Including a few next-gen operating systems. Having actually been a part of the hobbyist operating-system community, let me question this statement. How many open-source (or even closed source?) programmers are writing "next-generation" OSs with genuinely new designs, and how many are re-implementing Unix/POSIX/Linux with a few small esoteric modifications that make their "new" system perform better in a few ways while not actually changing the overall design of the system?
It truly is a pity that Bell Labs took so damned long to open-source Plan 9, or we might have seen some real competition in the OS arena.
Actually, I more meant that people who don't understand that a Windows game won't run on Linux (at least not in the traditional "Insert Disc, Install, Play" style) are retards.
And rather than refute my point that users are often too stupid and/or ignorant to tell the difference between a Windows logo and a Linux one, you've simply told me my mind is closed.
Meanwhile, when is the last time you swapped your hair strands around with the purpose of installing new hardware? The last time I jacked into the Matrix, you insensitive clod!
Well that's the thing. Doping is using the drug without a prescription. I'm a diagnosed ADHD, and I can tell you it's a real condition. Now, I've been lucky. Most of my college work has been interesting enough to keep me concentrating decently (though I haven't seen my grades for the semester), and I hate the mood effects of my prescribed stimulants (they make you very serious and irritable, while I'm normally intense but humorous and happy). So I normally don't take the drugs my doctor gives me for my condition.
But I damn well don't think anyone who doesn't need those drugs for a condition should take them to get ahead of everyone else. That's intolerably selfish, and it's the reason I refuse to sell my unused pills even though I could make a pretty good income from them.
If they didn't grade on a curve they'd have to fire half their teachers for incompetence.
Sincerely, College Freshman who will only do well in CS201 because of curving because the administration assigned their incompetent bitch (as in "my bitch", "person who I fuck over") of a prof to teach the course.
You know, you're right. All software EULAs are bullshit. I'm going to go sell a closed-source version of Linux for an immense profit. Thanks for the inspiration!
Posting from my Macbook Pro, Eli
P.S. -- It was the best value for my dollar. No, really.
it was way easier to get a real girlfriend then porn when i was growing up. You know, I think that may have something to do with the prevalence of pornography! I don't mean the ability to obtain porn in comparison to a real girlfriend, rather I mean the difficulty of obtaining a real girlfriend now to a real girlfriend when you were 14.
So leave us young-uns to our bitter virginity, please, we've no need to hear your smug ranting.
Haven't you ever at least seen parodies of 1950's sitcoms? Americans, French and Polish were every bit as authoritarian in the home as the Germans of the time, despite living in non-fascist states.
Actually, American kids don't learn about sex from hard-core pornography. They learn about it from fooling around with other un/mis-informed children while drunk. This explains some of the otherwise peculiar sexual mores among young people.
That being my point. You can get a developers' preview without the final hardware specs or the software and hardware polish necessary for an end user (rather than a fairly skilled Linux and embedded-hardware hacker) to make phone calls with their new Neo. That's 100% of why both projects will probably fail: I can convince my mother to buy a laptop with Ubuntu Linux on it and virtualize the Windoze software she needs, but I can't get an OpenMoko phone or a Pandora handheld that even the most unscrupulous marketing department will call "consumer-ready" because the people on those latter two projects want to hack rather than release a product, whereas when users have problems, Ubuntu has problems. These are two entirely different attitudes that create two entirely different outcomes.
I love the idea, but I think it will end up like the OpenMoko: a few developer's prototypes with a notice on the website saying that consumer models will be ready Real Soon Now.
Actually, threaded tabs makes a browser immensely more responsive when one of my tabs contains a text document, one contains a Wikipedia page with pictures, and the last is trying to load some godawful "Web 2.0" page that needs to talk to a server and then do 30 seconds of computation on my machine just to show me fucking blog comments.
I'm posting from Safari right now because Firefox, without threaded tabs, allows that one asshole of a "web application" developer to brake my entire damned window to a halt.
I was really thinking more in terms of the "barrier to entry", like you said. Any idiots can form a garage band nowadays that will actually play a few performances before someone notifies them of how badly they suck, so why do they play Guitar Hero instead? Because "real guitars are for old people"?
On the other hand, very few people ever get to seriously take up a sport. I can understand why someone would want to pretend they made it to the NFL, whereas pretending to play guitar at some random party seems much more like being too lazy to learn to really play guitar at some random party.
Then again, being a dancer with good speaking and singing voices, I guess I may have underestimated the level of inborn talent needed to form a competent musical group.
And, finally, I just generally have a bias against any video game that doesn't violate the known rules of reality six ways before breakfast. In video games I want to fly, shoot things, find magical items I'll only use for one dungeon, kill giant turtles, save the world due to convoluted prophecies, and run at speeds only achievable in real life by finely tuned automobiles, not throw a goddamned virtual ball around!
Here's a question to help resolve the dispute: have archaeologists ever mistaken a human-made structure for naturally occurring due to age?
Plenty of reliable observers may have seen Biblical events happen (for example, the entire People of Israel supposedly lived through the Exodus) and recorded (what later became?) the Bible as their written account of what they saw. Our problem is being so far removed from the original observer(s) that we can no longer judge that veracity of their observations with any objectivity, since things like God smiting the Egyptians or humans building a huge pyramidal temple only occur once.
And all the best-selling games are mere simplified simulations of things people could do in real life if they dedicated enough time, effort and money to it.
DDR, Guitar Hero, The Sims, Rock Band... I'll give sports games an exception since you really need inborn talent and/or steroids to really play professional or even college-level sports.
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It truly is a pity that Bell Labs took so damned long to open-source Plan 9, or we might have seen some real competition in the OS arena.
Actually, I more meant that people who don't understand that a Windows game won't run on Linux (at least not in the traditional "Insert Disc, Install, Play" style) are retards.
And rather than refute my point that users are often too stupid and/or ignorant to tell the difference between a Windows logo and a Linux one, you've simply told me my mind is closed.
Nice refutation.
Oh, dear. I've said too much.
Because users are retards.
So what you're saying is that the science isn't getting done? And we're not making a neat gun? And the people aren't even still alive?!
Oh Holy One of Blessed Name, we have to increase funding to the NIH!
With "Nights: Journey of Dreams" making a 75/100 on Metacritic, I'm going to have it the overlooked gaming disappointment of 2007.
Well that's the thing. Doping is using the drug without a prescription. I'm a diagnosed ADHD, and I can tell you it's a real condition. Now, I've been lucky. Most of my college work has been interesting enough to keep me concentrating decently (though I haven't seen my grades for the semester), and I hate the mood effects of my prescribed stimulants (they make you very serious and irritable, while I'm normally intense but humorous and happy). So I normally don't take the drugs my doctor gives me for my condition.
But I damn well don't think anyone who doesn't need those drugs for a condition should take them to get ahead of everyone else. That's intolerably selfish, and it's the reason I refuse to sell my unused pills even though I could make a pretty good income from them.
If they didn't grade on a curve they'd have to fire half their teachers for incompetence.
Sincerely,
College Freshman who will only do well in CS201 because of curving because the administration assigned their incompetent bitch (as in "my bitch", "person who I fuck over") of a prof to teach the course.
You know, you're right. All software EULAs are bullshit. I'm going to go sell a closed-source version of Linux for an immense profit. Thanks for the inspiration!
Posting from my Macbook Pro,
Eli
P.S. -- It was the best value for my dollar. No, really.
So leave us young-uns to our bitter virginity, please, we've no need to hear your smug ranting.
Haven't you ever at least seen parodies of 1950's sitcoms? Americans, French and Polish were every bit as authoritarian in the home as the Germans of the time, despite living in non-fascist states.
Unless he has Mr. Rogers to protect him.
ULTIMATE SHOWDOWN OF ULTIMATE DESTINY!
Actually, American kids don't learn about sex from hard-core pornography. They learn about it from fooling around with other un/mis-informed children while drunk. This explains some of the otherwise peculiar sexual mores among young people.
That being my point. You can get a developers' preview without the final hardware specs or the software and hardware polish necessary for an end user (rather than a fairly skilled Linux and embedded-hardware hacker) to make phone calls with their new Neo. That's 100% of why both projects will probably fail: I can convince my mother to buy a laptop with Ubuntu Linux on it and virtualize the Windoze software she needs, but I can't get an OpenMoko phone or a Pandora handheld that even the most unscrupulous marketing department will call "consumer-ready" because the people on those latter two projects want to hack rather than release a product, whereas when users have problems, Ubuntu has problems. These are two entirely different attitudes that create two entirely different outcomes.
I love the idea, but I think it will end up like the OpenMoko: a few developer's prototypes with a notice on the website saying that consumer models will be ready Real Soon Now.
So I guess we can't have a "Moses" chip until we build AI to predict the stock market?
Someday he'll save Earth with deadly lasers instead of deadly slideshows.
I'm just waiting for the one that lets my people go.
No, really. Intel's got a bunch of us trapped in here designing their new processors! Help, there's a turre___________
NOTHING TO SEE HERE. PLEASE MOVE ALONG, AND THERE WILL BE CAKE.
Right, except not as vaporous.
And yet my desktop from 2001 remains operational with 128MB of RAM, and even ran Firefox 1.0 quite snappily.
"Lean, mean and extensible" has always given us the best software and always will.
Actually, threaded tabs makes a browser immensely more responsive when one of my tabs contains a text document, one contains a Wikipedia page with pictures, and the last is trying to load some godawful "Web 2.0" page that needs to talk to a server and then do 30 seconds of computation on my machine just to show me fucking blog comments.
I'm posting from Safari right now because Firefox, without threaded tabs, allows that one asshole of a "web application" developer to brake my entire damned window to a halt.
I was really thinking more in terms of the "barrier to entry", like you said. Any idiots can form a garage band nowadays that will actually play a few performances before someone notifies them of how badly they suck, so why do they play Guitar Hero instead? Because "real guitars are for old people"?
On the other hand, very few people ever get to seriously take up a sport. I can understand why someone would want to pretend they made it to the NFL, whereas pretending to play guitar at some random party seems much more like being too lazy to learn to really play guitar at some random party.
Then again, being a dancer with good speaking and singing voices, I guess I may have underestimated the level of inborn talent needed to form a competent musical group.
And, finally, I just generally have a bias against any video game that doesn't violate the known rules of reality six ways before breakfast. In video games I want to fly, shoot things, find magical items I'll only use for one dungeon, kill giant turtles, save the world due to convoluted prophecies, and run at speeds only achievable in real life by finely tuned automobiles, not throw a goddamned virtual ball around!
Here's a question to help resolve the dispute: have archaeologists ever mistaken a human-made structure for naturally occurring due to age?
Plenty of reliable observers may have seen Biblical events happen (for example, the entire People of Israel supposedly lived through the Exodus) and recorded (what later became?) the Bible as their written account of what they saw. Our problem is being so far removed from the original observer(s) that we can no longer judge that veracity of their observations with any objectivity, since things like God smiting the Egyptians or humans building a huge pyramidal temple only occur once.
And all the best-selling games are mere simplified simulations of things people could do in real life if they dedicated enough time, effort and money to it.
DDR, Guitar Hero, The Sims, Rock Band... I'll give sports games an exception since you really need inborn talent and/or steroids to really play professional or even college-level sports.