Well... who cares how many people attempted to download it? For all we know, it was just a couple of guys with a fast line and amazingly bad luck trying to download it and failing every time...
The real question is how many people acutally registered the thing so that they could use it legally? I know they have the numbers to this, but Im sure it would be somewhat embarassing compared to the "1 million" that tried to download it.
I have seen ruggedized laptops for some time in the back of some trade papers.. But previously, they were more specialized... as for people who have to work in harsh environments... Geologists, land surveyors...etc. They were usually much bigger and bulkier too... Its nice to see that they are making the regular laptops more durable... They have always been too delicate in my opinion.
AMEN! Preach on, brother! Yet another reason that open-source software is so significantly better than closed-source garbage. Linux for Sparc architecture is extremely solid and runs every open-source item that I want... Yet, if I want to run Civ CTP on my sparcstation, I cannot and probably never will be able to. Too bad there is no emulator... Wait a second!!! have you heard of SoftWindows? or SoftPC? What it is is a Intel box emulator... it is available for mac and solaris and probably several other OSes. It allows you to run Windows on a Sparc... Maybe what we need is FREE-PC or FREE-WINDOWS... so we can emulate a Intel box to run Linux in a window.
Its amazing how long this blatant theft of our money has been going on. Its so obvious to anyone with a clear mind that what they have been doing is totally illegal. At least they did the right thing eventually.
You are probably right to say that he will guarentee a good game. Solid fun gameplay... But, will it be significantly better than CTP? I hear (no, I havent played it) that CTP is a very good game very solidly on par with Civ 1 and 2.
Well, how much can they stray from the original, and keep the existing fans happy? I can understand when you are undertaking an entirely new project, such as Valve did with Half-Life, but how much different is Quake2 from Quake and Q3, really? How much better can you get it?
How much better could CIV 3 be than CTP, really? CTP is already a great game and has multi-player ability. I couldnt imagine them making it good enough to convince people to buy it. I think most people that would have bought it already would have purchased CIV CTP....
That is the big question right now. I certainly doubt it. It is going to be wierd with two "Civ3" games floating around. I dont want to complain, because any linux game is a good linux game, but it certainly will be a glut of strategy games for linux... after RR tycoon and all...
PTC has no intention on creating another distriboution... Corel is only doing it in order to 1) kill microsoft 2) make some cash on the phenomenon.
PTC walks hand in hand with microsoft... they pull the same exact types of tricks on thier competitors. They love microsoft and love having thier name near MS's. Oh, and a decent seat of Pro/E costs $24 grand. The cheapest is $6000 right now.
The value of a good Unix administrator is immense! A good Unix administrator can handle 3-5 times more machines than a single Windows admin. In fact, there is nothing to be good at when it comes to windows... An admin that has been working with the system 2 months is no worse than an admin that has been messing with it for 2 years... You get to a wall and stop.
Shipping binaries for both systems on a single disk would be terrific. But I think they are testing the waters right now to see if there is demand for the software... That way they arent wasting resources trying to get a linux port onto the same disk when nobody is going to use it.
That is true... Its kind of a catch-22. Without application support, the hardware vendors like Elsa, Diamond and MaxVision have no incentive to create drivers for Linux. And it almost goes the other way too... Fortunately, enough people have sent in enhancement requests to PTC so that they might listen.
Has anyone seen any sales results for CIV Call to Power yet? I'd like to know how well it is selling. I noticed that it is out of stock everywhere I have seen it for sale on the web. More games is going to make it A LOT easier to convert others to linux and make booting to Windows completely unnessessary for some!
I have been asking for this for a long time. For the longest time, PTC only supported NT on Intel hardware... that meant if you wanted to take advantage of the fast hardware that is available for x86 boxes, you HAD to go with NT. Very sad.
The only issue right now is having drivers for high-end 3d cards available for Linux. Even having 3d support for a RIVA TNT card would be great. Pro/E requires HEAVY DUTY graphics support. Hopefully this is not too far behind.
Maybe this is a scam to get e-mail addresses so they can spam you back trying to sell you anti-spam software.
Pretty ingeneous... I wish they had the same type of thing for aquaintance spam... I hate when Amazon keeps sending me crap in the e-mail. Maybe they should be giving away $5 coupons for Amazon! Amazon would be giving away CDs after a while!
Hmmm... Internet underground from MSNBC... I suppose that is something like saying "Im cool.. Im hip". By saying so, they make themselves the total opposite.
I don't think that it would have helped them at all to release it as open source first. Nobody would have bought it then. Book sales would drop dramatically if every book was open sourced. I think the only reason that they did this is because they got such an earfull when people noticed that the book was closed-source. I really think that if all technical books were open-source, we really would have excellent technical book and you wouldnt have to go through buying a bad book again. Propane News
Really, its amazing that they make any money right now... since most of the people who use Linux are farily comforatable around a computer... Most of them are easily able to get a copy by burning it from a friend. I dont see very many people actually buying the box (at least in my circles)
The only thing that would interest me is the codecs... The more people that have their hands on the codecs (ie linux users, beos users, etc), the better the chance it has at becoming a defacto standard... The only thing making the servers open-source would accomplish is getting some free development for Apple (from the executive's view).
Why cant they make a wake on lan printer? That would help in energy savings. heres what I have been planning on doing for some time:
I am going to make a print filter for my printer that signals an X10 module attached to my printer so that the printer turns on when a print job is sent. Then, after a few minutes, the printer turns off also.
These would make the ultimate mp3 storage for in-car players. Of course, with the prices being as high as they are, they would probably only be at home in ultra-expensive cars...
All you would need is a motherboard with built in sound and scsi, one of these, and some hack of an interface to the serial or parallel port. With a low profile socket-7 processor, you could probably fit the entire contraption under the passenger seat!!!
How do you know that some Java applet wont be able to grab the CPU id from your computer? Im not sure how insulated Java is from the hardware, but maybe someone will be able to do that.
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Well... who cares how many people attempted to download it? For all we know, it was just a couple of guys with a fast line and amazingly bad luck trying to download it and failing every time...
The real question is how many people acutally registered the thing so that they could use it legally? I know they have the numbers to this, but Im sure it would be somewhat embarassing compared to the "1 million" that tried to download it.
I have seen ruggedized laptops for some time in the back of some trade papers.. But previously, they were more specialized... as for people who have to work in harsh environments... Geologists, land surveyors...etc. They were usually much bigger and bulkier too... Its nice to see that they are making the regular laptops more durable... They have always been too delicate in my opinion.
AMEN! Preach on, brother! Yet another reason that open-source software is so significantly better than closed-source garbage. Linux for Sparc architecture is extremely solid and runs every open-source item that I want... Yet, if I want to run Civ CTP on my sparcstation, I cannot and probably never will be able to. Too bad there is no emulator... Wait a second!!! have you heard of SoftWindows? or SoftPC? What it is is a Intel box emulator... it is available for mac and solaris and probably several other OSes. It allows you to run Windows on a Sparc... Maybe what we need is FREE-PC or FREE-WINDOWS... so we can emulate a Intel box to run Linux in a window.
or maybe not... seems kinda excessive...
Whoops... I meant "at least they had the right idea"...
Its amazing how long this blatant theft of our money has been going on. Its so obvious to anyone with a clear mind that what they have been doing is totally illegal.
At least they did the right thing eventually.
You are probably right to say that he will guarentee a good game. Solid fun gameplay... But, will it be significantly better than CTP? I hear (no, I havent played it) that CTP is a very good game very solidly on par with Civ 1 and 2.
Well, how much can they stray from the original, and keep the existing fans happy? I can understand when you are undertaking an entirely new project, such as Valve did with Half-Life, but how much different is Quake2 from Quake and Q3, really? How much better can you get it?
How much better could CIV 3 be than CTP, really? CTP is already a great game and has multi-player ability.
I couldnt imagine them making it good enough to convince people to buy it. I think most people that would have bought it already would have purchased CIV CTP....
That is the big question right now. I certainly doubt it. It is going to be wierd with two "Civ3" games floating around.
I dont want to complain, because any linux game is a good linux game, but it certainly will be a glut of strategy games for linux... after RR tycoon and all...
Thats a lot better than paying $500 on E-bay!
PTC has no intention on creating another distriboution... Corel is only doing it in order to 1) kill microsoft 2) make some cash on the phenomenon.
PTC walks hand in hand with microsoft... they pull the same exact types of tricks on thier competitors. They love microsoft and love having thier name near MS's.
Oh, and a decent seat of Pro/E costs $24 grand. The cheapest is $6000 right now.
The value of a good Unix administrator is immense! A good Unix administrator can handle 3-5 times more machines than a single Windows admin. In fact, there is nothing to be good at when it comes to windows... An admin that has been working with the system 2 months is no worse than an admin that has been messing with it for 2 years... You get to a wall and stop.
Shipping binaries for both systems on a single disk would be terrific. But I think they are testing the waters right now to see if there is demand for the software... That way they arent wasting resources trying to get a linux port onto the same disk when nobody is going to use it.
That is true... Its kind of a catch-22. Without application support, the hardware vendors like Elsa, Diamond and MaxVision have no incentive to create drivers for Linux. And it almost goes the other way too... Fortunately, enough people have sent in enhancement requests to PTC so that they might listen.
Has anyone seen any sales results for CIV Call to Power yet? I'd like to know how well it is selling. I noticed that it is out of stock everywhere I have seen it for sale on the web. More games is going to make it A LOT easier to convert others to linux and make booting to Windows completely unnessessary for some!
I have been asking for this for a long time. For the longest time, PTC only supported NT on Intel hardware... that meant if you wanted to take advantage of the fast hardware that is available for x86 boxes, you HAD to go with NT. Very sad.
The only issue right now is having drivers for high-end 3d cards available for Linux. Even having 3d support for a RIVA TNT card would be great. Pro/E requires HEAVY DUTY graphics support. Hopefully this is not too far behind.
Maybe this is a scam to get e-mail addresses so they can spam you back trying to sell you anti-spam software.
Pretty ingeneous... I wish they had the same type of thing for aquaintance spam... I hate when Amazon keeps sending me crap in the e-mail. Maybe they should be giving away $5 coupons for Amazon! Amazon would be giving away CDs after a while!
Hmmm... Internet underground from MSNBC... I suppose that is something like saying "Im cool.. Im hip". By saying so, they make themselves the total opposite.
Lame I must say.
I don't think that it would have helped them at all to release it as open source first. Nobody would have bought it then. Book sales would drop dramatically if every book was open sourced. I think the only reason that they did this is because they got such an earfull when people noticed that the book was closed-source. I really think that if all technical books were open-source, we really would have excellent technical book and you wouldnt have to go through buying a bad book again. Propane News
Really, its amazing that they make any money right now... since most of the people who use Linux are farily comforatable around a computer... Most of them are easily able to get a copy by burning it from a friend. I dont see very many people actually buying the box (at least in my circles)
Very cool.
Gary
The only thing that would interest me is the codecs... The more people that have their hands on the codecs (ie linux users, beos users, etc), the better the chance it has at becoming a defacto standard... The only thing making the servers open-source would accomplish is getting some free development for Apple (from the executive's view).
Why cant they make a wake on lan printer? That would help in energy savings. heres what I have been planning on doing for some time:
I am going to make a print filter for my printer that signals an X10 module attached to my printer so that the printer turns on when a print job is sent. Then, after a few minutes, the printer turns off also.
These would make the ultimate mp3 storage for in-car players. Of course, with the prices being as high as they are, they would probably only be at home in ultra-expensive cars...
All you would need is a motherboard with built in sound and scsi, one of these, and some hack of an interface to the serial or parallel port. With a low profile socket-7 processor, you could probably fit the entire contraption under the passenger seat!!!
How do you know that some Java applet wont be able to grab the CPU id from your computer? Im not sure how insulated Java is from the hardware, but maybe someone will be able to do that.
just a thought.