Do they? I've got a PS3 and I've got a couple of friends who have them - we all agree that PSN is a waste of time and money and don't use it. I'd make a guestimate that the number of PS3 owners who use PSN - especially on any regular basis - is a small minority.
Real evil is children being massacred in tribal wars, real evil is people being tortured in prison cells. Real evil is NOT a company trying to protect its profits no matter how much you dislike it.
A PS3 is hardly a critical item to 21st century life. If you didn't like the way SOny played ball you shouldn't have bought one - vote with your wallet. I get tired of kids whining about how unfair it is that they can't do [some hacker thing] with [insert name of expensive consumer kit here]. Life is unfair - deal. That doesn't make it evil.
No doubt you'd be the first to complain when the network ground to a halt because idiots had installed a bots on their phones. While spam etc is a nuisance for an ISP it could be terminal for a phone company network with physically limited radio bandwidth. You need to get a clue.
True. Seems a waste of effort though. Most Windows users won't have heard of KDE and most people who want KDE will be running Linux or BSD anyway. Still, its their time to waste as they see fit.
The Windows Shell/GUI is perfectly servicable. It isn't the shell thats the cause of Windows problems , its IE and the boiling morass of poorly written and tested code underneath it making up the core OS services that causes 99% of the problems.
This was years ago , the last version I used was 6.0. Thats the point at which I gave up. Perhaps they have fixed it now but I simply can't be bothered to check anymore.
Unsurprisingly the fanbois have modden your down but I agree. I gave up on FreeBSD when I got fed up with reporting the bug that would crash the whole OS if someone accidently unplugged a mounted filesystem which was being used - eg floppy disk, USB stick. If they can't get basic stuff like that right what chance is there for the more complicated subsystems? I'll stick with Linux.
Sure, you might get a few hackers who do it for curiousity to a few numbers with a few types of phones, but eventually they'll get bored and move on to something else. Unless its easy to create binaries that can do something useful to a crim and its easy to send these binaries to ALL types of phones fast then criminal hacker types are unlikely to get involved since its far easier to earn money screwing around with PCs.
... so even if he had been facing it it wouldn't have been nearly as bright to his eyes as it was on the camera. In fact it might have been too dim to see at all with the naked eye.
So is a framebuffer a requirement now for running X or can it still run standalone with its own drivers? I can't help thinking that putting graphics drivers in the kernel is a bad idea given how flaky they can be.
If you're not willing to listen to anyone who's not a kernel dev then you're missing out on a lot of useful feedback. As well as being an arrogrant twat.
All the kernel needs to do is run text console mode so why does it contain graphics drivers? Why arn't they just shipped with X windows as they were in the past? (This is a genuine question , I've not kept up with how linux handles graphics for years now)
Even homicidal dictators need some small reason to do what they do. Mugabe has just been handed one on a plate by Wikileaks and its kiddy followers. Anyone with half a brain and an understanding of human nature can see that. Unfortunately an understanding of human nature isn't something apsergers types like Assange and his equally socially inept cheerleaders have.
If its a comp sci class banning computers might be problematic!
Seriously , when people use computers they tend to be distracted. Children especially so. Which means they don't learn so much. So IMO they should be used sparingly and not just be an easy crutch for teacher who can read the paper while the kids "work" on the PCs.
Sorry , I think you're overegging it a bit. Casting makes up a very small part of any program and I'm not convinced it makes a huge amount of difference to optimisation analysis these days anyway.
"While "right tool for the job" is a nice sentiment, it is actually one of the easiest things to say for those that know close to nothing and actually have very little knowledge of the available tools"
Either you're a piss poor troll or you're full of a boatload of arrogant crap.
"quite a bit of real world programming done in Lisp"
Compared to languages like C++, C#, Java, Cobol etc the amount of real world coding done in lisp doesn't even register. I'd suggest you take a tour into the real world occasionally. In the meantime I think the lift back up to your ivory tower is waiting...
"JAVA can be optimized to have speed within an order of magnitude of c for many applications "
Total bullshit. It might be slightly faster on the odd occasion when the JIT compiler spots a runtime optimisation that a standard optimising C compiler wouldn't spot at compile time but generally thats not the case. As for 10 times faster? Puhleease.
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It was the result of corner cutting and cost saving. They didn't decide one day to blow up their own oil rig and kill those men. THAT would be evil.
If you don't know the difference between selfish behaviour and evil then you need to see a shrink because you could be a borderline psychopath.
So a child nicking a comic from a newagent is "evil"? Don't be absurd.
"the word is somehow magically reserved for only acts that register on the very peak of malevolence. It's not. "
Yes, it is.
"The problem is that most users *do* use PSN "
Do they? I've got a PS3 and I've got a couple of friends who have them - we all agree that PSN is a waste of time and money and don't use it. I'd make a guestimate that the number of PS3 owners who use PSN - especially on any regular basis - is a small minority.
Real evil is children being massacred in tribal wars, real evil is people being tortured in prison cells. Real evil is NOT a company trying to protect its profits no matter how much you dislike it.
A PS3 is hardly a critical item to 21st century life. If you didn't like the way SOny played ball you shouldn't have bought one - vote with your wallet. I get tired of kids whining about how unfair it is that they can't do [some hacker thing] with [insert name of expensive consumer kit here]. Life is unfair - deal. That doesn't make it evil.
No doubt you'd be the first to complain when the network ground to a halt because idiots had installed a bots on their phones. While spam etc is a nuisance for an ISP it could be terminal for a phone company network with physically limited radio bandwidth. You need to get a clue.
"1) Citation needed. Children of single mothers/lesbian parents/work-away-from-home fathers develop perfectly normally."
Citation needed.
True. Seems a waste of effort though. Most Windows users won't have heard of KDE and most people who want KDE will be running Linux or BSD anyway. Still, its their time to waste as they see fit.
The Windows Shell/GUI is perfectly servicable. It isn't the shell thats the cause of Windows problems , its IE and the boiling morass of poorly written and tested code underneath it making up the core OS services that causes 99% of the problems.
This was years ago , the last version I used was 6.0. Thats the point at which I gave up. Perhaps they have fixed it now but I simply can't be bothered to check anymore.
Unsurprisingly the fanbois have modden your down but I agree. I gave up on FreeBSD when I got fed up with reporting the bug that would crash the whole OS if someone accidently unplugged a mounted filesystem which was being used - eg floppy disk, USB stick. If they can't get basic stuff like that right what chance is there for the more complicated subsystems? I'll stick with Linux.
Sure, you might get a few hackers who do it for curiousity to a few numbers with a few types of phones, but eventually they'll get bored and move on to something else. Unless its easy to create binaries that can do something useful to a crim and its easy to send these binaries to ALL types of phones fast then criminal hacker types are unlikely to get involved since its far easier to earn money screwing around with PCs.
Oops - my bad. Imagination intensifiers, that would be cool! :)
Except it wasn't just stargazing was it. It was essentially astronomy and cosmology with al fresco theme.
... so even if he had been facing it it wouldn't have been nearly as bright to his eyes as it was on the camera. In fact it might have been too dim to see at all with the naked eye.
So is a framebuffer a requirement now for running X or can it still run standalone with its own drivers? I can't help thinking that putting graphics drivers in the kernel is a bad idea given how flaky they can be.
If you're not willing to listen to anyone who's not a kernel dev then you're missing out on a lot of useful feedback. As well as being an arrogrant twat.
All the kernel needs to do is run text console mode so why does it contain graphics drivers? Why arn't they just shipped with X windows as they were in the past? (This is a genuine question , I've not kept up with how linux handles graphics for years now)
Even homicidal dictators need some small reason to do what they do. Mugabe has just been handed one on a plate by Wikileaks and its kiddy followers. Anyone with half a brain and an understanding of human nature can see that. Unfortunately an understanding of human nature isn't something apsergers types like Assange and his equally socially inept cheerleaders have.
If its a comp sci class banning computers might be problematic!
Seriously , when people use computers they tend to be distracted. Children especially so. Which means they don't learn so much. So IMO they should be used sparingly and not just be an easy crutch for teacher who can read the paper while the kids "work" on the PCs.
Sorry , I think you're overegging it a bit. Casting makes up a very small part of any program and I'm not convinced it makes a huge amount of difference to optimisation analysis these days anyway.
Agreed. The Anti BASIC argument is nothing more than unsubstantiated group-think that allows arrogrant language snobs to have a good laugh together.
"While "right tool for the job" is a nice sentiment, it is actually one of the easiest things to say for those that know close to nothing and actually have very little knowledge of the available tools"
Either you're a piss poor troll or you're full of a boatload of arrogant crap.
"quite a bit of real world programming done in Lisp"
Compared to languages like C++, C#, Java, Cobol etc the amount of real world coding done in lisp doesn't even register. I'd suggest you take a tour into the real world occasionally. In the meantime I think the lift back up to your ivory tower is waiting...
The aliasing is no different to what you'd do in an equivalent assembler program. Thats why C allows it.
"JAVA can be optimized to have speed within an order of magnitude of c for many applications "
Total bullshit. It might be slightly faster on the odd occasion when the JIT compiler spots a runtime optimisation that a standard optimising C compiler wouldn't spot at compile time but generally thats not the case. As for 10 times faster? Puhleease.