Anybody want a slightly used middle of a game? Willing to trade for a new ending.

I think you misunderstood me. I'm not advocating anything. I just pointed out a (huge) flaw in the original analogy.

With that said, I'll try to answer anyway.

I'll avoid the 'should' and just say that I'm pretty sure it would be more of a question of 'What is enforceable', rather than some ethical discussion/decision.

Hardly. People enjoy food. People enjoy cooking. Provided there was no major cost involved in producing a recipe at that level of detail, I'd happily make and share recipes with anyone who would want them.

Now, please leave the analogy. It is flawed.

Well.. The analogy does have its flaws. There's nothing stopping you from playing whatever music you like on your own guitar.

The analogy would be a lot more similar to what we're originally discussing if there was a cheap microwave we could feed the recipe into, which would then cook us a meal from the recipe - a LOT better than you typically could cook it yourself.

(Provided you also invested enough money in gourmet peripherals, such as gold-plated power cables, you could fool yourself into thinking the meal was actually as good as if made by the chef himself.)

If you have read the 'readme' and still not found the solution to the problem because it was in the 'README' or vice versa, then you know it can be a problem. I honestly don't see how a case-sensitive file system is beneficial to users. It just gives an extra dimension to make things less clear. Anyone care to explain the benefits?

..which also describes your post perfectly.

Say what? The linked article proposes using return values (that will be ignored) instead of exceptions. If you wanted to discredit the use of try/catch, you need to find a better link.

(Or is the article supposed to be ironic? It looks genuine. If not, a big whoosh on me...)

I'm curious, is there any mode or plugin except the "It's open source, make it yourself"-plugin to make Vi/Vim/Emacs support 'intelligent search/replace' or other quick refactorings? By that, I don't mean regexps, I mean that the editor actually has deeper knowledge of the language you're editing, and can help you change the name of a type in a specific namespace, without touching any methods or variables or other strings in the code that happen to have the same name as the type. Or change the method name on this particular type, but not the methods with the same names on other types, etc. Over an entire project with multiple sub-projects.

To me, (and probably anyone who refactors code), this is a huge time-saver compared to standard search/replace. Also, I imagine this would be hard to implement as a plugin to Vi/Vim/emacs if you let the tool chain be totally replaceable links - e.g. how do you determine which files are part of the project and need to be looked through, if you can use any one of a pretty large number of tools that can do the work of 'make'?

(I may be wrong. I used emacs/make etc. on SunOS until the early 90s, then moved on to Windows in mid/late 90's, and am now moving back to the *nix-world again, so I've been out of the loop for quite some time. Maybe this type of functionality is now standard in Vi/Vim/emacs too...)

Basically, an IDE sets a standard that makes it possible to ignore some of the most basic problems and instead concentrate on solving higher-level problems. I think this is a good thing (tm). I also don't value 'understanding the build process' that highly. I've been around enough that I happen to understand it (should probably qualify that with a 'most of the time'), but I'm not sure that it's been all that useful since I started using IDEs. Most of the time the build broke before, it was because I did something stupid in the makefile. An IDE typically handles all that for you. I do not miss editing makefiles.

Nonononono. 'WINE', not 'Whine'.

The other guys in the thread were trying to establish CERN as a 'mature public Linux installation in Europe' - i.e. one that Gartner missed - not claim that CERN migrated from windows to Linux. Check elrous0's post at the beginng of the thread. Quoting: "Well, ARE there any 'sizable deployments of Linux on the desktop' in Europe". The part about migration is only mentioned in your post.

How typical of modern times. You see something that you don't like, or something that is different between nations, and you call it racist.

On the other hand, it's not so hard to see how the sentence "your averge diaper-headed cafe bomber that you find driving around a cab in NYC." could be construed as racist. I, for one, doubt that the poster is referring to white anglo-saxon protestants, and I can also see how the terms 'diaper-headed' and 'cafe bomber' can be construed as negative.

Read again.
He said WWW was created on a unix machine to support the claim that they never were big on windows. He didn't say anything about what kinds of machines they are using today. (Though other posters mention CentOS)

I thought this was kinda old news...?

I seem to remember an article on slashdot from not too long ago about someone doing real-time raycasting on ATI hardware... (looking, looking... Can't find the slashdot post, but I did find it mentioned in an article...):

"Watch out, Larrabee: Radeon 4800 supports a 100% ray-traced pipeline using DirectX 9":
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/38145/135/
Btw, the article actually mentions that the code works on nvidia hardware too, but that the lack of a tesselation unit makes it slower.
If you look around for the guy behind it (Jules Urbach), you'll also find a number of youtube videos where the guy explains the tech and shows some demos.

I'm not working with graphics myself, so I can't really tell if the tgdaily link is equivalent to what nvidia are showing off in this story, but if we look at the statement...

The genius of what NVidia is doing here, ...

... it does indeed sound a like nvidia are trying to spin things.