They'll patent this "innovation" out the wazoo, balls up their own implementation, and then in five years sue Apple when they steal a ten year old Japanese implementation of it. Lawyerzoid, I choose you!
Let's be clear: I'm a Space Nerd, and proud of it. I grew up on Astounding/Analog - still have a loft full of back issues from the '30s. My son and I read space books every other night - I can't get Footprints on the Moon without weeping like a baby, just as I do every time I watch Kennedy's Rice speech. Just got me again.
But, NASA, NASA, what were you thinking here? I 'played' this mess for all of 10 minutes, then it was "delete local content" time. It's neither fun, nor educational, it's just a tedious frustrating mess. The only thing it inspired me to do was to bust out my copy of Space Colony and play through it again with Son #1.
Hopefully next time NASA will make up their minds whether they're making a game or a simulation, and stick to it.
Because they won't see a dime of it due to Hollywood Accounting. They'll get an indirect benefit on their next gig due to having their name associated with a higher gross, but it's tenuous at best.
Well, for one thing, it killed the OLPC project by driving away most of the volunteer devs. You can tell that it's dead by the desperate scrabbling for attention, and the risible announcements about churning out $75 iPads (laughable as their "$100" netbook costs $400). It's gone, man. Just let it die with some dignity.
some governments requested that their machines run Windows, so how could Negroponte say no to that request
Open your lips, touch your tongue to the roof of your mouth and exhale. That makes the "nnnn" sound. Then lower your tongue. You get the "ohh" sound. It's one of the easiest words to say.
OLPC is an organisation built on principles, and supported by idealists. When Negroponte chose to betray the ideals that most of his supporters cherished, is it any wonder that the response was them to choose to donate their time elsewhere?
I do agree with you that OLPC must start selling to anyone who wants to buy one, and I mean buy one at $100, not buy one, donate one for $400. Honest to god, it boils my piss to see that OLPC site is still marketing itself as a charity for Poor Little Sambo, with a "ways to give" button. The instant that changes to "ways to get" I'll know that they've made an vital discovery about human nature.
Dude, that so nearly made it into the Bill of Rights. Then Jefferson had to spend all night trolling Madison with his alt in Worlde of Warcrafte and we ended up with that "well regulated militia" bullshit instead.
Never, ever a responsibility. You didn't write the bug, you didn't miss it in testing, you didn't release it. You owe the developer nothing.
The only ethical consideration should be your sole judgement about the best method to get a fix in the hands of vulnerable users.
You don't like that, Microsoft? Then do you own vulnerability testing and don't release software with vulnerabilities: the problem goes away overnight. Until then, sit down, shut up, grow up, and quit your bitching about being caught with your pants down.
Did a guy with responsibility for exploring the entire fucking universe just get all pissy about a (cosmologically) insignificant geographical distance on Earth?
Wow... for a fellow with such a big job, he must have a really minuscule, tiny, pathetic limp little... ego.
Sure, they still own the desktop, and the Office markets by default and by leveraging their monopoly (I'm sure legally now), but everything else they've touched has been at best break-even, and at worst a colossal money sink.
Zune and Kin were a laughing stock, they're having to give away Windows ME (or whatever they're calling it these days) phones, they're paying people to use Bing, IE is losing market share, XBox has finally broken even just in time to start sinking more money into developing the next version. Hotmail is a has been, Silverlight is a wannabe, and C# /.NET is just about tying developers into Windows, not about attracting anyone who's currently using Java anywhere else.
I really can't think of any new revenue sources that have come along in the Ballmer era. If all he's doing is treading water, then they might as well pay peanuts to a chimp - it'll shriek and gibber and fling chairs just as well as Uncle Fester.
I guess The Lord loved Bill so much that He took him young and made him a legend, and punished Denis Leary by making him live long enough to become a loathed sell-out.
Now, now, let's not resort to reductio ad absurdum here. There's a whole spectrum of crazy out there.
There are the Young Earth And Nothing Changed Since (Yes God Buried Dinosaur Skeletons) creationists which you note. Then there are the wishy washy liberal Young Earth With Subsequent Minor Evolution (Just Not For People (Unless You Want To Argue Africans Are Less Evolved in Which Case I Ain't Going to Argue)) branch. After that, you've got the Old Earth But Time Began With Its Creationists, and I think there's even a few pinko Old Universe But All The Parameters Were Pre-Set So It Really Is All Designed Except For Human Free Will Of Course (And Exception Again For Me When The Devil Makes Me Drive Drunk) recidivists.
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They'll patent this "innovation" out the wazoo, balls up their own implementation, and then in five years sue Apple when they steal a ten year old Japanese implementation of it. Lawyerzoid, I choose you!
That's right, they decided to stop being dicks shortly after losing a lawsuit to invalidate a Spam based trademark, and being told by the judge to stop being dicks. What saints!
They'll all be designed with Linux on the desktop. And the best bit is, we'll have plenty of helium from all the fusion power plants!
ATTENTION: Your post got cut off before you linked to the results of your test.
Let's be clear: I'm a Space Nerd, and proud of it. I grew up on Astounding/Analog - still have a loft full of back issues from the '30s. My son and I read space books every other night - I can't get Footprints on the Moon without weeping like a baby, just as I do every time I watch Kennedy's Rice speech. Just got me again.
But, NASA, NASA, what were you thinking here? I 'played' this mess for all of 10 minutes, then it was "delete local content" time. It's neither fun, nor educational, it's just a tedious frustrating mess. The only thing it inspired me to do was to bust out my copy of Space Colony and play through it again with Son #1.
Hopefully next time NASA will make up their minds whether they're making a game or a simulation, and stick to it.
Bingo!. Now, go die in a fire.
Because they won't see a dime of it due to Hollywood Accounting. They'll get an indirect benefit on their next gig due to having their name associated with a higher gross, but it's tenuous at best.
You've never seen Pocahontas then?
Well, for one thing, it killed the OLPC project by driving away most of the volunteer devs. You can tell that it's dead by the desperate scrabbling for attention, and the risible announcements about churning out $75 iPads (laughable as their "$100" netbook costs $400). It's gone, man. Just let it die with some dignity.
Open your lips, touch your tongue to the roof of your mouth and exhale. That makes the "nnnn" sound. Then lower your tongue. You get the "ohh" sound. It's one of the easiest words to say.
OLPC is an organisation built on principles, and supported by idealists. When Negroponte chose to betray the ideals that most of his supporters cherished, is it any wonder that the response was them to choose to donate their time elsewhere?
I do agree with you that OLPC must start selling to anyone who wants to buy one, and I mean buy one at $100, not buy one, donate one for $400. Honest to god, it boils my piss to see that OLPC site is still marketing itself as a charity for Poor Little Sambo, with a "ways to give" button. The instant that changes to "ways to get" I'll know that they've made an vital discovery about human nature.
1776, give or take.
Dude, that so nearly made it into the Bill of Rights. Then Jefferson had to spend all night trolling Madison with his alt in Worlde of Warcrafte and we ended up with that "well regulated militia" bullshit instead.
Only if you are human.
Ever seen a pink Mercedes or BMW?
Methodology FAIL.
kdawson epic fail (again). You'd be best mailing timothy (the only actual "editor") to ask for a correction.
Y'all know that "kdawson" is Taco's troll account sockpuppet, right? I thought that was common knowledge.
Never, ever a responsibility. You didn't write the bug, you didn't miss it in testing, you didn't release it. You owe the developer nothing.
The only ethical consideration should be your sole judgement about the best method to get a fix in the hands of vulnerable users.
You don't like that, Microsoft? Then do you own vulnerability testing and don't release software with vulnerabilities: the problem goes away overnight. Until then, sit down, shut up, grow up, and quit your bitching about being caught with your pants down.
Did a guy with responsibility for exploring the entire fucking universe just get all pissy about a (cosmologically) insignificant geographical distance on Earth?
Wow... for a fellow with such a big job, he must have a really minuscule, tiny, pathetic limp little... ego.
Fine, then "the government" can start paying them out of "its" own pocket, and stop sending me the bills.
Sure, they still own the desktop, and the Office markets by default and by leveraging their monopoly (I'm sure legally now), but everything else they've touched has been at best break-even, and at worst a colossal money sink.
Zune and Kin were a laughing stock, they're having to give away Windows ME (or whatever they're calling it these days) phones, they're paying people to use Bing, IE is losing market share, XBox has finally broken even just in time to start sinking more money into developing the next version. Hotmail is a has been, Silverlight is a wannabe, and C# / .NET is just about tying developers into Windows, not about attracting anyone who's currently using Java anywhere else.
I really can't think of any new revenue sources that have come along in the Ballmer era. If all he's doing is treading water, then they might as well pay peanuts to a chimp - it'll shriek and gibber and fling chairs just as well as Uncle Fester.
I guess The Lord loved Bill so much that He took him young and made him a legend, and punished Denis Leary by making him live long enough to become a loathed sell-out.
Psst... "A giant invisible wizard did it" is just another layer of "how".
It's OK, don't get up: I'll go lock myself in the cellar and pray to Jesus for salvation because that nekkid guy ate a forbidden apple that one time.
Since you mention it, where's the intermediate insect wing in the fossil record?
There are the Young Earth And Nothing Changed Since (Yes God Buried Dinosaur Skeletons) creationists which you note. Then there are the wishy washy liberal Young Earth With Subsequent Minor Evolution (Just Not For People (Unless You Want To Argue Africans Are Less Evolved in Which Case I Ain't Going to Argue)) branch. After that, you've got the Old Earth But Time Began With Its Creationists, and I think there's even a few pinko Old Universe But All The Parameters Were Pre-Set So It Really Is All Designed Except For Human Free Will Of Course (And Exception Again For Me When The Devil Makes Me Drive Drunk) recidivists.
That's one of the more evolved trolls that I've read here recently. Look how many bites you got - you're superbly adapted to your environment!