This is entirely the thing. Loki games can or at least could be coaxed to work on Linux with Loki_Compat libraries, but last time I tried to run Alpha Centauri for Linux even that wouldn't work — and I'm even still using X. But add to that, the Linux versions of games are frequently inferior. The Loki games are included in that, for example in AlphaC for Linux you cannot ctrl-shift-a automate formers only near their supporting base. Fast forward to a more modern game like Civ VI, and there's a huge slew of features and even leaders you can't get access to with the Linux version. Meanwhile, the Windows version runs better on Linux than it does on Windows.

I haven't heard the OS/2 thing, what's that about? I figure it failed because Microsoft was already doing "good enough" with Windows, plus NT had relatively meaningful security and OS/2 didn't.

I like having serious conversations on Slashdot at least as much as the next nerd, but arguments on Slashdot can only be taken slightly seriously today. There's a lot of people here who are not arguing in good faith.

I'm in the US, and I remember news articles about this idea. They passed quickly. If you wound up with a textbook with such ideas in it presented as anything other than a possibility which had been or could be researched, that is unfortunate, but it is not indicative of anything widespread.

Nobody is denying that at all. Nobody is even denying that there was a global cooling article fad. What was different about the global cooling scare from AGW's broad scientific consensus is that it didn't have broad scientific consensus.

Your lack of perception is irrelevant.

And now we see what it stems from, a total lack of logic. Run along now.

Again, people with no experience maybe.

Yes, but not his bankruptcies. That's something his accountants learned after his five or six bankruptcies. The YOB always demands his money up front and he never puts any of his own money into anything. The risk goes to the "investors" in the increasingly worthless brand (which I now decline to use). Mostly makes me wonder where the YOB is squandering the loot...

Not a bad FP branch though I think there was more room for Funny.

On the serious side, I think this picture is not worth a thousand words. The medical application really calls for chemical analysis. Even genetic analysis if an actual doctor wants to know what is really going on in there.

But I mostly wanted an excuse to cite Toire No Himitsu . Sorry, but it hasn't been translated into English and that seems quite unlikely, too. It would probably be "The Secrets of Toilets". Mostly about the development of the washlet. It's Volume 22 in one of Gakken's series of books about secrets. (Currently passing Volume 224...) Each volume has a corporate sponsor. That's Toto in the case of Volume 22. (I've read the entire series, starting with "The Secrets of Hamburgers" sponsored by McDonald's.)

Thanks for clarifying. Reminds me of some books I've read about fonts... Sounds like you don't need the citations.

But I was going for Funny.

What you said was dumb because what we need is to reduce emissions further than our weak targets. Also automakers do NOT have any trouble meeting the targets. They could have met those targets years ago, but they would have had to make less exciting vehicles. You're putting your excitement over sustainability. This explains why you support a child molester's tampering with the future.

You cannot make a market freer by removing all regulations. That's a total misunderstanding of how markets work.

"R&D is a sunk cost, especially if it was subsidized. Nobody's going to try to recoup it"

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That's all true if your goal is to serve customers, as opposed to spying on them.

It's happening now. There are serious effects now. And there is mostly a lot of thumb-sitting going on.

Yes, for profit.

AI is chewing through NATURAL RESOURCES faster.

We don't have to pretend, we can see it happening right now. Or rather, not happening.

Nonsense.

Why would I care? I don't speak a language for which call quality matters.

Paying three times as much or more for someone else to keep records for you is dumb. My phone keeps records for me.