Well, if I approach an insurance company and they eventually decide to sell me a medical insurance, it would reassure me I don't really need it and I would not make a contract, right?
So, no selling insurance to healthy candidates, no selling to no so healthy candidates... how do you sustain such business?
> You have to keep in mind that Macs used to cost 3x the price of PCs back in the days. It is now a little more expensive, but not by nearly that much.
I regularly check local prices for iMacs compared to a hand-built PC (again from a local supplier) with same or better parts. Last time, a week ago, the iMac (several models) came about 2x the PC price.
(And yes, my hand-built PCs are generally from superior parts from vendor PCs, including box, cooling, PSU...)
Many would attempt to portrait jailbreakers as independent thinkers and tinkerers, while much more likely the majority are 12 yo kids cheating in online games.
So hard to get told to put your money where your mouth is, isn't it. Companies don't exist because players pay them their monthly fee. They exist and offer a service, which players choose to buy or not. That's different.
While this whole drama will cost them some subs it will also bring them some, as not everyone enjoys the climate caused by goonswarm. EVE lives on drama, but bringing the drama to places like this went too far.
I bid you good luck finding a MMO gaming company, which does not exist because players pay for its services.
I have some sympathy for what this CCP spokesperson is saying simply because as far as MMOs go you can't please everyone all of the time
Nobody insists on pleasing everyon all the time. All and I mean ALL that people want is a level playing field.
There has been the case of a CCP employee spawning valuable in-game objects for his player aliance. There has been the case of a CCP employee (I think the same) leading his player alliance capital ship fleet. There has been the case of somebody giving in-depth advice about capital ship warfare to an in-game corporation (incidently allied with the above alliance), information not available in the Player Guide. Apparently this somebody's IP address was tracked back to CCP corporate network. There has been the case of a high-ranking player boasting with his direct MSN connection with CCP staff. It's a company policy that CCP employees actively take place in the in-game politics.
All these in isolation do not sound like a big deal. But taken together they (IMO) reveal a model of operation, developed over the years, which clearly favors one particular player group.
Sure, you cannot please everyone everytime. But hardly pissing off most everyone most of the time is a viable business strategy.
I know it's a cliché but people who feel aggrieved by CCP's actions have every right to vote with their wallet and simply stop playing the game.
Of course, that's right.
What is absurd us a high-positioned company employee to actually urge his customers to quit. This I consider at least unprofessional and in most serious business companies it'd cause the said employee to be fired on the spot (or at least we would never hear anything from him again).
To clarify a bit what a company CCP is, let me quote the CCP Community Manager Kieron"
If a member of the EVE community finds he or she cannot accept our current level of transparency, we bid you good luck in finding a company that meets your needs.
Goon fleet members spammed the forums so much that CCP was forced to shut them down (I saw it happen; an entire front page worth of spam). And some people still thing its a CCP conspiracy?
Goonfleet members spammed forums after a single thread, asking for investigation of allegations was deleted by censors. The web site worked prefectly fine until CCP shut down the forums, because the censors couldn't delete fast enough the posts.
It makes sense for such an inventmen to go to
a) improving the fabrication facilities - achieving lower defect rates
and reducing price;
b) improving the fabrication process - aiming at higher clock rates
Remember also the recent announcement that an Itanuim CPU will no longer contain essentially a whole IA-32 CPU.
The question is will Linus refuse contributions, licensed under GPLv3?
Including a GPLv3 licensed parts will require distribution of the derived work (i.e. the kernel) to comply with both GPLv2 and GPLv3 requirements, thus effectively making the whole kernel GPLv3.
Yeah, I see now the Ukrainians spell it 'H' and pronounce it 'G'.
This is not an example of "Stalin's de-Ukrainization", though. It's an example of Ukrainian "de-Bulgarizaion", because the sound 'g' as in "golod" is spelled U+413 and this is the authotaritative spelling, because it is like this in Bulgarian and the cyrillic alphabet is created by Bulgarians in Bulgaria.
So, instead of a sinister plan to wipe out the Ukranian race, it appeared there was (or still is?) a sinister plan by Ukrainians to take over the world! What else could the replacement of 'G' with 'H' mean ?!!
Yeah, I notice that you're quick to correct my admittedly limited knowledge of the Ukrainian language, while leaving unanswered all the questions I asked, simultaneously drawing further conclusions that I'm a "Russian-sympathizer" and support "Stalinist de-Ukrainianization", bases on what - on a *possible* spelling error. Huh?
So, to summarize: 1. You did't answer any question I posted. 2. You spread misinformation about the spelling and pronunciation of the
word "golod". 3. You drew conclusions about my symphaties and political stance from my
spelling/pronunciation. Several times. 4. You failed to note that I didn't claim that "Holodomor:" was not a
genocide, but merely pointed out the fact that there's a great
controversy and a general lack of evidence.
All this means that you're fucking little twit, blinded for some reason by irrational hatred agains Russians (despite that neither Stalin nor Kaganovich were Russians), to the extent that you perceive as "enemy" anyone not convinced in the one true anti-Russian dogma and all in all not worth another second of my time.
The mere fact that you write "Golodomor" and not "Holodomor" shows where your sympathies lie, and is sufficient evidence that it was not, as you say, indifference, but rather active and explicit de-Ukrainianization.
"Holod" means "cold" in all Slavic languages (with variations, e.g. "hlad"). "Golod" means "hunger" in all Slavic languages (with variations, e.g. "glad").
I'm a Slavic myself, Poles, Ukrainians, Russians are Slavic too. How my knowledge of Slavic languages shows where my sympathies lie?
Moreover, how my spelling/pronunciation is a "sufficient evidence that it was.. active and explicit de-Ukrainianization" ? Do you find some causal relationship between what I wrote today and/. and what happened more than 70 years ago?
Was Kaganovich not out to explicitly destroy the Ukrainian people?
I have no idea who is Kaganovich and was it out to "explicitly destroy the Ukrainian people". Do you know more? What argumentation can you provide for the above claim ?
It was not a "natural disaster", but a targeted campaign to genocide the (relatively) rich Ukrainian peasants for being less than anxious to join the proletariat and the poorer Russian peasants (worse climate, worse soil made them poorer).
"A number of leading Western historians of the famine, such as Moshe Lewin, Sheila Fitzpatrick, Lynn Viola, and Mark Tauger argue that the "genocide" designation is inapplicable because, they argue, the famine was the result of the Soviet regime's indiffernece to peasants as a social group rather than Ukrainians as a national or ethnic group."
Can you dispute this claim? Can you prove that Ukraine suffered disproportional loss of lives, compared to other parts of the USSR, affected by the famine?
Holodomor deniers are hardly better than Holocaust deniers -- and my family was hit by both of these genocide attempts...
This statement is grossly inaccurate on several accounts.
First, who denies the "GM.olodomor"? Objections are against labeling the "Golodomor" "a genocide".
Second, why people, denying the genocide nature of the Golodomor are worse than people denying the Holocaust, given that there aren't any KGB/NKVD documents whatsoever indicating the Golodomor was a state policy, unlike the case with the Holocoust.
And while you visit Wikipedia, check out Godwin's Law. Calling the newly free Baltic countries "Nazis" was remarkably stupid and offensive.
Do you indeed perceive that "Godwin's Law" as a fundamental property of the Universe or just as a witty remark?
Perhaps you should educate yourself about the Waffen-SS and the Latvian Legion and the fact that parliament of Latvia declared "the day of the Legion" (16 March) as a national holiday, and reversed its decision only under pressure from the EU.
Because it's a really ugly hack that only works in a specific domain. If the frame buffer is being read and updated at the same time, you might get some screen corruption.
Utterly wrong, of course. There's only one writer. You don't expect the screen (actually, the DAC) will suddenly start writing to the frame buffer, do ya?
Fine-grained GC is already in TR1 and should be available from major compilers pretty soon. It is interesting to note that GC is being done in the standard library, unlike C# which does it in the core language. Some would propably claim this means C++ doesn't have "true" GC support, rather than realizing it is just a different approach to the problem.
TR1 does NOT provide "Fine-grained GC". It provides std::tr1:shared_ptr, which is capable of solving some of the automatic memory management[1] requirements of SOME programs and completely fails (as in "unbound memory consumption") in others. While indeed being a different approach to memory management, it is nonetheless not a "true" solution by virtue of being non-transparent (i.e. not fully "automatic"), incomplet and inkorrect.
The above, of course, assumes the said smart pointer is impemented with reference counting, although the standard does not mandate particular implementation. However, any other implementation, which is both transparent, complete and correct would necessitate a C++ runtime, which would make the smart pointer, well, pointless in the first place.
[1] the proper name of the so called "garbage collection"
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Well, if I approach an insurance company and they eventually decide to sell me a medical insurance,
it would reassure me I don't really need it and I would not make a contract, right?
So, no selling insurance to healthy candidates, no selling to no so healthy candidates ... how do you sustain such business?
It's not about the money, it's about sending a message: Do not compete with the government. ;)
AppStore millionaires or other kinds of millionaires ... big fat wallet have always been cool.
> You have to keep in mind that Macs used to cost 3x the price of PCs back in the days. It is now a little more expensive, but not by nearly that much.
I regularly check local prices for iMacs compared to a hand-built PC (again from a local supplier) with same or better parts. Last time, a week ago, the iMac (several models) came about 2x the PC price.
(And yes, my hand-built PCs are generally from superior parts from vendor PCs, including box, cooling, PSU ...)
Many would attempt to portrait jailbreakers as independent thinkers and tinkerers, while much more likely the majority are 12 yo kids cheating in online games.
I bid you good luck finding a MMO gaming company, which does not exist because players pay for its services.
Good luck and have fun. Bye.
(And yes, I know about GuildWars
Nobody insists on pleasing everyon all the time. All and I mean ALL that people want is a level playing field.
There has been the case of a CCP employee spawning valuable in-game objects for his player aliance.
There has been the case of a CCP employee (I think the same) leading his player alliance capital ship fleet.
There has been the case of somebody giving in-depth advice about capital ship warfare to an in-game corporation (incidently allied with the above alliance), information not available in the Player Guide. Apparently this somebody's IP address was tracked back to CCP corporate network.
There has been the case of a high-ranking player boasting with his direct MSN connection with CCP staff.
It's a company policy that CCP employees actively take place in the in-game politics.
All these in isolation do not sound like a big deal. But taken together they (IMO) reveal a model of operation, developed over the years, which clearly favors one particular player group.
Sure, you cannot please everyone everytime. But hardly pissing off most everyone most of the time is a viable business strategy.
The company actually exists and operates because players are paying them monthly fees.
Or using CCP kieron talk style: "I bid you good luck in existing and operating without players paying you monthly fees".
Hmm, I just might well mail him the above
Perhaps yes, I've argued with BoB members. I don't really know what is a SA mindset, but I guess what you mean.
I know it's a cliché but people who feel aggrieved by CCP's actions have every right to vote with their wallet and simply stop playing the game.
Of course, that's right.
What is absurd us a high-positioned company employee to actually urge his customers to quit. This I consider at least unprofessional and in most serious business companies it'd cause the said employee to be fired on the spot (or at least we would never hear anything from him again).
To clarify a bit what a company CCP is, let me quote the CCP Community Manager Kieron"
If a member of the EVE community finds he or she cannot accept our current level of transparency, we bid you good luck in finding a company that meets your needs.
Goon fleet members spammed the forums so much that CCP was forced to shut them down (I saw it happen; an entire front page worth of spam). And some people still thing its a CCP conspiracy?
Goonfleet members spammed forums after a single thread, asking for investigation of allegations was deleted by censors. The web site worked prefectly fine until CCP shut down the forums, because the censors couldn't delete fast enough the posts.
... is what I call it - we used to burn books, now we'll burn ruch multimedia content!!!
Seems pretty normal for Sun to not be willing to give away years of hard work, without getting anything back.
... by the community, see
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http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/power_pc/
http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh011606-story02.htm
http://www.blastware.org/
Itanium2 systems are among the top in transaction processing. asp?resulttype=all
http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_perf_results
and THE top one for clusters.
It makes sense for such an inventmen to go to
a) improving the fabrication facilities - achieving lower defect rates
and reducing price;
b) improving the fabrication process - aiming at higher clock rates
Remember also the recent announcement that an Itanuim CPU will no longer contain essentially a whole IA-32 CPU.
~velco
The question is will Linus refuse contributions, licensed under GPLv3?
Including a GPLv3 licensed parts will require distribution of the derived work (i.e. the kernel) to comply with both GPLv2 and GPLv3 requirements, thus effectively making the whole kernel GPLv3.
~velco
Yeah, I see now the Ukrainians spell it 'H' and pronounce it 'G'.
This is not an example of "Stalin's de-Ukrainization", though. It's an example of Ukrainian "de-Bulgarizaion", because the sound 'g' as in "golod" is spelled U+413 and this is the authotaritative spelling, because it is like this in Bulgarian and the cyrillic alphabet is created by Bulgarians in Bulgaria.
So, instead of a sinister plan to wipe out the Ukranian race, it appeared there was (or still is?) a sinister plan by Ukrainians to take over the world! What else could the replacement of 'G' with 'H' mean ?!!
Yeah, I notice that you're quick to correct my admittedly limited knowledge of the Ukrainian language, while leaving unanswered all the questions I asked, simultaneously drawing further conclusions that I'm a "Russian-sympathizer" and support "Stalinist de-Ukrainianization", bases on what - on a *possible* spelling error. Huh?
It's worth mentioning that Wikipedia uses the spelling "Golodomor" here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
A Ukrainian dictionary also returns "golod" as a translation for the
English "hunger": http://www.ukrainiandictionary.com/listing.asp
Another Ukrainian dictionary also gives the pronunciation "golod" for
"hunger": http://lingresua.tripod.com/cgi-bin/onlinedic.pl
So, to summarize:
1. You did't answer any question I posted.
2. You spread misinformation about the spelling and pronunciation of the
word "golod".
3. You drew conclusions about my symphaties and political stance from my
spelling/pronunciation. Several times.
4. You failed to note that I didn't claim that "Holodomor:" was not a
genocide, but merely pointed out the fact that there's a great
controversy and a general lack of evidence.
All this means that you're fucking little twit, blinded for some reason by
irrational hatred agains Russians (despite that neither Stalin nor Kaganovich
were Russians), to the extent that you perceive as "enemy" anyone not
convinced in the one true anti-Russian dogma and all in all not worth another
second of my time.
"Holod" means "cold" in all Slavic languages (with variations, e.g. "hlad").
"Golod" means "hunger" in all Slavic languages (with variations, e.g. "glad").
I'm a Slavic myself, Poles, Ukrainians, Russians are Slavic too. How my knowledge of Slavic languages shows where my sympathies lie?
Moreover, how my spelling/pronunciation is a "sufficient evidence that it was
Was Kaganovich not out to explicitly destroy the Ukrainian people?
I have no idea who is Kaganovich and was it out to "explicitly destroy the Ukrainian people". Do you know more? What argumentation can you provide for the above claim ?
"A number of leading Western historians of the famine, such as Moshe Lewin, Sheila Fitzpatrick, Lynn Viola, and Mark Tauger argue that the "genocide" designation is inapplicable because, they argue, the famine was the result of the Soviet regime's indiffernece to peasants as a social group rather than Ukrainians as a national or ethnic group."
Can you dispute this claim? Can you prove that Ukraine suffered disproportional loss of lives, compared to other parts of the USSR, affected by the famine?
This statement is grossly inaccurate on several accounts.
First, who denies the "GM.olodomor"? Objections are against labeling the "Golodomor" "a genocide".
Second, why people, denying the genocide nature of the Golodomor are worse than people denying the Holocaust, given that there aren't any KGB/NKVD documents whatsoever indicating the Golodomor was a state policy, unlike the case with the Holocoust.
Do you indeed perceive that "Godwin's Law" as a fundamental property of the Universe or just as a witty remark?
Perhaps you should educate yourself about the Waffen-SS and the Latvian Legion and the fact that parliament of Latvia declared "the day of the Legion" (16 March) as a national holiday, and reversed its decision only under pressure from the EU.
And the proposed patch leaks if realloc fails and does not check the return value of realloc. *sigh*
...
Also, one may only wonder why didn't they use std::vector
~velco
Probably not. All display addapters are using double-(tripple-, quad-) buffering anyway.
Because it's a really ugly hack that only works in a specific domain. If the frame buffer is being read and updated at the same time, you might get some screen corruption.
Utterly wrong, of course. There's only one writer. You don't expect the screen (actually, the DAC) will suddenly start writing to the frame buffer, do ya?
Fine-grained GC is already in TR1 and should be available from major compilers pretty soon. It is interesting to note that GC is being done in the standard library, unlike C# which does it in the core language. Some would propably claim this means C++ doesn't have "true" GC support, rather than realizing it is just a different approach to the problem.
TR1 does NOT provide "Fine-grained GC". It provides std::tr1:shared_ptr, which is capable of solving some of the automatic memory management[1] requirements of SOME programs and completely fails (as in "unbound memory consumption") in others. While indeed being a different approach to memory management, it is nonetheless not a "true" solution by virtue of being non-transparent (i.e. not fully "automatic"), incomplet and inkorrect.
The above, of course, assumes the said smart pointer is impemented with reference counting, although the standard does not mandate particular implementation. However, any other implementation, which is both transparent, complete and correct would necessitate a C++ runtime, which would make the smart pointer, well, pointless in the first place.
[1] the proper name of the so called "garbage collection"
Your comment strongly resembles premature ejaculation.
~velco