asciilifeform: because on no account did anyone there remotely contemplate paying for software
asciilifeform: my understanding is that ru, cn folks, by and large, never gave even a basic fuck re: open source whatever, until very recently and still insignificantly
asciilifeform: why orcs tend to write, think, live, breathe in winblows, is worthy of its own thread.
asciilifeform: as a usg appendage, it is for the furnace.
asciilifeform: winblows is axiomatically not part of any future 'best that can be had' that i'm willing to interoperate with.
asciilifeform: the part i was trying to answer was 'why do you wanna go in locales you don't like the maxima'
asciilifeform: dwarfs most of the projects we've discussed here in the sheer intrinsic gnarliness.
asciilifeform: and it's a lame elephant with gangrenous legs.
asciilifeform: it's one of the elephants/tortoises on which the entire thing shakily stands.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: try to realize that to the extent reverse-engineered drivers exist for various things, the entire undertaking stands - and falls - on w4r3z 'ida pro' as much as on leaked/stolen docs
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the proggy is a misery to use; works very half-heartedly anywhere other than winblows; costs $maxint; and, more direly, is not especially actively maintained. but there is nothing remotely like an alternative, not even a 'distant second', nor is anyone (afaik) remotely contemplating the idea of making one.
asciilifeform: but it's a problem, and anyone even casually involved in the field (of named example) is aware of it
asciilifeform: not that there is really any pill against this kind of thing
asciilifeform: (he and his sales derps are notoriously hard to get a hold of. one of the smallest - moneywise - and simultaneously ill-behaved monopolies i know of!)
asciilifeform: meant, who needs them in basement? not me.
asciilifeform: refuse to admit they;d be better off in chains in someone;'s basement << afaik most of'em are boys and thus can expect only butugychag
asciilifeform: is life. Quantity still has “a quality all its own.” Ten million dollars buys you a money printer, but ten dollars do not. Not even a proportionately-smaller one. Everyone who hopes to see some kind of democratizing influence in Bitcoin is gravely misguided: by some indications, the Bitcoin ecosystem is at least as “top heavy” as the world of meatspace finance.' << my ancient article
asciilifeform: davout: 'Yes, it was once the case that you had to be a financier to send an intact penny across the ocean. But the fact that Bitcoin enables you to do so does not turn you into a financier. Nobody cancelled “money makes money.” It would be rather like demanding that an asteroid should have the gravitational pull of Earth. The Third Rock From The Sun can hold an atmosphere and your piece of cosmic flotsam can’t. Such
asciilifeform: to which the word 'fap' is also credited
asciilifeform: the subject of juices was explored in some detail in the famous comic 'sexy losers'
asciilifeform: 'A key piece of evidence was Douglas’ wife’s testimony that when she called to report her husband coming home from work smelling like sex and alcohol, she was told “whatever happens on county property, in county time, is county business.”'
asciilifeform: '...with strange eons even death may die' etc
