There's a huge issue here with expense. Already games are incredibly expensive to make because the market simply won't pay for games that look like 3 guys at id wrote them.
It's so crazy now that only the really big boys who can throw millions on a title that won't be ready for 3+ years and may or may not break even, let alone make money.
I can't speak for how BP cuts corners in their ocean drilling.. but as an industrial electrician in the submersible fields.. I can tell you without a doubt that BP has, by far, the most extensive safety program in place of any oil company we do contract work for.
They don't care how much it costs them, or how much longer it takes.. they are willing to foot the bill to ensure that their safety record is intact.
And no, I don't work directly for BP. We're a contracting company that does work for *many* producers.
The 4.0 release was highly reminiscent of the 2.0 days. Nothing worked.. crashes galore.. It has taken the KDE team an entire year to make it usable again.
I don't blame them. I've been a huge KDE fan for years, but even I didn't use 4.0.x
I've always built my own CMS engines.. never used Drupal et al.. but I can say this..
Classes are overkill in a web app. They slow everything down. It's far more efficient to require_once the code that you need once you figure out which module the user wants.
You could flip that around and say that it wouldn't hurt to have decent NTFS support in Linux either. Even the "new and improved" version in more recent kernels shows writing to the partition as dangerous. What's the point in that?
True.. but the larger games with large maps and high quality grafx tend to be of the more CPU intensive tasks out there. Twas just the first example that popped into my head:P
- Scott
I have to agree.. even if there was no latency in the network, you still have to account for the fact that most computers today simply cannot parse that sheer amount of numbers/second. That is assuming that the processor is dedicated to that task, and that task only.
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There's a huge issue here with expense. Already games are incredibly expensive to make because the market simply won't pay for games that look like 3 guys at id wrote them.
It's so crazy now that only the really big boys who can throw millions on a title that won't be ready for 3+ years and may or may not break even, let alone make money.
I wonder what kind of processor you have?
In chrome/youtube, Task manager was reporting 2-6% CPU for the highest chrome process.. total CPU use was around 16%.
That was while it was playing & downloading at the same time. Plus winamp running, azureus, etc etc etc
Now that KDE4 is as stable and polished as the 3.x desktop was, it has to be getting close to time for a rewrite of the core again!
*till he gets caught..
(sorry for having to reply to myself)
You could be right.. but that doesn't really seem to be Apple's way..
More likely there's an employee in the right place wanting to make a little extra cash.. at least til
Well.
I can't speak for how BP cuts corners in their ocean drilling.. but as an industrial electrician in the submersible fields.. I can tell you without a doubt that BP has, by far, the most extensive safety program in place of any oil company we do contract work for.
They don't care how much it costs them, or how much longer it takes.. they are willing to foot the bill to ensure that their safety record is intact.
And no, I don't work directly for BP. We're a contracting company that does work for *many* producers.
I often do..
I have a blu ray player and I enjoy watching movies on it.
Ok this is coming from someone who actually does download a good half the movies he watches.
It *is* theft. The movie was produced to make money.. and it is quite fair for them to expect that people won't just take it and not pay.
No matter how you water it down, you took something that you didn't pay for. If you can live with that choice, then fine.
But don't go around making up reasons why you're doing the world a favour by saying 'fuck you' to 'the man'.. You're only lying to yourself.
Do you really think anybody at Google cares about your booze fest the other night at the local pub? Or anything else you do?
The paranoia on Slashdot these days is getting out of hand.
Well yeah.
The 4.0 release was highly reminiscent of the 2.0 days. Nothing worked.. crashes galore.. It has taken the KDE team an entire year to make it usable again.
I don't blame them. I've been a huge KDE fan for years, but even I didn't use 4.0.x
I've been running SVN builds of it for the past couple-three weeks. It is stunning the improvement over even 4.1, let alone the crapfest that was 4.0
Just because you work more than 40 hours a week doesn't mean your job sucks.
My company would revolt if we switched to a 40 hour work week.
As an electrician, we're mostly paid for what we know, not what we do and it's just too lucrative to work 10-12 hour days in the oil patch.
Last I checked the mortality rate was 100%
Oh please.
Police state?
Back in my pot smokin' years, I used to walk down the streets in Calgary, joint in hand. Nobody thought anything of it.
Or the time I witnessed a peaceful demonstration on parliament hill in Ottawa with nary an assault rifle wielded by the cops.
That's a far cry from the curfews and closely monitored populace found in a police state.
This is going to end up just like the gun registry.
Another piece of 'The Book' to throw at those who piss off the police when they do something really wrong, but otherwise unenforced.
Hopefully it won't cost as much.
I've always built my own CMS engines.. never used Drupal et al.. but I can say this..
Classes are overkill in a web app. They slow everything down. It's far more efficient to require_once the code that you need once you figure out which module the user wants.
We spend so much time obsessing over the little things that we so rarely see the big picture.
I think the parent has got it right.
You could flip that around and say that it wouldn't hurt to have decent NTFS support in Linux either. Even the "new and improved" version in more recent kernels shows writing to the partition as dangerous. What's the point in that?
Isn't Bayesian filtering system used in, Eg, Mozilla Mail classified as an AI?
Structured, informative, etc yes... but you will never find the emotion or the humor in wiki articles that you see in e2 writeups.
Yeah a lot of it is slanted or not even factual in nature, but I personally find that much more interesting to surf.
True.. but the larger games with large maps and high quality grafx tend to be of the more CPU intensive tasks out there. Twas just the first example that popped into my head:P
- Scott
I have to agree.. even if there was no latency in the network, you still have to account for the fact that most computers today simply cannot parse that sheer amount of numbers/second. That is assuming that the processor is dedicated to that task, and that task only.