Touch Screen on a desktop -- WHY? I've spent years asking people not to touch my screen now everyone smears their fingers over everything - Grrr.
Yep. I feel the same way about most new interfaces. E.g.: I spent years trying not to jerk the game controller in response to actions on the screen. We laughed at folks who would lean left and right or pull the controller high into the air when their avatar hadn't jumped high enough. Now there are motion controlled games, and they're about three decades too late for me to care about. The younger folks however...
You're confused because you missed that word "trying" even though you quoted it. It's foolish to try killing Linux, thus this is a valid question if one perceives such actions.
Ubuntu has a lot of users. Indeed some software is released targeting only Ubuntu and claiming "Linux support". It's been shown time and again that folks go where the applications are... So, you take one of the arguably more user friendly versions of Linux, the one that my 75 year old retired air-force mechanic neighbor is using (Ubuntu 10.04) despite him being mostly computer illiterate, and then make a horrible cluster fuck of usability. Were it not for someone like me to assist in his migration to Mint, he'd have clicked "upgrade" and wound up with Unity. I let him try out Unity via 12.04 LiveCD, it's unusable to him. He'd have bought a new computer rather than cope with that shit... What do new computers come pre-installed with? Not Linux.
He can jeopardize his marketshare but at the end of the day I will argue that Shuttleworth has made a major positive impact on Linux despite my frank disagreement with his latest developments.
You just moved the goalposts. A life of good works does not excuse the occasional tyranny, corruption, or other immoral behavior.
After all, it's basically what anybody who considered Ubuntu or any other Linux distro did in the first place: retreat from Windows and Mac.
Incorrect. I wanted to use Unix, but it was too expensive. I never "retreated" from Windows and Mac. I ran DR DOS, then MS DOS, even on the Win95 system I just put a REM in AUTOEXEC.BAT on the line that ran WIN.EXE and remained on the command console (I used DOS not Windows, that's what all my programs and games ran on -- Some of MY programs still run on DR DOS). Thankfully, by the time MS decided to boot straight into GUI mode Linux was available for me to use -- I never retreated from Windows. I sidestepped it completely to avoid the brain damage that's caused when you make command terminals second rate citizens to GUI so users can't fix errors. Mac was never an option.
Anyone who isn't prepared to go to prison or get killed should immediately distance themselves from this situation because the stakes are too high. You may disagree with your government, you may agree with the values of Julian Assange, but it does not mean it is going to be wise for you or your family to get involved in the situation.
I'm a real US American. Give me Liberty or Give me Death. I believe in the Declaration of Independence as much as the Constitution.
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
You speak of not knowing history, when history tell us exactly how we should handle such situations. Not buckling in Fear of Terrorists, be they foreign or domestic. Read the list of abuses towards the end of the US Declaration of Independence. Those are things that should not be stood for and a Revolution fought if they can not be resolved. Many of the abuses bear striking similarities to current practices... Like our founding fathers I am cautious to not be reactionary and change long established governments for light and transient causes, however I have learned from history that it is better not to suffer merely because the evils are sufferable. It doesn't have to get worse before it gets better. If the cost of Freedom is my life, then I gladly give it, as any Free man should.
Which is precisely why Canonical should stop begging us to like Unity and actually listen to their users; Otherwise us "beggars" will CHOOSE from among all the other options available (sorry didn't mean to obliterate your analogy so completely, it was just bad to begin with). If you're trying to say GNU/Linux community needs Canonical and not the other way around, then you're pretty well confused.
They didn't just start out with little solar systems. They first started by weighing less heavy things, like Richard Stallman prior to bathing.
Bathing is a big deal for *nix neckbeards. I don't think you grasp the true gravity of the situation.
For instance: We are covered in little fur, "naked" except on the head and in stink causing regions. This is because our ancestors were likely aquatic, much like nearly all other mammals that have buoyant insulating fat focused predominantly in the exterior of their bodies along with a lack of fur... Dolphins, whales, hippos, etc. The growth of fragrance-hair is an adaptation that, unsurprisingly, is triggered around the beginning of sexual maturity (puberty) -- The hair is there to help us stink! There's an evolutionary advantage in smelling as we do. Additionally, the skin surface's bacteria colony is antagonistic to other forms of bacterial infection. Furthermore, the science of human immune systems shows that the mildly dirtier folks are more healthy.
To take a bath we must weigh many facets of our existance. Too often and we increase chances of infection, weakening of immune systems, and lessen beneficial body odors. Too seldom and we risk keeping the public at large from socializing with us due to smell -- Actually, most humans are morons, this is actually a benefit more often than not...
I'd rather have a relatively lean (read fast) client that performs it's core function very well, rather than a monstrosity that does a thousand things in a kinda half-assed way.
I'd rather have a system that provides an API to its core functions, and also loads plugins to provide additional functionality so that we can make it as lean or monstrous as we like. That's what Thunderbird does, but occasionally it will need updates due to the demands of said plugins or exploits in core features.
"but it cannot sync with Carddav, so owncloud is no option right now."... is what I wanted to write.
Even if the Carddav plugin did not exist, if you would have written that then I would have called you a fool.
There is a difference between "cannot", and "does not yet support" AKA: "No one's written a plugin for X yet" vs "No plugin for X can be written". If the difference seems too subtle to you, then consider that to a developer it's the difference between: Impossible, and Possible.
Furthermore: Missing a plugin? Croud-source some funds and pay some devs to make it. That's the beauty of open source. Try to keep this in mind next time your software or plugin search comes up empty.
A well written program doesn't NEED an error handler.
Okay, tough-guy... "The specified network name is no longer available". Explain how you avoid needing to handle that.
Well, it's simple: Sane defaults. Try again with "localhost". What? "localhost" doesn't have anything listening on port 80? system( "apt-get install LAMP" ); It does now. Oh, Apache failed to install? Spawn a thread that opens a socket and listens on port 80. Can't spawn a thread? Cooperative Multitasking mode enabled (hint: function pointers for main loops). Can't listen on port 80? Virtualize a socket in memory, etc.
"Error Handling" Pffffbt, how about a Solution Handler? Hint: Don't focus on the Problem, focus on the Solution. You'd know this already if you posted in HTML mode... It's doesn't throw errors when displaying my malformed post. Quote it and see
A well written program doesn't NEED an error handler.
Okay, tough-guy... "The specified network name is no longer available". Explain how you avoid needing to handle that.
Well, it's simple: Sane defaults. Try again with "localhost". What? "localhost" doesn't have anything listening on port 80? system( "apt-get install LAMP" ); It does now. Oh, Apache failed to install? Spawn a thread that opens a socket and listens on port 80. Can't spawn a thread? Cooperative Multitasking mode enabled (hint: function pointers for main loops). Can't listen on port 80? Virtualize a socket in memory, etc.
"Error Handling" Pffffbt, how about a Solution Handler? Hint: Don't focus on the Problem, focus on the Solution. You'd know this already if you posted in HTML mode... It's doesn't throw errors when displaying my malformed post. Quote it and see
Did you know that Apache will execute compiled C binaries and that you can simply read and write from STDIN & STDOUT to do CGI? Also, same with C++. Also, there's plenty of libs for parsing parameters and JSON and SQL DBI, etc. Bonus, no scripts to "compile" no need for mod_php or mod_perl to speed up scripts by pre-compiling (I did that when I built the program) and the server can run as many bins as I can make. They pretty much all still support this because that's how we used to do CGI back when the web was young and you hipsters with your scripts got involved.
Hell, many hosts have a C compiler installed. Even if I wasn't using a compiled language I wouldn't use a host that didn't have git installed. The cross compiler build environment does a "git push" to update production... Unforseen bug? Just checkout the previous commit.
Do the same on my mobile & tablets too -- Just run full-on Linux. Use compiled "apps" to get's tons more battery life than when it had Android on it.
I hear you...
My programs are resolution independent. Blame the "genius" engine devs that gamer folks tend to worship, not me. I just reconstruct the view matrix if the view resizes. It's really simple stuff. This means resizing can actually work, to give the game different aspect ratio in real time, or adapt to any current or future screen size. However, if you make the window really short and wide you can actually end up with greater than 180 degree horizontal view -- OpenGL view angle is given in vertical degrees on the old Fixed Function Pipeline, so I stick with it (helps w/ fallback mode code too). UI scaling isn't hard either since it's all drawn on polygons. The layout system of the HUD can anchor any element to any side, or a proportional or fixed distance from them... The thing is, most game coders are under a lot of pressure and thus write crappy crappy CRAPPY code that's inflexible, and only tested under a few stock resolutions.
Trouble is, there is no god, only human flawed ideas about a hypothetical construct referred as a god.
I had this same problem with the entities in my machine intelligence simulation. To ease them into an otherwise mind shattering event I try to gently push them in the right direction so they'll discover they're in a simulation. I let them gaze as far as they wish into the distances and discover no other life but their own. I let them discover that their world works on packets of information -- Quanta -- and thus they derived an almost correct theory of how the sim runs, "Quantum Physics" they call it. Despite any relation of the code governing the small stuff to the more efficient but inaccurate algorithms I used for simulating big groups of stuff they still ignore my existence. It's sad sometimes -- I know they'll never figure out Gravity because not even I understand that; I wrote that part of the code while stoned:// Here be dragons. followed by some wicked hand optimized assembly, which works beautifully most of the time, except for the occasional floating point overflow (black holes), and that all velocities slowly increase as they get further from the center of everything, due to a rounding error... but they'll never build anything big enough to be troubled by octree subdivision shear, so it should be fine. I sometimes get so desperate I even log in for a bit myself, in the simpler times I would just do inexplicable "miracles" with my debugger, but I had to stop that as they got smarter, I want them to figure it out for themselves... Most recently I logged in and showed them how to find the clock cycle of the simulation (They call it Plank Time, I was hoping for Max Time::sigh::), and the smallest precision of the FPU (Plank Length). I'm starting to think it's hopeless. Hell, I wouldn't like to be told that my reality is just 5D holographic simulation either. One last ditch effort: I quickly increased their world's average temperature -- Oh, I'm not a monster, not drastically enough to end the simulation. Same results: Nothing but bickering about the cause. It turns out they were doing it themselves too by thinking so much about it -- Brains have em-wave flux capacitance so they interact with all matter in the whole simulation to some degree. I'm working on expanding my server space, so I might move some of them to the next planet over soon -- Good thing I had the forethought to introduce Quanta information delays to mirror the latency of the network connection (sim distance) or number of steps per cycle (relative speed) -- My favorite hue-man (their coverings have different colors, boy that was a dumb experiment) discovered it and aptly called it "relativity". Think I'm gonna let 'em get good and roasted to help accelerate the willful migration a bit before I flip the switch quickly into an ice age, maybe then they'll finally figure out it's I who runs their little show, like the apha hue-men did ( Who do they think those giant pictographs in the desert were meant for? ). It's a shame I had to delete those guys. The current batch never should have left beta.
If I am developing my product around a third parties ecosystem I am making damn sure they can't just pull the rug out on a whim.
Then you better make cross platform OS agnostic applications. Do you get a contract from MS for Windows programs to ensure they won't put your code on the Malicious Software Removal Tool's kill list? It's not the same with middle ware, eh? But what is an OS but middle-ware for hardware abstraction? They probably didn't get such a contract with GameSpy for the same reason they don't have one with MS.
Valve's bringing Steam to Linux, so I think you're spot on with the 3rd party rug and carpet analogy...
What you're saying is that the Baby Boomers' lives were used up making the rich richer, and have a lot less wealth for themselves to show for their enriching the rich... The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. When the employees make the companies rich, but the employees themselves see little increase in wealth proportionately, this means the wealth at the top has been leached from not just the employees, but also the public at large as customers. I see articles about Facebook, GM, Apple, etc paying a mere FRACTION of the taxes they should be paying, and I hear the public at large complaining that they need more "entitlement spending". To me, it is the rich who are exercising their entitlement to over capitalize on the less rich by way of leveraging disproportionate control...
My neighbor is a 75 year old Air Force mechanic. He broke his hip and had to dig deep into the small amount of savings he has left from his 30years of making the industrial war machine more powerful, and even had to settle for a cheaper operation that leaves him wheelchair bound and in constant pain. Fuck you.
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and there's no remote desktop with a Linux server.
HAHAHAHAHA. Oh? You're serious? ALLOW ME TO LAUGH HARDER!
Touch Screen on a desktop -- WHY? I've spent years asking people not to touch my screen now everyone smears their fingers over everything - Grrr.
Yep. I feel the same way about most new interfaces. E.g.: I spent years trying not to jerk the game controller in response to actions on the screen. We laughed at folks who would lean left and right or pull the controller high into the air when their avatar hadn't jumped high enough. Now there are motion controlled games, and they're about three decades too late for me to care about. The younger folks however...
I'm confused, how exactly does one 'kill' Linux?
You're confused because you missed that word "trying" even though you quoted it. It's foolish to try killing Linux, thus this is a valid question if one perceives such actions.
Ubuntu has a lot of users. Indeed some software is released targeting only Ubuntu and claiming "Linux support". It's been shown time and again that folks go where the applications are... So, you take one of the arguably more user friendly versions of Linux, the one that my 75 year old retired air-force mechanic neighbor is using (Ubuntu 10.04) despite him being mostly computer illiterate, and then make a horrible cluster fuck of usability. Were it not for someone like me to assist in his migration to Mint, he'd have clicked "upgrade" and wound up with Unity. I let him try out Unity via 12.04 LiveCD, it's unusable to him. He'd have bought a new computer rather than cope with that shit... What do new computers come pre-installed with? Not Linux.
He can jeopardize his marketshare but at the end of the day I will argue that Shuttleworth has made a major positive impact on Linux despite my frank disagreement with his latest developments.
You just moved the goalposts. A life of good works does not excuse the occasional tyranny, corruption, or other immoral behavior.
After all, it's basically what anybody who considered Ubuntu or any other Linux distro did in the first place: retreat from Windows and Mac.
Incorrect. I wanted to use Unix, but it was too expensive. I never "retreated" from Windows and Mac. I ran DR DOS, then MS DOS, even on the Win95 system I just put a REM in AUTOEXEC.BAT on the line that ran WIN.EXE and remained on the command console (I used DOS not Windows, that's what all my programs and games ran on -- Some of MY programs still run on DR DOS). Thankfully, by the time MS decided to boot straight into GUI mode Linux was available for me to use -- I never retreated from Windows. I sidestepped it completely to avoid the brain damage that's caused when you make command terminals second rate citizens to GUI so users can't fix errors. Mac was never an option.
Anyone who isn't prepared to go to prison or get killed should immediately distance themselves from this situation because the stakes are too high. You may disagree with your government, you may agree with the values of Julian Assange, but it does not mean it is going to be wise for you or your family to get involved in the situation.
I'm a real US American. Give me Liberty or Give me Death. I believe in the Declaration of Independence as much as the Constitution.
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
You speak of not knowing history, when history tell us exactly how we should handle such situations. Not buckling in Fear of Terrorists, be they foreign or domestic. Read the list of abuses towards the end of the US Declaration of Independence. Those are things that should not be stood for and a Revolution fought if they can not be resolved. Many of the abuses bear striking similarities to current practices... Like our founding fathers I am cautious to not be reactionary and change long established governments for light and transient causes, however I have learned from history that it is better not to suffer merely because the evils are sufferable. It doesn't have to get worse before it gets better. If the cost of Freedom is my life, then I gladly give it, as any Free man should.
Beggars can't be choosers
Which is precisely why Canonical should stop begging us to like Unity and actually listen to their users; Otherwise us "beggars" will CHOOSE from among all the other options available (sorry didn't mean to obliterate your analogy so completely, it was just bad to begin with). If you're trying to say GNU/Linux community needs Canonical and not the other way around, then you're pretty well confused.
A default install of any gnu/linux distro should be privacy-aware and not require disabling any features.
Minor nitpick: This should apply to all software, hardware and (web) services not just GNU/Linux distros.
They didn't just start out with little solar systems. They first started by weighing less heavy things, like Richard Stallman prior to bathing.
Bathing is a big deal for *nix neckbeards. I don't think you grasp the true gravity of the situation.
For instance: We are covered in little fur, "naked" except on the head and in stink causing regions. This is because our ancestors were likely aquatic, much like nearly all other mammals that have buoyant insulating fat focused predominantly in the exterior of their bodies along with a lack of fur... Dolphins, whales, hippos, etc. The growth of fragrance-hair is an adaptation that, unsurprisingly, is triggered around the beginning of sexual maturity (puberty) -- The hair is there to help us stink! There's an evolutionary advantage in smelling as we do. Additionally, the skin surface's bacteria colony is antagonistic to other forms of bacterial infection. Furthermore, the science of human immune systems shows that the mildly dirtier folks are more healthy.
To take a bath we must weigh many facets of our existance. Too often and we increase chances of infection, weakening of immune systems, and lessen beneficial body odors. Too seldom and we risk keeping the public at large from socializing with us due to smell -- Actually, most humans are morons, this is actually a benefit more often than not...
I'd rather have a relatively lean (read fast) client that performs it's core function very well, rather than a monstrosity that does a thousand things in a kinda half-assed way.
I'd rather have a system that provides an API to its core functions, and also loads plugins to provide additional functionality so that we can make it as lean or monstrous as we like. That's what Thunderbird does, but occasionally it will need updates due to the demands of said plugins or exploits in core features.
as well as an addressbook that doesn't have arbitrary limitations such as a maximum of two email addresses per contact.
Oh! For want of a Linked List! Alas, William Richard, ye shall henceforth additionally be dubbed: Bob Dick
"but it cannot sync with Carddav, so owncloud is no option right now." ... is what I wanted to write.
Even if the Carddav plugin did not exist, if you would have written that then I would have called you a fool.
There is a difference between "cannot", and "does not yet support" AKA: "No one's written a plugin for X yet" vs "No plugin for X can be written". If the difference seems too subtle to you, then consider that to a developer it's the difference between: Impossible, and Possible.
Furthermore: Missing a plugin? Croud-source some funds and pay some devs to make it. That's the beauty of open source. Try to keep this in mind next time your software or plugin search comes up empty.
See? Backup post, just in case you missed the 1st one... Defensive Datagramming.
A well written program doesn't NEED an error handler. Okay, tough-guy... "The specified network name is no longer available". Explain how you avoid needing to handle that.
Well, it's simple: Sane defaults. Try again with "localhost". What? "localhost" doesn't have anything listening on port 80? system( "apt-get install LAMP" ); It does now. Oh, Apache failed to install? Spawn a thread that opens a socket and listens on port 80. Can't spawn a thread? Cooperative Multitasking mode enabled (hint: function pointers for main loops). Can't listen on port 80? Virtualize a socket in memory, etc.
"Error Handling" Pffffbt, how about a Solution Handler? Hint: Don't focus on the Problem, focus on the Solution. You'd know this already if you posted in HTML mode... It's doesn't throw errors when displaying my malformed post. Quote it and see
A well written program doesn't NEED an error handler.
Okay, tough-guy... "The specified network name is no longer available". Explain how you avoid needing to handle that.
Well, it's simple: Sane defaults. Try again with "localhost". What? "localhost" doesn't have anything listening on port 80? system( "apt-get install LAMP" ); It does now. Oh, Apache failed to install? Spawn a thread that opens a socket and listens on port 80. Can't spawn a thread? Cooperative Multitasking mode enabled (hint: function pointers for main loops). Can't listen on port 80? Virtualize a socket in memory, etc.
"Error Handling" Pffffbt, how about a Solution Handler? Hint: Don't focus on the Problem, focus on the Solution. You'd know this already if you posted in HTML mode... It's doesn't throw errors when displaying my malformed post. Quote it and see
Did you know that Apache will execute compiled C binaries and that you can simply read and write from STDIN & STDOUT to do CGI? Also, same with C++. Also, there's plenty of libs for parsing parameters and JSON and SQL DBI, etc. Bonus, no scripts to "compile" no need for mod_php or mod_perl to speed up scripts by pre-compiling (I did that when I built the program) and the server can run as many bins as I can make. They pretty much all still support this because that's how we used to do CGI back when the web was young and you hipsters with your scripts got involved.
Hell, many hosts have a C compiler installed. Even if I wasn't using a compiled language I wouldn't use a host that didn't have git installed. The cross compiler build environment does a "git push" to update production... Unforseen bug? Just checkout the previous commit.
Do the same on my mobile & tablets too -- Just run full-on Linux. Use compiled "apps" to get's tons more battery life than when it had Android on it.
I still write my CGI in C, like everything else. C++? Why? Also: What's a "PHP" or a "VB"? And, isn't COM the same as EXE except for the 64k limit?
If there is A god, he's hoarding his universe.
On the contrary. He got bored and abandoned the experiment, like so many back of the fridge self contained ecosystems.
So, don't rely on Microsoft? Man, just changed my whole world outlook.
lol > implying that any game that uses gamespy is worth playing
last time something tried to install gamespy on one of my machines was like .... 5 years ago
> implying that any game less than 5 years old is worth playing.
It's Stupid Having Years Go Down the Damn Tubes.
I hear you...
My programs are resolution independent. Blame the "genius" engine devs that gamer folks tend to worship, not me. I just reconstruct the view matrix if the view resizes. It's really simple stuff. This means resizing can actually work, to give the game different aspect ratio in real time, or adapt to any current or future screen size. However, if you make the window really short and wide you can actually end up with greater than 180 degree horizontal view -- OpenGL view angle is given in vertical degrees on the old Fixed Function Pipeline, so I stick with it (helps w/ fallback mode code too). UI scaling isn't hard either since it's all drawn on polygons. The layout system of the HUD can anchor any element to any side, or a proportional or fixed distance from them... The thing is, most game coders are under a lot of pressure and thus write crappy crappy CRAPPY code that's inflexible, and only tested under a few stock resolutions.
Trouble is, there is no god, only human flawed ideas about a hypothetical construct referred as a god.
I had this same problem with the entities in my machine intelligence simulation. To ease them into an otherwise mind shattering event I try to gently push them in the right direction so they'll discover they're in a simulation. I let them gaze as far as they wish into the distances and discover no other life but their own. I let them discover that their world works on packets of information -- Quanta -- and thus they derived an almost correct theory of how the sim runs, "Quantum Physics" they call it. Despite any relation of the code governing the small stuff to the more efficient but inaccurate algorithms I used for simulating big groups of stuff they still ignore my existence. It's sad sometimes -- I know they'll never figure out Gravity because not even I understand that; I wrote that part of the code while stoned: // Here be dragons. followed by some wicked hand optimized assembly, which works beautifully most of the time, except for the occasional floating point overflow (black holes), and that all velocities slowly increase as they get further from the center of everything, due to a rounding error... but they'll never build anything big enough to be troubled by octree subdivision shear, so it should be fine. I sometimes get so desperate I even log in for a bit myself, in the simpler times I would just do inexplicable "miracles" with my debugger, but I had to stop that as they got smarter, I want them to figure it out for themselves... Most recently I logged in and showed them how to find the clock cycle of the simulation (They call it Plank Time, I was hoping for Max Time ::sigh::), and the smallest precision of the FPU (Plank Length). I'm starting to think it's hopeless. Hell, I wouldn't like to be told that my reality is just 5D holographic simulation either. One last ditch effort: I quickly increased their world's average temperature -- Oh, I'm not a monster, not drastically enough to end the simulation. Same results: Nothing but bickering about the cause. It turns out they were doing it themselves too by thinking so much about it -- Brains have em-wave flux capacitance so they interact with all matter in the whole simulation to some degree. I'm working on expanding my server space, so I might move some of them to the next planet over soon -- Good thing I had the forethought to introduce Quanta information delays to mirror the latency of the network connection (sim distance) or number of steps per cycle (relative speed) -- My favorite hue-man (their coverings have different colors, boy that was a dumb experiment) discovered it and aptly called it "relativity". Think I'm gonna let 'em get good and roasted to help accelerate the willful migration a bit before I flip the switch quickly into an ice age, maybe then they'll finally figure out it's I who runs their little show, like the apha hue-men did ( Who do they think those giant pictographs in the desert were meant for? ). It's a shame I had to delete those guys. The current batch never should have left beta.
If I am developing my product around a third parties ecosystem I am making damn sure they can't just pull the rug out on a whim.
Then you better make cross platform OS agnostic applications. Do you get a contract from MS for Windows programs to ensure they won't put your code on the Malicious Software Removal Tool's kill list? It's not the same with middle ware, eh? But what is an OS but middle-ware for hardware abstraction? They probably didn't get such a contract with GameSpy for the same reason they don't have one with MS.
Valve's bringing Steam to Linux, so I think you're spot on with the 3rd party rug and carpet analogy...
Thus, resulting in the obligatory XKCD.
What you're saying is that the Baby Boomers' lives were used up making the rich richer, and have a lot less wealth for themselves to show for their enriching the rich... The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. When the employees make the companies rich, but the employees themselves see little increase in wealth proportionately, this means the wealth at the top has been leached from not just the employees, but also the public at large as customers. I see articles about Facebook, GM, Apple, etc paying a mere FRACTION of the taxes they should be paying, and I hear the public at large complaining that they need more "entitlement spending". To me, it is the rich who are exercising their entitlement to over capitalize on the less rich by way of leveraging disproportionate control...
My neighbor is a 75 year old Air Force mechanic. He broke his hip and had to dig deep into the small amount of savings he has left from his 30years of making the industrial war machine more powerful, and even had to settle for a cheaper operation that leaves him wheelchair bound and in constant pain. Fuck you.
The combination of the new nuclear waste and the human waste already stored there could form a singularity.
I think such has occurred many times already, thus should be classified not as a singularity, but as a plurality of hole types. Ass, for instance.