I'm personally holding out for a Pandora, assuming it doesn't get delay for too much longer. Much more powerful hardware and a truly free software handheld console, I can't wait:)
To the developers, at least, marketshare is absolutely irrelevant to their efforts. With some exceptions, the GNU/Linux systems is largely built to benefit the developers themselves, and if other people find it useful, good for them.
This is the company that has tried to convince the world that an operating system is not simply a platform to run applications, but it is something to experience with wonderful vistas... they have largely succeeded.
Having a column of text 1600px wide is not very readable.
There's a magical thing about computers these days -- we have resizable windows. Can't read 1600px wide text well? Don't maximize your browser window then!
I don't know what you're smoking, but I'm using some shitty Gateway laptop (the ML6720 if you must know), it doesn't even work with the Windows it came preinstalled with; but install Debian 5 and, lo!, everything works perfectly without tweaking/patching/whatever; sound, 3D acceleration, sleep/hibernate, etc. Amazing isn't it?
Something similar happened to me recently; someone was asking me about a new computer, I went to NewEgg, put all the components needed on a nice list, and then they ended up just buying a prebuilt at the store anyway, and I was stuck for 9 hours getting rid of crapware. On the bright side, it took me more time to get a computer usable for them with a prebuilt than a from-scratch build, which meant more money:)
3D Realms is Apogee Software, Inc., but is not Apogee Software, LLC (the one making the Duke Nukem Trilogy); they licensed the name and logo from 3DR/Apogee Inc, but they are not the same company.
The existence of MS Windows does not detract anything from his point. It only serves to demonstrate that Microsoft has not learned the lesson.
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Yes (in fact, I've already bought Duke3D and Rise of the Triad from them), but their selection of Apogee games is quite small. Blake Stone, Duke Nukem 3D + Manhattan, Rise of the Triad; all great games, but it pales in comparison to the entire Apogee catalog. Not to mention the whole downloadable games vs boxed copies issue, but that's not really relevant to the conversation:)
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this is actually the part that's concerning me most; Apogee/3D Realms actually has a good backlot of games which were sold on the website directly (3drealms.com seems to be suffering a Slashdot effect atm). I have only a few, but it would be great if the others were still available. They did make a few of the older and unsellable games available as freeware, but other than that, the entire catalog was available for sale, so I'm mostly wondering what's going to happen to these.
OK-- I guess the second-hand market is always going to be there, but having the ability to always get fresh, original copies was nice.
It displays it because of the updated *.pk3 files necessary to play the game with this engine (the pak0.pk3 cannot be used alone, by even the last id Software revisions of the engine). These files are not free software, and the old EULA still applies to them.
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unconfirmed in seattle: http://netalyzr.icsi.berkeley.edu/restore/id=4b65b6fc-21491-2181f4fc-478a-4498-9b26
Understatement of the year.
No wait, Microsoft Windows isn't nearly as open of a project as Debian GNU/Linux.
http://justfuckinggoogleit.com/search.pl?query=microsoft+bing
I'm personally holding out for a Pandora, assuming it doesn't get delay for too much longer. Much more powerful hardware and a truly free software handheld console, I can't wait :)
Whether the comment was intended to be funny, I find this to actually be a serious issue...
To the developers, at least, marketshare is absolutely irrelevant to their efforts. With some exceptions, the GNU/Linux systems is largely built to benefit the developers themselves, and if other people find it useful, good for them.
This is the company that has tried to convince the world that an operating system is not simply a platform to run applications, but it is something to experience with wonderful vistas... they have largely succeeded.
There's a magical thing about computers these days -- we have resizable windows. Can't read 1600px wide text well? Don't maximize your browser window then!
that was immediately reminded of Geordi's visor?
Let's all switch to qvwm! hey, with some minor tweaking, it should be possible to even make it look just like Vista :-)
I don't know what you're smoking, but I'm using some shitty Gateway laptop (the ML6720 if you must know), it doesn't even work with the Windows it came preinstalled with; but install Debian 5 and, lo!, everything works perfectly without tweaking/patching/whatever; sound, 3D acceleration, sleep/hibernate, etc. Amazing isn't it?
Something similar happened to me recently; someone was asking me about a new computer, I went to NewEgg, put all the components needed on a nice list, and then they ended up just buying a prebuilt at the store anyway, and I was stuck for 9 hours getting rid of crapware. On the bright side, it took me more time to get a computer usable for them with a prebuilt than a from-scratch build, which meant more money :)
An ATM is not a military or government facility.
It's illegal to download it no matter what. The only legal way to have a ROM image is if you own a SNES cartridge copying device.
It's a full-blown x86 emulator. It works on PowerPC and everything.
Already done. Use dd to copy the disk images, and use imgmount to mount the disk images.
3D Realms is Apogee Software, Inc., but is not Apogee Software, LLC (the one making the Duke Nukem Trilogy); they licensed the name and logo from 3DR/Apogee Inc, but they are not the same company.
When the legislators ask why it isn't working, it's because they forgot the optional, but highly recommended, libfactualcorrectness package.
Probably because your user agent has changed, and they detect that.
The existence of MS Windows does not detract anything from his point. It only serves to demonstrate that Microsoft has not learned the lesson.
Yes (in fact, I've already bought Duke3D and Rise of the Triad from them), but their selection of Apogee games is quite small. Blake Stone, Duke Nukem 3D + Manhattan, Rise of the Triad; all great games, but it pales in comparison to the entire Apogee catalog. Not to mention the whole downloadable games vs boxed copies issue, but that's not really relevant to the conversation :)
this is actually the part that's concerning me most; Apogee/3D Realms actually has a good backlot of games which were sold on the website directly (3drealms.com seems to be suffering a Slashdot effect atm). I have only a few, but it would be great if the others were still available. They did make a few of the older and unsellable games available as freeware, but other than that, the entire catalog was available for sale, so I'm mostly wondering what's going to happen to these.
OK-- I guess the second-hand market is always going to be there, but having the ability to always get fresh, original copies was nice.
"sudo aptitude install virtualbox-ose"
Install 8.10 and the guest additions, enable seamless mode, boom, it's the exact same thing Microsoft is doing with Windows XP on Windows 7
It displays it because of the updated *.pk3 files necessary to play the game with this engine (the pak0.pk3 cannot be used alone, by even the last id Software revisions of the engine). These files are not free software, and the old EULA still applies to them.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but Google lost the franchise wars against AltaVista.