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Reply to Globalization, Global Warming, and Overpopulation in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]But fossil fuels are the lifeblood of out civilization and without them our civilization comes to an end. [/quote] Absolutely not. It is possible to achieve CO2 reductions up to about 50% without affecting our civilization a lot. Some of the necessary measures will no doubt be impopular, but the end of civilization? No. Let's take a look at various places of society that produce CO2: Transport: The average car currently runs about 15km a litlre. T

Reply to Why DRM is a good thing. in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="blackwhitehawk" reply="16" id="2041346"]Is it even legal to do that?? If its not its very unethical to just kill a game after 3 years and expect no one to complain.[/quote] If the "licensed not sold" tactic has failed, which is the case in 99% of software sales, consumer laws apply. The exact laws are too different between countries under .nl laws I would send a nice letter: "Dear Epic Megagames, your product is covered with a hindrance that should not be on it. Ta

Reply to Which will be the futures car? in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

Taking a look at what the car manufacturers are doing, they are all designing new engines that are a lot small than what we are used to. Volkswagen now has a 1.4l diesel providing 160 HP. FIAT is working on the return on the 2-cylinder petrol engine, their new 0.9l SGE engine will provide 110 HP, more than enough for small cars and perfect to combine with an electric engines for larger hybrid cars. Hybrids will not be for Joe Average yet, they require a lot of co

Reply to making Galciv2 access more than 2GB of memory with 32bit (no 64bit compiling and recoding necessary) in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]ho ok thanks for the explanation, I'm not used to working with pointers, well it seems to work either way but maybe I just got lucky [/quote] It is very likely a modification would appear to function correctly, because a pointer subtraction (or a comparison of pointers) over the signed/unsigned boundary is extremely rare and can only occur if the program actually uses more than 2GB of memory. However, cannot be ruled out it happens. That means a piece of software could randomly

Reply to making Galciv2 access more than 2GB of memory with 32bit (no 64bit compiling and recoding necessary) in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Seems like if it's really applicable in france then it's a hole against those new laws that forbid going against integrated anti-piracy DRMs [/quote] Depends. The software directive only allows modifying binaries to make them work on your hardware. If you remove a protection, forbidden under the copyright directive, this is only allowed if removing the protection is necessary to make the program interoperable with your machine (i.e. in case the copy protection is not compa

Reply to making Galciv2 access more than 2GB of memory with 32bit (no 64bit compiling and recoding necessary) in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="whismerhill" reply="4" id="1917143"] Quoting jalf_123, reply 3... hum well yeah it seems pointers need to be 32bit for it to work according to AMD document. I'm not a programming guru but it seems 32bit pointers are already required for 2GB ranges which would make it a non-issue ? (that's a question) [/quote] Many programs use signed computations to calculate memory ranges: I.e.: function pointer_distance(p,q:pointer):integer; begi

Reply to Activation, patches and expansions in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

What is refusing your serial number? Impulse or activate.exe? The expansions have their own exe, so they include any bugfixes, but depend on Dreadlords data files. I don't know wether some Dreadlords patches add datafiles that DA/TotA need.

Reply to Steam goes Linux in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]If your whole business model evolves around making stuff for Windows then you will for sure have a major problem if for any reason the Windows market share drops significantly. Which will probably not happen in the next 2 years but which is very possible (I'd say even very probable) within the next 5 or 10 years.[/quote] This a serious risk. Linux is a disruptive technology, what may work on Windows to make money may not work on Linux. To make money on Linux, on

Reply to Steam goes Linux in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Great screenshots! * Items circled in IE: 9 * Items circled in KPDF: 11 * Items circled in Konquerer: 16. I'm noticing a trend. [/quote] Oh yeah Mr. Fanboy. Shall I circle the full IE UI? You might have guessed that in IE I have only circled the useless cluttered items. Now please recount with the full number of items in the GUI and we talk again. I did interpret the question as a serious question why users may find Linux not har

Reply to Steam goes Linux in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Businesses and people are often conservative by nature - they generally abhor change. Doesn't mean the interface of Office 2007 is any worse - just means it's different enough that the business didn't like the idea of spending a lot of time re-training its workers. [/quote] No, the business is a bit unconventional in that it believes it should not interfere how users do their work. The users should run on their computers what they like makes them the most productive. This

Reply to Steam goes Linux in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Have you asked them if they think it's simple? Have you asked them why they think it's more simple and/or complex? Could you be more specific as to you you mean by "harder to use?" How do you use your computer? What types of usage patterns do you see in other people as they use their computers?[/quote] Yes, I did. Take a look at the screenshots below. This is a perfect example of Linux being very to easy where Windows is only mediocre. They show some very typical UI concerns, w

Reply to Steam goes Linux in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="DeadMG" reply="5" id="2027886"]DirectX deals with so much more than OpenGL. As a professional development tool, I can't comment. However for games, DirectX does 3d, but also sound, input, and similar.[/quote] It is a mistake that Windows OpenGL programs do not use DirectX. A very common way to get an OpenGL surface under Windows is a DirectDraw surface. You can swap Direct3D for OpenGL without loosing the rest of DirectX. On the other hand, you may want to get an O

Reply to Steam goes Linux in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="CobraA1" reply="18" id="2026268"]In all honesty, all of today's OSes are mature. They all perform all of the basic functionalty the user expects, and they all provide powerful APIs that the developer can use. It's mostly a matter of the UI these days. Mac OS is the easiest (from what I've heard; I haven't really tried it). Windows will be getting easier with Windows 7. Linux - well, Linux is easier than it used to be, but that's not really saying much.[/quote] I

Reply to Steam goes Linux in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="CobraA1" reply="15" id="2026079"] How many Linux file systems offer all of these features: [/quote] Now we're getting really really really of topic, but the correct answer is IBM GPFS. It's not free, but neither are server editions of Windows.

Reply to Steam goes Linux in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="mickeko" reply="5" id="2025218"]Quoting dmantione, reply 25 Fact is, professional support for Linux is way more expensive than it is for windows. I can go to forums and get excellent support for both OSes for free. [/quote] Not a fact, but a lie. For example, if you buy an official OpenSuSE package , it includes 90 days professional support. My experie

Reply to Steam goes Linux in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="mickeko" reply="20" id="2024957"]I don't need to buy a single microsoft product other than Vista/XP/Windows 7 (or whatever the flavor of the month is) to have a fully functional OS... [/quote] He made the wrong analogy. His point however, that Windows has terrible support unless you pay huge sums, is valid.

Reply to Steam goes Linux in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="CobraA1" reply="19" id="2024933"] To be honest, there's nothing really "slow" about drag and drop. The only time when it can be slow is when you have to automate a bunch of actions that are hard to automate in a GUI. If it's something as simple as copying files, then it's a single drag and drop, and a command line isn't really any faster. [/quote] Disagree. Example: cp /tmp/ninja.png ~ You cannot do this with less keyboard + mouse clicks in a GUI,

Reply to Steam goes Linux in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]I wouldn't recommend it as OS for my grandmother yet [/quote] I absolutely do. You know all those little KDE games? They are a big hit amongst older people, I have seen a few become instant gamers :) The K-menu rather easy for them to learn to understand, to make it even easier you remove a few buttons they never use. Also Konqueror and Kmail appear to be learned rather quickly. What you need to be carefull with old people

Reply to Steam goes Linux in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]As much as I like Linux, I don't think that's true. Linux is just not for everyone (yet). Even the most user friendly distributions lack the ease that Windows offers. I had several Gentoo systems running for a while and am now using Kubuntu on my desktop machine but still there is quite a lot of contact with the command line. The command line will make a LOT of people use Windows over Linux. And I don't see that chaning in the near future.[/quote] Well, that's perfectly fi

Reply to German version in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

There are German language files for download both in the GC2 library as well as on the I-mod Productions website. They are not the official versions. While my skills to understand German are not perfect I had to shake my head when looking at some of the translations, it is not really the best quality.

Reply to Steam goes Linux in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Sideshow_" reply="18" id="2021934"]That is just complete nonsense. What you're saying is that some things that call themselves linux aren't linux. You understand that not every version ships with every package? Linux is a kernel at heart, nothing more. [/quote] Not every Linux ships every package, but so is not every Linux installation an operating system usable for professional computer usage. One could call

Reply to Steam goes Linux in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="mickeko" reply="19" id="2021945"]Quoting dmantione, reply 17 You are missing the point: The problem with external tools is, that since renaming files is an OS task, if you need external tools, the OS is missing functionality. Pretty much ALL commands that make bash a useful commandline tool are external tools. Just look in your /bin directory... [/quote] That is a different interpretation of an external tool. The tools needed by a Bash script

Reply to Steam goes Linux in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="Nights Edge" reply="14" id="2021866"] The second thing: "So, how do I rename all png files on disk from naming convention xxxx_yyyy_zzzz.png to zzzz_yyyy_xxxx.png? Tell me how productive the Windows operating system is for such a task." Are you trying to imply you would just write a Bash script to rename all the png files on a disk? Think how easy it would be to spectacularly mess that up. [/quote] My experience that I don't resort to scripts tha

Reply to Steam goes Linux in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Simple, I use a file renaming tool.. I'd do *exactly* the same thing on a linux box, even though it CAN be done with a single (too complex for the average user) commandline in *both* OSes... (Windows Powershell is not the old CMD crap...) [/quote] You are missing the point: The problem with external tools is, that since renaming files is an OS task, if you need external tools, the OS is missing functionality. Even MS-DOS could be "fixed" this way (and its shortcomings

Reply to Steam goes Linux in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

Windows does not have a consistent UI. It did have it years ago, but today, even if you try to look at consistency, you will find very little. Please open Word 2008, Media Player, Internet Explorer and Wordpad, and see how consistent their UI's are. Also open a few third party applications, like Acrobat Reader, of perhaps even Impulse and look again. Don't just look at the Window appearance, also look at the great diversity in common dialogs, like File->Open. Obvio