Poorly written version detection is why Windows 7 self-identifies as 6.1
Turns out that 6.0 (and 7.0) fail the old if (majorVer >= 5 && minorVer >= 1) idiocy that places were using to check if you were running XP instead of Win2K.
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I don't have any social features in my firefox. What?
I've considered making a game where in the background it operated a bitcoin mining operation for myself like a zombie botnet. I'm sure the idea isn't original at all.
If you'd read the article, you'd have noticed that ESEA beat you to that idea.
Either I'm really good at tuning out the ads or you're just really bad at it. While my preferred gaming platform is PC, I still use my PS3 and 360 and don't feel they're overburdened with ads any more than Steam or the likes. If anything it seems worse on PC.
Steam's ads only appear when you visit the Store page or exit a game for the first time after starting Steam. The exit game ads can be disabled in Steam's settings. Incidentally, these ads are limited to new games, recently updated games, and sale items.
PS3's ads are little scrolling text messages in the upper-right corner of the system's main menu.Incidentally, these ads are limited to new games, recently updated games, sale items, and PSPlus price reductions.
The Xbox 360's ads are a set of 6 or so ads taking up 3/4 of the screen area after you turn the system on. And this is the same for every single tab in the UI with the exception of the Bing search tab. Incidentally, these ads are for new games, new DLC, Xbox Live Gold, and the other 3 are for whomever is paying Microsoft the most money today.
So yeah, the 360 has a lot more advertising on it and irritating advertising at that.
Pepper Flash may not be working due to an issue with the 11.6 Flash releases. At least Flash 11.6 has problems with Amazon video on Windows, I just assume it's a multi-platform problem.
The people at AMD who did this, an unquestionably biggest AMD's achievement to date, they should be rehired and given executive positions.
Their second biggest was outdoing Intel with the first Athlon chips. As I recall, AMD had the performance advantage over Intel for several years starting in 1999, possibly even until Intel released the Core 2 in 2006.
That's from the current Java release trying to load Oracle's Java detection applet. And before you ask, I'm required to have Java installed for work because one of our apps relies on an applet.
They are both politicians. Do they really have different opinions or do they just say that they do? Just asking, I'm not familiar with U.S. politics but I assume that the "representatives" are pretty much like everywhere else.
It makes a difference as to who can vote him out of office.
For instance, it's people where I live rather than people in Alabama.
"Oh, so you now think that the economics of your use of some prime RF spectrum allocations are unsustainable? Good to know, we've got people who are substantially more optimistic about their ideas and would love to have access to it(any of the 'whitespace' networking technologies, for instance, would work substantially better, and be much easier to set up, if there were some dead channels that assured the existence of whitespace...)"
Last I checked, the bandwidth used by television channels is reused by other stations in different areas. The US government also reduced the size of the TV spectrum by 108MHz during the digital television transition in 2009 and auctioned it off.
It's just Struts 1 that is being EOLed. Given that Struts 2 was 6 years old in February, developers had plenty of time to switch to Struts 2. The current release is 2.3.12.
I have an idea, why doesn't the United States do what they did with movies and put ratings on every video game, and then refuse to sell ones aimed at adults to children?
Interesting. I guess I never realized that the PS3 controllers had this capability because I never played anything that apparently used this and also because there was no indication on the controller that they had analog button functions. I remember the old conrollers had that button that actually said, "ANALOG" on it, so there was no mistaking there.
That Analog button actually refers to the analog sticks rather than analog face buttons.
When the PS1 came out, its controllers didn't have analog sticks. They were added a few years into the console's lifetime with the introduction of the Dual Analog controllers (which was replaced the next year by the more well known DualShock controllers). Unfortunately, this means that older games don't support analog sticks, so you could press the Analog button to turn them off. Newer PS1 games supported both analog sticks and the D-pad; the Analog button would switch control schemes.
The DualShock 2 (shipped with the PS2) added analog face buttons as well. All PS2 games had the Analog function always turned on; it was included only for PS1 game support.
YEAH, SC2 has micro transactions and monthly fees, AMIRITE?!
You do realize that "impacted by a means to make money after the initial ($60!) sale" also includes expansion packs? One of which is coming out for $40 in two weeks?
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I'm sorry, after 15 years of Microsoft, instead of another forced upgrade
Fun fact: Windows XP has been around for 12 of those 15 years and is still supported until April next year.
Poorly written version detection is why Windows 7 self-identifies as 6.1
Turns out that 6.0 (and 7.0) fail the old
if (majorVer >= 5 && minorVer >= 1)
idiocy that places were using to check if you were running XP instead of Win2K.
I don't have any social features in my firefox. What?
The Firefox release notes say you're wrong.
I've considered making a game where in the background it operated a bitcoin mining operation for myself like a zombie botnet. I'm sure the idea isn't original at all.
If you'd read the article, you'd have noticed that ESEA beat you to that idea.
How many new games are still compatible with the original iPad?
all of them
Wrong answer.
Either I'm really good at tuning out the ads or you're just really bad at it. While my preferred gaming platform is PC, I still use my PS3 and 360 and don't feel they're overburdened with ads any more than Steam or the likes. If anything it seems worse on PC.
Steam's ads only appear when you visit the Store page or exit a game for the first time after starting Steam. The exit game ads can be disabled in Steam's settings. Incidentally, these ads are limited to new games, recently updated games, and sale items.
PS3's ads are little scrolling text messages in the upper-right corner of the system's main menu.Incidentally, these ads are limited to new games, recently updated games, sale items, and PSPlus price reductions.
The Xbox 360's ads are a set of 6 or so ads taking up 3/4 of the screen area after you turn the system on. And this is the same for every single tab in the UI with the exception of the Bing search tab. Incidentally, these ads are for new games, new DLC, Xbox Live Gold, and the other 3 are for whomever is paying Microsoft the most money today.
So yeah, the 360 has a lot more advertising on it and irritating advertising at that.
Erm, you're talking about the people who sold the open source MySQL to Sun for $1BN... They know there's money in open source databases....
The face that they sold it then turned around and started a direct competitor using its own source code could potentially land them in hot water.
Pepper Flash may not be working due to an issue with the 11.6 Flash releases. At least Flash 11.6 has problems with Amazon video on Windows, I just assume it's a multi-platform problem.
The people at AMD who did this, an unquestionably biggest AMD's achievement to date, they should be rehired and given executive positions.
Their second biggest was outdoing Intel with the first Athlon chips. As I recall, AMD had the performance advantage over Intel for several years starting in 1999, possibly even until Intel released the Core 2 in 2006.
You mean, like this window?
That's from the current Java release trying to load Oracle's Java detection applet. And before you ask, I'm required to have Java installed for work because one of our apps relies on an applet.
The Java Dev site has an installer without stupid addon crap.
They are both politicians. Do they really have different opinions or do they just say that they do?
Just asking, I'm not familiar with U.S. politics but I assume that the "representatives" are pretty much like everywhere else.
It makes a difference as to who can vote him out of office.
For instance, it's people where I live rather than people in Alabama.
Granted, I've already been voting against him...
No, the title of the action is Motorola Mobility, Inc. v. Apple Inc. (warning: PDF), case 1:12-cv-20271-WJZ
"Oh, so you now think that the economics of your use of some prime RF spectrum allocations are unsustainable? Good to know, we've got people who are substantially more optimistic about their ideas and would love to have access to it(any of the 'whitespace' networking technologies, for instance, would work substantially better, and be much easier to set up, if there were some dead channels that assured the existence of whitespace...)"
Last I checked, the bandwidth used by television channels is reused by other stations in different areas. The US government also reduced the size of the TV spectrum by 108MHz during the digital television transition in 2009 and auctioned it off.
What transactional application framework would you use today (April 2013) for your web-scale application,
For Java, the big one these days seems to be Spring.
It's just Struts 1 that is being EOLed. Given that Struts 2 was 6 years old in February, developers had plenty of time to switch to Struts 2. The current release is 2.3.12.
I have an idea, why doesn't the United States do what they did with movies and put ratings on every video game, and then refuse to sell ones aimed at adults to children?
Oh wait, they already did that.
Which means it's going to be even further from base Debian. Which emphasizes OP's point, wtf is wrong with Debian?
Debian Stable is over two years old at the moment and tends to be outdated even when it is brand new.
Interesting. I guess I never realized that the PS3 controllers had this capability because I never played anything that apparently used this and also because there was no indication on the controller that they had analog button functions. I remember the old conrollers had that button that actually said, "ANALOG" on it, so there was no mistaking there.
That Analog button actually refers to the analog sticks rather than analog face buttons.
When the PS1 came out, its controllers didn't have analog sticks. They were added a few years into the console's lifetime with the introduction of the Dual Analog controllers (which was replaced the next year by the more well known DualShock controllers). Unfortunately, this means that older games don't support analog sticks, so you could press the Analog button to turn them off. Newer PS1 games supported both analog sticks and the D-pad; the Analog button would switch control schemes.
The DualShock 2 (shipped with the PS2) added analog face buttons as well. All PS2 games had the Analog function always turned on; it was included only for PS1 game support.
Gates was lucky but he's also a really smart guy.
Really? Whenever I read stuff about Microsoft's early years, it seems like Paul Allen was the smart guy.
You know, the guy Gates and Ballmer forced out in the 80s when he had cancer?
Probably a lot less energy than banks spend shlepping around wads of checks and bills.
Which is why banks use these things called "Electronic Funds Transfers" for most transactions. That way, no checks and bills have to be transferred.
It's EA, they don't care about either of these things.
I find it extremely unlikely that 800 1 star Amazon reviews is going unnoticed by EA. The are almost certainly pissed and knocking heads right now.
Yes, but watch them try to get the ratings removed on Amazon instead of actually fixing the problems.
Incidentally, SimCity has been for sale on Amazon Digital Downloads again since about 12 hours ago.
What? Both google-chrome and chromium are updated in the exact same way using my OS's package manager. I've no idea what you mean by your comment.
That's funny, because up until now the only OS mentioned was Windows, which doesn't have a package manager.
YEAH, SC2 has micro transactions and monthly fees, AMIRITE?!
You do realize that "impacted by a means to make money after the initial ($60!) sale" also includes expansion packs? One of which is coming out for $40 in two weeks?
You forgot one detail, most likely the most important one:
DirectX 10 relied on a completely new device driver model for video drivers.