I thought i heard seagate talking about 20-30tb spinning drives within a couple of years. SSDs will be nowhere near that in terms of $/gb.
Spinning disk is not going away. You'll simply have SSD for boot/scratch and in portable machines, and big spinning drives in your archive NAS - hot data on your laptop will be in SSD, the rest will be on the network backed by disk.
... and I'm one of the people who fit in that niche.
Given the choice between a single 500gb SSD and 2x 750gb hybrid drives, guess what I'll be taking. SSD is still too expensive for the capacity for some people - and for the price or less you can have "almost as fast" with fault tolerance.
Its because of the shift to VOIP, and maintaining locational information and priority dialling for 911 is not free. margins on data/telco stuff aren't massive either any more.
Because scattered cross-platform alternatives have the momentum and existing userbase to do this, how? If the big player does something retarded, the second biggest player is in prime position to steal the show. And the second biggest player right now is probably facetime.
You also get a mac or iphone, which is actually pleasant to use, rather than some cheap plasticy feeling piece of shit that is supported by the vendor for approximately 6 months.
Exactly. I've had multi-channel audio working almost out of the box on BSD since at least 2005. It was a breath of fresh air after trying to get audio working *properly* on Linux in a multi-channel, multi application aware manner, dealing with enlightenment sound daemon for some stuff (but games wouldn't work with it), etc.
BSD = load appropriate sound module. Run application. Enjoy multi channel sound.
So, what are you supposed to use it for? Given that gaming isn't exactly Linux's forte, and audio production is a more likely niche, which requires low latency audio, what problem is pulse trying to solve. Having multiple audio solutions because the primary one can't do low latency is retarded.
Meanwhile, FreeBSD has done multi-channel audio out of the box without any grief since at least 2005.
Hmm. depends on your industry. Internet service provision, Linux is high performance, efficient and more easily secured. But so is FreeBSD, and they actually care about backwards compat and a stable ABI. But its a very small niche.
OK, so Xbox is out. That leaves several million iOS devices per month, all Windows PCs, Macs with decent 3d video, Linux, PS3, etc, etc.
In terms of market share, i'd hazard a guess that while the Xbox has a chunk of the console market, in terms of total number of potential gaming devices it is way less than 10 percent.
Point being: you can use openGL and cover ALL machines, or you can use DirectX and cut off most of the devices on the market. id got it. a few other developers get it. the rest will come around.
I started with Bo for personal use, back in what... 1996. Kernel changes have screwed me over on multiple occasions. Yes, I can fix it. That's not the point. I'm not a regular end user.
The only real compatibility issues between distributions are graphics and sound support. Code for OpenGL and OpenAL, statically link STEAM and all the games, job done.
Include a basic OpenGL/OpenAL diagnostic tool - if those two components don't work, it is a distribution issue, point user towards tech support for the distribution.
On the other hand, having a distribution platform that developers can publish games to without having to go to the effort of shipping retail boxes and ensuring inventory levels are correct will lower the barrier to entry into the Linux market.
Ship physical boxes, and fuck up your numbers and it is a big issue. Upload some content to steam other than the sunk porting time (which if you've already ported to mac, shouldn't be massive) there's no risk. The sales required to cover that will be a lot less.
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I thought i heard seagate talking about 20-30tb spinning drives within a couple of years. SSDs will be nowhere near that in terms of $/gb.
Spinning disk is not going away. You'll simply have SSD for boot/scratch and in portable machines, and big spinning drives in your archive NAS - hot data on your laptop will be in SSD, the rest will be on the network backed by disk.
Given the choice between a single 500gb SSD and 2x 750gb hybrid drives, guess what I'll be taking. SSD is still too expensive for the capacity for some people - and for the price or less you can have "almost as fast" with fault tolerance.
Well... yup. The devices they sell actually work, have decent support and value add services like... facetime.... :D
they're for suppressing any american uprising, stupid. like OWS, or whatever comes next.
Its because of the shift to VOIP, and maintaining locational information and priority dialling for 911 is not free. margins on data/telco stuff aren't massive either any more.
... or google talk.
Because scattered cross-platform alternatives have the momentum and existing userbase to do this, how? If the big player does something retarded, the second biggest player is in prime position to steal the show. And the second biggest player right now is probably facetime.
You also get a mac or iphone, which is actually pleasant to use, rather than some cheap plasticy feeling piece of shit that is supported by the vendor for approximately 6 months.
... and after RTFA, its not even close to facebook. More tracking by a factor of 7-8x on their top hit, alone.
... the headline "Google tops web tracking list" would be too anti-Google to post on slashdot?
Hopefully they publish an API that can be reimplmented by BSD. But of course that doesn't seem to be the GNU way.
Try FreeBSD. Multichannel audio just works.
BSD = load appropriate sound module. Run application. Enjoy multi channel sound.
So, what are you supposed to use it for? Given that gaming isn't exactly Linux's forte, and audio production is a more likely niche, which requires low latency audio, what problem is pulse trying to solve. Having multiple audio solutions because the primary one can't do low latency is retarded.
Meanwhile, FreeBSD has done multi-channel audio out of the box without any grief since at least 2005.
Hmm. depends on your industry. Internet service provision, Linux is high performance, efficient and more easily secured. But so is FreeBSD, and they actually care about backwards compat and a stable ABI. But its a very small niche.
OK, so Xbox is out. That leaves several million iOS devices per month, all Windows PCs, Macs with decent 3d video, Linux, PS3, etc, etc.
In terms of market share, i'd hazard a guess that while the Xbox has a chunk of the console market, in terms of total number of potential gaming devices it is way less than 10 percent.
Point being: you can use openGL and cover ALL machines, or you can use DirectX and cut off most of the devices on the market. id got it. a few other developers get it. the rest will come around.
I started with Bo for personal use, back in what... 1996. Kernel changes have screwed me over on multiple occasions. Yes, I can fix it. That's not the point. I'm not a regular end user.
There's even a youtube video from memory of a guy doing an upgrade from 3.0 all the way through...
Alternatively, you just write for FreeBSD base. :)
In other news, discs get stolen in home invasions, get lost, etc.
The only real compatibility issues between distributions are graphics and sound support. Code for OpenGL and OpenAL, statically link STEAM and all the games, job done.
Include a basic OpenGL/OpenAL diagnostic tool - if those two components don't work, it is a distribution issue, point user towards tech support for the distribution.
Except with commercial support, a revenue stream for the developer, etc.
On the other hand, having a distribution platform that developers can publish games to without having to go to the effort of shipping retail boxes and ensuring inventory levels are correct will lower the barrier to entry into the Linux market.
Ship physical boxes, and fuck up your numbers and it is a big issue. Upload some content to steam other than the sunk porting time (which if you've already ported to mac, shouldn't be massive) there's no risk. The sales required to cover that will be a lot less.
OpenGL, OpenAL for audio. These are both what you use for mobile development, they both also work on Windows. Adapt, or die.