Beneath that rhetoric of unity, however, is an implication that, given the chance, Microsoft may go after other Android handset manufacturers who infringe on its IP.
Not likely. Once it goes to court their whole racketeering operation will have to shut down. Far better to bank out of court settlements based on vague threats than going the Apple route and listing the patents begging for invalidation.
There are many reasons to doubt AGW as a legitimate climate change candidate. The shrillness of its proponents not being the least. The FSM is as likely a cause. The sunspot minimum makes a far more beleivable.
Sunspots increase solar radiation, so I guess the minimum is the reason that temperatures have stayed relatively constant then?
Regardless of whether AGW is real or not, the thing that pisses me off about the whole scenario is the number of people using it to reject anything that leads to energy independence. By all means, let's continue chugging oil and making Big Oil execs and their Saudi prince friends filthy rich. I don't particularly care if AGW is real, but if it speeds up solar and nuclear energy research and deployment than I'm all for it. You can even say FSM did it, if it makes you happy and reduces our trade deficit.
I never heard of this guy before, but the Avernum series seems to be supported by Wine (platinum!) so I'm going to give it a shot.
I can verify the demo has worked without a hitch for me so far. It's great, but I simply won't buy it without a native Linux version. I refuse to be counted as another Windows customer.
Yesterday I stumbled upon this speech he made at the University of Buffalo recently. If you haven't heard this guy before, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better introduction than this video. He's great.
I would think so too. Oddly enough brown dwarfs always have a radius comparable to Jupiter, but the mass is going to be many times greater (has to be at least 13 Jupiter masses to be considered a brown dwarf).
Nexuiz as it exists (GPL cross platform FPS, v 2.5.2) will continue to be developed by the community.
The 'new' Nexuiz is a closed source, re-implemented version of GNexuiz that only shares the name and the 'style' of the original.
Correct?
For the most part. Most of the Nexuiz developers have left, forked the code and started Xonotic, as the previous Slashdot article (linked in the summary) says. With the core developers gone it is likely that GPL Nexuiz will fade away.
ARM said the same damn thing about netbooks two years ago. Where are they? Show me a viable alternative to current netbooks with an ARM processor at a competitive price and available in the US.
Lying and saying that anyone who doesn't agree with you is racist / homophobic / whatever is "subjective"?
How about the Bush-era Republicans with their "Support the Troops" campaign? Opposing the war meant you were unpatriotic and didn't support our troops. Look, I'm not disagreeing with you that Democrats do that, but neither am I convinced that Republicans do it less.
I despise the Democrats more because they not only use more filthy tactics, but they have the media in their pocket proclaiming them to be saints for doing it.
Whether the tendency of Democrats to flat out lie to encourage hope is filthier than the tendency of Republicans to use half-truths to incite fear and anger is entirely subjective.
Here is one Linux user that will not boot windows for gaming. I pay for crossover instead.
Thereby increasing the idea that there is no market for commercial games in Linux. I, on the other hand, only purchase and play games with a native Linux client. This means largely supporting indies over big studios, but BioWare got an extra sale they wouldn't have otherwise when they released a Linux client for Neverwinter Nights.
In any case, the idea that there is no Linux market has been disproven on several occasions. 2DBoy reported 17% of purchasers during their birthday pay-what-you-want World of Goo sale were Linux users, vs. 18% Mac users and 65% Windows. Not only that, but we paid about a third more than Mac users and almost twice as much as Windows users.
This is why Microsoft is smarter than Apple. You see, Microsoft is getting easy paydays from all these companies. Sure it's not as much as they'd try to get if they sued, but they're still raking in the cash for running what is essentially a protection racket. Apple on the other hand, sues HTC for patents covering BS like moving an icon across the screen at variable speed. Apple might be going for a bigger payday, but is very much at risk of losing the lawsuit and losing the patents.
Not from me -- I like the brown colour scheme. Still, when choosing an OS, colour scheme is quite low on my list of priorities. As long as it doesn't hurt my eyes...
You aren't the only one. I prefer darker themes with lighter text, but other than that I quite enjoy the brown and orange. I think it's just another example of the vocal minority shouting the loudest, while the majority of users are either happy with it or just don't care.
You obviously haven't been in business very long, and I have seen no reasonable answers in this thread at all. Nuke the data as soon as you ship and offer to "recover" it (that is, regenerate it) for an additional fee should they require it.
Yeah, sorry, I realized my mistake as soon as I hit submit. That was supposed to be a separate thought, and to boot I was in a rush so I forgot to finish it. Let me try that again:
As long as the game doesn't give an unfair graphical advantage to the PC or console version, I don't see why some real time games couldn't work. Of course, this is highly unlikely to be the case with commercial developers (who mostly focus on getting the most out of each system graphically), but indie devs could pull it off.
Just as a point of reference, Battle for Wesnoth has an iPhone port that I believe allows you to play online multiplayer with the full desktop version. So mobile-to-PC multiplayer is more than just a prospect at this point. A real-time game with similar demands could be done.
As long as the game doesn't give an unfair graphical advantage to the PC or console version, I don't see why some real time games couldn't work. Of course, this is highly unlikely to be the case with commercial developers, but indie devs could pull it off. Just as a point of reference, Battle for Wesnoth has an iPhone port that I believe allows you to play online multiplayer with the full desktop version.
Microsoft is the smarter one considering what Apple's patents cover, such as "Time-Based, Non-Constant Translation Of User Interface Objects Between States." Yeah, they patented moving stuff around the screen at variable speed. I suspect Microsoft's patents are equally ludicrous, and are therefore kept out of the public eye in order to threaten companies more successfully.
Here's hoping HTC gives Apple a thrashing and a bunch of software patents are thrown out.
It feels sorta sucky to be pirated, and while I can't prove it, I suspect that my studio would gain at least little more money if people didn't pirate it.
This statement is probably true, as long as you continue to say "a little more money." You are walking a dangerous line, however, because it is not a far leap to saying "More people would buy it if we try to stop them (using DRM) from getting it for free." That is false, and it is entirely lost on the likes of Ubisoft and EA.
I haven't tried it, but the WINE Apps DB says Civ 4 works pretty well. Perhaps Civ 5 will also.
Perhaps, but paying money for the Windows version just to play on Linux looks like just another Windows gamer to the developers. Linux users are never going to make headway doing that.
As Microsoft keeps tightening up on people, I really have to wonder why anyone still puts up with it.
I've always felt it was a kind of technological Stockholm Syndrome, or perhaps it should be called Redmond Syndrome.
There are reasons to continue being Microsoft victims, of course, such as all those content providers whom Microsoft pays handsomely to ensure their products only work or only work reliably on Windows. And they provide their own proprietary development tools for everything - some of which are the best in the business, don't get me wrong - so that more and more new software (and more and more developers) only works on Windows. Other than that, people just stay because Windows is familiar. So people happily accept their abuse - indeed, they defend it - in return for these things. I'm sure people will jump in with anecdotes about "trying" Linux and failing miserably, but the counter-anecdotes are just as numerous. The only conclusion you can draw is that people accept the abuse because they don't know any better.
And if that's not just like Stockholm Syndrome, I don't know what is.
You think the author is being deliberately misleading? Could be! TFA says "...help content vendors somehow survive in the face of plummeting revenues..." Plummeting revenues? The author seems to have overlooked that 2009 was Hollywood's most profitable year ever.
Both are true. Such is the wonder of Hollywood accounting.
This notebook seems focused on getting decent performance combined with good battery life. However, for those of us who just want the good battery life and aren't as concerned with performance, it's not very interesting.
In other words, bring on the fsckin' ARM notebooks already. I grow weary of this ridiculous trend of trying to shoehorn the power hungry x86 processors into a role in which ARM already excels. It's like making extensive modifications to a Hummer H2 for the sole purpose of improving gas mileage instead of just buying a damn Prius in the first place. As time passes I am becoming more and more convinced that we are cursed to wait until Microsoft poisons the platform's chance of mainstream success with WinCE7.
I'm pretty sure the whole segmented spinal column concept wasn't invented until the late 16th century. Ever see portraits from that time period and earlier? They didn't just figuratively have sticks up their asses.
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Beneath that rhetoric of unity, however, is an implication that, given the chance, Microsoft may go after other Android handset manufacturers who infringe on its IP.
Not likely. Once it goes to court their whole racketeering operation will have to shut down. Far better to bank out of court settlements based on vague threats than going the Apple route and listing the patents begging for invalidation.
There are many reasons to doubt AGW as a legitimate climate change candidate. The shrillness of its proponents not being the least. The FSM is as likely a cause. The sunspot minimum makes a far more beleivable.
Sunspots increase solar radiation, so I guess the minimum is the reason that temperatures have stayed relatively constant then?
Regardless of whether AGW is real or not, the thing that pisses me off about the whole scenario is the number of people using it to reject anything that leads to energy independence. By all means, let's continue chugging oil and making Big Oil execs and their Saudi prince friends filthy rich. I don't particularly care if AGW is real, but if it speeds up solar and nuclear energy research and deployment than I'm all for it. You can even say FSM did it, if it makes you happy and reduces our trade deficit.
I never heard of this guy before, but the Avernum series seems to be supported by Wine (platinum!) so I'm going to give it a shot.
I can verify the demo has worked without a hitch for me so far. It's great, but I simply won't buy it without a native Linux version. I refuse to be counted as another Windows customer.
http://nasawatch.com/archives/2010/04/video-neil-degr.html
Yesterday I stumbled upon this speech he made at the University of Buffalo recently. If you haven't heard this guy before, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better introduction than this video. He's great.
I would think so too. Oddly enough brown dwarfs always have a radius comparable to Jupiter, but the mass is going to be many times greater (has to be at least 13 Jupiter masses to be considered a brown dwarf).
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Nexuiz as it exists (GPL cross platform FPS, v 2.5.2) will continue to be developed by the community.
The 'new' Nexuiz is a closed source, re-implemented version of GNexuiz that only shares the name and the 'style' of the original.
Correct?
For the most part. Most of the Nexuiz developers have left, forked the code and started Xonotic, as the previous Slashdot article (linked in the summary) says. With the core developers gone it is likely that GPL Nexuiz will fade away.
ARM said the same damn thing about netbooks two years ago. Where are they? Show me a viable alternative to current netbooks with an ARM processor at a competitive price and available in the US.
Lying and saying that anyone who doesn't agree with you is racist / homophobic / whatever is "subjective"?
How about the Bush-era Republicans with their "Support the Troops" campaign? Opposing the war meant you were unpatriotic and didn't support our troops. Look, I'm not disagreeing with you that Democrats do that, but neither am I convinced that Republicans do it less.
I despise the Democrats more because they not only use more filthy tactics, but they have the media in their pocket proclaiming them to be saints for doing it.
Whether the tendency of Democrats to flat out lie to encourage hope is filthier than the tendency of Republicans to use half-truths to incite fear and anger is entirely subjective.
Here is one Linux user that will not boot windows for gaming. I pay for crossover instead.
Thereby increasing the idea that there is no market for commercial games in Linux. I, on the other hand, only purchase and play games with a native Linux client. This means largely supporting indies over big studios, but BioWare got an extra sale they wouldn't have otherwise when they released a Linux client for Neverwinter Nights.
In any case, the idea that there is no Linux market has been disproven on several occasions. 2DBoy reported 17% of purchasers during their birthday pay-what-you-want World of Goo sale were Linux users, vs. 18% Mac users and 65% Windows. Not only that, but we paid about a third more than Mac users and almost twice as much as Windows users.
This is why Microsoft is smarter than Apple. You see, Microsoft is getting easy paydays from all these companies. Sure it's not as much as they'd try to get if they sued, but they're still raking in the cash for running what is essentially a protection racket. Apple on the other hand, sues HTC for patents covering BS like moving an icon across the screen at variable speed. Apple might be going for a bigger payday, but is very much at risk of losing the lawsuit and losing the patents.
Not from me -- I like the brown colour scheme. Still, when choosing an OS, colour scheme is quite low on my list of priorities. As long as it doesn't hurt my eyes...
You aren't the only one. I prefer darker themes with lighter text, but other than that I quite enjoy the brown and orange. I think it's just another example of the vocal minority shouting the loudest, while the majority of users are either happy with it or just don't care.
You obviously haven't been in business very long, and I have seen no reasonable answers in this thread at all. Nuke the data as soon as you ship and offer to "recover" it (that is, regenerate it) for an additional fee should they require it.
Noobs.
If there were such a thing as +6, Funny, this would be it.
Yeah, sorry, I realized my mistake as soon as I hit submit. That was supposed to be a separate thought, and to boot I was in a rush so I forgot to finish it. Let me try that again:
As long as the game doesn't give an unfair graphical advantage to the PC or console version, I don't see why some real time games couldn't work. Of course, this is highly unlikely to be the case with commercial developers (who mostly focus on getting the most out of each system graphically), but indie devs could pull it off.
Just as a point of reference, Battle for Wesnoth has an iPhone port that I believe allows you to play online multiplayer with the full desktop version. So mobile-to-PC multiplayer is more than just a prospect at this point. A real-time game with similar demands could be done.
As long as the game doesn't give an unfair graphical advantage to the PC or console version, I don't see why some real time games couldn't work. Of course, this is highly unlikely to be the case with commercial developers, but indie devs could pull it off. Just as a point of reference, Battle for Wesnoth has an iPhone port that I believe allows you to play online multiplayer with the full desktop version.
Microsoft is the smarter one considering what Apple's patents cover, such as "Time-Based, Non-Constant Translation Of User Interface Objects Between States." Yeah, they patented moving stuff around the screen at variable speed. I suspect Microsoft's patents are equally ludicrous, and are therefore kept out of the public eye in order to threaten companies more successfully.
Here's hoping HTC gives Apple a thrashing and a bunch of software patents are thrown out.
It feels sorta sucky to be pirated, and while I can't prove it, I suspect that my studio would gain at least little more money if people didn't pirate it.
This statement is probably true, as long as you continue to say "a little more money." You are walking a dangerous line, however, because it is not a far leap to saying "More people would buy it if we try to stop them (using DRM) from getting it for free." That is false, and it is entirely lost on the likes of Ubisoft and EA.
I haven't tried it, but the WINE Apps DB says Civ 4 works pretty well. Perhaps Civ 5 will also.
Perhaps, but paying money for the Windows version just to play on Linux looks like just another Windows gamer to the developers. Linux users are never going to make headway doing that.
As Microsoft keeps tightening up on people, I really have to wonder why anyone still puts up with it.
I've always felt it was a kind of technological Stockholm Syndrome, or perhaps it should be called Redmond Syndrome.
There are reasons to continue being Microsoft victims, of course, such as all those content providers whom Microsoft pays handsomely to ensure their products only work or only work reliably on Windows. And they provide their own proprietary development tools for everything - some of which are the best in the business, don't get me wrong - so that more and more new software (and more and more developers) only works on Windows. Other than that, people just stay because Windows is familiar. So people happily accept their abuse - indeed, they defend it - in return for these things. I'm sure people will jump in with anecdotes about "trying" Linux and failing miserably, but the counter-anecdotes are just as numerous. The only conclusion you can draw is that people accept the abuse because they don't know any better.
And if that's not just like Stockholm Syndrome, I don't know what is.
You think the author is being deliberately misleading? Could be! TFA says "...help content vendors somehow survive in the face of plummeting revenues..." Plummeting revenues? The author seems to have overlooked that 2009 was Hollywood's most profitable year ever.
Both are true. Such is the wonder of Hollywood accounting.
This notebook seems focused on getting decent performance combined with good battery life. However, for those of us who just want the good battery life and aren't as concerned with performance, it's not very interesting.
In other words, bring on the fsckin' ARM notebooks already. I grow weary of this ridiculous trend of trying to shoehorn the power hungry x86 processors into a role in which ARM already excels. It's like making extensive modifications to a Hummer H2 for the sole purpose of improving gas mileage instead of just buying a damn Prius in the first place. As time passes I am becoming more and more convinced that we are cursed to wait until Microsoft poisons the platform's chance of mainstream success with WinCE7.
So you didn't de-lace the interace or uncabulate the turboencabulator?
Dude, don't be ridiculous, of course they uncabulated the turboencabulator, how else could they contraplectify the apoplectifier?
I'm pretty sure the whole segmented spinal column concept wasn't invented until the late 16th century. Ever see portraits from that time period and earlier? They didn't just figuratively have sticks up their asses.