There was a time when it was very, very dark at night, and it made sense to adjust the schedule so you could actually see.
But with electric lighting, it's pretty much never dark in areas where people live and work. The benefit to daylight savings is much less than it was 100 years ago.
Alegedly it's not "just" DRM. EA has stated that their servers are handling some portion of the gameplay itself.
Anyway, it sucks that this game probably won't be playable after the servers inevitably go offline in a few years. Guess there's no room for nostalgia in the world of cloud computing.
Police: So, which way did the mugger run? You:... Police: Hello? Can you talk? You:... Police: Don't you want to get your wallet back? You:... Police: Eh, fuck it. I'll be at the donut shop.
As a Glib/GTK+ programmer, let me say this: fuck you. You have no idea how easy you have it. At least functions in Win32, MFC, etc. are actually documented -- and by "documented" I mean there's a paragraph explaining what they do and what each parameter does. When the docs are incorrect or incomplete, sending an e-mail to Microsoft usually gets a response and a fix within a few weeks. There are clear examples and the documents are arranged in a sensible hierarchy.
MSDN may not be perfect, but their documentation is far, far from the worst. Microsoft has always been a developer tools company, and it shows.
Linux has always had a common set of core system APIs. Even things as dire as GNOME versus KDE still represented things that could happily co-exist within the same desktop user context.
There has always been a common "upstream", despite what trolls like you might want to make of the situation.
Right, I'm a "troll." It's not like I write Linux applications for a living and deal with this shit on a daily basis or anything.
If that happens, it will be a fairly major step backwards for Linux on the desktop since developers will be on the hook to adjust to supporting not just multiple packaging systems and multiple library versions, but also multiple incompatible core system API's.
Unless you dropped an anvil on it or something you can most likely fix it. There's all kinds of diagnostics built right in to every Roomba, they're easy to open with a standard screwdriver, and there's dozens of repair guides and forums on the internets.
Besides, if you don't fix it, you automatically forfeit the right to complain about Apple and/or Nintendo's unservicable products.
The question is whether Apple will continue their product line. Many companies (Sony comes to mind immediately) tend to release highly inconsistent one-off products instead of improving a line of products in the long run.
The slam on Dell seems a little strange though, since they tend to have more consistent product lines than a lot of tech companies.
Why the hell are still linking to c|net articles again? Would it kill the editors to wait for a real news organization to review Ubuntu Touch instead of just posting the first crap that comes along?
It's not soulless, it's condescending. Grabbing a bunch of random celebrities and pretending they have anything to do with learning to code is ridiculous.
If there's one thing academia doesn't need, it's crass marketing with celebrity spokespeople.
...that any sex content at a technical conference is out of bounds and hostile to women...
Oh dear. Are we really using "sex positive" language to promote a puritanical agenda? Too bad George Carlin isn't alive today, he'd... well, he'd probably have a heart attack.
Please, PLEASE take your puritanical nonsense back to 1650 with you. I'm not willing to accept that the sexual revolution ended with political correctness forcing us to pretend we're not sexual animals. Things shouldn't come full circle that quickly.
How can they open source the code, then flog it to somebody else who claims "complete ownership"? What license did they release the open source branch under?
Presumably they sold the copyrights, trademarks, etc. Sure, LG could have forked it, but that doesn't mean they could call it webOS. And keep in mind if you fork a project that does NOT mean you own the code.
There's a difference between a "team activity" and having an overzealous boss who prevents actual work getting done just so they can hear the sound of their own voice.
Or the EyeBoard, which you can build yourself. Even cooler, it was designed by a high school student in Honduras as a cheap assistive technology for people with physical disabilities.
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A two bedroom home for $500k? OMG tell me where! That's practically free by Bay Area standards.
Neither are clocks.
There was a time when it was very, very dark at night, and it made sense to adjust the schedule so you could actually see.
But with electric lighting, it's pretty much never dark in areas where people live and work. The benefit to daylight savings is much less than it was 100 years ago.
Alegedly it's not "just" DRM. EA has stated that their servers are handling some portion of the gameplay itself.
Anyway, it sucks that this game probably won't be playable after the servers inevitably go offline in a few years. Guess there's no room for nostalgia in the world of cloud computing.
Are you referring to Best Buy or Yahoo?
Police: So, which way did the mugger run? ... ... ...
You:
Police: Hello? Can you talk?
You:
Police: Don't you want to get your wallet back?
You:
Police: Eh, fuck it. I'll be at the donut shop.
As a Glib/GTK+ programmer, let me say this: fuck you. You have no idea how easy you have it. At least functions in Win32, MFC, etc. are actually documented -- and by "documented" I mean there's a paragraph explaining what they do and what each parameter does. When the docs are incorrect or incomplete, sending an e-mail to Microsoft usually gets a response and a fix within a few weeks. There are clear examples and the documents are arranged in a sensible hierarchy.
MSDN may not be perfect, but their documentation is far, far from the worst. Microsoft has always been a developer tools company, and it shows.
I'm still waiting for him to post the common Linux upstream package management system...
Right, I'm a "troll." It's not like I write Linux applications for a living and deal with this shit on a daily basis or anything.
So you're saying nothing will change?
Unless you dropped an anvil on it or something you can most likely fix it. There's all kinds of diagnostics built right in to every Roomba, they're easy to open with a standard screwdriver, and there's dozens of repair guides and forums on the internets.
Besides, if you don't fix it, you automatically forfeit the right to complain about Apple and/or Nintendo's unservicable products.
It's technology. Of course it's going to change.
The question is whether Apple will continue their product line. Many companies (Sony comes to mind immediately) tend to release highly inconsistent one-off products instead of improving a line of products in the long run.
The slam on Dell seems a little strange though, since they tend to have more consistent product lines than a lot of tech companies.
Why the hell are still linking to c|net articles again? Would it kill the editors to wait for a real news organization to review Ubuntu Touch instead of just posting the first crap that comes along?
It's not soulless, it's condescending. Grabbing a bunch of random celebrities and pretending they have anything to do with learning to code is ridiculous.
If there's one thing academia doesn't need, it's crass marketing with celebrity spokespeople.
Or trying to hold a conversation with someone who's ignoring you and reading Slashdot on their glasses?
Oh dear. Are we really using "sex positive" language to promote a puritanical agenda? Too bad George Carlin isn't alive today, he'd... well, he'd probably have a heart attack.
Please, PLEASE take your puritanical nonsense back to 1650 with you. I'm not willing to accept that the sexual revolution ended with political correctness forcing us to pretend we're not sexual animals. Things shouldn't come full circle that quickly.
I wouldn't start by assuming Canonical ever made money to begin with.
I'd also recommend checking out the documentary film We Live in Public. It covers Josh Harris' unusual livestreaming projects in the 90's.
Presumably they sold the copyrights, trademarks, etc. Sure, LG could have forked it, but that doesn't mean they could call it webOS. And keep in mind if you fork a project that does NOT mean you own the code.
This represents the innovation we've come to expect from HP -- none at all.
If you think running HTML on a device is a security hole, I have some bad news for you...
If you're okay with having your every move tracked across the web, by all means, use a different browser.
But do yourself a favor and stop pretending that this has anything to do with seeing ads on the internet.
There's a difference between a "team activity" and having an overzealous boss who prevents actual work getting done just so they can hear the sound of their own voice.
Because companies that make cell phones spend more on lobbying than the people who own cell phones.
Or the EyeBoard, which you can build yourself. Even cooler, it was designed by a high school student in Honduras as a cheap assistive technology for people with physical disabilities.