People will be missing their music if not the service. From TFA:
Weâ(TM)re told that music that has not passed its âoerenew dateâ still works, but that music that has expired will no longer work because the DRM licensing server has apparently shut down. Oops. Another hard lesson in why not to trust DRMed media.
ALSA has been the sound system of choice for probably ten years. I'm going from memory here so I may be a little off. The first thing you did on an old RH6 desktop was get ALSA in there.
Games don't have any problem when they're
statically compiled, or
include their own libs.
The only games that don't do that are FOSS where it's expected that they can be updated and packaged. If you're extremely unlucky, you may need to find libc5.
The fact that you think LinuxHater is anything but a troll shows that you don't know much about Linux. He sounds like he knows something, but he really only says anything interesting once in ten posts. The rest of the time he's trolling for page hits.
All of the "switch from Windows" distros should get in on this. Until game devs get on board, they can take the "PlayonLinux" model and pin games against the Wine version that they work on.
Getting your Windows-only software to work with Mac is much harder, but people seem to have no problem there. Why is that?
PulseAudio is a mess right now and the Linux desktop is in the worst shape it has been for years because of it. Fedora claims that's all under control now, though, so some relief may be in view.
I could handle a smartphone dock, especially if it contained a "co-processor" or something similar and used some kind of standard interface. I hope that's the way things move in the future.
I don't understand why the Linux people who switched to OS X were ever using Linux on the desktop in the first place. The two platforms are philosophical opposites. It's like trading in anarchism for socialism.
The Windows desktop is twenty-five years old. OS X (via NeXT) is over twenty years old. The first versions of Gnome and KDE are barely over ten. Does Linux Lag Windows? If So, Why?
The U.S. constitution talks specifically about copyrights and patents, though, and the copyright of software is screwed up. Copyright as it exists in other media allows customers to continue to use that material once it goes out of copyright, and additionally to make derivative works.
Copyrighted software should be required to publish the source code so that the software can still be used and modified. For some reason, that isn't required. Software gets to use the triple threat of trade secrets (source code), copyright (binary), and patents (algorithms), all without giving up any rights at all. That's completely screwed up.
Ahem. Second WoW Expansion Launched, Conquered We also go the play-by-play when Lich King went live and people were seeing the content. We got notified when Burning Crusade went live.
This is the Slashdot Games section. The people who play these games care. I don't play them. I don't care. That doesn't mean the news isn't interesting to a lot of nerds.
Have you ever been on the prophylactics? They cause severe stomach distress. It'd like avoiding STDs by using Icee Heet on your dick every day. No one can do it all the time.
The fact that he feels the need to point out that the rich are not immune is exactly what I am talking about. Everyone knows that. The rich do, too. He's just being condescending.
Some may argue the only reason he gives to charity is as a tax dodge, but if that's really true why does he do things like this? If it were a mere tax dodge, then there's no reason he'd need to waste his time.
It's the robber baron principle. As they get older, they need to assuage the guilt they feel for having skirted / broken the law in order to become one of the ultra-wealthy.
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People will be missing their music if not the service. From TFA:
Weâ(TM)re told that music that has not passed its âoerenew dateâ still works, but that music that has expired will no longer work because the DRM licensing server has apparently shut down.
Oops. Another hard lesson in why not to trust DRMed media.
TT-taggers are tools. Don't TT tag!
ALSA has been the sound system of choice for probably ten years. I'm going from memory here so I may be a little off. The first thing you did on an old RH6 desktop was get ALSA in there.
Games don't have any problem when they're
The only games that don't do that are FOSS where it's expected that they can be updated and packaged. If you're extremely unlucky, you may need to find libc5.
The fact that you think LinuxHater is anything but a troll shows that you don't know much about Linux. He sounds like he knows something, but he really only says anything interesting once in ten posts. The rest of the time he's trolling for page hits.
Or they could license it in such a way that it could be packaged by the distros.
All of the "switch from Windows" distros should get in on this. Until game devs get on board, they can take the "PlayonLinux" model and pin games against the Wine version that they work on.
Try Vendetta Online. It's got a native Linux client and it doesn't take six weeks to learn to control the ship.
Short answer? VIA bought Cyrix and the C3 line-up.
It's in your e-mail, where MS sent it, and it'll expire in a few months.
I wouldn't mind picking up a machine at a garage sale with those specs for $50, but I'm not about to buy a new machine with those specs.
Come on. The Memory's $8 and the SSd is $10, and there's the Atom processor and display to count. That's much more than $50.
Strangely, I've never had this problem. CTRL-C and CTRL-V or select and middle-click.
The Gnome 2 move was inspired from Sun's usability study on Gnome 1. The HIG gives quite a few references: http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/id2671625.html.en and there are others: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1146301 who agree.
IE for Linux and MS Office for Linux. You're welcome.
Getting your Windows-only software to work with Mac is much harder, but people seem to have no problem there. Why is that?
PulseAudio is a mess right now and the Linux desktop is in the worst shape it has been for years because of it. Fedora claims that's all under control now, though, so some relief may be in view.
I could handle a smartphone dock, especially if it contained a "co-processor" or something similar and used some kind of standard interface. I hope that's the way things move in the future.
I don't understand why the Linux people who switched to OS X were ever using Linux on the desktop in the first place. The two platforms are philosophical opposites. It's like trading in anarchism for socialism.
The Windows desktop is twenty-five years old. OS X (via NeXT) is over twenty years old. The first versions of Gnome and KDE are barely over ten. Does Linux Lag Windows? If So, Why?
The U.S. constitution talks specifically about copyrights and patents, though, and the copyright of software is screwed up. Copyright as it exists in other media allows customers to continue to use that material once it goes out of copyright, and additionally to make derivative works.
Copyrighted software should be required to publish the source code so that the software can still be used and modified. For some reason, that isn't required. Software gets to use the triple threat of trade secrets (source code), copyright (binary), and patents (algorithms), all without giving up any rights at all. That's completely screwed up.
Thank you.
Linux desktop user since 1997
Ahem. Second WoW Expansion Launched, Conquered We also go the play-by-play when Lich King went live and people were seeing the content. We got notified when Burning Crusade went live.
This is the Slashdot Games section. The people who play these games care. I don't play them. I don't care. That doesn't mean the news isn't interesting to a lot of nerds.
Thanks for the info. I'll look into it.
Actually, I read another article about it five hours before the Slashdot article was posted. I even posted the first one to Facebook after reading it.
Have you ever been on the prophylactics? They cause severe stomach distress. It'd like avoiding STDs by using Icee Heet on your dick every day. No one can do it all the time.
The fact that he feels the need to point out that the rich are not immune is exactly what I am talking about. Everyone knows that. The rich do, too. He's just being condescending.
Since the linked article (yes, I read it) has a picture of Gates with the jar open, you should not be modded "informative."
Some may argue the only reason he gives to charity is as a tax dodge, but if that's really true why does he do things like this? If it were a mere tax dodge, then there's no reason he'd need to waste his time.
It's the robber baron principle. As they get older, they need to assuage the guilt they feel for having skirted / broken the law in order to become one of the ultra-wealthy.
See Rockefeller and Carnegie for context.