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Doom3, which will run in Linux without Cedega due to it's opengl nature and the nice people at id software, runs about 50% as well as it does in windows.
Half Life 2, with Cedega, also runs at about 50% the fps as it does in windows. In other words, I'm fairly unhappy with Cedega and Linux gaming in general. The one game that does run about the same as in Windows that I play is Neverwinter Nights.
My video card is a Radeon 9800pro and HL2 and D3 in windows fine. The games are unplayable in Linux.
Nowdays, people get pissy when their four hour flight gets delayed for an hour because of bad weather. People don't really realize how much and in how short a time things have changed in this world.
I think people realize this just fine. The reason people get pissy when their flight gets delayed by an hour is because they were TOLD that it wouldn't take that long, and so they PLANNED on it not. Just an observation.
Out of all the replies so far on this story... this is the only one that doesn't suck. Thank you for being realistic instead of "omfg no windows sucks lmao why would you even want that on anything?"
One big name game isn't going to go very far in legitimizing Linux as a gaming platform. Consistancy of big name releases for Linux is going to go a long way towards legitimizing Linux as a gaming platform. If, for example, Half Life 2 were to also come out for Linux in the near future, that, combined with the Doom3 release, would go a long way.
You aren't going to get a gamer base with a few big name games. It takes a lot, and they have to work as well as they do in Windows.
My thoughts exactly. Red vs. Blue made me literally cry laughing a few times. For those that haven't seen it, I highly suggest checking it out. It helps if you've played Halo, but it's not required.
And nobody say to pirate it, because I hate that. You're just helping MS more.
Well, if you want to be realistic about your argument (that MS Office is just too expensive) then you have to include this in the discussion. At the university I attend, I know of *no one* that bought a stand alone copy of Office. I probably know of 5 people that said "it came with my computer." The rest have a pirated copy and always have. Hell, most everyone I know has a pirated copy of windows itself.
It just isn't a viable argument to say that it's too expensive. It can easily be obtained for free.
Excel, for thechnical graphs? you are joking right? If you had said Microcal Origin or Sigma Plot I might have taken you seriously, but Excel?
I don't know how "technical" you consider a chemistry lab for school, but Excel actually does a wonderful job at making lab graphs for a lot of students.
Microsoft's IE is just a way to look at web pages. Period. No customization.
I think what most Slashdotters fail to realize is that most people just don't give a shit. It's "just a web browser" and so to them, IE = Firefox. In that sense, they are right.
I'm with you, I like to customize. I have used Firefox for a long time now, and I love it. But I don't really think it is obvious that everyone needs to use it. It just doesn't matter to a lot of people.
These aren't flaws that are *known* to cause injury or death. A safety recall for an automobile is usually a major problem that is known to cause injury or death. Security flaws in software aren't. Software will always have bugs. If you want preferred treatment, take some personal responsibility and pay for the fucking service to get it.
Why do you think people buy BMWs when they could simply mod a Honda Civic and get the same performance?
Because that's not reality?
Most of us don't like to pour an additional $20,000 into an already shitty looking car to make it look shittier, sound like crap, and not actually perform as well as the car it is trying to be. Not to mention the hours of time one has to put into modding an entire car to make it into anything decent.
The fact that the University has contracts with the student other than just a living arrangement allows them to ban wifi devices on their property. Don't like it? Don't sign a student agreement and don't pay that university $20,000 a year to attend.
It isn't a simple lease agreement for housing. It's an entire contract to attend a university.
Yeah, I consider the good/bad of a GUI to be a pretty subjective thing.
I had absolutly no problem reading the text in the upper right. I didn't think the color scheme looked bad at all. No, I'm not color blind.
The placement of the tools in the lower left is bad because that's the last place my eyes will look? So the very first time I open the program, I might spend an extra 2ms looking for the play button. After that, I know where it is and it doesn't really matter as long as it's on the surface and not buried deep in some menu.
You can't spell it out point by point because it isn't as objective as bad code. If I look at the GUI and say, "hey, that's kinda cool looking," then that pretty much proves you wrong right there. Unless you go by some metric I don't know of?
I think you said it best with, "everyone, everyone has an opinion on visual things. So if it works for you, I say, go for it."
Anyway, this "review" just hurts, so I'll stop there. I just wish we could rate this review '-1 Microsoft Leg Humper'.
I wish we could rate you, '-1 Mindless Microsoft Basher.'
Sure the reviewer isn't that great, but that doesn't change the fact that the software has some nice features. Personally I use iTunes because I like it, but I'm not going to sit here and make a post about how "the software I use had it first so it's better."
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Doom3, which will run in Linux without Cedega due to it's opengl nature and the nice people at id software, runs about 50% as well as it does in windows.
Half Life 2, with Cedega, also runs at about 50% the fps as it does in windows. In other words, I'm fairly unhappy with Cedega and Linux gaming in general. The one game that does run about the same as in Windows that I play is Neverwinter Nights.
My video card is a Radeon 9800pro and HL2 and D3 in windows fine. The games are unplayable in Linux.
Nowdays, people get pissy when their four hour flight gets delayed for an hour because of bad weather. People don't really realize how much and in how short a time things have changed in this world.
I think people realize this just fine. The reason people get pissy when their flight gets delayed by an hour is because they were TOLD that it wouldn't take that long, and so they PLANNED on it not. Just an observation.
Out of all the replies so far on this story... this is the only one that doesn't suck. Thank you for being realistic instead of "omfg no windows sucks lmao why would you even want that on anything?"
One big name game isn't going to go very far in legitimizing Linux as a gaming platform. Consistancy of big name releases for Linux is going to go a long way towards legitimizing Linux as a gaming platform. If, for example, Half Life 2 were to also come out for Linux in the near future, that, combined with the Doom3 release, would go a long way.
You aren't going to get a gamer base with a few big name games. It takes a lot, and they have to work as well as they do in Windows.
My thoughts exactly. Red vs. Blue made me literally cry laughing a few times. For those that haven't seen it, I highly suggest checking it out. It helps if you've played Halo, but it's not required.
It looks like drinking in the morning might be a bigger problem. :)
You must have the version of OpenOffice that comes out in 9 years.
And nobody say to pirate it, because I hate that. You're just helping MS more.
Well, if you want to be realistic about your argument (that MS Office is just too expensive) then you have to include this in the discussion. At the university I attend, I know of *no one* that bought a stand alone copy of Office. I probably know of 5 people that said "it came with my computer." The rest have a pirated copy and always have. Hell, most everyone I know has a pirated copy of windows itself.
It just isn't a viable argument to say that it's too expensive. It can easily be obtained for free.
Excel, for thechnical graphs? you are joking right? If you had said Microcal Origin or Sigma Plot I might have taken you seriously, but Excel?
I don't know how "technical" you consider a chemistry lab for school, but Excel actually does a wonderful job at making lab graphs for a lot of students.
Earth being growingly uninhabitable
>>Almost there.
How, exactly, are we "almost there?" I really am curious.
No. The article is very old news to us also.
Microsoft's IE is just a way to look at web pages. Period. No customization.
I think what most Slashdotters fail to realize is that most people just don't give a shit. It's "just a web browser" and so to them, IE = Firefox. In that sense, they are right.
I'm with you, I like to customize. I have used Firefox for a long time now, and I love it. But I don't really think it is obvious that everyone needs to use it. It just doesn't matter to a lot of people.
From the looks of the Ivan link, it appears as if the entire South Eastern United States will be destroyed in a few days.
Isn't \. the webpage where they extoll the virtues of Windows and slam Linux? I think they talk about C# there too.
:)
That made me laugh.
IANAP...but isn't a quantum encrypted transmission unhackable by definition?
You're comparison is assinine.
These aren't flaws that are *known* to cause injury or death. A safety recall for an automobile is usually a major problem that is known to cause injury or death. Security flaws in software aren't. Software will always have bugs. If you want preferred treatment, take some personal responsibility and pay for the fucking service to get it.
What is this monopoly you are talking about?
I think he's talking about Windows.
Why do you think people buy BMWs when they could simply mod a Honda Civic and get the same performance?
Because that's not reality?
Most of us don't like to pour an additional $20,000 into an already shitty looking car to make it look shittier, sound like crap, and not actually perform as well as the car it is trying to be. Not to mention the hours of time one has to put into modding an entire car to make it into anything decent.
Don't even get me started on the spoiler.
I really don't think the case law applies here.
The fact that the University has contracts with the student other than just a living arrangement allows them to ban wifi devices on their property. Don't like it? Don't sign a student agreement and don't pay that university $20,000 a year to attend.
It isn't a simple lease agreement for housing. It's an entire contract to attend a university.
Yeah, I consider the good/bad of a GUI to be a pretty subjective thing.
I had absolutly no problem reading the text in the upper right. I didn't think the color scheme looked bad at all. No, I'm not color blind.
The placement of the tools in the lower left is bad because that's the last place my eyes will look? So the very first time I open the program, I might spend an extra 2ms looking for the play button. After that, I know where it is and it doesn't really matter as long as it's on the surface and not buried deep in some menu.
You can't spell it out point by point because it isn't as objective as bad code. If I look at the GUI and say, "hey, that's kinda cool looking," then that pretty much proves you wrong right there. Unless you go by some metric I don't know of?
I think you said it best with, "everyone, everyone has an opinion on visual things. So if it works for you, I say, go for it."
Agreed.
I know a few people who have winamp installed, but genuinely prefer playing their music in iTunes!
Some of us like to be able to search our music easily.
To say nothing of how the MSN Music Store works, I can say that iTunes (and WinAMP, and Audion) knock the shit out of this.
I disagreed with practically everything you considered a problem.
It's not really that bad man.
Anyway, this "review" just hurts, so I'll stop there. I just wish we could rate this review '-1 Microsoft Leg Humper'.
I wish we could rate you, '-1 Mindless Microsoft Basher.'
Sure the reviewer isn't that great, but that doesn't change the fact that the software has some nice features. Personally I use iTunes because I like it, but I'm not going to sit here and make a post about how "the software I use had it first so it's better."
I'd prefer the other two were named "Britney" and "Christina" and that my document was titled something a bit different.
Unobtainium?
Oh wait, that's something else...