Companies don't avoid OSX (or Linux) because they are such huge fans of win32 that the though of releasing software for anything else is abhorrent (Microsoft's first and second party studios aside). It's simply not worth the time and effort to do so for relatively few sales.
If companies knew to write them in a portable way in the first place (OpenGL + SDL), porting would be relatively trivial, cost-effective, and beneficial to both parties.
A few dubs are very good. Cowboy Bebop is the classic example of a very good dub.
Most dubs suck. If I must choose between a badly voice-acted "professional" dub and a literally translated fansub, I'll take the sub every time. I trust a fan to at least try to convey the original meaning, and the original voices are preserved.
I also would like to add that foreign press seems to think they have 1st ammendment rights in the US....
I would like to add that some of us believe that the rights granted by the First Amendment are not only American rights, but basic human rights.
You are saying in much milder language the equivalent of "Oh, what this? They're not American? Fuck 'em."
And the same goes for other rights, such as those granted by the Sixth Amendment (right to a speedy and public trial; right to know the infraction; right to obtain witnesses; right to obtain councel). *cough*Guantanamo*cough* Oh, pardon me.
One could say that the rules of the game changed (slavery became unacceptable) but the plantations did not follow.
Honestly, I don't think Friedman intended that statement to apply to such a situation. He also says IIRC that economic freedom and personal freedom are inseparably linked.
"In [a free-market] economy there is one and only one social responsibility of business to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition, without deception and fraud." -- Milton Friedman
The problem is that, of course, few of them do go without "deception and fraud."
You do know that when playing a game, it is not the only executing process on the system. The graphics and sound subsystems are all heavily used and take cycles away from the game.
Sure, the speed-up isn't nearly as large, but having a spare core sure would prevent many slowdowns.
On the one hand, other animals are non-sentient (AFAWK) but feeling creatures. This part of me disdains harm that is brought upon them in the name of research, result-yielding and non-result-yielding. And I'm not even going to mention trying to reconcile their right to live with our need to farm them for food...
On the other hand, there are several parts of me that really enjoy seeing the results of this research: my scientific side, and---ahem---the, uh, you-know-what side of me.
I'll definitely not see most of the fruits of this kind of research (unless we make some really outstanding medical discoveries), but I'd love to know how it turns out.
But in the end, I conclude that I am not capable of resolving this on my own. So what else is new?
Have our approximation functions gotten that good such that the effect of small errors over 100 years' simulation time are not absolutely significant?
And of course, all of this is for no good if some major climate-changing event, up to the OMG-we're-fucked range, likethis, were to happen. But that's not very likely, at least on the high end, riiight?
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I thought France had a relatively free market?
Choice quote from Wikipedia entry "Economy of France": Government spending, at 53% of GDP in 2000, is the highest in the G-7.
Usually, that's indicative of a planned economy.
Yeah, OK, that's fine.
But as others have said already, do we really need to hear about it every time?
Somebody show this writer what he's missing. You can't consider what you don't know exists.
Other than that, this article serves no purpose, and I'm going to stay clear of this one.
Pets? Fetuses?
Companies don't avoid OSX (or Linux) because they are such huge fans of win32 that the though of releasing software for anything else is abhorrent (Microsoft's first and second party studios aside). It's simply not worth the time and effort to do so for relatively few sales.
If companies knew to write them in a portable way in the first place (OpenGL + SDL), porting would be relatively trivial, cost-effective, and beneficial to both parties.
The store also reports 0% of such transactions being fraudulent."
I don't think anybody's going to let you buy stuff with a severed finger.
Is today International Assimilation Day or something?
A few dubs are very good. Cowboy Bebop is the classic example of a very good dub.
Most dubs suck. If I must choose between a badly voice-acted "professional" dub and a literally translated fansub, I'll take the sub every time. I trust a fan to at least try to convey the original meaning, and the original voices are preserved.
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I also would like to add that foreign press seems to think they have 1st ammendment rights in the US....
I would like to add that some of us believe that the rights granted by the First Amendment are not only American rights, but basic human rights.
You are saying in much milder language the equivalent of "Oh, what this? They're not American? Fuck 'em."
And the same goes for other rights, such as those granted by the Sixth Amendment (right to a speedy and public trial; right to know the infraction; right to obtain witnesses; right to obtain councel). *cough*Guantanamo*cough* Oh, pardon me.
I'm that if we use the crackberries long enough
Either lay off the crackberries, or have more of them; you're not making sense as it is.
There's a rumor that John Carmack once asked Steve Jobs what would happen if they'd put one more key on the keyboard.
How can you give a statement like that and not also put the rumored witty riposte?
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"The PC has more software, more competition, more richness than anything else...."
Excuse me, are we sure this is the real Bill Gates?
One could say that the rules of the game changed (slavery became unacceptable) but the plantations did not follow.
Honestly, I don't think Friedman intended that statement to apply to such a situation. He also says IIRC that economic freedom and personal freedom are inseparably linked.
"In [a free-market] economy there is one and only one social responsibility of business to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition, without deception and fraud." -- Milton Friedman
The problem is that, of course, few of them do go without "deception and fraud."
50 USD.
Right now, the exchange rate is 1 USD ~= 1.2 AUD. So your markup is through the roof.
I love the why should i pay $50 for a game that might be crap excuse.
Is it possible that $50 is more than people are willing to pay?
Basic economics suggests that lowering the price level will increase the quantity sold. I'm guessing that those sales will come from the pirate crowd.
You do know that when playing a game, it is not the only executing process on the system. The graphics and sound subsystems are all heavily used and take cycles away from the game.
Sure, the speed-up isn't nearly as large, but having a spare core sure would prevent many slowdowns.
Be quiet! You businessmen... You're all so fucking inculpable and none of you have got any balls.
It's not so much that Microsoft should, it's that computer retailers should bundle more 3rd-party software.
Well, having multicast certainly could kill the oligopoly that is TV.
That's what the DRM is for, probably. But if they can't tell if anyone's breaking the DRM...
It's Microsoft. I'm sure they'll find a way to fuck it all up.
He claims to be paranoid, yet he runs FreeBSD, not OpenBSD. Therefore, I find him to be "security-aware" at best.
On the one hand, other animals are non-sentient (AFAWK) but feeling creatures. This part of me disdains harm that is brought upon them in the name of research, result-yielding and non-result-yielding. And I'm not even going to mention trying to reconcile their right to live with our need to farm them for food...
On the other hand, there are several parts of me that really enjoy seeing the results of this research: my scientific side, and---ahem---the, uh, you-know-what side of me.
I'll definitely not see most of the fruits of this kind of research (unless we make some really outstanding medical discoveries), but I'd love to know how it turns out.
But in the end, I conclude that I am not capable of resolving this on my own. So what else is new?
Have our approximation functions gotten that good such that the effect of small errors over 100 years' simulation time are not absolutely significant?
And of course, all of this is for no good if some major climate-changing event, up to the OMG-we're-fucked range, like this, were to happen. But that's not very likely, at least on the high end, riiight?