I dunno about that whole "when" thing. I don't just don't see it happening. There will always be some use for cash, if only just to fall back on.
Even 4e Shadowrun has certified credsticks.
"Bought a Mac but don't like the Finder? Tough luck."
Not necessarily. Through the magic of Fink and XDarwin, I ran KDE 3.5 on my Mac for a while. Perfectly usable and everything worked. I'm sure most, if not all, window managers and desktop environments would work fine on XDarwin.
If everyone in America knew what was happening there would be a hue and a cry to do something about it, just like with health care or gas prices. Oh yeah, because we see how much good that's doing. "Do something about it!"
"No."
"Oh, ok then."
You guys remember 80s and 90s ecological cartoon villains? The ones that were made of pollution so that the only way to hurt them was with clean air and water?
Vista's security image is kinda like that. The only way to actually hurt it at this point would be if the results were surprisingly good.
I dunno about anyone else, but to me it conjures up images of 90s-era Hollywood hackers. Suave guy in the driver's seat of a red car, his short, befreckled and bespectacled companion laboriously typing on a laptop while muttering things about "This is UNIX" and "His serving RAM is so unprocessed."
As I recall, my mom was getting her second degree when I was a wee one, and as this second degree was computer science, we owned an IBM PC that ran some version of MS-DOS. My first "game" was a program she wrote that made trails of ASCII characters on the screen. You could press the space bar to change the character (one of the smiling faces was my favorite) and then press the arrow keys to draw on the screen in an etch-a-sketch-esque fashion.
After that my dad got an NES, and it was Pac-Man, Mario, and Duck Hunt.
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I dunno about that whole "when" thing. I don't just don't see it happening. There will always be some use for cash, if only just to fall back on. Even 4e Shadowrun has certified credsticks.
"Bought a Mac but don't like the Finder? Tough luck."
Not necessarily. Through the magic of Fink and XDarwin, I ran KDE 3.5 on my Mac for a while. Perfectly usable and everything worked. I'm sure most, if not all, window managers and desktop environments would work fine on XDarwin.
You guys remember 80s and 90s ecological cartoon villains? The ones that were made of pollution so that the only way to hurt them was with clean air and water? Vista's security image is kinda like that. The only way to actually hurt it at this point would be if the results were surprisingly good.
Maybe I'm just nitpicking here, but I assume that Amazon warehouses do have actual shelves to store the stuff they sell.
I dunno about anyone else, but to me it conjures up images of 90s-era Hollywood hackers. Suave guy in the driver's seat of a red car, his short, befreckled and bespectacled companion laboriously typing on a laptop while muttering things about "This is UNIX" and "His serving RAM is so unprocessed."
As I recall, my mom was getting her second degree when I was a wee one, and as this second degree was computer science, we owned an IBM PC that ran some version of MS-DOS. My first "game" was a program she wrote that made trails of ASCII characters on the screen. You could press the space bar to change the character (one of the smiling faces was my favorite) and then press the arrow keys to draw on the screen in an etch-a-sketch-esque fashion.
After that my dad got an NES, and it was Pac-Man, Mario, and Duck Hunt.