So you think he can just change his whole development, learn Objective C, etc, because he bought a new laptop? I think you must be crazy. ^^ Besides: When someone wants Unix shell commands, why not go for Linux or BSD in the first place? And save about 50% because not having to pay the Apple logo tax.;)
Also, Macs are known to have some of the worst keyboards in human history. He could as well type on a iPhone while electrically shocking himself. Would not be much worse.:P
In general: Nothing against Macs. But their target group is the user who does not know shit about computers, and also does not want to. Which is perfectly OK if you are for example an artist. Because you're an artist, and no scientist. But as a programmer, go for a programmer OS. (Which would be Gentoo Linux* ^^)
I found the keyboards to be THE number one reason I will never like coding on a laptop at all. (No, adding an external keyboard when not at home makes no sense. And when at home, I can as well have a real computer.)
__ * Everything I state is by definition my personal opinion.
Actually, that is exactly what GP wants. Because else he would have to stop complaining and staying in a pathetic state of deliberate inaction. And that would be just terrible. Doing something about is? Bah. Not with him. Ever!
I wonder how he would have performed in 1933 in Germany...
I once had three assistant doctors and one chef doctor trying to find my pulse and already joking of declaring me dead. They tried on the arms, feet, neck, etc. Nothing. Then the nurse stepped in and instantly found the pulse. I just hoped they were not the ones doing the operation!
the limits Apple puts on it are FAR FAR FAR less than any company before it.
The companies -- if you are referring to cell phone builders -- don't do anything like that. It's the network providers. So you're either comparing Apples (literally) to Oranges (in the UK also literally), or your statement is just false. Try a Nokia phone from a German shop like The Phone House or Debitel. They are resellers for the networks. But: No locking, no branding, no crippling. Just the device like if you would buy a laptop. Plus a SIM card. That's it. And cheaper than the shops of the actual networks.
It's sad that T-Mobile (a German company) started to do the same shit in the US as the other providers. Because with the conditions that they offer here (not even pretty good compared to the resellers), they would have completely taken over the market in the US in 2-3 years.
Nah, it will go like this: "To stay competitive", everyone licenses the patent from Apple to be able to limit the full usage of the bandwidth and tech you have to pay for anyway. And everyone passes the cost on to the consumers. No matter what phone they actually buy.
Just one sentence: Good luck getting them to work under Linux. Especially video acceleration, using more than one screen, any recent OpenGL version of this decade, VirtualBox, etc. (Yes, I am an expert on this, as I tried nearly every combination of features, kernels, drivers, software, versions, etc, in a week long marathon, to get it to work. Only to give up because back then, it was not even compatible to the 2.6.29 kernel interfaces. [9.9 is better, but still far from being even close to a complete driver. With the Xorg driver rapidly gaining on it.])
From what I've heard, PhysX running on integrated devices isn't any faster than running on the CPU in software mode, so nothing has been lost. So no target market has been lost there.
I can't decide if you are that stupid, or knowingly talk bullshit here. Yeah, first of all it does not run slower on the CPU, regardless of the CPU? Or what? And then: Do you really think the physics being simulated on the CPU does still leave 100% of the CPU for the other tasks?
If you got a spare CPU that you can't use in your game, nothing has lost. But if not, you lost whatever the physics processing took of the time share.
Well, as TFS (yeah, that's right, you didn't even read that!) states, the DVI connector is not actually connected! So it can't actually display anything. Which by definition means, it's no a working graphics card. Which is another way of saying that it's FAKE.:)
And you now why? Let me say it like a mass-psychologist:
Because you say so!!
No shit! It's the mother of all self-fulfilling prophecies: Something like that would never happen, if not broad support from the people to some stating what you just said, and the rest agreeing.
I for one call complete and utter bullshit on that it would never happen. I say it is pretty easy to happen, and could happen tomorrow. It just needs one person or even company to sue another company for "assault" or "murder", etc, and throw in all the cash that's left. Think of all the companies who could make a profit from being able to sue corporations like persons, or other related things. I bet they are already thinking about how to beat the crap out of each other right now. ^^
Just wait. Certainly something similar to a MS-backed SCO will surface, troll countless companies, until the whole thing gets patched... for the fun of us all. Want some popcorn? *crunch* *munch*
As far an I know, German courts know a rule, that what is most important, is not the exact wording of something, but the intention behind it. So in this case, it would be obvious, that the personal privacy thing was meant for real people only, and the whole thing would be over.
Is there no such concept in US courts? Or has someone used another loophole to get around that? Can a court still stop that "corporations as real persons" thing?
I agree. 90-99% of the usual spam does never pass greylisting. Sure you can create a nice whitelisting like SPF tried (but in my eyes failed) to do. But in the real world, greylisting is a simple way for big time real results. And to me, that is the ultimate scale I measure success by.
So viruses are evolutionary winning against most of humanity. It was clear to me, that some day we would create life that would take over the world, but that it would happen this way...
Well, to my generation, TOS always was very silly. Weird people in 60/70s clothes and the like, fighting in an incredibly primitive way (eg the two handed fist on the back, or those "grandpa kicks"), lacking anything that could be called believable special effects or aliens, with primitive depth-lacking stories, and a main actor/team who acted like grunting animals half the time with their primitive philosophies. Impossible to take seriously. The only one I liked, was Spock, with his silly concept of pure logic as an ideal.;)
Sorry, I am not saying this to hurt or insult anyone. I'm just expressing how it felt to me and others I know.
TNG on the other hand was nearly *wise*. Picard could have been the father/uncle you never had. A real leader. As opposed to Kirk. Of course the aliens still were the complete jokes of having something glued to their faces most of the time. And they still lived in a totalitarian horror scenario world controlled by millitary. But at least they were scientists most of the time. And the stories were a big improvement. Sure, some characters were rather bad (Crusher, Yar, Pulaski, Lwaxana Troi), but the main Charakters were very great. But most of all I liked the episodes that really went beyond everything. And not those with some silly copy of a roman empire, the 50s or the like (those were horrible).
Until someone notices that it has the same effect on the lungs as asbestos. Just some orders of magnitude stronger, because it can enter the blood and cells.:P
(Ok, "until" as in "20 years, millions of deaths and billions of dollars for officials later".)
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So you think he can just change his whole development, learn Objective C, etc, because he bought a new laptop? I think you must be crazy. ^^ ;)
Besides: When someone wants Unix shell commands, why not go for Linux or BSD in the first place? And save about 50% because not having to pay the Apple logo tax.
Also, Macs are known to have some of the worst keyboards in human history. He could as well type on a iPhone while electrically shocking himself. Would not be much worse. :P
In general: Nothing against Macs. But their target group is the user who does not know shit about computers, and also does not want to. Which is perfectly OK if you are for example an artist. Because you're an artist, and no scientist. But as a programmer, go for a programmer OS. (Which would be Gentoo Linux* ^^)
I found the keyboards to be THE number one reason I will never like coding on a laptop at all. (No, adding an external keyboard when not at home makes no sense. And when at home, I can as well have a real computer.)
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* Everything I state is by definition my personal opinion.
Actually, that is exactly what GP wants. Because else he would have to stop complaining and staying in a pathetic state of deliberate inaction. And that would be just terrible. Doing something about is? Bah. Not with him. Ever!
I wonder how he would have performed in 1933 in Germany...
You should know, that your third "boob" does not actually count as "genitalia".
Yeah. It will really be funny, when I take out my shotgun, and spray your BRAAAIIINNNNNS on the walls. :P
Oops, I guess that was a "false friend" translation. It's called "surgery" in English, isn't it?
I once had three assistant doctors and one chef doctor trying to find my pulse and already joking of declaring me dead. They tried on the arms, feet, neck, etc. Nothing. Then the nurse stepped in and instantly found the pulse. I just hoped they were not the ones doing the operation!
Have you tried doing that with a real version management system? I instantly liked that idea, and now am using git, which is pretty cool.
Is it open source? Can I compile my own?
And don't even start about the vitamins & co that you actually need to not become sick from processing those 4186.8 Joule*.
__ ;)
* Welcome to the 20th (!) century!
the limits Apple puts on it are FAR FAR FAR less than any company before it.
The companies -- if you are referring to cell phone builders -- don't do anything like that. It's the network providers. So you're either comparing Apples (literally) to Oranges (in the UK also literally), or your statement is just false. Try a Nokia phone from a German shop like The Phone House or Debitel. They are resellers for the networks. But: No locking, no branding, no crippling. Just the device like if you would buy a laptop. Plus a SIM card. That's it. And cheaper than the shops of the actual networks.
It's sad that T-Mobile (a German company) started to do the same shit in the US as the other providers. Because with the conditions that they offer here (not even pretty good compared to the resellers), they would have completely taken over the market in the US in 2-3 years.
Nah, it will go like this: "To stay competitive", everyone licenses the patent from Apple to be able to limit the full usage of the bandwidth and tech you have to pay for anyway. And everyone passes the cost on to the consumers. No matter what phone they actually buy.
Yay for oligopolies!
Wait until he joins the Gay Black Jewish Klansmen for Tolerance and Understanding!
They also tend to believe that they either need to secede from the union
The sad thing is, that they don't do it.
Just one sentence: Good luck getting them to work under Linux. Especially video acceleration, using more than one screen, any recent OpenGL version of this decade, VirtualBox, etc. (Yes, I am an expert on this, as I tried nearly every combination of features, kernels, drivers, software, versions, etc, in a week long marathon, to get it to work. Only to give up because back then, it was not even compatible to the 2.6.29 kernel interfaces. [9.9 is better, but still far from being even close to a complete driver. With the Xorg driver rapidly gaining on it.])
From what I've heard, PhysX running on integrated devices isn't any faster than running on the CPU in software mode, so nothing has been lost. So no target market has been lost there.
I can't decide if you are that stupid, or knowingly talk bullshit here. Yeah, first of all it does not run slower on the CPU, regardless of the CPU? Or what? And then: Do you really think the physics being simulated on the CPU does still leave 100% of the CPU for the other tasks?
If you got a spare CPU that you can't use in your game, nothing has lost. But if not, you lost whatever the physics processing took of the time share.
Well, as TFS (yeah, that's right, you didn't even read that!) states, the DVI connector is not actually connected! So it can't actually display anything. Which by definition means, it's no a working graphics card. Which is another way of saying that it's FAKE. :)
Yeah, and because of the smoke, nobody sees the boobs anyway. Idiot status is more like it.
I'd throw a stink bomb that only creates transparent gases!
And you now why? Let me say it like a mass-psychologist:
Because you say so!!
No shit! It's the mother of all self-fulfilling prophecies: Something like that would never happen, if not broad support from the people to some stating what you just said, and the rest agreeing.
I for one call complete and utter bullshit on that it would never happen. I say it is pretty easy to happen, and could happen tomorrow. It just needs one person or even company to sue another company for "assault" or "murder", etc, and throw in all the cash that's left.
Think of all the companies who could make a profit from being able to sue corporations like persons, or other related things. I bet they are already thinking about how to beat the crap out of each other right now. ^^
Just wait. Certainly something similar to a MS-backed SCO will surface, troll countless companies, until the whole thing gets patched... for the fun of us all.
Want some popcorn? *crunch* *munch*
As far an I know, German courts know a rule, that what is most important, is not the exact wording of something, but the intention behind it. So in this case, it would be obvious, that the personal privacy thing was meant for real people only, and the whole thing would be over.
Is there no such concept in US courts? Or has someone used another loophole to get around that? Can a court still stop that "corporations as real persons" thing?
So they think that by passing a bill that declares evil bad, they will stop those who ignored the rules of good and bad in the first place?
Yeah right. Next up: A bill that puts persons who successfully committed suicide into jail!
I agree. 90-99% of the usual spam does never pass greylisting. Sure you can create a nice whitelisting like SPF tried (but in my eyes failed) to do. But in the real world, greylisting is a simple way for big time real results. And to me, that is the ultimate scale I measure success by.
So viruses are evolutionary winning against most of humanity. It was clear to me, that some day we would create life that would take over the world, but that it would happen this way...
Well, to my generation, TOS always was very silly. Weird people in 60/70s clothes and the like, fighting in an incredibly primitive way (eg the two handed fist on the back, or those "grandpa kicks"), lacking anything that could be called believable special effects or aliens, with primitive depth-lacking stories, and a main actor/team who acted like grunting animals half the time with their primitive philosophies. Impossible to take seriously. The only one I liked, was Spock, with his silly concept of pure logic as an ideal. ;)
Sorry, I am not saying this to hurt or insult anyone. I'm just expressing how it felt to me and others I know.
TNG on the other hand was nearly *wise*. Picard could have been the father/uncle you never had. A real leader. As opposed to Kirk.
Of course the aliens still were the complete jokes of having something glued to their faces most of the time. And they still lived in a totalitarian horror scenario world controlled by millitary. But at least they were scientists most of the time. And the stories were a big improvement. Sure, some characters were rather bad (Crusher, Yar, Pulaski, Lwaxana Troi), but the main Charakters were very great. But most of all I liked the episodes that really went beyond everything. And not those with some silly copy of a roman empire, the 50s or the like (those were horrible).
Until someone notices that it has the same effect on the lungs as asbestos. Just some orders of magnitude stronger, because it can enter the blood and cells. :P
(Ok, "until" as in "20 years, millions of deaths and billions of dollars for officials later".)
Correctly it is:
Carbon nanofibers and nanotubes could be the future of computers, cars, energy and more,
Because we do not know if we can actually solve the problems that stop us from preferring to use them until now.
Simple logic. Apparently the opposite of what simple minds use. :/
Let's go to the south pacific. I have a earthquake to provoke, and a door to open. :P