No, new games cost 39.99 unless you are an idiot who bought an artificially limited platform, then you pay 59.99. The extra 20 dollars or euroes is a surchage for you accepting to get screwed.
For instance, at launch, Lego Star Wars for consoles was $59. For PC, $29. Every other cost is the same in making the different versions. Marketing, packaging, distribution, advertising, etc. So what is different? The console maker's tax.
What is different? The competition. PC has more piracy, contrary to the whining of CEO's; piracy forces down prices by providing competion.
Exactly. The same way the government can't forbid you to hold a speech, they can not forbid you from having an internet connection. That doesn't mean anyone will attend your speech or read your blog, but the you have the right.
A search engine doesn't mind losing data, most of the storage is essentially just a cache or summary of the internet and can be regenerated. That said, Google already have so many mirrors for performance reasons that actual data loss is practically impossible.
I think the article misses many things. The main complaint from KDE people is not that the GNOME Foundation is richer than KDE eV. It is that Red Hat, Novell, Nokia, etc have a lot of developers working on GNOME on their payrolls. And that is in the order of the many million dollars.
You are right, but you choose the wrong companies. Red Hat, you are on spot. Novell has more KDE developers than GNOME developers, but the GNOME developers have advanced to management and now makes the calls. Nokia bought Trolltech and switched Maemo to Qt, and are thus greatly helping KDE, at least indirectly.
SuSE has always had KDE as default, though a few years ago it started leaving the choice open like in Debian. A month ago, OpenSuSE reintroduced the default to KDE.
Probably not, he could have been a student. 10 years ago many colleges around here had 10Mbit fiber-connections, today they have 100Mbit, but if you graduated and moved off campus it is more likely you only have 2 or 4Mbit today.
Removing the fat from PulseAudio would be removing PulseAudio in most cases. It could still serve as an audio-proxy for rare networked cases, the API would be good for those cases. Right now ALSA defaults to using dmix, which means that you don't really need an audio-server, it is just useless bloat most users really dont need. The days of sound-daemons belong to aRts and ESD, and those days are over. For some reason this anachronistic abomination called pulseaudio just wont die.
There were only need on Linux OSS because Linus refused to do audio mixing in the kernel. This means the resource sharing and hardware abstraction the kernel _should_ be doing was delegated to user-space.
What liberalism failed in 1991? That's odd, I don't seem to recall that. I could have sworn democrazy and human rights were still respected in many parts of the world.
Only is Google is a bunch of mindless idiots. Hint: Google isn't a bunch of mindless idiots, they understand what X provides. Remember, X provides mechanism, not policy. That means you can implement pretty much any UI atop it. Witness WINE implementing Win32 and in many cases having it run faster atop X than GDI.
I think Google is going to remove X, but not because of performance, but to make sure no non-google rich-applications are "streamed" to the device (from a remote X-client/application-server for instance). They want the user locked to the Google cloud, and a system like X would ruin the tie-in.
A browser should implement HTML4/5, various XHTML versions, Javascript, support various multimedia protocols and that's it. Everything else can be integrated as a plugin.
No that is not a browser that is a rendering engine. Yes you can write your application in JS, Python, Ruby or C++. If start with KHTML or WebKit, just use what ever language you like. If you really insist, you can even call your application a "plugin", though you would be wrong.
IQ are also meassured with standard deviation of 24 in many places. The minimum IQ for entering Mensa in Denmark for instance is 148. An IQ of 172 while highly unusual correspond to 145 using US standard IQ.
Still makes no sense, your scenario sounds like she's making fun of you. A smart girl who is obviously attracted to you and doing something to make you notice her: Yes, that is a turn on; but it doesn't get better by that something being stupid, though something stupid is better than nothing.
Mobil phones and the internet haven't yet changed much in the way we live. It is showing sings of changing things as own constant online presence is embedding itself in our culture, but think about how much telephones changed? or the TV? or mass-produced cars? or airplanes?
Of course, we are comparing elephants and skyscrapers. Difference in perception is to be expected.
Yes, it has. I wouldn't emphasize 50years though. Just look at computers the last 10years and computers 20years ago. In 1999 I was on slashdot from a computer not much different from this one. In 1989 I was trying to get a dial-up modem so I could connect to a BBS from my Amiga.
Why not just call it "programming"? Whether you're writing code for machine made of sand (silicon) or chemicals should not matter one bit. Ya know in Babylon 5, the Vorlons and Shadows didn't just "grow" their ships. They programmed the DNA to produce the desired result. I see no reason why we humans can't do the same.
Because computer science has next to nothing to do with programming. Informatics is another name for Computer Science, so Biological Informatics is abstractly Computer Science applied in Biology, like BioChemistry is Chemistry applied to Biology. Both studies however require enough specialized knowledge that they are fully separate from Computer Science and Chemistry, which is why they have their own names. Though at least at my CS department I've been able to takes classes in protein folding, which was a fancy name for advanced techniques for optimizing string search.
Some idiots SIT on their phones. And they expect a thin glass+electronics+thin metal/plastic shell to NOT break?
Yes. It is a phone, it is designed to be kept in pockets, of course you can sit on it!
An iPhone might be to big and heavy to carry in most pockets, but that's just another flaw. Phones should be able to fit in a pocket, and withstand the forces applied to it where it is usually kept.
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No, new games cost 39.99 unless you are an idiot who bought an artificially limited platform, then you pay 59.99. The extra 20 dollars or euroes is a surchage for you accepting to get screwed.
What is different? The competition. PC has more piracy, contrary to the whining of CEO's; piracy forces down prices by providing competion.
Exactly. The same way the government can't forbid you to hold a speech, they can not forbid you from having an internet connection. That doesn't mean anyone will attend your speech or read your blog, but the you have the right.
- Free speech
- Right to assemble
Too bad it is a MOO, so it will never be a fun game to play. Just a space grind.
A search engine doesn't mind losing data, most of the storage is essentially just a cache or summary of the internet and can be regenerated. That said, Google already have so many mirrors for performance reasons that actual data loss is practically impossible.
You are right, but you choose the wrong companies. Red Hat, you are on spot. Novell has more KDE developers than GNOME developers, but the GNOME developers have advanced to management and now makes the calls. Nokia bought Trolltech and switched Maemo to Qt, and are thus greatly helping KDE, at least indirectly.
SuSE has always had KDE as default, though a few years ago it started leaving the choice open like in Debian. A month ago, OpenSuSE reintroduced the default to KDE.
Probably not, he could have been a student. 10 years ago many colleges around here had 10Mbit fiber-connections, today they have 100Mbit, but if you graduated and moved off campus it is more likely you only have 2 or 4Mbit today.
True, except the horrible taste of course.
Ireland is part of the British Isles, though the term is very unpopular in Ireland.
Removing the fat from PulseAudio would be removing PulseAudio in most cases. It could still serve as an audio-proxy for rare networked cases, the API would be good for those cases. Right now ALSA defaults to using dmix, which means that you don't really need an audio-server, it is just useless bloat most users really dont need. The days of sound-daemons belong to aRts and ESD, and those days are over. For some reason this anachronistic abomination called pulseaudio just wont die.
No, we need sound daemons like aRts, ESD and PulseAudio to lay down and DIE!
You don't need pulseaudio. It is just a GNOME audio daemon that is many times better than esd, but still crap.
There were only need on Linux OSS because Linus refused to do audio mixing in the kernel. This means the resource sharing and hardware abstraction the kernel _should_ be doing was delegated to user-space.
What liberalism failed in 1991? That's odd, I don't seem to recall that. I could have sworn democrazy and human rights were still respected in many parts of the world.
I think Google is going to remove X, but not because of performance, but to make sure no non-google rich-applications are "streamed" to the device (from a remote X-client/application-server for instance). They want the user locked to the Google cloud, and a system like X would ruin the tie-in.
No that is not a browser that is a rendering engine. Yes you can write your application in JS, Python, Ruby or C++. If start with KHTML or WebKit, just use what ever language you like. If you really insist, you can even call your application a "plugin", though you would be wrong.
IQ are also meassured with standard deviation of 24 in many places. The minimum IQ for entering Mensa in Denmark for instance is 148. An IQ of 172 while highly unusual correspond to 145 using US standard IQ.
Still makes no sense, your scenario sounds like she's making fun of you. A smart girl who is obviously attracted to you and doing something to make you notice her: Yes, that is a turn on; but it doesn't get better by that something being stupid, though something stupid is better than nothing.
Mobil phones and the internet haven't yet changed much in the way we live. It is showing sings of changing things as own constant online presence is embedding itself in our culture, but think about how much telephones changed? or the TV? or mass-produced cars? or airplanes?
Of course, we are comparing elephants and skyscrapers. Difference in perception is to be expected.
Yes, it has. I wouldn't emphasize 50years though. Just look at computers the last 10years and computers 20years ago. In 1999 I was on slashdot from a computer not much different from this one. In 1989 I was trying to get a dial-up modem so I could connect to a BBS from my Amiga.
Because computer science has next to nothing to do with programming. Informatics is another name for Computer Science, so Biological Informatics is abstractly Computer Science applied in Biology, like BioChemistry is Chemistry applied to Biology. Both studies however require enough specialized knowledge that they are fully separate from Computer Science and Chemistry, which is why they have their own names. Though at least at my CS department I've been able to takes classes in protein folding, which was a fancy name for advanced techniques for optimizing string search.
If you pay $400+ for it and it is fragile, then that is your problem right there.
My phone doesn't cost $400, and is not fragile.
Yes. It is a phone, it is designed to be kept in pockets, of course you can sit on it!
An iPhone might be to big and heavy to carry in most pockets, but that's just another flaw. Phones should be able to fit in a pocket, and withstand the forces applied to it where it is usually kept.