While we're on the subject of patent wars and stupid patents, I'm gonna go ahead and patent first posts. Anyone who has a first post from now on must pay me royalty fees or I'll sue them.
Out of the movies Katz reviewed here, I've only seen End of Days so far, but IMO, it wasn't nearly as horrible as Katz made it out to be. Sure it wasn't a great movie by any means, but at least it was entertaining. There were some good action sequences, special effects, and a there was some decent humor thrown in there. I agree with Katz saying how unrealistic it was, but how many movies about Satan taking over the body of a human in order to destroy the world as we know it really are? Anyway, it may not be worth the $8, but I enjoyed it. -Sub-Zero
If I buy your windows product and then download the linux bins, then I'm supporting GT's linux ignorance. No thanks.
If you read Tim Sweeney's letter and comments posted below the headline, you'd know that it's not exactly "ignorance" on GT's part not to package the Linux binaries on the CD. I would have loved to have seen them put the Linux version on there myself, but like Tim said, GT would be taking a financial risk in doing this. GT's main goal is making a profit, just like every other company, and they stood to lose more money on tech support calls than they would gain from the added sales to Linux users.
Reading what Tim said, it's at least a step in the right dirrection. With people like Tim and John Carmack are doing in the game industry and with the ever increasing software/hardware support Linux is getting, we'll be seeing many more mainstream games come out with boxed Linux versions. Carmack said it himself when he talked about how other game developers and producers will be watching the sales of Q3A for Linux to decided whether or not it's worth it for them to go that route with their games. Right now they're all letting Id take the first big step and watching to see if works out. IMO, had Unreal Tournament come out after Q3A for Linux had been in stores for a month or more and the sales had proven to be good, I'm sure GT would have taken Tim Sweeney's advice. Until then we're just gonna have to wait and see. Companies will start jumping on the Linux bandwagon once a major game sells well. We can all do our parts by buying the Linux Q3A when it comes out, but until then, we'll just have to keep waiting.
-Oh and you have to love the traffic when all the companies let out... Yeah, it's just like 110 when the Lucent (where I work), HP, and Compaq buildings all get out at 5. Thank god I live in Westford and don't have to fight with all those people trying to get onto 495.
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Just in case he's reading. :-)
Just nitpicking, but Hiawatha Bray is a she.
The start-up software for the DVD player is loaded onto a memory card that comes with the system.
-Sub-Zero
While we're on the subject of patent wars and stupid patents, I'm gonna go ahead and patent first posts. Anyone who has a first post from now on must pay me royalty fees or I'll sue them.
-Sub-Zero
Out of the movies Katz reviewed here, I've only seen End of Days so far, but IMO, it wasn't nearly as horrible as Katz made it out to be. Sure it wasn't a great movie by any means, but at least it was entertaining. There were some good action sequences, special effects, and a there was some decent humor thrown in there. I agree with Katz saying how unrealistic it was, but how many movies about Satan taking over the body of a human in order to destroy the world as we know it really are? Anyway, it may not be worth the $8, but I enjoyed it. -Sub-Zero
If I buy your windows product and then download the linux bins, then I'm supporting GT's linux ignorance. No thanks.
If you read Tim Sweeney's letter and comments posted below the headline, you'd know that it's not exactly "ignorance" on GT's part not to package the Linux binaries on the CD. I would have loved to have seen them put the Linux version on there myself, but like Tim said, GT would be taking a financial risk in doing this. GT's main goal is making a profit, just like every other company, and they stood to lose more money on tech support calls than they would gain from the added sales to Linux users.
Reading what Tim said, it's at least a step in the right dirrection. With people like Tim and John Carmack are doing in the game industry and with the ever increasing software/hardware support Linux is getting, we'll be seeing many more mainstream games come out with boxed Linux versions. Carmack said it himself when he talked about how other game developers and producers will be watching the sales of Q3A for Linux to decided whether or not it's worth it for them to go that route with their games. Right now they're all letting Id take the first big step and watching to see if works out. IMO, had Unreal Tournament come out after Q3A for Linux had been in stores for a month or more and the sales had proven to be good, I'm sure GT would have taken Tim Sweeney's advice. Until then we're just gonna have to wait and see. Companies will start jumping on the Linux bandwagon once a major game sells well. We can all do our parts by buying the Linux Q3A when it comes out, but until then, we'll just have to keep waiting.
Sub-Zero
-Oh and you have to love the traffic when all the companies let out...
Yeah, it's just like 110 when the Lucent (where I work), HP, and Compaq buildings all get out at 5. Thank god I live in Westford and don't have to fight with all those people trying to get onto 495.
-Bryan