Hah, you're right. I was replying to you but i either didn't read or misread your last paragraph. sorry about that, i was bagging you out for claiming something with no stats when you merely said you'd like to know the stats.
Just saying it's not a strawman doesn't make it true. Of the group of 40 people or so that i know the operating systems of, 39 run windows, 1 runs linux, 2 actually buy pretty much all of their software, the 1 linux guy and 1 windows guy. Those figures are of a ridiculously small and completely and utterly useless sample size, but i'm guessing it's probably bigger than yours.
My actual point is, don't claim shit that you have no idea is true or not.
Erm, I don't recall anyone ever saying slashdot was unbiased, if anything it's a whole bunch of people pointing out how biased everything/everyone is.
This may or may not be at the other end of the spectrum.
I've never understood this point of view, if you're so worried about what people are doing with your code why the fuck would you choose the apache (or similar) license anyway? either choose a different license or stop whining.
The monitors they had previously just charged a capacitor whilst running to power the switch back on thing. how they're gonna keep the memory charged is a question you'll prolly have to read the article for.
Oh my god, such insurmountable problems, maybe you could put a search on there, or a most popular button, there's only like 30 browsers in the world that are actually being used.
Even if IE had 10% market share, microsoft are still abusing their windows monopoly to push their browser and other apps, i dont' see how the amount of success they have with that abuse is even relevant.
You would build in a friendly little app that downloads a list of available browsers and their logos from, say, windows update or something, then when you click on one it ftps it down to your computer and runs the installer. Pretty obvious really.
Just because it's an algorithm doesn't mean it's not going to be able to produce something interesting, it's all about input variables. a guitar is just a mess of physics jammed together, but that doesn't stop it making some good tunes with the right guitarist.
i agree with this, ubiquitous games are more important than big names, counterstrike will allow many people to move without changing their habits, bioshock will simply allow 15 people to not be annoyed at having to reboot to windows for a month.
There is pretty much zero evidence that if recent games were available for linux it would speed adoption, even though for me personally the thing that let me switch was getting wow to run under wine (along with an unexplainable crappy ping in vista).
What has actually been observed to increase adoption (citation needed) is fancy crap like wobbly windows and spinning cube desktops.
Maybe collectively the companies could make a "content light" face booking, im-ing spinning flashing version of linux and attempt to lock up the teen market, i think you might find that would be of more interest to more people than the marginally smaller "hardcore pc gaming" crowd.
In order for it to be antitrust, google would have to have a monopoly or near monopoly in the field it was leveraging to give advantage in the other. Last i checked google isn't even close to a monopoly even in the one field it dominates, search.
DRM does not stop zero day warez. Spore, for example, has some of the most insane drm in existence on it and was pirated several days before it was released. So, how does drm in this situation do anything useful against piracy at all? Steam adds value, that's why it is better. i don't really care to crack steam games, usually because it's just flat out easier (and often cheaper vs a bricks and mortar store for us australians) to buy from steam than it is to dl a cracked copy. That's the reason it's not being character assassinated, it makes it trivially more difficult to pirate games and stays the fuck out of the way.
If you think hackers aren't going to go after a vulnerability in ff just because it's only got a 20% install base (it hit 20% earlier this year) you're on crack. 20% of all computers on the internets would be a world destroying bot net, worth millions in the right hands.
i've got all that going with a default install of ubuntu 64, (using the version of wine included in ubuntu repo, it seems to be more stable, at least for ubuntu) you need to do the following:
open a console and go "killall pulseaudio[enter]" then "aoss[enter]". You may have to do a sudo aptitude install alsa-aoss before the second command there will work.
start wow then go into the sound options. tick the box that makes sound stay on when wow is in the background. go into the video options and set wow to windowed mode and fullscreen window (ie it makes a window big enough to appear fullscreen)
Now all your problems are fixed and you can use push to talk with vent! (probably)
I think you missed my point, for sufficiently small projects, the fact that it is there *makes* it the right tool for the job, the difference between "works" and "works best" is not worth the time to achieve.
I'd say that most of it's users don't *need* to spend time tweaking and working around limitations, far and away the most common use of it would be (my guess) small websites, for which it is ridiculously simple to maintain. In these cases not having to spend time on a cost benefit analysis could probably be considered a feature of mysql.
dunno, i played the demo on wine then decided to hold off till the linux version was done, they should *always* (if they are going to make a cross platform version) make it easy to say "yes, i'm buying it but i'm playing it on linux in wine, so when's that platform's version coming out, you bastards", that way everyone would be happy, i could play it now and they would know i'm a whiney linux geek (and have my cash). win/win
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Hah, you're right. I was replying to you but i either didn't read or misread your last paragraph. sorry about that, i was bagging you out for claiming something with no stats when you merely said you'd like to know the stats.
Just saying it's not a strawman doesn't make it true. Of the group of 40 people or so that i know the operating systems of, 39 run windows, 1 runs linux, 2 actually buy pretty much all of their software, the 1 linux guy and 1 windows guy. Those figures are of a ridiculously small and completely and utterly useless sample size, but i'm guessing it's probably bigger than yours.
My actual point is, don't claim shit that you have no idea is true or not.
Erm, I don't recall anyone ever saying slashdot was unbiased, if anything it's a whole bunch of people pointing out how biased everything/everyone is. This may or may not be at the other end of the spectrum.
I've never understood this point of view, if you're so worried about what people are doing with your code why the fuck would you choose the apache (or similar) license anyway? either choose a different license or stop whining.
The monitors they had previously just charged a capacitor whilst running to power the switch back on thing. how they're gonna keep the memory charged is a question you'll prolly have to read the article for.
it'd be Maisficker
Oh my god, such insurmountable problems, maybe you could put a search on there, or a most popular button, there's only like 30 browsers in the world that are actually being used.
Even if IE had 10% market share, microsoft are still abusing their windows monopoly to push their browser and other apps, i dont' see how the amount of success they have with that abuse is even relevant.
Windows is the monopoly, ie's market share is the result of the leveraging of that monopoly, not vice versa.
Windows Update uses ie to help with ms's argument that it's a vital part of windows.
You would build in a friendly little app that downloads a list of available browsers and their logos from, say, windows update or something, then when you click on one it ftps it down to your computer and runs the installer. Pretty obvious really.
Just because it's an algorithm doesn't mean it's not going to be able to produce something interesting, it's all about input variables. a guitar is just a mess of physics jammed together, but that doesn't stop it making some good tunes with the right guitarist.
i agree with this, ubiquitous games are more important than big names, counterstrike will allow many people to move without changing their habits, bioshock will simply allow 15 people to not be annoyed at having to reboot to windows for a month.
There is pretty much zero evidence that if recent games were available for linux it would speed adoption, even though for me personally the thing that let me switch was getting wow to run under wine (along with an unexplainable crappy ping in vista).
What has actually been observed to increase adoption (citation needed) is fancy crap like wobbly windows and spinning cube desktops.
Maybe collectively the companies could make a "content light" face booking, im-ing spinning flashing version of linux and attempt to lock up the teen market, i think you might find that would be of more interest to more people than the marginally smaller "hardcore pc gaming" crowd.
Personally i don't really care.
In order for it to be antitrust, google would have to have a monopoly or near monopoly in the field it was leveraging to give advantage in the other. Last i checked google isn't even close to a monopoly even in the one field it dominates, search.
I think he idea is it's sarcastic, ie by saying "I could care less" there is an implied "but it's impossible" on the end
no shit, my point was 20% is a lot, not that it was somehow magically more than 80%.
DRM does not stop zero day warez. Spore, for example, has some of the most insane drm in existence on it and was pirated several days before it was released. So, how does drm in this situation do anything useful against piracy at all? Steam adds value, that's why it is better. i don't really care to crack steam games, usually because it's just flat out easier (and often cheaper vs a bricks and mortar store for us australians) to buy from steam than it is to dl a cracked copy. That's the reason it's not being character assassinated, it makes it trivially more difficult to pirate games and stays the fuck out of the way.
If you think hackers aren't going to go after a vulnerability in ff just because it's only got a 20% install base (it hit 20% earlier this year) you're on crack. 20% of all computers on the internets would be a world destroying bot net, worth millions in the right hands.
It's not a problem with linux and it has nothing to do with windows "ease of use", running any program on an OS it's not designed for is *hard*.
i've got all that going with a default install of ubuntu 64, (using the version of wine included in ubuntu repo, it seems to be more stable, at least for ubuntu) you need to do the following: open a console and go "killall pulseaudio[enter]" then "aoss[enter]". You may have to do a sudo aptitude install alsa-aoss before the second command there will work.
start wow then go into the sound options. tick the box that makes sound stay on when wow is in the background. go into the video options and set wow to windowed mode and fullscreen window (ie it makes a window big enough to appear fullscreen)
Now all your problems are fixed and you can use push to talk with vent! (probably)
I think you missed my point, for sufficiently small projects, the fact that it is there *makes* it the right tool for the job, the difference between "works" and "works best" is not worth the time to achieve.
I'd say that most of it's users don't *need* to spend time tweaking and working around limitations, far and away the most common use of it would be (my guess) small websites, for which it is ridiculously simple to maintain. In these cases not having to spend time on a cost benefit analysis could probably be considered a feature of mysql.
dunno, i played the demo on wine then decided to hold off till the linux version was done, they should *always* (if they are going to make a cross platform version) make it easy to say "yes, i'm buying it but i'm playing it on linux in wine, so when's that platform's version coming out, you bastards", that way everyone would be happy, i could play it now and they would know i'm a whiney linux geek (and have my cash). win/win