Its typical for people to use brand names in regular conversation without even recognizing that they are brand names, it doesn't diminish the value of it. It was a stupidity of Mozilla to force a EULA on the Firefox name. For example, whenever I talk about Kleenex, Nintendo, Microsoft, Apple, IBM, etc, people know I am talking about a brand name and it doesn't diminish the value. For Mozilla to force an EULA is pure stupidity.
Lets see... When do Free Software/Open Source companies fail? Is it A) When they agree with the community or B) When they try to make it all corporate and businesslike? The answer of course is B. The tri-license Mozilla is distributed under along with the copyrights on the artwork and trademarks on the name are typical of many F/OSS projects that don't require the use of an EULA.
EULAs alienate the F/OSS community and make the software seem very corporate. It matters a ton to Mozilla and any user of Ubuntu.
Because in order to make Windows users think OMG!!!!!!1!1! I don't know how to use IceWeasel (or whatever the new browser is called) they recognize it as Firefox. Sorta like how people get confused when they get a new computer even if it has all their documents, same OS and same settings.
The thing is, Boric Acid is only mildly toxic to humans. So obviously, (assuming that evolution is true), its possible for a cockroach to eventually gain immunity to it.
So wait, I can send mail anonymously to random people that is commercial in nature. Yet I can't break DRM to play some video files in Linux or OS X, nor make backups. Not to mention that I can't download copyrighted stuff even for non profit use.
So much for Government for the people and by the people.
How about leaving games on all night because otherwise you need to start from the beginning?
Just about every emulator can do that via savestates. Heck, the Wii has a suspend play feature that allows you to do just that. Most older games will be played on emulators in the future because of the radical changes in OS/hardware design 10-20 years into the future.
Now if we look at the period between say, 1990 and now (a whopping 18 years) and you would be hard pressed to pick ten classic games out of that comparatively huge time frame.
Oh lets see here...
Super Mario World, Sonic the Hedgehog, Final Fantasy (VI and IV), Super Mario RPG, Shining Force, Super Mario Bros 3 (released in 1990 in the US), Chrono Trigger, Street Fighter, Super Metroid, Super Mario Kart, etc.
Nope, none of them are classics. Nope no one ever spends $8 to replay them on the Wii.
A lot of us watch YouTube and other flash video. Heck, some of us even play the odd flash game until a download is finished. If Adobe open sourced Flash, you could make decent cross-platform web applications in a matter of minutes all the while blocking Flash ads.
Yes, and then a dialog box appears and it takes about 2-3 minutes to kill the program. The same program dies in 2-3 seconds with either killall or xkill.
Most cheap motherboards only support up to 4 GB of RAM. Some of the high end ones support a lot more, but for a laptop 4 GB is about the max for any one of them.
Tell me though how Vista is an improvement from XP? I can prove that there is reason to switch from Ubuntu 7.10 to Ubuntu 8.04, Heck, I can even prove that there is reason to justify a $99 OS purchase to upgrade OS X to Leopard. On the other hand what does Vista give you other than Direct X 10 (which is hardly used) and slower performance (and don't mention UAC because that is a pain for most if not all people).
Ummm... How does Vista maximize RAM usage (unless you mean maxing it out) and sure, for us installing 2 GB of RAM takes about 3-4 minutes. But for the average person (read as the type of people who think that Windows is the only OS in existence) that $30 of RAM needs a $40 install and they figure why not add in a $20 warranty and the salesperson scares them into getting a $10 "performance tune-up" taking that $30 to be $100.
The difference is, is Firefox hangs on Linux I can usually manage to click on a terminal or switch to a terminal to kill it. On Windows the entire system locks up.
For crying out loud its a belief. Beliefs are by nature irrational. If you believe that the earth was created by aliens, God, etc it can't be proven either way.
Or... You know the fact that a lot of AJAX apps will force you to either spoof the browser or use Firefox to access them. Heck, I had to spoof the Firefox 3.1 Alpha's browser ID because some AJAX apps wouldn't work with "Shiretoko" (even though once spoofed they worked fine)
Ummm... If you develop for Gecko, webkit and presto based browsers will usually render the page correctly. You usually only need to make more than one version of the page to work with IE.
...And it isn't? Granted, people still buy PC games, but not as much as console games. PC gaming still has a lot of enthusiasts, but for the casual market PC games are as good as dead (unless you count freeware/free software/games priced at $3).
A) Cross-platform games
B) Get rid of the insane DRM, if you want a CD serial key thats fine as they are easily cracked later in its lifetime, but don't activate it online (with the exception of say, a MMORPG)
C) Develop for a generation before, don't develop a game for quad-core CPUs and dual video cards, develop for a generation before the current generation. Optimize for multiple CPUs and video cards all you want, but I won't upgrade my graphics card/RAM just to play a game.
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Its typical for people to use brand names in regular conversation without even recognizing that they are brand names, it doesn't diminish the value of it. It was a stupidity of Mozilla to force a EULA on the Firefox name. For example, whenever I talk about Kleenex, Nintendo, Microsoft, Apple, IBM, etc, people know I am talking about a brand name and it doesn't diminish the value. For Mozilla to force an EULA is pure stupidity.
Lets see... When do Free Software/Open Source companies fail? Is it A) When they agree with the community or B) When they try to make it all corporate and businesslike? The answer of course is B. The tri-license Mozilla is distributed under along with the copyrights on the artwork and trademarks on the name are typical of many F/OSS projects that don't require the use of an EULA.
EULAs alienate the F/OSS community and make the software seem very corporate. It matters a ton to Mozilla and any user of Ubuntu.
Because in order to make Windows users think OMG!!!!!!1!1! I don't know how to use IceWeasel (or whatever the new browser is called) they recognize it as Firefox. Sorta like how people get confused when they get a new computer even if it has all their documents, same OS and same settings.
The thing is, Boric Acid is only mildly toxic to humans. So obviously, (assuming that evolution is true), its possible for a cockroach to eventually gain immunity to it.
Lets give people lead in small dosages from age of a baby to 18. Whoever we dont kill will make the rest of them immune.
No, but over a 600 year period, humans will have a greater resistance to lead.
It would be interesting if this technology could be used in a computer to make super fast buses.
Ummm... Its impossible for someone outside of physical access to hack a system if it isn't connected to the internet.
So wait, I can send mail anonymously to random people that is commercial in nature. Yet I can't break DRM to play some video files in Linux or OS X, nor make backups. Not to mention that I can't download copyrighted stuff even for non profit use.
So much for Government for the people and by the people.
How about leaving games on all night because otherwise you need to start from the beginning?
Just about every emulator can do that via savestates. Heck, the Wii has a suspend play feature that allows you to do just that. Most older games will be played on emulators in the future because of the radical changes in OS/hardware design 10-20 years into the future.
Now if we look at the period between say, 1990 and now (a whopping 18 years) and you would be hard pressed to pick ten classic games out of that comparatively huge time frame.
Oh lets see here...
Super Mario World, Sonic the Hedgehog, Final Fantasy (VI and IV), Super Mario RPG, Shining Force, Super Mario Bros 3 (released in 1990 in the US), Chrono Trigger, Street Fighter, Super Metroid, Super Mario Kart, etc.
Nope, none of them are classics. Nope no one ever spends $8 to replay them on the Wii.
Yes, but those methods are a whole lot less easy then the simple "Click on the link and the video plays".
A lot of us watch YouTube and other flash video. Heck, some of us even play the odd flash game until a download is finished. If Adobe open sourced Flash, you could make decent cross-platform web applications in a matter of minutes all the while blocking Flash ads.
Yes, and then a dialog box appears and it takes about 2-3 minutes to kill the program. The same program dies in 2-3 seconds with either killall or xkill.
Most cheap motherboards only support up to 4 GB of RAM. Some of the high end ones support a lot more, but for a laptop 4 GB is about the max for any one of them.
Tell me though how Vista is an improvement from XP? I can prove that there is reason to switch from Ubuntu 7.10 to Ubuntu 8.04, Heck, I can even prove that there is reason to justify a $99 OS purchase to upgrade OS X to Leopard. On the other hand what does Vista give you other than Direct X 10 (which is hardly used) and slower performance (and don't mention UAC because that is a pain for most if not all people).
Ummm... How does Vista maximize RAM usage (unless you mean maxing it out) and sure, for us installing 2 GB of RAM takes about 3-4 minutes. But for the average person (read as the type of people who think that Windows is the only OS in existence) that $30 of RAM needs a $40 install and they figure why not add in a $20 warranty and the salesperson scares them into getting a $10 "performance tune-up" taking that $30 to be $100.
The difference is, is Firefox hangs on Linux I can usually manage to click on a terminal or switch to a terminal to kill it. On Windows the entire system locks up.
For crying out loud its a belief. Beliefs are by nature irrational. If you believe that the earth was created by aliens, God, etc it can't be proven either way.
No, they do it so that families who have teenagers have to have an unlimited plan or face a $2000 cell phone bill.
A lot of things don't work in Konqueror, or actually they do work but you have to spoof as Firefox.
Or... You know the fact that a lot of AJAX apps will force you to either spoof the browser or use Firefox to access them. Heck, I had to spoof the Firefox 3.1 Alpha's browser ID because some AJAX apps wouldn't work with "Shiretoko" (even though once spoofed they worked fine)
Ummm... If you develop for Gecko, webkit and presto based browsers will usually render the page correctly. You usually only need to make more than one version of the page to work with IE.
The main problem I see is with companies advertising software for the "PC" or just plain "Home computer"
And by PC they don't mean the standard definition of PC such as
A) Uses an x86 CPU
B) Is an IBM compatible computer that runs DOS
or even C) A computer used by 1 person at a time.
But rather it becomes A computer running Windows XP or higher with 512 MB of RAM, and a good graphics card.
...And it isn't? Granted, people still buy PC games, but not as much as console games. PC gaming still has a lot of enthusiasts, but for the casual market PC games are as good as dead (unless you count freeware/free software/games priced at $3).
Develop
A) Cross-platform games
B) Get rid of the insane DRM, if you want a CD serial key thats fine as they are easily cracked later in its lifetime, but don't activate it online (with the exception of say, a MMORPG)
C) Develop for a generation before, don't develop a game for quad-core CPUs and dual video cards, develop for a generation before the current generation. Optimize for multiple CPUs and video cards all you want, but I won't upgrade my graphics card/RAM just to play a game.