I think the Unreal Tournament solution is better. You buy a CD that runs on Windows, but also installs on Linux. Better than trying to market a separate Linux version. You sell games, the fact that it will run on both Windows and Linux only increases the popularity of the game. The percentage of profit of Linux vs Windows doesn't matter in this type of situation. People that dual boot will buy it, and those who spend more time in Linux than Windows will install it on their Linux partition.
Think of it like level editors. Not everyone makes their own levels in a game, but game companies include them because it adds value to the software. Just as the ability of running a game on Linux adds value. I doubt these companies are overly stressed about recouping the cost of the level editor.
Why would the workers have more rights over the shareholders, who have invested cold hard cash?
Because they do the work ?
You can shove all the cash you want into an empty building, and nothing will get done if there is no one to do anything with it.
To come up with percentage numbers of employees to dump, is crap. To have a hard look at your workforce and focus is something else... but you should always try and keep your employees employed if you can, because what they produce is your product (unless your ENRON or something) and you can't sell a product if you have no one to make it.
Investing in something is a gamble. If your investment isn't paying off, then reinvest it in something else. If you are managing a company, sure you want to make money for your investors.. but your main task is to focus on running the business and producing something you can sell. Profit will follow this. If you are a worker, you do the tasks your assigned to do, and your reward is a stable job., If you don't your out the door. If the person assigning the tasks is assigning the wrong ones they should be out the door, not the worker.. You don't fire people for an investor.. screw them, they can invest elsewhere.. the workers at the company are the company.
That being said, I was always amazed at the beginning when people invested in Yahoo. I didn't really see how they were going to make money., but they are still there, so they must have figured something out.
Star Trek tells you the star-date often in the episodes and movies, where as Star Wars was "a long time ago" in a galaxy far far away (kind of vague isn't it ?). So it's only logical that Star Trek fans get more dates.
I accept that Windows has the game market, but is it really "better" for the job ? I don't accept that.
If no one said anything about Linux (or Windows for that matter) how would anybody learn anything ?
Talking trash is something else altogether, but even in that there is "sometimes" relevant information. Opinions and information are also tools for the old toolkit.
You'll notice the dates on these stories... just in case your going by rewritten history.
If you want to relive February 2003, google will help you.. but the sad history is really hysteria, I myself just could not believe that my government would ignore the rest of the world, and just do what ever they wanted. I was unfortunately wrong.
It sounds to me like you don't think your company is capable. Firefox, and OpenOffice are available for both the Windows and Linux platforms. Do you think that they beleive there is no customer base for Linux ? Why would they continue to waste time developing for Linux if that were the case ? Why would IBM ?
There is absolutely no reason you can not sell closed source applications for Linux. There are others doing just that. That mainstream game developers seem to miss the boat in this market is their loss. I think the problem most commercial application developers have with Linux is the competition. Their are (according to synaptic) 18,500 software packages that I can install. granted some of these are small command line utilities, but there is a LOT of software available out there, and your competition is giving it away. There are some Windows only applications that I would pay for if they were available for Linux, and there are some that I own that I have used (and tried and failed to use) with Wine. The market is there if you really want it. As to support problems, I would image them to be less of a nightmare, not greater.
The thing is that mp3's can be made by anybody (with the proper software) and they can be named various variations of names, and can be made with various levels of sound quality, bitrate, etc.. A direct copy of an original digital file would of course be different. I personaly don't see how recording a mixed tape and giving it to a freind is any different than converting CD's to mp3's and sharing it with a freind. The fact that is is easier on the internet is I suppose the difference. If you made tapes and tried selling them, or you made CD's with mp3's and tried selling them then I could see a problem. I also see no problems with someone regularly scrubbing their hard drive of logs and files if they are paranoid, which is their right, just as it is their right to erase their browser history and cookies etc... sure it's suspicious, but prove wrong doing externaly then. Unless the computer is seized unexpectedly, I would think a removable second drive could be used to contain the files, and since the operating system is on the main drive how would they know that watever removable drive was submited with the main drive was or wasn't being used all along ?
There are people behind coporations. If it's a private corporation owned by individuals then they are spending their own money the way they want. If it's a public corporation is where I run into a problem with it.. The officers of a corporation spending investors money on candidate A or B should not be allowed unless the investors vote to. I have the same problem with unions.. Do all the members of a union vote on who or what they support, or does the upper echelon ?
Hypercard was pretty cool. I'm sure they could do a whole lot more starting from scratch... btw I'm a linux guy, just going from memory of my fathers Mac.. he loved hypercard.. course he thought he was "programming", but I wasn't about to tell him otherwise.
Haven't read the specs for the proposed app, but for finding forums surely google can do that. If you want automation to it, then the forums would all have to have rss feeds, and I am pretty sure there are lots of rss feed readers as browser extensions. I suppose if someone simplified the finding and adding of rss forum feeds it might be useful. I myself really only use rss for BBC headlines.. not that I don't think rss isn't cool, it is.
So now the number of "smoking allowed" bars is 0. Lets say they allow 2 bars in NYC to have smoking.. You now have god knows how many other places to go. Does it bother you that there are these 2 places ? As I said, a total ban is just too much government in private enterprise.
Don't know where your located, but even in most places where they don't yet have these laws.. There are non smoking sections in resturants.. but I beleive I was taking about alcohol.. and yes there are restaurants besides fast food that don't serve alcohol (usually. but not always, becasue they can't get a liquor license)
As I posted above.. There are many different types of bars catering to different tastes and lifestyles. What is it to a non smoker if there are places where a smoker can drink and smoke ? You can always "walk your long curve" around it and just not go there. Again if the market for smoke free bars is there, which I guess there must be because voters have voted in these laws, then smart buisnessmen will make their bar smoke free. But by banning it completely you have taken away the choice of bars to have a place where people who smoke can go. So again what is it to a non smoker if there are bars where there is smoking as long as they have a non smoking bar they can go to elsewhere ?
Why shouldn't a buisness be allow to subscribe to the customer base they want to ? No one is forcing a non smoker to go to a place where people are smoking. Just as a bar is a place where they serve alchoholic beverages, no one forces non drinkers to go to a bar. Why can't there be a bar where people who smoke can drink ? What's to a non-smoker ? just don't go to that place. Some people don't like sports, or bikers, or trance music, or whatever else the bar is catering to.. when people don't like it, they just don't go there.. You don't ban it for everyone.
I won't call you anti smoking nazis, a little too harsh. However, I think that banning smoking in all resturants and particularly bars is too much government control. It's like this.. If you want a non smoking place to drink, then some enterprising person will start such a place. Then with this huge non-smoking crowd out there, they would flock to it.. leaving the smokers to their place in peace.. where the bar now empty because of the migration to non-smoking establishments will die from lack of buisness. Why do you have to ban it everywhere ? Many people do not like drinkers either, so to follow the smoking example we just ban alchohol in all resturants ? or do you have places where non drinkers can eat ?
I think what he is saying is that privacy is not a law. There are laws to protect you from some invasions of things like medical records. But the laws broken to obtain such information is not "invasion of privacy" but things like treaspassing, theft, and fraud...That's my take on it anyway.
In trying to correct myself (streamtuner not steam) I thought I would try and find a URL for Windows version.. cant find it anymore.. sorry bout that. You still might find streamripper plugin for winamp handy though.
Was NFL games, not Howard. And when I looked into it before (a few months ago) you had to have IE and active-x. Their web site was so uninformative (was NFL included ?) that I wrote them but never heard back. Great customer (proposed customer anyway) service there.
Internet radio for music ? Shoutcast works well for me. I get it through streamtuner (windows versions also avail) which is better than through the shoutcast web site in my opinion... streamtuner, streamripper, xmms for Linux.. or steamtuner, streamripper, winamp for Windows and you'll be happy internet radio campers. (except that damn NFL.. thought it might go well with Fantasy Football)
I beleive that both educated and wealthy people can easily become obese. Being educated does not mean that you will use your knowledge to take care of yourself. It is probably a lot harder for an already obese person to become educated or wealthy. Of real concern is obesity in children (many from educated and well off families), and of course the epidemic of diabetes in the US.
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To sacriface your own happiness to make someone else happy may seem like the right thing to do... But think about it in reverse... Do you want others to sacrifice their happiness to make you happy ?... So I say it is not selfish to put your happiness first and you should not think others are selfish if they do the same... However, I will also say that if sacrificing "something" to make another person happy, makes you happy, there is nothing wrong with that (in fact I do that alot)
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Sorry to interject here.. But I have to point out something I learned a long time ago, but have occasionaly forgotten. Happiness is a state of mind. You choose to be happy or not. Another person can not make you happy. It is not selfish to put your happiness first. This does not mean you should be irresponsible. However, to stay in a bad relationship just because it is "expected" does neither any good. Your comment of putting others before yourself is nobel, but it only works if the other person does the same for you.. and the rub is, that one or the other will always feel that the scale is tipped toward their doing more, even if not true... If it can be done "truely" without mental scorekeeping that would be great.. just never seen it.. It's a lot like the old phrase "forgive and forget",.. nice in theory...
No, there is a difference between saying things people want to hear, and the truth. The fact that someone likes what someone says doesn't mean it's true. The fact that someone beleives something to be true doesn't mean it's true either. I guess what would be interesting about this, is when someone knows (or beleives) something to not be true and says it. They are then lying (even if the thing they said turns out to be true)
I try very hard to shrug off the conspiracy theory thing. I gave the whole twin towers falling into neat piles, the benifit of the doubt. However there is one peice of conspiracy theroy that I can't shake.. And that's the Pentagon plane disappearing wings an all into that neat little hole. I just do not see how this is possible. If the Pentagon crash is impossible, then the events of the other crashes that day are suspect. So, you can fear the bearded boogyman if you want, but I think perhaps your fear is misplaced. So call me a nut.. I don't care, but I think anyone who beleives the official version of the Penagon crash is not only crazy but blind.
I beleive that this law, is too vague. So therfore I have decided that I will reinterpret it myself. I cite the precendence for doing so, as George Bush and the interpretaions of the Treaty of the Geneva Convention. In that case an agreement of the world, (can't get much bigger than that) is much like the Constitution "just a god damned peice of paper"
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Think of it like level editors. Not everyone makes their own levels in a game, but game companies include them because it adds value to the software. Just as the ability of running a game on Linux adds value. I doubt these companies are overly stressed about recouping the cost of the level editor.
Because they do the work ?
You can shove all the cash you want into an empty building, and nothing will get done if there is no one to do anything with it.
To come up with percentage numbers of employees to dump, is crap. To have a hard look at your workforce and focus is something else... but you should always try and keep your employees employed if you can, because what they produce is your product (unless your ENRON or something) and you can't sell a product if you have no one to make it.
Investing in something is a gamble. If your investment isn't paying off, then reinvest it in something else. If you are managing a company, sure you want to make money for your investors.. but your main task is to focus on running the business and producing something you can sell. Profit will follow this. If you are a worker, you do the tasks your assigned to do, and your reward is a stable job., If you don't your out the door. If the person assigning the tasks is assigning the wrong ones they should be out the door, not the worker.. You don't fire people for an investor.. screw them, they can invest elsewhere.. the workers at the company are the company.
That being said, I was always amazed at the beginning when people invested in Yahoo. I didn't really see how they were going to make money., but they are still there, so they must have figured something out.
The one that runs Firefox.
Star Trek tells you the star-date often in the episodes and movies, where as Star Wars was "a long time ago" in a galaxy far far away (kind of vague isn't it ?). So it's only logical that Star Trek fans get more dates.
If no one said anything about Linux (or Windows for that matter) how would anybody learn anything ?
Talking trash is something else altogether, but even in that there is "sometimes" relevant information. Opinions and information are also tools for the old toolkit.
here's something else .. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2727471.stm
and other stuff .. http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/02/15/sprj.irq .protests.europe/
You'll notice the dates on these stories... just in case your going by rewritten history.
If you want to relive February 2003, google will help you.. but the sad history is really hysteria, I myself just could not believe that my government would ignore the rest of the world, and just do what ever they wanted. I was unfortunately wrong.
There is absolutely no reason you can not sell closed source applications for Linux. There are others doing just that. That mainstream game developers seem to miss the boat in this market is their loss. I think the problem most commercial application developers have with Linux is the competition. Their are (according to synaptic) 18,500 software packages that I can install. granted some of these are small command line utilities, but there is a LOT of software available out there, and your competition is giving it away. There are some Windows only applications that I would pay for if they were available for Linux, and there are some that I own that I have used (and tried and failed to use) with Wine. The market is there if you really want it. As to support problems, I would image them to be less of a nightmare, not greater.
The thing is that mp3's can be made by anybody (with the proper software) and they can be named various variations of names, and can be made with various levels of sound quality, bitrate, etc.. A direct copy of an original digital file would of course be different. I personaly don't see how recording a mixed tape and giving it to a freind is any different than converting CD's to mp3's and sharing it with a freind. The fact that is is easier on the internet is I suppose the difference. If you made tapes and tried selling them, or you made CD's with mp3's and tried selling them then I could see a problem. I also see no problems with someone regularly scrubbing their hard drive of logs and files if they are paranoid, which is their right, just as it is their right to erase their browser history and cookies etc... sure it's suspicious, but prove wrong doing externaly then. Unless the computer is seized unexpectedly, I would think a removable second drive could be used to contain the files, and since the operating system is on the main drive how would they know that watever removable drive was submited with the main drive was or wasn't being used all along ?
There are people behind coporations. If it's a private corporation owned by individuals then they are spending their own money the way they want. If it's a public corporation is where I run into a problem with it.. The officers of a corporation spending investors money on candidate A or B should not be allowed unless the investors vote to. I have the same problem with unions.. Do all the members of a union vote on who or what they support, or does the upper echelon ?
Hypercard was pretty cool. I'm sure they could do a whole lot more starting from scratch... btw I'm a linux guy, just going from memory of my fathers Mac.. he loved hypercard.. course he thought he was "programming", but I wasn't about to tell him otherwise.
Haven't read the specs for the proposed app, but for finding forums surely google can do that. If you want automation to it, then the forums would all have to have rss feeds, and I am pretty sure there are lots of rss feed readers as browser extensions. I suppose if someone simplified the finding and adding of rss forum feeds it might be useful. I myself really only use rss for BBC headlines.. not that I don't think rss isn't cool, it is.
So now the number of "smoking allowed" bars is 0. Lets say they allow 2 bars in NYC to have smoking.. You now have god knows how many other places to go. Does it bother you that there are these 2 places ? As I said, a total ban is just too much government in private enterprise.
Don't know where your located, but even in most places where they don't yet have these laws.. There are non smoking sections in resturants.. but I beleive I was taking about alcohol.. and yes there are restaurants besides fast food that don't serve alcohol (usually. but not always, becasue they can't get a liquor license)
As I posted above.. There are many different types of bars catering to different tastes and lifestyles. What is it to a non smoker if there are places where a smoker can drink and smoke ? You can always "walk your long curve" around it and just not go there. Again if the market for smoke free bars is there, which I guess there must be because voters have voted in these laws, then smart buisnessmen will make their bar smoke free. But by banning it completely you have taken away the choice of bars to have a place where people who smoke can go. So again what is it to a non smoker if there are bars where there is smoking as long as they have a non smoking bar they can go to elsewhere ?
Why shouldn't a buisness be allow to subscribe to the customer base they want to ? No one is forcing a non smoker to go to a place where people are smoking. Just as a bar is a place where they serve alchoholic beverages, no one forces non drinkers to go to a bar. Why can't there be a bar where people who smoke can drink ? What's to a non-smoker ? just don't go to that place. Some people don't like sports, or bikers, or trance music, or whatever else the bar is catering to.. when people don't like it, they just don't go there.. You don't ban it for everyone.
I won't call you anti smoking nazis, a little too harsh. However, I think that banning smoking in all resturants and particularly bars is too much government control. It's like this.. If you want a non smoking place to drink, then some enterprising person will start such a place. Then with this huge non-smoking crowd out there, they would flock to it.. leaving the smokers to their place in peace.. where the bar now empty because of the migration to non-smoking establishments will die from lack of buisness. Why do you have to ban it everywhere ? Many people do not like drinkers either, so to follow the smoking example we just ban alchohol in all resturants ? or do you have places where non drinkers can eat ?
I think what he is saying is that privacy is not a law. There are laws to protect you from some invasions of things like medical records. But the laws broken to obtain such information is not "invasion of privacy" but things like treaspassing, theft, and fraud...That's my take on it anyway.
In trying to correct myself (streamtuner not steam) I thought I would try and find a URL for Windows version.. cant find it anymore.. sorry bout that. You still might find streamripper plugin for winamp handy though.
Internet radio for music ? Shoutcast works well for me. I get it through streamtuner (windows versions also avail) which is better than through the shoutcast web site in my opinion... streamtuner, streamripper, xmms for Linux.. or steamtuner, streamripper, winamp for Windows and you'll be happy internet radio campers. (except that damn NFL.. thought it might go well with Fantasy Football)
I beleive that both educated and wealthy people can easily become obese. Being educated does not mean that you will use your knowledge to take care of yourself. It is probably a lot harder for an already obese person to become educated or wealthy. Of real concern is obesity in children (many from educated and well off families), and of course the epidemic of diabetes in the US.
To sacriface your own happiness to make someone else happy may seem like the right thing to do... But think about it in reverse... Do you want others to sacrifice their happiness to make you happy ? ... So I say it is not selfish to put your happiness first and you should not think others are selfish if they do the same... However, I will also say that if sacrificing "something" to make another person happy, makes you happy, there is nothing wrong with that (in fact I do that alot)
Sorry to interject here.. But I have to point out something I learned a long time ago, but have occasionaly forgotten. Happiness is a state of mind. You choose to be happy or not. Another person can not make you happy. It is not selfish to put your happiness first. This does not mean you should be irresponsible. However, to stay in a bad relationship just because it is "expected" does neither any good. Your comment of putting others before yourself is nobel, but it only works if the other person does the same for you.. and the rub is, that one or the other will always feel that the scale is tipped toward their doing more, even if not true... If it can be done "truely" without mental scorekeeping that would be great.. just never seen it.. It's a lot like the old phrase "forgive and forget",.. nice in theory...
No, there is a difference between saying things people want to hear, and the truth. The fact that someone likes what someone says doesn't mean it's true. The fact that someone beleives something to be true doesn't mean it's true either. I guess what would be interesting about this, is when someone knows (or beleives) something to not be true and says it. They are then lying (even if the thing they said turns out to be true)
I try very hard to shrug off the conspiracy theory thing. I gave the whole twin towers falling into neat piles, the benifit of the doubt. However there is one peice of conspiracy theroy that I can't shake.. And that's the Pentagon plane disappearing wings an all into that neat little hole. I just do not see how this is possible. If the Pentagon crash is impossible, then the events of the other crashes that day are suspect. So, you can fear the bearded boogyman if you want, but I think perhaps your fear is misplaced. So call me a nut.. I don't care, but I think anyone who beleives the official version of the Penagon crash is not only crazy but blind.
I beleive that this law, is too vague. So therfore I have decided that I will reinterpret it myself. I cite the precendence for doing so, as George Bush and the interpretaions of the Treaty of the Geneva Convention. In that case an agreement of the world, (can't get much bigger than that) is much like the Constitution "just a god damned peice of paper"