A better question - why bother with the PC at all?
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PC game sells are nothing - a mere 15% of the game market at most? Consoles will always trump PCs, so why bother to make PC games? Now you can make and use game mods on your PSX2 and most of the consoles coming out - why bother with the various types of hardware and operating systems?
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Gee, linux seems to have as much or better potential for games as windows after all - since linux can be embeded in consoles.
If you don't have censorship people then have to think for themselves! Calm down, I know it's scary...
Maybe someone on cnn will tell us what to think about this later.
MSNBC isn't biased to GE, just because they own it. Don't think censor software will try to block censor reviews...
heh;)
Re:What's up with all this netscape/mozilla bashin
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Yes, me and one of the guys that worked on a java IDE were testing java applets on various browsers. IE locked up the NT 4.0 machine everytime when using certian applets.
What's up with all this netscape/mozilla bashing?
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I use mozilla nightlys and I even use netscape at work even on windows. I think netscape is a good broswer and it's also the only browser that can be used for our campus services at UWG.
IE's java VM and crypto don't cut it out of the box - so you're required to use netscape. This also allows linux users to use the web based system to pay fees, drop/add, and register for classes/services.
I run 4.71 on a 90Mhz laptop and mozilla nightlys on my dual 266Mhz w/ RAID. I'm not impressed with IE - tell me why I want to run IE under wine, or un IE in win32?
You can lockup NT with the IE, since it's integreated. Why is that good?
I wonder if the MS secret police... er BSA... will scan registries for illegal sofware installs. ( licensce for 1 machine running on N boxes for example )
Also this will be great for gathering marketing data. Oh goodie, let's send 13 year olds to prison, they're 'hacker' us with VBA 'trojan worm viruses' if MS doesn't save us. Oh, wait I only run unices. =)
Dell sells cheap, poorly built machines. If you ever maintained more than 20+ Dell workstations per group, then you know what I mean.
The people buying solutions from Dell just use the OS that's bundled with it. They just want tech support, and cheap PCs they can throw away in a few years or less.
Dell didn't start direct sells of PCs, which anyone that remembers the old gateway and midwest micro ads knows... those ads on tv that say otherwise are revisionism.
I even think their mid-range solutions are cheap and flimsy. Give me a nice high end IBM workstation if it has to be x86. And what's up with Dell only selling intel chips? I can't believe they've held out this long... everyone else will sell shiny new athlons this for xmas year.
Some people drink out of paper cups and not glass.
Go figure...
You need to stop being so selfish. If you don't want to pay for two games only buy the linux port. The people at loki have to make money, since they can't live off a good feeling inside for just porting it to linux. Games are now getting where the linux and win32 versions are released together in a timely fashion, and in some cases both releases come out at the same time.
Some of these guys work seven days a week, and they don't make as much money in the small linux market as they would if they were working for a win32 game company. After buying the rights to port and etc, they have to sell so many copies just to break even on that title before they get profits. Also Loki games have value adds, they fix bugs in the win32 versions and in some cases add extra features. A good example is Sim City 3000 Unlimited they added scrolly mouse support and fixed some show stopper bugs as well.
If you want games on linux you need to support them with your money or even with help on SDL, OpenAL, etc. You can stop buying win32 games and only buy linux versions - suck it up and only play the win32 demo until the linux release if you can't buy both.
Didn't the first luddites destory spinning wheels, because they feared they would lose their jobs? But instead of destorying automatied wheels they destoried ones that people used... hence speeding along the rise of the industral revolution by cutting themselves off at the knee.
What's so special about that? I looks like GNOME icons on win95 desktop to me.
What is the 'remote desktop' thingy? You mean windows 2006 will have transparent network apps like X now? Gee, they innovate a few decades behind the curve as usual. I so proud redmond can steal from GNOME as it did from MAC OS.
"[Cloning] is the ultimate flattery"
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http://gooseegg.sourceforge.net
I think we know why this isn't a double standard. ( Which I agree/. is known for, heh )
The reason is if we have one comapny in control of the RAM markey, then gee golly they have a monopoly. Why not stop them before they get to dictate the market.
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You can have any color you want - as long sa it's black.
Don't buy films and cds from america - buy them from china or what have you. Spend your entertainment dollars elsewhere. The MPAA and RIAA can't make money off of that, and you can still watch Jacky Chan and anime.
Remember - Don't buy American
1. IE for Solaris - hahaha, that lasted a week
2. Windows MediaPlayer for linux - 3 days
Right now is the time to start avocating linux. ( there's even a HOWTO ) If people start moving to linux with MS Office, then MS has a chance to stick around in the 64-bit world. Let's drop this company before then please.
Now MS Office may be a big deal in win32 world, but when I have to use win32 I still perfer StarOffice. I quit using Word at about 6.0 personally and chose other suites. At my school I used StarOffice to do my excel and word documents for graphics theory. If you lead your co-workers and classmates by eample they'll follow you.
I got just about 20-50 people using linux in my area, and no telling how many on irc. How many have you converted to linux?
Copy by value - ( aka deep copy )
You allocate new space for an object and copy it
from the orignal. Kind of like making Xeroxs -
you have an exact copy of the orignal but it's
a new copy.
Copy by ref - ( aka shallow copy )
You point to the old copy. It's like only having
one copy of a paper and when someone wants a'copy'
they have to reall barrow it from bob.
- Mongoose
wolf wolf, I like Kittie
http://gooseegg.sourceforge.net
http://www.quakeforge.net
Moody did slander RedHat... Think Bob Young might want to step up to bat? You need to beat down on this type of jornualism from time to time.
Perhaps email abc news about this too. It hurts the credibility of ABC in general, which is pretty poor to start with. People forget and forgive the news media too much.
I'm one of the many authors of the free speach and free beer 3d modelers on sourceforge. I don't think people know about all the free modelers out there. My modeler is only in alpha stages but it already supports tomb raider 1-4 maps and models, q 1-3 models, hl, and soon even SoF. Linux would have more high quality grass roots modelers if they had more testers that would look at more than the inital version and run back to brand X. More testers == quicker improvements.
I think they might have seen the 3d driver support for linux, and thought gee that's nice the display drivers are mature enough to handle whatever you can throw at it.
Or maybe they feared competetion moving in on customers wanting linux support. Losing customers going into a growth market can hurt you down the road. Oh, hi SCO! =)
Where to buy NGE series and movies
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I got the entire series and movies on ebay for $50. Buy the DVD/VCD boxed set and the End of Evangelion movie on DVD/VCD - Death and Rebirth is a rehash - for collectors only. =)
As a QuakeForge developer and the GooseEgg author, I think about this a lot.
I emailed Core Design to offer to port the old Tomb Raider to linux. ( indirectly ) I didn't get a reply, so I guess I'll make a clone - and it's about 80% done atm.
Btw, please test my new TR level and mesh editor GooseEgg. If I make a good clone maybe LokiGames will hire me. hehehe
I'm working on adding data support|conversion for the QF engine right now - Q2 models are working fine in my uncommited QF patch and I got TR meshes ( what an evil model format TR has ) almost working - Soon we'll have skeletal modeling support too if I can get the stupid TR bones right.
It's making the statement the patent office thinks things like network packaging systems and (I still remember) the "oone-click" shopping are new ideas. =(
Also debs and rpms are signed on the server via PGP keys and etc - so if you streach the meaning... this is another stupid patent...
As a QuakeForge developer - I'm the one that's doing MD2 to MDL and etc. I'm also not to be confused with the magical tiger cub Mercury, who does much more work, lol. - This story looked interesting, as we lobbyed Sony for a free "hobby licenese" to port QuakeForge to the PSX2. I haven't downloaded the files yet - but it seems the "SDK isn't here" and etc will make this another dead end.
Maybe we should get Palsade to take up a hat, so we can buy a hobby license ( which cost to much to be a hobby ) for PSX2.
Well, if the PSX2 (US) ships with and/or hdd or modem, I might try to hack at it - but the asm for the chipset seems like it'll be tough even though the main CPU is a MIPS. I still want to play with the dynamic pipeline the PSX2 provides mere mortals. ( The vector processor(s) can act as either an asycronsis cpu or coprocessor to the MIPS blah blah you hear it before )
Just my rantings, while being sleep depraved... er... yeah that's right =)
I mean as soon as he's able. I mean think about it, only US law is holding him back. Go become a citazen of another country. I'm sure some country would like to have him.
It's sad to say but it's not just the US - all the nations are rescricting rights of there people. Of course we just bitch about it, and hardly ever do much. But that's changing, people get tired of opression pretty quick. We need more 'mainstream anarchists' or 'true reformers' to turn things around before a company decides to overtly buy us out.
Gore and Bush are waiting for *your dollars still! You still have time to buy a cacnditate!! Hurry operators are standing by!!! Buy our way out of the antitrust case billy! You *can buy your own president, even if you aren't chinese.
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PC game sells are nothing - a mere 15% of the game market at most? Consoles will always trump PCs, so why bother to make PC games? Now you can make and use game mods on your PSX2 and most of the consoles coming out - why bother with the various types of hardware and operating systems?
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Gee, linux seems to have as much or better potential for games as windows after all - since linux can be embeded in consoles.
If you don't have censorship people then have to think for themselves! Calm down, I know it's scary...
;)
Maybe someone on cnn will tell us what to think about this later.
MSNBC isn't biased to GE, just because they own it. Don't think censor software will try to block censor reviews...
heh
Yes, me and one of the guys that worked on a java IDE were testing java applets on various browsers. IE locked up the NT 4.0 machine everytime when using certian applets.
I use mozilla nightlys and I even use netscape at work even on windows. I think netscape is a good broswer and it's also the only browser that can be used for our campus services at UWG.
IE's java VM and crypto don't cut it out of the box - so you're required to use netscape. This also allows linux users to use the web based system to pay fees, drop/add, and register for classes/services.
I run 4.71 on a 90Mhz laptop and mozilla nightlys on my dual 266Mhz w/ RAID. I'm not impressed with IE - tell me why I want to run IE under wine, or un IE in win32?
You can lockup NT with the IE, since it's integreated. Why is that good?
I wonder if the MS secret police... er BSA... will scan registries for illegal sofware installs. ( licensce for 1 machine running on N boxes for example )
Also this will be great for gathering marketing data. Oh goodie, let's send 13 year olds to prison, they're 'hacker' us with VBA 'trojan worm viruses' if MS doesn't save us. Oh, wait I only run unices. =)
"Now we see the violence inherit in the system"
"Help help - I'm being repressed!"
"Bloody peasant"
Dell sells cheap, poorly built machines. If you ever maintained more than 20+ Dell workstations per group, then you know what I mean.
The people buying solutions from Dell just use the OS that's bundled with it. They just want tech support, and cheap PCs they can throw away in a few years or less.
Dell didn't start direct sells of PCs, which anyone that remembers the old gateway and midwest micro ads knows... those ads on tv that say otherwise are revisionism.
I even think their mid-range solutions are cheap and flimsy. Give me a nice high end IBM workstation if it has to be x86. And what's up with Dell only selling intel chips? I can't believe they've held out this long... everyone else will sell shiny new athlons this for xmas year.
Some people drink out of paper cups and not glass.
Go figure...
You need to stop being so selfish. If you don't want to pay for two games only buy the linux port. The people at loki have to make money, since they can't live off a good feeling inside for just porting it to linux. Games are now getting where the linux and win32 versions are released together in a timely fashion, and in some cases both releases come out at the same time.
Some of these guys work seven days a week, and they don't make as much money in the small linux market as they would if they were working for a win32 game company. After buying the rights to port and etc, they have to sell so many copies just to break even on that title before they get profits. Also Loki games have value adds, they fix bugs in the win32 versions and in some cases add extra features. A good example is Sim City 3000 Unlimited they added scrolly mouse support and fixed some show stopper bugs as well.
If you want games on linux you need to support them with your money or even with help on SDL, OpenAL, etc. You can stop buying win32 games and only buy linux versions - suck it up and only play the win32 demo until the linux release if you can't buy both.
- Mongoose
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have you hugged a mongoose today?
Didn't the first luddites destory spinning wheels, because they feared they would lose their jobs? But instead of destorying automatied wheels they destoried ones that people used... hence speeding along the rise of the industral revolution by cutting themselves off at the knee.
That's how I learned it in my history class.
Are Loki games the only games your console will have at release? Will I be able to use mods for these games as well?
Will this be another linux set-top box like AOL-Gateway and dozens of others that allows TV and networking?
Can you use it as a basic linux system as well?
What's so special about that? I looks like GNOME icons on win95 desktop to me. What is the 'remote desktop' thingy? You mean windows 2006 will have transparent network apps like X now? Gee, they innovate a few decades behind the curve as usual. I so proud redmond can steal from GNOME as it did from MAC OS. "[Cloning] is the ultimate flattery" --- http://gooseegg.sourceforge.net
I think we know why this isn't a double standard. ( Which I agree /. is known for, heh )
The reason is if we have one comapny in control of the RAM markey, then gee golly they have a monopoly. Why not stop them before they get to dictate the market.
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You can have any color you want - as long sa it's black.
fork f-fork fork fork, Bill Joy fork!
Don't buy films and cds from america - buy them from china or what have you. Spend your entertainment dollars elsewhere. The MPAA and RIAA can't make money off of that, and you can still watch Jacky Chan and anime. Remember - Don't buy American
1. IE for Solaris - hahaha, that lasted a week
2. Windows MediaPlayer for linux - 3 days
Right now is the time to start avocating linux. ( there's even a HOWTO ) If people start moving to linux with MS Office, then MS has a chance to stick around in the 64-bit world. Let's drop this company before then please.
Now MS Office may be a big deal in win32 world, but when I have to use win32 I still perfer StarOffice. I quit using Word at about 6.0 personally and chose other suites. At my school I used StarOffice to do my excel and word documents for graphics theory. If you lead your co-workers and classmates by eample they'll follow you.
I got just about 20-50 people using linux in my area, and no telling how many on irc. How many have you converted to linux?
-- Mongoose
Look at me I can rant like Dennis Miller
Aw, that's cute... =)
Copy by value - ( aka deep copy )
You allocate new space for an object and copy it
from the orignal. Kind of like making Xeroxs -
you have an exact copy of the orignal but it's
a new copy.
Copy by ref - ( aka shallow copy )
You point to the old copy. It's like only having
one copy of a paper and when someone wants a'copy'
they have to reall barrow it from bob.
- Mongoose
wolf wolf, I like Kittie
http://gooseegg.sourceforge.net
http://www.quakeforge.net
Moody did slander RedHat... Think Bob Young might want to step up to bat? You need to beat down on this type of jornualism from time to time. Perhaps email abc news about this too. It hurts the credibility of ABC in general, which is pretty poor to start with. People forget and forgive the news media too much.
I'm one of the many authors of the free speach and free beer 3d modelers on sourceforge. I don't think people know about all the free modelers out there. My modeler is only in alpha stages but it already supports tomb raider 1-4 maps and models, q 1-3 models, hl, and soon even SoF. Linux would have more high quality grass roots modelers if they had more testers that would look at more than the inital version and run back to brand X. More testers == quicker improvements.
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Now to the pimping...
http://gooseegg.sourceforge.net/images/screensh
http://gooseegg.sourceforge.net
I think they might have seen the 3d driver support for linux, and thought gee that's nice the display drivers are mature enough to handle whatever you can throw at it.
Or maybe they feared competetion moving in on customers wanting linux support. Losing customers going into a growth market can hurt you down the road. Oh, hi SCO! =)
I got the entire series and movies on ebay for $50. Buy the DVD/VCD boxed set and the End of Evangelion movie on DVD/VCD - Death and Rebirth is a rehash - for collectors only. =)
http://www.ebay.com
As a QuakeForge developer and the GooseEgg author, I think about this a lot.
I emailed Core Design to offer to port the old Tomb Raider to linux. ( indirectly ) I didn't get a reply, so I guess I'll make a clone - and it's about 80% done atm.
Btw, please test my new TR level and mesh editor GooseEgg. If I make a good clone maybe LokiGames will hire me. hehehe
GooseEgg http://gooseegg.sourceforge.net
QuakeForge http://www.quakeforge.net
I'm working on adding data support|conversion for the QF engine right now - Q2 models are working fine in my uncommited QF patch and I got TR meshes ( what an evil model format TR has ) almost working - Soon we'll have skeletal modeling support too if I can get the stupid TR bones right.
- Mongoose
http://www.quakeforge.net
It's making the statement the patent office thinks things like network packaging systems and (I still remember) the "oone-click" shopping are new ideas. =(
Also debs and rpms are signed on the server via PGP keys and etc - so if you streach the meaning... this is another stupid patent...
As a QuakeForge developer - I'm the one that's doing MD2 to MDL and etc. I'm also not to be confused with the magical tiger cub Mercury, who does much more work, lol. - This story looked interesting, as we lobbyed Sony for a free "hobby licenese" to port QuakeForge to the PSX2. I haven't downloaded the files yet - but it seems the "SDK isn't here" and etc will make this another dead end.
Maybe we should get Palsade to take up a hat, so we can buy a hobby license ( which cost to much to be a hobby ) for PSX2.
Well, if the PSX2 (US) ships with and/or hdd or modem, I might try to hack at it - but the asm for the chipset seems like it'll be tough even though the main CPU is a MIPS. I still want to play with the dynamic pipeline the PSX2 provides mere mortals. ( The vector processor(s) can act as either an asycronsis cpu or coprocessor to the MIPS blah blah you hear it before )
Just my rantings, while being sleep depraved... er... yeah that's right =)
http://www.quakeforge.net
I mean as soon as he's able. I mean think about it, only US law is holding him back. Go become a citazen of another country. I'm sure some country would like to have him.
It's sad to say but it's not just the US - all the nations are rescricting rights of there people. Of course we just bitch about it, and hardly ever do much. But that's changing, people get tired of opression pretty quick. We need more 'mainstream anarchists' or 'true reformers' to turn things around before a company decides to overtly buy us out.
Gore and Bush are waiting for *your dollars still! You still have time to buy a cacnditate!! Hurry operators are standing by!!! Buy our way out of the antitrust case billy! You *can buy your own president, even if you aren't chinese.
( Look I just got on the FBI blacklist )