China: billions of dollars, no need to get licenses to launch rockets (they own their own damn country), infinite supply of monkeys to test rockets on.
Amateurs: finite (comparatively tiny) supply of money, have to jump through dozens of hoops to launch anything at all, no monkeys.
in the dark old unixish days whenever you bought a bit of commercial software (remember that? buying?:) it'd install itself into/usr/local/daftname/ or/opt/daftname/ or somewhere. This meant there'd be a huge path variable to manage which was a nightmare.
The reason the windows equivalent isn't a problem is that windows is not commandline based - users access peograms through a link in a start menu (gross oversimplification but you get the idea). This simply doesn't translate to the command line paradigm.
So a simple answer - nice path variables, neat directory structures, usable command line interfaces, pick any two.
~mocktor
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/17671.html
Warner brothers tried to bully this 15 year old girl into giving up the domain name of her fansite - www.harrypotterguide.co.uk. They gave up in the end but its proved to me what immoral, money grabbing bastards they are.
This is why i won't be going to see it, i'm not giving my money to them.
I got an account now too. Can you tell i'm drunk? But somebody please mod the post up a bit, then more people will know about consume.net and i can post with my new account from the dog and duck round the corner. Please? Someone?
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China: billions of dollars, no need to get licenses to launch rockets (they own their own damn country), infinite supply of monkeys to test rockets on.
Amateurs: finite (comparatively tiny) supply of money, have to jump through dozens of hoops to launch anything at all, no monkeys.
What do you think?
in the dark old unixish days whenever you bought a bit of commercial software (remember that? buying? :) it'd install itself into /usr/local/daftname/ or /opt/daftname/ or somewhere. This meant there'd be a huge path variable to manage which was a nightmare.
The reason the windows equivalent isn't a problem is that windows is not commandline based - users access peograms through a link in a start menu (gross oversimplification but you get the idea). This simply doesn't translate to the command line paradigm.
So a simple answer - nice path variables, neat directory structures, usable command line interfaces, pick any two.
~mocktor
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/17671 .html
Warner brothers tried to bully this 15 year old girl into giving up the domain name of her fansite - www.harrypotterguide.co.uk. They gave up in the end but its proved to me what immoral, money grabbing bastards they are.
This is why i won't be going to see it, i'm not giving my money to them.
I got an account now too. Can you tell i'm drunk? But somebody please mod the post up a bit, then more people will know about consume.net and i can post with my new account from the dog and duck round the corner. Please? Someone?