Comment Re:It's about time, too (Score 1) 236
The Linux market is at least a few million of generally above average intelligence and income users as proved by the Humble Bundle stats.
Comment Re:wow! (Score 1) 236
Man, it is hard to make some people happy. Here's one of the more successful game companies trying to make a serious effort to bring better games to Linux, and after 8 comments, there are 6 complaints about it.
You can be pretty sure all eight were from Microsoft and Apple trolls.
Comment Re:Just a reminder... (Score 0) 358
It's not cool any more to own Apple products. None of them. I mean, they might be fine for whatever reason you might have for owning an iPhone, but it's important that you realize it is no longer cool. In fact, it is very specifically not cool to own Apple products or to support a company that calls the fucking Secret Service when the whole thing could have been easily handled if they'd just responded to the guy's inquiry about whether or not it was OK to do what he was doing. Think about this: the guy contacts Apple and explains his project because he's not looking for trouble and Apple calls the Secret Service (!) as if the guy had just expressed his plans to assassinate the President. I'm trying to figure out a way Apple could have been more dickish about this besides sending a team of chubby Genius Bar neckbeards to rape and murder the guy's family.
Apple is becoming the shit company to end all shit companies. Their list of anti-social, anti-competitive, anti-consumer and anti-freedom behaviors is growing, it seems, every single day. I understand that some of you already own Apple products and don't have much choice at this point, but unfortunately you're going to have to accept that Apple's behavior is going to rub off on you. Maybe you can buy some nondescript case that will obscure the brand of your device until you can afford to replace it with something that won't make you look like such a huge douchebag for supporting a company like Apple. I really feel for you, but it's not like there weren't signs last year when you bought that iPad 2 and signed the contract. Now you'll just have to live with the consequences of your willingness to ignore those signs. Plus, Apple stuff is so 2006.
But anyone who goes out from here on and buys a new Apple product is not only really not cool, but is inviting douchebag classification.
Secret fucking Service. Unbelievable.
But it's consistent with all Apple's behavior recently. Now... pissing off the environmentalists, that is definitely the last straw. Worse even than kicking in the door of a journalist or calling in an air strike on an artist by the secret service.
Comment Re:An overreach of the law (Score 1) 358
I really dislike when corporations decide to abuse the law like this. It makes my view of Apple even more cynical.
Please describe what abuse has occurred. Apple detected a computer intrusion at their stores. The software was being used to secretly record people and upload images to an outside server. Apple reported it to the authorities who happen to be the Secret Service. The Secret Service investigated. They questioned the individual and confiscated his computers. Please tell me how any of this is abusing the law.
The secret service is not supposed to act as a private security contractor for Apple. Does the word Pinkerton's mean anything to you?
Comment Re:An overreach of the law (Score 1) 358
I really dislike when corporations decide to abuse the law like this. It makes my view of Apple even more cynical. And I've bought precisely three Apple products in my lifetime and that will be ALL I buy. For example, when I was in the market for a new phone I eschewed the iPhone, not for it's alleged technical superiority - but for the fact you can't EASILY replace the battery and you have to use the craptastic dock connector as opposed to mine USB on the Android phones.
And I'll be in the market for a new PC soon. I can tell you it definitely won't be an Apple product.
I see that somebody from Apple modded down your perfectly legitimate post. Is anybody surprised?
Comment Re:So much stupidity (Score 1) 358
You named three parties. Two are stupid. The third is stupid and evil.
Comment Re:it's an overreaction, for sure (Score 1) 358
you are kind of a dick if you transgress against people by taking unauthorized pictures of them
Would that be secret service, flak jacket level of dick then? Or would the dick be you and the paid Apple astromods who modded up your worthless post?
Comment Re:Apple's now worse than Microsucks (Score 0) 358
" the artist who had the Secret Service raid his home at the behest of Apple, who was miffed with Kyle's surreptitious capture of people's expressions as they stared at computers in Apple Stores"
Holy hell. I didn't hear this story til now, but what the HELL was Apple (and Jobs since he was still in charge) thinking? A public facility is not only forbidden from discriminating against people based on race, sex, age, et cetera, but also forbidden from blocking people from recording (with camera, audio, pen-and-paper) what they witness in plain sight.
That's it. From this point forward when I hear someone waxing beautifically about hwo "great" Apple is, I will be linking to this story. And others. To show them how tyrannical the company has truly become.
Apple has officially succeeded beyond its wildest dreams... at becoming the most evil corporation ever. More evil than Microsoft. More evil than Phillip Morris. More evil than any environment trashing, justice perverting, antisocial corporation I can think of. Now we know what killed Steve Jobs. He ate himself out from inside.
And I notice that the usual gang of paid Apple astromods is in here downmodding right on schedule. Which is what made me really mad. You want a fight, Apple? You got one.
Comment Re:Warren Buffet (Score 2) 167
The one thing I have noticed is that Warren Buffet cannot resist getting involved in newspapers. Just because he invested money in them, in this case, I would not consider this a smart investment.
It's about time for Warren Buffet to get some comeuppance. A cutthroat buyout specialist masquerading as a down home good ol boy. Admires Lloyd Blankfein. Opines that Barklays did nothing wrong by fiddling the LIBOR. Profited hugely from the world's misery in 2008. Hates technology so much that he believes buying shrinking dead tree newspapers is a great idea, because there aren't any buggy whip factories to buy. Go for it Warren!
After all, it worked so well for Conrad Black.
Comment Re:Vale Linux (Score 4, Interesting) 167
Respectfully (or perhaps not) you lack the slightest clue about anything to do with 3D graphics and it shows. This $50 Radeon running OpenGL 4 under Catalyst says you are talking out of your butt. A quick trip to Google makes nonsense of your FUD. Facts are a bitch for a guy like you, aren't they?
OpenGL ES - do you even know what it is? OK, that was rhetorical, obviously again you don't have a clue. Allow me. OpenGL ES is OpenGL with the legacy fixed function pipeline stuff stripped away. Begin/End is gone (use drawarrays). Feedback is gone (do your own transforms). All kinds of crap is gone. But all the drawarrays, vertex buffer objects, frame buffer objects, shaders
As for Kronos, the bitching from hotheads died down long ago when it was demonstrated how to advance the library specs properly without losing compatibility. Nobody except Microsoft retreads whines about that any more. Coming down the pipe pretty soon is the new stateless API. DirectX is already chasing OpenGL taillights, and with the stateless API in place DirectX will be completely lost in the dust. Meanwhile, OpenGL has already evolved into a great API for games and CAD at the same time, just as Microsoft hoped it never would be.
Time to pull your hairy foot out of your mouth, or maybe you love the taste of toe jam.
How the Inventors of Dragon Speech Recognition Technology Lost Everything 606
First time accepted submitter cjsm writes "James and Janet Baker were the inventors of Dragon Systems' speech recognition software, and after years of work, they created a multimillion dollar company. At the height of the tech boom, with investment offers rolling in, they turned to Goldman Sachs for financial advice. For a five million dollar fee, Goldman hooked them up with Lernout & Hauspie, the Belgium speech recognition company. After consultations with Goldman Sachs, the Bakers traded their company for $580 million in Lernout & Hauspie stock. But it turned out Lernout & Hauspie was involved in cooking their books and went bankrupt. Dragon was sold in a bankruptcy auction to Scansoft, and the Bakers lost everything. Goldman and Sachs itself had decided against investing in Lernout & Hauspie two years previous to this because they were lying about their Asian sales. The Bakers are suing for one billion dollars."
Comment Re:Vale Linux (Score 2) 167
All smartphones support some form of hardware OpenGL ES acceleration by now and I am not seeing them changing to DirectX any time soon. Considering that there is a huge market in mobile gaming there is plenty of room there. Not to mention that there are more consoles around than the Xbox.
Of course, there is always the chance that Nokia might rise from the dead and infect us all with DirectX Lumia phones. <shudder>
Comment Re:That will never change (Score 2) 71
Read the summary again. Who is making any promises beyond the current version?
Why, your dear friend Richard Stallman has made that promise, because this code base was put under GPL by John Carmack just so that it can never be taken private. Got anything else to moan about?
Comment Re:That will never change (Score 2) 71
the code is open sourced, and that will never change.
Are you sure? Are you absolute certain? Do you feel lucky, punk?
With a copyleft license on the code and a vibrant community, who needs luck?
Comment Re:Vale Linux (Score 4, Insightful) 167
Lets face it folks DirectX won years ago because the kronos group cared more about CAD than they did 3D gaming
Let's face it, you're a trolling FUDster. In case you haven't noticed, OpenGL rules the world at the moment, except for exactly one segment that Microsoft runs as a walled garden (an $8 billion vanity project) and the PC gaming segment from which Microsoft failed to completely evict OpenGL, not for want of trying or lack of expenditure. Every other platform is OpenGL, and those platforms are growing far faster than Microsoft's DirectX segment.
On top of that, DirectX has gone back to being the crappy API. Sure, it was first to move on some necessary improvements to the 3D rendering pipeline and for a time it held a technical lead over OpenGL in some ways. But that is history. OpenGL 4+ is to DirectX as... an Arabian stallion is to a Camel? Sure, Microsoft's Camel can race, but it still smells like a camel.
