I boycotted Steam for the first few years when it came out. Precisely because it sucked for the reasons you said.
10 years, 334 games, and many gamer friends later Steam works surprisingly well. EA has their piece of crap Origin, Microsoft aborted its Games For Windows Live; I think I'll stick with Steam.
> If you live with a double-standard, however, and will not kill animals yourself, yet do not consider it "wrong" to eat them, you live a life of inconsistent logic down at the fundamental level of basic survival.
Nonsense.
I am conservative with myself, AND liberal with others.
There is no paradox except the fallacy of assuming truth is binary.
> It's bad to kill and eat an animal, but good to kill and eat a plant ?
For some vegetarians the point is to do as little damage as possible. For others it is a spiritual decision. And for some vegetarians it is a health decision, since eating plants you never have to worry about mad cow disease, etc.
It isn't a black and white issue that you assume it is.
> Double standards I fucking hate them.
Next less ranting, and more thinking. You might actually learn something.
The problem is once you start allow tacit consent for compiling with C++ next thing you know people start either explicitly, or implicitly using C++ features.
Sad that they felt the stricter type checking wasn't worth it.
BeOS used C++. Microsoft Windows uses C++ -- albeit with the CRT (C Run Time) library separated.
Linus hates C++ for kernel development because C++ can't guarantee a binary API from one compiler to the next due to shitty non-standardized name mangling. The C++ committee would rather add a 2D graphics API that no one cares about to the language libs then focus on binary compatibility.
"It seems as though we must use sometimes the one theory and sometimes the other, while at times we may use either. We are faced with a new kind of difficulty. We have two contradictory pictures of reality; separately neither of them fully explains the phenomena of light, but together they do".
I miss reading Ayn Rand rants but her logic has numerous fallacies:
*Truth isn't binary. * One truth does not negate another truth.
Proof: Paradox.
Example: Light (photons) behave like a particle, AND a wave. BOTH are true.
Likewise, in reality both sides have partial truth which is which it is so difficulty to _actually_ determine the truth -- you have to separate it from the falsehood.
The Gutenberg Discontinuity, is the boundary, as detected by changes in seismic waves, between the Earth's lower mantle and the outer core about 1800 miles below the surface. It is also called the core-mantle boundary. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
> This makes it harder to determine which bar is active and which is for a given window.
I never had any problems on BeOS. Besides, you can color code the window title to visually tell what is the active and non-active titles.
> 5. I suppose, but a stupid option. This is the #1 reason I don't and won't use a Mac.
In my college days I used the NeXT machines. They had a floating vertical menu that you could position anywhere. It was sweet.
My main work machine is OSX. You'll selling yourself short. I thought I would hate the single menu bar across multiple monitors but with all the apps I run, getting back the menu bar for EACH window adds up.
Regardless, the correct option for UI is to chose defaults and allow options for the power users so they can tweak it.
Microsoft _could_ have a kick-ass UI if they weren't so interested in dumbing everything down. Treat the users with some _respect_ instead of idiots. But Microsoft doesn't care. Too much Apple envy.
What's is really strange is that I just posted this a few hours earlier...
> LOL. Microsoft admit they were wrong or clueless? That's funny! > They just release a new version with revised function, form, and don't talk about the previous version hoping that it will eventually go away.
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I boycotted Steam for the first few years when it came out. Precisely because it sucked for the reasons you said.
10 years, 334 games, and many gamer friends later Steam works surprisingly well. EA has their piece of crap Origin, Microsoft aborted its Games For Windows Live; I think I'll stick with Steam.
/sarcasm Awww, but knee-jerk reaction is so much fun ... :-)
Steam shows me ads for _games_ when I log in. Some look interesting so I'll add them to my wishlist for when they go on sale.
I'll tolerate the ads on Steam because they show ONE THING that I'm interested in: Games.
If they started showing ads for other shit there would be a huge uproar.
So fail? It depends on the
a) Audience
b) The *type* of ads -- HOW relevant are they?
Like all things Valve does on Valve Time, Steam is _slowly_ getting better so I'd imagine this will get fixed ... eventually.
At least we can give a thumbs up or down to games. The ability to write reviews takes advantage of the best kind of marketing:
Word of Mouth.
"You can take people out of politics,
But you can't take politics out of people."
Why?
Because politics is just another form of applied philosophy.
You'll have proof when you are dead.
> If that kind of thing started up it would be nipped in the bud.....
I see what you did there .. :-)
Why do you _assume_ your interests speak for the 100% ??
Politics is not black and white. There are pro's and con's for every side.
You do realize consciousness is an intrinsic property and not only limited to humans, right?
Exactly.
The experiment should be opt in.
NOT opt out or in Fazebook's (sic.) case "not given a choice to opt in/out."
> If you live with a double-standard, however, and will not kill animals yourself, yet do not consider it "wrong" to eat them, you live a life of inconsistent logic down at the fundamental level of basic survival.
Nonsense.
I am conservative with myself, AND liberal with others.
There is no paradox except the fallacy of assuming truth is binary.
> It's bad to kill and eat an animal, but good to kill and eat a plant ?
For some vegetarians the point is to do as little damage as possible.
For others it is a spiritual decision.
And for some vegetarians it is a health decision, since eating plants you never have to worry about mad cow disease, etc.
It isn't a black and white issue that you assume it is.
> Double standards I fucking hate them.
Next less ranting, and more thinking. You might actually learn something.
The problem is once you start allow tacit consent for compiling with C++ next thing you know people start either explicitly, or implicitly using C++ features.
Sad that they felt the stricter type checking wasn't worth it.
BeOS used C++. Microsoft Windows uses C++ -- albeit with the CRT (C Run Time) library separated.
Linus hates C++ for kernel development because C++ can't guarantee a binary API from one compiler to the next due to shitty non-standardized name mangling. The C++ committee would rather add a 2D graphics API that no one cares about to the language libs then focus on binary compatibility.
Did you miss the whole wave particle duality conflict in the beginning of the 20th century where Einstein said:
"It seems as though we must use sometimes the one theory and sometimes the other, while at times we may use either. We are faced with a new kind of difficulty. We have two contradictory pictures of reality; separately neither of them fully explains the phenomena of light, but together they do".
Indeed. :-)
I miss reading Ayn Rand rants but her logic has numerous fallacies:
*Truth isn't binary.
* One truth does not negate another truth.
Proof: Paradox.
Example: Light (photons) behave like a particle, AND a wave. BOTH are true.
Likewise, in reality both sides have partial truth which is which it is so difficulty to _actually_ determine the truth -- you have to separate it from the falsehood.
Ah the days of double sided floppy disks where you could get another 140K on Apple ][. :-)
140K = 35 tracks * 16 sectors * 256 bytes/sector
Of course the coolest hack was to add a "write-protect" switch to the drive :-)
http://apple2online.com/web_do...
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Grumpy gamer: Get off my LAN
That reminds me of an old joke ...
There is
* His side,
* Her side,
* And the truth in the middle.
Mod parent +1 informative.
... let alone understand it ? /sarcasm Naive ...
The continual bloat of _registry_ is the cause of the problem. That is not going away anytime soon.
Hmm, so why don't Unix machines have this problem ... gee, maybe because they don't use a single bloated binary config file.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...
The Gutenberg Discontinuity, is the boundary, as detected by changes in seismic waves, between the Earth's lower mantle and the outer core about 1800 miles below the surface. It is also called the core-mantle boundary.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
You'll have proof by 2024.
> This makes it harder to determine which bar is active and which is for a given window.
I never had any problems on BeOS. Besides, you can color code the window title to visually tell what is the active and non-active titles.
> 5. I suppose, but a stupid option. This is the #1 reason I don't and won't use a Mac.
In my college days I used the NeXT machines. They had a floating vertical menu that you could position anywhere. It was sweet.
My main work machine is OSX. You'll selling yourself short. I thought I would hate the single menu bar across multiple monitors but with all the apps I run, getting back the menu bar for EACH window adds up.
Regardless, the correct option for UI is to chose defaults and allow options for the power users so they can tweak it.
Microsoft _could_ have a kick-ass UI if they weren't so interested in dumbing everything down. Treat the users with some _respect_ instead of idiots. But Microsoft doesn't care. Too much Apple envy.
What's is really strange is that I just posted this a few hours earlier ...