At least Linux comes with 99% of drivers pre-installed. With Windows you have to find them on the net first, then find some way of getting them to the target system (because you don't have a NIC driver, remember?).
Wow. Have you tried using Windows recently? It works like a charm: install, and make sure things like printers are on, and everything is available as soon as you boot up: the internet, the printer, the sound, etc. Whereas on my Linux laptop everytime I install on it I have to spend hours getting my bloody soundcard to work. Half the time I have to manually configure the network card too.
I've had things that don't work in Mozilla, and things that don't work in Safari, and things that don't work in Opera, and things that don't work in IE. No browser is fool proof; even though this contradicts with 99% of what IE haters say...Don't get me wrong, I switched to Firefox and I like it (the Live bookmarks did it...everything else I got with Maxthon before;)).
As a web designer, I have to tell you that it's not easy to support all browsers equally. Granted getting the site to work in Mozilla is a given, but some of the mundane errors that crop up when trying to get them to work properly is extremely annoying, and half the time the errors make no sense at all.
The real problem is supporting all the 'smaller' browsers too. Opera, Safari and IE 5.5 for the Mac (which some idiots still use...) all have their little chinks and quirks too that you have to take into account. Sometimes there's simply no time to get it all looking perfectly...
Frankly I don't care about all the "omg firefox extra features secure weeeeeeeee!" talk, because if I want all that I can just get Maxthon, which has all the 'extra features' that Firefox has (most of which you really need extensions to fully utilize;) but uses the IE shell as a browser. There needs to be an active enforcement of CSS and HTML standards that ALL browser manufacturers have to adhere by, or be forced to eat their balls, or something equally horrific.
This is clearly just a scheme by Valve to further hurt its relationship with Vivendi. It's obvious that they want to end it, and this is the sort of publicity that they're getting before hand so that when they go to court, they can go point to this and say "Oh look! They won't even let the people who paid for the game play it! They're EVIL!".
No. The 'evil' ones are the stores that actually sold the game. The official release date is the 16th of November, and the stores are bound by contract to only start selling the game on that day. If they do allow Valve to enable the game, then this validates this process, and gives the retailers free reign to sell any game as soon as they get it in stock, regardless of release date. This hurts other retailers, and utterly destroys the concept of being able to meet demand.
Granted, Valve's Steam gave Vivendi the advantage here, unlike Halo 2, where those who bought it early could still play it. And don't get me wrong, I'm not a big fan of Vivendi myself, but the way this release has been handled put a damper on the excitement. This petty whining is almost ruining the game. Half-Life 2 is supposed to be the king of everything; after this I don't see it surpassing, or even coming close to, what Halo 2 achieved.
Douglas Adams himself spend the last years of his life writing the script and trying to get it done. Heck, he's been trying to get it made into a movie for a long time now. It's his vision, he wants it to be a movie, so he thinks it should be made.
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Wow. Have you tried using Windows recently? It works like a charm: install, and make sure things like printers are on, and everything is available as soon as you boot up: the internet, the printer, the sound, etc. Whereas on my Linux laptop everytime I install on it I have to spend hours getting my bloody soundcard to work. Half the time I have to manually configure the network card too.
wow...people need to learn this thing called 'sarcasm'
I think this should become the never-ending LAN party, ala Douglas Adam's never-ending party in the Hitch-Hiker's Guide.
I've had things that don't work in Mozilla, and things that don't work in Safari, and things that don't work in Opera, and things that don't work in IE. No browser is fool proof; even though this contradicts with 99% of what IE haters say...Don't get me wrong, I switched to Firefox and I like it (the Live bookmarks did it...everything else I got with Maxthon before ;)).
The real problem is supporting all the 'smaller' browsers too. Opera, Safari and IE 5.5 for the Mac (which some idiots still use...) all have their little chinks and quirks too that you have to take into account. Sometimes there's simply no time to get it all looking perfectly...
Frankly I don't care about all the "omg firefox extra features secure weeeeeeeee!" talk, because if I want all that I can just get Maxthon, which has all the 'extra features' that Firefox has (most of which you really need extensions to fully utilize ;) but uses the IE shell as a browser. There needs to be an active enforcement of CSS and HTML standards that ALL browser manufacturers have to adhere by, or be forced to eat their balls, or something equally horrific.
This is clearly just a scheme by Valve to further hurt its relationship with Vivendi. It's obvious that they want to end it, and this is the sort of publicity that they're getting before hand so that when they go to court, they can go point to this and say "Oh look! They won't even let the people who paid for the game play it! They're EVIL!". No. The 'evil' ones are the stores that actually sold the game. The official release date is the 16th of November, and the stores are bound by contract to only start selling the game on that day. If they do allow Valve to enable the game, then this validates this process, and gives the retailers free reign to sell any game as soon as they get it in stock, regardless of release date. This hurts other retailers, and utterly destroys the concept of being able to meet demand. Granted, Valve's Steam gave Vivendi the advantage here, unlike Halo 2, where those who bought it early could still play it. And don't get me wrong, I'm not a big fan of Vivendi myself, but the way this release has been handled put a damper on the excitement. This petty whining is almost ruining the game. Half-Life 2 is supposed to be the king of everything; after this I don't see it surpassing, or even coming close to, what Halo 2 achieved.
Douglas Adams himself spend the last years of his life writing the script and trying to get it done. Heck, he's been trying to get it made into a movie for a long time now. It's his vision, he wants it to be a movie, so he thinks it should be made.
Its already being seeded on the popular torrent sites out there...wow, it looks stupid, but Natalie Portman is hawt.