You're really using Tetris as your example? I don't think people are going to be too worried that Linux's Tetris rip off isn't exactly the same considering that that's not really what most people use their computers for (solitaire maybe, but not Tetris).
The main reason people use Windows over Linux is so they can run their Windows programs. I'm guessing anything you could find ARM libraries for would also run on Linux anyway..
Compatibility layers are much different than emulation. To run a DOS/Windows 3.1/Win 95/etc. program in Windows 7 all you need is the old libraries. I assume the x86-64 instruction set includes stuff to make x86 emulation faster. My guess is that emulation x86 on an ARM processor is nowhere near fast (otherwise they'd just always run them in emulation mode and compete with the Intel Atom and Via Nano).
I agree with your point, but any company that works with the government cannot be called 100% free market. They make money doing something that the people may not willingly pay for.
Not to mention that only idiots try to build a "premium" laptop. Laptops are for when you're not at your desktop. Incredibly fast desktops can be built for ~$500.
I don't know how it is in Canada, but here if a bar gives alcohol to someone underage (even if they have the most perfect ID ever made), they can still get fined and lose their liquor license.
Or because Apple, Mozilla and Opera are trying really hard to make browsers that work well together and follow the standards, while Microsoft is doing everything it can to make IE incompatible with standards and other browsers..
Richard Stallman saw his own code he wrote for his own projects incorporated in a commercial product and got forbidden to ever reuse or publish his own code. And thus because the company in question had a license in place that basically made all changes and extension to the code base the property of the company.
That doesn't make sense. If "his code" was incorporated into someone else's project, they can't stop him from continuing to use it. What they can do is not give him their changes. I don't see the big deal. Sure, they're not playing nice, but it's not like Stallman loses anything if people use his code. And 5 years is a long time.
No I mean with Google Voice it's still a normal call, not an internet call. There's no fancy program on your phone, you just call the number they give you.
From what I can tell, all this patch does is make Linux run better in Microsoft's emulator (Hyper-V). If Microsoft decided to stop supporting this patch, it would just hurt their customers. My guess is that the only people who care how well Linux runs in Hyper-V are the people already drinking Microsoft's kool-aid.
Because some people (presumably the kind of people who buy netbooks) care more about battery life than performance. I know when i bought my laptop I chose the slowest processor/video card combination I could find..
Google voice doesn't take the place of your phone service, it uses it. What you do is call the number Google gives you, then it places the call. So as far as your phone company is concerned, you spend the entire call connected to Google.
It seems pointless to actively kill the project, it would just make the current Solaris users even more annoyed about it. Instead, it would make more sense for them to just stop supporting it and let it die on its own.
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Well at least we can be fairly certain they don't need to spawn more overlords..
You're really using Tetris as your example? I don't think people are going to be too worried that Linux's Tetris rip off isn't exactly the same considering that that's not really what most people use their computers for (solitaire maybe, but not Tetris).
I wish there was a "-1 Too High Expectations For the First Version" mod..
The main reason people use Windows over Linux is so they can run their Windows programs. I'm guessing anything you could find ARM libraries for would also run on Linux anyway..
But think of the children!
In grade school the best thing you could do is convince kids that reading is fun. You don't do that by making them read classics.
Compatibility layers are much different than emulation. To run a DOS/Windows 3.1/Win 95/etc. program in Windows 7 all you need is the old libraries. I assume the x86-64 instruction set includes stuff to make x86 emulation faster. My guess is that emulation x86 on an ARM processor is nowhere near fast (otherwise they'd just always run them in emulation mode and compete with the Intel Atom and Via Nano).
One byte? "256 characters is all anyone will ever need!"
That's not DRM, that's a watermark ;)
I agree with your point, but any company that works with the government cannot be called 100% free market. They make money doing something that the people may not willingly pay for.
The fact that very few people own Lamborghinis doesn't mean that no one knows what they are.
Not to mention that only idiots try to build a "premium" laptop. Laptops are for when you're not at your desktop. Incredibly fast desktops can be built for ~$500.
I don't know how it is in Canada, but here if a bar gives alcohol to someone underage (even if they have the most perfect ID ever made), they can still get fined and lose their liquor license.
Or because Apple, Mozilla and Opera are trying really hard to make browsers that work well together and follow the standards, while Microsoft is doing everything it can to make IE incompatible with standards and other browsers..
Richard Stallman saw his own code he wrote for his own projects incorporated in a commercial product and got forbidden to ever reuse or publish his own code. And thus because the company in question had a license in place that basically made all changes and extension to the code base the property of the company.
That doesn't make sense. If "his code" was incorporated into someone else's project, they can't stop him from continuing to use it. What they can do is not give him their changes. I don't see the big deal. Sure, they're not playing nice, but it's not like Stallman loses anything if people use his code. And 5 years is a long time.
There's no particular reason you can't write it in C or C++. Compilers are pretty efficient these days.
No I mean with Google Voice it's still a normal call, not an internet call. There's no fancy program on your phone, you just call the number they give you.
From what I can tell, all this patch does is make Linux run better in Microsoft's emulator (Hyper-V). If Microsoft decided to stop supporting this patch, it would just hurt their customers. My guess is that the only people who care how well Linux runs in Hyper-V are the people already drinking Microsoft's kool-aid.
Because some people (presumably the kind of people who buy netbooks) care more about battery life than performance. I know when i bought my laptop I chose the slowest processor/video card combination I could find..
Google voice doesn't take the place of your phone service, it uses it. What you do is call the number Google gives you, then it places the call. So as far as your phone company is concerned, you spend the entire call connected to Google.
But the biggest search engines follow it, and that's what's important.
It seems pointless to actively kill the project, it would just make the current Solaris users even more annoyed about it. Instead, it would make more sense for them to just stop supporting it and let it die on its own.
It seems incredibly likely that Oracle's fancy Linux will soon have full support for ZFS..
It's a sequence of 01 repeating. The fact that it comes out as "U" is probably coincidence.
...so they can use them in huge pointless wars.