> I see your AR-15 and raise you an M-1 Tank

Marine infantrymen are trained how to disable tanks. They are aren't armed with much beyond the AR-15.

Also, that bit about anti-Pascal criticisms being outdated or due to the "wrong implementation" pretty much destroys any idea that it would be superior for "cross platform" development. The excuses for those misconceptions show why Pascal would have a hard time being useful for "cross platform" purposes.

What subset of "modern Pascal" do you have to restrict yourself to avoid those "problems".

Get back under your bridge... troll.

If the technique weren't different, there would be no reason for the industry to astroturf over it. There would be no motivation for them to use you as a corporate tool.

The idea that the markets for every other concievable consumer product should be turned into the PC upgrade treadmill from the 90s is hardly a selling point.

That bullsh*t isn't even tolerable on PCs now anymore.

People got tired of it. I doubt anyone wants a return of that crap.

Much like the music industry, video needs format churn to fuel unsustainable growth.

The industry already has a problem convincing people that they need HD. A lot of people don't have the enthusiast sorts of setups where it would really matter. Or rather, most people don't.

A lot of people are skipping 3D too.

The industry got fat off of a forced technology switch. They were on the gravy train for awhile and don't want to go back. It never occured to them that they were experiencing an unsustainable bubble.

Now they want to throw all sorts of nonsense at us in a desperate attempt to keep the gravy train rolling.

Anyone with a space where they can mount a projector will be in a decent enough position to see an improvement with 4K.

Everyone else, not so much.

4K probably needs a media format to get off the ground. The extra bandwidth required for a 4K broadcast is probably a problem for most cable systems. The extra bandwidth required for streaming will VERY likely be a problem.

Streaming already has to make severe compromises as is.

Although most people probably don't have viewing setups that would benefit from 4K. Many don't have setups that benefit from BD even.

No it isn't. As a Unix MacOS is pretty unrecognizable once you scratch the surface. It's not really a Unix. It's just that the "certification" is so low level that it allows for a level of inconsistency that no Apple fanboy would tolerate (unless it's an Apple product).

Really MacOS is only a Unix for marketing purposes. It's not something that Apple (or the cult) actually wants exposed to the masses. It's just something to tick off the checklist and to point to when Windows and Linux users snicker.

"No. We're not really the product that panders to morons. It's a Unix and everything."

The argument is not stupid. A lot of us actually use multiple Unixen and view the notion that MacOS is one too to be laughable.

> Why do that? Chromebook is already running Linux,

CUPS.

I don't have any interest in every little thing I do on my home network being tied to the Google collective. The same arguments for leaving ChromeOS can be applied equally to removing it and replacing it with Linux.

The term Linux becomes a problem as soon as there is a different user land bolted on top of it. Once Android became popular, the problem of conflating GNU with Linux finally became more than just an academic exercise.

GNU tools were popular before the rise of Linux. They were popular even on non-Unix operating systems. That's the nature of something you are free to recompile anywhere.

The fact that something is Linux/but-not-GNU matters when you try to do something with it not supported but commonplace with Linux/that-is-actually-GNU.

That's kind of what this whole article is about: those of us that get disgusted with ChromeOS and install a proper Linux.

No. It's much easier to just start up Steam.

Ditto for dusting off something like Sim City 3000, Kohan, or CivCTP.

> "fully supported" laptop without any binary blob

You lost me right there. You're already on a religious crusade here. Getting it to work is clearly a distant goal for you. So anything else you have to say on the matter is somewhat suspect.

Dark Horse adapted the Star Wars 1st draft script into a comic miniseries. It really does put things into perspective.

> I agree. IMO the complaints about the prequels were fueled primarily by nostalgia about the original movies

It's useful to note that The Phantom Menace managed to NOT win the Oscar for special effects that year. It's especially glaring when you're standing in the theater at ILM looking over at R2-D2 wondering why it's not on their little list. It's absence is conspicuous.

It wasn't on that list because The Matrix got the Oscar that year.