"So, uhh, honey? Know how we really want to have kids? Remember when I told you about that surgery that I had when I was real young for this cancerous tumour. Well, it made me sterile, but they gave me this rat and..."
With the PPC, backwards compatibility is already broken. Not to mention backwards compatibility is a pain in the ass for developers as well. They don't care about it, either. It's just not worth the money in the end to make a system that's backwards compatible unless it's easy. The PS1 is a single chip in the PS2. The Game Boy is pretty primitive, and is also easy to include in a GBA. For the Xbox 2 to be backwards compatible, it would either a) have to be the same architecture again or b) have an Intel 733 in there again that somehow gets used with XBox 1 games. Interestingly, the majority of the population isn't interested in backwards compatibility as a MAJOR feature anyway. It's just another bullet point to them.
Whether you want to believe it or not, backwards compatibility was a major buying force behind PS2. It wasn't for people who already had a PS1, but rather for people who didn't have a PS1. Backwards compatibility is attractive to those people that are new in console gaming, but don't know which console to choose. Yes, it's another bullet point, but it also means that if new games come out very rarely, at least people have the huge library of games to check out from the old console.
Lycoris has been doing a lot of interesting things lately, from putting their OS on tablets, to this. Sounds like they have a lot of fun with all this Linux stuff. I guess that goes to show the power of openness, huh?
Alarm clocks have some of the worst human interfaces around. Many make it far too easy to set the wrong time (the AM/PM dot hell), and many are a true pain in the ass to set, forcing one to take up to a minute just to cycle to the time you want.
Speaking of which, does anyone know of an alarm clock with 24 hour time measurement, rather than 12 hour. I can't count the number of times I've screwed this up royally simply because I was too sleepy to notice, and had that bite me in the ass enormously.
You completely miss the grandparent post's point. The point was to show the hipocrasy of so many people that talk about capitalism. True capitalism is, yes, all about greed, however, true capitalism is also anarchy and doesn't recognize anything like IP, and so for Microsoft (or any other company) to claim that they protect their IP in the name of capitalism is complete hipocrasy, since IP would not exist in capitalism.
Taking Super Banana Bombs and blowing the whole level up, killing everyone, including myself. Doesn't always work out that way, though. A lot of times, I just end up killing my own team.
Oh, and being Donkey Kong in Super Smash Bros. and carrying everyone off the cliff.
There's a few slight differences between the voyages to the Americas and the voyage to Mars. Part of that being that humans can actually live sustainably in the Americas. I'm not entirely sure, but I think that may have a lot to do with it. Maybe, just maybe.
Do people around here have a short term memory or something? Red Hat may be ending their support, but these versions can still get support from somewhere else.
When will we be sending Mars some mostly autonomous rovers? I would imagine it would be more efficient if the rover were trying to figure out for itself how to get from place to place, through and around obstacles, and coming up with some experiments.
I cannot figure out for the life of me why the heck Cygwin's GCC was used over MinGW.
Every single binary created by Cygwin's GCC must be linked to cygwin.dll, which is an absolutely enormous performance overhead. GCC would have performed much more strongly had MinGW's GCC been used.
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I just got done watching Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I thought you were talking about something else.
"So, uhh, honey? Know how we really want to have kids? Remember when I told you about that surgery that I had when I was real young for this cancerous tumour. Well, it made me sterile, but they gave me this rat and..."
Why the heck do people climb Mt. Everest? It's not like I care.
With the PPC, backwards compatibility is already broken. Not to mention backwards compatibility is a pain in the ass for developers as well. They don't care about it, either. It's just not worth the money in the end to make a system that's backwards compatible unless it's easy. The PS1 is a single chip in the PS2. The Game Boy is pretty primitive, and is also easy to include in a GBA. For the Xbox 2 to be backwards compatible, it would either a) have to be the same architecture again or b) have an Intel 733 in there again that somehow gets used with XBox 1 games. Interestingly, the majority of the population isn't interested in backwards compatibility as a MAJOR feature anyway. It's just another bullet point to them.
Whether you want to believe it or not, backwards compatibility was a major buying force behind PS2. It wasn't for people who already had a PS1, but rather for people who didn't have a PS1. Backwards compatibility is attractive to those people that are new in console gaming, but don't know which console to choose. Yes, it's another bullet point, but it also means that if new games come out very rarely, at least people have the huge library of games to check out from the old console.
Lycoris has been doing a lot of interesting things lately, from putting their OS on tablets, to this. Sounds like they have a lot of fun with all this Linux stuff. I guess that goes to show the power of openness, huh?
volt-regulator poped... literally
It became holy?
The answer can only be honest if it's the truth, otherwise you must lie.
Thanks for the revelation...
Actually, the correct command is:
/dev/joke /mnt/funny
mount
A summary of the parent post for those that don't understand:
xxxxxfreedesktop.orgxxxxxx
Errr, Robyn's a He, not a She -- many apologies.
Yeah, know what that's called? Wishful thinking...
Alarm clocks have some of the worst human interfaces around. Many make it far too easy to set the wrong time (the AM/PM dot hell), and many are a true pain in the ass to set, forcing one to take up to a minute just to cycle to the time you want.
Speaking of which, does anyone know of an alarm clock with 24 hour time measurement, rather than 12 hour. I can't count the number of times I've screwed this up royally simply because I was too sleepy to notice, and had that bite me in the ass enormously.
You completely miss the grandparent post's point. The point was to show the hipocrasy of so many people that talk about capitalism. True capitalism is, yes, all about greed, however, true capitalism is also anarchy and doesn't recognize anything like IP, and so for Microsoft (or any other company) to claim that they protect their IP in the name of capitalism is complete hipocrasy, since IP would not exist in capitalism.
Taking Super Banana Bombs and blowing the whole level up, killing everyone, including myself. Doesn't always work out that way, though. A lot of times, I just end up killing my own team.
Oh, and being Donkey Kong in Super Smash Bros. and carrying everyone off the cliff.
There's a few slight differences between the voyages to the Americas and the voyage to Mars. Part of that being that humans can actually live sustainably in the Americas. I'm not entirely sure, but I think that may have a lot to do with it. Maybe, just maybe.
DIY is great for things you enjoy doing. Writing letters to copyright infringers isn't fun for many people.
I guess I'm weirder than I thought...
Do people around here have a short term memory or something? Red Hat may be ending their support, but these versions can still get support from somewhere else.
When will we be sending Mars some mostly autonomous rovers? I would imagine it would be more efficient if the rover were trying to figure out for itself how to get from place to place, through and around obstacles, and coming up with some experiments.
Netscape. At least, that's what they're hoping to repeat. Of course, this time, it's not a particular company with assets that they wish to defeat.
COOL! A JOB OPENING!!!!!
So, if I use this script, can I become one of the overlords?
4. Fucking leopard prints on the couch in the living room! Yes, we'll all be filming porno in our living rooms in the future.
I won't mind as long as:
1) they have a warrant
2) they take the cost upon their own shoulders and not upon the company or individuals concerned.
What this means is that we must be vigilant about the laws surrounding warrants and how they are obtained.
I cannot figure out for the life of me why the heck Cygwin's GCC was used over MinGW.
Every single binary created by Cygwin's GCC must be linked to cygwin.dll, which is an absolutely enormous performance overhead. GCC would have performed much more strongly had MinGW's GCC been used.
Someone told him that the Martians have WMDs and oil, right?
Ah, but here's the difference with OSS.