But honestly, what is attractive about windows 8? I admit, I have never used it. But to me it looks god-awful. Just terrible. A completely disorganized mish-mash of ugly tiles. I look at it and can't see how it's supposed to work.
The reviews RAVE about it, but it still looks terrible to me, and none of the reviewers have ever managed to explain what exactly is so good about it.
Can somebody take a stab at telling me just what the appeal is?
Playing Devil's advocate here-- But many, if not most games today are available for both consoles and the PC. I would bet that a lot of game developers have stopped targeting high-end PC hardware and write for console hardware first.
Disclaimer: I am not a hard-core gamer. But my copy of starcraft II plays just fine under linux, and I don't need to have the CD in the drive or anything stupid like that. And there are guest accounts provided so my son got to play the campaign. I haven't bought any other blizzard games in the past few years, but starcraft II was $50 well spent. YMMV, of course.
Not just "like"-- I admit that I've never run it. It's actually great to get a response from someone who has.
Part of my original post was trying to get my head around just what made it special, and another part was wondering whether it has any real value today. Is it still unique?
The UI was original. There are Be-like window managers available for linux-- somehow I doubt they capture the complete experience. How close are they to the original? Speed is another thing people always bring up. But they bring that up with light weight linux distros also. So again I must ask: is it truly superior to modern operating systems, given a similar feature set?
So what? I mean, it's pretty. I can admire its simplicity. But.... can I run open office on it? It's built on Qt... but can I run kde apps on it? Play some ksoduku? The article doesn't really mention application support, except to say that 3d acceleration isn't there yet. I remember back when Be was first released everyone was wowed by its multi-threading support-- but surely modern operating systems have duplicated this by now? It seems to me that if you took a linux distro, stripped out all the 3d support and other power-consuming enhancements, and ran xfce or some other extremely light weight window manager, that you'd have a system that's just as fast but one that you could actually run the programs you wanted on.
My son used to love the hardy boys. As a change-up, to introduce him to science-fiction type stories, we started getting some of the tom swift books out of the local library. He loved them.
If you have an e-reader, I think the copyright on them expired, and they're available from gutenberg.
If they had only allowed you to buy it at $1 an episode without DRM, most people would probably go for that. Not all of them, but I think most of them.
4mil downloads per ep * 10 episodes * $1 - 15% who still won't pay is about 35 million.
Maybe $40 mil of $45 mil if they charged more per episode. That's money they could have had that's just.... gone.
Facebook is what people use their Smart Phones for! When Facebook needs a new revenue stream it can extract money from Verizon and AT&T for letting their users access it with mobile devices.
The advantage of electric is that you have the option of generating your electricity using the cheapest, best, most efficient means possible.
Of course, the disadvantage of electric is that we haven't been making electric cars for 100 years, we've been making gas ones. So the gas ones will be simpler, cheaper, and likely more reliable.
What microsoft would do is treat service packs as a new version. Thus, SP1 would come out 5 years after XP. SP2 5 years after that. To some degree, this is good. It forces companies to keep improving. You could use an un-patched version of Windows for free, but you'd have to pay for the bug fixes.
Actually, I think our economy is only afloat as much as it is because China holds so much debt. They have to prop up the dollar because, if the dollar collapses, all the debt that they hold becomes essentially worthless.
DRM is so easy to remove from ebooks that it's really not much of an inconvenience. Downloaded music DRM used to be a bit more difficult and more restrictive. And don't get me started about the ridiculousness of DRM on digital movies.
On the other hand, people who copy works illegally are generally not ever going to be customers. I'm guessing that DRM cost the publisher money in licensing fees, and wasn't effective at all in stopping copying, so it makes good business sense to drop it.
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This will certainly wreck Apple's 30% profit margin ecosystem. The whole publishing ecosystem I'm less certain about.
But honestly, what is attractive about windows 8? I admit, I have never used it. But to me it looks god-awful. Just terrible. A completely disorganized mish-mash of ugly tiles. I look at it and can't see how it's supposed to work.
The reviews RAVE about it, but it still looks terrible to me, and none of the reviewers have ever managed to explain what exactly is so good about it.
Can somebody take a stab at telling me just what the appeal is?
Why exactly are we talking about uranium instead of thorium again?
Playing Devil's advocate here-- But many, if not most games today are available for both consoles and the PC. I would bet that a lot of game developers have stopped targeting high-end PC hardware and write for console hardware first.
Sony is somewhat annoying... but Blizzard?
Disclaimer: I am not a hard-core gamer. But my copy of starcraft II plays just fine under linux, and I don't need to have the CD in the drive or anything stupid like that. And there are guest accounts provided so my son got to play the campaign. I haven't bought any other blizzard games in the past few years, but starcraft II was $50 well spent. YMMV, of course.
Since *EVERYTHING* that can be downloaded is governed by draconian copyright laws, your comment is kind of lacking.
Not just "like"-- I admit that I've never run it. It's actually great to get a response from someone who has.
Part of my original post was trying to get my head around just what made it special, and another part was wondering whether it has any real value today. Is it still unique?
The UI was original. There are Be-like window managers available for linux-- somehow I doubt they capture the complete experience. How close are they to the original? Speed is another thing people always bring up. But they bring that up with light weight linux distros also. So again I must ask: is it truly superior to modern operating systems, given a similar feature set?
So what? I mean, it's pretty. I can admire its simplicity. But.... can I run open office on it? It's built on Qt... but can I run kde apps on it? Play some ksoduku? The article doesn't really mention application support, except to say that 3d acceleration isn't there yet. I remember back when Be was first released everyone was wowed by its multi-threading support-- but surely modern operating systems have duplicated this by now? It seems to me that if you took a linux distro, stripped out all the 3d support and other power-consuming enhancements, and ran xfce or some other extremely light weight window manager, that you'd have a system that's just as fast but one that you could actually run the programs you wanted on.
What's the point of paying extra for blackberry service if it's not secure? Isn't that what people have been paying for?
Valve isn't "just one gaming company". They're a pretty big player.
Senior Manager for the Dungeons and Dragons Design Team
Why not sit down with a bunch of actual designers instead of interviewing the manager?
My son used to love the hardy boys. As a change-up, to introduce him to science-fiction type stories, we started getting some of the tom swift books out of the local library. He loved them. If you have an e-reader, I think the copyright on them expired, and they're available from gutenberg.
Doesn't using noscript block most of the sites that track one's browsing?
If they had only allowed you to buy it at $1 an episode without DRM, most people would probably go for that. Not all of them, but I think most of them.
4mil downloads per ep * 10 episodes * $1 - 15% who still won't pay is about 35 million.
Maybe $40 mil of $45 mil if they charged more per episode. That's money they could have had that's just.... gone.
Facebook is what people use their Smart Phones for! When Facebook needs a new revenue stream it can extract money from Verizon and AT&T for letting their users access it with mobile devices.
It's still burns gasoline.
The advantage of electric is that you have the option of generating your electricity using the cheapest, best, most efficient means possible.
Of course, the disadvantage of electric is that we haven't been making electric cars for 100 years, we've been making gas ones. So the gas ones will be simpler, cheaper, and likely more reliable.
What microsoft would do is treat service packs as a new version. Thus, SP1 would come out 5 years after XP. SP2 5 years after that. To some degree, this is good. It forces companies to keep improving. You could use an un-patched version of Windows for free, but you'd have to pay for the bug fixes.
Actually, I think our economy is only afloat as much as it is because China holds so much debt. They have to prop up the dollar because, if the dollar collapses, all the debt that they hold becomes essentially worthless.
I stand corrected.
I'm thinking that, in the end, nobody really comes out ahead in these tit-for-tat lawsuits.
DRM is so easy to remove from ebooks that it's really not much of an inconvenience. Downloaded music DRM used to be a bit more difficult and more restrictive. And don't get me started about the ridiculousness of DRM on digital movies.
On the other hand, people who copy works illegally are generally not ever going to be customers. I'm guessing that DRM cost the publisher money in licensing fees, and wasn't effective at all in stopping copying, so it makes good business sense to drop it.
Here, Let me google that for you: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=did+hitler+love+anal+sex
They need to get away from peer reviewed journals entirely and switch to a slashdot-style moderation system.
Then papers will be acknowledged or disregarded solely based on their abstracts, with no one actually reading TFA, as they should be.
Yes. You are the only one.
IANAL-- but why not just say that the server itself was one infringement and fine them $200?