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I worked under the assumption that, as per the rules, everyone distributed exactly nine points (or the number of people who did otherwise is insignificant). If that assumption is true, the exact work you described has already been done by peca. Since this is peca's questionnaire and he intends...

I just tried to figure out what the average vote was. My completely unscientific approach was as follows: Calculate how much one point is worth (100 % / 9 pts ≈ 11 %/pt). Take the list of options and their associated scores. While fewer than nine points have been assigned in total...

1 media player 1 personal video 0 personal audio 0 house player 4 game console 0 simple or logic games 3 emulated systems 1 native games 4 computer companion 1 internet 1 work/job 2 personal I'm not certain about the "media player"...

Two UMD drives, actually. One for the game and another one for the DRM key; both don't fit on one disk.

Did someone come up with "Craighouse" yet? I think it conveys the right mix of "addictive" and, er... "you will spend a lot of money here".

Pshh. We go full Unicode: .ʼ̊̈̽̃̚͡ʻ̴̥̬̤̰̪̺̻̹̜̠̘̙̞͓͔͕͖̇̆̋́̄̀̂̑͐͑͒ (That's all combining glyphs I could find at the moment. There are still more but I'm too lazy to find them all.)

I sweat (that is the correct past tense form, right?) over all of my points in that post. And now allow me to reitareate this several times, each time with more foam on my mouth. ;)

The problem here is that you are explicitly saying: "You're stupid for not putting the application binary in a writable path." The option that gives the user the most freedom is to simply make it an option whether to store the files in whichever path the OS prefers or in the application...

I never used the term "contempt". "Lack of interest" is rather what I meant to express and it was most likely too harsh. I did lose my temper a bit there. conso points out exactly why it's good to observe platform-specific standards: Writing an application like one did under Windows 9x leads to...

No, OS's like Linux assume that you know what you're doing. Whereas Windows has historically been a single-user OS suitable for workstations at best, Unix was developed as an operating system for servers used by many people at once. Unlike all versions of Windows prior to the NT series, it's...

Well, it doesn't play well with the way software is managed on any major platform. Windows users expect an installer (although most Windows users will take anything you give them; there is no such thing as proper integration under Windows), Linux users expect a package in their distro's...

I don't see a definite problem. The firmware has been released; the userland appears to be vanilla busybox and the menu is closed source, which can quite possibly be legal. If they don't use GPL'd libraries they can keep their menu closed without violating anything. They have no source...

No! We'll call it like the Pirate's Bay. But because this one is legitimate we drop the "Pirate's". And because it's electronic we call it the E-Bay. Man, coming up with original names sure is easy!

So do I (at least for DOSBox), but with the way OS X abstracts things away (even though an application bundle is technically a directory, the OS treats it as a file) that means I have a directory which contains the DOSBox app bundle, a DOSBox frontend's app bundle and the DOSBox C:/ folder. When...

That applies to anything but "Pandora Application Store". Unless it also carries things that aren't Pandora applications. But hey, the Pandora also has an unintuitive name – we already need to explain what it is to people who don't know about it. "OpenPandora Handheld Console/Ultraportable...

Why? Emulators for OS X are distributed as application bundles, just like everything else (save command-line only tools and daemons). Just because the application needs to reference something in a certain path, that path doesn't need to be in the application's $PREFIX or hardcoded somewhere...

I'm in favor of ".Pandora XML-annotated application archive". Yes, with spaces. It's time we finally rid ourselves of the "file extensions with spaces are unintuitive" notion. I mean, look at it like this: You see the following files in your file manager: - Quake 5.pnd - Quake 5.box - Quake...

Agreed.

Yeah, but the FSF and the EFF have become a lot more active in the last few years. And even if they won't become active in this case, one could still look at which libraries the emulator/game/app uses (for example SDL) and have their devs send the person in question a nastygram. Plus, I'm not...

The way I see it, the presence of an app store will not preclude much or most of the content being free. I expect that, unlike Apple*, Craig will not charge anything for getting something onto the store. There is no disincentive to publishing something through the store at a price of 0...