Re:You know if I had a dollar for every time...
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Is id Abandoning Linux?
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Those numbers do not include online retail purchases, Steam purchases (where Bioshock was a big seller) or things like MMO subscriptions. Online purchases, whether from a retailer such as EB Games or Gamestop, orvia digital download, ala Steam or Direct2Drive represent a huge percent of the PC gaming market and are not included in those sales stats. Those stats, while powerful in the industry, don't represent any sort of true depiction of PC sales.
I stand corrected! Is this a new development? Either way, it sucks to require any app, as opposed to allowing an Apple or PC to administrate it via a browser.
I haven't read the CNET article, but I have little doubt it's a flame fanning puff piece. However the "Apple iPhone Rumors Off the Hook" rebuttal hits a foul ball as early as its "Strike 1" paragraph.
As someone who has owned an Airport, as well as various 3rd party routers, it does not stand "miles ahead" of its competition. Not only is it doubly, or often triply expensive when compared to solid competitors, it lacks a dead-simple web interface to administrate the device, replaced instead by an application. This is great, if you're using an Apple client, but if you have a mixed network, it a huge pain in the neck to require an Apple app to make a change to the device, as opposed to pointing your web browser towards it. The fact that it has a USB print server built in is a plus. I'll grant, although these are a dime a dozen.
As for iSight, it seems the author doesn't realize that the product has been discontinued in the US. Sure, Apple has been integrating the revamped "iSight" into many of its new portables, and iMacs, but the fact that it has been yanked as a standalone product makes it difficult to defend as such a "hit". It sure is a great webcam, no doubt, but if you can't buy it, it's not a "homerun", but rather Apple took the ball and ran home.
Huh? They're not benching Apple drivers, they're benching Windows drivers.
I understand that running Windows on a Mac ...
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PC Games Go To Boot Camp
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is a new idea, but I don't get the hubbub. Once Apple switched to Intel, they began churning out typical x86 PC's. Yeah, they look cooler, but why would anyone expect that they would bench/perform differently from a generic white box with the same specs?
This seems to be much ado about nothing. It's great that the Apple computers have the secret DRM chip that allows for OS X x8 to be installed, the dual boot option may make this a great option for for some folks. But to bench them and remark with wonder about the results compared to any of a bijillion other Intel hardware based Windows PC's seems odd.
I work with dozens of small business clients in NYC, and every single one of them has one or two industry specific applications that are just not available on Linux. Believe me, I'd love to switch everyone to a Linux desktop, but frankly I can't see it happening on anything but the most modest scale.
Now in larger outfits whhere there may be such a thing as the "average business worker" it may be possible, but in my experience, even the receptionist splits time running Time Slips, Team Design, Act!, Pertrac, etc.
The original incarnation of SWG was universally panned. All the game journals give it a thumbs down, and it had a poor subscriber rate. What we're seeing now is the work of the vocal minority who actually liked the original product. Unfortunately, their devotion doesn't make the game any more profitable.
I really don't see the problem with a massive revamp of SWG. The game would have been cancelled if not for the retooling. The only other route would have been to scrap SWG entirely and try with a new incarnation.
I get the motivation (greed), just not the logic. If I talk business on the phone, do I owe Verizon a piece of the action? As long as Google pays their bandwidth bills, how can this be legitimized?
to games on Linux Cedega. In my experience, that's a rather poor showing. There are tons of games which have niggling, but showstopper problems on Wine/Cedega. Most new games, that push the limits of modern hardware, are typically unplayable under Cedega, at anything but the lowest resolutions (even if you're sporting the high-end nvidia card du jour). I've supported transgaming's efforts for years, but the game I want to play most at any given time, always has a fatal flaw. If it weren't for id/epic et all offering native linux binaries, the platform would be an absolute wasteland.
as much as the next guy. But YYahoo's maps seem to be implemented better than Google. You can zoom in and out with the mouse whhel, and in Google, Maps w/ Firefox, I invariably, on multiple machines, get vacant squares, and I have to drag the map around this way and that to get the data filled in. Yahoo just works much more smoothly.
no one will buy the content. I sure as hell ain't buying a DRM-ified monitor to watch HD content.
It's all up to the market. If consumers capitulate on a massive scale, this could happen. If not, it won't and content providers will be forced to strip the HDCP DRM off of their content. Who's gonna blink first? I suspect this inititiative will go the way of the original Divx, time-limited DVD's. It'll just sink like a stone.
I totally concur. I had my wife try it to call her family in Japan. It was useless. I switched to broadvoice VOIP, for $25/month that includes umlimited US to Japan. Muuuuch better.
They sell office furniture.
As for concern about spending a few hundred per employee, I'm not sure of your point. They spend quite a bit per employee, and teh Novell Linux SBS ain't free.
About 50 people, but the company grosses a few hundred million a year. We're moving to the new Novell Linux Small Business Suite next month.:) Although, I've already been using linux for mail, web and intranet stuff for about 5 years.
If you want to sell/buy WoW the CD is trivial, you don't need the key. What you're buying/selling is the account. Just get rid of your personal info, CC information etc, and give the new owner your username/password for your WoW account. The new owner just installs WoW and logs in with your credentials. Once he's in, he changes the account password, billing info, etc and the deal is over.
Now I don't know if this is against the EULA, but does it really matter? The transfer works, its actually less hassle to edit the account ifo then go through the account creation process, and you're in the game as soon as the install/patching finishes. I can't imagine any repercussions, EULA allowable transfer or not.
Since the origiinal story must be hosted on a mac mini, its already down for the count...:
http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/c5e2ce0f2841a64d8 a5f9e8b9b0c97bd/index.html
A good friend is married to a woman from Cuba. She can't go back to her country for several years as its only been a year since she essentially defected. Her family has no broadband, it sounds a bit tough to obtain,, and they are not technical. As opposed to standard Int'l rates (ie, my wife is Japanese and we can get 0.05/minute rates) Cuba costs about 85 cents/minute. Anyone have family, contacts in Cuba and know of a way to make cheap phone calls to the country?
Re:What's the deal with "Nipponese"?
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Ask Neal Stephenson
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My wife, who is from Japan found that the use of "Nipponese" was quite bizarre and affected. At first blush, considering "Japan" in japanese is "Nippon", it seems more PC, but I can't imagine that was the inspiration for its use.
In the beginning was the command line...
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Ask Neal Stephenson
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is going on 5 years old. The books investrigation into the history and utility of the various OS choices seems to have been inspired by your own search for a dependable word processor.
Although it was widely reported that you reverted to pen (or quill) and paper for The Baroque Cycle, have your OS preferences and evaluations changed over the last 5 years? What OS do you personally find the most value in today?
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Those numbers do not include online retail purchases, Steam purchases (where Bioshock was a big seller) or things like MMO subscriptions. Online purchases, whether from a retailer such as EB Games or Gamestop, orvia digital download, ala Steam or Direct2Drive represent a huge percent of the PC gaming market and are not included in those sales stats. Those stats, while powerful in the industry, don't represent any sort of true depiction of PC sales.
I stand corrected! Is this a new development? Either way, it sucks to require any app, as opposed to allowing an Apple or PC to administrate it via a browser.
I haven't read the CNET article, but I have little doubt it's a flame fanning puff piece. However the "Apple iPhone Rumors Off the Hook" rebuttal hits a foul ball as early as its "Strike 1" paragraph. As someone who has owned an Airport, as well as various 3rd party routers, it does not stand "miles ahead" of its competition. Not only is it doubly, or often triply expensive when compared to solid competitors, it lacks a dead-simple web interface to administrate the device, replaced instead by an application. This is great, if you're using an Apple client, but if you have a mixed network, it a huge pain in the neck to require an Apple app to make a change to the device, as opposed to pointing your web browser towards it. The fact that it has a USB print server built in is a plus. I'll grant, although these are a dime a dozen. As for iSight, it seems the author doesn't realize that the product has been discontinued in the US. Sure, Apple has been integrating the revamped "iSight" into many of its new portables, and iMacs, but the fact that it has been yanked as a standalone product makes it difficult to defend as such a "hit". It sure is a great webcam, no doubt, but if you can't buy it, it's not a "homerun", but rather Apple took the ball and ran home.
Huh? They're not benching Apple drivers, they're benching Windows drivers.
is a new idea, but I don't get the hubbub. Once Apple switched to Intel, they began churning out typical x86 PC's. Yeah, they look cooler, but why would anyone expect that they would bench/perform differently from a generic white box with the same specs? This seems to be much ado about nothing. It's great that the Apple computers have the secret DRM chip that allows for OS X x8 to be installed, the dual boot option may make this a great option for for some folks. But to bench them and remark with wonder about the results compared to any of a bijillion other Intel hardware based Windows PC's seems odd.
Umbuntu, what the hell is Umbuntu? Ubuntu?
I work with dozens of small business clients in NYC, and every single one of them has one or two industry specific applications that are just not available on Linux. Believe me, I'd love to switch everyone to a Linux desktop, but frankly I can't see it happening on anything but the most modest scale. Now in larger outfits whhere there may be such a thing as the "average business worker" it may be possible, but in my experience, even the receptionist splits time running Time Slips, Team Design, Act!, Pertrac, etc.
The original incarnation of SWG was universally panned. All the game journals give it a thumbs down, and it had a poor subscriber rate. What we're seeing now is the work of the vocal minority who actually liked the original product. Unfortunately, their devotion doesn't make the game any more profitable. I really don't see the problem with a massive revamp of SWG. The game would have been cancelled if not for the retooling. The only other route would have been to scrap SWG entirely and try with a new incarnation.
I get the motivation (greed), just not the logic. If I talk business on the phone, do I owe Verizon a piece of the action? As long as Google pays their bandwidth bills, how can this be legitimized?
to games on Linux Cedega. In my experience, that's a rather poor showing. There are tons of games which have niggling, but showstopper problems on Wine/Cedega. Most new games, that push the limits of modern hardware, are typically unplayable under Cedega, at anything but the lowest resolutions (even if you're sporting the high-end nvidia card du jour). I've supported transgaming's efforts for years, but the game I want to play most at any given time, always has a fatal flaw. If it weren't for id/epic et all offering native linux binaries, the platform would be an absolute wasteland.
as much as the next guy. But YYahoo's maps seem to be implemented better than Google. You can zoom in and out with the mouse whhel, and in Google, Maps w/ Firefox, I invariably, on multiple machines, get vacant squares, and I have to drag the map around this way and that to get the data filled in. Yahoo just works much more smoothly.
Here are 10 or 11 repositories of SuSE compile RPM's: http://www.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Re positories
Here's how to install then as sources for YaST:
http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/11504. html
I recommend Packman's excellent package site, from the first link. Once you add the sources, YaST performs essentially the same apt-get (or synaptic), resolves dependencies, and doesn't break stuff when you add new packages.
no one will buy the content. I sure as hell ain't buying a DRM-ified monitor to watch HD content. It's all up to the market. If consumers capitulate on a massive scale, this could happen. If not, it won't and content providers will be forced to strip the HDCP DRM off of their content. Who's gonna blink first? I suspect this inititiative will go the way of the original Divx, time-limited DVD's. It'll just sink like a stone.
from the receptionist: http://members.arstechnica.com/x/mono/monkey.JPG
I totally concur. I had my wife try it to call her family in Japan. It was useless. I switched to broadvoice VOIP, for $25/month that includes umlimited US to Japan. Muuuuch better.
on any release since 1.0. So all the people that tried out the browser, default to the Firefox google search page on browser launch.
They sell office furniture. As for concern about spending a few hundred per employee, I'm not sure of your point. They spend quite a bit per employee, and teh Novell Linux SBS ain't free.
About 50 people, but the company grosses a few hundred million a year. We're moving to the new Novell Linux Small Business Suite next month. :) Although, I've already been using linux for mail, web and intranet stuff for about 5 years.
If you want to sell/buy WoW the CD is trivial, you don't need the key. What you're buying/selling is the account. Just get rid of your personal info, CC information etc, and give the new owner your username/password for your WoW account. The new owner just installs WoW and logs in with your credentials. Once he's in, he changes the account password, billing info, etc and the deal is over. Now I don't know if this is against the EULA, but does it really matter? The transfer works, its actually less hassle to edit the account ifo then go through the account creation process, and you're in the game as soon as the install/patching finishes. I can't imagine any repercussions, EULA allowable transfer or not.
http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/c5e2ce0f2841a64d8 a5f9e8b9b0c97bd/index.html/
Since the origiinal story must be hosted on a mac mini, its already down for the count...: http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/c5e2ce0f2841a64d8 a5f9e8b9b0c97bd/index.html
A good friend is married to a woman from Cuba. She can't go back to her country for several years as its only been a year since she essentially defected. Her family has no broadband, it sounds a bit tough to obtain,, and they are not technical. As opposed to standard Int'l rates (ie, my wife is Japanese and we can get 0.05/minute rates) Cuba costs about 85 cents/minute. Anyone have family, contacts in Cuba and know of a way to make cheap phone calls to the country?
has been available for pre-order for weeks.0 654ZK0/qid=1098030658/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-701367 5-2021468?v=glance&s=dvd/
;)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00
Not a very savvy group of LoTR geeks on Slashdot...
My wife, who is from Japan found that the use of "Nipponese" was quite bizarre and affected. At first blush, considering "Japan" in japanese is "Nippon", it seems more PC, but I can't imagine that was the inspiration for its use.
is going on 5 years old. The books investrigation into the history and utility of the various OS choices seems to have been inspired by your own search for a dependable word processor. Although it was widely reported that you reverted to pen (or quill) and paper for The Baroque Cycle, have your OS preferences and evaluations changed over the last 5 years? What OS do you personally find the most value in today?