i don`t see how it would break most of the packages, but anyway, fixing the essential packages has to be easier than making a new language/compiler/virtual machine from scratch.
People keep coming up with alternatives to javascript. Everything from whole languages that compile down to javascript, to building new languages into the browser, to javascript supersets, to plugins that makes your browser run compiled code. Not a single one of these caught on. The REAL problem is the DOM, the CSS and how they interact with each other. Javascript is a bad language, but it's not awful. What makes web development awful is the DOM and CSS with all its crazy and cross-browser incompatibilities. Why no one tries to replace THAT? I'm almost implementing myself a new api that runs on top of a 100% width/height canvas tag for christ sake.
I'm not familiar with the Qt but QML ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QML ) looks pretty good to me. Why can't browsers just implement that? Oh right, because it was not developed by google/m$/apple/mozilla so they can't guide it to the directions they want. Noooo, you have to have a completely new language that no one knows.
If they want to replace javascript so much why don't they just take the python or ruby runtime, bundle it to the browser, sandbox it and add DOM mappings?
How exactly? I have never had problems to set up anything on my Mint install, apt-get handles all the installations I need and I made a point that you should customize your own environment on my last post. For example I used to run a very customized version of blackbox before switching to cinnamon which I also customized to a lesser extent.
Granted I have almost no hands-on knowledge of macs and I work at a java / open source shop and these things are easy to set up on linux. But I _heard_ that command line capabilities are not as good a linux which is a major thing to worry about if you are a dev.
I have been using Linux as my dev station since I started working full time and I have to say that the customizability is a big plus to productivity. Also, if you use default ubuntu unity UI you are barely one step above windows. Being a developer is a craft, take your time to tune your tools.
I don't know, maybe they will only be deployed because the bosses can say: "it wont hurt anyone after one year", otherwise they would never be deployed.
Mouse acceleration. You can not turn it totally turn it off on ubuntu! Some games do go through directly to the hardware to get the mouse, but I wonder how that will work on Linux.
I agree with you, but if you work on say biological/chemical weapons or say land mine technology or any other weapon technology that will most likely be used (directly or indirectly) against civilians the line is not so clear anymore. Sure you can design a chemical weapon that does not cripple permanently the enemy, it still raises a lot of ethical questions.
It reminds myself some of the stories about blinding laser technologies. According to the wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_on_Blinding_Laser_Weapons ) they are not against convention if they do not permanently blind people, but their use is still highly unethical in my opinion because the chaos it could ensue on the battlefield that would cause friendly fire among the enemies and prevent them from surrendering.
Well that is true, but it did take them a long time to port the engine and after porting the engine they need to port each game individually and QA everything all over again. They have a big incentive to get this linux bandwagon going but the other tool makers have no incentive whatsoever, for all they care they want the smallest amount of supported platforms possible because it is cheaper for them to develop and QA that way.
The other tool makers will only get in on the action AFTER the user base gets big which if valve and indie are the only things driving the linux gaming forwards will take a LONG time.
I don't think it is not a problem of kernel level. I believe most devs that do multi-platform use multi-platform SDKs that support xbox360, ps3 and windows only (soon to be xboxOne, ps4 and windows only). That is the reason they don't do Mac either even though macs have a pretty big userbase. What Valve needs is not to get the devs, but the SDK makers.
By SDK I mean the tools, the havok physics engine, the unreal engine, the cry engine and so on.
People often forget to ask themselves what is a desktop. Most of you thinks that the desktop is a big tower stuffed in a desk, but the desktop is actually:
1) Big (by comparison to phones and tablets) screen. 2) Full physical keyboard 3) Mouse or other pointer device.
The tower by itself does not make a desktop. I think in the end you will just plug your phone or watch or whatever into a big screen screen with bluetooth mouse and keyboards to do your work. Your phone os will also have a desktop interface (like windows 8, but without sucking) that will come up when you plug a big screen.
But really, I enjoy skyrim. And as far as the intro and first few hours of gameplay go I have seen worse in other RPGs. Although I find odd how the intro in skyrim is actually worse than oblivion, fallout 3 and new vegas. I guess the hardcores just complained too much about the lengthy intros/tutorials and the developers just throw a short intro followed by players getting lost a lot. At least new vegas had an intro town you could skip but if you were a new player you would stick around to learn the basic gameplay.
I wish it was a virtual machine, it would mean I could write my applications in any language that can be compiled into it. Plus if you ever done any DOM programming at all you would beg for a proper user interface API.
I think you are misinterpreting what he said. He said he wishes the person to die a long horrible death someday the same kind of death his father went through.
I heard intel is going to start selling the processor soldered on the motherboard, it won't be long before even laptops will be like mobile phones where you can only replace the battery. It makes sense for the manufacturers and the end-consumers, SoC designs make things faster, cheaper, more compact less power-hungry. I'm Ok with this as long as the parts with high failure rate (hard drives and batteries) are still replaceable by professionals at least (and don't require custom screwdrivers that no one have Apple!).
Well it depends on what you consider to be Benevolent. Brazil had a great industrial expansion and labor laws reform during the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas (he is not one dictators backed by the US, that was after his time). But on the other hand he did persecute the dissidents. He was probably the ruler who did most for Brazil in history In part because he had absolute power, it is unfair to compare how competent he is against people who have to go through the bureaucratic system to get things done.
Would you consider him benevolent? I would say yes, because he used his power not for personal profit and did so in a competent manner. Would I call him a good person? No.
And like monarchy the problem lies in getting competent rulers and the succession wars.
Benevolent dictatorships are far less bureaucratic and less prone to corruption. On the other hand they tend to not represent all the minorities of the country very well, even the most benevolent dictator will have some pet issues he disagrees with even if the population agree, think abortion, gay marriage, etc. The minorities will have no way of getting their rights. The democracy motto after all is "The will of the majority while respecting the rights of the minority".
I still think that benevolent dictatorships are better than democracy, but then again I'm white, male and heterosexual.
From what I have seen TES Online seem pretty cool. I would wait for it to come out or try to get into the beta. One of the things that caught my attention was the fact that there will be 3 factions and once you finish your own faction quests you can go and do the other factions quests at max level with the content adjusted to end game. If they can make questing fun (pretty much if they don't screw up the TES formula) it will be awesome.
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i don`t see how it would break most of the packages, but anyway, fixing the essential packages has to be easier than making a new language/compiler/virtual machine from scratch.
People keep coming up with alternatives to javascript. Everything from whole languages that compile down to javascript, to building new languages into the browser, to javascript supersets, to plugins that makes your browser run compiled code. Not a single one of these caught on. The REAL problem is the DOM, the CSS and how they interact with each other. Javascript is a bad language, but it's not awful. What makes web development awful is the DOM and CSS with all its crazy and cross-browser incompatibilities. Why no one tries to replace THAT? I'm almost implementing myself a new api that runs on top of a 100% width/height canvas tag for christ sake.
I'm not familiar with the Qt but QML ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QML ) looks pretty good to me. Why can't browsers just implement that? Oh right, because it was not developed by google/m$/apple/mozilla so they can't guide it to the directions they want. Noooo, you have to have a completely new language that no one knows.
If they want to replace javascript so much why don't they just take the python or ruby runtime, bundle it to the browser, sandbox it and add DOM mappings?
I find your post amusingly insightfully funny. Get some mod points.
End of line.
Not to mention they walk around naked all the time. They would be arrested the moment they step outside their (tree) house!
Mint comes with multiple window managers, personally I like cinnamon. But anyway you can install it yourself on your ubuntu box, it is easy.
How exactly? I have never had problems to set up anything on my Mint install, apt-get handles all the installations I need and I made a point that you should customize your own environment on my last post. For example I used to run a very customized version of blackbox before switching to cinnamon which I also customized to a lesser extent.
Granted I have almost no hands-on knowledge of macs and I work at a java / open source shop and these things are easy to set up on linux. But I _heard_ that command line capabilities are not as good a linux which is a major thing to worry about if you are a dev.
I have been using Linux as my dev station since I started working full time and I have to say that the customizability is a big plus to productivity. Also, if you use default ubuntu unity UI you are barely one step above windows.
Being a developer is a craft, take your time to tune your tools.
Could this money be better spent to improve the economy? Yes
Could the government bureaucracy spend this money in a better way to improve the economy? No
Did the government made the right decision with the loan? Yes giving the bureaucracy.
I don't claim to be right, I'm no economist.
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I don't know, maybe they will only be deployed because the bosses can say: "it wont hurt anyone after one year", otherwise they would never be deployed.
Mouse acceleration. You can not turn it totally turn it off on ubuntu! Some games do go through directly to the hardware to get the mouse, but I wonder how that will work on Linux.
I agree with you, but if you work on say biological/chemical weapons or say land mine technology or any other weapon technology that will most likely be used (directly or indirectly) against civilians the line is not so clear anymore. Sure you can design a chemical weapon that does not cripple permanently the enemy, it still raises a lot of ethical questions.
It reminds myself some of the stories about blinding laser technologies. According to the wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_on_Blinding_Laser_Weapons ) they are not against convention if they do not permanently blind people, but their use is still highly unethical in my opinion because the chaos it could ensue on the battlefield that would cause friendly fire among the enemies and prevent them from surrendering.
Well that is true, but it did take them a long time to port the engine and after porting the engine they need to port each game individually and QA everything all over again. They have a big incentive to get this linux bandwagon going but the other tool makers have no incentive whatsoever, for all they care they want the smallest amount of supported platforms possible because it is cheaper for them to develop and QA that way.
The other tool makers will only get in on the action AFTER the user base gets big which if valve and indie are the only things driving the linux gaming forwards will take a LONG time.
I don't think it is not a problem of kernel level. I believe most devs that do multi-platform use multi-platform SDKs that support xbox360, ps3 and windows only (soon to be xboxOne, ps4 and windows only). That is the reason they don't do Mac either even though macs have a pretty big userbase. What Valve needs is not to get the devs, but the SDK makers.
By SDK I mean the tools, the havok physics engine, the unreal engine, the cry engine and so on.
People often forget to ask themselves what is a desktop. Most of you thinks that the desktop is a big tower stuffed in a desk, but the desktop is actually:
1) Big (by comparison to phones and tablets) screen.
2) Full physical keyboard
3) Mouse or other pointer device.
The tower by itself does not make a desktop. I think in the end you will just plug your phone or watch or whatever into a big screen screen with bluetooth mouse and keyboards to do your work. Your phone os will also have a desktop interface (like windows 8, but without sucking) that will come up when you plug a big screen.
You are playing it wrong
But really, I enjoy skyrim. And as far as the intro and first few hours of gameplay go I have seen worse in other RPGs. Although I find odd how the intro in skyrim is actually worse than oblivion, fallout 3 and new vegas. I guess the hardcores just complained too much about the lengthy intros/tutorials and the developers just throw a short intro followed by players getting lost a lot. At least new vegas had an intro town you could skip but if you were a new player you would stick around to learn the basic gameplay.
I wish it was a virtual machine, it would mean I could write my applications in any language that can be compiled into it. Plus if you ever done any DOM programming at all you would beg for a proper user interface API.
When was being an early adopter ever a good idea?
I think you are misinterpreting what he said. He said he wishes the person to die a long horrible death someday the same kind of death his father went through.
I heard intel is going to start selling the processor soldered on the motherboard, it won't be long before even laptops will be like mobile phones where you can only replace the battery. It makes sense for the manufacturers and the end-consumers, SoC designs make things faster, cheaper, more compact less power-hungry. I'm Ok with this as long as the parts with high failure rate (hard drives and batteries) are still replaceable by professionals at least (and don't require custom screwdrivers that no one have Apple!).
Well it depends on what you consider to be Benevolent. Brazil had a great industrial expansion and labor laws reform during the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas (he is not one dictators backed by the US, that was after his time). But on the other hand he did persecute the dissidents. He was probably the ruler who did most for Brazil in history In part because he had absolute power, it is unfair to compare how competent he is against people who have to go through the bureaucratic system to get things done.
Would you consider him benevolent? I would say yes, because he used his power not for personal profit and did so in a competent manner. Would I call him a good person? No.
And like monarchy the problem lies in getting competent rulers and the succession wars.
Benevolent dictatorships are far less bureaucratic and less prone to corruption. On the other hand they tend to not represent all the minorities of the country very well, even the most benevolent dictator will have some pet issues he disagrees with even if the population agree, think abortion, gay marriage, etc. The minorities will have no way of getting their rights. The democracy motto after all is "The will of the majority while respecting the rights of the minority".
I still think that benevolent dictatorships are better than democracy, but then again I'm white, male and heterosexual.
From what I have seen TES Online seem pretty cool. I would wait for it to come out or try to get into the beta. One of the things that caught my attention was the fact that there will be 3 factions and once you finish your own faction quests you can go and do the other factions quests at max level with the content adjusted to end game. If they can make questing fun (pretty much if they don't screw up the TES formula) it will be awesome.
Well it is part of the scientific process to verify studies to see if their conclusions are indeed valid.