If Windows users aren't playing it anymore then it was a crap game to begin with. Good games stand the test of time and even get run in emulation 30 years later. Don't waste my time or money with dreck.
Plenty of people still play Super Mario knockoffs (or the real thing in emulation). Mario never went anywhere.
This is actually a mundane sort of thing in cross platform development. Your other "ports" aren't just a money pit. They allow you to stress your code in ways you might not have thought of. Typically the bugs you find in secondary platforms improve your product on it's primary platform.
> That's right, be old school and have a HD in your pocket which you can drop and lose all your shit
So? Just have another copy. Back before there were 32G microSD cards the size of a fingernail, I had my collection on CDR and DVDR. Media was cheap and very disposable.
I did this before any sort of Apple or Amazon music or cloud service existed. I could have another copy of my collection and spend about a dollar doing it.
A pocket sized hard drive is what you would use if you wanted to do some serious sneakernet video trading.
My copy is. I own it as much as I own the little plastic disc it came on.
I did not pay for an Amazon copy. I might not even want an Amazon copy. Amazon's copy is different and that's not something that can be trivially glossed over or excused.
It doesn't matter if it's Music, Video, eBooks, or anything else you happen to think of.
Some Mac advocates try to claim that file management is too complex for the non-technical user.
The "puny device" is the real problem. We have actually gone backwards in this regard. I have a 10 year old iPod that is capable of storing my Music collection while more "modern" smartphones and tablets are not.
iTunes becomes a bother once you have to use it constantly to manage the fact that your device cannot accommodate much of your media.
Being able to connect to the mother ship is nice but it's simply not feasible much of the time.
It's pretty easy to find something that iTunes doesn't have without putting any real effort into it. It doesn't even require being into something exotic. Even pretty mundane stuff is missing.
Whether or not GNOME3 is or isn't any good is really pretty irrelevant.
The only meaningful thing here is how you can't just take a legacy system upgraded to the latest version of GNOME and just run the old apps as they were. The old stuff should not have been messed with. They should be able to run unmodified. They can't. That's the real nonsense here.
GNOME2 had to be forked to deal with that nonsense and it really wasn't necessary. A lot of effort has gone into getting MATE rolling that shouldn't have been needed to begin with.
At least overreacting to a threat of physical violence has some hint of sanity to it. It may be a little overzealous but it's not a blatant attack on everyone's liberties.
Five whole minutes eh? That's like change in the couch cushions. There are so many other things that could waste 5 minutes (or even longer) in your average work day that it hardly seems worthwhile to bother with.
Why Apple? This has very little to do with Apple actually. This is more about a lame tech press that treats every Apple press release like something that's going to win them a Pulizter.
"Apple sees record downloads after it pushes users to downloads"
That's not news, that's the kind of math that PolySci professors think you don't need to learn.
It doesn't matter where it happens. If there is a screw up on another platform, we need to analyze that and defend against it. Complacency simply isn't productive. We can't just assume that we're safe. We need to be sure that we are safe and verify.
If necessary defenses and countermeasures need to be mounted.
Not learning from their mistakes or the mistakes of others is Microsoft's real problem.
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...or better yet just some old and cheap video card.
Talk is cheap. You still haven't said how you are going to get to my box to use this.
THAT is the subtle difference between a bug and something that manages to cripple the entire Internet.
Bad? Sure. Dire? Not so much.
Render rates far above 60fps means that I don't have to treat my machine like an xbox just because I decide to do some gaming with it.
It also means that I can likely get away with a much less powerful system and GPU and still have acceptable performance.
I can use less machine to get the job done.
Not terribly impressive considering that Microsoft has relegated Apple to single digit market share for about 20 years.
If Windows users aren't playing it anymore then it was a crap game to begin with. Good games stand the test of time and even get run in emulation 30 years later. Don't waste my time or money with dreck.
Plenty of people still play Super Mario knockoffs (or the real thing in emulation). Mario never went anywhere.
This is actually a mundane sort of thing in cross platform development. Your other "ports" aren't just a money pit. They allow you to stress your code in ways you might not have thought of. Typically the bugs you find in secondary platforms improve your product on it's primary platform.
You have to get to it first. Good luck with that.
It being legal doesn't make it right.
It being illegal doesn't make it wrong.
> it's because the BBC can make more money selling the content to PBS, Syfy Channel, and so on. It all comes down to $$$.
Don't forget about the overpriced DVD releases. Some of them even put Star Trek to shame if you look at it from a dollars per hour point of view.
High prices. Short seasons.
> That's right, be old school and have a HD in your pocket which you can drop and lose all your shit
So? Just have another copy. Back before there were 32G microSD cards the size of a fingernail, I had my collection on CDR and DVDR. Media was cheap and very disposable.
I did this before any sort of Apple or Amazon music or cloud service existed. I could have another copy of my collection and spend about a dollar doing it.
A pocket sized hard drive is what you would use if you wanted to do some serious sneakernet video trading.
> How is a song you did not create your "personal" data in any way?
It's the copy I paid for. It's not someone else's copy. It's not your copy and it's not Amazon's copy.
You have ABSOLUTELY ZERO say in it.
It's certainly not your copy you stupid meddling little shit.
> Is music your "personal data"?
My copy is. I own it as much as I own the little plastic disc it came on.
I did not pay for an Amazon copy. I might not even want an Amazon copy. Amazon's copy is different and that's not something that can be trivially glossed over or excused.
It doesn't matter if it's Music, Video, eBooks, or anything else you happen to think of.
Some Mac advocates try to claim that file management is too complex for the non-technical user.
The "puny device" is the real problem. We have actually gone backwards in this regard. I have a 10 year old iPod that is capable of storing my Music collection while more "modern" smartphones and tablets are not.
iTunes becomes a bother once you have to use it constantly to manage the fact that your device cannot accommodate much of your media.
Being able to connect to the mother ship is nice but it's simply not feasible much of the time.
Also, pushing stuff into the cloud is quite slow.
This is 2012. Forcing people to use a proprietary platform binary to use a pretty generic looking e-commerce site should be considered beyond absurd.
> It's hard to match the catalog iTunes ha
It's pretty easy to find something that iTunes doesn't have without putting any real effort into it. It doesn't even require being into something exotic. Even pretty mundane stuff is missing.
Of course there is an obvious solution to the "lawyer problem". You institute a police state or monarchy where the little people have no rights.
Communist? Nazi? Take your pick.
Whether or not GNOME3 is or isn't any good is really pretty irrelevant.
The only meaningful thing here is how you can't just take a legacy system upgraded to the latest version of GNOME and just run the old apps as they were. The old stuff should not have been messed with. They should be able to run unmodified. They can't. That's the real nonsense here.
GNOME2 had to be forked to deal with that nonsense and it really wasn't necessary. A lot of effort has gone into getting MATE rolling that shouldn't have been needed to begin with.
At least overreacting to a threat of physical violence has some hint of sanity to it. It may be a little overzealous but it's not a blatant attack on everyone's liberties.
> If he stood outside the hotel with a megaphone saying that would you have any problem with him being arrested?
We already have precedents making things like that very dubious.
Of course, that's over here on the other side of the pond.
Five whole minutes eh? That's like change in the couch cushions. There are so many other things that could waste 5 minutes (or even longer) in your average work day that it hardly seems worthwhile to bother with.
"runs better on systems with less than 4G of RAM"
Tempted to add my own remarks but this kind of speaks for itself.
Not familiar with Waterworld?
This is Slashdot, not your grandma's sewing circle.
Why Apple? This has very little to do with Apple actually. This is more about a lame tech press that treats every Apple press release like something that's going to win them a Pulizter.
"Apple sees record downloads after it pushes users to downloads"
That's not news, that's the kind of math that PolySci professors think you don't need to learn.
Next stop: Wetware and stacking your brain.
It doesn't matter where it happens. If there is a screw up on another platform, we need to analyze that and defend against it. Complacency simply isn't productive. We can't just assume that we're safe. We need to be sure that we are safe and verify.
If necessary defenses and countermeasures need to be mounted.
Not learning from their mistakes or the mistakes of others is Microsoft's real problem.