The way things are going, playing a game on a console is going to be as troublesome as on a PC.
As a Linux PC gamer I think you're too worried about it, but I do understand your fears.
My reasoning is thus:
This move is probably going to result in two tiers of plug-and-play gaming for PS4: low-def "standard" experience and a high resolution, texture, poly-count, and fast framerate experience. I'm willing to bet money that Sony will either require that all studios support both versions or provide incentives to support both- it shouldn't be a problem for AAA studios because they already do support a very wide array of detail and run-time settings for their titles. It probably won't be a problem for indie devs either because indie games don't usually push the limits of what modern hardware can do.
I mean, come on, guys - smarter than average? WTF?!?!
Believe it or not, people aren't born knowing everything. Sometimes smart people need to ask someone who knows something to share that knowledge.
For example, what if TFA were about calculus? Then you said something like "come on, guys, don't you know calculus??? You're supposed to be smart!! WTF?!?!" Are you as smart as Leibnitz and Newton that you came up with calculus before you even started posting on/. ? Did you not learn calculus in school (presuming that you did) by listening to a smart person share his/her knowledge?
The US doesn't. You only think it does because your TV only stops talking about one shooting when the next one comes along months later.
Agreed.
If he actually believes the US has shootings every day and couldn't see through the bullcrap... how gullible, how stupid, how foolish can you get?
That doesn't solve your problem it only compounds it.
If payment can't be made anonymously then first, "They" still know that so-and-so gave you money and second, prostitution is illegal.
The expensive ass proprietary dongles are free and included with the phone.
True. But, speaking for myself not for Rob MacDonald, I would prefer not to deal with dongles connected to dongles plugged into my phone through a dongle just to use headphones or a car stereo jack with my phone. Especially since plugging in a wire has worked just fine so far.
The 1/8" stereo plug is over 50 fucking year old. I'm not sure this is the answer, but it's shitty technology
Calculus is over three hundred years old: being old doesn't automatically make something bad or wrong.
Furthermore, it's asinine to assert something is "shitty technology" without giving at least an example of how the same could be implemented better.
and you're a dumbass, so I guess it was "three things"
3. Arguing that everyone should use spaces for indentation just because that's how the rest of the project is formatted is nothing more than an appeal to tradition-- furthermore we have tools these days which can automatically transform the whole project to use tabs so it's not like it would amount to re-writing every single file by hand to make the change.
4. About the flame war... Here's a blog post that sums it up nicely. Spaces for indentation are objectively inferior, provide no improvement over tabs, and are more difficult to work with. If your reason for using them is just to force everyone else to do things (i.e. read and write code) your way then screw you: you're literally one of the reasons the world sucks.
Who has the luxury to start a made to last new project from scratch except maybe some opensource zealots?
If no one has that luxury then shouting "rah rah Java!" from the rooftops also does no good since everyone in this hypothetical is already stuck with whatever language their project was written in.
But that world isn't real. Instead, some of use do start new projects and we do think about what tool to use.
And Java is the absolute last tool I will ever use... except Oracle's database: that comes below even Java.
I agree with your sentiment, but the Population Reference Bureau says that number is about 107 billion people have ever lived so that's closer to 54 billion women than "trillions".
I would bet, victims of those crimes, who forced a constitutional challenge to those criminals activities could force some really severe penalties on the government.
Force?! Force the world's most powerful government/military to do something? I don't think you understand how power works.
You might say you can, and write crap laws that say you can but legally can you really purposefully create victims of citizens, criminally fuck people over, to what, advance your career.
Since they are currently and routinely doing precisely that then the answer to your question is "yes". And you can't do squat about it.
Somehow that doesn't quite ring true as being legal, regardless of the anti-constitutional lies their lawyers and corrupt politicians spread.
1. What makes you think that your opinion of legality is important or should be listened to?
2. They both make and enforce the law. They decide what is legal. Not because it's fair, nor because you think it's right or fair. They get to do such things because they can. Because they have the guns and the troops.
If situations like this piss you off then you need to go exercise your first and second amendment rights. Vote first. Have guns and ammo ready in case they corrupt the vote (like in "democratic" Cuba or any other tin-pot dictatorship) or in case a new Stalin or Mao takes power.
But Finder vs. Windows File Explorer vs. Thunar vs. Nautilus? I'd be curious if anyone can show that the choice has any measurable impact on productivity. It seems to me purely a matter of taste.
The new Gnome 3 Nautilus (in Ubuntu 16.04) has gone way downhill as a productivity tool.
It chokes and crashes on directories with several thousand images in them because it tries to thumbnail all of them... and it doesn't allow you to turn off thumbnailing.
Also, it removed the tree view and won't let you turn it back on.
Come to think of it, there doesn't seem to be an options dialog anywhere in Nautilus.
It does have an "open in terminal" menu option though, so that's nice at least.
I did try Thunar but it keeps crashing for me and I'm too lazy to track down the reason why-- Thunar isn't even that much better than Nautilus anyway.
I do like Dolphin, but I haven't used it recently and I don't want to install all of KDE just to use the file browser.
Why bother with different flavors of a distro? You can just install the DE of your choice
sudo apt-get install kde
sudo apt-get install gnome
sudo apt-get install xfce
sudo apt-get install awesome
sudo apt-get install mint
sudo apt-get install cinnamon
etc. etc. etc.
Perhaps the better term OP meant to use was 'serf'. Not technically a slave, but the vast majority of resources and wealth created going to someone else, so much so that one is beholden for one's family, food, and shelter to some other 'owner class' that organizes the available jobs, housing, and economic framework, making it very difficult-to-impossible to become self-sufficient unless part of that owner class.
So... the owner class is the politicians and the Federal government?
A quick look at the Wikipedia article and I agree that this sounds interesting and relevant.
I see that it's divided into four states which sort of form a matrix:
1. for benefit of all + active = voice (talking to manager(s) or taking some other action to remedy the situation)
2. for benefit of all + passive = loyalty (waiting for things to improve)
3. for benefit of self + active = exit (leave)
4. for benefit of self + passive = neglect (showing up late, not giving a crap, being lazy)
The moment government invented superior weapons, like nuclear bombs, the government has been out of the control of citizens.
I only partially agree with you. Nukes are not useful in a civil war because the point of a civil war is to gain/regain control of the country-- nukes defeat the point by destroying the resources. That's not to say that a couple cities won't be nuked if we do have another civil war, but it'll only be a handful of cases at most. The war will still be fought and won with conventional weapons in a scenario very much like Syria.
We can avoid the iceberg if a lot of people take over the wheel, or if a few start it turning at the first warning. So far, neither has happened. Not significantly.
You need to convince me that being politically active (Voting for the right persons? Staging protests? Lobbying your representative?) is effective.
Cody Wilson proved that there's more ways to be politically active than just opening your mouth.
In other words: research ways to keep Second Amendment rights active even if the powers that be don't want citizens to have weapons. Armed citizens are free citizens.
But bottom line: civilization is a team effort. If everyone else on the team wants to go one way and you want to go another then there's absolutely nothing you can do except leave the team and hope there's another team out there that's running things the way you would prefer.
The rest are (and always have been) operating under the misapprehension that computers are electronic brains or oracles that you can converse with as you would another human being.
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Sri Lanka is not India.
The way things are going, playing a game on a console is going to be as troublesome as on a PC.
As a Linux PC gamer I think you're too worried about it, but I do understand your fears.
My reasoning is thus:
This move is probably going to result in two tiers of plug-and-play gaming for PS4: low-def "standard" experience and a high resolution, texture, poly-count, and fast framerate experience. I'm willing to bet money that Sony will either require that all studios support both versions or provide incentives to support both- it shouldn't be a problem for AAA studios because they already do support a very wide array of detail and run-time settings for their titles. It probably won't be a problem for indie devs either because indie games don't usually push the limits of what modern hardware can do.
I mean, come on, guys - smarter than average? WTF?!?!
Believe it or not, people aren't born knowing everything. Sometimes smart people need to ask someone who knows something to share that knowledge.
/. ? Did you not learn calculus in school (presuming that you did) by listening to a smart person share his/her knowledge?
For example, what if TFA were about calculus? Then you said something like "come on, guys, don't you know calculus??? You're supposed to be smart!! WTF?!?!" Are you as smart as Leibnitz and Newton that you came up with calculus before you even started posting on
The US doesn't. You only think it does because your TV only stops talking about one shooting when the next one comes along months later.
Agreed.
If he actually believes the US has shootings every day and couldn't see through the bullcrap... how gullible, how stupid, how foolish can you get?
That doesn't solve your problem it only compounds it.
If payment can't be made anonymously then first, "They" still know that so-and-so gave you money and second, prostitution is illegal.
The expensive ass proprietary dongles are free and included with the phone.
True. But, speaking for myself not for Rob MacDonald, I would prefer not to deal with dongles connected to dongles plugged into my phone through a dongle just to use headphones or a car stereo jack with my phone. Especially since plugging in a wire has worked just fine so far.
The 1/8" stereo plug is over 50 fucking year old. I'm not sure this is the answer, but it's shitty technology
Calculus is over three hundred years old: being old doesn't automatically make something bad or wrong.
Furthermore, it's asinine to assert something is "shitty technology" without giving at least an example of how the same could be implemented better.
and you're a dumbass, so I guess it was "three things"
Sigh...
Brobdingnagian
adjective Brobdingnagian \bräb-di-na-g-n, -dig-na-\
: marked by tremendous size
Now that's a ten-dollar word. I learned something new today.
1. .json files shouldn't be counted because they're frequently generated by tools rather than by humans (or even human tools...)
2. Making an argumentum ad populum (i.e. an argument for or against spaces) is really just embarrassing yourself.
3. Arguing that everyone should use spaces for indentation just because that's how the rest of the project is formatted is nothing more than an appeal to tradition-- furthermore we have tools these days which can automatically transform the whole project to use tabs so it's not like it would amount to re-writing every single file by hand to make the change.
4. About the flame war... Here's a blog post that sums it up nicely. Spaces for indentation are objectively inferior, provide no improvement over tabs, and are more difficult to work with. If your reason for using them is just to force everyone else to do things (i.e. read and write code) your way then screw you: you're literally one of the reasons the world sucks.
Who has the luxury to start a made to last new project from scratch except maybe some opensource zealots?
If no one has that luxury then shouting "rah rah Java!" from the rooftops also does no good since everyone in this hypothetical is already stuck with whatever language their project was written in.
But that world isn't real. Instead, some of use do start new projects and we do think about what tool to use.
And Java is the absolute last tool I will ever use... except Oracle's database: that comes below even Java.
I agree with your sentiment, but the Population Reference Bureau says that number is about 107 billion people have ever lived so that's closer to 54 billion women than "trillions".
Sure sure, your anecdotal story about how dumb the US army is couldn't possibly be inaccurate or mis-represent any facts or be just plain bullshit.
I would bet, victims of those crimes, who forced a constitutional challenge to those criminals activities could force some really severe penalties on the government.
Force?! Force the world's most powerful government/military to do something? I don't think you understand how power works.
You might say you can, and write crap laws that say you can but legally can you really purposefully create victims of citizens, criminally fuck people over, to what, advance your career.
Since they are currently and routinely doing precisely that then the answer to your question is "yes". And you can't do squat about it.
Somehow that doesn't quite ring true as being legal, regardless of the anti-constitutional lies their lawyers and corrupt politicians spread.
1. What makes you think that your opinion of legality is important or should be listened to?
2. They both make and enforce the law. They decide what is legal. Not because it's fair, nor because you think it's right or fair. They get to do such things because they can. Because they have the guns and the troops.
If situations like this piss you off then you need to go exercise your first and second amendment rights. Vote first. Have guns and ammo ready in case they corrupt the vote (like in "democratic" Cuba or any other tin-pot dictatorship) or in case a new Stalin or Mao takes power.
But Finder vs. Windows File Explorer vs. Thunar vs. Nautilus? I'd be curious if anyone can show that the choice has any measurable impact on productivity. It seems to me purely a matter of taste.
The new Gnome 3 Nautilus (in Ubuntu 16.04) has gone way downhill as a productivity tool.
It chokes and crashes on directories with several thousand images in them because it tries to thumbnail all of them... and it doesn't allow you to turn off thumbnailing.
Also, it removed the tree view and won't let you turn it back on.
Come to think of it, there doesn't seem to be an options dialog anywhere in Nautilus.
It does have an "open in terminal" menu option though, so that's nice at least.
I did try Thunar but it keeps crashing for me and I'm too lazy to track down the reason why-- Thunar isn't even that much better than Nautilus anyway.
I do like Dolphin, but I haven't used it recently and I don't want to install all of KDE just to use the file browser.
Why bother with different flavors of a distro? You can just install the DE of your choice
sudo apt-get install kde
sudo apt-get install gnome
sudo apt-get install xfce
sudo apt-get install awesome
sudo apt-get install mint
sudo apt-get install cinnamon
etc. etc. etc.
I think you missed GP's point.
Perhaps the better term OP meant to use was 'serf'. Not technically a slave, but the vast majority of resources and wealth created going to someone else, so much so that one is beholden for one's family, food, and shelter to some other 'owner class' that organizes the available jobs, housing, and economic framework, making it very difficult-to-impossible to become self-sufficient unless part of that owner class.
So... the owner class is the politicians and the Federal government?
Needs more polish. Work on it then get back to us.
A quick look at the Wikipedia article and I agree that this sounds interesting and relevant.
I see that it's divided into four states which sort of form a matrix:
1. for benefit of all + active = voice (talking to manager(s) or taking some other action to remedy the situation)
2. for benefit of all + passive = loyalty (waiting for things to improve)
3. for benefit of self + active = exit (leave)
4. for benefit of self + passive = neglect (showing up late, not giving a crap, being lazy)
A computer can simulate any physical (and hence any biological) process arbitrarily closely, although the performance difference can be extreme.
A square is an approximation of a circle, but still totally unsuitable for use as a wheel.
Likewise, our advanced adding machines are, I would argue, unsuitable for implementing artificial intelligence.
I came here to post this, but you beat me to it and I don't have mod points.
The moment government invented superior weapons, like nuclear bombs, the government has been out of the control of citizens.
I only partially agree with you. Nukes are not useful in a civil war because the point of a civil war is to gain/regain control of the country-- nukes defeat the point by destroying the resources. That's not to say that a couple cities won't be nuked if we do have another civil war, but it'll only be a handful of cases at most. The war will still be fought and won with conventional weapons in a scenario very much like Syria.
We can avoid the iceberg if a lot of people take over the wheel, or if a few start it turning at the first warning. So far, neither has happened. Not significantly.
Agreed.
You need to convince me that being politically active (Voting for the right persons? Staging protests? Lobbying your representative?) is effective.
Cody Wilson proved that there's more ways to be politically active than just opening your mouth.
In other words: research ways to keep Second Amendment rights active even if the powers that be don't want citizens to have weapons. Armed citizens are free citizens.
But bottom line: civilization is a team effort. If everyone else on the team wants to go one way and you want to go another then there's absolutely nothing you can do except leave the team and hope there's another team out there that's running things the way you would prefer.
The rest are (and always have been) operating under the misapprehension that computers are electronic brains or oracles that you can converse with as you would another human being.
I agree with you; also Dijkstra was right about this.
At risk of being modded off-topic I'll also note that this stuff bears implications for whether or not strong AI is possible...
If you're not using Linux or a similarly rights-respecting OS then you're literally one of the reasons this is happening.
Fools stay in an abusive relationship and complain about it.
+5 Laconically insightful.