nemesis wrote:

> I cringe any time I see Orchid display his ignorance.
> 
> World of Warcraft?  what kind of geek are you to not know Blizzard?! 
> they are the id of hack-and-slash games...

Obviously I've heard of WoW. [I'm in a clan full of people who *play* 
it!] I just hadn't heard of the guys who make it, that's all.

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> Do you think that OpenGL isn't a competitor to DirectX? Do you think that 
> DirectX isn't a reason some people buy or develop for Windows?

Or put another way...

Is DirectX available for Linux, for cool games?

Do non-programmers have to recompile every application
they use in Linux?

If GTK2HS binary windows distribution for GHC is
maintained by intermitent Linux volunteers who are having
trouble building for GHC 6.8.2 on Linux, and they just got
done doing a GTK2HS 6.8.1 that works fine, how many
months before they bother with a GTK2HS 6.8.2 for
Windows, even though GHC 6.8.2 is just a bugfix?

Aren't the answers, no, yes, and 3 months+ ?

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> Does Ford keep a few toyotas on the lot for you to test-drive too?

Most new car lots keep a small inventory of used trade-in cars
of all makes and models, though they usually go to auction after
a bit.

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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Fredrik Eriksson wrote:
> > On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:36:05 +0100, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >> I just try not to spend time on things that don't interest me. [I 
> >> thought everybody else did too...]
> > 
> > The problem is that you seem to be interested in so very few things.

> And this is a "problem" because...?

  Because when you express your ignorance about so many things which can
be considered common knowledge, it doesn't give a very favorable image.

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>>> The problem is that you seem to be interested in so very few things.
> 
>> And this is a "problem" because...?
> 
>   Because when you express your ignorance about so many things which can
> be considered common knowledge, it doesn't give a very favorable image.

Now that actually made sense...


I wonder how all this common knowledge becomes "common"? I mean, how 
does "everybody" know all this? I guess it's because normal humans talk 
to other people. I generally don't - unless you count this newsgroup. 
Maybe that's the difference?

(Or maybe it's just that unlike normal people, I don't actually care 
about football, pop music, politics, economics, and other things.)

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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> I wonder how all this common knowledge becomes "common"?

  You could start by exploring wikipedia. Start from something which
interests you, for example "Half-Life 2" or "Haskell", and read the
articles and follow the links and read those articles, etc. It can be
great fun and rather informative. :)

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Warp wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> I wonder how all this common knowledge becomes "common"?
> 
>   You could start by exploring wikipedia. Start from something which
> interests you, for example "Half-Life 2" or "Haskell", and read the
> articles and follow the links and read those articles, etc. It can be
> great fun and rather informative. :)

And how do you *think* I know that chocolate is poisonus to dogs? ;-)

[Hint: It *wasn't* what I went to look up...]

I think there's a - wait, let me find it - ah yes, there is:

http://www.xkcd.com/214/

I loose count of how many times I've done this. LOL! As a result, I now 
know all sorts of rather useless factiods. Indeed, I watched The 
Eggheads last night, and I got more questions right than they did. [A 
pure fluke, as it happens. Usually they ask questions about Greek 
philosophers or something and I haven't got a clue. But tonight it was 
Latin...]

Oddly, I always seem to end up reading about leathal poisons or powerful 
explosives or how guns work or deadly bacteria or... damn it, if anybody 
is watching my surfing habits, they must think I'm a terrorist by now! :-S

Still, I don't follow every link I see, only the "interesting" ones. As 
a result, I never end up reading about the corporate development of IBM 
or the history of American Independence, but instead reading about 
fractal image compression or the undead cat that that guy studied. [You 
know the guy. I just can't spell his name.]

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Invisible wrote:
> And how do you *think* I know that chocolate is poisonus to dogs? ;-)

it is?!!  oh, Spot, I miss you so much!...

*kiddin*...

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nemesis wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> And how do you *think* I know that chocolate is poisonus to dogs? ;-)
> 
> it is?!!  oh, Spot, I miss you so much!...

O___O




> *kiddin*...

OMG, dude!

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Tim Attwood escribió:
>> Do you think that OpenGL isn't a competitor to DirectX? Do you think that 
>> DirectX isn't a reason some people buy or develop for Windows?
> 
> Or put another way...
> 
> Is DirectX available for Linux, for cool games?

Yes, that's the whole point of Wine and Cedega.

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