to Castle Wolfenstein. I could go on but you see the point. There are "decent" games for Linux. There just aren't bloody enough. :) But, at least that will change. Last year we didn't have these. Next year we'll have even more.
It's funny you should say it just that way. My step son and I were talking last night and he, who claims to be a Linux advocate, was saying that vary thing. Why bother using any thing else than the software that comes with windows, after all, it's already there! A lot of people are lazy that way and that is the single largest reason I think alternative software often doesn't have a fair chance.