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Microsoft got attacked for Embrace, Extend and Extinguish.

Saying "for bundling an internet browser with their OS" is a massive understatement. They forced manufacturers to not only bundle their browser but would seize working with them if they bundled a competitors browser.

They also took deliberate steps to make sure their software didn't work on competitors machines. They acted like the competitors software was broken while it was simply a check to see if it was MS-DOS (see DR DOS).

Yes Apple should be slapped with an anti-trust case especially when iTunes was nearly the only place where you could buy music. But acting like Microsoft wasn't run by a bunch of anti-competitive pricks makes it look like we've already forgotten about the Halloween documents.

The problem is that you're not a reviewer at apple, or an apple lawyer...
Hackintoshes break the TOS last time I checked.

Some stuff can be built for Macs from Linux, stuff like the Godot game engine supports this.

It is however a guess if they're going to allow that build or not.

Re:Gimp project gets $68.34 monthly on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @08:06AM (#24340873)
Blender already has a solid and enthousiastic user base before the 2.7 UI update.

Blender was also the forerunner in having a kickstarter-like scheme to raise enough money to make it opensource.

There's an interesting interview between Ton Roosendaal and Blender Guru about the history. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJEWOTZnFeg

The Blender guys were also a lot less hostile towards people trying to make improvements to stuff like UX.

One of the things that GIMP also desperately needs is a name change, while Blender is an odd choice it at least doesn't conjur up sexual images.

Re:Twitter Flags Trump Tweet for Dissuading Voting on Monday August 24, 2020 @10:38AM (#24261098)
Yet it's safe enough to send those 1,200 dollar stimulus cheques, right?
Re:Show HN: YouTube-DL GUI Powered by Electron on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @02:08AM (#20332559)
Why not just use Youtube-dlg?

Does everything it needs to and doesn't require you to use electron.

Re:New Bitbucket Cloud features on Friday March 29, 2019 @03:53AM (#19519889)
We're talking about 200 developers here.

If you truly have such a large corporation you would just host your own gitlab instance, right?

Re:Quora User Data Compromised on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @02:24AM (#18597093)
I personally use keeanywhere to streamline my experience. It allows me to just log in and select my db
The title is slightly misleading, the Ender-3 (touted as the new best cheap printed) is not the first open source 3D printer.

Nearly every printer is based on a type of RepRap printer which kind of started the original boom. You can find a ton of open source printers on their site: https://reprap.org/wiki/RepRap_Options

Re:Deprecation of OpenGL and OpenCL on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @09:52AM (#17247131)
Do you have a source for that? Because I can't really find a figure. Genuinely curious.
Re:Deprecation of OpenGL and OpenCL on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @09:50AM (#17247117)
Having used pages and word, please don't tell people to use Pages for everything.

It doesn't have the features you need when you're creating more complex documents. Last time I've used it it didn't even allow you to have different sections which allow you switch between the rotation of pages.

I never really felt why I should log in to download free apps. I hate how software has to implement their own update mechanisms when there's a native alternative solution built in to the OS.

Which is a shame since I love using package managers on Linux.

Re:An open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 on Saturday October 14, 2017 @11:37AM (#15472614)
That's just plain old awesome. Thanks for this!
I love the product you work on.

Partially hijacking your comment to say that an easy way to get the original assets in openrct 2 is to install the gog version through wine or play on Linux. Have played it a bit too much to say the least...

If you go up the comment chain you can see a user saying

> I believe it requires Windows Media Play on all playback devices.

So in order to watch all the streams in your house you'd have to use WMP.

Re:Apple2fpga: Reconstructing an Apple II+ on an FPGA (2008) on Sunday October 08, 2017 @05:58AM (#15427639)
I think everybody's acting offended because you're comparing their ages when they made something successful, not what they made.

The what is a huge nuance, I personally think Zuckerberg would be able to create a device like this at this point in time.

While you were just comparing ages you accidentally bundled achievements and that's a big no no.

True being a Linux or OSX user makes you a smaller target, if you're personally targeted you're usually SOL.

It's also hard to deny that OSX is becoming more and more of a target.

While I agree that the headline is inflammatory (and kinda stupid) we shouldn't forget about its key message.

That is that a MacOS computer isn't completely secure, just like windows.

I've seen a ton of MacOS users who would run practically everything they'd get sent because "Macs don't get virusses, only windows".

Security best practices should always be followed, even if some devices are better protected than others.

The key sentence in the article (for me) is this one:

> many Mac users tend to be overly confident because they believe in Apple's message and think their systems are immune to malware and will protect them.

So basically just Firefox's Tamper Data but for chrome?
I'm guessing you don't really understand what he's saying. He's saying that by pretending to be Windows instead of Linux the webapplication runs better. There's nothing native about it.

The same exact website/piece of software runs better by saying "Hi I'm on windows". This obviously means foul play.

Re:WordPress on .NET on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @01:25PM (#13756239)
I know, but is there any proof of this? And how can we be sure that the .NET environment is better optimised than the PHP environment? I would find it weird for them to shoot themselves in the foot like that. Since if someone were to make a decent blog post that showed proof they'd only have C# programs on Azure...

This all being said they're pretty transparent with their benchmarks. They supply all the code that they've used and are even comparing it to another project which aims to do the same.

I guess I'm just a bit angry because people are just saying "It's unfair" while they can easily do the tests themselves and then call someone out for it.

Re:WordPress on .NET on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @12:13PM (#13755333)
While I do know that Azure is owned by Microsoft I'm not so sure on why it's such a valid argument.

In the end it's not like they're actively trying to ruin languages other than C# on their servers? Especially since that would ruin it for a lot of customers?

Re:Western Union admits to aiding wire fraud, to pay $586M on Monday January 23, 2017 @03:56PM (#13465919)
Fun fact: in the Flanders we had a show called "Basta" in which they had fun with a Nigerian scammer.

The person at the local Western Union actually warned them that it was a scam. I'm not sure if all of them would actually try to stop people from wiring money. In the end it's company police to wire the money if the client wants it tho.

Re:Netflix's gamble pays off as subscriptions soar on Thursday January 19, 2017 @08:18AM (#13435505)
I used to do this, a Netflix account is global. Meaning that the selection you get is based on where you currently are, this is great for when you're traveling.

Netflix has however been blocking every VPN under the sun. You can try your luck and get a VPN with a static IP that's just for you... But they seem to have started blocking these too.

Furthermore people don't mind paying for Netflix since you get a ton of value from it. When you add in the cost of a vpn + static IP from that VPN provider you've more than doubled it.

I cancelled my subscription when I couldn't hop to different countries and could only use the Belgian selection. I just went back to doing what I did before I got Netflix.

Re:Crytek has not paid wages, employees are leaving on Sunday December 11, 2016 @06:36AM (#13150633)
While yes it takes a lot of time to make a game the indie scene isn't interested simply because of unity's dominance.

The AAA scene is using their own engines or the unreal engine. While you can switch engines when creating a new game the incentive isn't there when you either already have licenses for the unreal engine and a small army of programmers who have mastered it.

People were expecting a shit to Unreal when they decided to make it free for education/take a 5 % cut. This shift hasn't happened...