Maybe if game writers have to write directly for the GPU then suppliers will have to open up their hardware specs for their graphics cards. This would be a victory for free software.
If IceWeasel becomes the de facto standard on Ubuntu, then I think Debian would priase the day. However, users previously running Windows might be more familiar with, or at least might have heard about Firefox, and want to be able to use THAT, despite the complete lack of differences between IceWeasel and Firefox.
A rose is a rose is a rose, only outside of corporate America.
Yes that's right, you can't hook up your printer, your USB MIDI keyboard, and your flash drive all at once to your MacBook Air...
But did you know that this computer is not intended to be used for all such things? If you're buying a MacBook Air, you probably have another computer in your house!
It's a laptop, not a print server that stays stationary at your house which can receive network print jobs from any computer on your wireless network. Nor do I think you want to carry around your printer to that Wi-Fi hotspot down the street!!
Apple is targeting this for a different kind of computer usage. Nobody is bashing the iPod because it can't print, it's not meant to print. Sorry, no Apache Web Servers for your Air so that you can host that high-bandwidth flash-based site you've been meaning to run.
Seriously, guys. This is 2008. Think about the future, not the past.
My first gaming experience was with a computer given to us by our neighbor. It was just a DOS machine (actually just command.com). The only thing included on the system was ZZT, the classic text-based game made by Tim Sweeney back in '91. I grew up on ZZT, and it was even my first steps into programming (with the internal programming language ZZT-OOP). Good times.
I think nobody does it in the US because here in the US we're all talk and no action. That, and we're also much more afraid of the corporations and their power than we say we are - in major part because we buy everything they feed us and we're afraid of what will happen if that hand suddenly doesn't come out for lunch.
I may live hand-to-mouth with my computers, but at least it's my hand.
I had been using my Debian machine as an in-house file server, and it had been having sketchy internet access for a couple of days when all of a sudden, *piff*, the internet disappeared. After trying everything, including installing a new ethernet card, trying a new cable, etc., I got on my mom's Mac and asked a Comcast rep why my internet was down - and they told me that a) they don't support Linux, so it's unlikely the internet would work anyway (completely besides the point and not the case), and b) Linux is a server, and they don't support servers, so they blocked that computer at my house.
Search for "comcast" at binaryfreedom.info and you'll see another story about how Comcast hates Linux.
That's a brilliant idea! I can't wait to read the EULA saying "Microsoft Corp can at any time access, copy, edit, and delete any and all files uploaded by users for whatever users." Except in a quieter way.
Awe this is great, as if privacy ever existed with MSFT! I hope that there isn't a single sorry sod who falls for this nonsense.
...but it is the same as stealing one off the shelf.
At least with stealing something off the shelf, you can at least pretend that you own the software. You can't even pretend if you only own the highly revocable right to use the software.
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Maybe if game writers have to write directly for the GPU then suppliers will have to open up their hardware specs for their graphics cards. This would be a victory for free software.
If IceWeasel becomes the de facto standard on Ubuntu, then I think Debian would priase the day. However, users previously running Windows might be more familiar with, or at least might have heard about Firefox, and want to be able to use THAT, despite the complete lack of differences between IceWeasel and Firefox. A rose is a rose is a rose, only outside of corporate America.
Yes that's right, you can't hook up your printer, your USB MIDI keyboard, and your flash drive all at once to your MacBook Air... But did you know that this computer is not intended to be used for all such things? If you're buying a MacBook Air, you probably have another computer in your house! It's a laptop, not a print server that stays stationary at your house which can receive network print jobs from any computer on your wireless network. Nor do I think you want to carry around your printer to that Wi-Fi hotspot down the street!! Apple is targeting this for a different kind of computer usage. Nobody is bashing the iPod because it can't print, it's not meant to print. Sorry, no Apache Web Servers for your Air so that you can host that high-bandwidth flash-based site you've been meaning to run. Seriously, guys. This is 2008. Think about the future, not the past.
My first gaming experience was with a computer given to us by our neighbor. It was just a DOS machine (actually just command.com). The only thing included on the system was ZZT, the classic text-based game made by Tim Sweeney back in '91. I grew up on ZZT, and it was even my first steps into programming (with the internal programming language ZZT-OOP). Good times.
I think nobody does it in the US because here in the US we're all talk and no action. That, and we're also much more afraid of the corporations and their power than we say we are - in major part because we buy everything they feed us and we're afraid of what will happen if that hand suddenly doesn't come out for lunch. I may live hand-to-mouth with my computers, but at least it's my hand.
It's like Catholicism! Why have your computer controlled by some remote, powerful entity rather than by yourself?
This is just a little bit reminding me of RealPlayer. Yet another reason to use free software and ONLY free software. When will people get it?
No similarity to Dashboard, I reckon. *rolleyes* I can't believe these weirdos.
I had been using my Debian machine as an in-house file server, and it had been having sketchy internet access for a couple of days when all of a sudden, *piff*, the internet disappeared. After trying everything, including installing a new ethernet card, trying a new cable, etc., I got on my mom's Mac and asked a Comcast rep why my internet was down - and they told me that a) they don't support Linux, so it's unlikely the internet would work anyway (completely besides the point and not the case), and b) Linux is a server, and they don't support servers, so they blocked that computer at my house. Search for "comcast" at binaryfreedom.info and you'll see another story about how Comcast hates Linux.
That's a brilliant idea! I can't wait to read the EULA saying "Microsoft Corp can at any time access, copy, edit, and delete any and all files uploaded by users for whatever users." Except in a quieter way. Awe this is great, as if privacy ever existed with MSFT! I hope that there isn't a single sorry sod who falls for this nonsense.
Look at the ratio in the Free Software community... I think it approaches infinity.
...but it is the same as stealing one off the shelf.
At least with stealing something off the shelf, you can at least pretend that you own the software. You can't even pretend if you only own the highly revocable right to use the software.