I think where we run into trouble often is that people like you say, "Linux sucks for the desktop!" Then people who enjoy using a UNIX enviornment as a desktop feel, for some odd reason, like this is a personal attack on their preferences.
The truth of the matter is that Linux is already on the desktop and will continue to be on the desktop. Just not everybody's desktop. And hey, that's alright! For me, it helps me to achieve my tasks of digital audio recording and music production better than the competition, and I'm in love with UNIX environments, so it's what I use. If nobody else wants to use it, that's cool.
There, wasn't that easy? Alright, let's tackle that middle east problem next....
I'm a musician with a good bit of experience with electronic music (including MIDI) and I remember playing a LOT of those old Sierra games as a kid. If they need any extra help, let me know.
I haven't seen LOTR and don't plan on seeing it. The moment I heard that it was even being made, I knew it would be typical Hollywood crap. And the opinions I've heard have only reinforced my early guesses. Hollywood has far too many guys in white suits and sunglasses who like to say "Baby!" a lot.
In case you haven't noticed lately, since it is a FACT that teenage drivers are the most dangerous people on the streets
Yes this is a fact. But why? Because their brains aren't fully developed? No. It's because the discipline, structure, and morality of our society has been evaporating steadily for the past 100 years or so. Go back a century or so and you see 16 year olds leading entirely responsible lives.
Riddle me this, why do we let people drive at 15 then? And, secondly, why is it that people used to start families at the age of 16 and were perfectly responsible people who made contributions to society?
Yep. But since Apple included a compatibility environment, no one is using the incredibly sexy OPENSTEP API. Instead, everyone just uses the kludgy old Mac OS APIs. Like Adobe. And Microsoft. Otherwise, it would be pretty easy to build these applications with GNUstep (which would then run on FreeBSD, Solaris, Linux, whatever). Objective C blows C++ away (and you can learn it in an afternoon, if you already have OO experience) but it will never reach critical mass because of inertia. (How's that for mixed metaphors?)
Obviously, there are exceptions. Although, iD is still wholy or almost-wholy owned by the Carmack's and what's-his-name, IIRC. And Apple's recent success has been more due to the purchase of NeXT than the brilliance of stockholders.
Stockholders always demand "more profits, right now." Nothing wrong with that per se, except that thoughtless short term pursuit of profit often spells the death of a company.
I find it disheartening that it's impossible to maintain a business with integrity and vision in the face of greed.
Nah, it's only impossible if the company is public. The stock market is completely screwed up these days. Instead of being a way for people to invest in a company that they think deserves support, it has become little more than a government-regulated lottery.
Discovering means "found and claimed by a white person with european descent
Ahh, don't you just love Liberal cynicism? Discover means to take notice of something that you had previously not known about. So Columbus DID discover something. And so did the Vikings. And the ones you call "Native Americans." And possibly the Chinese as well, it seems.
Yep. But they still couldn't have really been called altruistic. They were just greedy for a different benefit: the admiration of all the lesser peoples of the earth. It was still self-serving. Not that there's anything particularly bad about that, but there it is.
Don't forget that the first American space program that eventually sent man to the moon was the basis for many technologies we take for granted today.
Heh, I was listening to Art Bell a few weeks ago (I know, I know...forgive me, I was up late) and there was some idiot on saying that the space program could be a lot further along except that it was being held up by a Soviet-U.S. conspiracy. One of his arguments was that all the experiments being done on the shuttle are silly and useless and are just there to make it look like we're actually doing something. I had to wonder if the guy had ever even heard of Materials Science.
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Don't forget the tachyons! We MUST have tachyons! And it never hurts to throw in a little Marxist philosophy too.
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The truth of the matter is that Linux is already on the desktop and will continue to be on the desktop. Just not everybody's desktop. And hey, that's alright! For me, it helps me to achieve my tasks of digital audio recording and music production better than the competition, and I'm in love with UNIX environments, so it's what I use. If nobody else wants to use it, that's cool.
There, wasn't that easy? Alright, let's tackle that middle east problem next....
Well, DON'T DO THAT!"
You know what my professional opinion is? DON'T USE LINUX! Sheesh, how hard was that to figure out now?
I'm a musician with a good bit of experience with electronic music (including MIDI) and I remember playing a LOT of those old Sierra games as a kid. If they need any extra help, let me know.
I haven't seen LOTR and don't plan on seeing it. The moment I heard that it was even being made, I knew it would be typical Hollywood crap. And the opinions I've heard have only reinforced my early guesses. Hollywood has far too many guys in white suits and sunglasses who like to say "Baby!" a lot.
Yes this is a fact. But why? Because their brains aren't fully developed? No. It's because the discipline, structure, and morality of our society has been evaporating steadily for the past 100 years or so. Go back a century or so and you see 16 year olds leading entirely responsible lives.
Love teenagers, go to jail. That's the law, unfortunately.
Can't disagree on the grammar/grammer thing; but the comma before the third list item is perfectly legitimate. It's called an Oxford comma.
Riddle me this, why do we let people drive at 15 then? And, secondly, why is it that people used to start families at the age of 16 and were perfectly responsible people who made contributions to society?
What about buying a cheap computer and using it for, say, 5 years?
Yep. But since Apple included a compatibility environment, no one is using the incredibly sexy OPENSTEP API. Instead, everyone just uses the kludgy old Mac OS APIs. Like Adobe. And Microsoft. Otherwise, it would be pretty easy to build these applications with GNUstep (which would then run on FreeBSD, Solaris, Linux, whatever). Objective C blows C++ away (and you can learn it in an afternoon, if you already have OO experience) but it will never reach critical mass because of inertia. (How's that for mixed metaphors?)
Screw those. What about NeXTSTEP?
You mean this isn't legit?
Stockholders always demand "more profits, right now." Nothing wrong with that per se, except that thoughtless short term pursuit of profit often spells the death of a company.
Correct. "These days" was a relative term. :-)
The organization that should have been responsible for stopping them is the INS.
Nah, it's only impossible if the company is public. The stock market is completely screwed up these days. Instead of being a way for people to invest in a company that they think deserves support, it has become little more than a government-regulated lottery.
Either way, they're both dangerous.
Kind of like in Wolfenstein, huh?
Why? Genetics is meaningless. You can't be of lesser or greater worth because of your genetic makeup. To say otherwise would be racist.
Ahh, don't you just love Liberal cynicism? Discover means to take notice of something that you had previously not known about. So Columbus DID discover something. And so did the Vikings. And the ones you call "Native Americans." And possibly the Chinese as well, it seems.
Yep. But they still couldn't have really been called altruistic. They were just greedy for a different benefit: the admiration of all the lesser peoples of the earth. It was still self-serving. Not that there's anything particularly bad about that, but there it is.
Not only that, but they couldn't download the updated network driver they needed because safe mode *disabled* the network driver!
Heh, I was listening to Art Bell a few weeks ago (I know, I know...forgive me, I was up late) and there was some idiot on saying that the space program could be a lot further along except that it was being held up by a Soviet-U.S. conspiracy. One of his arguments was that all the experiments being done on the shuttle are silly and useless and are just there to make it look like we're actually doing something. I had to wonder if the guy had ever even heard of Materials Science.
Don't forget the tachyons! We MUST have tachyons! And it never hurts to throw in a little Marxist philosophy too.
Let's all go out and buy some old NeXT cubes right away!