in other words: we pointlessly hoard crap that we're not planning to ever resell, because we'd rather it go into a landfill than to actually sell it to people for what it's actually worth. I mean seriously - every game store I've ever seen has a huge stack of games they wouldn't give two bucks for if you brought them in, sitting in a bin, unsorted... and still priced at $30 each. I think they need to learn the meaning of the word "clearance".
This is precisely what gets my ire. I'd love to leave work today and pick up an original Xbox to mod and turn into a MythTV frontend for $15-$20. However, the sticker prices are nuts even though they have no fewer than 30 of them behind the counter at my local Gamestop. What sane business manager decides this policy? I reckon the only way it would make sense is if they determined that by selling one for $75 they reap a greater net profit due to invested costs than if they'd sold five for $15. I doubt that's the case but it leaves me scratching my head.
Well... not quite. Depending on who owns the copyright to the sections of code they could, perhaps, change the license. The copyrights to the Linux kernel, for instance, are held by the individual contributors. As such all of them would have to agree to a license change. This is a big reason why the kernel will never to go GPLv3. On the other hand other projects require contributors to give the copyright to the maintainer. All the GNU utilities are like this.
If MS bought a project that owned all of its own copyrights they could, in fact, change the license for future releases. Despite this, all the source for previously GPL'd releases would have to remain available per the terms of the GPL.
The real issue is that people buy computers with software pre-loaded. Among this is an antivirus or a trial for the same. After a while this quits working but the system tray icon still sits there whining about things occasionally. Users click through whatever the annoyance is and continue on their merry ways, thinking that that "picture by the clock" is doing something to protect them. Education is the solution; users can learn about free alternatives to paid antivirus software, why Windows needs an antivirus program, and about what they need to be wary.
People continue to give in to these sort of ridiculous claims due to only one thing: white guilt. People were very mean to them a long time ago and as such many whites feel bad about their hateful and genocidal Caucasian forebearers. The populations that might benefit from this see an opportunity and exploit it just as anybody would. If you told me I could get special benefits just because I was a read-headed guy with Irish parents I'd be all over that. I can't get benefits for this but other people can get benefits for similarly innate characteristics.
(pounds being pounds of force, of course -- unbeknown to most)
The pound is a measurement of force. The US/Imperial unit of mass is the slug (yes, the slug) and it is approximately equal to 14.5939 kg. When most people refer to pounds they're actually talking about pounds mass, even if they don't know it. Only engineers ever think about slugs as a unit of measurement.
Not for a moment do I see this happening. I interpret Shuttleworth's comments not to mean that WINE won't be available, it's that it win be installed by default. This is not a change as Ubuntu normally comes without WINE. It is still available in the repos and it still works just fine. He just wants to prevent people from getting the wrong idea, e.g., "This Ubuntu lark can run all my existing Windows software and it's free. Whoopie!" Though WINE will run quite a few Windows programs it's far from universal. Shuttleworth doesn't want Dell, WINE, or Ubuntu being blamed if consumers get the wrong idea.
The only reason I'd see them forking the repos is to host the relevant packages on Dell servers for supporting the Dell machines so that Canonical and its mirrors aren't paying the bills for Dell's hosting. I don't see this happening though.
I thought the CA minimum wage was $7.50 an hour. The minimum wage applies to hourly workers. Salaried workers are free to negotiate any contract they wish so long as it plays by the other rules.
Perhaps it's along the lines of John Carmack and id Softweare's GPL release of older game engines. à la "We're done with it so why not let you have it?"
Though it's not as warm and fuzzy as if they made their newest product free software it is still good for the community IMO. Heck, think about how awesome would it be if this sort of behavior were commonplace such as if MS decided to GPL Office 97, a version now obsolete for more than half a decade.
...probably get more work done if they didn't spend so much time compiling and tweaking
Not that all the compiling and tweaking is necessarily a bad thing. Many people like to fiddle with computers in that was as a hobby. They don't see it as a distraction from more useful endeavors, rather, they see it as something interesting to do.
I actually see this more with Windows users than Linux users, though. Somehow some guys get interested in speeding up their computers or protecting it from slowdowns via things like malware and it blossoms from there. Soon enough the guy's running adaware scans three times a day and he's made dozens of registry edits to free up resources (resources which, IMO, were probably being used for a reason).
Well I've been hearing people say for years now that for most users computers are more than fast enough. Perhaps the extra few percent increase in performance of running specially optimized, self-compiled binaries is just not so visible these days when multiple GHz-speed machines with gigabytes of memory are everywhere.
Though Folding put out a Folding@BOINC beta, I think the project is dead now. As such your assertion that Folding runs on BOINC is incorrect. Folding runs on its own client and network, just as the SETI Classic client did.
This is not necessarily a challenging question for many automotive geeks in the Slashdot crowd. 1 gallon is about 231 cu. in or 3.8 L. It's a very common engine size, especially at GM with their ubiquitous pushrod 3.8 L V6 engine.
New Windows installer: Based on Nullsoft Scriptable Install System, the new Windows installer resolves many long-standing issues.
What were the "long standing issues" that effected the old Windows installer? I've never really had any problems with it so I'm just a little curious about what was so bad about it that it required a new tool to get the job done.
I think what the parent is getting at is that it's not necessary to release this as a document for a WYSIWYG text editor. It could just as easily be a 4 kiB text file. It could even be a.pdf which is far easier to view on the web in comparison to a MS Word document.
I remember when chip stability was a feature of production equipment.
This isn't for production work. 99% of the buyers for this product will use it in high-end gaming systems and as such it is ostensibly for gaming. ATi and nVidia both sell production-level video adapters that are designed for accuracy and stability more than absolute speed. This card is built for speed, pure and simple.
I think it's an important distinction to make.
WINE and Cedega are not emulators, rather, they implement a compatibility layer. Cedega is a proprietary fork of WINE that has more advanced DirectX implementation.
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If MS bought a project that owned all of its own copyrights they could, in fact, change the license for future releases. Despite this, all the source for previously GPL'd releases would have to remain available per the terms of the GPL.
The real issue is that people buy computers with software pre-loaded. Among this is an antivirus or a trial for the same. After a while this quits working but the system tray icon still sits there whining about things occasionally. Users click through whatever the annoyance is and continue on their merry ways, thinking that that "picture by the clock" is doing something to protect them. Education is the solution; users can learn about free alternatives to paid antivirus software, why Windows needs an antivirus program, and about what they need to be wary.
Rejected proposal: Gaim Is Not AIM
Would you use an IM client called GINA?
People continue to give in to these sort of ridiculous claims due to only one thing: white guilt. People were very mean to them a long time ago and as such many whites feel bad about their hateful and genocidal Caucasian forebearers. The populations that might benefit from this see an opportunity and exploit it just as anybody would. If you told me I could get special benefits just because I was a read-headed guy with Irish parents I'd be all over that. I can't get benefits for this but other people can get benefits for similarly innate characteristics.
Reverse racism is racism too.
It's a good thing that nobody is using IPv6. Otherwise we might have to worry about this exploit! ;)
Not for a moment do I see this happening. I interpret Shuttleworth's comments not to mean that WINE won't be available, it's that it win be installed by default. This is not a change as Ubuntu normally comes without WINE. It is still available in the repos and it still works just fine. He just wants to prevent people from getting the wrong idea, e.g., "This Ubuntu lark can run all my existing Windows software and it's free. Whoopie!" Though WINE will run quite a few Windows programs it's far from universal. Shuttleworth doesn't want Dell, WINE, or Ubuntu being blamed if consumers get the wrong idea.
The only reason I'd see them forking the repos is to host the relevant packages on Dell servers for supporting the Dell machines so that Canonical and its mirrors aren't paying the bills for Dell's hosting. I don't see this happening though.
Perhaps it's along the lines of John Carmack and id Softweare's GPL release of older game engines. à la "We're done with it so why not let you have it?"
Though it's not as warm and fuzzy as if they made their newest product free software it is still good for the community IMO. Heck, think about how awesome would it be if this sort of behavior were commonplace such as if MS decided to GPL Office 97, a version now obsolete for more than half a decade.
The Windows FAT32 formatter is intentionally broken so that it cannot format partitions greater than ~32GiB. They want you to use NTFS.
I actually see this more with Windows users than Linux users, though. Somehow some guys get interested in speeding up their computers or protecting it from slowdowns via things like malware and it blossoms from there. Soon enough the guy's running adaware scans three times a day and he's made dozens of registry edits to free up resources (resources which, IMO, were probably being used for a reason).
Well I've been hearing people say for years now that for most users computers are more than fast enough. Perhaps the extra few percent increase in performance of running specially optimized, self-compiled binaries is just not so visible these days when multiple GHz-speed machines with gigabytes of memory are everywhere.
Though Folding put out a Folding@BOINC beta, I think the project is dead now. As such your assertion that Folding runs on BOINC is incorrect. Folding runs on its own client and network, just as the SETI Classic client did.
What were the "long standing issues" that effected the old Windows installer? I've never really had any problems with it so I'm just a little curious about what was so bad about it that it required a new tool to get the job done.
I think what the parent is getting at is that it's not necessary to release this as a document for a WYSIWYG text editor. It could just as easily be a 4 kiB text file. It could even be a .pdf which is far easier to view on the web in comparison to a MS Word document.
This isn't for production work. 99% of the buyers for this product will use it in high-end gaming systems and as such it is ostensibly for gaming. ATi and nVidia both sell production-level video adapters that are designed for accuracy and stability more than absolute speed. This card is built for speed, pure and simple. I think it's an important distinction to make.
Read the print article: http://firingsquad.com/print_article.asp?current_s ection=Hardware&fs_article_id=2018
Did you happen to glance at a mirror whilst there?
WINE and Cedega are not emulators, rather, they implement a compatibility layer. Cedega is a proprietary fork of WINE that has more advanced DirectX implementation.
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Go on then, explain how Abraham Lincoln was a racist. We're all on the edges of our seats, O wise troll.