Re: Solitaire Ace

Rob Kaper wrote:

>On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 06:17:46PM +0000, Daniel Cassidy wrote:
>
>>The article then goes on to list features that are available in every other 
>>card game.
>>
>
>Well, the toolbar and supported features look a lot like KPat, which is why
>I wondered - especially because they have a blurb on their site about
>"refining open source software"..
>
>I don't think KPat has a bookmark option to store a game and come back
>later, though, or has it?
>
>
Actually, it looks a lot like a pysol with better graphics to me.

>>It seems that the target market for both LindowsOS and Lycoris has switched 
>>from Windows defectors to first time PC buyers who've probably only ever used 
>>Windows at work and nothing more, complete idiots, and any other groups of 
>>people who are, for whatever reason, unable to make an informed decision on 
>>the purchase. This does not bode well for the long term prospects of either 
>>company.
>>
>
>That, or selling crap to idiots remains to be one of the few enterprises
>truly profitable.
>
>
Isn't that the usual computer card game 'buying' market?

I mean, Windows comes with a reasonably good solitaire program for free, 
KDE comes with kpat, pysol is freely available, Gnome has a card game, 
so on, so on, but people still feel the need to buy a card game!

>>On an unrelated matter, who was it that decided that displaying a landscape on 
>>the desktop by default was a good usability decision? It seems that Lycoris 
>>are now imitating Microsoft with regard to this somewhat strange concept.
>>
>
>I think there is some precedence in Back to the Future II, where regular
>windows had been replaced with panoramic landscape projections.
>
>Rob
>

I guess we can hope that regular Windows(tm) will be replaced with 
something sometime soon, but i don't think 'panoramic landscape 
projections' is a good name for an OS ;)

Bob Raymond



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