I had a prof who would do all his lectures & demos from the command line. Need to write a short C program to demonstrate forking? Boom! Into vim and coding up a basic example in a minute or two. Typo in his LaTeX slides? Boom! Switch over to fix it, then recompile the slides, and on with the lecture. Student asks a question about a command line argument? Boom! Man pages up on the big screen.
It was a little intimidating to see this CLI master hopping around typing crazy little combinations of letters and making magic appear on the screen, but at the same time it was inspiring. It was an example of what we could aspire towards.
Why don't we have command lines... with GUIs?
Like your slideshow example, there are plenty of cases where you have a command line interface to something that's easier to understand visually, or a graphical interface to something that could also be driven quickly via command interface. Yes, even low level system tasks like drilling down into directory structures using the most space, or working with historical performance analysis and statistics is more efficient with visual feedback.
Hey, look at any modern first person shooter game, point and click graphical interface, AND an interactive console. 'nuff said.
I feel bad for people who see this simply as an either/or subject, we should be looking for progress not clinging to old ways, just because.
Nations like India, which have restrictions limiting women's ownership of land, have the highest per capital consumption rate of gold. Gold mining is the single most environmentally destructive man-made activity on the planet (toxics, carbon, and encroachment into rain forests). If families in India can pay dowry with Bitcoin, I'm all for it.
Dowry is messed up, but I think they'd use cash, household items, and even animals before bitcoin.
'While others take vacation and time off in December, remember we aren't allowed ever to be off in December. Ever,' said a 20-year veteran UPS driver on the UPS Facebook page. 'So when you see your family and complain that your package is held up, everyone who moves your package is working and doesn't get the Xmas experience you get, Be thankful for that.'"
Hey, fuck you, buddy. They told you that shit about not taking time off during the busiest shipping season of the year when you took the job 20 fucking years ago, and probably reminded you every year since, so don't try to play the fucking victim here. Plus, "Dur, I had to work" is a really, really piss-poor excuse for failing to meet your work obligations, now isn't it?
I don't really get to take a lot of time off, period, but you don't see me using that as an excuse to suck at my job.
Why are you attacking this guy, A DELIVERY DRIVER? He wasn't complaining about his job, he's DOING IT. He's just the fucking messenger, moron, please post pics of lazy UPS drivers snacking at Krispy Kreme's if you have em. Fuck you, asshole.
In the same thread where I can find 1000 people going on about how efficient capitalism is I can find another (sometimes the same) 1000 people complaining all the dumb things their companies do. Well, which one is it? It doesn't work both ways people. Could it be that people are people, no matter what banner they're organized under?
I dispute your assertion that a market cannot both be efficient and have people complaining about it. Further, I believe lots of things can be dumb and efficient, like plants./goodnight
No proper change management, no peer review, no proper lab testing. Dev should always reflect production to the greatest reasonable level. No proper maintenance windows. You should never be surprised by a change in production. This is a case study in incompetence and the failure to execute industry best practices. I'm guessing the guy or gal who raised the best practices flag was ignored as being inconvenient or too expensive.
If I'd done this kind of thing when I was working with the exchanges I would have been fired in a heartbeat. Whoever failed to utilize best practices, or whoever failed to allow the utilization of best practices had damn well better have been fired. This is incompetence of the highest level and a perfect example of why ITIL based best practices were born.
I didn't read TfA, but from TfS, none of what you said would solve this problem, or a better way to put it is they all could have actually taken place to a reasonable degree.
Is it generally expected or practical to test combinations of versions of the same software in a cluster? Only automated testing could catch a problem like that, and you'd need a simulated production workload. A "reasonable" development environment would NEVER reach that far. That is a very above average QA environment.
Of course everybody would LOVE to have that, but I doubt that is widely considered a best practice.
At the other end, a monitoring system should have flagged the condition where all nodes are not running the same revision, and discovered new nodes automatically.
Another big "nice to have".
Sure they could have taken measures to prevent this kind of problem, I'm not disputing that, but to generalize the problem as no change management, peer review.... um, no sir.
It is difficult for us to imagine this is the outcome Congress intended.
Congress intends to deliver whatever the hell their biggest campaign contributors want them to do. This is why we already have perpetual copyright in effect.
-jcr
Well that's one way of looking at it for the "government is out to get us" crowd, another is that the U.S. Congress sometimes intends to protect Unites States assets from those almost mythical "not-the-United-States" places out there that the former crowd seem to be oblivious to.
I'm not for or against protectionist policies in general, but all this "big X and the gub'mint are conspiring against us" blather that paints things as "X got what they wanted therefore it's BAD FOR US", that's just really stupid reasoning.
Interesting the reverse is true. the iPad the most expensive device on the market six times more expensive than a better value tablet elsewhere, yet comes with proprietary software, hardware, with a shrinking market share...and no expandable storage. I object to that built in obsolescence, but ironically it only happens on overpriced electronics. Its [one of the many] why I think Apple is unhealthy right now, and Android is doing so incredibly well.
You are completely deluded, if people had to buy new i-devices every year or two, Apple investors would be happy as clams and packing more money in.
Apple's problem IS that you don't have to buy a new one every year, so they will need to keep making/breaking into new markets.
I have no idea what your idea of obsolescence is, but you can't really grow a business by just making things like hammers... you have to invent screwdriver 2.0 eventually even if it makes hammers look so "yesterday".
Ah, but we're not a Democracy. Democracy is MOB RULE.
We're a Democratically Elected Republic- and you should learn the distinction and learn it well.
You're implying that a distinction between the two is "MOB RULE" while the electoral college process is "MOB RULE". Ask a democrat in Texas if it ain't so! That's also a state where electors have no legal requirements to vote as pledged, they just do.
One distinction is a state _could_ ignore the popular will of its constituents. "NOT MOB RULE" to paraphrase you. They don't, do they? Could you give practical examples of a need to do so? You can write it in scary caps all you want, it doesn't change the fact that it's what we have today, it follows the principles of democracy.
Another is states are granted electors based on the size of their congressional delegation. Meaning for one thing that regardless of the number of constituents, they get two electors for their two senators. This weights your vote a bit state-by-state, but hardly makes it undemocratic.
FYI to readers - this dreck boils down to state rights issues and silly wordplay to [dis]associate our form of government with the names of political parties. The United States of America is a representative democracy AND a republic. The electoral college is a compromise between the will of the people and the will of the states.
It's probably a good thing, but not for the bat-shit insane reasons like "it protects your liberty." Be wary of arguments for state power that put you vs. federal government. It's like your cable company running whining ads "blah blah wont reach an agreement with us so in a few weeks so you will lose these channels" trying to pull you into THEIR problem. States have senators to represent them. They are HALF of congress.
it makes completely sense to try and lure away experienced professionals away from another company on a similar project.
The story is that a company known for boasting about its innovation prowess and suing the rest of the industry over imitation is doing this.
Well where do you think new ideas come from?
Do you think they take "regular" people and plant them in the ground, water them with miracle grow or something? So if they didn't grow in Apple soil, it doesn't count?
Really, I'm trying to figure out the logic behind this, like how a company known to boast of its innovation is expected to grow talented employees on trees. Apple is not THAT good, you are really showing your insecurities.
Oh, so people have been doing $X for years, and it doesn't matter until Apple comes along to claim it all for itself.
Got it.
The other way of looking at it is you might not understand their patent's claims. AT&T may have patented something similar, but different enough. Who knows? Sorry, what a dumb question, you guys know everything.
Being a "Linux Professional" in most fields of IT is like being a "Knife Professional" working in a kitchen.
hmm ok
But it's not how you should define your career, or even your desired job. (That you're thinking of it that way might be why you keep seeing sysadmin in a Linux environment as the only obvious role.)
Disagree. If you really love knives and making exotic knife cuts and carvings in food, don't define your dream job as being a pastry chef where you don't get to chop stuff up very much.
Maybe I can give the standard/. car analogy that even if you really like using a screwdriver, it would pay to try and learn a bit about a wrench or maybe even a hammer.
Why do you disagree, his point was there is no "Knife Professional" in a kitchen where you play with knives all day. If there were, it would be because there are too many knives for cooks to maintain, and your day would be mostly spent cleaning and sharpening them, it wouldn't be a job for people who actually like doing things with knives. If you like doing something for fun, don't do it for work.
There ARE Linux administration positions, but your time will be divided amongst application support and a whole host of other activities. If a company has straight up pure Linux admins, it would be because they have LOTS of "knives" and you'd spend most of your time using tools to manage them, like Chef, Puppet, etc.
To anyone dreaming of becoming a "Linux professional", please get it into your head right now, it is a TOOL. You might choose to become a carpenter because you love working with hammers, but your work doesn't revolve around your tools, your tools revolve around your work, so if you have a problem using screw drivers and nail guns, stay out of the profession.
as this article points out it's not the number of frames per second that really matters: it's the longest gap between subsequent frames which the eye picks up on.
you could cram 200 frames into the last 10th of a second, but if the other 0.9 seconds only has 1 frame, it'll feel like 1Hz.
i typically chart another metric next to traditional FPS which is 1 / (max inter-frame period in one second).
I don't get the point of this, frames rendered out of sync with vertical refresh are already garbage. Variability of inter-frame latency and correspondingly variable rate are just another good reason to lock your frame rate to something consistently achievable like 30/60 fps.
Anything inconsistent, and not in sync is just plain dumb.
How you shut down the machine hasn't changed since windows XP. You press the freaking power button.
There's a reason that computers have software-based shutdown. Because less shit goes wrong than when you hit the power button.
Are you joking or does your desktop PCs power button not perform a soft shutdown in your OS? I'm pretty sure every system sold with XP on it has this feature.
If only I could get rid of many of the most annoying features, like those damn pop-up previews along the task bar - f**king hell those are annoying.
I try to get it to look as plain as possible, I don't go for whizzy aero/glass/whatever looks. I just want things to work, because I'm often stressed and whizzy gets on my nerves.
Um.. I'm more of a Mac person, but you can right click your desktop, hit personalize, and pick Windows Classic.
Then right click the taskbar, properties, set Taskbar buttons to Never combine, check Use small icons, and you have yourself a Windows 98 desktop pretty much. I'm sure you can also find your way to the Always show all icons and notifications on the taskbar option if you try.
It isn't all that hard by Windows standards dude. Maybe you should just leave your computer with default settings until you are more familiar with it. You were asking for that one, you're welcome.
So why is TF2 the most valuable game to Valve, when it allows modding, and also puts them on sale?
I've heard this argument before, but never bothered to look for any mods, just going by my gut feeling that if I hadn't heard of any, they aren't out there. So I looked, and unless someone can cough up better examples, the TF2 mod scene is fucking garbage, please excuse my language.
To put this in context, the original Team Fortress was a Quake mod. Team Fortress _itself_ had several well known and popular mods. There were even sizable custom map scenes within these mod scenes.
Mods very substantially changed the gameplay of Quake. Preceding full mods like TF, Quake Rally, Air Quake, etc. were weapon mods that merely added new weapons to the game. THOSE put all the TF2 "mods" I've found to shame. I don't even want to get started on total conversions.
My conclusion is anyone putting TF2 mods forward as a sign of the rebirth of PC gaming is _deluded_, or has NO IDEA what PC gaming in its heyday was.
Does it warn you that since the battery can't be removed then in 3 years the laptop will be tied to a power outlet in the future? I don't mind (much) that laptop parts can't be upgraded but is it really too much to expect parts that are definitely going to fail after a few years (battery, fan) to be replaceable?
Most people look up the cost of a new battery for a three year old laptop and just buy a new laptop.
He has "so far" given a testimony that (quote) "mainly verified that the Galaxy S has the same rectangular form as the iPhone along with features like black color, a display central on the front of the phone, and a lozenge-shaped speaker." Now, maybe he really did put a huge amount of time into figuring that out, or maybe his hourly rate is really high - like $5k/hour or so - but it is also possible that he is being paid to paid provide a certain viewpoint that does not actually represent independent research.
Your logic doesn't make sense, if he's overpaid because his testimony is not worth much or stating the obvious, where on Earth is there room to express a viewpoint that does not represent independent research? He's not making outrageous claims is he?
Maybe he is just overpaid, or highly reputable and asked for high compensation for testifying in a high profile case.
Good god, what is happening to AC? This is like the third time this week AC has slapped down a named account with a frank and accurate comment.
"What a shit country it is. It has no rule of law"
I just saw THAT get +5 Insightful. You would think we just invaded Ecuador and bulldozed their embassies in other countries./. needs to stay out of politics or throw away the moderation system. Giving random expiring mod points does not work with these topics, everyone has an opinion and it goes straight into +1 Like -1 Hate mode sucking up mod points that could have been used on better topics that day.
On the other hand, maybe it increases the quality of moderation done to surrounding articles by taking away points from stupid people? What a quandary.
Which is saying we didn't sign a treaty that we didn't sign? The horror. God, the +5 ACs on this page are stomach churning.
Slashdot, I know you're trying real hard to be radio talk show, but there's a lot of tech news out there, you don't need to pander to these vapid morons to get page views and commentary. Look at the quality on this page. Are page views all you care about?
Why don't you guys just own up and call this place Weekly World News for Nerds?
As an increasing number of applications *DO* become available on the app store, I would suggest that a growing number of people are going to increasingly rely upon it. Eventually, I expect that a critical mass will be reached (I predict about 2 years from now), and Apple will shut the door to external sales on the Mac outside of jailbroken devices forever.
This will probably be cause for a lot of people to abandon the mac platform, but I expect that the remaining userbase will be sufficiently large by that point in time that other developers will eventually be drawn to writing for the platform, attracted by the promise of what will seem to them, initially at least, to be a largely untapped market.
And what happened with iOS is going to happen again with MacOSX.
This is a steaming pile of bullcrap hyperbole topped with +1 We Like It When Someone Says They Will Do Bad Things and +1 If We Wish Hard Enough It Will Come True
It amounts to "I think Apple will sandbox their entire desktop OS because iOS"
I am assuming that the application cannot access the file system unless a file is within the applications sandbox, or opened through the operating systems open file API.
Is that particularly difficult? The author seems unimaginative and unmotivated. I would guess that has something to do with this being someone's free, pet MPlayer port.
Who gives a rat's ass if you have to download it from a website like I don't know... all that software available on the Internet that can do whatever it wants on your system already?
I can't stand all these anti-sandboxing stories that make it sound like selling software over the Internet is so horrible. The app store is not old enough for you to be bitching about not being in the app store. This isn't even selling, it's free software joining the ranks of all the other free software out there.
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Essentially this.
I had a prof who would do all his lectures & demos from the command line.
Need to write a short C program to demonstrate forking? Boom! Into vim and coding up a basic example in a minute or two.
Typo in his LaTeX slides? Boom! Switch over to fix it, then recompile the slides, and on with the lecture.
Student asks a question about a command line argument? Boom! Man pages up on the big screen.
It was a little intimidating to see this CLI master hopping around typing crazy little combinations of letters and making magic appear on the screen, but at the same time it was inspiring. It was an example of what we could aspire towards.
Why don't we have command lines... with GUIs?
Like your slideshow example, there are plenty of cases where you have a command line interface to something that's easier to understand visually, or a graphical interface to something that could also be driven quickly via command interface. Yes, even low level system tasks like drilling down into directory structures using the most space, or working with historical performance analysis and statistics is more efficient with visual feedback.
Hey, look at any modern first person shooter game, point and click graphical interface, AND an interactive console. 'nuff said.
I feel bad for people who see this simply as an either/or subject, we should be looking for progress not clinging to old ways, just because.
Nations like India, which have restrictions limiting women's ownership of land, have the highest per capital consumption rate of gold. Gold mining is the single most environmentally destructive man-made activity on the planet (toxics, carbon, and encroachment into rain forests). If families in India can pay dowry with Bitcoin, I'm all for it.
Dowry is messed up, but I think they'd use cash, household items, and even animals before bitcoin.
"Bitcoin: When you have nothing better to trade."
'While others take vacation and time off in December, remember we aren't allowed ever to be off in December. Ever,' said a 20-year veteran UPS driver on the UPS Facebook page. 'So when you see your family and complain that your package is held up, everyone who moves your package is working and doesn't get the Xmas experience you get, Be thankful for that.'"
Hey, fuck you, buddy. They told you that shit about not taking time off during the busiest shipping season of the year when you took the job 20 fucking years ago, and probably reminded you every year since, so don't try to play the fucking victim here. Plus, "Dur, I had to work" is a really, really piss-poor excuse for failing to meet your work obligations, now isn't it?
I don't really get to take a lot of time off, period, but you don't see me using that as an excuse to suck at my job.
Why are you attacking this guy, A DELIVERY DRIVER? He wasn't complaining about his job, he's DOING IT. He's just the fucking messenger, moron, please post pics of lazy UPS drivers snacking at Krispy Kreme's if you have em. Fuck you, asshole.
They might not arrest him. They might just shoot him.
Since when is wishful thinking +Insightful?
so while it may not be corrupt, its laws are not the same as in the U.S.
And your point would be... what?
So you wouldn't mind one of your friends tapping your phones?
If your spouse does it, you what, fire them?
Welcome to the complex world of diplomacy.
In the same thread where I can find 1000 people going on about how efficient capitalism is I can find another (sometimes the same) 1000 people complaining all the dumb things their companies do. Well, which one is it? It doesn't work both ways people. Could it be that people are people, no matter what banner they're organized under?
I dispute your assertion that a market cannot both be efficient and have people complaining about it. /goodnight
Further, I believe lots of things can be dumb and efficient, like plants.
No proper change management, no peer review, no proper lab testing. Dev should always reflect production to the greatest reasonable level. No proper maintenance windows. You should never be surprised by a change in production. This is a case study in incompetence and the failure to execute industry best practices. I'm guessing the guy or gal who raised the best practices flag was ignored as being inconvenient or too expensive.
If I'd done this kind of thing when I was working with the exchanges I would have been fired in a heartbeat. Whoever failed to utilize best practices, or whoever failed to allow the utilization of best practices had damn well better have been fired. This is incompetence of the highest level and a perfect example of why ITIL based best practices were born.
I didn't read TfA, but from TfS, none of what you said would solve this problem, or a better way to put it is they all could have actually taken place to a reasonable degree.
Is it generally expected or practical to test combinations of versions of the same software in a cluster? Only automated testing could catch a problem like that, and you'd need a simulated production workload.
A "reasonable" development environment would NEVER reach that far. That is a very above average QA environment.
Of course everybody would LOVE to have that, but I doubt that is widely considered a best practice.
At the other end, a monitoring system should have flagged the condition where all nodes are not running the same revision, and discovered new nodes automatically.
Another big "nice to have".
Sure they could have taken measures to prevent this kind of problem, I'm not disputing that, but to generalize the problem as no change management, peer review.... um, no sir.
It is difficult for us to imagine this is the outcome Congress intended.
Congress intends to deliver whatever the hell their biggest campaign contributors want them to do. This is why we already have perpetual copyright in effect.
-jcr
Well that's one way of looking at it for the "government is out to get us" crowd, another is that the U.S. Congress sometimes intends to protect Unites States assets from those almost mythical "not-the-United-States" places out there that the former crowd seem to be oblivious to.
I'm not for or against protectionist policies in general, but all this "big X and the gub'mint are conspiring against us" blather that paints things as "X got what they wanted therefore it's BAD FOR US", that's just really stupid reasoning.
Interesting the reverse is true. the iPad the most expensive device on the market six times more expensive than a better value tablet elsewhere, yet comes with proprietary software, hardware, with a shrinking market share...and no expandable storage. I object to that built in obsolescence, but ironically it only happens on overpriced electronics. Its [one of the many] why I think Apple is unhealthy right now, and Android is doing so incredibly well.
You are completely deluded, if people had to buy new i-devices every year or two, Apple investors would be happy as clams and packing more money in.
Apple's problem IS that you don't have to buy a new one every year, so they will need to keep making/breaking into new markets.
I have no idea what your idea of obsolescence is, but you can't really grow a business by just making things like hammers... you have to invent screwdriver 2.0 eventually even if it makes hammers look so "yesterday".
Ah, but we're not a Democracy. Democracy is MOB RULE.
We're a Democratically Elected Republic- and you should learn the distinction and learn it well.
You're implying that a distinction between the two is "MOB RULE" while the electoral college process is "MOB RULE". Ask a democrat in Texas if it ain't so! That's also a state where electors have no legal requirements to vote as pledged, they just do.
One distinction is a state _could_ ignore the popular will of its constituents. "NOT MOB RULE" to paraphrase you. They don't, do they? Could you give practical examples of a need to do so?
You can write it in scary caps all you want, it doesn't change the fact that it's what we have today, it follows the principles of democracy.
Another is states are granted electors based on the size of their congressional delegation. Meaning for one thing that regardless of the number of constituents, they get two electors for their two senators. This weights your vote a bit state-by-state, but hardly makes it undemocratic.
FYI to readers - this dreck boils down to state rights issues and silly wordplay to [dis]associate our form of government with the names of political parties. The United States of America is a representative democracy AND a republic. The electoral college is a compromise between the will of the people and the will of the states.
It's probably a good thing, but not for the bat-shit insane reasons like "it protects your liberty."
Be wary of arguments for state power that put you vs. federal government. It's like your cable company running whining ads "blah blah wont reach an agreement with us so in a few weeks so you will lose these channels" trying to pull you into THEIR problem. States have senators to represent them. They are HALF of congress.
it makes completely sense to try and lure away experienced professionals away from another company on a similar project.
The story is that a company known for boasting about its innovation prowess and suing the rest of the industry over imitation is doing this.
Well where do you think new ideas come from?
Do you think they take "regular" people and plant them in the ground, water them with miracle grow or something? So if they didn't grow in Apple soil, it doesn't count?
Really, I'm trying to figure out the logic behind this, like how a company known to boast of its innovation is expected to grow talented employees on trees.
Apple is not THAT good, you are really showing your insecurities.
>Doesn't mean anything unless AT&T patented it.
Oh, so people have been doing $X for years, and it doesn't matter until Apple comes along to claim it all for itself.
Got it.
The other way of looking at it is you might not understand their patent's claims. AT&T may have patented something similar, but different enough. Who knows? Sorry, what a dumb question, you guys know everything.
Being a "Linux Professional" in most fields of IT is like being a "Knife Professional" working in a kitchen.
hmm ok
But it's not how you should define your career, or even your desired job. (That you're thinking of it that way might be why you keep seeing sysadmin in a Linux environment as the only obvious role.)
Disagree. If you really love knives and making exotic knife cuts and carvings in food, don't define your dream job as being a pastry chef where you don't get to chop stuff up very much.
Maybe I can give the standard /. car analogy that even if you really like using a screwdriver, it would pay to try and learn a bit about a wrench or maybe even a hammer.
Why do you disagree, his point was there is no "Knife Professional" in a kitchen where you play with knives all day. If there were, it would be because there are too many knives for cooks to maintain, and your day would be mostly spent cleaning and sharpening them, it wouldn't be a job for people who actually like doing things with knives. If you like doing something for fun, don't do it for work.
There ARE Linux administration positions, but your time will be divided amongst application support and a whole host of other activities. If a company has straight up pure Linux admins, it would be because they have LOTS of "knives" and you'd spend most of your time using tools to manage them, like Chef, Puppet, etc.
To anyone dreaming of becoming a "Linux professional", please get it into your head right now, it is a TOOL. You might choose to become a carpenter because you love working with hammers, but your work doesn't revolve around your tools, your tools revolve around your work, so if you have a problem using screw drivers and nail guns, stay out of the profession.
as this article points out it's not the number of frames per second that really matters:
it's the longest gap between subsequent frames which the eye picks up on.
you could cram 200 frames into the last 10th of a second, but if the other 0.9 seconds only has 1 frame, it'll feel like 1Hz.
i typically chart another metric next to traditional FPS which is 1 / (max inter-frame period in one second).
I don't get the point of this, frames rendered out of sync with vertical refresh are already garbage. Variability of inter-frame latency and correspondingly variable rate are just another good reason to lock your frame rate to something consistently achievable like 30/60 fps.
Anything inconsistent, and not in sync is just plain dumb.
How you shut down the machine hasn't changed since windows XP. You press the freaking power button.
There's a reason that computers have software-based shutdown. Because less shit goes wrong than when you hit the power button.
Are you joking or does your desktop PCs power button not perform a soft shutdown in your OS? I'm pretty sure every system sold with XP on it has this feature.
If only I could get rid of many of the most annoying features, like those damn pop-up previews along the task bar - f**king hell those are annoying.
I try to get it to look as plain as possible, I don't go for whizzy aero/glass/whatever looks. I just want things to work, because I'm often stressed and whizzy gets on my nerves.
Um.. I'm more of a Mac person, but you can right click your desktop, hit personalize, and pick Windows Classic.
Then right click the taskbar, properties, set Taskbar buttons to Never combine, check Use small icons, and you have yourself a Windows 98 desktop pretty much. I'm sure you can also find your way to the Always show all icons and notifications on the taskbar option if you try.
It isn't all that hard by Windows standards dude. Maybe you should just leave your computer with default settings until you are more familiar with it. You were asking for that one, you're welcome.
So why is TF2 the most valuable game to Valve, when it allows modding, and also puts them on sale?
I've heard this argument before, but never bothered to look for any mods, just going by my gut feeling that if I hadn't heard of any, they aren't out there.
So I looked, and unless someone can cough up better examples, the TF2 mod scene is fucking garbage, please excuse my language.
To put this in context, the original Team Fortress was a Quake mod. Team Fortress _itself_ had several well known and popular mods. There were even sizable custom map scenes within these mod scenes.
Mods very substantially changed the gameplay of Quake. Preceding full mods like TF, Quake Rally, Air Quake, etc. were weapon mods that merely added new weapons to the game. THOSE put all the TF2 "mods" I've found to shame. I don't even want to get started on total conversions.
My conclusion is anyone putting TF2 mods forward as a sign of the rebirth of PC gaming is _deluded_, or has NO IDEA what PC gaming in its heyday was.
Does it warn you that since the battery can't be removed then in 3 years the laptop will be tied to a power outlet in the future? I don't mind (much) that laptop parts can't be upgraded but is it really too much to expect parts that are definitely going to fail after a few years (battery, fan) to be replaceable?
Most people look up the cost of a new battery for a three year old laptop and just buy a new laptop.
He has "so far" given a testimony that (quote) "mainly verified that the Galaxy S has the same rectangular form as the iPhone along with features like black color, a display central on the front of the phone, and a lozenge-shaped speaker." Now, maybe he really did put a huge amount of time into figuring that out, or maybe his hourly rate is really high - like $5k/hour or so - but it is also possible that he is being paid to paid provide a certain viewpoint that does not actually represent independent research.
Your logic doesn't make sense, if he's overpaid because his testimony is not worth much or stating the obvious, where on Earth is there room to express a viewpoint that does not represent independent research? He's not making outrageous claims is he?
Maybe he is just overpaid, or highly reputable and asked for high compensation for testifying in a high profile case.
Good god, what is happening to AC? This is like the third time this week AC has slapped down a named account with a frank and accurate comment.
"What a shit country it is. It has no rule of law"
I just saw THAT get +5 Insightful. /. needs to stay out of politics or throw away the moderation system. Giving random expiring mod points does not work with these topics, everyone has an opinion and it goes straight into +1 Like -1 Hate mode sucking up mod points that could have been used on better topics that day.
You would think we just invaded Ecuador and bulldozed their embassies in other countries.
On the other hand, maybe it increases the quality of moderation done to surrounding articles by taking away points from stupid people? What a quandary.
now you see the true face of your government
Which is saying we didn't sign a treaty that we didn't sign? The horror.
God, the +5 ACs on this page are stomach churning.
Slashdot, I know you're trying real hard to be radio talk show, but there's a lot of tech news out there, you don't need to pander to these vapid morons to get page views and commentary. Look at the quality on this page. Are page views all you care about?
Why don't you guys just own up and call this place Weekly World News for Nerds?
I still find it strange that wikileaks got burned by a NEWS agency that supposedly leaked the decryption key.
Why would a news agency shit on its own sources like that?
Out of a total lack of respect. Should we pretend to be surprised?
As an increasing number of applications *DO* become available on the app store, I would suggest that a growing number of people are going to increasingly rely upon it. Eventually, I expect that a critical mass will be reached (I predict about 2 years from now), and Apple will shut the door to external sales on the Mac outside of jailbroken devices forever.
This will probably be cause for a lot of people to abandon the mac platform, but I expect that the remaining userbase will be sufficiently large by that point in time that other developers will eventually be drawn to writing for the platform, attracted by the promise of what will seem to them, initially at least, to be a largely untapped market.
And what happened with iOS is going to happen again with MacOSX.
This is a steaming pile of bullcrap hyperbole topped with +1 We Like It When Someone Says They Will Do Bad Things and +1 If We Wish Hard Enough It Will Come True
It amounts to "I think Apple will sandbox their entire desktop OS because iOS"
I am assuming that the application cannot access the file system unless a file is within the applications sandbox, or opened through the operating systems open file API.
Is that particularly difficult? The author seems unimaginative and unmotivated. I would guess that has something to do with this being someone's free, pet MPlayer port.
Who gives a rat's ass if you have to download it from a website like I don't know... all that software available on the Internet that can do whatever it wants on your system already?
I can't stand all these anti-sandboxing stories that make it sound like selling software over the Internet is so horrible. The app store is not old enough for you to be bitching about not being in the app store. This isn't even selling, it's free software joining the ranks of all the other free software out there.