No one ever said the war would be easy. Thats how war is, you have your good days and your bad days. Its good times like these that we should be thankful we are winning this war, for who knows what the future may hold. May god have mercy on all of us.
I just picked this up today and its great! Lots to do so far, i've just been focusing on the main quest. It runs just fine on my old system too (Athlon Xp 2500, 1GB Ram, 9600 Pro 128MB).
I would suggest anyone interested pick it up!
I think the most I would spend is probably $250 or so. At the rate graphic cards die off, a $250 card would be worth well over $100 less just a year later. It makes more sense to buy two cheap cards every year, insead of one $600 card every other year.
This is not necessarily true. One of open source's philosophies is that all bugs are shallow if enough eyes look upon them. If you read The Cathedral and The Bazaar, it makes this point. This is the case with Firefox since it is open source. Whereas with IE we can only find bugs by random chance...
RedHat is still free, they release all their source code to their FTP server. You can compile it all by hand and its the same thing. CentOS does this for you already. OpenOffice is pretty much StarOffice, so yes, its free too. And Linux as I mentioned is not run by a company, its by the people.
And we all know that you can't play a game that looks like its from the 90's. Thats why DOOM sucked, it looked so 90's ish. Half Life way too 90's ish. Everquest, same thing. Starcraft. Warcraft. Damn 90's. Bad graphics made all those games suck.
Open source, and Linux for that matter, are what we in the states call "grass roots" movements. Meaning, they are started for the people, by the people. Windows is not by the people and its not for the people, its by Microsoft and for Microsoft. That means that they have their best intentions at...