I second that. PC's definitely need an established standard for video card performance. They always cite some specific video card in the requirements and there is no way to tell if any other given video card matches them (since Nvidea and ATI numbering standards are so arbitrary). It's one of the many reasons I left PC gaming behind years ago. Console gaming means never having to worry about requirements, or settings, or upgrades.
There was a time when this was true. Now most high school and college level classes actually require them (in the U.S. anyway). And before you start bad-mouthing the current generation for how easy they have it, keep in mind that the courses have gotten appropriately harder too. You wouldn't believe how much complex graphing now goes on in even a basic algebra class compared to back in the day, when everything was still done by hand.
Hopefully the kitchen of the future will have a feature that kitchens in here in 2013 still don't seem to have: the ability to microwave fishsticks. I can microwave chicken strips. I can microwave hamburgers. I can even microwave lasagna. But in 2013, I still have to use my conventional oven to turn a frozen fishstick or breaded fish patty into a meal.
Screw being a great chef, I just want a damned fishstick I can microwave!!!
Separating UI from logic is a design paradigm that is well over 10 years old.
Yeah, but in practice has anyone ever been able to get it to work across radically different platforms? I mean, you're talking about moving on the fly from the ARM architecture with low memory, weak video drivers, etc. of a tablet to a full-on desktop system--just by changing the UI? Sounds like a great idea, but implementing it would be a fucking nightmare. It's hard enough as it is just trying to support all the possible desktop configurations.
If the App Store became a requirement, then they would be forced to stop.
They would also be forced to give Apple a 30% cut of their sales and let Apple and Apple only decide if their software was "appropriate" for your computer.
Let's be honest here. Apple doesn't dislike Flash and Java because of security. They dislike them because people can use them to play games and use apps without Apple getting their 30% cut.
Canonical is no longer a linux company, it's a company that uses linux.
Being that Linux can never really be "owned" by any one company, isn't that a given?
Oh, you're going to get an F on that one for sure!
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Most methods have "void" parameters and return "void". Everything goes via global variables. Methods naming does not use camelCase or NAMESPACE prefix.
Somewhere, my CS professor just had a simultaneous heart attack/stroke.
So your argument is that console gaming must be in decline because you've become a PC snob now? Or could it possibly be that console gaming is in decline because the current generation of consoles is over 7-years old, way past the traditional 5-year console lifecycle, and showing its age?
I guess we'll find out next year as the new generation of consoles comes in.
I would be surprised to learn of any major military power today that DOESN'T have a cyberwarfare division (and god knows how many government contractors doing it on the sly). This only exposes something publicly that every security researcher has known for over a decade.
I used to have a roommate like that. He would bitch and moan about how this and that studio was screwing over this and that franchise. He would write countless angry blog posts and letters to the company complaining. But come the release of the next iteration of said franchise, he was always first in line to buy it.
And people wonder why companies don't give two shits about fanboys bitching on the internet.
As someone who used to have hangovers quite frequently in his younger days, I can assure you that they're more than dehydration. I drank plenty of water and fluids (both before and fact the fact) and still felt like ass the next day.
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I second that. PC's definitely need an established standard for video card performance. They always cite some specific video card in the requirements and there is no way to tell if any other given video card matches them (since Nvidea and ATI numbering standards are so arbitrary). It's one of the many reasons I left PC gaming behind years ago. Console gaming means never having to worry about requirements, or settings, or upgrades.
Every console looks grossly outdated in 6 years. That's why they make new generations of them.
Graphing calculators are typically banned anyway.
There was a time when this was true. Now most high school and college level classes actually require them (in the U.S. anyway). And before you start bad-mouthing the current generation for how easy they have it, keep in mind that the courses have gotten appropriately harder too. You wouldn't believe how much complex graphing now goes on in even a basic algebra class compared to back in the day, when everything was still done by hand.
I don't have a boat to go catch them fresh.
Hopefully the kitchen of the future will have a feature that kitchens in here in 2013 still don't seem to have: the ability to microwave fishsticks. I can microwave chicken strips. I can microwave hamburgers. I can even microwave lasagna. But in 2013, I still have to use my conventional oven to turn a frozen fishstick or breaded fish patty into a meal.
Screw being a great chef, I just want a damned fishstick I can microwave!!!
Separating UI from logic is a design paradigm that is well over 10 years old.
Yeah, but in practice has anyone ever been able to get it to work across radically different platforms? I mean, you're talking about moving on the fly from the ARM architecture with low memory, weak video drivers, etc. of a tablet to a full-on desktop system--just by changing the UI? Sounds like a great idea, but implementing it would be a fucking nightmare. It's hard enough as it is just trying to support all the possible desktop configurations.
..or, as they're more commonly known: NINJAS!
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If the App Store became a requirement, then they would be forced to stop.
They would also be forced to give Apple a 30% cut of their sales and let Apple and Apple only decide if their software was "appropriate" for your computer.
Only the hippest H1-B visa candidates need apply.
Jesus rapturing us up, meteors wiping us out, the sun expanding into a red giant, the heat death of the universe--take your goddamn pick.
Let's be honest here. Apple doesn't dislike Flash and Java because of security. They dislike them because people can use them to play games and use apps without Apple getting their 30% cut.
Thank you folks, I'll be here all week.
My father was a lead farmer, you insensitive clod!
I actually miss goto and I'll admit it. It doesn't NECESSARILY produce spaghetti code, people! [ducking for cover]
Canonical is no longer a linux company, it's a company that uses linux.
Being that Linux can never really be "owned" by any one company, isn't that a given?
Most methods have "void" parameters and return "void". Everything goes via global variables.
Methods naming does not use camelCase or NAMESPACE prefix.
Somewhere, my CS professor just had a simultaneous heart attack/stroke.
So your argument is that console gaming must be in decline because you've become a PC snob now? Or could it possibly be that console gaming is in decline because the current generation of consoles is over 7-years old, way past the traditional 5-year console lifecycle, and showing its age?
I guess we'll find out next year as the new generation of consoles comes in.
Did all hell break loose when the developers killed the used PC game market?
I would be surprised to learn of any major military power today that DOESN'T have a cyberwarfare division (and god knows how many government contractors doing it on the sly). This only exposes something publicly that every security researcher has known for over a decade.
I used to have a roommate like that. He would bitch and moan about how this and that studio was screwing over this and that franchise. He would write countless angry blog posts and letters to the company complaining. But come the release of the next iteration of said franchise, he was always first in line to buy it.
And people wonder why companies don't give two shits about fanboys bitching on the internet.
As someone who used to have hangovers quite frequently in his younger days, I can assure you that they're more than dehydration. I drank plenty of water and fluids (both before and fact the fact) and still felt like ass the next day.
Does anyone really drink alcohol for the taste? Take the effect away and most drinks are a lot like drinking piss with a mediciney aftertaste.
Stocks in Irish, Scottish, and Russian companies unexpectedly soar.
That's it, I'm out.
Do not want to see an aging Han Solo sitting in a bar bragging about his glory days and complaining about his jedi bitch ex-wife.