"then again, perhaps they should leave the games to Microsoft and try to be all the business they can be."
who do you mean when you say "they"? Do you mean Linux programmers? That would seem to be a narrow view of what the linux community is. It's very diverse. A lot of them are working on different things, and I certainly think it can be more than just "all the business they can be."
Games is NOT what windows is for. It's for crashing my computer every fricken half hour, DX or no DX. Once gaming on Linux improves, I'm dumping Windows altogether.
It's one thing for a "brick and mortar" store to track shoppers' movements for security reasons. It's quite another for online sites to track our movements in our homes or whereever we use a computer.
Think about the terms of service for a site that implements technology like this. "We reserve the right to track and predict your behavior while viewing our site. From what we know already about most users, there's little chance you'll ever see this TOS, and we've already started tracking you before you had a chance to read this already."
Ah, but SimCity had evil monsters that ravaged cites, and crazy, pixel-sized rioters who set fires who could only be stopped by sending in the police or the military.
Scientologists go after everyone, even the least dangerous of people, with a force that can only come from a cult like theirs. This isn't just about our rights online and the First Amendment; we're seeing here just how terrifying Scientologists can be. I truly wonder if this is what L. Ron Hubbard intended.
Forget whatever else Blizzard is known for in terms of "Diablo". The fact is that Blizzard filed for and was awarded the movie mark for "Diablo". Trade names like Diablo can be filed for all sorts of things, but when you file it with the USPTO you have to be specific what you're filing it for, and Blizzard did that. Therefore, New Line should change the name of it's own movie.
Steve Jobs has done it. His goal was to have AOL in your face for every moment that you're awake. He's now got TV, magazines, and movies to add to that cheesey ISP of his. He won't stop there though, so what's next? Unless Time Warner doesn't have any radio stations, AOL will probably get into that as well. Please tell me Time Warner doesn't have any newspapers. AOL-NY Times anybody? I'm not scared yet, but if the time comes when we have AOL cereal for breakfast and AOL cars . . . oh boy
Star Trek will die a slow and miserably humiliating death under Berman. There's no doubt in that, and it's been obvious since Roddenberry's passing. It's not the same anymore and everyone knows it. Berman has to go even though he's kept it going for so long. Nimoy, Fontana or at least somebody's who can understand what the original series was all about like Nicholas Meyers should take the helm. I don't mean that Star Trek's future should be a rehashing of the TOS; I mean Star Trek should not be treated as a normal television show like the original was.
For one thing, when you mean portal-like, do you mean Yahoo!-like? It doesn't look exactly like Yahoo! just yet but it's getting to be as obnoxious. The only thing I use Altavista for is for the search engine and the translation services, which Altavista is known for. The other stuff is fluff and makes Altavista currently look totally disorganized. At least Yahoo! can organize the fluff. Ever since Compaq bought Digital, things have gone downhill in my opinion. It's not just Altavista, but also with the entire structure of Digital itself. The idea of of having to use "Compaq Tru64 UNIX" as opposed to Digital UNIX is a sickening thought, but I digress. *sigh*
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"then again, perhaps they should leave the games to Microsoft and try to be all the business they can be."
who do you mean when you say "they"? Do you mean Linux programmers? That would seem to be a narrow view of what the linux community is. It's very diverse. A lot of them are working on different things, and I certainly think it can be more than just "all the business they can be."
Games is NOT what windows is for. It's for crashing my computer every fricken half hour, DX or no DX. Once gaming on Linux improves, I'm dumping Windows altogether.
It's one thing for a "brick and mortar" store to track shoppers' movements for security reasons. It's quite another for online sites to track our movements in our homes or whereever we use a computer.
Think about the terms of service for a site that implements technology like this. "We reserve the right to track and predict your behavior while viewing our site. From what we know already about most users, there's little chance you'll ever see this TOS, and we've already started tracking you before you had a chance to read this already."
If I remember correctly, typing "porn" in the DOS version of SC2000 yielded a sound clip of a guy saying "Can't get enough."
Ah, but SimCity had evil monsters that ravaged cites, and crazy, pixel-sized rioters who set fires who could only be stopped by sending in the police or the military.
Scientologists go after everyone, even the least dangerous of people, with a force that can only come from a cult like theirs. This isn't just about our rights online and the First Amendment; we're seeing here just how terrifying Scientologists can be. I truly wonder if this is what L. Ron Hubbard intended.
Forget whatever else Blizzard is known for in terms of "Diablo". The fact is that Blizzard filed for and was awarded the movie mark for "Diablo". Trade names like Diablo can be filed for all sorts of things, but when you file it with the USPTO you have to be specific what you're filing it for, and Blizzard did that. Therefore, New Line should change the name of it's own movie.
As Homer would say, Doh! That's what happens when you post on slashdot without sleep.
Steve Jobs has done it. His goal was to have AOL in your face for every moment that you're awake. He's now got TV, magazines, and movies to add to that cheesey ISP of his. He won't stop there though, so what's next? Unless Time Warner doesn't have any radio stations, AOL will probably get into that as well. Please tell me Time Warner doesn't have any newspapers. AOL-NY Times anybody? I'm not scared yet, but if the time comes when we have AOL cereal for breakfast and AOL cars . . . oh boy
Star Trek will die a slow and miserably humiliating death under Berman. There's no doubt in that, and it's been obvious since Roddenberry's passing. It's not the same anymore and everyone knows it. Berman has to go even though he's kept it going for so long. Nimoy, Fontana or at least somebody's who can understand what the original series was all about like Nicholas Meyers should take the helm. I don't mean that Star Trek's future should be a rehashing of the TOS; I mean Star Trek should not be treated as a normal television show like the original was.
For one thing, when you mean portal-like, do you mean Yahoo!-like? It doesn't look exactly like Yahoo! just yet but it's getting to be as obnoxious. The only thing I use Altavista for is for the search engine and the translation services, which Altavista is known for. The other stuff is fluff and makes Altavista currently look totally disorganized. At least Yahoo! can organize the fluff. Ever since Compaq bought Digital, things have gone downhill in my opinion. It's not just Altavista, but also with the entire structure of Digital itself. The idea of of having to use "Compaq Tru64 UNIX" as opposed to Digital UNIX is a sickening thought, but I digress. *sigh*