China is actually siding with the US on these issues.
Whereas the odd men out are North & South Korea.
China & the US want deeper sanctions, South Korea and Japan are very tentative...both nations have seen the direct ravages of wars in recent memory and aren't going to be quick to adjucate against North Korea.
I buy games from regular stores or typical online e-tailers (best-buy etc).
Is Lik-Sang really vital to the distribution of games? Why has Sony sued them? Is there any validity to Sony's lawsuits?
It always hurts to see the little guy crushed, but was this a warranted lawsuit?
I'd allow it assuming the software was free. I can see comapnies marketing two distinct versions of their games, ones with spyware and one without. People will pay premiums for privacy. But at the same time, people won't pay to lose their privacy. I doubt the market will bear something like this. But that's just me being hopeful.
I'd wager the safest answer is: "We target the low hanging fruit (windows)."
The reality is (and has been for a LONG time) that games are made for Windows, eventually if they have too much money they'll port to Mac. Most linux people have figured out by now that no one ports games to linux because there is no money in it. Use Wine.
Competing with WoW would mean launching for a single, more common & cost-effective platform....umm like Windows.
Again, use Whine.
Wow, this guy really knows how to endear himself to the 20-35 year old techie demographic. One could easily say, and support the claim, that his last 3-4 movies emerged from a far smellier, darker place than his aforementioned 'rathole'.
No one ever answers these questions, they all focus on why your quandry is, in fact, wrong or mis-informed.
IRL, most people (even the folks here) would ask a couple probing questions and then just flat out say, "The reality is, software support is a cost-factor that gets steeper when you are forced to use 3rd party companies. There are market indicators that highlight why this is and most of them distill down to the fact that the people who didn't develop the suite have no choice but to charge higher fees because the staff will be less involved and often leveraged to support multiple different suites."
Whenever slashdot puts up a scientific article, regardless of how small the body of participants in the particular brand of science, the body of said participants multiplis to the Nth degree. Suddenly everyone has an advanced degree in ScienceX.
AM radio? You're well outside the scope of Zune's demographic.
If they HAM radio to this baby and they'd win the hearts and minds of the world though. *g*
The disconnect for e-book isn't LCD eye-strain. It's the tactile connection to a book. The ability to tote a book anywhere and curl up and read it: either under a tree or in front of a fireplace or at a friend's house...the actual weight of the book, the thickness of the pages....thats a book. Thats why people buy books. Not the lack of eye-strain.
So to win back the hearts & minds of potential users, Sony is donating our bandwidth & processor time to charity causes? Charity is only charitable until it's mandatory, then it's a tax.
We used one of his books in college. I'm pretty active on his blog. But I really expect him to become more and more irrate and bitter; at some point degenerating into a crazy cat-slinging kook.
Slashdot is a place where everyone who thinks within the same narrow space can converge and give one another resounding praise. All the while, moderating the minority (non Open Source fanatics) into oblivion.
Thats the simple way out for sure. It's semantics. Linux *IS* an open source initiative. Red Hat is (was depending on who you ask) Open Source. MS sees Open Source as a threat as does anyone who creates software on a for-profit model.
Why don't MS and Linux compete? Is this a specious suggestion that Red Hat Enterprise doesn't compete against MS (NT, Server 2003 et al)? Why do you flippantly excuse linux from OSS, is it not the heart of the OS Movement??
If the company named in the suit were Microsoft, I would wager your left labia you'd have given lots of weight to the suit and even gone so far as to claimed MS was an evil thieving corporation....
Under the widely used business model. The writer sells their services to their patron (the publisher) and the publisher sells it to the readers. Once the publisher buys the goods from the writer it is normally theirs. When you trade in your old car (either for cash or another car), do you reserve rights to drive it on weekends?
As a professional spammer and a comcast member, I feel I have the right to white-list whomever I want for whatever reason I want too. But I guess thats why I (and the author) aren't in charge of security at Comcast.
The basis of this book would have been way better if he woke up in a Yugo bound for the stars.
Come one, finding yourself on a starship naturally leads to the "bound for the stars" conclusion.
So subtract 14 or so downloads from the 200 million for the times I've gotten it. Most of us geeks have gone through countless re-installs of our OS. So 200 millionn is specious.
The point of having code review is to help mentor others who have either less experience or other core competencies outside of the project at-hand.
QA may be a nifty side-effect but if you have a QA team, then code review is hands-down a mentoring process.
Damn, good thing one of the wiki-sympathetic internet users watches the 'television' still. Not hard to correct something when it's televised. Sadly, most of the stuff isn't televised and there are hugely biased opinions riddling wikipedia.
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China is actually siding with the US on these issues.
Whereas the odd men out are North & South Korea.
China & the US want deeper sanctions, South Korea and Japan are very tentative...both nations have seen the direct ravages of wars in recent memory and aren't going to be quick to adjucate against North Korea.
How odd, a for-profit company is interested in getting money?!
Step One: Upload vote stealing or vote adding software.
What kind of HOWTO is this??!
I buy games from regular stores or typical online e-tailers (best-buy etc).
Is Lik-Sang really vital to the distribution of games? Why has Sony sued them? Is there any validity to Sony's lawsuits?
It always hurts to see the little guy crushed, but was this a warranted lawsuit?
I'd allow it assuming the software was free.
I can see comapnies marketing two distinct versions of their games, ones with spyware and one without.
People will pay premiums for privacy.
But at the same time, people won't pay to lose their privacy. I doubt the market will bear something like this. But that's just me being hopeful.
I'd wager the safest answer is: "We target the low hanging fruit (windows)."
The reality is (and has been for a LONG time) that games are made for Windows, eventually if they have too much money they'll port to Mac. Most linux people have figured out by now that no one ports games to linux because there is no money in it. Use Wine.
Competing with WoW would mean launching for a single, more common & cost-effective platform....umm like Windows.
Again, use Whine.
Unless you're in the business of developing proprietary systems, proprietary systems fail. Always.
Wow, this guy really knows how to endear himself to the 20-35 year old techie demographic.
One could easily say, and support the claim, that his last 3-4 movies emerged from a far smellier, darker place than his aforementioned 'rathole'.
No one ever answers these questions, they all focus on why your quandry is, in fact, wrong or mis-informed.
IRL, most people (even the folks here) would ask a couple probing questions and then just flat out say, "The reality is, software support is a cost-factor that gets steeper when you are forced to use 3rd party companies. There are market indicators that highlight why this is and most of them distill down to the fact that the people who didn't develop the suite have no choice but to charge higher fees because the staff will be less involved and often leveraged to support multiple different suites."
Debian (as an entity) tends to act like the Whitney Houston of distros.
Whenever slashdot puts up a scientific article, regardless of how small the body of participants in the particular brand of science, the body of said participants multiplis to the Nth degree.
Suddenly everyone has an advanced degree in ScienceX.
AM radio? You're well outside the scope of Zune's demographic.
If they HAM radio to this baby and they'd win the hearts and minds of the world though. *g*
The disconnect for e-book isn't LCD eye-strain. It's the tactile connection to a book.
The ability to tote a book anywhere and curl up and read it: either under a tree or in front of a fireplace or at a friend's house...the actual weight of the book, the thickness of the pages....thats a book. Thats why people buy books.
Not the lack of eye-strain.
So to win back the hearts & minds of potential users, Sony is donating our bandwidth & processor time to charity causes?
Charity is only charitable until it's mandatory, then it's a tax.
We used one of his books in college. I'm pretty active on his blog.
But I really expect him to become more and more irrate and bitter; at some point degenerating into a crazy cat-slinging kook.
Slashdot is a place where everyone who thinks within the same narrow space can converge and give one another resounding praise. All the while, moderating the minority (non Open Source fanatics) into oblivion.
Thats the simple way out for sure.
It's semantics. Linux *IS* an open source initiative.
Red Hat is (was depending on who you ask) Open Source.
MS sees Open Source as a threat as does anyone who creates software on a for-profit model.
Why don't MS and Linux compete? Is this a specious suggestion that Red Hat Enterprise doesn't compete against MS (NT, Server 2003 et al)?
Why do you flippantly excuse linux from OSS, is it not the heart of the OS Movement??
If the company named in the suit were Microsoft, I would wager your left labia you'd have given lots of weight to the suit and even gone so far as to claimed MS was an evil thieving corporation....
Under the widely used business model.
The writer sells their services to their patron (the publisher) and the publisher sells it to the readers. Once the publisher buys the goods from the writer it is normally theirs.
When you trade in your old car (either for cash or another car), do you reserve rights to drive it on weekends?
As a professional spammer and a comcast member, I feel I have the right to white-list whomever I want for whatever reason I want too. But I guess thats why I (and the author) aren't in charge of security at Comcast.
The basis of this book would have been way better if he woke up in a Yugo bound for the stars.
Come one, finding yourself on a starship naturally leads to the "bound for the stars" conclusion.
So subtract 14 or so downloads from the 200 million for the times I've gotten it.
Most of us geeks have gone through countless re-installs of our OS. So 200 millionn is specious.
The point of having code review is to help mentor others who have either less experience or other core competencies outside of the project at-hand.
QA may be a nifty side-effect but if you have a QA team, then code review is hands-down a mentoring process.
Damn, good thing one of the wiki-sympathetic internet users watches the 'television' still.
Not hard to correct something when it's televised. Sadly, most of the stuff isn't televised and there are hugely biased opinions riddling wikipedia.