Ancestor worship (in one way or another), obsessing about own children / grandchildren / extended family, dehumanizing "others" - those are one of the most universal human characteristics. In other words: obsession with DNA.
For most people who use unlocked / owned by them phones, it's not about the value of changing carriers when abroad - but locally, to have some good deal. You know, competition. It seems there are opportunities for that in the US, too.
(yes, area does play a role - but again, it does so to a even bigger degree in Russian Federation)
Naughty Dog used their variant of Lisp in PS1 and PS2 era. Crash and Jack & Dexter were some of the nicest looking / best running / most polished games around.
IIRC they did switch to C/C++ with the onset of PS3 - but maybe that's not for strictly technical reasons? (in the practical realm - availability of tools, libraries and people, for example)
Did I made such argument? (and what it has to do with that specific quote?)
"This brave new music world" doesn't obviously mean that, somehow, the lifestyle typical of few stars will be possible to many indies. Most of them will have other jobs, for example. Part - if getting money from music - mostly via live acts (like that's something new...); only some via actual sales of music.
It's important to note how people actually still buy it, if it's good.
(BTW, remember some recent moves / wishes about blocking Creative Commons music? This is old label mindset wishing to block their real competition)
Qt is LGPL, it's not "owned" by Nokia - certainly not in the way Apple controls Cocoa and GNUstep strives to keep up.
That said, as far as I am concerned GNUstep is at least the second best choice of the two / it's nice to see that their efforts might finally give something big.
More people are alive today than all humans who have ever died.
That's an urban myth (how you defend it with flawed math probably nicely demonstrates our propensity to attaching to ourselves undue importance). 100+ billion homo sapiens dead already:
Maybe not most cellphones, even if just barely. Nokia ships 1/3rd of sales, most of them not made in China / most of their ~dozen manufacturing plants are elsewhere. Samsung and LG have the next 1/3rd between them - and while some of it is also in China, I would expect quite a lot in Korea / they are quite protectionist (but I don't know). Throw in part of Japanese market (though they won't be shipping anywhere / are isolated), and maybe it is more than half...
Of course, many components come from China anyway. But if blocking those, you won't be able to manufacture anything, anywhere:/
You are really serious with that tirade about opinions after your "you should be modded troll for your opinion I disagree with"? Really?
This has nothing to with denying whatever fun stuff you do. The TFS is basically "My hobby is passing away, how to keep it on life support?" Huh?... There's no point. Not if he can't find it himself.
When it comes to my interests I'm always saddened that there's lots of more to explore / know / experience in the area than I can possibly do in my lifetime, even if devoting whole of it to just that one area. The primary problem is letting go bits I'd like to know closer, but there's not enough time.
These things have to develop organically over time... They can't change who they are by just snapping their fingers, and their authoritarian government reflects who they are at present
Do not be afraid of saying this more directly;) - most people are ultimately comfortable with their worldview (even scary one) / will remain mostly faithful to it / need to largely be...supplanted. Also need to die out, for the world to move forward, to improve. We will need too, relatively soon.
State of next generation will show best where the societies choose to take themselves.
(and who knows what's in for China, for example partly due to one child policy and gender imbalance)
And, in the name of fairness, you advocate willingly relinquishing our position / dismantling any lead we may have, right?... (what, do you think it was achieved via "playing by the rules"?)
Who said anything about not having fun? What does that have to do with accepting how people change, and there's no point in trying to cling to something what evidently starts to pass; as the asking poster seems to do.
You shared with us how in this area such change loosely (your approach to gaming is the same as 3 decades ago?) applies to you...whoa, fascinating. So?
We sort of will anyway, without such stunts. There are almost 7 billion people around. 100+ billion dead, most likely countless more will be alive. We're not that unique as we like to think... (though how we can barely actively keep track of more than few dozen people helps with such perception)
Yes, not the holy "unbroken continuity" wished for by many. But it itself is a myth even on the scale of one individual. Recollect all the thoughts, wishes, desires, emotions, events which happened during the last week.
Car industry is unable to operate profitably, too (with all the subsidies of highways and ignoring externalities of fuels, they still needed to be bailed out). Don't start me on airlines...
we don't have a lot of mostly empty space between the cities
What, what, what? Not when discussing mobile phone coverage, I guess, then it's "poor coverage due to vast spaces"? And trains are quite compatible with forests or national parks.
What? Contrary to popular belief, derailing is very survivable (especially in the case of high speed trains, counterintuitively). Plus surveillance of tracks is easy.
They don't need to be built just anywhere. Worst case if you really can't tweak the base load, which is not strictly the case. Unless you specifically want to waste all that energy instead of storing it...
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Ancestor worship (in one way or another), obsessing about own children / grandchildren / extended family, dehumanizing "others" - those are one of the most universal human characteristics. In other words: obsession with DNA.
Of course the lousy outcome wasn't because of the sterilization, quite the contrary.
Thing is - that's pretty much an expected characteristic of surface water if people are around, unless steps are taken to quite actively avoid it.
"It's not dangerous or anything" looks an agreement with the point I was making.
For most people who use unlocked / owned by them phones, it's not about the value of changing carriers when abroad - but locally, to have some good deal. You know, competition. It seems there are opportunities for that in the US, too.
(yes, area does play a role - but again, it does so to a even bigger degree in Russian Federation)
It can't be fine if boxed versions are very often less expensive than the price on Steam...
Would the last bit be a bad thing / anti-beauty?
Naughty Dog used their variant of Lisp in PS1 and PS2 era. Crash and Jack & Dexter were some of the nicest looking / best running / most polished games around.
IIRC they did switch to C/C++ with the onset of PS3 - but maybe that's not for strictly technical reasons? (in the practical realm - availability of tools, libraries and people, for example)
Did we already forget how Apple tried to ban, this year, the use of languages not blessed by them and of middleware targeting also iOS?
Also, where are those Kinect and Wiimote enabled games?
Generally - really, which one is it? "The games I play - PC games - are...deep, man" or "shiny!!!"?
Did I made such argument? (and what it has to do with that specific quote?)
"This brave new music world" doesn't obviously mean that, somehow, the lifestyle typical of few stars will be possible to many indies. Most of them will have other jobs, for example. Part - if getting money from music - mostly via live acts (like that's something new...); only some via actual sales of music.
It's important to note how people actually still buy it, if it's good.
(BTW, remember some recent moves / wishes about blocking Creative Commons music? This is old label mindset wishing to block their real competition)
Qt is LGPL, it's not "owned" by Nokia - certainly not in the way Apple controls Cocoa and GNUstep strives to keep up.
That said, as far as I am concerned GNUstep is at least the second best choice of the two / it's nice to see that their efforts might finally give something big.
It's hard to beat Oerlikon :)
More people are alive today than all humans who have ever died.
That's an urban myth (how you defend it with flawed math probably nicely demonstrates our propensity to attaching to ourselves undue importance). 100+ billion homo sapiens dead already:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=fact-or-fiction-living-outnumber-dead
http://www.prb.org/pdf/PT_novdec02.pdf
http://www.prb.org/Articles/2002/HowManyPeopleHaveEverLivedonEarth.aspx
Tell me what is deeper than the center of the Earth. Or what is to the north of geographic North Pole.
Maybe not most cellphones, even if just barely. Nokia ships 1/3rd of sales, most of them not made in China / most of their ~dozen manufacturing plants are elsewhere. Samsung and LG have the next 1/3rd between them - and while some of it is also in China, I would expect quite a lot in Korea / they are quite protectionist (but I don't know). Throw in part of Japanese market (though they won't be shipping anywhere / are isolated), and maybe it is more than half...
Of course, many components come from China anyway. But if blocking those, you won't be able to manufacture anything, anywhere :/
You are really serious with that tirade about opinions after your "you should be modded troll for your opinion I disagree with"? Really?
This has nothing to with denying whatever fun stuff you do. The TFS is basically "My hobby is passing away, how to keep it on life support?" Huh?... There's no point. Not if he can't find it himself.
When it comes to my interests I'm always saddened that there's lots of more to explore / know / experience in the area than I can possibly do in my lifetime, even if devoting whole of it to just that one area. The primary problem is letting go bits I'd like to know closer, but there's not enough time.
These things have to develop organically over time ... They can't change who they are by just snapping their fingers, and their authoritarian government reflects who they are at present
Do not be afraid of saying this more directly ;) - most people are ultimately comfortable with their worldview (even scary one) / will remain mostly faithful to it / need to largely be...supplanted. Also need to die out, for the world to move forward, to improve. We will need too, relatively soon.
State of next generation will show best where the societies choose to take themselves.
(and who knows what's in for China, for example partly due to one child policy and gender imbalance)
And, in the name of fairness, you advocate willingly relinquishing our position / dismantling any lead we may have, right?... (what, do you think it was achieved via "playing by the rules"?)
Who said anything about not having fun? What does that have to do with accepting how people change, and there's no point in trying to cling to something what evidently starts to pass; as the asking poster seems to do.
You shared with us how in this area such change loosely (your approach to gaming is the same as 3 decades ago?) applies to you...whoa, fascinating. So?
Many Big Bangs / inflations doesn't even have to mean complete recycling of, well, everything - for example.
We sort of will anyway, without such stunts. There are almost 7 billion people around. 100+ billion dead, most likely countless more will be alive. We're not that unique as we like to think... (though how we can barely actively keep track of more than few dozen people helps with such perception)
Yes, not the holy "unbroken continuity" wished for by many. But it itself is a myth even on the scale of one individual. Recollect all the thoughts, wishes, desires, emotions, events which happened during the last week.
Now do the same for the 17th week of 1995.
Car industry is unable to operate profitably, too (with all the subsidies of highways and ignoring externalities of fuels, they still needed to be bailed out). Don't start me on airlines...
we don't have a lot of mostly empty space between the cities
What, what, what? Not when discussing mobile phone coverage, I guess, then it's "poor coverage due to vast spaces"? And trains are quite compatible with forests or national parks.
What? Contrary to popular belief, derailing is very survivable (especially in the case of high speed trains, counterintuitively). Plus surveillance of tracks is easy.
They don't need to be built just anywhere. Worst case if you really can't tweak the base load, which is not strictly the case. Unless you specifically want to waste all that energy instead of storing it...