Drop the middle man and sell me $20 games rather than $70 dollar one (I live in Sweden) and I may start buying games.
I think I read that 97% of the games played in PCs was pirated copies? No, price wont solve that I suppose but you're pretty lame if you copy a full game you could had bought for $10.
What if you run everything in a virtual machine and take a screenshot of the VM window?
(Am I missing something here? I suppose it already alter the image data and require someone to get a plugin to get the correct image or something such or how can it work on others systems to? I could understand if it messed up your own images..)
and you could for instance "digitally protect" the images by doing whatever to them and then have the software which can alter them back... But yeah. As said, maybe that's what it does. In that case who cares? Fail by design.
Also who want my Facebook pictures anyway? And should we really post pictures to Facebook in the first place? Or even use that steaming pile of shit?
Would had been nice if one could have some Apple-like ability (I don't know how it works on Apple machines and I assume others have done it to) where you could switch between integrated and "solitary" graphics so to speak.
Use Intel drivers in the CPU for desktop and playing video but switch over to the graphics card for specific tasks like when you run a game.
With HDMI I suppose there's no issue hooking them up together since it's digital anyway. Whatever to use an internal bus or not is optional. I guess it would even be possible to have a simple "pixel logic grid" which for instance replaced a space of 1024x768 of the current integrated video output with the data coming from the graphics card.
Does it really have more computing power than a $2500 PC / worth of PC hardware (they did say core didn't they? So feel free to get 3-4 regular pieces of PC hardware in that case which it surely won't beat.)
I doubt your intranet/office/exchange monkey got much of a problem with Windows 8 but what do I know.
Rather then having people to upgrade 6-12 months later Windows may work fine for 10 years so they aren't in a hurry and don't have to switch now anyway.
No need to get Windows 8 if you don't want it (well, we'll see what Microsoft and OEM partners think about that..)
On the other hand, the cost of running Windows vs something else matter how much for most business? Especially if they need extra support for the later.
And in some occasions they may need programs developed for Windows to (though maybe a lot of them would run in Wine but whatever.)
An open-source Windows (like ReactOS) rather than an open-source unix might had been something.
But it's not.
Also does the goal have to be that they switch?
It could still be a good desktop without having a large part of the market share if people simply wanted Windows anyway. Now I don't think everything is good with the Linux desktop but it's not necessary worse than the rest of the options either except when it comes to professional and more "complex" software (except the web browser) where the open-source attempts likely fall short.
Windows is obviously both a good desktop AND Windows.
It's been done with Gnome 2, IceWM, LXDE, Razor-QT and most likely a hell of a lot of others to.
I doubt many more would run a Linux desktop just because it came with LXDE rather than Unity.
Maybe begin with WHY should they run a Linux desktop? - Less risk? Doubt most people care that much it's open software.
And then ask yourself WHY NOT? - For normal people: Can't play their games, more complicated to play their movies and music, no good graphics drivers installed, different filesystem, different default save options in the office software, can't get software from the same resources ("Why can't I install IE and my anti-virus program?"), their printer setup doesn't work the same, how to get the scanner going if they have one and so on so on. For some: Why can't I have Photoshop installed? Where's Verdana? Add music and video creation software and so on.
I could probably be ok with (by choice at least) having the last user and message slide up and let me answer it.
In KDE + kopete (?) it shows for a short while and goes away. Either you answer or you don't.
Some people may not want it to cover whatever they are using though. Like if you played a game and it popped up it would be very disturbing. Same for a video clip.
Stock price had increase by about 100% in little over a month before the fall.
So indeed the stock has pulled in some new people and lots of people new to Nokia hoped that they would release something awesome. And this at least was expected since it's what has been leaked about Windows Phone 8 already. Many wanted tablets and 808-like PureView(?) cameras to.
Not really a fan of notifications either. In KDE the device information just goes away and I have no idea where to and how to access it again =P, and if they stayed on the screen and wanted me to click them it would suck if say someone pasted something in an IM client.
What about scrolling a message somewhere and light up an icon to inform me something has happened. Then say left click to show notifications, middle click to clear the icon/message queue and right click to pick what applications I got notifications from with simple list of applications + check marks in front of them for instance.
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Drop the middle man and sell me $20 games rather than $70 dollar one (I live in Sweden) and I may start buying games.
I think I read that 97% of the games played in PCs was pirated copies? No, price wont solve that I suppose but you're pretty lame if you copy a full game you could had bought for $10.
lol, combine
Friend2: OMG! OMG! I'm going to get digital protection right now!
with: http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3113117&cid=41318721
What if you run everything in a virtual machine and take a screenshot of the VM window?
(Am I missing something here? I suppose it already alter the image data and require someone to get a plugin to get the correct image or something such or how can it work on others systems to? I could understand if it messed up your own images..)
and you could for instance "digitally protect" the images by doing whatever to them and then have the software which can alter them back... But yeah. As said, maybe that's what it does. In that case who cares? Fail by design.
Also who want my Facebook pictures anyway? And should we really post pictures to Facebook in the first place? Or even use that steaming pile of shit?
Would had been nice if one could have some Apple-like ability (I don't know how it works on Apple machines and I assume others have done it to) where you could switch between integrated and "solitary" graphics so to speak.
Use Intel drivers in the CPU for desktop and playing video but switch over to the graphics card for specific tasks like when you run a game.
With HDMI I suppose there's no issue hooking them up together since it's digital anyway. Whatever to use an internal bus or not is optional. I guess it would even be possible to have a simple "pixel logic grid" which for instance replaced a space of 1024x768 of the current integrated video output with the data coming from the graphics card.
Thank you! Hopefully I will never do it wrong again.
I thought it was weird that Razor-Qt and Qtdesktop was "wrong."
Isn't having thought about it supposed to be enough prior art?
Now you're thinking inside one box!
Does it really have more computing power than a $2500 PC / worth of PC hardware (they did say core didn't they? So feel free to get 3-4 regular pieces of PC hardware in that case which it surely won't beat.)
Nothing super about it. Just multiple pieces.
Let me have a login for the benefit of having my data saved?
If I don't log in then don't store my details.
As for the rest whatever. Hash + salt or whatever?
If no-one can reach / use the data for anything then maybe say just e-mail address or something such as identifier.
So we have to wait until those are replaced before breaking support for them.
And they wait with replacing until the software can't support what's needed.
See what I did there? =P
Online banking with pin codes from a slip of paper.
I dislike meditating gurus.
Because that's what he has, and he doesn't want to shell out another $500 for new hardware just to run a particular OS on it?
I paid $3000 to run OS X on a real Apple notebook.
I'll never repeat that though. Fool me once and I hate it.
Yeah it's an issue with the driver of the laptop alright, but how do we fix him or her?
I doubt your intranet/office/exchange monkey got much of a problem with Windows 8 but what do I know.
Rather then having people to upgrade 6-12 months later Windows may work fine for 10 years so they aren't in a hurry and don't have to switch now anyway.
No need to get Windows 8 if you don't want it (well, we'll see what Microsoft and OEM partners think about that..)
Doesn't make sense since the Chinese patented it first?
On the other hand, the cost of running Windows vs something else matter how much for most business? Especially if they need extra support for the later.
And in some occasions they may need programs developed for Windows to (though maybe a lot of them would run in Wine but whatever.)
SUCK on the tablet!
I've been sucking on my tablet for 18 minutes now but it refuse to grow. What am I doing wrong?
An open-source Windows (like ReactOS) rather than an open-source unix might had been something.
But it's not.
Also does the goal have to be that they switch?
It could still be a good desktop without having a large part of the market share if people simply wanted Windows anyway. Now I don't think everything is good with the Linux desktop but it's not necessary worse than the rest of the options either except when it comes to professional and more "complex" software (except the web browser) where the open-source attempts likely fall short.
Windows is obviously both a good desktop AND Windows.
It's been done with Gnome 2, IceWM, LXDE, Razor-QT and most likely a hell of a lot of others to.
I doubt many more would run a Linux desktop just because it came with LXDE rather than Unity.
Maybe begin with WHY should they run a Linux desktop?
- Less risk? Doubt most people care that much it's open software.
And then ask yourself WHY NOT?
- For normal people: Can't play their games, more complicated to play their movies and music, no good graphics drivers installed, different filesystem, different default save options in the office software, can't get software from the same resources ("Why can't I install IE and my anti-virus program?"), their printer setup doesn't work the same, how to get the scanner going if they have one and so on so on. For some: Why can't I have Photoshop installed? Where's Verdana? Add music and video creation software and so on.
And maybe you'll see why they don't.
It's likely not the feel.
It's the fact it is Windows.
You want to run your professional software, game or have drivers with that?
Of course you can!
Copied interface will give you a copied interface without the professional software, games and driver support of Windows.
I don't think I could find something such but rather some notifier thing which listed 2-3 names but I'm not sure.
I could probably be ok with (by choice at least) having the last user and message slide up and let me answer it.
In KDE + kopete (?) it shows for a short while and goes away. Either you answer or you don't.
Some people may not want it to cover whatever they are using though. Like if you played a game and it popped up it would be very disturbing. Same for a video clip.
True that it doesn't remove space from the currently used application.
Still it makes windows bigger and messy and a lot of menus (and bars) everywhere.
Personally I'm no fan of it. And applications which look like say Amarok with all shit thrown on top.
Stock price had increase by about 100% in little over a month before the fall.
So indeed the stock has pulled in some new people and lots of people new to Nokia hoped that they would release something awesome. And this at least was expected since it's what has been leaked about Windows Phone 8 already. Many wanted tablets and 808-like PureView(?) cameras to.
Damn that chat bar was a waste of space:
http://afaikblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/message-tray2.png?w=640&h=400
Especially on a wide screen.
Not really a fan of notifications either. In KDE the device information just goes away and I have no idea where to and how to access it again =P, and if they stayed on the screen and wanted me to click them it would suck if say someone pasted something in an IM client.
What about scrolling a message somewhere and light up an icon to inform me something has happened. Then say left click to show notifications, middle click to clear the icon/message queue and right click to pick what applications I got notifications from with simple list of applications + check marks in front of them for instance.