TFA makes a compelling point, but I have a mixed feeling about that. I have a commercial program that's currently Windows-only, but with plans to port to Mac OS X and Linux.
While a Mac OS X port is an easy choice, I'm not sure about the Linux port at all. On one hand there's all the advantages that TFA mentions, but on the other hand, who uses Linux for audio production, Linux has an especially small market share in that domain, plus the reason everyone's given me, Linux users usually don't like to pay, even less for closed source programs... and of course each platform I start to support with platform-specific code everytime means more work to implement, maintain and test... But how would I know if it's worth trying or not?
Translation : people spend the most time on the console they've got the most games for.
Would have been interesting if they tried to correlate the number of games owned per console vs. the time spent on each console, and see what the difference is between generations (i.e. if you have 10 Xbox 1 games and 10 Xbox 360 games you'll probably spend more time on the Xbox 360, but how much longer?)
You're not really answering to "How", you're just saying it's simple. Which is what anyone seems to want to believe but until I'm told precisely how I'll remain sceptical.
I'm more interested in how as a premise though. Mainly that these days people are behind a router that acts as a firewall.. that limits things a bit I guess...
The problem with CS graduates is too often that they try to reinvent something (poorly) when they should do some digging first, not so much that they're unable to work out a solution.
Nobody's gonna want to pay it? Are you fucking kidding? George W. Bush would have thrown his retirement money at it just so the oil industry could be left alone. Did you even think about that?
Is that a way to increase the money/resources available for the moon program without visibly pouring billions into NASA's pocket or asking it to cut back on other stuff? If so that's clever.
No thanks. The API cleanup part would mean that if I didn't write Win7 specific code to replace my old WinAPI calls then my high performance program would be entirely virtualised. Thanks but no thanks. Same for games. You don't want CoD4 to run in Virtual PC because it doesn't have any Win7 API code.
I know little about the technical details of all this, but couldn't this be alleviated by Microsoft writing an emulation/virtualisation layer to run the 32-bit drivers on a 64-bit OS?
Oh come on, that's a load of balls. That's speculative and completely baseless. If the solution chosen was that cloud machines would be installed in the oceans then it's just a question of money. See? Everything isn't necessarily interfered with by evil greedy governments.
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What does genome sequencing have to with Moore's law or the technological singularity?
I'm afraid they do believe so, yes.
5% on Windows = unpopular? Are you out of your mind? You can feel lucky if you get more than 10,000 downloads, or 500 sales.
TFA makes a compelling point, but I have a mixed feeling about that. I have a commercial program that's currently Windows-only, but with plans to port to Mac OS X and Linux.
While a Mac OS X port is an easy choice, I'm not sure about the Linux port at all. On one hand there's all the advantages that TFA mentions, but on the other hand, who uses Linux for audio production, Linux has an especially small market share in that domain, plus the reason everyone's given me, Linux users usually don't like to pay, even less for closed source programs... and of course each platform I start to support with platform-specific code everytime means more work to implement, maintain and test... But how would I know if it's worth trying or not?
You'd be more likely to buy it if you had read the whole post rather than just the first line. Read the last sentence.
Translation : people spend the most time on the console they've got the most games for.
Would have been interesting if they tried to correlate the number of games owned per console vs. the time spent on each console, and see what the difference is between generations (i.e. if you have 10 Xbox 1 games and 10 Xbox 360 games you'll probably spend more time on the Xbox 360, but how much longer?)
That would be trivial to verify though (for security experts that is).
You're not really answering to "How", you're just saying it's simple. Which is what anyone seems to want to believe but until I'm told precisely how I'll remain sceptical.
a super script kiddie type toolbox composed of deliberately undisclosed backdoor hacks. The rate of success would be higher for compromise, say 95%
Really? Allow me to be highly suspicious of that claim that there's any such thing out there.
Yeah, how about something that isn't based on the premise that the user is completely gullible?
Huh? When you tarball it it keeps the permissions to run. That's how I distribute Linux binaries anyways.
Oh I see so no support at all > Support except maybe not 100% as good as the original?
Even if I did, then what? You can't get anything just by clicking a link to a page.
Oh, of course, which tells me exactly how I can hack into anyone's computer on purpose!
Who said it was?
I'm more interested in how as a premise though. Mainly that these days people are behind a router that acts as a firewall.. that limits things a bit I guess...
The problem with CS graduates is too often that they try to reinvent something (poorly) when they should do some digging first, not so much that they're unable to work out a solution.
Hack into people's PC? How do they do that, and what do they get out of it?
Nobody's gonna want to pay it? Are you fucking kidding? George W. Bush would have thrown his retirement money at it just so the oil industry could be left alone. Did you even think about that?
Is that a way to increase the money/resources available for the moon program without visibly pouring billions into NASA's pocket or asking it to cut back on other stuff? If so that's clever.
Le Monde article actually says that it's 95 years after the character is first used.
No thanks. The API cleanup part would mean that if I didn't write Win7 specific code to replace my old WinAPI calls then my high performance program would be entirely virtualised. Thanks but no thanks. Same for games. You don't want CoD4 to run in Virtual PC because it doesn't have any Win7 API code.
I know little about the technical details of all this, but couldn't this be alleviated by Microsoft writing an emulation/virtualisation layer to run the 32-bit drivers on a 64-bit OS?
Oh come on, that's a load of balls. That's speculative and completely baseless. If the solution chosen was that cloud machines would be installed in the oceans then it's just a question of money. See? Everything isn't necessarily interfered with by evil greedy governments.