You may have promised to print ttheir replies, but they promised responses, not cut-and-pastes from their marketing handbook.
I say email them back and ask for actual answers.
I think some columnists like to make wild predictions to garner traffic.
AJAX is an interesting new technique for imporving webpages. I'm not sure how any sane person could logically translate this to "desktop apps and OS's are doomed". I've seen less specualtion and leaps of "reasoning" in National Enquirer articles.
I think if anything AJAX demonstrates the appetite for robust thick clients, hence a local software suite that requires an OS layer. OS's would only be doomed if we were moving towards thinner clients.
Yup! Hammer, anvil, tongs, forge, etc... It's good fun, it's active, artistic, and appeals to the "Lord of the Rings" nerd in me, though after 3 years, I'm nowhere near being good enough to even begin weapon or armour smithing (or Rings of Power, alas).
Good books on the subject include The New Edge of the Anvil, and the Art of Blacksmithing.
You can also usually find small priavetly run courses on the subject.
The take back program is most appealing ethically, since it encourages re-use.
Charging the manufacturer or consumer is essentially the same thing, since manufactures who are required to "pay" for it themselves will just work it into the cost of their products. Six of one, half a dozen of the other.
In this age of rehashes, prequels, remakes, etc... no franchise this succesful will end. They may put it down for a while, but the words "Final Fantasy" are worth a LOT of money. They'll never stop...
Someone, somwhere is making silly assumptions. Is the problem with computers? Unlikely, computers are a powerful tool for almost any task.
The issue here is much more likely that they are not being used properly, either through a lack of quality software, or an inability by educators to intelligently integrate them into curriculums (curriculie?).
Either that, or the kids are installing Half Life when the teacher isn't looking.
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"an alternative way of distributing the game (such as through the Internet)"
Yeah, because the internet already does such a bang up job of keeping minors out of questionable content...
I agree with Bill Thompson!!
We should definitely make this kind of thing actionable, so that every time my unpatched Win98 machine gets a virus I should be able to sue Microsoft.
You may have promised to print ttheir replies, but they promised responses, not cut-and-pastes from their marketing handbook. I say email them back and ask for actual answers.
I think what everyone really wants to know is where the heck is Arthas?
I think some columnists like to make wild predictions to garner traffic.
AJAX is an interesting new technique for imporving webpages. I'm not sure how any sane person could logically translate this to "desktop apps and OS's are doomed". I've seen less specualtion and leaps of "reasoning" in National Enquirer articles.
I think if anything AJAX demonstrates the appetite for robust thick clients, hence a local software suite that requires an OS layer. OS's would only be doomed if we were moving towards thinner clients.
Yup! Hammer, anvil, tongs, forge, etc... It's good fun, it's active, artistic, and appeals to the "Lord of the Rings" nerd in me, though after 3 years, I'm nowhere near being good enough to even begin weapon or armour smithing (or Rings of Power, alas). Good books on the subject include The New Edge of the Anvil, and the Art of Blacksmithing. You can also usually find small priavetly run courses on the subject.
The take back program is most appealing ethically, since it encourages re-use. Charging the manufacturer or consumer is essentially the same thing, since manufactures who are required to "pay" for it themselves will just work it into the cost of their products. Six of one, half a dozen of the other.
In this age of rehashes, prequels, remakes, etc... no franchise this succesful will end. They may put it down for a while, but the words "Final Fantasy" are worth a LOT of money. They'll never stop...
Divine Refrigeration, everything else is piffel.
Someone, somwhere is making silly assumptions. Is the problem with computers? Unlikely, computers are a powerful tool for almost any task.
The issue here is much more likely that they are not being used properly, either through a lack of quality software, or an inability by educators to intelligently integrate them into curriculums (curriculie?).
Either that, or the kids are installing Half Life when the teacher isn't looking.
Holy crap, the guy from Milli Vanelli is leading their Open Source movement! Or maybe he's just faking it.
I wonder if they've had any Newton-esque misinterpretations
Anyone else notice how much the "brew" logo looks like the java logo?
Where's the passion in your life, lady?
to play while building your own hobbit hole. (clicky)