Although, it would be quite ironic if they were to adopt DiVX as a codec!
Adopt DiVX, FOR GREAT JUSTICE!
(okay, depends on whose side you are on for the definition of justice...)
What bothers me most about this isn't so much that they're considering it, it's actually logical and it may even have a market. What bothers me is that they'll likely charge an insane amount for it.
$5-10 per view (I can easily see that) or $20-$30 for the DVD? Take your pick. I'm sure their marketing department could justify full DVD price.
This would really fly if they did it on a monthly subscription, allowing several movies per month for a very reasonbly low price.
If you spell it out... GNULINUX and say it phonetically correct, you get...
NUL LIN UX
Unless you are a retard. In which case you would say the GNU part in the correct (but incorrect by english rules way)
G NUL LIN UX.
We could drop the NUL, for reasons I could poke Pun at but refues to do so. Also it would make it shorter.
G LIN UX
The G and the LIN sound better if you remove the space. Since UX sounds so much like SUX and FUX (not to mention, TRUX and DUX, though both are irrelevent to this direction of thinking), we will drop the UX which leaves us with...
GLIN
Since many Linux people feel the Kernal is more important than everything else, we could move the G to the end.
LING
These changes may seem a bit extreme, but I think if people give them some thought they would see that it's actually more sensible than this whole GNU/LINUX thing.
And you say yourself that's part of my freedom of speech. So there!:)
Actually, yes. It is your freedom. Now you're starting to get it. Anybody who fully believes that Freedom of speech includes the freedom to complain loudly about other's speech would certainly welcome you excercising your opinion.
Feels good to be free, doesn't it? Too bad few people can let go. The ones who haven't figure it out yet are the ones so tense, and ultimate the ones who want to shut the rest of us up.
GNU/Linux. Linux/GNU. Where'd that TCP stack come from again? *snicker*
At least Bioware will be releasing Neverwinter Nights for Mac and Linux as well as Windows.
That's fine by me. I'll modify my worlds and play my games on my Windows PC. That's something it's particularly well suited for.
When it comes to hosting my long term game on a dedicated box... I'll put the Linux version to work doing what Unix does best. Being a server.
I mean, let's get real... how much uptime is a Neverwinter Nights game hosted on a Windows machine going to get? 3 weeks, 4 weeks tops, and that's only on systems run by really savvy Windows users. In most cases the servers won't get any more than a few days of uptime.
And Rare isn't part of Nintendo and has always struggled against their mold.
Someone else pointed out that Nintendo is the majority stockholder of Rare, but it's also interesting to note that Rare has also taken up quarters at Nintendo of America, essentially making them a Nintendo company.
So, Um. Yes. That makes them a part of Nintendo. Probably Nitendo's "scapegoat" for all the wonderfully adult titles.
"Hey, parents, we didn't do it. That's a 3rd party title. Nintendo doesn't endorse foul mouthed alcoholic squirrels that pick up hookers."
It will take more than one game to change the public perception of Nintendo.
There were others, Golden Eye comes to mind. I won't deny there isn't a shortage of adult oriented games from Nintendo but hey, can you REALLY question their direction when Pokemon outsells just about everything?
Nintendo isn't so much adult games as they used to be, that's the point I'm trying to make. What they make and sell right now is mostly based solely on what seems to be selling.
I KNOW that Conker's bombed. That's sad, too.:-/ That could deture further similar titles from Nintendo/Rare.
I'd be tempted to call this entrapment...except for the fact that he didn't actually commit a crime.
And THAT is exactly what is wrong with this case. He commited no crime but they'll create a law and set some evil precident to make sure that what he did is in fact punishable by law.
Wasn't long ago that somewhere over in Europe someone discovered that one of those wired park benches allowed long distance for free, at Microsoft's expense? When those guys reported it, did THEY get arrested? No? Why?
Because Justice is supposed to protect people, not relentlessly punish.
Our system is screwed up pretty good. With laws and courts like these here in the US, who needs foriegn enemies?
Given what I know now, I'd say wait to buy Loki products until someone other than Scott Draeker is in charge there.
Why? Does it matter if they are still funcitoning or doing well for their product to be useful to someone?
If they have developed a game you want to play, there's no reason not to buy it dispite the condition they happen to be in. At best, in the long run it won't matter, at worse, there won't be any more patches for your software. You'll still have the game you purchased.
The Amiga was a Graphics Only system. In fact, the hardware did not have any text-modes at all. It was physically impossible to get a pure text-mode display on an Amiga, but the Amiga's internal graphics system didn't stop the user from accessing some pretty good shells.
Needless to say, the Amiga had a fairly advanced PIPE, but then, it was modeled vaguely as a single user Unix. That's something it's largely under credited for.
The next logical step in PIPE evolution would be opening files in the OS through the pipe in a concept that follows as such...
Application A pipes file FNORD.JPG where it is loaded into that applications memory, and a scratch pad in ram.
Application B pipes the same file FNORD.JPG where it is loaded in it's own application memory, and shares the scratch pad with the previous application.
Any changes made by application A would instantly be available to application B, and vice versa, as every change is followed by a subsequent write to the scratch pad, which the other application immediately notices and retreives.
This is all very possible if correctly designed into the OS and GUI. This also makes the PIPE a two way street...
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I can't help but wonder how ATI can expect to compete with nVidia on the Windows platform with Microsoft and nVidia working so closely together.
It wasn't so long ago that ATI and Microsoft were pretty buddy buddy. That died down quickly enough when ATI lost thier stronghold on the OEM market.
But don't think Microsoft and ATI don't still talk. NVidia may be the market leader right now -- but ATI still has some fat stacks of cash to drop whenever and wherever they like. NVidia is just one product release from 2nd place again. They know it and they show it; it's all over the face of their agressive marketing.
I have set up win95 machines to boot without gui. In fact, tis jsut a simple setting in a human readable text file.
Yeah -- really. But you know what? There are a large number of Linux users out there who, in having spent so much time learning Linux, that they've learned almost nothing about Windows.
They assume just because THEY don't know how to set it up to be stable that it can't be done. And they assume that just because THEY haven't seen it do something, that it absolutely can not do it. The fact is, most of them haven't got a damned clue what Windows can and can not do. They only know that most configurations tend to crash.
I'm more impressed with a user who has managed to tidy up a Windows machine than I am a user who has 6 months of uptime on a Unix box. I know which one is harder to do.
Why is it that whenever this discussion starts, some people seem to forget that some users who are very proficient in MANY operating systems absolutely loath KDE and GNome? I hate the OS underlying Windows, but the interface, the way things work (well, the way they're supposed to work anyway), and the overall design and behavior of the desktop is far superior to even KDE (to me, anyway).
This won't matter to some desktop users at all, most of them don't even know how to change their screen resolution, and they probably wouldn't even if they knew they could. They certainly couldn't give a damn if windows remember their positions or if they are forced to open up in a random corner of the screen. Many don't care if all applications act like you've committed sins just by moving the task-bar to the top of the screen (and some users don't even know you can move it, and they wouldn't if they could.) But other users do change their preferences. They do resize their screens, and they do put things in non-standard locations. Windows handles these UI nuances way better than KDE or GNome. Some users care about some things. And if you don't think some things matter THAT much, just remember some users care about such things so much they use choose to use MacOS. Interface means quite a bit, like it or not.
And then on the other end of the spectrum you have users like me, who love Unix but don't care too much for GUIs to begin with (except when obviously necissary) so they don't even use X on their unix machines. If I have to use a GUI, I'm something of a functional minimalist, and I tend to take Windows and disable just about everything (something Windows handles really well) The fact that I disable so much of Windows is probably a key factor in the stability of all of my Windows machines. None of them are even close to running anything default. They also almost never crash.
Then of course there are users who have specific jobs they need to do, and (as of yet) Linux REALLY doesn't cut it for them. Not yet, but it is getting there. Converting is the right choice for some people. Every day it'll get to be a better choice for more people. But this fanatical need to conver the entire world over to Linux annoys me far more than Windows crashing.
Linux users of today are often much like OS/2 or Amiga users of years gone by, only they have less games to play and they tend to foam at the mouth a little more as they violently rant.
I'm not going to plant them - I'm going to clone them.
Are you trying to suggest to me that they can't just clone the Frosted Flakes?
Damn. There goes my idea.
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I'm going out today to buy various samples of corn and freeze them.
I don't think the kernels will be viable for planting after freezing. However, if you keep them in a dry and semi cool place, they can probably keep in storage for a very long time. I'm not sure about 20 years, though...
Frosted Flakes, on the other hand -- They would probably still be safe to eat after 20 years if you kept them frozen, I'm just not sure how they would taste.
You realize of course we'll be marked as trolls for this, right? But, you beat me to it. So I'm ganna give you an AMEN.
I don't want to start a FreeBSD vs. Linux war...
I don't want to start a FreeBSD vs Linux battle, either. I get enough of that from some of the people I know. But I have to admit that after using several Linux distros and using FreeBSD, the choice (for me) was quite clear. That's not to say I didn't like some of the Linux distros I tried. Not at all. I really liked Storm and I fully intend to install either Debian or Slackware on an IBM I have sitting in the corner. But when it came time to choose a system of the many I tried to run my web-server off of, I had to settle on FreeBSD.
At first I was a little wery about going with something slightly less mainstream than Linux, but good Linux binary compatibility (not to mention the Ports Collection) was a plus that won me over to FreeBSD.
With FreeBSD the first few days were really rough because there were several major annoyances I had, and none of my Linux friends had any useful insight. But I quickly solved most of my problems on my own. I feel I have learned much more this way. Plus, when I needed quick answers, web-searches almost always provided immediate and exact answers because there is only one FreeBSD and many other users have experienced the exact same problems.
It's something of a shame that Storm went the way of the wind, but after I made my choice to run FreeBSD it hasn't mattered too much. As for my soon-to-be Linux system, that just shows that I'm not knocking Linux at all (how could I?) it's just that I made the choice based on my needs and what I like. I personally don't feel I was moving forward fast enough with any of the Linux distros, but I felt comfortable with FreeBSD very quickly.
From recent experience, it's because that's all it does well.
That's not exactly true at all. The US Government is a lot like Microsoft. Neither one of them do things out of some sinister plot, or megalomaniac agenda. In reality, both of them are just terribly, horribly, inexcusably incompetent.
American Libertarian. I love my country, I fear my government! We should have all voted for Harry Browne!
That statement is totally unfounded. You are assuming the scheduling software will be stable.
If the schedualing software crashes now, it'll be the same situation as before, but the crash is just going to look different and the OS is still going to be running (though uselessly) under it all.
Blue Screen or Core Dump, it's all the same.
Face it, Linux won't save you. Airlines are ALWAYS going to be late and you're all going crash down into a firey death. And that's what this is really about anyway. Your fates. Get over it. You're gator food, pal! You hear me? Sleeping with the fish! Slamming into a hillside! Tailspin! Dead! Just like the others!
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X-Box is going to use WinCE-Boob 2001!
That would be a lot funnier if the X-Box were actually going to be powered by WinCE, but it isn't.
It uses a customized Win2k kernal.
So, what you MEANT to say was that it's using Direct-Breast 2K, or more specifically, the Direct TripleD API.
All of us cable/dsl people will be back to 56k after all of our providers tank.
Okay, that's a +1 for funny, +1 for Insightful, and +1 for SAD BUT TRUE!
I stopped hating 56k when I stopped using it.
Out of sight, out of mind.
Do HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, Starz or Encore know about this?
Yeah, but they love cramming the same old movies down our throats, and forcing us to watch what we want to watch when they want us to watch it.
Well, I say 'We' loosely. I stopped watching TV years ago.
Although, it would be quite ironic if they were to adopt DiVX as a codec!
Adopt DiVX, FOR GREAT JUSTICE!
(okay, depends on whose side you are on for the definition of justice...)
What bothers me most about this isn't so much that they're considering it, it's actually logical and it may even have a market. What bothers me is that they'll likely charge an insane amount for it.
$5-10 per view (I can easily see that) or $20-$30 for the DVD? Take your pick. I'm sure their marketing department could justify full DVD price.
This would really fly if they did it on a monthly subscription, allowing several movies per month for a very reasonbly low price.
If you spell it out... GNULINUX and say it phonetically correct, you get...
NUL LIN UX
Unless you are a retard. In which case you would say the GNU part in the correct (but incorrect by english rules way)
G NUL LIN UX.
We could drop the NUL, for reasons I could poke Pun at but refues to do so. Also it would make it shorter.
G LIN UX
The G and the LIN sound better if you remove the space. Since UX sounds so much like SUX and FUX (not to mention, TRUX and DUX, though both are irrelevent to this direction of thinking), we will drop the UX which leaves us with...
GLIN
Since many Linux people feel the Kernal is more important than everything else, we could move the G to the end.
LING
These changes may seem a bit extreme, but I think if people give them some thought they would see that it's actually more sensible than this whole GNU/LINUX thing.
And you say yourself that's part of my freedom of speech. So there! :)
Actually, yes. It is your freedom. Now you're starting to get it. Anybody who fully believes that Freedom of speech includes the freedom to complain loudly about other's speech would certainly welcome you excercising your opinion.
Feels good to be free, doesn't it? Too bad few people can let go. The ones who haven't figure it out yet are the ones so tense, and ultimate the ones who want to shut the rest of us up.
GNU/Linux. Linux/GNU. Where'd that TCP stack come from again? *snicker*
At least Bioware will be releasing Neverwinter Nights for Mac and Linux as well as Windows.
That's fine by me. I'll modify my worlds and play my games on my Windows PC. That's something it's particularly well suited for.
When it comes to hosting my long term game on a dedicated box... I'll put the Linux version to work doing what Unix does best. Being a server.
I mean, let's get real... how much uptime is a Neverwinter Nights game hosted on a Windows machine going to get? 3 weeks, 4 weeks tops, and that's only on systems run by really savvy Windows users. In most cases the servers won't get any more than a few days of uptime.
And Rare isn't part of Nintendo and has always struggled against their mold.
Someone else pointed out that Nintendo is the majority stockholder of Rare, but it's also interesting to note that Rare has also taken up quarters at Nintendo of America, essentially making them a Nintendo company.
So, Um. Yes. That makes them a part of Nintendo. Probably Nitendo's "scapegoat" for all the wonderfully adult titles.
"Hey, parents, we didn't do it. That's a 3rd party title. Nintendo doesn't endorse foul mouthed alcoholic squirrels that pick up hookers."
It will take more than one game to change the public perception of Nintendo.
:-/ That could deture further similar titles from Nintendo/Rare.
There were others, Golden Eye comes to mind. I won't deny there isn't a shortage of adult oriented games from Nintendo but hey, can you REALLY question their direction when Pokemon outsells just about everything?
Nintendo isn't so much adult games as they used to be, that's the point I'm trying to make. What they make and sell right now is mostly based solely on what seems to be selling.
I KNOW that Conker's bombed. That's sad, too.
Nintendo is what you get when you listen to people who admonish others to "think about the children."
They broke free of that Stereotype well over 3 years ago.
People were so busy saying it though, that they failed to notice it's no longer entirely true.
Sure, Pokemon is still for the kids...
But Konkers (and a few others) are prime examples that Nintendo (Rare, actually) does love blood, guts, sex, and cursewords as much as the rest of us.
And Konkers is even a pretty good game, on top of that.
I'd be tempted to call this entrapment...except for the fact that he didn't actually commit a crime.
And THAT is exactly what is wrong with this case. He commited no crime but they'll create a law and set some evil precident to make sure that what he did is in fact punishable by law.
Wasn't long ago that somewhere over in Europe someone discovered that one of those wired park benches allowed long distance for free, at Microsoft's expense? When those guys reported it, did THEY get arrested? No? Why?
Because Justice is supposed to protect people, not relentlessly punish.
Our system is screwed up pretty good. With laws and courts like these here in the US, who needs foriegn enemies?
Given what I know now, I'd say wait to buy Loki products until someone other than Scott Draeker is in charge there.
Why? Does it matter if they are still funcitoning or doing well for their product to be useful to someone?
If they have developed a game you want to play, there's no reason not to buy it dispite the condition they happen to be in. At best, in the long run it won't matter, at worse, there won't be any more patches for your software. You'll still have the game you purchased.
When the GUI supports pipes, I'll believe you.
The Amiga was a Graphics Only system. In fact, the hardware did not have any text-modes at all. It was physically impossible to get a pure text-mode display on an Amiga, but the Amiga's internal graphics system didn't stop the user from accessing some pretty good shells.
Needless to say, the Amiga had a fairly advanced PIPE, but then, it was modeled vaguely as a single user Unix. That's something it's largely under credited for.
The next logical step in PIPE evolution would be opening files in the OS through the pipe in a concept that follows as such...
Application A pipes file FNORD.JPG where it is loaded into that applications memory, and a scratch pad in ram.
Application B pipes the same file FNORD.JPG where it is loaded in it's own application memory, and shares the scratch pad with the previous application.
Any changes made by application A would instantly be available to application B, and vice versa, as every change is followed by a subsequent write to the scratch pad, which the other application immediately notices and retreives.
This is all very possible if correctly designed into the OS and GUI. This also makes the PIPE a two way street...
The author needs a history lesson.
Oh? So your history is all correct, then?
Until Compaq (and soon after, others) reverse engineered the bios.
It was Pheonix who first cloned the IBM Bios. Pheonix and IBM went to court over it. Guess who won.
Yeah! Let's start with smarter users!
I can't help but wonder how ATI can expect to compete with nVidia on the Windows platform with Microsoft and nVidia working so closely together.
It wasn't so long ago that ATI and Microsoft were pretty buddy buddy. That died down quickly enough when ATI lost thier stronghold on the OEM market.
But don't think Microsoft and ATI don't still talk. NVidia may be the market leader right now -- but ATI still has some fat stacks of cash to drop whenever and wherever they like. NVidia is just one product release from 2nd place again. They know it and they show it; it's all over the face of their agressive marketing.
I have set up win95 machines to boot without gui. In fact, tis jsut a simple setting in a human readable text file.
Yeah -- really. But you know what? There are a large number of Linux users out there who, in having spent so much time learning Linux, that they've learned almost nothing about Windows.
They assume just because THEY don't know how to set it up to be stable that it can't be done. And they assume that just because THEY haven't seen it do something, that it absolutely can not do it. The fact is, most of them haven't got a damned clue what Windows can and can not do. They only know that most configurations tend to crash.
I'm more impressed with a user who has managed to tidy up a Windows machine than I am a user who has 6 months of uptime on a Unix box. I know which one is harder to do.
Why is it that whenever this discussion starts, some people seem to forget that some users who are very proficient in MANY operating systems absolutely loath KDE and GNome? I hate the OS underlying Windows, but the interface, the way things work (well, the way they're supposed to work anyway), and the overall design and behavior of the desktop is far superior to even KDE (to me, anyway).
This won't matter to some desktop users at all, most of them don't even know how to change their screen resolution, and they probably wouldn't even if they knew they could. They certainly couldn't give a damn if windows remember their positions or if they are forced to open up in a random corner of the screen. Many don't care if all applications act like you've committed sins just by moving the task-bar to the top of the screen (and some users don't even know you can move it, and they wouldn't if they could.) But other users do change their preferences. They do resize their screens, and they do put things in non-standard locations. Windows handles these UI nuances way better than KDE or GNome. Some users care about some things. And if you don't think some things matter THAT much, just remember some users care about such things so much they use choose to use MacOS. Interface means quite a bit, like it or not.
And then on the other end of the spectrum you have users like me, who love Unix but don't care too much for GUIs to begin with (except when obviously necissary) so they don't even use X on their unix machines. If I have to use a GUI, I'm something of a functional minimalist, and I tend to take Windows and disable just about everything (something Windows handles really well) The fact that I disable so much of Windows is probably a key factor in the stability of all of my Windows machines. None of them are even close to running anything default. They also almost never crash.
Then of course there are users who have specific jobs they need to do, and (as of yet) Linux REALLY doesn't cut it for them. Not yet, but it is getting there. Converting is the right choice for some people. Every day it'll get to be a better choice for more people. But this fanatical need to conver the entire world over to Linux annoys me far more than Windows crashing.
Linux users of today are often much like OS/2 or Amiga users of years gone by, only they have less games to play and they tend to foam at the mouth a little more as they violently rant.
I'm not going to plant them - I'm going to clone them.
Are you trying to suggest to me that they can't just clone the Frosted Flakes?
Damn. There goes my idea.
I'm going out today to buy various samples of corn and freeze them.
I don't think the kernels will be viable for planting after freezing. However, if you keep them in a dry and semi cool place, they can probably keep in storage for a very long time. I'm not sure about 20 years, though...
Frosted Flakes, on the other hand -- They would probably still be safe to eat after 20 years if you kept them frozen, I'm just not sure how they would taste.
Where's the standard disclaimer that those figures are subject to change?
And did you actually count or did you just pull those figures out of your ascii?
Sorry I couldn't resist.
You realize of course we'll be marked as trolls for this, right? But, you beat me to it. So I'm ganna give you an AMEN.
I don't want to start a FreeBSD vs. Linux war...
I don't want to start a FreeBSD vs Linux battle, either. I get enough of that from some of the people I know. But I have to admit that after using several Linux distros and using FreeBSD, the choice (for me) was quite clear. That's not to say I didn't like some of the Linux distros I tried. Not at all. I really liked Storm and I fully intend to install either Debian or Slackware on an IBM I have sitting in the corner. But when it came time to choose a system of the many I tried to run my web-server off of, I had to settle on FreeBSD.
At first I was a little wery about going with something slightly less mainstream than Linux, but good Linux binary compatibility (not to mention the Ports Collection) was a plus that won me over to FreeBSD.
With FreeBSD the first few days were really rough because there were several major annoyances I had, and none of my Linux friends had any useful insight. But I quickly solved most of my problems on my own. I feel I have learned much more this way. Plus, when I needed quick answers, web-searches almost always provided immediate and exact answers because there is only one FreeBSD and many other users have experienced the exact same problems.
It's something of a shame that Storm went the way of the wind, but after I made my choice to run FreeBSD it hasn't mattered too much. As for my soon-to-be Linux system, that just shows that I'm not knocking Linux at all (how could I?) it's just that I made the choice based on my needs and what I like. I personally don't feel I was moving forward fast enough with any of the Linux distros, but I felt comfortable with FreeBSD very quickly.
That's just me.
From recent experience, it's because that's all it does well.
That's not exactly true at all. The US Government is a lot like Microsoft. Neither one of them do things out of some sinister plot, or megalomaniac agenda. In reality, both of them are just terribly, horribly, inexcusably incompetent.
American Libertarian. I love my country, I fear my government! We should have all voted for Harry Browne!
at least they'll be more reliable now!
That statement is totally unfounded. You are assuming the scheduling software will be stable.
If the schedualing software crashes now, it'll be the same situation as before, but the crash is just going to look different and the OS is still going to be running (though uselessly) under it all.
Blue Screen or Core Dump, it's all the same.
Face it, Linux won't save you. Airlines are ALWAYS going to be late and you're all going crash down into a firey death. And that's what this is really about anyway. Your fates. Get over it. You're gator food, pal! You hear me? Sleeping with the fish! Slamming into a hillside! Tailspin! Dead! Just like the others!