Maybe this will indeed be the 'tipping point' for Linux. With those games coming to Linux, a gaming machine will become a lot cheaper. And they'll run faster too! (no antivirus or trialware running in the background)
What about giving people two alternative price options?
(1) fixed price: $5 per watch
(2) one-time high with low recurring: say, $10 the first time you watch that particular movie, and $0.50 everytime you want to watch it again
From the customer's point of view: if I know I'm going to love a movie, I pick the second scheme. If I'm not sure I can choose scheme 1 for a cheaper 'preview' and if I like it I have the option to switch to scheme 2 later on. So after two views that cost $5 all subsequent views are only $0.50.
but the trend line for Linux adoption remains as flat as the Kansas prairies.
Well duh, most of us can't use Linux at work. So all that web traffic from work would count as Windows usage. Now compare the amount of web traffic (HTTP! not bittorrent) caused by working with the amount of web traffic from home. Which one would dominate? See?
Users who generate a lot of page views are rewarded. This encourages users to create more and hopefully "better" (in terms of interest to their audience) posts.
No. It will encourage users to post more popular content.
300 frickin' developers and the best they have is, "uh, I turned a modal dialog for word counts into a modeless dialog". Really? That is an embarrassment.
Give them some time to improve. They started with a large complicated, bloated and bug-ridden codebase. Many developers are new to the project, and they can't be super productive from day one.
No.
The eighties were not a point in time, but a range. The start of the eighties was nearly 30 years ago, but on the other hand the end of the eighties was only about 20 years ago.
Great. That would make a nice Denial Of Service attack, so to speak. You could sabotage someone's device by simply trying to scan/copy a money bill with it.
I was wondering the exact same thing. It's not like you can compare your clock 'implementation' to some standard time reference, right? Like in relativity theory, there would be no absolute point of reference from which you can measure?
Maybe they have created two of those new clocks and see how long it takes between two moments when they have a pulse at the same time, then drift apart, and then come together again?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't swap space also used for hibernation? So if you are encrypting it with a throwaway key each time, how will the kernel be able to restore a hibernated session from disk?
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Maybe this will indeed be the 'tipping point' for Linux. With those games coming to Linux, a gaming machine will become a lot cheaper. And they'll run faster too! (no antivirus or trialware running in the background)
What about giving people two alternative price options?
From the customer's point of view: if I know I'm going to love a movie, I pick the second scheme. If I'm not sure I can choose scheme 1 for a cheaper 'preview' and if I like it I have the option to switch to scheme 2 later on. So after two views that cost $5 all subsequent views are only $0.50.
but but but but... Windows 7 won't stay around forever, right?
My meme-sniffing dog just got very excited about the parent post...
Then why this post from Raymond Chen: Windows is not a .NET Framework delivery channel either?
I guess that's why the GP was modded flamebait.
but the trend line for Linux adoption remains as flat as the Kansas prairies.
Well duh, most of us can't use Linux at work. So all that web traffic from work would count as Windows usage. Now compare the amount of web traffic (HTTP! not bittorrent) caused by working with the amount of web traffic from home. Which one would dominate? See?
Users who generate a lot of page views are rewarded. This encourages users to create more and hopefully "better" (in terms of interest to their audience) posts.
No. It will encourage users to post more popular content.
And popular != better
Yeah. When seeing the headline, I wondered why Anonymous would attack a virgin.
That must be in Soviet Russia...
300 frickin' developers and the best they have is, "uh, I turned a modal dialog for word counts into a modeless dialog". Really? That is an embarrassment.
Give them some time to improve. They started with a large complicated, bloated and bug-ridden codebase. Many developers are new to the project, and they can't be super productive from day one.
Why do you assume that they are still using the exact same algorithm?
There is one such website. Google for it.
No.
The eighties were not a point in time, but a range. The start of the eighties was nearly 30 years ago, but on the other hand the end of the eighties was only about 20 years ago.
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Writing bug-free software, perhaps?
I'd think it's rather logical that the GNU project is dogfooding.
Soylent GreenSQL?
I bet it would only work for one year.
Well, unless people are really stupid... okay, never mind.
I thought it had something to do with the anti-Tivoization clauses?
Great. That would make a nice Denial Of Service attack, so to speak. You could sabotage someone's device by simply trying to scan/copy a money bill with it.
I see the moderation was copied as well.
What about the environmental impact of vaporizing toner? Isn't that some kind of air pollution?
I was wondering the exact same thing. It's not like you can compare your clock 'implementation' to some standard time reference, right? Like in relativity theory, there would be no absolute point of reference from which you can measure?
Maybe they have created two of those new clocks and see how long it takes between two moments when they have a pulse at the same time, then drift apart, and then come together again?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't swap space also used for hibernation? So if you are encrypting it with a throwaway key each time, how will the kernel be able to restore a hibernated session from disk?
That's the difference between "in theory" and "in practice".