The alternative we use on Windows is to include a jre with the app. That way our jre is only used by our app. It is not installed in as a jre in windows so windows don't see the jre as an independent app.

And then we can just install our app as any other app using install shild, or any other installer you want. And we don't have to think about compability with other versions of jre/jdk.
   

If you want to play 3d games on nvidia hardware, you really need the nvidia closed source driver anyway, and it does work with the most used linux distributions.

And upgrading for example Fedora is not that bad. Just use preupgrade to download it, and then wait 20 minutes to install the upgrade. Not that bad.

I think part of it is the same as the success of game consoles. They are single purpose* devices which are simple to use and which just work. Looking up a website on a computer is in some way a complex task, requiring that you wait for the computer to boot, hoping windows don't fuck up things or show popup messages users don't understand. With a tablet they just click on the icon and access the internet.

*The purpose being consumption of content from the net, and simple games.

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Rather, the study determined three factors — reasoning, short-term memory and verbal ability — that combined to create human intelligence or “cognitive profile.”
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Now the important question is: Did they find any correlation between the 3 different areas?

Does: "MD: TRIM support for linear (commit), raid 0 (commit), raid 1 (commit), raid 10 (commit), raid5 (commit)"

meen that if I run a software raid-1 on sdd disk, then Linux can do Trim on the disks?

Google replacing Python with Go in large parts of the company. Do you have documentation for that? (I am really interested, because that would be an interesting event).

But I don't think Python ever had an important job at Google. I can't even name any of their important projects which are done in Python.

You do know, that since Windows RT can't run Android java code, or iPhone objective C code, they most likely had to rewrite large parts of the game.

I Think that 10.000£ development sounds low, considering it is a game which have sold over 100.000 units on Android.
 

So what does the following from the article mean:

"although it won’t be able to run apps developed for Windows RT, unless the developers in question also built a version of their app for Windows 8—you really can’t get here from there"

Why can't it run software for Windows 8 RT?

  I thought RT used .net and thus the software would be supported on both arm and x86.

The biggest problem I see with the surface pro, is that it is a tablet with no tablet software, because it can't run RT software. So it is a niche marked, even within the niche windows tablet marked.

Neither, both have quality problems. And my Corsair SSD disk will not even boot with usb on linux. I don't know how they managed to make a non-standard usb interface.
 

Funny. If i search, the top hits are:
1: Wikipedia
2: Wikipedia
3: Opera
4: Opera
5: "News for webbrowser"
6: "Firefox"
7: "Firefox"
8: webopedia.com
9: Chrome.

And it might be a personalized search, but I have newer used or searched for opera before.

The solution is very simple: The unit test must be written by a different person from the guy who wrote the code. That way you also ensure that the documentation is written and correct, because you can't write a unit test if you don't have any documentation for what the function should do.

The problem with html5 apps is javascript. That language is just not designed to delopment of huge applications.

There is no single player mode in "Diable 3". Yes you can play alone but it is still multiplayer and your actions may still changes have effects for other players even if you newer meet them. (Auction house, and the fact that all your heros share part of the same world) are examples on this effect. You can say this design suck, but it was the way Blizzard build it.

To take the newest ubisoft settlers* for example. There is a campaing which is single player only. You can't play it with other players even if you vant to. And it still required that always online drm.

*Which sucks. Settlers 2 is imo still the best settlers game ever made.

The boottime problem can be solved simely by buying a small(32/64GB) ssd disk, and then install linux on that. This will cost you less then 200$. And if you don't have the budget for that, then please your story to thedailywtf.com because it sounds like some interesting fuckup happend someware in your organization.