> Dolphins "cute and playful"? Yeah, maybe when they've been subjugated by their human captors.
No. They seem to behave in the wild that way too.
They are much like their Orca cousins in this respect.
Humpbacks are big showoffs too.
This is all stuff you could see for yourself if you actually bothered to interact with these creatures on their own terms in their own environment. Or you could have simply Googled this stuff. These aren't exactly state secrets we're talking about here.
It only takes about 30 generations of selective breeding to completely domesticate a wild canine. So hundreds of years of "co-evolution" is more than enough. It's not the amount of time, it's the population diversity and the selection pressure.
Evolution is not instant soup. You don't just "add time" as if you were adding water.
They aren't the same thing. The only thing anyone views them as the same is the fact that a certain contingent of corporate lobbyists has convinced everyone into equating every worthless scrap of paper with something scribbled onto it as the equivalent of Dickens or Shakespeare.
Never underestimate the tendency of a large corporation to do something mean and stupid just to save a few pennies. Someone is probably going to get a bonus for shutting off some servers and doing some creative accounting.
Chances are that no extra effort has to be undertaken to keep these games online beyond "do nothing" and "just let it be".
He also shouldn't be fixating on any particular RDBMS or even any particular database type. He should be trying to go beyond what he's already done. Even in his own little self-described niche, there's more stuff to learn.
...agreed. There are plenty of people that have pretty looking resumes that they can't back up at all. The most rudimentary testing will expose these people.
Latin and ancient Greek was taught because most of the great works were ancient and written in those languages. Only unitl the end of the dark ages did European academia recover enough to make native language works more relevant. Also, Latin was still used by what remaining social order existed. It was not quite dead.
Even today, you might want to learn some other language in order to gain better access to academic works in their original form.
The only reason that a Roku can't feed your sports addiction TODAY is old contracts between the incumbent players and bizarre government regulations that no longer make any sense.
Replacing conventional cars with flying cars is another matter entirely.
CONSUMER flying cars are mired in all sorts of non-technical issues that have no equivalent when it comes to reusing rocket boosters that are only operated by GOVERNMENT agencies.
> Microsoft spend vast amounts of time and money doing user testing and QA and usability polishing
Yet they still managed to subject everyone to Ribbon and Metro and sent a lot of long time users running for the hills.
This idea that "payment translates into quality" is certainly bogus for Microsoft. They haven't had to "sing for their dinner" for a very long time. They can just happily take advantage of entrenched market dominance that may just be older than you are.
If there is in fact a "flagship brand" that has someone else nipping at their heels you might have a point. Although more likely than not, any such "flagship brand" inspires the same mindless loyalty you're showing here.
It's pretty much as proprietary as iTunes is. Only Amazon brand Android devices support it. If you have any stuff bought from Amazon you are just SOL if you want to use it on your Android phone.
On the other hand, ripped physical media doesn't have that problem.
...and I am going to strip all of that stuff out at the earliest opportunity.
Not only is that stuff pointless fluff, it also makes each disc it's own special unique snowflake. So you no longer have a common interface anymore. You have a different interface for every piece of media you own.
That's not even getting into unskippable ads.
Stripping all of that out and ending up with a UI more like Tivo or Netflix is much more consumer friendly.
Quite. There's a lot of stuff that I got from the Walmart bargain bin in years past that's on the streaming services now. That doesn't mean I'm not interested in seeing the latest and greatest in all of it's 50G glory.
It just means that I may not bother with back catalog items anymore.
Even then, there's the problem of stuff "expiring" from the catalog of a streaming service.
Amazon still sells this stuff. So does Walmart and Costco and Best Buy.
When THAT actually starts to change, you might be onto something.
While it's true that PC software is a hard to find item in today's retail environment, music and movies on physical media are still around. Vinyl is even making a comeback.
It's streaming video that's the niche. That's why any growth can look "explosive" and otherwise more impressive than it really is.
You just have to remember that you will get a distorted view of reality from here in the echo chamber.
I haven't used physical media directly for a rather long time. Any time I do, I remember why it is that I originally stopped. I can certainly see why someone might view streaming video as less bothersome.
Hollywood spends far too much time fixating on thieves while kicking their paying customer in the balls.
>> On Linux, OpenGL wins 100% complete, hands-down. Because DirectX can't even run, let alone come close on performance. > > This is the illogical thinking of a fanboy. There can be no winner or loser if there is only one choice. You can't have a competition with only one competitor.
What competition? Everything competes with the desktop.
Game consoles compete with the desktop. Phones and tablets compete with the desktop. To a limited degree, even MacOS even competes with Windows on the desktop.
Yours is the fanboy logic. A real PC games developer is losing sleep over all of the other things that could be competing against him for your time. Doesn't even matter if it's rival game platforms.
I dunno. I see Windows games running on Windows taking forever to load. I see games on other platforms also taking forever to load. It's kind of hard to see the reason to get excited here. The usual propaganda that Windows is some shang-gri-la ideal just doesn't wash here.
> That's the problem. As I was googling around one of the staff at adobe mentioned last year that Linux lacked standardized APIs on a forum thread regarding photoshop on Linux.
Yes. And that post included obvious bullshit. While the "professionals" were bitching and moaning, the "hobbyists" in the community were simply taking care of business and doing all of the things that the "professionals" at Adobe want to declare is impossible.
Whiners that don't want to be bothered can always find excuses to distract from their own failings.
WinDOS has never been a particularly platform for anyone. It gained an advantage and then dominance because of the self-perpetuating notion that everyone used it. Thus it's easier to make a buck.
"Being better" never helped any alternative including MacOS. It's always about who has the biggest herd and thus the largest market.
> Lack of games is a factor, but the other factor is games just aren't as good.
That's just nonsense. It's the same games running with the same levels of performance (or better). This is how it is now and how it was even back in the dark ages with Loki.
Being able to flee from an Intel GPU is far more relevant than what OS you're running.
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> Dolphins "cute and playful"? Yeah, maybe when they've been subjugated by their human captors.
No. They seem to behave in the wild that way too.
They are much like their Orca cousins in this respect.
Humpbacks are big showoffs too.
This is all stuff you could see for yourself if you actually bothered to interact with these creatures on their own terms in their own environment. Or you could have simply Googled this stuff. These aren't exactly state secrets we're talking about here.
> Dogs are wolves? Whales are poop-breathing fish?
>
> Is this really the state of public education these days?
Clearly not someone that was ever forced to read any Jack London.
Yes. Dogs are devolved wolves. This is more readily apparent in some breeds. Some dogs are still crossbred with wild wolf stock to this day.
There is also an originating species that has been defined for the domesticated cat.
It only takes about 30 generations of selective breeding to completely domesticate a wild canine. So hundreds of years of "co-evolution" is more than enough. It's not the amount of time, it's the population diversity and the selection pressure.
Evolution is not instant soup. You don't just "add time" as if you were adding water.
It takes a special brand of twisted logic to conflate a PAYING CUSTOMER with a "freetard".
Computer game: published creative work.
Medical records: private papers.
They aren't the same thing. The only thing anyone views them as the same is the fact that a certain contingent of corporate lobbyists has convinced everyone into equating every worthless scrap of paper with something scribbled onto it as the equivalent of Dickens or Shakespeare.
Never underestimate the tendency of a large corporation to do something mean and stupid just to save a few pennies. Someone is probably going to get a bonus for shutting off some servers and doing some creative accounting.
Chances are that no extra effort has to be undertaken to keep these games online beyond "do nothing" and "just let it be".
He also shouldn't be fixating on any particular RDBMS or even any particular database type. He should be trying to go beyond what he's already done. Even in his own little self-described niche, there's more stuff to learn.
...agreed. There are plenty of people that have pretty looking resumes that they can't back up at all. The most rudimentary testing will expose these people.
Engineers realize that they need reference material and should not try and pretend that they are infallible.
Silicon Valley brogrammer nonsense doesn't impress them.
Latin and ancient Greek was taught because most of the great works were ancient and written in those languages. Only unitl the end of the dark ages did European academia recover enough to make native language works more relevant. Also, Latin was still used by what remaining social order existed. It was not quite dead.
Even today, you might want to learn some other language in order to gain better access to academic works in their original form.
The specialty channels that the current bundling model are supposed to preserve are already hard at work destroying themselves.
So the fatalistic hysterics are pointless.
> Unbundling will not happen anytime soon
Unbundling has already happened. You just have to ditch cable.
The only reason that a Roku can't feed your sports addiction TODAY is old contracts between the incumbent players and bizarre government regulations that no longer make any sense.
Building a flying car is easy enough.
Replacing conventional cars with flying cars is another matter entirely.
CONSUMER flying cars are mired in all sorts of non-technical issues that have no equivalent when it comes to reusing rocket boosters that are only operated by GOVERNMENT agencies.
>> Microsoft software just doesn't seem to be enterprise ready.
> As opposed to what, exactly?
IBM. Sun. DEC.
Just about any other server brand you can care to name is more enterprise ready once you get beyond secretary terminals.
> Microsoft spend vast amounts of time and money doing user testing and QA and usability polishing
Yet they still managed to subject everyone to Ribbon and Metro and sent a lot of long time users running for the hills.
This idea that "payment translates into quality" is certainly bogus for Microsoft. They haven't had to "sing for their dinner" for a very long time. They can just happily take advantage of entrenched market dominance that may just be older than you are.
If there is in fact a "flagship brand" that has someone else nipping at their heels you might have a point. Although more likely than not, any such "flagship brand" inspires the same mindless loyalty you're showing here.
Streaming from Amazon doesn't "just work".
It's pretty much as proprietary as iTunes is. Only Amazon brand Android devices support it. If you have any stuff bought from Amazon you are just SOL if you want to use it on your Android phone.
On the other hand, ripped physical media doesn't have that problem.
It's like an iTunes file without the DRM.
...and I am going to strip all of that stuff out at the earliest opportunity.
Not only is that stuff pointless fluff, it also makes each disc it's own special unique snowflake. So you no longer have a common interface anymore. You have a different interface for every piece of media you own.
That's not even getting into unskippable ads.
Stripping all of that out and ending up with a UI more like Tivo or Netflix is much more consumer friendly.
Quite. There's a lot of stuff that I got from the Walmart bargain bin in years past that's on the streaming services now. That doesn't mean I'm not interested in seeing the latest and greatest in all of it's 50G glory.
It just means that I may not bother with back catalog items anymore.
Even then, there's the problem of stuff "expiring" from the catalog of a streaming service.
Amazon still sells this stuff. So does Walmart and Costco and Best Buy.
When THAT actually starts to change, you might be onto something.
While it's true that PC software is a hard to find item in today's retail environment, music and movies on physical media are still around. Vinyl is even making a comeback.
It's streaming video that's the niche. That's why any growth can look "explosive" and otherwise more impressive than it really is.
You just have to remember that you will get a distorted view of reality from here in the echo chamber.
I haven't used physical media directly for a rather long time. Any time I do, I remember why it is that I originally stopped. I can certainly see why someone might view streaming video as less bothersome.
Hollywood spends far too much time fixating on thieves while kicking their paying customer in the balls.
>> On Linux, OpenGL wins 100% complete, hands-down. Because DirectX can't even run, let alone come close on performance.
>
> This is the illogical thinking of a fanboy. There can be no winner or loser if there is only one choice. You can't have a competition with only one competitor.
What competition? Everything competes with the desktop.
Game consoles compete with the desktop.
Phones and tablets compete with the desktop.
To a limited degree, even MacOS even competes with Windows on the desktop.
Yours is the fanboy logic. A real PC games developer is losing sleep over all of the other things that could be competing against him for your time. Doesn't even matter if it's rival game platforms.
I dunno. I see Windows games running on Windows taking forever to load. I see games on other platforms also taking forever to load. It's kind of hard to see the reason to get excited here. The usual propaganda that Windows is some shang-gri-la ideal just doesn't wash here.
> That's the problem. As I was googling around one of the staff at adobe mentioned last year that Linux lacked standardized APIs on a forum thread regarding photoshop on Linux.
Yes. And that post included obvious bullshit. While the "professionals" were bitching and moaning, the "hobbyists" in the community were simply taking care of business and doing all of the things that the "professionals" at Adobe want to declare is impossible.
Whiners that don't want to be bothered can always find excuses to distract from their own failings.
WinDOS has never been a particularly platform for anyone. It gained an advantage and then dominance because of the self-perpetuating notion that everyone used it. Thus it's easier to make a buck.
"Being better" never helped any alternative including MacOS. It's always about who has the biggest herd and thus the largest market.
> Lack of games is a factor, but the other factor is games just aren't as good.
That's just nonsense. It's the same games running with the same levels of performance (or better). This is how it is now and how it was even back in the dark ages with Loki.
Being able to flee from an Intel GPU is far more relevant than what OS you're running.