What you are proposing is a perfect example of "Doing the right thing for the wrong reason.". Your intentions and motives are good enough and hard to argue with on an emotional level but you are going to be committing a far greater crime by following through with this.
I agree with you on almost all of your points, though I have to disagree on cmake. Compared to autotools it's wicked fast, it's far more platform independant, and it makes life much easier for the developer. Autotools was always a complete pain in the ass but with cmake I can spend my time actually coding instead of hacking together a build system.
Incorrect. Their "artificial" nature has no bearing on their purpose. In America, publicly traded companies exist to serve their shareholders and are legally required to do so.
You seem to be an incredibly dense individual so I'll try to explain this as bluntly as possible.
"real positions on issues that actually matter" This is your opinion. They do not share it. You are not the supreme dictator of who is, and is not a political party.
You may not value their ideas as much as they do, but that is certainly no ground for asserting that they are not a "real" (whatever that's supposed to mean in this context...) political party.
I could assert that Socialist parties are not "real" parties because "It's just a bunch of people that want to live off the system for free, regardless of any other consequences", but I would be terribly unjustified in doing so.
Wolf3d, Doom, and Duke Nukem 3D all used raycasting engines instead of the modern polygon way of doing it (which is what Quake used). The distorted tilting wasn't to save processor cycles necessarily as much as it was a limitation of what raycasting engines can do.
Actually, only Duke Nukem 3d did that, Doom and Wolf3d forgo looking up and down entirely (though you can find Doom engines around today that can do it).
Urban Terror isn't a clone of CS, it's origins are the Quake 2 mod "Action Quake 2" from 1998. The first beta release of CS was in 1999. Furthermore they feature entirely different styles of gameplay, their only real simularity is they both feature realistic weapon models.
Compounding that sad fact is Quake Live seems to preform much worse than the original. Sure it still works fine on newer machines but just try playing it on that 2000-era PC that you used to use for Quake 3 back in the day. When I play I try to keep my fps locked down at 125 but that can actually be non-trivial with Quake Live.
It's been mentioned a billion times here already, but remeber the Sony rootkit?
Thats right, autorun from a CD that decidely did not have the users best interest in mind. You must remember that software installers are not the only things distributed on CDs.
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If you just need something to scan for windows boxes, look into ClamAV.
However antivirus for linux is worthless for anything but scanning for windows viruses and always will be.
What you are proposing is a perfect example of "Doing the right thing for the wrong reason.". Your intentions and motives are good enough and hard to argue with on an emotional level but you are going to be committing a far greater crime by following through with this.
It's called sarcasm and hyperbole son.
I agree with you on almost all of your points, though I have to disagree on cmake. Compared to autotools it's wicked fast, it's far more platform independant, and it makes life much easier for the developer. Autotools was always a complete pain in the ass but with cmake I can spend my time actually coding instead of hacking together a build system.
Society does not spontaneously create corporations, individuals create corporations for their own personal gain.
Incorrect. Their "artificial" nature has no bearing on their purpose. In America, publicly traded companies exist to serve their shareholders and are legally required to do so.
The only responsibility Microsoft has is to it's own shareholders.
The CDDL is an OSI approved, Free Software, Copyleft license. It may be incompatible with the GPL but I'd hardly cite it as a reason to not like Sun.
That could only make sense to someone that has no idea of what KDE actually is.
My T60p thinkpad does.
Yes, you need to think different here
I don't want to think different to do something I've been doing perfectly fine since the mid-nineties. I have more important things to do.
You seem to be an incredibly dense individual so I'll try to explain this as bluntly as possible.
"real positions on issues that actually matter" This is your opinion. They do not share it. You are not the supreme dictator of who is, and is not a political party.
War is hell, the bathroom is that way.
Of course not, it's "cyber-liberation"! ;)
You may not value their ideas as much as they do, but that is certainly no ground for asserting that they are not a "real" (whatever that's supposed to mean in this context...) political party.
I could assert that Socialist parties are not "real" parties because "It's just a bunch of people that want to live off the system for free, regardless of any other consequences", but I would be terribly unjustified in doing so.
Wolf3d, Doom, and Duke Nukem 3D all used raycasting engines instead of the modern polygon way of doing it (which is what Quake used). The distorted tilting wasn't to save processor cycles necessarily as much as it was a limitation of what raycasting engines can do.
Actually, only Duke Nukem 3d did that, Doom and Wolf3d forgo looking up and down entirely (though you can find Doom engines around today that can do it).
Har har har
On the plus side, probably one of the funnier spelling nazi comments I've seen in a while. ;)
Urban Terror isn't a clone of CS, it's origins are the Quake 2 mod "Action Quake 2" from 1998. The first beta release of CS was in 1999. Furthermore they feature entirely different styles of gameplay, their only real simularity is they both feature realistic weapon models.
Compounding that sad fact is Quake Live seems to preform much worse than the original. Sure it still works fine on newer machines but just try playing it on that 2000-era PC that you used to use for Quake 3 back in the day. When I play I try to keep my fps locked down at 125 but that can actually be non-trivial with Quake Live.
"1.5.2 completely destroyed my gentoo X a few months ago when I tried installing kde-4.2. Apparently fglrx didn't support 1.5.x yet?!"
Well thar's your problem, that's like The Perfect Storm, linux edition!
I jest, I jest...
Why the hell should a torrent client be part of a game engine?
It's been mentioned a billion times here already, but remeber the Sony rootkit?
Thats right, autorun from a CD that decidely did not have the users best interest in mind. You must remember that software installers are not the only things distributed on CDs.
Hasn't touch typing been tought in public schools for the past 50 years or so now? I know I at least had several courses in it over the years.
WHO's on first.
You're right, that was racist of him to say that.
Oh wait...