Adding to this, the appstore might just be the new software "innovation" in microsoft, that might keep them hugely relevant in their coming releases of Windows. After all, most people don't know that alternate, viable Operating Systems exist. (Note: Not a ms shill, typing this from LMDE)
Thing is, there is a lot of money involved Biomedicine. Research Institutes can hope to gain a lot of funding by selling their results to pharmaceutical companies. It would be the equivalent of Microsoft open sourcing the datasets used for their multibillion dollar speech and language technologies.
I can see this happening at universities though with a "GPLv2 equivalent" license on the database.
I am sure most people use their systems for email, tweeting and facebook. So the 71% doesn't surprise me the least bit. What does seem strange is that people use it for games, but I haven't heard of any games that are playable for more than an hour.
So, you are implying that all important open source software like Linux, BSD, Apache etc, is written by people who are "open-source wannabees"? Get real man, just because they open-sourced it doesn't mean it's going to become a wikipedia-like clusterfuck. Experienced and important people in the industry will be provided with the detailed blue-prints so that they can provide suggestions according to the requirements and budget.
What's the big deal? Frequent releases are good, it keeps crowd interest in your browser alive. It doesn't matter for me though, I use minefield which I presume will keep getting updated.
pAnd I am sure you don't have to worry about version 81, they will switch to a different version naming scheme, or even just fork off with a different browser name, who knows.
Mod this up. Religion - Science comparisons and debates suck. Every person is just too unique in his beliefs to reach an objective conclusion to this argument. And yes, it's a completely pointless, highly opinionated discussion.
It's really my life-long ambition to do two things: (i) Fly to the exosphere, or at least ionosphere, and (ii) Go to the greatest depths of the sea and explore lifeforms there. If this becomes a relatively cheap reality in the next 30 years, I will definitely complete at least this one item in my bucket list.:):)
Well, it certainly looks cute, and seems packed with "features". I just hope that the ones I need are still there, namely a way to handle 10 - 15 windows.
So many comments for a non-story. Yes, most people use both depending on their task, to make the task the most bearable. Both have their plusses and minuses which have been discussed time and time over. If you are one of those people who think that you are leet if you use CLI, or the other kind of person who thinks CLI is for basement dwellers only, I sympathize with you.
Wait what? Life Science guys kill and torture rats all the time. If a grad student is lucky he will only work on a dead rat after killing it painlessly. Of course, there are some lucky people who work on fruit flies and yeast, but they apparently don't have as much genetic similarity to humans as rats.
Cool to see how the gravitation patter largely ignores the contours of the continent.
On the contrary, this is not entirely true. Looking at the complete 2D contour you can see that the contour lines of either high or low gravitational areas are almost always centered in the oceans, whereas the continents and landmasses almost always in the middle of the gravitational scale.
My completely uninformed gut feeling tells me that this data could go a long way in explaining why continents are located (or drifted to) where they are, and could possibly also make predictions about continental drifting in the future.
"Mozilla only got usable a few years ago (2005? 2006? Barely usable too - still had many memory issues back then) and that's when it started gaining marketshare."
I would say sometime around 2004, it was the first time I used Firefox. I loved it instantly, tabbed browsing and everything. I wondered why everyone wasn't using it already. I don't know about memory issues, but it was already much more secure than Internet Explorer.
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Adding to this, the appstore might just be the new software "innovation" in microsoft, that might keep them hugely relevant in their coming releases of Windows. After all, most people don't know that alternate, viable Operating Systems exist. (Note: Not a ms shill, typing this from LMDE)
Jump onto the bandwagon a few years late, as usual. No doubt that it will get well stocked, much faster than any other desktop platform.
I think this is the primary scientific/engineering landmark of the 20th century, followed distantly by the Internet.
Thing is, there is a lot of money involved Biomedicine. Research Institutes can hope to gain a lot of funding by selling their results to pharmaceutical companies. It would be the equivalent of Microsoft open sourcing the datasets used for their multibillion dollar speech and language technologies.
I can see this happening at universities though with a "GPLv2 equivalent" license on the database.
I am sure most people use their systems for email, tweeting and facebook. So the 71% doesn't surprise me the least bit. What does seem strange is that people use it for games, but I haven't heard of any games that are playable for more than an hour.
It's Russia, so it must be more sinister and evil.
Symbian division is gonna be shutdown within the next 2 - 3 years. What's the point of closing it now?
That's the ideal case, of course.
So, you are implying that all important open source software like Linux, BSD, Apache etc, is written by people who are "open-source wannabees"? Get real man, just because they open-sourced it doesn't mean it's going to become a wikipedia-like clusterfuck. Experienced and important people in the industry will be provided with the detailed blue-prints so that they can provide suggestions according to the requirements and budget.
What's the big deal? Frequent releases are good, it keeps crowd interest in your browser alive. It doesn't matter for me though, I use minefield which I presume will keep getting updated.
pAnd I am sure you don't have to worry about version 81, they will switch to a different version naming scheme, or even just fork off with a different browser name, who knows.
Mod this up. Religion - Science comparisons and debates suck. Every person is just too unique in his beliefs to reach an objective conclusion to this argument. And yes, it's a completely pointless, highly opinionated discussion.
It's really my life-long ambition to do two things: (i) Fly to the exosphere, or at least ionosphere, and (ii) Go to the greatest depths of the sea and explore lifeforms there. If this becomes a relatively cheap reality in the next 30 years, I will definitely complete at least this one item in my bucket list. :) :)
Well, it certainly looks cute, and seems packed with "features". I just hope that the ones I need are still there, namely a way to handle 10 - 15 windows.
"...or will the bad blood between the F/OSS groups and Microsoft make this a dead end?"
>>Implying that F/OSS groups are the only ones or even the majority that makes apps for android.
I hear that .Net framework is pretty good for building good games. So it will be interesting to see what comes out of this.
So many comments for a non-story. Yes, most people use both depending on their task, to make the task the most bearable. Both have their plusses and minuses which have been discussed time and time over. If you are one of those people who think that you are leet if you use CLI, or the other kind of person who thinks CLI is for basement dwellers only, I sympathize with you.
Canonical shill.
Wait what? Life Science guys kill and torture rats all the time. If a grad student is lucky he will only work on a dead rat after killing it painlessly. Of course, there are some lucky people who work on fruit flies and yeast, but they apparently don't have as much genetic similarity to humans as rats.
Hell yeah! In a few years, I will be able to play Super Mario on a quantum computer!
Cool to see how the gravitation patter largely ignores the contours of the continent.
On the contrary, this is not entirely true. Looking at the complete 2D contour you can see that the contour lines of either high or low gravitational areas are almost always centered in the oceans, whereas the continents and landmasses almost always in the middle of the gravitational scale.
My completely uninformed gut feeling tells me that this data could go a long way in explaining why continents are located (or drifted to) where they are, and could possibly also make predictions about continental drifting in the future.
This is interesting. Mod parent up.
Damn it. You sir, made my day. =D Mod parent up.
"Mozilla only got usable a few years ago (2005? 2006? Barely usable too - still had many memory issues back then) and that's when it started gaining marketshare." I would say sometime around 2004, it was the first time I used Firefox. I loved it instantly, tabbed browsing and everything. I wondered why everyone wasn't using it already. I don't know about memory issues, but it was already much more secure than Internet Explorer.
At least they are not as evil. The problems with Google Buzz were quite obvious.
You mean smartphones?
It should be, and will eventually become more of a laptop/netbook replacement. Desktops are here to stay, and will still be here 50 years from now.