>> I've already paid my dues, so to speak > > Except you haven't, you have paid for one copy of the book. You now have two copies of the book, one printed and a second digital copy.
So what?
As long as he doesn't sell or give away his legitimate physical copy, this should not be a situation where the law or the courts can punish him. No actual harm has been done.
Those Bundles have a set asking price. I just pay the asking price. The fact that it is "charity" doesn't enter into it for me unless I am trying to get myself into the top 10 for awhile.
I suspect there's just more Linux users willing to pay the price being asked.
Most people are cheap bastards with Windows users in general being the biggest "freetards".
Gentoo has excellent community documentation. Because this whole "linux fragmentation" thing is mostly FUD and nonsense, I can use that Gentoo documentation to help sort out things on Ubuntu.
So if there is an Ubuntu-centric Steam client, chances are that I will be able to use the Gentoo community docs to troubleshoot it should that need ever arise.
Most stuff isn't distro specific. H*LL. A lot of stuff isn't even specific to Linux.
Having a central starting point will be helpful. People have an obvious place to look for new stuff.
A lot of stuff gets neglected for lack of exposure. That's true now and it was true back in the days of Loki. The whole centralized app store approach takes a lot of burden off of the developers to make sure that people know about the product.
> This may come as a shock, but GNU is maintained by the Free Software Foundation, so in some sense the entire point of GNU/Linux is to be free/libre.
It may come as a shock to you but the commercial games industry has been using libre tools to build their games since before Linux emerged as a potential alternate gaming platform.
Contrary to the statements of some fear mongers, the Free Software is not incompatible with proprietary commercial enterprises.
Not only that but this is a "profession" that quite often changes it's tune and is currently responsible for the largest increase in obesity in human history.
Burning all of these "licensed nutritionists" at that stake might not be such a bad idea.
Some people are better adapted to eating grains than other people. There are certainly some people that should completely avoid wheat entirely because of this. It's not a problem with grains across the board and modern industrial food practices aggravate these issues for some people.
Like any other real world population, humans have some degree of diversity and can't really be treated as if they came off the same Foxconn assembly line.
As the system evolved, the documentation should have evolved with it. At any time in it's evolution, it should have been fully documented. At any time in it's evolution, it should have been documented well enough for new hires to join the development team.
This is just the BUILD process we're talking about here.
It should all be well documented and based off of industry standard tools.
Who tests this monstrosity? How do you do production support on it?
Of course someone like Zuckerberg prefers kids that don't have a life, will put up with any crap their fed by the boss, and won't contradict management.
Even MythTV supports the idea of putting a backend to sleep when it's not being used. Putting a frontend to sleep is pretty trivial. You hit the off switch.
Intel GPUs continue to be disappointing: something you either try to ingore or work around (by upgrading to AMD or Nvidia).
> Just make sure your updates are up-to-date, don't randomly install crap
If you are going to go that far then you don't really need to flee to another platform really. Being crippled by fear is no enhanced security, it's gravely degraded capabilities.
Someone else has already brought up the distinction between security and DRM in this regard.
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>> I've already paid my dues, so to speak
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> Except you haven't, you have paid for one copy of the book. You now have two copies of the book, one printed and a second digital copy.
So what?
As long as he doesn't sell or give away his legitimate physical copy, this should not be a situation where the law or the courts can punish him. No actual harm has been done.
Only 20K? I would be kind of disappointed if only 20K people were pirating my work.
It sounds like Jim needs to go to more cons and do more of his own promotion work since obviously his "publisher" is laying down on the job.
DVDs are easy to rip even for a dedicated Apple user.
DRM free files can be played anywhere, including a 500G equivalent of an iPod touch sold by someone other than Apple.
Good luck with that when the network flakes out or completely disappears as you've left a population center.
Those Bundles have a set asking price. I just pay the asking price. The fact that it is "charity" doesn't enter into it for me unless I am trying to get myself into the top 10 for awhile.
I suspect there's just more Linux users willing to pay the price being asked.
Most people are cheap bastards with Windows users in general being the biggest "freetards".
> Why would you buy them?
Windows avoidance.
Believe it or not, some people just don't like Microsoft's products. It's not some sort of "ideological" thing. They just want to use SOMETHING ELSE.
I will take that one step further.
Gentoo has excellent community documentation. Because this whole "linux fragmentation" thing is mostly FUD and nonsense, I can use that Gentoo documentation to help sort out things on Ubuntu.
So if there is an Ubuntu-centric Steam client, chances are that I will be able to use the Gentoo community docs to troubleshoot it should that need ever arise.
Most stuff isn't distro specific. H*LL. A lot of stuff isn't even specific to Linux.
I've seen kids go gaga over old MAME games while showing a total lack of interest in the xbox or PS3.
Sometimes even youngsters can recognize a classic.
Having a central starting point will be helpful. People have an obvious place to look for new stuff.
A lot of stuff gets neglected for lack of exposure. That's true now and it was true back in the days of Loki. The whole centralized app store approach takes a lot of burden off of the developers to make sure that people know about the product.
> It means you are cheering because you'll get a handful of games that have been on Windows for years. Woo....hoo?
Sounds a lot like the Mac version of Steam.
This is ultimately about everyone's ability to make choices in the future without being beholden to what they may have bought in the past.
> This may come as a shock, but GNU is maintained by the Free Software Foundation, so in some sense the entire point of GNU/Linux is to be free/libre.
It may come as a shock to you but the commercial games industry has been using libre tools to build their games since before Linux emerged as a potential alternate gaming platform.
Contrary to the statements of some fear mongers, the Free Software is not incompatible with proprietary commercial enterprises.
Are you sure it's actually "booting" or was it just in deep sleep and you got snookered by what was displayed on screen?
Kind of like "instant on" TVs.
For the n00b user, BluRay playback is perhaps the final frontier of doing something with your PC that actually requires a decent CPU or video card.
Not only that but this is a "profession" that quite often changes it's tune and is currently responsible for the largest increase in obesity in human history.
Burning all of these "licensed nutritionists" at that stake might not be such a bad idea.
Some people are better adapted to eating grains than other people. There are certainly some people that should completely avoid wheat entirely because of this. It's not a problem with grains across the board and modern industrial food practices aggravate these issues for some people.
Like any other real world population, humans have some degree of diversity and can't really be treated as if they came off the same Foxconn assembly line.
That was the original purpose of a "calling card" in the US.
It's somewhat out of favor now but not entirely so.
Lemonade stands get shaken down over this very sort of thing in some jurisdictions.
No joke.
> I don't want to have to get up to hit the powerbutton to get the frontend to wake. I leave my fanless system on.
Someone tried to move the goalposts to power consumption. The ultimate solution there is simply to turn the power.
You've got to be pretty darn lazy to not be willing to bother with the power switch or the few seconds it takes a modern OS to boot.
You're either genuinely concerned about wasting power or it's just a mindless talking point used to try and win arguments.
As the system evolved, the documentation should have evolved with it. At any time in it's evolution, it should have been fully documented. At any time in it's evolution, it should have been documented well enough for new hires to join the development team.
This is just the BUILD process we're talking about here.
It should all be well documented and based off of industry standard tools.
Who tests this monstrosity? How do you do production support on it?
Of course someone like Zuckerberg prefers kids that don't have a life, will put up with any crap their fed by the boss, and won't contradict management.
The same goes for your other bean counters.
> What exactly do you expect, Captain High Expectations, a wormhole/laser based CPU that is 10000X faster at 1 millionth the power usage?
Something that would make me consider upgrading any of my machines would be a nice start.
An HTPC only needs to be on when you're using it.
Even MythTV supports the idea of putting a backend to sleep when it's not being used. Putting a frontend to sleep is pretty trivial. You hit the off switch.
Intel GPUs continue to be disappointing: something you either try to ingore or work around (by upgrading to AMD or Nvidia).
> Dragging an executable to a particular place on the drive (/Applications isn't a system folder) isn't insecure
This kind of thinking is why MacOS is not really a Unix.
If you suggested a comparable thing with any other Unix, you would get laughed at and rightfully so.
> Just make sure your updates are up-to-date, don't randomly install crap
If you are going to go that far then you don't really need to flee to another platform really. Being crippled by fear is no enhanced security, it's gravely degraded capabilities.
Someone else has already brought up the distinction between security and DRM in this regard.