During the IRC interviews, someone asked about it, and they revealed that the vast majority of browser hits come from IE. The stats used to be a public page but were removed.
I'm sorry to be so rude. But that's the most idiotic criticism I've ever seen. It's just a concept name. You're the only person I've ever seen have a complaint about it.
Websites are marked as "favorites" because they're favored websites to visit. It doesn't have to be positive or negative in connotation, and I'm betting there are less than 1% of people who even think about that, you being one of them.
A good thing about Favorites is that they're stored as an individual file each. Ironicially, this is more UNIX-like, and they can easily be e-mailed, moved around, traded, or organized using the filesystem browser or the browser itself.
Seriously, what a silly thing to criticize, especially when most people here use a browser that can't seem to decide what it's name actually IS, and their operating systems run "daemons!" Does that make Linux is negative and hellish?
Microsoft doesn't care all that much about Internet Explorer. They don't want to improve it, because then they can keep back web APIs. Face it, XUL isn't exactly going anywhere.
Microsoft doesn't really care, as they have their sights set on.NET, which is truly Internet-able. Even OSS has gotten into the trap with Mono. Longhorn will be entirely based on.NET, with mere Win32 compatibility DLLs thrown in for older apps.
It says right there he's just a freelance developer participating in the feedback process. Stop being so anti-"M$" vitriolic. I see his very same comment posted in Slashdot all the time. People honestly want to know, how does MS plan to get people to upgrade to IE7 if it's going to just offer things like "better CSS support?" There are plenty of people still using IE5.5. Unfortunately, there is only so much hand-holding the company can do before people take responsibility for themselves and upgrade. We OSS people do it all the time for our apps...
All the submitter did was link to a blog entry that listed a couple of public advisories and mentioned Mozilla. Apparently, when put through the Slashbot filter, that becomes "recent mass migration away from MSIE?"
According to Google Zeitgeist, IE 6 hasn't dropped at all and is still massively slaughtering the competition. In fact, Slashdot's own browser statistics show that IE is the majority browser for people accessing this website! Also note that every year is the year of "Linux on the desktop," yet Linux is still at 1% of usage on Zeitgeist.
I don't like IE either, but come on. There is no "recent mass migration."
It doesn't fucking matter who owns the airwaves. THE CORPORATIONS OWN THEIR CONTENT.
You can start up your own channel and broadcast your stuff all you want. Nothing's stopping you. But if someone owns the content to something else, it's not a free speech issue just because you can't violate their holding rights. It's an ownership issue. The government has nothing to do with it. Crying "so much for free press" just illustrates how very little you understand what free speech laws actually mean.
Get out of the anti-capitalist college dorm room you're living in and enter the real world sometime. It's not a free speech issue just because one company's channel can't broadcast another company's content.
What were those articles supposed to prove? They didn't change the fact that I was told I was wrong when I pointed out that Munich was running VMWare on their Linux machines in order to run Windows.
I proved that it was. Your two puff pieces just restate what I already linked to. I'm waiting for my apology.
Fun Fact About Those Linux PCs in Munich And speaking about Linux stories you don't hear much from the Linux-loving mainstream press, consider the following. Remember that story about the city of Munich choosing Linux to power 14,000 desktop computers? One aspect of this story that most people don't know about is that up to 80 percent of those Linux desktops will be equipped with VMWare, a virtual machine emulator, under which they will run Windows and Windows applications. That's right, folks: The majority of those "Linux desktops" will be used to run Windows. I'm not a big fan of Gartner, but they've issued a report, correctly titled, "Munich's Choice Doesn't Prove Linux OK for General Desktop Use," that raises some interesting issues. First, many of the Windows desktops they're migrated are very old Windows versions like Windows 3.1, making the switch to Linux less painful (it would be equally painful to switch to XP). Gartner says the cost of switching to Linux will cost 30 million Euros, or 3 million Euros more than it would cost to switch to XP, not including any steep discounts Microsoft would have no doubt provided. And finally, because most of the Linux machines will use VMWare to run Windows anyway, Linux is really being used as a hosting environment, and not as a replacement. In other words, this isn't exactly a good business case on which other companies can base a decision to migrate to Windows desktops. And, not coincidentally, that's why we're not reading about a lot of other high-profile Linux switchers.
Do you plan to apologize to me now or later? It was even mentioned on Slashdot!
I can't help notice the completely random accusation that Microsoft thinks blogging is a "potential threat."
Barring the fact it's just another random Slashdot statement with no backing evidence, I guess Longhorn Blogs, Channel 9, and the massive MSDN blogs from actual Microsoft employees are threatening their own company.
In the past few years, Microsoft has become incredibly open as a company. I think Slashdot has greatly underreported that fact, and as a result, people here have a wrong impression about Microsoft's developers. Slashdotters should step outside of Slashdot once in a while for its tech news.
I'm posting this higher up in the discussion mostly just so people see it. Over at GameFAQs, people have discovered that if you open the PK4 files in WinRAR and extract the contents to the game's "base" folder, overwriting any duplicates, and then renaming or deleting the original PK4 files, you get an almost double performance boost because the CPU isn't decompressing game content as you play. You must rename or delete the PK4 files, or Doom 3 will just continue reading from them regardless.
Try it out, but keep your PK4s on backup just in case. Also note that this increases the size of the Doom folder by about 2.5GB.
First off, iD software has been in the business (lately) of writing engines for other companies to license. Thats right buddy, Half-Life licensed the Quake engine, Jedi Knight series games licensed Quake III, Hexen/Heretic licensed Doom engine. Call of Duty, Quake III. The List goes on and on, while the game may not be "original" to you, but the engine is original.
Since when was this discussion about the engine? The engine is all right. It's nothing that Far Cry already did in all its interior areas, but it's nice to look at nonetheless. Yeah, "buddy," I knew about all those licenses. What does that have to do with Doom 3 being a disappointment? Sheesh. You're basically telling me I should enjoy Doom 3 because the engine is good for licensing?
Personally, I never saw the big deal regarding Munich. Most of the reports indicated that yes, they switched to Linux, but they ended up running Windows in VMWare on most of those machines anyway, which was rather humorous. But I suppose it is a good first step.
I'm sorry, I really, really tried hard to enjoy it. It's not that I need big bright graphics to tide me over. I loved the hell out of Deus Ex back in the day.
I thought Doom 3 was the greatest game ever for the first 20-30 minutes. Checking out the news channel and viewing UAC's promo vids was sheer heaven. After hell took over and all the lights went out, suddenly I picked up the formula. After a while, I was guessing every corner something would be in. Sure enough. It got to the point where for every new room I entered, I would run in to hit the trigger than backgrack and just wait for whatever it was to appear so I could kill it and move on. I didn't feel like I had any real room to fight the monsters, and it was too dark for me to get any good shots, so that's how it mostly was for me. Run in, run out, wait for baddies to come to me so I could pick them off.
It just got stale. Believe me, I wanted to enjoy it as much as you clearly want me to. I'm not bashing id's efforts or the engine itself (even if it is way too dark). I can appreciate id's hard work while still criticizing the final product's shortcomings.
Now they finally turn around and make a deep and intense game with a decent story and everyone derides it as crap, boring, repetitive and nothing new.
Maybe because the "intense game with a decent story" is crap, boring, repetitive, and nothing new? Sorry, but turning out the lights and then throwing a guy with perfect aim at me isn't my idea of a good story or an intense game. You want intense? How about a squadron of mercenaries hunting me in the jungle while their patrolling helicopter circles overhead, whooshing the grass below? Yes, I'm talking about Far Cry.
I loved Doom 3 the first 20 minutes. After hell invaded and all the lights went out, the story and gameplay suddenly disappeared. I find that actually battling the enemies sucks because I have no room to do it in, and most of the time it's in pitch black stencil shadows in which they can see perfectly and I can't. Didn't we move past that four years ago? I remember hiding from enemies in the shadows way back in Deus Ex.
I'm sorry, but I just wasn't impressed. It's a polished game, but that's all I can tell. That corpse without the head sure looks pretty! But after I've seen it, what's left? A pretty corpse.
Yes, that's right, it's called freedom, where you get to sue someone if you want to, and courts can, if they so choose, throw out a case or hear it.
Believe it or not, just because someone gets sued somewhere and wins doesn't mean all the other 49 states are the same way. Or all the other judges, for that matter. Marketplace of ideas and all that.
I felt exactly as you did the first 20 minutes. When I went into the base, and the UAC promo played on that kiosk, I was thinking this was the best single-player experience ever. I went into the kitchen and watch the news until the video ended. I was soaking in this incredible environment.
Then I found the scientist and the enemies came and the lights went out.
Congratulations on discovering the other 19 hours and 40 minutes of the game--entering pitch black rooms with things in the corners! Then, after that, you get to enter a semi pitch black room with things in the corners! All that detail seems to disappear except for the random PDAs you find.
Huge disappointment for me. I was actually so bored, I quit the game just to post here on Slashdot!:( Hopefully I'll want to play again tomorrow, but damn, Far Cry is looking good right now.
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During the IRC interviews, someone asked about it, and they revealed that the vast majority of browser hits come from IE. The stats used to be a public page but were removed.
I'm sorry to be so rude. But that's the most idiotic criticism I've ever seen. It's just a concept name. You're the only person I've ever seen have a complaint about it.
Websites are marked as "favorites" because they're favored websites to visit. It doesn't have to be positive or negative in connotation, and I'm betting there are less than 1% of people who even think about that, you being one of them.
A good thing about Favorites is that they're stored as an individual file each. Ironicially, this is more UNIX-like, and they can easily be e-mailed, moved around, traded, or organized using the filesystem browser or the browser itself.
Seriously, what a silly thing to criticize, especially when most people here use a browser that can't seem to decide what it's name actually IS, and their operating systems run "daemons!" Does that make Linux is negative and hellish?
Microsoft doesn't care all that much about Internet Explorer. They don't want to improve it, because then they can keep back web APIs. Face it, XUL isn't exactly going anywhere.
.NET, which is truly Internet-able. Even OSS has gotten into the trap with Mono. Longhorn will be entirely based on .NET, with mere Win32 compatibility DLLs thrown in for older apps.
Microsoft doesn't really care, as they have their sights set on
It says right there he's just a freelance developer participating in the feedback process. Stop being so anti-"M$" vitriolic. I see his very same comment posted in Slashdot all the time. People honestly want to know, how does MS plan to get people to upgrade to IE7 if it's going to just offer things like "better CSS support?" There are plenty of people still using IE5.5. Unfortunately, there is only so much hand-holding the company can do before people take responsibility for themselves and upgrade. We OSS people do it all the time for our apps...
Is that why the table of links on the left spills over into the story tables when viewing under Mozilla or Firefox?
Never had the problem under Opera.
All the submitter did was link to a blog entry that listed a couple of public advisories and mentioned Mozilla. Apparently, when put through the Slashbot filter, that becomes "recent mass migration away from MSIE?"
According to Google Zeitgeist, IE 6 hasn't dropped at all and is still massively slaughtering the competition. In fact, Slashdot's own browser statistics show that IE is the majority browser for people accessing this website! Also note that every year is the year of "Linux on the desktop," yet Linux is still at 1% of usage on Zeitgeist.
I don't like IE either, but come on. There is no "recent mass migration."
It doesn't fucking matter who owns the airwaves. THE CORPORATIONS OWN THEIR CONTENT.
You can start up your own channel and broadcast your stuff all you want. Nothing's stopping you. But if someone owns the content to something else, it's not a free speech issue just because you can't violate their holding rights. It's an ownership issue. The government has nothing to do with it. Crying "so much for free press" just illustrates how very little you understand what free speech laws actually mean.
Get out of the anti-capitalist college dorm room you're living in and enter the real world sometime. It's not a free speech issue just because one company's channel can't broadcast another company's content.
Isn't it corporations who broadcast their privately-created content? Next.
If you can't compete, accuse them of "abusing their monopoly."
You don't have rights to see anything on television. It's a privilege, a service provided by private companies.
Then you mention "free press" which is irrelevant, because this isn't the government suppressing anything.
Someone else already posted the author's reply in this thread. She has nothing to do with this dispute. This is all Penguin Punham vs. Katie Jones.
I don't like the idea of punishing the author just because her publishers are evil. There are better ways.
What were those articles supposed to prove? They didn't change the fact that I was told I was wrong when I pointed out that Munich was running VMWare on their Linux machines in order to run Windows.
I proved that it was. Your two puff pieces just restate what I already linked to. I'm waiting for my apology.
If this was a Microsoft thing, Slashdot would be all over it. Arbitrary code execution from an IMAGE READING LIBRARY?!
:)
Just the obligatory "perspective" post.
Yeah, dismiss me as a "Windows troll" because you disagree with me. I imagine you probably abbreviate Microsoft as "M$," don't you?
This is a requote of the news, originally taken from Wininformant:
Fun Fact About Those Linux PCs in Munich
And speaking about Linux stories you don't hear much from the Linux-loving mainstream press, consider the following. Remember that story about the city of Munich choosing Linux to power 14,000 desktop computers? One aspect of this story that most people don't know about is that up to 80 percent of those Linux desktops will be equipped with VMWare, a virtual machine emulator, under which they will run Windows and Windows applications. That's right, folks: The majority of those "Linux desktops" will be used to run Windows. I'm not a big fan of Gartner, but they've issued a report, correctly titled, "Munich's Choice Doesn't Prove Linux OK for General Desktop Use," that raises some interesting issues. First, many of the Windows desktops they're migrated are very old Windows versions like Windows 3.1, making the switch to Linux less painful (it would be equally painful to switch to XP). Gartner says the cost of switching to Linux will cost 30 million Euros, or 3 million Euros more than it would cost to switch to XP, not including any steep discounts Microsoft would have no doubt provided. And finally, because most of the Linux machines will use VMWare to run Windows anyway, Linux is really being used as a hosting environment, and not as a replacement. In other words, this isn't exactly a good business case on which other companies can base a decision to migrate to Windows desktops. And, not coincidentally, that's why we're not reading about a lot of other high-profile Linux switchers.
Do you plan to apologize to me now or later? It was even mentioned on Slashdot!
I can't help notice the completely random accusation that Microsoft thinks blogging is a "potential threat."
Barring the fact it's just another random Slashdot statement with no backing evidence, I guess Longhorn Blogs, Channel 9, and the massive MSDN blogs from actual Microsoft employees are threatening their own company.
In the past few years, Microsoft has become incredibly open as a company. I think Slashdot has greatly underreported that fact, and as a result, people here have a wrong impression about Microsoft's developers. Slashdotters should step outside of Slashdot once in a while for its tech news.
I'm posting this higher up in the discussion mostly just so people see it. Over at GameFAQs, people have discovered that if you open the PK4 files in WinRAR and extract the contents to the game's "base" folder, overwriting any duplicates, and then renaming or deleting the original PK4 files, you get an almost double performance boost because the CPU isn't decompressing game content as you play. You must rename or delete the PK4 files, or Doom 3 will just continue reading from them regardless.
Try it out, but keep your PK4s on backup just in case. Also note that this increases the size of the Doom folder by about 2.5GB.
What was so new about Quake? ;)
Note that I'm talking actual gameplay, not just engine-wise, which obviously was new.
Tell me where I even mentioned the word "realism" in my post.
However, I did mention the word "fun."
First off, iD software has been in the business (lately) of writing engines for other companies to license. Thats right buddy, Half-Life licensed the Quake engine, Jedi Knight series games licensed Quake III, Hexen/Heretic licensed Doom engine. Call of Duty, Quake III. The List goes on and on, while the game may not be "original" to you, but the engine is original.
Since when was this discussion about the engine? The engine is all right. It's nothing that Far Cry already did in all its interior areas, but it's nice to look at nonetheless. Yeah, "buddy," I knew about all those licenses. What does that have to do with Doom 3 being a disappointment? Sheesh. You're basically telling me I should enjoy Doom 3 because the engine is good for licensing?
Personally, I never saw the big deal regarding Munich. Most of the reports indicated that yes, they switched to Linux, but they ended up running Windows in VMWare on most of those machines anyway, which was rather humorous. But I suppose it is a good first step.
I'm sorry, I really, really tried hard to enjoy it. It's not that I need big bright graphics to tide me over. I loved the hell out of Deus Ex back in the day.
I thought Doom 3 was the greatest game ever for the first 20-30 minutes. Checking out the news channel and viewing UAC's promo vids was sheer heaven. After hell took over and all the lights went out, suddenly I picked up the formula. After a while, I was guessing every corner something would be in. Sure enough. It got to the point where for every new room I entered, I would run in to hit the trigger than backgrack and just wait for whatever it was to appear so I could kill it and move on. I didn't feel like I had any real room to fight the monsters, and it was too dark for me to get any good shots, so that's how it mostly was for me. Run in, run out, wait for baddies to come to me so I could pick them off.
It just got stale. Believe me, I wanted to enjoy it as much as you clearly want me to. I'm not bashing id's efforts or the engine itself (even if it is way too dark). I can appreciate id's hard work while still criticizing the final product's shortcomings.
20 hours of black, silver, and red? No thanks!
It's dominated by games like Roller Coaster Tycoon and--the holy grail--The Sims.
Expect The Sims 2 to dominate when it comes out this year.
Now they finally turn around and make a deep and intense game with a decent story and everyone derides it as crap, boring, repetitive and nothing new.
Maybe because the "intense game with a decent story" is crap, boring, repetitive, and nothing new? Sorry, but turning out the lights and then throwing a guy with perfect aim at me isn't my idea of a good story or an intense game. You want intense? How about a squadron of mercenaries hunting me in the jungle while their patrolling helicopter circles overhead, whooshing the grass below? Yes, I'm talking about Far Cry.
I loved Doom 3 the first 20 minutes. After hell invaded and all the lights went out, the story and gameplay suddenly disappeared. I find that actually battling the enemies sucks because I have no room to do it in, and most of the time it's in pitch black stencil shadows in which they can see perfectly and I can't. Didn't we move past that four years ago? I remember hiding from enemies in the shadows way back in Deus Ex.
I'm sorry, but I just wasn't impressed. It's a polished game, but that's all I can tell. That corpse without the head sure looks pretty! But after I've seen it, what's left? A pretty corpse.
Yes, that's right, it's called freedom, where you get to sue someone if you want to, and courts can, if they so choose, throw out a case or hear it.
Believe it or not, just because someone gets sued somewhere and wins doesn't mean all the other 49 states are the same way. Or all the other judges, for that matter. Marketplace of ideas and all that.
I felt exactly as you did the first 20 minutes. When I went into the base, and the UAC promo played on that kiosk, I was thinking this was the best single-player experience ever. I went into the kitchen and watch the news until the video ended. I was soaking in this incredible environment.
:( Hopefully I'll want to play again tomorrow, but damn, Far Cry is looking good right now.
Then I found the scientist and the enemies came and the lights went out.
Congratulations on discovering the other 19 hours and 40 minutes of the game--entering pitch black rooms with things in the corners! Then, after that, you get to enter a semi pitch black room with things in the corners! All that detail seems to disappear except for the random PDAs you find.
Huge disappointment for me. I was actually so bored, I quit the game just to post here on Slashdot!