On the plus. Most of these games I just play once and am done with it. Linux compatibility would be amazing; if you OnLive client works, every game in OnLive works. The negatives are like you said, always on DRM, extra monthly fee, etc.
I can see this being beneficial to linux gamers but personally OnLive is too far from me and I prefer to play my games natively.
or don't live in an area where OnLive has installed their servers locally... Yes, everyone is a lier because it works for you. Brilliant logic at work there AC.
There are many great open source games for Linux, like Battle for Wesnoth, Freeciv and Nethack.
These are not great open source games. Out of all the awesome games that are open source you had to mention crappy 2d games that have been in development for more then a decade. Way to ruin your own point.
OLPC was too focused on children living in the middle of nowhere. But they are IMO not really concerned about computing anyway. We should give them ordinary mobile phones first, it is much more useful to them. This computer is covering way more people and use cases.
Well duh, that's because the OLPC is suppose to be for kids in the middle of nowhere. The whole thing is about using technology to improve education in the third world, not masturbating over it in first world countries. There are plenty of areas in the world where there is electricity, etc, but no funding for schools. OLPC gives every kid consistent tools instead of old outdated text books which (because they were donated) are all different books.
The Raspberry PI is the complete opposite of that, it's a tinkerers toy.
Yes, since posting I watched the video embedded in TFA and found that out. I really wish people would stop using PC for things that aren't in the IBM-PC clone family tree.
Yes.. it's their fault that you starting bitching about something before RTFA...
To summarise the thing that makes this different from everyone else is that the parts of an actual application are split up unix style. For example instead of having two or more applications taking your photo and taking out the red eye, the desktop would have thus functionality written once and the applications will simply glue all these standard pieces together.
My only criticism to this is that we already have this in the form of libraries. Perhaps what this guy is after is something more standardised and higher level then that but I don't see how that's not doable in linux.
So it IS the government saying "fuck the free market!" and trying to ram through formats.
ODF is an ISO standard (ISO/IEC 26300:2006). Of course governments are going to use it! It's not the government controlling the free market.
Microsoft can happily make a word processor that reads and writes ISO/IEC 26300:2006 and compete. Unfortunately they thought it more easier simply to bribe the ISO committee into making their own proprietary format an ISO standard. Something that has never happened to ISO before. In cases of document formats it's the free market corrupting the system and forcing minor players out of the market.
Here is the official description from the Oxford English Dictionary, "woot: used to express elation, enthusiasm, or triumph (especially in electronic communication)".
As you can see, you are obviously wrong and should now bow to my superiority, and for the assburgers of slashdot (because there are a lot), this was all a joke, you can stop replying right now.
Those are release names that you're complaining about also have version numbers too using a different versioning scheme. They use "(year).(month)" as the version number to denote releases. For a distro this makes sense as you want to know how old a release is that you're downloading.
Also every operating system has release names, windows vista, apple's lion OS for example. It seems pretty redundant to point at just linux.
They broke the terms and conditions of using the source code they agreed to when distributing said code. The article summary however is incorrect.
They can simply stop distributing said application (might not be 100% correct), they're not forced to redistribute their source code, however it's not like we'd gain anything from them distributing code which they just downloaded anyway. No need for them not to do it really.
I didn't make my point clear enough I guess. When they tested the first nuclear bombs people fear mongered about them igniting the whole atmosphere and how it was going to destroy the world. Same thing is going on with the grey goo scare.
In your life time it probably won't make your life better. Once it's has or has not been confirmed i'm sure someone in the future will find some practical use for knowing. Unfortunately we will never live long enough to find out.
Really because I remember listening to an interview with Jeremy Allison who said it was terrible compared to SMB and that the only reason it was invented was to fuck with Samba. I believe this was it. http://www.twit.tv/floww14
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I have mixed feelings myself.
On the plus. Most of these games I just play once and am done with it. Linux compatibility would be amazing; if you OnLive client works, every game in OnLive works. The negatives are like you said, always on DRM, extra monthly fee, etc.
I can see this being beneficial to linux gamers but personally OnLive is too far from me and I prefer to play my games natively.
Well if this works then you only have to get the OnLive app working to play all the windows games. No messing around in wine needed. ; )
or don't live in an area where OnLive has installed their servers locally... Yes, everyone is a lier because it works for you. Brilliant logic at work there AC.
These are not great open source games. Out of all the awesome games that are open source you had to mention crappy 2d games that have been in development for more then a decade. Way to ruin your own point.
Silent majority disagrees with you and the parent.
oh dear god, why?! The guy behind the project works for broadcom and that's completely opposite to the goals of the project.
Well duh, that's because the OLPC is suppose to be for kids in the middle of nowhere. The whole thing is about using technology to improve education in the third world, not masturbating over it in first world countries. There are plenty of areas in the world where there is electricity, etc, but no funding for schools. OLPC gives every kid consistent tools instead of old outdated text books which (because they were donated) are all different books.
The Raspberry PI is the complete opposite of that, it's a tinkerers toy.
Yes.. it's their fault that you starting bitching about something before RTFA...
Your comment got me thinking. It's been years since the XO-3 tablet was announced, what the hell happened to that? Googling only gives me old news.
Your bank of america card number isn't valid.
If you're only going to read one page of this article then read page five.
http://www.techworld.com.au/article/398892/developer_q_syllable_os/?pp=5
To summarise the thing that makes this different from everyone else is that the parts of an actual application are split up unix style. For example instead of having two or more applications taking your photo and taking out the red eye, the desktop would have thus functionality written once and the applications will simply glue all these standard pieces together.
My only criticism to this is that we already have this in the form of libraries. Perhaps what this guy is after is something more standardised and higher level then that but I don't see how that's not doable in linux.
ODF is an ISO standard (ISO/IEC 26300:2006). Of course governments are going to use it! It's not the government controlling the free market.
Microsoft can happily make a word processor that reads and writes ISO/IEC 26300:2006 and compete. Unfortunately they thought it more easier simply to bribe the ISO committee into making their own proprietary format an ISO standard. Something that has never happened to ISO before. In cases of document formats it's the free market corrupting the system and forcing minor players out of the market.
I'm afraid you're wrong about that..
Here is the official description from the Oxford English Dictionary, "woot: used to express elation, enthusiasm, or triumph (especially in electronic communication)".
As you can see, you are obviously wrong and should now bow to my superiority, and for the assburgers of slashdot (because there are a lot), this was all a joke, you can stop replying right now.
Those are release names that you're complaining about also have version numbers too using a different versioning scheme. They use "(year).(month)" as the version number to denote releases. For a distro this makes sense as you want to know how old a release is that you're downloading.
Also every operating system has release names, windows vista, apple's lion OS for example. It seems pretty redundant to point at just linux.
hmm, can you put this into the form of a car analogy?
No one says that, however many people always mention the hypocrisy whenever there is a GPL violation. GPL haters gunna hate.
They broke the terms and conditions of using the source code they agreed to when distributing said code. The article summary however is incorrect.
They can simply stop distributing said application (might not be 100% correct), they're not forced to redistribute their source code, however it's not like we'd gain anything from them distributing code which they just downloaded anyway. No need for them not to do it really.
I didn't make my point clear enough I guess. When they tested the first nuclear bombs people fear mongered about them igniting the whole atmosphere and how it was going to destroy the world. Same thing is going on with the grey goo scare.
In your life time it probably won't make your life better. Once it's has or has not been confirmed i'm sure someone in the future will find some practical use for knowing. Unfortunately we will never live long enough to find out.
It's the equivalent of saying a nuclear bomb will ignite the whole atmosphere. Turns out that was wrong too.
Really because I remember listening to an interview with Jeremy Allison who said it was terrible compared to SMB and that the only reason it was invented was to fuck with Samba. I believe this was it. http://www.twit.tv/floww14
all i'm hearing is derp derp derp derp.
If you don't like it then setup your tags properly. Complaining here to people that are interested in the news is wasting your own time.
You mean like that news post about a google automatic car that crashed when a human manually drove it? Yep, that was much more interesting...
I love how that whole page is set up so that they don't lose their trademark as it falls into common usage.