Free and open source is a horrible model for any non-subscription based games. Think about a game like Oblivion, for example. If Bethesda had released that under the GPL, where would they make their money from?
Unless you make money from subscriptions, like Second Life or World of Warcraft, FOSS games make no business sense.
That's what the low-end laptop is becoming, for all intents and purposes-- cheap, portable, and adequate for basic computing. What more does the proverbial Joe Six-Pack need?
This is nothing more that Microsoft's swan song. Vista is a bust, and their lunch is slowly being eaten by Apple and Linux. They're scrambling to find something to replace the glory products of yesteryear as they slowly slip into irrelevancy.
They have 90%+ of the desktop. What was that about irrelevancy again?
There's another big difference-- Ubuntu is also significantly more bleeding-edge than Debian. Debian stable is good for a production environment because it's just that-- stable-- but it's also painfully outdated.
Plan 9 was designed at Bell Labs as the successor to Unix. Its primary characteristic is that EVERYTHING is managed as a file, down to devices. So if you have a CD in your drive, and you only wanted the data track of the CD mounted, you'd delete the subdirectory containing the audio track and it'd be unmounted. It never really caught on outside of research environments.
If Sony's trying so hard to keep third-party hacks from working on their boxes, why the hell did they make such a big deal about the ability to put Linux on them?
The way the German tax laws are written, Boll's backers get a big tax write-off for investing in his movies, regardless of whether they're any good. Thus, it's a win-win: the investors get a big tax reduction and Boll has a job.
Just because the author insists that his work is "just a good yarn" doesn't mean that people can't re-interpret it. Take Fahrenheit 451-- Ray Bradbury always insisted that his book was about TV's destructive effects on reading, though everyone else on the planet interprets it as a dig at state censorship.
Its the President's right to fire any of them at any time for any reason? His real mistake was not firing them all when he came into office.
It IS his right to fire them at will. Under normal circumstances, all US Attorneys are fired when a new administration comes in. The unusual thing about these particular firings is that the US Attorneys in question were fired for not conducting politically motivated prosecutions. That's why there's a scandal.
I really wonder if companies that go on the warpath over internet copyright violations really think in their long-term best interest. Look at the RIAA, for instance. For all of the money they've spent and the lawsuits they've threatened, they're back at square one when it comes to halting internet file sharing. What makes Hal Leonard think that they'll do any better, especially because guitar tabs are just TXT files and arguably even easier to redistribute?
I really wonder if companies that go on the warpath over internet copyright violations really think in their long-term best interest. Look at the RIAA, for instance. For all of the money they've spent and the lawsuits they've threatened, they're back at square one when it comes to halting internet file sharing. Guitar tabs are even easier to redistribute. What makes Hal Leonard think that they'll do any better?
The simple solution is to provide an slightly more functional version of the internet appliance that Just Works (tm). Something like a Wii with a keyboard and AbiWord would be perfect-- an interface that is idiot-proof, comes out secure by default, uses a remote for navigation, and all you have to do is plug it into your TV and its Ethernet port. Most people already have a television set and free RCA jacks-- there's no need to buy a whole separate set of peripherals to watch YouTube and type emails to Aunt Mary.
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...he'll end up in prison with men who've enlarged their dicks with v1agra and are looking for HOT SEX NOW
What exactly is it about OOXML that makes it a proprietary format? What is it in the documentation that they've withheld?
Well, OSX isn't Unix either. Because its kernel is XNU, "X is Not Unix." But now OSX IS Unix. I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE ANYMORE!
Free and open source is a horrible model for any non-subscription based games. Think about a game like Oblivion, for example. If Bethesda had released that under the GPL, where would they make their money from? Unless you make money from subscriptions, like Second Life or World of Warcraft, FOSS games make no business sense.
...probably something along the lines of "I'm going to KILL f***ing Dell!"
That's what the low-end laptop is becoming, for all intents and purposes-- cheap, portable, and adequate for basic computing. What more does the proverbial Joe Six-Pack need?
Oh yeah? I got 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0!
It makes no sense to release a free, ad-supported flavor of Windows, since Windows comes "free" with most OEM boxes anyway.
They already tried a more primitive version of this with the Zune, and we all know how well THAT one worked out.
They have 90%+ of the desktop. What was that about irrelevancy again?
I don't NEED to run newer code-- but it's useful to have. For what it's worth, I don't actually use Ubuntu anymore, since I'm now on Arch Linux.
There's another big difference-- Ubuntu is also significantly more bleeding-edge than Debian. Debian stable is good for a production environment because it's just that-- stable-- but it's also painfully outdated.
Novell makes their own Edubuntu. Wonderful.
Paying $500 for the entry-level iPhone is like paying $600 for a PS3.
Plan 9 was designed at Bell Labs as the successor to Unix. Its primary characteristic is that EVERYTHING is managed as a file, down to devices. So if you have a CD in your drive, and you only wanted the data track of the CD mounted, you'd delete the subdirectory containing the audio track and it'd be unmounted. It never really caught on outside of research environments.
If Sony's trying so hard to keep third-party hacks from working on their boxes, why the hell did they make such a big deal about the ability to put Linux on them?
At what point do you draw the line between "something that should be included in an OS" and "anti-competitive behavior"?
The way the German tax laws are written, Boll's backers get a big tax write-off for investing in his movies, regardless of whether they're any good. Thus, it's a win-win: the investors get a big tax reduction and Boll has a job.
Just because the author insists that his work is "just a good yarn" doesn't mean that people can't re-interpret it. Take Fahrenheit 451-- Ray Bradbury always insisted that his book was about TV's destructive effects on reading, though everyone else on the planet interprets it as a dig at state censorship.
Wasn't that the point of Wolfenstein 3D?
It IS his right to fire them at will. Under normal circumstances, all US Attorneys are fired when a new administration comes in. The unusual thing about these particular firings is that the US Attorneys in question were fired for not conducting politically motivated prosecutions. That's why there's a scandal.
I really wonder if companies that go on the warpath over internet copyright violations really think in their long-term best interest. Look at the RIAA, for instance. For all of the money they've spent and the lawsuits they've threatened, they're back at square one when it comes to halting internet file sharing. What makes Hal Leonard think that they'll do any better, especially because guitar tabs are just TXT files and arguably even easier to redistribute?
I really wonder if companies that go on the warpath over internet copyright violations really think in their long-term best interest. Look at the RIAA, for instance. For all of the money they've spent and the lawsuits they've threatened, they're back at square one when it comes to halting internet file sharing. Guitar tabs are even easier to redistribute. What makes Hal Leonard think that they'll do any better?
It's "live long and prosper." Didn't you ever see First Contact?
The simple solution is to provide an slightly more functional version of the internet appliance that Just Works (tm). Something like a Wii with a keyboard and AbiWord would be perfect-- an interface that is idiot-proof, comes out secure by default, uses a remote for navigation, and all you have to do is plug it into your TV and its Ethernet port. Most people already have a television set and free RCA jacks-- there's no need to buy a whole separate set of peripherals to watch YouTube and type emails to Aunt Mary.