i don't think so, personally i think with the removal of the more blatant commercialism from music you'd probly get more people listening to bands than singles, but it's a dice roll.
Piracy isn't a good thing, but let's face it, these bands of which you speak are never going to make any money. the *only* people who make money out of cds are the super famous and the record companies.
The CSIRO are under a lot of pressure to generate their own revenue and become more self funded and i don't really see how it's immoral to generate revenue from more than one stream just because some of your cash-flow comes from the taxpayer. Also it's probably worth bringing up that this is Australian tax money, and none of these corporations have paid any tax that might make them eligible for the idea that they've already paid in some way for the right to use it.
Obvious troll is obvious. This question is just as valid for windows as fat32 is ubiquitous but has serious limitations, ntfs seems buggy ( i could never get it to unmount properly in xp ) but supports larger files. Linux supports both these filesystems (better than windows in my experience)
Every distro doesn't need to look the same, but having the same fucking sound subsytem wouldn't hurt anyone.
Allowing more companies to quickly throw out a linux version of their software in the most expedient manner allowable would not be a bad thing at all, yes it would mean more shovelware, but more support is still good at this stage.
Also most of your arguments ignore other factors.
I think standardisation is good, but so is open source, so i run linux... how am i in a state of cognitive dissonance?
I'd say that a massive bump in connectivity will greatly increase local content, but it won't overtake non-local content. If you have a high likelyhood of your customers having a 100 megabit connection i'm sure there's a lot of new services you can offer.
Just buy whatever system you want without feeling the need to justify it. Even if macs are more expensive (which they may or may not be) if you can afford it who gives a shit?
I think there's a lot of people who reboot to play games in xp or something, vms are a bit crappy for that ( i have xp in a vm on my ubuntu box, i think i've only ever started it once, but i prolly boot into windows for a few hours every month to play some game demos )
They had a mediocre service so i'm not too worried. type in something you like and you get a bunch of bands that sound kinda like them but suck, every 15 min or so you'd get a good one, but it wasn't worth the effort. Not really something i want to pay for.
theoretically you should be able to make a smart phone *easier* to navigate, since the buttons can be context sensitive. Not that i have ever seen any evidence of this ofc.
http://www.ieaddons.com/en/ probably has most of that functionality, probably mostly using activex but i don't really why you wouldn't want to use activex for making ie addons.
It's a poorly phrased sentence either way, i don't think anyone in the world would go "oh there's an apostrophe there, they must mean one or the other", they'd just guess.
It's not controlled by MS so it would be completely against what they are trying to do with the internet. They want everything to be server based or heavily server dependent, if they use a renderer that might start using canvas tags or something that might push the client side forward in any serious way it might start actually cutting in to their market.
I've never had any problems whatsoever installing.deb files that didn't come out of the ubuntu repository, usually just for wine tho, but a few other apps as well. Try this: GetDeg.
When i was learning linux ( couple of years ago now ) i found installing programs the hardest part by a long shot. I couldn't find any programs to do what i wanted to do, and even if i found one on google it was still annoying to jump from the website into synaptic and actually find the program (hopefully) to install. Now i know what programs i want so it's heaps easier, but i think some kind of tagging and popularity ratings from within synaptic (like firefox has for extensions) would kick ass.
I've played hl2 solo and tf2 online via wine. hl2 was a bit choppy but playable (still had the ridiculous sound stuttering i got on windows though... GRRR) and tf2 connected etc but was pretty much unplayably slow.
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i don't think so, personally i think with the removal of the more blatant commercialism from music you'd probly get more people listening to bands than singles, but it's a dice roll.
Piracy isn't a good thing, but let's face it, these bands of which you speak are never going to make any money. the *only* people who make money out of cds are the super famous and the record companies.
The CSIRO are under a lot of pressure to generate their own revenue and become more self funded and i don't really see how it's immoral to generate revenue from more than one stream just because some of your cash-flow comes from the taxpayer. Also it's probably worth bringing up that this is Australian tax money, and none of these corporations have paid any tax that might make them eligible for the idea that they've already paid in some way for the right to use it.
Obvious troll is obvious. This question is just as valid for windows as fat32 is ubiquitous but has serious limitations, ntfs seems buggy ( i could never get it to unmount properly in xp ) but supports larger files. Linux supports both these filesystems (better than windows in my experience)
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i play about 8 hours a week and we're about half way through ulduar 25
Every distro doesn't need to look the same, but having the same fucking sound subsytem wouldn't hurt anyone. Allowing more companies to quickly throw out a linux version of their software in the most expedient manner allowable would not be a bad thing at all, yes it would mean more shovelware, but more support is still good at this stage. Also most of your arguments ignore other factors. I think standardisation is good, but so is open source, so i run linux... how am i in a state of cognitive dissonance?
I'd say that a massive bump in connectivity will greatly increase local content, but it won't overtake non-local content. If you have a high likelyhood of your customers having a 100 megabit connection i'm sure there's a lot of new services you can offer.
It looks like it exclusively applies to 802.11n
Just buy whatever system you want without feeling the need to justify it. Even if macs are more expensive (which they may or may not be) if you can afford it who gives a shit?
What the Linux community still doesn't understand is that it's all about the apps.
I'm pretty sure they may have considered that at some point or else wine would probably not exists.
I think there's a lot of people who reboot to play games in xp or something, vms are a bit crappy for that ( i have xp in a vm on my ubuntu box, i think i've only ever started it once, but i prolly boot into windows for a few hours every month to play some game demos )
They had a mediocre service so i'm not too worried. type in something you like and you get a bunch of bands that sound kinda like them but suck, every 15 min or so you'd get a good one, but it wasn't worth the effort. Not really something i want to pay for.
Does that actually count as coffee? If so, then it shouldn't.
theoretically you should be able to make a smart phone *easier* to navigate, since the buttons can be context sensitive. Not that i have ever seen any evidence of this ofc.
Heh, so a foolproof plan would be to lie on your resume and then not work at any of the places that hire you!
http://www.ieaddons.com/en/ probably has most of that functionality, probably mostly using activex but i don't really why you wouldn't want to use activex for making ie addons.
It's a poorly phrased sentence either way, i don't think anyone in the world would go "oh there's an apostrophe there, they must mean one or the other", they'd just guess.
You can override that, but you're right, a lot of their "absolutely cross browser compatible code" isn't
It's not controlled by MS so it would be completely against what they are trying to do with the internet. They want everything to be server based or heavily server dependent, if they use a renderer that might start using canvas tags or something that might push the client side forward in any serious way it might start actually cutting in to their market.
I've never had any problems whatsoever installing .deb files that didn't come out of the ubuntu repository, usually just for wine tho, but a few other apps as well. Try this: GetDeg.
When i was learning linux ( couple of years ago now ) i found installing programs the hardest part by a long shot. I couldn't find any programs to do what i wanted to do, and even if i found one on google it was still annoying to jump from the website into synaptic and actually find the program (hopefully) to install. Now i know what programs i want so it's heaps easier, but i think some kind of tagging and popularity ratings from within synaptic (like firefox has for extensions) would kick ass.
Just because it's just as crappy in windows doesn't mean it's good enough for linux.
Unless they distribute it from a country without software patents.
I've played hl2 solo and tf2 online via wine. hl2 was a bit choppy but playable (still had the ridiculous sound stuttering i got on windows though... GRRR) and tf2 connected etc but was pretty much unplayably slow.