What's funny is that the worst part of X11 is how badly it does exactly what it was designed to do - remote display - because it is so slow if the network has any latency (too many synchronous calls).
Well, duh.
X11 was designed for remote display over LAN, not WAN. Which is how most of us use it. The Internet barely existed at the time.
So sure, the whole iDTech 5 "megatexture" thing sounds cool... But when you see it in practice it is less impressive than procedural techniques from other engines.
I wouldn't exactly call 'textures are all white when you turn, until they load in a few seconds later' merely 'less impressive' than other game engines.
Most books don't earn out, but that's because publishers know how many copies they plan to print, and are good at estimating how many of those copies will actually sell, so the advance is a pretty good estimate of the royalties owed to the author. That doesn't mean the publisher didn't make a profit.
And they're making a ton of money from e-books, which is probably what's keeping them alive as print declines.
...and GPs point is if they collectively listened to that kind of thing, we'd still be in DOS because OMG clicking on things is different AAAAHHH.
1. I can't remember anyone saying 'Uh, Windows 3 sucks, DOS is so much better with all its arcane key combinations'. 2. Macs had been around for years, and everyone knew DOS was a clunker in comparison.
Who in their right mind wants to be forced to use a touch screen on a desktop PC with a keyboard and mouse?
I thought the EU already did this? I'm sure I've seen complaints from Americans in Europe that they can't open a bank account because the bank don't want the hassle of reporting crap to the US government.
You're right for mass-market paperbacks; they're cheap enough that the cost of returning them isn't worthwhile, and stores just destroy them and claim a refund. But the returns mechanism for hardcovers and trade paperbacks wouldn't exist if those books weren't worth shipping out again.
As for the author, a typical e-book publishing contract pays 25% of the royalties to the author. The publisher and retailer make far more from an e-book sale than the author does.
There are many things a VM like Java can do that you can't do in C++ (although C++ is inherently faster and lighterweight). But it can't optimize virtual calls away like the JVM can.
It's not virtual calls that make Eclipse randomly freeze for ten seconds or more. And I've wasted more time having to hit CTRL+C a dozen times to get it to copy than I ever have in virtual function calls in C++. Or restarting it when it runs out of RAM despite having a ton free on the machine, or runs out of handles because they're not closing something properly because, hey, garbage collection will take care of that, right?
Eclipse is a decent IDE when it works, but I'm sure it would work a lot better if it wasn't written in Java.
If I owned a large company I would much rather bank roll students myself and hand pick the best and brightest. Then offer them a position with a contract requiring a certain minimum years of commitment, with non-compete clauses, and base their pay on performance.
That would make sense, but I'm pretty sure it's illegal in the UK.
I don't believe that's true in the UK; I've seen many engineers complain about how poorly they're paid. Back in the Industrial Revolution, engineers were super-stars of their time, for building the hardware that made the country rich, but today most Britons probably think they fix washing machines.
Clearly the country doesnt need more STEM graduates, or they'd be paid better. Then no-one would have to pay them to study the subject, because they'd know it would provide them a good income for life.
Honestly, if you ignore the Metro interface, Windows 7 and 8 are the same thing.
If you ignore the Metro interface, and the desktop, and the apps, Windows 7 and 8 are the same thing.
I've seen a ton of people complaining about the new Office interface, for example, because it's apparently all been 'flattened' to look as crap as Windows 8 does.
I've heard this before, but Intel likes to play games with power numbers. AMD's TDP is the limit of the processor if EVERYTHING were on. Intel's is under normal usage.
Yeah, right.
That's why, when you actually measure the power consumption, you usually find Intel CPUs are far more efficient than AMD's.
Last time I drove in London, I took about an hour to cover one mile. Solely because, when my light went green, the light ahead was still red, so there was only space for one or two cars to move forward during the green part of the cycle. As soon as we got past the last traffic light and onto the main road, we were doing 40mph within seconds.
Fortunately, 'congestion charging' will clearly solve that.
Yeah, it's a great idea. First the government screw up the cities so there's congestion, then they get to charge everyone who enters because it's 'congested'.
Clearly they have no vested interest in creating congestion so they can rake in more tax. Why, the very idea would never even have considered crossing their mind.
As for London being healthier, don't make me laugh. Most of the air pollution comes from diesel vehicles, and those are precisely the ones (e.g. taxis, buses and lorries) which continue to drive in the city. If there's been any reduction, it's due to better engines, not 'we made congestion' tax.
The thing with Win8 and GNOME3 is that there is so much angst over what amounts to the introduction of a full screen launcher to replace a stale but familiar cascading drop down menu launcher. In both cases once you launch the same old apps all that crap is out of sight.
If the change is really so insignificant... why the hell would you change it?
Oh, because it's 'stale', and God forbid, we can't have anything 'stale' when we could have NEW and SHINY.
Friend, that is SO not true. Money has an interesting effect on people. The more you have the more you want. When I was in my 20s, I figured out that to have all I wanted in life I could do with $25K a year.
I don't know anyone in an ordinary, everyday job who'd be working for their employer a year after they received a $1,000,000 bonus.
Do you really think you do?
That's like those weird people who win the lottery but continue working as a toilet cleaner.
OK, there are some parts of the world where a million dollars won't even buy you a decent house, but in most of it, that's life-changing money. $100,000 a year is life-changing money if you're earning $10,000 a year. $110,000 a year is not life-changing money if you're earning $100,000 a year. Whoopee, you buy a Lexus rather than a Toyota.
Notably, it didn't seem to apply to him, when applied in much much larger quantity.
The difference between $10,000 a year and $100,000 a year is enormous. The difference between $100,000 a year and $100,000,000 a year is enormous. The difference between $100,000 a year and $200,000 a year isn't really that much, particuarly when you consider how much disappears in tax.
Once most people can comfortably afford a house and a car and some kids, money isn't that important to them because they'll never earn eough to own a private jet. Whereas, for someone who's already earning a few million a year, the private jet isn't that far away.
None of which is to imply that CEOs should be earning what they do, but the difference in motivation should be pretty obvious to anyone who thinks about it for long. If I was a CEO and made a million dollar bonus, it would go in my jet fund. If I was given a million dollar bonus in my current job, I'd go live on a tropical island somewhere.
The pilot can always just do a full powered dive, door or no door.... no one's going to stop them at that point.
I would agree that no-one is likely to stop them in the time available before the plane breaks up or crashes, but with a reinforced door, they have no chance.
How much gas are you burning to avoid $5 of WiFi fees?
If your flight goes US->Canada->Europe (for example), you can often save hundreds of dollars by driving to America and catching the flight there rather than joining the flight at your local airport when it lands in Canada.
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What's funny is that the worst part of X11 is how badly it does exactly what it was designed to do - remote display - because it is so slow if the network has any latency (too many synchronous calls).
Well, duh.
X11 was designed for remote display over LAN, not WAN. Which is how most of us use it. The Internet barely existed at the time.
So sure, the whole iDTech 5 "megatexture" thing sounds cool... But when you see it in practice it is less impressive than procedural techniques from other engines.
I wouldn't exactly call 'textures are all white when you turn, until they load in a few seconds later' merely 'less impressive' than other game engines.
The expected return from doing any research about the person they're voting for is generally less than the cost of doing the research.
Besides which, when all you're given is a choice between Obama and Romney, what difference would it make?
Most books don't make a profit for the publisher
Uh, yes, they do.
Most books don't earn out, but that's because publishers know how many copies they plan to print, and are good at estimating how many of those copies will actually sell, so the advance is a pretty good estimate of the royalties owed to the author. That doesn't mean the publisher didn't make a profit.
And they're making a ton of money from e-books, which is probably what's keeping them alive as print declines.
...and GPs point is if they collectively listened to that kind of thing, we'd still be in DOS because OMG clicking on things is different AAAAHHH.
1. I can't remember anyone saying 'Uh, Windows 3 sucks, DOS is so much better with all its arcane key combinations'.
2. Macs had been around for years, and everyone knew DOS was a clunker in comparison.
Who in their right mind wants to be forced to use a touch screen on a desktop PC with a keyboard and mouse?
Better they keep putting out $500 Office suites that everyone has realised they don't need to own.
Yeah, because renting them for $50 a month makes much more sense.
If MS asked you lot what the hell it is you wanted, most of you would say "we just want Windows 7, booting as fast as Windows 8 does".
Um, yes. Except Windows 7 already boots as fast as Window 8 if you use hibernate instead of powering down, like it does.
What would have been wrong with that? Exactly what 'innovation' has Window 8 brought that anyone actually wanted?
I thought the EU already did this? I'm sure I've seen complaints from Americans in Europe that they can't open a bank account because the bank don't want the hassle of reporting crap to the US government.
Uh, no.
You're right for mass-market paperbacks; they're cheap enough that the cost of returning them isn't worthwhile, and stores just destroy them and claim a refund. But the returns mechanism for hardcovers and trade paperbacks wouldn't exist if those books weren't worth shipping out again.
As for the author, a typical e-book publishing contract pays 25% of the royalties to the author. The publisher and retailer make far more from an e-book sale than the author does.
so you've bought one copy of the game, and expect to be able to use two copies of it?
why is that Steam's fault? how would it be different if a game needed a DVD to be able to play it?
So are you unable to read, or unable to do math? Hint: the poster said two games. Two is, like, more than one.
Have you ever looked at the code behind eclipse? It's terrifying!
No, I haven't. But I'll concede that anyone who can write bad code in Java can write much worse code in C++.
There are many things a VM like Java can do that you can't do in C++ (although C++ is inherently faster and lighterweight). But it can't optimize virtual calls away like the JVM can.
It's not virtual calls that make Eclipse randomly freeze for ten seconds or more. And I've wasted more time having to hit CTRL+C a dozen times to get it to copy than I ever have in virtual function calls in C++. Or restarting it when it runs out of RAM despite having a ton free on the machine, or runs out of handles because they're not closing something properly because, hey, garbage collection will take care of that, right?
Eclipse is a decent IDE when it works, but I'm sure it would work a lot better if it wasn't written in Java.
If I owned a large company I would much rather bank roll students myself and hand pick the best and brightest. Then offer them a position with a contract requiring a certain minimum years of commitment, with non-compete clauses, and base their pay on performance.
That would make sense, but I'm pretty sure it's illegal in the UK.
I don't believe that's true in the UK; I've seen many engineers complain about how poorly they're paid. Back in the Industrial Revolution, engineers were super-stars of their time, for building the hardware that made the country rich, but today most Britons probably think they fix washing machines.
Clearly the country doesnt need more STEM graduates, or they'd be paid better. Then no-one would have to pay them to study the subject, because they'd know it would provide them a good income for life.
Honestly, if you ignore the Metro interface, Windows 7 and 8 are the same thing.
If you ignore the Metro interface, and the desktop, and the apps, Windows 7 and 8 are the same thing.
I've seen a ton of people complaining about the new Office interface, for example, because it's apparently all been 'flattened' to look as crap as Windows 8 does.
I've heard this before, but Intel likes to play games with power numbers. AMD's TDP is the limit of the processor if EVERYTHING were on. Intel's is under normal usage.
Yeah, right.
That's why, when you actually measure the power consumption, you usually find Intel CPUs are far more efficient than AMD's.
Last time I drove in London, I took about an hour to cover one mile. Solely because, when my light went green, the light ahead was still red, so there was only space for one or two cars to move forward during the green part of the cycle. As soon as we got past the last traffic light and onto the main road, we were doing 40mph within seconds.
Fortunately, 'congestion charging' will clearly solve that.
Yeah, it's a great idea. First the government screw up the cities so there's congestion, then they get to charge everyone who enters because it's 'congested'.
Clearly they have no vested interest in creating congestion so they can rake in more tax. Why, the very idea would never even have considered crossing their mind.
As for London being healthier, don't make me laugh. Most of the air pollution comes from diesel vehicles, and those are precisely the ones (e.g. taxis, buses and lorries) which continue to drive in the city. If there's been any reduction, it's due to better engines, not 'we made congestion' tax.
The thing with Win8 and GNOME3 is that there is so much angst over what amounts to the introduction of a full screen launcher to replace a stale but familiar cascading drop down menu launcher. In both cases once you launch the same old apps all that crap is out of sight.
If the change is really so insignificant... why the hell would you change it?
Oh, because it's 'stale', and God forbid, we can't have anything 'stale' when we could have NEW and SHINY.
Are an Android tablet's "tasks and styles of interaction" closer to a laptop or to a phone, and why?
Phone. You get one full-screen app with a touch interface.
Does this change when the laptop is docked to a physical keyboard, such as an ASUS Transformer?
Nope. That's just a crappy compromise so you can get some useful work done despite the phone interface.
What I really dislike about Gnome3 is the fact that the devs clearly don't care what mere users think or want.
Doing what the users want is so early 21st century. We're UI designers, god dammit, and you will like what we give you.
Friend, that is SO not true. Money has an interesting effect on people. The more you have the more you want. When I was in my 20s, I figured out that to have all I wanted in life I could do with $25K a year.
I don't know anyone in an ordinary, everyday job who'd be working for their employer a year after they received a $1,000,000 bonus.
Do you really think you do?
That's like those weird people who win the lottery but continue working as a toilet cleaner.
OK, there are some parts of the world where a million dollars won't even buy you a decent house, but in most of it, that's life-changing money. $100,000 a year is life-changing money if you're earning $10,000 a year. $110,000 a year is not life-changing money if you're earning $100,000 a year. Whoopee, you buy a Lexus rather than a Toyota.
Notably, it didn't seem to apply to him, when applied in much much larger quantity.
The difference between $10,000 a year and $100,000 a year is enormous. The difference between $100,000 a year and $100,000,000 a year is enormous. The difference between $100,000 a year and $200,000 a year isn't really that much, particuarly when you consider how much disappears in tax.
Once most people can comfortably afford a house and a car and some kids, money isn't that important to them because they'll never earn eough to own a private jet. Whereas, for someone who's already earning a few million a year, the private jet isn't that far away.
None of which is to imply that CEOs should be earning what they do, but the difference in motivation should be pretty obvious to anyone who thinks about it for long. If I was a CEO and made a million dollar bonus, it would go in my jet fund. If I was given a million dollar bonus in my current job, I'd go live on a tropical island somewhere.
The pilot can always just do a full powered dive, door or no door.... no one's going to stop them at that point.
I would agree that no-one is likely to stop them in the time available before the plane breaks up or crashes, but with a reinforced door, they have no chance.
How much gas are you burning to avoid $5 of WiFi fees?
If your flight goes US->Canada->Europe (for example), you can often save hundreds of dollars by driving to America and catching the flight there rather than joining the flight at your local airport when it lands in Canada.
No, it doesn't make sense to Canadians, either.