See, the problem with that statement is that most people nowadays who have large sums of money got that money by saving and investing rather than flashing cash to attract women.
Oh please. Most of those "bad-boys" don't know the meaning of "bad". Most of them have honestly never done anything worse than drink underage or suffered anything worse than a suspension from high school.
Oh please. If anyone wanted to, they could modify a Linux distribution to boot up and display a Python interpreter running in a console on top of X on a whim.
Heck, why hasn't that been done? Right, because adults see no value in such a thing.
OK, so to repeat my question: If Quartz is so great, how come there's no effort on an open-source version? Is it really that much trouble to code up what is essentially a Postscript renderer-to-the-framebuffer with input capabilities?
Also, feeling that you could have been a Kwisatz Haderach were it not for stupifying schools is probably true. Thanks for that phrase. I just thought of Mr. Mackey (the school health teacher and counselor from South Park) lecturing a class of Arrakeen children, "The spice is bad, mmkay?"
3) Apply the EVIL OVERLORD LIST to the villian, thus removing idiotic mistakes that no person would make.
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16) NO MORE DEUS EX MACHINA CRAP! Don't start a murder mystery with 8 suspects then in the last 3 pages throw in someone out of nowhere to be the killer without explaination, backstory, foreshadowing, etc. No more wizards at the last minute, gods showing up, etc. Or combine these two to comedic effect as the player wonders through time and space, fucking history to hell, but when they reach the end of the story (their personal timeline), The Doctor shows up, aborts the player as a baby, and thereby fixes everything.
Listen Mr. AC, I know you spotted my name and thought, "Let's put his ethnicity on the list!", but unless you're in Israel no CS department is 85% Jewish. Chinese and Indians are the only ones that common in America.
The only reason more people of that background were getting caught is because they represented 85% of the population in the department - the overall percentage of them that were cheating was actually LOWER than others. I hate to ask, but: Indians or Chinese?
one of the things I love is the progressive egalitarianism prevalent in the thinking classes; Announce at any formal social function that you are religious/believe in astrology/are pro-life/etc., and watch as the rest of the room politely get as far away from you as possible. Brilliant So basically they're tolerant of everyone except those who disagree with their political opinions? BRILLIANT!
I'm very sorry to say this, but when was the last time you even compiled X.org yourself (ie: with no assistance from a package manager, from scratch)? It's a nightmare!
Unfortunately, it would take several months to a year to train new coders in how to read and modify the X.org code-base. Most of us admit that we don't have that kind of time.
But then again, I'm not the one complaining about a missed release date when my current version works just fine.
Finally, X just fucking sucks as a windowing system. Let's ditch it for an open-source copy of Quartz.
I've always wondered why nobody makes the slightest effort to produce on open-source OSX clone (or at least an open-source clone of Quartz, Aqua, and the Core APIs, given that Darwin is already OSS), especially since Apple won't license OSX to run on normal PCs.
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Since when would Arabs call Mizrachi Jews Arab?
BOTH. It's a loaded political statement that only dumbasses and Israelis have cause to care about.
See, the problem with that statement is that most people nowadays who have large sums of money got that money by saving and investing rather than flashing cash to attract women.
Oh please. Most of those "bad-boys" don't know the meaning of "bad". Most of them have honestly never done anything worse than drink underage or suffered anything worse than a suspension from high school.
Oh please. If anyone wanted to, they could modify a Linux distribution to boot up and display a Python interpreter running in a console on top of X on a whim.
Heck, why hasn't that been done? Right, because adults see no value in such a thing.
That's your way of telling me to stop posting on Slashdot, isn't it ;-)?
OK, so to repeat my question: If Quartz is so great, how come there's no effort on an open-source version? Is it really that much trouble to code up what is essentially a Postscript renderer-to-the-framebuffer with input capabilities?
Except that in that case a student who maintains an A average the whole time gets no award.
What about the loudmouthed guy who also gets his work done on time and well?
You're in Europe. There are places worth going less than a mile away from you, as opposed to patented Amurkin "Nothin' But Houses For a Mile Around".
Where I come from we call that "keeping your customers addicted".
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16) NO MORE DEUS EX MACHINA CRAP! Don't start a murder mystery with 8 suspects then in the last 3 pages throw in someone out of nowhere to be the killer without explaination, backstory, foreshadowing, etc. No more wizards at the last minute, gods showing up, etc. Or combine these two to comedic effect as the player wonders through time and space, fucking history to hell, but when they reach the end of the story (their personal timeline), The Doctor shows up, aborts the player as a baby, and thereby fixes everything.
Listen Mr. AC, I know you spotted my name and thought, "Let's put his ethnicity on the list!", but unless you're in Israel no CS department is 85% Jewish. Chinese and Indians are the only ones that common in America.
They'll just send back a screenshot from "Revenge of the Nerds".
Also: Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
Mind you, I just friended you for that statement.
Good point, actually. I forgot that the protocol implementations don't share code.
Or maybe hard-working commercial corporations like... uh... Apple?
I'm very sorry to say this, but when was the last time you even compiled X.org yourself (ie: with no assistance from a package manager, from scratch)? It's a nightmare!
Unfortunately, it would take several months to a year to train new coders in how to read and modify the X.org code-base. Most of us admit that we don't have that kind of time.
But then again, I'm not the one complaining about a missed release date when my current version works just fine.
Finally, X just fucking sucks as a windowing system. Let's ditch it for an open-source copy of Quartz.
I've always wondered why nobody makes the slightest effort to produce on open-source OSX clone (or at least an open-source clone of Quartz, Aqua, and the Core APIs, given that Darwin is already OSS), especially since Apple won't license OSX to run on normal PCs.
Thank you, Slashdot, for modding this poster +1, Funny instead of taking him seriously as Digg or Reddit leftards would have.