Good companies find clever, interesting ways to advertise. Bad companies stick with annoying banner ad type stuff. The only ones in any possible "jeopardy" are the bad companies. People will *find* the good ones. So if anyone's going to sue, it's just the ones with a bad marketing model.
You can fully expect something to break when you run an unstable release of Wine. Because it's an unstable release If it's for your kid, just stick with a stable (oor the current working) release and don't change it unless you know for sure the game will keep working with a new release.
I'm kind of curious about the bug report. Last I checked, most Wine devs don't seem all that arrogant to me. A bit too expecting, sometimes, maybe...
It's not that there's no market - I'm seeing plenty of people buying Steam games and trying out the Linux version. It's just that the market is small to the point where it could almost be considered "niche". Initiatives like Steam's just show why it doesn't have to be.
I don't think the term lost its weight. Most people (in my opinion) seem to very well know the difference between friends and [Facebook] friends. Facebook just used the wrong term for the entire thing. I just call them contacts.
Regarding your point a, running a script on a sever in another state could be exactly that, couldn't it? (Not that I know if it *is*, mind you. IANAL and all that.)
Just introducing people to Star Trek isn't difficult at all. It's just like any other series: you start at the beginning. Now, since Star Trek consists of many different series, this simply means the start of any series will do.
This from someone who casually watched Voyager and TNG on TV.
You're right; if you don't need gaming graphics, Intel is pretty much perfect in their support.
However, once you start trying to play games with an Intel GPU you'll find that there's plenty of games that don't even want to start up, or have issues that make it unplayable (Amnesia, Psychonauts, Bastion to name a few). Note that these are all issues I'm having personally with a Sandybridge, though.
It's a pity, really. Intel's graphic driver performance is surprisingly good (esp. when compared to their Windows-based drivers). They could have gone the extra mile and make sure more games launch at all.
Actually, I'd say that's only partially true. I mean, the Intel Sandybridge graphics driver works great for 2D hardware support, desktop compositing and 2D OpenGL-based games. But go 3D and the driver suddenly starts coming short (f.e. a fair amount of recent Humble Indie Bundle games just won't work properly with it).
NVidia has the best in-house knowledge and deliberately kept hardware secrets to make these drivers. They're the ones best suited for making the drivers. And even then there's an actual group of volunteers making Nouveau out there.
By the way, Torvalds later replied to an NVidia employee (who wasn't offended by the statement at all, by the way): "I think that people who are offended should be offended."
In closing, it's probably better to just watch the talk session, since this is taken out of the context of the entire talk session, anyway.
That goes for Windows, too, then. It's not their OS. They just make drivers for it. It's not so strange for people from an OS that's less well supported by NVidia to complain about it.
Which is exactly why X is doing too much. Why should it be handling the keyboard and mouse all over again in the first place? Just for its server-related purposes?
Rhythm Heaven Fever (also a great game to spring on your unsuspecting friends!), Sonic Colours, Samba de Amigo, Pandora's Tower, Drawn to Life, Dead Space, Xenoblade Chronicles. And then the Wiiware: Wario Ware DIY, Castlevania Rebirth, Final Fantasy IV: The After Years, Jett Rocket, And Yet It Moves, Mega Man 9 and 10...
People always keep saying that some consoles don't have good games, but then it turns out there's more than plenty of good games if you look hard enough.
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Nah, everyone else is just pretending not to get it.
Rather oblivious attitude you have toward jokes there, are you sure you're not missing a sense of humour?
"Research Says Plastic Bag Bans Might Be Killing People"
There. No more title that's phrased as a refutable question, and the title still makes for a compelling story.
And then you wouldn't have learned anything. Congratulations.
Point 1 doesn't really hold up well because companies expect DRM not to last. What's important is how long it lasts before it's broken.
More like "Enjoy your 60 frames per second, but it might not work!"
The issue with Wine is not performance, but that some software simply may not run. Compatibility is getting better and better, though.
Good companies find clever, interesting ways to advertise.
Bad companies stick with annoying banner ad type stuff.
The only ones in any possible "jeopardy" are the bad companies. People will *find* the good ones. So if anyone's going to sue, it's just the ones with a bad marketing model.
You can fully expect something to break when you run an unstable release of Wine. Because it's an unstable release If it's for your kid, just stick with a stable (oor the current working) release and don't change it unless you know for sure the game will keep working with a new release.
I'm kind of curious about the bug report. Last I checked, most Wine devs don't seem all that arrogant to me. A bit too expecting, sometimes, maybe...
It's not that there's no market - I'm seeing plenty of people buying Steam games and trying out the Linux version. It's just that the market is small to the point where it could almost be considered "niche". Initiatives like Steam's just show why it doesn't have to be.
I don't think the term lost its weight. Most people (in my opinion) seem to very well know the difference between friends and [Facebook] friends. Facebook just used the wrong term for the entire thing. I just call them contacts.
Regarding your point a, running a script on a sever in another state could be exactly that, couldn't it? (Not that I know if it *is*, mind you. IANAL and all that.)
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I loce Linux
Completely unrelated to your point, but... Switching the c and v, was that intentional?
Just introducing people to Star Trek isn't difficult at all. It's just like any other series: you start at the beginning. Now, since Star Trek consists of many different series, this simply means the start of any series will do.
This from someone who casually watched Voyager and TNG on TV.
You're right; if you don't need gaming graphics, Intel is pretty much perfect in their support.
However, once you start trying to play games with an Intel GPU you'll find that there's plenty of games that don't even want to start up, or have issues that make it unplayable (Amnesia, Psychonauts, Bastion to name a few). Note that these are all issues I'm having personally with a Sandybridge, though.
It's a pity, really. Intel's graphic driver performance is surprisingly good (esp. when compared to their Windows-based drivers). They could have gone the extra mile and make sure more games launch at all.
Actually, I'd say that's only partially true. I mean, the Intel Sandybridge graphics driver works great for 2D hardware support, desktop compositing and 2D OpenGL-based games. But go 3D and the driver suddenly starts coming short (f.e. a fair amount of recent Humble Indie Bundle games just won't work properly with it).
NVidia has the best in-house knowledge and deliberately kept hardware secrets to make these drivers. They're the ones best suited for making the drivers. And even then there's an actual group of volunteers making Nouveau out there.
By the way, Torvalds later replied to an NVidia employee (who wasn't offended by the statement at all, by the way): "I think that people who are offended should be offended."
In closing, it's probably better to just watch the talk session, since this is taken out of the context of the entire talk session, anyway.
That goes for Windows, too, then. It's not their OS. They just make drivers for it. It's not so strange for people from an OS that's less well supported by NVidia to complain about it.
Which is exactly why X is doing too much. Why should it be handling the keyboard and mouse all over again in the first place? Just for its server-related purposes?
X already handles too much, and you want it to handle more? Also, what if I want to use sound outside of X?
Let me add to that list.
Rhythm Heaven Fever (also a great game to spring on your unsuspecting friends!), Sonic Colours, Samba de Amigo, Pandora's Tower, Drawn to Life, Dead Space, Xenoblade Chronicles. And then the Wiiware: Wario Ware DIY, Castlevania Rebirth, Final Fantasy IV: The After Years, Jett Rocket, And Yet It Moves, Mega Man 9 and 10...
People always keep saying that some consoles don't have good games, but then it turns out there's more than plenty of good games if you look hard enough.
Oh, if only Fedora 17 provided Sugar Spin...
Bah, you're just using their funny name as a reason to bitch about Fedora in general and praise whatever you like using.
I dunno, man. "Distro" is about as accepted as "blog" or "app" nowadays.
I like the page that links to: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Markdude
The whole thing is so confused I don't think we even have the subject of CS in the Netherlands. At least, I'm pretty sure I studied IT.