You save $500 on hardware but spend $500 on Microsoft Visual Studio Pro. So its a wash. However when you consider that the hardware lets you dual boot Mac OS X or Microsoft Windows the Mac seems like a win. Especially when you consider Mac OS X offers you a really nice Unix environment if one is so inclined.
I do? You mean I'm not supposed to download it from my work MSDN account for my personal use?:P
I have a first gen PS3, too, and at least one game (you know, the reason to buy a game system and not a Blu-Ray player) has issues: Castlevania: Lords of Shadow. For whatever reason, it has graphical glitches and sometimes the screen flashes.
It's the only game I've noticed graphical glitches in, and said game was just a cheap rip-off of God of War anyway... needless to say, I never bothered finishing it.
Equitable and promissory estoppel: Sun helped project Harmony and was deeply involved in it's creation,
Reference?
Do I even need to point out that Apache claims Harmony is a clean-room implementation of Java, and if Sun worked on it at all that would be a complete and total lie?
Not to mention that Sun released OpenJDK a year or two after the Harmony project started.
While the source for those libraries was eventually released by Sun, it's not clear to me what license applies to the library source, and it's definitely not clear that the source was released before Google's work on Android. The issue may be water under the bridge as Sun did open source the vast majority of Java, but it kind of flies in the face of "clean room" claims.
How is it not clear? Download OpenJDK from the OpenJDK site and read the License file.
Here's a spoiler: It's mainly GPLv2, although there are apparently still some binary blobs out there with proprietary licenses, plus some parts have the Classpath exception.
However, it's a moot point as Google uses Apache Harmony's class library, not OpenJDK, meaning that this license wouldn't apply.
Likewise, Google claiming they made a cleanroom implementation is moot, as it'd be Apache Harmony's people who would need to claim that.
Anyway I can see this statement working better - should get TF3 for free, because of past behavior in TF2 - that makes much more sense.
Even ignoring the fact that Valve can't count to 3, I can't see TF3 coming out anytime soon... some people have invested a lot of money into their virtual items in TF2.
I suspect Valve will continue updating TF2 with new things and new game engine versions until people finally stop paying them for in-game items, or it drops below a certain threshold.
Yes, an furthermore $100 wasn't exactly a figure plucked out of the air... it's the cost of the "Something Special for Someone Special" item in the TF2 store, which when purchased, sends out a message to all players currently playing TF2 that "[Person A] has given a [Renamed Thing] to [Person B]. Congratulations!"
Needless to say, this item is used by jerks with various messages. For $100 a pop.
Did I mention the item's other use is a barely-visible cosmetic item in the game?
Among other things, iPods had the most usable and intuitive interfaces. They have been copied but still not equalled.
And then they cripple it by making it depend on iTunes, a program that has arguably one of the worst interfaces in the history of GUIs, with several past versions appearing in bad UI galleries of the time.
iTunes is the number one reason I don't own an iPod. Not because it's an Apple product, but because iTunes is the worst program I've ever had the displeasure of using.
It always seems to for me, at least in Firefox 11 on Windows XP at work. Lets try it on Google Chrome on Windows 7. Keeping in mind that I'm from the U.S. and don't have a key for it on my keyboard:
Typing alt-156: £ Pasting it from other websites: £ Pasting it from Windows Character Map: £
While it could have been worded better, Java scripts clearly has a space in the middle, meaning that the language being referred to is Java, not JavaScript.
And she lost her eyesight later in life? I've tried closing my eyes and writing a sentence, it's almost impossible to read, and the characters tend to get larger as I go.
I just tried it. My biggest problem was the spacing between words, followed by the fact that I apparently started writing at an angle after the first word, so it doesn't follow the line on my paper.
Oh good! So people in the UK don't drink booze, want cool new squad cars and they don't go to Hawaii?
Sure they do, but they spend pounds rather than dollars. I'd use the currency symbols if/. didn't have its webserver claim to support utf-8 even though it doesn't (and it mangles the pound currency symbol).
Does windows calculator really do that? It doesn't look plausible. sqrt(4) is exactly representable in all common floating point formats so there is no reason why it shouldn't get the exact answer 2.0. But even if there is a rounding problem, there are around 16 decimal places available in a 64-bit floating point number so the result of sqrt(4), if it is different from 2.0, it MUST differ by at least O(1E-16). Not even a 128-bit floating point format would have 39 significant digits!
Yes, Windows Calculator does that. I actually tried it on my Windows XP Professional computer at work and copied the results to my clipboard and pasted it into my post.
Here, I'll try it on my home Windows 7 Professional 64-bit computer... it gives me -1.068281969439142e-19.
Only if we can use that as windows excuse as to why a unprotected windows box will get 629 viruses and trojans a day.
Please provide reference to a recent study that a windows 7 box with default install will get "629 viruses and trojans a day" - Or did you mean a windows 95 box?
Please provide reference to a recent study that a windows 7 box with default install will not.
The one making the accusation is the one that needs to provide the evidence.
the process of keeping updated is more dummy-proof... dummy users are safer on Macs.
It is? Last time I checked, the default update mode for Windows will install updates the next time your shut down your computer after Windows detects an update has been released.
This is a bit different in a corporate setting, but I assumed you meant for home users.
Well, FF is up to 11, Chrome, on the other hand, has been under development for far less time than FF and is up to 18 or something. So, I find it really bizarre that anyone would use FF version numbering scheme as a downside vis-a-vis Chrome.
Firefox gets in your face every time it updates, and only recently stopped constantly telling you that some of your plugins wouldn't work with the latest version.
Chrome doesn't have, and never has had, either of these problems.
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And it will still be illegal to create the crack, since Diablo III will presumably still be under copyright by the time Blizzard pulls the plug.
Er... the interoperability clause is part of copyright law, so no, it wouldn't be illegal at that point.
You save $500 on hardware but spend $500 on Microsoft Visual Studio Pro. So its a wash. However when you consider that the hardware lets you dual boot Mac OS X or Microsoft Windows the Mac seems like a win. Especially when you consider Mac OS X offers you a really nice Unix environment if one is so inclined.
I do? You mean I'm not supposed to download it from my work MSDN account for my personal use? :P
Oh, and my PS3 is a first generation. Has never had a RROD, never broken, played BlueRay and DVDs without issues
It's YLOD for PS3 (Yellow Light of Death).
I have a first gen PS3, too, and at least one game (you know, the reason to buy a game system and not a Blu-Ray player) has issues: Castlevania: Lords of Shadow. For whatever reason, it has graphical glitches and sometimes the screen flashes.
It's the only game I've noticed graphical glitches in, and said game was just a cheap rip-off of God of War anyway... needless to say, I never bothered finishing it.
The 360 has no big exclusives.
Halo 3, Halo: ODST, Halo 4, Gears of War 1, 2, and 3, etc...
Those are just the ones off the top of my head.
Equitable and promissory estoppel: Sun helped project Harmony and was deeply involved in it's creation,
Reference?
Do I even need to point out that Apache claims Harmony is a clean-room implementation of Java, and if Sun worked on it at all that would be a complete and total lie?
Not to mention that Sun released OpenJDK a year or two after the Harmony project started.
While the source for those libraries was eventually released by Sun, it's not clear to me what license applies to the library source, and it's definitely not clear that the source was released before Google's work on Android. The issue may be water under the bridge as Sun did open source the vast majority of Java, but it kind of flies in the face of "clean room" claims.
How is it not clear? Download OpenJDK from the OpenJDK site and read the License file.
Here's a spoiler: It's mainly GPLv2, although there are apparently still some binary blobs out there with proprietary licenses, plus some parts have the Classpath exception.
However, it's a moot point as Google uses Apache Harmony's class library, not OpenJDK, meaning that this license wouldn't apply.
Likewise, Google claiming they made a cleanroom implementation is moot, as it'd be Apache Harmony's people who would need to claim that.
Firefox is still the only browser I can open a 100 tabs
Whenever I see someone mention 100 tabs, I wonder exactly wtf they're doing.
You know, these things called bookmarks make it so you don't have to have every page you (in)frequently visit open all the time.
And what is 0/0?
Valve will patch that bug. Eventually.
Anyway I can see this statement working better - should get TF3 for free, because of past behavior in TF2 - that makes much more sense.
Even ignoring the fact that Valve can't count to 3, I can't see TF3 coming out anytime soon... some people have invested a lot of money into their virtual items in TF2.
I suspect Valve will continue updating TF2 with new things and new game engine versions until people finally stop paying them for in-game items, or it drops below a certain threshold.
How it works is this:
If you've played TF2:
(Medic hours + Soldier hours + Heavy hours) / (Spy hours + Sniper hours + Pyro hours). The higher the number, the less you pay.
Yes, an furthermore $100 wasn't exactly a figure plucked out of the air... it's the cost of the "Something Special for Someone Special" item in the TF2 store, which when purchased, sends out a message to all players currently playing TF2 that "[Person A] has given a [Renamed Thing] to [Person B]. Congratulations!"
Needless to say, this item is used by jerks with various messages. For $100 a pop.
Did I mention the item's other use is a barely-visible cosmetic item in the game?
Yes, with voiceovers turned off.
You played it... without Dominic Armato and Earl Beon? Why?!
Among other things, iPods had the most usable and intuitive interfaces. They have been copied but still not equalled.
And then they cripple it by making it depend on iTunes, a program that has arguably one of the worst interfaces in the history of GUIs, with several past versions appearing in bad UI galleries of the time.
iTunes is the number one reason I don't own an iPod. Not because it's an Apple product, but because iTunes is the worst program I've ever had the displeasure of using.
It always seems to for me, at least in Firefox 11 on Windows XP at work. Lets try it on Google Chrome on Windows 7. Keeping in mind that I'm from the U.S. and don't have a key for it on my keyboard:
Typing alt-156: £
Pasting it from other websites: £
Pasting it from Windows Character Map: £
While it could have been worded better, Java scripts clearly has a space in the middle, meaning that the language being referred to is Java, not JavaScript.
They should have said Java Applets, though.
And she lost her eyesight later in life? I've tried closing my eyes and writing a sentence, it's almost impossible to read, and the characters tend to get larger as I go.
I just tried it. My biggest problem was the spacing between words, followed by the fact that I apparently started writing at an angle after the first word, so it doesn't follow the line on my paper.
...subject says it all.
And this is in the UK, dumbass, not the US.
Oh good! So people in the UK don't drink booze, want cool new squad cars and they don't go to Hawaii?
Sure they do, but they spend pounds rather than dollars. I'd use the currency symbols if /. didn't have its webserver claim to support utf-8 even though it doesn't (and it mangles the pound currency symbol).
Are they going to call it Spynet?
Close, but no. They're calling it "Skynet."
Does windows calculator really do that? It doesn't look plausible. sqrt(4) is exactly representable in all common floating point formats so there is no reason why it shouldn't get the exact answer 2.0. But even if there is a rounding problem, there are around 16 decimal places available in a 64-bit floating point number so the result of sqrt(4), if it is different from 2.0, it MUST differ by at least O(1E-16). Not even a 128-bit floating point format would have 39 significant digits!
Yes, Windows Calculator does that. I actually tried it on my Windows XP Professional computer at work and copied the results to my clipboard and pasted it into my post.
Here, I'll try it on my home Windows 7 Professional 64-bit computer... it gives me -1.068281969439142e-19.
I guess you don't use Windows Calculator?
No, because I prefer that the (square root of 4) minus 2 to equal 0, not -8.1648465955514287168521180122928e-39
Only if we can use that as windows excuse as to why a unprotected windows box will get 629 viruses and trojans a day.
Please provide reference to a recent study that a windows 7 box with default install will get "629 viruses and trojans a day" - Or did you mean a windows 95 box?
Please provide reference to a recent study that a windows 7 box with default install will not.
The one making the accusation is the one that needs to provide the evidence.
where every user was the equivalent of root at all times,
2006 called. It wants its argument back.
You know that UAC thing people who use Windows like to complain about?
the process of keeping updated is more dummy-proof... dummy users are safer on Macs.
It is? Last time I checked, the default update mode for Windows will install updates the next time your shut down your computer after Windows detects an update has been released.
This is a bit different in a corporate setting, but I assumed you meant for home users.
Well, FF is up to 11, Chrome, on the other hand, has been under development for far less time than FF and is up to 18 or something. So, I find it really bizarre that anyone would use FF version numbering scheme as a downside vis-a-vis Chrome.
Firefox gets in your face every time it updates, and only recently stopped constantly telling you that some of your plugins wouldn't work with the latest version.
Chrome doesn't have, and never has had, either of these problems.
Why was Minecraft designed for Java anyways?
As Maslow once said:
Replace "hammer" with "Java JDK" and "nail" with "Java Program."