I just said it's possible to watch, pretty well, Netflix on Ubuntu. And I use in a daily basis.
Yes, it relies on wine, not native solution, then.
But it works, and works pretty well. Thanks.
Just a side note: to use current Netflix on Linux, guys uses wine + firefox + moonlight.
And it works pretty fine.
See more here, a working ppa with all the solution working: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2084592
This is a good point about current Linux distros status: if you don't want port your application, no problem, we can simulate your environment. Ok, not FOSS solution, but at least works.
I was about to say the same. Disabling Akonadi, Nepomunk (even it's lighter now, still delays my desktop login in a lot of seconds) and a lot of Krunner plugins, and configuring KDE Effects to be "Very Fast" will produces a incredible fasting desktop.
Additionally, KDE 4.10 improved a lot on this.
Browser, like anything in our life, cannot be 100% safe. You don't have any security system (at houses, banks, computers) 100% failsafe. Best you can do is make the "thief" life a little bit harder.
Have you saw that every argument you used is an artificial obstacle created by the manufacturer? No driver for the previous version, incompatible formats, etc.
In numbers, most users of OpenOffice/LibreOffice, Firefox, and others FOSS stars run them in Windows.
As the main source of money, for MS is Windows, they should allow a lot of FOSS software to complete the user experience.
In a small company that I worked, we opened the code for the client (the client has a code team and in order to convince the client to purchase our product, we offered the code for them, and then we got a deal).
This fact (the client developers will check our code) make all the team code better. Open the source code, in some level, automatically make you write better code, cause you start to think "omg, what others will think about this? and my reputation as developer?".
The problem is: unit test is just a minor portion of testing. And, if it exists, should be done by developers, which already are the bottleneck.
I'm a QA lead, and while worked for former-EDS, IBM (and now I opened my own small company), the problem is that unit tests will, most part of the time, will be a very small optimistic set of tests, and not using the interface.
Real automated tests, like selenium, are really hard to do, and the focus for automation are regression tests: the ones you'll really execute more than 2 times, for stable features.
Real testing starts with the QA team reading the requirements, and, UNDERSTANDING them, and finding roles, problematic and ambiguity requisites. Then, when people will code, after answer all your questions, QA team will start writing tests. So, after delivers features, testing will run. After the code done, regression will be run.
The problem with this is: the most of testing guys I'm trying employe in my company, just find trivial and visual issues. Like missing punctuation, some wrong colors... the real job of QA is understand business rules, to achieve the same goal as the development team: deliver an application with few bugs as possible.
And, the QA team should provide valuable feedback: short and clean description, steps to reproduce, all environment information. It's not the dev enemy, QA is the dev angel.
What is the relation between solid and ugly? I never understood why Thinkpad should be so ugly, and why people associate this with solid product. So, if a Thinkpad got a nice layout, but still a solid piece of hardware, some people will hate it?
The first time I heard these stories about some people against vaccines, I got really shocked. Is something only in USA, or is it common in other countries? Just to be fair, I'm brazilian, and here vaccines are faced like a good thing.
Your pocket computer is so much better than the computers on board Voyager, but it runs a so much heavy system and applications than on board Voyager.
And, you have sooo much computer power for what? Play AngryBirds, uploads photos to social networks, and read Flipboard? Yeah, the future all my generation dreamed.
No, opponent movement were randomized between some patterns (patterns, of course, every IA is a pattern). Today enemies, most part of the time, even don't care about you. They're just scripted to fight against other bot. Like when you're visiting some kid tech park, and automated action figures acts like if they're fighting, but ignoring you. And TODAY games are on rails. You should just move forward to reach the end.
My favorite old PC/console game: TombRaider 1.
Play Genesis Sonic, and try play Sonic Colors or Generations (3D levels). They're for stupid players. You're warned even to when you must couch, even your only path is clearly to couch. To attack, you use only one button (you don't have to care about press direction).
To see clearly the difference: try play Doom or Quake 2, and then play Vanquish.
Aside the gameplay, games are lacking some difficult. In the golden age (8 and 16 bits), most players never ended a lot of million sellers games, but this not repelled them to keep buying.
I remember reading marketing articles saying that they're realized if they lower the difficult, gamers will love games more.
But videogame is about challenges!
I watched the video at http://plasma-active.org/#prettyPhoto/0/ and it's not very different then Android (ICS) and its resizable widgets.
If I'm wrong, please, point me the differences, or why KDE (which I'm a big fan) on mobile is so better than current alternatives.
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I just said it's possible to watch, pretty well, Netflix on Ubuntu. And I use in a daily basis. Yes, it relies on wine, not native solution, then. But it works, and works pretty well. Thanks.
Just a side note: to use current Netflix on Linux, guys uses wine + firefox + moonlight. And it works pretty fine. See more here, a working ppa with all the solution working: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2084592 This is a good point about current Linux distros status: if you don't want port your application, no problem, we can simulate your environment. Ok, not FOSS solution, but at least works.
Will this be different than the Kubuntu meta package "Low Fat Settings"?
I was about to say the same. Disabling Akonadi, Nepomunk (even it's lighter now, still delays my desktop login in a lot of seconds) and a lot of Krunner plugins, and configuring KDE Effects to be "Very Fast" will produces a incredible fasting desktop. Additionally, KDE 4.10 improved a lot on this.
Browser, like anything in our life, cannot be 100% safe. You don't have any security system (at houses, banks, computers) 100% failsafe. Best you can do is make the "thief" life a little bit harder.
Have you saw that every argument you used is an artificial obstacle created by the manufacturer? No driver for the previous version, incompatible formats, etc.
In numbers, most users of OpenOffice/LibreOffice, Firefox, and others FOSS stars run them in Windows. As the main source of money, for MS is Windows, they should allow a lot of FOSS software to complete the user experience.
In a small company that I worked, we opened the code for the client (the client has a code team and in order to convince the client to purchase our product, we offered the code for them, and then we got a deal). This fact (the client developers will check our code) make all the team code better. Open the source code, in some level, automatically make you write better code, cause you start to think "omg, what others will think about this? and my reputation as developer?".
So, as the PC market is shrinking, they sell their only successful non PC device to others?
The problem is: unit test is just a minor portion of testing. And, if it exists, should be done by developers, which already are the bottleneck. I'm a QA lead, and while worked for former-EDS, IBM (and now I opened my own small company), the problem is that unit tests will, most part of the time, will be a very small optimistic set of tests, and not using the interface. Real automated tests, like selenium, are really hard to do, and the focus for automation are regression tests: the ones you'll really execute more than 2 times, for stable features. Real testing starts with the QA team reading the requirements, and, UNDERSTANDING them, and finding roles, problematic and ambiguity requisites. Then, when people will code, after answer all your questions, QA team will start writing tests. So, after delivers features, testing will run. After the code done, regression will be run. The problem with this is: the most of testing guys I'm trying employe in my company, just find trivial and visual issues. Like missing punctuation, some wrong colors... the real job of QA is understand business rules, to achieve the same goal as the development team: deliver an application with few bugs as possible. And, the QA team should provide valuable feedback: short and clean description, steps to reproduce, all environment information. It's not the dev enemy, QA is the dev angel.
What is the relation between solid and ugly? I never understood why Thinkpad should be so ugly, and why people associate this with solid product. So, if a Thinkpad got a nice layout, but still a solid piece of hardware, some people will hate it?
Thank you for your wide explanation :)
The first time I heard these stories about some people against vaccines, I got really shocked. Is something only in USA, or is it common in other countries? Just to be fair, I'm brazilian, and here vaccines are faced like a good thing.
I was joking, man.
Wait for Debian. They'll make a manifest complaining about that.
Your pocket computer is so much better than the computers on board Voyager, but it runs a so much heavy system and applications than on board Voyager. And, you have sooo much computer power for what? Play AngryBirds, uploads photos to social networks, and read Flipboard? Yeah, the future all my generation dreamed.
... is like Scala?
No, opponent movement were randomized between some patterns (patterns, of course, every IA is a pattern). Today enemies, most part of the time, even don't care about you. They're just scripted to fight against other bot. Like when you're visiting some kid tech park, and automated action figures acts like if they're fighting, but ignoring you. And TODAY games are on rails. You should just move forward to reach the end. My favorite old PC/console game: TombRaider 1. Play Genesis Sonic, and try play Sonic Colors or Generations (3D levels). They're for stupid players. You're warned even to when you must couch, even your only path is clearly to couch. To attack, you use only one button (you don't have to care about press direction). To see clearly the difference: try play Doom or Quake 2, and then play Vanquish.
Aside the gameplay, games are lacking some difficult. In the golden age (8 and 16 bits), most players never ended a lot of million sellers games, but this not repelled them to keep buying. I remember reading marketing articles saying that they're realized if they lower the difficult, gamers will love games more. But videogame is about challenges!
As I can read in the comments, music is weakest then Lumines, and there is no story mode.
Like time to spend with Facebook and pr0n.
I watched the video at http://plasma-active.org/#prettyPhoto/0/ and it's not very different then Android (ICS) and its resizable widgets. If I'm wrong, please, point me the differences, or why KDE (which I'm a big fan) on mobile is so better than current alternatives.
To me, Tiles are more close to Wii Channels than Android Widgets, etc.
Before someone post "but this is to be lightweight", this kind of 3d effects has less costs, if the device has a gpu, than do 2d output by cpu.
A issue in a nightly build! OMG!