Like any other class of application, it is entirely dependent on whether or not some crass corporation is willing to dedicate the resources to a Linux version.
Platform suitability is at best a distant 2nd when compared to the issue of supporting any non-monopoly platform.
This is why Macs had their great dry spell in this regard.
Hardware support for stuff like this is spotty even in Windows. When you are dealing with the trailing edge stuff Apple likes to put into it's machines, gaming can be quite a disaster.
Emulation and virtualization certainly aren't silver bullets either.
"freedom of speech, or copy the work of others with no recompense"
If you weren't such a asshat moron you would realize that those two are interrelated. Also as primates, "copying" is as fundemental as copulating. It's why you have a global audience for your stupid comments.
It's always instructive to hear the views of the younger generation on sexual matters. And by "younger" I mean "twelve or under".
No. The default expecation here is that she lost any sort of "hotness" a long time ago and is now a big fat whale. She probably doesn't put out very much and has lots of annoying sexual hangups.
She MIGHT be an in shape nympho but that's going to be the exception rather than the rule.
The whole "mid life crisis" thing doesn't just happen for no reason.
Having "easy" interfaces is a laudable design goal. It is quite independent of whether or not you have more powerful interfaces available.
These things aren't mutually exclusive.
However, in the ideal case the end user shouldn't even have to bother with a GUI. Things should be automated and set to sane defaults when they can be.
The situation with Linux is not nearly as bad as some people like to make it out. The situation with Windows and MacOS is not entirely ideal either.
The windows binary registry is a poorly thought out single point of failure with not nearly enough consideration given to basic disaster recovery. It's a database implemented by people with no clue about databases.
"if you debug and understand how it is used"
In other words: It's great if you drink the kool-aid.
Proprietary installation methods are not inherently superior.
They are pretty much identical actually. The only real difference is "eye candy". Both types of installers do essentially the same thing with a similar level of automation. Both types of installer also require that the "college intern" in question gets things right.
If you think proprietary installers are "superior" then you are just superficial.
You laugh that's exactly what the Italians have done. They imported labor so they could still put a "made in Italy" stamp on their stuff. So the next time you are fawning over some overpriced Italian brand, just remember that it was still made by the Chinese.
It's fine for something to be more expensive. It just has to be able to wipe the floor with the alternatives. That or it has to have a cult of personality associated with it.
If you don't have either then you're kind of doomed and all you are going to do is give on-shoring a bad name. People will intentionally confuse the issue of why the thing failed.
> i'm a liberal and i agree with your point. it's just impossible to codify "critical thinking,"
I am sure there is some Greek or Roman principle you could steal whole cloth and use unmodified. This isn't exactly a new problem we're talking about. Chances are that it's already been solved several times already.
> As usual Slashdot puts up any and all propaganda that makes anyone but radical leftists look like lunatics.
You mean like the newsletters of the organizations that make up the current core constituencies of the Republican party. The summary of this article is no great suprise to anyone that has ever been subjected to the sort of evangelicals that seem to be in control of the GOP these days.
If anything, this article should be criticized not for being mindless propaganda but for being old news. It's more like ancient history.
These kinds of policy statements from the GOP should be no surprise to anyone.
Of course the start menu will be very rarely used in a well configured system. That is the way it should be. That does not mean that it should be removed.
The Windows version could stand a re-org but that's a different kind of problem.
No. It's a STUPID thing. It's a gift to the insurance industry.
It's graft.
It's corruption.
It's ALL of us being forced to pay for something we may never need versus just having enough discipline to save for a rainy day. With lower premiums, that saving for a rainy day becomes much easier.
The savings from a higher deductible can allow you to quickly save your deductible and keep it on hand for when you need it.
Can't have people doing for themselves and controlling their own destiny.
Quite. As a "responsible person" I wonder what kind of extra costs I might be required to bear because my current insurance is not up to the new federal standards. Will I even be able to afford it? That's a serious issue that's getting glossed over here. The nanny state worshipers are all just taking it on faith that things will actually get better and that the situation will improve for anyone except the insurance companies.
They certainly aren't going to lower rates on their own accord, regardless of how much bigger the risk pool is.
They could have put the breaks on the absurd price increases directly and made this thing a lot simpler all around.
Yes it is Obama's fault. He created a situation where the SCOTUS needed to step in and clean up after him. They chose to shirk their responsibility. It's still on Obama either way.
The things that your state is allowed to do is different from what the Federal government is allowed to do. It's part of the law. Of course many people don't care about the rules or the finer details. They just see some end goal, scream that the ends justify the means, and no thought is given to broader consequences.
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Linux does fine with desktop level gaming.
Like any other class of application, it is entirely dependent on whether or not some crass corporation is willing to dedicate the resources to a Linux version.
Platform suitability is at best a distant 2nd when compared to the issue of supporting any non-monopoly platform.
This is why Macs had their great dry spell in this regard.
This Fanboy reminds me of the shills for the regime in 1984.
It's funny how Apple became what they were trying to make fun of.
My new-ish Mac died. It cooked itself to death.
My others don't have good enough GPUs to play any major studio game and can't be upgraded.
I can put any GPU I like into my conventional tower PCs and I don't have to pay a minimum buy in of $2400 to get it either.
I have Macs. They are doorstops in this discussion.
> A Mac will run all Windows software
A Mac won't even run all Mac software.
Hardware support for stuff like this is spotty even in Windows. When you are dealing with the trailing edge stuff Apple likes to put into it's machines, gaming can be quite a disaster.
Emulation and virtualization certainly aren't silver bullets either.
Your local municipal judge may or may not uphold that.
They might decide that the UCC actually has some teeth and decide to enforce it despite of what kind of sleazy disclaimers a company might try.
You will never know until you try.
It will cost them more money to defend then it will cost you to persue the issue.
"freedom of speech, or copy the work of others with no recompense"
If you weren't such a asshat moron you would realize that those two are interrelated. Also as primates, "copying" is as fundemental as copulating. It's why you have a global audience for your stupid comments.
she's not a hottie if she's close to his age.
It's always instructive to hear the views of the younger generation on sexual matters. And by "younger" I mean "twelve or under".
No. The default expecation here is that she lost any sort of "hotness" a long time ago and is now a big fat whale. She probably doesn't put out very much and has lots of annoying sexual hangups.
She MIGHT be an in shape nympho but that's going to be the exception rather than the rule.
The whole "mid life crisis" thing doesn't just happen for no reason.
If you want to live like rats, that's fine but you really should not not subject other people to this kind of lifestyle.
Quite.
Having "easy" interfaces is a laudable design goal. It is quite independent of whether or not you have more powerful interfaces available.
These things aren't mutually exclusive.
However, in the ideal case the end user shouldn't even have to bother with a GUI. Things should be automated and set to sane defaults when they can be.
The situation with Linux is not nearly as bad as some people like to make it out. The situation with Windows and MacOS is not entirely ideal either.
The windows binary registry is a poorly thought out single point of failure with not nearly enough consideration given to basic disaster recovery. It's a database implemented by people with no clue about databases.
"if you debug and understand how it is used"
In other words: It's great if you drink the kool-aid.
With a modern package manager, dealing with build dependencies is pretty trivial.
Proprietary installation methods are not inherently superior.
They are pretty much identical actually. The only real difference is "eye candy". Both types of installers do essentially the same thing with a similar level of automation. Both types of installer also require that the "college intern" in question gets things right.
If you think proprietary installers are "superior" then you are just superficial.
You laugh that's exactly what the Italians have done. They imported labor so they could still put a "made in Italy" stamp on their stuff. So the next time you are fawning over some overpriced Italian brand, just remember that it was still made by the Chinese.
That's just one side of it.
It's fine for something to be more expensive. It just has to be able to wipe the floor with the alternatives. That or it has to have a cult of personality associated with it.
If you don't have either then you're kind of doomed and all you are going to do is give on-shoring a bad name. People will intentionally confuse the issue of why the thing failed.
Just like GoogleTV wasn't competing with the $99 Apple TV or the similarly priced Roku?
People generally have enough of a problem spending more to get more. Nevermind spending more to get the same but with a much less established brand.
> i'm a liberal and i agree with your point. it's just impossible to codify "critical thinking,"
I am sure there is some Greek or Roman principle you could steal whole cloth and use unmodified. This isn't exactly a new problem we're talking about. Chances are that it's already been solved several times already.
> As usual Slashdot puts up any and all propaganda that makes anyone but radical leftists look like lunatics.
You mean like the newsletters of the organizations that make up the current core constituencies of the Republican party. The summary of this article is no great suprise to anyone that has ever been subjected to the sort of evangelicals that seem to be in control of the GOP these days.
If anything, this article should be criticized not for being mindless propaganda but for being old news. It's more like ancient history.
These kinds of policy statements from the GOP should be no surprise to anyone.
Of course the start menu will be very rarely used in a well configured system. That is the way it should be. That does not mean that it should be removed.
The Windows version could stand a re-org but that's a different kind of problem.
Him "irrresponsible"?
Morons like you simply boggle the mind.
It's a real shame that the Republicans turned into the Taliban.
No. It's a STUPID thing. It's a gift to the insurance industry.
It's graft.
It's corruption.
It's ALL of us being forced to pay for something we may never need versus just having enough discipline to save for a rainy day. With lower premiums, that saving for a rainy day becomes much easier.
The savings from a higher deductible can allow you to quickly save your deductible and keep it on hand for when you need it.
Can't have people doing for themselves and controlling their own destiny.
Quite. As a "responsible person" I wonder what kind of extra costs I might be required to bear because my current insurance is not up to the new federal standards. Will I even be able to afford it? That's a serious issue that's getting glossed over here. The nanny state worshipers are all just taking it on faith that things will actually get better and that the situation will improve for anyone except the insurance companies.
They certainly aren't going to lower rates on their own accord, regardless of how much bigger the risk pool is.
They could have put the breaks on the absurd price increases directly and made this thing a lot simpler all around.
Those aren't taxes. Those are lack of tax rebates.
This is the kind of the fundie-style newspeak nonsense that's at the heart of the problem here. Up is down. Black is white. And arbeit macht frei.
Yes it is Obama's fault. He created a situation where the SCOTUS needed to step in and clean up after him. They chose to shirk their responsibility. It's still on Obama either way.
It's like the whole nation flunked civics class.
The things that your state is allowed to do is different from what the Federal government is allowed to do. It's part of the law. Of course many people don't care about the rules or the finer details. They just see some end goal, scream that the ends justify the means, and no thought is given to broader consequences.
I really would have a lot less trouble with a "new tax" versus something that ends up causing a really bad precedent.
This whole situation makes me want to punch McCain in the nose.