Why wasn't OpenArena mentioned? It's a Quake 3 style game, basically the same thing as the original, but with all new models, textures, sounds, everything replaced and released under the GNU GPL to make it possible to distribute a completely Free deathmatch arena game.
Quod Libet is a fantastic GTK+-based music player designed for gigantic libraries. There are so many ways to search in it (for instance, you could search for &(genre=pop, genre=rock, #(lastplayed > 30 days)) to find every pop rock song you haven't been listening to for the last month, if you've got the tags right), so finding the tracks you're looking for shouldn't ever be a problem either.
The built in microphone is really not good enough for anyone to use for calls. I have not tried to play MP:H online, but nintendogs came bundled with my DS, and when using the sound recorder feature there, the sound was extremely fuzzy and low-quality.
Finally, Nintendo are shipping out the DS headset! Once it becomes a mainstream accessory for our little handhelds, I'm sure development on homebrew VoIP software will speed up. Actually, such software already exists; Japanese coder Moonlight's wifi VoiceChatClient. I've yet to check it out, but if it's good, I won't need to use Skype anymore for calling my girlfriend!
Not really, since most linux users also run windows. This is just from my experience, but I think I am correct, there are very few pure linux users and they probably don't play games. So the untapped market you speak of is tiny and the windows market is huge, so there is little incentive.
I've never gone back to Windows after being freed years ago, and I'm a gamer geek. Dual booting was never an option for me. I certainly don't want to be forced into giving up my freedom in order to play a couple of games, but that's kind of locked me to FPS titles. And really, that's fine, I love id Software, and the Unreal games are great too; but it's made me into even more of an avid console freak than before, thanks to the sparse selection of games when compared to what Windows has. (Yes, I do know about Cedega, but it's far from perfect.)
Oh well, Nintendo DS and Wii satisfy my needs anyway!
You had to launch BeOS as an application within Windows, while this method still makes you fire up Debian in the bootloader before entering Windows, apparently.
I wouldn't say Google are inconsistent, how come they should call it tags if they think it should be labels? I have never heard of any W3C recommendation of the word 'tag' either, so anyone implenting this feature should be able to decide for themselves.
I can see both Sony and Microsoft finding ways to clone the Wiimote and add it's functionality to their games. Nintendo's best bet could be to prove the technology and then to license it to Sony and Microsoft. They could get a slice of the profits from all three consoles. I'd think that they are more likely to just use the Wii remote as it is. People have already proven that they can get it working on PCs, so how much further do Microsoft and Sony need to go to get it to work on their systems? They'd only need to release an 'interface device' [read: bluetooth host controller], possibly have a third party release it for legal reasons. That wouldn't magically add motion sensing functionality to their games, now would it?
I installed Vista RC1 on a relatively new desktop to check out what'd been done on it, and created a 9 GiB partition to put it on. Vista ate it all, and immediately started complaining about not having enough space. Yes, it had used all of that space, and it would probably use even more if it had the chance to do so.
The computer I use now is a laptop, and I don't have more than 54 GiB total space on it. I'm running GNU/Linux, and the system plus all the applications I've put on it after initial install don't use more than 4 GiB. If I were to run Vista here, there would be a huge cut in space for my files.
Aria of Sorrow (GBA) actually had something of a storyline.
Not something to base a movie on, though.
The story elements were only there to wrap the whole game together, making progress more visible for the players, and also give them a few seconds break before going back to killing beasts.
More hesitant to exterminate us? One of the first pictures I saw on there was the O RLY owl, so maybe we'll trick them into thinking there's no intelligent life here, and keep away for that reason.
What we're talking about here is minor revisions, akin to the auto-updates that Miscrosoft provides. Every time they send one of those I don't have to reinstall any drivers at all.
How many times have you installed kernel upgrades via Windows Update?
Oh yeah, let's show those Redmond bastards that we hate that stupid DRM, by using the DRM-loving Apple's products instead, that'll teach them!! Apple being a minor company compared to Microsoft, makes it just fine to be doing the same thing we are boycotting Windows Vista for! We'll vote with our wallets!
Did you read anything of this entry? It's about the ISPs trying to restrict encrypted BitTorrent usage. ISPs don't want people to use bandwith hogging applications/protocols (P2P), because they're all overselling, and such downloading customers use too much bandwith for their current pricing.
Even if you installed those GNU tools into your Windows system, the Windows kernel wouldn't be using those instead of the core tools Microsoft are shipping. They'd be installed, but not be required to run your OS. Is it that hard to understand? Linux ain't usable without any decent core utilities to work with.
Your arguments are in my opinion void. The BSD systems are mostly using BSD utilities, and Debian's GNU-running systems do credit the GNU project. I assume Solaris uses the BSD utilities as well, being BSD-derivative. Nexenta, a GNU/OpenSolaris system, does give credit. No Windows system uses the GNU utilities in its core system. Mac OS X is a name for the complete operating system, not the kernel, just like Debian or Ubuntu are.
You have missed the reason why Stallman wants people to refer to the operating system as GNU/Linux.
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Why wasn't OpenArena mentioned? It's a Quake 3 style game, basically the same thing as the original, but with all new models, textures, sounds, everything replaced and released under the GNU GPL to make it possible to distribute a completely Free deathmatch arena game.
Familiarity? What? So, if I say Mr. Miyamoto, then that too implies that I'm familiar with him. It's basically the same thing.
Quod Libet is a fantastic GTK+-based music player designed for gigantic libraries. There are so many ways to search in it (for instance, you could search for &(genre=pop, genre=rock, #(lastplayed > 30 days)) to find every pop rock song you haven't been listening to for the last month, if you've got the tags right), so finding the tracks you're looking for shouldn't ever be a problem either.
But Synaptic could do it as well, you know. "Ha ha."
Yeah, except DD-WRT isn't based on OpenWRT at all.
The built in microphone is really not good enough for anyone to use for calls. I have not tried to play MP:H online, but nintendogs came bundled with my DS, and when using the sound recorder feature there, the sound was extremely fuzzy and low-quality.
Finally, Nintendo are shipping out the DS headset! Once it becomes a mainstream accessory for our little handhelds, I'm sure development on homebrew VoIP software will speed up. Actually, such software already exists; Japanese coder Moonlight's wifi VoiceChatClient. I've yet to check it out, but if it's good, I won't need to use Skype anymore for calling my girlfriend!
Not really, since most linux users also run windows. This is just from my experience, but I think I am correct, there are very few pure linux users and they probably don't play games. So the untapped market you speak of is tiny and the windows market is huge, so there is little incentive.
I've never gone back to Windows after being freed years ago, and I'm a gamer geek. Dual booting was never an option for me. I certainly don't want to be forced into giving up my freedom in order to play a couple of games, but that's kind of locked me to FPS titles. And really, that's fine, I love id Software, and the Unreal games are great too; but it's made me into even more of an avid console freak than before, thanks to the sparse selection of games when compared to what Windows has. (Yes, I do know about Cedega, but it's far from perfect.)
Oh well, Nintendo DS and Wii satisfy my needs anyway!
You had to launch BeOS as an application within Windows, while this method still makes you fire up Debian in the bootloader before entering Windows, apparently.
I wouldn't say Google are inconsistent, how come they should call it tags if they think it should be labels? I have never heard of any W3C recommendation of the word 'tag' either, so anyone implenting this feature should be able to decide for themselves.
You use the Wiimote as a pointer, just like in the menus!
I thought VC had gotten that functionality, but I could be mixing it with the suspend feature.
I'd think that they are more likely to just use the Wii remote as it is. People have already proven that they can get it working on PCs, so how much further do Microsoft and Sony need to go to get it to work on their systems? They'd only need to release an 'interface device' [read: bluetooth host controller], possibly have a third party release it for legal reasons. That wouldn't magically add motion sensing functionality to their games, now would it?
I installed Vista RC1 on a relatively new desktop to check out what'd been done on it, and created a 9 GiB partition to put it on. Vista ate it all, and immediately started complaining about not having enough space. Yes, it had used all of that space, and it would probably use even more if it had the chance to do so.
The computer I use now is a laptop, and I don't have more than 54 GiB total space on it. I'm running GNU/Linux, and the system plus all the applications I've put on it after initial install don't use more than 4 GiB. If I were to run Vista here, there would be a huge cut in space for my files.
Aria of Sorrow (GBA) actually had something of a storyline. Not something to base a movie on, though. The story elements were only there to wrap the whole game together, making progress more visible for the players, and also give them a few seconds break before going back to killing beasts.
You're an evangelist, and yet use Windows? I sense a contradiction.
But Ubuntu is a GNOME-based distribution, and after looking at that link, Strigi is obviously so far best suited for KDE.
More hesitant to exterminate us? One of the first pictures I saw on there was the O RLY owl, so maybe we'll trick them into thinking there's no intelligent life here, and keep away for that reason.
Same browser, same OS, no crash.
Oh yeah, let's show those Redmond bastards that we hate that stupid DRM, by using the DRM-loving Apple's products instead, that'll teach them!! Apple being a minor company compared to Microsoft, makes it just fine to be doing the same thing we are boycotting Windows Vista for! We'll vote with our wallets!
Are you joking? The Xbox uses pretty standard PC hardware.
Did you read anything of this entry? It's about the ISPs trying to restrict encrypted BitTorrent usage. ISPs don't want people to use bandwith hogging applications/protocols (P2P), because they're all overselling, and such downloading customers use too much bandwith for their current pricing.
He was talking about TFA, not Blogger.
Even if you installed those GNU tools into your Windows system, the Windows kernel wouldn't be using those instead of the core tools Microsoft are shipping. They'd be installed, but not be required to run your OS. Is it that hard to understand? Linux ain't usable without any decent core utilities to work with.
Your arguments are in my opinion void. The BSD systems are mostly using BSD utilities, and Debian's GNU-running systems do credit the GNU project. I assume Solaris uses the BSD utilities as well, being BSD-derivative. Nexenta, a GNU/OpenSolaris system, does give credit. No Windows system uses the GNU utilities in its core system. Mac OS X is a name for the complete operating system, not the kernel, just like Debian or Ubuntu are.
You have missed the reason why Stallman wants people to refer to the operating system as GNU/Linux.