Ideally, standards should be made by a Standards Group, not a singlular entity. As I am sure most people are aware - individual things (or companies) often do stupid things. It takes someone looking over your shoulder to make you do it right.
C# as a language itself isn't so bad. Its just Java with a bit more C and some tags. The tool they pair it with, however, is absolute crap. Visual Studio's designer, in particular, generates abysmal code. Plus, its near impossible to get Visual Studio to work with _real_ source control - you are locked into their crappy tools for life. Give me Java's, Perl's, or C++'s freedom and community over that any day.
So you think its not broken that it assumes it can't search files that aren't specifically registered with it? Other operating systems and search utilities that I have used don't have that limitation. Yes, its shiny and cool that Windows will let you register a PDF search dll so you can peek inside those, but its stupid, dumb and broken that it assumes everything that isn't registered is completely unsearchable.
Create a new text file called test.txt, or whatever. Put it somewhere. Put some unique text in the file. Use the search feature to search inside of files for that bit of text. It finds it. Now, rename that file to test.java, or anything with a.java extension. Search again. Broken.
The right to "persue happiness" does not guarantee you will actually obtain happiness. It simply means that you should have the ability to strive for it. Being poor is not a deprivation of the ability to persue happiness, they just haven't gotten there yet. Of course, being poor makes it much harder, but thats life.
Indeed - speed is nice, but if people got behind it enough the speed would have followed. The platform architecture itself was far better on the IBM side of things. Being able to add/remove processors at runtime is a sure sign of people thinking right:)
Bars here are pretty much just places to drink, eat food, dance, and play some small assortment of games like pool or darts. What I wouldn't give for a board game bar...
That the PowerPC architecture is superior to that of the X86... yeah, pretty well grounded in reality. If you read up on the specs for each you should come to the same conclusion. True, the consumer money wasn't ever really behind PowerPC, so you didn't see the same leaps in speed that you did on the Intel side of things - but really, it was just a much better designed system.
I don't think it's reasonable for society to simply tell poor parents that they are on their own when it comes to raising their children.
I think it is. If you cant afford to have kids, you are seriously doing something wrong. My parents raised three kids (myself included) with only a single high school diploma between them. I played video games, and my mother actually acted as a parent should, and raised me knowing right from wrong while my father worked and provided for us.
The world has quite enough children as it is. I would rather not have more being born from parents who have no ability to raise them properly.
It doesn't have to be written to, but RAM does require power to keep the data intact. This is generally a pretty small part of a computer's total power consumption, though. CPUs and GPUs suck juice like no other component.
That's not part of the bargain - we're all out for ourselves first.
There is no bargain. I am simply pointing out what myself, and the original objector, would like to see, as opposed to what actually happened. No more, no less.
While you may be content with a society of "cheaters", I am not. Therefore it is in my best interest to call attention to such behavior, so it can be better collectively shunned.
It implies that the poster is taking part in slashdot discussions for profit, instead of altruistic mutual enlightenment. While this is not strictly true, the complaint does have merit. Had he announced his link as a referral, then I could see it as acceptable, as he would not be attempting to pick up a buck all sly-like. But since that isn't the case, I, too, call jackass.
I've seen code and products that come out of those shops. I don't really want to be playing a game made with that same process. Neither do you, trust me.
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Ideally, standards should be made by a Standards Group, not a singlular entity. As I am sure most people are aware - individual things (or companies) often do stupid things. It takes someone looking over your shoulder to make you do it right.
C# as a language itself isn't so bad. Its just Java with a bit more C and some tags. The tool they pair it with, however, is absolute crap. Visual Studio's designer, in particular, generates abysmal code. Plus, its near impossible to get Visual Studio to work with _real_ source control - you are locked into their crappy tools for life. Give me Java's, Perl's, or C++'s freedom and community over that any day.
So you think its not broken that it assumes it can't search files that aren't specifically registered with it? Other operating systems and search utilities that I have used don't have that limitation. Yes, its shiny and cool that Windows will let you register a PDF search dll so you can peek inside those, but its stupid, dumb and broken that it assumes everything that isn't registered is completely unsearchable.
Create a new text file called test.txt, or whatever. Put it somewhere. Put some unique text in the file. Use the search feature to search inside of files for that bit of text. It finds it. Now, rename that file to test.java, or anything with a .java extension. Search again. Broken.
The right to "persue happiness" does not guarantee you will actually obtain happiness. It simply means that you should have the ability to strive for it. Being poor is not a deprivation of the ability to persue happiness, they just haven't gotten there yet. Of course, being poor makes it much harder, but thats life.
I believe most gamers generated that spontaneously from simply trying to trade wood for sheep, and realizing it was funny.
Indeed - speed is nice, but if people got behind it enough the speed would have followed. The platform architecture itself was far better on the IBM side of things. Being able to add/remove processors at runtime is a sure sign of people thinking right :)
Well, yeah, but some concessions need to be made due to its size. Heck, anywhere in wisconsin would be fine with me.
Bars here are pretty much just places to drink, eat food, dance, and play some small assortment of games like pool or darts. What I wouldn't give for a board game bar ...
Precisely what GenCon is - its all about the geeks. Now if it would only move back to Milwaukee, where it belongs ...
That the PowerPC architecture is superior to that of the X86 ... yeah, pretty well grounded in reality. If you read up on the specs for each you should come to the same conclusion. True, the consumer money wasn't ever really behind PowerPC, so you didn't see the same leaps in speed that you did on the Intel side of things - but really, it was just a much better designed system.
Wait ... VB a plus point for Microsoft? You know, you almost had me up until that one.
Since when did slashdot start liking Intel over PowerPC?
I was with you up until the Borg crew members. The borg have been pussified enough as it is. Leave them with what little bad-ass-ness they have left.
The world has quite enough children as it is. I would rather not have more being born from parents who have no ability to raise them properly.
That, or just stick some javascript in there telling IE7 users that they aren't using a supported browser :)
Have you seen ING's savings accounts?
http://home.ingdirect.com/products/products.asp
If nothing else, it keeps you up with inflation.
It doesn't have to be written to, but RAM does require power to keep the data intact. This is generally a pretty small part of a computer's total power consumption, though. CPUs and GPUs suck juice like no other component.
Food is like this too, and most governments seem to have the idea to regulate things and make sure people can eat.
I wasn't a customer of EA ... then they bought Westwood Studios.
Im sorry, but nowhere in the constitution does it mention the right to go on a field trip.
No, people are failing at common sense.
That's not part of the bargain - we're all out for ourselves first.
There is no bargain. I am simply pointing out what myself, and the original objector, would like to see, as opposed to what actually happened. No more, no less.
While you may be content with a society of "cheaters", I am not. Therefore it is in my best interest to call attention to such behavior, so it can be better collectively shunned.
It implies that the poster is taking part in slashdot discussions for profit, instead of altruistic mutual enlightenment. While this is not strictly true, the complaint does have merit. Had he announced his link as a referral, then I could see it as acceptable, as he would not be attempting to pick up a buck all sly-like. But since that isn't the case, I, too, call jackass.
I've seen code and products that come out of those shops. I don't really want to be playing a game made with that same process. Neither do you, trust me.