You cannot blame the OS for a game company's choices.
Well, it's not fair, but yes you can, and people do. "Linux sucks because I can't play my favorite game on it." There you go, Linux blamed for a game company's choice.
The problem with alternative apps like acrobat->gimp is that ultimately software is a tool (and so are some users
Professional use, I'd absolutely agree. I don't think Gimp is on Photoshop's level at all (though people did tend to call it a "Photoshop alternative" - I think that there may have been some truth to that when Gimp was new - when there weren't a lot of apps out there that did the simpler jobs one tended to associate with Photoshop. These days, free image editors of Gimp's caliber are a lot more common, and Photoshop goes beyond that in a number of ways.
But I think that for the majority of users, an app on Gimp's level is enough.
Kudos on the Macross signature.
Eh, "Micronians" is a Robotech-ism, though... In Macross it's "Miclone" (micro/clone)
Short and easy to spell? Agamemnon, Odysseus, Triptolemus, Hephaestus, Anesidora, Prometheus, Cytherea, Persephone, Pausanias, etc, etc.
I had Odysseus, Heracles, and Demeter as server names, but people kept misspelling them as "Ulysses", "Hercules", and "Ceres". It was a very frustrating situation.
Not true. We can also come up with My Little Pony names. I'll leave it up to you to decide whether that makes it better or worse.
Derpy Hooves! I want my workstation to be called Derpy Hooves!
A long time ago, I used star trek ships
That must be a frustrating naming convention, since all Star Trek ships are named "Enterprise"
Let me tell you, I tried this, and it really hasn't stood the test of time. In 1994 I set up a small network with names like "Homer", "Bart", and "Flanders" - nobody remembers those characters any more! People keep telling me to rename them "Peter", "Meg", and "Quagmire"... I don't know what that's all about, some old TV show that got cancelled years ago I think.
Sure. Unfortunately, due to budget cuts the local police cannot join the meeting.
That's OK. Batman has plenty of money.
No, these are bold-faced lies!.
But if you said that you are lying, then that statement is a lie, which means you speak the truth. But if you speak the truth then you are lying. But you cannot be lying because that would mean you speak the truth... ERROR -- ERROR -- NORMAN, PLEASE ASSIST....
the ipad is a AWESOME device or textbooks, reading about dinosaurs and having animations or being able to have interactive parts is incredibly cool.
Well, yes... except in this case the animation and interactivity parts would all be lies, because nobody has ever seen a dinosaur move, much less interacted with one.
For that matter, no one has seen a dinosaur in any form other than fossilized skeletal remains. All the illustration and sculpture we see featuring dinosaurs with flesh on them is also fiction. Even some of the assembled skeletons have turned out to be wrong. It's fiction based on our best reasoned guesses about how the animals probably looked, but fiction nonetheless.
If such fiction is well-reasoned, then it is not without value.
No, but if you rip out the battery it can make a great incendiary device.
Keep it up! There's no way this is ever getting old!
I'm kind of surprised nobody's mentioned this aspect, because it seems sort of obvious to me.
HP can make a *lot* of money selling for lack of a better term "open" tablets.
I am a bit skeptical about that... I mean, tinkerers can be very enthusiastic about a product that's fun to hack on - but there aren't necessarily enough of them to make it worth manufacturing a tablet for them...
The whole project lost its focus: Palm used to be a neat piece of software for a PDA. It was not bloated with a file system, with Flash, and with all this other junk that has become the primary focus of Apple.
I think it's worth bearing in mind that their OS design was a great fit for the kind of devices they could produce in the late 90s. These days, the capabilities of a handheld machine are a lot better, so what would have been "bloat" thirteen years ago is now pretty reasonable in terms of the functionality provided vs. the resources consumed.
>Using quoting syntax to provide commentary on what someone said instead of what they actually said
I guess that helps complete the illusion that you're on 4chan.
We have a equal opportunity Calculus class -- it's fully integrated.
