Nothing against the poster, but I'd have modded it funny maybe. I mean I'm assuming the convenience and availability is the reason we down-graded our fidelity expectations. But it doesn't take an audio elitist to want their CD rips in, well CD quality.
When bandwidth was sparse and hard drives expensive this made sense. Then we've had to deal with the recording industry and their technophobia and related protectionism and lawsuits. But I really hope at the end of the day we aren't stuck with arbitrarily lower audio quality. Sound quality, like the related technology, should be increasing.
It's indicative of an overall philosophy in the OSS community. A philosophy that in the long run *will* impact companies like Microsoft if they continue their current course. Consumers might not be aware of the details regarding software performance, but they aren't stupid.
For all the talk about ROR's questionable scalability I'm personally interested to hear what people do consider a highly scalable framework? The company I work for uses Fusebox (we are weening our application code off Coldfusion) and are likely going to move to Zend's framework. But I'm looking at working on a personal project and would like a framework that balances accessibility (I'm a fairly new to PHP, I do systems work) with scalability.
I started doing my own research this week so I was excited to see the ROR discussion and hoped it might be enlightening. I know the BBC uses Ruby on Rails at least internally (and apparently a custom Rails-like Perl MVC externally?) and the community support for ROR is excellent (I've been reviewing documentation to help narrow my decision).
Since from what I've read the Zend Framework isn't as accessible (and the documentation seems a bit more high-level) I've been mainly reading about Ruby on Rails, CakePHP, Django, Code Igniter and most recently Symfony.
If Ruby on Rails isn't considered particularly scalable, what is?
Slimy business practices killed them. Even my non-technical friends know that a restocking fee is bullshit and they hired some of the dumbest people (maybe more recently) that I've ever had the displeasure of interacting with.
I'll worry when they start using some of that $6 billion to offer ISP's useful hardware that happens to contain robust filter features. But aside from offering cost without an incentive I think "what's in it for me" would be a appropriate response from most ISPs (moral and privacy issues not withstanding).
How would not controlling your production environment not be a quality control issue? I'm FORD. I create a car and crash test it. At the last minute an engineer removes all the windows and doors and we send it out like that. I throw up my hands.
People claiming it "bricks" their machine are just trying to spread the FUD as its VERY easy to fix with your xp cd
It's fine to be technical, but stupid to assume every is technical. A lot of people don't even know what a boot disk it and any patch that might cause your system to become unbootable is really unacceptable.
Whether you like the game or not any developers would deserve a little backlash for releasing something like this.
this administration is the perfect example of why those lazy motherfuckers with the "my vote doesn't count anyway" placard adhered to their rear-ends are wrong. That this can happen today can only be explained, in part, with our well-meaning apathy. We vote, even if we vote poorly, so the politicians will fear us at least enough to listen. Even if we have to be inconvenienced once in a while.
The road to oppression is paved with indifference.
Unfortunately for them, there is no way to recoup money on the loss leader Zune as there is on the X Box (i.e. games sales and subscription play services).
The recoup part would come after they've established some kind of market share (or ideally lead) and can adjust the production costs or device price appropriately.
politics. I think that's why people don't 'support' scientists. Blue-collar workers are often less affluent and not as highly educated. Unfortunately, that makes a scientists best hope for support, well...other scientists. Which is a shame because a lot of the trouble science is having effects us much more broadly and supporting science is really a way to support ourselves.
Violent people seen as a threat. It seems like every time a relatively new technology comes out first we praise it for its pending betterment of humanity then we blame it for our violence and demonize it.
Play throughout the animal kingdom is basically simulation training. We play to unintentionally practice skills.
I'll postulate: aggressive people tend to engage in somewhat more aggressive activity. Study a group of individuals who engage in competitive games and you'll find a correlation between aggressive behavior.
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Nothing against the poster, but I'd have modded it funny maybe. I mean I'm assuming the convenience and availability is the reason we down-graded our fidelity expectations. But it doesn't take an audio elitist to want their CD rips in, well CD quality.
When bandwidth was sparse and hard drives expensive this made sense. Then we've had to deal with the recording industry and their technophobia and related protectionism and lawsuits. But I really hope at the end of the day we aren't stuck with arbitrarily lower audio quality. Sound quality, like the related technology, should be increasing.
I don't need drugs.
Is your peers and potential employers can see your work.
Sed would be as fun because you have to redirect the buffer yourself. Same goes for using perl (in the example). Funny though.
It's indicative of an overall philosophy in the OSS community. A philosophy that in the long run *will* impact companies like Microsoft if they continue their current course. Consumers might not be aware of the details regarding software performance, but they aren't stupid.
That's why I love being part of the Linux community. Say what you will about us, but we've got some creative thinking!
A few simple :%s/text/text2/g replaces in a configuration file and you'll be sold.
For all the talk about ROR's questionable scalability I'm personally interested to hear what people do consider a highly scalable framework? The company I work for uses Fusebox (we are weening our application code off Coldfusion) and are likely going to move to Zend's framework. But I'm looking at working on a personal project and would like a framework that balances accessibility (I'm a fairly new to PHP, I do systems work) with scalability.
I started doing my own research this week so I was excited to see the ROR discussion and hoped it might be enlightening. I know the BBC uses Ruby on Rails at least internally (and apparently a custom Rails-like Perl MVC externally?) and the community support for ROR is excellent (I've been reviewing documentation to help narrow my decision).
Since from what I've read the Zend Framework isn't as accessible (and the documentation seems a bit more high-level) I've been mainly reading about Ruby on Rails, CakePHP, Django, Code Igniter and most recently Symfony.
If Ruby on Rails isn't considered particularly scalable, what is?
Slimy business practices killed them. Even my non-technical friends know that a restocking fee is bullshit and they hired some of the dumbest people (maybe more recently) that I've ever had the displeasure of interacting with.
Good riddance.
I think you mean this video.
For one thing, this won't do anything for bullets (or ninjas).
Why just go halfway?
I'll worry when they start using some of that $6 billion to offer ISP's useful hardware that happens to contain robust filter features. But aside from offering cost without an incentive I think "what's in it for me" would be a appropriate response from most ISPs (moral and privacy issues not withstanding).
How would not controlling your production environment not be a quality control issue? I'm FORD. I create a car and crash test it. At the last minute an engineer removes all the windows and doors and we send it out like that. I throw up my hands.
Whether you like the game or not any developers would deserve a little backlash for releasing something like this.
this administration is the perfect example of why those lazy motherfuckers with the "my vote doesn't count anyway" placard adhered to their rear-ends are wrong. That this can happen today can only be explained, in part, with our well-meaning apathy. We vote, even if we vote poorly, so the politicians will fear us at least enough to listen. Even if we have to be inconvenienced once in a while.
The road to oppression is paved with indifference.
Unfortunately for them, there is no way to recoup money on the loss leader Zune as there is on the X Box (i.e. games sales and subscription play services). The recoup part would come after they've established some kind of market share (or ideally lead) and can adjust the production costs or device price appropriately.
I was kind of thinking that too. CNET on the other hand gets some props.
politics. I think that's why people don't 'support' scientists. Blue-collar workers are often less affluent and not as highly educated. Unfortunately, that makes a scientists best hope for support, well...other scientists. Which is a shame because a lot of the trouble science is having effects us much more broadly and supporting science is really a way to support ourselves.
Violent people seen as a threat. It seems like every time a relatively new technology comes out first we praise it for its pending betterment of humanity then we blame it for our violence and demonize it.
The French are always worried about reasons to be proud of their country. Look at the Americans, you don't see us worrying.
I just mentally file it under humor and enjoy the ride.
could we stop saying asinine things like "Linux isn't ready for..." the variant here was gOS and then Ubuntu. Linux is (still) the kernel.