I already have an android phone. It works and I'm comfortable with it. Other people already have iPhones and feel the same way about them. They'll most likely go for the same OS next time.
MS needs to come up with something that convinces people it's worth switching!
Surely that only matters if you're concerned about relative racism between white people and non-white people.
It's looking at the difference in opinion of the participants regarding white people and black people. They did one experiment. They changed a single factor (race). That affected the results.
Khronos is the organisation responsible for the OpenGL standard amongst other things.
And why should I care?
No idea. Perhaps you don't. If you're into 3D graphics then you will care. If you don't care then that's up to you. The implication here that we think you should care is a little childish. If you don't care that's fine. Find something you do care about.
I presume you intended this as a joke, but from the OpenGL/Vulkan comparison table in the overview:
"Matches architecture of modern platforms
including mobile platforms with unified memory, tiled rendering"
On that point - I'm not all that sure exactly what it does to support tiling. The PowerVR blog says "A render pass consists of framebuffer state (other than actual render target addresses), and how render targets should be loaded in and out of the GPU at the start and end of each render. This structure is the key object that allows tiled architectures like PowerVR to run at extremely high efficiency." but that it's not really all that clear to me how this makes a difference.
Is this really something OpenGL didn't previously do? I remember DX8 drivers compiling to a bytecode. It was a pretty simplistic language, with a suboptimal bytecode but it still avoided at least one slow part of the process. I realise that optimisation takes the bulk of the time on non-trivial architectures but it still seems like a poinless inefficiency to expect a driver to even handle string parsing.
Okay - I'd go for a HD adaptor, or ethernet PCMCIA card, but really It'll only take hours, not days over RS232. Even at a paltry 19200 bits per second we're looking at 18.5 hours or so. If it can manage the dizzy heights of 57600 or even 115200, then that will be down to a little over 6 or even 3 hours.
I wonder what the economic cost is of an illegal immigrant. Should probably include the economic benefit in that calculation as well, but even if we ignore it, is it as high as $28,000?
Good question. But I think that this is about rights other than freedom of speech that also need to be considered. I have the right to freedom of speech, privacy and to not be harassed. Is your freedom of speech more iportant than my privacy or freedom from harassment?
It's not an easy question to answer, and shouldn't be because there are so many factors, and it differens on a case by case basis.
I take my stand on the proposition that the publication of nude and/or sexually explicit photographs without the consent of the subject is a form of rape.
And I take my stand that this is a vile statement that devalues actual rape.
This not art. This is not speech.
Who is to define what is and isn't art and speech? You? Me?
This is humiliation. This is malice. This is revenge. This is greed. This is crime. Revenge porn
Then call it these things. Stop trying to make it something it isn't, and admit you consider stopping these to be much more important than freedom of speech.
Free speech cannot survive in an atmosphere of fear and intimidation. Free speech has to mean something more than the adolescent's desire for instant sexual self-gratification.
No it can't. It also can't survive in a world of arbitrary rules about what is and isn't "fee speech". However, the adolescent's desire for instant self gratification is perfectly legitimate.
I am sick and tired of the geek playing the censorship card when anyone asks him to behave like an adult.
But people are advocating censorship, and narrowing what freedom of speech is in order to rationalise it as something other than censorship!
Free speech is not limited to the first amendment. Reddit offers a degree of freedom of speech. For a discussion forum, this is seen as a good thing. Now they are offering less freedom of speech. Whether this is a good thing or not is (from a users perspective) a question of the importance of freedom of speech in a forum balanced against the importance of privacy, and from a business perspective a question of balance of the expectation of the users for freedom fo speech against the public perception.
Those are important roles, but not those of a guru. A guru is a master and a teacher. We don't learn anything except the highly specific from an architect of a scientist. A guru teaches us all we need to know about a domain so that we may teach ourselves.
You'll get an occasional "Guru" - that is an expert in a specific field, who is recognised for their in-depth knowledge an decades of experience, in a very specific field. People like Bruce Schneier and John Carmack.
Yes, the US is well behaved, as far as these things go, mapping the mines, making them auto-deactivate and detectable. But the problem is, the US is seen as a beacon of morality. Maybe less so than it used to be, but the rest of the world still has fairly high expectations. If the US is using landmines, other countries can us this as a moral justification to do the same.
The US doesn't need to use them in Korea. They can cede responsibilities for those to South Korea. Pointing to what South Korea does is a far less compelling moral argument.
However, on the matter of Korea, the proposed alternative is autonomous guns. Unlike mines, these things don't hide, so, at the very least, we know if all of them are accounted for. But these could be banned by an overly broad anti-robot rule.
It's not that I "don't understand". It's that I think it's bullshit!
I just previously assumed that it was the developer/journalism clique using feminism as a shield. Yes, there's a feminist clique that thinks they're gamers. Yes, there's a chunk of the clique that follows third wave feminism. To most feminists, gaming is a fringe hobby. To most gamers, feminism is an unimportant political position. The majority on both are neutral on the other aspect.
You have accepted their narrative, and conflated them. Youv'e managed to unite your opponents.
You're not confused about anything. I've explained that issue in almost every post and you continue to troll by pretending to be obtuse.
Okay. "I'm confused" is more a polite way of saying for "I think I understand it if I do then your reasoning is fucking stupid"
What gamergate says or does is irrelevant to the media narrative.
No it isn't! If you talk about Feminist Frequency regarding anything other than explicit claims about Sarkeesian makes about GG, then you have nothing to do with ethics in video game journalism. Critique of her ideas is fine. There's a 5 part article in progress dedidcated to just that which I'm sure you're aware of, but that has nothing to do with Gamergate!. GG is inconsistent here! If you're going to talk about Revolution 60 being Green Lit and how terrible a game is, once again, that's fine, but unless you're talking about her abusing her media connections in some way then that has nothing to do with Gamergate!. But since so many Gamergaters fixate over this sort of thing, of course the media is going to think this is what GG is about. And unless you can explain that within the context of ethics in video games then your movement is not about ethics in video games. #NotYourShield is relevant to the narrative, and a really good move. The people behind it know that everything is relevant to the media narrative and they wanted to break the "gamers hate minorities" narrative!
If you re an anti-third-wave-feminist movement then great! More power to you! But then be explicit about it!Say "It's all about ethics in video games and the complex interaction with third wave feminism!" and be prepared to explain the problems in that context, because if you say "Ethics is video games" and then complain about radical feminists, the media is going to use whatever narrative fits. Ethics in video game journalism does not fit the narrative. Women hating does. The media is lazy.
There's a lot of disagreement in GG. There's also a lot of agreement and consensus.
Is anyone saying "Hey, guys, we should lay off the SJWs and focus on ethics in video game journalism? Because last time I looked it was people bitching about Brianna Wu, and though this is about corruption of one person rather than an endemic problem.
Whatever the cause, this is monumental incompetence. Even if they were malicious, they were incompetently malicious. Hoping people won't notice is not a way to get away with something so blatant.
I think you're right about outsourcing. Inadequate safeguards for the outsourcing, combined with particularly lazy contractor could explain it, and it is at least more plausible than any other scenario I can think of.
It could conceivably be that focus testing said that people hated it, but the programmer forget to set the switch that disabled it. Although it's loooking increasingly likely that Samsung just want to sabotage their TV sales.
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Okay. Wasn't aware of that. Certainly think that Metro is a fantastic interface for touch devices.
I already have an android phone. It works and I'm comfortable with it. Other people already have iPhones and feel the same way about them. They'll most likely go for the same OS next time.
MS needs to come up with something that convinces people it's worth switching!
Surely that only matters if you're concerned about relative racism between white people and non-white people.
It's looking at the difference in opinion of the participants regarding white people and black people. They did one experiment. They changed a single factor (race). That affected the results.
No idea. Perhaps you don't. If you're into 3D graphics then you will care. If you don't care then that's up to you. The implication here that we think you should care is a little childish. If you don't care that's fine. Find something you do care about.
Windows still has 90% market share on the desktop. I imagine D3D will keep going for a while.
I presume you intended this as a joke, but from the OpenGL/Vulkan comparison table in the overview: "Matches architecture of modern platforms including mobile platforms with unified memory, tiled rendering"
On that point - I'm not all that sure exactly what it does to support tiling. The PowerVR blog says "A render pass consists of framebuffer state (other than actual render target addresses), and how render targets should be loaded in and out of the GPU at the start and end of each render. This structure is the key object that allows tiled architectures like PowerVR to run at extremely high efficiency." but that it's not really all that clear to me how this makes a difference.
Is this really something OpenGL didn't previously do? I remember DX8 drivers compiling to a bytecode. It was a pretty simplistic language, with a suboptimal bytecode but it still avoided at least one slow part of the process. I realise that optimisation takes the bulk of the time on non-trivial architectures but it still seems like a poinless inefficiency to expect a driver to even handle string parsing.
Okay - I'd go for a HD adaptor, or ethernet PCMCIA card, but really It'll only take hours, not days over RS232. Even at a paltry 19200 bits per second we're looking at 18.5 hours or so. If it can manage the dizzy heights of 57600 or even 115200, then that will be down to a little over 6 or even 3 hours.
I wonder what the economic cost is of an illegal immigrant. Should probably include the economic benefit in that calculation as well, but even if we ignore it, is it as high as $28,000?
Ignoring your users and doing what you want is not a good way to run a business. Digg tried doing that. Remember Digg?
And why do you keep the 1c coin around?
Good question. But I think that this is about rights other than freedom of speech that also need to be considered. I have the right to freedom of speech, privacy and to not be harassed. Is your freedom of speech more iportant than my privacy or freedom from harassment?
It's not an easy question to answer, and shouldn't be because there are so many factors, and it differens on a case by case basis.
And I take my stand that this is a vile statement that devalues actual rape.
Who is to define what is and isn't art and speech? You? Me?
Then call it these things. Stop trying to make it something it isn't, and admit you consider stopping these to be much more important than freedom of speech.
No it can't. It also can't survive in a world of arbitrary rules about what is and isn't "fee speech". However, the adolescent's desire for instant self gratification is perfectly legitimate.
But people are advocating censorship, and narrowing what freedom of speech is in order to rationalise it as something other than censorship!
It is a free speech issue!
Free speech is not limited to the first amendment. Reddit offers a degree of freedom of speech. For a discussion forum, this is seen as a good thing. Now they are offering less freedom of speech. Whether this is a good thing or not is (from a users perspective) a question of the importance of freedom of speech in a forum balanced against the importance of privacy, and from a business perspective a question of balance of the expectation of the users for freedom fo speech against the public perception.
Freedom of speech is not limited to government.
But I asked a magic 8-ball if it was a good idea and it said "Without a doubt". Who am I to argue with science?
Those are important roles, but not those of a guru. A guru is a master and a teacher. We don't learn anything except the highly specific from an architect of a scientist. A guru teaches us all we need to know about a domain so that we may teach ourselves.
You'll get an occasional "Guru" - that is an expert in a specific field, who is recognised for their in-depth knowledge an decades of experience, in a very specific field. People like Bruce Schneier and John Carmack.
I do agree that it's still a silly term.
Yes, the US is well behaved, as far as these things go, mapping the mines, making them auto-deactivate and detectable. But the problem is, the US is seen as a beacon of morality. Maybe less so than it used to be, but the rest of the world still has fairly high expectations. If the US is using landmines, other countries can us this as a moral justification to do the same.
The US doesn't need to use them in Korea. They can cede responsibilities for those to South Korea. Pointing to what South Korea does is a far less compelling moral argument.
However, on the matter of Korea, the proposed alternative is autonomous guns. Unlike mines, these things don't hide, so, at the very least, we know if all of them are accounted for. But these could be banned by an overly broad anti-robot rule.
Am a great fan of gesture based navigation. Right click + up for new tab, L-shape for close tab left/right for back and forward.
Yes. If I send a packet of heroin using FedEx then the FedEx driver is innocent unless he has some way of knowing what's in the package.
Your wife is surely not the only parent who has siezures.
Surely there's more comprehensive advice available from organisation that actually know the first thing about this than Slashdot.
It's not that I "don't understand". It's that I think it's bullshit!
I just previously assumed that it was the developer/journalism clique using feminism as a shield. Yes, there's a feminist clique that thinks they're gamers. Yes, there's a chunk of the clique that follows third wave feminism. To most feminists, gaming is a fringe hobby. To most gamers, feminism is an unimportant political position. The majority on both are neutral on the other aspect.
You have accepted their narrative, and conflated them. Youv'e managed to unite your opponents.
Well done, you fucking morons!
Okay. "I'm confused" is more a polite way of saying for "I think I understand it if I do then your reasoning is fucking stupid"
No it isn't! If you talk about Feminist Frequency regarding anything other than explicit claims about Sarkeesian makes about GG, then you have nothing to do with ethics in video game journalism. Critique of her ideas is fine. There's a 5 part article in progress dedidcated to just that which I'm sure you're aware of, but that has nothing to do with Gamergate!. GG is inconsistent here! If you're going to talk about Revolution 60 being Green Lit and how terrible a game is, once again, that's fine, but unless you're talking about her abusing her media connections in some way then that has nothing to do with Gamergate!. But since so many Gamergaters fixate over this sort of thing, of course the media is going to think this is what GG is about. And unless you can explain that within the context of ethics in video games then your movement is not about ethics in video games. #NotYourShield is relevant to the narrative, and a really good move. The people behind it know that everything is relevant to the media narrative and they wanted to break the "gamers hate minorities" narrative!
If you re an anti-third-wave-feminist movement then great! More power to you! But then be explicit about it!Say "It's all about ethics in video games and the complex interaction with third wave feminism!" and be prepared to explain the problems in that context, because if you say "Ethics is video games" and then complain about radical feminists, the media is going to use whatever narrative fits. Ethics in video game journalism does not fit the narrative. Women hating does. The media is lazy.
Is anyone saying "Hey, guys, we should lay off the SJWs and focus on ethics in video game journalism? Because last time I looked it was people bitching about Brianna Wu, and though this is about corruption of one person rather than an endemic problem.
Whatever the cause, this is monumental incompetence. Even if they were malicious, they were incompetently malicious. Hoping people won't notice is not a way to get away with something so blatant.
I think you're right about outsourcing. Inadequate safeguards for the outsourcing, combined with particularly lazy contractor could explain it, and it is at least more plausible than any other scenario I can think of.
It could conceivably be that focus testing said that people hated it, but the programmer forget to set the switch that disabled it. Although it's loooking increasingly likely that Samsung just want to sabotage their TV sales.