You should really try Sword of the Stars then, its 3D galaxy, the variety of travelling methods for each race and the changes that bring to the gameplay are its major selling points IMHO. It is, however, heavily oriented towards warfare, I don't think there's even a diplomatic victory in the game which is why I don't play it so much as I prefer to play researchers rather than conquerors on these kinds of games.
It's a pity you couldn't get into GalCiv2 though, it's a great game particularly in its diplomacy and research aspects though the flatness of the map also surprised me at first, and I can see how one wouldn't like the game because of it.
Is Apple contributing back to Webkit good for Apple customers only?
No, but if they hadn't a legal obligation to do so by virtue of the GPL, the WebKit project would likely be as "lively" as Darwin.
What about the pressure Jobs has put on the music industry to allow DRM-free online music sales?
*What* pressure? all I saw was pressure from Amazon to make Apple back down from their DRM, Apple seemed quite content with it 'til then, meaningless press releases notwithstanding.
What about the competitive pressure on the other big industry players, particularly Microsoft - do you think Windows 7 would be what it is now if Apple had quietly died around 1998/1999?
Yeah, I do. Better, even. Besides, I don't see how is it relevant either: Microsoft's IE takeover isn't any nicer because it decreased the costs of web browsers to zero, they're still a piece of scum for abusing contract law in such a manner. For better or worse, what other people do in response to you is irrelevant, only what you personally do should weigh against you, and since Apple wrote zero code for Windows 7, whatever good or ill it represents is meaningless.
Mildly off-topic, but have you tried Galactic Civilizations 2 from Stardock? plot-wise it's not as intelligent as Alpha Centauri (no game is), but in every other respect it was an incredible game, and more than good enough to satisfy my needs for a "Civ in space!" and make me forget about a potential SMAC 2.
I'm not being snarky here. But I am thinking that the answer to the question "Why not zero spaces?" would be "Because that would make it harder to read".
Same answer as to "why not four spaces?". The ideal should obviously lie in the middle, then, it just so happens that for some it's "two" while for others it's "one".
I wonder, then, whether I'm particularly brilliant or incredibly stupid, but for me double spacing makes a document significantly harder to read rather than the other way around. It makes my brain parse each line as a paragraph of its own, with terrible effects on my reading comprehension and speed.
Really? I've yet to see large crowds walking out of a war movie before it ends, so if they're *capable* of showing that war is hell they certainly aren't doing it.
As opposed to buying a phone that does not require a vulnerability the size of a small country to do what you need it to do in the first place.
Besides, these kinds of vulnerabilities can be exploited by anybody, not just the 'good' hackers and the 'bad' hackers, but potentially the government you so fear as well. So no, unless the jailbreak fixes the vulnerability (I highly doubt it), you haven't gained any safety at all.
First of all these numbers directly contradict the numbers presented a few weeks ago that only 20% of Android users would buy another Android phone.
Seems you missed the correction then. Short version: 20% of *all* smartphone owners (iPhone, BB, WinMo, etc) said their next phone was going to be from Google.
If you wanted "Open" and "Good", you should've gone and bought an Android phone rather than download some random hack to turn an iPhone into a half-arsed imitation.
I read a bunch of replies, yet none of them seem to address the biggest issue with electric cars: they are impractical, and will never be efficient. The electricity must be generated at a pollution gain, and energy loss. The electricity must be stored, again at a loss. The energy is a third-hand energy. Generated, stored, and used. Gasoline at least cuts out the middle man, by allowing fairly direct use of the energy of burned fuel.
Yeah, the laws of Thermodynamics are kind of a bitch. But then again, so are the laws of supply and demand, which are the main problem of gasoline. We're running out of dead dinos and it's kind of a long wait to make more, you know?
The best pursuit out there is that of a hydrogen powered vehicle, that runs with water as it's fuel. The hydrogen could be produced on the fly, with small quantities stored.
And spend it... how, exactly? burning it? that'd be stupid in so many ways I can't even count them all. And I may be a bit of a pessimist but I don't think we'll have cold fusion on our cars for at *least* a century, and oil certainly ain't gonna last that long.
Silverlight *is* cross-platform, the problem is the website in question is sniffing out OSes other than Windows and OSX/Intel, which is stupid but not a technical problem, lest of all Moonlight's.
...a lot about the usability of the iPhone OS - obviously it offers something fundamentally different in online experience and usability than the other smartphone environments.
Fundamentally different and inferior compared to other Verizon smartphones, you mean?
So you pay Apple for the privilege of downloading some hack from a random website so you can pay Cydia, all to end up with a half-arsed Android phone? why?
In some parts of the world (or even in some communities in 1st world nation), they'd be more likely to resort to "honour killing" the sister.
And many others will simply denounce the sister as "no longer part of [his] family", which avoids the bloodbath but doesn't solve the underlying discrimination either.
They almost certainly are, or at least their R&D division. Whether Marketing will ever be clever enough to monetize them rather than leave them as nothing but a cool "proof of concept" to avoid hurting their Windows/Office cashcows, however, is another question.
Contrary to popular opinion (and what one may expect having used IE), Microsoft has a lot of very, very intelligent people working for them. The problem is in their leadership, and unfortunately I don't mean just Monkey Boy by that. Microsoft as a company is simply not designed to keep at the forefront of technology, even if they're capable of it.
"Information wants to be free" *is* about free-as-in-beer, the phrase is a catchy way of saying "as time goes on the cost of distributing information tends towards zero and, therefore, so does the cost of its acquisition", essentially Capitalism 101 taken to the digital era.
It's a bit ridiculous and oversimplified, but as an example consider the relationship between Vader and Luke: if you wanted to know *before* Star Wars Ep 5's release, you had to bribe someone working with George Lucas to read the script and tell you. If you wanted to know on release day, you had to pay for your ticket. If you wanted to know two days later, you had to ask any of your geeky friends. And if you wanted to know two weeks afterwards, you only had to be alive and breathing.
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You should really try Sword of the Stars then, its 3D galaxy, the variety of travelling methods for each race and the changes that bring to the gameplay are its major selling points IMHO. It is, however, heavily oriented towards warfare, I don't think there's even a diplomatic victory in the game which is why I don't play it so much as I prefer to play researchers rather than conquerors on these kinds of games.
It's a pity you couldn't get into GalCiv2 though, it's a great game particularly in its diplomacy and research aspects though the flatness of the map also surprised me at first, and I can see how one wouldn't like the game because of it.
Imagine a square whose sides are 1, and whose diagonal is also 1. That's what "a different value of Pi" is like.
Is Apple contributing back to Webkit good for Apple customers only?
No, but if they hadn't a legal obligation to do so by virtue of the GPL, the WebKit project would likely be as "lively" as Darwin.
What about the pressure Jobs has put on the music industry to allow DRM-free online music sales?
*What* pressure? all I saw was pressure from Amazon to make Apple back down from their DRM, Apple seemed quite content with it 'til then, meaningless press releases notwithstanding.
What about the competitive pressure on the other big industry players, particularly Microsoft - do you think Windows 7 would be what it is now if Apple had quietly died around 1998/1999?
Yeah, I do. Better, even. Besides, I don't see how is it relevant either: Microsoft's IE takeover isn't any nicer because it decreased the costs of web browsers to zero, they're still a piece of scum for abusing contract law in such a manner. For better or worse, what other people do in response to you is irrelevant, only what you personally do should weigh against you, and since Apple wrote zero code for Windows 7, whatever good or ill it represents is meaningless.
Mildly off-topic, but have you tried Galactic Civilizations 2 from Stardock? plot-wise it's not as intelligent as Alpha Centauri (no game is), but in every other respect it was an incredible game, and more than good enough to satisfy my needs for a "Civ in space!" and make me forget about a potential SMAC 2.
You played Diablo II even though you had already played the first one?
Same thing.
Because iPhones are lacking in both performance and net access compared to even a low-end Windows machine, so they're mostly useless for botnets.
And you really need a reality check if you think iOS is anywhere *near* the biggest mobile OS.
I'm not being snarky here. But I am thinking that the answer to the question "Why not zero spaces?" would be "Because that would make it harder to read".
Same answer as to "why not four spaces?". The ideal should obviously lie in the middle, then, it just so happens that for some it's "two" while for others it's "one".
I wonder, then, whether I'm particularly brilliant or incredibly stupid, but for me double spacing makes a document significantly harder to read rather than the other way around. It makes my brain parse each line as a paragraph of its own, with terrible effects on my reading comprehension and speed.
Really? I've yet to see large crowds walking out of a war movie before it ends, so if they're *capable* of showing that war is hell they certainly aren't doing it.
We also use our sense of smell in the real world, but we all know how *that* turned out.
As opposed to buying a phone that does not require a vulnerability the size of a small country to do what you need it to do in the first place.
Besides, these kinds of vulnerabilities can be exploited by anybody, not just the 'good' hackers and the 'bad' hackers, but potentially the government you so fear as well. So no, unless the jailbreak fixes the vulnerability (I highly doubt it), you haven't gained any safety at all.
First of all these numbers directly contradict the numbers presented a few weeks ago that only 20% of Android users would buy another Android phone.
Seems you missed the correction then. Short version: 20% of *all* smartphone owners (iPhone, BB, WinMo, etc) said their next phone was going to be from Google.
I love seeing how Apple fanboys twist and bend the truth to make their beloved company look good.
If you wanted "Open" and "Good", you should've gone and bought an Android phone rather than download some random hack to turn an iPhone into a half-arsed imitation.
I read a bunch of replies, yet none of them seem to address the biggest issue with electric cars: they are impractical, and will never be efficient. The electricity must be generated at a pollution gain, and energy loss. The electricity must be stored, again at a loss. The energy is a third-hand energy. Generated, stored, and used. Gasoline at least cuts out the middle man, by allowing fairly direct use of the energy of burned fuel.
Yeah, the laws of Thermodynamics are kind of a bitch. But then again, so are the laws of supply and demand, which are the main problem of gasoline. We're running out of dead dinos and it's kind of a long wait to make more, you know?
The best pursuit out there is that of a hydrogen powered vehicle, that runs with water as it's fuel. The hydrogen could be produced on the fly, with small quantities stored.
And spend it... how, exactly? burning it? that'd be stupid in so many ways I can't even count them all. And I may be a bit of a pessimist but I don't think we'll have cold fusion on our cars for at *least* a century, and oil certainly ain't gonna last that long.
It's Europe we're talking about, they don't have the fucked up public transportation and city planning schemes you have in the US.
If you can only think of one, you haven't been paying attention.
Silverlight *is* cross-platform, the problem is the website in question is sniffing out OSes other than Windows and OSX/Intel, which is stupid but not a technical problem, lest of all Moonlight's.
...a lot about the usability of the iPhone OS - obviously it offers something fundamentally different in online experience and usability than the other smartphone environments.
Fundamentally different and inferior compared to other Verizon smartphones, you mean?
So you pay Apple for the privilege of downloading some hack from a random website so you can pay Cydia, all to end up with a half-arsed Android phone? why?
In some parts of the world (or even in some communities in 1st world nation), they'd be more likely to resort to "honour killing" the sister.
And many others will simply denounce the sister as "no longer part of [his] family", which avoids the bloodbath but doesn't solve the underlying discrimination either.
Read the description you gave yourself, the goods in question don't necessarily have to be controlled by the government, therefore the GP is correct.
Should they not be working on the next big thing?
They almost certainly are, or at least their R&D division. Whether Marketing will ever be clever enough to monetize them rather than leave them as nothing but a cool "proof of concept" to avoid hurting their Windows/Office cashcows, however, is another question.
Contrary to popular opinion (and what one may expect having used IE), Microsoft has a lot of very, very intelligent people working for them. The problem is in their leadership, and unfortunately I don't mean just Monkey Boy by that. Microsoft as a company is simply not designed to keep at the forefront of technology, even if they're capable of it.
"Information wants to be free" *is* about free-as-in-beer, the phrase is a catchy way of saying "as time goes on the cost of distributing information tends towards zero and, therefore, so does the cost of its acquisition", essentially Capitalism 101 taken to the digital era.
It's a bit ridiculous and oversimplified, but as an example consider the relationship between Vader and Luke: if you wanted to know *before* Star Wars Ep 5's release, you had to bribe someone working with George Lucas to read the script and tell you. If you wanted to know on release day, you had to pay for your ticket. If you wanted to know two days later, you had to ask any of your geeky friends. And if you wanted to know two weeks afterwards, you only had to be alive and breathing.
He didn't say "from", he said "with", therefore it is still true.
But honestly, this is a fairly stupid discussion on semantics if you ask me. The OP's meaning was clear and valid, and that's all that should matter.