what games? where they free on windows? you cant expect games you pay for on windows to be free on linux, however many popular game engines provide linux native binaries for no extra charge. like quake and unreal series engines. Cedega isn't free, but Wine is and supports quite a bit (also with 1 google search you can find cedega for free)
on ubuntu linux installing the nvidia driver takes 1 command (apt-get install nvidia-glx) and two minor edits to 1 file (which is plainly explained on half a dozen support forums/sites), it takes about 1-2 minutes for any non-techie granny. you dont even need to reboot either, just restart X (ctrl-alt-backspace)
and complaining about compiling kernels is stupid, the default kernel on most distros can do just about everything, the only reason youd need to recompile it is to use some rare cutting edge feature in a new kernel (that the windows kernel doesnt support at all). or because you want to slim it down to optimize its speed/size, which is also something windows wont let you do. ubuntu's default kernel install supports more than most people would ever use and is easily upgraded with a single command or a few clicks
the only valid point you make here is that using a "limited account" (something that any linux distro will set up by default, but windows doesnt) is good for security
the only reason microsoft is more popular is cause its got better advertising;) and has for a long time, it captured a larger market share first and most people are too afraid of change to try linux. Microsoft also enjoys better vendor support because of its popularity. whats interesting is despite the fact that microsoft has billion dollar budgets, has been more heavily advertised for longer, despite their cohersive licensing plans for retailers and big companies (charge for MS license per machine, not per machine using MS.. so if you sell or run 1000 computers and want to get bulk licensing you have to pay for 1000 licenses, even if only 500 have windows. that means selling computers with linux you still have to pay for MS licenses, unless you dont use bulk licensing so you have to pay them more) and despite everyones misconception that its 'better', linux has still managed to steadily gain a larger and larger share of users, on both server and desktop. and can run/use nearly all hardware and most (even MS proprietary) software and formats (way more than microsoft)
if anyone is dumb enough to keep using microsoft after all this, they deserve the endless stream of exploits and viruses that are sure to plague their systems even worse than they already do
microsoft has got it all figured out: 1. sell insecure buggy unreliable software (windows, office, etc) 2. wait for (or help?) hackers to exploit or infect the software your customers were dumb enough to buy 3. SELL them fixes and protection and removal tools 4. after a couple years start selling NEW versions of software, patch the old versions to not work or stop supporting them
theyve actually been doing most of this for over a decade, step3 is new though and means more money the more unstable your software is!:)
or you can use opensource and: 1. get FREE software (os, office, multimedia.. all free) 2. any issues discovered are easily patched quickly and freely (and can be by anyone) 3. free malware protection (as if you even needed it) 4. upgrade when you feel like it, if you feel like it. On your schedule, not microsofts
I stopped using hotmail like a year ago, but when i used to use it Outlook would let you check Hotmail accounts from your desktop just fine, for free, without ads. Did they remove that? cause.. as far as i know this article is about something that has been available for like half a decade.
btw gmail rules and it also lets you check your email from any desktop email client, without ads, for free. although i really like the webbased one and just use that now
it was a stupid idea at best, i wouldnt doubt MPAA or similar groups had some part in pushing sony towards such a retarded plan in the first place, so that they could have yet another way of selling the same content
in publishers dreamworlds we would all buy all the movies in every available format;) watch it in theatre.. buy it on Dvd, HD-DVD, blueray-DVD, UMD, pay-per-view..
this is freaking retarded, how can you patent plugins on a browser?!!!?!?! am i missing something?
im going to patent text boxes on webpages, slashdot you have to pay me.. oh nevermind someone else already patented that.. damn it
these patent cases are going to continue ruining and stifling software development until the system is drastically changed
there should be ZERO software patents, just copyrights
its like trying to build a freeway, but every few feet some little jerk stands in the way, so you either have to build around him or pay him to let you continue.. that is one ugly road that takes forever to build and never gets to where you want to go
i miss people's tells all the freaking time, with guild spam and area chat its easy to miss text even while you are paying attention
if your fighting a level 25 mob at 60, raising a weapon skill you could easily start a fight, go get something to eat, come back 2 minutes later (miss tells),.. and do it again, thats attended enough..
ive been searching every other week for more information on it but they just havent told us much
they had a badass demo of it at GDC like.. a year ago now?
can't wait to see what theyve done with it and when it will come out.. i hope they work some sort of real time multiplayer into it, and more gameplay at the 'outterspace' level
is invention just not important to the process anymore? this patent is not original, not non-obvious, not new,... i mean you could find prior art going back at least a decade in 1 quick google search
but btw i love the game and i dont think anyone else has every done a better job managing a MMO and they are responsive to problems like this, they constantly open new servers and transfers and im sure they will solve this problem too
after transfering to mug'thol (to avoid large queues on bleeding hollow) i once had to wait almost 3 hours in a queue, something like 900+ people in it at first (also orginally estimated 45 minutes wait time..)
day before yesterday on mug'thol i waited for an hour and a half and finally managed to get on
then i wanted for ANOTHER hour and a half to get into the AV battleground. then 5 minutes in half the people lost connection (including me) i couldnt reconnect for approx 15 minutes. when i finally was able to connect guess what? i had to wait in an hour and a half queue again, i got in BG queue again and it was going to be another hour and a half wait.. again.. i ended up having to goto sleep before it came up, i spent the entire night in one queue or another
which version out of the 12 should i upgrade to;) i think windows vista is likely to do more for linux than anything before;) i mean what would you rather do, pay for a whole new operating system that is very alien to you, and requires you to upgrade your hardware and alot of software, and is likely unstable (and new so doesnt have a proven usability).. or download a FREE operating system that is also somewhat alien (to windows users), but has proven stability and usablity, also you wont have to upgrade your hardware for it either... oh btw did i mention its free?
i for one am tired of microsoft telling me when i have to drop 2000 dollars for a new computer. your choises are: A) keep using (and patching) the older versions of windows which become more and more unstable patch after patch B) keep using the older versions of windows but DONT patch, and then your system becomes more and more exploitable as more exploits are discovered C) upgrade your hardware, and buy new version of windows every couple of years, (spending potentially thousands of dollars), relearn how to use the new windows, relearn how to use the new office all over again.. D) download a free open source alternative, DONT upgrade your hardware, dont let your upgrade schedule be locked into someone elses marketing plans. dont run the most heavily targetted OS for exploits/hackers. Use open office which seems to be more similar to MS Office than the new version will be. DO enjoy the benefits that come with open source
After using linux for a while going back to windows is extremely painful and youll wonder how you ever managed to use it.
some of the ask slashdot questions are really getting stupid...
do you guys think i should wear a blue shirt tomarrow? ive heard alot of people like blue shirts but i was curious if anyone knew of any problems wearing blue shirts?
they are just going their firewall one futher, rather than trying to block specific sites from their country wide intranet, they are just going to disconnect them completely;) this is bad news for chinese gold farmers;)
which is why they will never release any documents.. anything they release will look bad, they are just going to quietly ignore and delay this situation till it goes away, like all the others
they were fighting over things like taxation without representation.. taxes? what do we pay in taxes now like 40% on all income, 8%+ on all sales? thats insane.. they also fought for rights to free speech which we are quickly losing, and fair trial, which we have lost. They fought to create a government by the people, for the people, which we have lost. They fought to be able to keep the government from quartering men in their homes because of the gross invasion of privacy and regular abuses of their power while there.. that SOUNDS FAMILIAR!
he would be labeled a terrorist he would be imprisoned in a foriegn country where they allow torture, he would probably be forced to give up his co-conspierators (the other founding fathers) and then executed without trial or public knowledge
what are you talking about no reason to believe they are fraudulent?
how bout the CEO of the company that made them PROMISING BUSH THE ELECTION IF HIS MACHINES WERE USED? how bout the half dozen different charges brought against him? forcing him to resign from the company?
open your eyes, why do people ignore the FACTS when they are staring them right in the face, its not a theory when you have evidence
.. ill say it again, everytime big companies give in to these patent trolls it only gives them more money to sue MORE companies! and also gives a clear message that this sort of patent trolling works!! which inturn gives you more trolls.. which in turn means more lawsuits, settling with these thieves hurts the entire software industry.
patenting in game camera pov? thats the most absurd thing ive ever heard of..
whats sad is most people don't even WANT to know, they'd rather ignore all the terrible things happening and pretend like they aren't happening, they want to believe in the ideals that make(made) this country great sooo hard that they will ignore injustices and just keep on blissfully hoping things are fine....
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what games? where they free on windows? you cant expect games you pay for on windows to be free on linux, however many popular game engines provide linux native binaries for no extra charge. like quake and unreal series engines. Cedega isn't free, but Wine is and supports quite a bit (also with 1 google search you can find cedega for free)
;) and has for a long time, it captured a larger market share first and most people are too afraid of change to try linux. Microsoft also enjoys better vendor support because of its popularity. whats interesting is despite the fact that microsoft has billion dollar budgets, has been more heavily advertised for longer, despite their cohersive licensing plans for retailers and big companies (charge for MS license per machine, not per machine using MS.. so if you sell or run 1000 computers and want to get bulk licensing you have to pay for 1000 licenses, even if only 500 have windows. that means selling computers with linux you still have to pay for MS licenses, unless you dont use bulk licensing so you have to pay them more) and despite everyones misconception that its 'better', linux has still managed to steadily gain a larger and larger share of users, on both server and desktop. and can run/use nearly all hardware and most (even MS proprietary) software and formats (way more than microsoft)
:)
on ubuntu linux installing the nvidia driver takes 1 command (apt-get install nvidia-glx) and two minor edits to 1 file (which is plainly explained on half a dozen support forums/sites), it takes about 1-2 minutes for any non-techie granny. you dont even need to reboot either, just restart X (ctrl-alt-backspace)
and complaining about compiling kernels is stupid, the default kernel on most distros can do just about everything, the only reason youd need to recompile it is to use some rare cutting edge feature in a new kernel (that the windows kernel doesnt support at all). or because you want to slim it down to optimize its speed/size, which is also something windows wont let you do. ubuntu's default kernel install supports more than most people would ever use and is easily upgraded with a single command or a few clicks
the only valid point you make here is that using a "limited account" (something that any linux distro will set up by default, but windows doesnt) is good for security
the only reason microsoft is more popular is cause its got better advertising
whos in the basement?
open source software is the future
if anyone is dumb enough to keep using microsoft after all this, they deserve the endless stream of exploits and viruses that are sure to plague their systems even worse than they already do
:)
microsoft has got it all figured out:
1. sell insecure buggy unreliable software (windows, office, etc)
2. wait for (or help?) hackers to exploit or infect the software your customers were dumb enough to buy
3. SELL them fixes and protection and removal tools
4. after a couple years start selling NEW versions of software, patch the old versions to not work or stop supporting them
theyve actually been doing most of this for over a decade, step3 is new though and means more money the more unstable your software is!
or you can use opensource and:
1. get FREE software (os, office, multimedia.. all free)
2. any issues discovered are easily patched quickly and freely (and can be by anyone)
3. free malware protection (as if you even needed it)
4. upgrade when you feel like it, if you feel like it. On your schedule, not microsofts
can you afford not to switch?
I stopped using hotmail like a year ago, but when i used to use it Outlook would let you check Hotmail accounts from your desktop just fine, for free, without ads. Did they remove that? cause.. as far as i know this article is about something that has been available for like half a decade.
btw gmail rules and it also lets you check your email from any desktop email client, without ads, for free. although i really like the webbased one and just use that now
it was a stupid idea at best, i wouldnt doubt MPAA or similar groups had some part in pushing sony towards such a retarded plan in the first place, so that they could have yet another way of selling the same content
;)
in publishers dreamworlds we would all buy all the movies in every available format
watch it in theatre.. buy it on Dvd, HD-DVD, blueray-DVD, UMD, pay-per-view..
get busy consumers!
this is freaking retarded, how can you patent plugins on a browser?!!!?!?!
am i missing something?
im going to patent text boxes on webpages, slashdot you have to pay me.. oh nevermind someone else already patented that.. damn it
these patent cases are going to continue ruining and stifling software development until the system is drastically changed
there should be ZERO software patents, just copyrights
its like trying to build a freeway, but every few feet some little jerk stands in the way, so you either have to build around him or pay him to let you continue.. that is one ugly road that takes forever to build and never gets to where you want to go
wow the new gedit looks fantastic
it seems to be able to do almost everything that anjuta can do now.
i miss people's tells all the freaking time, with guild spam and area chat its easy to miss text even while you are paying attention
if your fighting a level 25 mob at 60, raising a weapon skill you could easily start a fight, go get something to eat, come back 2 minutes later (miss tells),.. and do it again, thats attended enough..
I also play World of Warcraft on linux (with cedega) so far i havent been banned
also i can certainly attest that most hacks wont work thru cedega/wine/linux
all of my old starcraft hacks dont work (www.delinquentminds.com) keyboard hooks dont work, enum/find windows/process dont work
did i misread that? doomed to repeat failures of simcity & the sims?
;)
perhaps youve been living under a rock but those were some of the most successful games in history
also will wright isnt in love with himself and can't sustain himself on nothing but his own hefty ego like peter molonox or whatever his name is..
damn i cant wait for this game
ive been searching every other week for more information on it but they just havent told us much
they had a badass demo of it at GDC like.. a year ago now?
can't wait to see what theyve done with it and when it will come out.. i hope they work some sort of real time multiplayer into it, and more gameplay at the 'outterspace' level
dont forget about John Conyers
http://johnconyers.com/
he is doing his part
anyone played starcraft? halflife? QUAKE?
... i mean you could find prior art going back at least a decade in 1 quick google search
all these games allowed this
is invention just not important to the process anymore?
this patent is not original, not non-obvious, not new,
thats BS none of the game companies pay over (most not even close to) 50K in my area (houston texas)
thats the whole reason i got out of the games industry was the pay was so lame, and the hours at most game companies are terrible
2-3 months ago the queues on bleeding hollow were getting pretty bad, every day during peak hours
it was around 300ish around 6pm est each day
but btw i love the game and i dont think anyone else has every done a better job managing a MMO
and they are responsive to problems like this, they constantly open new servers and transfers and im sure they will solve this problem too
after transfering to mug'thol (to avoid large queues on bleeding hollow) i once had to wait almost 3 hours in a queue, something like 900+ people in it at first (also orginally estimated 45 minutes wait time..)
day before yesterday on mug'thol i waited for an hour and a half and finally managed to get on
then i wanted for ANOTHER hour and a half to get into the AV battleground. then 5 minutes in half the people lost connection (including me) i couldnt reconnect for approx 15 minutes. when i finally was able to connect guess what? i had to wait in an hour and a half queue again, i got in BG queue again and it was going to be another hour and a half wait.. again..
i ended up having to goto sleep before it came up, i spent the entire night in one queue or another
which version out of the 12 should i upgrade to ;) i think windows vista is likely to do more for linux than anything before ;) i mean what would you rather do, pay for a whole new operating system that is very alien to you, and requires you to upgrade your hardware and alot of software, and is likely unstable (and new so doesnt have a proven usability).. or download a FREE operating system that is also somewhat alien (to windows users), but has proven stability and usablity, also you wont have to upgrade your hardware for it either... oh btw did i mention its free?
i for one am tired of microsoft telling me when i have to drop 2000 dollars for a new computer. your choises are:
A) keep using (and patching) the older versions of windows which become more and more unstable patch after patch
B) keep using the older versions of windows but DONT patch, and then your system becomes more and more exploitable as more exploits are discovered
C) upgrade your hardware, and buy new version of windows every couple of years, (spending potentially thousands of dollars), relearn how to use the new windows, relearn how to use the new office all over again..
D) download a free open source alternative, DONT upgrade your hardware, dont let your upgrade schedule be locked into someone elses marketing plans. dont run the most heavily targetted OS for exploits/hackers. Use open office which seems to be more similar to MS Office than the new version will be. DO enjoy the benefits that come with open source
After using linux for a while going back to windows is extremely painful and youll wonder how you ever managed to use it.
some of the ask slashdot questions are really getting stupid...
do you guys think i should wear a blue shirt tomarrow? ive heard alot of people like blue shirts but i was curious if anyone knew of any problems wearing blue shirts?
they are just going their firewall one futher, rather than trying to block specific sites from their country wide intranet, they are just going to disconnect them completely ;) ;)
this is bad news for chinese gold farmers
which is why they will never release any documents..
anything they release will look bad, they are just going to quietly ignore and delay this situation till it goes away, like all the others
they were fighting over things like taxation without representation.. taxes? what do we pay in taxes now like 40% on all income, 8%+ on all sales? thats insane.. they also fought for rights to free speech which we are quickly losing, and fair trial, which we have lost. They fought to create a government by the people, for the people, which we have lost. They fought to be able to keep the government from quartering men in their homes because of the gross invasion of privacy and regular abuses of their power while there.. that SOUNDS FAMILIAR!
he would be labeled a terrorist
he would be imprisoned in a foriegn country where they allow torture, he would probably be forced to give up his co-conspierators (the other founding fathers) and then executed without trial or public knowledge
what are you talking about no reason to believe they are fraudulent?
how bout the CEO of the company that made them PROMISING BUSH THE ELECTION IF HIS MACHINES WERE USED? how bout the half dozen different charges brought against him? forcing him to resign from the company?
open your eyes, why do people ignore the FACTS when they are staring them right in the face, its not a theory when you have evidence
.. ill say it again, everytime big companies give in to these patent trolls it only gives them more money to sue MORE companies! and also gives a clear message that this sort of patent trolling works!! which inturn gives you more trolls.. which in turn means more lawsuits, settling with these thieves hurts the entire software industry.
patenting in game camera pov? thats the most absurd thing ive ever heard of..
whats sad is most people don't even WANT to know, they'd rather ignore all the terrible things happening and pretend like they aren't happening, they want to believe in the ideals that make(made) this country great sooo hard that they will ignore injustices and just keep on blissfully hoping things are fine....