I'm glad at least someone finally suggested that malware is a bigger concern than mere visual annoyance.
I'm pretty tolerant of ads, and the only ones that really bother me are the kind that pop up and obscure content. But, try to force a PDF on to my machine, and you bet I'll be angry. I have AdBlock explicitly disabled for exactly two web sites on the Internet, both of which host local ads for members only. I simply will not risk turning off AdBlock for other sites.
There's no shame in being late. Both the PS3 and 360 will still be getting games for years, are cheap, and there will be plenty of new titles going for $40 or less, to say nothing about used games. Hell, the new consoles haven't even been announced, yet.
The Wii is a dead end. The novelty ended a long time ago and support will be totally dead real soon. Given the audience, there's no profit in new Wii games.
Personally, I subscribe to the thought that you buy a console to play games you want. You don't buy consoles at launch as an "investment" in the hope that something you like will eventually come out. So, waiting for new, expensive consoles, with equally new and expensive games, is pretty silly. Just buy what's available and is worth the money. Enjoy.
But does that make them worse bankers? You can structure incentives in such a way that in order to help themselves they have to help the bank's clients.
Good bankers don't necessarily take care of their customers, but bad bankers can't keep customers. There's only so far you can push a customer before you lose them, and psychopaths often have a hard time finding out where that line is.
So, yeah, being a leader and a jerk can make the company a success, but being too big of a jerk can ruin that company. The trick is to make sure that if the company is ruined, so is the psychopath. The current economic system doesn't really work that way.
Mate uses GTK 2 but newer apps use GTK 3, so you get stuck in this world of mixed themes that looks bad.
That is not a big issue. It's a feature. A big issue would be old stuff (GTK 2) not working at all, which seems to becoming the norm with other OSes these days.
Every company bitches to high heaven about updating constantly, every piece of software does daily update checks, sometimes with a background process, and you get a billion prompts a day to update. How is it possible to even run old software unless people go out of their way to disable the idiotic, intrusive update messag...
The bad developers had atrocious load times. Filling 2MB of memory from a CD image doesn't take that long.
Driver on the PS1 had load times in excess of 30 seconds between scenes. There was more loading than actual driving. With Spyro the Dragon, load times were hardly a problem.
I remember being amazed at Gran Turismo having such short load times -- literally 2 seconds from menu to race in some cases. Then the PS3 came out, and Gran Turismo 5, with its 10+ GB HD install, has load times so long you can make a sandwich.
It's worth noting that N64 cartridges were heavily compressed, so they didn't load "instantly" like the NES/SNES carts did. Some games I tried were surprisingly slow.
Not to mention the fact that it mimics turning one page at a time. Want to flip ahead further? Drop out of the fancy animated effects and do a traditional chapter search. Way to maintain the mnemonics and illusion!
That's just a demo, though. There is no readable content on the pages.
These guys were actually doing it back in 2000. When I was working at a small photo store, we used to burn photo CDs with this software, and it let you flip through a virtual book, complete with animated corners, full-screen scaling and deformation effects, emulation of the curve of the page... the whole works.
I mean, it was slow as hell, but it looked pretty darn convincing given the video hardware at the time.
I find it odd that you would suggest music like heavy metal and jazz, when dubstep better suits the bill.
I like to call dubstep "anti-music" because to me, it seems as though the musicians are intentionally trying to decouple the rhythm and melody. It's not just the sweeping, noisy sounds that annoy me, but the whole idea that there seem to be multiple tempos all fighting with each other. Now that is truly confusing music.
Well, I for one have been experimenting with various Linux distros over 12 years, and every one of them has given me hell.
My favorite flukes were with Mandrake, where I tried to install some packages, and the manager came to a FULL STOP every time there was a dependency error. After hours of trying to select and match packages manually, I just gave up. That was after people told me such great things about package management and how Mandrake was the most user-friendly distro. More recently, I got fed up with Ubuntu, where I downloaded a LiveCD ISO. After 6 months they took all the web updates offline, so when I tried to install Ubuntu using my 6-month-old CD, attempting to connect to the update service just gave me a ton of 404 Not Found errors, forcing me to download yet another damn ISO. Oh, and that was while I was fighting with a desktop that looked like a rainbow threw up on my screen, due to a ATI graphics driver issue. I never did manage to get a new driver installed, thanks to the broken update links or the availability of a "service pack" I could download to a USB drive.
There are damn good reasons why the year of Linux on the desktop/smartphone/tablet follows the same pattern as practical nuclear fusion, and why Linux bombed so horribly on netbooks. People can talk about network drivers "just working", but the overall experience is like a root canal, especially if your distro is just a few months old. Haughty denial from the Linux community isn't going to fix the problem.
Are you saying that there's fleets of people porting new technologies to old kernels, so the old kernels can use new technology, or are you saying that upgrading to the latest kernel is always free of cost, so nobody really cares whether old distros can use the new and shiny?
And typically takes requests for files and serves them. That has to be done fast, but it's not really that hard. Web servers and routers aren't quite up to the same par as a general-purpose desktop machine designed for ordinary people who don't even know the difference between a virus and a trojan.
Realistically, most security is at the application level these days. You don't need root access to steal peoples' information. Just look at how much havoc you can cause by hitting a web browser with one clever block of JavaScript.
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Most laptops have a lot more memory than cutting edge consoles, and they have only one SODIMM slot.
Also, don't most of the consoles use serial memory these days?
I'm glad at least someone finally suggested that malware is a bigger concern than mere visual annoyance.
I'm pretty tolerant of ads, and the only ones that really bother me are the kind that pop up and obscure content. But, try to force a PDF on to my machine, and you bet I'll be angry. I have AdBlock explicitly disabled for exactly two web sites on the Internet, both of which host local ads for members only. I simply will not risk turning off AdBlock for other sites.
There's no shame in being late. Both the PS3 and 360 will still be getting games for years, are cheap, and there will be plenty of new titles going for $40 or less, to say nothing about used games. Hell, the new consoles haven't even been announced, yet.
The Wii is a dead end. The novelty ended a long time ago and support will be totally dead real soon. Given the audience, there's no profit in new Wii games.
Personally, I subscribe to the thought that you buy a console to play games you want. You don't buy consoles at launch as an "investment" in the hope that something you like will eventually come out. So, waiting for new, expensive consoles, with equally new and expensive games, is pretty silly. Just buy what's available and is worth the money. Enjoy.
But does that make them worse bankers? You can structure incentives in such a way that in order to help themselves they have to help the bank's clients.
Good bankers don't necessarily take care of their customers, but bad bankers can't keep customers. There's only so far you can push a customer before you lose them, and psychopaths often have a hard time finding out where that line is.
So, yeah, being a leader and a jerk can make the company a success, but being too big of a jerk can ruin that company. The trick is to make sure that if the company is ruined, so is the psychopath. The current economic system doesn't really work that way.
Do you think they'll patent the process, "with a computer?" I think it will be nice if only the Saudis can use this.
The supreme court has no problem with forced arbitration, so stuff like this is just the next step.
Mate uses GTK 2 but newer apps use GTK 3, so you get stuck in this world of mixed themes that looks bad.
That is not a big issue. It's a feature. A big issue would be old stuff (GTK 2) not working at all, which seems to becoming the norm with other OSes these days.
You know, I don't understand it.
Every company bitches to high heaven about updating constantly, every piece of software does daily update checks, sometimes with a background process, and you get a billion prompts a day to update. How is it possible to even run old software unless people go out of their way to disable the idiotic, intrusive update messag...
Never mind.
I don't mind aggressive update schedules. What I do mind is:
The bad developers had atrocious load times. Filling 2MB of memory from a CD image doesn't take that long.
Driver on the PS1 had load times in excess of 30 seconds between scenes. There was more loading than actual driving. With Spyro the Dragon, load times were hardly a problem.
I remember being amazed at Gran Turismo having such short load times -- literally 2 seconds from menu to race in some cases. Then the PS3 came out, and Gran Turismo 5, with its 10+ GB HD install, has load times so long you can make a sandwich.
It's worth noting that N64 cartridges were heavily compressed, so they didn't load "instantly" like the NES/SNES carts did. Some games I tried were surprisingly slow.
Not to mention the fact that it mimics turning one page at a time. Want to flip ahead further? Drop out of the fancy animated effects and do a traditional chapter search. Way to maintain the mnemonics and illusion!
That's just a demo, though. There is no readable content on the pages.
These guys were actually doing it back in 2000. When I was working at a small photo store, we used to burn photo CDs with this software, and it let you flip through a virtual book, complete with animated corners, full-screen scaling and deformation effects, emulation of the curve of the page... the whole works.
I mean, it was slow as hell, but it looked pretty darn convincing given the video hardware at the time.
I find it odd that you would suggest music like heavy metal and jazz, when dubstep better suits the bill.
I like to call dubstep "anti-music" because to me, it seems as though the musicians are intentionally trying to decouple the rhythm and melody. It's not just the sweeping, noisy sounds that annoy me, but the whole idea that there seem to be multiple tempos all fighting with each other. Now that is truly confusing music.
Yes. I did say over a period of 12 years. Things got prettier, but they haven't really gotten better.
This could very well make OpenGL the future standard.
I know I'm playing devil's advocate more than usual, but... if it weren't for DirectX, what would compete with OpelGL to ensure progress?
microsoft is making 11.1 exclusive to windows 8 because they know that gamers panned it and they're trying to force them.
I thought MS was just trying to be more like Apple. How much new shit will only work in the absolute newest version of OSX/iOS?
Well, I for one have been experimenting with various Linux distros over 12 years, and every one of them has given me hell.
My favorite flukes were with Mandrake, where I tried to install some packages, and the manager came to a FULL STOP every time there was a dependency error. After hours of trying to select and match packages manually, I just gave up. That was after people told me such great things about package management and how Mandrake was the most user-friendly distro. More recently, I got fed up with Ubuntu, where I downloaded a LiveCD ISO. After 6 months they took all the web updates offline, so when I tried to install Ubuntu using my 6-month-old CD, attempting to connect to the update service just gave me a ton of 404 Not Found errors, forcing me to download yet another damn ISO. Oh, and that was while I was fighting with a desktop that looked like a rainbow threw up on my screen, due to a ATI graphics driver issue. I never did manage to get a new driver installed, thanks to the broken update links or the availability of a "service pack" I could download to a USB drive.
There are damn good reasons why the year of Linux on the desktop/smartphone/tablet follows the same pattern as practical nuclear fusion, and why Linux bombed so horribly on netbooks. People can talk about network drivers "just working", but the overall experience is like a root canal, especially if your distro is just a few months old. Haughty denial from the Linux community isn't going to fix the problem.
Are you saying that there's fleets of people porting new technologies to old kernels, so the old kernels can use new technology, or are you saying that upgrading to the latest kernel is always free of cost, so nobody really cares whether old distros can use the new and shiny?
I found out the hard way, many times, that batteries that old should be replaced before they die.
Those black, crusty stains on my wooden dresser, and the corroded stereo I dropped off at the recycling center, weren't due to water damage.
They're just testing it wrong.
And typically takes requests for files and serves them. That has to be done fast, but it's not really that hard. Web servers and routers aren't quite up to the same par as a general-purpose desktop machine designed for ordinary people who don't even know the difference between a virus and a trojan.
Realistically, most security is at the application level these days. You don't need root access to steal peoples' information. Just look at how much havoc you can cause by hitting a web browser with one clever block of JavaScript.
So, I now have to visit a web site to configure my computer?
Your post is informative in so many different ways.
PPC to x86 Apple just turned around and spit in everyone's [existing ppc userbase] face
Don't forget the transition from 32-bit to 64-bit. That was a sudden smack in the face, too, for no other reason than, "we just felt like it."
Dumping a totally different ISA makes at least a little sense.
Cue links to defiant comments from a year ago, where people swore up and down that Apple will never ever kill OSX.