It's all about Outlook for companies. For home users, eh not a big deal. I'm working through a contractor for the big chip maker in Oregon (their newest chip code name rhymes with Monroe in case the first clue wasn't obvious enough.) The collaborative calendar use in Outlook is crazy. I use to work for one of the top 3 cellphone providers prior to taking this job. Again, Outlook calendar use was huge. Whether they really NEED it or not, big companies rely on that feature.
Until there is a Linux alternative for them, I don't see Linux being the #1 business OS. If MS Office-Linux became a reality, I can see a big shift, particularly at technology companies at first.
"they highlight features that only car-guys know what the heck it means"
seeing as how all the "car-guys" i know spend a lot of time also watching tv, i'd say they know exactly who they're targetting. you gotta realize there are a lot more brain dead car guys just being couch potatoes than there are you's in this country.
you're giving them too much credit by suggesting even crime novelist. user 17556639 is probably just some 13 year old or a member of the "Bam Generation" who likes to see twisted shit.
Yeah it isn't just Zonk. Check out Gametab, you'll see that there really isn't a lot of super important news in the world of games on a daily basis. It's the same as any other field in "journalism". A lot of stuff is just hyped up crap to try and get attention.
when the news about E3's changes first broke, everyone went on about how big, expensive and ultimately how little benefit the event offered. this sounds like the first steps to building up another such event. i guess whatever works for some.
Way to cave in. Everyone I know that uses a computer has switched to FF (family, friends and a lot of coworkers, since they use Firefox interally). Effectively boycotting. It's having some ideals of your own that you live up to that matters more than the rest of the world following your lead. And not all of those ideals have to be Earth shattering.
Like I say, I'm not out the change *the* world, just out to make *my* world work for me.
Sprint has phone-as-modem service options. I worked in Service & Repair when I was there so I don't know all the details, but as far as I know it is unlimited and they don't care if you bluetooth to your laptop and download torrents.
However I'm not a fan of Sprint, having worked there. The company is fundamentally broken internally. Some markets might be better (or worse) than the one I worked in, but I doubt it. And yes even as a phone repair tech. I had a surprising amount of access to upper mgmt and such - I am speaking from first hand knowledge, not as a disgruntled ex-employee.
It was becoming all about $$$ when I left. They did nothing but raise prices in the last 9 months and blamed their overworked retail staff for poor sales (to reiterate, this was in our district, but upper mgmt was in on it). And while it may be like big business everywhere, internal politics is horrid - everyone is resume building and looking for the BBD. What can you say about a company that grooms salesmen? Those slimey bastards are always just looking for a bigger paycheck. It's a year of my life I will never get back.
Microsoft tried, but they couldn't get the Auto-Replace option to provide strong enough imagery of fire and brimstone. It's important these passages really drive their meaning home right before asking for a hand out in the collection plate, and Word just didn't cut it.
If you're not buying Windows games to run in Cedega you're what, pirating them? The entire purpose of Cedega is to run emulated Windows games. If you're buying a game that won't run on Linux WITHOUT Cedega and will run on Windows, you've bought a game that was released FOR Windows. This isn't rocket science.
With enough "elbow grease" you could make it OS agnostic. Provided the OS is told to not get in the way and let the disc run it's own system. or you could use a portable java implementation. Not too diff. than bootin from the disc in the first place, since it would disregard your OS. Come on be creative. Don't simply say "No, because I don't want it to do that." (because I'm thinking inside the box)
If you have a PS2 why waste the time (installation, patching, etc) and computing resources on PC games in the first place? (yeah hard drives are cheap now but the storage footprint of modern games isn't decreasing and a good graphics card to run todays hotness with all the bells n whistles will cost you more than a PS2.)
Yeah but what you're missing here is... You're running a game designed for Windows under Linux emulation. That works for you. As far as the game industry see's this, you purchased a Windows game. Thank you. Next. They have no idea your copy of the game isn't being installed on a Windows box unless you've told them, but even still, if a game sells 500,000 copies and even 1,000 purchasers tell them "I didn't run this under Windows. I ran it under Cedega on Linux. However I paid money for the one you developed for Windows anyway." they're going to probably respond with "Thank you. Next."
Like what was said a couple posts up, the pure numbers don't add up for EA, Activision, Ubisoft, etc., to development a 100 million dollar title for Linux when they will make back a few hundred thousand dollars tops. This is made even more true when you take into account the fact that console games (portable and not so much) eclipse PC game sales. PC games in their own right are becoming more of a second thought than a prime target for these companies. Whether that's good or bad is for another time, my point here is Linux emulation of Windows games does not encourage a developer to target the platform.
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I haven't RTFA yet, but the summary makes it sound like game companies will start pumping out games for Linux if people start getting everything to run under Cedega. Rather to me it would make more sense for a developer to say "We just need to release a Windows version. Cedega did all the work for us!" How that makes for an attractive platform for native Linux game development, I don't know.
Honestly, I think Cedega as well as Wine are a waste of the developers time. Instead of trying to emulate Windows apps, wouldn't it be better if these guys, who are obviously all strong coders, got together and made Linux native equivalents of the most sought after Win32 applications? Like I said before - If these guys are just emulating Windows programs, that's not giving commercial developers any incentive to sell straight to a Linux platform. What do they care? If someone buys the Windows version only to run it under Cedega, that's still a sale for the devs.
Also, buying the software and saying "I would support you more if you put out a Linux native version." to me sounds like the same argument you hear when MMO players keep paying for a game that they hate to try and impact it's development. (Had a conversation with a coworker today about SWG, natch.) You just gave them your money. They got what they wanted, why should they listen to you? Sure you can always pretend they will listen or suffer going out of business (I've heard this argument before with regard to many Linux topics), but if you would kindly step into the real world, the companies that make the software that you're running under emulation aren't targeting you as a potential customer in the first place. Why would they suddenly uproot their entire development process to please a few people who speak up when their target audience is happy?
I have an idea for the Cedega team. Instead of writing an emulator to play Windows games, why not create a complete API that Linux distros can plugin, with a fairly rigid framework to enable native Linux game development? And surely for the betterment of community we could maybe get distro makers to stick to it. Yeah I know Linux is all about blazing your own trail, but it's taken to extremes in these parts. Time for a soundbite... Despite my interest in the platform and attempts to adopt it to meet my daily needs, it really is zealous Linux developers who are the ultimate @ "embracing and extended" others away from interoperability some times.
and how much it goes down for the following one. this is the US afterall. fads come and go
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I did a quick Google Image search for Bosch since I wasn't directly familiar with his stuff. This is one I found
Can you imagine how fuckin' nuts the politicians would go if a guy with what looks like a flute coming out of his ass were running around in Half-Life 2? That would be so awesome.
not to mention that i'm pretty sure (that's a lil sarcasm there) they don't just bounce their signal from tower to tower. how else do you end up making a call to a landline phone? they are routing quite a bit of their traffic and making use of the POTS. perhaps not for data services per se, but it's not like they aren't even touching all the old copper anymore.
My friend runs a guild with about 50 ppl in it, not including alts. He's a student and has his summers off and other than a trip to China which was for credit in school, he's done nothing this summer but sit and play WoW. The ppl in his guild come home from work and sit and play WoW. It's actually fairly frustrating because we were working on some personal projects that he's relegated to "After I play this raid/hit lvl xx/get through this dungeon." So I'm seeking help elsewhere (since i'm a horrid programmer) and have found some former WoW players who were able to get away.
He gets away with playing as much as he does because his g/f comes home from work and plays with him. I suppose though, 6 million people globally play. I would wager the population of just the US that sits and watches TV all day is higher.
purely out of curiosity a year and change ago. since it started booming i use it to post garbage on myspace sites for random ppl who make me their friend. i do it when i am bored with reading online or doing anything productive. it's kinda cathartic.
It says right in the article "In a statement, the Pitkin County Sheriff's office said a coroner's autopsy is pending and autopsy results will be available later this week."
Considering we live in a world of trite devices like the Clapper, pop music, and a population that is overweight. Our entire economy is becoming one based upon ease of living, not social responsibility. I would put SETI pretty low on my list of priorities to goto war over about what we spend our time/money supporting. Sure the overall goal of SETI may seem farfetched, but then again I know people that think NASA is a huge waist of money when there are starving and homeless. Yet they don't realize the accidental achievements we've made because NASA exists.
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You failed to rule out kissing your best friend once the operation is complete, however.
It's all about Outlook for companies. For home users, eh not a big deal. I'm working through a contractor for the big chip maker in Oregon (their newest chip code name rhymes with Monroe in case the first clue wasn't obvious enough.) The collaborative calendar use in Outlook is crazy. I use to work for one of the top 3 cellphone providers prior to taking this job. Again, Outlook calendar use was huge. Whether they really NEED it or not, big companies rely on that feature. Until there is a Linux alternative for them, I don't see Linux being the #1 business OS. If MS Office-Linux became a reality, I can see a big shift, particularly at technology companies at first.
"they highlight features that only car-guys know what the heck it means" seeing as how all the "car-guys" i know spend a lot of time also watching tv, i'd say they know exactly who they're targetting. you gotta realize there are a lot more brain dead car guys just being couch potatoes than there are you's in this country.
you're giving them too much credit by suggesting even crime novelist. user 17556639 is probably just some 13 year old or a member of the "Bam Generation" who likes to see twisted shit.
Yeah it isn't just Zonk. Check out Gametab, you'll see that there really isn't a lot of super important news in the world of games on a daily basis. It's the same as any other field in "journalism". A lot of stuff is just hyped up crap to try and get attention.
+5 geek bonus for you. i'd be careful stepping outside, you will have to work up to that much UV exposure. remember, little steps.
when the news about E3's changes first broke, everyone went on about how big, expensive and ultimately how little benefit the event offered. this sounds like the first steps to building up another such event. i guess whatever works for some.
the quote from LA immediately following the write-up says they haven't even made that decision yet.
Way to cave in. Everyone I know that uses a computer has switched to FF (family, friends and a lot of coworkers, since they use Firefox interally). Effectively boycotting. It's having some ideals of your own that you live up to that matters more than the rest of the world following your lead. And not all of those ideals have to be Earth shattering.
Like I say, I'm not out the change *the* world, just out to make *my* world work for me.
Sprint has phone-as-modem service options. I worked in Service & Repair when I was there so I don't know all the details, but as far as I know it is unlimited and they don't care if you bluetooth to your laptop and download torrents.
However I'm not a fan of Sprint, having worked there. The company is fundamentally broken internally. Some markets might be better (or worse) than the one I worked in, but I doubt it. And yes even as a phone repair tech. I had a surprising amount of access to upper mgmt and such - I am speaking from first hand knowledge, not as a disgruntled ex-employee.
It was becoming all about $$$ when I left. They did nothing but raise prices in the last 9 months and blamed their overworked retail staff for poor sales (to reiterate, this was in our district, but upper mgmt was in on it). And while it may be like big business everywhere, internal politics is horrid - everyone is resume building and looking for the BBD. What can you say about a company that grooms salesmen? Those slimey bastards are always just looking for a bigger paycheck. It's a year of my life I will never get back.
+1 Crapping In Our Cocoa Crispies
Microsoft tried, but they couldn't get the Auto-Replace option to provide strong enough imagery of fire and brimstone. It's important these passages really drive their meaning home right before asking for a hand out in the collection plate, and Word just didn't cut it.
If you're not buying Windows games to run in Cedega you're what, pirating them? The entire purpose of Cedega is to run emulated Windows games. If you're buying a game that won't run on Linux WITHOUT Cedega and will run on Windows, you've bought a game that was released FOR Windows. This isn't rocket science.
With enough "elbow grease" you could make it OS agnostic. Provided the OS is told to not get in the way and let the disc run it's own system. or you could use a portable java implementation. Not too diff. than bootin from the disc in the first place, since it would disregard your OS. Come on be creative. Don't simply say "No, because I don't want it to do that." (because I'm thinking inside the box) If you have a PS2 why waste the time (installation, patching, etc) and computing resources on PC games in the first place? (yeah hard drives are cheap now but the storage footprint of modern games isn't decreasing and a good graphics card to run todays hotness with all the bells n whistles will cost you more than a PS2.)
Yeah but what you're missing here is... You're running a game designed for Windows under Linux emulation. That works for you. As far as the game industry see's this, you purchased a Windows game. Thank you. Next. They have no idea your copy of the game isn't being installed on a Windows box unless you've told them, but even still, if a game sells 500,000 copies and even 1,000 purchasers tell them "I didn't run this under Windows. I ran it under Cedega on Linux. However I paid money for the one you developed for Windows anyway." they're going to probably respond with "Thank you. Next."
Like what was said a couple posts up, the pure numbers don't add up for EA, Activision, Ubisoft, etc., to development a 100 million dollar title for Linux when they will make back a few hundred thousand dollars tops. This is made even more true when you take into account the fact that console games (portable and not so much) eclipse PC game sales. PC games in their own right are becoming more of a second thought than a prime target for these companies. Whether that's good or bad is for another time, my point here is Linux emulation of Windows games does not encourage a developer to target the platform.
I haven't RTFA yet, but the summary makes it sound like game companies will start pumping out games for Linux if people start getting everything to run under Cedega. Rather to me it would make more sense for a developer to say "We just need to release a Windows version. Cedega did all the work for us!" How that makes for an attractive platform for native Linux game development, I don't know.
... Despite my interest in the platform and attempts to adopt it to meet my daily needs, it really is zealous Linux developers who are the ultimate @ "embracing and extended" others away from interoperability some times.
Honestly, I think Cedega as well as Wine are a waste of the developers time. Instead of trying to emulate Windows apps, wouldn't it be better if these guys, who are obviously all strong coders, got together and made Linux native equivalents of the most sought after Win32 applications? Like I said before - If these guys are just emulating Windows programs, that's not giving commercial developers any incentive to sell straight to a Linux platform. What do they care? If someone buys the Windows version only to run it under Cedega, that's still a sale for the devs.
Also, buying the software and saying "I would support you more if you put out a Linux native version." to me sounds like the same argument you hear when MMO players keep paying for a game that they hate to try and impact it's development. (Had a conversation with a coworker today about SWG, natch.) You just gave them your money. They got what they wanted, why should they listen to you? Sure you can always pretend they will listen or suffer going out of business (I've heard this argument before with regard to many Linux topics), but if you would kindly step into the real world, the companies that make the software that you're running under emulation aren't targeting you as a potential customer in the first place. Why would they suddenly uproot their entire development process to please a few people who speak up when their target audience is happy?
I have an idea for the Cedega team. Instead of writing an emulator to play Windows games, why not create a complete API that Linux distros can plugin, with a fairly rigid framework to enable native Linux game development? And surely for the betterment of community we could maybe get distro makers to stick to it. Yeah I know Linux is all about blazing your own trail, but it's taken to extremes in these parts. Time for a soundbite
In other words, "Don't shoot the messenger!"
and how much it goes down for the following one. this is the US afterall. fads come and go
Can you imagine how fuckin' nuts the politicians would go if a guy with what looks like a flute coming out of his ass were running around in Half-Life 2? That would be so awesome.
not to mention that i'm pretty sure (that's a lil sarcasm there) they don't just bounce their signal from tower to tower. how else do you end up making a call to a landline phone? they are routing quite a bit of their traffic and making use of the POTS. perhaps not for data services per se, but it's not like they aren't even touching all the old copper anymore.
You've pretty much hit it on the head.
My friend runs a guild with about 50 ppl in it, not including alts. He's a student and has his summers off and other than a trip to China which was for credit in school, he's done nothing this summer but sit and play WoW. The ppl in his guild come home from work and sit and play WoW. It's actually fairly frustrating because we were working on some personal projects that he's relegated to "After I play this raid/hit lvl xx/get through this dungeon." So I'm seeking help elsewhere (since i'm a horrid programmer) and have found some former WoW players who were able to get away.
He gets away with playing as much as he does because his g/f comes home from work and plays with him. I suppose though, 6 million people globally play. I would wager the population of just the US that sits and watches TV all day is higher.
purely out of curiosity a year and change ago. since it started booming i use it to post garbage on myspace sites for random ppl who make me their friend. i do it when i am bored with reading online or doing anything productive. it's kinda cathartic.
It says right in the article "In a statement, the Pitkin County Sheriff's office said a coroner's autopsy is pending and autopsy results will be available later this week."
Considering we live in a world of trite devices like the Clapper, pop music, and a population that is overweight. Our entire economy is becoming one based upon ease of living, not social responsibility. I would put SETI pretty low on my list of priorities to goto war over about what we spend our time/money supporting. Sure the overall goal of SETI may seem farfetched, but then again I know people that think NASA is a huge waist of money when there are starving and homeless. Yet they don't realize the accidental achievements we've made because NASA exists.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/ 14/2056233&threshold=-1
how many more times will we see this before it's never released to the public?