Games developers need to make their games work on Windows first......There is so much anti-copying and DRM on most games nowadays getting them to work on the platform they were designed for is a nightmare....
Several Games houses have said that there is (as always) so much copying going on on Windows that they might not support it anymore and just target consoles.... getting them to write fore Linux is a total non-starter...
Gets the Lowest score in the compatability tests (Less than some mobile phone browsers) Gets the lowest score in the Javascript tests... (and cannot even complete some!)
when are they going to turn it into a legitimate browser ?
Then point out that 40% of the potential customers are being turned away....
If you ran a shop and you made the doors awkward for 30-40% of your customers and lost trade because of it you would get fired...
It is still the case that a lot of websites are designed on Firefox tested on Safari/Opera/Chrome etc... and then heavily modified to work in IE7, and then more so to work on IE6...
A few design to IE7 then find that it does not work on IE6 or anything else... and spend more time redesigning it...
Stable binary driver interface.... sorry the problem is lack of drivers not a poor interface?
Difficulty in selling software? there is no difficulty in selling software except for software that compares poorly to the freely available alternatives, there is commercial software available for Linux, it is mostly either specialist (and so there is no FOSS equivalent) or much better than any FOSS equivalent....?
Marketing I agree with.... but please market reality not pipe dreams, Microsoft too often promised big and provides medium and so people are disappointed...
Service.... you mean I can call Microsoft? I seriously have never tried, I get all the support I need from forums and websites, the same as I do Linux, I never even considered contacting them?
PHP has the same problems that Basic and VB have, it is easy to write very bad code and relatively difficult to write fast, easily maintainable code
It is possible to write bad code in any language but it is easier in some and PHP has a reputation (well justified) for making it easy or even encouraging bad coding practices
PHP is improving, and is vastly better than it was (mainly due to it's use in large websites) but there are still languages that are intrinsically better...
Simple solution is don't tell facebook...and then Facebook will not know
If your phone number, address, work history, educational history is on facebook then you are foolish, your friends and family already know this information (or don't care), and facebook does not need to know
The security on facebook should be assumed to be flawed, since it is unlikely to be perfect and so you should not put any more information on than you would be willing to let everyone on facebook see...
No the render farms do not need this level of graphics either... they render off-screen at seriously low frame rates (frames per minute not per second) they go for quality not speed
They do use the GPU's to render but they are using it as a general processor that is fast (in a cluster) not as a GPU at all...
The only people using high end graphics cards are Gamers and a very few graphic artists...
...or you could change to a decent Linux distro that autoupdates everything... and the autoupdater has the privilege and not the program... or Microsoft could actually open up the Windows update system and allow other programs to use it rather than having several different ad-hoc systems ?
If they assume that people without broadband are not worth selling to then they have a potential market of 100% of the people they want to sell to...
With an online service as the game (or an essential part of the game) then you can ensure people have legal copies, pay for the service, cannot transfer the game/service when they no longer want it
Python - when control structures are bounded by indentation and so line wraps can break code....!
I think this is very restrictive...
I hated VB reformatting my code as I typed... I hate Python *only* because it forces a (to me) illogical indentation style... at least in C/C++ it is only a style, in python it is required...
I wonder whether some people would prefer a slight increase on the price of a console to include the ability to not scratch the disc while a disk was playing inside when they had not moved, reorientated or done anything to it....
There fixed it for you.... and the answer is yes...
So currently it is just Yet another tagging system...that has the ability of sharing the tags with your friends... the data on my computer is private... that's why it is on my computer and not on my Facebook/MySpace/Bebo etc site....
Another poorly implemented, mis-aimed application by I researchers...!?
As I said DSL does all this in 50MB.... the only thing I cannot find is an equivalent of DVD Shrink ?
7-Zip is rather limited on the formats it can understand....!
7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR both ways... a native linux install can do all these plus many others (Except the propriatory 7z) in all file managers ? No special interface required
The GUI on DSL is X.Org with FluxBox and is Tiny.... unlike the bloated qt/gdk....
If you want a small system use a small system... XP is not a small system?
The side-effect that destroyed touch-screens as a mainstream input technology despite a promising start in the early 1980s. It seems the designers of all those spiffy touch-menu systems failed to notice that humans aren't designed to hold their arms in front of their faces making small motions. After more than a very few selections, the arm begins to feel sore, cramped, and oversized â" the operator looks like a gorilla while using the touch screen and feels like one afterwards. This is now considered a classic cautionary tale to human-factors designers; âoeRemember the gorilla arm!â is shorthand for âoeHow is this going to fly in real use?â.
windows freeware like 7-zip, utorrent, ffdshow, media player classic, dvdshrink, firefox..
7-zip - Linux already has more compression formats than 7-Zip supports...? utorrent - there are many Linux native Torrent programs ffdshow/media player - there are decoders and players that handle all the formats ffdshow and media player does? dvdshrink - see K9Copy and others firefox - native version for Linux
You only seem to want freeware/shareware but seem to be tied to the Windows versions....
I can run all this on DSL (DamnSmallLinux) in ~ 100MB for the whole system, Get the right system and the right software and drop the Windows bloat and you will have a fast small *native* system...
The problem is that there is currently too much capacity so one or more of the DRAM plants should close...but which ones, each country has the attitude "not the one in my country" since they quite rightly assume that the survivors will be profitable and when economic times improve the countries without a DRAM plant won't get one in the short term
DRAM plants are very costly to build and take a long time to get going but are very profitable when working near capacity... the problem is there are currently too many and so all are working under capacity and so are losing money..
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Games developers need to make their games work on Windows first ... ...There is so much anti-copying and DRM on most games nowadays getting them to work on the platform they were designed for is a nightmare ....
Several Games houses have said that there is (as always) so much copying going on on Windows that they might not support it anymore and just target consoles .... getting them to write fore Linux is a total non-starter ...
Titanic - Hit an Iceberg - Sank
Britannic - Hit a mine - Sank
Olympic - Rammed by HMS Hawke - Limped back to port, Repaired, served for another 24 years was nicknamed "Old Reliable" ....
Sorry - Yes you Are right Ada 83 ....
Have you seen IE8?
Gets the Lowest score in the compatability tests (Less than some mobile phone browsers) ... (and cannot even complete some!)
Gets the lowest score in the Javascript tests
when are they going to turn it into a legitimate browser ?
Then point out that 40% of the potential customers are being turned away ....
If you ran a shop and you made the doors awkward for 30-40% of your customers and lost trade because of it you would get fired ...
It is still the case that a lot of websites are designed on Firefox tested on Safari/Opera/Chrome etc ... and then heavily modified to work in IE7, and then more so to work on IE6 ...
A few design to IE7 then find that it does not work on IE6 or anything else ... and spend more time redesigning it ...
Stable binary driver interface .... sorry the problem is lack of drivers not a poor interface?
Difficulty in selling software? there is no difficulty in selling software except for software that compares poorly to the freely available alternatives, there is commercial software available for Linux, it is mostly either specialist (and so there is no FOSS equivalent) or much better than any FOSS equivalent ....?
Marketing I agree with .... but please market reality not pipe dreams, Microsoft too often promised big and provides medium and so people are disappointed ...
Service .... you mean I can call Microsoft? I seriously have never tried, I get all the support I need from forums and websites, the same as I do Linux, I never even considered contacting them?
PHP has the same problems that Basic and VB have, it is easy to write very bad code and relatively difficult to write fast, easily maintainable code
It is possible to write bad code in any language but it is easier in some and PHP has a reputation (well justified) for making it easy or even encouraging bad coding practices
PHP is improving, and is vastly better than it was (mainly due to it's use in large websites) but there are still languages that are intrinsically better ...
Simple solution is don't tell facebook ...and then Facebook will not know
If your phone number, address, work history, educational history is on facebook then you are foolish, your friends and family already know this information (or don't care), and facebook does not need to know
The security on facebook should be assumed to be flawed, since it is unlikely to be perfect and so you should not put any more information on than you would be willing to let everyone on facebook see ...
No the render farms do not need this level of graphics either ... they render off-screen at seriously low frame rates (frames per minute not per second) they go for quality not speed
They do use the GPU's to render but they are using it as a general processor that is fast (in a cluster) not as a GPU at all ...
The only people using high end graphics cards are Gamers and a very few graphic artists ...
A system that is intrinsically not secure ... will never be secure
Systems designed to be secure are never completely exploit free, so Microsoft hasn't got a hope ...
...or you could change to a decent Linux distro that autoupdates everything... and the autoupdater has the privilege and not the program ... or Microsoft could actually open up the Windows update system and allow other programs to use it rather than having several different ad-hoc systems ?
...and Firefox has a lag of one activation .... not 7 days ...?
If they assume that people without broadband are not worth selling to then they have a potential market of 100% of the people they want to sell to ...
With an online service as the game (or an essential part of the game) then you can ensure people have legal copies, pay for the service, cannot transfer the game/service when they no longer want it
Was custom built hardware running Ada86 custom software
Then Mixture of SPARC's running Custom Solaris system, and custom hardware, and the same Ada software
Now some off the shelf hardware (PC's) running custom version of Windows somewhere between Win2k and XP?
N.B. The Sonar system however run Linux ....
Atheism - There is no computer ...
Agnosticism - You cannot prove there is a computer by programming ...
Python - when control structures are bounded by indentation and so line wraps can break code ....!
I think this is very restrictive ...
I hated VB reformatting my code as I typed ... I hate Python *only* because it forces a (to me) illogical indentation style ... at least in C/C++ it is only a style, in python it is required ...
I wonder whether some people would prefer a slight increase on the price of a console to include the ability to not scratch the disc while a disk was playing inside when they had not moved, reorientated or done anything to it ....
There fixed it for you .... and the answer is yes ...
So currently it is just Yet another tagging system .. .that has the ability of sharing the tags with your friends ... the data on my computer is private... that's why it is on my computer and not on my Facebook/MySpace/Bebo etc site....
Another poorly implemented, mis-aimed application by I researchers ...!?
As I said DSL does all this in 50MB.... the only thing I cannot find is an equivalent of DVD Shrink ?
7-Zip is rather limited on the formats it can understand ....! ... a native linux install can do all these plus many others (Except the propriatory 7z) in all file managers ? No special interface required
7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR both ways
The GUI on DSL is X.Org with FluxBox and is Tiny .... unlike the bloated qt/gdk ....
If you want a small system use a small system ... XP is not a small system?
See gorilla arm: n.
The side-effect that destroyed touch-screens as a mainstream input technology despite a promising start in the early 1980s. It seems the designers of all those spiffy touch-menu systems failed to notice that humans aren't designed to hold their arms in front of their faces making small motions. After more than a very few selections, the arm begins to feel sore, cramped, and oversized â" the operator looks like a gorilla while using the touch screen and feels like one afterwards. This is now considered a classic cautionary tale to human-factors designers; âoeRemember the gorilla arm!â is shorthand for âoeHow is this going to fly in real use?â.
Using Samba to let Linux clients and Web Clients to talk to Linux Servers - Oh and the odd legacy MS server or client .... is a good thing too ...
windows freeware like 7-zip, utorrent, ffdshow, media player classic, dvdshrink, firefox..
7-zip - Linux already has more compression formats than 7-Zip supports ...?
utorrent - there are many Linux native Torrent programs
ffdshow/media player - there are decoders and players that handle all the formats ffdshow and media player does?
dvdshrink - see K9Copy and others
firefox - native version for Linux
You only seem to want freeware/shareware but seem to be tied to the Windows versions ....
I can run all this on DSL (DamnSmallLinux) in ~ 100MB for the whole system, Get the right system and the right software and drop the Windows bloat and you will have a fast small *native* system ...
The problem is that there is currently too much capacity so one or more of the DRAM plants should close ...but which ones, each country has the attitude "not the one in my country" since they quite rightly assume that the survivors will be profitable and when economic times improve the countries without a DRAM plant won't get one in the short term
DRAM plants are very costly to build and take a long time to get going but are very profitable when working near capacity ... the problem is there are currently too many and so all are working under capacity and so are losing money ..
Slackware..... Gentoo.....!
It's LFS (Linux From Scratch) or nothing for me ....