MapPoint? Wasn't it the service that plotted a route between two cities in Norway by taking the long, two-day and over 1600 mile scenic route, instead of the more direct 500 mile trip it was if going the other way around?
I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure.
Haven't seen Limit Theory mentioned yet. It's an infinite space sim, all of the universe is procedurally generated, and coded by a single guy. Looking darn pretty too!
Though, it's not down on a planet level, it's only in space.
What do you think will happen if climate change leads to less fresh water being available, or arable land starts shrinking? While bad in itself, you don't think events such as those will lead to war?
Even if the human race can cope well with potential climate change, you will still get wars. So the worst case scenario is both problems due to climate change and wars.
So by combating potential climate change we might be able to prevent drought/famine and war at the same time.
And sea level rise has been going on for 12,000 years since the last ice age
Weird, here in Scandinavia it's the land that have risen since the last ice-age. Because you know, 3000 meter thick ice weighs quite a lot and pressed the land down, and the land is now (still) rebounding.
You're supposed to have both "Developers who do Ops" and "Ops guys who develop" in one team to do "DevOps"
Si the idea is to take good (hopefully) programmers and make then into mediocre (at best) operation guys, and take the operation guys and make them into mediocre (at best) developers?
Somehow that doesn't really sound like a good idea to me. Wouldn't it be better if you have good developers doing development, and good operation guys doing operation stuff?
I don't know about operations, but we all seen what happens when mediocre developers are let loose on a code-base.
Didn't they do some experiment like that in Russia or something? Locked some people into a confined space for several months, without any real contact with the world outside. Or was it only on the planning stage? I don't remember.
It seems to be more and more common these days: One group demanding their right to free speech, and then use that free speech to demand that another group should not be allowed free speech.
So I guess it's okay for me to borrow, say, $1000 from you, and then I simply forget that I did? If I then move and you can't reach me, will you just let it be?
So if a carpenter makes a chair for you, the carpenter deserves to be paid in perpetual for the chair as well? A good carpenter is a creator as well.
And from TFA:
"Creatives have a right to be paid indefinitely on their work", and switch out "Creatives" for any other job. "Dentists", "teachers", "librarians", "palaeontologists"... It starts to appear a little ludicrous.
The same kind of tool that wears a polo shirt with an alligator image on it
I do that sometimes. But then it was my wife who bought the shirt so I kind of have wear it sometimes. So I'm not a tool of the brand, I'm a tool of my wife!
Basically Linux will largely cannibalize Windows sales.
Not always, there may be people who doesn't buy games because they're not on Linux. I know that I don't buy as much games as I would like to, because there are not so many Linux-native games, and if more games came out on Linux I would definitely buy more.
So while some of the Windows market may be cannibalized, having games on Linux will probably increase the number of (potential) customers.
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MapPoint? Wasn't it the service that plotted a route between two cities in Norway by taking the long, two-day and over 1600 mile scenic route, instead of the more direct 500 mile trip it was if going the other way around?
Well, yes it was!
There are many people who came up with great inventions or mathematical proofs just because no-one told that it would be impossible and not work.
I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure.
Haven't seen Limit Theory mentioned yet. It's an infinite space sim, all of the universe is procedurally generated, and coded by a single guy. Looking darn pretty too!
Though, it's not down on a planet level, it's only in space.
Airline crash? Like the airline going bust (e.g. chapter 11) or airline crash as in the whole fleet of aircraft crashing?
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What do you think will happen if climate change leads to less fresh water being available, or arable land starts shrinking? While bad in itself, you don't think events such as those will lead to war?
Even if the human race can cope well with potential climate change, you will still get wars. So the worst case scenario is both problems due to climate change and wars.
So by combating potential climate change we might be able to prevent drought/famine and war at the same time.
Don't you mean buying the competition?
Weird, here in Scandinavia it's the land that have risen since the last ice-age. Because you know, 3000 meter thick ice weighs quite a lot and pressed the land down, and the land is now (still) rebounding.
Doesn't many old DOS-era games from gog.com come with DOSBox? Shouldn't be too hard to move from one DOSBox installation to another?
Si the idea is to take good (hopefully) programmers and make then into mediocre (at best) operation guys, and take the operation guys and make them into mediocre (at best) developers?
Somehow that doesn't really sound like a good idea to me. Wouldn't it be better if you have good developers doing development, and good operation guys doing operation stuff?
I don't know about operations, but we all seen what happens when mediocre developers are let loose on a code-base.
The biggest news from that panel was, IMO, that Chris Roberts said that Star Citizen will be coming to Linux.
Didn't they do some experiment like that in Russia or something? Locked some people into a confined space for several months, without any real contact with the world outside. Or was it only on the planning stage? I don't remember.
It seems to be more and more common these days: One group demanding their right to free speech, and then use that free speech to demand that another group should not be allowed free speech.
Well it will seem pretty innovative when they release version 9.5, but the big mainstay will be version 9.8 second edition.
Never heard of Ren'Py before. Its scripting language kind of reminds me of Inform 7.
When they mention "gas" in the summary, I don't think they mean "gasoline" but natural gas.
You're calling the Poetic Edda Anglo-Saxon? Also, there was only one poetic Edda, the other Edda was the Prose Edda, which wasn't Anglo-Saxon either.
It didn't go so well the last time we went there.
I'm sure the hundreds of thousands of seamen from the Philippines will like this news.
So I guess it's okay for me to borrow, say, $1000 from you, and then I simply forget that I did? If I then move and you can't reach me, will you just let it be?
So the french blogger who was fined 3000 euros should now have a good reason to appeal his judgement, as the documents he linked to actually was publicly available?
So if a carpenter makes a chair for you, the carpenter deserves to be paid in perpetual for the chair as well? A good carpenter is a creator as well.
And from TFA:
I do that sometimes. But then it was my wife who bought the shirt so I kind of have wear it sometimes. So I'm not a tool of the brand, I'm a tool of my wife!
Not always, there may be people who doesn't buy games because they're not on Linux. I know that I don't buy as much games as I would like to, because there are not so many Linux-native games, and if more games came out on Linux I would definitely buy more.
So while some of the Windows market may be cannibalized, having games on Linux will probably increase the number of (potential) customers.