This sounds like it might run counter to the new EU law that mandates all software can be resold, regardless of licensing, agreements, and dongles. Didn't they make it specifically clear that when you buy software, it is yours, and yours alone, and you are free to resell it, and it then becomes theirs, and theirs alone. The actual publishers have no say in what you want to do with it.
How would that run counter to the law? The law says you can resell it, not how you can resell it.
This has become common with event tickets in the US, too -- you're free to resell a ticket you've got, but you have to do so via the original issuer via a "transfer this to this other person" function. (Which, frankly, is good for both parties -- you don't need to meet the buyer as the seller, and the buyer knows they're not getting a counterfeit ticket.)
I fail to see how this is even remotely an issue... the leak doesn't say Microsoft isn't going to make it free for a personal person-to-person "gift"... Now, maybe they'll charge you either way, but until it comes out that Microsoft is charging person-to-person transfers, I'm not going to get all up in arms. As long as they don't explicitly block a transfer back, it doesn't prevent lending, either.
Hell, it means I'd be able to lend a game to a friend who is across the country. That'd be great, IMO.
Frankly, unless I was a retailer who was raping people on used games sales , I can't see why this isn't a great solution.
Which is exactly the point. They can't tax the federal government. So they decided to create a law that allows for a loophole that taxes the power company and the law also allows the power company to pass the additional costs on to the federal government
"We don’t tax the federal government," Mayfield explained to a Utah Senate committee March 7. "So what this bill does is tax Rocky Mountain Power and then gives them the ability to pass that on as an increase in their energy bills. So we collect an equivalent of what would have been a tax on the federal government."
As long as the state makes it a 6% tax on everyone, I'm okay with that. Then the voters in the state can decide if they like the tax.
If its not being applied equally, I'd suggest the federal government apply a 6% increase in income tax rates to the people of Utah and see what the voters think of that.
I found the first one unwatchable due to all the fake lens flares that were artificially inserted. Is this one any easier on the eyes? I'm really hesitant to see it.
The irony, of course, is that the lens flares in most of the scenes of the last one weren't inserted CGI lens flares. They were guys standing off camera with flashlights.
Unless they did the upgrades and left them off the entire time, and then flipped this on in the last week, it hasn't made a damn bit of difference on the Acela trains.
Upside, its a good excuse to not be productive for a few hours.
Why, yes I am! I've written home-brew Xbox games that included graphics and animations, sounds and music(<10MB), and reasonably complicated network software that runs as a service on many of my servers at work (<100KB). I've dabbled in writing demo code as well writing a complex synthesizer with DSP effects and tons of music content in 64kb.
If you're actually defending the need to ship printer drivers literally over 500MB I would really love to hear your logic.
No, I'm attacking your suggestion that a simple raycaster projecting a map of data that already exists in ROM being simple (it is -- it'd be a couple hundred lines of any code, no matter now little effort you put into making it compact) equates in any form with any software that actually has to meet external requirements. The suggestion is just ignorant, and karma-whoring.
Its as stupid as looking at a cleverly made multicolor building a 5 year old throws together with legos and suggesting that the next time someone pays a quarter billion dollars for a skyscraper, they should think about those legos. Think long and hard.
Anyone who has any real experience shipping software (and, I'd bet most "programmers" who wrote that software aren't in that category, either) would know, bloat comes from market requirements. A 500MB printer driver is almost certainly less than a megabyte for the driver itself. The configuration system is probably a few more meg. You don't know what shared libraries may or may not be on the target system, so you're going to have those just-in-case. You'll also have the installer and application likely in a hundred different languages. You'll have documentation in a hundred languages. You'll likely have tutorial and help videos or animations because the fact is, your users are too stupid to use the printer nine out of ten times. You also need to build all of that and ship it on a printer that costs $50, which means you're not going to pay QA to test every possible combination of bits and pieces being installed -- so your installer is going to lay down all 500MB, because disks are cheap, and people won't pay $10 more for your printer for you to validate a 20MB install.
It'd take 100x longer to craft a super-tiny ray caster than it would take to just bang out one quickly without caring about the size. If you were paying for that raycaster, would you pay 100x as much for it, to save a few K?
The source code is zipped. For a 254 byte program. This just tickles me for some reason.
When you have a 300 baud modem on your C64 and Delphi Online charges by the minute, every last byte adds up!
The funny thing is, back then the handy thing about 300 baud was there was no need to pipe things to more -- you could just cat a file and read it as it downloaded...
Erm, Steve Jobs died of cancer; a cancer that might very well have been treatable, had he not been absolutely mental and gone for "natural" cure.
Not only do you need funding, you also need someone who believes in science (like Bill Gates, whom by the way does a heck of a lot for research).
One problem with very successful people -- they equate success in one field with success and expertise in all fields. Its a common problem, even among things like Nobel winners. They assume success (or luck) in their field makes them somehow an expert in anything they take an interest in.
IMO, that's always been one of Gates' strong points -- he knew what he knew and knew what he didn't know, and always surrounded himself with people who could compliment his expertise. Jobs always seemed the exact opposite.
You don't seem to understand the "concept" behind "warp."
You are not exceeding the speed of light, you are just not traveling the linear distance between the two points.
That's like saying that he doesn't understand the concept behind a Stargate. Made up is made up is made up.
You can't have an honest discourse on the speed if light when you're trying to involve fiction. You might as well go full star trek and say that thetalon radiation transmorphs subspace and changes the value of C, but only in the presence of an extradimensional rift, and if-and-only-if you have a humpback whale.
What really bothers me is the "IMax" symbol at the end of the preview which suggests this anti-knowledge will be shown at science museums. Incredible cultural poison.
Yes, because Star Trek, Iron Man, Transformers, The Matrix and a hundred other feature films that are available in Imax are intended to be science documentaries...
FUD stands for Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt - none of those elements are present in the above post. It's simply an account that that differs from your personal experience. It may or may not be true, but it's not FUD.
Well, to be fair its actually just bullshit that differs from reality, posted with the intent of creating FUD.
Every sentence in the GP was factually incorrect. The ones that were opinion based are clearly lies (like them not being available -- every single Verizon and ATT store in the US carries them, every authorized reseller will also have them available). I suspect the "I actually wanted to develop for it" was a lie, too... given that they're so easy to find and the dev tools are free for it.
What if "Meanderings of Memory" never existed in the first place, but was made up by sloppy 19th-century OED editors when they couldn't find a real source? It's not as if this practice is unknown...
Maybe its like the fake roads that cartographers put into maps... anyone else who references it clearly copied the OED!
More FUDDY FUDDY FUD for the stock pumping, what else is new? Instant DNA sequencing is like "quantum computing", which keeps getting "invented" over and over and over again. What a joke. Queue the scam defenders in 3...2...1.... (gotta keep up the hoax, or else they have to find REAL work!)
Its not bullshit, you just can't read.
Its fast DNA separation, not fast DNA sequencing. You need to get good samples of just the DNA to do sequencing, and that's what they're claiming they can do.
The only thing that might help "instantly" is the chip-based gene tests, not full sequencing (of which the DNA extraction isn't a particularly time consuming part.)
It's just that somewhere i got this tiny bit of hope that on a place like this were we're slightly more intelligent than the average fox viewer that people would behave a tiny bit smarter, but... you're probably right >_...
A misplaced hope, unfortunately. It was fine ten years ago. The failure of VA Linux/SourceForge/Whatever-name-they-had-on-a-given-day started a downward trend that culminated in the transition to Dice. I suspect the only intelligent discussion left on here is largely because of the force of some number of readers who keep coming back out of ten or fifteen years of habit, and have the same visceral reaction I've got in most stories. (I actually suspect my reading of Slashdot will end or mostly end with the passing of Google Reader...)
I've both used windows vista & windows 8 a lot, and both are very decent versions of windows. Vista was very stable & fast for the time i used it (a few years), and now i've got windows 8, and i like the look, and it's extremely fast:). The new start menu is a bit of getting used to, and there are some improvements possible, but it's a very decent first attempt, and i'd rather have them improve that, than keep that old start menu alive forever because people are so afraid of change -_-.
And seriously, all the stupid things you read about it on slashdot are just ridiculous. it's not because we now got a tablet friendly start menu that allows some basic applications in it, that the entire desktop and every single other feature of windows suddenly disappeared, there still is a desktop, windows, multitasking,... just some fancier start menu that's strange at the start, but works pretty well. and when my family sees me using it, they seem fairly positive, the change to the new system is only a week of getting used to it.
For all the intelligence that people always say is here, why do you all have to act like conservative bigots when it's about windows?? both vista & 8 are decent windowses, and all the fuss about them is just plain ridiculous -_-.
Its Slashdot. Just as Fox will hype the "Obama is going to take your guns" stories because it keeps their target demographic coming back for more, Slashdot will run "OMG, everyone hates _____ from Microsoft" stories, too.
There's occasionally good stuff posted on here, so its best to just ignore the stories targeted at feeding the base.
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This sounds like it might run counter to the new EU law that mandates all software can be resold, regardless of licensing, agreements, and dongles. Didn't they make it specifically clear that when you buy software, it is yours, and yours alone, and you are free to resell it, and it then becomes theirs, and theirs alone. The actual publishers have no say in what you want to do with it.
How would that run counter to the law? The law says you can resell it, not how you can resell it.
This has become common with event tickets in the US, too -- you're free to resell a ticket you've got, but you have to do so via the original issuer via a "transfer this to this other person" function. (Which, frankly, is good for both parties -- you don't need to meet the buyer as the seller, and the buyer knows they're not getting a counterfeit ticket.)
I fail to see how this is even remotely an issue... the leak doesn't say Microsoft isn't going to make it free for a personal person-to-person "gift"... Now, maybe they'll charge you either way, but until it comes out that Microsoft is charging person-to-person transfers, I'm not going to get all up in arms. As long as they don't explicitly block a transfer back, it doesn't prevent lending, either.
Hell, it means I'd be able to lend a game to a friend who is across the country. That'd be great, IMO.
Frankly, unless I was a retailer who was raping people on used games sales , I can't see why this isn't a great solution.
Which is exactly the point. They can't tax the federal government. So they decided to create a law that allows for a loophole that taxes the power company and the law also allows the power company to pass the additional costs on to the federal government
"We don’t tax the federal government," Mayfield explained to a Utah Senate committee March 7. "So what this bill does is tax Rocky Mountain Power and then gives them the ability to pass that on as an increase in their energy bills. So we collect an equivalent of what would have been a tax on the federal government."
As long as the state makes it a 6% tax on everyone, I'm okay with that. Then the voters in the state can decide if they like the tax.
If its not being applied equally, I'd suggest the federal government apply a 6% increase in income tax rates to the people of Utah and see what the voters think of that.
I found the first one unwatchable due to all the fake lens flares that were artificially inserted. Is this one any easier on the eyes? I'm really hesitant to see it.
The irony, of course, is that the lens flares in most of the scenes of the last one weren't inserted CGI lens flares. They were guys standing off camera with flashlights.
Its not Science Fiction, but its definitely SyFy.
Interpret that as you see fit -- for some that's a good thing, for most its a bad thing. But IMO, that's what it is.
Unless they did the upgrades and left them off the entire time, and then flipped this on in the last week, it hasn't made a damn bit of difference on the Acela trains.
Upside, its a good excuse to not be productive for a few hours.
If they're young, or wearing a hoodie, or darker skinned than you, or listening to that rock music... they must be up to no good.
Here I go feeding the trolls...
No, here you go being a troll.
If you reread my post, I even said the print driver is small. Most don't take any code, in modern systems.
The stuff that turns a printer driver into a product that a company can ship adds the rest. Its okay, go back and read my post. I gave some examples.
If you're still confused after re-reading it, I doubt anyone is going to be able to make you understand.
Why?
Because I'd fire pretty damn quickly any programmer that doesn't understand product requirements. In fact, I have on a number of occasions.
Why, yes I am! I've written home-brew Xbox games that included graphics and animations, sounds and music(<10MB), and reasonably complicated network software that runs as a service on many of my servers at work (<100KB). I've dabbled in writing demo code as well writing a complex synthesizer with DSP effects and tons of music content in 64kb.
If you're actually defending the need to ship printer drivers literally over 500MB I would really love to hear your logic.
No, I'm attacking your suggestion that a simple raycaster projecting a map of data that already exists in ROM being simple (it is -- it'd be a couple hundred lines of any code, no matter now little effort you put into making it compact) equates in any form with any software that actually has to meet external requirements. The suggestion is just ignorant, and karma-whoring.
Its as stupid as looking at a cleverly made multicolor building a 5 year old throws together with legos and suggesting that the next time someone pays a quarter billion dollars for a skyscraper, they should think about those legos. Think long and hard.
Anyone who has any real experience shipping software (and, I'd bet most "programmers" who wrote that software aren't in that category, either) would know, bloat comes from market requirements. A 500MB printer driver is almost certainly less than a megabyte for the driver itself. The configuration system is probably a few more meg. You don't know what shared libraries may or may not be on the target system, so you're going to have those just-in-case. You'll also have the installer and application likely in a hundred different languages. You'll have documentation in a hundred languages. You'll likely have tutorial and help videos or animations because the fact is, your users are too stupid to use the printer nine out of ten times. You also need to build all of that and ship it on a printer that costs $50, which means you're not going to pay QA to test every possible combination of bits and pieces being installed -- so your installer is going to lay down all 500MB, because disks are cheap, and people won't pay $10 more for your printer for you to validate a 20MB install.
It'd take 100x longer to craft a super-tiny ray caster than it would take to just bang out one quickly without caring about the size. If you were paying for that raycaster, would you pay 100x as much for it, to save a few K?
The next time you churn your next 500MB printer driver think about programs like this. Think long and hard.
God, I hope you're not a programmer.
The source code is zipped. For a 254 byte program. This just tickles me for some reason.
When you have a 300 baud modem on your C64 and Delphi Online charges by the minute, every last byte adds up!
The funny thing is, back then the handy thing about 300 baud was there was no need to pipe things to more -- you could just cat a file and read it as it downloaded ...
Stupid 1200 baud modems messed that all up ...
Erm, Steve Jobs died of cancer; a cancer that might very well have been treatable, had he not been absolutely mental and gone for "natural" cure.
Not only do you need funding, you also need someone who believes in science (like Bill Gates, whom by the way does a heck of a lot for research).
One problem with very successful people -- they equate success in one field with success and expertise in all fields. Its a common problem, even among things like Nobel winners. They assume success (or luck) in their field makes them somehow an expert in anything they take an interest in.
IMO, that's always been one of Gates' strong points -- he knew what he knew and knew what he didn't know, and always surrounded himself with people who could compliment his expertise. Jobs always seemed the exact opposite.
you're still human... A very complex and wonderful piece of engineering...
Ummm... (maybe a particular case of Poe's law...) anthropomorphising or "intelligent creation"-ist?
As far as I can tell at most software companies, random experimentation and tweaking does pass for engineering...
You don't seem to understand the "concept" behind "warp."
You are not exceeding the speed of light, you are just not traveling the linear distance between the two points.
That's like saying that he doesn't understand the concept behind a Stargate. Made up is made up is made up.
You can't have an honest discourse on the speed if light when you're trying to involve fiction. You might as well go full star trek and say that thetalon radiation transmorphs subspace and changes the value of C, but only in the presence of an extradimensional rift, and if-and-only-if you have a humpback whale.
Yeah, when Ferrari and Lamborghini outsell the 5-series and A6, then those companies will truly be something meaningful.
Forget that. Clearly Elon is a failure until SpaceX sells more Dragon capsules than Hyundai Elantras!
Actually, the best part of the article was the comment Timothy added.
It was relevant, useful and accurate. Almost like he was playing at being an editor!
From TFS: "capable of getting speeds up to 1gbps"
That's 0.125 GBps so 8 seconds for a GB. You need at least 80 seconds to hit your 10GB cap which is more than one minute. This sounds much fairer now.
Holy crap, what is the magical carrier you speak of that has a 10GB cap!?
What really bothers me is the "IMax" symbol at the end of the preview which suggests this anti-knowledge will be shown at science museums. Incredible cultural poison.
Yes, because Star Trek, Iron Man, Transformers, The Matrix and a hundred other feature films that are available in Imax are intended to be science documentaries ...
FUD stands for Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt - none of those elements are present in the above post. It's simply an account that that differs from your personal experience. It may or may not be true, but it's not FUD.
Well, to be fair its actually just bullshit that differs from reality, posted with the intent of creating FUD.
Every sentence in the GP was factually incorrect. The ones that were opinion based are clearly lies (like them not being available -- every single Verizon and ATT store in the US carries them, every authorized reseller will also have them available). I suspect the "I actually wanted to develop for it" was a lie, too... given that they're so easy to find and the dev tools are free for it.
What if "Meanderings of Memory" never existed in the first place, but was made up by sloppy 19th-century OED editors when they couldn't find a real source? It's not as if this practice is unknown...
Maybe its like the fake roads that cartographers put into maps... anyone else who references it clearly copied the OED!
This only holds true for single-link connections. When we introduce a hub, it has to be trusted. From TFA:
So as long as the hub is secure, then the network should also be secure.
This destroys the protection from wiretapping that quantum crypto promised.
Yes, by all means you're smarter than the people at Los Alamos who built it.
You should apply for a job!
More FUDDY FUDDY FUD for the stock pumping, what else is new? Instant DNA sequencing is like "quantum computing", which keeps getting "invented" over and over and over again. What a joke. Queue the scam defenders in 3...2...1.... (gotta keep up the hoax, or else they have to find REAL work!)
Its not bullshit, you just can't read.
Its fast DNA separation, not fast DNA sequencing. You need to get good samples of just the DNA to do sequencing, and that's what they're claiming they can do.
The only thing that might help "instantly" is the chip-based gene tests, not full sequencing (of which the DNA extraction isn't a particularly time consuming part.)
It's just that somewhere i got this tiny bit of hope that on a place like this were we're slightly more intelligent than the average fox viewer that people would behave a tiny bit smarter, but... you're probably right >_...
A misplaced hope, unfortunately. It was fine ten years ago. The failure of VA Linux/SourceForge/Whatever-name-they-had-on-a-given-day started a downward trend that culminated in the transition to Dice. I suspect the only intelligent discussion left on here is largely because of the force of some number of readers who keep coming back out of ten or fifteen years of habit, and have the same visceral reaction I've got in most stories. (I actually suspect my reading of Slashdot will end or mostly end with the passing of Google Reader...)
I've both used windows vista & windows 8 a lot, and both are very decent versions of windows. Vista was very stable & fast for the time i used it (a few years), and now i've got windows 8, and i like the look, and it's extremely fast :). The new start menu is a bit of getting used to, and there are some improvements possible, but it's a very decent first attempt, and i'd rather have them improve that, than keep that old start menu alive forever because people are so afraid of change -_-.
And seriously, all the stupid things you read about it on slashdot are just ridiculous. it's not because we now got a tablet friendly start menu that allows some basic applications in it, that the entire desktop and every single other feature of windows suddenly disappeared, there still is a desktop, windows, multitasking, ... just some fancier start menu that's strange at the start, but works pretty well. and when my family sees me using it, they seem fairly positive, the change to the new system is only a week of getting used to it.
For all the intelligence that people always say is here, why do you all have to act like conservative bigots when it's about windows?? both vista & 8 are decent windowses, and all the fuss about them is just plain ridiculous -_-.
Its Slashdot. Just as Fox will hype the "Obama is going to take your guns" stories because it keeps their target demographic coming back for more, Slashdot will run "OMG, everyone hates _____ from Microsoft" stories, too.
There's occasionally good stuff posted on here, so its best to just ignore the stories targeted at feeding the base.
You seem to think he actually intends to design it for that, mongoloid.
I think you both could use a thesaurus.