That's a pretty bold statement, I mean, no one at all? I have bought plenty of games for Windows and I fail to see the difference for me in buying for one OS or the other (though, given the choice I'd choose Linux).
Who says they're competing against Microsoft?
Aren't they just making a desktop enviroment for Unix? Wether not it looks like the Windows GUI is not the case here. Windows is a complete operating system KDE/Gnome are not.
And about competetion and Free software. Competetion in the closed sourced world is about taking over the competitors market and leaving as little room for him as possible to maximize your proif. In the Free software world coexistence is possible, one thing does not exclude the other. This is the important difference if you ask me, choice. But you probaly don't 'cause you sound like a troll to me, and so I may have been dumb to post this. But I'm drunk and all of the sudden feel like sharing my view on the internet. Such is the effect of alcohol, funny stuff that.
And, what is the supposed war between KDE and GNOME?
True, if you have an interrest in MSN you would be having IE, but it just shows their mentality towards freedom of choice. It's there shining right in your face, do as we say, this is our platform.
About that "grouping similar applications", wasn't that in gnome first? Or was it some other system that introduced it? Would be kinda cool if it was windows who "stole" this feature from an open source project, because you so often hear someone say "oh, they just stole that from windows".
Not that I'm pointing fingers at windows for this using this feature, exchanging ideas is one of the great things about open source, just funny how it often isn't "allowed" to go the other way.
Oh my, now I'm tracing off again withough actually doing my homework... so who invented this feature?
OpenGl is for 3D, hardware accelerated in most cases. SDL is just an easy interface for direct manipulation of video, audio, input and so on, (Simple DirectMedia Layer might give a hint).
Oh, excuse me, did I interrupt your trolling?
No "assertion failed" mean that I do equal "faggot". And gee, what a fine argument that is. Like.. oh no, I'd be really horrified to find out that I was gay... please. If anything, I'd be bisexual. Well, now I'm getting offtopic and feeding the trolls. Forgive me.
Well... uuuh, so it's an american site, so what? I can still choose to have to time of when the story was posted shown in other timezones. So why not the story?
I would say that my computer qualifies more as an instrument than an entry level cost.
I think it'd be more like "you need to give us $1000 to play your music here". But I have no interrest to develop for.net so I don't really care anyway.
Is it just me or does int SDL_VideoModeOK(int width, int height, int bpp, Uint32 flags) just return the current depth no matter what you type into width, height and bpp?
So I'll probaly have to ask X directly if the mode is availabe and if not, scale up the screen when i blit it.
I admit I know very little about the workings of X but I still don't get how a video card can have a limitation that makes it unable to change resolution. And how is doing it while X is running different from when it starts up? I can only see it as a limitation of the Xserver.
Ok, cool! thanks for the info. Now I'm happy, I'll shut up now... unless the default defined modes are still sparse, but again, that's the responsibility of the config tool to do right and not really an X problem.
Sorry, that was poorly written.
What I meant was that even though it's possible it's anoying that so few modes are defined by default. I have tried defining modes myself, and even found some that worked on my old card, but right now I can't get 320x200, 320x240 & 512x384 to work on my current card. Yes, these are old chunky outdated modes, but I want to use 320x200 for a game I'm making. And even if I get this to work, anyone who want's to play the game as it's supposed to be played would have to mess about with modelines. I think that's unacceptable for someone just wanting to play a game. Again, this is probaly not a big issues these days. But I still think I should be able to access any videomode available like that...*snap*... no that! *snap* *snap*
What I never liked about X is that I can't just open any video mode I like (and the card supports).
For changing depth I have to restart the X server.
Changing resolution dynamically may be possible (though not on my old card Diamond Edge, NV1 chipset, wich I don't get. The documentation said it was a hardware limitation...hmm?) but how come all supported modes aren't added to the XF86Config file by default (on my geforce2 mx anyway). Ok, so that's perhaps not really X's fault, more like the configure tool.
As for the network transparency, useful as it seems to be to many people, does it need to be tied to the video functions?
Who's to say that the distribution taking over the desktop market has to be anything like a real UNIX system? Someone could make a distribution where everything would be tuned for speed and ease of use, perhaps comprimising security, but as long as it only affects the machine it's running on it's no one's business.
What I'm trying to say is Linux isn't one thing like windows, linux is (yes, just the kernel I know) a bunch of stuff thrown together and could be made into a system working somewhat like windows. As long as everything is binary compatible everything should be fine, I think.
Too bad some idiot thinks he can pantent a basic idea... and that he's right too
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First of all let me point you to:
"KDesktop: fixed sever bug where renaming a file on the desktop would destroy it."
And have you even looked at the topic of the post? This is about the realease of KDE 2.2.1, and the changelog wasn't in the post so I find this comment very useful. Quit your moaning.
What I meant by hiding was that I have no way to tell who I'm talking to now. With a nick I could at least check older posts to get a little more insight and discover that maybe you/him/who ever isn't a total moron. I just like to have some sort of "face" on the person I'm talking to. It gives you a history.
I don't quite undestand what you mean by "dealing with the real world". And no, I don't feel superior to everyone not using Linux(or any other open source OS for that matter). And Linux isn't perfect or superior in every aspect. But it's open source, and that's the single most important reason that Linux is better in my book. I belive that's the only right way for an OS to be since everyone and everything relies on it.
I know Linux isn't the dominant desktop or even close yet but it hasn't been developed with the desktop in mind for that long and I think it's come a long way already. It's doing it's job pretty damn fine for me and I only see it going stronger.
Yeah yeah, hide behind your coward tag...
Sure, Linux may not be the most successful desktop yet, or even close. But the previous coward stated that Microsoft would crush it and I don't see that happening... unless they start fighting with patents and shit perhaps. And most of all this was about talking like we need the business people, we don't.
Name calling is so much fun eh?...
Uhm... but these things ARE seen outside our nerdy basements and Microsoft aren't exactly crushing us... trying to maybe.
Anyway, you won't get anywhere starting a sentence like that... fucking moron.
What about letting it goverments pay for it through tax money?
For the public by the public. Seems a lot more right than putting it in the hands of companies...
Why must is be written with one platform in mind? Why not use SDL and OpenGL (if you need 3D). Put the Windows, Linux etc. executables on the same cd and what is there to loose? If the games sells poorly for linux the same package could just be sold to a windows user.
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Noone buys software on Linux
That's a pretty bold statement, I mean, no one at all? I have bought plenty of games for Windows and I fail to see the difference for me in buying for one OS or the other (though, given the choice I'd choose Linux).
Who says they're competing against Microsoft?
Aren't they just making a desktop enviroment for Unix? Wether not it looks like the Windows GUI is not the case here. Windows is a complete operating system KDE/Gnome are not.
And about competetion and Free software. Competetion in the closed sourced world is about taking over the competitors market and leaving as little room for him as possible to maximize your proif. In the Free software world coexistence is possible, one thing does not exclude the other. This is the important difference if you ask me, choice. But you probaly don't 'cause you sound like a troll to me, and so I may have been dumb to post this. But I'm drunk and all of the sudden feel like sharing my view on the internet. Such is the effect of alcohol, funny stuff that.
And, what is the supposed war between KDE and GNOME?
True, if you have an interrest in MSN you would be having IE, but it just shows their mentality towards freedom of choice. It's there shining right in your face, do as we say, this is our platform.
yep
About that "grouping similar applications", wasn't that in gnome first? Or was it some other system that introduced it? Would be kinda cool if it was windows who "stole" this feature from an open source project, because you so often hear someone say "oh, they just stole that from windows".
Not that I'm pointing fingers at windows for this using this feature, exchanging ideas is one of the great things about open source, just funny how it often isn't "allowed" to go the other way.
Oh my, now I'm tracing off again withough actually doing my homework... so who invented this feature?
OpenGl is for 3D, hardware accelerated in most cases. SDL is just an easy interface for direct manipulation of video, audio, input and so on, (Simple DirectMedia Layer might give a hint).
Oh, excuse me, did I interrupt your trolling?
No "assertion failed" mean that I do equal "faggot". And gee, what a fine argument that is. Like.. oh no, I'd be really horrified to find out that I was gay... please. If anything, I'd be bisexual. Well, now I'm getting offtopic and feeding the trolls. Forgive me.
Well... uuuh, so it's an american site, so what? I can still choose to have to time of when the story was posted shown in other timezones. So why not the story?
But couldn't you print times in posts like you do with the time the post was posted so it would adapt to user settings?
I would say that my computer qualifies more as an instrument than an entry level cost. .net so I don't really care anyway.
I think it'd be more like "you need to give us $1000 to play your music here". But I have no interrest to develop for
What about the other consoles, why don't they overheat?
Is it just me or does int SDL_VideoModeOK(int width, int height, int bpp, Uint32 flags) just return the current depth no matter what you type into width, height and bpp?
So I'll probaly have to ask X directly if the mode is availabe and if not, scale up the screen when i blit it.
I admit I know very little about the workings of X but I still don't get how a video card can have a limitation that makes it unable to change resolution. And how is doing it while X is running different from when it starts up? I can only see it as a limitation of the Xserver.
Ok, cool! thanks for the info. Now I'm happy, I'll shut up now... unless the default defined modes are still sparse, but again, that's the responsibility of the config tool to do right and not really an X problem.
Sorry, that was poorly written.
What I meant was that even though it's possible it's anoying that so few modes are defined by default. I have tried defining modes myself, and even found some that worked on my old card, but right now I can't get 320x200, 320x240 & 512x384 to work on my current card. Yes, these are old chunky outdated modes, but I want to use 320x200 for a game I'm making. And even if I get this to work, anyone who want's to play the game as it's supposed to be played would have to mess about with modelines. I think that's unacceptable for someone just wanting to play a game. Again, this is probaly not a big issues these days. But I still think I should be able to access any videomode available like that...*snap*... no that! *snap* *snap*
What I never liked about X is that I can't just open any video mode I like (and the card supports).
For changing depth I have to restart the X server.
Changing resolution dynamically may be possible (though not on my old card Diamond Edge, NV1 chipset, wich I don't get. The documentation said it was a hardware limitation...hmm?) but how come all supported modes aren't added to the XF86Config file by default (on my geforce2 mx anyway). Ok, so that's perhaps not really X's fault, more like the configure tool.
As for the network transparency, useful as it seems to be to many people, does it need to be tied to the video functions?
Who's to say that the distribution taking over the desktop market has to be anything like a real UNIX system? Someone could make a distribution where everything would be tuned for speed and ease of use, perhaps comprimising security, but as long as it only affects the machine it's running on it's no one's business.
What I'm trying to say is Linux isn't one thing like windows, linux is (yes, just the kernel I know) a bunch of stuff thrown together and could be made into a system working somewhat like windows. As long as everything is binary compatible everything should be fine, I think.
Too bad some idiot thinks he can pantent a basic idea... and that he's right too
First of all let me point you to:
"KDesktop: fixed sever bug where renaming a file on the desktop would destroy it."
And have you even looked at the topic of the post? This is about the realease of KDE 2.2.1, and the changelog wasn't in the post so I find this comment very useful. Quit your moaning.
What I meant by hiding was that I have no way to tell who I'm talking to now. With a nick I could at least check older posts to get a little more insight and discover that maybe you/him/who ever isn't a total moron. I just like to have some sort of "face" on the person I'm talking to. It gives you a history.
I don't quite undestand what you mean by "dealing with the real world". And no, I don't feel superior to everyone not using Linux(or any other open source OS for that matter). And Linux isn't perfect or superior in every aspect. But it's open source, and that's the single most important reason that Linux is better in my book. I belive that's the only right way for an OS to be since everyone and everything relies on it.
I know Linux isn't the dominant desktop or even close yet but it hasn't been developed with the desktop in mind for that long and I think it's come a long way already. It's doing it's job pretty damn fine for me and I only see it going stronger.
Yeah yeah, hide behind your coward tag...
Sure, Linux may not be the most successful desktop yet, or even close. But the previous coward stated that Microsoft would crush it and I don't see that happening... unless they start fighting with patents and shit perhaps. And most of all this was about talking like we need the business people, we don't.
Name calling is so much fun eh?...
Uhm... but these things ARE seen outside our nerdy basements and Microsoft aren't exactly crushing us... trying to maybe.
Anyway, you won't get anywhere starting a sentence like that... fucking moron.
I was thinking more on contries who can afford to do so, who would then share their knowledge instead of a some company making a business out of it.
What about letting it goverments pay for it through tax money?
For the public by the public. Seems a lot more right than putting it in the hands of companies...
Why must is be written with one platform in mind? Why not use SDL and OpenGL (if you need 3D). Put the Windows, Linux etc. executables on the same cd and what is there to loose? If the games sells poorly for linux the same package could just be sold to a windows user.