I think congratulations are in order for Bennett Haselton. This is the first time he's written anything where people have made an attempt to reply on topic.

It's still a worthless load of drivel but there's actual discussion happening. I will put this down to an accident or Slashdot users not RTFS like usual. But to restore balance to the world: Fuck Bennett Haselton, this is not your personal blog.

And what happens when the police departments show complete disinterest to your problem?
Seriously in some regards screw em. I've been robbed and then told by the police that they won't investigate because I'm covered by insurance anyway. Then I see them standing by the road side spending all their time making sure people don't drive more than 1km/h over the speed limit.

Police departments are great when they work, but often they don't. If someone tries to stab me and I get away, I'd go to the police. If someone hurts my feelings online I'll try to get revenge online.

And the XP to vista, to windows 7 interface changed in what meaningful way?

Really you're arguing semantics here, but the reality is that Windows and OSX have always provided a more consistent UI which was only ever broken in Windows 8 and that Linux has always provided more choice.

I'm not saying that this is good or bad. This just is. And in a thread that started talking about UI consistency, claiming the opposite, then claiming choice, then claiming to Google things, then claiming the time span between Gnome 2 and Gnome 3 ignoring the changes between 2.1 2.2. 2.3 and 2.4 were more significant than the changes between XP and Vista, and 7, is not really making a strong case.

You don't bring your towel in. The man running the show does.

Where did i bathe? Public saunas in Finnland.

The sauna master.

I meant with DRMs like (film/movie)s from retail stores. :)

Seeing what Microsoft has done in the last years and how the amrket is going , they will almost certainly go for the following :

* subscription based, forget the 15$ or whatever you paid for minecraft, they will ask 1$99 every month.
* separate set and special mods which allows more than color/form only microsoft, and only for money
* everybody else relegated to basic coloring, texture and form mod, no "command" block type mod adding new function.
* not possible anymore to have your independent server. After all you could do some stuff which would tarnish the image of MC2.0 "microsoft". And there is the money from the server subscription, like 20$ a month.
* API even more obsfucated than for MC 1.0, but with DMCA take down if you deobsfucate it and attempt to add your own command mod
* going away from Java


Yeah i am quite a cynic.

Perhaps you should try actually thinking instead of pounding your chest to the tune of the Star Spangled Banner? MLK publicly addressed unjust laws by being punished in a manner that was clearly unjust. If Snowden is punished, it will be hidden from the public and over laws that are effectively secret from the people. Also, had he not run, we likely wouldn't have been able to get as much press. You should be far more concerned that the NSA is insane, stupid, and practically unchecked in their power, instead of complaining that Snowden didn't follow the MLK edition of the Civil Disobedience handbook to the letter.

if this were reversed, and he was a Russian citizen disclosing the abuse of Russian spy agencies, do you think he would even be alive for a trial? Now, what makes you think that our spies are any less evil?

When you consider that OS/X (the official for-consumer release) turns 14 years old this month, we are quickly approaching the point that Macs have used file extensions for longer than they haven't (strange to think, I agree).

This is not about how your own application react to a file. this is how the operating system *does*. There is a convention in the operating system, particularly windows, that a .gif will be tried to be displayed as a picture and a .html as a web page. Your application may *chose* to interpret it as music for all we care, but the operating system will react by default as described.

This is why displaying and showing this is an executable is important. Although nowadays the windows operating system should warn you you are about to run an executable.

It was initially intended to use Tachy-tech(TM) but despite the incredible speed boosts, they were unable to deal with the issue of all frames being rendered 1.47 microseconds in the past.

Kickstarter is not an investment platform. It is an open funding platform. You have no stake in the final product and no recourse when it fails to deliver.

Actually it is quite easy.... if you know what you're doing.

I'm reading his story and it reads like someone who wanted the earth and didn't know that it costs money. The fundamental product design sounds quite easy, but then looking at the funky case design... yep that looks like it would be fun to injection mold. Look through some of the sob stories, change in design because the LCD panel they used became obsolete. So someone designed something based around a part that they didn't check was lifecycled? Upgrade of a processor because they wanted to draw the interface? And the final product has a $300 BOM? It certainly doesn't look like it.

I think the news is that product design is hard when you have no idea what you're doing.

You sir are an idiot, and as is anyone who modded you up.