I'm in complete agreement. Of course, I'm biased -- I live in a community where the only option around is Comcast. Adelphia used to offer competition, but Comcast bought them out and "gradually" began increasing the monthly fee, decreasing the quality of service, and making me generally unsatisfied but helpless. I get the feeling there's a joke in there, somewhere. I have no alternatives and it's very frustrating.
Excellent and informative post. Thanks for taking the time to write it, since I am one to have a knee-jerk reaction all too often when it comes to censorship.
From what I've seen of the beta, just turning Aero off and going to the "Windows Classic" look is pretty easy. Also, Vista "gracefully degrades" the effects used by the GUI to accomodate lower-end hardware.
As for Halo 2... Avalon (once known as DirectX 10) is supposed to be out with Vista. Halo 2 apparantly will only run on Avalon from what little I've read about it.
I'm just interested in seeing how end-users adjust to the virtual folders.
Discreet has Gmax -- basically the same thing as 3DS Max, just without the rendering (although there are several "plug-in" rendering systems, like Yafray, easily added). Gmax is made just for gamers, totally free (after registration, which is free). I played with it briefly, the interface is almost identical.
You have a good point there -- it seems with more "complicated" document layouts, OpenOffice has some errors. They become fewer and fewer as the OO improves, but they can cause problems. Good call.
Nice information -- I still think OpenOffice.org and WordPerfect completely own MS Word.
Using a great deal of open source software is not a bad thing at all... my last workplace (a regional hospital in Ohio) used several FOSS apps, including OpenOffice.org and Mozilla apps. The licensing costs alone saved them hundreds of thousands, and that was just in the short term.
I don't think of it as "stomach turning," to me it's just one more direction for Linux -- and why is that utterly meaningless? While you are attracted to technical merit, others will be attracted by the distro philosophy.
In the end, it's about choice anyway, right? Technical merit only goes so far...
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I'm in complete agreement. Of course, I'm biased -- I live in a community where the only option around is Comcast. Adelphia used to offer competition, but Comcast bought them out and "gradually" began increasing the monthly fee, decreasing the quality of service, and making me generally unsatisfied but helpless. I get the feeling there's a joke in there, somewhere. I have no alternatives and it's very frustrating.
That's what we really need. With FMV sequences. And no, Privateer 2 was not good. At all.
It's only a matter of time now. Sharks with laser beams, baby!
Excellent and informative post. Thanks for taking the time to write it, since I am one to have a knee-jerk reaction all too often when it comes to censorship.
From what I've seen of the beta, just turning Aero off and going to the "Windows Classic" look is pretty easy. Also, Vista "gracefully degrades" the effects used by the GUI to accomodate lower-end hardware. As for Halo 2... Avalon (once known as DirectX 10) is supposed to be out with Vista. Halo 2 apparantly will only run on Avalon from what little I've read about it. I'm just interested in seeing how end-users adjust to the virtual folders.
That and you'd probably have to start paying licensing royalties if you ended up constipated for too long.
Discreet has Gmax -- basically the same thing as 3DS Max, just without the rendering (although there are several "plug-in" rendering systems, like Yafray, easily added). Gmax is made just for gamers, totally free (after registration, which is free). I played with it briefly, the interface is almost identical.
You have a good point there -- it seems with more "complicated" document layouts, OpenOffice has some errors. They become fewer and fewer as the OO improves, but they can cause problems. Good call.
This is absolutely correct. Ask the FOSS community for some features / fixes, they stand a high chance of benig included, often pretty quickly.
Ever try giving feedback to Microsoft, asking to add a feature or fix a bug? Heh. Heh. Heh. Welcome to the Digital Round File.
Nice information -- I still think OpenOffice.org and WordPerfect completely own MS Word.
Using a great deal of open source software is not a bad thing at all... my last workplace (a regional hospital in Ohio) used several FOSS apps, including OpenOffice.org and Mozilla apps. The licensing costs alone saved them hundreds of thousands, and that was just in the short term.
I don't think of it as "stomach turning," to me it's just one more direction for Linux -- and why is that utterly meaningless? While you are attracted to technical merit, others will be attracted by the distro philosophy.
In the end, it's about choice anyway, right? Technical merit only goes so far...