SVN is great until it subtly (or no so) corrupts either the db or your working copy. Which on Windows happens a lot because every damn SVN client has enough bugs you need to use multiple tools to get work done. Then use extreme care to stop the buggy POS clients from interacting destructively.
And once it's buggered you have an undecipherable pile of bits. RCS just worked but didn't do much, CVS did more and just worked most of the time. Both were trivially repairable when disaster struck. There are days I miss RCS badly.
They may have sold a lot, that's not the same as selling them at a profit.
My DVD copy was GBP0.99 (about US$1.50) delivered and was returned shop stock. They couldn't reduce it enough to sell in store, couldn't shift them at £5 soon after launch, £2.50 not long after that.
It's fair to say this was a disaster on total units sold compared to publisher expectations and an even bigger disaster on revenue. With an unknown amount of copies heading for landfill or sold at little profit or even a loss, Gearbox will be delaying any accounting as long as they can. Wouldn't be easy clawing back any royaltly overpayment and there's no future income from this turkey.
We already have these things called trains in Europe. A lot of them on a lot of lines, some very, very fast. Last time I checked I could get to almost anywhere interesting in the EU with 2-4 changes (starting in the UK outside London soaks up 2 of them), often faster than the plane. Not sure what problem this solves this side of the pond.
And who wants to be trapped in an aircraft seat for that length of time? Trains are a lot more comfortable, don't trap you in a cramped seat for the duration and those stops at stations can be fun. Especially continental stations with a decent bar, some of the trains also have decent bars;)
AFAIK those tool names could potentially be trademark protected (potentially because there's zero chance they would be approved in real life), they cannot be copyrighted even in principle for a whole pile of reasons. Even if they could, interoperability would override that, the same way it does for APIs....but there's a simpler answer. POSIX specifies all those utilities and one of the few things SCO v the world did decide is that SCO don't own or control the POSIX standard. They're listed at http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/
You're correct that SCO never got the API argument ruled on because they didn't own UNIX. This time Boies found someone that does actually own rights to give standing, they got their argument heard this time. They lost. Pity they couldn't get it ruled on 1st time but we got the result eventually!
This is literally a rerun of SCO v Linux (the real target of SCO v IBM). The BS&F game plan is to establish new law by precedent, in this case that API's can be copyrighted, which was the only tool they had left to snatch Linux ownership after failing to find any actual copying. Oracle v Google is exactly the same legal team and exactly the same legal arguments, and again they found so little actual copying that only API organisation is left to argue over.
The court correctly noticed that existing precedent and the letter of the law makes API's uncopyrightable but BS&F are arguing that law is wrong and needs correcting. So the correct response is indeed to point out loud and often why APIs should remain uncopyrightable, rather than focus on what current interpretation of law says - because that argument already succeeded. Remind the court about the law but the battle now is about why the law is what it is and why it's correct and Oracle/BS&F/SCO are wrong.
The theory is that sub-lethal levels confuse bee navigation. In many solitary insects that wouldn't be much of a problem, they just carry on eating and breeding wherever they land. Social insects tend to die if they cant find the their home hive.
Sub lethal levels don't directly kill them but kill them indirectly at much lower concentrations. If the chemicals industry even noticed the direct effect they wouldn't necessarily ever see the indirect mortality, they wouldn't speculate on it and arguably wouldn't report it anyway.
My HTC G1 is sitting on my desk right now and I miss it's keyboard on my current mobile. However the market voted and Android devices with keyboards more or less vanished.
I don't believe there are enough of us hard keyboard lovers to sustain a mass market and BB are about to discover that. BB probably already have all the users this might attract.
I'm more than tempted to believe the literal truth of the texts, including the later Christian,Islamic, Mormon and other spin off religions addenda. That reveals a god that can't make its mind up, can't stick to its promises to us, can't be trusted not to change the rules before it's followers collect their rewards. A god that cannot and should not be trusted or worshipped.
But turns out it's just easier to remember it's all made up crap.
Got a menu of 12 hits, 8 identified an app, 1 had a distinctive icon I recognised, 3 gave no clue what app they were for.
The actual help link I wanted wasn't in that list, because searching that way doesn't return URL links, batch/cmd files and many other sorts of links I can set in a Start Menu. It's fscking useless.
The rapid rise in adoption of ARM powered tablets, in many cases replacing PCs, shows that for the majority of users the PC isn't just 'fast enough' - its actually been more than fast enough for many years. That's the overwhelming majority of the market for computing devices, both corporate and personal.
The people that regularly need more power are a small minority. Hell, most people don't need a PC at all and Intel can no longer rely on them buying what Intel wants to sell.
Which is great until you boot into the legacy BIOS setup and find just 1 option - Enable UEFI. Only seen one claim for that so far but it would be foolish to think this won't happen, it's not forbidden by Microsoft rules.
If you're lucky that board will work with all your hardware without tweaking any settings. If you're really lucky they'll update the legacy firmware side with fixes and new hardware support and won't just orphan it.
Hacking one of the gyro based optical image stabilisers from digital cameras would do the trick. Stabilise the overall frame and lose the motion sickness, lag in moving elements (and perspective changes) won't be noticed or won't be noticed enough to break immersion. Having the entire scene out of sync is very easy to detect, even if you aren't consciously aware of it.
I briefly worked for a VR company last century, 1st day they pointed out that stereo is an option not a necessity, so is resolution. All that matters is minimising lag (which implies good tracking as a prerequisite). Still just as true today. Turns out you can cope with (slow) drift in the tracking as well, it's annoying rather than immersion breaking.
"alternately slow down and speed up to take advantage of regenerative braking"
Bizarrely that might 'sort of' work in a hybrid vehicle, where 'work' means 'force slightly quicker charging'. Still makes no sense at all even in a hybrid, but you can see how a suitable clueless person could spout this bullshit. I find it hard to believe a Tesla employ would say something that dumb though, if Broder isn't just making it up he heard it somewhere else.
The problem here is what does 'used' and 'Active' mean? I regular click links and unexpectedly end up on G+ while I'm logged into gmail in another tab. To G it looks like I'm using G+ as a user, but without intent am I really a user? Even if I actively went to G+ but only consume am I really 'active'?
I have a G+ account purely to stop the other fscking G pages constantly nagging me. To date I've had exactly zero activity from the 6 friends&family with accounts in my circles and I've posted nothing for them. Even the couple of news streams I added to follow I just don't bother looking at, more than 6 months now since I last checked it.
G+ numbers are made up in a way that FB wishes it thought of 1st.
All 3 so called 'churches' are diseases, all that differs is how virulent they are. The Catholics&Baptists are old and have evolved to not kill their hosts. The newbie scammers haven't and with luck will be eradicated before they adapt.
They don't have a lot of choice. The 'hack' leverages the debug support. Can't remove that support while they desperately need devs and it won't be easy to safely plug exploits via it. While the debugger is available there's no point blocking the exploit, it's certain another will be found as quickly as they can fix them.
In a few months when they've had time to decide if RT is worth continuing expect them to do something drastic disruptive to block jailbreaks. While it's struggling there's no point.
Microsoft have spent the last 15years (at least) trying to kill OpenGL. In 1997 they stopped SGI supporting OGL with the Fahrenheit deal, a deal they had no intention of delivering their side of, it really was just about stopping SGI working on OGL in Windows. It worked, SGI became irrelevant, OGL seemed dead - but Nvidia and ATI stepped in to fill the void and fscked the plan.
For XP they tried to drop OGL acceleration. Hardware suppliers went ahead and added it back in anyway, while professional users applied pressure to stop MS going further in crippling their tools. OGL support was frozen with no updates and every app having to manually discover ogl extensions to keep up with DX.
Vista again borked OGL by supplying it as a shim translating calls to DX. Awful performance. 3rd party drivers could restore OGL but only by disabling parts of the GUI, another attempt to make it unpleasant actually using OGL. OGL frozen at 1.4, again leaving apps in extension discovery hell.
Win8 they've at least switched to using DX to drive users to Metro, with DX upgrades only planned for Metro mode. Have they given up trying to cripple OGL faced with total lack of cooperation from card makers? Too early to tell but I think they believe DirectX already won. Valve may have a BIG surprise coming for MS.
I had problems with tiled windows on the desktop, with identical low contrast borders on all sides, spotting where one window ended and the next started was visually confusing. Same with working out where scroll bars were, thanks to no internal visual clues. Installing UxStyle and the XP style pack made an instant difference. Just having a distinct title bar and scroll bars that stand out makes an enormous improvement navigating complex windows and window collections.
Win7 Aero was undeniably a step too far, too visually distracting. Ripping it all out was an idiotic overreaction.
"windows key->type what you want->launch desktop app == much faster than a start button. Always works for me quickly. "
Tried that, after typing MediaPortalFS2 (the entire name of the Windows shortcut except the.lnk) it still hadn't found it. A feature that only works some of the time on some of the stuff is not worth wasting any of my time on.
To add insult, it takes longer waiting for search to pop up a result window then select from it than to mouse a zigzag in the old Start Menu. Even when it finds the correct damn app it usually takes longer.
The only time I find search faster is when trying to remember where the hell they hid the settings I want in this iteration of Windows. That fails quite a lot when I don't think of the magic phrase they renamed things to. This is a feature that only looks good because it's papering over UI design faults. Lucky I can restore sanity with ClassicShell and layout everything in an optimal and discoverable way for me.
It's mind boggling, only 90% managed to use the start screen and charms on day1.
So in that 10% are folk that failed to work out how to get the login prompt from the completely control free boot page. And people who failed to shutdown their PC making up the bulk of it - since that needs the charmless bar.
Just to install ClassicShell or fire up the desktop to use it with needs use of both the start screen and charms. So even if you never use them again you still count as a MS success in these stats.
Any other company would be panicking over a 10% fail rate just starting up their software, not claiming it as a success.
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SVN is great until it subtly (or no so) corrupts either the db or your working copy. Which on Windows happens a lot because every damn SVN client has enough bugs you need to use multiple tools to get work done. Then use extreme care to stop the buggy POS clients from interacting destructively.
And once it's buggered you have an undecipherable pile of bits. RCS just worked but didn't do much, CVS did more and just worked most of the time. Both were trivially repairable when disaster struck. There are days I miss RCS badly.
They may have sold a lot, that's not the same as selling them at a profit.
My DVD copy was GBP0.99 (about US$1.50) delivered and was returned shop stock. They couldn't reduce it enough to sell in store, couldn't shift them at £5 soon after launch, £2.50 not long after that.
It's fair to say this was a disaster on total units sold compared to publisher expectations and an even bigger disaster on revenue. With an unknown amount of copies heading for landfill or sold at little profit or even a loss, Gearbox will be delaying any accounting as long as they can. Wouldn't be easy clawing back any royaltly overpayment and there's no future income from this turkey.
We already have these things called trains in Europe. A lot of them on a lot of lines, some very, very fast. Last time I checked I could get to almost anywhere interesting in the EU with 2-4 changes (starting in the UK outside London soaks up 2 of them), often faster than the plane. Not sure what problem this solves this side of the pond.
And who wants to be trapped in an aircraft seat for that length of time? Trains are a lot more comfortable, don't trap you in a cramped seat for the duration and those stops at stations can be fun. Especially continental stations with a decent bar, some of the trains also have decent bars ;)
AFAIK those tool names could potentially be trademark protected (potentially because there's zero chance they would be approved in real life), they cannot be copyrighted even in principle for a whole pile of reasons. Even if they could, interoperability would override that, the same way it does for APIs. ...but there's a simpler answer. POSIX specifies all those utilities and one of the few things SCO v the world did decide is that SCO don't own or control the POSIX standard. They're listed at http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/
You're correct that SCO never got the API argument ruled on because they didn't own UNIX. This time Boies found someone that does actually own rights to give standing, they got their argument heard this time. They lost. Pity they couldn't get it ruled on 1st time but we got the result eventually!
This is literally a rerun of SCO v Linux (the real target of SCO v IBM). The BS&F game plan is to establish new law by precedent, in this case that API's can be copyrighted, which was the only tool they had left to snatch Linux ownership after failing to find any actual copying. Oracle v Google is exactly the same legal team and exactly the same legal arguments, and again they found so little actual copying that only API organisation is left to argue over.
The court correctly noticed that existing precedent and the letter of the law makes API's uncopyrightable but BS&F are arguing that law is wrong and needs correcting. So the correct response is indeed to point out loud and often why APIs should remain uncopyrightable, rather than focus on what current interpretation of law says - because that argument already succeeded. Remind the court about the law but the battle now is about why the law is what it is and why it's correct and Oracle/BS&F/SCO are wrong.
Very definitely a fail, but it still sold 3x more units (15k v 5k) than Microsofts Kin... both reduced to 99c ;)
The theory is that sub-lethal levels confuse bee navigation. In many solitary insects that wouldn't be much of a problem, they just carry on eating and breeding wherever they land. Social insects tend to die if they cant find the their home hive.
Sub lethal levels don't directly kill them but kill them indirectly at much lower concentrations. If the chemicals industry even noticed the direct effect they wouldn't necessarily ever see the indirect mortality, they wouldn't speculate on it and arguably wouldn't report it anyway.
My HTC G1 is sitting on my desk right now and I miss it's keyboard on my current mobile. However the market voted and Android devices with keyboards more or less vanished.
I don't believe there are enough of us hard keyboard lovers to sustain a mass market and BB are about to discover that. BB probably already have all the users this might attract.
I'm more than tempted to believe the literal truth of the texts, including the later Christian,Islamic, Mormon and other spin off religions addenda. That reveals a god that can't make its mind up, can't stick to its promises to us, can't be trusted not to change the rules before it's followers collect their rewards. A god that cannot and should not be trusted or worshipped.
But turns out it's just easier to remember it's all made up crap.
Just tried WinKey: Help
Got a menu of 12 hits, 8 identified an app, 1 had a distinctive icon I recognised, 3 gave no clue what app they were for.
The actual help link I wanted wasn't in that list, because searching that way doesn't return URL links, batch/cmd files and many other sorts of links I can set in a Start Menu. It's fscking useless.
The rapid rise in adoption of ARM powered tablets, in many cases replacing PCs, shows that for the majority of users the PC isn't just 'fast enough' - its actually been more than fast enough for many years. That's the overwhelming majority of the market for computing devices, both corporate and personal.
The people that regularly need more power are a small minority. Hell, most people don't need a PC at all and Intel can no longer rely on them buying what Intel wants to sell.
Which is great until you boot into the legacy BIOS setup and find just 1 option - Enable UEFI. Only seen one claim for that so far but it would be foolish to think this won't happen, it's not forbidden by Microsoft rules.
If you're lucky that board will work with all your hardware without tweaking any settings. If you're really lucky they'll update the legacy firmware side with fixes and new hardware support and won't just orphan it.
Do you feel lucky punk?
...if one effect of warming is increased wind speeds and storm conditions, I'd quite like turbines to suck some of that out of the atmosphere.
Hacking one of the gyro based optical image stabilisers from digital cameras would do the trick. Stabilise the overall frame and lose the motion sickness, lag in moving elements (and perspective changes) won't be noticed or won't be noticed enough to break immersion. Having the entire scene out of sync is very easy to detect, even if you aren't consciously aware of it.
I briefly worked for a VR company last century, 1st day they pointed out that stereo is an option not a necessity, so is resolution. All that matters is minimising lag (which implies good tracking as a prerequisite). Still just as true today. Turns out you can cope with (slow) drift in the tracking as well, it's annoying rather than immersion breaking.
"alternately slow down and speed up to take advantage of regenerative braking"
Bizarrely that might 'sort of' work in a hybrid vehicle, where 'work' means 'force slightly quicker charging'. Still makes no sense at all even in a hybrid, but you can see how a suitable clueless person could spout this bullshit. I find it hard to believe a Tesla employ would say something that dumb though, if Broder isn't just making it up he heard it somewhere else.
The problem here is what does 'used' and 'Active' mean? I regular click links and unexpectedly end up on G+ while I'm logged into gmail in another tab. To G it looks like I'm using G+ as a user, but without intent am I really a user? Even if I actively went to G+ but only consume am I really 'active'?
I have a G+ account purely to stop the other fscking G pages constantly nagging me. To date I've had exactly zero activity from the 6 friends&family with accounts in my circles and I've posted nothing for them. Even the couple of news streams I added to follow I just don't bother looking at, more than 6 months now since I last checked it.
G+ numbers are made up in a way that FB wishes it thought of 1st.
All 3 so called 'churches' are diseases, all that differs is how virulent they are. The Catholics&Baptists are old and have evolved to not kill their hosts. The newbie scammers haven't and with luck will be eradicated before they adapt.
They don't have a lot of choice. The 'hack' leverages the debug support. Can't remove that support while they desperately need devs and it won't be easy to safely plug exploits via it. While the debugger is available there's no point blocking the exploit, it's certain another will be found as quickly as they can fix them.
In a few months when they've had time to decide if RT is worth continuing expect them to do something drastic disruptive to block jailbreaks. While it's struggling there's no point.
...and apps on X have been doing it for decades. Still remember xeyes in the mid-90s on my Linux box. Written in 1988...
Meanwhile I'll be gaming on my phone and won't want to yank down the notification bar by accident.
It's right to allow full screen as an option for apps. App writers just need to think more before using it.
Microsoft have spent the last 15years (at least) trying to kill OpenGL. In 1997 they stopped SGI supporting OGL with the Fahrenheit deal, a deal they had no intention of delivering their side of, it really was just about stopping SGI working on OGL in Windows. It worked, SGI became irrelevant, OGL seemed dead - but Nvidia and ATI stepped in to fill the void and fscked the plan.
For XP they tried to drop OGL acceleration. Hardware suppliers went ahead and added it back in anyway, while professional users applied pressure to stop MS going further in crippling their tools. OGL support was frozen with no updates and every app having to manually discover ogl extensions to keep up with DX.
Vista again borked OGL by supplying it as a shim translating calls to DX. Awful performance. 3rd party drivers could restore OGL but only by disabling parts of the GUI, another attempt to make it unpleasant actually using OGL. OGL frozen at 1.4, again leaving apps in extension discovery hell.
Win8 they've at least switched to using DX to drive users to Metro, with DX upgrades only planned for Metro mode. Have they given up trying to cripple OGL faced with total lack of cooperation from card makers? Too early to tell but I think they believe DirectX already won. Valve may have a BIG surprise coming for MS.
You have to use Metro at least once to get to the desktop to install the software that stops you having to use Metro to get to the desktop.... ;)
I had problems with tiled windows on the desktop, with identical low contrast borders on all sides, spotting where one window ended and the next started was visually confusing. Same with working out where scroll bars were, thanks to no internal visual clues. Installing UxStyle and the XP style pack made an instant difference. Just having a distinct title bar and scroll bars that stand out makes an enormous improvement navigating complex windows and window collections.
Win7 Aero was undeniably a step too far, too visually distracting. Ripping it all out was an idiotic overreaction.
"windows key->type what you want->launch desktop app == much faster than a start button. Always works for me quickly. "
Tried that, after typing MediaPortalFS2 (the entire name of the Windows shortcut except the .lnk) it still hadn't found it. A feature that only works some of the time on some of the stuff is not worth wasting any of my time on.
To add insult, it takes longer waiting for search to pop up a result window then select from it than to mouse a zigzag in the old Start Menu. Even when it finds the correct damn app it usually takes longer.
The only time I find search faster is when trying to remember where the hell they hid the settings I want in this iteration of Windows. That fails quite a lot when I don't think of the magic phrase they renamed things to. This is a feature that only looks good because it's papering over UI design faults. Lucky I can restore sanity with ClassicShell and layout everything in an optimal and discoverable way for me.
It's mind boggling, only 90% managed to use the start screen and charms on day1.
So in that 10% are folk that failed to work out how to get the login prompt from the completely control free boot page. And people who failed to shutdown their PC making up the bulk of it - since that needs the charmless bar.
Just to install ClassicShell or fire up the desktop to use it with needs use of both the start screen and charms. So even if you never use them again you still count as a MS success in these stats.
Any other company would be panicking over a 10% fail rate just starting up their software, not claiming it as a success.