They think that removing options will reduce support costs and increase user adoption. This is the same mentality that Apple and Gnome have.

I think its a terrible idea, and a waste of time and effort. If you are creating something new from scratch, then by all means limit the number of ways of doing things. But don't do it to a project that's already in the wild.

While I switched off Ubuntu years before Unity existed for trivial reasons ( didn't like my DVD drive), these kinds of changes keep me from switching back, despite the widespread adoption.

Ha, that's great, The thing is stuck up there due to some failure, and instead of announcing its broken, they just site that its up their doing "something" for a record amount of time!

Turn an embarrassing failure into a secretive success! Brilliant!

Oh, no. I don't think it's entirely scientific. I just don't think its entirely millitary oriented either.

I'm sure there are many things its doing, testing the space plane, optics, any tests that are too dangerous to do on the ISS. Its like having a private US space station, without the need for life support or space for humans.

It isn't in my opinion. Maybe I did the poll wrong. Its really my own website is #1, and everything else is far, far behind. However, in order to rank them, I just considered how much data I currently store in each one. Figuring, that over time I already made the decision of which I trust. I'd prefer not to have to trust any of them, If I didn't have to.

I'm also not a huge fan of Science fiction. But, I do make an exception for Asimov. The foundation series, was pretty darn good, imho. The Science didn't come first, the human characters' reactions to it did. Even the robots were humanized.

Although, come to think of it. I would agree that his short stories weren't that great. Certainly not as good as those in the New Yorker.

Like, uhm, brainstorming fro the top of my head... Wayland ... or ... Mir?

Yeah, I just don't know if there is enough revenue in being Oracle's preferred hardware choice to keep sparc a float.

At the end of the day the old formula must still hold: profitMargins x numberOfSales >= costOfSupportingDevelopingSparc.

Back in the first internet bubble, Sun gear was mandatory for every startup. Then startups migrated to x86 for the next wave, and now they're almost all on AWS. With Sun/sparc not being purchased in such quantity anymore, they are ever more reliant on existing companies replacing older systems and.or adding capacity. I'd love to see Sparc and Power survive and thrive, but it doesn't look likely.

Some people just don't have a large enough experience living in the real world to grasp such nuanced concepts. Black and white just don't exist. Live long enough and you'll understand.

There are a lot of people who do put money behind causes I disagree with that I don't know about due to campaign finance rules and crazy 501 non-for profits.
The stupidest thing in my opinion is to not use a free software product because of who is the ceo of the foundation behind it. Its free software. Using it doesn't require me to give any money to them. Now, if I were donating money to mozilla, or a developer of their products, it would be a different issue. But using free software? That's just odd. The whole point of free software is to not put any restriction son the use of the free software. Especially a web browser. You're free to use it to learn about causes the ceo of mozilla disagrees with, and anything else you want. Users shouldn't be discriminated against or harassed in any way. Thats BS.

I'm more in line with the parent of this thread, Its really annoying when people impose their value systems on you and assume that you agree with them and additionally assume you agree with their action plan to further their goals. I rarely agree with people on these things, and am offended with the notion that I must believe *exactly* as they do and do *exactly* what they want me to do.

Blinking Text? What about Marquee. I read faster if the words move too!

¡Qui© grande!

I think the lack of a distributed/disconnected work force helps here. Soynuts are all volunteers with their own ideas on how stuff should work, which has led to the tension its had. Maybe they have it under control now, not sure.

Yeah, I hear ya on the lack of community. Even if Bryan does put it up on github, I wouldn't be surprised if others don't pick it up. The soynuts have already put a lot of effort into reviving slashcode, I doubt they would give it up at this point to pursue putting their features into pipecode. In any case, I'd wait until the code was in a good state to show to people after dogfooding it here.

Really, Really Nice Job!!

I'm not sure we really need things like "achivements" or the blog/journal system. I don't think they're very important, and I don't think many people used them.

I do think things like unicode support should get priority over that

No, I'm pretty sure the KKK is intentionally racist. They *do* believe that their "race" is superior to others. We are not yet in a world where intentional racism doesn't exist. Its not a "bad joke" or "troll". Its the real, "these people are inferior to me because of their race" deal.

Thanks for the right answer. That makes sense now that I think back on it. I'd have to agree that kind of sucks for cooling then.

Its been a while since my thermodynamics class in college, does the radiation given off depend upon the difference in temps? I mean, at some point a greater temperature differential would offset the loss of conduction, right?

My intuition would expect that an object at 60 C in a room with air at 59 C would cool slower than an object at 60 C in the vacuum of space.

Nice turn of phrase. Soybeans it is. Then that makes us... pipeheads?

I agree 1000%. All hail Pipedot!

True enough.

Holy cow. Some dude thinks that the result of the drama is soylant selling out. He's pissed because he's spent money and time working with them, thinks he should have a say in the drama. So ... his answer is to cause bandwidth costs to go up by flooding it with traffic.

Some people...

The current drama there is too much for me. Pipedot looks like a better run site so far.

I think I always knew an s doesn't belong there, but it kind of does. People use it. It doesn't sound that bad. I say we keep it, and banish the lack of S.

Also, lets let bygones be bygones and just accept:

- that effects and affects can be used interchangably.
- all intensive purposes is okay
- alot is understood.

English is a bastardized language that changes based on usage, not via ivory tower grameriticians. or academies.

The problems with it are

1)The discoverability of the interface using the mouse
2)The leap of faith to think that shutdown might be under settings and then under power.

Its too magical for people to figure out on their own.

They seem to think that adding back a shutdown button, makes windows worse, because you should be shutting down by pressing the power button.

No one I know does that. Probably because of windows 95 that trained everyone to not do it, but still that is the number 1 complaint I get from people who use it.

Some idiot developer needed that function, and didn't think it was a problem because it required a dev api key. He also ignored the fact that they were storing passwords in plain text. Well, I'll double check any api we ever create for something as stupid, though I'm not sure anyone whos ever worked with me was that dumb. And that's saying something.

First PipeDot post!