Wine does what no other program does, it IS an implementation of windows that doesn't even require windows at all.
Not only that, but wine is currently the only way to run windows games in Linux fast and reliably. You can use it with OpenGL or Glide, and there is a version of wine maintained by Transgaming (I think it's Transgaming) that has some support for Direct3D.
Currently, I play the following Windows games IN LINUX, which only wine can do.
1. Star Trek Elite Force
2. Half Life - all of them, which is really 3 or 4 games..
3. Big Red Racing
4. Unreal - *which I just started playing natively in Linux using the UT engine
5. Solitare ; )
6. UltraHLE - I beat Wave Racer in Linux running UltraHLE ; ) an emulator running in a reverse implementation of windows, getting 2fsp higher than in windows
7. Deus Ex (which I am going to buy the Linux port of when it's released)
8. one or two more games that I no longer play...
* for anyone else who has done this, the trick to getting saved games working running in the UT engine is very simple, change the path separater in the SavePath to \ instead of/... retarded but it fixes the problem...
No, this world already is shit. It is shit because people like yourself feel you have some God given right to ideas and information. You would rather see millions die than let a country "steal" "IP".
Anyone who has not grown up with the whole idea of IP being forced down their throat would call that insane.
While entering passwords, simply type with 1 finger, and randomly pause between each keystroke.
But if you need to worry THAT much about security, then I'd assume you have much bigger problems than that to deal with, such as the FBI or CIA or whoever it is going to such great lengths to figure out your password...
I thought this decision was very surprising, I expected an all out ban. I thought he was taking his time because he wanted to present the appearance of actually considering it, but he actually did.
I realize many people will still be pissed with this decision and spew a ton of vitriol towards Mr. Bush, but you have to recognize that this was a huge comprimise on his part.
After Bush spoke with the pope(who Bush recognizes as actually meaning something... I sure don't) and the pope told him not to allow any funding for stem-cell research I thought that was going to be final.
Seriously, the main fight between KDE and Gnome users seems to be over look/feel despite the way people argue over technical issues. Personally, I think that's how it should be, a GUI is supposed to make things easier, and look/feel is(from a user perspecitve, which is the most important perspective) the biggest issue.
So, I'll say again, GTK is prettier! ; )
In all seriousness, ANYTHING is better than windows! ; )
Personally, I would love it if Gnome and KDE merged and were completely compatible and you could use either GTK or QT look/feel, but technically that would be quite difficult...
MS: Hey, this patent covers our new business model, let's keep quiet, maybe McAfee won't notice.
McAfee: Hey, Microsoft is violating our patent, let's go after them.
McAfee: Hey, Microsoft, gives us lots of money or we'll take you to court and bend you over.
MS: No way man, file a suit against us, and we'll file one right back at you for violating patents (long list of overly broad patents owned by Microsoft).
McAfee: Ok, cool, want to "license" our patent, then you can help us track down poor schmucks who don't have money or patents to combat us with so we can suck them dry?
Actually, I can't remember, it was about 2 years ago I think. I don't think I switched from KDE to GNOME though, I think I switched to Afterstep, or E.
I used enlightenment for a long time, with just the gnome panel. I recently switched to using gnome with sawfish. I disable most everything but the panel, no file manager etc.. I miss E's iconbox, but I'm getting used to the task switch drop down menu on the panel.
KDE is cool, but to windowsy for me, and I find QT somewhat annoying.
I love GTK, it is the finest looking toolkit in existence.
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My desktop of choice is...
1. GNOME
2. KDE
3. Enlightenment
4. Window Maker
5. Blackbox
6. Other
We always have articles about KDE and GNOME, and there is always fighting about which is going to kill the other. Personally, I use GNOME, but I use some KDE apps and hope both projects continue well into the future as they draw ideas off each other. But, it sure would be interesting to see how much support both have.
The new features in KDE 2.2 sound really interesting, I will definately be checking it out just for fun. I've switched between KDE and GNOME a number of times, maybe this will be the release that gets me to change sides again ; )
My brain seems to have awfully slow context switching. I wish I could get at the source code, I'd tune it a bit, unfortuneately God only distributes us in binary form.
I'm looking forward to the day when scientists have completely reverse engineered us. Unfortuneately, while we have the source code, noone understands the language yet.
; )
On a more serious note, when I'm writing some code and my boss sends me some stupid crap to post on our website, it takes about an hour for me to recover and get back into the same frame of mind. That's such a PITA, because he's constantly sending me all kinds of little pointless things to take care of.
That is one of the stupidest things I've read. It's not a good play at devil's advocate, it made me want to kick the writer in the teetch for being so fucking dumb.
They're not "defective" as in they don't play, they're "defective" as in they don't conform to the standard cd audio format and are not marked as such.
Hmmm... the DMCA states, "...`(A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls...".
So, that means that anything that's purpose is not circumvention, but use, should be legal. IANAL, but I speak English, and that is what those words mean.
If that's the case, then why are we losing the DeCSS case? DeCSS is only a part of what was supposed to be used for playing DVDs, so why is it illegal?
I will not argue about whether or not patents are a good or bad idea, personally, I don't have an opinion.
Patents, like you describe above, can promote progress by forcing people to do things better, and creating an incentive to do it in the first place.
However, it works both ways. Patents, in their current highly abused form, simply provide a means for companies (law firms, Rambus?) to extort money from others. Patents are far to general, granted way to easily, and are granted by peole who don't even understand what they are granting patents for. All this does is allow companies to make themselves rich by patenting broad ideas and forcing people to pay them.
Communism TRIES to make abundance out of scarcity, because in a communist view there is plenty for everyone(which may be true, but that never works out).
"Congress shall have the power to..." promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by curing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
Look at that. It is a sentence. Sentences follow rules according to the English language.
Congress has the power to
What power does Congress have?
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts
How is Congress supposed to do this?
by curing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries
Congress does NOT have the right to regulate copyright, it has the right to "promote the progress of science and useful arts", and it is allowed to do that by "curing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries".
If it isn't being done to promote science and arts, Congress doesn't have the power to do it.
Damn, I friggin hate all these new SUVs, what crap. They're worthless! WTF is the point, take a truck frame, put car tires on it, leather, flashy paint, flashy rims, flashy chrome shit all over the place, which makes it.... A glorified mini-van.
I've been a Jeep owner for 5 years, I love them. I just got rid of my Wrangler a few months ago, but I still have a Cherokee. When I have the money, I plan to get another Wrangler or CJ to play with.
"Copyrights do not exist to provide works to the "public at large" they exist to protect the works and allow those who created them to garner value from their work without someone else ripping them off."
That is false. Copyright exists solely for the purpose of promoting progress. Read the Constitution.
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Wine does what no other program does, it IS an implementation of windows that doesn't even require windows at all.
/... retarded but it fixes the problem...
Not only that, but wine is currently the only way to run windows games in Linux fast and reliably. You can use it with OpenGL or Glide, and there is a version of wine maintained by Transgaming (I think it's Transgaming) that has some support for Direct3D.
Currently, I play the following Windows games IN LINUX, which only wine can do.
1. Star Trek Elite Force
2. Half Life - all of them, which is really 3 or 4 games..
3. Big Red Racing
4. Unreal - *which I just started playing natively in Linux using the UT engine
5. Solitare ; )
6. UltraHLE - I beat Wave Racer in Linux running UltraHLE ; ) an emulator running in a reverse implementation of windows, getting 2fsp higher than in windows
7. Deus Ex (which I am going to buy the Linux port of when it's released)
8. one or two more games that I no longer play...
* for anyone else who has done this, the trick to getting saved games working running in the UT engine is very simple, change the path separater in the SavePath to \ instead of
No, this world already is shit. It is shit because people like yourself feel you have some God given right to ideas and information. You would rather see millions die than let a country "steal" "IP".
Anyone who has not grown up with the whole idea of IP being forced down their throat would call that insane.
While entering passwords, simply type with 1 finger, and randomly pause between each keystroke.
But if you need to worry THAT much about security, then I'd assume you have much bigger problems than that to deal with, such as the FBI or CIA or whoever it is going to such great lengths to figure out your password...
I thought this decision was very surprising, I expected an all out ban. I thought he was taking his time because he wanted to present the appearance of actually considering it, but he actually did.
I realize many people will still be pissed with this decision and spew a ton of vitriol towards Mr. Bush, but you have to recognize that this was a huge comprimise on his part.
After Bush spoke with the pope(who Bush recognizes as actually meaning something... I sure don't) and the pope told him not to allow any funding for stem-cell research I thought that was going to be final.
I love fighting with KDE/QT supporters ; )
Seriously, the main fight between KDE and Gnome users seems to be over look/feel despite the way people argue over technical issues. Personally, I think that's how it should be, a GUI is supposed to make things easier, and look/feel is(from a user perspecitve, which is the most important perspective) the biggest issue.
So, I'll say again, GTK is prettier! ; )
In all seriousness, ANYTHING is better than windows! ; )
Personally, I would love it if Gnome and KDE merged and were completely compatible and you could use either GTK or QT look/feel, but technically that would be quite difficult...
hmmm... time to STFU, I'm slightly inebriated...
"which has never really struck me as being an integral part of innovation..."
Almost all technology in use today is in part available because of reverse engineering.
Without reverse engineering there would be no interoperability between Windows, Macs, Unix, etc.
Without reverse engineering we wouldn't even have the current PC at all.
Without reverse engineering we wouldn't have the huge microwave oven market we have today.
Car manufacturers buy each other's cars and completely take them apart to see how competitors do things.
There is simply no end to how much technology is improved through reverse engineering. Reverse engineering has ALWAYS been a huge part of innovation.
MS: Hey, this patent covers our new business model, let's keep quiet, maybe McAfee won't notice.
McAfee: Hey, Microsoft is violating our patent, let's go after them.
McAfee: Hey, Microsoft, gives us lots of money or we'll take you to court and bend you over.
MS: No way man, file a suit against us, and we'll file one right back at you for violating patents (long list of overly broad patents owned by Microsoft).
McAfee: Ok, cool, want to "license" our patent, then you can help us track down poor schmucks who don't have money or patents to combat us with so we can suck them dry?
MS: Sounds good to us.
Actually, I can't remember, it was about 2 years ago I think. I don't think I switched from KDE to GNOME though, I think I switched to Afterstep, or E.
Lucas is about the worst director to make such big films. No other director in the world could make Liam Neeson and Ewan McGregor sound so cheesey.
That, my friend, take some seriously anti-talent.
It works somewhat(very buggy) and is pretty neat, but it's simply not even close to the same...
Sorry, GTK is still 10x prettier than QT ; )
I used enlightenment for a long time, with just the gnome panel. I recently switched to using gnome with sawfish. I disable most everything but the panel, no file manager etc.. I miss E's iconbox, but I'm getting used to the task switch drop down menu on the panel.
KDE is cool, but to windowsy for me, and I find QT somewhat annoying.
I love GTK, it is the finest looking toolkit in existence.
My desktop of choice is...
1. GNOME
2. KDE
3. Enlightenment
4. Window Maker
5. Blackbox
6. Other
We always have articles about KDE and GNOME, and there is always fighting about which is going to kill the other. Personally, I use GNOME, but I use some KDE apps and hope both projects continue well into the future as they draw ideas off each other. But, it sure would be interesting to see how much support both have.
The new features in KDE 2.2 sound really interesting, I will definately be checking it out just for fun. I've switched between KDE and GNOME a number of times, maybe this will be the release that gets me to change sides again ; )
I'm looking forward to the day when scientists have completely reverse engineered us. Unfortuneately, while we have the source code, noone understands the language yet.
; )
On a more serious note, when I'm writing some code and my boss sends me some stupid crap to post on our website, it takes about an hour for me to recover and get back into the same frame of mind. That's such a PITA, because he's constantly sending me all kinds of little pointless things to take care of.
Oh well, I get paid the same either way ; )
They're not "defective" as in they don't play, they're "defective" as in they don't conform to the standard cd audio format and are not marked as such.
Yeah, I get that, but that's not the truth.
The _REAL PURPOSE_ of DeCSS is to allow the playing of DVDs, the _METHOD_ is the circumvention of CSS.
I understand that the DMCA isn't interpreted to allow that, but that's what the real meaning is, in English.
Hmmm... the DMCA states, "...`(A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls...".
So, that means that anything that's purpose is not circumvention, but use, should be legal. IANAL, but I speak English, and that is what those words mean.
If that's the case, then why are we losing the DeCSS case? DeCSS is only a part of what was supposed to be used for playing DVDs, so why is it illegal?
I will not argue about whether or not patents are a good or bad idea, personally, I don't have an opinion.
Patents, like you describe above, can promote progress by forcing people to do things better, and creating an incentive to do it in the first place.
However, it works both ways. Patents, in their current highly abused form, simply provide a means for companies (law firms, Rambus?) to extort money from others. Patents are far to general, granted way to easily, and are granted by peole who don't even understand what they are granting patents for. All this does is allow companies to make themselves rich by patenting broad ideas and forcing people to pay them.
Communism TRIES to make abundance out of scarcity, because in a communist view there is plenty for everyone(which may be true, but that never works out).
"Congress shall have the power to..." promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by curing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
Look at that. It is a sentence. Sentences follow rules according to the English language.
Congress has the power to
What power does Congress have?
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts
How is Congress supposed to do this?
by curing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries
Congress does NOT have the right to regulate copyright, it has the right to "promote the progress of science and useful arts", and it is allowed to do that by "curing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries".
If it isn't being done to promote science and arts, Congress doesn't have the power to do it.
Yeah, that's about what you'd figure these days.
Damn, I friggin hate all these new SUVs, what crap. They're worthless! WTF is the point, take a truck frame, put car tires on it, leather, flashy paint, flashy rims, flashy chrome shit all over the place, which makes it.... A glorified mini-van.
I've been a Jeep owner for 5 years, I love them. I just got rid of my Wrangler a few months ago, but I still have a Cherokee. When I have the money, I plan to get another Wrangler or CJ to play with.
Any offroad tire should (and do) handle that just fine. Either Ford uses crappy road tires(probably) or Firestone tires are shit(probably true also).
Either way, it looks to me like they're both to blame.
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That's one of the major points of free software, freedom!
Then there is the fact that everyone can look at the code to, learn, improve the code, simple enjoyment, security reasons...
This is definately a good thing.
That is false. Copyright exists solely for the purpose of promoting progress. Read the Constitution.