And for the same reason, I think Aeneus must have existed, and that this proves the literal truth of the Iliad and the existence of the Greek gods. QED.
Sure, because how Jesus lived included supporting killing people who might possibly in the future think about trying to hurt you, and passing judgement on those whose morality you don't think is up to par.
The Religious Right doesn't care how Jesus lived, or what he taught. They only start paying attention to the Bible at all at the start of Revelation.
So if I release a really horribly Linux game I wrote in 2 days, you can guarantee that 100% of Linux users will buy it from me for $50? Neat. I didn't realize that people automatically buy things "by default".
Oh, so you're a fascist sysadmin who tries to force his users to use a tool they don't want to. Why not just alias emacs to "rm -rf ~" while you're at it?
I can just see some poor user in a beginning lisp programming course stuck in a editor he doesn't know how to quit. Or start typing text into.
That assumes that a keyboard is the "natural" way to interact with a computer.
I don't think any GUI designers are really using "keyboard replacement" as a paradigm for their design. 30 years ago you'd probably have argued that the goal of a keyboard was to mimic what you can do with a stack of punch cards.
The command line is an obfuscation and a hinderence to people who really know what they want to do.
If you hook wires up to all the pins on your processor and move them really quickly between connections for the voltages corresponding to 0 and 1, you speak directly to the machine, if you know the language to use. And have really fast hands.
A command line translates your typing into a language your computer can understand.
I wouldn't even call him a social liberal. Conservatives are pissed that as a Supreme Court justice in Texas, he didn't treat abortion as "a heinous crime", but that's because, ummm... it's not a crime.
A justice who made rulings that clearly violated SCOTUS's precedents to match his personal beliefs isn't a conservative, he's an idiot. Why would they expect Gonzales to make rulings that would have just been appealed to a federal court and overturned, making the Texas court completely irrelevant?
I'd hope that regardless of political beliefs, anyone could agree that a judge or attorney general should at least have respect for current law and precedent and follow the law instead of his conscience. For all the talk about "activist judges", it sure seems like it's the conservatives who are demanding judicial activism. Only the Supreme Court can overturn its own rulings. It's not that hard to understand.
Because you can threaten teachers all you want and not make the students want to learn.
Offering to send kids from schools where test scores aren't high enough to other, better schools just gives the students in borderline schools a strong incentive to get lower scores so they can get the hell out of there.
No, it wouldn't create much of a dent. But the size of the market is another thing working against you.
There aren't nearly as many games for the Mac as there are for Windows, but it really makes more sense for a game manufacturer to port their game to the Mac than to Linux. The x86 Linux users already own a machine that can play a Windows game, it just involves running Windows (which probably came with the hardware in the first place) or getting it to run under wine. A person with just a Powermac probably can't get the Windows version of the game to run at all on his machine (even with Virtual PC, which might be nice for compatibility for non-gaming applications, but which isn't really good enough for the kinds of games that cause windows users to upgrade their hardware for the newest game that came out).
And the batteries run out so quick that you'd need a pile of spares and a bunch of rapid chargers to clean every room in a moderate-sized house every day.
No corporation is going to want to spend extra money to make 2 versions of a product if the market for the 2nd version consists of people who will just buy the 1st version even though they have to go through trouble to play it. The fact that the people go through all of that trouble instead of not buying the game at all tells the corporation that they're product is so great that they don't need to improve it; their customers will do the work for them.
As long as people like you keep buying the Windows versions of games, what motivation could developers possibly have to support another platform? They're not going to see an increase in sales if the potential customers for a new version would be buying it instead of buying what they already make.
Umm, are you driving the train? What exactly are you using your eyes for?
As for working out, please explain why gyms put TVs in front of the exercise equipment. It sure seems like people are able to watch them and exercise at the same time.
Ok, fair enough, but the fact that reloading the same page almost always makes it render right is a bit disturbing. It could at least be consistently horrible HTML.
Umm, the same reason they wrote IE instead of using Netscape's technology? They don't care if they can create a better product; it's enough to make a product people will use because it's integrated into their OS.
I didn't know slashdot would allow us to change the head of the documents it served. Most browsers ignore non-stylesheet link tags anyway, so it would be pointless.
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And for the same reason, I think Aeneus must have existed, and that this proves the literal truth of the Iliad and the existence of the Greek gods. QED.
The Religious Right doesn't care how Jesus lived, or what he taught. They only start paying attention to the Bible at all at the start of Revelation.
So if I release a really horribly Linux game I wrote in 2 days, you can guarantee that 100% of Linux users will buy it from me for $50? Neat. I didn't realize that people automatically buy things "by default".
Since Windows machines don't even have a command key, I'm going to guess he's a troll.
If I need a small barebones editor, I'll use ed, thank you very much. I love its minimalist UI.
I can just see some poor user in a beginning lisp programming course stuck in a editor he doesn't know how to quit. Or start typing text into.
So I need to compile another program to use wc to get the same results I get from Word. Kind of hurts the author's case there.
I don't think any GUI designers are really using "keyboard replacement" as a paradigm for their design. 30 years ago you'd probably have argued that the goal of a keyboard was to mimic what you can do with a stack of punch cards.
An emacs fan would never even consider typing "vi" on the command line.
And wc does a very poor job of counting the words in a Word document, too. Not to mention an HTML document.
If you hook wires up to all the pins on your processor and move them really quickly between connections for the voltages corresponding to 0 and 1, you speak directly to the machine, if you know the language to use. And have really fast hands.
A command line translates your typing into a language your computer can understand.
A justice who made rulings that clearly violated SCOTUS's precedents to match his personal beliefs isn't a conservative, he's an idiot. Why would they expect Gonzales to make rulings that would have just been appealed to a federal court and overturned, making the Texas court completely irrelevant?
I'd hope that regardless of political beliefs, anyone could agree that a judge or attorney general should at least have respect for current law and precedent and follow the law instead of his conscience. For all the talk about "activist judges", it sure seems like it's the conservatives who are demanding judicial activism. Only the Supreme Court can overturn its own rulings. It's not that hard to understand.
Offering to send kids from schools where test scores aren't high enough to other, better schools just gives the students in borderline schools a strong incentive to get lower scores so they can get the hell out of there.
There aren't nearly as many games for the Mac as there are for Windows, but it really makes more sense for a game manufacturer to port their game to the Mac than to Linux. The x86 Linux users already own a machine that can play a Windows game, it just involves running Windows (which probably came with the hardware in the first place) or getting it to run under wine. A person with just a Powermac probably can't get the Windows version of the game to run at all on his machine (even with Virtual PC, which might be nice for compatibility for non-gaming applications, but which isn't really good enough for the kinds of games that cause windows users to upgrade their hardware for the newest game that came out).
And the batteries run out so quick that you'd need a pile of spares and a bunch of rapid chargers to clean every room in a moderate-sized house every day.
No corporation is going to want to spend extra money to make 2 versions of a product if the market for the 2nd version consists of people who will just buy the 1st version even though they have to go through trouble to play it. The fact that the people go through all of that trouble instead of not buying the game at all tells the corporation that they're product is so great that they don't need to improve it; their customers will do the work for them.
Either you're trolling or have no clue at all about copyright law.
As long as people like you keep buying the Windows versions of games, what motivation could developers possibly have to support another platform? They're not going to see an increase in sales if the potential customers for a new version would be buying it instead of buying what they already make.
As for working out, please explain why gyms put TVs in front of the exercise equipment. It sure seems like people are able to watch them and exercise at the same time.
Ok, fair enough, but the fact that reloading the same page almost always makes it render right is a bit disturbing. It could at least be consistently horrible HTML.
Unless by "nearly all" you mean "all pages except slashdot, which inexplicably renders horribly in Firefox every 10th page or so."
Umm, the same reason they wrote IE instead of using Netscape's technology? They don't care if they can create a better product; it's enough to make a product people will use because it's integrated into their OS.
I didn't know slashdot would allow us to change the head of the documents it served. Most browsers ignore non-stylesheet link tags anyway, so it would be pointless.
Ever think they might all be following the 2 links you have to your site in every slashdot comment you post?
Next these "activist lawyers" will want it to be legal to put Saving Private Ryan in the same video store with the Garfield movie.