I think some of the games, such as Lineage, offer the game as a free download... you just need to give them credit card information to play. They don't really charge you for the game itself though.
OS 8 did not have the extensive security issues that Windows 98 had. The original poster is simply talking about Microsoft's undeniably poor track record in having and dealing with security problems when compared to Apple or oss vendors.
for those actually interested in the games themselves, here are games 1 and 2 in PGN. You can view them with winboard/xboard . Just paste them into a.pgn file.
it's just another selling point, in the same way that Xbox and PS2 always mentioned DVD playback as a key feature. Being capable of being used as a DVD device makes it an easier sell to those on a tight budget and to those with space constraints.
Note that it does state: "The ship date and retail price have not been confirmed and therefore are subject to change. If the retail price is decreased you will receive the lower price."
When those 20 games are from Nintendo's in-house developers yes, those 20 more games can make or break a system. It has long been held that Nintendo has the best first party games. Those 100 other games will likely find their way onto both the DS and the PSP in most cases. Then you're left with the 1st party exclusives... the area where Nintendo has traditionally dominated.
a bunch of my friends and I played a lot of laser tag in high school. a number of us made simple mods to our equipment.. for example, wiring a simple switch onto the speaker, or onto the LED lights. this made the noisy standard gun that always gave away your position a stealth weapon.
However, since only some of us had the know how to make these mods and they really gave us a big advantage, they were deemed illegal.
don't worry...
i'm also already running gentoo, and a emerge -p world doesn't list anything outdated on my system... I think this release is only going to provide updates to the install process and to the base system. once you're up and running, emerging new package will keep you just as up to date as the new releases will (since all they install is the very base system anyway).
the article says that the cost to the companies was estimated at hundreds of millions of dollars. don't they realize that most people wouldn't buy half of this stuff in the first place if they couldn't get it free... the only reason they DO download it is because it's there.
I took a course as part of my education in the College of Business at Penn State that used AEleen Frisch's "Essential System Administration" (an O'Reilly book") as our textbook.
However, I'll be the first to admit that most of the MIS-related courses gave only sparse mention of Linux. I think students in general are aware of Linux's existence, but little more than that. Were it up to them to make a platform decision after the basic business degree program, I'm sure that most students would sadly be grossly uninformed about Linux and OSS, and therefore drift over to the familiar Windows environments.
I've long been an Apple supporter, and have long been frustrated by their decision to remain a niche market. They have the style and technology to really become a leader... no, THE leader, but by keeping everything closed and under their own control has really left them exposed to articles like this.
Like many of the Apple faithful, I hope to see new hardware based on industry standard components (read: x86), which will hopefully drive the prices down to the point where people like myself and many other/. readers can actually afford to buy it. We all know we want to use OS X. It's like Linux without all the pain.
People always complain that Mac OS gets no games or other 3rd party software. The simple fact is it's not worth a game developer's time or money to make software for a platform with such a small userbase. The userbase has to expand. Period. Otherwise the Mac will remain a niche.
Apple isn't about to die, regardless of what any company says. Here's to hoping that the success of the iPod will fund a push by Apple into making Macs cheaper and accessible to everyone.
No longer will you have to recharge your laptop battery while on a long trip! Low Power warning? No problem! Just bring your laptop back with you to the "refueling station" (as bathrooms will hence be called) and you'll be back in business in no time. Well, maybe in 15-20.
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imagine that!! you're piloting a next-gen space shuttle out to land on mars and you suddenly have a human body roll up over your windshield. tell me that doesn't scare the ever living shit out of the guy at the wheel! I wonder if he stops to exchange information.
currently the service only works on-campus, in the dorms. However, the dorm connections have a 1.5 GB/week (to any non *.psu.edu traffic) upload limit. eventually, however, they plan to enable napster for off-campus students.
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I think some of the games, such as Lineage, offer the game as a free download... you just need to give them credit card information to play. They don't really charge you for the game itself though.
after playing SWG for a few months and getting tired of paying for it, I tried some free MMORPGs. There's a list of some here.
OS 8 did not have the extensive security issues that Windows 98 had. The original poster is simply talking about Microsoft's undeniably poor track record in having and dealing with security problems when compared to Apple or oss vendors.
for those actually interested in the games themselves, here are games 1 and 2 in PGN. You can view them with winboard/xboard . Just paste them into a .pgn file.
[Event "Match rapid 90 min"]
[Site "Abu Dhabi"]
[Date "2004.08.14"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Hydra"]
[Black "Shredder"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B80"]
[PlyCount "75"]
[EventDate "2004.??.??"]
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be3 e6 7. f3 b5 8. g4 h6
9. Qd2 Nbd7 10. O-O-O Bb7 11. h4 d5 12. exd5 Nxd5 13. Nxd5 Bxd5 14. Bg2 Ne5 15.
Qe2 Qa5 16. f4 Qxa2 17. Bxd5 Qa1+ 18. Kd2 Bb4+ 19. c3 Qxb2+ 20. Ke1 Bxc3+ 21.
Kf1 exd5 22. fxe5 Qb4 23. Bf2 O-O 24. g5 Bxd4 25. Bxd4 h5 26. Kg2 Rac8 27. Rhf1
Qe7 28. Qxh5 Rc2+ 29. Kg3 Rc6 30. Rd3 a5 31. Rdf3 Re6 32. Rf6 Rxe5 33. Bxe5
Qxe5+ 34. R6f4 a4 35. Kg2 d4 36. Rxf7 Qd5+ 37. R7f3 Rc8 38. Re1 1-0
[Event "Match rapid 90 min"]
[Site "Abu Dhabi"]
[Date "2004.08.15"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Shredder"]
[Black "Hydra"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B97"]
[PlyCount "102"]
[EventDate "2004.??.??"]
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bg5 e6 7. f4 Qb6 8. Nb3
Be7 9. Qf3 Nbd7 10. O-O-O Qc7 11. Kb1 b5 12. Bd3 b4 13. Ne2 Bb7 14. Qh3 Nxe4
15. Bxe7 Kxe7 16. Qh4+ Ndf6 17. Rhe1 h6 18. f5 e5 19. Nf4 Ng5 20. Nh5 Nxh5 21.
Qxh5 Bxg2 22. Nd2 a5 23. h4 Nh7 24. Qe2 Bc6 25. Rg1 Rhg8 26. Ne4 Bxe4 27. Bxe4
Rac8 28. Bd3 Qb6 29. Bb5 Nf6 30. Ba4 e4 31. Rde1 Qc5 32. Qa6 d5 33. Rd1 d4 34.
Bb3 Rc6 35. Qe2 Kf8 36. Ba4 Rd6 37. Qf1 Rd8 38. Qa6 Qc7 39. Qb5 Rh8 40. Qf1 Rh7
41. Bb3 h5 42. Ba4 e3 43. Qb5 Rh6 44. Rg2 Rd5 45. Qf1 Ng4 46. Bb3 Rd8 47. Ba4
Rf6 48. Re1 g6 49. Rc1 Rxf5 50. Qe2 Qe7 51. Bb5 Qxh4 0-1
it's pretty important to those of us who are tired of getting emails from people on infected windows machines too.
it's just another selling point, in the same way that Xbox and PS2 always mentioned DVD playback as a key feature. Being capable of being used as a DVD device makes it an easier sell to those on a tight budget and to those with space constraints.
Note that it does state: "The ship date and retail price have not been confirmed and therefore are subject to change. If the retail price is decreased you will receive the lower price."
When those 20 games are from Nintendo's in-house developers yes, those 20 more games can make or break a system. It has long been held that Nintendo has the best first party games. Those 100 other games will likely find their way onto both the DS and the PSP in most cases. Then you're left with the 1st party exclusives... the area where Nintendo has traditionally dominated.
However, since only some of us had the know how to make these mods and they really gave us a big advantage, they were deemed illegal.
yeah seriously that is pretty annoying.
but when you're 60 and you can say "I've found the Amulet of Yendor" it will all be worth it. hehe
strike that... i forgot that download.com just points the the publisher's download link for most files.
note that download.com still has version 2.661... this might be the version people should start mirroring.
*COUGH* vaporware *COUGH*
does the RIAA actually have any official access to the I2 network? if not, they won't be able to monitor and hunt after these p2p users anyway.
It's nice to see PSU doing research with Ben & Jerry's, considering Ben and Jerry are among Penn State's more famous alums.
don't worry... i'm also already running gentoo, and a emerge -p world doesn't list anything outdated on my system... I think this release is only going to provide updates to the install process and to the base system. once you're up and running, emerging new package will keep you just as up to date as the new releases will (since all they install is the very base system anyway).
the actual losses are significantly less.
However, I'll be the first to admit that most of the MIS-related courses gave only sparse mention of Linux. I think students in general are aware of Linux's existence, but little more than that. Were it up to them to make a platform decision after the basic business degree program, I'm sure that most students would sadly be grossly uninformed about Linux and OSS, and therefore drift over to the familiar Windows environments.
Like many of the Apple faithful, I hope to see new hardware based on industry standard components (read: x86), which will hopefully drive the prices down to the point where people like myself and many other /. readers can actually afford to buy it. We all know we want to use OS X. It's like Linux without all the pain.
People always complain that Mac OS gets no games or other 3rd party software. The simple fact is it's not worth a game developer's time or money to make software for a platform with such a small userbase. The userbase has to expand. Period. Otherwise the Mac will remain a niche.
Apple isn't about to die, regardless of what any company says. Here's to hoping that the success of the iPod will fund a push by Apple into making Macs cheaper and accessible to everyone.
No longer will you have to recharge your laptop battery while on a long trip! Low Power warning? No problem! Just bring your laptop back with you to the "refueling station" (as bathrooms will hence be called) and you'll be back in business in no time. Well, maybe in 15-20.
imagine that!! you're piloting a next-gen space shuttle out to land on mars and you suddenly have a human body roll up over your windshield. tell me that doesn't scare the ever living shit out of the guy at the wheel! I wonder if he stops to exchange information.
not gonna happen for a while yet...
currently the service only works on-campus, in the dorms. However, the dorm connections have a 1.5 GB/week (to any non *.psu.edu traffic) upload limit. eventually, however, they plan to enable napster for off-campus students.