But it gives this power without being annoying to the end user. You can easily play Steam games offline. You don't need to enter obtuse passwords. It doesn't rootkit your system. You don't need to rummage for a CD to play, and then be SOL if it's lost/broken/stolen/etc. From the user perspective, it's probably as least intrusive as it can get and still have people sign up to it (keeping them from using much, much worse forms of DRM).
There's been over 20 million downloads to those 12 million users. I'm willing to be more people use it than use the Apple or Linux OSs. It's a very significant number.
There is no chicken and egg problem in games for linux. It's a market size issue. You take the number of people who are running linux on a box they can play games on, cut it to the number who would play your game, then cut it to those who are unwilling to load up XP in a VM to play the game. The market is small enough it's not worth while.
That is EXACTLY the counter to their argument. If bundling the browser is bad, ALL software bundles must be considered bad. I would like to see a calculator software company make the same lawsuit.
They are doing the same thing, in effect. They already laid them off, now they want to move them somewhere else so they can get the joys of paying them 5 dollars an hour but not have to figure out what Ishmael is saying.
Magnavox. My parents bought theirs in 92 and kept it till last year when it finally broke beyond my ability to repair. They got a new tv now, and watch much less TV since the volume goes up and down so much.
Actually, that'd be those honorable pirates that Slashdot loves so much screwing the normal person.
To fix the problem, buy all the Valve software ONLY through Steam. It's amazing the difference it makes.
In the case with the extremely small marketshare that FOSS software/tools have, that is the normal person. Perhaps the word average would be better applied.
That's alright, if all I wanted to do was Karma-whore, I'd have made one of the (many, many) comments in this thread about how stupid you'd have to be not be able to use Linux. It's kind of nice to see these, it reminds me of the biggest anchor holding back Linux development: the users.
MS Office would've worked just fine, if she has the OS she ordered. Remember, the problem was Dell sent her Ubuntu instead of Windows, causing the rest of the problems.
Let's be honest. The Linux "market segment" is mostly businesses, servers, and an extremely small amount of computer geeks. Of those, Verizon needs to worry about the geeks, who know how to run Wine if they want to run Verizon's software. There is no monetary advantage for Verizon to make their software *nix capable, therefore they won't.
But there is no reason for a normal person to find some ad-hoc work around to the software not working on an OS they have no special love for. Most people don't care what OS they have, and they aren't going to bend over backwards like you often have to do in a *nix system to run what everyone expects you to be able to run. In most people's minds, Office = MS. They aren't going to go looking for random alternatives just because they are out there. That isn't the way people work. The only reason to ever look for an alternative is when it DOESN'T work.
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Of course, no one will be able to afford to use the full 100mbit before they break their cap of 5GB. But they'll have it!
Beer foam would be a great packing material. I just bought an AA book the other day, would've helped :(
I be able to get a pint of bird feathers flown to me? And still get me drunk?
Fixed before you typed your post. Go read the article and updates.
But it gives this power without being annoying to the end user. You can easily play Steam games offline. You don't need to enter obtuse passwords. It doesn't rootkit your system. You don't need to rummage for a CD to play, and then be SOL if it's lost/broken/stolen/etc. From the user perspective, it's probably as least intrusive as it can get and still have people sign up to it (keeping them from using much, much worse forms of DRM).
There's been over 20 million downloads to those 12 million users. I'm willing to be more people use it than use the Apple or Linux OSs. It's a very significant number.
Because the market base for people who use Debian/Ubuntu only is so minor it isn't worth considering?
There is no chicken and egg problem in games for linux. It's a market size issue. You take the number of people who are running linux on a box they can play games on, cut it to the number who would play your game, then cut it to those who are unwilling to load up XP in a VM to play the game. The market is small enough it's not worth while.
As that version is not part of this supposed deal, it doesn't affect anything. Troll elsewhere.
That is EXACTLY the counter to their argument. If bundling the browser is bad, ALL software bundles must be considered bad. I would like to see a calculator software company make the same lawsuit.
They are doing the same thing, in effect. They already laid them off, now they want to move them somewhere else so they can get the joys of paying them 5 dollars an hour but not have to figure out what Ishmael is saying.
That would NEVER happen!
My copy works just fine, I wonder why? Oh, right, I got it from Piratebay. Torrented downloads: They just work.
In one of his tests the Apple couldn't beat the Dell 9" netbook that costs almost 90% less than it. The Apple IS in a bad light.
Magnavox. My parents bought theirs in 92 and kept it till last year when it finally broke beyond my ability to repair. They got a new tv now, and watch much less TV since the volume goes up and down so much.
Actually, that'd be those honorable pirates that Slashdot loves so much screwing the normal person. To fix the problem, buy all the Valve software ONLY through Steam. It's amazing the difference it makes.
This is exactly it. This is Windows Mojave in the wild.
I assume you say the same thing about Apple.
Just don't let it install and give it a sec. The video will still pop right up.
In the case with the extremely small marketshare that FOSS software/tools have, that is the normal person. Perhaps the word average would be better applied.
That's alright, if all I wanted to do was Karma-whore, I'd have made one of the (many, many) comments in this thread about how stupid you'd have to be not be able to use Linux. It's kind of nice to see these, it reminds me of the biggest anchor holding back Linux development: the users.
MS Office would've worked just fine, if she has the OS she ordered. Remember, the problem was Dell sent her Ubuntu instead of Windows, causing the rest of the problems.
Let's be honest. The Linux "market segment" is mostly businesses, servers, and an extremely small amount of computer geeks. Of those, Verizon needs to worry about the geeks, who know how to run Wine if they want to run Verizon's software. There is no monetary advantage for Verizon to make their software *nix capable, therefore they won't.
But there is no reason for a normal person to find some ad-hoc work around to the software not working on an OS they have no special love for. Most people don't care what OS they have, and they aren't going to bend over backwards like you often have to do in a *nix system to run what everyone expects you to be able to run. In most people's minds, Office = MS. They aren't going to go looking for random alternatives just because they are out there. That isn't the way people work. The only reason to ever look for an alternative is when it DOESN'T work.
This is the sort of thing that is going to happen when you give a normal person *nix. Sadly, in this case, Windows "just works."