I'm fairly sure its a unix thing, but your point still stands. The sensible thing is to have icons that show and warn if its an exe that depend on the metadata, short of that showing file extentions is the best alternative.
The new features are nice, but does it have anything that beats Microsoft's offerings? DRM & sharing for companies ? Integration with online services (like google office) for home users ?
Obviously I mean other than running on Linux & mac natively, but does it beat gnumeric & abiword yet? I mean when im doing graphs OO (2.x) simply isn't as easy to use as gnumeric and is missing quite a few options.
I dunno, i think myspace did everything right to get big and it is still the site to check out small bands, if news hadn't dropped the ball it would still be huge.
That's problem #1 with social networking sites. Problem #2 is that the demographic is terrible from an advertiser perspective. Remember, half of all clicks come from 20% of users, and that 20% buys almost nothing. That 20% of users is Myspace's demographic.
I also find that hard to believe, myspace's demographic was 13-16 y/o, kids are easy to sell stuff to and 13-16 y/o also have money to spend. You also have with a huge amount of music fans, if my space had been done right they could have really made money. Links on songs to download/buy from music stores (hell back in 2005 it was probably big enough to launch its own distribution channel for small bands), ads for gigs (both local and big), ads for peircing/tattoos/clothes (again both local and online) all would have made a good profit.
Please somebody buy the mail and give it to them! While as a "damn hippie" i don't agree with the politics of many of those papers, but the times actually do some decent articles that pop up on google news.
The sun is doomed to failure under this model, people buy that POS for 2 reasons: 1) its cheap 2) it has breasts both of which are totally useless when competing with free stuff on the internet.
As it is very easy to implement a system where you can only watch TV online if you have a license, they should allow people to opt-out much more easily than for a tv set.
"If it could do it for the Big Bang, why not for our space drives?" You see that is where your going wrong, anything that involves trying to recreate big bangs is not a good idea.
I also though inflation theory was just a stop gap, its a model not as pure as the original big bang theory, yet doesn't quite close all the problems, so its a good starting point for progress but its defiantly not right!
Virgin's lies about throttling are ridiculous, the thing is whoever is doing it is lying both ways, the higher ups (branson et al) have been told, and many customers also fall for it.
Yeah right, if i don't encrypt them im instantly throttled. Fortunatly the threat of several hours also isn't followed through and as soon as i drop my upload rate below whatever is setting off thier sensors today, im fine.
dunno how you got to 2-flamebait. but as a european i agree with you, probably could have been put more eloquently though. I wouldn't want the EU,russia,china OR the US in control, however a UN committee seams like an idea everybody (except the US) would be happy with.
Except that gamers, will pay £30-40 for a game and will keep coming back for more. So not only do you need to ship 3x as many copies in a much more saturated market, but you also don't have a userbase ready to buy v2,3,4 at the drop of a pin.
How is cloning software a violation of copyright? or should OO.o developers be sued for violating ms copyright on producing an office suite that works with ms docs?
But all these factors aren't valid in China. Especially with their copyright laws. And the source code of WoW's servers...
Either they have seen the source code and may violate copyright laws (unlikely), OR the haven't so all that cloning would violate are software patents (if blizzard even had any) which aren't valid many places outside the US!
So as a young noob I quite like these old games, but I have to admit I prefer tilesets over text, can anybody recommend a gui frontend for rogue? Best I've found for nethack was a qtnethack* which really sucked in some areas, is there something similar for rogue? Hell is there something that can act as a frontend for both?
*I know there if flacon's eye but I found it much harder to see whats going on in 3D
Because china and the EU are delicately balanced to not fall apart.
So you have plenty of time to do is start preparing for when the US isn't number #1 (can't be sure when it's going to happen but china and India are progressing and outnumber you) and practice taking the fall from power more gracefully than the french.
yeah but, if your just using windows apps then the CLI doesn't really interact very well with them. So when windows users think of CLI they think of DOS, forget that its much faster to cat/grep information out of a file than to open it in a text editor, they see CLI and they think linux is worse.
And as mentioned elsewhere using a linux box like a windows box (downloading random apps from untrusted sources) is only safe because of the low numbers, sure if you use a linux box as a linux box (apt-get your software and only using trusted repos) then getting infected is pretty much impossible, but thats not the same as just using ubuntu as a way to run wine.
Erm linux offers no protection against malware, yeah its easier to remove, but if you install random applications in linux the only thing protecting you is that nobody has ported their malware to it!
While the underlying technology is there to have UAC like controls, even with a better implementation ("this APP is trying to connect to a site not verified by , please don't click accept!") malware that relies on dumb users will still thrive! The primary reason nobody has bothered developing something UAC like for desktop-linux is because, if you make the shift to repository based software installation its simply not needed. If you just use Linux as a way to run windows applications you are no safer.
And cost of OEM windows is negligible compared to the cost of a new computer.
I have to use at least 5 computer on any given day, so I would have to customize all of them
You don't HAVE to customize a DE! you can run on just the default settings, i prefer to be able to choose default or non-default, i can use anybody else kde without any trouble though.
With Windows or OS X, there's a finite learning curve. With Linux, skills are far less portable.
What? I've used windows 98 & XP heavily, but sit me in front of a vista machine and I have NO idea which control panel option does what. But with linux almost everything important (network/kernel/daemons) is configured in text files that are the same across most distros, if you don't like that then there are the GUI tools (which do vary by DE/distro).
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I'm fairly sure its a unix thing, but your point still stands. The sensible thing is to have icons that show and warn if its an exe that depend on the metadata, short of that showing file extentions is the best alternative.
The new features are nice, but does it have anything that beats Microsoft's offerings?
DRM & sharing for companies ?
Integration with online services (like google office) for home users ?
Obviously I mean other than running on Linux & mac natively, but does it beat gnumeric & abiword yet? I mean when im doing graphs OO (2.x) simply isn't as easy to use as gnumeric and is missing quite a few options.
It uses themeable widgets so it only looks ugly if you whole desktop does.
I dunno, i think myspace did everything right to get big and it is still the site to check out small bands, if news hadn't dropped the ball it would still be huge.
That's problem #1 with social networking sites. Problem #2 is that the demographic is terrible from an advertiser perspective. Remember, half of all clicks come from 20% of users, and that 20% buys almost nothing. That 20% of users is Myspace's demographic.
I also find that hard to believe, myspace's demographic was 13-16 y/o, kids are easy to sell stuff to and 13-16 y/o also have money to spend. You also have with a huge amount of music fans, if my space had been done right they could have really made money. Links on songs to download/buy from music stores (hell back in 2005 it was probably big enough to launch its own distribution channel for small bands), ads for gigs (both local and big), ads for peircing/tattoos/clothes (again both local and online) all would have made a good profit.
Please somebody buy the mail and give it to them!
While as a "damn hippie" i don't agree with the politics of many of those papers, but the times actually do some decent articles that pop up on google news.
The sun is doomed to failure under this model, people buy that POS for 2 reasons:
1) its cheap
2) it has breasts
both of which are totally useless when competing with free stuff on the internet.
This isn't digg, We assume people have the brains to see out /s tags around here, and if they don't we often get modded insightful
You cant expect numbers to agree with him. That's just unfair, everybody knows reality has a liberal bias!
As it is very easy to implement a system where you can only watch TV online if you have a license, they should allow people to opt-out much more easily than for a tv set.
"If it could do it for the Big Bang, why not for our space drives?"
You see that is where your going wrong, anything that involves trying to recreate big bangs is not a good idea.
I also though inflation theory was just a stop gap, its a model not as pure as the original big bang theory, yet doesn't quite close all the problems, so its a good starting point for progress but its defiantly not right!
Virgin's lies about throttling are ridiculous, the thing is whoever is doing it is lying both ways, the higher ups (branson et al) have been told, and many customers also fall for it.
Yeah right, if i don't encrypt them im instantly throttled. Fortunatly the threat of several hours also isn't followed through and as soon as i drop my upload rate below whatever is setting off thier sensors today, im fine.
ask the itu
Introduce .xxx for starters
dunno how you got to 2-flamebait. but as a european i agree with you, probably could have been put more eloquently though. I wouldn't want the EU,russia,china OR the US in control, however a UN committee seams like an idea everybody (except the US) would be happy with.
Except that gamers, will pay £30-40 for a game and will keep coming back for more. So not only do you need to ship 3x as many copies in a much more saturated market, but you also don't have a userbase ready to buy v2,3,4 at the drop of a pin.
You forgot that its uses a PowerPC architecture!
How is cloning software a violation of copyright? or should OO.o developers be sued for violating ms copyright on producing an office suite that works with ms docs?
But all these factors aren't valid in China. Especially with their copyright laws. And the source code of WoW's servers...
Either they have seen the source code and may violate copyright laws (unlikely),
OR the haven't so all that cloning would violate are software patents (if blizzard even had any) which aren't valid many places outside the US!
So as a young noob I quite like these old games, but I have to admit I prefer tilesets over text, can anybody recommend a gui frontend for rogue?
Best I've found for nethack was a qtnethack* which really sucked in some areas, is there something similar for rogue? Hell is there something that can act as a frontend for both?
*I know there if flacon's eye but I found it much harder to see whats going on in 3D
dammit, my nuclear powered hydroponic hemp farm (that cures world hunger on the side), simply cant compete with giant slingshots :(
don't suppose anybody got a few billion dollars to lend me? I think i need about three fiddy!
yeah because the guy that built my house still gets paid for that despite it being >50 years old?
Because china and the EU are delicately balanced to not fall apart.
So you have plenty of time to do is start preparing for when the US isn't number #1 (can't be sure when it's going to happen but china and India are progressing and outnumber you) and practice taking the fall from power more gracefully than the french.
that's why they need twitter, if they control twitter they can make the rumors believable again and this allows them to make more money!
yeah but, if your just using windows apps then the CLI doesn't really interact very well with them. So when windows users think of CLI they think of DOS, forget that its much faster to cat/grep information out of a file than to open it in a text editor, they see CLI and they think linux is worse.
And as mentioned elsewhere using a linux box like a windows box (downloading random apps from untrusted sources) is only safe because of the low numbers, sure if you use a linux box as a linux box (apt-get your software and only using trusted repos) then getting infected is pretty much impossible, but thats not the same as just using ubuntu as a way to run wine.
Erm linux offers no protection against malware, yeah its easier to remove, but if you install random applications in linux the only thing protecting you is that nobody has ported their malware to it!
While the underlying technology is there to have UAC like controls, even with a better implementation ("this APP is trying to connect to a site not verified by , please don't click accept!") malware that relies on dumb users will still thrive! The primary reason nobody has bothered developing something UAC like for desktop-linux is because, if you make the shift to repository based software installation its simply not needed. If you just use Linux as a way to run windows applications you are no safer.
And cost of OEM windows is negligible compared to the cost of a new computer.
I have to use at least 5 computer on any given day, so I would have to customize all of them
You don't HAVE to customize a DE! you can run on just the default settings, i prefer to be able to choose default or non-default, i can use anybody else kde without any trouble though.
With Windows or OS X, there's a finite learning curve. With Linux, skills are far less portable.
What? I've used windows 98 & XP heavily, but sit me in front of a vista machine and I have NO idea which control panel option does what. But with linux almost everything important (network/kernel/daemons) is configured in text files that are the same across most distros, if you don't like that then there are the GUI tools (which do vary by DE/distro).