So, basically you followed the wrong instructions and Minecraft is the WTF? If you want to install on Windows you just download and run the installer. You followed the "...other OS or without GUI..." instructions.
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RE: Welcome to the world of computers - minecraft server edition
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RE: Welcome to the world of computers - minecraft server edition
So, basically you followed the wrong instructions and Minecraft is the WTF? If you want to install on Windows you just download and run the installer. You followed the "...other OS or without GUI..." instructions.
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RE: Scalability irony
@blakeyrat said:
... The most obvious example being Obamacare in the US, ...
This is a different issue -- "I hate this program because I was told to so I'm going to search for examples of problems with it."
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RE: Firefox, now with Ads!
@OldCrow said:
@dhromed said:
@blakeyrat said:
I wish they'd just come clean and say, "hey look, open source bullshit aside, we're basically a software company with literally ONE client who provides 95% of our income, and that situation sucks... making it worse, that one client already has a browser that does everything we do. If we don't diversify, we're dead in under 5 years. And hey guess what? Open source bullshit aside, all of us here at the Mozilla Foundation like getting paychecks."
Yes.
If they start offering a Pro version with non-fucked-up UI and a blank newtab-page for, say, the $1 per year mentioned... I might just buy a license.
Then again, I'm part of the minory that will not steal. For religious reasons. So I have paid for e.g. a copy of SlySoft AnyDVD, which I did in fact use for watching my legally bought DVDs, thankyouverymuch. ...Never needed to crack the pirated copies when I was a kid...
But I digress. Then we'd start seeing pirated copies of Firefox. Unless, of course, they start validating licenses upon updating. Which would be perfectly acceptable since, unlike a lot of other software, Firefox does indeed get used nearly exclusively for online activities. And the new rigorous short update cycle would fit this scheme perfectly, but I'm sure that's just coincidence.
Instead of seeing pirated copies, someone else would just start releasing builds that didn't require a subscription. Mozilla would have to ditch open source completely for a forced subscription model to succeed, which is highly unlikely. Even then, there would be probably be a group that would just fork the latest open source version and start their own group supporting that version. Sadly there isn't a very good (meaning without loopholes) way for Mozilla to guarantee they will get the money required to support development without another corporate sponsor like Google or adding advertisements. Clearly they are planning for the worst case and including ads in case they don't get corporate sponsorship, which I can't really blame them for under the circumstances.
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RE: Firefox, now with Ads!
Assuming the Google deal is lost, they would need to make up the difference. In order to do that, they would need less than $1 per user per year on average. However, considering how people complain even having to pay that for mobile apps, I seriously doubt that would work. The trend seems to show that people would prefer seeing ads sometimes than having to pay even an unnoticable amount to avoid them.
Besides, how distracting would it be to have ads on the new tab page? I rarely open a blank tab, since most new tabs for me are from links. Plus, it does nothing to block me from immediately opening whatever page I opened the tab for, so there's no real issue. I've seen dramatically worse approaches to includes ads in applications, so I'm perfectly fine with the way they plan to do it.