Maybe you should tell that to all the commercial Linux distributions, then. Red Hat, Novell, and others seem to be making pretty good money using GPL code.
Looks like somebody has completely missed the point. "Free Software", whether or not you agree with the ideology, has nothing to do with cost. I can't believe nobody's torn your strawman argument apart, but as long as you continue to view Free Software as "gratis" software rather than "libre" software, you have no valid point to argue.
I can't comment on Enterprise's treatment of such subject matter as I haven't followed the series heavily, but the war in DS9 was not how you are portraying it. There were attempts at diplomacy, political tension, and uneasy alliances before a fascist, expansionist alien enemy began its assault. There was a former Alpha Quadrant power joining that enemy in an attempt to recapture past glory and power. And the end result wasn't all cheer and happiness, but a display of "the futility of war". The terms of the peace treaty, the Cardassians' realization that conquest is no longer the way for them, the Federation's disarray after the war. DS9 was darker and less utopian than TOS, but I wouldn't say it glorified any of the things you complain about. It did acknowledge that such things can and do happen, though, and that those events do carry consequences.
I think that's a completely separate argument there. The initial argument was that Star Trek has been damaged somehow by its reflection of current events, a non-point when you consider that such complaints can be levied against most Star Trek series and, in fact, most sci-fi in general. To say it's been damaged by how Enterprise has treated those events relative to the other series is a much more valid complaint, IMO.
And the original series was full of thinly veiled references to the Cold War. Star Trek has long been a sort of idealized reflection of the time it was created in, just like most science fiction.
I think Nintendo is going to be to gaming what Apple is to computing: a niche manufacturer/developer with tons of good but different (or weird) ideas, quality software and hardware, and a devoted but relatively small fanbase. They're already partway there, so it's not much of a jump.
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Maybe you should tell that to all the commercial Linux distributions, then. Red Hat, Novell, and others seem to be making pretty good money using GPL code.
Looks like somebody has completely missed the point. "Free Software", whether or not you agree with the ideology, has nothing to do with cost. I can't believe nobody's torn your strawman argument apart, but as long as you continue to view Free Software as "gratis" software rather than "libre" software, you have no valid point to argue.
I can't comment on Enterprise's treatment of such subject matter as I haven't followed the series heavily, but the war in DS9 was not how you are portraying it. There were attempts at diplomacy, political tension, and uneasy alliances before a fascist, expansionist alien enemy began its assault. There was a former Alpha Quadrant power joining that enemy in an attempt to recapture past glory and power. And the end result wasn't all cheer and happiness, but a display of "the futility of war". The terms of the peace treaty, the Cardassians' realization that conquest is no longer the way for them, the Federation's disarray after the war. DS9 was darker and less utopian than TOS, but I wouldn't say it glorified any of the things you complain about. It did acknowledge that such things can and do happen, though, and that those events do carry consequences.
I think that's a completely separate argument there. The initial argument was that Star Trek has been damaged somehow by its reflection of current events, a non-point when you consider that such complaints can be levied against most Star Trek series and, in fact, most sci-fi in general. To say it's been damaged by how Enterprise has treated those events relative to the other series is a much more valid complaint, IMO.
And the original series was full of thinly veiled references to the Cold War. Star Trek has long been a sort of idealized reflection of the time it was created in, just like most science fiction.
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Just FYI, the GC is generally considered to be more powerful hardware than the PS2, and the graphics are usually better than comparable PS2 titles.
I think Nintendo is going to be to gaming what Apple is to computing: a niche manufacturer/developer with tons of good but different (or weird) ideas, quality software and hardware, and a devoted but relatively small fanbase. They're already partway there, so it's not much of a jump.