What do you mean "unfortunately"? I'm British and I love metric. Fuck imperial units. I like doing things in powers of ten. It's only a shame we can't get measuring distances in km and speeds in km/h. I for one would be happy to make that switch.
Next question: why don't we just put cameras in space probes that are designed to take colour photos? Maybe it's a dumb question but we don't have any problem with colour digital colour cameras here on Earth...
In short, Linux's enemies are making mistakes at an utterly unprecedented rate. Leadership and vision are important, but given Apple's and Microsoft's behavior of late, it will be enough for Linus to keep his eye on the ball and his mind on the needs of the end user. The future of personal and mobile computing is up for grabs to an extent that hasn't been true since the early 1980s. All he has to do is not fuck up.
Yeah, exactly. In fact I confidently predict that 2013 will be the year of the Linux desktop!
Legitimate apps come from the Google Market/Play. So this app in no way "disguises itself as a legitimate app". Not that I'm for such a closed environment, but it exists for this reason.
This isn't Apple. With Android, it's perfectly possible to have a legitimate app that is on another store from Google Play, or no store at all.
Sensationalism indeed. Small 10-30 minute Steam downtimes have happened before. Really not a big deal. Steam consistently has such absurdly good prices and (imo) a great service, that I reall don't mind if there are a few hiccups.
All the same, it does emphasize just how reliant you are on an internet connection and Steam's servers to be able to play single-player games that you "purchased". If it weren't for the paranoid copy protection, their servers going down would of course be no impediment to your playing your purchased game.
What do you mean "antiquated"? It's mature - it works well and people know how to use it. Is a car's set of controls "antiquated" because they had the same basic design in the 50s?
It's textbook physics: An electric charge near the surface of a material gets pulled toward the surface. However, if the charge is spread out into the right shape and moves fast enough, that attraction becomes a repulsion, one physicist calculates.
This finally explains so much about women's behaviour towards me.
I believe the reason for not wanting to throw exceptions unless really needed is that exceptions (and their handling) are relatively expensive and resource intensive operations. Most languages when exceptions are thrown do a lot of runtime stack analysis to, among other things, get a full stack trace.
So why don't we have lightweight exceptions yet? The benefit of handling all the error code at the end of a try/catch block, without much of the regular exception overhead?
What's so difficult about using Debian directly? For me, the worst thing is probably networking, but that's a problem with Linux in general - the whole idea of networking in Linux is based on 1) wired connections and 2) editing text files for configuration. This is a horrible nightmare in a world where we have wireless (so everything needs to operate without the assumption that the connection won't always be there) and frankly want much easier, Windows-style networking config (I know I do). NetworkManager has all sorts of problems.
I like MySQL better than SQL, Apache better than IIS, CentOS command line better than Server
Look, I like the philsophy of opensource as much as the next guy, but are you on crack?
MySQL is a festering pile of shit compared to SQL Server. At least use Postgres.
Apache's text-based configuration is extremely ugly and feels like it comes from the early 90s. IIS has a nice XML-based config with an easy-to-use GUI for configuration.
Server has a decent GUI and commandline, which I personally prefer to CentOS.
What I want to know is why the US has quarters instead of 20c coins. 25c is such a pain in the ass to work with. If you want say 83c, I personally would find it a lot easier to figure out I need 50+20+10+2+1 than 50+25+5+2+1.
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What do you mean "unfortunately"? I'm British and I love metric. Fuck imperial units. I like doing things in powers of ten. It's only a shame we can't get measuring distances in km and speeds in km/h. I for one would be happy to make that switch.
Next question: why don't we just put cameras in space probes that are designed to take colour photos? Maybe it's a dumb question but we don't have any problem with colour digital colour cameras here on Earth...
I'm not trying to be facetious, but does "ECT." mean "et cetera" or is it some other acronym? "Et cetera" should be written as follows: etc.
Which will trend to zero very rapidly. The problem, of course, is not UEFI but the Microsoft-centric architecture behind Secure Boot.
What about all the Linux servers out there? Will they have to switch over to Windows Server when it comes to replacing their hardware?
In short, Linux's enemies are making mistakes at an utterly unprecedented rate. Leadership and vision are important, but given Apple's and Microsoft's behavior of late, it will be enough for Linus to keep his eye on the ball and his mind on the needs of the end user. The future of personal and mobile computing is up for grabs to an extent that hasn't been true since the early 1980s. All he has to do is not fuck up.
Yeah, exactly. In fact I confidently predict that 2013 will be the year of the Linux desktop!
Legitimate apps come from the Google Market/Play. So this app in no way "disguises itself as a legitimate app". Not that I'm for such a closed environment, but it exists for this reason.
This isn't Apple. With Android, it's perfectly possible to have a legitimate app that is on another store from Google Play, or no store at all.
Sensationalism indeed. Small 10-30 minute Steam downtimes have happened before. Really not a big deal. Steam consistently has such absurdly good prices and (imo) a great service, that I reall don't mind if there are a few hiccups.
All the same, it does emphasize just how reliant you are on an internet connection and Steam's servers to be able to play single-player games that you "purchased". If it weren't for the paranoid copy protection, their servers going down would of course be no impediment to your playing your purchased game.
away from the antiquated desktop metaphor
What do you mean "antiquated"? It's mature - it works well and people know how to use it. Is a car's set of controls "antiquated" because they had the same basic design in the 50s?
Seems like every backward region I've ever been too has been awash in conspiracy theories, urban legends, and superstitious horseshit.
Religion is a bunch of conspiracy theories, urban legends, and superstitious horseshit.
Also, the bishops in the Lords are usually left-wing intellectuals
The ones that argue against abortion and euthanasia because God wouldn't like it?
It's textbook physics: An electric charge near the surface of a material gets pulled toward the surface. However, if the charge is spread out into the right shape and moves fast enough, that attraction becomes a repulsion, one physicist calculates.
This finally explains so much about women's behaviour towards me.
Why, because the success of Linux rides on the back of Ubuntu?
I believe the reason for not wanting to throw exceptions unless really needed is that exceptions (and their handling) are relatively expensive and resource intensive operations. Most languages when exceptions are thrown do a lot of runtime stack analysis to, among other things, get a full stack trace.
So why don't we have lightweight exceptions yet? The benefit of handling all the error code at the end of a try/catch block, without much of the regular exception overhead?
I'm not complaining, just asking a question.
Or is the Debian open philosophy just too incompatible with the idea of Linux gaming?
What's so difficult about using Debian directly? For me, the worst thing is probably networking, but that's a problem with Linux in general - the whole idea of networking in Linux is based on 1) wired connections and 2) editing text files for configuration. This is a horrible nightmare in a world where we have wireless (so everything needs to operate without the assumption that the connection won't always be there) and frankly want much easier, Windows-style networking config (I know I do). NetworkManager has all sorts of problems.
You can't get deeper, anyway.
I like MySQL better than SQL, Apache better than IIS, CentOS command line better than Server
Look, I like the philsophy of opensource as much as the next guy, but are you on crack?
MySQL is a festering pile of shit compared to SQL Server. At least use Postgres.
Apache's text-based configuration is extremely ugly and feels like it comes from the early 90s. IIS has a nice XML-based config with an easy-to-use GUI for configuration.
Server has a decent GUI and commandline, which I personally prefer to CentOS.
Confusingly, there seem to be two sites out there called "The Promo Bay". This one works: http://thepromobay.co.uk/ [thepromobay.co.uk]
This one, for me, is blocked: http://promobay.org/ [promobay.org]
The latter is the one we're talking about, I think.
Confusingly, there seem to be two sites out there called "The Promo Bay". This one works: http://thepromobay.co.uk/
This one, for me, is blocked: http://promobay.org/
And you can attach files to your issues in the issue tracker (amazingly you can't on Github).
But Slashdot doesn't talk about "Chrome 23"...
HiDPI on Linux is a work-in-progress .. and even when it *does* work, battery life goes down the crapper.
What battery?
Isn't that just because you're used to working with almost-worthless notes like $1?
What I want to know is why the US has quarters instead of 20c coins. 25c is such a pain in the ass to work with. If you want say 83c, I personally would find it a lot easier to figure out I need 50+20+10+2+1 than 50+25+5+2+1.