I belive winamp 3 was a failure because it used up too many resources in comparison to winamp 2. At the time, winamp 2 was extremely lightweight - and that's what made it so popular.
The first Humble Bundles supported Desura, and direct download.
For those who don't know it, Desura is like a DRM-neutral Steam, and was friendly with indie devs before Steam was. The client has also been open-sourced, and has been cross platform since the first HB.
Several HBs ago, they dropped desura- so they became steam&tar.gz. Desura is quite cool, since I just had to put my username, password, and got a list of games ready to download+play on any of my PCs.
Since they dropped desure, I stopped buying from them. It's like they showed preference to Steam over Desura; they showed preference to a DRM-based game-distribution-sytem over a DRM-neutral one.
Keep your voice down and we can have a conversation.
Issue #1: The user should be taught how to keep their system clean. Doesn't matter whether it is Linux, Windows or OSX. So they handed out devices without any restriction imposed on the user, the user who is a kid, and is supposed to be restricted they have enough knowledge to be responsible for their own computer-like devices. For the same reason, people having a driver instructor while driving for a while, pass an exam, and only after that they are allowed to drive their own, or other people's car.
However, very few extremely technical users can keeps their windows installation clean and running for years. You certainly can't expect this from the general population, let alone children.
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Windows isn't really more vulnerable to viruses than OSX in a competent hand
In a competent hand, yes, it is.
, and Linux is just as much stable as any of the commercial operating systems if maintained by skilled administrator.
Please name one piece of malware out in the wild that affects distros like Mint or Ubuntu.
And an competent system administrator would be completely aware of the fact that children are not the most trustworthy users when it comes to downloading and executing software from unknown sources.
So, in my opinion what the school board/administration did is cuting corners on their computer staff, or hired incompetent, unskilled cheap labour for the position. Either way, it isn't really the OS that really matters, it is the person who keeps it running.
Linux and BSD require no effort to keep malware out. There are none, and the defaults are pretty sane (there aren't plenty of security-holes in default services which run as root).
Actually, the paid for windows in order to save costs. I don't get how you save costs with a pretty expensive alternative.
Additionally, isn't it morally wrong to force propietary software onto students? Isn't the US goverment supposed to promote the usage of free software? (It's a legitimate question - I thought this was so).
Open source is also important when it comes to security (which is a point you'll hear over and over from BSD folks). How can I be sure that non-open-source software is secure? Now I'm not just talking about backdoors: closed-source software can have bugs. And even if I find them, it may be impossible for me to fix them, possibly forcing me to stop whatever I'm using it for.
There's also the fact of portability. If a new architecture/OS/etc comes out, how do I build your closed-software for it? How do I get it ported quickly? I can't.
I found this pretty stupid. Instead of listing supported devices manually, make a standards compliant tablet-oriented website, and if it fails for some non-compliant browser, blame it.
Even though minecraft is java, it uses several native libraries, liblwjgl is one of them. These *need* to be ported to the target OS+archtecture in order to run minecraft.
It's funny, because it's a linux distro that requires a windows PC to download certain data. I don't actually have access to any windows-based computers, so I can't really try this.
Again, it's sad they didn't develop the software for their own OS (maemo) instead of just windows. Makes little sense IMHO.
Repositories: 1) Mean stuff is more likely to work on your systems, on your OS version. 2) Are ultra-newbie friendly. 3) Keep malware/toolbars/spyware/"downloaderes" away. 4) Are generally designed in the best interest of the user, not the developer. 5) Provide a unique mean for everything to be installed/updated, instead of every software developer having to program/install a different updater - This is turn means there aren't 20 "updater" services running on background. 6) Packages are sometimes tweaked to integrate better with the OS, either on an aesthetical level, or technical leve.
Question is, does 'may not copy the Program' mean you can't mirror their packages for them with your own distro mirrors, untouched?
I've seen similar licenses before. Generally, a steam-installer package is made. When you run steam-installer, it'll download steam from the original source (ie: valve's site), and install it into the system, performing any additional that may be necessary.
How much does google make out of the ads it shows me and I completely ignore because they're totally irrelevant? I wouldn't mind paying that much to DDG, and I don't think many other mind sparing a few cents a month either.
Since windows does not have a 64bit version, there is little reason to insist on a 64bit firefox. Since most windows applications are 32bit, there is no reason to insist on a pure 64bit OS.
Am I the only one seeing the endless problem here?
Indeed. All it says is thay you're redirected to an iframe. How it breaks out of the browser's sandbox and then obtains root priviledges isn't mentioned either. I'm quite interested in how they achieved this too, since it would mean that there's a huge priviledge escalation in linux that nobody noticed.
amd64 is the name of the architecture you normally call "64bits" or "x86_64" every day, and is an extension of "i686". The name is so merely because amd came up with it.
Intel's modern microprocessors are amd64 as well (they just call it a different name).
Why is the UI IDENTICAL to Android? Using the simulator felt like using a slightly more responsive Android, but the UX still sucks, and is completely unintuitive.
Didn't we learn anything from WebOS, Maemo, and Meego?
Third world and not-so-third world countries have crappy ISPs that block torrents, or similar P2P stuff. A few years ago, in Argentina, several ISPs did this, and rapidshare/megaupload gained a lot of users. Nowdays, no ISP blocks p2p (except in small towns perhaps), but users are still used to file sharing sites, and huge communities have grown around them.
Actually, I wasn't kidding, I was being serious. I've a Nokia N900 which has a resistive screen, and can't stand capacitive screens. It's actually funny that my serious comment was modded up funny.
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What do EULAs have to do with it? You can always reject them and that doesn't mean you don't get job, or have any issues in your everyday life at all.
I belive winamp 3 was a failure because it used up too many resources in comparison to winamp 2. At the time, winamp 2 was extremely lightweight - and that's what made it so popular.
What about hardware keyboards? Does this mean they'll end up killing them? Have they found a way to make them flexible too?
The first Humble Bundles supported Desura, and direct download.
For those who don't know it, Desura is like a DRM-neutral Steam, and was friendly with indie devs before Steam was. The client has also been open-sourced, and has been cross platform since the first HB.
Several HBs ago, they dropped desura- so they became steam&tar.gz.
Desura is quite cool, since I just had to put my username, password, and got a list of games ready to download+play on any of my PCs.
Since they dropped desure, I stopped buying from them. It's like they showed preference to Steam over Desura; they showed preference to a DRM-based game-distribution-sytem over a DRM-neutral one.
Keep your voice down and we can have a conversation.
Issue #1: The user should be taught how to keep their system clean. Doesn't matter whether it is Linux, Windows or OSX. So they handed out devices without any restriction imposed on the user, the user who is a kid, and is supposed to be restricted they have enough knowledge to be responsible for their own computer-like devices. For the same reason, people having a driver instructor while driving for a while, pass an exam, and only after that they are allowed to drive their own, or other people's car.
However, very few extremely technical users can keeps their windows installation clean and running for years. You certainly can't expect this from the general population, let alone children.
[...]
Windows isn't really more vulnerable to viruses than OSX in a competent hand
In a competent hand, yes, it is.
, and Linux is just as much stable as any of the commercial operating systems if maintained by skilled administrator.
Please name one piece of malware out in the wild that affects distros like Mint or Ubuntu.
And an competent system administrator would be completely aware of the fact that children are not the most trustworthy users when it comes to downloading and executing software from unknown sources.
So, in my opinion what the school board/administration did is cuting corners on their computer staff, or hired incompetent, unskilled cheap labour for the position. Either way, it isn't really the OS that really matters, it is the person who keeps it running.
Linux and BSD require no effort to keep malware out. There are none, and the defaults are pretty sane (there aren't plenty of security-holes in default services which run as root).
Actually, the paid for windows in order to save costs. I don't get how you save costs with a pretty expensive alternative.
Additionally, isn't it morally wrong to force propietary software onto students? Isn't the US goverment supposed to promote the usage of free software? (It's a legitimate question - I thought this was so).
Windows Car Edition won't have any moral issues to deal with:
Windows has detected a pedestrian and must restart for the changes to take effect.
Hopefully, we won't still be using fosil fuels by the time driverless cars become mainstream.
Open source is also important when it comes to security (which is a point you'll hear over and over from BSD folks).
How can I be sure that non-open-source software is secure? Now I'm not just talking about backdoors: closed-source software can have bugs. And even if I find them, it may be impossible for me to fix them, possibly forcing me to stop whatever I'm using it for.
There's also the fact of portability. If a new architecture/OS/etc comes out, how do I build your closed-software for it? How do I get it ported quickly? I can't.
I found this pretty stupid. Instead of listing supported devices manually, make a standards compliant tablet-oriented website, and if it fails for some non-compliant browser, blame it.
Even though minecraft is java, it uses several native libraries, liblwjgl is one of them.
These *need* to be ported to the target OS+archtecture in order to run minecraft.
It's funny, because it's a linux distro that requires a windows PC to download certain data.
I don't actually have access to any windows-based computers, so I can't really try this.
Again, it's sad they didn't develop the software for their own OS (maemo) instead of just windows. Makes little sense IMHO.
What's the point? Every linux distro already has a package manager which updates software, I don't need two programs doing the same thing!
Repositories:
1) Mean stuff is more likely to work on your systems, on your OS version.
2) Are ultra-newbie friendly.
3) Keep malware/toolbars/spyware/"downloaderes" away.
4) Are generally designed in the best interest of the user, not the developer.
5) Provide a unique mean for everything to be installed/updated, instead of every software developer having to program/install a different updater - This is turn means there aren't 20 "updater" services running on background.
6) Packages are sometimes tweaked to integrate better with the OS, either on an aesthetical level, or technical leve.
The right thing is to provide the source, so that distros can package it properly.
Providing a tarball with the binaries is merely a compromise which in generally, gets accepted.
Question is, does 'may not copy the Program' mean you can't mirror their packages for them with your own distro mirrors, untouched?
I've seen similar licenses before.
Generally, a steam-installer package is made. When you run steam-installer, it'll download steam from the original source (ie: valve's site), and install it into the system, performing any additional that may be necessary.
How much does google make out of the ads it shows me and I completely ignore because they're totally irrelevant?
I wouldn't mind paying that much to DDG, and I don't think many other mind sparing a few cents a month either.
If you really cares about performance on the client side in the first place, you would never have used Flash/Flex.
Since windows does not have a 64bit version, there is little reason to insist on a 64bit firefox.
Since most windows applications are 32bit, there is no reason to insist on a pure 64bit OS.
Am I the only one seeing the endless problem here?
Indeed. All it says is thay you're redirected to an iframe. How it breaks out of the browser's sandbox and then obtains root priviledges isn't mentioned either. I'm quite interested in how they achieved this too, since it would mean that there's a huge priviledge escalation in linux that nobody noticed.
amd64 is the name of the architecture you normally call "64bits" or "x86_64" every day, and is an extension of "i686".
The name is so merely because amd came up with it.
Intel's modern microprocessors are amd64 as well (they just call it a different name).
Why is the UI IDENTICAL to Android?
Using the simulator felt like using a slightly more responsive Android, but the UX still sucks, and is completely unintuitive.
Didn't we learn anything from WebOS, Maemo, and Meego?
Third world and not-so-third world countries have crappy ISPs that block torrents, or similar P2P stuff.
A few years ago, in Argentina, several ISPs did this, and rapidshare/megaupload gained a lot of users. Nowdays, no ISP blocks p2p (except in small towns perhaps), but users are still used to file sharing sites, and huge communities have grown around them.
The change is expected to further deter everyone from using RapidShare.
Actually, I wasn't kidding, I was being serious. I've a Nokia N900 which has a resistive screen, and can't stand capacitive screens.
It's actually funny that my serious comment was modded up funny.