I haven't had a chance to view the one reply from Tepples, but based on your information I'm wondering if the data set is valid. I guess when most people talk video games coming to Linux, they mean so from a AAA title or a top studio. I'd be curious to see statistics showing sales numbers when the cost of the game jumps over $40. My own experience and bias leads me to think that the number of Linux purchases drops significantly.
The need to have food, water, shelter, clothes, etc. The need for money is the proverbial gun being used...but you're being a bit pedantic and missing the point. People are forced to work or they literally can wind up with nothing but the clothes on their back. No individual employer anywhere forces any employee to work for them, but in a capitalist society the determination of success is highly dependent upon money (it may not be the only factor, but it's a large one). This action helps protect the rights of others in other companies by setting legal precedence. I realize it goes against the Libertarian hive-mind at Slashdot, but reality isn't Libertarian.
You're also only suggesting one store which sells primarily indie games. Indie devs are willing to target other OSes, often because their games are not as complex (speaking from a game dev point of view) they have the flexibility to choose different platforms. That's also a single store, Steam shows a great level of detail showing how small the Linux platform is. The sales aren't there. That's been the common theme that I've heard during the round table discussions in the past and it's an image Linux needs to shrug off. There's also the entire argument that DirectX is perceived to be a better supported and better liked graphics platform than OpenGL. For PC gaming of course.
I'm curious to see the data set that you're pulling from. Generally it's a small percentage of Linux users who actually pay for software, most prefer to use Open Source/free software.
I'll tell you upfront, very very few major game developers are considering Linux yet. They won't until the crowd is there and proves that people are willing to pay money for games. The probably is that your average Linux gamer is a cheapskate or a GNUStallinist who feels that everything should be 100% free and open source. The second issue is that Linux is really a fragmented market to the point where even basic testing and support on the exact same hardware can be difficult. Valve is working on making "consoles" that are setup in a standard way, but the vast majority of PC gamers don't want a console in any form. Is it possible, sure, but it's not likely.
None of this seems "revolutionary" or "magical". Some of it looks like a rip off of Amazon TV, Google Translate, and the same look as last year's model which was nothing more than a larger look of the year before that's model. What happened to Apple supposedly "leading" the way? Did the sheep cause the shepard to fall behind?
Maximum life span is the key phrase. There are extremes and are not representative of the general population. With some exceptions (things like WWI/WWII, the Plauge, and other such events influence global life expectancy averages) the world's life expectancy has increased steadily. By 2050 it's being estimated that even Africa will be seeing the average life span being around 70 years with 1st world nations topping out at 80. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
While I'm sure that I could point you towards numerous statistics and research that proves otherwise, your own statement does that for me. The vast majority of people in 1st world nations (ie "Modern") easily live to see their 21st birthday. That alone confirms that the general population lives longer -- which was the crux of my point.
We haven't had as much cancer because the average life span increased from the last few thousand years ago, dramatically increased. Most likely it was people not living long enough to develop cancer what with everything from disease, starvation, and parasites to war and other atrocities, man simply wasn't lucky to live long enough to get cancer. Those that did were probably genetically hardier as well...or rich.
Or perhaps it's to keep an air of professionalism or at least family friendliness on the site? Also you don't have a right to your viewpoints on private property/websites/whatever. As a website owner I don't have to let you speak your mind and maybe I don't care to know why you feel that black people are the superior race or that Democrats are all evil. News organizations have no duty to let "the people's voice" be heard...nor does any other organization that is not operating as a local/state/federal branch of the United States government (in the US at least...other countries may have similar or different laws).
You must not be a very good SysAdmin if you can only managed 2 days of uptime. I have Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 boxes with weeks of uptimes. In fact, the only downtimes they've had is to reboot to apply the updates. I do have a Windows 7 box that hasn't had an update (it's off network, attached to some equipment) that hasn't been rebooted in about 7 months. That outage was due to the power going out..NET has typically been a pretty stable product as well. I believe it to be the best framework out there for development. Nothing else, in my opinion, competes with the completeness and applicability that the framework provides. I think you're just trolling.
Isn't this the same company whose CEO stuck his SSN up on the commercials challenging people to steal his identity? Well they did -- 13 times to be exact.
The law of the country in which the company was based. Your personal law means diddly squat. By my law men name Noah are cast to the wolves as food. Noah, what a dumb name.
Blah. It depends on the type of work one is doing. Go ahead and spend the extra 30 minutes writing up the code to do a new form with 3 buttons, some graphical effects, and some text boxes. Then make them resize when the form changes while keeping intelligent ratios. I'll do it in a 1/4 of the time and when a bean counter compares our performance I'll have a better bonus.
I find these kinds of replies often. However I always wonder: did your parents try and get you to learn how to code or was that something you did yourself? Perhaps the whole premise of "getting kids to code" is a faulty one. The kids that WANT to code will do so on their own. Many of us started coding and it's not like we had a massive amount of push to do it. It was fascinating, empowering, and an interesting challenge. Also there's the whole idea that parents are lame and their ideas of fun are lame. Perhaps we could just let kids do what we all did: discover the real magic behind computers on our own and THEN seek out guidance versus having it thrust at us like it's a job?
How are you getting that idea? What it's most likely saying is that if a process took, say, 5 seconds before it could take as little as 1 second now. It has nothing to do with "negative" time.
> If you take out the liberal run towns with the highest gun violence, you'll find that gun deaths are indeed fairly rare.
Ah, there it is, that's the real reason for your argument. See I was missing how you were equating identity theft (which while a headache is less of a headache than death) with getting shot, but then I realized that this was your opportunity to take a jab at liberals.
You're twisting information to suite your narrative. You've also neglected to mention that (based on whatever uncited source you're claiming to get your information about gun crimes from) that Republican led states have much higher levels of crime than Democrat states. This information was based off of the analysis of the 2008 Uniform Crime Reports. You can find that analysis here: http://editions.lib.umn.edu/sm...
Of course there's also more recent studies (seen here: https://www.americanprogress.o...) that show a link between lax gun laws and higher gun crime rates. More directly it shows that states with the highest gun crimes (which are typically conservative states) have the highest crime rates. In fact Alaska, Louisiana, Montana, and Alabama rank higher (per capita) in firearm deaths than Democratic states. For comparison while all of the above states were at least 4 points above the national average of 10.26 deaths/100,000 people Illinois was ~2 points LOWER than the national average.
I suppose it's easier to just throw out random uncited sources and half-baked facts without researching the overall data. Especially when your entire goal is to slander a political view that you apparently disagree with. But the short of the long is that none of the above discussion is a valid answer on why everything should be black and white. I personally think you're just trolling -- even if it's not a conscious decision to troll.
You're off on a few case points. Google Docs is a piss poor comparison to Word and their spreadsheet offering? Fuggedaboutit. Also focusing on Windows as a universal OS does pay off. If I can write an app that runs on a phone, a laptop, a tablet, a gaming system, and a desktop without extra coding on my part -- well color me intrigued. Apps are not obsolete and it's likely the market will swing back around away from all of this insecure, slow, expensive "in-the-cloud" bullshit that everyone else called Mainframes back in the 70s and 80s. Don't get me wrong -- there's a place for "cloud"/Mainframe applications, but it's not a "solves all problems" kind of thing and the market just hasn't yet swung back around.
Wait, why? Why does that have to be so black and white? There's a world of difference between an adobe flash exploit and the availability of a gun that can mow down a large number of people in a matter of seconds.
If a specific, non-consequential word is enough to "utterly DESTROY" an argument, then it was not a good argument to begin with. Since your only rebuttal was the usage of the word then my argument remains valid. Getting hung up on presentation vs content is a good way to miss an underlying message or is an attempt to appear intellectually superior to the other person. Put simply: look for fault in what I say, not how I say it.
I suppose it's possible to get someone else's SSN and assume that identity. But even still they're paying taxes. I thought the biggest "BLURB BLURB" was the lack of paying taxes like good ol' MURICAN wealthy conservatives who throw the majority of their incomes into offshore tax shelters and don't report on them. I suppose that's the difference between a tax evasion strategy and "DEY TURK ER JERRBS".
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I haven't had a chance to view the one reply from Tepples, but based on your information I'm wondering if the data set is valid. I guess when most people talk video games coming to Linux, they mean so from a AAA title or a top studio. I'd be curious to see statistics showing sales numbers when the cost of the game jumps over $40. My own experience and bias leads me to think that the number of Linux purchases drops significantly.
The need to have food, water, shelter, clothes, etc. The need for money is the proverbial gun being used...but you're being a bit pedantic and missing the point. People are forced to work or they literally can wind up with nothing but the clothes on their back. No individual employer anywhere forces any employee to work for them, but in a capitalist society the determination of success is highly dependent upon money (it may not be the only factor, but it's a large one). This action helps protect the rights of others in other companies by setting legal precedence. I realize it goes against the Libertarian hive-mind at Slashdot, but reality isn't Libertarian.
You're also only suggesting one store which sells primarily indie games. Indie devs are willing to target other OSes, often because their games are not as complex (speaking from a game dev point of view) they have the flexibility to choose different platforms. That's also a single store, Steam shows a great level of detail showing how small the Linux platform is. The sales aren't there. That's been the common theme that I've heard during the round table discussions in the past and it's an image Linux needs to shrug off. There's also the entire argument that DirectX is perceived to be a better supported and better liked graphics platform than OpenGL. For PC gaming of course.
I'm curious to see the data set that you're pulling from. Generally it's a small percentage of Linux users who actually pay for software, most prefer to use Open Source/free software.
I'll tell you upfront, very very few major game developers are considering Linux yet. They won't until the crowd is there and proves that people are willing to pay money for games. The probably is that your average Linux gamer is a cheapskate or a GNUStallinist who feels that everything should be 100% free and open source. The second issue is that Linux is really a fragmented market to the point where even basic testing and support on the exact same hardware can be difficult. Valve is working on making "consoles" that are setup in a standard way, but the vast majority of PC gamers don't want a console in any form. Is it possible, sure, but it's not likely.
None of this seems "revolutionary" or "magical". Some of it looks like a rip off of Amazon TV, Google Translate, and the same look as last year's model which was nothing more than a larger look of the year before that's model. What happened to Apple supposedly "leading" the way? Did the sheep cause the shepard to fall behind?
Maybe fair point, but I as a motorist don't have to worry about what you're doing. 1 ton of metal > 275lbs of bicycle + man.
Maximum life span is the key phrase. There are extremes and are not representative of the general population. With some exceptions (things like WWI/WWII, the Plauge, and other such events influence global life expectancy averages) the world's life expectancy has increased steadily. By 2050 it's being estimated that even Africa will be seeing the average life span being around 70 years with 1st world nations topping out at 80. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
While I'm sure that I could point you towards numerous statistics and research that proves otherwise, your own statement does that for me. The vast majority of people in 1st world nations (ie "Modern") easily live to see their 21st birthday. That alone confirms that the general population lives longer -- which was the crux of my point.
We haven't had as much cancer because the average life span increased from the last few thousand years ago, dramatically increased. Most likely it was people not living long enough to develop cancer what with everything from disease, starvation, and parasites to war and other atrocities, man simply wasn't lucky to live long enough to get cancer. Those that did were probably genetically hardier as well...or rich.
Or perhaps it's to keep an air of professionalism or at least family friendliness on the site? Also you don't have a right to your viewpoints on private property/websites/whatever. As a website owner I don't have to let you speak your mind and maybe I don't care to know why you feel that black people are the superior race or that Democrats are all evil. News organizations have no duty to let "the people's voice" be heard...nor does any other organization that is not operating as a local/state/federal branch of the United States government (in the US at least...other countries may have similar or different laws).
If he's running Cyanogenmod (as he alludes to in his post), he knows how. The problem is that everyone stops supporting the old stuff after a while.
You must not be a very good SysAdmin if you can only managed 2 days of uptime. I have Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 boxes with weeks of uptimes. In fact, the only downtimes they've had is to reboot to apply the updates. I do have a Windows 7 box that hasn't had an update (it's off network, attached to some equipment) that hasn't been rebooted in about 7 months. That outage was due to the power going out. .NET has typically been a pretty stable product as well. I believe it to be the best framework out there for development. Nothing else, in my opinion, competes with the completeness and applicability that the framework provides. I think you're just trolling.
Isn't this the same company whose CEO stuck his SSN up on the commercials challenging people to steal his identity? Well they did -- 13 times to be exact.
http://www.wired.com/2010/05/l...
The law of the country in which the company was based. Your personal law means diddly squat. By my law men name Noah are cast to the wolves as food. Noah, what a dumb name.
Nah, it's actually a qubit...it can be on and off simultaneously.
Blah. It depends on the type of work one is doing. Go ahead and spend the extra 30 minutes writing up the code to do a new form with 3 buttons, some graphical effects, and some text boxes. Then make them resize when the form changes while keeping intelligent ratios. I'll do it in a 1/4 of the time and when a bean counter compares our performance I'll have a better bonus.
I find these kinds of replies often. However I always wonder: did your parents try and get you to learn how to code or was that something you did yourself? Perhaps the whole premise of "getting kids to code" is a faulty one. The kids that WANT to code will do so on their own. Many of us started coding and it's not like we had a massive amount of push to do it. It was fascinating, empowering, and an interesting challenge. Also there's the whole idea that parents are lame and their ideas of fun are lame. Perhaps we could just let kids do what we all did: discover the real magic behind computers on our own and THEN seek out guidance versus having it thrust at us like it's a job?
How are you getting that idea? What it's most likely saying is that if a process took, say, 5 seconds before it could take as little as 1 second now. It has nothing to do with "negative" time.
> If you take out the liberal run towns with the highest gun violence, you'll find that gun deaths are indeed fairly rare.
Ah, there it is, that's the real reason for your argument. See I was missing how you were equating identity theft (which while a headache is less of a headache than death) with getting shot, but then I realized that this was your opportunity to take a jab at liberals.
You're twisting information to suite your narrative. You've also neglected to mention that (based on whatever uncited source you're claiming to get your information about gun crimes from) that Republican led states have much higher levels of crime than Democrat states. This information was based off of the analysis of the 2008 Uniform Crime Reports. You can find that analysis here: http://editions.lib.umn.edu/sm...
Of course there's also more recent studies (seen here: https://www.americanprogress.o...) that show a link between lax gun laws and higher gun crime rates. More directly it shows that states with the highest gun crimes (which are typically conservative states) have the highest crime rates. In fact Alaska, Louisiana, Montana, and Alabama rank higher (per capita) in firearm deaths than Democratic states. For comparison while all of the above states were at least 4 points above the national average of 10.26 deaths/100,000 people Illinois was ~2 points LOWER than the national average.
I suppose it's easier to just throw out random uncited sources and half-baked facts without researching the overall data. Especially when your entire goal is to slander a political view that you apparently disagree with. But the short of the long is that none of the above discussion is a valid answer on why everything should be black and white. I personally think you're just trolling -- even if it's not a conscious decision to troll.
Are you making a serious argument in comparing people getting shot and the NYSE shutdown? This is the hill that you're going to make your stand on?
You're off on a few case points. Google Docs is a piss poor comparison to Word and their spreadsheet offering? Fuggedaboutit. Also focusing on Windows as a universal OS does pay off. If I can write an app that runs on a phone, a laptop, a tablet, a gaming system, and a desktop without extra coding on my part -- well color me intrigued. Apps are not obsolete and it's likely the market will swing back around away from all of this insecure, slow, expensive "in-the-cloud" bullshit that everyone else called Mainframes back in the 70s and 80s. Don't get me wrong -- there's a place for "cloud"/Mainframe applications, but it's not a "solves all problems" kind of thing and the market just hasn't yet swung back around.
Wait, why? Why does that have to be so black and white? There's a world of difference between an adobe flash exploit and the availability of a gun that can mow down a large number of people in a matter of seconds.
If a specific, non-consequential word is enough to "utterly DESTROY" an argument, then it was not a good argument to begin with. Since your only rebuttal was the usage of the word then my argument remains valid. Getting hung up on presentation vs content is a good way to miss an underlying message or is an attempt to appear intellectually superior to the other person. Put simply: look for fault in what I say, not how I say it.
I suppose it's possible to get someone else's SSN and assume that identity. But even still they're paying taxes. I thought the biggest "BLURB BLURB" was the lack of paying taxes like good ol' MURICAN wealthy conservatives who throw the majority of their incomes into offshore tax shelters and don't report on them. I suppose that's the difference between a tax evasion strategy and "DEY TURK ER JERRBS".