If you weren't doing things ass-backwards and developing workarounds in drivers for individual games then they would be forced to do things properly wouldn't they?
That was always my argument, but then people would stop buying our cards and buy cards where the game ran 'properly'.
One thing I learned from writing video drivers is that game developers are probably the very last people who should be developing graphics engines. We were constantly amazed by the insanely performance-sucking tricks they used to play which we then had to detect and work around; often their poorly-designed method of rendering something would be 10-100x slower than a sensible implementation.
Valve and id are the most obvious exceptions; I don't think we ever found them doing anything really retarded unlike certain big name developers I could mention.
If you can't be bothered/figure out how to free memory when you're done with it do the rest of us all a favor and stop programming.
Indeed. Garbage collection solves a few problems by creating a huge pile of new ones, like objects staying around when you thought they'd gone because someone somewhere still has a reference to them, or randomly disappearing because you forgot to keep a reference to them.
This is because your doctor doesn't need to constantly be asked for the next version of valium or wellbutrin or whatever the hell it is.
No, it's because the NHS don't want people discovering there are drugs which could treat their condition, because they'd rather spend the money on managers' salaries.
I will take my sans advertising, licence fee funded, Ofcom regulated, BBC programs every single time.
Weird. Every time I watch a BBC show these days -- which isn't often since I left the UK -- it just seems like laughable politically correct pap.
All the best TV shows I've seen in recent years were American. Even the good ones the BBC was involved with (e.g. Band of Brothers) were primarily American funded.
Best product placement I've ever seen was in Natural Born Killers. From what I've read Coca-Cola sacked most of their product placement team in LA afterwards.
That's not really true. There are people working on those things, but nobody cares because most people don't have any money.
No, people don't care because even if you gave them a trillion dollars you couldn't build a space elevator or find aliens. The technology doesn't exist to build a space elevator any time soon and even if aliens near our technology level exist we'd probably need to build enormous radio telescopes in space to find them.
The only stories ruined by spoilers are the ones which rely on silly twists for effect. I know in any Bond movie that he's going to get the girl and save the day, but I've still watched most of them (OK, maybe that's not true of the most recent one because it was so awful that I couldn't handle more than fifteen minutes of it before I turned off the DVD so I've no idea how it ends).
You missed the point. The ban on using mobile phones while driving isn't down to people taking their hands off the wheel, it's because studies have shown that it causes drivers to take their attention away from the road, thereby causing accidents.
So, uh, what about all the other drivers who don't pay attention to the road in the first place?
Yeah, this guy is a dumbass who probably should be banned, but I see moronic driving pretty much every day commuting to and from work and very few of the morons are using cellphones. Moronic drivers should be stopped regardless; or do you think that driving with his knees would be OK if only he wasn't talking and texting on his phones at the same time?
All Linux distributions combined represent a smaller browser footprint than the iPhone... If they can get by without an iPhone version, I'm pretty sure the 1.5% or so that Linux makes up won't be missed by a whole lot.
Lets keep a little perspective.
That "1.5% or so that Linux makes up" is also a large fraction of those who tell their Windows-afflicted friends and relatives "What? You're still using IE? Dump that crap and install Firefox instead."
Now they're telling their friends and relatives not to use Firefox because Mozilla have gone completely insane.
FF5 it also a lot faster. That's the first thing you notice after the GUI.
Since when? I don't see any difference in speed between 3.6 and 5.x; if anything 5.x seems to spend more time 'looking up www.foobar.com' than 3.6 does.
People whine about issues, and then whine about how long it takes for Mozilla to release fixes.
Which people?
And which people were 'whining' about Mozilla having version numbers?
I hope you and users like you DO move away from Firefox, and keep shifting browsers until you realize that no browser will ever satisfy you - you don't know what you want to begin with.
We had a web browser which did want we wanted. It was called Firefox. Then Mozilla went insane and decided that we really wanted a crappy clone of Chrome instead.
Is asking the user to type About Colon Support that much more difficult that asking them to click through the menu system to find About Firefox?
Yes. Tech-illiterate users understand menus, they don't understand typing... heck, they may even know that every piece of Windows software they've used has an About box on the Help menu.
Chrome is taking away Firefox's market share so Mozilla does have something to prove if they don't want to be the next Internet Explorer.
Mozilla is giving away Mozilla's market share by trying to be a poor clone of Chrome rather than a better Mozilla. If I wanted to use Chrome I'd... guess what?... use Chrome.
I don't understand why people get into such a huge fuss about changing the fecking version number, it's probably the most inconsequential part of the entire browser?
Because most people want software that, you know, works.
They don't want things to randomly break and force them to spend half an hour on Google trying to fix it.
They don't want to be forced to upgrade to a new version that removes useful features.
They don't want to be forced to upgrade to a new version simply because the developers refuse to port security fixes back to the old one.
When a software developer starts to imagine they're more important than their users, they soon discover they don't have any users anymore.
I can't see how any plugin could be so important that you rather run that with the crap that is 3.6 compared to 5.x (and 6.x I suppose) rather than dumping whatever plugin and use a state of the art browser with as little suckage as possible.
But as a user the only difference I see between 3.6 and 5.x is that 5.x sucks and 3.6 doesn't.
If Firefox is updated automatically, then from the user perspective, a new version is no different than a new version of Facebook of Gmail.
That might make sense, if Mozilla didn't keep taking away features and reorganising the UI with every new release. We now have the choice between contiuing to run 3.6 or putting up with whatever crap the Mozilla developers came up with in the bathroom this morning.
The rise in version numbers was a symptom of changing the development and release process, not just arbitrarily bumping up the numbers for no reason
Except there was no reason to 'change the development and release process' because the old one worked just find and made everyone happy. Now they've thrown away any chance in the enterprise market and pissed off a lot of home users because...?
Mozilla should remember the words of the great Asa Dotzler: "Respect your users or you will lose them. With Firefox, the user is no longer just a spectator, he's a participant. Play nice or face extinction. Seriously."
I'm not that worried about the cooling (well, still a bit!), but, 180W? Wow, I really hope they can come up with a CPU that is also powerful, but consumes a lot less than that!
Again, these are the top end super-fast CPUs for the 'I'm going to spend twice as much on my CPU as you did on your entire system' end of the market. My i5-2400 uses the stock fan and I can hardly hear it running most of the time.
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If you weren't doing things ass-backwards and developing workarounds in drivers for individual games then they would be forced to do things properly wouldn't they?
That was always my argument, but then people would stop buying our cards and buy cards where the game ran 'properly'.
One thing I learned from writing video drivers is that game developers are probably the very last people who should be developing graphics engines. We were constantly amazed by the insanely performance-sucking tricks they used to play which we then had to detect and work around; often their poorly-designed method of rendering something would be 10-100x slower than a sensible implementation.
Valve and id are the most obvious exceptions; I don't think we ever found them doing anything really retarded unlike certain big name developers I could mention.
SSL certification is just plain broken; in another decade it will have collapsed in a heap.
If you can't be bothered/figure out how to free memory when you're done with it do the rest of us all a favor and stop programming.
Indeed. Garbage collection solves a few problems by creating a huge pile of new ones, like objects staying around when you thought they'd gone because someone somewhere still has a reference to them, or randomly disappearing because you forgot to keep a reference to them.
This is because your doctor doesn't need to constantly be asked for the next version of valium or wellbutrin or whatever the hell it is.
No, it's because the NHS don't want people discovering there are drugs which could treat their condition, because they'd rather spend the money on managers' salaries.
I will take my sans advertising, licence fee funded, Ofcom regulated, BBC programs every single time.
Weird. Every time I watch a BBC show these days -- which isn't often since I left the UK -- it just seems like laughable politically correct pap.
All the best TV shows I've seen in recent years were American. Even the good ones the BBC was involved with (e.g. Band of Brothers) were primarily American funded.
Best product placement I've ever seen was in Natural Born Killers. From what I've read Coca-Cola sacked most of their product placement team in LA afterwards.
I don't understand banning the practice.
This is Europe we're talking about. Whenever people don't like something they have to pass a law against it, no matter how irrelevant or stupid.
What is ""WIN THE FUTURE""?
I believe the idea is that everyone plays the lottery and then uses their winnings to pay off the national debt?
That's not really true. There are people working on those things, but nobody cares because most people don't have any money.
No, people don't care because even if you gave them a trillion dollars you couldn't build a space elevator or find aliens. The technology doesn't exist to build a space elevator any time soon and even if aliens near our technology level exist we'd probably need to build enormous radio telescopes in space to find them.
The only stories ruined by spoilers are the ones which rely on silly twists for effect. I know in any Bond movie that he's going to get the girl and save the day, but I've still watched most of them (OK, maybe that's not true of the most recent one because it was so awful that I couldn't handle more than fifteen minutes of it before I turned off the DVD so I've no idea how it ends).
You missed the point. The ban on using mobile phones while driving isn't down to people taking their hands off the wheel, it's because studies have shown that it causes drivers to take their attention away from the road, thereby causing accidents.
So, uh, what about all the other drivers who don't pay attention to the road in the first place?
Yeah, this guy is a dumbass who probably should be banned, but I see moronic driving pretty much every day commuting to and from work and very few of the morons are using cellphones. Moronic drivers should be stopped regardless; or do you think that driving with his knees would be OK if only he wasn't talking and texting on his phones at the same time?
All Linux distributions combined represent a smaller browser footprint than the iPhone ... If they can get by without an iPhone version, I'm pretty sure the 1.5% or so that Linux makes up won't be missed by a whole lot.
Lets keep a little perspective.
That "1.5% or so that Linux makes up" is also a large fraction of those who tell their Windows-afflicted friends and relatives "What? You're still using IE? Dump that crap and install Firefox instead."
Now they're telling their friends and relatives not to use Firefox because Mozilla have gone completely insane.
They should pay for that labour. This runs a bit more then your typical software license, which just tends to extend such support for a while.
Or they could just say 'screw this' and install a different browser for free.
FF5 it also a lot faster. That's the first thing you notice after the GUI.
Since when? I don't see any difference in speed between 3.6 and 5.x; if anything 5.x seems to spend more time 'looking up www.foobar.com' than 3.6 does.
People whine about issues, and then whine about how long it takes for Mozilla to release fixes.
Which people?
And which people were 'whining' about Mozilla having version numbers?
I hope you and users like you DO move away from Firefox, and keep shifting browsers until you realize that no browser will ever satisfy you - you don't know what you want to begin with.
We had a web browser which did want we wanted. It was called Firefox. Then Mozilla went insane and decided that we really wanted a crappy clone of Chrome instead.
Should just hide the webpage too, in case the users might get upset about something they see.
I believe that's coming in Firefox 10: it's a way to resolve about 3,000 rendering bugs with one simple fix.
Is asking the user to type About Colon Support that much more difficult that asking them to click through the menu system to find About Firefox?
Yes. Tech-illiterate users understand menus, they don't understand typing... heck, they may even know that every piece of Windows software they've used has an About box on the Help menu.
Chrome is taking away Firefox's market share so Mozilla does have something to prove if they don't want to be the next Internet Explorer.
Mozilla is giving away Mozilla's market share by trying to be a poor clone of Chrome rather than a better Mozilla. If I wanted to use Chrome I'd... guess what?... use Chrome.
I don't understand why people get into such a huge fuss about changing the fecking version number, it's probably the most inconsequential part of the entire browser?
Because most people want software that, you know, works.
They don't want things to randomly break and force them to spend half an hour on Google trying to fix it.
They don't want to be forced to upgrade to a new version that removes useful features.
They don't want to be forced to upgrade to a new version simply because the developers refuse to port security fixes back to the old one.
When a software developer starts to imagine they're more important than their users, they soon discover they don't have any users anymore.
I can't see how any plugin could be so important that you rather run that with the crap that is 3.6 compared to 5.x (and 6.x I suppose) rather than dumping whatever plugin and use a state of the art browser with as little suckage as possible.
But as a user the only difference I see between 3.6 and 5.x is that 5.x sucks and 3.6 doesn't.
If Firefox is updated automatically, then from the user perspective, a new version is no different than a new version of Facebook of Gmail.
That might make sense, if Mozilla didn't keep taking away features and reorganising the UI with every new release. We now have the choice between contiuing to run 3.6 or putting up with whatever crap the Mozilla developers came up with in the bathroom this morning.
The rise in version numbers was a symptom of changing the development and release process, not just arbitrarily bumping up the numbers for no reason
Except there was no reason to 'change the development and release process' because the old one worked just find and made everyone happy. Now they've thrown away any chance in the enterprise market and pissed off a lot of home users because...?
Mozilla should remember the words of the great Asa Dotzler: "Respect your users or you will lose them. With Firefox, the user is no longer just a spectator, he's a participant. Play nice or face extinction. Seriously."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Dotzler
Did a large fraction of the FOSS developer community recently get hit with a Retardo Ray or something?
I'm not that worried about the cooling (well, still a bit!), but, 180W? Wow, I really hope they can come up with a CPU that is also powerful, but consumes a lot less than that!
Again, these are the top end super-fast CPUs for the 'I'm going to spend twice as much on my CPU as you did on your entire system' end of the market. My i5-2400 uses the stock fan and I can hardly hear it running most of the time.