Because at least with EA's titles, there isn't another platform where the same title will perform any better in the first place. Presumably, with a QA-tested windows version compared to a released-without-any-testing Linux version, the latter version would presumably be inferior.

In my lifetime, there has never been a per minute cost of using a land-line phone in any region that I have ever lived, except for long distance calls, which I only very rarely make. I used to have per-minute billing on my cell phone, but have moved to a flat-rate fee per month on that as well, and have unlimited local calling, 24/7... just like the land line.

On a land-line phone, for instance, if you don't happen to use it during a billing cycle, you still pay the same amount that you do as you would if you were on the phone all of the time.

The electrons are unlimited, but it still takes power to maintain a potential difference that will cause the electrons to get pumped down the wire in the first place. That power is a finite resource.

Water. gas, and power are not telecommunications, the Internet is.

Ordinary phone usage isn't metered, for instance.

It only makes sense that they would only be available for those OSs since they are well defined and popular platforms

The exact same rationality can be applied to the games themselves.

My point being that if it is worth the effort to even create an export to linux facility, then it should also be worth the effort for the editor itself to run under linux. How is requiring Windows or a Mac to run the editor on what is supposed to be a development platform any better than requiring Windows or Mac to run the game in the first place?

If they can't set an example themselves that shows that supplying a Linux port for a product is worthwhile, then why the hell should I ever take them seriously about porting a game to Linux anyways?

Reasonably, it wouldn't.... even giving the religion in question the benefit of the doubt, a human soul is supposedly immortal, but there is no possible way for a machine soul, if it could even exist in the first place, to ever be so. If we knew how to take some aspect of our immortal essence to become the soul of the robot, then sure. But we don't... heck, a lot of people aren't even sure they even have a soul in the first place, so how the heck would we ever propose to give a robot one that would be equally immortal?

Comments like this leave one has to ask themselves why an integrated email client in the office suite should ever be critical for gaming to succeed on Linux.... because in terms of functionality, that's about the only difference between LibreOffice and MS Office.

the games may often refuse to run inside of a vm on account of the vm not simulating the necessary hardware.

Most big studios don't care about linux because it's too small of a market to waste any amount of time doing any QA on it... and shipping a title for a platform when it doesn't actually work on that platform, or has issues that nobody ever even bothered to check because they don't want to spend any time on QA for the platform is worse for the company's PR than not shipping the title for that platform in the first place.

I think it would help the platform take off even more if the editor itself worked under that platform. Last I heard, the editor required either windows or a mac to run.

Not all of the illustrations in the books that I read are necessarily full page, but most of the books that I read usually make at least a modest use of color to convey additional information that would not be anywhere remotely as clear if everything were in shades of grey... hell, even Stroustrup makes use of color to a limited extent, making browsing through the text for particular information that might not happen to be specifically indexed many times easier. Not every page is splashed with color, obviously, but where and when color is used, it is important that the information is being conveyed.

Of course... it's much easier to dismiss a demographic as being unimportant than it is to consider their points as having any merit, so your remark is actually entirely understandable... and probably the viewpoint that ereader manufacturers have as well.

I stand by what I said above, however... if somebody makes a practical and at least reasonably affordable full color ereader with a fast enough screen update time that it is viable to implement an interactive user-interface that is both intuitive and does not have any perceptible delay between action and visual response, I'll be all over it like tide on dirty laundry.

... I made the assumption that it would address how such an explosion happening so close to our own solar system would likely affect this planet.

But.... nothing. Lots there about what to see, but not a speck of text anywhere in the article that addresses what would actually happen for us.

I already have a pretty rough idea of my own on what will happen on Earth anyways... and I suppose I went looking to the article in the hope of seeing either confirmation or denial, but I found neither. If I'm right, however, then talking about what there will be to see when it happens is really kind of pointless.

When they can make a practical (that is, affordable) non-emissive display that has screen update times that are fast enough as to be visually imperceptible, so that it is possible to pan or zoom around a page where you may want to look at small details in an illustration interactively, for example, and one that supports full color, I'll be all over that.

While books can't do the former either, at least I can bring them as close as I want to my face to improve clarity, while just viewing a page at a given zoom level and moving it closer to your face just makes the pixels bigger, and doesn't actually enhance the image in any way.

I remember reading about this back in the early 1990's... from what I recall of the article, it wasn't wholy practical at the time owing to the expense of fabrication compared to silicon with the technologies available, but the article writer did talk about the far faster switching speeds than what silicon can achieve... more than an order of magnitude, iirc.