Anything that brings new people to video games will ultimately be good for everyone who makes games.
Depends, if you're stuck at the whim of a company approving or rejecting your software after developing it, hardware lockins preventing you from selling the game...
Doesn't really help developers and can in turn fragment the market from existing developers.
Based on every other product Apple has ever produced, a game console from them would be sleek, stylish, cost in excess of $900.00 (us), have only 3 titles available(each of which would require you to repurchase the title when a patch came out), and a controller with only button.
If they use military weapons on people, the people should bring weapons and respond in a militaristic style. This isn't fucking Europe.
It isn't soviet Russia either, but guess what I experienced when visiting? A check point on a major road, where every car was stopped and people were asked for identification.
- I'm using a laptop, and where are laptops often used? While traveling from hotel-to-hotel. And what kinds of connections do hotels typically have? Phone lines.
I travel a lot, but this... Almost everywhere (Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Poland, UK, France etc) I go they provide 802.11 wireless connections. If they don't provide those, they don't have internet you can use through your laptop usually (forced to use some public use computer). Hell, I've even had wireless in motels.
I have never even seen Internet access advertised via a phone service for hotels.
That said, I can't think of any ISP in Europe besides AOL that requires specialized software to get into it and AOL isn't really an issue since all you need installed is PengAOL. The idea of a hotel making their own seems even more obscure to me.
In XP days, there was a strict policy for all Windows dialogs (which was also a guideline for third-party applications) that they should all fit on screen in 640x480 - mostly because that's what "safe mode" used. Granted, this may have gone away in Vista, since even in "safe mode" it now boots into some reasonable VESA mode, but can you give any specific example of a Vista system dialog that doesn't fit on screen in 640x480?
Pretty much all the 'webbased' control panel dialogs can't display all their information in one go on a 640x480 resolution, much like on Linux.
Also, the Alt+drag trick won't help you in Ubuntu out of the box, because it uses Gnome, and that thing won't let you drag a window titlebar outside the screen.
In Gnome it's alt+menu key (just tested it a moment ago on Hardy).
Wrong - try getting Ubuntu to just run any networking out of the box when your network card involves any combination of Broadcom chips or Linksys wireless.
So, this thing called restricted manager popped up when after I installed Ubuntu telling me about certain hardware not working without some proprietary stuff. I clicked the check box for the broadcom card and it started downloading and installing something for it, then started working immediately after.
Wine and CrossOver are pretty sweet, but pretending that either one is anywhere close to 100% compatible (especially with new releases) is ridiculous.
I don't pretend, I just use. For some reason, there is a lot of people that assume I don't and just make up this stuff.
some other thing - like the video driver not doing hardware accel for no discernable reason (I've seen this three times, on three different versions of Linux across two different hardware configurations) - may prevent you from gaming.
That's easily resolved by just clicking the check-boxes for the hardware in restricted manager (installs proprietary drivers).
but when two CS students with five years of Linux expecerience between them can't figure it out in the first hour
I know people who have 10+ years experience with Windows and can't figure out how to change their wallpaper. Stating a profession and years of experience literally means nothing to me because I have seen all kinds of people being in places they shouldn't be.
the average computer user who is switching for the first time doesn't have a chance
Maybe, maybe not. This isn't really a point I can argue much with because I've seen a 19 year old guy unable to handle a icon being somewhere else and then I have seen a completely computer illiterate 60+ year old lady learn the Linux CLI on her own, without help, because she hated the mouse so much.
No they don't. There's networks for all sorts of things from Corporations to entire countries, and you don't need to use a specific email domain at all to join them.Try to join the quickfox network on facebook then.
- Connect to my ISP (the software connects and then crashes before I type my password) - Run my ISP's web accelerator software (simply doesn't run) - Run Internet Exploder (starts-up then crashes five minutes later) - Allow me to select 1000 songs, right-click on "open", and play those songs sequentially in VLC Player. Instead the stupid OS tries to open all 1000 songs at the same time. I had to yank the power cord to regain control. I haven't seen that level of poor design since AmigaOS 1.2 (1987).
Cannot reproduce here. All works fine for me.
- Won't properly emulate Atari games via StellaX (which works 100% on Windows but only 70% on Linux)
I couldn't find anything (things to load under it) to test it with. Admittedly I didn't look very long and I didn't want to touch those pirate sites which tend to contain more malware than anything.
- Adjusted the screen size to 640x480, and when I tried to go back to normal 1280x1024 mode, discovered the desktop properties window did not fit the screen.
Believe it or not, Windows Vista has the same problem. Fortunately you can move a Window in Linux DEs without using the program bar which Windows doesn't provide.
Normally that'd be no big deal except the "OK" button was inaccessible so my laptop is now permanently stuck in 640x480.
On Windows I used the tab key to get around it. Same method would of worked on Linux if you didn't know how to move the program bar.
- And that's just what I discovered during my first month of usage.
If you say so.
And now I will be labeled "troll" because I'm a customer who speaks the truth.
"Oh NO!!!! He speaks the truth, WE MUST STOP THIS BY MARKING THIS PERSON A TROLL"
No. Somehow, I don't really see most people on Slashdot thinking that way when they mark people as a troll.
Sure, getting me to install it will cost you 50GBP, and of course a additional 25.99GBP for the Crossover license if you don't already have one. The process will take me about several minutes (about the time it takes to install a very large amazing game under crossover).
Why is it even necessary, in this day and age, for a school to provide their students with email?
Off the top of my head... Facebook, student deals with software companies like Microsoft who verify you're on a.edu domain, people who are incapable of registering an e-mail address themselves etc. are things that come up to the top of my head.
You don't need to restart because Linux lacks a mechanism to prevent in-memory executable files and shared libraries from being overwritten on disk.
Actually *nix systems do have a mechanism to do so. The executable can place a write lock (fcntl, flock) on it's files if it really wants to. This is unlike Windows, as write locks are enforced by the OS - Which, as you can see - does not seem to be really giving that many benefits.
That's not how you do it, if you want to show off a interface in a advertisement type way, it's done like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au_uRmoy8Fs (and yes, this is a Linux based mobile phone)
Also, I doubt the N900 will compete with the iPhone in terms of UI niceness, it very much seems to be a web-geek/linux-geek oriented phone and will get away with that fact by being so focused. The only thing that kept me away from the iPhone has been the lack of a physical keyboard.
What was wrong with the UI shown in the videos linked that the iPhone does so much better?
You're a big fucking idiot, since you apparently don't know that the NeXT machines were based on Motorola 68k processors
NexT was initially developed for the Motorola 88000 RISC, then later ported to 68k due to issues with hardware demand.
and won't look it up
I don't need to. I already know. Besides, what reliable source did you get this from? I talked with some of the original people who developed the system which where I found out what I know.
They took ADB keyboards and mice
What does this have to do with anything?
That's two things you have no fucking clue about that you learned today.
Show me a more open touchscreen device with as much ease of use that I can get for a price anywhere near comparable to this one (I pay AUD$49 a month inc handset payments) and I'll consider switching.
Sure, no problem.
The Nokia N900 is going to be about the same price as an iPhone where I live. I have no idea about what it's going to be like locally to you, you know more about your local providers than I do (I only know of the phone company Telstra in Australia) so I'll leave that to you to find out.
It is a Completely opensource Linux platform, desktop applications can be in theory recompiled for it without little trouble. Nifty applications like OpenOffice.org have been ported to it.
The only problems I am aware of is that the US version won't have MMS support. Additionally, j2me applications won't be supported (but regular Java applications are) until a later OS update.
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Depends, if you're stuck at the whim of a company approving or rejecting your software after developing it, hardware lockins preventing you from selling the game...
Doesn't really help developers and can in turn fragment the market from existing developers.
I don't think so.
It isn't soviet Russia either, but guess what I experienced when visiting? A check point on a major road, where every car was stopped and people were asked for identification.
Guess what happened there?
Nothing.
Those things are still operating.
File locking with the contents of the user uid inside it in a /tmp type path?
If you can write to it, it's not locked. Make sure the lock you use doesn't prevent reading.
That is absolutely fine with the people who release their code under GPL. They want it in GPL applications, not Shareware.
Feel free to release your own Shareware compatible libraries.
Their goals are different from yours.
I think it froze up for a tenth of a second here. I just noticed I couldn't scroll for a very, very short moment.
I'm on a Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5450 @ 1.66GHz with VMware running in the background.
Maybe you installed some bad extensions?
Or maybe AMD is just crap *shrugs*.
Whoooooooosh!
I travel a lot, but this... Almost everywhere (Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Poland, UK, France etc) I go they provide 802.11 wireless connections. If they don't provide those, they don't have internet you can use through your laptop usually (forced to use some public use computer). Hell, I've even had wireless in motels.
I have never even seen Internet access advertised via a phone service for hotels.
That said, I can't think of any ISP in Europe besides AOL that requires specialized software to get into it and AOL isn't really an issue since all you need installed is PengAOL. The idea of a hotel making their own seems even more obscure to me.
I went out of my way to test it here. It's working fine.
As I was saying, they would likely marked you troll for another reason, beyond the one you claimed.
Pretty much all the 'webbased' control panel dialogs can't display all their information in one go on a 640x480 resolution, much like on Linux.
In Gnome it's alt+menu key (just tested it a moment ago on Hardy).
So, this thing called restricted manager popped up when after I installed Ubuntu telling me about certain hardware not working without some proprietary stuff. I clicked the check box for the broadcom card and it started downloading and installing something for it, then started working immediately after.
Most drivers are compiled as kernel modules and loaded only when needed.
I don't pretend, I just use. For some reason, there is a lot of people that assume I don't and just make up this stuff.
That's easily resolved by just clicking the check-boxes for the hardware in restricted manager (installs proprietary drivers).
I know people who have 10+ years experience with Windows and can't figure out how to change their wallpaper. Stating a profession and years of experience literally means nothing to me because I have seen all kinds of people being in places they shouldn't be.
Maybe, maybe not. This isn't really a point I can argue much with because I've seen a 19 year old guy unable to handle a icon being somewhere else and then I have seen a completely computer illiterate 60+ year old lady learn the Linux CLI on her own, without help, because she hated the mouse so much.
It's working fine here.
Cannot reproduce here. All works fine for me.
I couldn't find anything (things to load under it) to test it with. Admittedly I didn't look very long and I didn't want to touch those pirate sites which tend to contain more malware than anything.
Believe it or not, Windows Vista has the same problem. Fortunately you can move a Window in Linux DEs without using the program bar which Windows doesn't provide.
On Windows I used the tab key to get around it. Same method would of worked on Linux if you didn't know how to move the program bar.
If you say so.
"Oh NO!!!! He speaks the truth, WE MUST STOP THIS BY MARKING THIS PERSON A TROLL"
No. Somehow, I don't really see most people on Slashdot thinking that way when they mark people as a troll.
Sure, getting me to install it will cost you 50GBP, and of course a additional 25.99GBP for the Crossover license if you don't already have one. The process will take me about several minutes (about the time it takes to install a very large amazing game under crossover).
You do to join a network, as it always has been.
Off the top of my head... Facebook, student deals with software companies like Microsoft who verify you're on a .edu domain, people who are incapable of registering an e-mail address themselves etc. are things that come up to the top of my head.
Fullscreen is working fine here?
Actually *nix systems do have a mechanism to do so. The executable can place a write lock (fcntl, flock) on it's files if it really wants to. This is unlike Windows, as write locks are enforced by the OS - Which, as you can see - does not seem to be really giving that many benefits.
That's not how you do it, if you want to show off a interface in a advertisement type way, it's done like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au_uRmoy8Fs (and yes, this is a Linux based mobile phone)
What was wrong with the UI shown in the videos linked that the iPhone does so much better?
NexT was initially developed for the Motorola 88000 RISC, then later ported to 68k due to issues with hardware demand.
I don't need to. I already know. Besides, what reliable source did you get this from? I talked with some of the original people who developed the system which where I found out what I know.
What does this have to do with anything?
If you say so.
Sure, no problem.
The Nokia N900 is going to be about the same price as an iPhone where I live. I have no idea about what it's going to be like locally to you, you know more about your local providers than I do (I only know of the phone company Telstra in Australia) so I'll leave that to you to find out.
It is a Completely opensource Linux platform, desktop applications can be in theory recompiled for it without little trouble. Nifty applications like OpenOffice.org have been ported to it.
Here is a demo of the UI, since you seem to be focused on ease of use.
Here is a spiffy ad showing off the UI.
The only problems I am aware of is that the US version won't have MMS support. Additionally, j2me applications won't be supported (but regular Java applications are) until a later OS update.
Hope this information was some use to you.