So you're ditching the Windows frying pan and jumping into the tablet volcano? Just load a Linux distro. Tablets can't get real work done without add-on peripherals anyway.
No most people in the US who are not enthusiasts will buy a name brand OEM PC from a Best Buy or Staples or maybe even Walmart. People who build their own rigs or even are interested in custom ones are enthusiasts.
Most gamers, like most people, don't have the skillset needed to write a compatibility layer between Linux and Windows applications. Hell, most *developers* don't have that skillset. By your reasoning people who don't like iOS or Android should have to role their own custom phone and OS and market it, otherwise they're just 'whiners'.
Just got back from their site, the only download is a DEB package for Ubuntu. Where's the RPM and shell installation packages? I feel insulted that we finally get steam for Linux but it only works on Ubuntu.....
So when everyone is playing Vega Strike and Wesnoth on their i7 + Quad Sli setups Linux will win. The problem is there is a massive backlog of games that are never going to be open sourced or ported that only run on Linux. I for one *like* some of those games. Carmack was right when he said that getting WINE up to spec was the most important project for Linux.
It seemed to me there was tons of warning if you read the news: MPAA/RIAA had it out for them for months before they got shut down. I predicted their eventual demise months in advance and nobody believed me.
Actually ethanol burns worse than gasoline and (if you make it our way) takes more energy to make than you get from burning it, but that's ok because of, well, I have to really reach for this one -- JOB CREATION!
Well that's a lovely government they have there. I'm glad I live in a country where the government isn't batshit insane. And before anyone comments to the contrary, I'd *love* to hear you say you'd prefer to live in Egypt.
This folks is what we call "entitlement". Entitled people move onto the domain of others then whine about how it needs to be changed to suit their needs, no matter what the land was used for before they got there. If you can't survive with a wired network, move! Otherwise, deal with it.
Assuming they're using some FTL communicator, let's call it 'subspace radio' we still can't detect it at our level of technology. Also, you'd be assuming it is even detectable and not a secure transmission like entanglement would be if physics worked that way. EM is the best we can do for SETI.
I bet it's the latter. Any civilization that has electricity should be emitting radio energy (even if it's just noise from circuits) but if it isn't focused and directed it won't make it very far.
Radio signals can deattenuate with range, other aliens might not be running a SETI program (and therefore glowing in the sky because they transmit stuff to random stars), they might be much further away and so their signals haven't reached us yet. The universe is enormous, no doubt there's *someone* out there.
To recreate something is to understand it, and msdos is worth understanding. Tons of legacy applications still depend on dos and are still in use! This is a step towards long term support of those applications.
You snark, but there is a lot of good reasons to support toll roads (tiered pricing). Toll roads actually reduce congestion by getting people who value time more than money to pay up, which frees up the city road for everyone else. Price discrimination may suck for ISPs but it's known to be effective, albeit unpopular, on highways.
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They may be eating them though as the USA has a lot of agricultural exports.
So you're ditching the Windows frying pan and jumping into the tablet volcano? Just load a Linux distro. Tablets can't get real work done without add-on peripherals anyway.
No most people in the US who are not enthusiasts will buy a name brand OEM PC from a Best Buy or Staples or maybe even Walmart. People who build their own rigs or even are interested in custom ones are enthusiasts.
There are tons of options. You are so full of shit: http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Category/Interface/window-manager
Most gamers, like most people, don't have the skillset needed to write a compatibility layer between Linux and Windows applications. Hell, most *developers* don't have that skillset. By your reasoning people who don't like iOS or Android should have to role their own custom phone and OS and market it, otherwise they're just 'whiners'.
I hope not. Linux is about openness and nothing is less open than a proprietary esoteric distribution.
Just got back from their site, the only download is a DEB package for Ubuntu. Where's the RPM and shell installation packages? I feel insulted that we finally get steam for Linux but it only works on Ubuntu.....
Maximum derpage, "that only run on WINDOWS", sorry.
Install your distro's 32 bit compatibility pattern.
So when everyone is playing Vega Strike and Wesnoth on their i7 + Quad Sli setups Linux will win. The problem is there is a massive backlog of games that are never going to be open sourced or ported that only run on Linux. I for one *like* some of those games. Carmack was right when he said that getting WINE up to spec was the most important project for Linux.
It seemed to me there was tons of warning if you read the news: MPAA/RIAA had it out for them for months before they got shut down. I predicted their eventual demise months in advance and nobody believed me.
Well, you're putting the wrong kind of fuel into your engine. That usually causes problems.
Actually ethanol burns worse than gasoline and (if you make it our way) takes more energy to make than you get from burning it, but that's ok because of, well, I have to really reach for this one -- JOB CREATION!
Probably a strange hybrid of both.
Ok - How exactly does this help Canonical sell Ubuntu Phones?
Well that's a lovely government they have there. I'm glad I live in a country where the government isn't batshit insane. And before anyone comments to the contrary, I'd *love* to hear you say you'd prefer to live in Egypt.
This folks is what we call "entitlement". Entitled people move onto the domain of others then whine about how it needs to be changed to suit their needs, no matter what the land was used for before they got there. If you can't survive with a wired network, move! Otherwise, deal with it.
Why not use Linux or any OS that actually works? ReactOS is terrible.
None at all, the 'radio bubble' is a myth. SETI can at best find directed transmissions, aka other alien SETI programs doing the same thing we are.
Assuming they're using some FTL communicator, let's call it 'subspace radio' we still can't detect it at our level of technology. Also, you'd be assuming it is even detectable and not a secure transmission like entanglement would be if physics worked that way. EM is the best we can do for SETI.
I bet it's the latter. Any civilization that has electricity should be emitting radio energy (even if it's just noise from circuits) but if it isn't focused and directed it won't make it very far.
Radio signals can deattenuate with range, other aliens might not be running a SETI program (and therefore glowing in the sky because they transmit stuff to random stars), they might be much further away and so their signals haven't reached us yet. The universe is enormous, no doubt there's *someone* out there.
To recreate something is to understand it, and msdos is worth understanding. Tons of legacy applications still depend on dos and are still in use! This is a step towards long term support of those applications.
I use public transit all the time and it saves tons of money with gas prices the way they are. It must suck to be a racist.
You snark, but there is a lot of good reasons to support toll roads (tiered pricing). Toll roads actually reduce congestion by getting people who value time more than money to pay up, which frees up the city road for everyone else. Price discrimination may suck for ISPs but it's known to be effective, albeit unpopular, on highways.