Same can be said for nearly every console ever apart from the Wii. The PS3 is still selling at a loss a few years on, and in a recent interview I think it was Kaz Hirai (probably wrong) that said they wouldn't recoup the losses made from the PS3 "in his lifetime"
You're not making much sense. Yes, people don't target WINE, they target the Windows API, just like they target the.NET API. Wine is a means of running Windows code on linux, Mono is a means of running.NET code on linux. People will be writing code for both, so might as well support running it on linux.
They have. It is called the Air. Just because it is large, doesn't mean it is not a netbook. I think the definition of netbook is wrong in that it requires something under a certain size screen (9-11 inches depending on who is talking).
This is the same situation as important government computers being attacked, what were they thinking connecting crucial systems to the internet in the first place?
For many business users, word processors and excel account for the vast majority of time spent on computers, if they managed 24 hours for just that they'd have a viable market.
You can store the games on SD cards, only you can't play them from it, which means to play games not on the actual Wii memory itself takes far too time and effort
All - mostly baseless - bickering about proprietary UMDs aside, I consider the PSP the best portable entertainment device ever. The DS to me more than ever comes across as a total money ripp-off and I've come to see Nintendo with quite a bit more scepsis than before.
This seems to me to be a bit of a baseless statement as you don't give the impression of ever having played a DS, so how can you make this comparison? The DS, although technically inferior in specs, is a great little handheld with some excellent games, and many of them use touchscreen far better than most Wii games use the motion control. The DS has always been at this price, because it's still selling, the PSP when it came out sold for much, much more, you can't really blame Nintendo for not lowering the price when it still sells like hotcakes either.
They open sourced their compiler, virtual machine and most of their libraries before IcedTea was started according to wikipedia. And how would you say they can be coerced? It's not like their entire revenue is based off open-source, so I don't see any distinct advantage open-sourcing would give Sun
Java is designed to be backwards compatible (painfully so in fact). I can't say I've ever seen a problem with Java running an app compiled for an older version, and it's definitely not supposed to happen.
That's just it though, Wine Is Not an Emulator. It's not trying to do fancy x86 stuff that are liable to slow things down, it's a set of libraries that happen to have the same interface as the Windows API, and hence they ARE native code. You can compile against winelibs to get linux executables rather than PE executables, and it's all still native.
One of the other comments from an MIT student mentions that while the connection is down, they were routing over the regular internet 1 infrastructure. I think the problem is that it's experimental, and there's no infrastructure there yet to use for redundancy.
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Same can be said for nearly every console ever apart from the Wii. The PS3 is still selling at a loss a few years on, and in a recent interview I think it was Kaz Hirai (probably wrong) that said they wouldn't recoup the losses made from the PS3 "in his lifetime"
Strange that, you'd nearly think it was a popularity contest... oh wait
I wonder if it'd be possible to get Mono and Wine to work together and get Paint.NET to work, does Mono support interop to run non-managed code?
You're not making much sense. Yes, people don't target WINE, they target the Windows API, just like they target the .NET API. Wine is a means of running Windows code on linux, Mono is a means of running .NET code on linux. People will be writing code for both, so might as well support running it on linux.
That's what they want you to think!
No, pretty sure he meant ad as in advertisement...
They have. It is called the Air. Just because it is large, doesn't mean it is not a netbook. I think the definition of netbook is wrong in that it requires something under a certain size screen (9-11 inches depending on who is talking).
Fits in nicely with average price range too...
Surely "Keyboard Error: Press Any Key To Continue" should have been in there somewhere?
This is the same situation as important government computers being attacked, what were they thinking connecting crucial systems to the internet in the first place?
For many business users, word processors and excel account for the vast majority of time spent on computers, if they managed 24 hours for just that they'd have a viable market.
You can store the games on SD cards, only you can't play them from it, which means to play games not on the actual Wii memory itself takes far too time and effort
All - mostly baseless - bickering about proprietary UMDs aside, I consider the PSP the best portable entertainment device ever. The DS to me more than ever comes across as a total money ripp-off and I've come to see Nintendo with quite a bit more scepsis than before.
This seems to me to be a bit of a baseless statement as you don't give the impression of ever having played a DS, so how can you make this comparison? The DS, although technically inferior in specs, is a great little handheld with some excellent games, and many of them use touchscreen far better than most Wii games use the motion control. The DS has always been at this price, because it's still selling, the PSP when it came out sold for much, much more, you can't really blame Nintendo for not lowering the price when it still sells like hotcakes either.
I'm just surprised that apparently all it takes is $12 million to do it.
Funny really, all it takes is $12 million to build a new one, and $25 million to index the old one
Clearly you've never tried to navigate Irish roads using the road signs
They open sourced their compiler, virtual machine and most of their libraries before IcedTea was started according to wikipedia. And how would you say they can be coerced? It's not like their entire revenue is based off open-source, so I don't see any distinct advantage open-sourcing would give Sun
Have you considered trying it without KDE4? Unless I missed something when installing mine, it comes with 3.5 as standard.
Java is designed to be backwards compatible (painfully so in fact). I can't say I've ever seen a problem with Java running an app compiled for an older version, and it's definitely not supposed to happen.
That's just it though, Wine Is Not an Emulator. It's not trying to do fancy x86 stuff that are liable to slow things down, it's a set of libraries that happen to have the same interface as the Windows API, and hence they ARE native code. You can compile against winelibs to get linux executables rather than PE executables, and it's all still native.
One of the other comments from an MIT student mentions that while the connection is down, they were routing over the regular internet 1 infrastructure. I think the problem is that it's experimental, and there's no infrastructure there yet to use for redundancy.