What isn't Microsoft trying to sue the hell out of it?
Would be a shame though if that happened. WINE's gotta be the finest killer app there is in the linux world. Not only do you get to run all the linux goodies, you even get to run a lot of windows goodies! Can't beat that..:)
It's a messed up society we live in when we're asking game developers to not make their games too addictive.
If a game is extremely addictive, it basically means normal, healthy people will enjoy it a lot. The few mentally unstable who get too addicted... well... they can be sacrifised for the benefit of the greater good.
Certainly, game developers should not have any obligation whatsoever to make their games LESS addictive. That just sounds insane.
There is nothing on the internet that my kid needs protection from. I worry if he's taken the bicycle out in traffic or something like that but being on the internet? Yes, he can discover a lot of weird stuff but that's actually a good thing, contrary to popular fear mongering... won't someone think of the children! I do... I want him to explore the world on the internet.
Products that stop, or attempt to stop, Microsoft from dictating the standards, should be made available to Windows (FireFox, OpenOffice). However, it should stop there IMO.
What sells most platforms more than anything else is "killer apps". Of course, for many of us geeks other factors make us favour Linux, but for the average user, killer apps is where it's at. Taking that away from linux sounds a bit risky.
As an example, imagine a world where you could not simply pirate photoshop, That would make a bunch of people consider a move towards Linux simply because of something like GIMP, unless they could... use it on Windows! So maybe it's not a good example because every kid pirates photoshop but still... I believe Linux would be best served if every good thing about it didn't get ported. This might make it easier for many to switch, but for even more, I suspect (but cannot guarantee of course) it would make it more _difficult_ for them to switch because you've taken away their incentive to switch.
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No open source is ever "complete", for good and for worse :) Even a dead open source project is only "temporary dead"! (whatever that means...)
Will an attitude like that really help anyone?
There are understandable reasons for nvidia wanting to keep it like it is.
which, for me at least, takes more time away from trying to figure out what the goddamn code actually says.
Fuck. I'm found out :(
This has got to be the most boring submission in a LONG while...
What isn't Microsoft trying to sue the hell out of it?
:)
Would be a shame though if that happened. WINE's gotta be the finest killer app there is in the linux world. Not only do you get to run all the linux goodies, you even get to run a lot of windows goodies! Can't beat that..
It's a messed up society we live in when we're asking game developers to not make their games too addictive.
If a game is extremely addictive, it basically means normal, healthy people will enjoy it a lot. The few mentally unstable who get too addicted... well... they can be sacrifised for the benefit of the greater good.
Certainly, game developers should not have any obligation whatsoever to make their games LESS addictive. That just sounds insane.
There is nothing on the internet that my kid needs protection from. I worry if he's taken the bicycle out in traffic or something like that but being on the internet? Yes, he can discover a lot of weird stuff but that's actually a good thing, contrary to popular fear mongering... won't someone think of the children! I do... I want him to explore the world on the internet.
Products that stop, or attempt to stop, Microsoft from dictating the standards, should be made available to Windows (FireFox, OpenOffice). However, it should stop there IMO. What sells most platforms more than anything else is "killer apps". Of course, for many of us geeks other factors make us favour Linux, but for the average user, killer apps is where it's at. Taking that away from linux sounds a bit risky. As an example, imagine a world where you could not simply pirate photoshop, That would make a bunch of people consider a move towards Linux simply because of something like GIMP, unless they could... use it on Windows! So maybe it's not a good example because every kid pirates photoshop but still... I believe Linux would be best served if every good thing about it didn't get ported. This might make it easier for many to switch, but for even more, I suspect (but cannot guarantee of course) it would make it more _difficult_ for them to switch because you've taken away their incentive to switch.