No. If it does, the price of bit coins will fall to match. Actually, from historical performance of the bit coin market, the price of bit coins would probably fall to BELOW what it costs to make them. Capitalism in it's purest form.
I guess "requires" is your issue. If you have a GUI wrapper then you aren't REQUIRED to use the command line interface, are you? The CLI may be present, but it is not REQUIRED. Thus, programs, CLI with GUI wrappers or ones with integrated GUIs, aren't what the OP (or the article) were talking about.
If a program REQUIRES the CLI, then EVERY SINGLE USER who uses that program must type in at least one command. That's essentially a statement of the definition of REQUIRES.
Rights are granted by the society you live in. Sometimes they are made into laws by the representatives of that society.
"Natural" rights are a ridiculous concept used as propaganda by certain politically active philosophers and revolutionaries. They don't stand up to logical examination.
For the same reason Apple does - a happy customer is likely to buy your brand again. An unhappy one... not so much. Except that reason doesn't come through on quarterly financial reports very well.
Actually, since that fact is the biggest reason people here use for not telling your government to go to hell when it gets pushy, I much prefer things that are NOT made in the USA. The more diverse our trading partners the less power you guys have to make us enact unconstitutional copyright laws, sell you our resources, and criminalize marijuana.
iOS and OS X are pretty much the same operating system, although iOS is quite a bit pared down. What's different is the GUI layered on top. A better comparison would be swapping X11 for something else on Linux.
Then you develop for XBox, Playstation OR Wii. Whatever you can afford and is the best market. If the game is a success, you port to the next best market. It's nice if your code is easy to port, but if that's not the reality of the platforms you've decided you want to support then suck it up.
Exactly. The point of a smartphone is that it's a little computer. I don't really count blackberries, at least the classic ones, as smartphones. They've got a crippled browser and a proprietary e-mail system. They were like those "feature phones" that would only let you visit certain websites.
As soon as everyone had real smartphones that could get your e-mail the same way your computer did, RIM's expensive feature phone business started to dry up.
"Apple doesn't sell handsets, Apple sells a nice user experience and an integrated app store/iTunes/walled garden, etc, where users spend money regularly."
Funny, I can go into an Apple store, or onto their website, and buy a handset. Looks like you're wrong.
Apple makes the lion's share of their iPhone-related profit from... selling iPhones. They make updates free because they've figured out that if you don't screw over your existing customers, they're likely to STAY your customers.
C has lots of cross platform graphics and GUI libraries. You mention one of each, coincidentally.
"I've never understood why, especially on a smart phone where resources are at a premium, anyone would go with an interpreted language."
We've reached the days when 1 GHz+, frequently dual (or more) core processors with half a gig + of memory is scarce resources. For what a smartphone does, and what it's powered by, you SHOULD be able to write in pretty much anything you want and not have a problem. Interpreted languages aren't always slow, particularly if you take a bit of care to write the few intensive parts in a compiled language. Interpreted languages are nice because they tend to be easier for mediocre programmers to use and quicker for good programmers to use.
What I don't understand is why you'd use a bastardized version of Java, which is just as difficult to code in as C and isn't the least bit portable.
If that's what the developer can afford, then yes. I really don't understand this "we must support every platform even though we can't afford it!" attitude.
If you're a little developer/publisher with not many resources, concentrate on making a great game for a well supported platform. As you say, you can cross develop for Windows/Mac/Linux without too much trouble. If you're successful, port to the difficult platforms, or release the sequel for more. If XBox is always getting great games late, Microsoft will change their tune about only allowing special friends to write native code. Otherwise... why should they?
It is possible to teach science without opposing SOME religions. Other religions, mostly the ones that feel threatened by education, are pretty incompatible with science.
There is immense scientific controversy regarding evolution. Look up "kin selection" sometime for an example. There's much less controversy about the general idea, mostly because nobody has really ever come up with a serious challenger.
Since it's Texas, you're probably right, but a good classroom WOULD have a class discussion about ID and evolution, comparing them, discussing e idence and arguments on each side, how one is falsifiable and makes testable predictions and the other doesn't, and is therefore objectively challengable while the other isn't....
Hm. My experience has been that academia is ruthlessly critical of everyone involved, from undergrad to world authority, and tenure basically means "you have more than five years of job security... so long as you can continue to fund your own activities and preferably pay yourself."
But then I'm in science. Perhaps other fields are different.
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No. If it does, the price of bit coins will fall to match. Actually, from historical performance of the bit coin market, the price of bit coins would probably fall to BELOW what it costs to make them. Capitalism in it's purest form.
I'm quite familiar with them, thanks.
I guess "requires" is your issue. If you have a GUI wrapper then you aren't REQUIRED to use the command line interface, are you? The CLI may be present, but it is not REQUIRED. Thus, programs, CLI with GUI wrappers or ones with integrated GUIs, aren't what the OP (or the article) were talking about.
If a program REQUIRES the CLI, then EVERY SINGLE USER who uses that program must type in at least one command. That's essentially a statement of the definition of REQUIRES.
As I said... reading comprehension. Sigh.
Rights are granted by the society you live in. Sometimes they are made into laws by the representatives of that society.
"Natural" rights are a ridiculous concept used as propaganda by certain politically active philosophers and revolutionaries. They don't stand up to logical examination.
I'm not sure where your difficulty lies. Perhaps it's in the definition of "require?"
Good to see reading comprehension is alive and well on slashdot.
Crappy apps sell poorly for iOS. All apps sell poorly (relative to iOS) on Android. I have stats to back me up. You?
For the same reason Apple does - a happy customer is likely to buy your brand again. An unhappy one... not so much. Except that reason doesn't come through on quarterly financial reports very well.
What are you going to use to oxidize it?
Actually, since that fact is the biggest reason people here use for not telling your government to go to hell when it gets pushy, I much prefer things that are NOT made in the USA. The more diverse our trading partners the less power you guys have to make us enact unconstitutional copyright laws, sell you our resources, and criminalize marijuana.
He's right... the answer isn't "no", it's "probably not" or "very unlikely."
Sure, if you refuse business you don't need to accept payment (of any sort) for it. What's your point?
iOS and OS X are pretty much the same operating system, although iOS is quite a bit pared down. What's different is the GUI layered on top. A better comparison would be swapping X11 for something else on Linux.
Then you develop for XBox, Playstation OR Wii. Whatever you can afford and is the best market. If the game is a success, you port to the next best market. It's nice if your code is easy to port, but if that's not the reality of the platforms you've decided you want to support then suck it up.
Exactly. The point of a smartphone is that it's a little computer. I don't really count blackberries, at least the classic ones, as smartphones. They've got a crippled browser and a proprietary e-mail system. They were like those "feature phones" that would only let you visit certain websites.
As soon as everyone had real smartphones that could get your e-mail the same way your computer did, RIM's expensive feature phone business started to dry up.
"Apple doesn't sell handsets, Apple sells a nice user experience and an integrated app store/iTunes/walled garden, etc, where users spend money regularly."
Funny, I can go into an Apple store, or onto their website, and buy a handset. Looks like you're wrong.
Apple makes the lion's share of their iPhone-related profit from... selling iPhones. They make updates free because they've figured out that if you don't screw over your existing customers, they're likely to STAY your customers.
They also, except Sony, engaged in a race to the bottom. It seems people ARE willing to pay for a bit of quality and design.
Sony might have succeeded except they weren't as good as Apple and pissed everyone off with their other shenanigans.
C has lots of cross platform graphics and GUI libraries. You mention one of each, coincidentally.
"I've never understood why, especially on a smart phone where resources are at a premium, anyone would go with an interpreted language."
We've reached the days when 1 GHz+, frequently dual (or more) core processors with half a gig + of memory is scarce resources. For what a smartphone does, and what it's powered by, you SHOULD be able to write in pretty much anything you want and not have a problem. Interpreted languages aren't always slow, particularly if you take a bit of care to write the few intensive parts in a compiled language. Interpreted languages are nice because they tend to be easier for mediocre programmers to use and quicker for good programmers to use.
What I don't understand is why you'd use a bastardized version of Java, which is just as difficult to code in as C and isn't the least bit portable.
If that's what the developer can afford, then yes. I really don't understand this "we must support every platform even though we can't afford it!" attitude.
If you're a little developer/publisher with not many resources, concentrate on making a great game for a well supported platform. As you say, you can cross develop for Windows/Mac/Linux without too much trouble. If you're successful, port to the difficult platforms, or release the sequel for more. If XBox is always getting great games late, Microsoft will change their tune about only allowing special friends to write native code. Otherwise... why should they?
Is one of your kids named Calvin?
It is possible to teach science without opposing SOME religions. Other religions, mostly the ones that feel threatened by education, are pretty incompatible with science.
Um, that's kind of wrapped up in the very definition of the word "faith."
There is immense scientific controversy regarding evolution. Look up "kin selection" sometime for an example. There's much less controversy about the general idea, mostly because nobody has really ever come up with a serious challenger.
Since it's Texas, you're probably right, but a good classroom WOULD have a class discussion about ID and evolution, comparing them, discussing e idence and arguments on each side, how one is falsifiable and makes testable predictions and the other doesn't, and is therefore objectively challengable while the other isn't....
Hm. My experience has been that academia is ruthlessly critical of everyone involved, from undergrad to world authority, and tenure basically means "you have more than five years of job security... so long as you can continue to fund your own activities and preferably pay yourself."
But then I'm in science. Perhaps other fields are different.
It's called C.
You like your brackets round instead of square?