From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Wed Jul 13 21:39:41 2005 X-Original-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Delivered-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Subject: Re: [MiNT] Re[3]: usage of wind_calc() From: Evan Langlois To: Frederic Fouche Cc: MiNT List In-Reply-To: <20050713023659.25496.qmail@web31010.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20050713023659.25496.qmail@web31010.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 14:36:00 -0500 Message-Id: <1121283362.4207.83.camel@taro.coolrunningconcepts.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - esc14.midphase.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - fishpool.com X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - CoolRunningConcepts.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-To: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: Evan@CoolRunningConcepts.com Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 tagged_above=-50.5 required=7.0 tests=AWL, BAYES_00 X-Spam-Level: On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 19:36 -0700, Frederic Fouche wrote: > Give me a good reason why a user still wanting to use new applications > created in 2005, would deliberately want to use mint 1.1x? Excellent point! > I have given up coding for GEM due to its idiocyncractic > implementation and overly cumbersome usage. Anything to help the > developer to only concentrate on the main task will be a blessing, as > opposed to always thinking about, Oh, what about magic? how am i > gonna do that? what if the user is in 320x200? what if, what if. At > the end, your code is 50% of bullshit just to compensate for other OS > that are just not up to task. Sadly - this is very true, and I can't agree more. > I'll tell you what asinine is; a user demanding to run the latest > applications (2005) on his 1985 hardware with an unsupported, not > developed OS (magic 6.x, mint 1.1x) Especially when you consider that XaAES doesn't cost them a dime to upgrade, and it runs existing apps and new ones.