Games similiar in style with older arcade games will succeed to a certain point and be availble for Linux. As far as OSS game engines, that is possible if a programming team or a company decides to make it availble to others just to produce more competition (which is good for business since products/services get better, trust me, I own a business).
But OSS games that can be played on PS2, etc? I doubt it. It requires too much effort for a small team. Just the sounds, voice acting, artwork, and modeling for characters would require many skills and large skill set most programmers lack. The closest we can get to an OSS for consoles or PC would be game engines or maybe game interface.
Just my 2
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So that is the Star Trek episode they never aired.
One problem I see with that is the R&D. Companies have factories geared to solder chips, etc into place. Making them modular would be a great idea especially for upgrades but they would have to buy all new equipment for the factories.
I, too, am a freelance PC repair technician. People now think that spyware/worms/viruses/browser-hijackers are a normal part of using the Internet with Windows. Some try to use security software but it's never updated and never configured right.
I did get a bunch of Ubuntu CDs while their free and give those out to anyone that is interested in Linux. Especially after I answer the question, "How do you deal with it?" with "I don't. I use Linux."
However, commercial software has the flaw of lack of market value. If I make a word processing program (I'm no programmer but an example), I can sell it for $5 or $5,000 and the market will support it. Commercial software companies try to push out competition so they can charge whatever they want at inflated prices. It's like corporate communism. They own it all and they just let us use it.
FOSS will flourish with this business model I am giving away for free as in speech.
Custom software: customer needs X so you code X. Customer pays for coding of the program and for the physical media the code and source code is on as well as a manual. If they want updates or patches they have to subscribe for that. Same with updated manuals. The more customers, the faster the making of custom software since some may want the samething but slightly different. If they decide to leave and have the source code, fine. GPL or BSD license lets the custom software company to have it too.
If Microsoft attacked a problem head on, Gates and Ballmer would be unemployed. Covering up a problem with another program doesn't solve the problem of sloppy code since they have contracts to PC makers to sell Windows on every PC. No competition = monopoly = variant of communism.
I tried it on my WinXP notebook and it actually prevented me from installing Bonzai Buddy (can't live witout it) and removed it. It needs to reboot after it removes spyware but it just turned the notebook off.
Yes it would however Linux isn't anti-captialist as people assume. A company can own their own Linux distro even though the kernel is GPLed.
My main comment was that Microsoft, removing most competitors, can sell sloppy code and won't fix it despite the evidence that Windows needs a rewrite. Instead they make money off of those flaws. If MS had more competitors and didn't force OEMs to sell Windows even if people didn't want it, MS woud have better software.
Dumbass! Free Access to source == program freely availble to programmers and to users without compensation but not for support, manual, physical media, and paid requests for customization for those who can't code to author.
is it weird to build facilities to get natural gas, oil, etc that now use a lot of electronics at the pole of the Earth's magnetic field? Wouldn't that effect the computers and networks in some way?
If the ice is melting, there would be less land thus if they start to drill for oil, what is the point if the coast line covers it?
When will I learn to use the lessons from my writing classes and not write run on sentences to make my point when I can break up my sentences in a logical manner?
Gates says everybody who uses FireFox has IE installed too, so he's not worried.
I searched and searched but I can't find IE in Ubuntu's respositories anywhere. Oh thats right, Linux isn't a threat. Sorry to bother.
With all the talk on the news about religion, I'll say my peace here.
I believe in the teachings of Buddha and try to live to that the best I can. However, religion is like science. There are theories (religions) and a variety of arguements (denominations or traditions). Both try to make sense of the world. However, science can study a lot of the physical world as well as ourselves. Religion is the only way to study spiritual truths. Not dogmatic but what connects us to each other and the universe and to god as well.
Religions tend to say they have the truth even though they disagree. However, looking at the basics this is what we find:
1) Living an honorable life and contributing to society and the world at large is desireable as long as it's positive.
2) There are consequences to our actions.
3) There are certain morals or way of life that is to be followed either for the afterlife or to maintain society for future generations.
If people can look past religious labels and see each other as humans, we'd be better off for it. Bespite the Evangical Christians' hatred of anything they don't like, I say to them and others, that I love humanity and I hope the best for them and I pray people can release their hate.
Don't forget to donate to the tsunami aid and to FOSS projects.
Of course. Anythng MS makes is a marketing tool for other marketing tools. Look at Windows: it pushs several leading dial-up ISPs to you, it allows adware to install itself, pop-ups are common and allowed. Windows, Office, etc are just software that does what it's designed to do, market more MS software. No wonder it's buggy.
Bill Gates never said those who believe intellectual property to be bad for society and will do everything in their power to subvert the rights of copyright and patent holders want an entire political system based on communism, they simply want to communalize the expression of ideas.
If your so intelligent, why are you confusing communism with communalism? Communism is the ownership of production and economy by the People. Communialism is common ownership by a community or society (think public domain). The two sound similiar but are different.
radical left-wing anarchists. They despise authority in any form that it comes in; that is why such things as IP and copyrights are hated so much. The idea of God introduces a supreme authority, so they hate him even more.
Sounds like radical right-wing theocrats. How does the view of moderate IP laws automaticly make someone an enemy of God? No wonder our nation is messed up with Republicians in charge.
True. Americans want more money and cheaper junk. I bought a belt recently and I couldn't find one that wasn't made in China. I checked Sears, The Gap, Ambercrmbie and FInch, and got one from Old Navy since it was the cheapest. I just checked and my Old Navy belt was made in USA (God bless) and has good quality and cheapest one I could find.
Corporations tell us that offshoring and outsourcing will lower prices which it does for the corporations but we still pay the same amount as before. Just look at Need For Speed: Underground 2 and it's ads yet it's $50.
Americans are going to have to understand that getting a large salary and payingg next to nothing for products can't coexist.
My 3 math classes I tried to pass just to meet basic studies brought my GPA down. I have math learning disorder but still it can do it. If you look at my GPA without them, I'd have a 3.6 or so instead of 2.8 and a 3.9 in my major (pyschology). No surprise my psych degree is B.S.
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Games similiar in style with older arcade games will succeed to a certain point and be availble for Linux. As far as OSS game engines, that is possible if a programming team or a company decides to make it availble to others just to produce more competition (which is good for business since products/services get better, trust me, I own a business). But OSS games that can be played on PS2, etc? I doubt it. It requires too much effort for a small team. Just the sounds, voice acting, artwork, and modeling for characters would require many skills and large skill set most programmers lack. The closest we can get to an OSS for consoles or PC would be game engines or maybe game interface. Just my 2
So that is the Star Trek episode they never aired.
One problem I see with that is the R&D. Companies have factories geared to solder chips, etc into place. Making them modular would be a great idea especially for upgrades but they would have to buy all new equipment for the factories.
Don't forget NAFTA.
I did get a bunch of Ubuntu CDs while their free and give those out to anyone that is interested in Linux. Especially after I answer the question, "How do you deal with it?" with "I don't. I use Linux."
Or is it that Microsoft does have an alternative to OSS?
Are we supposed to be impressed? Depends how small it is.
However, commercial software has the flaw of lack of market value. If I make a word processing program (I'm no programmer but an example), I can sell it for $5 or $5,000 and the market will support it. Commercial software companies try to push out competition so they can charge whatever they want at inflated prices. It's like corporate communism. They own it all and they just let us use it.
FOSS will flourish with this business model I am giving away for free as in speech. Custom software: customer needs X so you code X. Customer pays for coding of the program and for the physical media the code and source code is on as well as a manual. If they want updates or patches they have to subscribe for that. Same with updated manuals. The more customers, the faster the making of custom software since some may want the samething but slightly different. If they decide to leave and have the source code, fine. GPL or BSD license lets the custom software company to have it too.
If Microsoft attacked a problem head on, Gates and Ballmer would be unemployed. Covering up a problem with another program doesn't solve the problem of sloppy code since they have contracts to PC makers to sell Windows on every PC. No competition = monopoly = variant of communism.
I tried it on my WinXP notebook and it actually prevented me from installing Bonzai Buddy (can't live witout it) and removed it. It needs to reboot after it removes spyware but it just turned the notebook off.
My main comment was that Microsoft, removing most competitors, can sell sloppy code and won't fix it despite the evidence that Windows needs a rewrite. Instead they make money off of those flaws. If MS had more competitors and didn't force OEMs to sell Windows even if people didn't want it, MS woud have better software.
Dumbass! Free Access to source == program freely availble to programmers and to users without compensation but not for support, manual, physical media, and paid requests for customization for those who can't code to author.
We need new gags as of last month.
If the ice is melting, there would be less land thus if they start to drill for oil, what is the point if the coast line covers it?
When will I learn to use the lessons from my writing classes and not write run on sentences to make my point when I can break up my sentences in a logical manner?
As usual if it goes bad it's not the admin it's the OS. Unles it's MS then it is the admin. You really do have an MCSE don't you?
Gates says everybody who uses FireFox has IE installed too, so he's not worried. I searched and searched but I can't find IE in Ubuntu's respositories anywhere. Oh thats right, Linux isn't a threat. Sorry to bother.
I believe in the teachings of Buddha and try to live to that the best I can. However, religion is like science. There are theories (religions) and a variety of arguements (denominations or traditions). Both try to make sense of the world. However, science can study a lot of the physical world as well as ourselves. Religion is the only way to study spiritual truths. Not dogmatic but what connects us to each other and the universe and to god as well.
Religions tend to say they have the truth even though they disagree. However, looking at the basics this is what we find:
1) Living an honorable life and contributing to society and the world at large is desireable as long as it's positive.
2) There are consequences to our actions.
3) There are certain morals or way of life that is to be followed either for the afterlife or to maintain society for future generations.
If people can look past religious labels and see each other as humans, we'd be better off for it. Bespite the Evangical Christians' hatred of anything they don't like, I say to them and others, that I love humanity and I hope the best for them and I pray people can release their hate.
Don't forget to donate to the tsunami aid and to FOSS projects.
Of course. Anythng MS makes is a marketing tool for other marketing tools. Look at Windows: it pushs several leading dial-up ISPs to you, it allows adware to install itself, pop-ups are common and allowed. Windows, Office, etc are just software that does what it's designed to do, market more MS software. No wonder it's buggy.
If your so intelligent, why are you confusing communism with communalism? Communism is the ownership of production and economy by the People. Communialism is common ownership by a community or society (think public domain). The two sound similiar but are different.
radical left-wing anarchists. They despise authority in any form that it comes in; that is why such things as IP and copyrights are hated so much. The idea of God introduces a supreme authority, so they hate him even more. Sounds like radical right-wing theocrats. How does the view of moderate IP laws automaticly make someone an enemy of God? No wonder our nation is messed up with Republicians in charge.
Corporations tell us that offshoring and outsourcing will lower prices which it does for the corporations but we still pay the same amount as before. Just look at Need For Speed: Underground 2 and it's ads yet it's $50.
Americans are going to have to understand that getting a large salary and payingg next to nothing for products can't coexist.
That proves FOSS is better than closed source.
Because far right Christian nuts want a theocracy. Praise Buddha.
My 3 math classes I tried to pass just to meet basic studies brought my GPA down. I have math learning disorder but still it can do it. If you look at my GPA without them, I'd have a 3.6 or so instead of 2.8 and a 3.9 in my major (pyschology). No surprise my psych degree is B.S.