After reading this: [quote] As global levels of sea ice declined last year, many experts said this was evidence of man-made global warming. Since September, however, the increase in sea ice has been the fastest change, either up or down, since 1979, when satellite record-keeping began. According to the University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979. [/quote
I agree about the "consumer software"; this has a lot to do with Linux still being hard to sell to "Joe User" at the moment. But if you think the Linux market is all about Red Hat selling support, you are mistaken. If we look at desktop applications, we see the money in applications not for Joe User. Companies, like Ansys, Simulia, PTC, make a lot of money by selling specialized applications that are best run on Linux for technical reasons. If you've ever seen the car industry, media in
I think should look at the purpose of copyright. The idea behind copyright is not to pay the author. This is a common misunderstanding. There are plenty of people in society doing usefull work that did not get legal protection to get paid. The reason why copyright was that if there was a commercial incentive to produce cultural works, more works would be produced. If we look at computer games, we can see that copyright does what it is supposed to do. Teams of highly capable designers
That's stated too strong. Linux is already a 10 digit $$ market, it doesn't need to take off, it did long ago. Linux is still hard to sell to "Joe User" that is looking for a new computer. That's the main problem, but it will happen. Joe User did not have problems with Linux based Eeepc and clones. Once the so called "network effects" of the Windows platform have been cleaned up, Linux will take off for Joe User as well.
Interresting, people are blogging about this thread: http://dbzer0.com/blog/heres-to-reaching-the-games-for-linux-tipping-point
If sales would go up 2% that would be a victory for Linux, because that would be hard proof that Linux users are more likely to buy a game than Windows users, after all, most reports about Linux market share show the most likely desktop market share is somewhere around 1%. Let's wait and see, I think there is a good chance that it'll go over 2%. I've been playing it for a few hours now, and the quality seems good. It worked right out of the box (just unpack tarball and start game) Vi
Well, instead of ID Software, why don't we look at World of Goo, as the Linux version of World of Goo has now been released. [e digicons]:)[/e] I'm quite confident it will be success, the users were asking for it, it is a proper port, supports 32 & 64 bit Linux, it as easy to buy the Linux version as the Windows version, and existing customers can get the Linux version. And of course I'm putting my money where my mouth is: I did just order a copy.
[quote]Uhm, last I checked, both the American and British governments were HIGHLY reluctant to adopt CO2 reduction schemes[/quote] Ahem, I think you should make an apology to your linguistic relatives, because the British government is one of the most serious governements about CO2 reduction, it wants to go as far as 60% reduction by 2050 . The U.K. will also unlike many other countries
[quote who="kryo" reply="1" id="2058060"] Yes, they are only barely worth the money put into them A major studio with a AAA title finding it's only barely worth it isn't going to be a big motivator for smaller companies to attempt the same. Expecting paper-thin margins at best doesn't get massive new undertakings approved.[/quote] Exactly, the problem is not so much a lack of users, the Linux desktop simply isn't a gold mine yet, so no one should expect a gold rush. What I d
[quote]The Eve Online Linux client totally sucked.[/quote] Well, if I read the stories on the topic, you should say "client", because the Linux "client" was a simply recompile of the Windows version against Transgaming's Cedega, so the only difference between running the "Linux" version and the Windows version under Cedega, was that the exe was in ELF rather than PE-COFF format. In addition, they simply did disable all features that caused problems with Cedega. Cedega is a for
[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="1" id="2055535"]That's because they're not dominant at this point in time.[/quote] That's not my conclusion. If digital downloads would be a separate market, Valve is a dominant player it. [quote who="Heavenfall" reply="1" id="2055535"]Some people want them to be, and we've explained why that is a bad idea for everyone except steam.[/quote] That it is a bad idea is an open door, monopolies are well known to be bad for everyone. I'm summing up the
As the word monopoly has been raised a few times, let's take a look at the issue from an anti-trust point of view. Obviously there are only two significant players offering digital downloads Stardock & Valve, one being significanly larger than the order. The first question we need to answer is wether the digital download market can be identified as a separate market. As an analogous example, the x86 market can be defined as a separate market from the CPU market, because a vendor m
Frogboy said: [quote] It has fanboys that actively wish that competition would just go away in the name of “standards” (whatever that means). [/quote] dj-LiTh said: [quote]Personally i much rather just have Ste
[quote]Because to me, when I think of Electronic Arts I think of .... Summer Games.[/quote] Summer Games by Electronics Arts? If I remeber well it was done by Epyx/U.S. Gold. At least on the Commodore 64. Or are we talking of a different game?
[quote]When I was an OS/2 zealot, the up and coming star was Microsoft. Its fan boys helped ensure that Windows, not OS/2, became the standard OS. For many people today, it’s hard to imagine Microsoft as the fanboy favorite – the company that could do no wrong – the company that would never do anything “evil”. [/quote] Interresting you say that. In the early 90's I was a fanboy of Microsoft software. MS Word 2.0 was so much better than Wordperfect,
I think the numbers definately include business PC's running Linux, it's not that easy to separate professional and home use of PC's. I think the numbers can be considered a reasonable approximation for the market share, anything else is pure guesswork. What can be concluded, regardless of the error margin, is that Windows loosing several % points a years. It's way too early to call Windows a sinking ship, but any software vendor that is Windows only should think how it can best react
[quote]I still think that "Overpopulation" should be the first word in the thread title,[/quote] Well, yes and no. It's of course true that if you halve the human population you use half the planetary resources. On the other hand, if you halve the population, but have all of them live lives under western standards, you would still need multiple earths. I think in the west, as we have our fertility under control, getting the amount of resources used per head is the prime concer
Hello, I tried to add a mod to the Library, but the result, after entering all required information, is as below:
The the required technology for external video cards has only become available recently. AGP doesn't allow long cable lengths, so is unsuitabke for external video cards. With PCI Express it has become possible, however, 16 PCI Express lanes is something not many vendors would like to waste on an external port.
Windows loosing market share in the past years. What makes you believe 2009 will be different? It's recession, good times for Linux. We'll go below 85% for sure this year. And talking about Windows 2007 taking over, here is the big shock: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/insight/software/soa/Is-it-Windows-7-or-KDE-4-/0,139023769,339294
I find myself buying games in advance... I always had the plan to buy Defender of the Crown, but I'm still too busy with Galciv II and Space Rangers II. Wait until I'm bored with those games or buy now? Normally it would have been "wait", but at $3.99......
The 6 meters number is what you would get if all land ice would melt. It is the absolute theoretical maximum. It is at this time not believed we can melt all ice with our current CO2 emissions..
So Microsoft want to have control over what is installed by OEM's... Dangerous...
[quote]And for the record, if you don't think the possibility of killing off half the human population counts as "the most extreme consequences", mind sharing what those might be?[/quote] I think Al Gore is much, much better at that than me [e digicons]:grin:[/e] , but I do consider killing half the human population among the most serious consequences. See it like this: .nl is for more than half of it's surface below see level. If the sea rises 0.5m, we'll build higher dikes and ne
The big publishers create way too many costs by letting every game development team trying to break the polygon count record. It doesn't matter how many games you sell, if you spend too much money creating the games. Anyway, congratulations to Stardock with their new studio!
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