It was an article about the "dominance" of webkit. They did not attack a browser, they were saying stupid things about webkit and how it implements stuff that is not yet in the html5 standard. Thing is that HTML 5 is still "work in progress"
Do you seriously believe that if they start doing "evil" the userbase will keep using their products? Sure, they might not all jump ship, but most users will start using/evaluating other products.
Their control is accepted by all developers, if indeed that is the case. The minute they turn rotten, is the minute they lose "control". See the OpenOffice - > LibreOffice case.
Except in webkit's case, nobody actually controls it. Sure, Google, Apple and Co do spend a lot of money paying developers to work on it, but the thing is open-source. Can they all just fork it at some point and turn the forks proprietary. Probably, but why would they? They already share the load on developing the thing, why wouldn't they continue sharing? It would also create fragmentation in their userbase, they really don't want that.
There was one FUDster some months ago that was on a website that was arguing against Webkit because, wait for it, it contained "proprietary" technologies. Yes "proprietary" tech in a open-source product. Just how stupid do those jackasses think we are anyways?!
MS reads your mail to check for spam, phishing content. Oh it's automated you say and no personal info is stored anywhere? Same goes for Google. I wish MS would spend money on research and development and less on you shills.
1) You clearly have no idea how Wine works
2) Please provide a list of incidents where Wine helped to proliferate Windows viruses on Linux or Unix machines
GOG is in the business of selling old games. They do "stock" some contemporary indie titles too. The prices for the old games falls into the "affordable" line because they cost 5.99 to 9.99 bucks a piece and often come with some very nice extras, but they are old games. Some of them very old (does not mean they are not fun games though). The prices for the newer titles are simply normal for indie titles (10-15$ price range). "Omerta" is selling for a whopping 40$.
The main advantage to buying from them is that you get the games without any sorts of DRM and the fact that they are very much in touch with their community.
Actually the US gvt. actively supports what the current prime-minister of Turkey does. They also actively supported the egyptian dictator until millions of people raised up and took back their country from him, Your gvt. seems to make a lot of bad calls supporting all kinds of bad people. Bin Laden was one of them for f's sake.
Yeah, you have a lot to be proud of man.
It is appalling how corporations, mostly US based, have managed to get everybody working to protect their interests. Ofc, they could not have done that alone, they have the US Gov that throws its weight around if need arises. They basically have every police dept. working to enforce copyright/DMCA and whatever else they cook up. This might be all fine and dandy if those corporations would bother to pay taxes in the countries they do business in. As it turns out, most of the time, they manage to skip paying them. So we, the citizens, pay taxes to keep police depts that enforce laws for entities that pay nothing in return. Meanwhile, serious crimes do not get solved because there is "personnel shortage". I would love to see how much countries spend per month or year on "defending" copyright and how much
they copyright holders paid in taxes for the service.
While I do not approve piracy, I certainly enjoy reading how another attempt to down the piratebay has failed.
Their phones are not actually that cheap if we're talking smartphones. I'm looking at some unlocked models here in my country and they compete on price and specs with the better known manufacturers.
Because it is not a question of tehcnical merits of a solution over another but of politics and politicians. These guys love MS because they send lots of money their way so they give taxpayers money love in return.
I can choose to buy an overpriced computer from Apple or build my own with better specs for the same amount of mullah + doing my own wire management + getting the choice of a case (Lian Li makes some sweet products) and slap Ubuntu (I can choose from a large selection of distros) on there. I have the choice of using an nvidia card not AMD. This is important because of driver support. While people complained of white screens with Macs for Diablo 3, I was happily hacking away at monsters.With an SSD the system is installed in less than 10 minutes. Every piece of hardware I own works right out of the box as soon as it's plugged in.
I can play games with Crossover. I can play some, natively now, with Steam for Linux. I buy Indie bundles that include games which will run on Linux
The point is that I get the choice of both hardware and software, that is why I game on Linux, that is why I chose to support Codeweavers by not only becoming their customer but also and advocate and that is why I'm currently beta testing Steam for linux.
So the short answer to your question in the title is: "because I choose to"
timing boot? seriously?! man, my machine does serious work (compiling especially). booting up is not that. RAM consumption? Since when is this a metric? I have 16GB, the OS better use that up and be fast. With my '97 machine, ram usage was a concern, I only had 8 megabytes, nowdays RAM is cheap, like really really cheap.
Please tell me who are the ones that agree on windows 8 being faster. Every review I've seen shows the darn thing pretty much on par with Windows 7. It's understandable. Windows 7 was , roughly, very optimized Vista code. Pray tell, how much could they optimize the optimization to make that thing at least, I don't know, 30% faster. Oh, yeah, if you're going to insult me by linking tests PCMag did, don't bother to reply.
stupid people will have more votes and there will be those to support their views in order to get their votes for a comfy life as a congressman. Then you will see stuff like this happening. Next they will burn books and paintings to banish the devil from the World. FFS, it's the dark ages again.
Well, there's the key: linux desktops. Plural. As in there is quite a few to choose from. Some may suck, some suck less, some may even fit like a glove. No such luxury with Windows 8 though.
So basically you pay money to upgrade to Windows 8 and then you pay more money to get back the functionality of Windows 7 and to make windows 8 look like windows 7. Yup, that makes a whole lotta sense.
Actually MSE is a descendant of antivirus tech like RAV (Romanian AntiVirus) aquired by MS from GeCad way back when. Back then it was speculated that they actually bought it because it was the only decent AV product companies could install on their mail and file servers that ran linux
MSE is not supposed to stop malware sites from loading, It is supposed to detect it when it tries to load onto your system and stop it from doing that. Stopping people from loading crakz, hazkz and other malware ridden sites is what SmartScreen is for. So far it comes only with IE. Actually that is one of the big problems. I would like them to allow other browsers to use the SmartScreen tech.
Wearing a badge was actually required for high-school students in my country 20 years ago when we had a communist party ruling the country. It's funny how American democracy looks more and more like the "democracy" the communist party was preaching back then.
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It was an article about the "dominance" of webkit. They did not attack a browser, they were saying stupid things about webkit and how it implements stuff that is not yet in the html5 standard. Thing is that HTML 5 is still "work in progress"
Do you seriously believe that if they start doing "evil" the userbase will keep using their products? Sure, they might not all jump ship, but most users will start using/evaluating other products.
Their control is accepted by all developers, if indeed that is the case. The minute they turn rotten, is the minute they lose "control". See the OpenOffice - > LibreOffice case.
Except in webkit's case, nobody actually controls it. Sure, Google, Apple and Co do spend a lot of money paying developers to work on it, but the thing is open-source. Can they all just fork it at some point and turn the forks proprietary. Probably, but why would they? They already share the load on developing the thing, why wouldn't they continue sharing? It would also create fragmentation in their userbase, they really don't want that.
There was one FUDster some months ago that was on a website that was arguing against Webkit because, wait for it, it contained "proprietary" technologies. Yes "proprietary" tech in a open-source product. Just how stupid do those jackasses think we are anyways?!
MS reads your mail to check for spam, phishing content. Oh it's automated you say and no personal info is stored anywhere? Same goes for Google. I wish MS would spend money on research and development and less on you shills.
1) You clearly have no idea how Wine works
2) Please provide a list of incidents where Wine helped to proliferate Windows viruses on Linux or Unix machines
It certainly is on my Ubuntu 12.04 64bit install :)
GOG is in the business of selling old games. They do "stock" some contemporary indie titles too. The prices for the old games falls into the "affordable" line because they cost 5.99 to 9.99 bucks a piece and often come with some very nice extras, but they are old games. Some of them very old (does not mean they are not fun games though). The prices for the newer titles are simply normal for indie titles (10-15$ price range). "Omerta" is selling for a whopping 40$. The main advantage to buying from them is that you get the games without any sorts of DRM and the fact that they are very much in touch with their community.
And it's up to them to decide their own fates.
Actually the US gvt. actively supports what the current prime-minister of Turkey does. They also actively supported the egyptian dictator until millions of people raised up and took back their country from him, Your gvt. seems to make a lot of bad calls supporting all kinds of bad people. Bin Laden was one of them for f's sake. Yeah, you have a lot to be proud of man.
Actually it's exactly the big corps that have the legislators in their pockets. Both are to blame for the mess they have created
It is appalling how corporations, mostly US based, have managed to get everybody working to protect their interests. Ofc, they could not have done that alone, they have the US Gov that throws its weight around if need arises. They basically have every police dept. working to enforce copyright/DMCA and whatever else they cook up. This might be all fine and dandy if those corporations would bother to pay taxes in the countries they do business in. As it turns out, most of the time, they manage to skip paying them. So we, the citizens, pay taxes to keep police depts that enforce laws for entities that pay nothing in return. Meanwhile, serious crimes do not get solved because there is "personnel shortage". I would love to see how much countries spend per month or year on "defending" copyright and how much they copyright holders paid in taxes for the service.
While I do not approve piracy, I certainly enjoy reading how another attempt to down the piratebay has failed.
Their phones are not actually that cheap if we're talking smartphones. I'm looking at some unlocked models here in my country and they compete on price and specs with the better known manufacturers.
Because it is not a question of tehcnical merits of a solution over another but of politics and politicians. These guys love MS because they send lots of money their way so they give taxpayers money love in return.
I can choose to buy an overpriced computer from Apple or build my own with better specs for the same amount of mullah + doing my own wire management + getting the choice of a case (Lian Li makes some sweet products) and slap Ubuntu (I can choose from a large selection of distros) on there. I have the choice of using an nvidia card not AMD. This is important because of driver support. While people complained of white screens with Macs for Diablo 3, I was happily hacking away at monsters.With an SSD the system is installed in less than 10 minutes. Every piece of hardware I own works right out of the box as soon as it's plugged in.
I can play games with Crossover. I can play some, natively now, with Steam for Linux. I buy Indie bundles that include games which will run on Linux
The point is that I get the choice of both hardware and software, that is why I game on Linux, that is why I chose to support Codeweavers by not only becoming their customer but also and advocate and that is why I'm currently beta testing Steam for linux.
So the short answer to your question in the title is: "because I choose to"
timing boot? seriously?! man, my machine does serious work (compiling especially). booting up is not that. RAM consumption? Since when is this a metric? I have 16GB, the OS better use that up and be fast. With my '97 machine, ram usage was a concern, I only had 8 megabytes, nowdays RAM is cheap, like really really cheap.
Please tell me who are the ones that agree on windows 8 being faster. Every review I've seen shows the darn thing pretty much on par with Windows 7. It's understandable. Windows 7 was , roughly, very optimized Vista code. Pray tell, how much could they optimize the optimization to make that thing at least, I don't know, 30% faster. Oh, yeah, if you're going to insult me by linking tests PCMag did, don't bother to reply.
I'll drink to that sir! Looking forward seeing other empires crumble, having competition and better products developed.
stupid people will have more votes and there will be those to support their views in order to get their votes for a comfy life as a congressman. Then you will see stuff like this happening. Next they will burn books and paintings to banish the devil from the World. FFS, it's the dark ages again.
Well, there's the key: linux desktops. Plural. As in there is quite a few to choose from. Some may suck, some suck less, some may even fit like a glove. No such luxury with Windows 8 though.
So basically you pay money to upgrade to Windows 8 and then you pay more money to get back the functionality of Windows 7 and to make windows 8 look like windows 7. Yup, that makes a whole lotta sense.
Actually MSE is a descendant of antivirus tech like RAV (Romanian AntiVirus) aquired by MS from GeCad way back when. Back then it was speculated that they actually bought it because it was the only decent AV product companies could install on their mail and file servers that ran linux
MSE is not supposed to stop malware sites from loading, It is supposed to detect it when it tries to load onto your system and stop it from doing that. Stopping people from loading crakz, hazkz and other malware ridden sites is what SmartScreen is for. So far it comes only with IE. Actually that is one of the big problems. I would like them to allow other browsers to use the SmartScreen tech.
Did the XFCE crew fix that ancient bug in the file manager that shows all drives/partitions as being mounted even if only some of them actually are?
Wearing a badge was actually required for high-school students in my country 20 years ago when we had a communist party ruling the country. It's funny how American democracy looks more and more like the "democracy" the communist party was preaching back then.