What do you get from 620 Euros and what kind of money you should spend just to fix interface issues, browser issues and even video play performance issues?
We got a company in hand who acquires Trolltech, maker of state of art multiplatform SDK and continue to ship.NET crap.
Wasted enough karma really... Yea, N97 is cheaper...
Sadly all the stuff you mention could be fixed if Nokia didn't have this attention disorder disease like state. As you probably know, all are software problems. Hardware is fine, damn fine.
Now instead of fixing their flagship, they do shadowy deal with MSFT which will result in very serious consequences (like MS would ever code better for Symbian), ship a me too netbook to unknown territory (like Google's mobile OS) and expect success with fans like that idiot moderator abused all his mod points to mod me flamebait.
I feel sad for the hardware wasted and Apple becoming the king of smart phones with a device which breaks all kinds of smartphone principles/concept.
They just can't unify the device flash with SD card could they? All they would need would be ZFS which would guarantee existing things won't break. Just Symbolic link E:... Anyway, apparently they won't listen and we waste our money and time...
In 1990s, Atari 800XL (8 bit) had a real virus, some hacker friend showed to me in amusement while he didn't write it. BTW, it could be some real elite thing as guy is one of people who could easily make a sound sampler abusing joystick port, 6502 BASIC's inline ASM and a mic.
As poor Atari 800XL was way less popular than C64, perhaps C64 had a virus too? Just guessing, never really been to C64 scene.
Viruses lived their glory while there was no internet/bbs/updates/communities. They got distributed easily with floppies.
As a guy in media, thinking like evil PR guy, what MS should make instead of astroturfing is doing a legal campaign like "Windows 7, leave no one behind".
Of course, it is horribly wrong information, as a owner of Quad G5, Apple's most expensive G5 workstation, I don't WANT pure 64bit on my system. It has been documented multiple times that PowerPC 64bit (and POWER) hates needless pure 64bit providing no advantages like Intel "plugin AMD 64bit" CPU.
Of course, MS is slow to use that kind of timeframe when all PPC (non technical) users feel abandoned while it is not the case.
Remember how damn clever Apple was to abuse Y2K panic with HAL campaign? Let me remind you, they were showing off with pre OS X, the one doesn't have multi tasking while MS had their state of art NT 4 in the market.
OpenCL? Did IBM contribute a single line to it? heh, it is not their market anyway. Snow Leopard proves how clever Apple was to get rid of PowerPC while the specs look extremely good on paper, Altivec is some state of art tech which even made to mainframes (Z10) and there is nothing to do with IBM on Desktop CPU.
If Apple used OpenCL to harness the power of GPU while doing H264 compression and people would see their videos compress 10x faster when they check "Use OpenCL", you would be sure they would end up demanding OpenCL support for all their apps and even Windows.
But no (I guess?), the evil Quicktime department happily ignored that possibility, just like they asked for money for fullscreen support for years and making the Quicktime once had 70% market share miss the boat.
That is also the same department having World's most popular trailer site and yet ignore Quicktime's amazing skinning/multiple layering/bandwidh and CPU detection capabilities and throw 10mbit "streaming" (!) links to users instead of showing them to public. They could just use plain MP4 with that kind of usage.
BTW, I am guessing since I don't see "compress your videos 10x faster" on Quicktime X page.
Nokia one is more expensive, even in Finland since iPhone got a rock solid developer community who keeps releasing stuff. I didn't hear Apple releasing a netbook based on Windows while they try to achieve success using a different OS invite users to have different concept of doing things portable. That is what Nokia is doing. Releasing a Netbook based on Windows while you keep releasing small netbook like devices running Symbian S60 will destroy more developer trust.
You would never get such mixed signals from Apple. Apple phones/computers runs OS X, best developed on XCode (while terminal works) with combination of Objective C and Cocoa. That is one hell of a roadmap for you.
This kind of schizoid behavior of Nokia lately ended up FT of Germany claiming Nokia giving up Symbian for Linux. Now, that is a very alerting thing and it is only Nokia who doesn't get alerted. Developing a mobile application and making it successful product is way more hard than anyone would think and the last thing you need is a company who isn't sure where to go.
Instead of a me-too Windows netbook, they could come up with a tiny 3G, never seen before specs USB key carrying Nokia brand which you can use on netbooks but no, of course, they must have some shadowy weird deals with their rival on same segment (WinMO), MS and they must do a favor to them.
As an E65/9300 and SE P1i owner who runs Symbian, I am glad I didn't jump to N97. I hope the idiots doing these actions will be really investigated at some point in future.
There is some Nokia fan mod lately on slashdot who keeps getting mod points until someone finally meta-moderate his mod abuse. Unfortunately, it seems he/she has never, ever used Nokia devices, especially smart phones with Windows.
Nokia PC Suite for Windows weights 450MB after install unless one wasn't lucky(!) enough to install their.NET only apps like Map Loader which itself is 20 MB but needs 2 GB.NET to run.
I didn't say a word about the bulk of stuff added to startup which may result in 2-3 minute boots if the machine&hd is slow and fragmented.
Dear Moderator, stay away from Nokia stories on Slashdot or at least install Nokia PC Suite&others before you moderate. Now flamebait me too.
Buy a S40 cheap Nokia phone with 3G connectivity support. You will be amazed at its durability, speed and battery life. Combine it with a netbook from a company who really knows how things work and not at schizoid state like Nokia, be happy.
I am telling it as a owner of 2 high end Nokia Symbian devices. Stay away. They have no clue where they are heading.
Nokia finally releases N97 to their still remaining fanbase at Europe&Parts of Asia for a price which is possibly higher than a "real laptop" (think like average joe or hans) with 12&24 month contracts and 780 Euros price in some areas when bought without contract.
I don't hear good things about N97 and besides some usual Symbian haters, some makes huge sense and they have a good point like the usual device flash/SD card schizophrenia, things being there but not performing well (Facebook) and very mixed signals with the latest Linux based netbook like thing.
Now they release this information for what reason exactly? To make more remaining customers of high end bang their heads to wall? One doesn't need to be a commercial spy to figure this has a big deal to do with MS Office deal with MSFT. The deal which didn't do anything but guaranteed state of the art Quickoffice to be abandoned for Symbian and moved to iPhone at some point in the future.
You don't know them enough. Nokia always chooses whatever fits to that particular product. Netbook? Windows for them.
It is not like Nokia is your average Windows hater company. It is kinda blurry on OS X with iSync etc. but Nokia smart phones best works with Windows on the other end. It is basic as that. Their Nokia Multimedia Transfer (still beta) could have been released for OS X but there is nothing to fill PC Suite's place on OS X. I would be very very surprised if they contributed a single line to KDE's sync solutions, even after Qt acquisition.
This is a company who pays millions to Trolltech (while they are doing extremely fine) and release first Qt for S60 demo in.exe form! After I see that page (link below) I went to all IRC channels I frequent to take my "Use Nokia, it is cool with Python, open, Qt is coming too" suggestions back. For most people, it is Ovi App store which made people lose their hopes. For me? It was that basic blog entry meant no harm but showed what kind of waste Nokia did by purchasing Qt. Thank God, Qt is GPL and already has gigantic prestige in commercial development with a huge community on Linux&BSD.
I am sure they forced the early release, something OTHER THAN WINDOWS will be supported at one point but just imagine a Qt&Linux developers face when he is greeted with.exe with the excuse of emulator being WINDOWS ONLY. I really hope Nokia is more ashamed than me. Yes, I actually feel ashamed for doing their PR work to Developers for free, with information making complete sense but wrong.
Of course, as captains saw it, they spoke openly about it since nobody would send them to psychological checks. This one is seen by pilots mainly and of course if you are a commercial pilot, you don't speak openly about it.
The Wiki link I gave to you has been really vandalized by (citation needed) freaks and missing a very important photo, taken before photoshop age. Here is the photo which finally made scientists think about the possibility, taken in 1980s (as far as I remember)
If you watch general TV, you will see `UFO` stuff caught on camera. They are generally ball lightning.
There are also theories that it is related to xenon gas etc. and all relating to earthquake activity. So, I get alerted when some guy on TV says `UFO caught on tape` near my area.
Before the Marmara/Golcuk earthquake which was wrongly called Istanbul quake, there were some TV news mentioning UFO caught on tape, just a week ago before the 7.4 Quake, in same zone...
I couldn't imagine companies not owning 50% of their products. Yes, half of the GPU is the drivers supporting it on operating systems, as you easily see from this story itself. Sorry for it.
So, Intel is more clever than anyone would think it seems. Their GPUs aren't really very serious competitors for now but they own the entire thing to the point of releasing its source.
Eh, Apple Safari for OS X (and Windows?) comes with third party cookies disabled by default, it is a huge deal if you think it is the default browser for OS X. Do they get 1% of community support Chromium gets? What is the issue with Safari? It is too simple looking, simple used, doesn't have extension capability right? Oh, it is from Apple, it is the main reason.
It is getting more absurd since Chrome is built on Webkit which is evolution of KHTML/Konqueror which gets the real zero community/nerd support.
A browser requiring --enable-plugins to have browser plugins enabled gives a very bad signal for its future, hopefully they do it in alpha-beta builds just to get rid of plugin related bug reports&crash reports.
The last thing Linux desktop needs is a browser targeting 1% of browser community. Just saying...
It is 64bit, it is all matters. The bugs will automatically fix themselves thanks to the exposed extra registers and extra commands.
If you remember the real purpose of 64bit computing besides the archaic Intel x86 getting extra registers, it is post 4GB processes. Sorry if I joke about the obsession with 64bit browser while it doesn't really work on anything other than x86, being the only x86 only browser on planet.
No the story talks about people abusing the game system, breaking the casino rules and commercialize game play.
It is not about regular players and regular 5% never quitting players. I am not into space game thing (don't have x86 mac anyway) but let me say...
You achieve something by 6 hours of hard game play, it gives you satisfaction and "winning" feelings. Some idiot basically pays for same thing and gets it in 1 sec.
The game I play is not so popular (World War 2 online) and I guess I must thank for it, if some guy hired his game play to traditionally mid-aged rich people and killed 3-6 guys each time, the entire game world would be broken. I mean the entire concept of the game which sometimes runs 2 months on same campaign. It would result in massive unsubscriptions and game would die in matter of months.
There is no reason to attack RMS over this. RMS is just telling the true stupidity which breaks the main purpose of Linux OS.
Even using latest OS X and only Macs, I can understand how ridicolous the binary "blob" driver is. One doesn't need to be a GNU fanatic to do so.
What was the reason behind binary blob drivers again? Evil competitors stealing x86 code? What competitor really? It is just ATI and Nvidia left. ATI already went open , Intel was always open but not really a gaming GPU company. It is not RMS, it is Nvidia being old fashioned regarding open source. They don't have any competitor left and they aren't aware of it.
I got 3 PPC Macs here, I am the live example of Linux PPC effected by this "binary only" drivers. It kills the experience I would get from Linux, perhaps it would show how Apple wasted the G5 platform (just theory), would give a safe path for future of these PPC machines which still runs, an alternative...
You broke the evil plan. He was raising comments BS meter so Carmack would get trolled and start posting comments. A Mac user managed to make it happen before letting Carmack state the sad facts about shipping a game to a 133Mhz FSB G4 Mac. (I am on one now, mac Mini g4):)
Besides jokes, yes, they aren't shipping a OpenGL 3 demo, they are shipping a OpenGL commercial game. I am sure they also use OpenGL 1.xx features which would fit to the concept too. The issue isn't OpenGL 2.x supported, it is also how well and fast it performs. Sadly, Windows is the king when you have a supported OpenGL driver. Saying as OS X user which always had latest OpenGL features.
It also relates to Quake 3 Arena Linux box sales, from the past. I still have that steel cool box from Loki Games which Linux nerds ignored because "Windows one is cheaper".
Dual Booting, high end virtual machines, the fact that ID Software is not stupid to use Direct3D as single option is also related. "Run it in a virtual machine running XP" is the idea which came to people's mind.
Nevermind, OS X having "boot camp" (basically dual boot) and its own very high end virtual machines (hypervisors) degraded OS X game scene from almost nothing to nothing. We now have.exes acting like.app more than ever, thanks to Transgaming (!). Old times, you were forced to release OpenGL/OpenAL, now they just pay to get that SDK, re-pack their directx game for OS X, raise price 30% and release it.
Are you joking? Port application for what? For some idiot intern CS student to reject it?
How will you distribute? To 1% nerds who bought iPhone but hacked it to be a real smart phone?
They reject Google, the giant, Internet God, whatever you call them... They openly joke with FCC. As a single developer, your application won't be rejected right? For what reason exactly?
It will be simply like iPhone I bet, gcc --target=arm etc. on Desktop/Laptop. It is not like they will be pushing to compile things on poor ARM which is never designed for such purposes.
I think however, they may include gcc toolchain for PR purposes and people who accepts the "I don't need laptop, I have smart phone" lifestyle.
A single unauthorised text message can cost a fortune to you or worse, a device calling some Ocean Island with insane price.
Lets not forget the amazing trojan capabilities. Device is actually a full feature communications device with camera/voice capabilities. On Symbian, we speak about 100M potential victims and possibly real communications breakdown unlike Apple's excuse for J2ME or app store.
It is good of them that they allow personal signing tied to hardware IMEI, nothing else.
I have used open signed just for 2 apps, salling clicker S60 client (so it can add itself to startup) and Dr. Jukka's apps which require special permissions since they access deep parts of Symbian. Rest? I have never needed such signing.
BTW, Nokia sells 10M phones over the weekend, yes el-cheapo dumb ones (although they got decent J2ME) included. All those "dumb" ones will be running Symbian Foundation at one time at future. So, Nokia (or other vendors) doesn't have the luxury to completely open the device to black hats just to prove they are open.
There are 2 options:
1) Torture click happy users so they will at least be warned numerous times if the "happy dancing something" app does more than dancing but give option to highly technical and developers "sudo" web service.
2) Setup "app store" without any kind of forgiving fanbase like Apple's and demand apps to be reviewed like the entire userbase are 6 year old idiots. While on it, disable things like multitasking since "they eat battery".
Such games require a lot of time, possibly spared from your real life and if those 3% idiots were gaming the game, their harm were way more than 30% of CPU time.
I was interested in Eve Online and now have access to Intel Mac, I would have trialed it. If I have seen some rich idiot getting same kind of virtual goods (they speak about trillions) just because he paid to some lifeless idiot, I would cancel my trial immediately.
In fact, if I did know such things are possible, I wouldn't trial at all. Why bother?
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What do you get from 620 Euros and what kind of money you should spend just to fix interface issues, browser issues and even video play performance issues?
We got a company in hand who acquires Trolltech, maker of state of art multiplatform SDK and continue to ship .NET crap.
Wasted enough karma really... Yea, N97 is cheaper...
Sadly all the stuff you mention could be fixed if Nokia didn't have this attention disorder disease like state. As you probably know, all are software problems. Hardware is fine, damn fine.
Now instead of fixing their flagship, they do shadowy deal with MSFT which will result in very serious consequences (like MS would ever code better for Symbian), ship a me too netbook to unknown territory (like Google's mobile OS) and expect success with fans like that idiot moderator abused all his mod points to mod me flamebait.
I feel sad for the hardware wasted and Apple becoming the king of smart phones with a device which breaks all kinds of smartphone principles/concept.
They just can't unify the device flash with SD card could they? All they would need would be ZFS which would guarantee existing things won't break. Just Symbolic link E: ... Anyway, apparently they won't listen and we waste our money and time...
In 1990s, Atari 800XL (8 bit) had a real virus, some hacker friend showed to me in amusement while he didn't write it. BTW, it could be some real elite thing as guy is one of people who could easily make a sound sampler abusing joystick port, 6502 BASIC's inline ASM and a mic.
As poor Atari 800XL was way less popular than C64, perhaps C64 had a virus too? Just guessing, never really been to C64 scene.
Viruses lived their glory while there was no internet/bbs/updates/communities. They got distributed easily with floppies.
As a guy in media, thinking like evil PR guy, what MS should make instead of astroturfing is doing a legal campaign like "Windows 7, leave no one behind".
Of course, it is horribly wrong information, as a owner of Quad G5, Apple's most expensive G5 workstation, I don't WANT pure 64bit on my system. It has been documented multiple times that PowerPC 64bit (and POWER) hates needless pure 64bit providing no advantages like Intel "plugin AMD 64bit" CPU.
Of course, MS is slow to use that kind of timeframe when all PPC (non technical) users feel abandoned while it is not the case.
Remember how damn clever Apple was to abuse Y2K panic with HAL campaign? Let me remind you, they were showing off with pre OS X, the one doesn't have multi tasking while MS had their state of art NT 4 in the market.
OpenCL? Did IBM contribute a single line to it? heh, it is not their market anyway. Snow Leopard proves how clever Apple was to get rid of PowerPC while the specs look extremely good on paper, Altivec is some state of art tech which even made to mainframes (Z10) and there is nothing to do with IBM on Desktop CPU.
If Apple used OpenCL to harness the power of GPU while doing H264 compression and people would see their videos compress 10x faster when they check "Use OpenCL", you would be sure they would end up demanding OpenCL support for all their apps and even Windows.
But no (I guess?), the evil Quicktime department happily ignored that possibility, just like they asked for money for fullscreen support for years and making the Quicktime once had 70% market share miss the boat.
That is also the same department having World's most popular trailer site and yet ignore Quicktime's amazing skinning/multiple layering/bandwidh and CPU detection capabilities and throw 10mbit "streaming" (!) links to users instead of showing them to public. They could just use plain MP4 with that kind of usage.
BTW, I am guessing since I don't see "compress your videos 10x faster" on Quicktime X page.
Nokia one is more expensive, even in Finland since iPhone got a rock solid developer community who keeps releasing stuff. I didn't hear Apple releasing a netbook based on Windows while they try to achieve success using a different OS invite users to have different concept of doing things portable. That is what Nokia is doing. Releasing a Netbook based on Windows while you keep releasing small netbook like devices running Symbian S60 will destroy more developer trust.
You would never get such mixed signals from Apple. Apple phones/computers runs OS X, best developed on XCode (while terminal works) with combination of Objective C and Cocoa. That is one hell of a roadmap for you.
This kind of schizoid behavior of Nokia lately ended up FT of Germany claiming Nokia giving up Symbian for Linux. Now, that is a very alerting thing and it is only Nokia who doesn't get alerted. Developing a mobile application and making it successful product is way more hard than anyone would think and the last thing you need is a company who isn't sure where to go.
Instead of a me-too Windows netbook, they could come up with a tiny 3G, never seen before specs USB key carrying Nokia brand which you can use on netbooks but no, of course, they must have some shadowy weird deals with their rival on same segment (WinMO), MS and they must do a favor to them.
As an E65/9300 and SE P1i owner who runs Symbian, I am glad I didn't jump to N97. I hope the idiots doing these actions will be really investigated at some point in future.
There is some Nokia fan mod lately on slashdot who keeps getting mod points until someone finally meta-moderate his mod abuse. Unfortunately, it seems he/she has never, ever used Nokia devices, especially smart phones with Windows.
Nokia PC Suite for Windows weights 450MB after install unless one wasn't lucky(!) enough to install their .NET only apps like Map Loader which itself is 20 MB but needs 2 GB .NET to run.
I didn't say a word about the bulk of stuff added to startup which may result in 2-3 minute boots if the machine&hd is slow and fragmented.
Dear Moderator, stay away from Nokia stories on Slashdot or at least install Nokia PC Suite&others before you moderate. Now flamebait me too.
Buy a S40 cheap Nokia phone with 3G connectivity support. You will be amazed at its durability, speed and battery life. Combine it with a netbook from a company who really knows how things work and not at schizoid state like Nokia, be happy.
I am telling it as a owner of 2 high end Nokia Symbian devices. Stay away. They have no clue where they are heading.
Nokia finally releases N97 to their still remaining fanbase at Europe&Parts of Asia for a price which is possibly higher than a "real laptop" (think like average joe or hans) with 12&24 month contracts and 780 Euros price in some areas when bought without contract.
I don't hear good things about N97 and besides some usual Symbian haters, some makes huge sense and they have a good point like the usual device flash/SD card schizophrenia, things being there but not performing well (Facebook) and very mixed signals with the latest Linux based netbook like thing.
Now they release this information for what reason exactly? To make more remaining customers of high end bang their heads to wall? One doesn't need to be a commercial spy to figure this has a big deal to do with MS Office deal with MSFT. The deal which didn't do anything but guaranteed state of the art Quickoffice to be abandoned for Symbian and moved to iPhone at some point in the future.
You don't know them enough. Nokia always chooses whatever fits to that particular product. Netbook? Windows for them.
It is not like Nokia is your average Windows hater company. It is kinda blurry on OS X with iSync etc. but Nokia smart phones best works with Windows on the other end. It is basic as that. Their Nokia Multimedia Transfer (still beta) could have been released for OS X but there is nothing to fill PC Suite's place on OS X. I would be very very surprised if they contributed a single line to KDE's sync solutions, even after Qt acquisition.
This is a company who pays millions to Trolltech (while they are doing extremely fine) and release first Qt for S60 demo in .exe form! After I see that page (link below) I went to all IRC channels I frequent to take my "Use Nokia, it is cool with Python, open, Qt is coming too" suggestions back. For most people, it is Ovi App store which made people lose their hopes. For me? It was that basic blog entry meant no harm but showed what kind of waste Nokia did by purchasing Qt. Thank God, Qt is GPL and already has gigantic prestige in commercial development with a huge community on Linux&BSD.
http://pepper.troll.no/s60prereleases/
I am sure they forced the early release, something OTHER THAN WINDOWS will be supported at one point but just imagine a Qt&Linux developers face when he is greeted with .exe with the excuse of emulator being WINDOWS ONLY. I really hope Nokia is more ashamed than me. Yes, I actually feel ashamed for doing their PR work to Developers for free, with information making complete sense but wrong.
Oh, guess this one, disregarded for ages.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_wave
Of course, as captains saw it, they spoke openly about it since nobody would send them to psychological checks. This one is seen by pilots mainly and of course if you are a commercial pilot, you don't speak openly about it.
The Wiki link I gave to you has been really vandalized by (citation needed) freaks and missing a very important photo, taken before photoshop age. Here is the photo which finally made scientists think about the possibility, taken in 1980s (as far as I remember)
http://www.automatesintelligents.com/labo/2005/jan/rogue-wave,1.jpg
Someone who got patience left to deal with Wiki people should fix the article to include that evidence.
There was a guy on Nat Geo TV got hit by lightning 3 times and still alive. Of course, he is not very happy about it.
If you watch general TV, you will see `UFO` stuff caught on camera. They are generally ball lightning.
There are also theories that it is related to xenon gas etc. and all relating to earthquake activity. So, I get alerted when some guy on TV says `UFO caught on tape` near my area.
Before the Marmara/Golcuk earthquake which was wrongly called Istanbul quake, there were some TV news mentioning UFO caught on tape, just a week ago before the 7.4 Quake, in same zone...
I couldn't imagine companies not owning 50% of their products. Yes, half of the GPU is the drivers supporting it on operating systems, as you easily see from this story itself. Sorry for it.
So, Intel is more clever than anyone would think it seems. Their GPUs aren't really very serious competitors for now but they own the entire thing to the point of releasing its source.
Eh, Apple Safari for OS X (and Windows?) comes with third party cookies disabled by default, it is a huge deal if you think it is the default browser for OS X. Do they get 1% of community support Chromium gets? What is the issue with Safari? It is too simple looking, simple used, doesn't have extension capability right? Oh, it is from Apple, it is the main reason.
It is getting more absurd since Chrome is built on Webkit which is evolution of KHTML/Konqueror which gets the real zero community/nerd support.
A browser requiring --enable-plugins to have browser plugins enabled gives a very bad signal for its future, hopefully they do it in alpha-beta builds just to get rid of plugin related bug reports&crash reports.
The last thing Linux desktop needs is a browser targeting 1% of browser community. Just saying...
It is 64bit, it is all matters. The bugs will automatically fix themselves thanks to the exposed extra registers and extra commands.
If you remember the real purpose of 64bit computing besides the archaic Intel x86 getting extra registers, it is post 4GB processes. Sorry if I joke about the obsession with 64bit browser while it doesn't really work on anything other than x86, being the only x86 only browser on planet.
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=firefox+using+too+much+memory&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
(996.000 results for me)
No the story talks about people abusing the game system, breaking the casino rules and commercialize game play.
It is not about regular players and regular 5% never quitting players. I am not into space game thing (don't have x86 mac anyway) but let me say...
You achieve something by 6 hours of hard game play, it gives you satisfaction and "winning" feelings. Some idiot basically pays for same thing and gets it in 1 sec.
The game I play is not so popular (World War 2 online) and I guess I must thank for it, if some guy hired his game play to traditionally mid-aged rich people and killed 3-6 guys each time, the entire game world would be broken. I mean the entire concept of the game which sometimes runs 2 months on same campaign. It would result in massive unsubscriptions and game would die in matter of months.
There is no reason to attack RMS over this. RMS is just telling the true stupidity which breaks the main purpose of Linux OS.
Even using latest OS X and only Macs, I can understand how ridicolous the binary "blob" driver is. One doesn't need to be a GNU fanatic to do so.
What was the reason behind binary blob drivers again? Evil competitors stealing x86 code? What competitor really? It is just ATI and Nvidia left. ATI already went open , Intel was always open but not really a gaming GPU company. It is not RMS, it is Nvidia being old fashioned regarding open source. They don't have any competitor left and they aren't aware of it.
I got 3 PPC Macs here, I am the live example of Linux PPC effected by this "binary only" drivers. It kills the experience I would get from Linux, perhaps it would show how Apple wasted the G5 platform (just theory), would give a safe path for future of these PPC machines which still runs, an alternative...
You broke the evil plan. He was raising comments BS meter so Carmack would get trolled and start posting comments. A Mac user managed to make it happen before letting Carmack state the sad facts about shipping a game to a 133Mhz FSB G4 Mac. (I am on one now, mac Mini g4) :)
Besides jokes, yes, they aren't shipping a OpenGL 3 demo, they are shipping a OpenGL commercial game. I am sure they also use OpenGL 1.xx features which would fit to the concept too. The issue isn't OpenGL 2.x supported, it is also how well and fast it performs. Sadly, Windows is the king when you have a supported OpenGL driver. Saying as OS X user which always had latest OpenGL features.
It also relates to Quake 3 Arena Linux box sales, from the past. I still have that steel cool box from Loki Games which Linux nerds ignored because "Windows one is cheaper".
Dual Booting, high end virtual machines, the fact that ID Software is not stupid to use Direct3D as single option is also related. "Run it in a virtual machine running XP" is the idea which came to people's mind.
Nevermind, OS X having "boot camp" (basically dual boot) and its own very high end virtual machines (hypervisors) degraded OS X game scene from almost nothing to nothing. We now have .exes acting like .app more than ever, thanks to Transgaming (!). Old times, you were forced to release OpenGL/OpenAL, now they just pay to get that SDK, re-pack their directx game for OS X, raise price 30% and release it.
Perhaps, people buying consoles have a point.
Are you joking? Port application for what? For some idiot intern CS student to reject it?
How will you distribute? To 1% nerds who bought iPhone but hacked it to be a real smart phone?
They reject Google, the giant, Internet God, whatever you call them... They openly joke with FCC. As a single developer, your application won't be rejected right? For what reason exactly?
It will be simply like iPhone I bet, gcc --target=arm etc. on Desktop/Laptop. It is not like they will be pushing to compile things on poor ARM which is never designed for such purposes.
I think however, they may include gcc toolchain for PR purposes and people who accepts the "I don't need laptop, I have smart phone" lifestyle.
A single unauthorised text message can cost a fortune to you or worse, a device calling some Ocean Island with insane price.
Lets not forget the amazing trojan capabilities. Device is actually a full feature communications device with camera/voice capabilities. On Symbian, we speak about 100M potential victims and possibly real communications breakdown unlike Apple's excuse for J2ME or app store.
It is good of them that they allow personal signing tied to hardware IMEI, nothing else.
I have used open signed just for 2 apps, salling clicker S60 client (so it can add itself to startup) and Dr. Jukka's apps which require special permissions since they access deep parts of Symbian. Rest? I have never needed such signing.
BTW, Nokia sells 10M phones over the weekend, yes el-cheapo dumb ones (although they got decent J2ME) included. All those "dumb" ones will be running Symbian Foundation at one time at future. So, Nokia (or other vendors) doesn't have the luxury to completely open the device to black hats just to prove they are open.
There are 2 options:
1) Torture click happy users so they will at least be warned numerous times if the "happy dancing something" app does more than dancing but give option to highly technical and developers "sudo" web service.
2) Setup "app store" without any kind of forgiving fanbase like Apple's and demand apps to be reviewed like the entire userbase are 6 year old idiots. While on it, disable things like multitasking since "they eat battery".
Make your choice really...
Such games require a lot of time, possibly spared from your real life and if those 3% idiots were gaming the game, their harm were way more than 30% of CPU time.
I was interested in Eve Online and now have access to Intel Mac, I would have trialed it. If I have seen some rich idiot getting same kind of virtual goods (they speak about trillions) just because he paid to some lifeless idiot, I would cancel my trial immediately.
In fact, if I did know such things are possible, I wouldn't trial at all. Why bother?