If it's true (*laugh*), then it is because of a higher population density... simply more people there to see them. Too many rural areas in the US for us to catch em all.
But since I find it hard to buy that aliens go for an interstellar joyride in Scotland all the time, this means it's obviously the supersecret british skunkworks aerospace base causing these sightings. They have stuff 60 yrs ahead of anything we have, after all. (*ROFLMAO*)
A clever troll, I'll admit. So good, that more than a few of the less knowledgable slashdotters might fall for it.
But to me, your post was the height of retarded trolling inanities. It decodes mpeg1,2 and 4, the latter of which happens to be known as divx in some circles.
Circuit City Divx discs are encrypted, and no one has ever bothered breaking it as far as I know. Then, and only then could you hope to decode it... and I'm not so sure that it is a mpeg derivative.
Now go crawl back under that rock you live beneath.
Not only will they not notice, but in my case, I'd be happy to buy the water several times a week, the rest of my life. I'd be happy with the business that did that, and would have good things to say about them. They would be treating me fairly.
So what gives? There is something wrong, either most corps are run by idiots or people with souls so black and withered that it defies comprehension, or there is some dynamic at work that we have failed to name. Idiots would be subject to a "survival of the fittest" principle, in which only a single smart CEO would trounce their asses, and wipe out the idiots. Evil? Maybe, but if they are working for satan, I always thought he was impatient, and they're dragging everything out way too much.
If I'm forced to explain this, then I will offer this argument which I'm still not convinced of myself. With the water in the desert analogy, there are several factors that don't quite apply to the bandwidth phenomena.
#1 Failure to sell the water to them, amounts to murder. You can't withhold it even if they can't pay, or at least I couldn't and ever get a good night's sleep afterward.
#2 Withholding bandwidth isn't as shocking as as withholding a vital necessity, you simply won't get the outrage you would with the latter.
#3 My analogy fails to emphasize that extorting their life savings from them doesn't make it a one time deal. They may be broke now, but assuming they survive, they'll have a nest egg again in a few years. If they still live in the desert...
#4 Not only would this strategy allow you to extort most or all of the money they can spare, but it limits the amount of piracy they can commit. How many telecoms have big stakes in media companies?
I've always favored Greg Bear's 100ktons of neutronium and anti-neutronium method of planetary doomsday devices. If that isn't very plausible for you though, when I become an official super-villain, I have a much more evil way to destroy Earth.
Yes, I will broadcast 1980's sitcoms 24/7 on every frequency from my death satellites. The plague of suicides should be enough to cause humanity's extinction in a matter of days.
Strange, that things are so twisted. In a supply and demand economy, the introduction of more "supply" should act to reduce costs. We claim to be such an economy. Let's take a look at how it applies to this situation.
Joe Sixpack decides to set up a WAP to let his beershop customers browse the web for porn, while drinking brew. He's hardly building a major fiber optic trunk, so how could this affect the price of bandwidth?
Well, for starters, he's bringing in just a bit more business to his ISP, which might make the difference between bankruptcy, and breaking even. Or maybe the ISP is doing well already, but the extra business means they get better volume discounts.
And then, there is the fact that the customers might be less inclined to use some cellular internet connection that costs a buttload. Competition might end up forcing them to lower prices. All sorts of effects might come into play, if you simply put up that wap11, that in the long run will only make things cheaper for everyone.
However, the reality of it is, it will cost you extra now, and probably forever. Demand is screaming at the top of its lungs, but no one listens. They aren't interested in making a comfortable profit meeting our demands, they are more interested in stalling the inevitable, and making a killing slowly starving us of bandwidth. Sound farfetched? Then consider...
What situation is more lucrative?
A) Some yuppy at 7-11 buys a 20oz bottle of water for $1.29, on his way to work, or...
B) The same yuppy, stranded in the desert for 2 days, on the verge of death, willing to sign over his life savings for that same 20oz bottle of water?
Suffice it to say, that the telecom companies are busy little bees building an artificial desert, and herding us all into it.
I'm unemployed also. When I do find a job, it's more often some 2 month contract, than anything even remotely perm or fulltime. But even so, I'm not whoring myself around, trying to learn the latest buzzwords and act like it's something that makes me employable. The reason I chose this as a career, was because I love everything about IT. Not because I heard there were fat paychecks to be found.
So, in the meantime, I plan on continuing to learn the same things I've been teaching myself, and forget about whatever the latest crraze is with the pundits and industry rags.
And yes, maybe if you don't like IT, this indirectly translates to you being unemployed. Lord knows if I were hiring someone, I would rather have someone that liked doing the job they were being interviewed for...
Completely useless. Of course it would be, to someone like yourself. You are indeed what the parent poster was describing.
Things I can think of to do with one of these:
#1 Learn a little about the history of computing. People like yourself never seem to realize, that computers almost resemble biology, with all the different species and relationships. It's quite easy to have an interest in what part these machines played...
#2 Teach. Grade schoolers, since obivously any older than that, and they'll be too stupid to appreciate it. Shame we couldn't have got to you in early childhood, you might have turned out better than this...
#3 Learn assembly language on a CPU that is a bit simpler than your modern superpipelined "no one can keep track of it" predictive scheduling and execution chip. Of course, someone like yourself would have no interest in that either. Also would apply to teaching the same.
#4 Learn electronics and circuit design. Teach it. Sure, I want to do my own custom PCI cards, but this would be a great way to start learning. Though IEEE 696 did have some funky power requirements... may also be a +5/+12v version of the bus. Dunno.
#5 Provide a break from having to use the generic and boring winbox that everyone is forced to use all the time. (Note: For others. For myself I have a nice collection to play with.)
#6 Annoy stupid fucks like yourself, who will never get it. Yes, I'll openly admit it. It's not by accident we antagonize morons like yourself, we actually like it. It's the one tolerable thing about your entire existence. I mean, you've all but admitted that you and those like you commandeered our hobby and occupation because of decent paychecks, and then have the audacity to insult what little is left of it. If we can't torture you, then the world is even less bareable.
And this is just what I could come up with, off the top of my head. Calling this machine useless is not just inaccurate, but a lie. Then again, claiming you have a pure thirst for knowledge is even more blatant, I suppose. I mean, most if not all knowledge seems useless at first, it's only later you discover how it can help you. Who knows what insight you're losing, that you might have if you used an IMSAI for a few weeks or months.
Yeh, it's virtually guaranteed that a few out there are perfect (maybe more? can someone do the math for this, I don't know how). But what if it's our luck that they happen to be the least interesting stellar systems? Or so far away it doesn't matter?
It's simply not a viable way to detect planets, by itself. In conjunction with other methods, it's somewhat useful, or so it would seem to me.
Then again, I am kindaa dumb, is it possible that you can determine the plane of ecl. by observing the "wobble" they see?
Yes, my good old DOCSIS to 4/16 cable modem kinda sucks.
LOL.
Could someone please explain to the idiot above that unusual/old networking technologies do not necessarily fall into the "tokenring" category? That used to be my duty here on slashdot, but I'm getting really burnt out with it.
Cable companies almost universally use what is known as DOCSIS. Not token ring. Not even close. Token ring is not FDDI, nor ARCnet. They are all different things, using different cable types in different enviroments. They are not ethernet or 10base2/5.
Good point. But I'll go you one better, since it seems that no one else will bring it up.
Authors, in my opinion, have a distinct set of moral/natural rights from the legal copyrights they are granted. They have a right to make it known that they created the work, and the right to keep others from lying about it, even when the liars aren't swindling money.
I could make $0.00 from it, and I would still be infringing Tom Clancy's rights. Even if he released it into the public domain, it would still be infringing them. Sell the public domain works all you want, but give credit where credit is due.
No, entrapment is when laaw enforcement plants the seeds of criminal conduct in the mind of the suspect.
Think vice cops begging someone to "just pay $20 and I'll give you an extrra 2 hours in the ho'tel". If that person wasn't out looking for a prostitute, then they may never have even broken the law if it weren't for the cops enticing them to do so.
With this, there are several points. First, the cable co isn't a law enforcement authority (unless there is something I haven't heard). And second, they never enticed someone to break the law. Of the two, I think the latter is the most important, because if they had enticed the cable thieves, this might be an adequate defense in court.
First off, let me say that installing it in the bathroom is just WRONG. Even I don't condone that. Remove it.
However, I am installing an I-Opener computer in the kitchen, so that it folds up underneath a cabinet. My wife didn't like this, until I showed her how to stream TV from the Tivo to it... which I'm not sure if it was a mistake or not. It eats all the cpu cycles, leaves none for recording. Ouch.
My STB PCI tv tuner card. Windows 2k drivers? No. Linux drivers? Yes.
My Umax scsi flatbed scanner? Windows 2k drivers? No. Linux? Yes.
Generic external 36k external modem? Windows 2k drivers? Could only ever see it as 28.8k max, and rarely got that high. Linux? Maxed it out, and could care less what brand it was.
Remember, this is on a single computer of mine, not every half-assed example I could think up that I've heard about but never personally experienced. But for the finale, same computer...
Best Windows 2000 uptime I've ever seen? 30 some days, died on a random spontaneous BSOD. Worst Linux uptime? 30some days... forgot to compile in a rarely used kernel option, and I like to play with that kind of stuff.
Oh, and stop lumping linux in with KDE/Gnome. Those are projects designed to imitate windows' instability... of course they crash. I use wmaker with a screen full of dockapps and rxvt's. Even on a computer this old, its just damn... *zippy*. Once I get rid of Netscape 4, and get around to compiling Mozilla, I will truly have the perfect desktop that I've always lusted after.
Fortune 10 companies here, and of the 6 or 7 critical bugs I've seen during rollouts, only twice have I seen a software vendor with their ass on fire and hot enough to do a quick fix. Of the remaining times, they were still $8-22 million rollouts, and we either waited, or found workarounds. You could be King of Planet Earth, Emperor of the Milkyway Galaxy, and sit at the right side of the Throne of God, and still have to wait half the time, I think.
Hell, Micro$oft is a financial behemoth, and I can't think of a single piece of their software that is even half as reliable as some of the worst open source software.
My girlfriend insists on windows, so I upgraded her box to win2k... thought it was almost tolerable: rock solid for M$ crap. Then last weekend, it barfed up pieces of the sound card driver. She looks at me when I can't fix it, and says "I thought you were supposed to be some kind of computer expert". Sound card works in every one of my boxes I test it in, and her ISA slot works with the nic I threw in it. It is, without a doubt, windows' fault. It *ALWAYS* does this, just took awhile for win2k to show its true colors.
And now I have to read about people ranting that OSS just isn't suitable for enterprise solutions?
That's all cool and neat, but it is about as unfair as you can be to the project, and still tell the truth.
Forget the sentimental crap, and concentrate on the core problems you outlined... finding your way around an unfamiliar neighborhood, for instance.
Why can't we simulate this? We could probably even explain to Cyc that this wasn't real, but only training, and that most of the principles would also apply to a human in the real world. Recognizing a face, and even music should not be impossible either. Hell, we might even have it watch football or soccer, and analyze the player... sure, it is only armchair sports, but then that is all most people do themselves.
Direct sensory experience isn't as necessary as you suggest, and maybe by the time we finish preparing the thing for the real world, we'd also be able to give it the body it needs for such a journey.
As for the money spent/wasted... I'm simply not knowledgable enough to know if it is indeed folly or not. But there is a difference between pursuing a dead end course of research, and defrauding the goverment.
We should abandon all our fruitless efforts on AI. There is a much more achievable and lucrative goal to pursue... Artifical Stupidity. With this, we could replace all sorts of minimum wage workers, strengthening our economy, and making the undeserving rich even richer! And since we already know that stupidity is not only possible, but exists, it should be much easier to synthesize than intelligence.
See, this is the type of thinking that fools following formulaic recipes cook up.
If you port it to windows, you might as well not bother with linux... too much effort for the few linux zealots, not cost effective. So you become one of the 10 million (exageration for effect) windows games developers... in other words, one of the crummy little garage bands trying to hit it big and be MTV rock stars.
Which is fine, if you think you can do it.
But realistically, what are your chances? And guess what? In the meantime, you blew your chance to grab a loyal audience that is just waiting to someone to rescue them. You reinforce the system that ensures there will only ever be a few "rock stars" and a bunch of losers. And you just wasted all your effort and goals on a pipe dream, where you could have been earning a small but steady revenue.
So, in the end, this guy should do whatever he wants. But if I were him, I'd code the best killer game I could, and promise to never let it see the light of day on anything but alternative OSs... you might never be millionaire rich, but you'll probably never go hungry. Think about it. People, that if they want a game, they have to bite the bullet and dual boot windows... this is a market to be exploited. And if you can do it without taking advantage of them, you'd have it to yourself for years.
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LeChuck is a pirate. I seriously doubt he would be involved in anti-warez activity of any kind.
Duh.
I'm sure the record company representatives say things not so different to every band they sign.
"Sure we make a profit, but we roll that right back into promoting you...". Meanwhile, the performer starves.
If it's true (*laugh*), then it is because of a higher population density... simply more people there to see them. Too many rural areas in the US for us to catch em all.
But since I find it hard to buy that aliens go for an interstellar joyride in Scotland all the time, this means it's obviously the supersecret british skunkworks aerospace base causing these sightings. They have stuff 60 yrs ahead of anything we have, after all. (*ROFLMAO*)
The trolls have been on slashdot far longer than either of us, and get mod points regularly. I suppose it was inevitable.
A clever troll, I'll admit. So good, that more than a few of the less knowledgable slashdotters might fall for it.
But to me, your post was the height of retarded trolling inanities. It decodes mpeg1,2 and 4, the latter of which happens to be known as divx in some circles.
Circuit City Divx discs are encrypted, and no one has ever bothered breaking it as far as I know. Then, and only then could you hope to decode it... and I'm not so sure that it is a mpeg derivative.
Now go crawl back under that rock you live beneath.
Not only will they not notice, but in my case, I'd be happy to buy the water several times a week, the rest of my life. I'd be happy with the business that did that, and would have good things to say about them. They would be treating me fairly.
So what gives? There is something wrong, either most corps are run by idiots or people with souls so black and withered that it defies comprehension, or there is some dynamic at work that we have failed to name. Idiots would be subject to a "survival of the fittest" principle, in which only a single smart CEO would trounce their asses, and wipe out the idiots. Evil? Maybe, but if they are working for satan, I always thought he was impatient, and they're dragging everything out way too much.
If I'm forced to explain this, then I will offer this argument which I'm still not convinced of myself. With the water in the desert analogy, there are several factors that don't quite apply to the bandwidth phenomena.
#1 Failure to sell the water to them, amounts to murder. You can't withhold it even if they can't pay, or at least I couldn't and ever get a good night's sleep afterward.
#2 Withholding bandwidth isn't as shocking as as withholding a vital necessity, you simply won't get the outrage you would with the latter.
#3 My analogy fails to emphasize that extorting their life savings from them doesn't make it a one time deal. They may be broke now, but assuming they survive, they'll have a nest egg again in a few years. If they still live in the desert...
#4 Not only would this strategy allow you to extort most or all of the money they can spare, but it limits the amount of piracy they can commit. How many telecoms have big stakes in media companies?
I've always favored Greg Bear's 100ktons of neutronium and anti-neutronium method of planetary doomsday devices. If that isn't very plausible for you though, when I become an official super-villain, I have a much more evil way to destroy Earth.
Yes, I will broadcast 1980's sitcoms 24/7 on every frequency from my death satellites. The plague of suicides should be enough to cause humanity's extinction in a matter of days.
Strange, that things are so twisted. In a supply and demand economy, the introduction of more "supply" should act to reduce costs. We claim to be such an economy. Let's take a look at how it applies to this situation.
Joe Sixpack decides to set up a WAP to let his beershop customers browse the web for porn, while drinking brew. He's hardly building a major fiber optic trunk, so how could this affect the price of bandwidth?
Well, for starters, he's bringing in just a bit more business to his ISP, which might make the difference between bankruptcy, and breaking even. Or maybe the ISP is doing well already, but the extra business means they get better volume discounts.
And then, there is the fact that the customers might be less inclined to use some cellular internet connection that costs a buttload. Competition might end up forcing them to lower prices. All sorts of effects might come into play, if you simply put up that wap11, that in the long run will only make things cheaper for everyone.
However, the reality of it is, it will cost you extra now, and probably forever. Demand is screaming at the top of its lungs, but no one listens. They aren't interested in making a comfortable profit meeting our demands, they are more interested in stalling the inevitable, and making a killing slowly starving us of bandwidth. Sound farfetched? Then consider...
What situation is more lucrative?
A) Some yuppy at 7-11 buys a 20oz bottle of water for $1.29, on his way to work, or...
B) The same yuppy, stranded in the desert for 2 days, on the verge of death, willing to sign over his life savings for that same 20oz bottle of water?
Suffice it to say, that the telecom companies are busy little bees building an artificial desert, and herding us all into it.
I'm unemployed also. When I do find a job, it's more often some 2 month contract, than anything even remotely perm or fulltime. But even so, I'm not whoring myself around, trying to learn the latest buzzwords and act like it's something that makes me employable. The reason I chose this as a career, was because I love everything about IT. Not because I heard there were fat paychecks to be found.
So, in the meantime, I plan on continuing to learn the same things I've been teaching myself, and forget about whatever the latest crraze is with the pundits and industry rags.
And yes, maybe if you don't like IT, this indirectly translates to you being unemployed. Lord knows if I were hiring someone, I would rather have someone that liked doing the job they were being interviewed for...
Maybe you'd be better off doing what you like, and quit chasing buzzwords.
Completely useless. Of course it would be, to someone like yourself. You are indeed what the parent poster was describing.
Things I can think of to do with one of these:
#1 Learn a little about the history of computing. People like yourself never seem to realize, that computers almost resemble biology, with all the different species and relationships. It's quite easy to have an interest in what part these machines played...
#2 Teach. Grade schoolers, since obivously any older than that, and they'll be too stupid to appreciate it. Shame we couldn't have got to you in early childhood, you might have turned out better than this...
#3 Learn assembly language on a CPU that is a bit simpler than your modern superpipelined "no one can keep track of it" predictive scheduling and execution chip. Of course, someone like yourself would have no interest in that either. Also would apply to teaching the same.
#4 Learn electronics and circuit design. Teach it. Sure, I want to do my own custom PCI cards, but this would be a great way to start learning. Though IEEE 696 did have some funky power requirements... may also be a +5/+12v version of the bus. Dunno.
#5 Provide a break from having to use the generic and boring winbox that everyone is forced to use all the time. (Note: For others. For myself I have a nice collection to play with.)
#6 Annoy stupid fucks like yourself, who will never get it. Yes, I'll openly admit it. It's not by accident we antagonize morons like yourself, we actually like it. It's the one tolerable thing about your entire existence. I mean, you've all but admitted that you and those like you commandeered our hobby and occupation because of decent paychecks, and then have the audacity to insult what little is left of it. If we can't torture you, then the world is even less bareable.
And this is just what I could come up with, off the top of my head. Calling this machine useless is not just inaccurate, but a lie. Then again, claiming you have a pure thirst for knowledge is even more blatant, I suppose. I mean, most if not all knowledge seems useless at first, it's only later you discover how it can help you. Who knows what insight you're losing, that you might have if you used an IMSAI for a few weeks or months.
Yeh, it's virtually guaranteed that a few out there are perfect (maybe more? can someone do the math for this, I don't know how). But what if it's our luck that they happen to be the least interesting stellar systems? Or so far away it doesn't matter?
It's simply not a viable way to detect planets, by itself. In conjunction with other methods, it's somewhat useful, or so it would seem to me.
Then again, I am kindaa dumb, is it possible that you can determine the plane of ecl. by observing the "wobble" they see?
Only works if we're dead on with the plane of the ecliptic. How likely is that, for any given star?
Download an image of CowboyNeal: 12.31 hours
Huh? Are you using some kind of submolecular scanning technology? Besides... who would want an exact duplicate of him anyway?
Yes, my good old DOCSIS to 4/16 cable modem kinda sucks.
LOL.
Could someone please explain to the idiot above that unusual/old networking technologies do not necessarily fall into the "tokenring" category? That used to be my duty here on slashdot, but I'm getting really burnt out with it.
Cable companies almost universally use what is known as DOCSIS. Not token ring. Not even close. Token ring is not FDDI, nor ARCnet. They are all different things, using different cable types in different enviroments. They are not ethernet or 10base2/5.
Good point. But I'll go you one better, since it seems that no one else will bring it up.
Authors, in my opinion, have a distinct set of moral/natural rights from the legal copyrights they are granted. They have a right to make it known that they created the work, and the right to keep others from lying about it, even when the liars aren't swindling money.
I could make $0.00 from it, and I would still be infringing Tom Clancy's rights. Even if he released it into the public domain, it would still be infringing them. Sell the public domain works all you want, but give credit where credit is due.
At least, in my opinion.
Subject says it all...
No, entrapment is when laaw enforcement plants the seeds of criminal conduct in the mind of the suspect.
Think vice cops begging someone to "just pay $20 and I'll give you an extrra 2 hours in the ho'tel". If that person wasn't out looking for a prostitute, then they may never have even broken the law if it weren't for the cops enticing them to do so.
With this, there are several points. First, the cable co isn't a law enforcement authority (unless there is something I haven't heard). And second, they never enticed someone to break the law. Of the two, I think the latter is the most important, because if they had enticed the cable thieves, this might be an adequate defense in court.
First off, let me say that installing it in the bathroom is just WRONG. Even I don't condone that. Remove it.
However, I am installing an I-Opener computer in the kitchen, so that it folds up underneath a cabinet. My wife didn't like this, until I showed her how to stream TV from the Tivo to it... which I'm not sure if it was a mistake or not. It eats all the cpu cycles, leaves none for recording. Ouch.
My STB PCI tv tuner card. Windows 2k drivers? No. Linux drivers? Yes.
My Umax scsi flatbed scanner? Windows 2k drivers? No. Linux? Yes.
Generic external 36k external modem? Windows 2k drivers? Could only ever see it as 28.8k max, and rarely got that high. Linux? Maxed it out, and could care less what brand it was.
Remember, this is on a single computer of mine, not every half-assed example I could think up that I've heard about but never personally experienced. But for the finale, same computer...
Best Windows 2000 uptime I've ever seen? 30 some days, died on a random spontaneous BSOD.
Worst Linux uptime? 30some days... forgot to compile in a rarely used kernel option, and I like to play with that kind of stuff.
Oh, and stop lumping linux in with KDE/Gnome. Those are projects designed to imitate windows' instability... of course they crash. I use wmaker with a screen full of dockapps and rxvt's. Even on a computer this old, its just damn... *zippy*. Once I get rid of Netscape 4, and get around to compiling Mozilla, I will truly have the perfect desktop that I've always lusted after.
Actually, it is the M$. But even if it weren't, it lasted 3 moonths with no problems, then self-destructed spontaneously. The way windows always does.
That you don't know this suggests that between the two of us, it isn't me that is the moron.
Fortune 10 companies here, and of the 6 or 7 critical bugs I've seen during rollouts, only twice have I seen a software vendor with their ass on fire and hot enough to do a quick fix. Of the remaining times, they were still $8-22 million rollouts, and we either waited, or found workarounds. You could be King of Planet Earth, Emperor of the Milkyway Galaxy, and sit at the right side of the Throne of God, and still have to wait half the time, I think.
Hell, Micro$oft is a financial behemoth, and I can't think of a single piece of their software that is even half as reliable as some of the worst open source software.
My girlfriend insists on windows, so I upgraded her box to win2k... thought it was almost tolerable: rock solid for M$ crap. Then last weekend, it barfed up pieces of the sound card driver. She looks at me when I can't fix it, and says "I thought you were supposed to be some kind of computer expert". Sound card works in every one of my boxes I test it in, and her ISA slot works with the nic I threw in it. It is, without a doubt, windows' fault. It *ALWAYS* does this, just took awhile for win2k to show its true colors.
And now I have to read about people ranting that OSS just isn't suitable for enterprise solutions?
That's all cool and neat, but it is about as unfair as you can be to the project, and still tell the truth.
Forget the sentimental crap, and concentrate on the core problems you outlined... finding your way around an unfamiliar neighborhood, for instance.
Why can't we simulate this? We could probably even explain to Cyc that this wasn't real, but only training, and that most of the principles would also apply to a human in the real world. Recognizing a face, and even music should not be impossible either. Hell, we might even have it watch football or soccer, and analyze the player... sure, it is only armchair sports, but then that is all most people do themselves.
Direct sensory experience isn't as necessary as you suggest, and maybe by the time we finish preparing the thing for the real world, we'd also be able to give it the body it needs for such a journey.
As for the money spent/wasted... I'm simply not knowledgable enough to know if it is indeed folly or not. But there is a difference between pursuing a dead end course of research, and defrauding the goverment.
We should abandon all our fruitless efforts on AI. There is a much more achievable and lucrative goal to pursue... Artifical Stupidity. With this, we could replace all sorts of minimum wage workers, strengthening our economy, and making the undeserving rich even richer! And since we already know that stupidity is not only possible, but exists, it should be much easier to synthesize than intelligence.
If only someone had thought of it sooner...
See, this is the type of thinking that fools following formulaic recipes cook up.
If you port it to windows, you might as well not bother with linux... too much effort for the few linux zealots, not cost effective. So you become one of the 10 million (exageration for effect) windows games developers... in other words, one of the crummy little garage bands trying to hit it big and be MTV rock stars.
Which is fine, if you think you can do it.
But realistically, what are your chances? And guess what? In the meantime, you blew your chance to grab a loyal audience that is just waiting to someone to rescue them. You reinforce the system that ensures there will only ever be a few "rock stars" and a bunch of losers. And you just wasted all your effort and goals on a pipe dream, where you could have been earning a small but steady revenue.
So, in the end, this guy should do whatever he wants. But if I were him, I'd code the best killer game I could, and promise to never let it see the light of day on anything but alternative OSs... you might never be millionaire rich, but you'll probably never go hungry. Think about it. People, that if they want a game, they have to bite the bullet and dual boot windows... this is a market to be exploited. And if you can do it without taking advantage of them, you'd have it to yourself for years.