If I paid a few million dollars I am sure I could get any game I want ported. Failing that if I could get enough buyers together we could do that same thing.
150 million from HTC so far, 30 million we know of in Win 7 phone sales. Who cares if they make more from Office, they are making more from android than Win Phone 7.
They are keeping their old markets and their new innovation seems to be making protection money.
Then just give me a tar.gz. The humblie indie bundle folks managed that. The reality most linux users will be so happy to be able to buy your game they won't bother you with emails but will fix their problems themselves.
There is no package your app and be done with it on any desktop OS. Windows has no package management at all, and OSX only has it if you want to pay Steve Jobs 30%.
And that's exactly what most software makers choose, simply not even porting it in the first place.
Fine by me, most software like most of everything sucks.
Do you disagree? How is something that is not rare worth much? I would be happy to pay for its development cost, but beyond that there is no point. I can make copies as easily as the folks that wrote it.
Games I make an exception for as those are entertainment not tools I need.
As taxes go up? Our taxes are very low, much lower than when the US was the undisputed leader of the software world. Compared to the EU our taxes are still very low. High taxes in the USA is a red herring, businesses move out to exploit slave-wage labor.
No it is not. Generally what they need can be made from COTS units. Sure you might need to modify that stuff a bit, but that is what a toughbook is a modified laptop. The military does not have computer needs that could not be met by modified COTS units.
Yes it is, why do you think I don't own any games that don't play on wine? What games I buy is 100% up to me. I will own Portal 2 as soon as it is supported by Wine or the Codeweavers commercial product without any cracks.
Everything is up to the buyer. If buyers did not buy games with DRM, they would not exist.
I don't want that. I am the buyer. If you want me to click on stuff put the deb on a website with such a click through. Have the key entered into the program on first launch, not during installation. That breaks automated installation.
Second is the difficulty of installing/distributing binary software. Linux was built for distributing applications by source, and has a lot of good tools for doing so, and as an open-source advocate I like that, but a lot of companies don't want to distribute source, and there isn't really a good way to distribute binaries.
Deb and rpm handle this problem completely. Package your app and be done with it. If you can't even be bothered to do that you never would have ported you app to begin with.
That depends on the software we are talking about. For a desktop environment I totally agree, I would not pay for one and it must be FREE software. For video games, not at all. I buy games on steam and play them in Wine all the time.
The reality is software for the most part is not worth much of anything, it has no scarcity and most commercial devs deadend it all the time to boost their profits. No wonder at least some people oppose that sort of thing.
You do realize that android apps run in dalvik right? So there is always a virtual machine. I fail to see how that is any different than running it on the virtual machine running on the phone.
I agree universal healthcare would be a far better solution. I think even such a system would allow student to train on simple cases and volunteers. Sadly, the US population and other places as well, does not believe the economically disadvantaged have enough value to pay for such a thing out of taxes. Often the folks most vocal about this will cry about the value of human life when limiting another persons rights, but never when it might cost them a penny to provide medical care to that same person.
I was not deriding it. Only pointing out that it is how many people of low income, AKA the poor, get dental work.
I have many friends and family that had work done that way. I probably should have, but instead neglected my teeth until after college. Luckily the problems were fixable later.
On slashdot and Americans in general seem to think that those without money should be left to die, rather than the state be allowed to provide basic care for all out of taxes.
The country I am from has such a system, but the one I live in does not. Been here too long I guess.I am no luddite, but I am able to read the summary.
So did Japan finally solve the problem of poverty or are they just planning on letting poor people go without dental care?
Having dentistry done by students is a major way poor people are able to afford any dental care. This seems like it would deprive them of that, and at the same time cost the dental school a fortune to buy.
I have lived in extreme cold, and driven with no heat. People do go snowmobiling, you put on the same type of clothes.
Ever live in an area it got so cold the humidity from just breathing made it impossible to see? Open the window. The airflow will remove the humidity. I did that in the car with no heat.
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Tragic turn?
OSX will be dead as a consumer OS soon enough. It will be moved to only the Pro line.
If I paid a few million dollars I am sure I could get any game I want ported. Failing that if I could get enough buyers together we could do that same thing.
150 million from HTC so far, 30 million we know of in Win 7 phone sales. Who cares if they make more from Office, they are making more from android than Win Phone 7.
They are keeping their old markets and their new innovation seems to be making protection money.
Android is not the only ecosystem they shake down for protection money.
Then just give me a tar.gz.
The humblie indie bundle folks managed that.
The reality most linux users will be so happy to be able to buy your game they won't bother you with emails but will fix their problems themselves.
There is no package your app and be done with it on any desktop OS. Windows has no package management at all, and OSX only has it if you want to pay Steve Jobs 30%.
And that's exactly what most software makers choose, simply not even porting it in the first place.
Fine by me, most software like most of everything sucks.
Do you disagree?
How is something that is not rare worth much?
I would be happy to pay for its development cost, but beyond that there is no point. I can make copies as easily as the folks that wrote it.
Games I make an exception for as those are entertainment not tools I need.
As taxes go up?
Our taxes are very low, much lower than when the US was the undisputed leader of the software world. Compared to the EU our taxes are still very low. High taxes in the USA is a red herring, businesses move out to exploit slave-wage labor.
No it is not. Generally what they need can be made from COTS units. Sure you might need to modify that stuff a bit, but that is what a toughbook is a modified laptop. The military does not have computer needs that could not be met by modified COTS units.
The majority of people are always idiots. Does not mean I have to be one too.
Yes it is, why do you think I don't own any games that don't play on wine? What games I buy is 100% up to me.
I will own Portal 2 as soon as it is supported by Wine or the Codeweavers commercial product without any cracks.
Everything is up to the buyer. If buyers did not buy games with DRM, they would not exist.
I don't want that. I am the buyer. If you want me to click on stuff put the deb on a website with such a click through. Have the key entered into the program on first launch, not during installation. That breaks automated installation.
Champing at the bit, not chomping. English, learn it.
Second is the difficulty of installing/distributing binary software. Linux was built for distributing applications by source, and has a lot of good tools for doing so, and as an open-source advocate I like that, but a lot of companies don't want to distribute source, and there isn't really a good way to distribute binaries.
Deb and rpm handle this problem completely. Package your app and be done with it. If you can't even be bothered to do that you never would have ported you app to begin with.
That depends on the software we are talking about. For a desktop environment I totally agree, I would not pay for one and it must be FREE software. For video games, not at all. I buy games on steam and play them in Wine all the time.
The reality is software for the most part is not worth much of anything, it has no scarcity and most commercial devs deadend it all the time to boost their profits. No wonder at least some people oppose that sort of thing.
You do realize that android apps run in dalvik right? So there is always a virtual machine. I fail to see how that is any different than running it on the virtual machine running on the phone.
Ok, so I copied the update.zip to the SD card, and ran it from clockwork.
What was supposed to be hard about that?
I agree universal healthcare would be a far better solution. I think even such a system would allow student to train on simple cases and volunteers. Sadly, the US population and other places as well, does not believe the economically disadvantaged have enough value to pay for such a thing out of taxes. Often the folks most vocal about this will cry about the value of human life when limiting another persons rights, but never when it might cost them a penny to provide medical care to that same person.
I was not deriding it. Only pointing out that it is how many people of low income, AKA the poor, get dental work.
I have many friends and family that had work done that way. I probably should have, but instead neglected my teeth until after college. Luckily the problems were fixable later.
I agree completely.
On slashdot and Americans in general seem to think that those without money should be left to die, rather than the state be allowed to provide basic care for all out of taxes.
The country I am from has such a system, but the one I live in does not. Been here too long I guess.I am no luddite, but I am able to read the summary.
The robot is the patient not the doctor you nimrod.
So did Japan finally solve the problem of poverty or are they just planning on letting poor people go without dental care?
Having dentistry done by students is a major way poor people are able to afford any dental care. This seems like it would deprive them of that, and at the same time cost the dental school a fortune to buy.
I have lived in extreme cold, and driven with no heat. People do go snowmobiling, you put on the same type of clothes.
Ever live in an area it got so cold the humidity from just breathing made it impossible to see?
Open the window. The airflow will remove the humidity. I did that in the car with no heat.
What need is that?
That is AMDs plan with this unit. Same relative cost and performance as the i3 but much better GPU.