See, the problem with this is, MIT has a reputation (deserved or not) as being better than Caltech. Caltech can do this to MIT, and people go "Hah hah, how clever." But, if MIT were to do this to Caltech, people would say "What stupid arrogant assholes, why don't they stay in Cambridge and stop bragging about their superiority at other schools."
Why? Corporations get money from a free and voluntary exchange of goods and services with the general public. NASA gets money taken from the general public by force.
And really, saying that corporations get all the money they want is completely absurd. They get all the money that the public wants to give them, which is quite a big difference.
There are exceptions to every rule. You have to admit, a large portion of the open-source community's work can be described as "giving X some feature Y already found in proprietary software Z".
If a company's first priority wasn't making money, then its other priorities would be irrelevant, because the company would go bankrupt and cease to exist.
Like it or not, money is what drives the world, and everyone who wants to have any effect on the world needs money to do it.
What reliability problems have you been having with SVN? I've been using it for almost a year with no issues, other than a permission-induced stuck lock with BDB that was my fault.
I bought WoW a few weeks ago and loved it, at first. But a few days ago, after reaching level 21, I realized that there really wasn't all that much content in the game. It's just a constant cycle of killing monsters, waiting for your health/mana to recharge, killing some more, and then running for fifteen minutes back to whoever gave you the quest.
It was fun while it lasted, but eventually you realize there isn't much variety in the gameplay. The scenery changes, and you get to use different spells/weapons, and if you really stick with it you get a horse to ride around, but other than that, nothing ever changes.
Okay, maybe I was a little casual with my wording.
Transmeta did have a good idea, but they couldn't bring it to execution. The grandparent seemed to imply that this was somehow the fault of the 800lb gorillas (Intel and AMD) exerting their market dominance, but in reality it was just Transmeta not being able to deliver a desirable product that brought them where they are today.
Who says Transmeta had a good idea? They never delivered on any of their promises: long battery life, "code morphing", and all that. All they had was a slow, perhaps moderately efficient, processor that didn't offer any significant advantages over its competitors.
Maybe this is because most of Debian's userbase has gotten tired of the sickly release schedule and glitchy package management, and moved on to other distributions like Gentoo?
Aside from being very easy to keep up to date, Gentoo's documentation, organization, configuration file management, dependency/build management, package handlings, init scripts, and so forth are so much better than anything else out there right now, I don't know why anyone would want to use anything else.
Most of the people who are uncomfortable with Paypal are the ones who think whining about it makes them seem experienced or intelligent. For simply sending money, there's nothing wrong with it (as long as you don't mind using them).
The money you lose from people who enjoy bragging about how they refuse to use Paypal will be more than made up for by the time you save not having to implement something like this yourself.
Ker-BOOM, that's the sound of a mailbox exploding...
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First of all, that thing has been there since KDE 1.0. It's a toy, and I doubt it requires much maintenance, so why not leave it in? What do you expect from something in the "kdetoys" package, anyway?
Second, the current moon phase is very important for amateur astronomers. A full moon makes it nearly impossible to see anything but the brightest objects in the sky, because of the glare. Also, if you want to look at the moon itself, the best time is not when it's full (because everything is so bright and washed out), but when it's at approximately 1/2 phase, because the shadows show depth.
The best Java IDE, by far, bar none, is IntelliJ IDEA. It blows everything else out of the water, although it has a price to match.
Eclipse is essentially an open-source clone of IDEA, but in reality it doesn't even come close to matching it. IDEA's tagline is "develop with pleasure", and that's not just marketing drivel.
I still have no idea what the purpose of the iPod Photo is. Sure, the better battery life and color screen are nice, but who really cares about carrying their photos around with them for viewing on a 1.5-inch screen? Hell, they could just lug their digital camera with them, and get mostly the same functionality...plus a camera!
Don't let the door hit you on the ass on your way out.
Seriously, this was not advertised functionality when you bought your iBook. Why do you think you're entitled to free functionality upgrades from Apple for the life of your product?
Do you think Apple should provide you with a free upgrade to OS X 10.4, too? Because, you know, it's within your iBook's capability to run it.
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Or you could walk into the bookstore, grab a copy of PCGamer, look at the screenshots, put it back on the shelf, and walk out.
All for free.
Yes, but...MIT was the first to do it.
See, the problem with this is, MIT has a reputation (deserved or not) as being better than Caltech. Caltech can do this to MIT, and people go "Hah hah, how clever." But, if MIT were to do this to Caltech, people would say "What stupid arrogant assholes, why don't they stay in Cambridge and stop bragging about their superiority at other schools."
Why? Corporations get money from a free and voluntary exchange of goods and services with the general public. NASA gets money taken from the general public by force.
And really, saying that corporations get all the money they want is completely absurd. They get all the money that the public wants to give them, which is quite a big difference.
There are exceptions to every rule. You have to admit, a large portion of the open-source community's work can be described as "giving X some feature Y already found in proprietary software Z".
If a company's first priority wasn't making money, then its other priorities would be irrelevant, because the company would go bankrupt and cease to exist.
Like it or not, money is what drives the world, and everyone who wants to have any effect on the world needs money to do it.
What reliability problems have you been having with SVN? I've been using it for almost a year with no issues, other than a permission-induced stuck lock with BDB that was my fault.
I bought WoW a few weeks ago and loved it, at first. But a few days ago, after reaching level 21, I realized that there really wasn't all that much content in the game. It's just a constant cycle of killing monsters, waiting for your health/mana to recharge, killing some more, and then running for fifteen minutes back to whoever gave you the quest.
It was fun while it lasted, but eventually you realize there isn't much variety in the gameplay. The scenery changes, and you get to use different spells/weapons, and if you really stick with it you get a horse to ride around, but other than that, nothing ever changes.
Okay, maybe I was a little casual with my wording.
Transmeta did have a good idea, but they couldn't bring it to execution. The grandparent seemed to imply that this was somehow the fault of the 800lb gorillas (Intel and AMD) exerting their market dominance, but in reality it was just Transmeta not being able to deliver a desirable product that brought them where they are today.
Who says Transmeta had a good idea? They never delivered on any of their promises: long battery life, "code morphing", and all that. All they had was a slow, perhaps moderately efficient, processor that didn't offer any significant advantages over its competitors.
You could at least wait until there are some comments in the last BS story before posting another one...
Maybe this is because most of Debian's userbase has gotten tired of the sickly release schedule and glitchy package management, and moved on to other distributions like Gentoo?
Aside from being very easy to keep up to date, Gentoo's documentation, organization, configuration file management, dependency/build management, package handlings, init scripts, and so forth are so much better than anything else out there right now, I don't know why anyone would want to use anything else.
I'm not surprised, I get a kick out of it.
:)
My zip code is 02139.
Most of the people who are uncomfortable with Paypal are the ones who think whining about it makes them seem experienced or intelligent. For simply sending money, there's nothing wrong with it (as long as you don't mind using them).
The money you lose from people who enjoy bragging about how they refuse to use Paypal will be more than made up for by the time you save not having to implement something like this yourself.
I have a theory that MIT gets mentioned at least once a day on Slashdot.
I was worried that today would pass without a reference, but here it is...
I suppose Apple has an open-and-shut criminal case against him, and if they wished to they could press criminal charges and have him sent to jail.
But they don't want to, so they won't. That's all they're saying.
Ker-BOOM, that's the sound of a mailbox exploding...
First of all, that thing has been there since KDE 1.0. It's a toy, and I doubt it requires much maintenance, so why not leave it in? What do you expect from something in the "kdetoys" package, anyway?
Second, the current moon phase is very important for amateur astronomers. A full moon makes it nearly impossible to see anything but the brightest objects in the sky, because of the glare. Also, if you want to look at the moon itself, the best time is not when it's full (because everything is so bright and washed out), but when it's at approximately 1/2 phase, because the shadows show depth.
Somewhere in Russia, a village is missing its propaganda minister.
The best Java IDE, by far, bar none, is IntelliJ IDEA. It blows everything else out of the water, although it has a price to match.
Eclipse is essentially an open-source clone of IDEA, but in reality it doesn't even come close to matching it. IDEA's tagline is "develop with pleasure", and that's not just marketing drivel.
It seems that C# as a search term works fine now, and searching for "Microsoft .Net" works as expected as well.
Except when you realize that Eclipse is a disaster and Java is not open-source.
I still have no idea what the purpose of the iPod Photo is. Sure, the better battery life and color screen are nice, but who really cares about carrying their photos around with them for viewing on a 1.5-inch screen? Hell, they could just lug their digital camera with them, and get mostly the same functionality...plus a camera!
Anyone know what the sales figures are like?
A Lexus, handling? Bah.
Maybe a BMW or a Jaguar or an Infiniti. But not a Lexus.
Don't let the door hit you on the ass on your way out.
Seriously, this was not advertised functionality when you bought your iBook. Why do you think you're entitled to free functionality upgrades from Apple for the life of your product?
Do you think Apple should provide you with a free upgrade to OS X 10.4, too? Because, you know, it's within your iBook's capability to run it.