Once you have a premier account (which is required to accept credit card payments AT ALL or other payments over some small limit -- $100 per month, I think) you get charged fees for all payments you receive. Even ones that don't cost paypal a thing, like a transfer from someone's paypal balance.
And improved graphics have very little to do with it.
More important is increased network support on next-gen consoles.
Even more important, though, is the reason that the console game market is already much, much larger than the PC one: developers only have to test on one (or 3, if you're going cross-platform) hardware configuration, not dozens.
The MS Natural is a good keyboard. That is the first thing I would try if you have RSI problems.
For me, though, the Natural wasn't quite good enough: my tendonitis almost went away, then came back with a vengeance after a few months.
About four years ago I got a Kinesis (with some nervousness, given the price) and my forearms have thanked me every day since.
I think some peoples' bodies are just naturally more prone to RSI problems, though, since I've had co-workers 10 years older than I, with absolutely horrible ergonomic style, who have no problems whatsoever. I think most people will be fine with a MS Natural, but if you're not, give the Kinesis a try.
I'm quite sure that these fine upstanding "Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio, medical malpractice, wrongful death, auto accident and personal injury attorneys and lawyers dedicated to vigorously representing the injured" don't have an axe to grind.
There may well be problems with.NET, but lack of dogfooding isn't one of them.
Plenty of new development is done in.NET. But their managers would deserve to be fired if they started wholesale rewriting of millions of loc of C++ just because there's a bunch of new toys to play with.
This is one of the primary functions of good technical management: preventing the engineers from rewriting every couple years in the latest and greatest.
Carnage Blender serves about 1M pages a day off a single (dual 2.4GHz xeon; 4 GB ram) machine. Those are database-backed pages, with a lot more updates than most read-only-ish sites.
That's certainly the conventional wisdom. Everywhere but/., anyway.
But...
- OO.org is already an adequate replacement for MSOffice for many organizations, and 2.0 is getting close - Crossover Office runs pretty much anything most corporate environments need, if OO.org doesn't cut it - Mono is making excellent progress on Windows Forms
This year like many before it will not be The Year Of Desktop Linux. But I wouldn't bet large sums of money against Linux having a MacOS-sized marketshare in a few years.
What evidence do you have that "there must be plenty of unemployed quality people out there eager for a job" other than "everybody knows it?"
I'll tell you, even here in Utah -- not exactly the silicon valley of the midwest -- it seems like I always have 2 or 3 friends trying to hire someone for the past year. And it's been much longer since I've known anyone good to be out of work longer than a month.
Very true. Grandparent is almost a textbook example of how overcommenting is a distraction (and imposing overcommenting on others is a shooting offense).
code in the tree, even if it's perfectly disconnected from the rest, still has to be modified when an API changes. With the 2.6 the de facto development codebase, that's not something to ignore.
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my reading comprehension was already better than that when I was 16.
Once you have a premier account (which is required to accept credit card payments AT ALL or other payments over some small limit -- $100 per month, I think) you get charged fees for all payments you receive. Even ones that don't cost paypal a thing, like a transfer from someone's paypal balance.
You do realize the application deadline was the 14th, right?
yes, everybody knows about czg these days, and it's been posted at least twice in this /. discussion alone.
and in a world where well over 80% of people still use IE, you're a damn idiot to post "it works in firefox, just get all your users to switch."
here, I'll spell it out for you
"how did we go from the $400 commodore 64 to the $4000 IBM PC within a year or two?"
no, we didn't have 1000% inflation in the early 80s
And improved graphics have very little to do with it.
More important is increased network support on next-gen consoles.
Even more important, though, is the reason that the console game market is already much, much larger than the PC one: developers only have to test on one (or 3, if you're going cross-platform) hardware configuration, not dozens.
The MS Natural is a good keyboard. That is the first thing I would try if you have RSI problems.
For me, though, the Natural wasn't quite good enough: my tendonitis almost went away, then came back with a vengeance after a few months.
About four years ago I got a Kinesis (with some nervousness, given the price) and my forearms have thanked me every day since.
I think some peoples' bodies are just naturally more prone to RSI problems, though, since I've had co-workers 10 years older than I, with absolutely horrible ergonomic style, who have no problems whatsoever. I think most people will be fine with a MS Natural, but if you're not, give the Kinesis a try.
I'm quite sure that these fine upstanding "Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio, medical malpractice, wrongful death, auto accident and personal injury attorneys and lawyers dedicated to vigorously representing the injured" don't have an axe to grind.
There may well be problems with .NET, but lack of dogfooding isn't one of them.
.NET. But their managers would deserve to be fired if they started wholesale rewriting of millions of loc of C++ just because there's a bunch of new toys to play with.
Plenty of new development is done in
This is one of the primary functions of good technical management: preventing the engineers from rewriting every couple years in the latest and greatest.
"everything but IE"
not entirely, but pretty close -- if you write compliant html/js, it has an excellent chance of working in all of {firefox, opera, safari}
Hmm... would your experience be MySQL-based? :P
Carnage Blender serves about 1M pages a day off a single (dual 2.4GHz xeon; 4 GB ram) machine. Those are database-backed pages, with a lot more updates than most read-only-ish sites.
Powered by postgresql. And a lot of tuning.
It's not exactly hard to prevent apache etc to not serve .svn directories.
It's very worth it in terms of how much easier it is to sync with the latest bugfixes in your live branch.
That's certainly the conventional wisdom. Everywhere but /., anyway.
But...
- OO.org is already an adequate replacement for MSOffice for many organizations, and 2.0 is getting close
- Crossover Office runs pretty much anything most corporate environments need, if OO.org doesn't cut it
- Mono is making excellent progress on Windows Forms
This year like many before it will not be The Year Of Desktop Linux. But I wouldn't bet large sums of money against Linux having a MacOS-sized marketshare in a few years.
watch what happens when IE7 is released
which is it? :)
"We're contractually obligated to get this game out the door so LucasArts can have it on shelves by December."
Hopefully they'll have time to do the next one right. One year is NOT a lot of time to develop a full RPG, even if you use BioWare's engine.
which makes it easy to pretend that stealing from a corp harms nobody, but it does.
among others, it harms the employees. Most slashdotters, those that actually have jobs at least, are employed by corporations.
How about you, parent?
What evidence do you have that "there must be plenty of unemployed quality people out there eager for a job" other than "everybody knows it?"
I'll tell you, even here in Utah -- not exactly the silicon valley of the midwest -- it seems like I always have 2 or 3 friends trying to hire someone for the past year. And it's been much longer since I've known anyone good to be out of work longer than a month.
add rating and browse-by-top-rated and I'm all over your site.
someone told grandparent to check it out. he did, it sucked, he never went back.
hmm...
1997: Andor announces that instead of $10/month + $2/h, it will now only charge $25/month, flat.
1998: SOE launches Everquest, charging $12/month flat.
I think I see what happened...
Very true. Grandparent is almost a textbook example of how overcommenting is a distraction (and imposing overcommenting on others is a shooting offense).
No; most people want their tablets small and light. XGA res is perfect for a 12 inch screen.
My T40 had 1400x1050 on a 14" screen and that was a little small. I'd be squinting all day with that resolution on a screen 25% smaller (by area).
News flash: hiring someone to break the law for you is illegal too.
you're still not thinking like a developer...
code in the tree, even if it's perfectly disconnected from the rest, still has to be modified when an API changes. With the 2.6 the de facto development codebase, that's not something to ignore.