I don't understand the logic. It doesn't really matter if there's a 30% energy loss.
If we were bereft of petroleum, we'd still need a portable liquid fuel to put in vehicles. It's not a substitute for cheap oil (nothing is), but it'd be fuel for critical uses like farm equipment, military, and police/fire.
Following the same logic in the article, you'd have to say making wine is a waste since you're wasting all those grapes.
That doesn't make sense if you think about it for a bit.
You're basically saying anything you've ever seen on television can be modeled in real-time on a PS3 which is definitely not going to be true.
Imagine you had special glasses that made you view the real world at 640x480 and 30fps. Is the Ps3 overkill for simulating the real world through those glasses? Nope.
There needs to be two things for Linux to succeed on the desktop. One, what Spolsky mentioned, the ability to run the applications you're using today. And two, compelling Linux-only applications.
OS/2 ran Win16/DOS programs fine. All that software you were using under Windows 3.1 worked great. But where were the killer apps that made people want to buy OS/2?
Windows 95 ran Win16/DOS programs fine. It also ran Office 95, DirectX games, etc.
Alan is a smart guy but his comments about how he thinks Linux isn't on the desktop because of Microsoft's monopolistic practices clearly demonstrate the myopia that a lot of Linux boosters have.
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We'd still be reading books if Gutenberg had not existed. We'd still be using calculating machines if Babbage had not existed.
Are you going to take credit away from those guys too?
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My clan just started playing Cars in league play. It's pretty intense.
I don't understand the logic. It doesn't really matter if there's a 30% energy loss.
If we were bereft of petroleum, we'd still need a portable liquid fuel to put in vehicles. It's not a substitute for cheap oil (nothing is), but it'd be fuel for critical uses like farm equipment, military, and police/fire.
Following the same logic in the article, you'd have to say making wine is a waste since you're wasting all those grapes.
I'm pretty sure this would be a violation of the terms of service for any online game.
I don't know how this place could stay in business if all of their accounts get shut down.
I use http://www.d20srd.org/ during play as a quick hypertext reference. He has spells alphabetically, by class/level, and by cleric domain.
It's also handy for looking up monsters, feats, conditions, etc. I use the encounter calculator to add up xp at the end of every session.
I'm sure a lot of talented Eastern European, Indian, and Chinese developers wouldn't mind being exploited by EA.
In techie terms, he is working on an infinitely scalable system for "real-time immersive collaboration done entirely as peer-to-peer machines."
He's probably talking about Croquet which is a 3d collaborative environment developed on top of Squeak. Impressive stuff.
It doesn't mean much in my estimation. It's not like Linux is a unique or especially cost effective solution here.
It seems like one could put any combination of off-the-shelf PC hardware and software together in a box and blow it to kingdom-come.
To me, it's like if they used duct tape to put it together and went around saying "Powered by Duct Tape!"
I'm much more interested in scenarios that make you think, "Wow, without Linux that would be impossible or impractical."
That doesn't make sense if you think about it for a bit.
You're basically saying anything you've ever seen on television can be modeled in real-time on a PS3 which is definitely not going to be true.
Imagine you had special glasses that made you view the real world at 640x480 and 30fps. Is the Ps3 overkill for simulating the real world through those glasses? Nope.
There needs to be two things for Linux to succeed on the desktop. One, what Spolsky mentioned, the ability to run the applications you're using today. And two, compelling Linux-only applications.
OS/2 ran Win16/DOS programs fine. All that software you were using under Windows 3.1 worked great. But where were the killer apps that made people want to buy OS/2?
Windows 95 ran Win16/DOS programs fine. It also ran Office 95, DirectX games, etc.
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Alan is a smart guy but his comments about how he thinks Linux isn't on the desktop because of Microsoft's monopolistic practices clearly demonstrate the myopia that a lot of Linux boosters have.
We'd still be reading books if Gutenberg had not existed. We'd still be using calculating machines if Babbage had not existed.
Are you going to take credit away from those guys too?
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