So what does that make you? So sad that you hate people who talk about something you allegedly have no interest in? And come off it - you're not a fence sitter. You're foaming at the mouth with insults, because someone dared to make fun of your platform. Get a life.
Get a fucking life, moron.
Says the hateboy (it's spelled "boy" - look it up) who spends his life trolling anonymously on Slashdot.
Just because we criticise a company, doesn't mean we "hate". The person who's sad is the one who's foaming at the mouth to post insults - and doesn't even have the decency to post with his login. And the anonymous cowards who mod me down and mod you up.
Since the Apple fanaticism is so bad round here now that valid criticisms, even posted humorously, are modded down, whilst insults are modded up: Get a fucking life yourself, tosser.
I can hear it now - "It doesn't matter that companies like ID, as well as all the Linux and open source developers, released their source first. Apple were the ones who 'popularised' it! Hardly anyone used open source software before Apple did it, but now everyone will be running MacPaint!"
I don't see how that works for a game though? The thing which needs to run fast is "the game engine", and you can't get that provided by the OS. Whilst there might be individual bottlenecks that can be multithreaded, the far bigger problem is multithreading the entire game loop, so e.g., rendering happens in one thread, with AI being multithreaded in other threads.
Surely that was his very point - it's terrible, precisely because you know it's a real human being, and because of what you know actually happened; and not simply because of what it looks like.
Consider, if such a video was run through a filter to make it appear unrealistic (e.g., cartoon-style), you'd no longer have any issue with what you saw, even if you knew it was still real?
Scenes in movies like the ones you describe are usually ineffective precisely due to their unrealism.
Isn't that worse though? Seems to me that it's worse to mislead people over the consequences of actions.
usually considered
Considered by who? A fictional film worse than someone being a victim of a violent crime?
And you forget that rape doesn't have to "look" like anything at all. It's rape if there is no consent - let's not propagate the myth that the person has to be struggling or screaming. But sadly, the people who equate criminal acts with merely what an image lookings like, are doing this.
This reminds me of back in the day when shit-brained Apple still had cooperative multi-tasking while the entire world was on true pre-emptive multitasking.
I can just see, in five years' time, Apple end up buying an existing OS from another company, and rebranding it "IphoneOS X", so that they finally get multitasking:)
(I love my Nokia. Was tempted by Blackberry - both are very underrated in the media.)
Fair's fair. We get three stories a day about the Iphones, bragging how they can do things like access webpages and run apps - "The fact that every phone on the planet does the exact same thing takes a back seat to promoting the One True Company".
So it's only fair that when there's negative news, you only hear about it for Apple too. You don't see stories about this for Nokia, RIM or Google, because this is a site that almost always only covers mobile news from Apple.
Do you have a reference to show crime rates, rather than going by the memories of your parents? Compared with historical rates, I believe things have never been safer, but I may be wrong.
but society didn't just give them a slap on the wrist when they were found
The web is supposed to be open, but I don't see Silverlight any different or worse than things like Java, Flash, Quicktime.
only one phone (S60) can run silverlight and it's made by Nokia.
I don't know if you mean they only have one phone out supporting it yet - but S60 is a platform, not a single phone, and it's the biggest mobile OS. From your link: "Nokia has announced plans to make Silverlight for Mobile available for S60 on Symbian OS, as well as for Series 40 devices and Nokia Internet tablets."; S40 and S60 together would be about 40% of the entire phone market (with Android and the Iphones only being a few per cent in comparison).
Yes, I take your point that the web was meant to be open, whilst applications weren't, but it hasn't turned out that way. There are many web-based things that make them only available on some platforms; and on phones, it used to be the case that there was a cross-platform standard for apps (J2ME) (until the Iphone came along and started fragmenting the market, because they can't even support J2ME).
I see already the bashing because they don't support competitor platforms. I guess that's fair enough, but - can I get Google's Sky Maps on my non-Android phone (Symbian)? Or where are the calls to run on Linux phones there, such as Maemo? Everytime we get a "For the Iphone" app, do we get versions for other platforms (even when they're not written by Apple)?
And at least MS can say they're writing something that's supported by 90+% of the market, which obviously doesn't apply for Iphones or Android, and they're not even the biggest (Symbian is).
Note that it doesn't call you anything, but uses it to decide what ad to show you. And if a guy gets annoyed at being shown ads on how he should look pretty or make his eyelashes appear longer, he can understand how plenty of women must feel too (and indeed, how it is for anyone who doesn't fit neatly into an awkwardly defined social gender role).
TG is closeted. Targetted adds begin to cause doubt among TG's companions regarding their identity eventually outing them.
But doesn't this work on simply looking the person, i.e., it wouldn't know anything that anyone else can't already see?
Not that I'm a fan of gendered advertising anyway (sorry, I'm not interested in football and cars; and do we need to tell women that they only exist to look pretty all the time - we now laugh at those sexist ads from the 50s, but we haven't really moved on that much). I'm annoyed at sites which force you to enter in your gender, just so they can target ads at you. And yes, I agree we should be wary of these kinds of issues.
Well, most people in general aren't interested in Apple - most people use Windows on desktops, laptops and netbooks, or other companies like Nokia for mobiles. As niche computing goes though, yes this does seem to have gone from Linux, open source, and using computers for geeking, to Apple, consumer news and using closed platforms for consuming content.
Indeed. And if only we'd had the rumour post to a blog that had pointed out how they were gathering journalists and ordering in a batch of microphones, so then we could then endlessly speculating that we might possibly soon have a news story about a future press conference where they possibly announce some news about a possible product.
One of your friends maybe. I guess I'm lucky that, after I've filtered out Farmville, my friends post about generally interesting things, or things about what they're up to.
I don't know about you, but I have better things to spend my time on than updating ignore lists.
Better things, like talking about Facebook on Slashdot?
But people can't be bothered going to a different website for every different friend, especially if separate logins are needed. That's the bad old days of Geocities in the '90s!
At least support things like RSS feeds so it can be read more easily. Dumping everything onto a single site like Facebook or Livejournal has its problems, but they have a huge advantage over people using a standalone website. Until someone figures out a solution to this, sites like Facebook are going to be popular.
Personally I found the OP's social manner far more pleasant than yours.
A quick tip: You can add "shut up" to your list of "phrases that immediately burn goodwill."
Let's also add: * Telling someone that they miss something important of being human (complete with comparisons to dogs). * Trying to speak for everyone, claiming that "we" are angry with him, because apparently he's the one breaking social norms. * Patronising "quick tips".
"Only smart kids get beat up" may be false - but that doesn't imply being smart (or liking subjects, or doing things like reading, etc) aren't a factor.
Thankfully I had few problems at school, but it was clear that things like liking subjects, doing well, going to the library, were taboo things that some people would be eager to give hassle over. Yes, there are other taboo things too, but that doesn't change my point.
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You know what's more annoying than fanbois?
So what does that make you? So sad that you hate people who talk about something you allegedly have no interest in? And come off it - you're not a fence sitter. You're foaming at the mouth with insults, because someone dared to make fun of your platform. Get a life.
Get a fucking life, moron.
Says the hateboy (it's spelled "boy" - look it up) who spends his life trolling anonymously on Slashdot.
Just because we criticise a company, doesn't mean we "hate". The person who's sad is the one who's foaming at the mouth to post insults - and doesn't even have the decency to post with his login. And the anonymous cowards who mod me down and mod you up.
Since the Apple fanaticism is so bad round here now that valid criticisms, even posted humorously, are modded down, whilst insults are modded up: Get a fucking life yourself, tosser.
And wasn't the color on the ZX limited to like seven colors, in 24x80 character-sized blocks?
15 colours.
Which is 13 more than the Mac had.
(Personally I preferred painting with 4096 colours...)
I can hear it now - "It doesn't matter that companies like ID, as well as all the Linux and open source developers, released their source first. Apple were the ones who 'popularised' it! Hardly anyone used open source software before Apple did it, but now everyone will be running MacPaint!"
I don't see how that works for a game though? The thing which needs to run fast is "the game engine", and you can't get that provided by the OS. Whilst there might be individual bottlenecks that can be multithreaded, the far bigger problem is multithreading the entire game loop, so e.g., rendering happens in one thread, with AI being multithreaded in other threads.
We're talking about watching a human being
Surely that was his very point - it's terrible, precisely because you know it's a real human being, and because of what you know actually happened; and not simply because of what it looks like.
Consider, if such a video was run through a filter to make it appear unrealistic (e.g., cartoon-style), you'd no longer have any issue with what you saw, even if you knew it was still real?
Scenes in movies like the ones you describe are usually ineffective precisely due to their unrealism.
Isn't that worse though? Seems to me that it's worse to mislead people over the consequences of actions.
usually considered
Considered by who? A fictional film worse than someone being a victim of a violent crime?
And you forget that rape doesn't have to "look" like anything at all. It's rape if there is no consent - let's not propagate the myth that the person has to be struggling or screaming. But sadly, the people who equate criminal acts with merely what an image lookings like, are doing this.
I'll remember that argument next time people are criticising Microsoft.
(For comparison, I believe Nokia sell on average over a million phones every single day.)
Perhaps the signal manages to maintain its strength, if an RDF is also enveloping the user?
This reminds me of back in the day when shit-brained Apple still had cooperative multi-tasking while the entire world was on true pre-emptive multitasking.
I can just see, in five years' time, Apple end up buying an existing OS from another company, and rebranding it "IphoneOS X", so that they finally get multitasking :)
(I love my Nokia. Was tempted by Blackberry - both are very underrated in the media.)
Fair's fair. We get three stories a day about the Iphones, bragging how they can do things like access webpages and run apps - "The fact that every phone on the planet does the exact same thing takes a back seat to promoting the One True Company".
So it's only fair that when there's negative news, you only hear about it for Apple too. You don't see stories about this for Nokia, RIM or Google, because this is a site that almost always only covers mobile news from Apple.
Do you have a reference to show crime rates, rather than going by the memories of your parents? Compared with historical rates, I believe things have never been safer, but I may be wrong.
but society didn't just give them a slap on the wrist when they were found
We don't now, last time I looked.
The processor and raphics in these things runs circles around calculators.
Indeed, today's XKCD seems rather relevant.
I too was wondering if software on a Nokia like device would just be simpler these days.
Why would you think that. 27 yr old grand mothers are quite common in Rochdale.
All these 27 year old grandmothers ... where are they flocking from?
The web is supposed to be open, but I don't see Silverlight any different or worse than things like Java, Flash, Quicktime.
only one phone (S60) can run silverlight and it's made by Nokia.
I don't know if you mean they only have one phone out supporting it yet - but S60 is a platform, not a single phone, and it's the biggest mobile OS. From your link: "Nokia has announced plans to make Silverlight for Mobile available for S60 on Symbian OS, as well as for Series 40 devices and Nokia Internet tablets."; S40 and S60 together would be about 40% of the entire phone market (with Android and the Iphones only being a few per cent in comparison).
Yes, I take your point that the web was meant to be open, whilst applications weren't, but it hasn't turned out that way. There are many web-based things that make them only available on some platforms; and on phones, it used to be the case that there was a cross-platform standard for apps (J2ME) (until the Iphone came along and started fragmenting the market, because they can't even support J2ME).
I see already the bashing because they don't support competitor platforms. I guess that's fair enough, but - can I get Google's Sky Maps on my non-Android phone (Symbian)? Or where are the calls to run on Linux phones there, such as Maemo? Everytime we get a "For the Iphone" app, do we get versions for other platforms (even when they're not written by Apple)?
And at least MS can say they're writing something that's supported by 90+% of the market, which obviously doesn't apply for Iphones or Android, and they're not even the biggest (Symbian is).
Note that it doesn't call you anything, but uses it to decide what ad to show you. And if a guy gets annoyed at being shown ads on how he should look pretty or make his eyelashes appear longer, he can understand how plenty of women must feel too (and indeed, how it is for anyone who doesn't fit neatly into an awkwardly defined social gender role).
TG is closeted. Targetted adds begin to cause doubt among TG's companions regarding their identity eventually outing them.
But doesn't this work on simply looking the person, i.e., it wouldn't know anything that anyone else can't already see?
Not that I'm a fan of gendered advertising anyway (sorry, I'm not interested in football and cars; and do we need to tell women that they only exist to look pretty all the time - we now laugh at those sexist ads from the 50s, but we haven't really moved on that much). I'm annoyed at sites which force you to enter in your gender, just so they can target ads at you. And yes, I agree we should be wary of these kinds of issues.
And the moderation proves it - poking fun at Linux is funny, but heaven forbid we point out that Windows and Nokia are the market leaders, not Apple.
It's a fact. Your mod points don't change that.
Well, most people in general aren't interested in Apple - most people use Windows on desktops, laptops and netbooks, or other companies like Nokia for mobiles. As niche computing goes though, yes this does seem to have gone from Linux, open source, and using computers for geeking, to Apple, consumer news and using closed platforms for consuming content.
I heard they were going to announce an app to allow IPhone users to use the compass and GPS to locate the nearest public phone box on a map.
[Disclaimer, I got this from somewhere else, but can't find the link to credit.]
Indeed. And if only we'd had the rumour post to a blog that had pointed out how they were gathering journalists and ordering in a batch of microphones, so then we could then endlessly speculating that we might possibly soon have a news story about a future press conference where they possibly announce some news about a possible product.
Slashdot, the Rumour Mill for Apple users.
one of your friends
One of your friends maybe. I guess I'm lucky that, after I've filtered out Farmville, my friends post about generally interesting things, or things about what they're up to.
I don't know about you, but I have better things to spend my time on than updating ignore lists.
Better things, like talking about Facebook on Slashdot?
But people can't be bothered going to a different website for every different friend, especially if separate logins are needed. That's the bad old days of Geocities in the '90s!
At least support things like RSS feeds so it can be read more easily. Dumping everything onto a single site like Facebook or Livejournal has its problems, but they have a huge advantage over people using a standalone website. Until someone figures out a solution to this, sites like Facebook are going to be popular.
What are the better ways?
Personally I found the OP's social manner far more pleasant than yours.
A quick tip: You can add "shut up" to your list of "phrases that immediately burn goodwill."
Let's also add:
* Telling someone that they miss something important of being human (complete with comparisons to dogs).
* Trying to speak for everyone, claiming that "we" are angry with him, because apparently he's the one breaking social norms.
* Patronising "quick tips".
"Only smart kids get beat up" may be false - but that doesn't imply being smart (or liking subjects, or doing things like reading, etc) aren't a factor.
Thankfully I had few problems at school, but it was clear that things like liking subjects, doing well, going to the library, were taboo things that some people would be eager to give hassle over. Yes, there are other taboo things too, but that doesn't change my point.