Yeah, I went to their homepage to see what the app is and this is their first paragraph,
WhatsApp Messenger is a cross-platform mobile messaging app which allows you to exchange messages without having to pay for SMS. WhatsApp Messenger is available for iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Phone and Nokia and yes, those phones can all message each other! Because WhatsApp Messenger uses the same internet data plan that you use for email and web browsing, there is no cost to message and stay in touch with your friends.
Maybe this is still relevant internationally but here in the US we are no longer charged for SMS and are actually charged for our data. This app makes no sense to use for anyone I know. I guess that makes their decision to drop older OS support even more asinine because the people on those older phones are the ones most likely to still being charged per SMS maybe?
Yeah they're great with support. Unless you happen to have a bump gated 6000 series gpu in a laptop and they decide not to provide your OEM with the resources to fix it.
Yeah, I love all of this revisionist history about how great XP was. It was the exact same as Vista at release. Lots of driver and RAM problems. It required 64MB but wasn't really usuable with that. It was usable with 128MB but didn't really run well unless you had 256MB or more. Just like Vista required 1GB, usable with 2GB, and ran pretty well with 4GB. This is all assuming you had mature working drivers. Once SP2 came out for XP and Vista (Win 7 is essentially Vista SP2) memory sizes were up to where they needed to be and the drivers were plentiful and mature.
The game used to have 5-man dungeons that were challenging and fun to me and 4 other people using voice coms. Dungeons actually required awareness, tactics, and co-ordination. Getting extra pulls meant certain death in most cases. Failing to keep a particular mob sheeped could lead to death in many cases.
These days you're magically teleported to a dungeon with the 4 other people whom you've never met and will never meet again and no one says a word to each other. So without any communication the Tank then proceeds to go pull 3+ groups at a time. The dungeon then gets finished in 15 minutes without anyone saying a word and with 2 AFK DPS and healer that keeps DCing.
How anyone thinks the game isn't easier or that we're making this shit up because of "nostalgia" is mind-boggling.
No, it's not that bad because 95% of the programs I use all pin nicely to the taskbar. The 5% of obscure stuff I only run once every blue moon is easily invoked from either Win+R, Start->Search, or Start->click one extra button to see a full screen version of the same damn start menu from Win95.
If the new "Start Screen" or whatever it's called really impacts your productivity that much then you're over-reliant on it. I don't ever really even see the damn thing unless I want to check the info on the Weather app tile.
I had an AMD486 80Mhz. It was cheaper than an i486 66Mhz and performed great. The Pentium had just come out at the time but was super expensive. I was able to find late model 486 board with PCI slots though and with the awesome value of the AMD chip was able to have a nice "budget" system for the time. It was even able to run Quake playably(a game which "required" the Pentium and it's baller FPU).
So a browser the is perfectly secure and fast is OK to use even if someone is killed every time a click is made?
Uhhh... no. That would be an actual technological reason reason instead of a political reason. You're implying that every time I click a button in Firefox that it takes away a gay person's rights. Firefox is a web browser and an open source one at that. If you can look into the source and point out actual code that performs amoral behavior then get back to me.
The fact that you think empowering people to take rights away is ok is a different matter. I wonder if that's i you OKCupid profile?
Huh? I think what? You need to look up the word "fact". I'm pretty sure this guy doesn't have the power to take anyone's rights away. If he does, I certainly didn't "empower" him to do so. I said I don't agree with the guy's politics. I'm pretty sure I don't agree with the politics of most of the CEOs of the companies that make shit that I use. I'm guessing you probably don't agree with the politics of most CEOs either. How about you vet every political contribution from every CEO of every company you use products from and then stop using any products or services provided by the companies whose CEOs have a opinion you disagree with? I hope you enjoy crafting stone tools with your hands.
I received this message when I went to the site last night. I immediately went to the "Contact" section to complain. The jist of the complaint said that while OKCupid and I may not agree with Mr. Eich's political views that it is an even more dangerous problem in government and society to let politics interfere with what is a technological decision(browser choice). I'm not saying Firefox is the best browser for everyone but it's the best browser for me. To be advocating against a particular technology based on purely political motives is a much more dangerous precedent than this simple civil contract matter which will probably be resolved nationally within the next 5 years. Let's encourage individuals, organizations, and governments to make more technological decisions based on merit instead of politics.
I enjoyed that one too but when I think Lwaxana the first things that pop into my mind are when she, Troi, and Riker get kidnapped by Ferengi and when she goes crazy because of Troi's secret sister. I did like her DS9 episodes though.
Some of the Crusher episodes were good though like the one involving the solar shielding tech(which showed up in a later episode) and the one where everyone on the Enterprise keep disappearing. I'm assuming the awful one you refer to is the one from season 7 where she gets space raped by a ghost candle. The lesson here is that stories about women can be good when the writers give them stuff to do besides being space raped.
This is the chip that unites the CPU and GPU into one programing model with unified memory addressing. Heterogeneous System Architecture(HSA) and Heterogeneous Uniform Memory Access(HUMA) are the nice buzzword acronyms that AMD came up with but it basically removes the latency from accessing GPU resources and makes memory sharing between the CPU cores and GPU cores copy free. You can now dispatch instructions to the GPU cores almost as easily and as quickly as you do to the basic ALU/FPU/SSE units of the CPU.
Will software be written to take advantage of this though?
You've been able to add shortcuts to non-Steam games from within Steam since... oh... forever. I've got a shortcut to notepad in Steam that I rename whatever I want so people that I'm friends with can see shit like...
Dudeman In non-Steam game Nerdfest has full-blown AIDS
You can make shortcuts to any executable you want and name it anything you want. It's pretty cool.
Agreed. Just imagine decent x86 Surface tablet with an AMD Jaguar based chip or that new Intel Atom with the Silvermont cores that is supposed to not suck. It probably wouldn't too be too difficult get something like that into that $400-$500 price range. Sure it couldn't be as awesome as the Surface Pro in other aspects either but the compatibility with desktop applications would go a much longer way to promoting the Windows 8.1 platform on the consumer end than the stupid RT.
If they really want to promote RT they need to make it like their OS software has always been up to this point. Start offering the software by itself and support it on third party hardware and allow us to install and play with on our Nexus and other tablet devices. They couldn't charge much (if anything) for it in this climate but do they want in the game or not?
Quake Live runs their engine through a NPAPI plugin. They're supposed to port that to NaCl just for Chrome users? More likely they'll just not support it and ask people to switch to Firefox.
We're talking about running our Steam libraries here. MS and Sony are not going to allow the Steam software and our huge legacy libraries to run on their shiny new consoles even though the hardware itself(x86) could handle it quite well.
WINE may be a kludge but my library has over 200 games and most will not be ported to Linux. It's just not happening. So they need to get that "kludge" to the point where we can easily run most to all of our Windows games in order to get people to switch. Once people switch then they native ports will come and that kludge's role can slowly be faded out. Hardware and software will eventually get to the point where we can properly virtualize or emulate the old stuff instead of "kludge" it. If you want people to switch today though, you need to "kludge" our libraries so they function. It's the only way.
For example, if WINE or something similar reached the point of enabling enough compatibility to allow many Windows games to play seamlessly, that might make a big difference.
That IS the difference. I actually like Windows(even 8/8.1) for the most part. I also like the idea of running Linux instead but my Steam library has over 200 games. I think about 15-20 of those titles work natively under Linux. Valve has to invest in WINE and perhaps hire some of the developers directly like they did for SDL to get it to a level where most of our games can work under Linux just as they do under Windows. There's no way I'm switching from something that just works for all of my productivity and gaming needs to something else that cannot run the programs I run.
Ideally I'd like to see them make their own distro with all of the drivers and WINE shit needed to just allow all software in my library to run just like it does under Windows. I double-click the title, it downloads and installs, and then I run the thing. Not all Windows games need to run perfectly and some might not ever run at all but that needs to be the exception and not the rule.
I'm not going to dual-boot. I'm not going fuck with a separate Windows instance of Steam through WINE which I have to configure arcane settings for each game I have. Make WINE good enough and integrate it with Steam so almost every game I "own" can work right out of the box or there's not even a choice to made about what OS I'm going to run.
Ummm.... I liked Vista just fine(I actually had the hardware to run it). I also like 8/8.1(oh no, my start menu looks different again).
People forget that when XP came out it had the exact same problems with hardware that Vista had at release(most PCs didn't have enough RAM and new driver model problems). XP also changed the start menu in a way that added an extra click to get to the "real start menu". I'll grant you that at least they gave you option of switching back to the old Win95/2K start menu. Eventually I got used to the new XP start menu though, just like I got used to the changed Vista/7 menu, and just like I got used to the new full screen 8/8.1 start menu. Taskbar pinning, search functionality, and (my old favorite) desktop shortcuts make searching through the start menu to run your programs a pretty obsolete way of getting shit done anyway.
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It looks like he hasn't posted in over a decade.
https://slashdot.org/~John+Car...
Yeah, I went to their homepage to see what the app is and this is their first paragraph,
WhatsApp Messenger is a cross-platform mobile messaging app which allows you to exchange messages without having to pay for SMS. WhatsApp Messenger is available for iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Phone and Nokia and yes, those phones can all message each other! Because WhatsApp Messenger uses the same internet data plan that you use for email and web browsing, there is no cost to message and stay in touch with your friends.
Maybe this is still relevant internationally but here in the US we are no longer charged for SMS and are actually charged for our data. This app makes no sense to use for anyone I know. I guess that makes their decision to drop older OS support even more asinine because the people on those older phones are the ones most likely to still being charged per SMS maybe?
I certainly don't care.
Yeah they're great with support. Unless you happen to have a bump gated 6000 series gpu in a laptop and they decide not to provide your OEM with the resources to fix it.
Yeah, I love all of this revisionist history about how great XP was. It was the exact same as Vista at release. Lots of driver and RAM problems. It required 64MB but wasn't really usuable with that. It was usable with 128MB but didn't really run well unless you had 256MB or more. Just like Vista required 1GB, usable with 2GB, and ran pretty well with 4GB. This is all assuming you had mature working drivers. Once SP2 came out for XP and Vista (Win 7 is essentially Vista SP2) memory sizes were up to where they needed to be and the drivers were plentiful and mature.
The game used to have 5-man dungeons that were challenging and fun to me and 4 other people using voice coms. Dungeons actually required awareness, tactics, and co-ordination. Getting extra pulls meant certain death in most cases. Failing to keep a particular mob sheeped could lead to death in many cases.
These days you're magically teleported to a dungeon with the 4 other people whom you've never met and will never meet again and no one says a word to each other. So without any communication the Tank then proceeds to go pull 3+ groups at a time. The dungeon then gets finished in 15 minutes without anyone saying a word and with 2 AFK DPS and healer that keeps DCing.
How anyone thinks the game isn't easier or that we're making this shit up because of "nostalgia" is mind-boggling.
Agreed. Now let's work on the hard part of your plan which is convincing people not to be against new wind farms and nuclear plants along the coast.
That would be great as it would require bringing nuclear power back in a big way.
Great game. Probably still my favorite Gauntlet clone. It was for TurboGraphix16 though and not any Sega system.
Dungeon Explorer is on Wii Virtual Console.
No, it's not that bad because 95% of the programs I use all pin nicely to the taskbar. The 5% of obscure stuff I only run once every blue moon is easily invoked from either Win+R, Start->Search, or Start->click one extra button to see a full screen version of the same damn start menu from Win95.
If the new "Start Screen" or whatever it's called really impacts your productivity that much then you're over-reliant on it. I don't ever really even see the damn thing unless I want to check the info on the Weather app tile.
I had an AMD486 80Mhz. It was cheaper than an i486 66Mhz and performed great. The Pentium had just come out at the time but was super expensive. I was able to find late model 486 board with PCI slots though and with the awesome value of the AMD chip was able to have a nice "budget" system for the time. It was even able to run Quake playably(a game which "required" the Pentium and it's baller FPU).
It's "inactive" in the sense that it isn't Active. The Milky Way is also inactive.
I'm guessing that if these two black holes get close enough then that galaxy could get very active very quickly.
So a browser the is perfectly secure and fast is OK to use even if someone is killed every time a click is made?
Uhhh... no. That would be an actual technological reason reason instead of a political reason. You're implying that every time I click a button in Firefox that it takes away a gay person's rights. Firefox is a web browser and an open source one at that. If you can look into the source and point out actual code that performs amoral behavior then get back to me.
The fact that you think empowering people to take rights away is ok is a different matter. I wonder if that's i you OKCupid profile?
Huh? I think what? You need to look up the word "fact". I'm pretty sure this guy doesn't have the power to take anyone's rights away. If he does, I certainly didn't "empower" him to do so. I said I don't agree with the guy's politics. I'm pretty sure I don't agree with the politics of most of the CEOs of the companies that make shit that I use. I'm guessing you probably don't agree with the politics of most CEOs either. How about you vet every political contribution from every CEO of every company you use products from and then stop using any products or services provided by the companies whose CEOs have a opinion you disagree with? I hope you enjoy crafting stone tools with your hands.
I received this message when I went to the site last night. I immediately went to the "Contact" section to complain. The jist of the complaint said that while OKCupid and I may not agree with Mr. Eich's political views that it is an even more dangerous problem in government and society to let politics interfere with what is a technological decision(browser choice). I'm not saying Firefox is the best browser for everyone but it's the best browser for me. To be advocating against a particular technology based on purely political motives is a much more dangerous precedent than this simple civil contract matter which will probably be resolved nationally within the next 5 years. Let's encourage individuals, organizations, and governments to make more technological decisions based on merit instead of politics.
I enjoyed that one too but when I think Lwaxana the first things that pop into my mind are when she, Troi, and Riker get kidnapped by Ferengi and when she goes crazy because of Troi's secret sister. I did like her DS9 episodes though.
Some of the Crusher episodes were good though like the one involving the solar shielding tech(which showed up in a later episode) and the one where everyone on the Enterprise keep disappearing. I'm assuming the awful one you refer to is the one from season 7 where she gets space raped by a ghost candle. The lesson here is that stories about women can be good when the writers give them stuff to do besides being space raped.
For the most part, yes. They only mention the ones where Troi gets space raped. They don't even bring up the Luwaxana episodes.
Let's do this. Burn the redesign into the fucking ground!
This is the chip that unites the CPU and GPU into one programing model with unified memory addressing. Heterogeneous System Architecture(HSA) and Heterogeneous Uniform Memory Access(HUMA) are the nice buzzword acronyms that AMD came up with but it basically removes the latency from accessing GPU resources and makes memory sharing between the CPU cores and GPU cores copy free. You can now dispatch instructions to the GPU cores almost as easily and as quickly as you do to the basic ALU/FPU/SSE units of the CPU.
Will software be written to take advantage of this though?
Will Intel eventually support it on their stuff?
Ars article on the new architecture.
Anandtech article on the Kaveri release.
You've been able to add shortcuts to non-Steam games from within Steam since... oh... forever. I've got a shortcut to notepad in Steam that I rename whatever I want so people that I'm friends with can see shit like...
Dudeman
In non-Steam game
Nerdfest has full-blown AIDS
You can make shortcuts to any executable you want and name it anything you want. It's pretty cool.
Agreed. Just imagine decent x86 Surface tablet with an AMD Jaguar based chip or that new Intel Atom with the Silvermont cores that is supposed to not suck. It probably wouldn't too be too difficult get something like that into that $400-$500 price range. Sure it couldn't be as awesome as the Surface Pro in other aspects either but the compatibility with desktop applications would go a much longer way to promoting the Windows 8.1 platform on the consumer end than the stupid RT.
If they really want to promote RT they need to make it like their OS software has always been up to this point. Start offering the software by itself and support it on third party hardware and allow us to install and play with on our Nexus and other tablet devices. They couldn't charge much (if anything) for it in this climate but do they want in the game or not?
Quake Live runs their engine through a NPAPI plugin. They're supposed to port that to NaCl just for Chrome users? More likely they'll just not support it and ask people to switch to Firefox.
We're talking about running our Steam libraries here. MS and Sony are not going to allow the Steam software and our huge legacy libraries to run on their shiny new consoles even though the hardware itself(x86) could handle it quite well.
WINE may be a kludge but my library has over 200 games and most will not be ported to Linux. It's just not happening. So they need to get that "kludge" to the point where we can easily run most to all of our Windows games in order to get people to switch. Once people switch then they native ports will come and that kludge's role can slowly be faded out. Hardware and software will eventually get to the point where we can properly virtualize or emulate the old stuff instead of "kludge" it. If you want people to switch today though, you need to "kludge" our libraries so they function. It's the only way.
For example, if WINE or something similar reached the point of enabling enough compatibility to allow many Windows games to play seamlessly, that might make a big difference.
That IS the difference. I actually like Windows(even 8/8.1) for the most part. I also like the idea of running Linux instead but my Steam library has over 200 games. I think about 15-20 of those titles work natively under Linux. Valve has to invest in WINE and perhaps hire some of the developers directly like they did for SDL to get it to a level where most of our games can work under Linux just as they do under Windows. There's no way I'm switching from something that just works for all of my productivity and gaming needs to something else that cannot run the programs I run.
Ideally I'd like to see them make their own distro with all of the drivers and WINE shit needed to just allow all software in my library to run just like it does under Windows. I double-click the title, it downloads and installs, and then I run the thing. Not all Windows games need to run perfectly and some might not ever run at all but that needs to be the exception and not the rule.
I'm not going to dual-boot. I'm not going fuck with a separate Windows instance of Steam through WINE which I have to configure arcane settings for each game I have. Make WINE good enough and integrate it with Steam so almost every game I "own" can work right out of the box or there's not even a choice to made about what OS I'm going to run.
Ummm.... I liked Vista just fine(I actually had the hardware to run it). I also like 8/8.1(oh no, my start menu looks different again).
People forget that when XP came out it had the exact same problems with hardware that Vista had at release(most PCs didn't have enough RAM and new driver model problems). XP also changed the start menu in a way that added an extra click to get to the "real start menu". I'll grant you that at least they gave you option of switching back to the old Win95/2K start menu. Eventually I got used to the new XP start menu though, just like I got used to the changed Vista/7 menu, and just like I got used to the new full screen 8/8.1 start menu. Taskbar pinning, search functionality, and (my old favorite) desktop shortcuts make searching through the start menu to run your programs a pretty obsolete way of getting shit done anyway.
It's fun to complain about change though.