I'm impressed. Sounds like an easy hand out to potential customers. Smart, and effective I bet.
Not all Solidworks' customers want a hand out. I actually want to pay them for a full license for an Ubuntu port. But they'd rather hand them out to Windows users for free than take my money.
This actually makes sense. The most important thing for a software company to be successful is to have people who know how to use their software. Which is why student prices and Learning Editions exist. And there have been reports that some laid off workers are starting their own companies, so getting your software into the hands of those people would be a smart move, too.
My local Solidworks distributor is a moron in this regard. He insists that students pay $400 for a license. And the company won't sell to me directly. I don't think that SW even has our local language support, so I will probably buy the $99 student version from a foreign vendor.
I should also mention that when I went to my faculty's computer help desk to ask about a student version, they gave me two options: 1) Pool with 9 other students who would be willing to share a license (I have no idea how this would work). 2) Pirate it. The student assistant was even willing to give me the disk.
It's actually cost effective to freely distribute your software to people who want to learn it.
It's like someone figured out that someone will eventually pay for a license for software you are good at using.
That may well be, but here I am with an Ubuntu machine and I'm willing to pay for another full Solidworks license if they will release for this platform. They _could_ be making money off me, but they'd rather give the software away for free then let me pay them for a Linux port. Luckily, SW 2006 runs fine in Virtual Box, and I can open it's window alone, without having the whole XP desktop visible.
Really? I figure that a few seconds would be enough for get a measly cache written to disk. Even if it is to an "emergency sector" specifically designated for the role, which could be used to write the data properly later.
thats what sun is spending money on before its taken over?
Do you expect all development and innovation to stop the moment one mentions the word IBM? I'm glad to see Sun innovating and proving that their technology is reliable.
As a Linux user I am used to laptops and desktops never quite working because the BIOS power management only works with Windows.
I have not had that type of problem on a desktop since around 2003-2004, nor on any laptop sold in the past two years. What distros are you using? I have been installing Fedora and Kubuntu and it has been a long time since I have had troubles with base hardware. Webcams and printers are another matter, but Ubuntu has most of them covered now, too.
If you need more than that -- and you really, probably don't -- you have to do special things, such as running an OS that never, ever, ever crashes and putting a special capacitor in the system so the OS can flush everything to disk before the computer loses power in an outage.
Why _isn't_ there such a capacitor in the system? How about doing the caching in the hard drive's memory, and having a large capacitor on the drive itself. For all the system knows, once the data's gone over the SATA connection it's as good as written. And with a small redundant power supply on the drive, that may well be possible.
Say someone posted a list identifying all CIA agents.
Actually, this is the first time I've found myself on the other side of the fence. If a list of _human_beings_ were published on wikileaks, I would be all for taking it down. I don't care what those humans have done, do, or may do. Wikileaks should not endanger real living humans.
Why is parent modded troll? I've been using KDE since 2001 and although I love the DE very much (and have filed over 200 bugs, participated in over 300 more), the current version completely lacks polish. There are glaring visual bugs, chopped text, and RTL issues all over the places. Worse, most of these bugs are marked as FIXED when they are excused as Qt bugs. The KDE devs don't use the UPSTREAM mark at all. Most of these bugs have tens of dupes, in particular regarding the icons (marked as UPSTREAM in Qt): https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158094
While people stop to drool over my KDE 4.2 installation at university, if I show it off for more than 10 seconds I have to start making excuses as to why this or that does not work. That was fine for KDE 4.0 and 4.1 which KDE said was not intended for end users. It is not acceptable for KDE 4.2 which KDE markets as ready for end users.
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Did you write to them and tell them that? Here is the address:
http://www.solidworks.com/pages/company/SolidWorksOfficeWorldwide.html
Coupled with Excel? What do you mean?
No, Solidworks does not work in Wine. An older version does run in Crossover, however.
Did you bother asking if Daz run on Linux? Here is their Contact Us page:
http://www.daz3d.com/i.x/support/rnlogin/-/?p_sid=25DHD-uj&p_accessibility=&p_redirect=&p_lva=&p_sp=&p_li=&p_next_page=ask.php
Now go and ask for it. If we do not express interest in having commercial software ported to Linux, obviously the software houses won't port it.
I'm impressed. Sounds like an easy hand out to potential customers. Smart, and effective I bet.
Not all Solidworks' customers want a hand out. I actually want to pay them for a full license for an Ubuntu port. But they'd rather hand them out to Windows users for free than take my money.
"You" should not be capitalized except at the normal places for any word.
Apparently the AC is a capitalist.
This actually makes sense. The most important thing for a software company to be successful is to have people who know how to use their software. Which is why student prices and Learning Editions exist. And there have been reports that some laid off workers are starting their own companies, so getting your software into the hands of those people would be a smart move, too.
My local Solidworks distributor is a moron in this regard. He insists that students pay $400 for a license. And the company won't sell to me directly. I don't think that SW even has our local language support, so I will probably buy the $99 student version from a foreign vendor.
I should also mention that when I went to my faculty's computer help desk to ask about a student version, they gave me two options:
1) Pool with 9 other students who would be willing to share a license (I have no idea how this would work).
2) Pirate it. The student assistant was even willing to give me the disk.
It's actually cost effective to freely distribute your software to people who want to learn it.
It's like someone figured out that someone will eventually pay for a license for software you are good at using.
That may well be, but here I am with an Ubuntu machine and I'm willing to pay for another full Solidworks license if they will release for this platform. They _could_ be making money off me, but they'd rather give the software away for free then let me pay them for a Linux port. Luckily, SW 2006 runs fine in Virtual Box, and I can open it's window alone, without having the whole XP desktop visible.
Wasn't there a user with the username "new here"? I can't seem to pull up his page.
In a post from 2002, SexyKellyOsbourne did it and has no achievement for it.
+5 Trolls are not so uncommon:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=97784&cid=8356932
http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/04/04/05/2037238.shtml?tid=141&tid=176&tid=188
http://slashdot.org/yro/02/03/17/2333207.shtml?tid=109
http://interviews.slashdot.org/interviews/03/05/11/1959247.shtml
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/22/1842215
http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/02/10/30/1345214.shtml?tid=156
But then you'd never get it...
You must be new here. No one here gets any.
*head asplodes*
You must be new here. Fixed that for you!
That's rather telling. "DRM is bad. DRM is what stops me from stealing software." Nice to see you address the issue directly, at that.
Sun equipment... tested by a gigantic mechanical shaker... powered by... Windows??
Did anyone else notice that the control system for the Earth Quake simulator is apparently running Windows?
I did just notice, and came mention it. You would think Windows would be the last thing featured in such an obvious slashdvertisement.
"Goo" for Game Object Obfuscation?!? Why not simply Controled Update Management?
Thanks, I'll try that when the time comes to upgrade the hard drive in my netbook.
Really? I figure that a few seconds would be enough for get a measly cache written to disk. Even if it is to an "emergency sector" specifically designated for the role, which could be used to write the data properly later.
Everything stays running, but some power cords came out, some screws worked loose
How did the servers keep running without the power cords? Or do they refer to power cords on the UPS's?
For that matter, since when does /. have video in TFS?!? Try the link... it points to itself!
thats what sun is spending money on before its taken over?
Do you expect all development and innovation to stop the moment one mentions the word IBM? I'm glad to see Sun innovating and proving that their technology is reliable.
As a Linux user I am used to laptops and desktops never quite working because the BIOS power management only works with Windows.
I have not had that type of problem on a desktop since around 2003-2004, nor on any laptop sold in the past two years. What distros are you using? I have been installing Fedora and Kubuntu and it has been a long time since I have had troubles with base hardware. Webcams and printers are another matter, but Ubuntu has most of them covered now, too.
I know my power bill would probably be $20-$30 less if I turned my computer off when it wasn't in use.
"If"? Why don't you?
we were originally a penal colony
As a non-native English speaker, I entirely misinterpreted that. I've never known Australians to be dicks, for that matter, just loudmouths.
If you need more than that -- and you really, probably don't -- you have to do special things, such as running an OS that never, ever, ever crashes and putting a special capacitor in the system so the OS can flush everything to disk before the computer loses power in an outage.
Why _isn't_ there such a capacitor in the system? How about doing the caching in the hard drive's memory, and having a large capacitor on the drive itself. For all the system knows, once the data's gone over the SATA connection it's as good as written. And with a small redundant power supply on the drive, that may well be possible.
Say someone posted a list identifying all CIA agents.
Actually, this is the first time I've found myself on the other side of the fence. If a list of _human_beings_ were published on wikileaks, I would be all for taking it down. I don't care what those humans have done, do, or may do. Wikileaks should not endanger real living humans.
It would be easier if Kindle's UI tweaks were adopted back into the 4.x series.
Please elaborate, I'll file the ideas.
Why is parent modded troll? I've been using KDE since 2001 and although I love the DE very much (and have filed over 200 bugs, participated in over 300 more), the current version completely lacks polish. There are glaring visual bugs, chopped text, and RTL issues all over the places. Worse, most of these bugs are marked as FIXED when they are excused as Qt bugs. The KDE devs don't use the UPSTREAM mark at all. Most of these bugs have tens of dupes, in particular regarding the icons (marked as UPSTREAM in Qt):
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158094
While people stop to drool over my KDE 4.2 installation at university, if I show it off for more than 10 seconds I have to start making excuses as to why this or that does not work. That was fine for KDE 4.0 and 4.1 which KDE said was not intended for end users. It is not acceptable for KDE 4.2 which KDE markets as ready for end users.