The best books I've read are the ones that broke away from what I had read before. The ones that gave me a new experience, and new view on things. I really really don't want to read copies of books I've already read. I want something out of the ordinary. I'll stick to my old methods if you, Mr. Algorithm, don't mind.
In what world would the end of piracy mean that whoever pirated the games will buy them? Games are horribly expensive these days, even for those that makes good money. At least here in Sweden. What games companies need is to give people more reason to actually freaking buy something. Like higher quality, better products, and more competitive pricing. I personally think that Steam is a great step in the right direction. Heck, remove the stupid little DRM stuff they have and it would still work just as well. It's just about instant, easy to use, and actually better then pirating. So I don't mind the cost (especially since I pay in USD which makes it way cheaper).
Am I missing something here? What the heck does that mean? I haven't seen any "Written with XCode" or "Written with Emacs" stated for other products.
Does it mean that it's written in Java perhaps? Because Notes 8 is not only a total horror in terms of usability, it's real slow as well. In fact, Lotus notes is something I do my best to avoid, it's crap.
One reason could be that software engineers with more experience simply already know about these things, and have faced off against the many problems with concurrency. Threads can be hell to deal with for instance. So because of things they don't show any interest.
That being said I think that if you want to actually make use of many cores you really do have to switch to a language that can give you usage of many threads for free. Writing it manually usually ends up with complications. I find Erlang to be pretty nifty when it comes to these things for instance.
The problem is that the OS is so badly designed and un-optimized that you can't run it on that kind of hardware. There isn't any good reason why Vista should have been slower than XP really, and fancy FX should have been turned on only on premium hardware. Many other OSes can do it after all. Leopard is doing just fine on a core 2 duo with GMA 950 GFX after all...
I really hope Take Two resists this, or GTA 4 will be their last good game for sure. I really don't want that, and I think many agree with me, because that game is just so freaking good!
Why would you want to work with MS solutions? Shouldn't *they* adhere to open standards? This makes no sense at all, and must obviously come from a legal world and not a developer world. To explain myself: It is not up to everyone else to work well together with Microsoft, it is up to Microsoft to support open standards. Take Exchange for instance, any client, following the standards, should be able to connect to it, not having to know that it is special magic Microsoft stuff inside. See how nice that works? Everything should work according to that model...
There are thousands of soon to be former IBM workers who are on the job market. Any company wishing to hire in those regions should be happy.
When the company you work for treat you badly you must seriously consider if it is worth it and react with finding a job where they appreciate you. Or start your own company...
Is kinda what a lot of Open Source projects seems to do:)
Maybe cram-weeks would be a good thing for these people. Once ever second month for a week they all come in and work like crazy, and the rest of the time they can don the slippers. I'd kinda like working like that myself. Oh well, to be a millionaire and be able to code whatever I want:)
Why not just go with XHTML all the way? I always though that the best way of "fixing" all the broken and horribly written HTML out there on the web would be to build a proxy that could translate from broken HTML to nicely formed XHTML and then send that to the browser, cleaning up this whole double rendering paths in the browsers (unless I missunderstood something) etc. XHTML really could be enough for everyone, and having two standards instead of one certainly isn't working in anyones favor.
Are they really thinking that they can thwart terrorists and such with this kind of surveillance? Any nonsense sentence can be a code to act, it's been used for ages. The idea of the intelligence organization sitting in cubicles and spying from a chair is bound to fail, and has failed many times over. So this is both useless, and effectively is spying on a countries citizens. This is what Stasi did, this is classic KGB, it smells of Gestapo, is this what we call freedom? Privacy is more important than it has ever been, and we will fight for it, and declaring war on your own people because they want their privacy is just as bad as the terrorists and the mafia.
Open source people don't want to see non-open source software on their OSes and would more than likely be anything from hostile to problematic, and there would be this odd movement that wouldn't stop until they replaced whatever adobe has, and then lets it fall into neglect.
Nope, let the open source people do their thing Adobe, try to actually improve your products instead, that is a way better idea. For instance, cocoa is a good idea, carbon is not. Put the money there, or you will loose your battle both on the Microsoft AND Apple platforms.
Guys like NIN and Radiohead can go independent now because they already have made money. Prince can give away his music because he is already rich. What we need is new good acts that can stand outside of the horror that is the RIAA and still succeed. That will have some real impact. That will make way for changes. It shouldn't be about greed, it should be about music and fairness.
Maybe they should buy Netscape, Winamp, and ICQ too...
Everyone with a clue saw this a mile away, and whomever owns stock in eBay surely must all be *idiots* for not doing something (or sell fast has hell).
Oh, and btw, you can get the same service with VoIP and a bunch of other technologies. Heck, iChat out of the box gives me better long distance internet calling (quality wise).
The only question I have is where are all the idiots? I want to sell them my navel lint for a million bucks...
This is something that is OK if you choose to add it, to put it in the actual firefox deliverable is not OK, even if it is off default.
Plus as people are pointing out, why the #!()%/)#(/%(#/! is it sending info *to* google? You should retrieve an updated list of those sites to *your* computer where it is checked. Imagine what they could do with this technology in let's say... China? Yes, not so much fun anymore is it? How about the feds?
How come the Firefox developers came to agree to this in the first place? I just don't get it. This seems to be the total opposite of what free software is about:(
Is there some kind of standardized performance metric for sending spam messages? Might be that supercomputers are super at that particular problem and would beat a botnet. Give me numbers people! IBM, come on, you built a machine to play chess, now build the ultimate spam bot!
The US makes really poor decisions on how to spend the tax payers money. Russia simply don't have the money in the first place. That is why the US did go to the moon, why they built way more bombers, and why they won the cold war.
The kingdom of Sweden hereby declares that we will built a five star hotel and spa on the sunny side of Mars by 2030. It will feature no russian vodka at all, but have wonderful Swedish Absolut Vodka in fountains all over the facilities. It will totally rock and beat all of your daddies space stations, OK?
The bittorrent versions comes without commercials. That is what geeks watch. Their choice isn't between ads and $1.99/episode. Their choice is between $0.00/episode bittorrent or $1.99/episode iTunes, because this is what people want:
1. They want it freakin' now, no waiting, not even for a few days (rules out DVD) 2. No ads killing the flow/suspense/illusion of the show (fuck you TV!) 3. Straight to their TV (AppleTV, xBox, WMC, HTPC, MythTV, etc)
iTunes is 2.5/3 (because of the DRM), DVD 1/3, TV 1/3...
Look what iTunes did to music, maybe it could do the same to TV series. I'd love for a production company to release their TV series directly to iTunes, no TV... (blu-ray/HD-DVD would be nice though, for rewatching it:)).
1. People work too many hours == freakin' unproductive 2. People are poorly managed (nothing to do, boring tasks, other crap)
The problem isn't the internet, nor talking to your co-workers about other stuff that work. The problem is the way we work today. It's freakin' unproductive! We are worn out and tired, and there are few things that require less effort than surfing on the web. Attack the real problem and you'll see that productivity will skyrocket, employees will be a lot happier and have a lot more spare time where they can *gasp* surf on their own, or go hiking, or learn a new language, or travel the world (lots of vacation is GOOD for productivity, not the other way around!).
Exactly. A mobile phone is far from a good game machine, for many a reasons. The biggest ones being java (C/asm in a jail would have been the way to go), the hardware (horrible buttons compare to a DS or PSP) and the size of the games. I can whip out my DS and play Final Fantasy III which will smoke whatever crap you have on a mobile phone. Nokia had the concept right with the N-Gage, the just couldn't deliver that concept even in the least.
I mean, how far is the DS from getting a skype cartridge? It as wifi, CPU, mic, speakers... heck, can I buy that? I want that! Then I can call people and play:)
Your public betas of Microsoft Vista gave me an excellent change to try out your new OS and it made me sure that I should upgrade from Windows XP, which I promptly did in January. What you probably didn't know though was that my upgrade path took me to OS X instead of Vista. The beta showed me just how horrible Vista is, just by trying to set a few things up after installing it. The dialogs / wizards were horrible, unusable, and almost worse than randomly created text file formats. It seems, by this article, that my buying decision was the correct one, and I urge all my fellow slashdotters to run an OS, of your choice, that caters to you, the user, and not enterprisy entity with the sole purpose of ripping you off.
hmm, yeah, that would actually be enough, I can stand all the rest of the stuff, opinions, smut, games, violence, etc. Just get rid of all those religious people and their shows and the crap that comes out of their mouths. THAT would be using technology to better mankind!
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The best books I've read are the ones that broke away from what I had read before. The ones that gave me a new experience, and new view on things. I really really don't want to read copies of books I've already read. I want something out of the ordinary. I'll stick to my old methods if you, Mr. Algorithm, don't mind.
In what world would the end of piracy mean that whoever pirated the games will buy them? Games are horribly expensive these days, even for those that makes good money. At least here in Sweden. What games companies need is to give people more reason to actually freaking buy something. Like higher quality, better products, and more competitive pricing. I personally think that Steam is a great step in the right direction. Heck, remove the stupid little DRM stuff they have and it would still work just as well. It's just about instant, easy to use, and actually better then pirating. So I don't mind the cost (especially since I pay in USD which makes it way cheaper).
Am I missing something here? What the heck does that mean? I haven't seen any "Written with XCode" or "Written with Emacs" stated for other products.
Does it mean that it's written in Java perhaps? Because Notes 8 is not only a total horror in terms of usability, it's real slow as well. In fact, Lotus notes is something I do my best to avoid, it's crap.
One reason could be that software engineers with more experience simply already know about these things, and have faced off against the many problems with concurrency. Threads can be hell to deal with for instance. So because of things they don't show any interest.
That being said I think that if you want to actually make use of many cores you really do have to switch to a language that can give you usage of many threads for free. Writing it manually usually ends up with complications. I find Erlang to be pretty nifty when it comes to these things for instance.
The problem is that the OS is so badly designed and un-optimized that you can't run it on that kind of hardware. There isn't any good reason why Vista should have been slower than XP really, and fancy FX should have been turned on only on premium hardware. Many other OSes can do it after all. Leopard is doing just fine on a core 2 duo with GMA 950 GFX after all...
I really hope Take Two resists this, or GTA 4 will be their last good game for sure. I really don't want that, and I think many agree with me, because that game is just so freaking good!
Why would you want to work with MS solutions? Shouldn't *they* adhere to open standards? This makes no sense at all, and must obviously come from a legal world and not a developer world. To explain myself: It is not up to everyone else to work well together with Microsoft, it is up to Microsoft to support open standards. Take Exchange for instance, any client, following the standards, should be able to connect to it, not having to know that it is special magic Microsoft stuff inside. See how nice that works? Everything should work according to that model...
There are thousands of soon to be former IBM workers who are on the job market. Any company wishing to hire in those regions should be happy.
When the company you work for treat you badly you must seriously consider if it is worth it and react with finding a job where they appreciate you. Or start your own company...
Is kinda what a lot of Open Source projects seems to do:)
Maybe cram-weeks would be a good thing for these people. Once ever second month for a week they all come in and work like crazy, and the rest of the time they can don the slippers. I'd kinda like working like that myself. Oh well, to be a millionaire and be able to code whatever I want:)
Why not just go with XHTML all the way? I always though that the best way of "fixing" all the broken and horribly written HTML out there on the web would be to build a proxy that could translate from broken HTML to nicely formed XHTML and then send that to the browser, cleaning up this whole double rendering paths in the browsers (unless I missunderstood something) etc. XHTML really could be enough for everyone, and having two standards instead of one certainly isn't working in anyones favor.
Are they really thinking that they can thwart terrorists and such with this kind of surveillance? Any nonsense sentence can be a code to act, it's been used for ages. The idea of the intelligence organization sitting in cubicles and spying from a chair is bound to fail, and has failed many times over. So this is both useless, and effectively is spying on a countries citizens. This is what Stasi did, this is classic KGB, it smells of Gestapo, is this what we call freedom? Privacy is more important than it has ever been, and we will fight for it, and declaring war on your own people because they want their privacy is just as bad as the terrorists and the mafia.
Open source people don't want to see non-open source software on their OSes and would more than likely be anything from hostile to problematic, and there would be this odd movement that wouldn't stop until they replaced whatever adobe has, and then lets it fall into neglect.
Nope, let the open source people do their thing Adobe, try to actually improve your products instead, that is a way better idea. For instance, cocoa is a good idea, carbon is not. Put the money there, or you will loose your battle both on the Microsoft AND Apple platforms.
Guys like NIN and Radiohead can go independent now because they already have made money. Prince can give away his music because he is already rich. What we need is new good acts that can stand outside of the horror that is the RIAA and still succeed. That will have some real impact. That will make way for changes. It shouldn't be about greed, it should be about music and fairness.
Maybe they should buy Netscape, Winamp, and ICQ too...
Everyone with a clue saw this a mile away, and whomever owns stock in eBay surely must all be *idiots* for not doing something (or sell fast has hell).
Oh, and btw, you can get the same service with VoIP and a bunch of other technologies. Heck, iChat out of the box gives me better long distance internet calling (quality wise).
The only question I have is where are all the idiots? I want to sell them my navel lint for a million bucks...
This is something that is OK if you choose to add it, to put it in the actual firefox deliverable is not OK, even if it is off default.
:(
Plus as people are pointing out, why the #!()%/)#(/%(#/! is it sending info *to* google? You should retrieve an updated list of those sites to *your* computer where it is checked. Imagine what they could do with this technology in let's say... China? Yes, not so much fun anymore is it? How about the feds?
How come the Firefox developers came to agree to this in the first place? I just don't get it. This seems to be the total opposite of what free software is about
Is there some kind of standardized performance metric for sending spam messages? Might be that supercomputers are super at that particular problem and would beat a botnet. Give me numbers people! IBM, come on, you built a machine to play chess, now build the ultimate spam bot!
I really wish that more of them would care about a job well done and helping humanity...
The US makes really poor decisions on how to spend the tax payers money. Russia simply don't have the money in the first place. That is why the US did go to the moon, why they built way more bombers, and why they won the cold war.
The kingdom of Sweden hereby declares that we will built a five star hotel and spa on the sunny side of Mars by 2030. It will feature no russian vodka at all, but have wonderful Swedish Absolut Vodka in fountains all over the facilities. It will totally rock and beat all of your daddies space stations, OK?
1. Someone claiming that a Ninja defeated one of them
2. Suing someone for posting on the internet
Nuff said!
The bittorrent versions comes without commercials. That is what geeks watch. Their choice isn't between ads and $1.99/episode. Their choice is between $0.00/episode bittorrent or $1.99/episode iTunes, because this is what people want:
:)).
1. They want it freakin' now, no waiting, not even for a few days (rules out DVD)
2. No ads killing the flow/suspense/illusion of the show (fuck you TV!)
3. Straight to their TV (AppleTV, xBox, WMC, HTPC, MythTV, etc)
iTunes is 2.5/3 (because of the DRM), DVD 1/3, TV 1/3...
Look what iTunes did to music, maybe it could do the same to TV series. I'd love for a production company to release their TV series directly to iTunes, no TV... (blu-ray/HD-DVD would be nice though, for rewatching it
aw screw it, rant off!
1. People work too many hours == freakin' unproductive
2. People are poorly managed (nothing to do, boring tasks, other crap)
The problem isn't the internet, nor talking to your co-workers about other stuff that work. The problem is the way we work today. It's freakin' unproductive! We are worn out and tired, and there are few things that require less effort than surfing on the web. Attack the real problem and you'll see that productivity will skyrocket, employees will be a lot happier and have a lot more spare time where they can *gasp* surf on their own, or go hiking, or learn a new language, or travel the world (lots of vacation is GOOD for productivity, not the other way around!).
Exactly. A mobile phone is far from a good game machine, for many a reasons. The biggest ones being java (C/asm in a jail would have been the way to go), the hardware (horrible buttons compare to a DS or PSP) and the size of the games. I can whip out my DS and play Final Fantasy III which will smoke whatever crap you have on a mobile phone. Nokia had the concept right with the N-Gage, the just couldn't deliver that concept even in the least.
:)
I mean, how far is the DS from getting a skype cartridge? It as wifi, CPU, mic, speakers... heck, can I buy that? I want that! Then I can call people and play
Your public betas of Microsoft Vista gave me an excellent change to try out your new OS and it made me sure that I should upgrade from Windows XP, which I promptly did in January. What you probably didn't know though was that my upgrade path took me to OS X instead of Vista. The beta showed me just how horrible Vista is, just by trying to set a few things up after installing it. The dialogs / wizards were horrible, unusable, and almost worse than randomly created text file formats. It seems, by this article, that my buying decision was the correct one, and I urge all my fellow slashdotters to run an OS, of your choice, that caters to you, the user, and not enterprisy entity with the sole purpose of ripping you off.
For you stuck with Vista, enjoy your games.
That's all for me.
...religious content.
hmm, yeah, that would actually be enough, I can stand all the rest of the stuff, opinions, smut, games, violence, etc. Just get rid of all those religious people and their shows and the crap that comes out of their mouths. THAT would be using technology to better mankind!
Or people looking really alike, I mean, how precise is this thing? What about make up? Trip to the beach? Getting your hair done? Shaving accident?
They are trying to solve a problem (I hate pin codes) by making it to a worse problem. Way to go...