Sounds like a great feature, I can't try IE8 since I'm on Linux, but from the descriptions I've read of it, it seems like they're doing something right this time instead of just jacking up the release number.
I can't believe I'm actually sitting here hoping that Firefox will copy a feature from IE. Good game, Microsoft.
If what you're saying is true then the problem is that the people who spend all that money on software clearly aren't qualified to make that decision. Still a problem.
School's get absurd discounts on software I believe and MS software does connect well together. For example open office updates would need to be controlled separately from MS updates (which are possibly centrally managed).
Not quite, at least not everywhere. In NZ, govt signs a deal with MS to supply primary and secondary schools with set number of windows and office licenses. Few years ago the figure was NZ$50 mil. This is lot of misappropriated taxpayer's dough.
$50 mil probably IS an absurd discount based on the price of Windows and Office, unfortunately, being an absurd discount doesn't necessarily make it worthwhile or acceptable.
This "Mac clones nearly killed Apple" is always brought up as some sort of gospel proof that open hardware is bad for Apple.
Every time I see someone use the "Mac clones will kill Apple" argument (usually an Apple fanboy) I immediately think how pathetic it is that a company which claims to be the best is so afraid of competition, and that their followers never realise this.
Maybe he just didn't care that a few assholes would limit his freedom of expression, he doesn't have to explain why he did it to you or anyone else, he is allowed by law.
Kotaku took this occasion to ask whether "statements" can and should be made via video games, and how it affects the ongoing question of whether video games should be considered art.
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Video games are art. It is long settled. No one of consequence is disputing this.
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This is why I love slashdot.
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How is the US not governed by elite families and friends? Are you really sure the current US president got this position due to merits of his own?
Well the corporations are generally run by, or controlled by, or controlling, those families and friends you speak of.
It's only funny is they weren't around a million users before you. Though right now I'm correcting you despite being newer... Maybe I'm wrong, in a few weeks I should look back and see what I think of it then
This seems to me like an honest mistake, someone somehow hacked a computer (either by guessing password, SEing someone to give it to them or exploiting something). Whereas with he Debian thing someone removed a call to seed a random number, There's no real excuse for that, no way could he have actually thought it was good to remove that line of code, either he knew what it did and changed it anyway or he didn't know what it did and therefore shouldn't have changed it
Of course it's not standard, and it only counts as portable assuming other people have the libraries. Which I guess means it fails point 5 outright depending on how you interpret it.
Well I've been using Linux for like 2 years, experienced many seg faults, in all kinds of applications, including games, and it's never taken down the system, or even X.
Are you sure it was the game and not the driver crashing? If it was just the game it shouldn't have touched anything else, not even X. If it was the driver then it could easily take down X and/or the entire system
More specifically, when TFA says the game segfaulted, do they actually mean the driver segfaulted, because there's a very big difference in terms of stability
Yes segfaults affect the application only (unless the kernel itself segfaults, which never happened for me).
Although if it's a driver that segfaults it may bring down the system, I think if it's built as a module and not compiled into the kernel it shouldn't
The website said that it was Vista only, on the main page when I checked, even if the stream worked fine on every platform, a lot of people would have seen that and not bothered going any further
They release Flash for free anyway, what reason do they have to keep the code hidden, they can't say that it prevents piracy, which many other companies would, since it's free and they lose nothing
Then people would never look at the code, and the code would never get written. Which in itself would be a big hint that something is wrong.
In any project there is at least the amount of committers who have read the code (or the relevant parts to their commits). Most likely much more than that number. Your logic doesn't hold for any project with a decent number of developers. Unless everyone who has ever looked at the code is working together against us. Or all the developers code blind-folded and coincidentally create software.
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As a result, Boost itself is not very portable. Either it works on your platform and compiler, or it sort of works, or it doesn't.
If you left this out you would've looked like less of a troll, seriously. Boost compiles with GCC4 (From 4.0.1 to the latest, on Mac, Linux and BSD), Intel's compiler collection (All OSes), Visual C++ (7.1 to 9.0Beta) and Borland.
If it isn't cross-platform enough, I'd like to know what platform and compiler you use
A statement on/. makes you less inclined to look at a set of C++ libraries, I'm not quite sure how that logic works, has the statement made on/. somehow affected the quality of the libraries?
So there is no version of Flash that is open source then?
The disadvantage of not being able to play Flash is mostly on sites like YouTube. But some other sites are also using Flash for the interesting content.
So the big question is - is it possible to implement a Flash player for Linux that's open source?
Gnash aims to do exactly this, but as the summary states, it's not quite there, AFAIK it can watch youtube videos, which is a big plus, but it definitely isn't ready to replace Flash
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Sounds like a great feature, I can't try IE8 since I'm on Linux, but from the descriptions I've read of it, it seems like they're doing something right this time instead of just jacking up the release number.
I can't believe I'm actually sitting here hoping that Firefox will copy a feature from IE. Good game, Microsoft.
If what you're saying is true then the problem is that the people who spend all that money on software clearly aren't qualified to make that decision. Still a problem.
School's get absurd discounts on software I believe and MS software does connect well together. For example open office updates would need to be controlled separately from MS updates (which are possibly centrally managed).
Not quite, at least not everywhere. In NZ, govt signs a deal with MS to supply primary and secondary schools with set number of windows and office licenses. Few years ago the figure was NZ$50 mil. This is lot of misappropriated taxpayer's dough.
$50 mil probably IS an absurd discount based on the price of Windows and Office, unfortunately, being an absurd discount doesn't necessarily make it worthwhile or acceptable.
This is not a watered down version of the internet. Or a mobile version of the internet. ... It's just the internet, on your phone.
The internet without flash and Java is a watered down version of the internet for anyone who uses these features.
This "Mac clones nearly killed Apple" is always brought up as some sort of gospel proof that open hardware is bad for Apple.
Every time I see someone use the "Mac clones will kill Apple" argument (usually an Apple fanboy) I immediately think how pathetic it is that a company which claims to be the best is so afraid of competition, and that their followers never realise this.
Maybe he just didn't care that a few assholes would limit his freedom of expression, he doesn't have to explain why he did it to you or anyone else, he is allowed by law.
Kotaku took this occasion to ask whether "statements" can and should be made via video games, and how it affects the ongoing question of whether video games should be considered art.
From parent:
Video games are art. It is long settled. No one of consequence is disputing this.
From the mod:
(Score:1, Offtopic)
This is why I love slashdot.
How is the US not governed by elite families and friends? Are you really sure the current US president got this position due to merits of his own?
Well the corporations are generally run by, or controlled by, or controlling, those families and friends you speak of.
It's only funny is they weren't around a million users before you. Though right now I'm correcting you despite being newer... Maybe I'm wrong, in a few weeks I should look back and see what I think of it then
Difference is, he's getting ignored or laughed at, once the FBI raid /. for the logs, you're going to gitmo
This seems to me like an honest mistake, someone somehow hacked a computer (either by guessing password, SEing someone to give it to them or exploiting something). Whereas with he Debian thing someone removed a call to seed a random number, There's no real excuse for that, no way could he have actually thought it was good to remove that line of code, either he knew what it did and changed it anyway or he didn't know what it did and therefore shouldn't have changed it
QT libraries fix all of those.
Of course it's not standard, and it only counts as portable assuming other people have the libraries. Which I guess means it fails point 5 outright depending on how you interpret it.
Why in the world would you run 3.5.7... Wouldn't you want to run 3.5.10?
Well I've been using Linux for like 2 years, experienced many seg faults, in all kinds of applications, including games, and it's never taken down the system, or even X.
Are you sure it was the game and not the driver crashing? If it was just the game it shouldn't have touched anything else, not even X. If it was the driver then it could easily take down X and/or the entire system
More specifically, when TFA says the game segfaulted, do they actually mean the driver segfaulted, because there's a very big difference in terms of stability
Yes segfaults affect the application only (unless the kernel itself segfaults, which never happened for me). Although if it's a driver that segfaults it may bring down the system, I think if it's built as a module and not compiled into the kernel it shouldn't
insert car analogy here
It's like Ford reselling support for Toyota cars.
+1, informative
They run it on their server... And then you can't use it without downloading a client for it... At which point you make the same argument?
The website said that it was Vista only, on the main page when I checked, even if the stream worked fine on every platform, a lot of people would have seen that and not bothered going any further
According top the website it was Vista only... So huge amounts of users would just not bother trying.
They release Flash for free anyway, what reason do they have to keep the code hidden, they can't say that it prevents piracy, which many other companies would, since it's free and they lose nothing
Then people would never look at the code, and the code would never get written. Which in itself would be a big hint that something is wrong.
In any project there is at least the amount of committers who have read the code (or the relevant parts to their commits). Most likely much more than that number. Your logic doesn't hold for any project with a decent number of developers. Unless everyone who has ever looked at the code is working together against us. Or all the developers code blind-folded and coincidentally create software.
As a result, Boost itself is not very portable. Either it works on your platform and compiler, or it sort of works, or it doesn't.
If you left this out you would've looked like less of a troll, seriously. Boost compiles with GCC4 (From 4.0.1 to the latest, on Mac, Linux and BSD), Intel's compiler collection (All OSes), Visual C++ (7.1 to 9.0Beta) and Borland.
If it isn't cross-platform enough, I'd like to know what platform and compiler you use
A statement on /. makes you less inclined to look at a set of C++ libraries, I'm not quite sure how that logic works, has the statement made on /. somehow affected the quality of the libraries?
So there is no version of Flash that is open source then?
The disadvantage of not being able to play Flash is mostly on sites like YouTube. But some other sites are also using Flash for the interesting content.
So the big question is - is it possible to implement a Flash player for Linux that's open source?
Gnash aims to do exactly this, but as the summary states, it's not quite there, AFAIK it can watch youtube videos, which is a big plus, but it definitely isn't ready to replace Flash