*blink*
Wow.
As someone who's been told about global warming since kindergarten 23 years ago, I might be.. indoctrinated and therefor biased.
But really, how can you dismiss global warming as hysteria? Especially as you clearly haven't even considered the possibility - if you had, you'd know how an higher average global tempature could lead to an ice age.
The possible grave consequences of global warming that keep being published alone should make everyone at least somewhat interested imho, but dismissing the whole thing is just... sorry, I can't come up with a fitting euphemism right now - braindead.
I do not agree with that assumption. First off, Unix was not created because of MS and/or Windows and Linux was created as a Unix clone, not specifically to compete with windows.
Yes, it was. But do you think so many people would have taking on the task of improving Linux if they hadn't been annoyed by Windows and its omnipresence?
There probably wouldn't be so many people capable of OS development if it weren't for the abundance of cheap hardware to learn on - which brings me to your next point:
If the pc hardware was not around it would have been built on different hardware.
Next, even without MS, IBM would have still been looking for an OS for its new computing platform. Because it was IBM, which at the time was the de facto standard/monopoly, there still would have been a clone market even without MS's help.
IBM didn't intend to go after the home computing market - Microsoft did. You can't tell if another OS vendor would have had the same foresight MS did. Because of MS' success in popularizing computers outside the fringe crowd of Amiga/Atari/$whatever hobbyists and businesses (not with DOS, but with Windows), people have begun to clone IBM's hardware and thus, through competition, driven prices down.
Of course, you can continue this what-if game forever, but the way things happened, there's no denying it was Microsoft that made this industry what it is, and that the state of the industry encouraged Linux development immensely.
Didn't the release of Windows, especially Windows 95, induce a huge increase of demand in IBM compatibles?
That at least is my impression, and it's kind of supported by a lazy google search. So, CPM-86 doesn't have all that much to do with the growth of the industry and the abundance of cheap hardware it caused.
[...] they need dumb customers who would buy all the shovelware you throw at them. People with intellect who like to tinker with stuff are of no interest to them. That does look like a pretty self-serving attitude.
By extension, games basically being entertainment, you're saying that people who listen music and watch movies without expending the time and energy needed to create their own are dumb customers of an industry that has no interest catering to "people with intellect".
Admittedly it's not quite fair to take your assertion that far, but it's what your attitude seems to come down to.
You have a point, there aren't many homebrew games worth spending ten hours on. I do think there are more than five though.. But I don't think it's because all those hacks are truly intended for piracy, with homebrew just being an alibi.
Rather, I think it's for the same reason there aren't all that many opensource games that meet that requirement either. I suppose making games is a very different from making the usual kind of opensource software. It requires more immediate communication, a fixed core team, and, as far as I can tell the biggest problem, it requires artists. Programmers usually aren't very successful when creating their own artwork..
Especially in the case of the PSP there's a lot of incentive to "fix" the firmware.
Not only do you get a lot more out of that pretty impressive hardware, it also improves its capabilities in regards to its intended purpose - games just load a lot faster from Memory Sticks than from UMD, and not having to power an optical drive improves battery life.
Yeah, they should have stopped right there.
Might have done society some good, not to have technology that might be fit for its intended purpose, but very often isn't.
Problem with this lifestyle is that you're not young and attractive forever.
Well, it's not as bad a problem for males as it is for females, but at some point you might find yourself rather lonely - your friends might be too busy with their families to provide real companionship, and the girls you're used being with hang out with younger guys.
Better hope you'll be rather well-off by then..
Why do you do that to yourself?
How can you take that kind of abuse?
Reminds me of an old song by The Offspring: "The more you suffer, the more it shows you really care, right?"
No, really, I would like to know what makes you stick to being Mr. Niceguy, even though it doesn't seem to work out very well.
You wouldn't be annoyed if you came up with some cool feature, implemented it in your app, and someone making a similar app reimplemented "your" idea in that "competing" application and thus got all the credit?
Imagine you're sitting in a bar with a friend, and somehow you start talking about some girl you noticed. You somehow figure out something about her that makes a nice pickup line.
And then some guy sitting close to you, who has overheard you talking, approaches her using exactly that information and picks her up.
Sucks, eh?
BTW., code theft is code theft, regardless of license. Almost every license at least requires credit to be given. Oh, and Opera's not open source.
Hold on, didn't IE7 introduce tabs?
I'm not very familiar with that app, but to me, it makes sense to have an UI change when there's such a fundamental change in functionality.
I couldn't imagine tabs in IE6's GUI...
Doesn't it suck Firefox's mouse gesture addon uses that gesture for new window, and the "up" gesture to open new tabs?
Very annoying when switching between browsers:(
Actually, that's a problem for both, Opera and Lynx.
As there's no native textmode on the DS, you'd have to implement an ncurses compatible terminal, or rewrite the display code entirely.
For Opera, they had to rewrite the display code, which probably wasn't all that hard, given in was a multiplatform (graphical) browser from the very start.
Elaborate, please.
How do the low prices of US fuel benefit the world's economy in a significant way, given that goods that are transported don't usually cross US borders, unless they're intended for the US?
Of course, indirectly, via the sheer size of the American economy and the positive effects low fuel prices tend to have on the economy, the world does benefit. But that's not what you were refering to, I take it.
OMG, a bicycle?! Really, you must be on the brink of poverty.
By the way, it's for a large part because of that taxation European governments do that European gas prices haven't risen as much as they did in the US.
You people get to feel the economy's hiccups raw and unfiltered. That's raw free market for you, something some slashdotters seem to take as the pinnacle of economic development or something...
It doesn't matter that your situations are different, the principle remains:
You expect him to donate those 5 million, but really you don't have any moral ground to stand on unless you donate a comparable amount (something like <your net worth>*(5*10^6/<his net worth>).
Well, as evidenced by the general lack of huge honking cars in Europe, at least compared to how common they are in the States, it seems some monetary incentive does help encourage environmentally responsible behavior.
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Nah. A kilogram of ice has a volume of 0.917 litre, according to The Internets.
Which might explain why it floats ^_^
*blink*
Wow.
As someone who's been told about global warming since kindergarten 23 years ago, I might be.. indoctrinated and therefor biased.
But really, how can you dismiss global warming as hysteria? Especially as you clearly haven't even considered the possibility - if you had, you'd know how an higher average global tempature could lead to an ice age.
The possible grave consequences of global warming that keep being published alone should make everyone at least somewhat interested imho, but dismissing the whole thing is just... sorry, I can't come up with a fitting euphemism right now - braindead.
I do not agree with that assumption. First off, Unix was not created because of MS and/or Windows and Linux was created as a Unix clone, not specifically to compete with windows.
Yes, it was. But do you think so many people would have taking on the task of improving Linux if they hadn't been annoyed by Windows and its omnipresence?
There probably wouldn't be so many people capable of OS development if it weren't for the abundance of cheap hardware to learn on - which brings me to your next point:
If the pc hardware was not around it would have been built on different hardware.
Next, even without MS, IBM would have still been looking for an OS for its new computing platform. Because it was IBM, which at the time was the de facto standard/monopoly, there still would have been a clone market even without MS's help.
IBM didn't intend to go after the home computing market - Microsoft did. You can't tell if another OS vendor would have had the same foresight MS did. Because of MS' success in popularizing computers outside the fringe crowd of Amiga/Atari/$whatever hobbyists and businesses (not with DOS, but with Windows), people have begun to clone IBM's hardware and thus, through competition, driven prices down.
Of course, you can continue this what-if game forever, but the way things happened, there's no denying it was Microsoft that made this industry what it is, and that the state of the industry encouraged Linux development immensely.
Didn't the release of Windows, especially Windows 95, induce a huge increase of demand in IBM compatibles?
That at least is my impression, and it's kind of supported by a lazy google search. So, CPM-86 doesn't have all that much to do with the growth of the industry and the abundance of cheap hardware it caused.
You're right. Definitely photoshopped.
By extension, games basically being entertainment, you're saying that people who listen music and watch movies without expending the time and energy needed to create their own are dumb customers of an industry that has no interest catering to "people with intellect".
Admittedly it's not quite fair to take your assertion that far, but it's what your attitude seems to come down to.
You have a point, there aren't many homebrew games worth spending ten hours on. I do think there are more than five though.. But I don't think it's because all those hacks are truly intended for piracy, with homebrew just being an alibi.
Rather, I think it's for the same reason there aren't all that many opensource games that meet that requirement either. I suppose making games is a very different from making the usual kind of opensource software. It requires more immediate communication, a fixed core team, and, as far as I can tell the biggest problem, it requires artists. Programmers usually aren't very successful when creating their own artwork..
Especially in the case of the PSP there's a lot of incentive to "fix" the firmware.
Not only do you get a lot more out of that pretty impressive hardware, it also improves its capabilities in regards to its intended purpose - games just load a lot faster from Memory Sticks than from UMD, and not having to power an optical drive improves battery life.
So, even if you've downloaded Opera while it was still free, you can't use it anymore unless you upgrade to the paid-for version
Yeah, they should have stopped right there.
Might have done society some good, not to have technology that might be fit for its intended purpose, but very often isn't.
Problem with this lifestyle is that you're not young and attractive forever.
Well, it's not as bad a problem for males as it is for females, but at some point you might find yourself rather lonely - your friends might be too busy with their families to provide real companionship, and the girls you're used being with hang out with younger guys.
Better hope you'll be rather well-off by then..
Why do you do that to yourself?
How can you take that kind of abuse?
Reminds me of an old song by The Offspring: "The more you suffer, the more it shows you really care, right?"
No, really, I would like to know what makes you stick to being Mr. Niceguy, even though it doesn't seem to work out very well.
You wouldn't be annoyed if you came up with some cool feature, implemented it in your app, and someone making a similar app reimplemented "your" idea in that "competing" application and thus got all the credit?
Imagine you're sitting in a bar with a friend, and somehow you start talking about some girl you noticed. You somehow figure out something about her that makes a nice pickup line.
And then some guy sitting close to you, who has overheard you talking, approaches her using exactly that information and picks her up.
Sucks, eh?
BTW., code theft is code theft, regardless of license. Almost every license at least requires credit to be given. Oh, and Opera's not open source.
Interesting feature.
But I can't figure out how to turn the menu bar off, can you give a hint?
Hold on, didn't IE7 introduce tabs?
I'm not very familiar with that app, but to me, it makes sense to have an UI change when there's such a fundamental change in functionality.
I couldn't imagine tabs in IE6's GUI...
Doesn't it suck Firefox's mouse gesture addon uses that gesture for new window, and the "up" gesture to open new tabs? :(
Very annoying when switching between browsers
Actually, that's a problem for both, Opera and Lynx.
As there's no native textmode on the DS, you'd have to implement an ncurses compatible terminal, or rewrite the display code entirely.
For Opera, they had to rewrite the display code, which probably wasn't all that hard, given in was a multiplatform (graphical) browser from the very start.
Elaborate, please.
How do the low prices of US fuel benefit the world's economy in a significant way, given that goods that are transported don't usually cross US borders, unless they're intended for the US?
Of course, indirectly, via the sheer size of the American economy and the positive effects low fuel prices tend to have on the economy, the world does benefit. But that's not what you were refering to, I take it.
OMG, a bicycle?! Really, you must be on the brink of poverty.
By the way, it's for a large part because of that taxation European governments do that European gas prices haven't risen as much as they did in the US.
You people get to feel the economy's hiccups raw and unfiltered. That's raw free market for you, something some slashdotters seem to take as the pinnacle of economic development or something...
Why bother? RAM's cheap these days..
Bring your own food if you don't like the prices, gee.
You are aware that capitalism relates to communism like a (centrally) planned economy relates to democracy?
I.e. not at all really?
Without knowing the numbers, I highly doubt it's safer than airplanes.
Those are very safe, fatalities/number of passengers wise.
It doesn't matter that your situations are different, the principle remains:
You expect him to donate those 5 million, but really you don't have any moral ground to stand on unless you donate a comparable amount (something like <your net worth>*(5*10^6/<his net worth>).
Well, as evidenced by the general lack of huge honking cars in Europe, at least compared to how common they are in the States, it seems some monetary incentive does help encourage environmentally responsible behavior.