It was pasted as UTF-8 from your browser because that is what the page is served with. It was then slaughtered on insertion into the slashdot database because the database tables are *not* stored in UTF-8. This is a very old bug in the slashdot code that I assume is not being fixed due to [reasons].
(Yes, you're obviously missing something and its the same thing we're all missing: Why weren't they just using the SpaceX rockets all along? Its clear now that the publicly implied reasoning was farcical.)
HAHAHA. Its cute how you think that this will end with SpaceX getting what they wanted all along simply because its the most logical course of action and it benefits the US the most.
No, I stand by my statement. You didn't read it carefully enough in your haste to find something with which to disagree. If you use a dependency-tracking distribution (which they ALL do these days, and RPM *or* DEB being immaterial to the discussion) and actually know how to make it automatically do the work of tracing and installing the dependencies for you and not breaking stuff when you need to install something (or even a newer version of something) not in the official repos, then you're ahead of the curve of 90% of the rest of the Linux users out there, and you've come half way to being able to manage including said dependencies into code you write, if not actually making any good use of them. (No, believe it or not neither RPM *or* DEB package management tools will do that part for you in ANY distro.)
And neither of these things are difficult in the grand scheme of things. I never said that or even suggested it. I merely said that they are "key skills." As in; skills without which, however trivial, you'll never be capable of moving up from projects of trivial scope.
... and if that is all that stands between you and every single project that isn't "too easy" for you, then THAT is exactly what you should be working on.
However, you can learn SDL and fairly easily use it with C and/or C++ and make simple games and graphical apps with no or at least very few additional dependencies.
Yes, it may cause Disney or Netflix to raise prices to their customers to pay for the Fast Lane they're getting,
You can go ahead and change "may" to "already did."
but it does not block access to other sources of content and silences nothing. Car pool lanes don't keep other cars from using the normal lanes
You obviously don't live in any densely populated enough area (say, Southern California) where there in fact are any car-pool lanes, do you? Where do you think that extra lane came from? The meta-plane of elemental freeway lanes? No, they blocked a regular lane to turn it into a carpool lane and now, one-by-one, they're beginning to systematically charge you extra to use them.
If you want to know what Jesus would say and do you should read The Bible yourself. He's quoted heavily in the first half of the New Testament. Don't listen to what Christians these days say he would or wouldn't do or say. Obviously they don't actually read it themselves and don't know because you have gained a seriously warped idea of what Jesus actually stood for. Most of the lessons his famous parables are meant to teach were actually economic nature.
And then the post, as mysteriously as it arrived, vanished. Astroturfing expedition aborted? Its certainly much harder to imagine dirty pool is not involved now.
Its really easy to feel this way if its also the only real modern broadband experience you've had and things like throttling content to extort money out of content providers seems like completely acceptable behavior to you.
Have you ever actually booted Linux on a raspberry pi or booted a C64 and actually used it? Your question is akin to asking "why would anyone want to ride a bicycle down the street when they could just ride the bicycle around inside the back of a 18-wheeler while it drives down the street?"
Ok, you're right. I'm sorry, that was completely pointless. In all seriousness, what is probably most telling about the time period in computing and why there is still such a following today is in the second sentence of its wikipedia page; "Listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the highest-selling single computer model of all time, independent estimates place the actual number sold between 10 and 17 million units."
While its true that shortly after that era the "IBM PC revolution" effectively fragmented individual model counts so far that counting sales based on single model figures became a pointlessly obscure metric to gauge the total picture of the market, it also remains true that at that point the highest-end IBM models could only do 4 screen colors simultaneously (compared to the Commodore's 16) and 1 sound at a time (compared to the Commodore's 3) even for years after the practical extinction of the C64 from a sales perspective, and that there is still to date no single other model of personal computer that ever achieved such market penetration, and most likely there also never will be again.
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It was pasted as UTF-8 from your browser because that is what the page is served with. It was then slaughtered on insertion into the slashdot database because the database tables are *not* stored in UTF-8. This is a very old bug in the slashdot code that I assume is not being fixed due to [reasons].
... change the password to something other than the default.
(Yes, you're obviously missing something and its the same thing we're all missing: Why weren't they just using the SpaceX rockets all along? Its clear now that the publicly implied reasoning was farcical.)
HAHAHA. Its cute how you think that this will end with SpaceX getting what they wanted all along simply because its the most logical course of action and it benefits the US the most.
... counting pay-per-view and sports-only channels. Closer to 300 not counting them. I still regularly watch only 3 - 5 of them.
No, I stand by my statement. You didn't read it carefully enough in your haste to find something with which to disagree. If you use a dependency-tracking distribution (which they ALL do these days, and RPM *or* DEB being immaterial to the discussion) and actually know how to make it automatically do the work of tracing and installing the dependencies for you and not breaking stuff when you need to install something (or even a newer version of something) not in the official repos, then you're ahead of the curve of 90% of the rest of the Linux users out there, and you've come half way to being able to manage including said dependencies into code you write, if not actually making any good use of them. (No, believe it or not neither RPM *or* DEB package management tools will do that part for you in ANY distro.)
And neither of these things are difficult in the grand scheme of things. I never said that or even suggested it. I merely said that they are "key skills." As in; skills without which, however trivial, you'll never be capable of moving up from projects of trivial scope.
... and if that is all that stands between you and every single project that isn't "too easy" for you, then THAT is exactly what you should be working on.
However, you can learn SDL and fairly easily use it with C and/or C++ and make simple games and graphical apps with no or at least very few additional dependencies.
Yes, it may cause Disney or Netflix to raise prices to their customers to pay for the Fast Lane they're getting,
You can go ahead and change "may" to "already did."
but it does not block access to other sources of content and silences nothing. Car pool lanes don't keep other cars from using the normal lanes
You obviously don't live in any densely populated enough area (say, Southern California) where there in fact are any car-pool lanes, do you? Where do you think that extra lane came from? The meta-plane of elemental freeway lanes? No, they blocked a regular lane to turn it into a carpool lane and now, one-by-one, they're beginning to systematically charge you extra to use them .
Nor you, mine. Check and mate.
So say we all.
If you want to know what Jesus would say and do you should read The Bible yourself. He's quoted heavily in the first half of the New Testament. Don't listen to what Christians these days say he would or wouldn't do or say. Obviously they don't actually read it themselves and don't know because you have gained a seriously warped idea of what Jesus actually stood for. Most of the lessons his famous parables are meant to teach were actually economic nature.
Oh, woops, thanks, my bad. I thought my threshold was already at the minimum.
I'm sure its at least a violation of the EULA to do so, and possibly enforceable too, at least in the US.
Hah!
And then the post, as mysteriously as it arrived, vanished. Astroturfing expedition aborted? Its certainly much harder to imagine dirty pool is not involved now.
Who are you?
Its really easy to feel this way if its also the only real modern broadband experience you've had and things like throttling content to extort money out of content providers seems like completely acceptable behavior to you.
I can't imagine the USA holding millions of people and hundreds of square miles of territory by force.
But, ironically enough, that's basically how we got Texas in the first place.
Have you ever actually booted Linux on a raspberry pi or booted a C64 and actually used it? Your question is akin to asking "why would anyone want to ride a bicycle down the street when they could just ride the bicycle around inside the back of a 18-wheeler while it drives down the street?"
I meant to imply "when reading these marketing stats from the server end." As-in: the figures that the advertisers are paying for.
Ok, you're right. I'm sorry, that was completely pointless. In all seriousness, what is probably most telling about the time period in computing and why there is still such a following today is in the second sentence of its wikipedia page; "Listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the highest-selling single computer model of all time, independent estimates place the actual number sold between 10 and 17 million units."
While its true that shortly after that era the "IBM PC revolution" effectively fragmented individual model counts so far that counting sales based on single model figures became a pointlessly obscure metric to gauge the total picture of the market, it also remains true that at that point the highest-end IBM models could only do 4 screen colors simultaneously (compared to the Commodore's 16) and 1 sound at a time (compared to the Commodore's 3) even for years after the practical extinction of the C64 from a sales perspective, and that there is still to date no single other model of personal computer that ever achieved such market penetration, and most likely there also never will be again.
You're right, but the success of an emulator project like this is a practical prerequisite to generate enough demand for such a device.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
If you weren't there, this video may sum it up the best.
Give it a 10/10 for cool and an 8/10 for interesting. I guess not everyone's experiences with the C64 had the same value.
Also, of the other machines that existing c64 emulators run on, how many of them can be powered by two 9v batteries?
But, curiously enough, they're indistinguishable from the bots.
Its for his business, you douchebag shill.