You wrote: "It's not the hardware, it's the GNU/Linux software. And just because it doesn't succeed doesn't mean it isn't the best available from the perspectives of people who'd like a GNU/Linux computer in their pocket.".
Do you really believe GNU/Linux software will bring Nokia back to top? I don't think so. I've been using Linux since 1998 and I love Linux, but I can't come up with any more than a handful of Linux applications that I'd actually want to run on my cellphone.
I find your lack of imagination disturbing.
But a lot of the time you don't need that much juice. Any 3D hardware has the power to run something with the complexity of the original GLQuake, for example. Most game developers aren't after staggering graphical performance. They just need hardware that will draw a few textured objects.
Maybe Droid developers. Meanwhile, the big studios are targetting the iPhone.
There is no such thing as a slow language.
There are only slow implementations.
Forget about batch files, unless all they do is launch better tools and nothing else.
There are many alternatives. You could go with Python, Perl, Powershell or, if you want it really really simple, small and powerful, use Lua. Package it with the app and people won't even notice it's there.
Plus, you can start it up with an one-line batch file, if you want that nostalgic feeling.
419eater is a poor excuse for racism: a photo gallery of blacks in a culture completely apart from our own being humiliated for our amusement. This is about as effective in stopping scam e-mails as the odd characters at perverted-justice are at stopping "grooming" of kids.
Just because most of these scams originate from Nigeria and other african countries. People from the african subcontinent tend do be... black. You do the math.
What, you expected to see a gallery of busty nordic women?
And X-Com reverse-engineered alien craft.
Master chief was 147 wasn't he? So not quite? they need to name it after the guy who created the Xcom series, cos now we can goto Mars and bash some ethereals
That's what I thought, then I remembered the element is Elerium 115, not 117.
Yes, we should suspend belief from the world around us. But not from the world around the friggin movie.
Granted, it might be possible to design a virus for alien computer systems. Maybe if we spent a lifetime studying them we just might be able to compile a Hello World. Now, to do that in less than a day, bypassing whatever countermeasures they may have, with the assistance of people who had an alien ship for decades and couldn't figure it out... if you don't call that a stretch, I'm not sure what it is.
Yes, Linux distributions will release new packages.
*Because* Windows has no packages, it can't do the same.
So you are seriously arguing that those huge downloads from Microsoft are actually binary diffs? They are not.
Such as... aliens?
You had him *replace* a harddrive because of malware?
Gravitic propulsion, allowing us to build UFOs.
I predict it will be called Elerium.
Wouldn't making your plane or missile shiny / reflective defeat these things pretty easily?
... one cannot have 100% EM and thermal resists.
HOLY MACRO!