The 70s oil crisis helped. Suddenly cars with low fuel consumption became much more appealing. This is also why NSU, makers of Wankel engine cars, went under.
It would be perfectly fine to review exams in a browser. You just need to see Google Maps in action to realize it is perfectly doable to view high resolution images in a browser. Forms, reports, scheduling, same deal. The actual imaging hardware needs more performance to process the images in real-time but this could be done in a Linux workstation. If it is good enough for Hollywood studios doing 3D production for large screen displays it would certainly be enough for them as well.
You tell me no solutions exist. But this doesn't mean no solutions can be done. In fact there are plenty of people competing in this space already such as athenahealth.
Not in desktop market share. Not to mention the sizable investment Bill Gates made in Apple when Jobs came back when they were near bankrupt. Or their pledge to port MS Office to the Mac.
That reminds me of a time when I was contracting in a major corporation where they didn't want me to use 7-zip, which is available for free, for some POS zip client I had never heard before which cost them a bundle in licensing costs. Stupid.
Which is pretty stupid really. You would have expected the imaging hardware vendors to have switched form their usual IRIX or Solaris to Linux but instead they switched to Windows. Makes no sense at all. The Practice Management system could be web based and run on an intranet. Same thing for accounting or payroll.
The community already spends quite a lot of time porting games. I have ported a couple of them which got their source code released myself. The main issue isn't that. We need to have our own leading edge games which run best on our own platform. Wine is not the solution. When the time comes that it is stupidly easier to develop a game in Linux the developers will come. For what it's worth I think Linux desktop market share is underreported.
I am presently developing from scratch a rendering engine in Linux which runs on the GPU so it is certainly possible to develop games for it. Yes some tools could be better and the way drivers and handled is less than optimal. Ideally we should have proper memory protection in drivers just like we have on regular programs but we are still not there yet. The main problem IMO is a lack of de facto standardization of sound APIs. Networking is covered. OpenGL does the trick for graphics. It certainly goes not suck.
Mass Effect is on its 3rd sequel. It was also based on the Unreal Engine. Arkham Asylum is a comic/movie license. I'll give you Dragon Age, L.A. Noire. Don't know Red Dead Redemption to evaluate.
I only use GitHub for code I have written under non-commercial licenses. Mostly Linux ports of former commercial games. SourceForge won't host them. Icculus is a bit of a pain to convince to host your code. GitHub is one of the few choices available gratis.
There is more about it than this. The lawsuit representing Seagate in that case (which caused him to go bankrupt and lose his house IIRC) is related to a lawyer in the Samsung case's side.
The Microsoft key comes pre-loaded with every BIOS. Try installing your own key in the UEFI boot key store and see how easy that is. Microsoft users just pop in a DVD and install. Linux users can't do that.
The man delivered! I really hate not being able to use GRUB or some other bootloader anymore. Why the heck can't I choose what to install on the computer I bought with my own money? Imagine you were Linux Torvalds trying to write your own operating system but in a computer with UEFI enabled.
The way to get the key is also particularly weird. It's like Microsoft has gone out of their way to make it so you need to use Windows to get a key..CAB files, Silverlight applications,.exe to generate a key, etc.
You can't even choose not to enable UEFI anymore. I bought a 3 TB hard disk recently and the BIOS isn't able to see anything above 2 TB on a non-UEFI system without GPT partitions.
Considering it has 17 times the performance that isn't much of an issue. If you are that concerned about cost and TDP you can get an APU like the A8-5600K or one of the lower clocked versions with less power consumption. What Nintendo does not seem to understand is if you make the hardware too low specced you start to compete with mobile devices like tablets and smartphones. We are probably headed towards todays equivalent of the video game crash of 1983. Todays console games suck and the console hardware is worse and more expensive than general purpose hardware. The iPad 4 GPU has 76.8 GFLOPS.
Actually the issue was they originally had conceived the system so that the graphics would be done by Cell. However it turned it it didn't have enough fillrate for 3D graphics so they hastily added the GPU from NVIDIA which like doubled the hardware costs. Not to mention that they had a PS2 inside (Emotion Engine) to retain backwards compatibility.
The hardware has since had enough die shrinks that the production cost should be pretty low.
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It's the same issue GM had back when they started Saturn. If you don't design the whole vehicle to be assembled by robots it just doesn't work.
The 70s oil crisis helped. Suddenly cars with low fuel consumption became much more appealing. This is also why NSU, makers of Wankel engine cars, went under.
It would be perfectly fine to review exams in a browser. You just need to see Google Maps in action to realize it is perfectly doable to view high resolution images in a browser. Forms, reports, scheduling, same deal. The actual imaging hardware needs more performance to process the images in real-time but this could be done in a Linux workstation. If it is good enough for Hollywood studios doing 3D production for large screen displays it would certainly be enough for them as well.
You tell me no solutions exist. But this doesn't mean no solutions can be done. In fact there are plenty of people competing in this space already such as athenahealth.
I would use WebKit in IE and stop developing my own browser engine. At most I would fork WebKit.
It's actually correct. IE is only good for downloading other browsers.
Not in desktop market share. Not to mention the sizable investment Bill Gates made in Apple when Jobs came back when they were near bankrupt. Or their pledge to port MS Office to the Mac.
Oh right they were switching to CVS around the time I switched from Subversion to Git.
That reminds me of a time when I was contracting in a major corporation where they didn't want me to use 7-zip, which is available for free, for some POS zip client I had never heard before which cost them a bundle in licensing costs. Stupid.
Which is pretty stupid really. You would have expected the imaging hardware vendors to have switched form their usual IRIX or Solaris to Linux but instead they switched to Windows. Makes no sense at all. The Practice Management system could be web based and run on an intranet. Same thing for accounting or payroll.
That is basically the plot of Dune and the Asimov Foundation Series (spacers) in case you didn't notice...
The community already spends quite a lot of time porting games. I have ported a couple of them which got their source code released myself. The main issue isn't that. We need to have our own leading edge games which run best on our own platform. Wine is not the solution. When the time comes that it is stupidly easier to develop a game in Linux the developers will come. For what it's worth I think Linux desktop market share is underreported.
I am presently developing from scratch a rendering engine in Linux which runs on the GPU so it is certainly possible to develop games for it. Yes some tools could be better and the way drivers and handled is less than optimal. Ideally we should have proper memory protection in drivers just like we have on regular programs but we are still not there yet. The main problem IMO is a lack of de facto standardization of sound APIs. Networking is covered. OpenGL does the trick for graphics. It certainly goes not suck.
Check the difference between F1 and Le Mans where they have had diesels and now hybrids competing. Totally different.
Mass Effect is on its 3rd sequel. It was also based on the Unreal Engine. Arkham Asylum is a comic/movie license. I'll give you Dragon Age, L.A. Noire. Don't know Red Dead Redemption to evaluate.
I only use GitHub for code I have written under non-commercial licenses. Mostly Linux ports of former commercial games. SourceForge won't host them. Icculus is a bit of a pain to convince to host your code. GitHub is one of the few choices available gratis.
There is more about it than this. The lawsuit representing Seagate in that case (which caused him to go bankrupt and lose his house IIRC) is related to a lawyer in the Samsung case's side.
They could have. But the jury foreman told them they didn't have the authority to do it. Hah.
The Microsoft key comes pre-loaded with every BIOS. Try installing your own key in the UEFI boot key store and see how easy that is. Microsoft users just pop in a DVD and install. Linux users can't do that.
Not when the US Government and others are providing the funding for those communication devices.
That takes this addiction to a new extreme...
s/Linux/Linus/ Sorry dude.
The man delivered! I really hate not being able to use GRUB or some other bootloader anymore. Why the heck can't I choose what to install on the computer I bought with my own money? Imagine you were Linux Torvalds trying to write your own operating system but in a computer with UEFI enabled.
The way to get the key is also particularly weird. It's like Microsoft has gone out of their way to make it so you need to use Windows to get a key. .CAB files, Silverlight applications, .exe to generate a key, etc.
You can't even choose not to enable UEFI anymore. I bought a 3 TB hard disk recently and the BIOS isn't able to see anything above 2 TB on a non-UEFI system without GPT partitions.
Considering it has 17 times the performance that isn't much of an issue. If you are that concerned about cost and TDP you can get an APU like the A8-5600K or one of the lower clocked versions with less power consumption. What Nintendo does not seem to understand is if you make the hardware too low specced you start to compete with mobile devices like tablets and smartphones. We are probably headed towards todays equivalent of the video game crash of 1983. Todays console games suck and the console hardware is worse and more expensive than general purpose hardware. The iPad 4 GPU has 76.8 GFLOPS.
The hardware has since had enough die shrinks that the production cost should be pretty low.
An AMD FX-8350 CPU @ 4.0 GHz has 8 MB L3 cache and 256 GFLOPS. Compare that with the 14.79 GFLOPS this CPU supposedly has.