Why don't you start up your own web server for your grumbling and put it in an Old Farts Web Ring so people can find it? Because, you know, all the web search out there is ad-supported as well, and you won't have any of this, don't you?
If Slashdot disappeared, we would. Before the rise of the Glorious Advertisers' Internet you love so much, we would probably have been on email lists, which no-one paid for other than a few bucks a month from the person running them.
I remember the days when the Internet was free, and site owners paid for their own sites because they liked running them. Aside from a smaller number of fluffy kitty videos, it was generally a better place.
Why bother making Chromebooks, the market doesn't much seem to care for them.
Because netbooks became uncool, but the market for them didn't go away.
There's still a substantial market for a small, cheap, light laptop that boots fast and lets you browse the web and type the occasional document. Aren't Chromebooks the best-selling 'laptops' on Amazon these days?
The real question is: will these run Linux, so I can eventually replace my old netbook with one when it dies?
Except you don't get to choose those permissions, you can only install or not install. If you want Fluffy Kitty Screen Saver and it demands access to contact lists and to be able to send SMS messages, you can't say 'let it install but don't let it do those things.'
If Google cared about user security, they'd let you pick and choose which permissions you allowed.
So I cast the final address and the base address into an int and subtracted to get the length.
If you're ever, anywhere in your code, casting pointers to integers, and it's not because you're passing it to some low-level interface to hardware... you're almost certainly doing something wrong.
Yeah, no Java programmer needs unsigned ints. It's not as though they need to interface to code which does have unsigned ints, like calling C++ libraries, or reading data from files or databases created by C or C++ programs, or reading files in standard, language-agnostic formats which are packed full of bytes that you then have to process as 16-bit signed integers instead.
Lack of unsigned variables is one of the most braindead ideas in Java.
10 is still a netbook, and we see how well that market did.
What, sold tens of millions of machines before Microsoft crippled them with a bloated pig of an operating system and tablets came along doing most of the things netbooks were used for before that?
House Republicans are refusing to fund non-essential government services, like inspecting nuclear power plants, until Obamacare is completely repealed by the Senate.
If it's non-essential, why is the government doing it at all?
Most of the ads I still see are ads for things I already bought, because someone happened to notice me browsing a relevant product page or doing a web search... so ad an for just about anything else would have been far more effective.
For example, I just bought a new NAS, and noticed this morning that I was getting NAS ads. Totally fscking useless, other than to make money for whatever site is shoveling the ads in my direction.
This would be like contributing money to a new car company so they could design (but not actually build) a hand-built, but otherwise generic, mid-size sedan, but with a riding lawnmower engine in it instead a car engine. Yeah, the whole world will get a copy of the blueprints, but why would anyone ever want to build it?
So they could still travel after the NSA backdoored their 'driverless car' and shut it down?
Designing a GPU is much easier than desiginging a GPU which doesn't violate any of the massive number of GPU patents. For a while, it seemed like 'doing something a CPU does but on a GPU' was the patent equivalent of 'doing something computers have been doing for years, but on a phone'.
It likely should be an error if you're setting it to a constant. That's equivalent to forcing true or false in the if, with a side-effect of changing the value of a variable. I can only see a few very convoluted cases where that would make any sense, and there are far more readable ways to write them.
The old 'if (fp = fopen("foo", "r") )' makes sense, but there's no real reason to write it that way any more. It should at least be a warning.
My ass. PC games are notoriously unoptimized because you can throw more hardware at the problem.
Graphics APIs these days are basically just a way of get shaders into the GPU. Odds are, pretty much the same shaders are running on the PC as the console, so there's no room to 'unoptimize' them.
And, on the CPU side, I rarely see mine more than 20% used when playing games. So they're not 'unoptimized' there, either.
It will certainly be an improvement, but from what I've read they're only comparable to current mid-range PC GPUs. By the time many games are out, a high-end gaming PC will still be several times as powerful.
It costs 18.03 cents to mint those dollar coins, but only 5.4 cents to print a one dollar bill. So why exactly would they want to get rid of the paper bill?
Because coins can last for decades, whereas paper money has to be continually replaced. I'm sure I read somewhere that the Bank of England heats the building by burning old money, which is replaced by new notes.
Or have we reached a diminishing return point and/or a point where money is being spent elsewhere (consoles, mobile, tablets, etc)?
The problem is that PC games have been cripppled for years by being developed on consoles and ported to PCs. Some do take advantage of the extra power of PC GPUs, but the majority will run fine on a GPU that's several years old, because it's more powerful than the crap in the consoles.
So you want a world where all current rental property is locked up and unavailable to anyone but the owner? And no-one lends money, because there's no point when they can't collect interest on it?
The level of economic insanity I see these days never ceases to astonish me. We should never have let AOL onto the Internet.
The founders of this country knew exactly how to deal with that first problem. In fact, it was one of the first thing they did after forming our current government. It's called tariffs. Simple--something costs you $5 to make and it costs the Chinese $1 to make, there will be a $4 tariff when they try to import things into the country.
So poor people will be better off if everything they buy suddenly costs more?
You don't really think that, if companies had to start manufacturing in America instead of China, they'd be hiring humans to do that work, do you?
High-paid manufacturing jobs are gone, and they ain't coming back. Socialists just hate that because their entire philosophy is based around industrial manufacturing, and has no appeal in a future where people aren't working interchangeably on a production line.
That'll be why Austrian economicts were predicting that holding interest rates at artificially low levels and handing out mortgages to anything with a pulse would cause global economic disaster, while non-Austrian economists were saying it was all just lovely and making everyone rich forever!
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Why don't you start up your own web server for your grumbling and put it in an Old Farts Web Ring so people can find it? Because, you know, all the web search out there is ad-supported as well, and you won't have any of this, don't you?
If Slashdot disappeared, we would. Before the rise of the Glorious Advertisers' Internet you love so much, we would probably have been on email lists, which no-one paid for other than a few bucks a month from the person running them.
I remember the days when the Internet was free, and site owners paid for their own sites because they liked running them. Aside from a smaller number of fluffy kitty videos, it was generally a better place.
Why bother making Chromebooks, the market doesn't much seem to care for them.
Because netbooks became uncool, but the market for them didn't go away.
There's still a substantial market for a small, cheap, light laptop that boots fast and lets you browse the web and type the occasional document. Aren't Chromebooks the best-selling 'laptops' on Amazon these days?
The real question is: will these run Linux, so I can eventually replace my old netbook with one when it dies?
Android does have per-app permissions.
Except you don't get to choose those permissions, you can only install or not install. If you want Fluffy Kitty Screen Saver and it demands access to contact lists and to be able to send SMS messages, you can't say 'let it install but don't let it do those things.'
If Google cared about user security, they'd let you pick and choose which permissions you allowed.
So I cast the final address and the base address into an int and subtracted to get the length.
If you're ever, anywhere in your code, casting pointers to integers, and it's not because you're passing it to some low-level interface to hardware... you're almost certainly doing something wrong.
Yeah, no Java programmer needs unsigned ints. It's not as though they need to interface to code which does have unsigned ints, like calling C++ libraries, or reading data from files or databases created by C or C++ programs, or reading files in standard, language-agnostic formats which are packed full of bytes that you then have to process as 16-bit signed integers instead.
Lack of unsigned variables is one of the most braindead ideas in Java.
10 is still a netbook, and we see how well that market did.
What, sold tens of millions of machines before Microsoft crippled them with a bloated pig of an operating system and tablets came along doing most of the things netbooks were used for before that?
We could have enough clean, free power to do literally anything we wanted just by using natural sources like solar or wind
Uh, no, you couldn't.
Nope. The problem isn't lack of money.
Other than that troublesome part about having to borrow about $1,000,000,000,000 a year to fund the deficit.
House Republicans are refusing to fund non-essential government services, like inspecting nuclear power plants, until Obamacare is completely repealed by the Senate.
If it's non-essential, why is the government doing it at all?
Most of the ads I still see are ads for things I already bought, because someone happened to notice me browsing a relevant product page or doing a web search... so ad an for just about anything else would have been far more effective.
For example, I just bought a new NAS, and noticed this morning that I was getting NAS ads. Totally fscking useless, other than to make money for whatever site is shoveling the ads in my direction.
This would be like contributing money to a new car company so they could design (but not actually build) a hand-built, but otherwise generic, mid-size sedan, but with a riding lawnmower engine in it instead a car engine. Yeah, the whole world will get a copy of the blueprints, but why would anyone ever want to build it?
So they could still travel after the NSA backdoored their 'driverless car' and shut it down?
Designing a GPU is much easier than desiginging a GPU which doesn't violate any of the massive number of GPU patents. For a while, it seemed like 'doing something a CPU does but on a GPU' was the patent equivalent of 'doing something computers have been doing for years, but on a phone'.
No, it shouldn't.
It likely should be an error if you're setting it to a constant. That's equivalent to forcing true or false in the if, with a side-effect of changing the value of a variable. I can only see a few very convoluted cases where that would make any sense, and there are far more readable ways to write them.
The old 'if (fp = fopen("foo", "r") )' makes sense, but there's no real reason to write it that way any more. It should at least be a warning.
You mean a machine that costs 4-5x what the console costs will be more powerful than the console? Shocking!
You mean you can't read and comprehend the thread before replying to it? Shocking!
My ass. PC games are notoriously unoptimized because you can throw more hardware at the problem.
Graphics APIs these days are basically just a way of get shaders into the GPU. Odds are, pretty much the same shaders are running on the PC as the console, so there's no room to 'unoptimize' them.
And, on the CPU side, I rarely see mine more than 20% used when playing games. So they're not 'unoptimized' there, either.
It will certainly be an improvement, but from what I've read they're only comparable to current mid-range PC GPUs. By the time many games are out, a high-end gaming PC will still be several times as powerful.
It costs 18.03 cents to mint those dollar coins, but only 5.4 cents to print a one dollar bill. So why exactly would they want to get rid of the paper bill?
Because coins can last for decades, whereas paper money has to be continually replaced. I'm sure I read somewhere that the Bank of England heats the building by burning old money, which is replaced by new notes.
Or have we reached a diminishing return point and/or a point where money is being spent elsewhere (consoles, mobile, tablets, etc)?
The problem is that PC games have been cripppled for years by being developed on consoles and ported to PCs. Some do take advantage of the extra power of PC GPUs, but the majority will run fine on a GPU that's several years old, because it's more powerful than the crap in the consoles.
So, you're saying we're not in the middle of a global economic disaster and the future will all just be lovely?
So you want a world where all current rental property is locked up and unavailable to anyone but the owner? And no-one lends money, because there's no point when they can't collect interest on it?
The level of economic insanity I see these days never ceases to astonish me. We should never have let AOL onto the Internet.
The Digital Revolution does not do the same thing.
Wow, I must be imagining that I'm doing a job that didn't even exist fifty years ago.
It's odd, isn't it, that the more we automate jobs away, the more jobs there are in IT?
The founders of this country knew exactly how to deal with that first problem. In fact, it was one of the first thing they did after forming our current government. It's called tariffs. Simple--something costs you $5 to make and it costs the Chinese $1 to make, there will be a $4 tariff when they try to import things into the country.
So poor people will be better off if everything they buy suddenly costs more?
You don't really think that, if companies had to start manufacturing in America instead of China, they'd be hiring humans to do that work, do you?
High-paid manufacturing jobs are gone, and they ain't coming back. Socialists just hate that because their entire philosophy is based around industrial manufacturing, and has no appeal in a future where people aren't working interchangeably on a production line.
That'll be why Austrian economicts were predicting that holding interest rates at artificially low levels and handing out mortgages to anything with a pulse would cause global economic disaster, while non-Austrian economists were saying it was all just lovely and making everyone rich forever!
Indeed. Socialists just can't cope with the idea that socialism was an industrial-era philosophy that's laughably antiquated in the 21st century.