IMHO, it's more that Microsoft has been shoving some rather pointy, sharp objects toward Adobe's infant children (shades of Netscape), and that Adobe doesn't like it much. Solution: help people leave Microsoft.
They are offering two very unique methods of purchase for their new music, the ability to name your own price for a digital download or the ability to purchase a special "discbox" which will contain the album on CD and vinyl in addition to a horde of goodies.
How is that first item--the ability to choose your own purchase price--in any way "unique", let alone the oxymoronic "very unique"? Magnatune has been doing it for years, and it's (one of) the reasons I love 'em. Aside from the ability to choose FLAC, ogg, or MP3, that is.
How about a bonus for the first organizer in Soviet Russia (double points for proving conclusively that, in Soviet Russia, Slashdot celebrates you)? Or to hook up a bunch of sites and making a beowulf cluster of the meetings (wetware processors, donchaknow)? Or maybe for seeing if the people run Linux?
suppose I could copy and paste what I wrote, but I doubt it would do any good
Nope, because you're totally missing the point of my post, which was to point out the inherent inconsistency of your saying "Linux doesn't support [the apps I need]" on the one hand and therefore Windows is a better solution than Linux while on the other hand, you maintain that Windows has a virus/malware problem, but Linux is the same security-wise, and therefore there is not benefit of choosing one over the other.
The fact of the matter is that it boils down the the same problem: Windows is targetted more by software vendors, be they black or white hat simply due to its market share.
I could also go on about AppArmor and SELinux, but they are also not immunity, only (large) impediments to casual malware, but that's not what you're asking, and it's not the point of my postings.
I'd really disagree on that, especially since Linux doesn't support the software I need (so no I'm not moving) or the hardware I have.
The argument was that Linux was inherently no more virus-prone than Windows. Following the logic you state here, however, Linux is more secure than Windows because the viruses it doesn't run the viruses that threaten you.
Unless you can show me what it is other OSes do that Windows doesn't that would provide an immunity against malware, I'm not buying the argument.
If we're arguing inherent strengths or weakenesses of the systems, then, Linux wins on hardware support and software.
Would you agree that Linux is a better hardware and software platform than Windows, and move over to it then?
the codecs themselves are licensed implementations of the VC-1 standard. We're not in a position to put them into the public domain, unfortunately, but making binaries available at least exposes the functionality.
I don't think anybody is asking for you to put them in public domain. If you're not in a position to license Microsoft technologies, I don't know who is. How about a GPL implementation?
Barring allowing others to play ball with VC-1, how about including OGG (Theora and Vorbis) and/or MPEG4 in the standard instead of just Microsoft tech?
It's only been 3-4 years since I bought an ATI card in the (vain) hopes that they would continue supporting X devs. Sadly, I found poor support and lots of bugs.
Unless they pull an Intel and release/fund Free drivers for their graphics chips, for me it's Intel for ease-of-use and NVidia for performance. I've lost faith in them.
I respect, love and use Linux every day, but when you face all the little quirks of a laptop when trying to put Linux on it (especially a new one) you know what I am talking about. And when you think you solved it all, you realize that your battery dies a lot faster, or your backlight just does not go out when the screen saver starts.
Sounds like you need to stop buying Windows PCs and putting Linux on them: this guy, for example
It has to reproduce App's behavior (features AND UI) 100% to be accepted by App's users, or most of the users will not switch. Anything less than that will leave App's users (and because App's so widely used, that is nearly everybody) complaining that it "feels funny", And this avoids the whole discussion of how hard it is to completely reproduce an application's behavior!
Barring that, you could strike out on your own and try to come up with behavior that is totally new and clever. Maybe if it's clever enough people will switch, but most users will stick with what they're comfortable with. (unless, of course, you come up with something so overwhelmingly superior that it blows the competition away because even someone trained for years or decades on App would feel totally comfortable learning your new behaviors. Good luck with that.)
You also have to read and write App's data formats as well as it can. Chances are very good that you have to reverse-engineer it (take a look at the file, twiddle something, take a look, twiddle something else, take a look....)
Provided you've reproduced App 100%, you might be alright. But you have to offer something better if people are going to switch, particularly to a whole new OS.
You still seem to naiively believe that technical superiority implies market superiority, which is not at all necessarily the case.
Repeat for every Windows-only application, and you have a decent chance.
I'm not saying getting users to switch is impossible, but even the much-vaunted Apple still has less than 5% of the marketshare, despite many very very successful software and hardware products. Merely being great isn't enough, since people have chained themselves to some applications (from formats and learning).
You're actually missing what's going on here. There is no "Linux surface". Rather, the infrastructure to handle multiple-point, touch-based computing (blobs instead of points, as well as multiple points and user identification) is what was developed.
The particular device being used is more or less irrelevant. For this particular device, it was a DiamondTouch which has the advantages and drawbacks you mentioned.
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What other programming system EULAs have you read? What ones do you recommend? IMHO, all non-Free ones are restrictive.
IMHO, it's more that Microsoft has been shoving some rather pointy, sharp objects toward Adobe's infant children (shades of Netscape), and that Adobe doesn't like it much. Solution: help people leave Microsoft.
I humbly disagree.
Sweeeet....
How about a bonus for the first organizer in Soviet Russia (double points for proving conclusively that, in Soviet Russia, Slashdot celebrates you)? Or to hook up a bunch of sites and making a beowulf cluster of the meetings (wetware processors, donchaknow)? Or maybe for seeing if the people run Linux?
You see, this is the main thing holding back Windows on the desktop--the arrogant attitude of the Windows community.
You mean the link that says "Privacy Policy" at the bottom of the Google Maps API page which links to, maybe, the google privacy policy doesn't actually exist?
Dang. My mind is more powerful than I thought!
(for reference, the MS Maps privacy policy is here).
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I don't think anybody is asking for you to put them in public domain. If you're not in a position to license Microsoft technologies, I don't know who is. How about a GPL implementation?
Barring allowing others to play ball with VC-1, how about including OGG (Theora and Vorbis) and/or MPEG4 in the standard instead of just Microsoft tech?
It's only been 3-4 years since I bought an ATI card in the (vain) hopes that they would continue supporting X devs. Sadly, I found poor support and lots of bugs. Unless they pull an Intel and release/fund Free drivers for their graphics chips, for me it's Intel for ease-of-use and NVidia for performance. I've lost faith in them.
It will be in ODF 1.2. What version of OOXML will address its critics' points?
More than that, you can tweak APM too (-B)
Repeat for every Windows-only application, and you have a decent chance.
I'm not saying getting users to switch is impossible, but even the much-vaunted Apple still has less than 5% of the marketshare, despite many very very successful software and hardware products. Merely being great isn't enough, since people have chained themselves to some applications (from formats and learning).
Or please point me to the source code for Photoshop, Visio, and others so that I can port them to Linux.
Seems like you're blaming Linux for stuff it can't fix!
HAL, I believe. It should be noted that the infrastructure is there, but I don't believe that it's complete nor utilized for this purpose yet.
generally, notifications.
because it flagged even the legal verisons as pirated?
The particular device being used is more or less irrelevant. For this particular device, it was a DiamondTouch which has the advantages and drawbacks you mentioned.