Ooh. Ooh. Some childish, moronic post from an AC troll who doesn't have the balls to post under a real account and clearly can't stand the fact that not everyone has the same opinions. Uh huh. Yeah, like I'm really going to take you seriously. Go back to Digg where you belong.
This is the regular, ordinary, joe-sixpack, "what's a right-click?" kind of person. The kind of people scorned by many of the elitists in the OS and PC fields. The kind of people that voted for GW Bush, that fly American flags from their porches, that have communities with 4th of July parties that everyone in town attends.
Hmmmm... I make a six-digit salary per year managing a number of Sun servers, including several 15Ks and 25K; I have at least six PCs not including my two Sun workstations at home, and recently finished building my newest gaming PC that would make most "gaming" PCs blush. I still would have purchased one of these Wal-Mart PCs in a heartbeat if they didn't fly off the shelves in the way they did because they are great values and are completely capable of doing "the basics". Oh, I also know what "right-click" means.
But because I voted for Bush, fly the U.S. flag, and believe that July 4th is more than just a day off I no longer qualify for Slashdot elitist crowd? Damn, I live in the mid-Atlantic area, too, so I guess I'd better get mahself packin' and move my arse over to them thar plain states an' watch them fancy thing-a-ma-jig flyin' thangs fly over mah head. Dang, ah'm gonna have a big problem gittin' used to calling that fizzy stuff "pop", too. But those community get-togethers shore do have lots o' apple pies! Ah, the life of simpletons in that thar midwest area! But at least ah git to use that newfangled Looniux.. er.. Leenuck.. uh.. oh, hell, that PC thang is cheap so I'm-uh gonna buy it! Does it come with that thar Internet thingy installed?{/SARCASM}
If looking for racism and inequality (even when it doesn't exist) is all that you think life should be about, then you are part of the problem of why such issues still exist. Of course, you don't bother to use a legitimate account, instead opting to hide under AC, so I don't even know why I should bother conversing with you anyway.
Oh, and nice class warfare you're spouting there. That's less offensive and disruptive than racism how?
You are in desperate need of understanding the word "context".
You also need a few video lessons by Professor George Carlin with respect to the inherent neutrality of words -- all words -- and its respective relationship to context and intent.
No, it bothers me more that people (like you) look for racism where none exist and that people (like you) have no freaking clue what "humor" is and that humor is not meant to be taken seriously (hence why it's humor).
So, how long have you been in Slashdot, Reverend Jackson?
This is not a rumor, but I can guarantee that by the time most people read this it will be too late.
I left for work early to get to the Wal-Mart near where I work. By 8:30 AM (the special prices started at 8 AM) the Wal-Mart near my work was out after getting a palette of 30. I also asked my wife to stop off at the local W-M after she dropped out daughter off at school because she could be there at 8 AM. (I could always return one if we each managed to buy one.)
She just called and said that she got one; however, she had to stand in a long line and she had to buy it in the electronics department. By the time she got up to the palette, three remained. So, if you didn't know about this yesterday, there's no reason to even think you'll get one. (Of course, as I write this it's 9:34 AM EDT, so those in Mountain and Pacific time might still have a chance.)
You're joking, right? You know very well that at that price it's going to be a consumer-grade. I can't believe that you actually bothered to ask that question.
I don't know about others but in my experience the number of problems with my consumer-grade FiOS is minimal. I've had FiOS 15/2 for about a year now, and I've only experienced one drop where I lost both Internet and voice. I called to report the issue via my cell phone and was told, after a few minutes of investigating, that there was indeed a local outage and that they're working on it. About four hours later I was back up. This was on a weekend afternoon, so it's not like it was a matter of life or death, like some people make it out to be.
My only gripe when that happens is that Verizon does not give you any dial-up time with consumer FiOS. You might think, "Well, duh, how can you call when your phone line is down, too?" but I have a data cable for my cell phone, which can act as a modem. When I had their DSL, I also had 50 hours of dial-up per month. So, if DSL went down I could still use my Verizon account to access the Internet through dial-up. With FiOS Verizon doesn't allow that because FiOS and DSL/dial-up are considered to be different business entities from what I understand.
But overall I'm very satisfied with my FiOS connection and my uptime has been well over 99% during "normal" hours with me using it heavily at night and my wife using it throughout the day.
Of course! Because each download always and forever equals one lost sale! The RIAA and MPAA have declared it so! There is NO legitimate purpose for file sharing! NONE!! Get that through your head!
I mean - for example, how much money is Ubuntu losing because of all BitTorrent downloads of its latest version of Linux? Er... wait...
No, if this was Digg there'd be at least a dozen posts about how Ron Paul is going to save us from the RIAA and from illegal usage if Usenet. The title would also be "The most AMAZING lawsuit by the RIAA EVER!!! [PICS]"
Exactly. It's amazing how many people bitch and moan about delaying a game that they're expecting without giving any consideration as to why that game is going to be delayed. It's just as amazing how many game companies seem to think that delaying a game is like some kind of suicide call. I'd much rather wait for a game to come out and work as it should instead of getting an unplayable product rushed to market just to match a deadline (eg: Ultima: Ascension).
Right, but when you read the article, the flow of it implies that they're referring to standard-resolution DVDs. They discuss the regular DVD and then make a vague "dual layer" reference only two, short paragraphs later. Without any indication that they're flipping back to the topic of BR discs, it's very easy to read that they're talking about 18 hours on dual-layer, regular DVDs, regardless of how much that makes the brain explode.:)
That's exactly what it looks like.
Osaka-based Matsushita, the world's largest consumer electronics maker, also said it plans to offer the world's first DVD recorders that can store full high-definition programs on conventional DVD discs next month.
Full high-definition (HD) programs come with a resolution of 1,920 x 1,080 pixels.
Matsushita's new Blu-ray recorders, which are able to record up to 18 hours of full HD programs on a dual-layer disc, will go on sale on November 1 in Japan.
Even if one of the more efficient codecs is used can they possibly get that much time in *true* HD resolution on a 9 GB disc? I'm wondering if they screwed up and are actually referring to dual-layer BluRay discs? Maybe? Perhaps? After all, the first paragraph says...
Panasonic maker Matsushita Electric Industrial said it would launch new Blu-ray optical disc recorders in November that allow more hours of full high-definition recording on a single disc than any others available.
I honestly think that they're talking about BR discs and that the article wasn't written clearly. 18 hours of HD on a 9 GB disc? That sounds too good to be true.
Believe me, if PC manufacturers could have voided your warranty for installing a different operating system (as they would be able to according to your arguments), they would have years ago.
They do try! Years ago, I made the mistake of buying an HP PC that came with a very new XP (pre-SP1). Before I even turned the PC on, I took the hard drive out, installed a new one, and installed a fresh copy of Windows 2000. Less than a year later (still within warranty), the optical drive died. Sure enough, HP's outsourced, "have to follow the checklist" tech people tried their best to tell me that I was not entitled to a DVD drive replacement because I didn't have the "correct" operating system installed. Anyone of a less stubborn nature than me would have given up, but I fought through several days' worth of phone calls and demands to talk to managers. At that point it became a matter of principle. But I finally got the replacement sent to me. They might not have been "voiding" the warranty by initially denying my warranty claim, but I don't see any difference between voiding and trying to not honor a warranty. Either way, you're not getting the service that you're entitled to.
Just because we know that trying to blame software for hardware failures is ridiculous, there are even more people out there who have no clue that they're separate issues and will just give up.
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:) Touché. I hope that no one gets offended by my using the French word for "touch" -- sexual harassment and all of that...
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It's actually an American-coined term. Maybe if you spent less time hiding behind AC, looking for racism where none exists, and instead reading history and sociology books, you would know that. You'd also know that there are very, very few Romas (as they call themselves) in the U.S. So, the possibility that it is based on a racial slur is not only unlikely but as of yet still unproven.
But, hey, welcome to the 21st century where context means nothing as long as someone can be offended by a combination of letters.
"There is absolutely nothing wrong with any of those words, in and of themselves. They're only words. It's the context that counts. It's the user. It's the intention behind the words that makes them good or bad. The words are completely neutral. The words are innocent. I get tired of people talking about 'bad words' and 'bad language.' Bullsh*t! It's the context that makes them good or bad." -- George Carlin
This game is one of the best PC games of its kind that was ever released. Splinter Cell, which is awesome in its own right, doesn't come close to the atmosphere and environment of the Thief series, especially Thief 2. And I defy anyone who loves these games to play the Sanitarium level of Thief 3 and not be freaked out. I wish that a Thief 4 would be in the works.:( Until then, I guess Assassin's Creed is the closest successor, although it's not quite the same thing.
Oh, speaking of Thief 2, I highly recommend the T2X: Shadows of the Metal Age fan-made expansion pack. It's the best Thief mod out there in my opinion. YMMV, of course.
Oh, please. Your snarky comment was nothing more than a criticism that companies would dare to release closed-source software for Linux. That in itself is nothing more than a veiled demand that companies release their source code; otherwise, they're violating the whole premise of Linux, right? If I was a software developer and I was hit with an attitude of "I want your code because your code demands freedom!" instead of "Hey, thanks a lot for helping to support our platform!" I wouldn't want to code for that platform either.
No, you didn't use the word "demand", but your comment was a direct reflection of the attitude that (unfortunately) has existed since Linux became a commonly-known term that companies who release software for Linux are just somehow expected to release (or "give freedom to") the source code as well.
And just who are you to demand that anyone grant "freedom" to the software that they - not you - spent countless hours coding? Jesus! Is it not enough that people are finally considering releasing their software for Linux? This "all-or-nothing" attitude is exactly why companies like the one that I mentioned refuse to release Linux software -- because of this irrational, self-proclaimed "requirement" of the extreme Linux fringe that companies "free" their software.
You are coaxing a timid animal out of its hole only to start screaming at it when it pokes its head out, forcing it to run back into its hole out of fright. Knock it off, damn it!
Wow. Major troll. No wonder you posted anonymously. So, pray tell, exactly how would games suffer under Linux? One might argue that games on Linux might actually be better than on Windows depending how efficient the Linux coding is. Also, it's not as though the whole game would need to be retooled -- just the binaries. There would be no need to change the data files. Of course, this would be even easier if the game companies would start using OGL instead of DX.
I'm also very interested to hear how Linux will have an influence over what you play. Funny, but I've never had a Linux person come to me and say, "You can't buy that game! It's not on Linux!" and I've never heard a gaming company say, "We're not releasing this game until we have a working Linux client!!"
And how a Linux client will be a liability to Valve? Yeah, expanding a client base. That's a really bad liability. *cough*
Next time, put more thought into it. As a troll-wannabe, you're not very good at it.
Why would they be required to do that? Just because they might release software on Linux does not mean that they are in any way obligated to release the source. There is nothing that says that if you write software for Linux you must release the source code. Microsoft could write Office for Linux but they would be under absolutely no obligation to release the source code, and of course we know that they never would. I know that many here think that Linux is synonymous with open source, but in reality open source is not a requirement for Linux.
A few years ago, I spoke with someone from one company that makes astronomy-based software who said that they decided not to release their software in the early days of Linux because of the demand at the time from Linux extremists to release the source code. Please don't scare Steam into the same kind of retraction by suggesting or insisting that they release their code as well. You can be almost guaranteed that Steam would be a binary release, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Exactly. I had several friends who worked for the largest vinyl/CD manufacturing plant (WEA manufacturing, as in Warner-Elektra-Asylum) in the U.S. back in the 1980s. They said that even back then a CD with booklet and jewel case with a run of 10,000 presses cost about $.25 each to manufacture. This was back before we could even create CDs at our own PCs and when CD prices were at their premium of $16-18 each. (Then again, aren't they still around that price?)
Yes, I know there is more than just manufacturing, but consider that every $.25 profit to each disc was 100% profit. So, even if the labels made $1 profit for each disc sold, they made 400% profit. I'd be curious to see what they really get for digital downloads considering that there is no physical product to manufacture, no glass master to create, no shipping, and no middleman markup. I can't believe that they're making less than 400% profit.
You're reading my mind. That's the first thing I thought when I read that IBM was on-board.
I used to use Word Pro ever since it was AmiPro for Windows 3.1. OpenOffice replaced Word Pro a few years ago, but I still have a lot of legacy documents that I need to access every now and then. So, when I rebuild a PC I install Word Pro just in case. (It's only about 70 MB for Word Pro 9.8, so it's not like it's a burden on my 160 GB boot drive.) Having an LWP filter for OpenOffice would be fantastic!
Wow. You're the kind of closed-minded, micro-managing busybody that personifies the pointy-haired manager in Dilbert. I can only imagine how low the morale must be for anyone who works for you. Let me guess. You're also one of those who think that somehow we're only capable of performing our job if we have a shirt-and-tie and that somehow we lose 50 IQ points the second that we put denim on our skin, right?
To think that a person must always be 100% productive, 100% of the time is short-sighted and arrogant. What should matter are the results, not the amount of hours put into those results. Time spent!=Quality of work. I'm fortunate (although after seeing your rant I might say "blessed") that my managers have been the kind who are more concerned with getting the job done and done well, regardless of whether it requires eight hours a day or two hours a day. As long as they know that the job is getting done and that they can rely on me to stick around after hours if necessary, they're satisfied. It's called "trust", something that you apparently are unaware of. For that, your servants... er... "employees" have my sincerest sympathies.
This game was definitely released as freeware . In fact, not only is it freeware, the source code was also released. It can be distributed as you wish as long and it's not for commercial purposes. It has been ported to Mac and Linux as well
There might have been a time where they had a window to make it officially available, but I'm sure that there are plenty of ways to get it. Just be aware that it looks like the games and cutscenes have to be downloaded separately. Because is it a story-driven game, the cutscenes can make a difference. I recommend getting them. This is one time where you can download via BitTorrent and not worry about some Big Brother "Let's-Sue-Everyone" company coming after you.:)
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Ooh. Ooh. Some childish, moronic post from an AC troll who doesn't have the balls to post under a real account and clearly can't stand the fact that not everyone has the same opinions. Uh huh. Yeah, like I'm really going to take you seriously. Go back to Digg where you belong.
This is the regular, ordinary, joe-sixpack, "what's a right-click?" kind of person. The kind of people scorned by many of the elitists in the OS and PC fields. The kind of people that voted for GW Bush, that fly American flags from their porches, that have communities with 4th of July parties that everyone in town attends.
.. er .. Leenuck .. uh .. oh, hell, that PC thang is cheap so I'm-uh gonna buy it! Does it come with that thar Internet thingy installed?{/SARCASM}
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Hmmmm... I make a six-digit salary per year managing a number of Sun servers, including several 15Ks and 25K; I have at least six PCs not including my two Sun workstations at home, and recently finished building my newest gaming PC that would make most "gaming" PCs blush. I still would have purchased one of these Wal-Mart PCs in a heartbeat if they didn't fly off the shelves in the way they did because they are great values and are completely capable of doing "the basics". Oh, I also know what "right-click" means.
But because I voted for Bush, fly the U.S. flag, and believe that July 4th is more than just a day off I no longer qualify for Slashdot elitist crowd? Damn, I live in the mid-Atlantic area, too, so I guess I'd better get mahself packin' and move my arse over to them thar plain states an' watch them fancy thing-a-ma-jig flyin' thangs fly over mah head. Dang, ah'm gonna have a big problem gittin' used to calling that fizzy stuff "pop", too. But those community get-togethers shore do have lots o' apple pies! Ah, the life of simpletons in that thar midwest area! But at least ah git to use that newfangled Looniux
If looking for racism and inequality (even when it doesn't exist) is all that you think life should be about, then you are part of the problem of why such issues still exist. Of course, you don't bother to use a legitimate account, instead opting to hide under AC, so I don't even know why I should bother conversing with you anyway.
Oh, and nice class warfare you're spouting there. That's less offensive and disruptive than racism how?
You are in desperate need of understanding the word "context".
You also need a few video lessons by Professor George Carlin with respect to the inherent neutrality of words -- all words -- and its respective relationship to context and intent.
No, it bothers me more that people (like you) look for racism where none exist and that people (like you) have no freaking clue what "humor" is and that humor is not meant to be taken seriously (hence why it's humor).
So, how long have you been in Slashdot, Reverend Jackson?
This is not a rumor, but I can guarantee that by the time most people read this it will be too late.
I left for work early to get to the Wal-Mart near where I work. By 8:30 AM (the special prices started at 8 AM) the Wal-Mart near my work was out after getting a palette of 30. I also asked my wife to stop off at the local W-M after she dropped out daughter off at school because she could be there at 8 AM. (I could always return one if we each managed to buy one.)
She just called and said that she got one; however, she had to stand in a long line and she had to buy it in the electronics department. By the time she got up to the palette, three remained. So, if you didn't know about this yesterday, there's no reason to even think you'll get one. (Of course, as I write this it's 9:34 AM EDT, so those in Mountain and Pacific time might still have a chance.)
Very interesting. I have EVDO in most of the places that I'm at. I'm going to have to give that a try. Thanks!
You're joking, right? You know very well that at that price it's going to be a consumer-grade. I can't believe that you actually bothered to ask that question.
I don't know about others but in my experience the number of problems with my consumer-grade FiOS is minimal. I've had FiOS 15/2 for about a year now, and I've only experienced one drop where I lost both Internet and voice. I called to report the issue via my cell phone and was told, after a few minutes of investigating, that there was indeed a local outage and that they're working on it. About four hours later I was back up. This was on a weekend afternoon, so it's not like it was a matter of life or death, like some people make it out to be.
My only gripe when that happens is that Verizon does not give you any dial-up time with consumer FiOS. You might think, "Well, duh, how can you call when your phone line is down, too?" but I have a data cable for my cell phone, which can act as a modem. When I had their DSL, I also had 50 hours of dial-up per month. So, if DSL went down I could still use my Verizon account to access the Internet through dial-up. With FiOS Verizon doesn't allow that because FiOS and DSL/dial-up are considered to be different business entities from what I understand.
But overall I'm very satisfied with my FiOS connection and my uptime has been well over 99% during "normal" hours with me using it heavily at night and my wife using it throughout the day.
Of course! Because each download always and forever equals one lost sale! The RIAA and MPAA have declared it so! There is NO legitimate purpose for file sharing! NONE!! Get that through your head!
I mean - for example, how much money is Ubuntu losing because of all BitTorrent downloads of its latest version of Linux? Er... wait...
Geez, what is this, digg?
No, if this was Digg there'd be at least a dozen posts about how Ron Paul is going to save us from the RIAA and from illegal usage if Usenet. The title would also be "The most AMAZING lawsuit by the RIAA EVER!!! [PICS]"
Exactly. It's amazing how many people bitch and moan about delaying a game that they're expecting without giving any consideration as to why that game is going to be delayed. It's just as amazing how many game companies seem to think that delaying a game is like some kind of suicide call. I'd much rather wait for a game to come out and work as it should instead of getting an unplayable product rushed to market just to match a deadline (eg: Ultima: Ascension).
Right, but when you read the article, the flow of it implies that they're referring to standard-resolution DVDs. They discuss the regular DVD and then make a vague "dual layer" reference only two, short paragraphs later. Without any indication that they're flipping back to the topic of BR discs, it's very easy to read that they're talking about 18 hours on dual-layer, regular DVDs, regardless of how much that makes the brain explode. :)
Osaka-based Matsushita, the world's largest consumer electronics maker, also said it plans to offer the world's first DVD recorders that can store full high-definition programs on conventional DVD discs next month.
Full high-definition (HD) programs come with a resolution of 1,920 x 1,080 pixels.
Matsushita's new Blu-ray recorders, which are able to record up to 18 hours of full HD programs on a dual-layer disc, will go on sale on November 1 in Japan.
Even if one of the more efficient codecs is used can they possibly get that much time in *true* HD resolution on a 9 GB disc? I'm wondering if they screwed up and are actually referring to dual-layer BluRay discs? Maybe? Perhaps? After all, the first paragraph says...
Panasonic maker Matsushita Electric Industrial said it would launch new Blu-ray optical disc recorders in November that allow more hours of full high-definition recording on a single disc than any others available.
I honestly think that they're talking about BR discs and that the article wasn't written clearly. 18 hours of HD on a 9 GB disc? That sounds too good to be true.
Believe me, if PC manufacturers could have voided your warranty for installing a different operating system (as they would be able to according to your arguments), they would have years ago.
They do try! Years ago, I made the mistake of buying an HP PC that came with a very new XP (pre-SP1). Before I even turned the PC on, I took the hard drive out, installed a new one, and installed a fresh copy of Windows 2000. Less than a year later (still within warranty), the optical drive died. Sure enough, HP's outsourced, "have to follow the checklist" tech people tried their best to tell me that I was not entitled to a DVD drive replacement because I didn't have the "correct" operating system installed. Anyone of a less stubborn nature than me would have given up, but I fought through several days' worth of phone calls and demands to talk to managers. At that point it became a matter of principle. But I finally got the replacement sent to me. They might not have been "voiding" the warranty by initially denying my warranty claim, but I don't see any difference between voiding and trying to not honor a warranty. Either way, you're not getting the service that you're entitled to.
Just because we know that trying to blame software for hardware failures is ridiculous, there are even more people out there who have no clue that they're separate issues and will just give up.
:) Touché. I hope that no one gets offended by my using the French word for "touch" -- sexual harassment and all of that...
It's actually an American-coined term. Maybe if you spent less time hiding behind AC, looking for racism where none exists, and instead reading history and sociology books, you would know that. You'd also know that there are very, very few Romas (as they call themselves) in the U.S. So, the possibility that it is based on a racial slur is not only unlikely but as of yet still unproven.
But, hey, welcome to the 21st century where context means nothing as long as someone can be offended by a combination of letters.
"There is absolutely nothing wrong with any of those words, in and of themselves. They're only words. It's the context that counts. It's the user. It's the intention behind the words that makes them good or bad. The words are completely neutral. The words are innocent. I get tired of people talking about 'bad words' and 'bad language.' Bullsh*t! It's the context that makes them good or bad." -- George Carlin
This game is one of the best PC games of its kind that was ever released. Splinter Cell, which is awesome in its own right, doesn't come close to the atmosphere and environment of the Thief series, especially Thief 2. And I defy anyone who loves these games to play the Sanitarium level of Thief 3 and not be freaked out. I wish that a Thief 4 would be in the works. :( Until then, I guess Assassin's Creed is the closest successor, although it's not quite the same thing.
:)
Oh, speaking of Thief 2, I highly recommend the T2X: Shadows of the Metal Age fan-made expansion pack. It's the best Thief mod out there in my opinion. YMMV, of course.
Praise, Karras!
Oh, please. Your snarky comment was nothing more than a criticism that companies would dare to release closed-source software for Linux. That in itself is nothing more than a veiled demand that companies release their source code; otherwise, they're violating the whole premise of Linux, right? If I was a software developer and I was hit with an attitude of "I want your code because your code demands freedom!" instead of "Hey, thanks a lot for helping to support our platform!" I wouldn't want to code for that platform either.
No, you didn't use the word "demand", but your comment was a direct reflection of the attitude that (unfortunately) has existed since Linux became a commonly-known term that companies who release software for Linux are just somehow expected to release (or "give freedom to") the source code as well.
And just who are you to demand that anyone grant "freedom" to the software that they - not you - spent countless hours coding? Jesus! Is it not enough that people are finally considering releasing their software for Linux? This "all-or-nothing" attitude is exactly why companies like the one that I mentioned refuse to release Linux software -- because of this irrational, self-proclaimed "requirement" of the extreme Linux fringe that companies "free" their software.
You are coaxing a timid animal out of its hole only to start screaming at it when it pokes its head out, forcing it to run back into its hole out of fright. Knock it off, damn it!
Wow. Major troll. No wonder you posted anonymously. So, pray tell, exactly how would games suffer under Linux? One might argue that games on Linux might actually be better than on Windows depending how efficient the Linux coding is. Also, it's not as though the whole game would need to be retooled -- just the binaries. There would be no need to change the data files. Of course, this would be even easier if the game companies would start using OGL instead of DX.
I'm also very interested to hear how Linux will have an influence over what you play. Funny, but I've never had a Linux person come to me and say, "You can't buy that game! It's not on Linux!" and I've never heard a gaming company say, "We're not releasing this game until we have a working Linux client!!"
And how a Linux client will be a liability to Valve? Yeah, expanding a client base. That's a really bad liability. *cough*
Next time, put more thought into it. As a troll-wannabe, you're not very good at it.
Why would they be required to do that? Just because they might release software on Linux does not mean that they are in any way obligated to release the source. There is nothing that says that if you write software for Linux you must release the source code. Microsoft could write Office for Linux but they would be under absolutely no obligation to release the source code, and of course we know that they never would. I know that many here think that Linux is synonymous with open source, but in reality open source is not a requirement for Linux.
A few years ago, I spoke with someone from one company that makes astronomy-based software who said that they decided not to release their software in the early days of Linux because of the demand at the time from Linux extremists to release the source code. Please don't scare Steam into the same kind of retraction by suggesting or insisting that they release their code as well. You can be almost guaranteed that Steam would be a binary release, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Exactly. I had several friends who worked for the largest vinyl/CD manufacturing plant (WEA manufacturing, as in Warner-Elektra-Asylum) in the U.S. back in the 1980s. They said that even back then a CD with booklet and jewel case with a run of 10,000 presses cost about $.25 each to manufacture. This was back before we could even create CDs at our own PCs and when CD prices were at their premium of $16-18 each. (Then again, aren't they still around that price?)
Yes, I know there is more than just manufacturing, but consider that every $.25 profit to each disc was 100% profit. So, even if the labels made $1 profit for each disc sold, they made 400% profit. I'd be curious to see what they really get for digital downloads considering that there is no physical product to manufacture, no glass master to create, no shipping, and no middleman markup. I can't believe that they're making less than 400% profit.
You're reading my mind. That's the first thing I thought when I read that IBM was on-board.
I used to use Word Pro ever since it was AmiPro for Windows 3.1. OpenOffice replaced Word Pro a few years ago, but I still have a lot of legacy documents that I need to access every now and then. So, when I rebuild a PC I install Word Pro just in case. (It's only about 70 MB for Word Pro 9.8, so it's not like it's a burden on my 160 GB boot drive.) Having an LWP filter for OpenOffice would be fantastic!
Wow. You're the kind of closed-minded, micro-managing busybody that personifies the pointy-haired manager in Dilbert. I can only imagine how low the morale must be for anyone who works for you. Let me guess. You're also one of those who think that somehow we're only capable of performing our job if we have a shirt-and-tie and that somehow we lose 50 IQ points the second that we put denim on our skin, right?
... er ... "employees" have my sincerest sympathies.
To think that a person must always be 100% productive, 100% of the time is short-sighted and arrogant. What should matter are the results, not the amount of hours put into those results. Time spent!=Quality of work. I'm fortunate (although after seeing your rant I might say "blessed") that my managers have been the kind who are more concerned with getting the job done and done well, regardless of whether it requires eight hours a day or two hours a day. As long as they know that the job is getting done and that they can rely on me to stick around after hours if necessary, they're satisfied. It's called "trust", something that you apparently are unaware of. For that, your servants
Try this or this.
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This game was definitely released as freeware . In fact, not only is it freeware, the source code was also released. It can be distributed as you wish as long and it's not for commercial purposes. It has been ported to Mac and Linux as well
There might have been a time where they had a window to make it officially available, but I'm sure that there are plenty of ways to get it. Just be aware that it looks like the games and cutscenes have to be downloaded separately. Because is it a story-driven game, the cutscenes can make a difference. I recommend getting them. This is one time where you can download via BitTorrent and not worry about some Big Brother "Let's-Sue-Everyone" company coming after you.