...and irrelevant rant about Doom 3. It's clearly not everyone's taste, but the hell, I really enjoyed playing id's final version of what the original Doom was meant to be, but could not become, due to technological drawbacks back in time. So this guy, while providing you mit wrong "facts" about "no headhsot in teh g4me 'n stuff dud3!12" (in fact, the Doom 3 engine FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER featured collision-detection based on the actualy polygonal structure of objects, NOT just el-cheapo-hitboxes, and definately recognizes different body-zones of its models!) basically just spills biased mud in the company's face that will get Enemy Territory: Quake Wars as well as the sequel to Quake 2 delivered soon, constantly innovates the industry in the field of real-time 3D-graphics, and sold its latest and greatest groundbreaking engine to be incorporated into some of the most eagerly awaited games in the genre.
There this neat little one-floppy-distro, Tinfoil Hat Linux (The site seems down @tm, so here's the Google Cache Version of it). Though it comes without networking support, due to its very paranoid approach to guarantee security. Beefed up with the things your mates need, they'd be virtually immune to (hardware) keyloggers - freeing their way to a on the box outside via ssh or something like that.
Best quality, acceptable price, no DRM (at least when speaking about sane labels, providing sane, non-crap music), and a bunch of nice extras like CD-covers. With Amazon and other online retailers shipping for free, I fail to see where the merits of "pay for download"-services lie, except for the lower delivery-time.
This is supposed to be some kind of business-Hoax thought up by a bunch of hedge-fonds-managers to fool investors, as heise.de pointed out already yesterday.
I once stumbled across the tunes of an imo very promising Canadian punkrock-band named "Slush" on the FastTrack Network in late 2001 or so. Ever since, I've tried to dig up information on where to buy their records. Some mate of mine googling in 2004 really popped up with the band's website, and I got in contact with the leadsinger - though he wasn't interested in earning money with their music, providing all their songs for free to me in (however poorly encoded) mp3 format... I'd definitely had paid for what they had got to offer, and I'd probably do so with your songs as well, if the content is worth it for me personally, and I'm unrestricted (e. g. no Digital Restriction(sic!) Management applied) in its usage. If it was OGG Vorbis -q6 or so, and you provided high quality CD Covers for printout and the like, I'd give it a shot, and with me some other fellow/.ers as well, I guess:)
"Let's create a better product at a lower price, but without hordes of millions of fanboys blindly buying it at once..." comes to my mind immediately.;)
Finally an application for rewriteable optical media that truly makes sense. Another nice feature is this distribution is cached into system memory completely at runtime, so you're able to unmount and use your CD-RW-drive for other tasks while running this system as well.
This project deserves to be watched closely in the future, I'm eager to see what it's gonna offer in the future.
It's an Intel P4 Northwood running at 3500MHz (roughly), a GeForce Ti4200, and 2x256MB RAM. Believe me, I've spent about 4yrs of my whole life tweaking the sh*t out of q3, and Linux _is_ the better platform for it, at least as long as Punkbuster is enabled.;)
I've made similar experiences with Quake III with Punkbuster enabled. On WinNT 5.x, it seems impossible to get the game to run without SEVERE stuttering for the first 5 or so minutes it's been loaded - even on my 3.5GHz rig with a RAID0-setup. Under Linux, I fire up the binary, and get my 125fps from the very beginning of all the fun. That's just another good reason for Linux being my OS of choice.;)
The problem with Plan 9 FOR ME has been a specific term in its licence I'm somewhat unable to find in there today... However, it went something like this:
"I will not be using Plan 9 in the creation of weapons of mass destruction to be used by any country other than the US."
I know there are plenty of those weapons existant in the USA and in far too many other countries in the world, but it's just ridiculous to lock out all nations from developing new, maybe even more powerful ones, and not including the United States into this as well, as they imo proved to me the most creative ones in that matter.
It'd be perfectly pleasant for me if it were just generally prohibited to involve Plan9-powered machines in endeavours to get billions killed, but this way, I'm just not interested at all.
The European Parliament is not able to issue obligatory mandates to the EU Commission, although it's the far greater (as in numbers) cabinet, and directly elected by the EU's citizens (which the Comission is not). Just like you, I've got no clue why this is the case. Must have been some (at least partly) insane mind introducing these rules.
That's one of the reasons why the EU is ill-reputed as the anti-democratic moloch it actually is.
I'm not, you know, a native speaker, and I don't, you know, come to read english interviews, you know, really that often, you know, but in all, you know, honesty, I've NEVER EVER before, you know, heard someone, ANYONE, you know, say "you know" so fscking, you know, often within such a small amount of, you know, time... This truly trashed my mind somewhat more.:/
It's done this way, actually.
The "backend" of Vienna's City Administration Services is based on Open Source/Free Software for several years, and that recently, the better share of today's software - the free one - has been offered to the "end-user"-employees of the administration itself as well.
And they're able to choose for themselves whether they stick just to Windows, or switch to Linux. That's no bad thing at all, imo.
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...and irrelevant rant about Doom 3. It's clearly not everyone's taste, but the hell, I really enjoyed playing id's final version of what the original Doom was meant to be, but could not become, due to technological drawbacks back in time. So this guy, while providing you mit wrong "facts" about "no headhsot in teh g4me 'n stuff dud3!12" (in fact, the Doom 3 engine FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER featured collision-detection based on the actualy polygonal structure of objects, NOT just el-cheapo-hitboxes, and definately recognizes different body-zones of its models!) basically just spills biased mud in the company's face that will get Enemy Territory: Quake Wars as well as the sequel to Quake 2 delivered soon, constantly innovates the industry in the field of real-time 3D-graphics, and sold its latest and greatest groundbreaking engine to be incorporated into some of the most eagerly awaited games in the genre.
Yeah, I see clearly now, id is doomed.
... that means they got to trade in all their Intel x86 chips for AMD ones, right? ;)
Linux 2.6.5 - That's rather outdated... Maybe more recent kernel snapshots offer better performance in some regards?
What about freeing (aka GPL'ing) the QEMU Accelerator module with a certain part of the money?
There this neat little one-floppy-distro, Tinfoil Hat Linux (The site seems down @tm, so here's the Google Cache Version of it). Though it comes without networking support, due to its very paranoid approach to guarantee security. Beefed up with the things your mates need, they'd be virtually immune to (hardware) keyloggers - freeing their way to a on the box outside via ssh or something like that.
... sounds almost as much as an oxymoron to me as "Microsoft Works" does.
CDDA - Still the way to go for me.
Best quality, acceptable price, no DRM (at least when speaking about sane labels, providing sane, non-crap music), and a bunch of nice extras like CD-covers. With Amazon and other online retailers shipping for free, I fail to see where the merits of "pay for download"-services lie, except for the lower delivery-time.
This is supposed to be some kind of business-Hoax thought up by a bunch of hedge-fonds-managers to fool investors, as heise.de pointed out already yesterday.
I misread this as "World Intellectual Poverty Day" twice, until I finally got the message. Must be freudian dyslexia or something...
I once stumbled across the tunes of an imo very promising Canadian punkrock-band named "Slush" on the FastTrack Network in late 2001 or so. Ever since, I've tried to dig up information on where to buy their records. Some mate of mine googling in 2004 really popped up with the band's website, and I got in contact with the leadsinger - though he wasn't interested in earning money with their music, providing all their songs for free to me in (however poorly encoded) mp3 format... I'd definitely had paid for what they had got to offer, and I'd probably do so with your songs as well, if the content is worth it for me personally, and I'm unrestricted (e. g. no Digital Restriction(sic!) Management applied) in its usage. If it was OGG Vorbis -q6 or so, and you provided high quality CD Covers for printout and the like, I'd give it a shot, and with me some other fellow /.ers as well, I guess :)
"Let's create a better product at a lower price, but without hordes of millions of fanboys blindly buying it at once..." comes to my mind immediately. ;)
You obviously mixed things up here, Linux isn't dying - *BSD is.
Are you really sure about that? ;)
Finally an application for rewriteable optical media that truly makes sense. Another nice feature is this distribution is cached into system memory completely at runtime, so you're able to unmount and use your CD-RW-drive for other tasks while running this system as well.
This project deserves to be watched closely in the future, I'm eager to see what it's gonna offer in the future.
Now I'll just have to find that Sub7-thingie for Linux somewhere on the net...
One more who's actually read MSFT's "A parent's primer to computer slang". This is the first time I encounter the usage of "'sploits" in real life.
:/
Therefore, definitely a valueable comment of yours - thank you. Just a pity there's no "z" in it
It's an Intel P4 Northwood running at 3500MHz (roughly), a GeForce Ti4200, and 2x256MB RAM. Believe me, I've spent about 4yrs of my whole life tweaking the sh*t out of q3, and Linux _is_ the better platform for it, at least as long as Punkbuster is enabled. ;)
I've made similar experiences with Quake III with Punkbuster enabled. On WinNT 5.x, it seems impossible to get the game to run without SEVERE stuttering for the first 5 or so minutes it's been loaded - even on my 3.5GHz rig with a RAID0-setup. Under Linux, I fire up the binary, and get my 125fps from the very beginning of all the fun. That's just another good reason for Linux being my OS of choice. ;)
...at the development lab already running it!
The problem with Plan 9 FOR ME has been a specific term in its licence I'm somewhat unable to find in there today... However, it went something like this:
"I will not be using Plan 9 in the creation of weapons of mass destruction to be used by any country other than the US."
I know there are plenty of those weapons existant in the USA and in far too many other countries in the world, but it's just ridiculous to lock out all nations from developing new, maybe even more powerful ones, and not including the United States into this as well, as they imo proved to me the most creative ones in that matter.
It'd be perfectly pleasant for me if it were just generally prohibited to involve Plan9-powered machines in endeavours to get billions killed, but this way, I'm just not interested at all.
The European Parliament is not able to issue obligatory mandates to the EU Commission, although it's the far greater (as in numbers) cabinet, and directly elected by the EU's citizens (which the Comission is not). Just like you, I've got no clue why this is the case. Must have been some (at least partly) insane mind introducing these rules. That's one of the reasons why the EU is ill-reputed as the anti-democratic moloch it actually is.
It's a sad day for those who believe democratic ideals were still governing politicians actions in the EU. A really sad day.
I'm not, you know, a native speaker, and I don't, you know, come to read english interviews, you know, really that often, you know, but in all, you know, honesty, I've NEVER EVER before, you know, heard someone, ANYONE, you know, say "you know" so fscking, you know, often within such a small amount of, you know, time... :/
This truly trashed my mind somewhat more.
It's done this way, actually. The "backend" of Vienna's City Administration Services is based on Open Source/Free Software for several years, and that recently, the better share of today's software - the free one - has been offered to the "end-user"-employees of the administration itself as well. And they're able to choose for themselves whether they stick just to Windows, or switch to Linux. That's no bad thing at all, imo.
Probably to manage to do one more iteration of the algo utilized in the Rieman Hypotesis?