"If there was a company that made a "professional, commercial" Linux-type OS that could run all Windows programs natively..."
"Where would you like your 5 copies of Mac OS X sent?"
You've got to be kidding. This is insightful? Mac OSX is not Linux-like OR able to run Windows app NATIVELY.
Sure. I've seen MS give away licenses in developing countries where piracy was rampant and Linux was gaining ground. I've even seen them kill the OSS movement using this tactic.
Well, practically every shopping center here in the RoK has stands to sign up for Xpeed and their 100Mb/s (down) service. It's about US$35 a month. This applies even to small-town Korea, where I live.
I use about 100GB per month and no one has ever complained about my bandwidth usage.
The orgs only require that patents be made available for fair and reasonable rates, and the FTC ruled that the rates Rambus wanted to charge were F&R in 2006.
Hopefully, everyone else agrees that it's shit, but I don't think that'll happen. OOXML will pass, MS OFfice will use its own, non-standard version of OOXML, governments will claim they are in compliance with laws requiring open standards, and the rest of us will be in the same boat we've been in for fifteen years. It's all quite sick.
I've never bought one, so I'm not sure I'll count on the boycott roster. I hadn't heard anything from anyone in a few years, so I assumed that WoW got people over their anger at Blizzard, as twisted as that would be.
Solve it by making death permanent unless someone either has the power or pays to have you resurrected. While you're dead, people can pick over your body for whatever they find on it. Griefers won't live long and won't have enough friends to help them unless they form a griefer guild. Then another guild will likely kill the griefers just for fun.
The problem is NOT that the rules are too loose, it's that we've lost the concept of permanent death that RPGs should have. When death doesn't have any real downsides, people do stupid shit all the time and get away with it.
Do you remember how carefully you had to tread as a 1st level dwarf fighter in DnD?
"For once?" "For once?" You've got to be kidding. Blizzard litigates all the time. They successfully used the DMCA to stop bnetd, a reverse engineering of the protocol. This was the first real test of the DMCA in court on many of the provisions and gave the law so many real teeth that it became the terror it is today. There was even a huge boycott of Blizzard for a short while.
I may have a shorter fuse than you since I've been reading KDE vs. Gnome flamewars since Gnome first appeared. At least all the "KDE's not really free (even when GPL'd)" trolls have died down.
Enough of the articles spin out of control into Gnone vs. KDE or Ubuntu vs. Kubuntu that we don't need a special article for it.
OK. Now that I've read that entire article, I want to ammend my statement. The next Roblimo contribution doesn't need to be Vi vs. Emacs: he's already covered Kate vs. Gedit and Thunderbird vs. KMail. He even went so far as to drop into why he prefers Linux over Macs and Windows machines. Talk about trying to get 5 flamewars going at once....
Some people prefer one thing over another. This whole article should be marked as flamebait. Roblimo's next accomplishment will be to describe how he has tried Emacs but always goes back to Vi. Rob, do you just like to stir up trouble? Meh.
These days a lot of the money from games comes from places other than boxed sales. There's add-on content and online play. If you charge $5 a month to play the game, who really cares if the player pirated it or not?
Finally someone remembers things the way I do. I was in the U.S. military at that time. MS Office had a market share, but wasn't dominant. Then the U.S. military stardardized on MS Office and everyone who wanted to do business with them had to use it. I've said it before once already today.
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Not trying to flame here, but Pidgin/GAIM is not a Gnome app, so the question you asked can't really be answered. In fact, Empathy (based on the Telepathy framework) was set to be the default chat client for 2.22, but it didn't make the final cut. It's still slated for 2.24. When that happens, we'll have well-integrated text, voice, and video chat. Yipee!!
This is going to be one of those really unpopular posts where I get modded to hell, so I'll just say what I need to and get out.
Maybe ten years ago, I read On Killing, written by a psych professor at Westpoint, the U.S. Army Academy. The book was not about video games: it was a study of how the U.S. Army had successfully changed its effective fire ratio from 10% in WWII to over 90% in the Vietnam war, and how those 80% who got psychologically "tricked" into killing people they weren't prepared to kill were the ones who got extremely ill after the war. These people were trained to easily go past the non-violence barrier that most people have.
There is, however, a short chapter near the end of the book where he warns that the elements FPS games are functionally equivalent to the training methods the Army used,teaching players to go across that barrier, too.
Whether you agree or disagree, he still knew a lot about war and psychology.
Automatic Crash Recovery (ACR) is a feature of Windows®Internet Explorer® 8 that can help to prevent the loss of work and productivity in the unlikely event of the browser crashing or hanging.
This reminds me too much of "In the unlikely case of a water landing..."
And what's up with Activities? Users typically copy and paste from one webpage to another. Internet Explorer 8 Activities make this common pattern easier to do.
I actually rarely do anything like that unless I'm composing a post like this, but usually I'm quoting from the parent (on the same page) not from another page. Besides, what's hard about copy/paste?
Anyway, Epiphany allows me to "look up" selected text with a right click and Smart Bookmarks. I can share the web page via CTRL-L and other javascript bookmarks. Doesn't strike me as a big feature.
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"If there was a company that made a "professional, commercial" Linux-type OS that could run all Windows programs natively..."
"Where would you like your 5 copies of Mac OS X sent?"
You've got to be kidding. This is insightful? Mac OSX is not Linux-like OR able to run Windows app NATIVELY.
Someone with mod points correct this, please.
Sure. I've seen MS give away licenses in developing countries where piracy was rampant and Linux was gaining ground. I've even seen them kill the OSS movement using this tactic.
Well, practically every shopping center here in the RoK has stands to sign up for Xpeed and their 100Mb/s (down) service. It's about US$35 a month. This applies even to small-town Korea, where I live.
I use about 100GB per month and no one has ever complained about my bandwidth usage.
The orgs only require that patents be made available for fair and reasonable rates, and the FTC ruled that the rates Rambus wanted to charge were F&R in 2006.
It's been predetermined for a while now. Once they won that portion, it was all over.
Oh, they got there already.
Oddly enough, I can play movies on a PIII 500 MHz laptop with 128MB RAM, streamed across the network.
Hopefully, everyone else agrees that it's shit, but I don't think that'll happen. OOXML will pass, MS OFfice will use its own, non-standard version of OOXML, governments will claim they are in compliance with laws requiring open standards, and the rest of us will be in the same boat we've been in for fifteen years. It's all quite sick.
I've never bought one, so I'm not sure I'll count on the boycott roster. I hadn't heard anything from anyone in a few years, so I assumed that WoW got people over their anger at Blizzard, as twisted as that would be.
Solve it by making death permanent unless someone either has the power or pays to have you resurrected. While you're dead, people can pick over your body for whatever they find on it. Griefers won't live long and won't have enough friends to help them unless they form a griefer guild. Then another guild will likely kill the griefers just for fun.
The problem is NOT that the rules are too loose, it's that we've lost the concept of permanent death that RPGs should have. When death doesn't have any real downsides, people do stupid shit all the time and get away with it. Do you remember how carefully you had to tread as a 1st level dwarf fighter in DnD?
"For once?" "For once?" You've got to be kidding. Blizzard litigates all the time. They successfully used the DMCA to stop bnetd, a reverse engineering of the protocol. This was the first real test of the DMCA in court on many of the provisions and gave the law so many real teeth that it became the terror it is today. There was even a huge boycott of Blizzard for a short while.
Sheez! Young'uns.
Why? You just made my brain bleed!
Well Bob,
I may have a shorter fuse than you since I've been reading KDE vs. Gnome flamewars since Gnome first appeared. At least all the "KDE's not really free (even when GPL'd)" trolls have died down.
Enough of the articles spin out of control into Gnone vs. KDE or Ubuntu vs. Kubuntu that we don't need a special article for it.
OK. Now that I've read that entire article, I want to ammend my statement. The next Roblimo contribution doesn't need to be Vi vs. Emacs: he's already covered Kate vs. Gedit and Thunderbird vs. KMail. He even went so far as to drop into why he prefers Linux over Macs and Windows machines. Talk about trying to get 5 flamewars going at once ....
Some people prefer one thing over another. This whole article should be marked as flamebait. Roblimo's next accomplishment will be to describe how he has tried Emacs but always goes back to Vi. Rob, do you just like to stir up trouble? Meh.
These days a lot of the money from games comes from places other than boxed sales. There's add-on content and online play. If you charge $5 a month to play the game, who really cares if the player pirated it or not?
Not shouldn't of
Shouldn't have
Shouldn't have
Shouldn't have
Remember it, please.
Mod me down. I don't care.
Thank you
Finally someone remembers things the way I do. I was in the U.S. military at that time. MS Office had a market share, but wasn't dominant. Then the U.S. military stardardized on MS Office and everyone who wanted to do business with them had to use it. I've said it before once already today.
Not trying to flame here, but Pidgin/GAIM is not a Gnome app, so the question you asked can't really be answered. In fact, Empathy (based on the Telepathy framework) was set to be the default chat client for 2.22, but it didn't make the final cut. It's still slated for 2.24. When that happens, we'll have well-integrated text, voice, and video chat. Yipee!!
I source stuff and it still gets rolled back. Stopped doing it, too.
This is going to be one of those really unpopular posts where I get modded to hell, so I'll just say what I need to and get out.
Maybe ten years ago, I read On Killing, written by a psych professor at Westpoint, the U.S. Army Academy. The book was not about video games: it was a study of how the U.S. Army had successfully changed its effective fire ratio from 10% in WWII to over 90% in the Vietnam war, and how those 80% who got psychologically "tricked" into killing people they weren't prepared to kill were the ones who got extremely ill after the war. These people were trained to easily go past the non-violence barrier that most people have.
There is, however, a short chapter near the end of the book where he warns that the elements FPS games are functionally equivalent to the training methods the Army used,teaching players to go across that barrier, too.
Whether you agree or disagree, he still knew a lot about war and psychology.
Disliking a musical genre cannot be racist unless you equate musical genres to race, which is a racist concept.
Plan 10 ... Yeah, cause Plan 9 from SCO would certainly suck much more than the real deal.
We've determined that:
- They never ponied up the code that supposedly infringed, strongly suggesting that it doesn't exist.
- They didn't even have the right to the copyrights of the Unix code they claimed Linux infringed upon.
- They (probably fraudulently) collected license money for "protection" against the non-existent claims in #1 on the inelligible code in #2.
- They did it all while making themselves rich and the stockholders poor through pump-and-dump.
Shouldn't people like this be in jail?Automatic Crash Recovery (ACR) is a feature of Windows®Internet Explorer® 8 that can help to prevent the loss of work and productivity in the unlikely event of the browser crashing or hanging.
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This reminds me too much of "In the unlikely case of a water landing
And what's up with Activities?
Users typically copy and paste from one webpage to another. Internet Explorer 8 Activities make this common pattern easier to do.
I actually rarely do anything like that unless I'm composing a post like this, but usually I'm quoting from the parent (on the same page) not from another page. Besides, what's hard about copy/paste?
Anyway, Epiphany allows me to "look up" selected text with a right click and Smart Bookmarks. I can share the web page via CTRL-L and other javascript bookmarks. Doesn't strike me as a big feature.