Now that Windows runs pretty well on Mac hardware, virtualization will make Windows apps run in an OSX "window", with little or no performance penalty.
You're comparing cheese to a show where there was a kid always getting lost/stowing away/getting kidnapped with his robot dog?
I was skeptical about the new Battlestar Galactica. I don't really understand why they chose to set it in the same world as the old BSG, but damn the new show is good.
You might not like it...that's cool. But to call it cheesier than Dirk Benedict's mugging for the camera...I just have to think we weren't watching the same TV shows.
I seriously doubt that there's any substantial marketshare for Linux in military avionics, and I'm certain that Linux has nothing to do with flight control software.
I don't think that we have sufficient historical perspective to determine what things are 'big things'. I think that telecom infrastructure in third-world countries is going to wind up being huge. The Internet in general is going to be huge, for a long time.
I wouldn't care to predict what the Next Big Thing would be. If I could make that prediction, I wouldn't tell you about it, I'd find something to buy stock in.
"But no, I don't think there is any big thing left. We have mastered controlling our environment in terms of housing and food production and personal climate control (clothes). What more is there that we need?"
So you think that human innovation stopped with air conditioning and short-sleeved shirts?
Of all of the geopolitical charlie foxtrots the US government has engaged in, giving Israel access to top-drawer warfighting systems for them to turn around and sell to whoever they deem rich enough has to be near the top.
Israel has proven time and again that they are NOT a US ally. I say let 'em fend for themselves.
Helmet targeting...for extreme close-range dogfights. Not the way to win an air superiority battle. First look first kill from 40 miles out grants you control of the airspace over the battlefield. Yankin' and bankin' in close range melees might be fun for the pilots (until they, like, be on fire and fall from the sky), but it's not the way to win wars.
And I absolutely do not agree that newer Soviet avionics are remotely as good as the American hardware. Where would the Russians be getting money to continue developing their hardware?
I completely understand Great Britain's demand for access to the source code. I'd want the same thing if I was going to drop a pile o' cash on complicated jets. But the notion that Lockheed has given any thought to competition from open source programmers is absolutely laughable.
UAVs are going to replace combat jets long before you see them running Linux on their flight controls.
If you think a couple open source grognards are going to be able to write the flight control rules that will keep a modern combat jet's pointy end into the wind, you haven't the first idea what you're talking about.
Fly by wire software for relaxed static stability aircraft is really, really hard, and it has to be perfect. Not pretty good, not 99.44% bug free, PERFECT.
Russian AIRFRAMES are superb. Russian engines are pretty OK, but not as reliable, and much more labor intensive to maintain. Russian avionics are crap. If you don't know how these facts impact an air battle, you don't have an educated opinion on the subject.
I happen to think that CDs are overpriced. I've also never been much into the "record store scene". I encounter and experience music through my friends and acquaintances, and going to the record store hoping the album I want is there just doesn't appeal to me.
And if I'm going to order online, I'd rather have it now, and have it cheaper, than pay $12.99+shipping (it'll be here next week or so...)
I'm sure there's still money to be made selling CDs. I'm certain there's money to be made selling other digital media, too.
It's your business...do as you will. I think that people who think too narrowly as to what their business is all about tend to not be able to stay relevant to their customers in the long run.
I don't know about you, but I definitely choose which magazines I'm willing to subscribe to based on the mass fraction of advertising. I'm happy to pay more for a subscription to a well laid out magazine that isn't 3/4 advertising copy.
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You're really not grasping the implications here.
Now that Windows runs pretty well on Mac hardware, virtualization will make Windows apps run in an OSX "window", with little or no performance penalty.
That's a big deal.
You're comparing cheese to a show where there was a kid always getting lost/stowing away/getting kidnapped with his robot dog?
I was skeptical about the new Battlestar Galactica. I don't really understand why they chose to set it in the same world as the old BSG, but damn the new show is good.
You might not like it...that's cool. But to call it cheesier than Dirk Benedict's mugging for the camera...I just have to think we weren't watching the same TV shows.
"If you don't like who's in office, then vote."
I did. Didn't work. Don't see that changing.
I seriously doubt that there's any substantial marketshare for Linux in military avionics, and I'm certain that Linux has nothing to do with flight control software.
Compare the performance of Sparrow to AMRAAM and get back to me.
But if a single American fighter can engage and destroy eight Russian aircraft, from beyond visual range, the US still wins.
Air wars are not like land wars.
I don't think that we have sufficient historical perspective to determine what things are 'big things'. I think that telecom infrastructure in third-world countries is going to wind up being huge. The Internet in general is going to be huge, for a long time.
I wouldn't care to predict what the Next Big Thing would be. If I could make that prediction, I wouldn't tell you about it, I'd find something to buy stock in.
Could that thing be any uglier?
Oh yes, yes it can. It's available in a nasty green.
"But no, I don't think there is any big thing left. We have mastered controlling our environment in terms of housing and food production and personal climate control (clothes). What more is there that we need?"
So you think that human innovation stopped with air conditioning and short-sleeved shirts?
Wowsers.
Does he work for the same Big Blue that figured there would be five or six computers on the whole planet?
Throughout history, people have predicted the end of progress. Throughout history, they have been totally, unambiguously, 100% full of crap.
Just because you can't imagine change doesn't mean it won't happen.
Of all of the geopolitical charlie foxtrots the US government has engaged in, giving Israel access to top-drawer warfighting systems for them to turn around and sell to whoever they deem rich enough has to be near the top.
Israel has proven time and again that they are NOT a US ally. I say let 'em fend for themselves.
Helmet targeting...for extreme close-range dogfights. Not the way to win an air superiority battle. First look first kill from 40 miles out grants you control of the airspace over the battlefield. Yankin' and bankin' in close range melees might be fun for the pilots (until they, like, be on fire and fall from the sky), but it's not the way to win wars.
And I absolutely do not agree that newer Soviet avionics are remotely as good as the American hardware. Where would the Russians be getting money to continue developing their hardware?
I completely understand Great Britain's demand for access to the source code. I'd want the same thing if I was going to drop a pile o' cash on complicated jets. But the notion that Lockheed has given any thought to competition from open source programmers is absolutely laughable.
UAVs are going to replace combat jets long before you see them running Linux on their flight controls.
If you think a couple open source grognards are going to be able to write the flight control rules that will keep a modern combat jet's pointy end into the wind, you haven't the first idea what you're talking about.
Fly by wire software for relaxed static stability aircraft is really, really hard, and it has to be perfect. Not pretty good, not 99.44% bug free, PERFECT.
Russian AIRFRAMES are superb. Russian engines are pretty OK, but not as reliable, and much more labor intensive to maintain. Russian avionics are crap. If you don't know how these facts impact an air battle, you don't have an educated opinion on the subject.
*yawn*
Is that really the best you've got?
I don't think it's that clear cut.
I happen to think that CDs are overpriced. I've also never been much into the "record store scene". I encounter and experience music through my friends and acquaintances, and going to the record store hoping the album I want is there just doesn't appeal to me.
And if I'm going to order online, I'd rather have it now, and have it cheaper, than pay $12.99+shipping (it'll be here next week or so...)
I'm sure there's still money to be made selling CDs. I'm certain there's money to be made selling other digital media, too.
It's your business...do as you will. I think that people who think too narrowly as to what their business is all about tend to not be able to stay relevant to their customers in the long run.
It'd also be the day that you sell something a lot of people want to buy, so...
"why spend money making games for mac"
Because then Mac users will give you money for them. Seems like a pretty dumb question to me...
I don't know about you, but I definitely choose which magazines I'm willing to subscribe to based on the mass fraction of advertising. I'm happy to pay more for a subscription to a well laid out magazine that isn't 3/4 advertising copy.
I pledge Bifurcated Trumanism!
I get what you're after, but if you think MS is any more concerned about your fair use rights, you're delusional.
I think my PS2 works great. I won't buy an xbox, and this next-gen console bake-off totally fails to interest me.
So I'll stick with what I've got.
Hold on.
You're concerned about Sony's DRM practices, so you're gonna buy something from MICROSOFT?
Are you high?
Ummmm...I don't think that's a sock.
The fact that there are different implementations of WM5, some of which are crap, means that WM5 is crap.