You're better off without it. A clumsy action UI that makes it difficult to focus on the action you're (ostensibly) controlling; a story line that starts to peter out halfway through (why am I boxing and playing basketball instead of solving the crime?) and becomes completely absurd by the end; and "choose your own adventure"-style hype that, in reality, is barely more open-ended and interactive than a Lucas Arts adventure's dialogue tree. The game might be interesting to other designers as a proof-of-concept piece, but as entertainment, it blows.
My son thinks its great IF and only if he uses a gamepad. We were big fans of Omicron:Nomad Souls, so maybe we aren't as objective as you. Is it possible you chose-your-own suck adventure?
Thanks for your support, slashdot, in telling me and my staff that we are wasting our time.
The opinions expressed by a sloshdot article do not necessarily reflect the views of Slashdot's Editors, Subscribers, Karma Whores, Trolls or ME. Every once in a while, yes. This one not so much.
I gave up my windows partition long ago and will never go back, thanks in large part to WINE, Cedega, and you guys. You have my eternal appreciation. The only time I see that damn logo is now in a VM and as rarely as I can manage. Somehow life seems just a little more peaceful.
As to the article's content. Yes Setting up a game is a bitch. Finding out what WINgames work under what conditions (Install on windows and copy directory/copy CD/NOCD crack/Registry Entries/etc....) can be excruciating. Every couple of months you have to check them again. (Please when we do this record it at the varios compatability db wikis)
Is that more or less painful than living with windows? Subjective, but as a developer/sysadmin/engineer/father it is far less painful to play/dl/buy Linux friendly games only. While constantly checking my vast library for new compatability.
This weeks wine/cedega Dissapointments
Indigo Prophecy.... Looks like No DXinput
Incredible Hulk... nothing
Prince of Persia 2... So close Maybe next year.
FEARCombat............No DXinput.(Guess I'll leave that 1.8gig install just sit there too)
I paid my Cedega subscription for 18months. No new games (that I wanted) were fixed in that time frame (and several ***HL2**cough broke and P2P became the hideous beast it is today)
Meanwhile...
WINE has gotten better with age, hunh. Without any of my money.
Free Games have gotten waaaay better.(Due in no small way to the work of people like you) I have more games on my debian box than most people have in thier entire PC & Console Library combined.
This is pure karma whoring if I ever saw it. You're not even familiar with Dennett enough to spell his name right!
Wow, and here I thought it would be helpful to people who were reading this wondering who this man was. I found the information at the other end of these links at least informative.
My apologies for mispelling his name. I see it upset you greatly.
And no I have yet ti read the book but it is on order now.
Debian Firefox Question Asked of Chris and Mike. No Response yet.
The solution in my mind is a simple no-brainer. Firefox's debian package maintainer should work for Mozilla. Mozilla keeps patches in house, approves for quality and can release FireFox under its own name in the debian format.
Why is this not a viable option? Anyone?
Alternative: FirefoxD, Problem Solved, No Splitting up brand Name Recognition like the current IceWeasel solution, No Trademark Problem.
Why is this not a viable option? Mark? Chris? Mike?
From your Link: A decision had been made [early on], because of what was an expected lifetime for these vehicles [90 days guaranteed] that we would represent the data that was received and plans created using 3 digits," Matijevic expounded. "Obviously, that's not going to work when we hit Sol 1K. Recognizing that we were going to survive that long meant coming up with a modification of all the scripts that we use routinely here on the ground to process the data and the plans in order to adapt them to a 4-digit sol number. That meant coming up with the mechanism by which we could do that, but also testing environment so that we could verify the tools could work and make sure that we caught all the problems that might arise because of this."
Jeebus, even rocket scientists are doomed to repeat the same mistakes. Remember this my developer compatriates lest we forget.
Wright had worked out the algorithm for life, as described by the philosopher Daniel C. Dennett, in 'Darwin's Dangerous Idea.'" Mr. Dennett's book is well worth checking out, if you're interested in evolutionary thought.
For your perusal: (Guessing the editors couldn't pick just one)
We Need an XP compatible Wine funded. Need it quick (Depending on how many more times Vista is delayed). We will of course default all searches to google and give clear choices for search MSN, Yahoo etc.. and try really hard not to do any Evil.
Don't delay the inevitable. Now would be your best time. MS cares not for corporate users choice let alone OEM users choice. Maybe this is the first step. Google can now claim "We tried to have discussions with MS and got nowhere, they left us no choice."
I have mod points, and I struggled with whether to mod you down or respond. I think countering your opinion is the better response.
I'm willing to give up some of my freedoms and rights for a while. I have no problem with it. Also the none of my civil rights have been broken.
Some? For a while? Surely you have seen this before Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
How can you give up inalienable rights? Which ones, and for how long? You don't know nor are you allowed to know when or which rights the government is stepping all over. If you give them the power, they WILL use it (and abuse it!)
I don't know why everyone feels the government will be listening to EVERY phone call that gets made anywhere in America. Its just not possible to monitor them all. They monitor incoming international calls from certain people and outgoing international calls to certain people. They aren't listening to you talking to your grandma and could care less about that.
So you are comfortable with a small handful of Government Heads selecting which calls/emails/IMs/Mail get monitored. What if my grandma is running for office or works at a university or is a broadcaster with differing views from the current administration. Is it still just as unlikely? (Considering she died 2 years ago, This would be some trick.)
Also the ACLU standing up and demanding that all prisoners of war, regardless of what they did be released if the evidence against them is not made public.
You mean due process, Speedy trial, the right to face your accuser and evidence against you, access to a lawyer, that stuff? Without these things you are just kidnapping people from their native lands and holding them indefinately. If you want to prosecute them, do so. Under the Laws of the United States and the Geneva Convention you are not allowed to detain people indefinately and treat them inhumanely. ACLU is an acronym for American Civil Liberties Union. They fight for OUR civil rights, and they do a bit more than protecting the one concerning Seperation of Church and State.
The ACLU has a hard enough time in the current atmosphere without chuckleheads like you volunteering to give up their rights.
BTW the easiest way to give up your rights is to emigrate. I hear Sudan is temperate this time of year.
Xbox360: Ooohh, Shiny. Gamers System Little pricey (before announced ps3 price) Tiered System, Tiered Live. 2nd place.
PS3: Late in the game, Behind Xbox360 in sales. Low Volume. Tiered price. Lots of titles at launch. Waaay overpriced. Unneeded BluRay. (Why not tier it BluRay and DVD) 3rd place.
Wii: Fun, Cute, Innovative, Inexpensive, lots of launch titles. High Volume at launch. Must have. 1st place
These results are for 2006 only. PS3 will not even have enough units to match xbox360 sales thus far this year. Wii is the new tickle me elmo and will sell like mad. 2007 PS3 may take 2nd spot. Expect price wars in March to June. 2008 may even move PS3 up to 1st. (Linux platform of choice?)
My kids want a Wii. My kids are getting a Wii. My mother wants a Wii. My nieces and nephews want a Wii. My wife wants a Wii.
MS did what they had to do to get the numbers to beat Sony this year. Nintendo did what they had to do to get profits and hype up this year. Sony has done damn near everything wrong that you could imagine (Almost as if they hired old Sega execs).
How about including iTunes coupons for those songs, with the CD. Negating my need to rip the CD.
That's about the only thing that would interest me in buying CD format music again.
My use of proprietaryAdder doesn't damage my future freedom to create shinyHappyAdder. It might be foolish and inconvenience me later, but I can still write shinyHappyAdder any time I want. Stating otherwise is rhetoric.
First, let me just say, hunh?
Second, Maybe you can write shinyHappyAdder based on proprietaryAdder but I cannot. Nor can you benefit from improvements to your ProprietaryAdder made by me or anyone else.
Third, I did not state otherwise. Stallman did not state otherwise. What he states is using a "free" license is better for the user than not. That is not rhetoric, it is truth. The free license does not gaurantee the quality of the code, it guarantees your right (The User) to repair/improve/customize it.
As a developer, I see no conflict with the ideas embodied in the GPL nor the text of all approved versions so far.
Surely you will respond with a piece of rhetoric quoted from Stallman. Please try to restrict your quotes to matters relating to Software and licensing.
You should know, I agree that DRM is Evil, and it willl not be accepted as an answer.
The consequences of the 'proprietary model' are, at worst, that everything computery gets reset by 50 years or so.
The consequence of the proprietary model ar at worst, stifled innovation, outrageous cost and buggy ass code that cannot be fixed except by the corporation you bought it from.
I suppose you'd trade the new feature/security/price competitive software industry with the old one? You would be in the minority.
I have issues with the gpl, mostly that I think that copyleft is 'share dammit', where 'share please' is preferable. It sucks that some people won't share, but I'm not sure that justifies the dammit.
When I'm the one writing the code I can reserve the right to say "share Damnit". I have this right legally (with some weight) thanks to RMS and Moglen. I can hear you now and Sure I could have written my own license. But it wouldn't have the power (weight) of the GPL that covers tons of software.
What you label "rhetoric" is just an expression of his Ideals. How would you talk about the freedoms you hold dear? With unwavering conviction apparent in your speech and writing, I would hope.
Alot of people here are coming down pretty hard on ole RMS. So I will step up and come to his defense. Personally I know him not at all. I have read as many of his essays, code, speeches, interviews, emails as I come across. After much careful consideration, I have come to the conclusion that rms does/says/writes these things because he believes he is trying to stop the inevitable result of the proprietary model.
In the beginning he alone was trying to stop it. He built a foundation, a following, a suite of software, a philosophy all based on one principal FREEDOM(s). He champions these freedoms where ever he can and he is resolute and unshakable. You may disagree with him all you like. But to say he is irrelevant is a bit of a stretch. His foundation has copyrights to an assload of GPL'd code. That alone makes him relevant.
I believe his views are correct as far as they concern Proprietary software, DRM and Free speech. I use proprietary software, hell I even write a little. About the only differences in our software related ideology is I like the terms open source and free software. I prefer free, but will settle for open.
The Forbes article is a anything but journalism. Opinion Editorial page material at best, maybe.
But it is a business oriented magazine. Is free software good for business? Depends on the business, doesn't it?
Is RMS good for business? In no way can that arguement be made.
GPL3/Linux issues aside. RMS deserves his place of honour among the IT pantheon of GNODS. If you doubt this, you need to read more.
To Richard, Thanks. If ever you are in Central Florida drop me a line, dinner is on me. Keep it up, the more you piss them off the closer we are to winning.
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Wow, looks like he's getting off easier than the guys we Questioned to Death.
UBS analysts Alex Gauna and Steven Chin claim that Nintendo already made 2 million Wiis by the end of September.
Living with 2 chics, drawing comics, creates Wonderwoman, Lie Detector, some SelfHelp Theory.
Seems like a geek god of some sort.
You would prefer Yougle?
My son thinks its great IF and only if he uses a gamepad. We were big fans of Omicron:Nomad Souls, so maybe we aren't as objective as you.
Is it possible you chose-your-own suck adventure?
Not enough OpenGL,SDL developers at Ubisoft/EA/Atari and so on.
The opinions expressed by a sloshdot article do not necessarily reflect the views of Slashdot's Editors, Subscribers, Karma Whores, Trolls or ME. Every once in a while, yes. This one not so much.
I gave up my windows partition long ago and will never go back, thanks in large part to WINE, Cedega, and you guys. You have my eternal appreciation. The only time I see that damn logo is now in a VM and as rarely as I can manage. Somehow life seems just a little more peaceful.
As to the article's content. Yes Setting up a game is a bitch. Finding out what WINgames work under what conditions (Install on windows and copy directory/copy CD/NOCD crack/Registry Entries/etc....) can be excruciating. Every couple of months you have to check them again. (Please when we do this record it at the varios compatability db wikis)
Is that more or less painful than living with windows? Subjective, but as a developer/sysadmin/engineer/father it is far less painful to play/dl/buy Linux friendly games only. While constantly checking my vast library for new compatability.
This weeks wine/cedega Dissapointments ... nothing
Prince of Persia 2 ... So close Maybe next year.
FEARCombat ............No DXinput.(Guess I'll leave that 1.8gig install just sit there too)
Indigo Prophecy.... Looks like No DXinput
Incredible Hulk
I paid my Cedega subscription for 18months. No new games (that I wanted) were fixed in that time frame (and several ***HL2**cough broke and P2P became the hideous beast it is today)
Meanwhile...
WINE has gotten better with age, hunh. Without any of my money.
Free Games have gotten waaaay better.(Due in no small way to the work of people like you) I have more games on my debian box than most people have in thier entire PC & Console Library combined.
Wow, and here I thought it would be helpful to people who were reading this wondering who this man was. I found the information at the other end of these links at least informative.
My apologies for mispelling his name. I see it upset you greatly.
And no I have yet ti read the book but it is on order now.
Debian Firefox Question Asked of Chris and Mike. No Response yet. The solution in my mind is a simple no-brainer. Firefox's debian package maintainer should work for Mozilla. Mozilla keeps patches in house, approves for quality and can release FireFox under its own name in the debian format. Why is this not a viable option? Anyone? Alternative: FirefoxD, Problem Solved, No Splitting up brand Name Recognition like the current IceWeasel solution, No Trademark Problem. Why is this not a viable option? Mark? Chris? Mike?
A decision had been made [early on], because of what was an expected lifetime for these vehicles [90 days guaranteed] that we would represent the data that was received and plans created using 3 digits," Matijevic expounded. "Obviously, that's not going to work when we hit Sol 1K. Recognizing that we were going to survive that long meant coming up with a modification of all the scripts that we use routinely here on the ground to process the data and the plans in order to adapt them to a 4-digit sol number. That meant coming up with the mechanism by which we could do that, but also testing environment so that we could verify the tools could work and make sure that we caught all the problems that might arise because of this."
Jeebus, even rocket scientists are doomed to repeat the same mistakes. Remember this my developer compatriates lest we forget.
For your perusal: (Guessing the editors couldn't pick just one)
Wikipediad ea
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin's_Dangerous_I
Video Pesentation at TEDy =d_dennett&gclid=CJvOo4LXo4gCFR4IUAodOhKBVQ&flashE nabled=1
http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/tedtalksplayer.cfm?ke
Booku tion-Meanings/dp/068482471X
http://www.amazon.com/Darwins-Dangerous-Idea-Evol
HomePage
http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/~ddennett.htm
We Need an XP compatible Wine funded. Need it quick (Depending on how many more times Vista is delayed). We will of course default all searches to google and give clear choices for search MSN, Yahoo etc.. and try really hard not to do any Evil.
Don't delay the inevitable. Now would be your best time. MS cares not for corporate users choice let alone OEM users choice. Maybe this is the first step. Google can now claim "We tried to have discussions with MS and got nowhere, they left us no choice."
Kubuntu is a lovely Blue. Installs in seconds. Instant beautification, plus you get a real desktop.:)
I have a closet full of prior art. Can't wait for these new wireless ones to chuck un restricted.
But needle guns, and grenades are original?
I'm pretty damn sure that 500 years from now we'll have more advanced weapons than nails
Yeah I love those futuristic Assault rifles.
I'm willing to give up some of my freedoms and rights for a while. I have no problem with it. Also the none of my civil rights have been broken.
Some? For a while?
Surely you have seen this before
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
How can you give up inalienable rights? Which ones, and for how long? You don't know nor are you allowed to know when or which rights the government is stepping all over. If you give them the power, they WILL use it (and abuse it!)
I don't know why everyone feels the government will be listening to EVERY phone call that gets made anywhere in America. Its just not possible to monitor them all. They monitor incoming international calls from certain people and outgoing international calls to certain people. They aren't listening to you talking to your grandma and could care less about that.
So you are comfortable with a small handful of Government Heads selecting which calls/emails/IMs/Mail get monitored. What if my grandma is running for office or works at a university or is a broadcaster with differing views from the current administration. Is it still just as unlikely? (Considering she died 2 years ago, This would be some trick.)
Also the ACLU standing up and demanding that all prisoners of war, regardless of what they did be released if the evidence against them is not made public.
You mean due process, Speedy trial, the right to face your accuser and evidence against you, access to a lawyer, that stuff? Without these things you are just kidnapping people from their native lands and holding them indefinately. If you want to prosecute them, do so. Under the Laws of the United States and the Geneva Convention you are not allowed to detain people indefinately and treat them inhumanely. ACLU is an acronym for American Civil Liberties Union. They fight for OUR civil rights, and they do a bit more than protecting the one concerning Seperation of Church and State.
The ACLU has a hard enough time in the current atmosphere without chuckleheads like you volunteering to give up their rights.
BTW the easiest way to give up your rights is to emigrate. I hear Sudan is temperate this time of year.
Xbox360: Ooohh, Shiny. Gamers System Little pricey (before announced ps3 price) Tiered System, Tiered Live. 2nd place.
PS3: Late in the game, Behind Xbox360 in sales. Low Volume. Tiered price. Lots of titles at launch. Waaay overpriced. Unneeded BluRay. (Why not tier it BluRay and DVD) 3rd place.
Wii: Fun, Cute, Innovative, Inexpensive, lots of launch titles. High Volume at launch. Must have. 1st place
These results are for 2006 only. PS3 will not even have enough units to match xbox360 sales thus far this year. Wii is the new tickle me elmo and will sell like mad. 2007 PS3 may take 2nd spot. Expect price wars in March to June. 2008 may even move PS3 up to 1st. (Linux platform of choice?)
My kids want a Wii. My kids are getting a Wii. My mother wants a Wii. My nieces and nephews want a Wii. My wife wants a Wii.
MS did what they had to do to get the numbers to beat Sony this year. Nintendo did what they had to do to get profits and hype up this year. Sony has done damn near everything wrong that you could imagine (Almost as if they hired old Sega execs).
Either way, a fine generation.
I do occasionally pick up a CD at a show.
How about including iTunes coupons for those songs, with the CD. Negating my need to rip the CD. That's about the only thing that would interest me in buying CD format music again.
First, let me just say, hunh?
Second, Maybe you can write shinyHappyAdder based on proprietaryAdder but I cannot. Nor can you benefit from improvements to your ProprietaryAdder made by me or anyone else.
Third, I did not state otherwise. Stallman did not state otherwise. What he states is using a "free" license is better for the user than not. That is not rhetoric, it is truth. The free license does not gaurantee the quality of the code, it guarantees your right (The User) to repair/improve/customize it.
As a developer, I see no conflict with the ideas embodied in the GPL nor the text of all approved versions so far.
Surely you will respond with a piece of rhetoric quoted from Stallman. Please try to restrict your quotes to matters relating to Software and licensing.
You should know, I agree that DRM is Evil, and it willl not be accepted as an answer.
The consequence of the proprietary model ar at worst, stifled innovation, outrageous cost and buggy ass code that cannot be fixed except by the corporation you bought it from.
I suppose you'd trade the new feature/security/price competitive software industry with the old one? You would be in the minority.
When I'm the one writing the code I can reserve the right to say "share Damnit". I have this right legally (with some weight) thanks to RMS and Moglen. I can hear you now and Sure I could have written my own license. But it wouldn't have the power (weight) of the GPL that covers tons of software.
What you label "rhetoric" is just an expression of his Ideals. How would you talk about the freedoms you hold dear? With unwavering conviction apparent in your speech and writing, I would hope.
In the beginning he alone was trying to stop it. He built a foundation, a following, a suite of software, a philosophy all based on one principal FREEDOM(s). He champions these freedoms where ever he can and he is resolute and unshakable. You may disagree with him all you like. But to say he is irrelevant is a bit of a stretch. His foundation has copyrights to an assload of GPL'd code. That alone makes him relevant.
I believe his views are correct as far as they concern Proprietary software, DRM and Free speech. I use proprietary software, hell I even write a little. About the only differences in our software related ideology is I like the terms open source and free software. I prefer free, but will settle for open.
The Forbes article is a anything but journalism. Opinion Editorial page material at best, maybe. But it is a business oriented magazine. Is free software good for business? Depends on the business, doesn't it? Is RMS good for business? In no way can that arguement be made. GPL3/Linux issues aside. RMS deserves his place of honour among the IT pantheon of GNODS. If you doubt this, you need to read more.
To Richard, Thanks. If ever you are in Central Florida drop me a line, dinner is on me. Keep it up, the more you piss them off the closer we are to winning.
or MAD GITS. Rule: Gotta use all the letters. I had a page full of em yesterday.
Janitor cleans office
Secretary answers phone
Xerox duplicates sensitive information.
That's why you need our new and improved executive tinfoil hat. $1,499.