True. But it's not so much the app as the company behind the app. Adobe is a big name in software development and the name carries the weight. Software development communities are afraid of developing for open source because they fear or don't understand the GPL; they don't realize that closed source apps can be runs on open source software.
They fear having it backwards engineered, hacked or having someone point to some obscure part of the GPL which states they have to release their source code. All of these things are unfounded fears but they exist nonetheless... and to have a major software developer like Adobe (or some other company) release their software for Linux would have echoes throughout the industry. Other software developers would start taking the platform more serious and start considering releasing products for the desktop.
What the software companies don't realize yet is that if they don't jump on board, they will be slowly replaced. There isn't a version of Flash for Linux? Let's promote SVG. There isn't a Photoshop for Linux? Let's build GIMP, etc etc. The sooner they jump on board, the sooner they can control a growing market... and all of them want that. But someone has to make the first move and it's going to have to be a big named company that makes software for the desktop. Whether it be that great new game (Halflife 2, Doom 2, etc) or that irreplaceable graphics tool (Photoshop), someone is going to have to step up to bat and release it.
I think this could all be accomplished if Apple just came out with a Linux distro.
As a developer for a Major Microsoft vendor, I value flexibility. The more flexibility I have with current software apps in production, the more options I have for development and integration. Whenever we choose a Microsoft app, I know that we will ONLY be able to use SQL Server, it will ONLY work on the Microsoft OS and my options are extremely limited.
If one thing in that entire chain fails, the entire chain fails.
But by going with tools and apps that are cross platform compatible, I can mix and match with no worries. The development community is much more vast and mixed as well and any problem I can possibly conceive has usually been solved. By choosing tools and apps that give you options, you have a greater fklexibility for development.
This is one reason why whenever I we decide to purchase new software or apps, I ALWAYS evaluate open source projects first and actively promote them to the company; I have been asked if this is contradictory to our companies nature since Microsoft is our biggest client and my response has been 'We run Microsoft on every desktop here in the compny as well as on numerous servers. Do they honestly expect EVERYTHING to be Microsoft?'
Fact remains that Microsoft decided early to be a desktop company and never really put a decent effort towards servers until recently... which is a little late in the game. They realized that by getting businesses to buy in to their product, the could get software developers to buy in and then consumers. But they focused on the desktops of the business, not the servers (as shown by their weak effort put into Xenix which was later sold to old SCO and currently owned by the new SCO).
Linux has always been server side and as such has a ddistinct advantage; they are attacking the problem from a top down perspective. Get it on the servers and then onto business desktops. Once the worker spends 8 hours out of nearly everyday with Linux, Windows will be seem awkward and unstable to even the most computer illiterate luddite. Software manufacturers will realize that businesses use Linux for desktops as well as servers, lose their fear of the GPL and realize that you can make closed source software for open source systems.
Once Photoshop is released for Linux, that will herald the day of the Linux desktop and Microsoft will truly be scared.
Yes but this depends on how they implement it. Traditionally, you have to load one message at a time in Outlook and you cannot load the next message without finishing loading the first message much like a stack.
So if you have to wait 10 seconds to hear back from even a spam message before downloading the next email, this greatly increases your download time.
What a swell idea. Instead of it taking 5 minutes for me to download all that spam, it will now take me 50 minutes. Yay Microsoft! Innovating new ways of wasting my time.
Yes yes... but none ever had a solid RPG system involved. They were mostly social Mushes. So no... not quite a MORPG, just a social MUSH. If they have included a battle system, random generated monsters and quests, then I would have to agree with you... but I have yet to see one that has implemented all of these things fully.
So to nitpick your nitpick, because it lacks basic elements of a role playing system (in the traditional role playing game sense), I would never call a MUSH a MORPG. Aside from that, calling a MUD a MORPG is alot like calling a burrito a sandwich; both are bread containers for a myriad of different contents but they are different beasts.
Actually yes, while I was at one job I turned my cube into a tiki hut complete with thatch roof. My boss was pissed and was going to scream at me until the VP of the company came by and congratulated me on such a great morale builder and said that others should be so industrious.
Nearly everything for your own Tiki hut can be purchased at Archie McPhee's:)
ARPANET was not the internet though. Nor was DARPANET. And though the name 'internetting' may have inspired the eventual outcome of the DARPA Project, it still was not the internet until being released publicly; In other words, though the functionality was basically the same, it was not referred to as the internet back then... instead it was called ARPANET and DARPANET (depending upon which one you are talking about).
The point that everyone has been trying to make an the point you are trying to dodge is that Gore tried to push for funding and the release of the DARPA project to the public. Without Gores pushing of the government to release this to the public, the internet may have never come to exist as we know it.
End of story. Fact remains that without a politician to push this through from private government project to public project, it would have never happened... and Gore was that person.
It wasn't Bush, it wasn't Gingrich, it wasn't Strom Thurmond... it was Gore. In essence, he took ARPANET and moved it into a new domain thus making it an entirely new beast.
Now that we have thoroughly beaten and then fucked this dead horse, can we finally shut the hell up?
Gee what was the internet called prior to being called the internet? I believe it was darpanet. And who pushed for more funding and pushing for it to be released to the international community and hence no longer a darpanet but an 'international net' or internet for short?
Did you even bother to read that Salon article on this? Can you even read? Had you been able to read that, you would see just how wrong you are.
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Why hasn't someone left a flaming bag of poo on their doorstep? In fact, can we sponsor a flaming bag of poo daily delivery service straight to Darl's desk?
Um... sorry. He never said that. He said he helped in the creation of the internet... which he did as some of the key people involved in Darpanet will admit to. He pushed to have Darpanet become publicly available to everyone.
Heh. Totally. And if they end up with the controlling stock in the company, then they get their contract back or at least the option to destroy the contract.
I'm pretty sure Microsoft encourages this and knows SCO has no chance to win. But yeah. I've considered that myself. Microsoft really cannot lose on this one unless SCO gets smart... and what's the chance of that happening?
SCO also is the current owner of XENIX after Caldera bought them from the original SCO. XENIX as you may recall was Microsofts venture into the Unix arena and interestingly enough, part of the contract that SCO currently owns states that if Microsoft EVER decides to build another UNIX based OS, that SCO has exclusive rights on building that OS.
At least that's the way the original contract read and that's the contract that Caldera bought from the original SCO.
I find it interesting that shortly after Google turned Microsoft down on a buy offer, the SCO dogs come a running. It's looking more and more like Microsoft owns these dogs.
He has an honorary masters... not the same. They give those to chihuahua's who win the lottery. And money does not mean you are competent or intelligent. Aside from that, his first million did NOT come from real estate... it came from movies you dolt.
Besides, do you even know who financed his bid? Kenneth Lay and his buddies; they had a billion dollar lawsuit against them by Cruz Bustamante. Ah-node got his financing from them and is now encouraging Cruz to drop the lawsuit against his buddies.
But you know that cause you're a rocket scientist like our buddy Ah-node, right?
I hope when Linus enters they either play the Ride of The Valkyries or Darth Vaders theme song so that SCO gets the full effect of the wrath they bring upon themselves.
And again, you could prove that this was true. You know how to hack other peoples systems but how often do you check for viruses, trojans and backdoors on your own system? Do you have all your ports blocked? Your system patched? Are you running behind a firewall? Have you checked that firewall for upgrades or vulnerabilities? Does your system have any vulnerabilities that you haven't patched?
Even if you are the most l33t d00d in the world, there is always a way in; did you know that the FBI have frequently used a tool that allows them to amplify the frequency of your monitor so that they can see what's on your system? Did you know they make keyloggers built into hardware that plugs into your keyboard socket? And quite often people recycle passwords. You get their password from one site that isn't as secure but that you know they frequent and poof, you have their password to at LEAST one other place as well.
There are a million ways to get in and to the truly determined, it is impossible to keep them out. So yes, a hacker can even get hacked.
Always remember, there is ALWAYS a faster gun out there.
Lol. If you say so... yep, if you can't see it then everyone must be blind. What an amazing use of logic. Truly you are a god among men. With a brain the size of yours, I'm amazed you aren't pounding nails with your forehead for a living. I suggest letting those scabs on your knuckles heal over before going out for another walk.:)
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True. But it's not so much the app as the company behind the app. Adobe is a big name in software development and the name carries the weight. Software development communities are afraid of developing for open source because they fear or don't understand the GPL; they don't realize that closed source apps can be runs on open source software.
They fear having it backwards engineered, hacked or having someone point to some obscure part of the GPL which states they have to release their source code. All of these things are unfounded fears but they exist nonetheless... and to have a major software developer like Adobe (or some other company) release their software for Linux would have echoes throughout the industry. Other software developers would start taking the platform more serious and start considering releasing products for the desktop.
What the software companies don't realize yet is that if they don't jump on board, they will be slowly replaced. There isn't a version of Flash for Linux? Let's promote SVG. There isn't a Photoshop for Linux? Let's build GIMP, etc etc. The sooner they jump on board, the sooner they can control a growing market... and all of them want that. But someone has to make the first move and it's going to have to be a big named company that makes software for the desktop. Whether it be that great new game (Halflife 2, Doom 2, etc) or that irreplaceable graphics tool (Photoshop), someone is going to have to step up to bat and release it.
I think this could all be accomplished if Apple just came out with a Linux distro.
As a developer for a Major Microsoft vendor, I value flexibility. The more flexibility I have with current software apps in production, the more options I have for development and integration. Whenever we choose a Microsoft app, I know that we will ONLY be able to use SQL Server, it will ONLY work on the Microsoft OS and my options are extremely limited.
If one thing in that entire chain fails, the entire chain fails.
But by going with tools and apps that are cross platform compatible, I can mix and match with no worries. The development community is much more vast and mixed as well and any problem I can possibly conceive has usually been solved. By choosing tools and apps that give you options, you have a greater fklexibility for development.
This is one reason why whenever I we decide to purchase new software or apps, I ALWAYS evaluate open source projects first and actively promote them to the company; I have been asked if this is contradictory to our companies nature since Microsoft is our biggest client and my response has been 'We run Microsoft on every desktop here in the compny as well as on numerous servers. Do they honestly expect EVERYTHING to be Microsoft?'
Fact remains that Microsoft decided early to be a desktop company and never really put a decent effort towards servers until recently... which is a little late in the game. They realized that by getting businesses to buy in to their product, the could get software developers to buy in and then consumers. But they focused on the desktops of the business, not the servers (as shown by their weak effort put into Xenix which was later sold to old SCO and currently owned by the new SCO).
Linux has always been server side and as such has a ddistinct advantage; they are attacking the problem from a top down perspective. Get it on the servers and then onto business desktops. Once the worker spends 8 hours out of nearly everyday with Linux, Windows will be seem awkward and unstable to even the most computer illiterate luddite. Software manufacturers will realize that businesses use Linux for desktops as well as servers, lose their fear of the GPL and realize that you can make closed source software for open source systems.
Once Photoshop is released for Linux, that will herald the day of the Linux desktop and Microsoft will truly be scared.
Yes but this depends on how they implement it. Traditionally, you have to load one message at a time in Outlook and you cannot load the next message without finishing loading the first message much like a stack.
So if you have to wait 10 seconds to hear back from even a spam message before downloading the next email, this greatly increases your download time.
What a swell idea. Instead of it taking 5 minutes for me to download all that spam, it will now take me 50 minutes. Yay Microsoft! Innovating new ways of wasting my time.
Yes yes... but none ever had a solid RPG system involved. They were mostly social Mushes. So no... not quite a MORPG, just a social MUSH. If they have included a battle system, random generated monsters and quests, then I would have to agree with you... but I have yet to see one that has implemented all of these things fully.
So to nitpick your nitpick, because it lacks basic elements of a role playing system (in the traditional role playing game sense), I would never call a MUSH a MORPG. Aside from that, calling a MUD a MORPG is alot like calling a burrito a sandwich; both are bread containers for a myriad of different contents but they are different beasts.
The worlds first super hero MORPG!!
Actually yes, while I was at one job I turned my cube into a tiki hut complete with thatch roof. My boss was pissed and was going to scream at me until the VP of the company came by and congratulated me on such a great morale builder and said that others should be so industrious.
:)
Nearly everything for your own Tiki hut can be purchased at Archie McPhee's
ARPANET was not the internet though. Nor was DARPANET. And though the name 'internetting' may have inspired the eventual outcome of the DARPA Project, it still was not the internet until being released publicly; In other words, though the functionality was basically the same, it was not referred to as the internet back then... instead it was called ARPANET and DARPANET (depending upon which one you are talking about).
The point that everyone has been trying to make an the point you are trying to dodge is that Gore tried to push for funding and the release of the DARPA project to the public. Without Gores pushing of the government to release this to the public, the internet may have never come to exist as we know it.
End of story. Fact remains that without a politician to push this through from private government project to public project, it would have never happened... and Gore was that person.
It wasn't Bush, it wasn't Gingrich, it wasn't Strom Thurmond... it was Gore. In essence, he took ARPANET and moved it into a new domain thus making it an entirely new beast.
Now that we have thoroughly beaten and then fucked this dead horse, can we finally shut the hell up?
Gee what was the internet called prior to being called the internet? I believe it was darpanet. And who pushed for more funding and pushing for it to be released to the international community and hence no longer a darpanet but an 'international net' or internet for short?
Did you even bother to read that Salon article on this? Can you even read? Had you been able to read that, you would see just how wrong you are.
Why hasn't someone left a flaming bag of poo on their doorstep? In fact, can we sponsor a flaming bag of poo daily delivery service straight to Darl's desk?
Um... sorry. He never said that. He said he helped in the creation of the internet... which he did as some of the key people involved in Darpanet will admit to. He pushed to have Darpanet become publicly available to everyone.
More than likely... it's only firmware.
Heh. Totally. And if they end up with the controlling stock in the company, then they get their contract back or at least the option to destroy the contract.
I'm pretty sure Microsoft encourages this and knows SCO has no chance to win. But yeah. I've considered that myself. Microsoft really cannot lose on this one unless SCO gets smart... and what's the chance of that happening?
SCO also is the current owner of XENIX after Caldera bought them from the original SCO. XENIX as you may recall was Microsofts venture into the Unix arena and interestingly enough, part of the contract that SCO currently owns states that if Microsoft EVER decides to build another UNIX based OS, that SCO has exclusive rights on building that OS.
At least that's the way the original contract read and that's the contract that Caldera bought from the original SCO.
I find it interesting that shortly after Google turned Microsoft down on a buy offer, the SCO dogs come a running. It's looking more and more like Microsoft owns these dogs.
Schwarzen-heimer... the Governator.
He has an honorary masters... not the same. They give those to chihuahua's who win the lottery. And money does not mean you are competent or intelligent. Aside from that, his first million did NOT come from real estate... it came from movies you dolt.
Besides, do you even know who financed his bid? Kenneth Lay and his buddies; they had a billion dollar lawsuit against them by Cruz Bustamante. Ah-node got his financing from them and is now encouraging Cruz to drop the lawsuit against his buddies.
But you know that cause you're a rocket scientist like our buddy Ah-node, right?
First Schwarzenegger and now this? I suspect there is something in the water making Californians stupider (irony intended).
I hope when Linus enters they either play the Ride of The Valkyries or Darth Vaders theme song so that SCO gets the full effect of the wrath they bring upon themselves.
That's my point exactly. No matter how careful you are, there is ALWAYS a glitch in the armor. They got to you because someone else wasn't careful.
Even if you are the most l33t d00d in the world, there is always a way in; did you know that the FBI have frequently used a tool that allows them to amplify the frequency of your monitor so that they can see what's on your system? Did you know they make keyloggers built into hardware that plugs into your keyboard socket? And quite often people recycle passwords. You get their password from one site that isn't as secure but that you know they frequent and poof, you have their password to at LEAST one other place as well.
There are a million ways to get in and to the truly determined, it is impossible to keep them out. So yes, a hacker can even get hacked.
Always remember, there is ALWAYS a faster gun out there.
Now you get the idea, mr kettle. :)
Lol. If you say so... yep, if you can't see it then everyone must be blind. What an amazing use of logic. Truly you are a god among men. With a brain the size of yours, I'm amazed you aren't pounding nails with your forehead for a living. I suggest letting those scabs on your knuckles heal over before going out for another walk. :)
Actually I was kidding. Its called sarcasm. You should try it sometime. :)
Yep. Mostly because you so vehemently object. To quote Shakespeare, 'Methinks the lady doth protest too much'.
:)
Isn't that right ma'am?