If they can't fix it, they should have mitigating measures in place and at least inform their customers of the problem... This usually does not happen and people get hacked.
All they need is to scare the people into believing them and taking their side.
If they do this however, I'm quite sure all the big tech companies will set shop anywhere else. They are already "international" and manufacturing mostly in Asia. They will still sell modified tech to the gvt. but anyone else won't get anything because it will not comply with the law. That is a scary scenario indeed. Actually, I would say that it's exactly because of those companies and their lobbying that such a law will fail hard.
Governments are subordinate agencies are and have always been fuckwits. Not because they are dumb but because bribe money goes a long way. They also don't employ IT techs, everything is out-sorced and every time they want some done they pay up more than it actually costs because it's a good way to make some money for themselves. Works in my shitty EU member country why wouldn't it work for the brits too.
Not to mention that using something like Clonezilla they can re-image the whole network of PCs provided through PXE (pixie) boot.
Seems that my country is not alone in employing the stupidest morons they can find for jobs in the departments/agencies/institutions that the state controls. Waste of money and waste of human resources in a time when unemployment for young people is soaring.
It's the point of "innocent until proven guilty". The burden of providing proof of guilt rests on those that accuse not the ones that defend themselves against accusations.
If 14 year olds oppose a law that is simply evil than more power to them. Means that the kiddies are smart than the schmoe that's trying to diss them. Fuck you Mr. Mike Rogers.
However I'm quite sure that it ain't the case and that he labels everyone that does not think like him and the lobby groups he works for as being stupid/immature. Well, I said it before and now I say it again, "fuck you Mr. Mike Rogers"
So MS decided they had the perfect plan to get developers working on software for WinRT. Let's just shove it in their faces all the time, let's put some crapware that starts up every time they try to do something on their computers and annoy the hell out of them. They'll get annoyed and make something better. Profit!!!
No Microsoft, no. It's not done this way. First you must make people want to buy it. You need to make people want to use it. You make people fall in love with it. Then you'll get developers actually making stuff. Some will be good, a few really good the rest will be mediocre and crappy pieces of software like the norm is everywhere. MS, I do not want to wrestle with my OS. I want it to do what I want, not what YOU want it to do.
Stop trying to leverage your monopoly you arses. It ain't going to work anymore. You were late to the mobile games and it just shows that the only reason you are still making money in the PC market is that you managed to eliminate your competitors through various tactics (like buying them or driving them into bankruptcy).
You pissed me off and I really enjoy to see you squirm, trying to bully your way out of insignificance by allying yourself with other bullies like Oracle (on their way to obsolescence) and Nokia (big, slow giant that is bleeding money and hoped that cutting a deal with you would somehow magically save them) and talking shit about bundled software on what is basically a flexible and open-source platform. Are you trying to sell us on the idea of a monopoly of an open-source OS? Really?!
Spend less money on litigation, more on inventing cool stuff. You pay a lot of smart people MS, listen to them. Let them work their "magic". One more thing, throw Balmer off the train. He's making and arse of himself and is embarrassing you. Maybe it's not too late.
At least they don't say "yo dawg, they got chemical weapons and they're gonna' use 'em. Honest to GOD!!". They tuned it down to "they raised their missiles first. we decided a preemptive strike was the way to go". It's also cheaper than the charade with the military searching for something that never existed in the first place.
So where exactly are those heaven vs. earth diffs? Booting up and shutting down? Have computers turned into LEDs that blink all the time?
The only significant tests made by those people are the gaming ones where the diffs in FPS are in the margin of error (3 or 5 frames/sec) and some others that do real life workloads and where W8 and W7 perfrom basically the same.
The so called benchmarking suites like PCMark, 3dMak and mark don't represent any real work that computers do. Sorry.
MS and Apple disclose only what they fix. They also don't have the same amount of users for their operating systems. The more eyeballs on one's product, the more flaws get discovered.
And what might that lesson be? In 12.10 Unity is quite good. I used to run an alternate LXDE environment for my gaming needs but then I got unredirected fullscreen in Unity. There's is no speed diff now when running fullscreen games be those native or using wine. Using the HUD is a godsend in applications that I use rarely, just search for a certain function in the hood instead of looking through all the drop-down menus.
And yeah, I know the state Unity was released in. Know what I did? I used Gnome while I still could and LXDE after, but I always reported bugs back to Canonical and they got fixed.
They might have firepower and whatever, a silly ballerina for president on top of it all, but China has a huge chunk of their economy by the balls. All that firepower is nullified by China's economic power.
Actually, this will be rather contained to US because in the EU we already have a ruling that APIs are not copyrightable and I don't think that the Chinese or other parts of Asia really give a shit about 'muricans and their silly laws. Time for the smart people to relocate.
IE is not in the position to compete with anything from a feature and standards compliance p.o.v. The only competition it drives is by brute force, on the desktops, since most of them use Windows and IE is the default browser. Luckily, this "strong" position is slowly being eroded and will fade.
IE is also tied to one platform, and even worse, tied to a certain version of the OS it is running on. People can perfectly well run either Chrome, Opera, Firefox etc on their XP, Vista and later machines, but if you want to use IE 9, you gotta have Windows 7. IE 10 - gotta have Windows 8. In a way, IE competes with itself. Microsoft still thinks it's in the 90s and that people will upgrade their OS for the privilege of running a browser or having a better version of a task manager. Stupid, stupid Microsoft.
Oh man, the arrogance. If you want shit fixed, either pay directly for that or do the fixing yourself and send the patches to the wine project. Google paid Codeweavers to make Photoshop CS1 and CS 2 work with wine. They even had some of their own devs working on the project.
Just who the fuck do you think you are to complain that others won't work for free in order for you to profit?!
A Linux user might not drop 100$ on a game like CoD because our bunch is a bit more brainy and CoD, imo, is a piece of crap. That being said, I pay for a lot of software, esp windows software (mostly games) that can run on Linux via wine or Crossover. I make a habit of letting the software developers know that it works.
Regarding Carmack's stance on Linux gaming, I can tell you this: when people still play your older games and avoid the newer ones, you have a problem. Doom 3 was mediocre. The good engine it had was saved, once again, by Raven Soft when they released Quake 4. Rage is also a mediocre title. There is a great variety of Unreal Engine games that now work on Linux thanks to Wine .
Steambox will run Steam. That is the whole point of the thing. Anything that will be released on Steam and targeted at the box, will also work on Steam for Linux.
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If they can't fix it, they should have mitigating measures in place and at least inform their customers of the problem... This usually does not happen and people get hacked.
Uh huh, every government clerk uses Photoshop and other highly specialized software to do his/her day to day job.
All they need is to scare the people into believing them and taking their side.
If they do this however, I'm quite sure all the big tech companies will set shop anywhere else. They are already "international" and manufacturing mostly in Asia. They will still sell modified tech to the gvt. but anyone else won't get anything because it will not comply with the law. That is a scary scenario indeed. Actually, I would say that it's exactly because of those companies and their lobbying that such a law will fail hard.
It is disgusting. Yes indeed, however the US of A have been doing it to other nations for quite a while. Karma...
Governments are subordinate agencies are and have always been fuckwits. Not because they are dumb but because bribe money goes a long way. They also don't employ IT techs, everything is out-sorced and every time they want some done they pay up more than it actually costs because it's a good way to make some money for themselves. Works in my shitty EU member country why wouldn't it work for the brits too.
Not to mention that using something like Clonezilla they can re-image the whole network of PCs provided through PXE (pixie) boot.
Seems that my country is not alone in employing the stupidest morons they can find for jobs in the departments/agencies/institutions that the state controls. Waste of money and waste of human resources in a time when unemployment for young people is soaring.
A damn shame.
Looking at the Steam hwsurvery Mint is not such a big competitor afterall. it's a very nice distro with a very vocal community.
"How do they know they didn't do it?"
It's the point of "innocent until proven guilty". The burden of providing proof of guilt rests on those that accuse not the ones that defend themselves against accusations.
If 14 year olds oppose a law that is simply evil than more power to them. Means that the kiddies are smart than the schmoe that's trying to diss them. Fuck you Mr. Mike Rogers.
However I'm quite sure that it ain't the case and that he labels everyone that does not think like him and the lobby groups he works for as being stupid/immature. Well, I said it before and now I say it again, "fuck you Mr. Mike Rogers"
So MS decided they had the perfect plan to get developers working on software for WinRT. Let's just shove it in their faces all the time, let's put some crapware that starts up every time they try to do something on their computers and annoy the hell out of them. They'll get annoyed and make something better. Profit!!!
No Microsoft, no. It's not done this way. First you must make people want to buy it. You need to make people want to use it. You make people fall in love with it. Then you'll get developers actually making stuff. Some will be good, a few really good the rest will be mediocre and crappy pieces of software like the norm is everywhere. MS, I do not want to wrestle with my OS. I want it to do what I want, not what YOU want it to do.
Stop trying to leverage your monopoly you arses. It ain't going to work anymore. You were late to the mobile games and it just shows that the only reason you are still making money in the PC market is that you managed to eliminate your competitors through various tactics (like buying them or driving them into bankruptcy).
You pissed me off and I really enjoy to see you squirm, trying to bully your way out of insignificance by allying yourself with other bullies like Oracle (on their way to obsolescence) and Nokia (big, slow giant that is bleeding money and hoped that cutting a deal with you would somehow magically save them) and talking shit about bundled software on what is basically a flexible and open-source platform. Are you trying to sell us on the idea of a monopoly of an open-source OS? Really?!
Spend less money on litigation, more on inventing cool stuff. You pay a lot of smart people MS, listen to them. Let them work their "magic". One more thing, throw Balmer off the train. He's making and arse of himself and is embarrassing you. Maybe it's not too late.
Well, do you ? :)
You should revisit those tests. There are new ones where KDE pretty much got its ass kicked by Unity: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTMxNDk
At least they don't say "yo dawg, they got chemical weapons and they're gonna' use 'em. Honest to GOD!!". They tuned it down to "they raised their missiles first. we decided a preemptive strike was the way to go". It's also cheaper than the charade with the military searching for something that never existed in the first place.
So where exactly are those heaven vs. earth diffs? Booting up and shutting down? Have computers turned into LEDs that blink all the time?
The only significant tests made by those people are the gaming ones where the diffs in FPS are in the margin of error (3 or 5 frames/sec) and some others that do real life workloads and where W8 and W7 perfrom basically the same.
The so called benchmarking suites like PCMark, 3dMak and mark don't represent any real work that computers do. Sorry.
How would you measure? How would you compare?
MS and Apple disclose only what they fix. They also don't have the same amount of users for their operating systems. The more eyeballs on one's product, the more flaws get discovered.
DMCA only applies in the US to the best of my knowledge.
And what might that lesson be? In 12.10 Unity is quite good. I used to run an alternate LXDE environment for my gaming needs but then I got unredirected fullscreen in Unity. There's is no speed diff now when running fullscreen games be those native or using wine. Using the HUD is a godsend in applications that I use rarely, just search for a certain function in the hood instead of looking through all the drop-down menus.
And yeah, I know the state Unity was released in. Know what I did? I used Gnome while I still could and LXDE after, but I always reported bugs back to Canonical and they got fixed.
They might have firepower and whatever, a silly ballerina for president on top of it all, but China has a huge chunk of their economy by the balls. All that firepower is nullified by China's economic power.
Actually, this will be rather contained to US because in the EU we already have a ruling that APIs are not copyrightable and I don't think that the Chinese or other parts of Asia really give a shit about 'muricans and their silly laws. Time for the smart people to relocate.
Run Win2k. It has the same UI bits but it's miles and miles better than Me. Hell, anything was better than Me.
IE is not in the position to compete with anything from a feature and standards compliance p.o.v. The only competition it drives is by brute force, on the desktops, since most of them use Windows and IE is the default browser. Luckily, this "strong" position is slowly being eroded and will fade.
IE is also tied to one platform, and even worse, tied to a certain version of the OS it is running on. People can perfectly well run either Chrome, Opera, Firefox etc on their XP, Vista and later machines, but if you want to use IE 9, you gotta have Windows 7. IE 10 - gotta have Windows 8. In a way, IE competes with itself. Microsoft still thinks it's in the 90s and that people will upgrade their OS for the privilege of running a browser or having a better version of a task manager. Stupid, stupid Microsoft.
Oh man, the arrogance. If you want shit fixed, either pay directly for that or do the fixing yourself and send the patches to the wine project. Google paid Codeweavers to make Photoshop CS1 and CS 2 work with wine. They even had some of their own devs working on the project.
Just who the fuck do you think you are to complain that others won't work for free in order for you to profit?!
A Linux user might not drop 100$ on a game like CoD because our bunch is a bit more brainy and CoD, imo, is a piece of crap. That being said, I pay for a lot of software, esp windows software (mostly games) that can run on Linux via wine or Crossover. I make a habit of letting the software developers know that it works.
Regarding Carmack's stance on Linux gaming, I can tell you this: when people still play your older games and avoid the newer ones, you have a problem. Doom 3 was mediocre. The good engine it had was saved, once again, by Raven Soft when they released Quake 4. Rage is also a mediocre title. There is a great variety of Unreal Engine games that now work on Linux thanks to Wine .
Steambox will run Steam. That is the whole point of the thing. Anything that will be released on Steam and targeted at the box, will also work on Steam for Linux.
That particular article is about Intel's driver performance.
What exactly make one an "expert in pornography" ?