Seriously I'm sick and tired of defending new languages like Clojure, Go, Dart, Ruby, etc. I'm just going to shut up and let the dinosaurs stagnate and get stuck maintaining all the old code for the rest of their unenjoyable never changing ruts.
Your criticisms seems to be based solely on whether or not code is old. If the code works, why is that even a consideration for you? Does it have to be new code to be any good? I hope you're aware of how silly that sounds.
As for languages like Clojure, Go, Dart, and Ruby, those languages have deficiencies that warrant legitimate criticism. If you're sick and tired of defending them, don't read anything on the internet, because you'll never completely avoid criticism of things you like.
The reason popular languages move more slowly is because established codebases use them. Backwards compatibility is a good thing. If C++ was radically changing all the time, code that compiled a year ago wouldn't run anymore. Stability and predictability are just as important, if not more so, than radical change when it comes to real-world development.
Google doesn't like AdBlock either. Chrome doesn't support the blocking of ads before they're downloaded, even though WebKit supports that functionality (and it's used in the Safari version of ABP). The author of ABP has implemented workarounds for some ad types, but it's still an arbitrary limitation in Chrome--a browser from a multi-billion dollar web advertising company with a vested interest in having you download their ads so that they count as "views."
If you're going to fret over every possible abuse from every company in existence, you'll become catatonic--you wouldn't be able to use anything at all or do anything.
Microsoft has seen the hellhole of Android malware and wants to be able to yank a bad app. This is a good thing.
Please explain how they are "jailing" or "milking" anyone. Because if you actually believe this, and you have conversations where you actually use terms like that, you are out of touch with the mainstream. This will sound trollish, but only bitter neckbeards who post on sites like Slashdot think Jobs set a "very very harmful trend." The rest of the world really doesn't consider Apple's control over the store an issue.
Hell, consoles have had strict software approval for decades. Nintendo was especially iron-fisted about it during the era of the NES and SNES.
So it seems the angle for the comments to this story will be about trying to act super-enlightened by "turning the tables" and criticizing America. This is a very popular route to take on web forums, because the inherent contrarianism of bashing the country you live in is supposed to mean you are smarter than the lesser citizens around you. Since Slashdot is full of really smart people who know everything about the world--especially politics--I look forward to the insightful discussions to come (much of it posted anonymously by some strange coincidence).
What does any of that have to do with the Iranian government censoring a website? You actually believe that such an act of information control is in the best interests of the citizens of Iran?
I'm not trying to get people to listen to me...I was just pointing out my tongue-in-cheek sig because I thought people might find it amusing. It's completely obvious that Samsung's business model is to ape popular designs in order to rely on customer confusion an ride the coattails of more popular products. They even released a Windows laptop that looks just like a MacBook Pro, from form factor to color to keyboard layout, complete with a default Windows account avatar that resembles the Apple logo so that it appears in the center of the screen just like OS X's startup screen.
When you could actually use removable memory for arbitrary downloads and media and such, Nintendo went with SD
Nintendo doesn't even let you redownload online purchases or transfer existing data to a new device. For many years, the Wii didn't even support random-access of SD, only allowing a more archival storage in which you had to swap "channels" between the Wii and the SD depending on which things you wanted to run.
Console makers have used proprietary memory formats for years and years, from the N64 to the Gamecube to the PS2. To act as if this is some new thing and that Sony is being oh-so-evil is absurd, especially when companies that Slashdot is generally more friendly to such a Nintendo have a long and sordid past when it comes to proprietary storage and lockout.
The point of the article is that people have to spend extra money on new storage formats to expand system storage when people already have spare SD cards lying around they could use instead.
The N64, Gamecube, PS1, PS2, and Xbox all used proprietary memory cards. My point is that this is nothing new (especially since the format of Vita's storage was already known back in June), nor is it specific to Sony, and the only reason this story was posted was to provide another opportunity for Slashdotters to bitch about them.
I acknowledge your total lack of a counterargument. Your bizarre floundering and financial accusations simply prove my original point about the chip on your shoulder. I suggest going back to posting more anonymous trolls. Next.
That's not very convincing, as they likely just swapped in some stock parts or just sent over an entirely new replacement DSi, as Apple tends to do with iPods and iPhones. You still didn't get any of your daughter's data to the 3DS, so now she has to use the DSi to access that data.
How many people here still purchase physical computer programming books? I can understand doing so for high-level concepts, where you'd expect to read the book from beginning to end, but for tutorials or reference material, why wouldn't you just look it up online for free? I can't really picture myself sitting down and reading a physical book about HTML5.
I find it interesting that you limited the possibilities to those two and left out the one where people are simply misinformed and tribalistic in nature, emotionally attaching themselves to a "side" and blindly supporting it in the face of contradictory evidence. WebKit itself wasn't even made by Google; Chrome exists to tie more people to Google's indexing platforms (it defaults to the Google search engine, for crying out loud).
I repeat--Slashdotters now trumpet the use of a web browser made by a multi-billion dollar ad-serving company infamous for privacy issues.
The point I'm trying to make is that Slashdot loves Nintendo and hates Sony, and this story (which is very old--NGV cards were known about last June) only exists to serve that purpose, yet Nintendo has a long history of using expensive, proprietary storage formats. The company doesn't even let you redownload purchases from their online store if you replace your device. Your purchases are forever tied to the single piece of hardware you bought.
The fact that the Wii U will "apparently" support USB HDs isn't very encouraging given that the Wii already had a USB port and did nothing with it. Further, the N64 and Gamecube used their own proprietary memory cards, as did the PS1 and PS2. There is nothing new in this story at all except that it serves as another opportunity for Slashdotters to bitch about Sony.
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Your criticisms seems to be based solely on whether or not code is old. If the code works, why is that even a consideration for you? Does it have to be new code to be any good? I hope you're aware of how silly that sounds.
As for languages like Clojure, Go, Dart, and Ruby, those languages have deficiencies that warrant legitimate criticism. If you're sick and tired of defending them, don't read anything on the internet, because you'll never completely avoid criticism of things you like.
The reason popular languages move more slowly is because established codebases use them. Backwards compatibility is a good thing. If C++ was radically changing all the time, code that compiled a year ago wouldn't run anymore. Stability and predictability are just as important, if not more so, than radical change when it comes to real-world development.
Hell, I can't even stand the phrase "walled garden" anymore.
You want everyone to host the ads themselves? And how would advertisers verify how many views they're getting?
Google doesn't like AdBlock either. Chrome doesn't support the blocking of ads before they're downloaded, even though WebKit supports that functionality (and it's used in the Safari version of ABP). The author of ABP has implemented workarounds for some ad types, but it's still an arbitrary limitation in Chrome--a browser from a multi-billion dollar web advertising company with a vested interest in having you download their ads so that they count as "views."
If you're going to fret over every possible abuse from every company in existence, you'll become catatonic--you wouldn't be able to use anything at all or do anything.
Microsoft has seen the hellhole of Android malware and wants to be able to yank a bad app. This is a good thing.
How did this get modded +1 Interesting?! Has the moderation system completely broken down or what?
Please explain how they are "jailing" or "milking" anyone. Because if you actually believe this, and you have conversations where you actually use terms like that, you are out of touch with the mainstream. This will sound trollish, but only bitter neckbeards who post on sites like Slashdot think Jobs set a "very very harmful trend." The rest of the world really doesn't consider Apple's control over the store an issue.
Hell, consoles have had strict software approval for decades. Nintendo was especially iron-fisted about it during the era of the NES and SNES.
Again, Apple has never remotely killed an app.
So it seems the angle for the comments to this story will be about trying to act super-enlightened by "turning the tables" and criticizing America. This is a very popular route to take on web forums, because the inherent contrarianism of bashing the country you live in is supposed to mean you are smarter than the lesser citizens around you. Since Slashdot is full of really smart people who know everything about the world--especially politics--I look forward to the insightful discussions to come (much of it posted anonymously by some strange coincidence).
So, uh...what does any of that insane ranting have to do with the Iranian government censoring websites?
What does any of that have to do with the Iranian government censoring a website? You actually believe that such an act of information control is in the best interests of the citizens of Iran?
No wonder you posted anonymously.
Because they're supposed to learn and internalize the concepts, not learn how to type search terms into Google or trade answers via IM.
Let's fret about things that happened 60 years ago.
I'm sure it had nothing to do with the almost complete lack of consumer interest in Android tablets.
Who the hell is "SK"?
I'm not trying to get people to listen to me...I was just pointing out my tongue-in-cheek sig because I thought people might find it amusing. It's completely obvious that Samsung's business model is to ape popular designs in order to rely on customer confusion an ride the coattails of more popular products. They even released a Windows laptop that looks just like a MacBook Pro, from form factor to color to keyboard layout, complete with a default Windows account avatar that resembles the Apple logo so that it appears in the center of the screen just like OS X's startup screen.
Just see my sig for proof.
Nintendo doesn't even let you redownload online purchases or transfer existing data to a new device. For many years, the Wii didn't even support random-access of SD, only allowing a more archival storage in which you had to swap "channels" between the Wii and the SD depending on which things you wanted to run.
Console makers have used proprietary memory formats for years and years, from the N64 to the Gamecube to the PS2. To act as if this is some new thing and that Sony is being oh-so-evil is absurd, especially when companies that Slashdot is generally more friendly to such a Nintendo have a long and sordid past when it comes to proprietary storage and lockout.
The N64, Gamecube, PS1, PS2, and Xbox all used proprietary memory cards. My point is that this is nothing new (especially since the format of Vita's storage was already known back in June), nor is it specific to Sony, and the only reason this story was posted was to provide another opportunity for Slashdotters to bitch about them.
I acknowledge your total lack of a counterargument. Your bizarre floundering and financial accusations simply prove my original point about the chip on your shoulder. I suggest going back to posting more anonymous trolls. Next.
That's not very convincing, as they likely just swapped in some stock parts or just sent over an entirely new replacement DSi, as Apple tends to do with iPods and iPhones. You still didn't get any of your daughter's data to the 3DS, so now she has to use the DSi to access that data.
How many people here still purchase physical computer programming books? I can understand doing so for high-level concepts, where you'd expect to read the book from beginning to end, but for tutorials or reference material, why wouldn't you just look it up online for free? I can't really picture myself sitting down and reading a physical book about HTML5.
I find it interesting that you limited the possibilities to those two and left out the one where people are simply misinformed and tribalistic in nature, emotionally attaching themselves to a "side" and blindly supporting it in the face of contradictory evidence. WebKit itself wasn't even made by Google; Chrome exists to tie more people to Google's indexing platforms (it defaults to the Google search engine, for crying out loud).
I repeat--Slashdotters now trumpet the use of a web browser made by a multi-billion dollar ad-serving company infamous for privacy issues.
The point I'm trying to make is that Slashdot loves Nintendo and hates Sony, and this story (which is very old--NGV cards were known about last June) only exists to serve that purpose, yet Nintendo has a long history of using expensive, proprietary storage formats. The company doesn't even let you redownload purchases from their online store if you replace your device. Your purchases are forever tied to the single piece of hardware you bought.
The fact that the Wii U will "apparently" support USB HDs isn't very encouraging given that the Wii already had a USB port and did nothing with it. Further, the N64 and Gamecube used their own proprietary memory cards, as did the PS1 and PS2. There is nothing new in this story at all except that it serves as another opportunity for Slashdotters to bitch about Sony.
Clearly, you've run out of steam here. Next.