Happily using and supporting the games that THEY helped to make work but not acknowledging their contributions is the stabbing in the back that I refer to.
I'm sick of these halfwitts sledging a real contributer to the gaming industry in Linux. These guys have a good history, yeah its not squeeky clean but so bloody what?!? They contributed to Loki's technology, Gavriel is on good Terms with Ryan (Icculus) and there are many other linux NATIVE technologies that owe their success in part to direct help from Transgaming.
FFS, if you don't like them then DON'T BLOODY use their product, stop stabbing the poor bastards in the back./rant over *mutter grumble* *kicks cat*
You need common sense.. If your a geek you know there is no such thing as fool proof security. You need to use your head and not make it easy to see/take.
Only half right.. Its not software that will clkosed and expensive.. and its not hardware that will be expensive..
Its services..
Everything will be "service" based.. ISP's will merge (like they are already into the Cell phone, landline, Entertainment industry. Instead of signing up with 5 different companies for each "service" you will sign up with one... and they will supply everything).
Then after another 10 years of that.. the "Cyber punk" or "Neuromancer" type corporations will start to "buy" people... you won't apply for jobs, you'll be born into them. mark my words.. this is how it will come to be.
Not only that but there are plenty of Windows OS bits that were not made by MS The new firewall in XP is made by Ca from memory and Veritas made the crappy backup software in NT/2000....
Mod this guy up.. he's speaking for more than just himself.
I'll add to it by saying that The education system doesn't work for all people.. and that some of us learn better and faster by DOING.
Also.. you'll probably find that you pay attention ALL the time were as most other people go through life only using their eyes ears and brains when they have to... but using their mouth ALL THE TIME.
lastly, remember that no matter how good you are or think you are... there is always, ALWAYS someone better than you out there and if you strive to BE that person then you'll never go to far wrong in life.
Inventor of Linux is Portland-bound TOOLS
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I thought he didn't invent it.. he CREATED it...:-P
I also have this issue.. and compound that with my car, a 180sx SR20DET (bright red and damned quick sports car). I hate leaving things in my car as I have no illusion as to how secure it is, and with all the gear I seem to cart around... keeping it all on me at all times just isn't going to happen.
So I'm a target if I'm walking, driving or my car is alone... no wonder I'm a bit on the paranoid side:-P
I have never needed to be finger printed, and if thats the way you treat allies/friends/tourists, then you'll never see me spend my money in your country.
nope.. I have two long haired chihuahua's and they can growl quite deeply if they want to.
BTW, those of you that don't like cats/are alergic to cats and want a dog, Chihuahua's make excellent pets.. They don't require stuff all food, they LOVE laps and at times behave very cat like (without the supirior attitude) they don't need a LOT of maint..
If you train them right they're not yap dogs.. my two barely bark at all, and if they do, one quick word and they stop. Great pets:-)
Make sure you tell them what will happen when their server network goes down and you don't know..
Inform them on the consaquences of this policy is going to be.. then if they still don't care..:-) carry on.. god kn^H^H^H^H BOFH knows that they'll change their tune when the excrament hits the whirling blades....;-)
* Its been done!
RTCW:ET
It was a killer game for a while
It was free
It was given away with a linux live CD and it was availible for free download for linux.
It didn't work.
Your wrong, linux needs lots of things.. and what we need from the gaming industry we're currenlty getting (we could do with more of it though).
What we need is more companies to release their games with either in the box linux binarys or do like they did for UT, and release linux binaries afterwards..
Most importantly we need Sierra to support linux.
Sierra has some of the best selling titles, but they have ALWAYS turned their back on linux.
batsards.
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Happily using and supporting the games that THEY helped to make work but not acknowledging their contributions is the stabbing in the back that I refer to.
Only one third? Name the bits that are untrue.
And the orginal story isn't?!?!
WTF is wrong with you people.. get the facts the READ them.
Transgaming is not the enemy, WE are.
I'm sick of these halfwitts sledging a real contributer to the gaming industry in Linux.
/rant over
These guys have a good history, yeah its not squeeky clean but so bloody what?!?
They contributed to Loki's technology, Gavriel is on good Terms with Ryan (Icculus) and there are many other linux NATIVE technologies that owe their success in part to direct help from Transgaming.
FFS, if you don't like them then DON'T BLOODY use their product, stop stabbing the poor bastards in the back.
*mutter grumble* *kicks cat*
You need common sense..
If your a geek you know there is no such thing as fool proof security.
You need to use your head and not make it easy to see/take.
:-P
We have Tux... they need to name it "Fux" ;-P
Only half right..
Its not software that will clkosed and expensive.. and its not hardware that will be expensive..
Its services..
Everything will be "service" based..
ISP's will merge (like they are already into the Cell phone, landline, Entertainment industry. Instead of signing up with 5 different companies for each "service" you will sign up with one... and they will supply everything).
Then after another 10 years of that.. the "Cyber punk" or "Neuromancer" type corporations will start to "buy" people... you won't apply for jobs, you'll be born into them.
mark my words.. this is how it will come to be.
Although I don't agree with DDoS attacks.. Your not going to get any sympathy from me.
I used to work with a complete F-witt that tried to modify PC's to fit hardware into slots that would NEVER take it..
ie, hacked the PCB of a 32bit PCI card to fit it in a server 64 bit slot 0.o
or hacked the plastic nodual/seperator in the AGP slot to fit an AGP pro card into it...
scary man that guy... kinda like "Wal footrot" ( http://www.oneil.com.au/footrot/ ) meets the BOfH
I mean.. I'd count that as euphoric... I'm sure most my G/F's would too (at least I hope so:-P )
actually both those games work rather well under Cedega 4.0 :-)
Not only that but there are plenty of Windows OS bits that were not made by MS
The new firewall in XP is made by Ca from memory and Veritas made the crappy backup software in NT/2000....
Mod this guy up.. he's speaking for more than just himself.
I'll add to it by saying that The education system doesn't work for all people.. and that some of us learn better and faster by DOING.
Also.. you'll probably find that you pay attention ALL the time were as most other people go through life only using their eyes ears and brains when they have to... but using their mouth ALL THE TIME.
lastly, remember that no matter how good you are or think you are... there is always, ALWAYS someone better than you out there and if you strive to BE that person then you'll never go to far wrong in life.
Inventor of Linux is Portland-bound
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BEAVERTON, ORE. - Linus Torvalds, the Finnish-born inventor of the Linux computer operating system, is Portland-bound.
I thought he didn't invent it.. he CREATED it...
I also have this issue.. and compound that with my car, a 180sx SR20DET (bright red and damned quick sports car). I hate leaving things in my car as I have no illusion as to how secure it is, and with all the gear I seem to cart around... keeping it all on me at all times just isn't going to happen.
:-P
So I'm a target if I'm walking, driving or my car is alone... no wonder I'm a bit on the paranoid side
The one thing that I HATE about Tech these days.. is that I have to delete some data..
IF this is true.. you just made an old geeks dreams come true.. (wet ones at that)
I for one welcome our new Google overlords.
Anyone know anything about this distro?
What makes it different? what it was built off? etc etc??
www.grokdoc.net works.. you just need a pasword :-P
Any news on how GrokDoc is comming along.. I really like the sound of this project.. :-)
I agree with you 101% about the attatchment size thing.. e-mail was not designed for large file transfer..
but large e-mail dbases.. that IS a good idea.. and one that fits with the idea of e-mail.
I have never needed to be finger printed, and if thats the way you treat allies/friends/tourists, then you'll never see me spend my money in your country.
Disgraceful
nope.. I have two long haired chihuahua's and they can growl quite deeply if they want to.
:-)
BTW, those of you that don't like cats/are alergic to cats and want a dog, Chihuahua's make excellent pets..
They don't require stuff all food, they LOVE laps and at times behave very cat like (without the supirior attitude) they don't need a LOT of maint..
If you train them right they're not yap dogs.. my two barely bark at all, and if they do, one quick word and they stop.
Great pets
Make sure you tell them what will happen when their server network goes down and you don't know..
:-) carry on.. god kn^H^H^H^H BOFH knows that they'll change their tune when the excrament hits the whirling blades.... ;-)
Inform them on the consaquences of this policy is going to be.. then if they still don't care..
* Its been done!
RTCW:ET
It was a killer game for a while
It was free
It was given away with a linux live CD and it was availible for free download for linux.
It didn't work.
Your wrong, linux needs lots of things.. and what we need from the gaming industry we're currenlty getting (we could do with more of it though).
What we need is more companies to release their games with either in the box linux binarys or do like they did for UT, and release linux binaries afterwards..
Most importantly we need Sierra to support linux.
Sierra has some of the best selling titles, but they have ALWAYS turned their back on linux.
batsards.