The iPhone is turning into one of the foremost portable gaming platforms.
No, it's not. It has a thriving mobile app market, but the Nintendo DS still rules portable gaming. The iPhone lacks the precise control really needed for games, making them more of a novelty than anything else.
This means that more programmers are using Python and Ruby on the weekend for their personal projects, showing that these languages are more fun to use.
What's to stop me from coming to a different conclusion, such as that Python and Ruby are toy languages not meant for serious projects? It would be just as presumptuous, wouldn't it?
I thought the point of Wikipedia was that anyone could contribute. "The people's encyclopedia." Having a core group of editors defeats the whole reason the damn thing was started in the first place.
Wikipedia is like a socialism experiment that only showed how much socialism fails.
The point of Wikipedia was that it was a user-edited online book of knowledge, and the fun of it was looking up information at your own peril. It was a good starting point for general knowledge, links to specific information, and opposing viewpoints, not some valid educational source. Now, Wikipedia is trying to be a valid educational source, which is hysterical [citation needed].
All printed information requires trust. At some point, you must fall back on common sense and trust the author of the goddamned software. Otherwise, the standards for acceptance become so ridiculous that correct information doesn't make it through, such as in this case, which means your beloved encyclopedia has failed as a trusted source.
These guys will never be taken seriously with a name like "The Pirate Party." Piracy has nothing to do with copyright reform. Piracy is about anarchy and rejection of the law. If these people want to reform copyrights, they should give themselves a name that reflects that. Otherwise, they come off as a college joke.
Just wanted to point out how interesting it is that Slashdotters defend the GPL copyright license in GPL articles but bash copyright in piracy articles. You even use the word "plunder." Where is that pro-copyright attitude when it comes to defending the rights of content creators whose materials are being pirated via torrent sites?
What cracks me up is that the tech press--perhaps the most uninformed and overhyped group of hacks I can think of besides the gaming press--uses the phrase "cloud computing" in place of "Internet." Internet is a word that already describes an interconnected network of computers, but we needed a stupid new buzzword to make money off of now that "Web 2.0" and "blog" have grown stale.
Do you use web mail? Now you're "sending mail through the cloud." Do you upload pictures to a website like Flickr? Nope, you're "uploading pictures to the cloud." Cloud implies some kind of distributed, redundant storage using multiple locations, but you're really just using one company's server in the same client-server paradigm that we've been using since Hotmail in the mid-90s. Was I "cloud computing" back then? Give me a fucking break.
It really bothers me that I can't find any vocal resistance in the press to these buzzwords. Is there anyone with a brain?
Wow, you're obviously a hardcore Democrat and haven't been following the polls. More people now trust Republicans over Democrats when it comes to economic issues, and Obama's approval rating has now shrunk to the point where he has lost the support of people who voted for him.
As for blaming Republicans for the economic mess, the media did a very good job of ensuring that in the election despite the fact Democrats were the ones who pushed banks to make loans to poor people who couldn't pay them back. However, the public has a short attention span and is already upset with the Democrat supermajority currently controlling the government. Obama has caused an enormous deficit (something you would no doubt have criticized a Republican for doing), and inflation is going to become a problem right around the 2010-2012 time frame.
I always thought Obama was going to be a one-term president like Jimmy Carter--elected based on feel-good liberal promises during a recession, but ultimately a do-nothing president who gets replaced quickly. He constantly makes mistakes that make him look in over his head, from sending Clinton to do his work for him with North Korea to backing his friends whenever they get in trouble with the police.
I suspect Hillary will run again in 2012. I don't blame her--her party nomination was essentially stolen from her when her Florida voters were only counted for half, giving Obama the nomination even though she had the popular vote among Democrats.
It does contradict what you said, which was that languages with pointer arithmetic can only use slow, conservative compilers. libauto uses a mix of generational scans and conservative techniques on a separate thread with no performance loss despite allowing pointer arithmetic.
Nobody cares if you "work on Apple's Objective-C compiler." Anyone can contribute to GCC or Clang because they're open source.
They called ASIDE and DIALOG arbitrary. I didn't write that Microsoft only referred to HEADER and FOOTER--I said "many" of HTML5's tags were criticized as unnecessary or arbitrary, and they were.
Ask anyone who is in web publishing business. You can't replace Flash just by putting some fancy tags and video tag which doesn't have h264 just because of political, fanatical reasons.
YouTube (owned by Google) will use H.264 for their video tags. That's all it will take to make it the de facto standard.
They did not call header and footer arbitrary or unnecessary.
Yes, they did. After listing a group of tags that include header and footer, their very first line of feedback reads, "It's not clear why these new elements in particular are necessary." That's the same as unnecessary.
They did call aside arbitrary as well as section.
Correct. They called many basic HTML5 elements arbritary and unnecessary. So nothing in the summary was a "journalistic nightmare" and was in fact completely accurate.
Microsoft would be more likely to use WebKit than Gecko. Not only is WebKit clearly the superior engine, but much of it is licensed under the BSD license while Gecko is GPL.
Cocoa's garbage collector strikes a balance between being "closed" and "open" by knowing exactly where pointers to scanned blocks are wherever it can, by easily tracking "external" references, and being "conservative" only where it must. By tracking the allocation age of blocks, and using write barriers, the Cocoa collector also implements partial ("incremental" or "generational") collections which scan an even smaller amount of the heap. This eliminates the need for the collector to have to scan all of memory seeking global references and provides a significant performance advantage over traditional conservative collectors.
The garbage collection is doing what already must be done before writing to a cell. This is just doing it at an earlier point when write performance is not a concern.
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Not as long as Blizzard makes Mac versions of its games.
No, it's not. It has a thriving mobile app market, but the Nintendo DS still rules portable gaming. The iPhone lacks the precise control really needed for games, making them more of a novelty than anything else.
It wasn't perfectly balanced, and there are still those who will tell you Terrans are the best race overall.
What's to stop me from coming to a different conclusion, such as that Python and Ruby are toy languages not meant for serious projects? It would be just as presumptuous, wouldn't it?
I thought the point of Wikipedia was that anyone could contribute. "The people's encyclopedia." Having a core group of editors defeats the whole reason the damn thing was started in the first place.
Wikipedia is like a socialism experiment that only showed how much socialism fails.
The point of Wikipedia was that it was a user-edited online book of knowledge, and the fun of it was looking up information at your own peril. It was a good starting point for general knowledge, links to specific information, and opposing viewpoints, not some valid educational source. Now, Wikipedia is trying to be a valid educational source, which is hysterical [citation needed].
All printed information requires trust. At some point, you must fall back on common sense and trust the author of the goddamned software. Otherwise, the standards for acceptance become so ridiculous that correct information doesn't make it through, such as in this case, which means your beloved encyclopedia has failed as a trusted source.
These guys will never be taken seriously with a name like "The Pirate Party." Piracy has nothing to do with copyright reform. Piracy is about anarchy and rejection of the law. If these people want to reform copyrights, they should give themselves a name that reflects that. Otherwise, they come off as a college joke.
The viral nature of the GPL does make it harder to write programs. If you're going to claim it doesn't, then you're ignoring reality.
Also, LOL at talking about rights being enforced by a copyright license on Slashdot, the most anti-copyright propaganda site on the net.
Just wanted to point out how interesting it is that Slashdotters defend the GPL copyright license in GPL articles but bash copyright in piracy articles. You even use the word "plunder." Where is that pro-copyright attitude when it comes to defending the rights of content creators whose materials are being pirated via torrent sites?
I've never gotten mod points because I dared to reply to "The Post."
Fine, but then don't pretend your code is "free."
What cracks me up is that the tech press--perhaps the most uninformed and overhyped group of hacks I can think of besides the gaming press--uses the phrase "cloud computing" in place of "Internet." Internet is a word that already describes an interconnected network of computers, but we needed a stupid new buzzword to make money off of now that "Web 2.0" and "blog" have grown stale.
Do you use web mail? Now you're "sending mail through the cloud." Do you upload pictures to a website like Flickr? Nope, you're "uploading pictures to the cloud." Cloud implies some kind of distributed, redundant storage using multiple locations, but you're really just using one company's server in the same client-server paradigm that we've been using since Hotmail in the mid-90s. Was I "cloud computing" back then? Give me a fucking break.
It really bothers me that I can't find any vocal resistance in the press to these buzzwords. Is there anyone with a brain?
I disagree with this. At the time, Internet Explorer 4 really was a superior product to what Netscape had to offer.
Uh...didn't Google purchase YouTube when their own video search was losing?
Wow, you're obviously a hardcore Democrat and haven't been following the polls. More people now trust Republicans over Democrats when it comes to economic issues, and Obama's approval rating has now shrunk to the point where he has lost the support of people who voted for him.
As for blaming Republicans for the economic mess, the media did a very good job of ensuring that in the election despite the fact Democrats were the ones who pushed banks to make loans to poor people who couldn't pay them back. However, the public has a short attention span and is already upset with the Democrat supermajority currently controlling the government. Obama has caused an enormous deficit (something you would no doubt have criticized a Republican for doing), and inflation is going to become a problem right around the 2010-2012 time frame.
I always thought Obama was going to be a one-term president like Jimmy Carter--elected based on feel-good liberal promises during a recession, but ultimately a do-nothing president who gets replaced quickly. He constantly makes mistakes that make him look in over his head, from sending Clinton to do his work for him with North Korea to backing his friends whenever they get in trouble with the police.
I suspect Hillary will run again in 2012. I don't blame her--her party nomination was essentially stolen from her when her Florida voters were only counted for half, giving Obama the nomination even though she had the popular vote among Democrats.
Nobody ever made the 640kb statement.
It does contradict what you said, which was that languages with pointer arithmetic can only use slow, conservative compilers. libauto uses a mix of generational scans and conservative techniques on a separate thread with no performance loss despite allowing pointer arithmetic.
Nobody cares if you "work on Apple's Objective-C compiler." Anyone can contribute to GCC or Clang because they're open source.
They called ASIDE and DIALOG arbitrary. I didn't write that Microsoft only referred to HEADER and FOOTER--I said "many" of HTML5's tags were criticized as unnecessary or arbitrary, and they were.
YouTube (owned by Google) will use H.264 for their video tags. That's all it will take to make it the de facto standard.
Yes, they did. After listing a group of tags that include header and footer, their very first line of feedback reads, "It's not clear why these new elements in particular are necessary." That's the same as unnecessary.
Correct. They called many basic HTML5 elements arbritary and unnecessary. So nothing in the summary was a "journalistic nightmare" and was in fact completely accurate.
Microsoft would be more likely to use WebKit than Gecko. Not only is WebKit clearly the superior engine, but much of it is licensed under the BSD license while Gecko is GPL.
Wrong, Objective-C 2.0 has a generational garbage collector:
The garbage collection is doing what already must be done before writing to a cell. This is just doing it at an earlier point when write performance is not a concern.
The app didn't "provide access." It contains its own local copy. People really need to read the fucking article.