But that would be like suing a car dealership for not refunding the cost of tires and rims of a new car when you decide to add your own custom wheels instead. If the person is so gung-ho about not having to pay for Windows then he/she should have done ten minutes of research to find a manufacturer that isn't contractually obligated by Microsoft to include a Windows license.
Just because one can understand memory allocations and pointers doesn't mean one wants to have to deal with them manually in all their programs.
I fully agree with this. I've learned all about the use and necessity of pointers and allocation, and I've done my time with the debugging and memory leaks because I didn't do it right. Lots of great lessons from that. And I can really appreciate languages that handle that for me so I don't have to fuck with it. It saves me so much time and frustration.
Although it irks me that colleges start people off with these languages now. Most students I teach were brought up on a strict diet of Java and so to them, variable declaration is just a formality and pointers (or references, as the Java people insist) are just part of the magic that happens behind that friendly, colorful compiler.
Well, let's think about this. The unique point-and-click abilities of the Wii are as simple as the point-and-click of the mouse. The waggle of the Wiimote could be emulated by waggling your mouse, but who the hell would want to. Those newfangled camera input systems that the 360 and PS3 were using at E3 would basically amount to dance or sports games; i.e. games I don't play and would less likely be caught playing by dancing around in my living room.
Mouse and keyboard has always been intuitive and comfortable. In my opinion, part of the reason that consoles are trying out new control schemes (other than to copy Nintendo) is to break away from depending on the analog stick for precise control, which could never match the precision of a computer mouse anyway.
At the very least, it's good that they're providing an option to upgrade from XP and not just from Vista. I never took the Vista plunge on my XP box but I may very well take the Win7 plunge at some point down the road, so it'll be worth that to have a legit upgrade.
"Download." For so many people I work with (and in my family as well) the word "download" ends up being the universal verb for everything computer-related. Save a document? Downloaded it. Move a file to a USB drive? Downloaded it. Run a program? Downloaded it.
Another common one is for someone to refer to a whole computer as a CPU. This doesn't irk me as much, but still...
Then there is that time thing. It's not making the trip in 30 minutes if it stops 5 times between the two cities. Maybe they are thinking of express trips interspersed with trips that stop?
Either way, it's a major convenience and safety factor. I've been hoping for many years that they'd proceed to build a train of some sort for public transit. I-10 is an absolute nightmare at times (particularly the bottlenecks as it enters Phoenix) and just not having to deal with the stop-and-go driving would be worth sitting on a stop-and-go train ride. I'd say it's pretty much a given that Tucson and Phoenix are eventually going to become one big connected metropolis but by that point in time I'm sure they'd devise additional methods of public transit (perhaps another train). But that's still pretty far out.
Meanwhile, over at Infoworld, Redmond is criticized...
Whenever people refer to Microsoft as "Redmond" it sounds so condescending and ignorant. They're called Microsoft. They're located in Redmond, WA. But Microsoft != Redmond.
I agree. If I really want to run Windows apps all the time, I'll just run Windows. But I'm running an OS that is not Windows, then it makes sense to use the equivalent applications for that OS as much as I can. Wine is an excellent thing to have around, a great convenience factor for those occasional Windows-only apps I'd really need to make use of (sorry Open Office, Excel has you beat) but I'd never put production-level dependence on it.
Why do you feel the need to complain when/. posts a story on a topic you don't care about?
But that wasn't a complaint. It was a simple expression of my thought and opinion. Isn't that what Slashdot's comment system is for?
Mod me a troll and try to impose netiquette on me as much as you like, but the straight and simple fact is that I am not a fan of Java nor its underlying technologies and was therefore disappointed by what I had hoped for Hyperic to be. I'm not (nor will I be) arguing about Java nor about how the Slashdot community expects me to behave.
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If IE gets anywhere close to even a list of malware, it'll get infected by it.
But that would be like suing a car dealership for not refunding the cost of tires and rims of a new car when you decide to add your own custom wheels instead. If the person is so gung-ho about not having to pay for Windows then he/she should have done ten minutes of research to find a manufacturer that isn't contractually obligated by Microsoft to include a Windows license.
The first thing that came to mind for me was, "what makes a hardware driver rude?" This is Slashdot, afterall...
Just because one can understand memory allocations and pointers doesn't mean one wants to have to deal with them manually in all their programs.
I fully agree with this. I've learned all about the use and necessity of pointers and allocation, and I've done my time with the debugging and memory leaks because I didn't do it right. Lots of great lessons from that. And I can really appreciate languages that handle that for me so I don't have to fuck with it. It saves me so much time and frustration.
Although it irks me that colleges start people off with these languages now. Most students I teach were brought up on a strict diet of Java and so to them, variable declaration is just a formality and pointers (or references, as the Java people insist) are just part of the magic that happens behind that friendly, colorful compiler.
These are the types I fear for in the industry.
What's the point of this? We already know what's there. Why not pay millions of dollars to send it to a part of the moon we haven't explored yet?
*Inserts joke about my mother* ...wait, what?
When your pole has the same gravitational magnitude of Jupiter, then you can have attention from the media.
Well, let's think about this.
The unique point-and-click abilities of the Wii are as simple as the point-and-click of the mouse.
The waggle of the Wiimote could be emulated by waggling your mouse, but who the hell would want to.
Those newfangled camera input systems that the 360 and PS3 were using at E3 would basically amount to dance or sports games; i.e. games I don't play and would less likely be caught playing by dancing around in my living room.
Mouse and keyboard has always been intuitive and comfortable. In my opinion, part of the reason that consoles are trying out new control schemes (other than to copy Nintendo) is to break away from depending on the analog stick for precise control, which could never match the precision of a computer mouse anyway.
At the very least, it's good that they're providing an option to upgrade from XP and not just from Vista. I never took the Vista plunge on my XP box but I may very well take the Win7 plunge at some point down the road, so it'll be worth that to have a legit upgrade.
Or even the Apple Lisa 2 web server.
:)
Are we bad people?
Did they just slap a GUI on Emacs?
*Runs away*
Oi didn't vote for 'im!
Without it, you wouldn't be [trudging] through the jungles of Crysis in all its visual splendor
I can barely do that even with a GPU. :)
*runs away*
"Download." For so many people I work with (and in my family as well) the word "download" ends up being the universal verb for everything computer-related. Save a document? Downloaded it. Move a file to a USB drive? Downloaded it. Run a program? Downloaded it.
Another common one is for someone to refer to a whole computer as a CPU. This doesn't irk me as much, but still...
Those are commercial shipment railways, not for public transit.
Then there is that time thing. It's not making the trip in 30 minutes if it stops 5 times between the two cities. Maybe they are thinking of express trips interspersed with trips that stop?
Either way, it's a major convenience and safety factor. I've been hoping for many years that they'd proceed to build a train of some sort for public transit. I-10 is an absolute nightmare at times (particularly the bottlenecks as it enters Phoenix) and just not having to deal with the stop-and-go driving would be worth sitting on a stop-and-go train ride. I'd say it's pretty much a given that Tucson and Phoenix are eventually going to become one big connected metropolis but by that point in time I'm sure they'd devise additional methods of public transit (perhaps another train). But that's still pretty far out.
A cubic centimeter of the stuff would weigh 287 lbs. (130 kg).
How surreal it would be to have an object the size of a sugar cube that would be so heavy!
Meanwhile, over at Infoworld, Redmond is criticized...
Whenever people refer to Microsoft as "Redmond" it sounds so condescending and ignorant. They're called Microsoft. They're located in Redmond, WA. But Microsoft != Redmond.
The DS doesn't support multi-touch, which is something that gives the iPhone/iTouch a unique advantage.
Woah... you did NOT just call Apple and Microsoft the same thing... on Slashdot of all places! ;)
I agree. If I really want to run Windows apps all the time, I'll just run Windows. But I'm running an OS that is not Windows, then it makes sense to use the equivalent applications for that OS as much as I can. Wine is an excellent thing to have around, a great convenience factor for those occasional Windows-only apps I'd really need to make use of (sorry Open Office, Excel has you beat) but I'd never put production-level dependence on it.
Why do you feel the need to complain when /. posts a story on a topic you don't care about?
But that wasn't a complaint. It was a simple expression of my thought and opinion. Isn't that what Slashdot's comment system is for?
Mod me a troll and try to impose netiquette on me as much as you like, but the straight and simple fact is that I am not a fan of Java nor its underlying technologies and was therefore disappointed by what I had hoped for Hyperic to be. I'm not (nor will I be) arguing about Java nor about how the Slashdot community expects me to behave.
Looked interesting till I read 'Java'.
to cut my message in half before I can send them.
And all these years later in 2009, I still have