Was there somewhere that something claimed it was a leak caused by C#? I think this was more of a "Oh look garbage collection doesn't save you from crappy memory mangement after all". Something all of us who have a clue already knew.
Pretty useless point to make though. People aren't using C# for memory management. They are using it because Microsoft basically no longer does any worthwhile C/C++ gui development.
Internet Game Room players who have accessed the game over the last thirty days are also counted as subscribers.
This portion makes up a huge amount of the "subscribers" and they generate a lot less income. WoW is indeed making ooodles of money but nothing like the equivalent of 9 million normal subscribers.
This is pushing the truth a bit. I scraped the prices for video cards with at least 256MB of memory on zipzoomfly. I come up with an average of $211.06 and a stddev of $238.33. So if you're buying a nicer video card, you less than a PS3, but more than either a Xbox 360 or a Wii.
This is bollocks. 200 bucks is plenty for a very good video card that can last you a couple years. Perhaps the only thing of worth you've pointed out is that non PC gamers have horrible misconceptions about what kind of computing power they need to enjoy PC games.
PC gaming has been cheaper than console gaming for a long time now. In reality those uber expensive machines the morons brag about are useless because very few buy them and therefore PC game makers never target a hardware platform like that.
If I got it right, could someone explain to me how a patent on such a thing could have any hope of standing up in court?
The only thing about it that I haven't seen prior art for is that these tabs replace the menus(sometimes badly). Plenty of people have shown prior art for tabbed toolbars from several programs though. Whether or not it can hold up in court is totally dependent on the judges bias though isn't it?
Whoa there. CMYK? Pre-press? Are you actually talking about printing stuff onto physical THINGS? We don't do that anymore since we have this new fangled thing called a monitor. Trust me, I can even program a vcr. I know what I am talking about.
So? Right now people in third world countries are increasing their living standards and energy usage (as they should) at dramatic rates which make any savings from stuff like this look piddly.
The question should be asked if it's penny smart but pound foolish. We already have alternative ways to make energy so concentrating on refining them may be far more important than anything else. Most people just assume it will happen though and that the crunch time will never come.
Seems important to fix but it's kind of a problem of degree isn't it? Our traditional power sources are running out and our power needs will increase dramatically. In that kind of equation even improving world power usage efficiency by 50% would be of rather minor benefit in actually solving the problem.
How much political power gets directed at stuff like this which could be more properly directed at new power sources?
Read the article. Hel-3 is deposited on the moon by solar wind. So it's only on the surface or somewhat under the surface due to cratering.
Basically this guy is one of the large majority of environmentalists who are more about keeping nature "pristine", where pristine means whatever way it was when they were young and growing up. He thinks the surface of the moon will be altered in such a way that it'll be visible from earth and that will bug him.
The thought that this has nothing to do with environmentalism probably never even crossed his mind.
ODF won't be worth anymore than the proprietary format OOo used before it, if there isn't enough added-value that it's worth it for common people to spend the resources to convert.
Even if only a small minority uses it an open format is always more useful to users who care. Sure its a big problem but nothing is worth saving your data in some format who's readability is controlled by a separate entity.
I thought by definition, 'sound reproduction' was just that...trying to get the true sound out?
I was refering to the fact that the Red Book format was never intended to be "perfect" in the first place. It didn't need to be when the competition was cassette tapes. So even if people mark me a troll again it's still just wishful thinking. After all we're talking about a format that lost to cassette tapes here! Any "resurgence" will be quickly stomped out again. That's not even getting into the fact that people can't rip vinyl to digital easily.
Don't get me wrong, I'm in no way, shape, or form a vinyl fanboi, but vinyl is a medium which prevents postprocessing compression.
What a crock of shit. I don't know about what postprocessing people currently choose to use on vinyl but there is definitely no such limitation for the medium.
Any advantage of vinyl over a digital medium is lost due to the fact that the record would be digitally processed before being put to the vinyl. The current CD DATA format has some flaws and that's it.
This is just a bunch of people's wishful thinking. Audiophiles who want better sound who don't understand they'll get it from better digital formats. People who have become confused because they think CD's are actually an attempt to represent true sound in the first place.
Taxes and states rights have everything to do with authoritarianism.
Taxes CAN have something to do with authoritarianism. That's not what you IMPLIED though. You implied simply that HIGH taxes are a form of authoritarianism. Such a statement is obvious nonsense going off the very wikipedia article you quoted.
Also federalsim vs states rights has nothing to do with authoritarianism by that definition either. When authoritarianism talks about govts repressing "rights" that's nothing like "state's rights". Just looking back at history we see obvious examples, like slavery, where state's rights lead to far worse authoritarianism than federal control.
Also like I said you were correct that the right to bear arms has something to do with authoritarianism so there was no need to even bring that back up. The rest of it though still clearly shows you are using the word incorrectly in many cases. I only really bring this up because you are using it to back up a political argument and your heavy misuse of the word is extremely central to your entire argument. It also interferes with counter arguments because when someone validly uses the word you can easily declare those things to be non authoritarian.
In Norway we have a search engine called Kvasir (kvasir.no) which is very good for Norwegian stuff. Big surprise, the big American company cannot compete on accuracy versus a search engine specialized on finding Norwegian results? This is surprising how exactly?
How hard are they trying out of curiosity? I'm curious how many places google has failed even after putting in a full blown effort. That article about Russia sounds suspiciously like google just started there not long ago.
It would be nice to see someone actually start going up against google with new features. Google has been working on lots of non search stuff but I haven't really noticed anything "new" in searching sense they gained dominance of the market.
Really, if anyone is authoritarian in the United States, it is the American left wing. We right wingers are just a bunch of rednecks that would just as soon not have a federal government at all.
Your examples (beyond fire arms) don't seem to have anything to do with Authoritarianism. Are you sure you know what the word means? I might agree with you that the right and left are equally guilty but stuff like taxes and state rights vs federalism have nothing to do with it. Obviously a govt can have extreme taxes without being authoritarian.
WTF is your problem? Are you really that stupid to think that interoperability with MS tools/frameworks is a BAD thing?
Mono isn't something that provides interoperability with MS tools, protocols or file formats so I fail to see your point? It's an attempt to make C# apps in Linux and run.NET apps last I checked. Just like WINE I can see a reason for needing to run.NET apps in some unfortunate circumstances. Making C# apps is a bad idea though. It has nothing to do with how well C# and.NET let you develop things. It's about the fact that sooner or later MS will push the old embrace and extend button to screw everything up.
WTF is GigaOM and who is this clueless guy commentating? It's pretty clear he doesn't know much about the industry he's pontificating on and that he's just flamebating.
A blog/article discussing the ramifications of the deal is good for the games section of Slashdot but I think even if an inflamatory one was needed a better one could of been easily found.
This is a prime example of convenience trumping common sense. The kinetic energy alone to lift a 1000kg car up 50 meters to your garage exceeds 1.3 kW, even at a leisurely 6 minute round-trip pace. (1000kg*50m*9.8m/s^2*360sec = ~1300 W)
Except it's an elevator. If they build an elevator to lift cars without a counterweight or it's equivalent I'll be baffled. I'm sure there will be plenty of things to spend your environmental anger on in such a high style building but I doubt even a car elevator is one of them.
Second, the SDK is integrated with the game to act as a client to Massive's ad servers. It allows the game to fetch the ad, display it on a surface, and analyze how the player acts around it. Massive refers to this as "Phase II: Integration of the Software Development Kit (SDK)."
From what I understood even carbon nanotubes are not going to cut it without some major breakthroughs.
For something we still aren't really capable of achieving I would think something like the X-prize that gives rewards for necessary breakthroughs would be more logical than a competition which people will keep failing to win every year?
That is not how 2d is classified. 2d in graphical terms usually means something like the client does not store 3d data and then try to depict it differently based on where the games camera is situated relevant to the object.
This is why Doom/Wolfenstein etc are often called 2.5d or some such.
Illegal? Don't you mean it would be breaking several treaties? I see this constantly on Slashdot. Is there some sort of thing going on in Europe where the meaning of this word is different in various places?
In particular the "30x as efficient as the best microturbines" claim in TFA is particularly suspect: I have a VAWT made from a cardboard cereal packet in my back garden that probably extracts 10% of the available energy.
I don't think the claim was just a straight % efficiency comparison. It was probably meant as a cost/efficiency comparison to whatever is on the market now.
No matter what the causes of the ban are , it's frightening what the power of an (almost) full monopoly on internet seaching services can do.
I don't really see how it's that frightening personally. Google isn't exactly in a position where they can exploit their large market share. They don't have any sort of hold over their users. If they started annoying them the users could easily switch to some other search engine.
It's true if you own a website dependent on traffic from google then it would be frightening to have some sort of messup cause google to ban you. But the minute google actually starts doing such things on purpose articles like this one will pop up all over the place and the people who care will simply stop using google since they want accurate results when they are trying to find something.
Compared to MS who has a lock-in monopoly and a long history of purposely abusing it to cause massive harm to the computer industry it's obvious people are going to "close their eyes" to google in compairison.
SL's whole business model relies on an artificial land scarcity system to basically heavily overcharge for independent server hosting costs. I'll be surprised if they truly open the system up to another system that lacks artificial land scarcity.
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Was there somewhere that something claimed it was a leak caused by C#? I think this was more of a "Oh look garbage collection doesn't save you from crappy memory mangement after all". Something all of us who have a clue already knew.
Pretty useless point to make though. People aren't using C# for memory management. They are using it because Microsoft basically no longer does any worthwhile C/C++ gui development.
This portion makes up a huge amount of the "subscribers" and they generate a lot less income. WoW is indeed making ooodles of money but nothing like the equivalent of 9 million normal subscribers.
This is bollocks. 200 bucks is plenty for a very good video card that can last you a couple years. Perhaps the only thing of worth you've pointed out is that non PC gamers have horrible misconceptions about what kind of computing power they need to enjoy PC games.
PC gaming has been cheaper than console gaming for a long time now. In reality those uber expensive machines the morons brag about are useless because very few buy them and therefore PC game makers never target a hardware platform like that.
The only thing about it that I haven't seen prior art for is that these tabs replace the menus(sometimes badly). Plenty of people have shown prior art for tabbed toolbars from several programs though. Whether or not it can hold up in court is totally dependent on the judges bias though isn't it?
Whoa there. CMYK? Pre-press? Are you actually talking about printing stuff onto physical THINGS? We don't do that anymore since we have this new fangled thing called a monitor. Trust me, I can even program a vcr. I know what I am talking about.
So? Right now people in third world countries are increasing their living standards and energy usage (as they should) at dramatic rates which make any savings from stuff like this look piddly.
The question should be asked if it's penny smart but pound foolish. We already have alternative ways to make energy so concentrating on refining them may be far more important than anything else. Most people just assume it will happen though and that the crunch time will never come.
Seems important to fix but it's kind of a problem of degree isn't it? Our traditional power sources are running out and our power needs will increase dramatically. In that kind of equation even improving world power usage efficiency by 50% would be of rather minor benefit in actually solving the problem.
How much political power gets directed at stuff like this which could be more properly directed at new power sources?
Do you really want to touch that door handle? Well, do you punk?
Read the article. Hel-3 is deposited on the moon by solar wind. So it's only on the surface or somewhat under the surface due to cratering.
Basically this guy is one of the large majority of environmentalists who are more about keeping nature "pristine", where pristine means whatever way it was when they were young and growing up. He thinks the surface of the moon will be altered in such a way that it'll be visible from earth and that will bug him.
The thought that this has nothing to do with environmentalism probably never even crossed his mind.
Even if only a small minority uses it an open format is always more useful to users who care. Sure its a big problem but nothing is worth saving your data in some format who's readability is controlled by a separate entity.
I was refering to the fact that the Red Book format was never intended to be "perfect" in the first place. It didn't need to be when the competition was cassette tapes. So even if people mark me a troll again it's still just wishful thinking. After all we're talking about a format that lost to cassette tapes here! Any "resurgence" will be quickly stomped out again. That's not even getting into the fact that people can't rip vinyl to digital easily.
What a crock of shit. I don't know about what postprocessing people currently choose to use on vinyl but there is definitely no such limitation for the medium.
Any advantage of vinyl over a digital medium is lost due to the fact that the record would be digitally processed before being put to the vinyl. The current CD DATA format has some flaws and that's it.
This is just a bunch of people's wishful thinking. Audiophiles who want better sound who don't understand they'll get it from better digital formats. People who have become confused because they think CD's are actually an attempt to represent true sound in the first place.
Taxes CAN have something to do with authoritarianism. That's not what you IMPLIED though. You implied simply that HIGH taxes are a form of authoritarianism. Such a statement is obvious nonsense going off the very wikipedia article you quoted.
Also federalsim vs states rights has nothing to do with authoritarianism by that definition either. When authoritarianism talks about govts repressing "rights" that's nothing like "state's rights". Just looking back at history we see obvious examples, like slavery, where state's rights lead to far worse authoritarianism than federal control.
Also like I said you were correct that the right to bear arms has something to do with authoritarianism so there was no need to even bring that back up. The rest of it though still clearly shows you are using the word incorrectly in many cases. I only really bring this up because you are using it to back up a political argument and your heavy misuse of the word is extremely central to your entire argument. It also interferes with counter arguments because when someone validly uses the word you can easily declare those things to be non authoritarian.
How hard are they trying out of curiosity? I'm curious how many places google has failed even after putting in a full blown effort. That article about Russia sounds suspiciously like google just started there not long ago.
It would be nice to see someone actually start going up against google with new features. Google has been working on lots of non search stuff but I haven't really noticed anything "new" in searching sense they gained dominance of the market.
Your examples (beyond fire arms) don't seem to have anything to do with Authoritarianism. Are you sure you know what the word means? I might agree with you that the right and left are equally guilty but stuff like taxes and state rights vs federalism have nothing to do with it. Obviously a govt can have extreme taxes without being authoritarian.
Mono isn't something that provides interoperability with MS tools, protocols or file formats so I fail to see your point? It's an attempt to make C# apps in Linux and run
WTF is GigaOM and who is this clueless guy commentating? It's pretty clear he doesn't know much about the industry he's pontificating on and that he's just flamebating.
A blog/article discussing the ramifications of the deal is good for the games section of Slashdot but I think even if an inflamatory one was needed a better one could of been easily found.
Except it's an elevator. If they build an elevator to lift cars without a counterweight or it's equivalent I'll be baffled. I'm sure there will be plenty of things to spend your environmental anger on in such a high style building but I doubt even a car elevator is one of them.
According to wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_Incorporated
Oh and just to make sure we know who we are REALLY talking about here Massive is owned by everyones favorite software company to hate:
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=9186
From what I understood even carbon nanotubes are not going to cut it without some major breakthroughs.
For something we still aren't really capable of achieving I would think something like the X-prize that gives rewards for necessary breakthroughs would be more logical than a competition which people will keep failing to win every year?
That is not how 2d is classified. 2d in graphical terms usually means something like the client does not store 3d data and then try to depict it differently based on where the games camera is situated relevant to the object.
This is why Doom/Wolfenstein etc are often called 2.5d or some such.
Illegal? Don't you mean it would be breaking several treaties? I see this constantly on Slashdot. Is there some sort of thing going on in Europe where the meaning of this word is different in various places?
I don't think the claim was just a straight % efficiency comparison. It was probably meant as a cost/efficiency comparison to whatever is on the market now.
I don't really see how it's that frightening personally. Google isn't exactly in a position where they can exploit their large market share. They don't have any sort of hold over their users. If they started annoying them the users could easily switch to some other search engine.
It's true if you own a website dependent on traffic from google then it would be frightening to have some sort of messup cause google to ban you. But the minute google actually starts doing such things on purpose articles like this one will pop up all over the place and the people who care will simply stop using google since they want accurate results when they are trying to find something.
Compared to MS who has a lock-in monopoly and a long history of purposely abusing it to cause massive harm to the computer industry it's obvious people are going to "close their eyes" to google in compairison.
SL's whole business model relies on an artificial land scarcity system to basically heavily overcharge for independent server hosting costs. I'll be surprised if they truly open the system up to another system that lacks artificial land scarcity.