Or OS/X. They took an OSS platform and layed a slick, highly integrated and very stylish UI on top of it. In about a quarter of the time that various linux desktop projects have been around. What's the difference?
Uh, no. The OSX GUI is the evolution of NeXT's GUI, aka. NeXTStep/OpenStep, which is over 15 years old if I recall well. And Apple was actively working on it ever since they bought NeXT (remember Rhapsody?). Hell, Carbon - the "migration toolkit" that was supposed to provide easy migration of apps from present Mac OS to "that future Mac OS" (ie. now called OS X) - was released way back in OS 8.
Just because there's been a few dozen months between OS 9 and OS X doesn't mean OS X was developped in that time frame, silly. The Linux desktop environments are actually quite young compared to Apple's offering.
Spoilers? Whatever. I don't think anybody will actually want to see Episode III, after that horrible, horrible movie that was Ep II. Anakin's pityful acting abilities (or lack thereof) have scarred me for life. And that discussion about how he hates sand ARRGGHHH!!!
I couldn't agree more. IMHO, one of the most interesting things about consoles is seeing how much the developpers have pushed them near the end of their lives. Anybody remember Yoshi's Island or Kirby Superstar on the SNES? Those games had graphics so goddamn amazing it was hard to believe they came out of that old SNES that was available or almost half a decade.
Tabbed browsing is having one single window with tabs to switch between views.
MDI is having multiple "fake" windows of various nature (tool palettes, document views, etc) inside one big window. The reasons why MDI sucks (and why Apple has always diaproved its use): 1) Windows in windows are confusing. 2) The "grey void" in that big window is a total waste of display real estate. With a multiple window app, you can actually see (and use) other programs under that app. 3) It's not multi-head friendly. With, say, The GIMP, or any Mac OS app (no MDI on Macs), you can freely drag the various windows to different desktops.
Interesting note: MDI was created by Microsoft (and therefore mostly seen in Windows programs), but even Microsoft has now gradually stopped using it. Look at later versions of Word: each document now has its own window (and toolbar).
Duh. Only nerds care about the packaging/manuals of their videogames. I happen to have kept all the boxes and manuals of my old games, but for the average people this is just stupid, as they don't give a living fuck about the box, and even less about the manual.
Great, yet another brain-damaged research that considers Linux an OS, and talks as if all Linux distributions were identical in terms of out-of-the-box security and ease of applying security updates. Hell, if we ever asked those morons what Linux distro they used to compute their Linux results, I bet they would say "uh... Linux 9.0 ?"
I was talking about the WineX CVS ebuild. Transgaming asked the Gentoo maintainers to trash it, as it encouraged too much people to just use WineX from CVS, which, according to Transgaming, is only provided to see the source, not actually use it without paying their subscribtion costs.
What the hell is wrong with the XFree86 team? It's like they're constantly trying to piss everyone off, with their closed development attitude, kicking out anyone who wants to improve X (ie. Keith Packard, the only real X hacker remaining these days) and now their stupid and completely uncalled-for license change. I'll be glad when Keith's fd.o Xserver will be ready for prime time.
"But the FreeDesktop libraries will be LGPL whish is much much worse, because then we will have ZERO comertial applications."
No. GTK and GNOME's libs are all LGPL, yet we see plenty commertial (sic) apps. The problem is with GPL libs, ie. Qt.
"Free software faggots probably wont mind, but for those of us who work for a living the FreeDesktop initiative is really worrysome."
Plenty of people make a living on Free Software, you know.
nVidia's drivers run on any XFree86 version >= 4.1.0, so this is not an issue. The real problem is with ATI, which for some reason seems to be unable to provide drivers that work for more than one version.
I find it pretty sad that almost everybody thinks that only WineX can run games. Reality check: Wine does have a DirectX emulation layer too! Including Direct3D to OpenGL translation! In fact, the few times I tried running a Windows game under Linux, I had better luck with Wine than WineX (CVS build, from back when Gentoo had an ebuild for it).
So, please, don't support those monkeys at Transgaming and use the one, true Wine instead.
All of this sounds like the core setting of a new Final Fantasy game. I can see it now: the effeminate antagonist finds a way to control this dark matter/energy and threathens to destroy the world, then the spiked-hair, badly dressed hero comes to destroy that antagonist, who happens to be his former friend. Insanity, stupid names and buxon girls ensue.
This is the stupidest game concept I have ever heard. Electronic Arts, a company which has NO FRANCHISED CHARACTERS OF THEIR OWN WHATSOEVER (as they only do sports and shitty licensed games) will attempt to do the same thing as Capcom did, only (duh) without Capcom. This is wrong on so many levels. Since when does EA do fighting games?? And why would Capcom let them plagiarize on of their former concepts ??! This is most obviously fake news.
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"The unfortunate reality here is that this is often not the case. I have a stack of Loki games from a few years ago that will not run on modern Linux systems. Some of them will, but often with lots of screwing around with libraries and stuff. Contrast this to Windows and Mac - one way or another, the vast majority of software released for those platforms over the last decade will work, often without much fussing. It may not be pretty, but it will work!"
Bullshit. A good deal of the Win32 games written prior to Windows 2000 won't work under Windows 2000 or XP due to shitty programming. And these days you really have to be a masochist to be still running Windows 98, so NO, the vast majority of software released for Windows over the last decade WILL NOT WORK.
Mod parent up. I don't know about the details, but with the proper software a modded XBox can very easily run games directly from HDD. Add a bigger HDD and you get a goddamn Pirate Heaven.
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Okay you retards, that's enough "french surrender" jokes for today.
Cloud's sword was actually very thin, so despite its size it shouldn't be that heavy.
Actually Blizzard publishes their games themselves, so there's no "publisher" on the box.
Damn that page is ugly. Brings back memories or the early WWW days where everybody and their mom had a god ugly personnal website.
Or OS/X. They took an OSS platform and layed a slick, highly integrated and very stylish UI on top of it. In about a quarter of the time that various linux desktop projects have been around. What's the difference?
Uh, no. The OSX GUI is the evolution of NeXT's GUI, aka. NeXTStep/OpenStep, which is over 15 years old if I recall well. And Apple was actively working on it ever since they bought NeXT (remember Rhapsody?). Hell, Carbon - the "migration toolkit" that was supposed to provide easy migration of apps from present Mac OS to "that future Mac OS" (ie. now called OS X) - was released way back in OS 8.
Just because there's been a few dozen months between OS 9 and OS X doesn't mean OS X was developped in that time frame, silly. The Linux desktop environments are actually quite young compared to Apple's offering.
Oh no! Reuters are reporting something so it MUST be true! And we should care!
Spoilers? Whatever. I don't think anybody will actually want to see Episode III, after that horrible, horrible movie that was Ep II. Anakin's pityful acting abilities (or lack thereof) have scarred me for life. And that discussion about how he hates sand ARRGGHHH!!!
You just answered your own question. The fact that it's a memory hog plays a great part in Java's slowness.
I couldn't agree more. IMHO, one of the most interesting things about consoles is seeing how much the developpers have pushed them near the end of their lives. Anybody remember Yoshi's Island or Kirby Superstar on the SNES? Those games had graphics so goddamn amazing it was hard to believe they came out of that old SNES that was available or almost half a decade.
MDI != tabbed browsing
Tabbed browsing is having one single window with tabs to switch between views.
MDI is having multiple "fake" windows of various nature (tool palettes, document views, etc) inside one big window. The reasons why MDI sucks (and why Apple has always diaproved its use):
1) Windows in windows are confusing.
2) The "grey void" in that big window is a total waste of display real estate. With a multiple window app, you can actually see (and use) other programs under that app.
3) It's not multi-head friendly. With, say, The GIMP, or any Mac OS app (no MDI on Macs), you can freely drag the various windows to different desktops.
Interesting note: MDI was created by Microsoft (and therefore mostly seen in Windows programs), but even Microsoft has now gradually stopped using it. Look at later versions of Word: each document now has its own window (and toolbar).
Duh. Only nerds care about the packaging/manuals of their videogames. I happen to have kept all the boxes and manuals of my old games, but for the average people this is just stupid, as they don't give a living fuck about the box, and even less about the manual.
Shut up troll, you're missing my point. I just said I'm tired of analysts who talk of "Linux" as if it were a single OS.
Great, yet another brain-damaged research that considers Linux an OS, and talks as if all Linux distributions were identical in terms of out-of-the-box security and ease of applying security updates. Hell, if we ever asked those morons what Linux distro they used to compute their Linux results, I bet they would say "uh... Linux 9.0 ?"
Yeah, the more recent Street Fighter games suck. Good ol' Street Fighter II will always be the best for me.
I was talking about the WineX CVS ebuild. Transgaming asked the Gentoo maintainers to trash it, as it encouraged too much people to just use WineX from CVS, which, according to Transgaming, is only provided to see the source, not actually use it without paying their subscribtion costs.
No, the big problem with Transgaming is that they don't give anything back to Wine. Hell, their license isn't even OSI-approved.
What the hell is wrong with the XFree86 team? It's like they're constantly trying to piss everyone off, with their closed development attitude, kicking out anyone who wants to improve X (ie. Keith Packard, the only real X hacker remaining these days) and now their stupid and completely uncalled-for license change. I'll be glad when Keith's fd.o Xserver will be ready for prime time.
"But the FreeDesktop libraries will be LGPL whish is much much worse, because then we will have ZERO comertial applications." No. GTK and GNOME's libs are all LGPL, yet we see plenty commertial (sic) apps. The problem is with GPL libs, ie. Qt. "Free software faggots probably wont mind, but for those of us who work for a living the FreeDesktop initiative is really worrysome." Plenty of people make a living on Free Software, you know.
nVidia's drivers run on any XFree86 version >= 4.1.0, so this is not an issue. The real problem is with ATI, which for some reason seems to be unable to provide drivers that work for more than one version.
I find it pretty sad that almost everybody thinks that only WineX can run games. Reality check: Wine does have a DirectX emulation layer too! Including Direct3D to OpenGL translation! In fact, the few times I tried running a Windows game under Linux, I had better luck with Wine than WineX (CVS build, from back when Gentoo had an ebuild for it).
So, please, don't support those monkeys at Transgaming and use the one, true Wine instead.
All of this sounds like the core setting of a new Final Fantasy game. I can see it now: the effeminate antagonist finds a way to control this dark matter/energy and threathens to destroy the world, then the spiked-hair, badly dressed hero comes to destroy that antagonist, who happens to be his former friend. Insanity, stupid names and buxon girls ensue.
This is the stupidest game concept I have ever heard. Electronic Arts, a company which has NO FRANCHISED CHARACTERS OF THEIR OWN WHATSOEVER (as they only do sports and shitty licensed games) will attempt to do the same thing as Capcom did, only (duh) without Capcom. This is wrong on so many levels. Since when does EA do fighting games?? And why would Capcom let them plagiarize on of their former concepts ??! This is most obviously fake news.
"SCO has updated their dns servers and axed the record for www.sco.com. NXDOMAIN means no such domain. Wonder why SCO didn't announce that they themselves took www.sco.com completely offline."
Quick! Somebody buy the www.sco.com domain!!
"The unfortunate reality here is that this is often not the case. I have a stack of Loki games from a few years ago that will not run on modern Linux systems. Some of them will, but often with lots of screwing around with libraries and stuff. Contrast this to Windows and Mac - one way or another, the vast majority of software released for those platforms over the last decade will work, often without much fussing. It may not be pretty, but it will work!"
Bullshit. A good deal of the Win32 games written prior to Windows 2000 won't work under Windows 2000 or XP due to shitty programming. And these days you really have to be a masochist to be still running Windows 98, so NO, the vast majority of software released for Windows over the last decade WILL NOT WORK.
Mod parent up. I don't know about the details, but with the proper software a modded XBox can very easily run games directly from HDD. Add a bigger HDD and you get a goddamn Pirate Heaven.