I am for stem cell research, but there is something creepy about using unused fetal tissue for this purpose. At what point do we become adults who figuratively eat their children to gain immortality.
Baby steps people. Tasty, tasty baby steps...
I wish searching in Japanese was easier, but this site is an almost godlike source of knowledge about anything. From finding links to torrents to getting instructions on how to change settings on your keitai(cell phone), 2ch kicks ass.
The site is setup well in that clicking a link redirects you to a page displaying the actual offsite link address and letting you know it is going offsite. It puts a level between the site and the linked content which likely reduces liability and adds to overall security of the user.
The text only interface is rather unique for even Web 1.0 forums, but it allows fast loading, quick reading(well, as quick as you can read Japanese), and removes all the annoying clutter like avatars, images, signatures, and emoticons from view.
To say this site is not moderated doesn't cover it. I have seen links to copyrighted content(sometimes the content is posted online), information on making "terrorist weapons", and even child pornography both hidden and posted explicitly without being taken down.
In the interest of full disclosure though, I also visit a lot of other Japanese forums which I prefer over 2ch due to their being organized and on topic.
I would move to Japan...which I did. Though I don't plan to stay here forever. After a few years, I will pack my things up and maybe move to Australia, Taiwan, Phillipeans, Croatia, Dominican Republic, or somewhere in South America. After all, why do you have to stay in one play your whole life. It is like computers...you could still be running a 486 with Windows 3.11, but I prefer to upgrade every few years. Same with countries.
I might be the only person to have ever done this, but I might have to import American games to Japan. I live in Japan but I can't read almost any Japanese and I only speak a little bit. Granted, I could round up a Japanese friend to help me, but I might just have to have someone in America send me games for the Wii I will buy here in Japan.
I can't believe that I move from US to Japan and then have to wait LONGER to get a Japanese game console. At least I can get all the Japanese games without having to worry about importing them...
The endscenes of Zelda:OOT had to be one of the most moving things I've even seen on a TV Screen. The scene where Link goes back to being a kid, the Master Sword is sealed back in its stone, and his fairy, Navi flies away to the sky. He watches her fly away, gives one more glance at the Master Sword, then turns away and walks out of the Temple with the greatest music ever. That gets you pretty shaken up, then it comes back with him finding Zelda and the two seeming to meet for the first time again...it was amazing.
The other game that meant a lot to me was one I beat as a kid, Captain Comic 2: Fractured Reality on my IBM 286. It was an amazing, long, and great game. At the end, after getting the six crystals and destroying them together to release the souls, you find out that while you were in the temple, your ship was stolen and you are stuck on the planet. Knowing that the local population are far away from having space technology, your only choice is to use the time machine that was recovered from one of the worlds you saved from the evil crystals. You just set the time for 1000 years into the future, and step into the time door. Then the game just ends. To this day I still wonder what became of Captain Comic...
I am a Bioengineering Major at Binghamton University, class of 2006(the first class to be offered). I chose it over Computer Engineering, and I don't regret it. I have gotten to learn a lot of really new stuff; many of our classes have no textbooks because the material is so new. THe only real difficulty is finding a job...employers aren't looking for bioengineers directly. I can easily get into research, but I kinda want to spread my wings and fly first.
Having been a proud user of Bit Torrent for a few years now, I have witnessed the rise and fall of many torrent sites on the web. I remember a time when bytemonsoon was the major site with a large list of torrents, and suprnova was just a crappy site with an ok collection of torrents. At the time there were many torrent sites out there, some large with random files, others very specific to a certain type of file or even just a certain series. Inevitably though, bytemonsoon fell, leaving suprnova to rise from its ashes.
With the fall of these major sites, I expect there to be a major increase in the usage of other, smaller sites, until finally one or two of these sites rise up to become the new leaders. Just as bytemonsoon was replaced with suprnova, and anime.mircx was replaced with downloadanime, boxtorrents, Project MAO, and Tokyo Toshokan, suprnova will be replaced as well. Hopefully, these new sites will be better than the last ones, but for now we must settle for what's around.
Besides, there is always DC++, eMule, and IRC if you really can't find a new tracker you like:)
This was written by George Broussard, one of the game developers who actually appears on the 3DRealmsforums from time to time. It was a reply to comments made by posters in a thread about the physics engine.
>>There must be considerable advantages to Megon over Karma for you to make the switch. What are they?
IMO, Karma was first gen. Havok was second gen. Meqon is third gen. It's way way faster than Karma ever was, and it does more, and it's cleaner to use. I know Havok is working on next gen stuff now, but it's not available yet.
>>A while ago, GB said all physics engines were basically the same. Did this change with the new generation of physics engines?
At the time they were. That is no longer the case.
>> Has the improvements in the physics engines "changed" DNF content?
It will allow us to do more with physics and we will do what we can to make things cool.
>> Rather than another switch, why not just build yer own damn physics engine?
Physics engines are one of the hardest things to write, so it's best left to a middleware solution.
>>I thought the DNF engine was done. Why are you guys messing with it now?
The rendering has been done a long time. The physics we had have been in for 3 years. We had a ton of physics gameplay code on top of Karma. All we did was replace the low level stuff with Meqon and re-hook it up to our high level stuff.
Why did we do it? Because Karma was too slow to do anything we were trying to do. I don't feel it was a shippable solution, and in fact very few game shipped with it, doing much more than ragdoll.
This is a *very* good thing for the game.
Given what I know about 3D Realms, they saw something they liked and got it. Nothing to do with game being released soon or starting over. More like a "we have money, it is pretty, let us add coolness to this game" type of decision. I wouldn't read too much into this, except that they will likely upgrade things if they feel there are better choices out there, even at the cost of added time. If I had to predict a release date, given that the basic engine is done and most of their work is on content(or so they claim, although recent hiring of new staff to work on content makes me think its true), I would say a mid to late 2006 release is within the realm of possibility. They totally started over from scratch about 3 years ago, so comparitively it hasn't really been in the works that long for a modern game. Besides, the work on the DNF project only began a year or two before work on HL2 did, and I don't HL2 out yet either:)
PS: I know I'm a Apogee/3DRealms fanboy, you don't have to tell me!
The only one commiting fraud here is SCO. They are creating fraudulent lawsuits for no reason but to annoy IBM. Pretty soon SCO is gonna sue for wrongful death because IBM killed their company. I mean seriously, doesn't this kind of suit start to border on defamation? Shouldn't IBM have the ability to sue SCO for damages or at least to force them to stop all lawsuits?
Not really a professional tech support, just a funny stupid answer to a computer problem. At my school there is one computer annex that is only Sun machines running Solaris(for us CS students to program on). This was near finals so all the Windows computers in other annexes were in use, and these 4 or 5 kids ventured into the Sun annex and attempted to use the machines. After several minutes of bad attempts, they finally came to a conclusion of what the problem was.
There wasn't enough sunlight. It seems that they figured a Sun machine running Solaris MUST mean it is solar powered. And since it was night time, the machines obviously didn't work until morning.
This is ignoring the fact that the room was indoors with no outside windows and the machines were on and displaying a normal login screen. No one in the room tried to help these morons, hoping that darwinism would take effect. They left without getting their report or whatever printed. Hopefully they failed college and will never attempt to enter that room again.
The school knows better than that. They follow up on MPAA and RIAA complaints(make you sign a letter), but otherwise they turn a blind eye. There is even a DC++ someone setup that is restricted to campus IPs that has 200-300 people on it sharing all hte time. The Computing Center knows all about it, but doesn't care. Hell, it would actually be fun if they did set it up. I know how to protect myself from it and I could use the system as a great weapon:)
At my college(which shall remain anonymous), we have a pretty crappy network. It isn't the physical lines or routers that cause massive amounts of downtown and lag, its the Computing Center who run hte network. However, one thing I know for sure is that the Computing Center will never implement this type of system. The big reason being: It's more work.
Installing and managing such a system is just more work for them. Lesser reasons, such as added network instability, security issues(who stops the MPAA from going too far), and apathy also play a role. Not to mention that the Computing Center staff is not so incompetent to believe that those who want to will find a way to bypass or utilize the system to their advantage. Think about it, if you could trick the system into thinking someone was sharing music or movies, you can get them disconnected and sent a letter from the MPAA. Personally, I wouldn't feel safe giving an automated system such power in a large network like my campus(12,000 students).
You seem to have found an exception to the rule. Windows in general is 19 times out of 20 gonna have better support for hardware. This is because the hardware manufacturers have to make drivers that work for windows. The card you are using most likely works perfectly in most machines, but it may have a conflict with some of your other hardware when using windows. I once had a sound card and video card that when in hte same machine would always lock up. However, both cards worked when used in seperate machines.
My first experience with linux was RedHat 5.1. It was many years ago, maybe 6 or so, and I was only in my early teens. It was installed on an old machine in my house as a firewall by a friend of my father who was a real genious. It did have limited UNIX experience, so I wasn't completely lost, but I didn't know anything really and never tried to do much with it. A year or two later, I decided to really take a stab at linux, and I actually went out and bought a copy of RedHat 6 in the store. I was hoping that the support you get by buying the boxed version would be helpful with any problems...it wasn't.
The machine I was installing it on(dual boot) had a Realtek network card and a WinModem, niether of which worked. I had linux running, but no internet or networking capabilities. I tried to find drivers, asked for help from redhat.com, and even switched out the network card with another, but to no avail. All I could do with linux now was use the gcc compilier(which I rarely used at the time) or play the games that came with XWindows(the games were pretty fun, actually). That was experience two with linux.
A while later, maybe another year or two, I finally built a new machine for myself out of a combination of spare and new parts. I decided to try again, this time with RedHat 7. Most things worked, besides the sound card of course, and I was somewhat happy. I now had a functioning linux boot on my computer. I played around with server settings and things for about a week, then never booted into it again. There just wasn't anything in it for me. I hadn't coded in years and I didn't need to run a server or anything. All my games and programs I knew were on Windows, and linux equivalents either did not exist or were not nearly as good. With no reason to use it, the linux boot sat there for no reason.
Skip to about a year and a half or so ago. I am now in college, and start having limited reasons to use linux. I wanted to learn the system well, and I could only do that by using it. So I load up RedHat 9. It installed and worked fine. Every so often I needed to do something, like coding, and its was there for me. I logged onto linux once a month or so, for one reason or another. I was kinda annoyed with myself. I wanted to learn linux, but I never seemed to use it since windows had everything I wanted and linux was lacking in many areas. Finally when I purchased my new laptop about 6 months ago, I decided to do linux only. However, the video, wireless networking, and touchpad all barely worked. It took me hours of scouring the net and 3 installs just to get XWindows to even load. I finally got some functionality, but nothing beyond basic video and crappy touchpad. It wasn't good enough for me, so I reformatted the system and installed Windows 2000 on it. I also saved some space and installed Fedora, which seemed not to have all the old problems with video and such. However, with windows on the machine, I only find myself using linux when I need something windows doesn't have, or doesn't have something better, which is rare. I'm sorry to say this, but linux is not worth the effort for me. Unless I can get flawless installs, complete device supportage, many mainstream games and the ease of use that comes with Windows, I can't seem myself using linux. Regardless of the reason, linux is still way behind Windows in some areas, and until they catch up, myself and others won't be willing to switch for our desktop use.
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I personally believe that all this supposed changes may eventually occur, but they are a normal cycle of the earth and be very gradual. If the human race mangaes to survive long enough, we will slowly change how we do things to meet these problems.
Regardless though, what is gonna happen will happen, and there is nothing we can do to change it. Worrying about such things seems pointless to me. The whole planet is going to be destroyed by the sun dying in about 5 billion years, why don't we worry about that as well?
I know a guy who for his senior thesis worked with a group of people and hacked a company's network. At the end of the semester, they gave the company a 42 page document stating all the problems and exploits the company had.
He got an A for the class and a job offer from the company. Granted, he already had better offers, but it is a good example of how it should be.
The IBM vs. SCO case should be aired on Court TV live. It was would unbelievably funny to see SCO try to pull a dynamite monkey out of their asses. If the source code does not fit, you must acquit!
Yeah, but those are the best Apogee games. Also, ID Software might have never made it if it hadn't been for Apogee and Miller. Could you imagine it, a world without DOOM?
Scott Miller has always been someone I idolized since I was a young child. It started with a game he wrote himself, Kingdom of Kroz, which used ascii characters for graphics but was tons of fun. He later went on to make sequels to this hit game. Also, he used an idea revolutionary to software distribution called shareware. Each of the many games that came from Apogee(what later became 3D Realms) were sent out on disk or put on a BBS completely free with no requirement to purchase the software. However, only the first episode was on these disks. To get the remaining episodes, hint book, and many other fun goodies cost you either 5, 10,or 15 dollars. I bought many of these games because they were so much fun(and piracy wasn't as rampant back then). Games like Commander Keen, Raptor, and Wolfenstien 3D are just a few of the great games Apogee helped develop and distribute. Now, whenever I see Miller's name, it reminds me of the good old days when graphics and sound were a distant consideration compared to how fun the game was.
Microsoft is a major corporation, and as evil as it sounds, this sometimes means they will withhold information and sacrifice some of their users if neccessary to enhance the company. They have millions of shareholders across the world who they are responsible for, and therefore their obligation is to them first, not the users.
Microsoft and Debian are in two totally different leagues. Regardless of their products, one must take this in to account when comparing the business practices of both. Debian has nothing to lose by reporting a problem, but Microsoft does.
This is much worse than one of Microsoft's normal problems. With Microsoft you expect the problems, and therefore you maintain constant vigilance. This is a perfect example of why linux users and admins need to also be wary at all times. As linux becomes more and more mainstream, the number of security holes shown will increase as well. More people will use linux and more "hackers" will then be attracted to developing viruses and worms that exploit the system. Regardless of what anyone thinks about Windows vs. Linux, everyone must admit that part of the reason more security holes are found in Windows is because there are many more people looking for them. My advice to linux users is to drop any pretense of Linux being infallible and to start using the same caution running a linux-based server as you would running a windows-based server.
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Everything I have learned from TV is that this is the kind of event listed in a prologue of a movie about an alien invasion.
I am for stem cell research, but there is something creepy about using unused fetal tissue for this purpose. At what point do we become adults who figuratively eat their children to gain immortality. Baby steps people. Tasty, tasty baby steps...
I wish searching in Japanese was easier, but this site is an almost godlike source of knowledge about anything. From finding links to torrents to getting instructions on how to change settings on your keitai(cell phone), 2ch kicks ass.
The site is setup well in that clicking a link redirects you to a page displaying the actual offsite link address and letting you know it is going offsite. It puts a level between the site and the linked content which likely reduces liability and adds to overall security of the user.
The text only interface is rather unique for even Web 1.0 forums, but it allows fast loading, quick reading(well, as quick as you can read Japanese), and removes all the annoying clutter like avatars, images, signatures, and emoticons from view.
To say this site is not moderated doesn't cover it. I have seen links to copyrighted content(sometimes the content is posted online), information on making "terrorist weapons", and even child pornography both hidden and posted explicitly without being taken down.
In the interest of full disclosure though, I also visit a lot of other Japanese forums which I prefer over 2ch due to their being organized and on topic.
I would move to Japan...which I did. Though I don't plan to stay here forever. After a few years, I will pack my things up and maybe move to Australia, Taiwan, Phillipeans, Croatia, Dominican Republic, or somewhere in South America. After all, why do you have to stay in one play your whole life. It is like computers...you could still be running a 486 with Windows 3.11, but I prefer to upgrade every few years. Same with countries.
I might be the only person to have ever done this, but I might have to import American games to Japan. I live in Japan but I can't read almost any Japanese and I only speak a little bit. Granted, I could round up a Japanese friend to help me, but I might just have to have someone in America send me games for the Wii I will buy here in Japan.
I can't believe that I move from US to Japan and then have to wait LONGER to get a Japanese game console. At least I can get all the Japanese games without having to worry about importing them...
Maybe they followed the 3D Realms(makers of DNF) model to make the original Death Star.
They started work on it quick, it started to look good, but then halfway done they decided it wasn't good enough and restarted from scratch. Repeat.
The endscenes of Zelda:OOT had to be one of the most moving things I've even seen on a TV Screen. The scene where Link goes back to being a kid, the Master Sword is sealed back in its stone, and his fairy, Navi flies away to the sky. He watches her fly away, gives one more glance at the Master Sword, then turns away and walks out of the Temple with the greatest music ever. That gets you pretty shaken up, then it comes back with him finding Zelda and the two seeming to meet for the first time again...it was amazing.
The other game that meant a lot to me was one I beat as a kid, Captain Comic 2: Fractured Reality on my IBM 286. It was an amazing, long, and great game. At the end, after getting the six crystals and destroying them together to release the souls, you find out that while you were in the temple, your ship was stolen and you are stuck on the planet. Knowing that the local population are far away from having space technology, your only choice is to use the time machine that was recovered from one of the worlds you saved from the evil crystals. You just set the time for 1000 years into the future, and step into the time door. Then the game just ends. To this day I still wonder what became of Captain Comic...
I am a Bioengineering Major at Binghamton University, class of 2006(the first class to be offered). I chose it over Computer Engineering, and I don't regret it. I have gotten to learn a lot of really new stuff; many of our classes have no textbooks because the material is so new. THe only real difficulty is finding a job...employers aren't looking for bioengineers directly. I can easily get into research, but I kinda want to spread my wings and fly first.
Having been a proud user of Bit Torrent for a few years now, I have witnessed the rise and fall of many torrent sites on the web. I remember a time when bytemonsoon was the major site with a large list of torrents, and suprnova was just a crappy site with an ok collection of torrents. At the time there were many torrent sites out there, some large with random files, others very specific to a certain type of file or even just a certain series. Inevitably though, bytemonsoon fell, leaving suprnova to rise from its ashes. With the fall of these major sites, I expect there to be a major increase in the usage of other, smaller sites, until finally one or two of these sites rise up to become the new leaders. Just as bytemonsoon was replaced with suprnova, and anime.mircx was replaced with downloadanime, boxtorrents, Project MAO, and Tokyo Toshokan, suprnova will be replaced as well. Hopefully, these new sites will be better than the last ones, but for now we must settle for what's around. Besides, there is always DC++, eMule, and IRC if you really can't find a new tracker you like :)
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Given what I know about 3D Realms, they saw something they liked and got it. Nothing to do with game being released soon or starting over. More like a "we have money, it is pretty, let us add coolness to this game" type of decision. I wouldn't read too much into this, except that they will likely upgrade things if they feel there are better choices out there, even at the cost of added time.
If I had to predict a release date, given that the basic engine is done and most of their work is on content(or so they claim, although recent hiring of new staff to work on content makes me think its true), I would say a mid to late 2006 release is within the realm of possibility. They totally started over from scratch about 3 years ago, so comparitively it hasn't really been in the works that long for a modern game. Besides, the work on the DNF project only began a year or two before work on HL2 did, and I don't HL2 out yet either
PS: I know I'm a Apogee/3DRealms fanboy, you don't have to tell me!
The only one commiting fraud here is SCO. They are creating fraudulent lawsuits for no reason but to annoy IBM. Pretty soon SCO is gonna sue for wrongful death because IBM killed their company. I mean seriously, doesn't this kind of suit start to border on defamation? Shouldn't IBM have the ability to sue SCO for damages or at least to force them to stop all lawsuits?
Not really a professional tech support, just a funny stupid answer to a computer problem. At my school there is one computer annex that is only Sun machines running Solaris(for us CS students to program on). This was near finals so all the Windows computers in other annexes were in use, and these 4 or 5 kids ventured into the Sun annex and attempted to use the machines. After several minutes of bad attempts, they finally came to a conclusion of what the problem was.
There wasn't enough sunlight. It seems that they figured a Sun machine running Solaris MUST mean it is solar powered. And since it was night time, the machines obviously didn't work until morning.
This is ignoring the fact that the room was indoors with no outside windows and the machines were on and displaying a normal login screen. No one in the room tried to help these morons, hoping that darwinism would take effect. They left without getting their report or whatever printed. Hopefully they failed college and will never attempt to enter that room again.
The school knows better than that. They follow up on MPAA and RIAA complaints(make you sign a letter), but otherwise they turn a blind eye. There is even a DC++ someone setup that is restricted to campus IPs that has 200-300 people on it sharing all hte time. The Computing Center knows all about it, but doesn't care. Hell, it would actually be fun if they did set it up. I know how to protect myself from it and I could use the system as a great weapon:)
At my college(which shall remain anonymous), we have a pretty crappy network. It isn't the physical lines or routers that cause massive amounts of downtown and lag, its the Computing Center who run hte network. However, one thing I know for sure is that the Computing Center will never implement this type of system. The big reason being: It's more work.
Installing and managing such a system is just more work for them. Lesser reasons, such as added network instability, security issues(who stops the MPAA from going too far), and apathy also play a role. Not to mention that the Computing Center staff is not so incompetent to believe that those who want to will find a way to bypass or utilize the system to their advantage. Think about it, if you could trick the system into thinking someone was sharing music or movies, you can get them disconnected and sent a letter from the MPAA. Personally, I wouldn't feel safe giving an automated system such power in a large network like my campus(12,000 students).
You seem to have found an exception to the rule. Windows in general is 19 times out of 20 gonna have better support for hardware. This is because the hardware manufacturers have to make drivers that work for windows. The card you are using most likely works perfectly in most machines, but it may have a conflict with some of your other hardware when using windows. I once had a sound card and video card that when in hte same machine would always lock up. However, both cards worked when used in seperate machines.
My first experience with linux was RedHat 5.1. It was many years ago, maybe 6 or so, and I was only in my early teens. It was installed on an old machine in my house as a firewall by a friend of my father who was a real genious. It did have limited UNIX experience, so I wasn't completely lost, but I didn't know anything really and never tried to do much with it. A year or two later, I decided to really take a stab at linux, and I actually went out and bought a copy of RedHat 6 in the store. I was hoping that the support you get by buying the boxed version would be helpful with any problems...it wasn't.
The machine I was installing it on(dual boot) had a Realtek network card and a WinModem, niether of which worked. I had linux running, but no internet or networking capabilities. I tried to find drivers, asked for help from redhat.com, and even switched out the network card with another, but to no avail. All I could do with linux now was use the gcc compilier(which I rarely used at the time) or play the games that came with XWindows(the games were pretty fun, actually). That was experience two with linux.
A while later, maybe another year or two, I finally built a new machine for myself out of a combination of spare and new parts. I decided to try again, this time with RedHat 7. Most things worked, besides the sound card of course, and I was somewhat happy. I now had a functioning linux boot on my computer. I played around with server settings and things for about a week, then never booted into it again. There just wasn't anything in it for me. I hadn't coded in years and I didn't need to run a server or anything. All my games and programs I knew were on Windows, and linux equivalents either did not exist or were not nearly as good. With no reason to use it, the linux boot sat there for no reason.
Skip to about a year and a half or so ago. I am now in college, and start having limited reasons to use linux. I wanted to learn the system well, and I could only do that by using it. So I load up RedHat 9. It installed and worked fine. Every so often I needed to do something, like coding, and its was there for me. I logged onto linux once a month or so, for one reason or another. I was kinda annoyed with myself. I wanted to learn linux, but I never seemed to use it since windows had everything I wanted and linux was lacking in many areas. Finally when I purchased my new laptop about 6 months ago, I decided to do linux only. However, the video, wireless networking, and touchpad all barely worked. It took me hours of scouring the net and 3 installs just to get XWindows to even load. I finally got some functionality, but nothing beyond basic video and crappy touchpad. It wasn't good enough for me, so I reformatted the system and installed Windows 2000 on it. I also saved some space and installed Fedora, which seemed not to have all the old problems with video and such. However, with windows on the machine, I only find myself using linux when I need something windows doesn't have, or doesn't have something better, which is rare. I'm sorry to say this, but linux is not worth the effort for me. Unless I can get flawless installs, complete device supportage, many mainstream games and the ease of use that comes with Windows, I can't seem myself using linux. Regardless of the reason, linux is still way behind Windows in some areas, and until they catch up, myself and others won't be willing to switch for our desktop use.
I personally believe that all this supposed changes may eventually occur, but they are a normal cycle of the earth and be very gradual. If the human race mangaes to survive long enough, we will slowly change how we do things to meet these problems.
Regardless though, what is gonna happen will happen, and there is nothing we can do to change it. Worrying about such things seems pointless to me. The whole planet is going to be destroyed by the sun dying in about 5 billion years, why don't we worry about that as well?
I know a guy who for his senior thesis worked with a group of people and hacked a company's network. At the end of the semester, they gave the company a 42 page document stating all the problems and exploits the company had.
He got an A for the class and a job offer from the company. Granted, he already had better offers, but it is a good example of how it should be.
The IBM vs. SCO case should be aired on Court TV live. It was would unbelievably funny to see SCO try to pull a dynamite monkey out of their asses. If the source code does not fit, you must acquit!
Yeah, but those are the best Apogee games. Also, ID Software might have never made it if it hadn't been for Apogee and Miller. Could you imagine it, a world without DOOM?
Scott Miller has always been someone I idolized since I was a young child. It started with a game he wrote himself, Kingdom of Kroz, which used ascii characters for graphics but was tons of fun. He later went on to make sequels to this hit game. Also, he used an idea revolutionary to software distribution called shareware. Each of the many games that came from Apogee(what later became 3D Realms) were sent out on disk or put on a BBS completely free with no requirement to purchase the software. However, only the first episode was on these disks. To get the remaining episodes, hint book, and many other fun goodies cost you either 5, 10,or 15 dollars. I bought many of these games because they were so much fun(and piracy wasn't as rampant back then). Games like Commander Keen, Raptor, and Wolfenstien 3D are just a few of the great games Apogee helped develop and distribute. Now, whenever I see Miller's name, it reminds me of the good old days when graphics and sound were a distant consideration compared to how fun the game was.
Microsoft is a major corporation, and as evil as it sounds, this sometimes means they will withhold information and sacrifice some of their users if neccessary to enhance the company. They have millions of shareholders across the world who they are responsible for, and therefore their obligation is to them first, not the users. Microsoft and Debian are in two totally different leagues. Regardless of their products, one must take this in to account when comparing the business practices of both. Debian has nothing to lose by reporting a problem, but Microsoft does.
This is much worse than one of Microsoft's normal problems. With Microsoft you expect the problems, and therefore you maintain constant vigilance. This is a perfect example of why linux users and admins need to also be wary at all times. As linux becomes more and more mainstream, the number of security holes shown will increase as well. More people will use linux and more "hackers" will then be attracted to developing viruses and worms that exploit the system. Regardless of what anyone thinks about Windows vs. Linux, everyone must admit that part of the reason more security holes are found in Windows is because there are many more people looking for them. My advice to linux users is to drop any pretense of Linux being infallible and to start using the same caution running a linux-based server as you would running a windows-based server.