+1 for Galciv2. I remember ppl on newsgroups begging Stardock to port the original galciv to Windows (!). They replied that they couldn't do it because Win didn't support multithreading needed for their advanced AI.
Unless your religion involves polygamy. Than it somehow becomes wrong for several adults to decide how to organize their family, somehow the government thinks it's their business to get involved.
Agreed, to much "choice" presented to the user often means that developers were to lazy to find a general solution and instead shifted the burden to the end user.
What?? The mess that is win32 (10+ years later still surprises wine developers with undocumented and poorly defined behavior) is easier than posix + qt/gtk??
I still use an ancient 5,25 floppy drive for small files because I don't trust usb flash drives anymore. I once detected very suspicious net activity every time I plugged in a Kingston module, God only know whatever microcode they have running on the chips that covertly insists on calling home.
A truly fascinating discussion! Why wouldn't you just admit you lost by your own definition. You have to pay $99 Apple tax for the privilege of exploring Ipod programming at home.
You can easily spend thousands of dollars for some cad/design software and yet it's EULA plainly states that the the software you purchased is not fit for any particular purpose.
Do you think religious differences is the only basis for a civil war? The Russian civil war sure wasn't about orthodox Christians fighting Catholics or Muslims and neither was Spanish civil war.
Sure they have lots of missiles and soldiers on paper, but in reality they could turn out just as effective as Saddam's million man army. Perhaps we should just bite the bullet and overcome our fear because I believe it's the fear of missiles not the missiles themselves that paralyzes our actions and allow NK play it's sick diplomatic game.
DDR actually had the highest standard of living in the East Block and it's economy was deeply integrated with Western countries. But I agree that the parent's assertion that everyone earn the same salary is not true. Here in the USSR a street sweeper would make something like 40 rubles, a university educated engineer made closer to 170 rubles, gaining a Ph.D would propel you to 300 rubles. Individual workers whether blue-collar or not would get bonuses for exceeding their planned output and for superior craftsmanship. Money was also routinely used to attract people to harsh jobs, so if someone wanted to quickly earn a large sum they would travel up north to work on an oil well and like for a season.
This is a very low standard to judge by. Maybe it comes as a surprise to you but in most undemocratic non-free market countries people don't drop dead from starvation either.
If you are a an old transsexual black-hispanic communist Nation of Islam-muslim from the South Bronx than you've been dealt a pretty shitty hand in life. I'd be very sorry for this person, but hiding it from your potential employer still would be the best choice. If I've learnt anything in this life is that concealed truth always comes out later and usually NOT ON YOUR TERMS.
I agree, how do we know pictures of "concentration camps" weren't planted there by the CIA? And I trust NK "defectors" as much as I trusted Iraqi defectors and their tales of Saddam's advanced WMD programs back in 2003.
So why do people move to gated communities guarded by PRIVATE security as soon as they get some real money? Why do they send their kids to PRIVATE schools? Seems like they prefer services offered by private companies to the tax funded government provided goodness.
You forgot to mention that once you enlist they can shift you between professions at their whim, One day you are pawning Chinese servers while sipping Mountain Dew and the the next you get blown up by an IED while on a foot patrol in Afghanistan. Once you start thinking about it, sharing a cell with Bubba starts to sound more appealing.
Please GODS! I understand your Windowd background, but please! In Unix reinstalling is not the proper solution to the majority of problems! NO X on boot => reinstall of the OS???! WTF?? Login then type startx, look at the errors.
The best comment in the thread right here! I too think that GUI should be disabled in the beginning and become available only after the user has gained a certain number of "achievement" points. 10 points for each use of mv or cp commands, 20 for use of basic shell redirection, 100 for each use of awk, and so on.
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+1 for Galciv2. I remember ppl on newsgroups begging Stardock to port the original galciv to Windows (!). They replied that they couldn't do it because Win didn't support multithreading needed for their advanced AI.
That's because your entire "country" fits in my backyard and you intenetz can be DDOSed by a beowulf cluster of 386sx's. Take that NAZI LOVERS!
Unless your religion involves polygamy. Than it somehow becomes wrong for several adults to decide how to organize their family, somehow the government thinks it's their business to get involved.
I know people who disappeared. What can you do beyond filing a missing person report?
Agreed, to much "choice" presented to the user often means that developers were to lazy to find a general solution and instead shifted the burden to the end user.
What?? The mess that is win32 (10+ years later still surprises wine developers with undocumented and poorly defined behavior) is easier than posix + qt/gtk??
What I don't know id why the hell having saved enough cash for 6 months in CA you hadn't just moved to a cheaper state??
I still use an ancient 5,25 floppy drive for small files because I don't trust usb flash drives anymore. I once detected very suspicious net activity every time I plugged in a Kingston module, God only know whatever microcode they have running on the chips that covertly insists on calling home.
A truly fascinating discussion! Why wouldn't you just admit you lost by your own definition. You have to pay $99 Apple tax for the privilege of exploring Ipod programming at home.
You can easily spend thousands of dollars for some cad/design software and yet it's EULA plainly states that the the software you purchased is not fit for any particular purpose.
The whole concept of "free will" is on some very shaky ground anyways.
Do you think religious differences is the only basis for a civil war? The Russian civil war sure wasn't about orthodox Christians fighting Catholics or Muslims and neither was Spanish civil war.
Sure they have lots of missiles and soldiers on paper, but in reality they could turn out just as effective as Saddam's million man army. Perhaps we should just bite the bullet and overcome our fear because I believe it's the fear of missiles not the missiles themselves that paralyzes our actions and allow NK play it's sick diplomatic game.
FOI, all the soviet republics transferred nuclear arsenals stored on their territory to Russia after the dissolution of the SU.
DDR actually had the highest standard of living in the East Block and it's economy was deeply integrated with Western countries. But I agree that the parent's assertion that everyone earn the same salary is not true. Here in the USSR a street sweeper would make something like 40 rubles, a university educated engineer made closer to 170 rubles, gaining a Ph.D would propel you to 300 rubles. Individual workers whether blue-collar or not would get bonuses for exceeding their planned output and for superior craftsmanship. Money was also routinely used to attract people to harsh jobs, so if someone wanted to quickly earn a large sum they would travel up north to work on an oil well and like for a season.
This is a very low standard to judge by. Maybe it comes as a surprise to you but in most undemocratic non-free market countries people don't drop dead from starvation either.
If you are a an old transsexual black-hispanic communist Nation of Islam-muslim from the South Bronx than you've been dealt a pretty shitty hand in life. I'd be very sorry for this person, but hiding it from your potential employer still would be the best choice. If I've learnt anything in this life is that concealed truth always comes out later and usually NOT ON YOUR TERMS.
I agree, how do we know pictures of "concentration camps" weren't planted there by the CIA? And I trust NK "defectors" as much as I trusted Iraqi defectors and their tales of Saddam's advanced WMD programs back in 2003.
So why do people move to gated communities guarded by PRIVATE security as soon as they get some real money? Why do they send their kids to PRIVATE schools? Seems like they prefer services offered by private companies to the tax funded government provided goodness.
You forgot to mention that once you enlist they can shift you between professions at their whim, One day you are pawning Chinese servers while sipping Mountain Dew and the the next you get blown up by an IED while on a foot patrol in Afghanistan. Once you start thinking about it, sharing a cell with Bubba starts to sound more appealing.
Please GODS! I understand your Windowd background, but please! In Unix reinstalling is not the proper solution to the majority of problems! NO X on boot => reinstall of the OS???! WTF?? Login then type startx, look at the errors.
Most dos lovers consider MS-DOS 3.3 the BEST version of DOS. The later versions just added more bloat.
The best comment in the thread right here! I too think that GUI should be disabled in the beginning and become available only after the user has gained a certain number of "achievement" points. 10 points for each use of mv or cp commands, 20 for use of basic shell redirection, 100 for each use of awk, and so on.
Ok, how about "nobody who values their Freedom"?