Google seems to inspire this kind of behaviour for some reason. The have been lots of websites like krugle who search a big db of code, and these things didn't come up until google launched this.
I think that even more important then the service being free is this: (from TFA)
Linspire will release a new open-source CNR client in December as part of Freespire 1.1, the next release of the company's free Linux distribution. This distribution also includes, at the user's option, proprietary software such as Adobe Acrobat and ATI Graphic drivers.
Something must have lost balance over the years becasue I remember playing Monkey Island and getting stuck a few times, but not enough to have to go and read a guide. Maybe it's a mix of information availability and the wrong balance of game developers toward this issue.
I don't normally agree with Linus Torvalds, but quoting him on a recent interview:
I don't think five-year planned economies work, and I don't think it works when you do software design, either. Linux development has always been a kind of open market, where the development direction gets set by customer demand, together with obviously a lot of what I simply call good taste--the avoidance of things that are obviously going to be problematic in the long run.
If you do things right, and hear out the users, eventually you will have a much more solid product.
Focusing on marketing that much usually tends to drive tech-related stuff into the ground.
Many network products today claim to 'offload' network calculations (like checksum, tcp segmentation, etc.). Those technologies are usually only for TCP/IP networking (which most games that Hardcore Gamers play don't use). Those technologies are also incomplete as they still go through multiple layers of the gaming network stack to eventually get data to the game. With Killer, we completely bypass your gaming PC's operating system and go directly from our card to the game. Our card automatically handles things like IP Reassembly, UDP/IP checksum, UDP and IP header verification and stripping, etc, etc, etc. By bypassing your gaming PC's operating system and allowing Killer to handle everything, Killer can achieve levels of gaming network performance well beyond the offloading features claimed by other consumer networking products (NICs or onboard chipsets).
Taking a look at what others have done to solve these issues seems like the best option. I think it's very unlikely you will find books in that area considering that when you reach a certain level of complexity technology changes too fast to make a book relevant.
I think that as long as there is a bigger influence of non-tech executives and marketing departments, this is going to keep on going. It's very hard to understand the long term benefits if you don't have some technical skill and have made that mistake a few times. There should be a balance that clearly isn't there most of the time.
I am trying to picture myself working all day in front of the PC standing up, but something just doesn't quiete click. It feels the other way around, like I wouldn't be able to concentrate that deeply. Being able to relax seems to be important to concentrate on something specific, even lying down sounds like I'd be more concentrated.
Like a few people have already pointed out, I don't see mass migration towards Suse either. On the other hand, you have the Munich experience which are going to a homegrown red hat based solution, and there is also the big Ubuntu bubble building up. I don't see Suse easting up any kind of market no matter how much they improve it.
Finally some stories are kicking in that the balance is being pushed in favour of consumers instead of the other way. I think corporations should be punished heavily when they try to get away with abusive practices to trim down the ammount of users that get abused and also to be fair to the corporations who really do make an effort in being fair.
Yes, exactly what everybody was hoping for, a robot that crashes in the middle of moving around heavy machinery over our heads and spits out blue... eyes?
"The Camtasia Studio video content presented here requires JavaScript to be enabled and the latest version of the Macromedia Flash Player. If you are you using a browser with JavaScript disabled please enable it now. Otherwise, please update your version of the free Flash Player by downloading here."
Seems it only wirks for windows folks with the latest flash... why would they do a site like this and leave most linux users out of it??
As far as I know, common sense is to use VB for small and medium non-critical apps that need speed of development over anything else. I'm not sure what type of app you're aiming at, but C++ and Java come to mind as solid choices.
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Google seems to inspire this kind of behaviour for some reason. The have been lots of websites like krugle who search a big db of code, and these things didn't come up until google launched this.
Have you even used windows?
I don't know anyone who wouldn't trade it up for ANYTHING that supported the apps the use on a regular basis.
Well, someone has to provide internet on a plain.
How else are you suppose to email the pictures of the snakes?
As a follower of firefox since day 1, reading that in a place as big as slashdot really made a tear drop.
Better search results
(from TFA)
Something must have lost balance over the years becasue I remember playing Monkey Island and getting stuck a few times, but not enough to have to go and read a guide.
Maybe it's a mix of information availability and the wrong balance of game developers toward this issue.
I can see they finally put some marketing behind the project, "Children's Machine 1" doesn't sound old-fashion and too technical at all...
If you do things right, and hear out the users, eventually you will have a much more solid product. Focusing on marketing that much usually tends to drive tech-related stuff into the ground.
Taking a look at what others have done to solve these issues seems like the best option.
I think it's very unlikely you will find books in that area considering that when you reach a certain level of complexity technology changes too fast to make a book relevant.
The real question is: will it run linux?
oh, wait...
Well, for starters, you shouldn't ever rely on "security via obscurity".
I think that as long as there is a bigger influence of non-tech executives and marketing departments, this is going to keep on going.
It's very hard to understand the long term benefits if you don't have some technical skill and have made that mistake a few times.
There should be a balance that clearly isn't there most of the time.
I am trying to picture myself working all day in front of the PC standing up, but something just doesn't quiete click.
It feels the other way around, like I wouldn't be able to concentrate that deeply.
Being able to relax seems to be important to concentrate on something specific, even lying down sounds like I'd be more concentrated.
Like a few people have already pointed out, I don't see mass migration towards Suse either.
On the other hand, you have the Munich experience which are going to a homegrown red hat based solution, and there is also the big Ubuntu bubble building up.
I don't see Suse easting up any kind of market no matter how much they improve it.
Finally some stories are kicking in that the balance is being pushed in favour of consumers instead of the other way.
I think corporations should be punished heavily when they try to get away with abusive practices to trim down the ammount of users that get abused and also to be fair to the corporations who really do make an effort in being fair.
I understand that PHP has a very solid newbie user base, but let's not forget monstrous sites like Digg and Wikipedia run on PHP + MySQL
Yes, exactly what everybody was hoping for, a robot that crashes in the middle of moving around heavy machinery over our heads and spits out blue... eyes?
It has been a while since I've seen a post unanswered for so long
Flash 8 is never going to make it to Linux, Macromedia/Adobe have said they're working on Flash 9 for Linux and skipping the current version.
Actually, I noticed later on they do provide an OGG download for linux users...
"The Camtasia Studio video content presented here requires JavaScript to be enabled and the latest version of the Macromedia Flash Player. If you are you using a browser with JavaScript disabled please enable it now. Otherwise, please update your version of the free Flash Player by downloading here."
Seems it only wirks for windows folks with the latest flash...
why would they do a site like this and leave most linux users out of it??
Well, Digg runs on PHP + MySQL and don't seem to me exploding all over the place...
As far as I know, common sense is to use VB for small and medium non-critical apps that need speed of development over anything else.
I'm not sure what type of app you're aiming at, but C++ and Java come to mind as solid choices.