Steam isn't going to magically create supply or demand by itself.
No it won't. Steam occupies that niche between the two: Marketing.
Steam doesn't create supply or demand. It aggregates them. It brings all the Suppliers and Consumers under one roof. Consumers looking for Linux games can browse Steam rather than hunting down lists of "10 Best Commercial Games For Linux (by Some Guy; Jan 23, 2008)", and developers looking for Linux customers can upload to Steam rather than create their own distribution channels.
When Steam does it's "Check System" thing it reports my machine as windows *sigh*, so I am not even sure I am counted.
There is a Linux market, just not sure anyone knows it.
My Steam "System Info":
Operating System Version:
Windows XP (32 bit)
Wine version: wine-1.5.9
NTFS: Supported
Crypto Provider Codes: Supported 323 0x0 0x0 0x0
Well that was interesting. I loaded this page and started reading. As I mused about how I probably can't get IPv6 with my AT&T DSL (modem doesn't seem to support it), the the doorbell rang. It was an AT&T rep pushing their fiber-optic package.
Apparently I can't get Internet-only fiber service; I'd need to pay for phone or TV as well.:-(
With a closed-source OS, Microsoft has several advantages over their OEMs. They know how the OS works and how to blend it with the hardware. They don't pay a licence fee on their tablets. They get paid for the OEM tablets.
Unless Microsoft completely fumbles the hardware side, the OEMs will be fighting for MS's leftovers. And they know it.
Google's OEMs can breathe easier what with Android being open-source. They don't have to pay for permission to use it, and the only thing keeping them from delivering an experience every bit as polished as Google's is the quality of their own developers.
Depends on how they do it. If it's simply the phone interface stretched out to ~20", then yeah it'd suck. If it's a normal distro with a steam-like repository and access to the Android library, it could be fine.
I also often use more than one terminal window, but when you click on the terminal icon in the apps list, it just takes you back to the terminal you already have open.
I use GNU screen for multiple terminals. Very handy, especially with Tilda.
Yeah, you can't play games on them if Steam comes to Linux.
Well...no, they can't. Not Steam games, at any rate. Steam sells desktop-PC games, so the only Linux marketshare that affects them is desktop PCs.
Android smartphones? Raspberry Pi? Tablets? It's great that Linux is doing so well in those markets, but they aren't Steam's target platform.
Steam won't die with Win8. But in 4-6 years, Microsoft Store will be a fact of life for the younger generation. They'll barely remember a time when it didn't exist. So when they want games, where do you think they'll go first?
It's pretty much the same way Microsoft won the first browser war.
A clearance desktop may be mostly up to par with one or two mediocre specs that will make it age quickly. Like low RAM or HDD in an otherwise mid-range machine. No biggie; when it starts to be a problem in a year or two, a $50 upgrade part will let it stave off obsolescence for a few more years. By the time your upgraded spec becomes a problem again, all the specs are becoming a bit dated. Time for a replacement. Tablets, on the other hand, aren't so flexible. If one of the specs turns out to be stiflingly small long before the rest, you'll have to buy a whole new tablet much sooner. Clearance tablets will be closer to this edge than most.
They spent $6.3 billion, but claim that what they got was only worth $100 million (which is probably the book value of the desks and chairs and such). So when tax day rolls around, they'll pay taxes on $100 million instead of the full $6.3 billion.
With adoption, you can wait to see whether you will be able to afford more children before deciding. With biological children, the wife's clock is ticking. Every year they wait makes it much less likely to succeed.
The scientists have initially triggered these 'factories' into action through the use of a laser light to relay the message of which proteins to produce.
Treatment will be $500. Now go put your hand under the blinking light. Okay, all done!
It's perfectly clear why they need to undo a mod. I just don't see why they need do it by saying "Posting to undo moderation". Any post anywhere on the page will undo the moderation; surely they can make a normal comment somewhere.
Let's say you were in a conference call on VoIP, with your microphone and speaker turned off. You are still in the conference but you receive nothing and transmit nothing.
Or if you send the "join" command to join a multicast group, but never send or receive packets. All you do is join and remain active as a node (thus never pruned).
In the case of BitTorrent, it's a bit harder to argue, but there are still cases.
Going back to the drugs analogy:
If there is guy is standing on a street corner announcing he has drugs for sale and waving plastic baggies of product, would "nobody bought from me" be a valid defense to drug dealing charges?
Unity was a broken mess last time I checked, but I feel that Gnome 3 actually works pretty well.
It may be a bit to simplified for some tastes, but for that the answer is the same as it always has been: KDE
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Steam isn't going to magically create supply or demand by itself.
No it won't. Steam occupies that niche between the two: Marketing.
Steam doesn't create supply or demand. It aggregates them. It brings all the Suppliers and Consumers under one roof. Consumers looking for Linux games can browse Steam rather than hunting down lists of "10 Best Commercial Games For Linux (by Some Guy; Jan 23, 2008)", and developers looking for Linux customers can upload to Steam rather than create their own distribution channels.
When Steam does it's "Check System" thing it reports my machine as windows *sigh*, so I am not even sure I am counted. There is a Linux market, just not sure anyone knows it.
My Steam "System Info":
Operating System Version:
Windows XP (32 bit)
Wine version: wine-1.5.9
NTFS: Supported
Crypto Provider Codes: Supported 323 0x0 0x0 0x0
Well that was interesting. I loaded this page and started reading. As I mused about how I probably can't get IPv6 with my AT&T DSL (modem doesn't seem to support it), the the doorbell rang. It was an AT&T rep pushing their fiber-optic package.
Apparently I can't get Internet-only fiber service; I'd need to pay for phone or TV as well. :-(
developing its own hardware/software "ecosystem" (I hate that term)
Well, what would you call it?
No, no, no. This was first.
With a closed-source OS, Microsoft has several advantages over their OEMs. They know how the OS works and how to blend it with the hardware. They don't pay a licence fee on their tablets. They get paid for the OEM tablets.
Unless Microsoft completely fumbles the hardware side, the OEMs will be fighting for MS's leftovers. And they know it.
Google's OEMs can breathe easier what with Android being open-source. They don't have to pay for permission to use it, and the only thing keeping them from delivering an experience every bit as polished as Google's is the quality of their own developers.
Depends on how they do it. If it's simply the phone interface stretched out to ~20", then yeah it'd suck. If it's a normal distro with a steam-like repository and access to the Android library, it could be fine.
I tried for a while to find a way to have a CPU and Network monitor like you could have it docked on a panel in gnome 2 but finally gave up.
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/120/system-monitor/
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/9/systemmonitor/
I also often use more than one terminal window, but when you click on the terminal icon in the apps list, it just takes you back to the terminal you already have open.
I use GNU screen for multiple terminals. Very handy, especially with Tilda.
While Oracle is quick to note that it costs less than a similar-tier RHEL support contract
Yeah, you can't play games on them if Steam comes to Linux.
Well...no, they can't. Not Steam games, at any rate. Steam sells desktop-PC games, so the only Linux marketshare that affects them is desktop PCs.
Android smartphones? Raspberry Pi? Tablets? It's great that Linux is doing so well in those markets, but they aren't Steam's target platform.
Steam won't die with Win8. But in 4-6 years, Microsoft Store will be a fact of life for the younger generation. They'll barely remember a time when it didn't exist. So when they want games, where do you think they'll go first?
It's pretty much the same way Microsoft won the first browser war.
Did anyone else assume the G meant Google?
Probably the time before age 12. Or 11.
Aye; I know that Stardock (Sins of a Solar Empire) doesn't have any Linux plans at this point.
If you're going to take that view, wouldn't most computers technically be Foxconn's products?
A clearance desktop may be mostly up to par with one or two mediocre specs that will make it age quickly. Like low RAM or HDD in an otherwise mid-range machine. No biggie; when it starts to be a problem in a year or two, a $50 upgrade part will let it stave off obsolescence for a few more years. By the time your upgraded spec becomes a problem again, all the specs are becoming a bit dated. Time for a replacement. Tablets, on the other hand, aren't so flexible. If one of the specs turns out to be stiflingly small long before the rest, you'll have to buy a whole new tablet much sooner. Clearance tablets will be closer to this edge than most.
(remember the storm?)
Not really, no.
:-p
Pity that windows isn't open sourced, they wont benefit from this effort ;-)
I assume porting to the NT kernel would require virtually re-writing them from the ground up to fit NT's structure, so not much lost there.
They spent $6.3 billion, but claim that what they got was only worth $100 million (which is probably the book value of the desks and chairs and such). So when tax day rolls around, they'll pay taxes on $100 million instead of the full $6.3 billion.
With adoption, you can wait to see whether you will be able to afford more children before deciding. With biological children, the wife's clock is ticking. Every year they wait makes it much less likely to succeed.
The scientists have initially triggered these 'factories' into action through the use of a laser light to relay the message of which proteins to produce.
Treatment will be $500. Now go put your hand under the blinking light. Okay, all done!
It's perfectly clear why they need to undo a mod. I just don't see why they need do it by saying "Posting to undo moderation". Any post anywhere on the page will undo the moderation; surely they can make a normal comment somewhere.
Let's say you were in a conference call on VoIP, with your microphone and speaker turned off. You are still in the conference but you receive nothing and transmit nothing.
Or if you send the "join" command to join a multicast group, but never send or receive packets. All you do is join and remain active as a node (thus never pruned).
In the case of BitTorrent, it's a bit harder to argue, but there are still cases.
Going back to the drugs analogy:
If there is guy is standing on a street corner announcing he has drugs for sale and waving plastic baggies of product, would "nobody bought from me" be a valid defense to drug dealing charges?
I've never seen the point of those posts.
Why not contribute something useful to the page? Or at least make a funny joke.
Unity was a broken mess last time I checked, but I feel that Gnome 3 actually works pretty well.
It may be a bit to simplified for some tastes, but for that the answer is the same as it always has been: KDE