It seems to me that the vast majority of the people propagating this concept that we should all be waging war against Microsoft aren't the ones actually doing any coding. From what I can tell most of the Linux kernel devs and pretty much any of the devs from the BSDs couldn't give a shit less what Microsoft is doing.
We need to unite against Microsoft, the dominant power.
No, we don't have to do any such thing. Why is it that just because someone develops an alternate OS that it has to be used as a tool to fight against Microsoft? Not everyone who doesn't use Windows is doing so because they are trying to fight against Microsoft. This always comes up whenever someone mentions the many distros of Linux that everyone should unite cause we are supposed to be waging some "epic" battle against Microsoft, but many of us just don't give a shit about your stupid "war". Take your stupid battles somewhere else and leave the rest of us out of it so we can get on with coding.
There is nothing in this decision which stops an OEM from installing any browser they want on top of the OS just like they do with countless other things. This decision has to do with breaking the integration of IE with the Windows OS not that an OEM can't preinstall a browser (even IE) on to a box that they sell. Please tell me you aren't really that daft.
And yet in other countries, as TFA also points out, it is competition and NOT regulation which has delivered high speeds at low prices or 13 cents in Japan and 33 cents in France as opposed to $3 in the United States per million bits/second.
No, what got those inexpensive broadband speeds in places like Japan, South Korea, etc are huge government investments in infrastructure spending on getting a wide coverage for broadband. If such investments weren't ever made they wouldn't be as much ahead of the game as they are.
Actually the article had an anti-net neutrality bent which would put it against many slashdotters.
The House bill also calls for "open access." This phrase can include hugely controversial topics such as net neutrality, which in its most radical version would bar providers from charging different amounts for different kinds of broadband content. Now that video, conferencing and other heavy-bandwidth applications are growing in popularity, price needs to be one tool for allocating scarce resources. Analysts at Medley Global Advisors warn that if these provisions remain in the bill, "it will keep most broadband providers out of the applicant pool" for the funds intended specifically for them.
This is more reasons why people should use Ninnle Linux. It is licensed under the superior NPL or Ninnle Public License. Just another innovation from Ninnle Labs.
Well if it weren't for the phosphor lag, plasma would be pretty much a perfect replacement for CRT. And in some of the higher end Pioneer Kuro Elites it is very very hard to spot (though you are paying upwords of 5-6k for one of them).
No, plasmas have near instantaneous response times that are pretty much identical to what you get on a CRT. The issues you get with a plasma is called "phosphor lag" which has to do with the three colors not quite lining up perfectly and it gives you a trailing image of the colors. It's especially noticeable on high contrast edges or if things are moving really quickly. It can be especially noticeable in gaming, but at least IMO it's much less annoying an artifact than the ghosting, smearing, and horrible motion resolution you get with LCDs (and yes they are present even on 120hz LCDs before someone brings that up).
No, I never said such a notion was a good thing. I was just explaining the reason why Hulu doesn't allow content to be streamed outside of the US. It's because they don't want to have to file for bankruptcy after getting sued into oblivion by companies like Fox.
Hulu is the exact same as the espn you despise. Instead of blocking people based on ISP they block based on country.
That's because they only have licenses to distribute that content within the US. To distribute it to people outside the US would be copyright infringement and would get their asses sued into the ground by the big media companies. That would definitely be a brilliant plan on their part.
But I guess that's only evil if you offer ISPs a group deal.
There's a big difference between voluntarily choosing to get a pay membership at a website, and having an involuntary fee hoisted on you for a paid membership that you neither want or use.
Qt is an application framework. It fixes every gripe developers have with C++.
Except for the fact that you are still programming in C++ which is bloated, monstrosity of a language.
Qt promotes clean and well-developed code that is easily ported to Windows, X11 (Linux et al), Mac, and Embedded (Linux sans-X11).
It doesn't seem to promote to well considering the amount of crappy C++ code written with Qt there is floating around.
Nokia is moving in to crush Java.
Considering Java's biggest adopted base is in server-side programming, I really doubt Qt is going to do all of jack and shit to change that. I seriously doubt many of those people writing server-side apps in Java would even have a use for Qt in their work. Sure it might pull away some of the desktop app developers, but they have been pretty much the minority when it came to the adoption of Java anyway.
The Myth of the Flat Earth or Flat Earth mythology refers to the modern misconception that the prevailing cosmological view during the Middle Ages saw the Earth as flat, instead of spherical. During the early Middle Ages, many scholars maintained the spherical viewpoint first expressed by the Ancient Greeks. By the 14th century, belief in a flat earth among the educated was essentially dead. Flat-Earth models were in fact held at earlier (pre-medieval) times, before the spherical model became commonly accepted in Hellenistic astronomy.
Should be expect yet another cellular radio network? Is that a good thing, given that health concerns have not been laid to rest completely?
Sine when have they not been put to rest? Just because a bunch of loonies disagree with the science that debunked their claims doesn't mean their concerns haven't been put to rest.
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Lots of games won't load at all
Such as? The GP was asking for you to list specific games that don't load.
How long have you been friends with Ballmer?
It seems to me that the vast majority of the people propagating this concept that we should all be waging war against Microsoft aren't the ones actually doing any coding. From what I can tell most of the Linux kernel devs and pretty much any of the devs from the BSDs couldn't give a shit less what Microsoft is doing.
We need to unite against Microsoft, the dominant power.
No, we don't have to do any such thing. Why is it that just because someone develops an alternate OS that it has to be used as a tool to fight against Microsoft? Not everyone who doesn't use Windows is doing so because they are trying to fight against Microsoft. This always comes up whenever someone mentions the many distros of Linux that everyone should unite cause we are supposed to be waging some "epic" battle against Microsoft, but many of us just don't give a shit about your stupid "war". Take your stupid battles somewhere else and leave the rest of us out of it so we can get on with coding.
There is nothing in this decision which stops an OEM from installing any browser they want on top of the OS just like they do with countless other things. This decision has to do with breaking the integration of IE with the Windows OS not that an OEM can't preinstall a browser (even IE) on to a box that they sell. Please tell me you aren't really that daft.
I hope Obama has a plan to fix our sagging asses!
fix'd!
And yet in other countries, as TFA also points out, it is competition and NOT regulation which has delivered high speeds at low prices or 13 cents in Japan and 33 cents in France as opposed to $3 in the United States per million bits/second.
No, what got those inexpensive broadband speeds in places like Japan, South Korea, etc are huge government investments in infrastructure spending on getting a wide coverage for broadband. If such investments weren't ever made they wouldn't be as much ahead of the game as they are.
The House bill also calls for "open access." This phrase can include hugely controversial topics such as net neutrality, which in its most radical version would bar providers from charging different amounts for different kinds of broadband content. Now that video, conferencing and other heavy-bandwidth applications are growing in popularity, price needs to be one tool for allocating scarce resources. Analysts at Medley Global Advisors warn that if these provisions remain in the bill, "it will keep most broadband providers out of the applicant pool" for the funds intended specifically for them.
China?
Hans Reiser struck again?
Do they really expect professional penetration testers to use a third party to attack production networks?
That's what she said!
I'm pretty sure GP was being sarcastic...
This is more reasons why people should use Ninnle Linux. It is licensed under the superior NPL or Ninnle Public License. Just another innovation from Ninnle Labs.
No, it's you that don't and need a bit of refresher in US case law. This exact argument was already tried and thrown out by the circuit court it was appealed to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_v._International_Business_Machines_Corp._et_al.
Well if it weren't for the phosphor lag, plasma would be pretty much a perfect replacement for CRT. And in some of the higher end Pioneer Kuro Elites it is very very hard to spot (though you are paying upwords of 5-6k for one of them).
Existing flash memory takes tens of microseconds.
No, plasmas have near instantaneous response times that are pretty much identical to what you get on a CRT. The issues you get with a plasma is called "phosphor lag" which has to do with the three colors not quite lining up perfectly and it gives you a trailing image of the colors. It's especially noticeable on high contrast edges or if things are moving really quickly. It can be especially noticeable in gaming, but at least IMO it's much less annoying an artifact than the ghosting, smearing, and horrible motion resolution you get with LCDs (and yes they are present even on 120hz LCDs before someone brings that up).
No, I never said such a notion was a good thing. I was just explaining the reason why Hulu doesn't allow content to be streamed outside of the US. It's because they don't want to have to file for bankruptcy after getting sued into oblivion by companies like Fox.
Hulu is the exact same as the espn you despise. Instead of blocking people based on ISP they block based on country.
That's because they only have licenses to distribute that content within the US. To distribute it to people outside the US would be copyright infringement and would get their asses sued into the ground by the big media companies. That would definitely be a brilliant plan on their part.
But I guess that's only evil if you offer ISPs a group deal.
There's a big difference between voluntarily choosing to get a pay membership at a website, and having an involuntary fee hoisted on you for a paid membership that you neither want or use.
Nope, it loads just fine.
C++ is bloated?
Yes, it is. Have you ever used the language?
Please name a non-interpretted/bytecode language that supports OOP and is less bloated.
That other languages may be bloated as well, doesn't mean that C++ is any less bloated.
Qt is an application framework. It fixes every gripe developers have with C++.
Except for the fact that you are still programming in C++ which is bloated, monstrosity of a language.
Qt promotes clean and well-developed code that is easily ported to Windows, X11 (Linux et al), Mac, and Embedded (Linux sans-X11).
It doesn't seem to promote to well considering the amount of crappy C++ code written with Qt there is floating around.
Nokia is moving in to crush Java.
Considering Java's biggest adopted base is in server-side programming, I really doubt Qt is going to do all of jack and shit to change that. I seriously doubt many of those people writing server-side apps in Java would even have a use for Qt in their work. Sure it might pull away some of the desktop app developers, but they have been pretty much the minority when it came to the adoption of Java anyway.
just saying that there was a time the people were convinced the world was flat.
This is a popular misconception that is spread about but is far from being true. I suggest you give this a good read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_Flat_Earth
To quote just a small section:
The Myth of the Flat Earth or Flat Earth mythology refers to the modern misconception that the prevailing cosmological view during the Middle Ages saw the Earth as flat, instead of spherical. During the early Middle Ages, many scholars maintained the spherical viewpoint first expressed by the Ancient Greeks. By the 14th century, belief in a flat earth among the educated was essentially dead. Flat-Earth models were in fact held at earlier (pre-medieval) times, before the spherical model became commonly accepted in Hellenistic astronomy.
Should be expect yet another cellular radio network? Is that a good thing, given that health concerns have not been laid to rest completely?
Sine when have they not been put to rest? Just because a bunch of loonies disagree with the science that debunked their claims doesn't mean their concerns haven't been put to rest.