There are roads with 80 mph (or more) speed limits in Argentina, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France (except in the rain), Germany (no limit), Greece, Hungary, Italy (except in adverse weather), Kosovo, Lithuania (not year-round), Macedonia, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine (except motorcycles so you are right about that), United Arab Emirates and the United States.
Incorrect. It is not illegal to drive over 80 mph on roads. It is illegal to drive over 80 mph where the speed limit is below 80 mph. Not all roads have speed limit under 80 mph.
That I agree with. I'm a bicyclist, I use a rear view mirror mounted on my hazard glasses, and I'm pretty good about maintaining situational awareness. You get that way after pedalling for 45+ years. But there was still one time when a silent Prius sneaked up on me in a parking lot. Really startled me, like finding a rattlesnake in a mailbox.
Cars and motorbikes should make a little noise. Not very much, but a little. (Good bicyclists know how to say "behind you", "on your left", etc).
For even more safety, bicycles should also make noise.
You forgot to specify where. There are plenty of jurisdictions with more reasonable speed limits. There are also race tracks. There are also areas without traffic laws.
Magazines do still exist. They fill a niche for those that want to read a long-form ad-free article.
Umm i have not seen a magazine that didn't insert ads in their content on the pages for decades. Sure they dont popup in your face, or play a movie, but they are still there.
Magazines do still exist. They fill a niche for those that want to read a long-form ad-free article. Not every article in our life needs to be a sound-bite or mutli-page hit-trap or digital-tracking-adware or regurgitated listicle or blog of J. Q. Random or have audio and video ads in the gutter. For the moment, the reading public does not seem to be willing to pay a subscription fee for a website so for the moment good journalism and literature magazines still sell subscriptions that include digital and print publications. Sometime soon in the future the model will change but good journalism and literature is not free nor have ads been sufficient to support them. Until we find a business model that works, we will make due with a hybrid system.
That's true, but just because they could does not mean they (or someone else) will. My reading of the announcement is that Amazon feel this is a selling point.
I do. Ten years ago when I was a teenager and thought acceleration is everything I'd not have but really they're more than enough for driving in the US city I drive in.
With Qt you can develop for desktop or mobile, with a GUI or not. Once you become familiar with Qt you can also fallback to C++ if you need the performance.
Even with C++, Qt is an extremely bloated API before you even start coding.
An empty window: - Qt = 50+mb memory usage - FLTK = 3+ mb memory usage - Windows API 1mb memory usage
Dont get me wrong, Qt is extremely fast to create programs and a refreshing change of simplicity to work with. But it shouldn't be the platform of choice if you consider performance an important factor in your coding practices.
For those three cases, are you measuring memory allocated by the process under measurement only or does that include resources third-parties allocate on the process's behalf?
A who? Whatever it is it has already failed because no one knows about it.
Just because you haven't heard of it does not mean that billions of people haven't heard of it. Measuring success or failure based on what's successful in your immediate circle is a pretty narrow definition of success.
My %loved_one is not part of the stupid masses... er, 'general populace'.
You do realize that general populace means people without any descriptors and by definition includes everyone. As opposed to specific populace, such as women, people taller than 60 cm, people under 14 years old, etc. Every %loved_one is a member of the general populace. This of general populace as the set U.
Buy software for $295 and use it for 10 years, company gets $295.
I don't think any software I use is ten years old. I don't feel like I must have the most recent version of everything I use, but ten years is a long time for software. Actually, I do still run nethack, which is more than ten years old.
the second one applies to all games, regardless if they use steam or not.
Claiming all makes this easy to refute: Baldur's Gate. If they were to change to EULA, it would not prevent me playing the game if I were to not accept the changes.
That's nice. Can I do that without Steam running? I want to protect against the case of them changing the EULA terms and I disagree to the changes and don't want to just close my account and lose access to these games. Like, can I basically use Steam to download my game, delete Steam and keep my games working?
Uber is playing by the rules (at least in the UK). In London you need a license to drive a cab and that license comes with various rules but also various benefits. Cabs are allowed to stop for passengers who flag them in the street, which Uber drivers and other services aren't. In the past this was fine with cabbies because it wasn't easy to get a non-cab quickly. Now with services like Uber it is often cheaper to do so.
In London cab licenses are for 12 months. If Cab drivers think that they would be better off driving for Uber then they are free to stop paying for a license and to do so.
If that's the case then I have no understanding of the situation.
Is Steam stopping me from playing the games I purchased? No? Then I don't really care. Steam doesn't get in my way, and is quite convenient for installing a game on multiple computers (plus I don't have to keep track of disks). Find something worth complaining about.
Yes Steam is probably the best, most consumer-friendly DRM distribution system around, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't care at all. Unless you are happy having all your games rendered unplayable if Steam goes offline / Valve goes out of business. In the scale of a year that's unlikely, but in 10? 50? Quite apart from the legitimate short-term disadvantages, I think in 50 years we will look back on this period of time in the same way we view the lack of archiving of television in the mid-20th century, as a massive unnecessary black hole in our cultural history.
Worse, you run the risk of having all your Steam games unplayable if they accuse you of cheating. If they do that, you have no legal recourse. Also, you run the risk of having your EULA for all your games altered. Your option, should you not want the new terms, is to close your Steam account and lose access to all your purchases.
The second one is the deal breaker for me. I do not go an buy something and agree that they can take it away from me whenever they want and I can do nothing about it. That's just a really stupid deal to make. If they don't plan on doing it, then why make you agree to it? That's really scummy.
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Roads.
There are roads with 80 mph (or more) speed limits in Argentina, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France (except in the rain), Germany (no limit), Greece, Hungary, Italy (except in adverse weather), Kosovo, Lithuania (not year-round), Macedonia, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine (except motorcycles so you are right about that), United Arab Emirates and the United States.
Note the inclusion of the United States.
Roads.
Incorrect. It is not illegal to drive over 80 mph on roads. It is illegal to drive over 80 mph where the speed limit is below 80 mph. Not all roads have speed limit under 80 mph.
That I agree with. I'm a bicyclist, I use a rear view mirror mounted on my hazard glasses, and I'm pretty good about maintaining situational awareness. You get that way after pedalling for 45+ years. But there was still one time when a silent Prius sneaked up on me in a parking lot. Really startled me, like finding a rattlesnake in a mailbox.
Cars and motorbikes should make a little noise. Not very much, but a little. (Good bicyclists know how to say "behind you", "on your left", etc).
For even more safety, bicycles should also make noise.
Going beyond 80mph is illegal.
You forgot to specify where. There are plenty of jurisdictions with more reasonable speed limits. There are also race tracks. There are also areas without traffic laws.
Magazines do still exist. They fill a niche for those that want to read a long-form ad-free article.
Umm i have not seen a magazine that didn't insert ads in their content on the pages for decades. Sure they dont popup in your face, or play a movie, but they are still there.
You need to look at more magazines.
"They fill a niche for those that want to read a long-form ad-free article"
Uh, have you seen magazines these days? You've got half a column of story/review, and the rest of the two pages ends up being advertisements.
I have. They're not all like that.
Magazines do still exist. They fill a niche for those that want to read a long-form ad-free article. Not every article in our life needs to be a sound-bite or mutli-page hit-trap or digital-tracking-adware or regurgitated listicle or blog of J. Q. Random or have audio and video ads in the gutter. For the moment, the reading public does not seem to be willing to pay a subscription fee for a website so for the moment good journalism and literature magazines still sell subscriptions that include digital and print publications. Sometime soon in the future the model will change but good journalism and literature is not free nor have ads been sufficient to support them. Until we find a business model that works, we will make due with a hybrid system.
Your dissent seems rather consenting.
I use it every day.
Nothing they can't put in a normal app.
That's true, but just because they could does not mean they (or someone else) will. My reading of the announcement is that Amazon feel this is a selling point.
I don't think google.com is a reference. It indexes a variety of information. It does not vet the information.
Bzzt. The signal is encrypted even for the broadcast channels, so you need to pirate
Funny how the same signal is flying through my flat unencrypted. Why bother with the cable, I get the one useful channel over the air anyhow.
I think maybe performance has improved. I have a hard time starting from a full stop and not squealing my tires a lot of times.
Yes, the TDI performance is perfectly reasonable. I was comparing it to the gasoline GTI I had as a teenager which had a lot more.
But do you like the TDI and diesel performance?
I do. Ten years ago when I was a teenager and thought acceleration is everything I'd not have but really they're more than enough for driving in the US city I drive in.
With Qt you can develop for desktop or mobile, with a GUI or not. Once you become familiar with Qt you can also fallback to C++ if you need the performance.
Even with C++, Qt is an extremely bloated API before you even start coding.
An empty window:
- Qt = 50+mb memory usage
- FLTK = 3+ mb memory usage
- Windows API 1mb memory usage
Dont get me wrong, Qt is extremely fast to create programs and a refreshing change of simplicity to work with.
But it shouldn't be the platform of choice if you consider performance an important factor in your coding practices.
For those three cases, are you measuring memory allocated by the process under measurement only or does that include resources third-parties allocate on the process's behalf?
"a great phone - at least a Xiaomi "
A who? Whatever it is it has already failed because no one knows about it.
Just because you haven't heard of it does not mean that billions of people haven't heard of it. Measuring success or failure based on what's successful in your immediate circle is a pretty narrow definition of success.
My %loved_one is not part of the stupid masses... er, 'general populace'.
You do realize that general populace means people without any descriptors and by definition includes everyone. As opposed to specific populace, such as women, people taller than 60 cm, people under 14 years old, etc. Every %loved_one is a member of the general populace. This of general populace as the set U.
Buy software for $295 and use it for 10 years, company gets $295.
I don't think any software I use is ten years old. I don't feel like I must have the most recent version of everything I use, but ten years is a long time for software. Actually, I do still run nethack, which is more than ten years old.
You must be new to discussing on the internet. You're supposed to claim I'm lying and insult me ;)
Why? You presented pretty clear evidence that I failed to consider. Rather than waste both of our times, I cede the point.
the second one applies to all games, regardless if they use steam or not.
Claiming all makes this easy to refute: Baldur's Gate. If they were to change to EULA, it would not prevent me playing the game if I were to not accept the changes.
That's helpful. Thank you.
That's nice. Can I do that without Steam running? I want to protect against the case of them changing the EULA terms and I disagree to the changes and don't want to just close my account and lose access to these games. Like, can I basically use Steam to download my game, delete Steam and keep my games working?
Uber is playing by the rules (at least in the UK). In London you need a license to drive a cab and that license comes with various rules but also various benefits. Cabs are allowed to stop for passengers who flag them in the street, which Uber drivers and other services aren't. In the past this was fine with cabbies because it wasn't easy to get a non-cab quickly. Now with services like Uber it is often cheaper to do so.
In London cab licenses are for 12 months. If Cab drivers think that they would be better off driving for Uber then they are free to stop paying for a license and to do so.
If that's the case then I have no understanding of the situation.
Steam is DRM. If I launch game A on machine A, then attempt to launch game B on machine B, can I? Last I tried, I couldn't.
Is Steam stopping me from playing the games I purchased? No? Then I don't really care. Steam doesn't get in my way, and is quite convenient for installing a game on multiple computers (plus I don't have to keep track of disks). Find something worth complaining about.
Yes Steam is probably the best, most consumer-friendly DRM distribution system around, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't care at all. Unless you are happy having all your games rendered unplayable if Steam goes offline / Valve goes out of business. In the scale of a year that's unlikely, but in 10? 50? Quite apart from the legitimate short-term disadvantages, I think in 50 years we will look back on this period of time in the same way we view the lack of archiving of television in the mid-20th century, as a massive unnecessary black hole in our cultural history.
Worse, you run the risk of having all your Steam games unplayable if they accuse you of cheating. If they do that, you have no legal recourse. Also, you run the risk of having your EULA for all your games altered. Your option, should you not want the new terms, is to close your Steam account and lose access to all your purchases.
The second one is the deal breaker for me. I do not go an buy something and agree that they can take it away from me whenever they want and I can do nothing about it. That's just a really stupid deal to make. If they don't plan on doing it, then why make you agree to it? That's really scummy.