I like Win 8.1. It's fast and reliable. I don't think it has ever crashed.
I can do everything I want pretty easily: edit videos, produce music, play games, run Steam, run overclocked hardware.
Yes, I'm sure you can do all that stuff that the cool kids are doing. I don't see anyone here questioning Windows 8's capabilities; people are complaining about the fact that it's a tablet interface that's been shoehorned into a desktop, and everything about it is designed to push you back to the tablet interface (which, conveniently for Microsoft, is a walled garden that they control).
At any rate, Windows 7 does all that cool kid stuff too, and the interface is sensible for desktop users.
I agree that everyone has a right to express their views. The ex-CEO of Mozilla has a right to express his, and the people who decided to boycott the product over his views have a right to express theirs. No one's rights were violated, so I'm not sure where the Thought Police come into this.
Notch doesn't owe you any more work. He's already hired a bunch of people to continue development on Minecraft, so any obligations he might have for the Minecraft community are fulfilled. If he wants to spend the rest of his life sipping mixed drinks on an island somewhere, that's his prerogative.
There was a study a while back (I wish I had the link) that found that more money can make you happy, but only if you're not already born into money. And Notch himself has said in an interview that he basically accepts that his biggest achievement is now behind him.
The happiest people in the world aren't the ones who are driven by ambition; they're the ones who can realize that they've achieved something and then stop and enjoy life. Notch is doing what he loves to do, because he can afford to do that. He can afford to not sell out, because frankly, once you're a multi-millionaire, you can pretty much invest your money and live comfortably off of the returns for the rest of your life. I hope, on the off chance that I ever strike it rich, that I'm able to do the same thing Notch is rather than get caught up in that cycle of always wanting more.
It can be "their road" when they pay land owners for the lines through their property, and pay back the tax money that was given to them to subsidize its construction.
An eighteen wheeler can cause more damage to the road that requires more maintenance than a motorcycle, this is the same thing: a movie that needs to be streamed a million times takes up much more capacity and energy and basically uses the system much more than millions of small individual requests do.
Netflix is already paying a provider for bandwidth. You may or may not know this, Slashdot Libertarian, but as your bandwidth usage goes up, your bandwidth prices go up too. As such, Netflix is already paying extra money to run that 18 wheeler due to the wear and tear on that road. AT&T is trying to bill them extra because the truck is carrying a product that competes with them.
Is that their prerogative? No. They built their network on public dollars and on peoples' private property under the conditions that they would act as a utility. If they want to not act like a public utility, then they can come to me and pay me a fair price to run lines through my property (or better yet, since I don't use AT&T at all, how about I just cut their line? It's my property after all.)
I love how all the Slashdot Libertarians who are all about Internet Corporate Freedom (that is, against any laws the actually protect consumers from selective throttling and other anti-neutrality bullshit) are suddenly in favor of net neutrality now that the Obama administration has said that they're not going to do anything about it.
If the simulation is of branching timelines rather than a single one, a good coder might optimize it such that particles actually exist as probability fields until they come into contact with other particles. That would drastically reduce how often you'd have to fork the simulation.
This is one thing I don't get about some of the more ardent supporters of weak copylefts. It's fine if someone wants to take my code and make it so no one can see it, but god forbid take it and require that it stay open source.
My experience with asking for help with GTK was having random people rudely tell me that I should go read the documentation (which, incidentally, I *did* read, and it was woefully incomplete). Qt actually has good documentation, but in the rare instances when I need help, people are always happy to assist. I wouldn't touch GTK again with a ten foot pole.
Seriously. The Liberal Media would never report on any wrongdoing by a Democratic Governor. Rachael Maddow broke this story with her liberal-y liberal liberalness, but where was she during the Blagojevich scandal in Illinois? Dead silent!
I know, right? You look all over the place for credible reports of Democrats being this shady, and all you get are unconfirmed internet comments about unnamed Democratic governors closing down DMVs, without a source or even the name of the state it supposedly happened in. Then the liberal media doesn't report it, for lame reasons like "it didn't really happen".
Fairness in reporting demands that they report on Democratic scandals too. And if they can't find one, they need to make one up.
Conceptually I don't have a problem with an app store or a tablet interface (provided they don't take away my fucking start menu), but I *do* have a problem with the fact that they're trying to pull an iOS and phase in a closed ecosystem where the only way to get apps is to go through their app store. From a competition standpoint, no good can come of it. It's pushing us more toward expensive, locked down appliances and away from general purpose computers.
That said, I have to speculate that part of the reason people don't know how badly Windows 8 is doing is that Microsoft likely learned from their Vista failure and has hired marketing firms to canvas the internet with positive comments about it so that people don't realize how unpopular it actually is.
I know, right? One time my friend's friend said he saw a post on the internet that said that their friend saw someone with an EBT card buying potato chips! We should either abolish food stamps or stop believing random shills on Slashdot!
Oh man. Ten years ago, the Bushies were here on slashdot telling everyone that if they have complaints about the way Dubya was running the country, they should just go to China, because apparently in order to find a comparison to make Bush look favorable, they had to sink as low as a communist dictatorship.
Heavily refactoring projects of this size rarely brings any benefit for the users, it's just technical masturbation. If you're lucky, you will after a few years end up with a project that does the same things as before, most likely it will have acquired some bugs as icing on the cake.
This was wrong when people said it about Netscape. It's still wrong now. It's just that the payoff is unfortunately in years and not months.
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I like Win 8.1. It's fast and reliable. I don't think it has ever crashed.
I can do everything I want pretty easily: edit videos, produce music, play games, run Steam, run overclocked hardware.
Yes, I'm sure you can do all that stuff that the cool kids are doing. I don't see anyone here questioning Windows 8's capabilities; people are complaining about the fact that it's a tablet interface that's been shoehorned into a desktop, and everything about it is designed to push you back to the tablet interface (which, conveniently for Microsoft, is a walled garden that they control).
At any rate, Windows 7 does all that cool kid stuff too, and the interface is sensible for desktop users.
I agree that everyone has a right to express their views. The ex-CEO of Mozilla has a right to express his, and the people who decided to boycott the product over his views have a right to express theirs. No one's rights were violated, so I'm not sure where the Thought Police come into this.
Notch doesn't owe you any more work. He's already hired a bunch of people to continue development on Minecraft, so any obligations he might have for the Minecraft community are fulfilled. If he wants to spend the rest of his life sipping mixed drinks on an island somewhere, that's his prerogative.
There was a study a while back (I wish I had the link) that found that more money can make you happy, but only if you're not already born into money. And Notch himself has said in an interview that he basically accepts that his biggest achievement is now behind him.
The happiest people in the world aren't the ones who are driven by ambition; they're the ones who can realize that they've achieved something and then stop and enjoy life. Notch is doing what he loves to do, because he can afford to do that. He can afford to not sell out, because frankly, once you're a multi-millionaire, you can pretty much invest your money and live comfortably off of the returns for the rest of your life. I hope, on the off chance that I ever strike it rich, that I'm able to do the same thing Notch is rather than get caught up in that cycle of always wanting more.
It can be "their road" when they pay land owners for the lines through their property, and pay back the tax money that was given to them to subsidize its construction.
Netflix is already paying a provider for bandwidth. You may or may not know this, Slashdot Libertarian, but as your bandwidth usage goes up, your bandwidth prices go up too. As such, Netflix is already paying extra money to run that 18 wheeler due to the wear and tear on that road. AT&T is trying to bill them extra because the truck is carrying a product that competes with them.
Is that their prerogative? No. They built their network on public dollars and on peoples' private property under the conditions that they would act as a utility. If they want to not act like a public utility, then they can come to me and pay me a fair price to run lines through my property (or better yet, since I don't use AT&T at all, how about I just cut their line? It's my property after all.)
It would be a delicious irony if people were able to recover some of their lost value due to government regulations.
...vanishes into thin air again.
No, I don't trust Bitcoin. Never really did.
I love how all the Slashdot Libertarians who are all about Internet Corporate Freedom (that is, against any laws the actually protect consumers from selective throttling and other anti-neutrality bullshit) are suddenly in favor of net neutrality now that the Obama administration has said that they're not going to do anything about it.
If the simulation is of branching timelines rather than a single one, a good coder might optimize it such that particles actually exist as probability fields until they come into contact with other particles. That would drastically reduce how often you'd have to fork the simulation.
Oh! Oh! Is it raising taxes a few percent?
Also, something something profit motive government can never do anything right.
This is one thing I don't get about some of the more ardent supporters of weak copylefts. It's fine if someone wants to take my code and make it so no one can see it, but god forbid take it and require that it stay open source.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1051333/combing-an-external-event-loop-with-qts
It's undocumented, but I believe at one point someone showed me how to put Qt in your own event loop. I wish I could remember how to do it now.
My experience with asking for help with GTK was having random people rudely tell me that I should go read the documentation (which, incidentally, I *did* read, and it was woefully incomplete). Qt actually has good documentation, but in the rare instances when I need help, people are always happy to assist. I wouldn't touch GTK again with a ten foot pole.
Seriously. The Liberal Media would never report on any wrongdoing by a Democratic Governor. Rachael Maddow broke this story with her liberal-y liberal liberalness, but where was she during the Blagojevich scandal in Illinois? Dead silent!
Oh wait, no she wasn't.
I know, right? You look all over the place for credible reports of Democrats being this shady, and all you get are unconfirmed internet comments about unnamed Democratic governors closing down DMVs, without a source or even the name of the state it supposedly happened in. Then the liberal media doesn't report it, for lame reasons like "it didn't really happen".
Fairness in reporting demands that they report on Democratic scandals too. And if they can't find one, they need to make one up.
Conceptually I don't have a problem with an app store or a tablet interface (provided they don't take away my fucking start menu), but I *do* have a problem with the fact that they're trying to pull an iOS and phase in a closed ecosystem where the only way to get apps is to go through their app store. From a competition standpoint, no good can come of it. It's pushing us more toward expensive, locked down appliances and away from general purpose computers.
That said, I have to speculate that part of the reason people don't know how badly Windows 8 is doing is that Microsoft likely learned from their Vista failure and has hired marketing firms to canvas the internet with positive comments about it so that people don't realize how unpopular it actually is.
I know, right? One time my friend's friend said he saw a post on the internet that said that their friend saw someone with an EBT card buying potato chips! We should either abolish food stamps or stop believing random shills on Slashdot!
Realistically, if an OS isn't used by many people, there's little reason to write malware for it.
(That being said, if Steam OS makes desktop linux big, then there will be more malware for desktop linux.)
Oh man. Ten years ago, the Bushies were here on slashdot telling everyone that if they have complaints about the way Dubya was running the country, they should just go to China, because apparently in order to find a comparison to make Bush look favorable, they had to sink as low as a communist dictatorship.
In my line of work, I'd kill for the opportunity to make my code 1.5 times faster!
Then wait a year and buy a new computer.
Heavily refactoring projects of this size rarely brings any benefit for the users, it's just technical masturbation. If you're lucky, you will after a few years end up with a project that does the same things as before, most likely it will have acquired some bugs as icing on the cake.
This was wrong when people said it about Netscape. It's still wrong now. It's just that the payoff is unfortunately in years and not months.
(with some allowance for those buying the game for others).
Therein lies the problem. Certainly some of the people who purchased it are buying it for other people.
They're going to fight hard to keep cops outside of the buildings where their members are murdering people.
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