From NetApplications, a US Web monitoring company.
Both say that while FF is growing, it's not growing as fast as some of the other alternative browsers. Of particular interest is that both say IE is still slowly losing ground.
Nope, they couldn't have. SNA works, and has worked quite well for over 30 years.
Do I recommend it for new installs? Are you kidding????:lol: There are, however, plenty of large companies (esp. banks) that still run SNA to support legacy environments and apps.
Wrong-o, you are tiny. All of you are voting with your collectively huge wallet, so massive in fact that game devs haven't noticed.
Then you say:
I run a fast, stable windows box, and it's people like you that degrade the quality of my games.
How on earth can the (admittedly small) Linux gaming community affect you one way or the other, except to get you more stable games? How can that "degrade the quality" of your games?
The parent was correct in saying that designing for portability forces any app designer to really think through how the end product needs to operate, which in turn leads to cleaner and more stable code. If any games design team like the Civ IV team (so we stay at least somewhat on topic) chooses to design for Macs, why not add Linux support as well? It's not that much more effort after they've gone through the pain of abstracting their code enough to run on both Windows and Macs anyhow.
Disclosure: I'm a hardcore gamer who dual booted for years (Win2k and Linux) just to play games, primarily FPSes and 4X types. Lately, I've nearly quit playing at least partially due to the lack of native Linux games. It just got to be too much of a hassle to keep what was a secondary, less and less used PC up and secure. I'd LOVE to play more native Linux games, and I'm more than willing to pay for them.:)
Oh? Try this scenario. Happens far, FAR too frequently here in the Twin Cities during rush hour.
* Traffic in the right two lanes moving at 10 miles or more below the speed limit * Some jerk driving the same 10 miles or more below the speed limit in the left lane with no one ahead of him or her for well over a mile. This effectively prevents anyone from passing in the right lanes. * S/he does this for more than 10 miles while a long, long string of increasingly irate drivers builds up.
I can't understand the mentality of these assholes. Are they really that blind to how much traffic they are holding up? Most of us would prefer getting home before we have to turn around and go back to work, after all.
Tailgate? Sometimes I wish I owned a one of MnDOT's snowplows.:)
Wow. I know pple who have legitimate gripes about Firefox's memory requirements, but your experience is right off the scale! Right now, I have 8 Slashdot tabs open (started with 10 this morning). Memory usage on an XP box is at 50 MB. Too high, I know, but how much of it is due to all the Flash ads? And I don't think I've EVER seen 200 MB used by Firefox, not under Win2k, WinXP, and Linux.
Also, I haven't had to restart Firefox due to memory leaks in I don't know how long.
Actually, I think the GP was referring to the old proverb; "It takes a village to raise a child". It's one of my wife's favorites, btw.
After all, how much waking time does any two income family actually have with their children? Maybe an hour in the morning and 3 or 4 at night? What about school hours? Time that the child spends at friends' houses? If a parent does not have a network of neighbors, teachers, relatives, and friends to help out, how is a parent supposed to do it all?
The point of the proverb is that kids soak up influences from all over. It is all of the adults in a child's life that really have an opportunity to make an impact on him or her.
Did you miss the part where he said he had 25 users to take care of? His entire company is equal to about one fourth of my company's janitorial staff. We typically operate with a ratio of 1 IT staff member to every 30 people (developers, network, mainframe, project managers, etc.) We're topheavy in IT because we're a bank. Everything we do is based on our ability to push bits. He works for a trucking firm. Quite a different set of IT requirements.
I'll bet anything that you care to name that the owner of the outfit that he works for has zero interest in adding additional IT staff to manage the fleet of trucks. Now, if the company doubled in size, MAYBE the owner would be willing to hire additional help.
All good points. The good news? Microsoft's pockets, while unbelievably deep, are not bottomless. Every time they sign one of these sweetheard deals, the pressure goes up for them to drop prices across the board. The risk for them is that people will begin to expect a MUCH lower cost for software overall.
Trust me, in the long run this is a bad deal for Microsoft. Of course, I will stipulate that "long run" is probably measured in tens of years.:)
...that the entire human population was reduced to 15,000 individuals at one time, and that mitochondrial DNA actually stems but from a single female? That makes two times that humanity has been on the edge of extinction with sheer dumb luck saving it.
Can you cite a source for these? It's the first time that I've seen them stated anywhere.
An article written by a published fiction author which analyzes when exactly he sees his revenues go up. It may help open your eyes to some possible opportunities for exposure (and revenue!) that you may be ignoring.
Personal firewalls are useless. *The default action taken by the tcp/ip stack when a packet arrives on a port that doesn't have a service running on it is to drop the packet. *They waste resources and (because they are a service running with admin privilages) create a possible security hole. Come on people, think.
Oh, come on! You can't truly believe that leaving any server/desktop/whatever open (esp. when attached to the Internet) with no screening software is a good idea, can you? What do you think iptables and ipchains are for?
I sent an e-mail to the "reporter" and asked him if he was using the "Parroting A Press Release Without Checking My Facts" mathematical theorem to come to the conclusion that 75 is more than 20 times faster than 8.
His dump of his Freshmeat search was still more useful than your gripe, though. At least he listed what he knew of the ones he had actually heard about.
That's because Michael Moore has proudly and publicly stated that he never lets the facts get in the way of telling 'his story' in his 'documentaries'. Kinda hard to take him seriously after seeing him say that on national television.
Slashdot Mirror
Both from September:
From Xiti, a French Web monitoring company.
From NetApplications, a US Web monitoring company. Both say that while FF is growing, it's not growing as fast as some of the other alternative browsers. Of particular interest is that both say IE is still slowly losing ground.
Nope, they couldn't have. SNA works, and has worked quite well for over 30 years.
:lol: There are, however, plenty of large companies (esp. banks) that still run SNA to support legacy environments and apps.
Do I recommend it for new installs? Are you kidding????
Then you say:
How on earth can the (admittedly small) Linux gaming community affect you one way or the other, except to get you more stable games? How can that "degrade the quality" of your games?
The parent was correct in saying that designing for portability forces any app designer to really think through how the end product needs to operate, which in turn leads to cleaner and more stable code. If any games design team like the Civ IV team (so we stay at least somewhat on topic) chooses to design for Macs, why not add Linux support as well? It's not that much more effort after they've gone through the pain of abstracting their code enough to run on both Windows and Macs anyhow.
Disclosure: I'm a hardcore gamer who dual booted for years (Win2k and Linux) just to play games, primarily FPSes and 4X types. Lately, I've nearly quit playing at least partially due to the lack of native Linux games. It just got to be too much of a hassle to keep what was a secondary, less and less used PC up and secure. I'd LOVE to play more native Linux games, and I'm more than willing to pay for them.
Do you REALLY believe that Microsoft has managed to properly secure Outlook 2003?
http://www.baen.com/
Oh? Try this scenario. Happens far, FAR too frequently here in the Twin Cities during rush hour.
:)
* Traffic in the right two lanes moving at 10 miles or more below the speed limit
* Some jerk driving the same 10 miles or more below the speed limit in the left lane with no one ahead of him or her for well over a mile. This effectively prevents anyone from passing in the right lanes.
* S/he does this for more than 10 miles while a long, long string of increasingly irate drivers builds up.
I can't understand the mentality of these assholes. Are they really that blind to how much traffic they are holding up? Most of us would prefer getting home before we have to turn around and go back to work, after all.
Tailgate? Sometimes I wish I owned a one of MnDOT's snowplows.
Group policy have been in eDirectory for several years. Microsoft COPIED the concept from Novell, for heaven's sake!
Wow. I know pple who have legitimate gripes about Firefox's memory requirements, but your experience is right off the scale! Right now, I have 8 Slashdot tabs open (started with 10 this morning). Memory usage on an XP box is at 50 MB. Too high, I know, but how much of it is due to all the Flash ads? And I don't think I've EVER seen 200 MB used by Firefox, not under Win2k, WinXP, and Linux.
Also, I haven't had to restart Firefox due to memory leaks in I don't know how long.
Heh. Hahaha. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
(wipes tears from eyes) Thanks. I needed a good belly laugh. (grin)
Um, not to be too pedantic or anything, but IBM still makes a fleetload of money on selling mainframe hardware.
/still/ have a profitable hardware division, though.)
:)
(Yes, I know, they now make far more on support, services, and software licenses. They
fleetload == many many boatloads.
Actually, I think the GP was referring to the old proverb; "It takes a village to raise a child". It's one of my wife's favorites, btw.
After all, how much waking time does any two income family actually have with their children? Maybe an hour in the morning and 3 or 4 at night? What about school hours? Time that the child spends at friends' houses? If a parent does not have a network of neighbors, teachers, relatives, and friends to help out, how is a parent supposed to do it all?
The point of the proverb is that kids soak up influences from all over. It is all of the adults in a child's life that really have an opportunity to make an impact on him or her.
Heh. Hahaha. BWAHAHAHAHAHAH!
Did you miss the part where he said he had 25 users to take care of? His entire company is equal to about one fourth of my company's janitorial staff. We typically operate with a ratio of 1 IT staff member to every 30 people (developers, network, mainframe, project managers, etc.) We're topheavy in IT because we're a bank. Everything we do is based on our ability to push bits. He works for a trucking firm. Quite a different set of IT requirements.
I'll bet anything that you care to name that the owner of the outfit that he works for has zero interest in adding additional IT staff to manage the fleet of trucks. Now, if the company doubled in size, MAYBE the owner would be willing to hire additional help.
Will you please calm down? The Greve has already stated that he was badly misquoted. Look up at the top of this list of posts, for heaven's sake!
You forgot:
:)
Carving statues
painting pictures
drama
photography
All of which had healthy doses of what would now be considered pornography. Well, OK, in the case of photography it was clearly considered 'filth'.
The good news is that some banks are making it easy to send money to individuals. You can cut PayPal out of the loop entirely. Example:
US Bank
Check them out. Might be worthwhile to consider for your online game as well.
"The Federalist Papers"
Another joke:
What's the last thing that you hear before a man dies in front of a crowd?
"Hey, y'all! Watch this!"
All good points. The good news? Microsoft's pockets, while unbelievably deep, are not bottomless. Every time they sign one of these sweetheard deals, the pressure goes up for them to drop prices across the board. The risk for them is that people will begin to expect a MUCH lower cost for software overall.
:)
Trust me, in the long run this is a bad deal for Microsoft. Of course, I will stipulate that "long run" is probably measured in tens of years.
Can you cite a source for these? It's the first time that I've seen them stated anywhere.
Thanks,
sgtrock
I suggest that you read this:
http://www.baen.com/library/
An article written by a published fiction author which analyzes when exactly he sees his revenues go up. It may help open your eyes to some possible opportunities for exposure (and revenue!) that you may be ignoring.
Ummm, I'm a Yankee.
"up yer chapter and verse"
"arse" (?)
Oh, come on! You can't truly believe that leaving any server/desktop/whatever open (esp. when attached to the Internet) with no screening software is a good idea, can you? What do you think iptables and ipchains are for?
Next time, cc his editor.
His dump of his Freshmeat search was still more useful than your gripe, though. At least he listed what he knew of the ones he had actually heard about.
That's because Michael Moore has proudly and publicly stated that he never lets the facts get in the way of telling 'his story' in his 'documentaries'. Kinda hard to take him seriously after seeing him say that on national television.