I hate to be a pedant, but it bugs me all to hell when people type "adds" when they really mean "ads".
Adds are what you do to two numbers. Ads is the correct abbreviation for "advertisements".
And to keep my post from flying completely OT:
#1 - Why a browser wrapper? Why not replace their database with one of your choosing?
#2 - Doesn't sound like the describe it well, but if it's running as a service, I'd bet they're not after just cookies. They could do that easily enough from within the game.
#3 - I'd love to see EA lose tons of money on that. They make their money off of frat boys who have to have the latest version of Madden and Tiger Woods, and buy other franchises and run them into the ground.
Even better: Dad looks at pr0n late at night, gets his surfing habits logged, and then Junior plays the games and sees billboards for "Titties Galore!". At least porn will be treated at the same level as violence in this country, rather than the current standard of Junior being able to kill people in full gore with no reprisal, but a seeing an unclad breast will cause him irreparable harm...
I like your apopleptic alliteration.
I was simply putting the story in terms of "functional equivalence" like he first laid out. It was a silly thing for him to say in the first place, because he had nothing to add to the conversation. We all know that the Gimp isn't suited for professional print work for the most part. My point was that he was essentially bragging that he made too much money to even look at something like the Gimp, so he's "1337" and that F/OSS is somehow second class in all things because it doesn't work in his specific application of software.
Let me tell you a little story, a story about the little school kid who used Gimp (which was functionally equivalent to Photoshop) while all his buddies used Photoshop. When they all become professionals, the Gimp user still has free software, updated regularly for free, which is very powerful and useful. The other kids all use Photoshop, which is expensive, updates cost a lot, and it's not as easily scriptable, nor are the developers as approachable for feature requests. Who is wasting more money keeping their technology up to date now?
What you're bitching about is that you're basically too lazy to learn something new, because different is bad. Still using an abacus to calculate your finances, because them newfangled calculators use numbers, and they aren't what you're used to and it'd take you more time to learn how to use 'em?
Does Krita work on Windows? GIMP is still my image editor of choice for all the "need more power than Paint but not enough to buy Photoshop" image work I have to do at work. And I'd run Linux, but I need to support Windows users, so I can't very well not run what they're running.
I might reply with "Only idiots spell 'since' 'cince'". Perhaps you should get off your high horse until you learn to not be an asshole and an idiot? Either one I'm ok with, but both, and it starts being a problem.
You know how netcraft does their ratings, right? Did you hear that bit about Go Daddy parking domains on IIS? Think that might be part of it? Netcraft gives you a decent picture, but not the whole one.
You think those kids buy their cars? Mommy and daddy do. I worked through high school, but my friends were given more money than I made, as well as nice cars and such. I drove a $500 beater for the first two years, and then a $2000 beater for my senior year. Now at 25 I finally have a decent car. I don't have a bad job, but I've had to work for myself and pay much of my own way. I don't think my parents were stingy, but they made me appreciate the money I had, and the gifts they gave me because of my work, knowing what money is actually worth.
So, because he's popular, he's entitled to many millions of dollars? Or perhaps that's just his job, that he's contributing to society in his way, and making a pretty decent living off of it? (I don't see a McDonald's fry cook driving a BMW 3 series)
As long as people realize that some tasks just aren't terribly parallelizable. It'll help a lot, but there are a number of algorithms that you just can't throw more processors at.
What bothers me is when my younger friends describe characters in a game as if they were real-size. "The sword was like, this big!" as they stretch their arms all the way out.
Great security and all, but it's a bitch saving something to the desktop, not to mention downloading say, an ISO or whatnot, then having to transfer it over a local loopback network connection to your "real" machine.
I don't complain about Windows Update doing just that. In fact, most people don't. And it does it exactly the same way. It is in fact more annoying, because it keeps popping up that fucking window, rather than letting me just tell it to go away and I'll reboot later. I've accidentally rebooted when doing something important enough times because of that window stealing focus and defauting to "Reboot Now" that I turn the bastard off and only update manually.
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I hate to be a pedant, but it bugs me all to hell when people type "adds" when they really mean "ads".
Adds are what you do to two numbers. Ads is the correct abbreviation for "advertisements".
And to keep my post from flying completely OT:
#1 - Why a browser wrapper? Why not replace their database with one of your choosing?
#2 - Doesn't sound like the describe it well, but if it's running as a service, I'd bet they're not after just cookies. They could do that easily enough from within the game.
#3 - I'd love to see EA lose tons of money on that. They make their money off of frat boys who have to have the latest version of Madden and Tiger Woods, and buy other franchises and run them into the ground.
Fuck EA.
Even better: Dad looks at pr0n late at night, gets his surfing habits logged, and then Junior plays the games and sees billboards for "Titties Galore!". At least porn will be treated at the same level as violence in this country, rather than the current standard of Junior being able to kill people in full gore with no reprisal, but a seeing an unclad breast will cause him irreparable harm...
I like your apopleptic alliteration.
I was simply putting the story in terms of "functional equivalence" like he first laid out. It was a silly thing for him to say in the first place, because he had nothing to add to the conversation. We all know that the Gimp isn't suited for professional print work for the most part. My point was that he was essentially bragging that he made too much money to even look at something like the Gimp, so he's "1337" and that F/OSS is somehow second class in all things because it doesn't work in his specific application of software.
Let me tell you a little story, a story about the little school kid who used Gimp (which was functionally equivalent to Photoshop) while all his buddies used Photoshop. When they all become professionals, the Gimp user still has free software, updated regularly for free, which is very powerful and useful. The other kids all use Photoshop, which is expensive, updates cost a lot, and it's not as easily scriptable, nor are the developers as approachable for feature requests. Who is wasting more money keeping their technology up to date now?
What you're bitching about is that you're basically too lazy to learn something new, because different is bad. Still using an abacus to calculate your finances, because them newfangled calculators use numbers, and they aren't what you're used to and it'd take you more time to learn how to use 'em?
Dia?
Does Krita work on Windows? GIMP is still my image editor of choice for all the "need more power than Paint but not enough to buy Photoshop" image work I have to do at work. And I'd run Linux, but I need to support Windows users, so I can't very well not run what they're running.
But then I'd have to get off my ass to turn it on.
There's even some literature on this so-called Uncanny Valley that causes these "creepy" sensations.
They call that a 'Blackberry' I think. I could be wrong, though.
Where's the "Horribly bad taste but funny, we're both going to hell" mod button?
I might reply with "Only idiots spell 'since' 'cince'". Perhaps you should get off your high horse until you learn to not be an asshole and an idiot? Either one I'm ok with, but both, and it starts being a problem.
You know how netcraft does their ratings, right? Did you hear that bit about Go Daddy parking domains on IIS? Think that might be part of it? Netcraft gives you a decent picture, but not the whole one.
I'm confused by your sig... if C is for sinking, why do you say power to the penguin? The Linux kernel is C, if I'm not mistaken.
hell... sell it by volume AND weight. Let 'em figure out how much space a photon takes up.
Yeah, AM radio charges for their broadcasts. They're true capitalists!
You think those kids buy their cars? Mommy and daddy do. I worked through high school, but my friends were given more money than I made, as well as nice cars and such. I drove a $500 beater for the first two years, and then a $2000 beater for my senior year. Now at 25 I finally have a decent car. I don't have a bad job, but I've had to work for myself and pay much of my own way. I don't think my parents were stingy, but they made me appreciate the money I had, and the gifts they gave me because of my work, knowing what money is actually worth.
Yeah. Del now deletes directories and all files under it :)
So, because he's popular, he's entitled to many millions of dollars? Or perhaps that's just his job, that he's contributing to society in his way, and making a pretty decent living off of it? (I don't see a McDonald's fry cook driving a BMW 3 series)
I wish I had mod points today... this is the crux of the matter
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=9461 Try it out.
As long as people realize that some tasks just aren't terribly parallelizable. It'll help a lot, but there are a number of algorithms that you just can't throw more processors at.
Doom3 and Quake are vehicles to sell the engine, they aren't games in themselves ;)
What bothers me is when my younger friends describe characters in a game as if they were real-size. "The sword was like, this big!" as they stretch their arms all the way out.
Great security and all, but it's a bitch saving something to the desktop, not to mention downloading say, an ISO or whatnot, then having to transfer it over a local loopback network connection to your "real" machine.
I don't complain about Windows Update doing just that. In fact, most people don't. And it does it exactly the same way. It is in fact more annoying, because it keeps popping up that fucking window, rather than letting me just tell it to go away and I'll reboot later. I've accidentally rebooted when doing something important enough times because of that window stealing focus and defauting to "Reboot Now" that I turn the bastard off and only update manually.