Because the drugs and guns and carjackings aren't choices that are violent crimes right? Well, two of the three at least. Actually guns aren't necessarily violent, so one.
The PC gaming market might not be dead, but it's a small minority now. It's a small minority for certain games, yeah. I think blizzard (and many others) would disagree with you.
There are 300 million people in the US right now, and we can safely assume that at least half of the population knows English. I have no statistics to back me up on this, but I doubt anyone will disagree.
Anyways, it's more than 10 percent (~300k) for sure, so I'm not sure how your numbers add up there.
Pretty much says that a laptop widely meant for home users was only compromised when allowed access to some of the most widely used applications? I'm not sure what you're trying to say (or not, rather) but a hole in safari is a bit of an issue; unless of course you're just concerned with that server running on your Air;).
Because some folks would like to make a living off of this whole internets thing. It's no secret that nobody likes ads, but hosting and bandwidth costs money. This is one reason that all the "I use adblock and I'm going to let you know every chance I get" people bother me. If nobody sees these ads, or clicks them, then the sites you've come to rely on for free will cease to exist.
Besides, you clearly take advantage of the karma bonus that the ad-ridden stories provide;).
He can't win the Republican nomination, no. But he can still win the general election, if he petitions for a spot on the ballot or gets enough write ins. It's highly unrealistic to thunk that would happen, however, and he's effectively out of the race.
The FTA even makes it clear Well no wonder the submitter missed the point of the article! He probably didn't develop that close personal relationship that you seem to have made yourself. If you've gained any other insight from The "Fucking of The Article" then please enlighten us.
Not to be pessimistic, but PPC Linux in general is going to see a decline in development even for open source programs. I wouldn't expect Adobe to care about maybe.05% of the market, especially with the advent of Intel-based Macs.
Congratulations! It's been only 23 minutes since an article mentioning Adobe and Linux has been posted, and already you've mentioned the gimp. In doing so you've made one or several incorrect assumptions:
1. Adobe ported Photoshop to Linux and renamed it to the gimp. (We're all hoping it's not this one).
OR
2. The gimp is a viable replacement for Photoshop for Adobe's target group (professionals).
OR
3. Slashdot users don't already know about the gimp. If this was an article discussing Photoshop alternatives for Linux, maybe it would be nice to mention the gimp; it's not. These comments wouldn't be so annoying if they didn't show up every single time there is an article about Adobe. The "use Linux!" comments on every Windows article can be funny (sometimes) because at least everyone knows they're more or less joking.
The gimp is not Photoshop, and is still missing some features that professionals really need, it isn't a viable replacement yet.
Sorry, I should've been clearer in the original post.
I am using native 64 bit java (blackdown) and nspluginwrapper for 32bit flash. At first I had attributed the problems with Flash to nspluginwrapper, but I ended up having to install 32bit firefox anyways (because every version of Java I tried would crash at random) and discovered that the flash problems still exist in 32bit. The flash I can deal with, but the whole Java situation is a mess anyways with all the different versions floating around. I only have to open 32bit firefox sparingly, but it's still an annoyance.
I do, but that's because I'm running a 64bit system. I actually have no problems with firefox by itself, including its native javascript handling (though it can be a bit slow at times). The only area where Windows Firefox has it beat is the plugins: Java support is horrid and very crash prone. Flash will sometimes freeze the browser and force you to kill the extra process. I still use Firefox though, I like it too much and these quirks aren't often enough to really be bothersome; but I would really like to see these issues addressed, and I've got a feeling it has less to do with Mozilla and more to do with Sun and Adobe.
Wine gets a new release out just about every two weeks, consistently. I'd say that's pretty fast, and you could always just CVS/SVN/whatever they're using.
In the continuing saga of Yahoo resisting a Microsoft buy out, Yahoo is now being sued by it's shareholders. AFAIKIANAL, but either the submitter threw in one too many apostrophes or It Is Shareholders Inc. is pissed about something.
This early in the industry, I have no confidence that any DRM scheme implemented now will last any significant length of time. Will I still be able to read the book 20 or (hopefully) 40 years from now? DRM on text documents will be irrelevant by that point, if the industry does go that way. They've already got programs to automatically solve captchas so it seems reasonable that they'd be able to parse an ebook. Not to mention it's DRM, which will always be broken eventually.
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Oh, nobody told you about the Digg merger?
The PR, hence "promotion". But I'm not sure why you would loathe a distro, what's your issue with ubuntu?
You just made my day.
Just shut up already! Nobody gives a shit! If we wanted to use adblock we would!
Put it in perspective (vs. digg, fark, reddit)
LiVES does the exact same thing. It's infuriating. Maybe it's a Linux thing?
Anyways, it's more than 10 percent (~300k) for sure, so I'm not sure how your numbers add up there.
Pretty much says that a laptop widely meant for home users was only compromised when allowed access to some of the most widely used applications? I'm not sure what you're trying to say (or not, rather) but a hole in safari is a bit of an issue; unless of course you're just concerned with that server running on your Air ;).
Besides, you clearly take advantage of the karma bonus that the ad-ridden stories provide ;).
He can't win the Republican nomination, no. But he can still win the general election, if he petitions for a spot on the ballot or gets enough write ins. It's highly unrealistic to thunk that would happen, however, and he's effectively out of the race.
Perhaps digg was down?
Not to be pessimistic, but PPC Linux in general is going to see a decline in development even for open source programs. I wouldn't expect Adobe to care about maybe .05% of the market, especially with the advent of Intel-based Macs.
Congratulations! It's been only 23 minutes since an article mentioning Adobe and Linux has been posted, and already you've mentioned the gimp. In doing so you've made one or several incorrect assumptions:
1. Adobe ported Photoshop to Linux and renamed it to the gimp. (We're all hoping it's not this one).
OR
2. The gimp is a viable replacement for Photoshop for Adobe's target group (professionals).
OR
3. Slashdot users don't already know about the gimp. If this was an article discussing Photoshop alternatives for Linux, maybe it would be nice to mention the gimp; it's not. These comments wouldn't be so annoying if they didn't show up every single time there is an article about Adobe. The "use Linux!" comments on every Windows article can be funny (sometimes) because at least everyone knows they're more or less joking.
The gimp is not Photoshop, and is still missing some features that professionals really need, it isn't a viable replacement yet.
I am using native 64 bit java (blackdown) and nspluginwrapper for 32bit flash. At first I had attributed the problems with Flash to nspluginwrapper, but I ended up having to install 32bit firefox anyways (because every version of Java I tried would crash at random) and discovered that the flash problems still exist in 32bit. The flash I can deal with, but the whole Java situation is a mess anyways with all the different versions floating around. I only have to open 32bit firefox sparingly, but it's still an annoyance.
I do, but that's because I'm running a 64bit system. I actually have no problems with firefox by itself, including its native javascript handling (though it can be a bit slow at times). The only area where Windows Firefox has it beat is the plugins: Java support is horrid and very crash prone. Flash will sometimes freeze the browser and force you to kill the extra process. I still use Firefox though, I like it too much and these quirks aren't often enough to really be bothersome; but I would really like to see these issues addressed, and I've got a feeling it has less to do with Mozilla and more to do with Sun and Adobe.
Wine gets a new release out just about every two weeks, consistently. I'd say that's pretty fast, and you could always just CVS/SVN/whatever they're using.
I'll mirror the file if anyone would like to email it to me.
Exclamation of surprise and awe! Someone used the phrase 'begging the question' properly on the internet!
...Too late?