And yet I've seen plenty of ASP.NET books.
Don't underestimate how much MS can attract those would-be developers with the.net software stack. I've never seen a commercial for Active Directory either. Your arrogant attitude doesn't improve Linux in any way.
Any positive opinion towards an M$ product should not be tolerated
Slashdot is not an open discussion about technology. Could we possibly get an IP ban for the parent as well? There must be an easier way to get rid of these dissenters.
So what if XP was dropped for DX10? Should they be supporting gamers on 98 as well? Supporting multiple platforms costs money, and since XP has inferior security I'm glad they are encouraging upgrades. If you don't like MS then you should be glad they aren't bringing IE9 to XP since it means less competition for competing browsers.
The button order is a 100% total complete non-issue for anybody who has a little bit of a clue.
It goes beyond a trivial preference because there are programs that don't use the native interface and have buttons on the right. So he is actually causing some interface consistency issues with the change.
The community clearly didn't like the change so why keep it? Because Shuttleworth cares more about cloning OSX than the collective opinion of the community. He is in his right to use GPL software to clone OSX but he should drop any pretenses about Ubuntu being a distro that is community driven.
It isn't a community developed distro, they accept outside help but the direction of the distro is set entirely by Shuttleworth
Just look at what happened when he moved the buttons to the left and the community protested. Did he care? Not at all, the left side buttons are part of his plan to copy OSX.
Shuttleworth talks about the contributions of others but doesn't use the word 'linux' once on the Ubuntu home page. He wants to make an OSX clone and then keep all that nerdy Linux stuff in the basement.
I fning hate facebook users. I really hate the recent trend where people assume that everyone is on facebook and expect you to find out about important dates by visiting their god awful mess of pictures and comments. People often think I am screwing with them when I say that I program for a living and don't use facebook or myspace. They think I am joking or don't want to give them access.
Sorry but FOSS games are almost all direct rip-offs of NES games. How many FOSS games go on to achieve mainstream popularity? It seems to go the other way where mainstream popularity inspires a FOSS clone.
Let's say that IE9 gains 70% share which is highly unlikely. How does this encourage the use of Flash or Silverlight? It isn't as if MS could release IE9.5 that removes HTML5. Both Flash and Silverlight are plug-ins that need to be installed unless the user is running Chrome.
If anything you should be for IE9 adoption over Chrome since the latter automatically boosts the install rate of Flash even if the user has no interest in installing it.
You do realize that Google bundles Flash with Chrome, right?
I don't see Flash going anywhere for at least a decade and Silverlight won't have the install base of HTML5. Apple doesn't have enough influence to change the direction of the web. Just look at their failed war against Flash.
It looks like just plain garbage coding.
I noticed this on the website:
Does it matter which browser I use? Does it have to be a certain version?
For the best experience, we recommend Mozilla Firefox 1.07 and above, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and above, Opera 8.0 and above or Apple Safari 1.1 and above.http://h30187.www3.hp.com/page/p/title/faq
That faq looks equally bad in IE8 and Chrome. Take a look at the source, it's a mess.
Getting tied to a kernel version is a legitimate concern with RAID drivers. Preferring open source for utilitarian reasons is a different matter.
It's separate from the ideological belief that all source should be open. Open source ideology holds the source itself to be morally superior. That's ridiculous and like I said only a minority of Linux admins hold that belief.
A console that allows backups will be pirated just as much as the pc currently is.
Most console owners don't care about backups and would rather have a locked down console that prevents piracy and creates a healthier market for developers.
But I still don't see why you think you have a right to a backup of a $10 kid movie anymore than a backup to an action figure. In both cases you have bought a product that you are responsible for taking care of. And as I already pointed out the protective layer on Blu-rays has eliminated the scratching issue.
It is well established that people cannot be trusted with an honor system when it comes to media. Too many people have no shame in taking the work of others without payment, especially in an anonymous system where it is assumed that someone else will foot the bill. We have a platform that allows easy backups and that is the pc, the platform where even $10 indy games are pirated at rates of over 70%. So yes I do not recognized your self-declared right to backups since it is just used for piracy and I would rather support a locked down system that has zero piracy and requires the owners to take care of their games, which is rather easy with Blu-rays.
That does not follow from my logic.
The behavior of the masses is to buy the games. Only a minority of PS3 owners will pirate.
But more importantly laws and rules are not built upon how the masses act without rules but what is too be encouraged for a greater society.
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and you won't have any problems.
Oracle: No problem, here's the source.
Community: You need to contribute more to the kernel.
Oracle: I thought we only need to follow the license?
Community: That only applies to companies we like.
And yet I've seen plenty of ASP.NET books. .net software stack. I've never seen a commercial for Active Directory either. Your arrogant attitude doesn't improve Linux in any way.
Don't underestimate how much MS can attract those would-be developers with the
Apple doesn't lead when it comes to reliability
http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/laptop-reliability-survey-asus-and-toshiba-win-hp-fails/
Heh, I think you don't quite understand that web hosts are being taken down with this exploit:
http://blog.iweb.com/en/2010/09/incident-panelbox-s001-affected-by-linux-vulnerability/5433.html
Just buy a console and get better support from not only Microsoft but other game companies.
Any positive opinion towards an M$ product should not be tolerated
Slashdot is not an open discussion about technology. Could we possibly get an IP ban for the parent as well? There must be an easier way to get rid of these dissenters.
XP doesn't have Direct2D.
http://www.basschouten.com/blog1.php/2010/03/02/presenting-direct2d-hardware-acceleratio
So what if XP was dropped for DX10? Should they be supporting gamers on 98 as well? Supporting multiple platforms costs money, and since XP has inferior security I'm glad they are encouraging upgrades. If you don't like MS then you should be glad they aren't bringing IE9 to XP since it means less competition for competing browsers.
The button order is a 100% total complete non-issue for anybody who has a little bit of a clue.
It goes beyond a trivial preference because there are programs that don't use the native interface and have buttons on the right. So he is actually causing some interface consistency issues with the change.
The community clearly didn't like the change so why keep it? Because Shuttleworth cares more about cloning OSX than the collective opinion of the community. He is in his right to use GPL software to clone OSX but he should drop any pretenses about Ubuntu being a distro that is community driven.
Another way of looking at it is the market share of Linux hasn't changed since Ubuntu first appeared.
That 5% is inflated since it is from w3schools. At statcounter Linux has been around 1% for over 5 years. http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-monthly-200908-201008
It isn't a community developed distro, they accept outside help but the direction of the distro is set entirely by Shuttleworth
Just look at what happened when he moved the buttons to the left and the community protested. Did he care? Not at all, the left side buttons are part of his plan to copy OSX.
Shuttleworth talks about the contributions of others but doesn't use the word 'linux' once on the Ubuntu home page. He wants to make an OSX clone and then keep all that nerdy Linux stuff in the basement.
Ubuntu just happens to be the most popular distro. If it didn't exist the majority of that 5% would be using a different distro.
http://www.binplay.com/2010/07/cent-vs-ubuntu-for-web-serving.html
ripping off indy developers is not.
I fning hate facebook users. I really hate the recent trend where people assume that everyone is on facebook and expect you to find out about important dates by visiting their god awful mess of pictures and comments. People often think I am screwing with them when I say that I program for a living and don't use facebook or myspace. They think I am joking or don't want to give them access.
but they also added a lot of new components to their gameplay. Just look at how many Diablo clones there are.
Sorry but FOSS games are almost all direct rip-offs of NES games. How many FOSS games go on to achieve mainstream popularity? It seems to go the other way where mainstream popularity inspires a FOSS clone.
90% is impossible since IE9 is Win7/Vista only.
But what does any of that have to do with IE9?
Let's say that IE9 gains 70% share which is highly unlikely. How does this encourage the use of Flash or Silverlight? It isn't as if MS could release IE9.5 that removes HTML5. Both Flash and Silverlight are plug-ins that need to be installed unless the user is running Chrome.
If anything you should be for IE9 adoption over Chrome since the latter automatically boosts the install rate of Flash even if the user has no interest in installing it.
You do realize that Google bundles Flash with Chrome, right?
I don't see Flash going anywhere for at least a decade and Silverlight won't have the install base of HTML5. Apple doesn't have enough influence to change the direction of the web. Just look at their failed war against Flash.
Oh come on that is a fringe site by someone with questionable mental stability. And all the links can be navigated with Chrome.
I'd like to see a business or government site in the US or Europe that requires IE. Maybe they exist but I haven't seen one in years.
It looks like just plain garbage coding.
I noticed this on the website:
Does it matter which browser I use? Does it have to be a certain version?
For the best experience, we recommend Mozilla Firefox 1.07 and above, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and above, Opera 8.0 and above or Apple Safari 1.1 and above. http://h30187.www3.hp.com/page/p/title/faq
That faq looks equally bad in IE8 and Chrome. Take a look at the source, it's a mess.
The real war was against IE6 and ActiveX and that has been won.
Microsoft is no longer holding back web development, the new problem is going to be XP hold-outs running IE8 and 7.
I haven't seen a website require IE in years.
Getting tied to a kernel version is a legitimate concern with RAID drivers. Preferring open source for utilitarian reasons is a different matter.
It's separate from the ideological belief that all source should be open. Open source ideology holds the source itself to be morally superior. That's ridiculous and like I said only a minority of Linux admins hold that belief.
A console that allows backups will be pirated just as much as the pc currently is.
Most console owners don't care about backups and would rather have a locked down console that prevents piracy and creates a healthier market for developers.
But I still don't see why you think you have a right to a backup of a $10 kid movie anymore than a backup to an action figure. In both cases you have bought a product that you are responsible for taking care of. And as I already pointed out the protective layer on Blu-rays has eliminated the scratching issue.
It is well established that people cannot be trusted with an honor system when it comes to media. Too many people have no shame in taking the work of others without payment, especially in an anonymous system where it is assumed that someone else will foot the bill. We have a platform that allows easy backups and that is the pc, the platform where even $10 indy games are pirated at rates of over 70%. So yes I do not recognized your self-declared right to backups since it is just used for piracy and I would rather support a locked down system that has zero piracy and requires the owners to take care of their games, which is rather easy with Blu-rays.
That does not follow from my logic.
The behavior of the masses is to buy the games. Only a minority of PS3 owners will pirate.
But more importantly laws and rules are not built upon how the masses act without rules but what is too be encouraged for a greater society.