Maybe you are right, but I still think a game manufacturer could package their games with a layer that provided the needed infrastructure like a "live" DVD that boots into memory the way the Linux "live" DVDs do.
And the infrastructure they need is available free as open source, besides. What's stopping them.
I asked once before without any luck. Not being a gamer, I'm very surprised about something.
It seems obvious to me that when performance is the measure of satisfaction, a game should boot on the bare metal, instead of running on top of an OS.
Especially a pig of an OS that robs you of a good percentage of the hardware you paid dearly for.
Maybe you want something else from the OS at the same time? What if the game company built in email, IM, or etc.; would you still need Windows?
I developed on VMS for over 15 years and file system fragmentation was annoying (as it is with VMS's retarded baby sister; Windows) but never once in over 25 years using *nix have i EVER seen any significant fragmentation.
Newspapers are a business. They will survive as long as there is a demand. On the one hand, there are excellent newspapers such as economist.com which has a great deal of free content on their web site, and excellent reporting; the print version is not cheap but is worth the cost.
On the other hand, as other people have said, all of local papers have been bought by big companies, carry primarily the same AP, Reuters, and UPI feeds, and espouse the politcal agenda of the owner.
The quality of a huge number of things in the last few years has dissapeared for the sake of high short-term earnings for the shareholders.
Those companies will die the death that they so richly deserve.
You are the sanitary cover between their butt and the toilet seat. They would not be there if they liked the bullshit of management and bureaucracy, so point that out if you want to be appreciated (but they already know it).
They would also not be there at that age if they weren't motivated. Don't try to manipulate. They are doing what they like to do; just keep them warm, dry, and well fed.
"Funny" would be better than "Informative". The post is a contrast of the ease of use of the command line ("dd" command) with all of the tortuous pointy-clicky drudgery of Windows.
In July 2001 Silvio Berlusconi, then prime minister of Italy, launched a lawsuit in Italy alleging that The Economist had defamed him in its article "An Italian Story", which appeared in our April 26th 2001 issue. The magazine cover bore the title: "Why Silvio Berlusconi is unfit to lead Italy". We are pleased to announce that the Court in Milan has issued a judgment rejecting all Mr Berlusconi's claims and requiring him to make a payment for costs to The Economist. The full judgment, in Italian, is available here. The Economist will not be making any further comment. Mr Berlusconi is once again prime minister of Italy.
If the US govt. has a backdoor into MSWin (debatable, but Google it), and China puts backdoors into hardware they send to the US (ditto), and China is active in cracking US computer systems (don't even argue about that), is there any question that a govt. like China's doesn't put backdoors into every hardware and software piece internal to their country, considering that they are so paranoid about their subjects?
Really. Unless youv'e been asleep for the last 10 years, can there be any question?
Most people haven't yet picked up on the obvious: MS's Win is a consumer product which is symbiotic with HP's, Dell's, and whoever's PC products. It's all about moving PCs.
The more PCs sold, the more copies of "Windows" sold, nobody needs more copies of it otherwise.
People who do spreadsheets are happy in their blissful comfort zone with win2k or XP, technical people and other people that do serious computing can use UNIX/Linux.
Tis' the season to be jolly. Merry Christmas; buy a PC with Vista NOW!
I agree it's best to be kind to people, but you have to agree, if you have any experience with customer support, that dealing with people who are little better than robots can be infuriating.
Ten years ago, before the people on the other end were located in India, I called the number in the manual because two features on a cell phone that I had just bought didn't work. The front end women had me step through the procdure in the manual, which of course I had already done; that's how I knew it didn't work. After she told me to do it again, I talked to the supervisor who was surpirisingly even less helpful.
I ranted and raved but eventually gave up. I finally realized (this was in the '90s) that these people did not work for the company who made the phone, and were not technical enough to help in any way.
I was on my own to experiment, and eventually found that the features did work, but the manual was wrong. But the manual is The Bible to these contracted support people.
As one poster said, support costs money. But so does every other aspect of the business including CEO's bonuses. Bad support needs to see more light of day so that consumers consider it in their purchase decisions as highly as bling and whether it has a "Vista Compatible" sticker.
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They are giving some of the other states that I thought were the most fucked up a run for their money.
Many of us develop on Windows, pushing out code to Linux platforms.
WTF!? You'd probably put your horse behind the cart, too.
IDE's are for wussies. Unless you're on windows, in which case I understand, sorry.
But if you watched TFVideo, Linus doesn't even mention it. According to him only Git and Mercurial are worth considering.
Some governments and institutions would like to be able to save their files in an open format. Can you do that with MSOff03?
And the infrastructure they need is available free as open source, besides. What's stopping them.
I asked once before without any luck. Not being a gamer, I'm very surprised about something. It seems obvious to me that when performance is the measure of satisfaction, a game should boot on the bare metal, instead of running on top of an OS. Especially a pig of an OS that robs you of a good percentage of the hardware you paid dearly for. Maybe you want something else from the OS at the same time? What if the game company built in email, IM, or etc.; would you still need Windows?
Not sure why we're beaming microwaves to rectums, but does that mean we can use the beams like campfires to roast our weenies?
I developed on VMS for over 15 years and file system fragmentation was annoying (as it is with VMS's retarded baby sister; Windows) but never once in over 25 years using *nix have i EVER seen any significant fragmentation.
Biz droid: "I'm a PC" Twerp: "I'm a Mac" Linux: "STFU"
On the other hand, as other people have said, all of local papers have been bought by big companies, carry primarily the same AP, Reuters, and UPI feeds, and espouse the politcal agenda of the owner.
The quality of a huge number of things in the last few years has dissapeared for the sake of high short-term earnings for the shareholders.
Those companies will die the death that they so richly deserve.
If the ridiculous graphics were converted to text, the whole article would be three paragraphs.
Why only two OSes? Just another multipage, ad filled, low-information slashspam?
http://www.physorg.com/news92674403.html
http://dgl.com/itinfo/2003/it030528.html
http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/sabl/2006/Jul/06.html
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ-PS3
They would also not be there at that age if they weren't motivated. Don't try to manipulate. They are doing what they like to do; just keep them warm, dry, and well fed.
"Funny" would be better than "Informative". The post is a contrast of the ease of use of the command line ("dd" command) with all of the tortuous pointy-clicky drudgery of Windows.
The Economist wins Berlusconi lawsuit
Sep 5th 2008 From Economist.com
In July 2001 Silvio Berlusconi, then prime minister of Italy, launched a lawsuit in Italy alleging that The Economist had defamed him in its article "An Italian Story", which appeared in our April 26th 2001 issue. The magazine cover bore the title: "Why Silvio Berlusconi is unfit to lead Italy". We are pleased to announce that the Court in Milan has issued a judgment rejecting all Mr Berlusconi's claims and requiring him to make a payment for costs to The Economist. The full judgment, in Italian, is available here. The Economist will not be making any further comment. Mr Berlusconi is once again prime minister of Italy.
Commie bastards: http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/19/1238255
Really. Unless youv'e been asleep for the last 10 years, can there be any question?
Don't pay any attention to people that use business babble like "going forward'.
Most people haven't yet picked up on the obvious: MS's Win is a consumer product which is symbiotic with HP's, Dell's, and whoever's PC products. It's all about moving PCs.
The more PCs sold, the more copies of "Windows" sold, nobody needs more copies of it otherwise.
People who do spreadsheets are happy in their blissful comfort zone with win2k or XP, technical people and other people that do serious computing can use UNIX/Linux.
Tis' the season to be jolly. Merry Christmas; buy a PC with Vista NOW!
I agree it's best to be kind to people, but you have to agree, if you have any experience with customer support, that dealing with people who are little better than robots can be infuriating.
Ten years ago, before the people on the other end were located in India, I called the number in the manual because two features on a cell phone that I had just bought didn't work. The front end women had me step through the procdure in the manual, which of course I had already done; that's how I knew it didn't work. After she told me to do it again, I talked to the supervisor who was surpirisingly even less helpful.
I ranted and raved but eventually gave up. I finally realized (this was in the '90s) that these people did not work for the company who made the phone, and were not technical enough to help in any way.
I was on my own to experiment, and eventually found that the features did work, but the manual was wrong. But the manual is The Bible to these contracted support people.
As one poster said, support costs money. But so does every other aspect of the business including CEO's bonuses. Bad support needs to see more light of day so that consumers consider it in their purchase decisions as highly as bling and whether it has a "Vista Compatible" sticker.
Even with the same version, I would be concerned that optimization is better for linux than other less used (as far as GCC) OSes.
I got the impression that file writes and reads were better with Solaris.
Do people still use ie? Unbelievable!?
But there's no "mystery", they're still a brutal, cut throat, win at any cost company that's totally uncaring about the advancement of computing; only making money through domination. For a recent example, look at the "Office Open XML" vs. "Open Office" farce: http://www.groklaw.net/search.php?query=office+open&keyType=phrase&datestart=&dateend=&topic=0&type=all&author=0&mode=search