That fanbase is hopefully about to get bigger, and stronger now that StarCraft 2 will be out next year. Time will tell if StarCraft 2 will be one of the best games ever made.
Once they have a name for these giants, expect a new distro named after them. Hmmm, on the other hand, maybe we can name them after an existing distro.
I don't have exact figures but from what I've been seeing so far, people who can afford would generally get their music from a subscription service (e.g. iTunes, Emusic, etc), while those who can't will probably just download them off P2P or get them from friends. Somewhere in between is the enthusiast (like myself) who still like those liner notes, album art, etc. I'm also a completist. With those bands I really like, I'd rather buy the CD than download the tunes given a choice.
It doesn't say in TFA if it will be. I do assume it will be available through the other Amazon channels: www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.co.jp, www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.ca, etc.
I'd like to be able to buy DRM-free, major tunes online aside from Emusic.com, where, except for a few selected tracks, everything is generally available for purchase anywhere in the world. iTunes, Napster, etc, DRM-infested as they are, would have made a killing by not limiting purchases to the US alone. Until they do open up, and I hope Amazon does, my purchases (and I know I'm not alone) would be limited to Emusic.com and several indie sites.
Its a tie, given the fact that Vista doesn't run as many games and legacy apps/software as XP does. That could quickly change though, when SP1 for Vista is rolled out and/or once the next few updates of Wine come out.
It doesn't matter if it lives up to its claim or not, as long as it helps the average user get into Linux. Any 'easy' distro is welcome to join the fray. Welcome aboard.
Yes, so just imagine six adventurers fight off four groups of 99 berzerkers in full 3D!!! In Bard's Tale, all you had to do was press 'F'. Wouldn't be fun to look at if you remade this in a modern engine.
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The Fraunhofer patents expire April 2010, at which time MP3 algorithms become public domain. What will this mean? Cheaper players? Will mp3 be as free like ogg vorbis by then?
This means fundamentally changing the way people live.
That's right. It all boils down to mentality. I live in a 3rd world country as well. I make enough to get by (it's downright pathetic by 1st world standards though). However, I always make it a point to pay for non-FOSS software I buy, even though, yes, I can get the disks for $1-2 or just download them off warez sites. Those I can't afford, I make an effort to look for a FOSS equivalent/alternative.
I also buy legit CDs and DVDs. If I can't afford something I like very much, I save up for it.
I'm probably more of an exception than the norm where I come from, but it doesn't mean its impossible. And I have a feeling a number of people in 1st world countries have a "third-world mentality" when it comes to this.
Slow newsday maybe, but this is still relevant. StarCraft is alive and kicking, and is still one of the best games ever made. The least Blizzard could do if it really doesn't want to make StarCraft II is to make a 3D update, or at least give its blessings to StarCraft Revolutions. Its a win-win situation for everyone.
what about all the data generated over the last 30 years that is stored in formats that are obsolete, on media that are redundant...how will we read a report written in 1980 on the comuters of 2080?
That's right! It doesn't seem silly at all when you think about it. My mom's a writer and routinely sends manuscripts, articles, etc to different publishers. One particular publisher insisted that she send a printed copy, refusing email attachements, CDs or any sort of soft copy, citing that 'the paper medium has been proven to be much more reliable than digital, yada yada..." Ridiculous, what a bunch of luddites I thought.
I was already thinking of asking giving them a piece of my mind about that when it occured to me even I couldn't even open my old 1990s files anymore. Not only were some of them in Iomega Zip disks, they were in old proprietary formats. (Well, that's another topic altogether.)
Another case more to the point: About a decade ago, my family decided to cobble together some sort of "time capsule" to be opened in about 50 yrs. It had several items including some files on 3.5 floppies. My dad asked me how were my grandkids supposed to read those things by then?
I guess the moral is, I shouldn't have been tied down to any (digital) storage medium, arrogantly thinking it'll always be the standard.
Liberated games has an extensive list of free, not to mention, legal games for download. There are the classics, old games and not so old games. Not abandonware, they've gone to great lengths to make sure there aren't any on the site.
And not just a remake. No, the new Bard's Tale isn't enough. Neither is Dragon Wars. We'd like a real Bard's Tale IV after Bard's Tale III: Thief of Fate.
I live in Manila (yup fil-a-peens) and I'm a PLDT subscriber. Its as slow as molasses. Dial-up wasn't this bad. Dial-up was slow but steady. Now, most sites just time-out. If what you said was true, I feel sorry for Bayantel and Destiny subscribers. I've had to switch off graphics just to get to some sites. I don't know where our local paper Philippine Daily Inquirer is hosted, but sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't.
Wow, so this isn't just a nightmare. I thought/. had finally succeeded in/.ing the world.
Phantasie I & III for the PC were easy but addicting. The graphics were simple but you really got into the story. On the other side of the fence, Wizard's Crown (& Eternal Dagger which I somehow never saw for the PC) was difficult, focusing more on tactics. I never finished that last dungeon.
All those games were from SSI. Really fun. Ahh the memories.
Since Mark Shuttleworth made it clear in no uncertain terms that they're in it for the money, should Ubuntu users start looking into Debian? The article makes it very attractive to do so.
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Lazarus is as close to Delphi-for-Linux as you'll get. It uses GTK 1.2 in Linux though. (2.x is still a bit unstable.)
gtkmm is a nice C++ inteface to GTK+ if you want to code in C++ and GTK+.
That fanbase is hopefully about to get bigger, and stronger now that StarCraft 2 will be out next year. Time will tell if StarCraft 2 will be one of the best games ever made.
Ah, the classic installing Quake 3 on Linux vs. Windows post.
That has been posted several times etc, now by MS fanbois, give or take a few variations.
Once they have a name for these giants, expect a new distro named after them. Hmmm, on the other hand, maybe we can name them after an existing distro.
I don't have exact figures but from what I've been seeing so far, people who can afford would generally get their music from a subscription service (e.g. iTunes, Emusic, etc), while those who can't will probably just download them off P2P or get them from friends. Somewhere in between is the enthusiast (like myself) who still like those liner notes, album art, etc. I'm also a completist. With those bands I really like, I'd rather buy the CD than download the tunes given a choice.
If a considerable number of those 'experts' were gamers themselves.
After watching the trailers for StarCraft 2, I had a sudden urge to take six dogs and rush my neighbor...
It doesn't say in TFA if it will be. I do assume it will be available through the other Amazon channels: www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.co.jp, www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.ca, etc.
I'd like to be able to buy DRM-free, major tunes online aside from Emusic.com, where, except for a few selected tracks, everything is generally available for purchase anywhere in the world. iTunes, Napster, etc, DRM-infested as they are, would have made a killing by not limiting purchases to the US alone. Until they do open up, and I hope Amazon does, my purchases (and I know I'm not alone) would be limited to Emusic.com and several indie sites.
Its a tie, given the fact that Vista doesn't run as many games and legacy apps/software as XP does. That could quickly change though, when SP1 for Vista is rolled out and/or once the next few updates of Wine come out.
It doesn't matter if it lives up to its claim or not, as long as it helps the average user get into Linux. Any 'easy' distro is welcome to join the fray. Welcome aboard.
In other news, Harvard University has just been granted 10,000 honorary Vista licenses and 10,000 Office 2k7 licenses...
Yes, I agree. And that's just for one song. At that rate, a savings of five minutes per song translates to about an hour's savings for an album of 12.
Yes, so just imagine six adventurers fight off four groups of 99 berzerkers in full 3D!!! In Bard's Tale, all you had to do was press 'F'. Wouldn't be fun to look at if you remade this in a modern engine.
The Fraunhofer patents expire April 2010, at which time MP3 algorithms become public domain. What will this mean? Cheaper players? Will mp3 be as free like ogg vorbis by then?
This means fundamentally changing the way people live.
That's right. It all boils down to mentality. I live in a 3rd world country as well. I make enough to get by (it's downright pathetic by 1st world standards though). However, I always make it a point to pay for non-FOSS software I buy, even though, yes, I can get the disks for $1-2 or just download them off warez sites. Those I can't afford, I make an effort to look for a FOSS equivalent/alternative.
I also buy legit CDs and DVDs. If I can't afford something I like very much, I save up for it.
I'm probably more of an exception than the norm where I come from, but it doesn't mean its impossible. And I have a feeling a number of people in 1st world countries have a "third-world mentality" when it comes to this.
Does anyone know how to open that stupid jewel-encrusted egg? Oh never mind...
Slow newsday maybe, but this is still relevant. StarCraft is alive and kicking, and is still one of the best games ever made. The least Blizzard could do if it really doesn't want to make StarCraft II is to make a 3D update, or at least give its blessings to StarCraft Revolutions. Its a win-win situation for everyone.
what about all the data generated over the last 30 years that is stored in formats that are obsolete, on media that are redundant...how will we read a report written in 1980 on the comuters of 2080?
That's right! It doesn't seem silly at all when you think about it. My mom's a writer and routinely sends manuscripts, articles, etc to different publishers. One particular publisher insisted that she send a printed copy, refusing email attachements, CDs or any sort of soft copy, citing that 'the paper medium has been proven to be much more reliable than digital, yada yada..." Ridiculous, what a bunch of luddites I thought.
I was already thinking of asking giving them a piece of my mind about that when it occured to me even I couldn't even open my old 1990s files anymore. Not only were some of them in Iomega Zip disks, they were in old proprietary formats. (Well, that's another topic altogether.)
Another case more to the point: About a decade ago, my family decided to cobble together some sort of "time capsule" to be opened in about 50 yrs. It had several items including some files on 3.5 floppies. My dad asked me how were my grandkids supposed to read those things by then?
I guess the moral is, I shouldn't have been tied down to any (digital) storage medium, arrogantly thinking it'll always be the standard.
Liberated games has an extensive list of free, not to mention, legal games for download. There are the classics, old games and not so old games. Not abandonware, they've gone to great lengths to make sure there aren't any on the site.
And not just a remake. No, the new Bard's Tale isn't enough. Neither is Dragon Wars. We'd like a real Bard's Tale IV after Bard's Tale III: Thief of Fate.
I live in Manila (yup fil-a-peens) and I'm a PLDT subscriber. Its as slow as molasses. Dial-up wasn't this bad. Dial-up was slow but steady. Now, most sites just time-out. If what you said was true, I feel sorry for Bayantel and Destiny subscribers. I've had to switch off graphics just to get to some sites. I don't know where our local paper Philippine Daily Inquirer is hosted, but sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't.
/. had finally succeeded in /.ing the world.
Wow, so this isn't just a nightmare. I thought
Phantasie I & III for the PC were easy but addicting. The graphics were simple but you really got into the story. On the other side of the fence, Wizard's Crown (& Eternal Dagger which I somehow never saw for the PC) was difficult, focusing more on tactics. I never finished that last dungeon.
All those games were from SSI. Really fun. Ahh the memories.
Since Mark Shuttleworth made it clear in no uncertain terms that they're in it for the money, should Ubuntu users start looking into Debian? The article makes it very attractive to do so.
Does this comprehensive background test include a cavity check as well?