The reason there is no port of WoW for Linux is that they know it would be unprofitable. Its too small of a market, too fractured and heterogeneous.
Linux gamers are fifty cents in pennies scattered over a filthy sidewalk. Blizzard knows they aren't worth picking up.
The worst conceit of all is the idea that "these people" had any influence at all on Blizzards decision. They didn't, they don't, and they won't. This isn't a matter of Blizzard's feelings getting hurt by the community. That's not how adults make decisions.
For those of you who read the full blog post, does it seem to you that this is merely an attempt at viral marketing by the propietors of student of fortune?
Well, think about user interface APIs and that sort of thing. You need an LGPL version of the libraries that pull the strings on your OS / Desktop if you want people to be able to write closed-source code for your system.
This is becoming IRC~ It's my understanding that the next version of DirectX won't work in XP, and as a result some games won't run on XP. It's a cheap shot at trying to force an upgrade.
To me, it's much more of a concern than the product activation problem. I bet Microsoft will support activation for some time even after the XP "end of life." By then I won't be using it anyway.
That, and I expect games to eventually leave XP behind due to legitimate reasons, I just don't like to see obsolescence injected artificially.
I am hesitent to invest in a system that will likely be unsupported in the near future. Now there's a valid statement, this upcoming lack of support for DirectX in windows XP really concerns me.
[i]2) No Linux Support. For some like me, I really believe that if and when Linux will reach a critical mass. When everyone knows a Linux user like they knopw a Windows user, I believe that the sheep will switch very quickly, and Windows will become a bit player if that. I don't want to buy a game that I will have to buy an OS to play, when my primary OS was free. So, I go without. [/i]
Have you ever tried to get your 3d hardware to work with Linux? It's like pulling teeth. Honestly, desktop Linux isn't so great that your loyalty to it should prevent you from keeping windows around for gaming. If you're at all interesting gaming, anyway.
Pandora.com is one of my favorite web pages, so is youtube. I endured years of buggy and poorly-performing embeddings of quicktime, realmedia, and windows media, and I'm glad to see them falling by the wayside as flash rises to prominance.
Each web site that hosted videos had their own "player." It was always poorly designed, and usually so bad that I found it less of a hassle to disable plugins and view the source to get the video in an external player.
Flash doesn't seem to have that problem, but it doesn't seem to have an alternative to its plug-in form, either.
Is it that we hate these concepts just that much? Or could it be that we just love war. I wonder, in the arabic language newspapers, does garbage like this get translated as Jihad?
The ruling makes no mention of EULAs or contracts. I think this would have been a far more interesting case had Snow argued that viewing the website was a breach of contract rather than attempt to apply some anti-hacking law someplace that it doesn't belong.
I think you've got the right idea, but that way of proceeding may be untenable. Not all states have the same income per capita, but that doesn't mean students in poorer areas are less deserving of good schools.
Instead, I think a better way to accomplish the same thing would be to do what my university does. Donors are constantly attatching stipulations of all sorts to their donations. These are honored, but by shifting money in and out of the general fund. Generally, the impact is minimal.
"everything important was actually done by a woman(gasp)"
. . . "Albert Einstein the Incorrigible Plagiarist suggests that Einstein had a tendency to incorporate the work of contemporary scientists without properly crediting them, and even offers a body of evidence that his wife, Mileva Einstein-Marity, was the true author of his attributed works. Albert Einstein The Incorrigible Plagiarist is a fascinating, albeit controversial treatise, packed cover to cover with meticulous references to document and support its seemingly outrageous claim." -- Midwest Book Review.
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Why don't they just write office in .net if they love it so much?
The reason there is no port of WoW for Linux is that they know it would be unprofitable. Its too small of a market, too fractured and heterogeneous.
Linux gamers are fifty cents in pennies scattered over a filthy sidewalk. Blizzard knows they aren't worth picking up.
The worst conceit of all is the idea that "these people" had any influence at all on Blizzards decision. They didn't, they don't, and they won't. This isn't a matter of Blizzard's feelings getting hurt by the community. That's not how adults make decisions.
What makes what fair use?
Yeah, passwords can be derived from normal Windows file sharing techniques.
Definitely don't want anybody sniffing that.
yeah. I don't get it either. I have news and webcomics folders in my bookmarks, and I open the group as tabs each day.
Then again, I never understood why people thought they wanted stuff emailed to them each day. Doesn't seem at all convenient to me.
For those of you who read the full blog post, does it seem to you that this is merely an attempt at viral marketing by the propietors of student of fortune?
I guess at this point I should confess I use neither SD card nor thumb drive. I've always used my university's network storage.
Seriously, does anybody ever use the card readers that come bundled with laptops now? Isn't this sort of thing obsoleted with USB and thumb drives?
The U.S. Senate is a series of tubes.
It gets tangled up with all these things going on commercially.
So how does it get un-blocked?
Well, think about user interface APIs and that sort of thing. You need an LGPL version of the libraries that pull the strings on your OS / Desktop if you want people to be able to write closed-source code for your system.
My impression of the Iraqi situation is that the threat to our troops and the Iraqi people was and is external and organized. Is this not so?
I installed openSUSE not too long ago and it couldn't even play MP3s.
What a joke.
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This is becoming IRC~ It's my understanding that the next version of DirectX won't work in XP, and as a result some games won't run on XP. It's a cheap shot at trying to force an upgrade.
To me, it's much more of a concern than the product activation problem. I bet Microsoft will support activation for some time even after the XP "end of life." By then I won't be using it anyway.
That, and I expect games to eventually leave XP behind due to legitimate reasons, I just don't like to see obsolescence injected artificially.
Nope. Not sarcasm.
I am hesitent to invest in a system that will likely be unsupported in the near future.
Now there's a valid statement, this upcoming lack of support for DirectX in windows XP really concerns me.
[i]2) No Linux Support. For some like me, I really believe that if and when Linux will reach a critical mass. When everyone knows a Linux user like they knopw a Windows user, I believe that the sheep will switch very quickly, and Windows will become a bit player if that. I don't want to buy a game that I will have to buy an OS to play, when my primary OS was free. So, I go without. [/i]
Have you ever tried to get your 3d hardware to work with Linux? It's like pulling teeth. Honestly, desktop Linux isn't so great that your loyalty to it should prevent you from keeping windows around for gaming. If you're at all interesting gaming, anyway.
Pandora.com is one of my favorite web pages, so is youtube. I endured years of buggy and poorly-performing embeddings of quicktime, realmedia, and windows media, and I'm glad to see them falling by the wayside as flash rises to prominance.
Each web site that hosted videos had their own "player." It was always poorly designed, and usually so bad that I found it less of a hassle to disable plugins and view the source to get the video in an external player.
Flash doesn't seem to have that problem, but it doesn't seem to have an alternative to its plug-in form, either.
Is it that we hate these concepts just that much? Or could it be that we just love war. I wonder, in the arabic language newspapers, does garbage like this get translated as Jihad?
The ruling makes no mention of EULAs or contracts. I think this would have been a far more interesting case had Snow argued that viewing the website was a breach of contract rather than attempt to apply some anti-hacking law someplace that it doesn't belong.
I think you've got the right idea, but that way of proceeding may be untenable. Not all states have the same income per capita, but that doesn't mean students in poorer areas are less deserving of good schools.
Instead, I think a better way to accomplish the same thing would be to do what my university does. Donors are constantly attatching stipulations of all sorts to their donations. These are honored, but by shifting money in and out of the general fund. Generally, the impact is minimal.
It seems to me that the GOP only supports states' rights when they don't have control of the Federal government.
"everything important was actually done by a woman(gasp)"
. . . "Albert Einstein the Incorrigible Plagiarist suggests that Einstein had a tendency to incorporate the work of contemporary scientists without properly crediting them, and even offers a body of evidence that his wife, Mileva Einstein-Marity, was the true author of his attributed works. Albert Einstein The Incorrigible Plagiarist is a fascinating, albeit controversial treatise, packed cover to cover with meticulous references to document and support its seemingly outrageous claim." -- Midwest Book Review.