If what you have now works for what you're doing, use it.
If something better comes out that tickles your fancy, install the shiny.
If you're not contributing to the project and directly involved in the squabble between Oracle and The Document Foundation, then why in the hell do you care? It's not/that/ hard to install new software on your OS is it?
Let Oracle screw it up (like they always do), and then jump ship like everyone else; otherwise, get in the mix and start helping make the alternative better.
Nine times out of ten even Nihon-jin (damn you/. for not letting me type in Unicode!) type in romaji. I don't get the "tediously"-bit.
When I think "wakarinai" in response to your comment, I simply type "wakarinai" and (assuming I'm not actually trying to post it to/.) viola!; the kana simply appear. What's tedious about that?
What people are failing to realize from a development perspective is that while it may take you more keystrokes to type fewer symbols (in the case of kana/kanji), ultimately, reading it back and quickly identifying variables, routines, etc... at a glance is the end goal - not typing less.
I'm continually surprised how many/.ers are really right wing, pro-corporate, anti-union, anti-tax freeloaders. 40 years of "government is bad" has become a lifestyle for a lot of people here.
They are right-wing, anti-union, anti-high-tax citizens. The left wing faction unfairly tacks on "pro-corporate" and "anti-tax freeloaders" to demonize them.
I don't see the real gripe here. Everyone's so pissy about micro-transactions being yet another way for the big bad industry to screw you. Seriously? They're giving you an opportunity to see if you even like something before committing anything to it. Boy, I sure wish other industries would screw me over like that instead of forcing me to drive a 50% devaluation off the lot...
Okay, so they're figuring out that arcades were the way to go and are now wrapping back around to it. So what? What is it now, 12 million subscriptions to WoW or some such nonsense? Apparently the idea of "ownership" as you're defining it doesn't seem to matter to them, and hell - you're probably even one of them.
You know, there was a "gaming" that used a similar model... D&D, anyone? Personally, I think DDO was brilliant when they went back to their roots and converted it so that anyone could enjoy, but just like the "modules" of yesteryear, people could still pay a small amount for additional content.
This is a good trend here, and it's not like the "owned" games will go away, just that it's high-time for a more broad adoption of this model as well.
All-in-all, I think people just like to complain.;)
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Not to say that the geeks don't geek, but c'mon... what intrusions? My guess: he just wanted someone to care again.
If what you have now works for what you're doing, use it.
If something better comes out that tickles your fancy, install the shiny.
If you're not contributing to the project and directly involved in the squabble between Oracle and The Document Foundation, then why in the hell do you care? It's not /that/ hard to install new software on your OS is it?
Let Oracle screw it up (like they always do), and then jump ship like everyone else; otherwise, get in the mix and start helping make the alternative better.
In my opinion, this thread is moot.
Nine times out of ten even Nihon-jin (damn you /. for not letting me type in Unicode!) type in romaji. I don't get the "tediously"-bit.
When I think "wakarinai" in response to your comment, I simply type "wakarinai" and (assuming I'm not actually trying to post it to /.) viola!; the kana simply appear. What's tedious about that?
What people are failing to realize from a development perspective is that while it may take you more keystrokes to type fewer symbols (in the case of kana/kanji), ultimately, reading it back and quickly identifying variables, routines, etc... at a glance is the end goal - not typing less.
I lol'd.
Mozilla should make a kitchen recipe sorter instead.
Who would their target audience be? It always seems to be that the more you use a computer - the worse you are at cooking.
Or is it just me?
I dunno... I can fry a mean hard drive.
Isn't all of this conversation a bit moot until they release something that actually works?
They are right-wing, anti-union, anti-high-tax citizens. The left wing faction unfairly tacks on "pro-corporate" and "anti-tax freeloaders" to demonize them.
You should be ashamed. WWGWBD?
FTFY: "demonificate"
Oh, and don't forget "pro-talk-radio".
I don't see the real gripe here. Everyone's so pissy about micro-transactions being yet another way for the big bad industry to screw you. Seriously? They're giving you an opportunity to see if you even like something before committing anything to it. Boy, I sure wish other industries would screw me over like that instead of forcing me to drive a 50% devaluation off the lot...
Okay, so they're figuring out that arcades were the way to go and are now wrapping back around to it. So what? What is it now, 12 million subscriptions to WoW or some such nonsense? Apparently the idea of "ownership" as you're defining it doesn't seem to matter to them, and hell - you're probably even one of them.
You know, there was a "gaming" that used a similar model... D&D, anyone? Personally, I think DDO was brilliant when they went back to their roots and converted it so that anyone could enjoy, but just like the "modules" of yesteryear, people could still pay a small amount for additional content.
This is a good trend here, and it's not like the "owned" games will go away, just that it's high-time for a more broad adoption of this model as well.
All-in-all, I think people just like to complain. ;)