American media are busy trying to inform you of the NSA being the good guys on their five-hour long morning show. Later, they want you to know about the upcoming season of Honey Boo Boo. After they tell you all this they want to show you some Commercials so you can buy a Laptop with Windows 8. After the break they want to have a sit-down with some self-proclaimed former attorney that will explain to you why the Jury was wrong about the Zimmerman verdict, they'll be sure to spend two whole hours with limited Commercial breaks on that fiasco.
Call me crazy, but what if Microsoft just packs up and completely leaves the USA?. They could move all their operations to India or China, that would pretty much solve their H1B problems right?. I wouldn't mind if they left, not at all.
It's silly anyway, why in the hell would you want to lock yourself into an API (DX) that only works on one platform and could be pulled from under you at any time. And some devs complain about the difficulty of porting their game to Linux/Mac, well hey, if you had used a Cross-Platform API and Engine to begin with you wouldn't be having that problem DUH.
Ignorance and stupidity will be the death of this world I swear....
My goodness guys, this is Slashdot and nobody knows anything about the goings-on of Open Source?. Debian doesn't include anything proprietary like DVD Playback, Flash Player etc. unless you get it from third party repositories. Ubuntu doesn't, by default, include DVD Playback (libdvdcss). The person whom installs the distro has to install the ability to playback restricted content.
I don't know what we're all talking about anyway, Google isn't going to remove VLC from any search results, that would be stupid. As stupid as HBO and their team of blood-sucking Lawyers. Really, someone should say something.
It was funded well beyond it's goal of $69,000 ($295,998) by 3,279 people. So obviously somebody wanted/needed it. You're just looking for people to agree with you so you can feel better about yourself for not contributing to the goal; admit it. =p
Come on, not all of them. Just the ones who don't read the Moderator Rules and think they should rate based on if the opinion of the poster is the same as theirs.
That kind of Business is non-sustainable, Future wise. Inhofe masquerades as a Bible Thumper, yet I guess he missed the part where Jesus trashed the Roman market because he saw how Money was was the true evil. When the Bible talks about the whole 'Mark of the Beast' and '666' in the Forehead and Palms, you don't take that stuff literally, the mark of the Beast is Money; Money is the Antichrist.
Again, think Future here. Business and Money as it exists now is not a sustainable empire and will inevitably lead the end of Human life as we know it and the end of everything Green, that is the Earth. Money makes pollution, Drugs, Corruption and has taken the lives of both Human Beings and Extinct Creatures to name a few of the monstrosities Money has created and destroyed.
No, I'm convinced at this point. Only Karl Marx's vision of Communism can save us now. And no, It has never been applied the way it was intended; only in half-breeds that were incompatible with each other. The people of Star Trek work to better Humanity, not for money, and everyone is equal. If you are a Star Trek fan, then you are also a fan of Communism. In a sense, Open Source has these values also.
Taking care of our Planet and each other is the only future that can possibly exist. The future I speak of will never exist however, we will have long scorched the lands and brought about our extinction before we come to the realization that our path cannot be sustained. It's always too late, we have such a short-sighted vision and have barely left our caves, time-line wise. It's like your first Toy or first Computer, you broke it before you learned anything; twenty years later you still break it because you forgot that lessons of the past are rarely remembered.
I hate to agree with you but, I agree. People are getting exactly what they deserve because not enough of them care. And this is just the first step before other things happen. The Government can get away with anything these days because people have stopped caring about what all those Soldiers died fighting for and all that blood and Ink spilled. And for what do they give up what so many fought for? Their Internet and Video Games. What a pathetic crop of Human Beings, how I loathe thee.
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - B. Franklin
That's what gets me, they're outraged at Xbox One, yet they use Windows. Do they think they are not being Spied on in Windows?. The ignorance here is astounding.
So what are you going to do, large scale video and audio editing on a Tablet or your Phone?. Oh that's right, you're going to make an AAA Game or some Movie CGI for a flick next year on that Phone and Tablet!.
Please...just because you don't have any work to do, doesn't mean the rest of us don't.
And also, how is any Privacy software going to help if the OS itself has the back-door or whatever?. It doesn't make any sense unless you use an OS that's Open Sourced. And like you say, even then you might as well just unplug your Internet. Even if the OS is secured, you still need to worry about services like the Cloud.
This is going to take more than Software to resolve.
Yeah this isn't solely a Japanese issue. This is happening everywhere but perhaps not in the numbers they're seeing in Japanese culture. I'd like to see more data.
Don't forget the people who learn Microsoft specific code that only works on a Microsoft platform, DirectX,.NET etc. There was a conversation on Twitter recently between some Game Devs about how they should have learned OpenGL first instead of the DirectX they did learn. When you lock yourself in to something specific, when other things exist that apply to a broader range of Platforms; then you get exactly what you deserve when it's EOL and your SOL.
I don't know how to code, but if I did, it wouldn't be platform specific. Any kind of coding taught in School should be multi-platform. Yes, while money may be smaller on certain platforms, it's still more money.
I have a very common email address that was somehow not taken. Apparently someone had put my email on a Soda machine in some Canadian Law office and unfortunately for me, the machine took their money.
Some lady from this office must have sent me about twenty emails about the machine 'eating' her Coins. I ignored it at first and finally I had to tell them that the email address they were contacting, was not the correct one. So after I got the lady to get the address on the Soda machine, I proceeded to contact the vender and report the issue. Thankfully I do believe they resolved it, I haven't received anymore emails about Soda machines eating Coinage.
Obviously I wasn't witty like this guy, but it was entertaining to read the incidents of the machine taking their funds without dishing out a beverage.
PC what? Linux, Windows, Mac etc? They're all PC's. If they move to Windows, they might as well stay with XBone, same crap. But I do share your opinion that all of the consoles will have lackluster sales. It's not 1990 anymore and the Kids don't sit in front of a T.V. all day watching Pamela Anderson's tits bounce on Baywatch.
Personally I'm tired of pounding the Nail into the board, if people don't care about the NSA or DRM, then I'm not gonna waste my time telling them about alternative Operating Systems that protect them from the baddies and keep their freedom intact. Ignorance deserves to be treated like a dunce and kept in slave chains whilst choking on sub-human bytes from a relic like Microsoft and their crony NSA overlords.
As a Citizen of the USA, I believe we DO need a swift kick in the balls from the rest of the world. The Citizens need to take part in this ball-crushing event too. The beast is too wild and needs to be tamed.
Exactly, it's not like they have a choice. I do wonder how these statistics are gathered, and how many of those people use it for a day or so and then install Linux; does it account for that?. It's like TV Ratings, send a few hundred surveys to people and based on those, simply assume that's what everybody is watching.
What gets me is all the news about the NSA and Microsoft. I simply can't understand why people would use Windows after all that, it's insane and no logical at all.
Are you ready to quit Microsoft also? They were one of the first to jump on board with all this nonsense. Quitting one and not the other would make no sense.
Sometimes I wonder if they intentionally make this type of Tech just so Hackers can take advantage; and the company can get free advertisement. You know what they say, even bad advertisement is good advertisement. The sad part is people will buy this, just as sure as people building houses on unstable cliffs.
Nobody has said anything yet but, one reason an Aircraft is saved from a crash is because the Pilot is actually in the Aircraft. With no Pilot, there is less incentive to save an Aircraft, or any man-made machine for that matter. The Pilot has a 100% survival rate. And you all know this.
The 6000 series are kick-ass on Linux. I have a 6670 and have yet to have any issues related to the proprietary drivers in Xubuntu. My brother has an NV 240GT that also works like a charm. As far as the Open Source drivers, AMD is way ahead of the Nouveau NV driver.
It's not just the cards and drivers though, sometimes the other hardware in your computer plays a role in the stability of other components; so your mileage may vary. Thankfully with my OCD, I spend months picking out components that work splendidly together. I really don't recommend buying a Windows box and then installing Linux, the stability may be off. It's much better to just go to a place like System76 and get a Linux box that works properly.
But the good news is that more developers see DirectX as a single-platform solution and are pushing more resources to OpenGL development. Hence a recent quote from the Natural Selection 2 team:
"The drawback of D3D11 is that it is not universal. It only works on machines running the requisite operating system, and on hardware capable of understanding the instructions it sends. According to to the Valve Hardware Survey, the penetration of D3D11 capable machines is increasing. But crucially, machines incapable of any D3D rendering are also a growing market: Linux distributions and Mac OSX.".
And from Leadwerks, the tool to build AAA Linux games on Linux. Their Kickstarter is set to complete and the Steam Greenlight was one of the quickest in history:
"It's interesting that as popular technology is becoming more locked-down, from the Windows 8 closed app store to the increasing DRM requirements of the new consoles, people are responding by showing a new interest in open systems like Linux and Valve's upcoming SteamBox. I'm a hardcore PC gamer, and it's disappointing to me how Microsoft has treated games on Windows like an unwanted child for so long."
Times are changing, the Windows crowd can kick and scream all they want. And with all the NSA information about Microsoft being their #1 fan, it takes complete ignorance or just sheer insanity on the part of people to use anything from Microsoft. I used Windows for 15 years until last year, but my eyes opened and there isn't a way in hell I would have a product from Microsoft in my Home. I'm sorry if it hurts to hear this, but it is what it is.
Game developer Simon Roth said this recently on twitter that got props from other Devs: "Never waste time learning any of Microsoft's proprietary API's." A lot of Indie devs feel the same way, and like it or not, Indie is the future of Gaming. Ouya, MadCatz, Google -- you can see it changing before your eyes.
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American media are busy trying to inform you of the NSA being the good guys on their five-hour long morning show. Later, they want you to know about the upcoming season of Honey Boo Boo. After they tell you all this they want to show you some Commercials so you can buy a Laptop with Windows 8. After the break they want to have a sit-down with some self-proclaimed former attorney that will explain to you why the Jury was wrong about the Zimmerman verdict, they'll be sure to spend two whole hours with limited Commercial breaks on that fiasco.
Call me crazy, but what if Microsoft just packs up and completely leaves the USA?. They could move all their operations to India or China, that would pretty much solve their H1B problems right?. I wouldn't mind if they left, not at all.
It's silly anyway, why in the hell would you want to lock yourself into an API (DX) that only works on one platform and could be pulled from under you at any time. And some devs complain about the difficulty of porting their game to Linux/Mac, well hey, if you had used a Cross-Platform API and Engine to begin with you wouldn't be having that problem DUH.
Ignorance and stupidity will be the death of this world I swear....
My goodness guys, this is Slashdot and nobody knows anything about the goings-on of Open Source?. Debian doesn't include anything proprietary like DVD Playback, Flash Player etc. unless you get it from third party repositories. Ubuntu doesn't, by default, include DVD Playback (libdvdcss). The person whom installs the distro has to install the ability to playback restricted content.
I don't know what we're all talking about anyway, Google isn't going to remove VLC from any search results, that would be stupid. As stupid as HBO and their team of blood-sucking Lawyers. Really, someone should say something.
It was funded well beyond it's goal of $69,000 ($295,998) by 3,279 people. So obviously somebody wanted/needed it. You're just looking for people to agree with you so you can feel better about yourself for not contributing to the goal; admit it. =p
Come on, not all of them. Just the ones who don't read the Moderator Rules and think they should rate based on if the opinion of the poster is the same as theirs.
That kind of Business is non-sustainable, Future wise. Inhofe masquerades as a Bible Thumper, yet I guess he missed the part where Jesus trashed the Roman market because he saw how Money was was the true evil. When the Bible talks about the whole 'Mark of the Beast' and '666' in the Forehead and Palms, you don't take that stuff literally, the mark of the Beast is Money; Money is the Antichrist.
Again, think Future here. Business and Money as it exists now is not a sustainable empire and will inevitably lead the end of Human life as we know it and the end of everything Green, that is the Earth. Money makes pollution, Drugs, Corruption and has taken the lives of both Human Beings and Extinct Creatures to name a few of the monstrosities Money has created and destroyed.
No, I'm convinced at this point. Only Karl Marx's vision of Communism can save us now. And no, It has never been applied the way it was intended; only in half-breeds that were incompatible with each other. The people of Star Trek work to better Humanity, not for money, and everyone is equal. If you are a Star Trek fan, then you are also a fan of Communism. In a sense, Open Source has these values also.
Taking care of our Planet and each other is the only future that can possibly exist. The future I speak of will never exist however, we will have long scorched the lands and brought about our extinction before we come to the realization that our path cannot be sustained. It's always too late, we have such a short-sighted vision and have barely left our caves, time-line wise. It's like your first Toy or first Computer, you broke it before you learned anything; twenty years later you still break it because you forgot that lessons of the past are rarely remembered.
I hate to agree with you but, I agree. People are getting exactly what they deserve because not enough of them care. And this is just the first step before other things happen. The Government can get away with anything these days because people have stopped caring about what all those Soldiers died fighting for and all that blood and Ink spilled. And for what do they give up what so many fought for? Their Internet and Video Games. What a pathetic crop of Human Beings, how I loathe thee.
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - B. Franklin
That's what gets me, they're outraged at Xbox One, yet they use Windows. Do they think they are not being Spied on in Windows?. The ignorance here is astounding.
So what are you going to do, large scale video and audio editing on a Tablet or your Phone?. Oh that's right, you're going to make an AAA Game or some Movie CGI for a flick next year on that Phone and Tablet!.
Please...just because you don't have any work to do, doesn't mean the rest of us don't.
You can Moderate, or you can Comment; choose one. Moderator Help is at the very bottom. =)
And also, how is any Privacy software going to help if the OS itself has the back-door or whatever?. It doesn't make any sense unless you use an OS that's Open Sourced. And like you say, even then you might as well just unplug your Internet. Even if the OS is secured, you still need to worry about services like the Cloud.
This is going to take more than Software to resolve.
Yeah this isn't solely a Japanese issue. This is happening everywhere but perhaps not in the numbers they're seeing in Japanese culture. I'd like to see more data.
Don't forget the people who learn Microsoft specific code that only works on a Microsoft platform, DirectX, .NET etc. There was a conversation on Twitter recently between some Game Devs about how they should have learned OpenGL first instead of the DirectX they did learn. When you lock yourself in to something specific, when other things exist that apply to a broader range of Platforms; then you get exactly what you deserve when it's EOL and your SOL.
I don't know how to code, but if I did, it wouldn't be platform specific. Any kind of coding taught in School should be multi-platform. Yes, while money may be smaller on certain platforms, it's still more money.
I have a very common email address that was somehow not taken. Apparently someone had put my email on a Soda machine in some Canadian Law office and unfortunately for me, the machine took their money.
Some lady from this office must have sent me about twenty emails about the machine 'eating' her Coins. I ignored it at first and finally I had to tell them that the email address they were contacting, was not the correct one. So after I got the lady to get the address on the Soda machine, I proceeded to contact the vender and report the issue. Thankfully I do believe they resolved it, I haven't received anymore emails about Soda machines eating Coinage.
Obviously I wasn't witty like this guy, but it was entertaining to read the incidents of the machine taking their funds without dishing out a beverage.
PC what? Linux, Windows, Mac etc? They're all PC's. If they move to Windows, they might as well stay with XBone, same crap. But I do share your opinion that all of the consoles will have lackluster sales. It's not 1990 anymore and the Kids don't sit in front of a T.V. all day watching Pamela Anderson's tits bounce on Baywatch.
Personally I'm tired of pounding the Nail into the board, if people don't care about the NSA or DRM, then I'm not gonna waste my time telling them about alternative Operating Systems that protect them from the baddies and keep their freedom intact. Ignorance deserves to be treated like a dunce and kept in slave chains whilst choking on sub-human bytes from a relic like Microsoft and their crony NSA overlords.
Oh that NSA thing was sooo last week, remember?. Of course you don't, neither do they.
As a Citizen of the USA, I believe we DO need a swift kick in the balls from the rest of the world. The Citizens need to take part in this ball-crushing event too. The beast is too wild and needs to be tamed.
Exactly, it's not like they have a choice. I do wonder how these statistics are gathered, and how many of those people use it for a day or so and then install Linux; does it account for that?. It's like TV Ratings, send a few hundred surveys to people and based on those, simply assume that's what everybody is watching.
What gets me is all the news about the NSA and Microsoft. I simply can't understand why people would use Windows after all that, it's insane and no logical at all.
Are you ready to quit Microsoft also? They were one of the first to jump on board with all this nonsense. Quitting one and not the other would make no sense.
I'm not doing anything with my life right now, I'd volunteer. But you're paying for all my expenses -- and Cancer treatments.
Sometimes I wonder if they intentionally make this type of Tech just so Hackers can take advantage; and the company can get free advertisement. You know what they say, even bad advertisement is good advertisement. The sad part is people will buy this, just as sure as people building houses on unstable cliffs.
Nobody has said anything yet but, one reason an Aircraft is saved from a crash is because the Pilot is actually in the Aircraft. With no Pilot, there is less incentive to save an Aircraft, or any man-made machine for that matter. The Pilot has a 100% survival rate. And you all know this.
The 6000 series are kick-ass on Linux. I have a 6670 and have yet to have any issues related to the proprietary drivers in Xubuntu. My brother has an NV 240GT that also works like a charm. As far as the Open Source drivers, AMD is way ahead of the Nouveau NV driver.
It's not just the cards and drivers though, sometimes the other hardware in your computer plays a role in the stability of other components; so your mileage may vary. Thankfully with my OCD, I spend months picking out components that work splendidly together. I really don't recommend buying a Windows box and then installing Linux, the stability may be off. It's much better to just go to a place like System76 and get a Linux box that works properly.
But the good news is that more developers see DirectX as a single-platform solution and are pushing more resources to OpenGL development. Hence a recent quote from the Natural Selection 2 team:
"The drawback of D3D11 is that it is not universal. It only works on machines running the requisite operating system, and on hardware capable of understanding the instructions it sends. According to to the Valve Hardware Survey, the penetration of D3D11 capable machines is increasing. But crucially, machines incapable of any D3D rendering are also a growing market: Linux distributions and Mac OSX.".
And from Leadwerks, the tool to build AAA Linux games on Linux. Their Kickstarter is set to complete and the Steam Greenlight was one of the quickest in history:
"It's interesting that as popular technology is becoming more locked-down, from the Windows 8 closed app store to the increasing DRM requirements of the new consoles, people are responding by showing a new interest in open systems like Linux and Valve's upcoming SteamBox. I'm a hardcore PC gamer, and it's disappointing to me how Microsoft has treated games on Windows like an unwanted child for so long."
Times are changing, the Windows crowd can kick and scream all they want. And with all the NSA information about Microsoft being their #1 fan, it takes complete ignorance or just sheer insanity on the part of people to use anything from Microsoft. I used Windows for 15 years until last year, but my eyes opened and there isn't a way in hell I would have a product from Microsoft in my Home. I'm sorry if it hurts to hear this, but it is what it is.
Game developer Simon Roth said this recently on twitter that got props from other Devs: "Never waste time learning any of Microsoft's proprietary API's."
A lot of Indie devs feel the same way, and like it or not, Indie is the future of Gaming. Ouya, MadCatz, Google -- you can see it changing before your eyes.