For most people no. The public has a VERY short memory in technology compared to us geeks. For the average person they will still buy Sony's CDs and PS3s while looking at Blu-Ray and such. In the eye of the public, most people don't remember Windows ME, I doubt that if Windows 7 comes out and corrects Vista soon enough people will forget by Windows 8. Apple fans will still buy the iPhone II on launch even if Apple lowers the price days later. The public I bet won't even know a thing about the Wii being cracked unless Fox/CNN/NBC does a story on it. The public has a short memory unless the company reminds them.
But most homebrew are for areas that Nintendo either has no or very little interest in developing such as emulators (sure the VC is great, except games are released at a snails pace and only 4 import games yet) and media such as DVD playback along with more media support or even running Linux on it. Most homebrew titles also (for the DS) don't have the quality of retail games, nor enough replay value to pay $20-50 for.
That is a good point... Just look at the floppy disks, there is lots of them yet readers are hard to find for non 3.5 sized ones. The same could happen to OOXML and other propriatary formats.
Wow, and when I consider that I use around 60 MB for about 3 hours of normal web browsing on my Linux laptop (and thats not even counting internet on my Wii and PDA) and download about 2-3 700 MB or so Linux distros every month... I wonder how much that would cost! However (I am in the US) my ISP is local which gives me good download speeds (at like 4 A.M. when the rest of the people are sleeping) and they really don't care if I use 1 MB or 30 Gigabytes a month in bandwidth.
Not even Windows users like OOXML. Even the ones with Office 2007 usually save into.doc format. I don't see why we can't just go with plain old.doc. Sure it isn't as "open" as ODF, but OOo and Office can read them well enough (now if I got to make the plans, it would just be plain.txt, fast and easy to read, who needs formatting) to see what they are saying. But OOXML just plain isn't adopted anywhere, it lacks support for non Windows platforms and no one really knows what the "standard" actually is, and knowing MS's previous actions, they will soon "extend" OOXML to have "features" that will make the free/open source document readers have yet another thing to deal with. So why can't they go with.doc? Or better yet HTML? Even.txt would be better then OOXML, even though ODF is nice, Windows systems with Office need "plugins" to view them.
Not really... do to the fact that EU/UK is PAL while the US/Japan is NTSC and aside from TV differences, Wii games are region "protected" unless you get a modchip. So although it is a good idea it will not happen.
Still though, in reality it does absolutly nothing, sure it may be illegal, my point isn't to say that it is not illegal and that it is not bad, but to say that it shows absolutly no harm, and for 99.99% of F/OSS projects it will not affect them in the least.
I wasn't meaning that I had to reboot myself, but all kernel updates (or just about any "major") update required a reboot on my XP machine. And also some misbehaving applications caused Windows to become unresponsive that a reboot would only fix, in Ubuntu on the odd case of a bad app, all I usually have to do is CTRL+ALT+Backspace to kill X.
Yes, thats wrong, but does it hurt you that much? Not hardly at all. Sure its not nice but the real question is, did you lose any money or users that would contribute and such. I highly doubt that. This probobly happens to almost all F/OSS software at one point in time, but the people who do that don't have the coding talent to keep up with releases. I am not saying that it is not bad, but for a title of "beware of backspaceware" is kind of overstating that.
Yes, When Bill Gates was the head of MS, things were O.K. (just forget about ME for a second) there was little about DRM, and for most of the time, they actually somewhat innovated (or at least stole from Mac which innovated) things and and brought the world of the GUI to the cheap IBM PC. There was no competition because until 1991, and even then, Linux wasn't ready for the real world, in around 2003 with the 2.6 kernel, Linux posed a huge threat to MS. However from 2000-present, MS has been rapidly shooting itself in the foot with missed opportunities, disasters such as Vista, and falling to DRM. Steve Ballmer seems to be much more for DRM then Gates ever was, all Gates wanted to do was make some cash and make the computer easy to use, the same vision as Apple. However Ballmer wanted to make money at all costs and that meant taking out all competition and throwing us into this DRMed world which we hate.
Really, whats the big deal? If someone can download the program for free over the main site, with source, then unless it is adware (which I am sure it is not) they have nothing to lose by someone just deleting the credits. Even if they claim it as their own, if they don't have the coding talent to fix bugs or add features, people will go elsewhere. Its doing nothing except spread the program.
How is Linux worse then Windows for downtime? In Windows, I had to reboot on almost a weekly basis at least, with Linux even with an application crash or so, the most I have to do is CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE to kill X. Sure Linux might not have the "reliability" of other UNIX-like systems, but it is much newer then UNIX and therefore hasn't had much time to be reliable. In my few years of working with Linux there never has been more then 3-5 minutes of downtime due to software, and that was just doing risky stuff that we shouldn't have attempted. All other faults were due to the hardware themselves, the Linux kernel is very very very stable (way much more than Windows) and most applications are very stable also.
And for many users I have talked to, the nice GUI is all they want from a mac. I then tell and show how to turn a $300 PC into a mac simply by installing Ubuntu 7.10 and a few mac themes. Easy. I assume you can do the same for Darwin and make a "fake mac" distro
So now that the government is making games, are we going to have to not compete with government games? Or can the government order people to give the government rights to use your FPS games? The government needs to step aside fom tech matters otherwise we will get the DMCA X 1,000.
Except it is an absolute pain to run Linux or any other non-MS OS on them, save freeBSD and *buntu, but other then that, its a total pain to work with wi-fi and with the devices being non F/OSS, most distros won't include them. The curse of the winmodem in the modern age.
They now need to list the three Tech-Support people you would find there. For example there is the guy who doesn't know much English and doesn't have a clue what your problem is (as you hear the page flipping in the background). Then you get the tech-support person that even though you know the problem, they won't give you the solution you need. (I was on the phone for about 3 hours telling this guy that I needed a new motherboard for my laptop that a new power cord wasn't going to work.) and then the person who only knows Windows/Mac/Linux and refuses to even give hardware support if you are running something other then the almighty Windows/Mac/Linux even though the problem has everything to do with the hardware and if you were even running some OS written in assembly it still would have the problem.
Its been on mine for around 6 months now. And prehaps 2008 will be the year of Linux on the desktop with MS shooting itself in the foot with Office 2007, Vista, and DRM.
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For most people no. The public has a VERY short memory in technology compared to us geeks. For the average person they will still buy Sony's CDs and PS3s while looking at Blu-Ray and such. In the eye of the public, most people don't remember Windows ME, I doubt that if Windows 7 comes out and corrects Vista soon enough people will forget by Windows 8. Apple fans will still buy the iPhone II on launch even if Apple lowers the price days later. The public I bet won't even know a thing about the Wii being cracked unless Fox/CNN/NBC does a story on it. The public has a short memory unless the company reminds them.
But most homebrew are for areas that Nintendo either has no or very little interest in developing such as emulators (sure the VC is great, except games are released at a snails pace and only 4 import games yet) and media such as DVD playback along with more media support or even running Linux on it. Most homebrew titles also (for the DS) don't have the quality of retail games, nor enough replay value to pay $20-50 for.
It is the same thing with hardware. Just let the kernel hackers do it. For games it is just "Wine will catch up".
Beta? Most betas I use are much more stable and fast. I would go for pre-alpha or nightly release.
Not really... it renders pages slower then IE6, but it is 300% easier to write pages for it.
Vista? With how long it took from IE6-7 IE8 won't be ready until NT7 service pack 2.
Doubt it. Dell just probably paid the patent fees and added deCSS.
Mostly because I like to see what advancements have been made recently. I know that it isn't typical but I enjoy testing the bleeding edge.
That is a good point... Just look at the floppy disks, there is lots of them yet readers are hard to find for non 3.5 sized ones. The same could happen to OOXML and other propriatary formats.
Wow, and when I consider that I use around 60 MB for about 3 hours of normal web browsing on my Linux laptop (and thats not even counting internet on my Wii and PDA) and download about 2-3 700 MB or so Linux distros every month... I wonder how much that would cost! However (I am in the US) my ISP is local which gives me good download speeds (at like 4 A.M. when the rest of the people are sleeping) and they really don't care if I use 1 MB or 30 Gigabytes a month in bandwidth.
Not even Windows users like OOXML. Even the ones with Office 2007 usually save into .doc format. I don't see why we can't just go with plain old .doc. Sure it isn't as "open" as ODF, but OOo and Office can read them well enough (now if I got to make the plans, it would just be plain .txt, fast and easy to read, who needs formatting) to see what they are saying. But OOXML just plain isn't adopted anywhere, it lacks support for non Windows platforms and no one really knows what the "standard" actually is, and knowing MS's previous actions, they will soon "extend" OOXML to have "features" that will make the free/open source document readers have yet another thing to deal with. So why can't they go with .doc? Or better yet HTML? Even .txt would be better then OOXML, even though ODF is nice, Windows systems with Office need "plugins" to view them.
Not really... do to the fact that EU/UK is PAL while the US/Japan is NTSC and aside from TV differences, Wii games are region "protected" unless you get a modchip. So although it is a good idea it will not happen.
Still though, in reality it does absolutly nothing, sure it may be illegal, my point isn't to say that it is not illegal and that it is not bad, but to say that it shows absolutly no harm, and for 99.99% of F/OSS projects it will not affect them in the least.
I wasn't meaning that I had to reboot myself, but all kernel updates (or just about any "major") update required a reboot on my XP machine. And also some misbehaving applications caused Windows to become unresponsive that a reboot would only fix, in Ubuntu on the odd case of a bad app, all I usually have to do is CTRL+ALT+Backspace to kill X.
Yes, thats wrong, but does it hurt you that much? Not hardly at all. Sure its not nice but the real question is, did you lose any money or users that would contribute and such. I highly doubt that. This probobly happens to almost all F/OSS software at one point in time, but the people who do that don't have the coding talent to keep up with releases. I am not saying that it is not bad, but for a title of "beware of backspaceware" is kind of overstating that.
Yes, When Bill Gates was the head of MS, things were O.K. (just forget about ME for a second) there was little about DRM, and for most of the time, they actually somewhat innovated (or at least stole from Mac which innovated) things and and brought the world of the GUI to the cheap IBM PC. There was no competition because until 1991, and even then, Linux wasn't ready for the real world, in around 2003 with the 2.6 kernel, Linux posed a huge threat to MS. However from 2000-present, MS has been rapidly shooting itself in the foot with missed opportunities, disasters such as Vista, and falling to DRM. Steve Ballmer seems to be much more for DRM then Gates ever was, all Gates wanted to do was make some cash and make the computer easy to use, the same vision as Apple. However Ballmer wanted to make money at all costs and that meant taking out all competition and throwing us into this DRMed world which we hate.
Really, whats the big deal? If someone can download the program for free over the main site, with source, then unless it is adware (which I am sure it is not) they have nothing to lose by someone just deleting the credits. Even if they claim it as their own, if they don't have the coding talent to fix bugs or add features, people will go elsewhere. Its doing nothing except spread the program.
How is Linux worse then Windows for downtime? In Windows, I had to reboot on almost a weekly basis at least, with Linux even with an application crash or so, the most I have to do is CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE to kill X. Sure Linux might not have the "reliability" of other UNIX-like systems, but it is much newer then UNIX and therefore hasn't had much time to be reliable. In my few years of working with Linux there never has been more then 3-5 minutes of downtime due to software, and that was just doing risky stuff that we shouldn't have attempted. All other faults were due to the hardware themselves, the Linux kernel is very very very stable (way much more than Windows) and most applications are very stable also.
And for many users I have talked to, the nice GUI is all they want from a mac. I then tell and show how to turn a $300 PC into a mac simply by installing Ubuntu 7.10 and a few mac themes. Easy. I assume you can do the same for Darwin and make a "fake mac" distro
So now that the government is making games, are we going to have to not compete with government games? Or can the government order people to give the government rights to use your FPS games? The government needs to step aside fom tech matters otherwise we will get the DMCA X 1,000.
Except it is an absolute pain to run Linux or any other non-MS OS on them, save freeBSD and *buntu, but other then that, its a total pain to work with wi-fi and with the devices being non F/OSS, most distros won't include them. The curse of the winmodem in the modern age.
So, if this trend continues, \. will get a C&D order for the "broken windows" icon for MS related stories.
They now need to list the three Tech-Support people you would find there. For example there is the guy who doesn't know much English and doesn't have a clue what your problem is (as you hear the page flipping in the background). Then you get the tech-support person that even though you know the problem, they won't give you the solution you need. (I was on the phone for about 3 hours telling this guy that I needed a new motherboard for my laptop that a new power cord wasn't going to work.) and then the person who only knows Windows/Mac/Linux and refuses to even give hardware support if you are running something other then the almighty Windows/Mac/Linux even though the problem has everything to do with the hardware and if you were even running some OS written in assembly it still would have the problem.
Its been on mine for around 6 months now. And prehaps 2008 will be the year of Linux on the desktop with MS shooting itself in the foot with Office 2007, Vista, and DRM.