> The C++ committee isn't "retarded" simply because you don't understand what they do or why. They are experienced and battle hardened.
BZZZT. Thanks for Playing.
1. C++ has become such over-engineered bloated crap that even the committee members themselves admit that they only uses a sub-set of it
2. This is the same committee that officially recognizes iostreams' performance is shit. When a committee member admits "... fixing iostreams which I hate in all its forms." you know something is rotten in Denmark.
3. The C++ committee is so far out of touch with reality that they wanted to add a 2D graphics APICairo to the language./sarcasm Gee, if only we had a cross-platform graphics library that has been around for 20+ years.Oh WAIT, we already do -- let's ignore OpenGL and invent Yet-Another-Standard that no one gives a fuck about.
That would be a god send if it was standardized across platforms: Win, Linux, OSX. Gee, how did *nix solve this problem?:-)
>control over C++ ABI
Agreed. Except the retarded C++ committee doesn't think this is important. Every C++ compiler can call C code generated by ANY compiler but you MUST only call a.lib compiled with the SAME compiler. It is utterly stupid that in 2017 there is STILL no support for an Application Binary Interface.
Oh, look some Arrogant Cunt who likes to pretend they knows people's life and motivation better they do! You don't speak for every one so get off your fucking high horse pretending you do.
Just because you haven't faced the fact that you one day you WILL die doesn't imply that everyone is just as immature as you. Some of us are OK with the fact that one day we will no longer be here.
And before our time is up some of us are wiling to sacrifice our lives for the advancement of knowledge.
Others want to do it for fame: To be immortalized as the first human to walk on Mars.
Whatever the reason, stop pretending you know the mindset of a pioneer / explorer. You're not qualified to judge people.
Yes, going to Mars is a shit ton of work. Some of the volunteers who want to go _already_ know that.
> or any of a million things available only on Earth that they take for granted and can never do again.
*Yawn*
All of those things are boring-as-fuck. I'd rather be coding.
Anyways this whole discussion will be entirely moot ~2024.
I didn't care for it at first -- I really miss the old theme "Born Depressed" as the lyrics are crystal clear and fit perfectly. Over time the new song did grow on me though and it's a OK choice.
100% agree what the viewer is just "over-loaded" from the get go -- by the time your brain gets "in sync" with the audio and visuals it is all over. I agree that the lyrics are really hard to get into as well.
I also found that the new animation style grew on me -- I didn't at first. BUT:
1. What kills it for me is that I just wish there was a ~2 second "build up" to pull the viewer along, instead of shooting off leaving them behind and they go scratching their heads "Uh, WTF just happened?"
2. There is just TOO much of it to follow along, you barely get time to digest the last part before you're floored with new stuff. "WAIT? WHAT was that? That looked kind of neat." I guess we're in the age of the "ADHD Intros" -- where there is so much shit going on that you are forced to watch multiple times to get it all. I blame Hulk (2003) for starting this crappy hyper sensory overload trend that has infected everything.
I guess what I'ms saying is that I really wish the timing of the animation was slowed down by ~40% to make it easier to follow along. I guess they didn't want to drag the new intro. out TOO long butI believe there is a better balance to be struck somewhere in the middle.
With some more attention paid to pacing I think the new intro could work. Right now it just seems to be a rush job. Correct me if I'm wrong but I also agree with the jist of what you are also saying: "Oh Look! Here's some After Effects effects! SHINEY!"
Still, it's "Jim Fucking Sterling, Son" and thankfully the intro. isn't why we are there.:-)
TL:DR; Pacing too fast, Flashy but lacks substance, Lyrics too hard to make out
P.S. Oh Wow -- looks like others were same the same thing and they started making some changes!!
That's incorrect. Why do you think people Sono-Subs ???
First, it is NOT about volume.
Second, using a larger driver provides two key benefits:
* Efficiency -- a larger driver has to work LESS to move the same VOLUME of air as a smaller driver. Which leads to me next point.
* Less Distortion -- a larger driver typically has less distortion then a smaller driver via the fact that it typically has to work less.
> The lack of actual cabinetry to promulgate bass energy is a much bigger problem
Definitely a huge problem. A larger driver requires a larger cabinet -- which is necessary for the lower extension. Maybe you don't care ~20 Hz, but I do -- and so do many movies when they go BELOW 20 Hz. (Yes, you _can't_ hear below 20 Hz, but you most certainly can FEEL it.)
I'd be VERY curious to see the SPL vs Freq. graph for the HomePod and the Hz where it falls off at. I'd be willing to bet it starts to fall off around ~55 Hz.
> Tannoy DC-10 DC-10A. Those are $8-16k speakers
I've haven't listened to those Tannoys -- but a friend of my brother has Tannoy Horns. Wonderful speakers.
But what does this have to do with the price of Tea in China ??? You DON'T need to spend north of 8 grand to have a 10" driver. Have you actually LOOKED at ANY subs in the past 10 years???
Hell, VTF subs are less then a grand each.
* VTF1 MK3 has al 10" driver for $399. * VTF3 MK3 has a 15" driver for $799.
> Small rooms cant accommodate 10 inch drivers. It's just going to be far too loud.
Again, it ISN'T about volume but about clean, efficient bass.
I can't believe Apple "innovated" a black screen inside the car. Joking aside...
* The wider color gamut on the MacBook Pro is nice -- just wish they said if they supported a native 9-bit / channel or 10-bit / channel or are they stuck with 24-bit color ?
* Nice to see Apple finally taking 120 Hz serious on the iPad Pro.
* 20 ms latency on the Pencil is a good step in the right direction. Technically you want sub 8 ms time (1000 / 120 = 8.33 ms)
* The iMac Pro looks nice... but are expensive as hell. $4,999
Considering Silicon can't scale past ~5 GHz, whereas GaAs can scale to 500+ GHz I see this as a stop-gap solution. Sure, 5 nm will allow for more cores on a die, but single-threaded performance is STILL a bottleneck. No one seems to looking at the long game -- bio-computing -- due to the Billions invested in existing infrastructure.
At some point we need to ditch Silicon -- this is just keeping it on its dying (performance) legs.
* MacBook Pro -- STILL limited to 16 GB ? Really? * It supports a wide color gamut -- what about 9-bit / channel or 10-bit / channel ??? * Radeon GPU? UGH, I where is the nVidia GPU option to run CUDA code?
* Sooo, what happened to the Mac Pro ? Thanks for giving us the finger Apple.
* No new Mac Minis ?
* iMac Pro -- at $4,999 isn't this just another Mac Pro ?
* If Apple was serious about games -- the could EASILY blow Microsoft and Sony out of the water. WHERE is the gamepad??? Or the ability to use Android / PS4 gamepads?
* HomePod -- You guys don't understand bass at all. I have a 12" driver on my sub. Why would I downgrade to a wimpy 4" driver ???
I love my MacBook Pro -- but Apple really is becoming more clueless.
I work for a Fortune 50 company and that 100% sums up my experience as well. Bugzilla may be "dated" but every else is even crappier. At one game job I've used TestTrack. Bugzilla just works.
EVERYTHING in Jira is slow and OVER-ENGINEERED. i.e. In Jira how many times have you accidentally created a "story" instead of a "bug"? Uploading screenshots is still a PITA. The entire workflow -- holy crap -- how do you screw this up this bad???
But management has to keep trying to justify sniffing the Atlassian glue (and price tag). Supposedly we get:
* Confluence -- oh look another proprietary MarkDown / Wiki instead of the standard, open source, MediaWiki, * Jira -- what's wrong with BugZilla again? * HipChat -- oh wait we've migrated to Slack now. How many fucking times does IRC keep need to get re-invented??? * BitBucket -- oh wait we never used that since we migrated from SVN to GitHub Enterprise
So what is the "advantage" of the Atlassian suite again??? But I guess corporate would rather keep wasting money on proprietary crap instead of using one of the many open source projects that are more then "good enough."
-- Fuck You EU and Twitter for your bullshit Political Censorship games.
I'm not sure I would go THAT far and make that judgement -- but it certainly seems to fit with people being blissfully unaware of how the companies are data mining the shit out of them and profiting off that very information that people _willingly_ give to the companies in the first place!
Technology is neither evil, nor good -- the exact same technology can be used for good, or abused just as equally.
The fundamental problem is people are NOT conscious of the choices they are making.
People have become "The Product" via "free" apps, don't understand how "Social Media" such as FecesBook track them, and the big 3 -- Apple / Google / Microsoft -- do not give a shit about your privacy -- because they are too busy making money hand over fist over providing a "convenient" service to you. They will only do the bare minimum to comply with the Law.
We have no legal guarantees that your own data will not be abused, or used against you.
The bigger moral question is, and should be:
Why are they collecting this information in the first place?
The scarier question is:
Why don't most people care? Why are they so blind to how potentially this is rife for abuse
Have we become that lazy as a species that we no longer cares who spys on us??? We just blindly accept whatever bullshit corporations and government tell us -- and when they get caught with their pants downabsolutely nothing happens???
i.e. WTF does a game even need access to your Contacts??? Why isn't there _fine_ grained control over what permissions I can give an app?
We have completely forgotten the wisdom of Abraham Lincoln
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
And Thomas Paine
It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government.
But alas, those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.
Gee, if only there was a place that consolidated information and was discoverable. I know! I'll "link" information together forming a network. Now there could be a multiple networks -- so we could call the network of networks, an Intra-Net.
Timeline of LG
* 1947 Lak-Hui Chemical Industrial Corp established * 1958 Goldstar established * 1958 Lucky-Goldstar merge * 1995 Lucky-GoldStar Corporation renamed to "LG"
Instead of adding crap that no one wants how about fixing the stuff that people actually DO want? Like respecting the user's choice to turn off forced updates.
> People were bitching about games being monochrome saying that 16 color monitors were pointless back in the day.
I'll calling shenanigans on this.
Everyone hooked their (8-bit) computers (Apple ][, C64, Atari 400/800) up to the our CRT TV's so we could play our games in COLOR. i.e. Try playing the Apple 2 game Gumball on a monochrome screen.
* Monochrome provided for **higher** resolution output, usually in with a vector monitor, like Asteroids.
* No one was complaining that 1-bit color (monochrome) was "good enough" compared to 4-bit color. Everyone wanted **more** color not less. VGA with its 18-bit palette and 8-bit pixels was finally "good" enough, albeit at a low resolution of 320x200.
What people **were** complaining about was that color had "blurry" / "fuzzy" text. The Hercules Graphics Card had a resolution of 720 x 348 and natively supported MDA's 9x14 font -- compared to CGA's crappy 8x8 glyphs.
In 2017, guess what, color monitors STILL suck. I want a monitor that can do:
* 120 Hz * support 4K resolution * support 12-bit/channel
> I'm sure many long time readers here will attest to this that RadioShack for many years has lost its way.
Indeed.
> There was an episode of Seinfeld in the 90s where they made fun of RadioShack for asking for your phone number when you buy batteries.
Perfect textbook-case example!
I didn't realize how bad their complete lack of respect was until ~2001 when a friend was buying something trivial from them. His response to the telephone question was "Cash customer." I thought that was a very clever and polite way to say "Fuck Off with your Marketing bullshit already!"
The Clerk didn't even blink and continued the sale.
> A product selection that was out of date with what was available on the market and prices that were unreasonably high. Even with their 90% discount on component electronics and maker stuff, I still wasn't interested in buying what they had left because it was still no better than online pricing.
Yup, you've succinctly nailed the 2 reasons why Radio Shack failed.
> RatShack (Its pet names go way back)
WHOA, haven't heard that in a LONG time.
The one we used was "RadioShit".. because they were slowly turning to crap and seemed to be completely oblivious to the sinking of the Titanic.
Everyone whines that "Internet is killing Brick-and-Mortar stores" -- but considering I don't have to deal with pushy salespeople, or completely CLUELESS sales people (I"m looking at you "Worst Buy") -- then you didn't have to be a Kreskin to know that Radio Shack's primary failure was the inability to adapt.
Why didn't RadioShack become the next DigiKey ? Why didn't they hire knowledgeable people ?
They were so focused on the bottom line that they became the bottom.
-- Fuck You Red Cross for hijacking the color red, and the + operator hundreds of years AFTER the Templars.
> Netflix... maybe, later after they buy Comcast in 10 years.
Wishful thinking doesn't change reality no matter how much we wish it was true. As much as I hate to "defend" Comcast, let's take a look at the facts shall we:
* Comcast is a Fortune 37 company with a Market cap of 190 Billion, Revenue is $8,163 Million, Assets $166,574 Million.
* Netflix is a Fortune 379 company with a Market cap of 70 Billion, Revenue is $123 Million, Assets $10,203 Million.
Netflix buying a company that has 66x their revenue and 16x their assets within 10 years LOL, yeah right. Not going to happen. But I have a bridge to sell you...
Netflix can't afford the License renewal fees -- so they started making their own original shows. Netflix is not interested in streaming live sporting events. They also don't own any of the physical infrastructure that the cable guys do. All Netflix does is leech off of the existing internet infrastructure of everyone else. Netflix buying an ISP is ridiculous at best. They are in a completely different market space.
The bigger question is "Why hasn't Comcast already bought Netflix?" The answer, I suspect, is that because they already own a 30% stake in Hulu
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> I don't understand why Apple is resisting the Vulkan API
Because Apple suffers from Not Invented Here (NIH) syndrome.
Sometimes they are correct, others times no.
If they would just fix their shitty OpenGL 4.5 support everyone would be happier instead of inventing yet-another-standard
> The C++ committee isn't "retarded" simply because you don't understand what they do or why. They are experienced and battle hardened.
BZZZT. Thanks for Playing.
1. C++ has become such over-engineered bloated crap that even the committee members themselves admit that they only uses a sub-set of it
2. This is the same committee that officially recognizes iostreams' performance is shit. When a committee member admits "... fixing iostreams which I hate in all its forms." you know something is rotten in Denmark.
3. The C++ committee is so far out of touch with reality that they wanted to add a 2D graphics API Cairo to the language. /sarcasm Gee, if only we had a cross-platform graphics library that has been around for 20+ years. Oh WAIT, we already do -- let's ignore OpenGL and invent Yet-Another-Standard that no one gives a fuck about.
4. When are modules coming again???
5. Bjarne Stroustrup was so far out-of-touch with modern hardware of the L1 cache that he was surprised to learn that doubly linked lists give shitty cache usage.
Here's a nickel kid, buy yourself a clue.
> They know full well that they simply can't drive through a change, because they have no power to ...
It is not fucking rocket science to standardize name mangling per (hardware) platform -- but keep making excuses for your ignorance.
> ... your a retard moran".
Pro-Tip: Only a moron misspells "moran"
Here's another nickel kid -- buy yourself a spelling and grammar checker.
> it needs dependency management
I would argue it first needs modules (PDF) modules (2016 CPPcon), something that Pascal solved 29 years ago
> Multiple versions locally that don't conflict
That would be a god send if it was standardized across platforms: Win, Linux, OSX. Gee, how did *nix solve this problem? :-)
>control over C++ ABI
Agreed. Except the retarded C++ committee doesn't think this is important. Every C++ compiler can call C code generated by ANY compiler but you MUST only call a .lib compiled with the SAME compiler. It is utterly stupid that in 2017 there is STILL no support for an Application Binary Interface.
Oh, look some Arrogant Cunt who likes to pretend they knows people's life and motivation better they do! You don't speak for every one so get off your fucking high horse pretending you do.
Just because you haven't faced the fact that you one day you WILL die doesn't imply that everyone is just as immature as you. Some of us are OK with the fact that one day we will no longer be here.
And before our time is up some of us are wiling to sacrifice our lives for the advancement of knowledge.
Others want to do it for fame: To be immortalized as the first human to walk on Mars.
Whatever the reason, stop pretending you know the mindset of a pioneer / explorer. You're not qualified to judge people.
Yes, going to Mars is a shit ton of work. Some of the volunteers who want to go _already_ know that.
> or any of a million things available only on Earth that they take for granted and can never do again.
*Yawn*
All of those things are boring-as-fuck. I'd rather be coding.
Anyways this whole discussion will be entirely moot ~2024.
How many fucking times does IRC need to keep getting re-invented?
I didn't care for it at first -- I really miss the old theme "Born Depressed" as the lyrics are crystal clear and fit perfectly. Over time the new song did grow on me though and it's a OK choice.
100% agree what the viewer is just "over-loaded" from the get go -- by the time your brain gets "in sync" with the audio and visuals it is all over. I agree that the lyrics are really hard to get into as well.
I also found that the new animation style grew on me -- I didn't at first. BUT:
1. What kills it for me is that I just wish there was a ~2 second "build up" to pull the viewer along, instead of shooting off leaving them behind and they go scratching their heads "Uh, WTF just happened?"
2. There is just TOO much of it to follow along, you barely get time to digest the last part before you're floored with new stuff. "WAIT? WHAT was that? That looked kind of neat." I guess we're in the age of the "ADHD Intros" -- where there is so much shit going on that you are forced to watch multiple times to get it all. I blame Hulk (2003) for starting this crappy hyper sensory overload trend that has infected everything.
I guess what I'ms saying is that I really wish the timing of the animation was slowed down by ~40% to make it easier to follow along. I guess they didn't want to drag the new intro. out TOO long butI believe there is a better balance to be struck somewhere in the middle.
With some more attention paid to pacing I think the new intro could work. Right now it just seems to be a rush job. Correct me if I'm wrong but I also agree with the jist of what you are also saying: "Oh Look! Here's some After Effects effects! SHINEY!"
Still, it's "Jim Fucking Sterling, Son" and thankfully the intro. isn't why we are there. :-)
TL:DR; Pacing too fast, Flashy but lacks substance, Lyrics too hard to make out
P.S.
Oh Wow -- looks like others were same the same thing and they started making some changes!!
The latest intro is MUCH better. Compare:
Mod Theft Auto (The Jimquisition)
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
to
Goodbye Greenlight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Between Fuck Konami, "Oh Ubishit", and 17th century aristocrat ... "Thank God Jim Sterling" :-)
What do you think of the new opening song?
> Driver size doesn't meaningfully limit bass response.
That's incorrect. Why do you think people Sono-Subs ???
First, it is NOT about volume.
Second, using a larger driver provides two key benefits:
* Efficiency -- a larger driver has to work LESS to move the same VOLUME of air as a smaller driver. Which leads to me next point.
* Less Distortion -- a larger driver typically has less distortion then a smaller driver via the fact that it typically has to work less.
> The lack of actual cabinetry to promulgate bass energy is a much bigger problem
Definitely a huge problem. A larger driver requires a larger cabinet -- which is necessary for the lower extension. Maybe you don't care ~20 Hz, but I do -- and so do many movies when they go BELOW 20 Hz. (Yes, you _can't_ hear below 20 Hz, but you most certainly can FEEL it.)
I'd be VERY curious to see the SPL vs Freq. graph for the HomePod and the Hz where it falls off at. I'd be willing to bet it starts to fall off around ~55 Hz.
> Tannoy DC-10 DC-10A. Those are $8-16k speakers
I've haven't listened to those Tannoys -- but a friend of my brother has Tannoy Horns. Wonderful speakers.
But what does this have to do with the price of Tea in China ??? You DON'T need to spend north of 8 grand to have a 10" driver. Have you actually LOOKED at ANY subs in the past 10 years???
Hell, VTF subs are less then a grand each.
* VTF1 MK3 has al 10" driver for $399.
* VTF3 MK3 has a 15" driver for $799.
> Small rooms cant accommodate 10 inch drivers. It's just going to be far too loud.
Again, it ISN'T about volume but about clean, efficient bass.
The HomePod doesn't sound all that great.
I can't believe Apple "innovated" a black screen inside the car. Joking aside ...
* The wider color gamut on the MacBook Pro is nice -- just wish they said if they supported a native 9-bit / channel or 10-bit / channel or are they stuck with 24-bit color ?
* Nice to see Apple finally taking 120 Hz serious on the iPad Pro.
* 20 ms latency on the Pencil is a good step in the right direction. Technically you want sub 8 ms time (1000 / 120 = 8.33 ms)
* The iMac Pro looks nice ... but are expensive as hell. $4,999
> What do yall think of their 5nm claim?
Considering Silicon can't scale past ~5 GHz, whereas GaAs can scale to 500+ GHz I see this as a stop-gap solution. Sure, 5 nm will allow for more cores on a die, but single-threaded performance is STILL a bottleneck. No one seems to looking at the long game -- bio-computing -- due to the Billions invested in existing infrastructure.
At some point we need to ditch Silicon -- this is just keeping it on its dying (performance) legs.
I have a Rythmik F15 sub with a 15" driver.
I can't imagine listening to bass on a wimpy 4" driver. You want at _least_ a 10" driver for music, bigger for movies.
Who is this targeted at? All the iHipsters who thinks Beats headphones sound good??
* MacBook Pro -- STILL limited to 16 GB ? Really?
* It supports a wide color gamut -- what about 9-bit / channel or 10-bit / channel ???
* Radeon GPU? UGH, I where is the nVidia GPU option to run CUDA code?
* Sooo, what happened to the Mac Pro ? Thanks for giving us the finger Apple.
* No new Mac Minis ?
* iMac Pro -- at $4,999 isn't this just another Mac Pro ?
* If Apple was serious about games -- the could EASILY blow Microsoft and Sony out of the water. WHERE is the gamepad??? Or the ability to use Android / PS4 gamepads?
* HomePod -- You guys don't understand bass at all. I have a 12" driver on my sub. Why would I downgrade to a wimpy 4" driver ???
I love my MacBook Pro -- but Apple really is becoming more clueless.
I work for a Fortune 50 company and that 100% sums up my experience as well. Bugzilla may be "dated" but every else is even crappier. At one game job I've used TestTrack. Bugzilla just works.
EVERYTHING in Jira is slow and OVER-ENGINEERED. i.e. In Jira how many times have you accidentally created a "story" instead of a "bug"? Uploading screenshots is still a PITA. The entire workflow -- holy crap -- how do you screw this up this bad???
But management has to keep trying to justify sniffing the Atlassian glue (and price tag). Supposedly we get:
* Confluence -- oh look another proprietary MarkDown / Wiki instead of the standard, open source, MediaWiki,
* Jira -- what's wrong with BugZilla again?
* HipChat -- oh wait we've migrated to Slack now. How many fucking times does IRC keep need to get re-invented???
* BitBucket -- oh wait we never used that since we migrated from SVN to GitHub Enterprise
So what is the "advantage" of the Atlassian suite again??? But I guess corporate would rather keep wasting money on proprietary crap instead of using one of the many open source projects that are more then "good enough."
--
Fuck You EU and Twitter for your bullshit Political Censorship games.
> The argument against basic income is not about laziness, it's where the money comes from.
^ THIS.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul means that eventually you run out of other people's money.
I'm not sure I would go THAT far and make that judgement -- but it certainly seems to fit with people being blissfully unaware of how the companies are data mining the shit out of them and profiting off that very information that people _willingly_ give to the companies in the first place!
Technology is neither evil, nor good -- the exact same technology can be used for good, or abused just as equally.
The fundamental problem is people are NOT conscious of the choices they are making.
People have become "The Product" via "free" apps, don't understand how "Social Media" such as FecesBook track them, and the big 3 -- Apple / Google / Microsoft -- do not give a shit about your privacy -- because they are too busy making money hand over fist over providing a "convenient" service to you. They will only do the bare minimum to comply with the Law.
We have no legal guarantees that your own data will not be abused, or used against you.
The bigger moral question is, and should be:
Why are they collecting this information in the first place?
The scarier question is:
Why don't most people care? Why are they so blind to how potentially this is rife for abuse
Have we become that lazy as a species that we no longer cares who spys on us??? We just blindly accept whatever bullshit corporations and government tell us -- and when they get caught with their pants down absolutely nothing happens???
i.e.
WTF does a game even need access to your Contacts???
Why isn't there _fine_ grained control over what permissions I can give an app?
We have completely forgotten the wisdom of Abraham Lincoln
And Thomas Paine
But alas, those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.
> WTF is an "LG"
Gee, if only there was a place that consolidated information and was discoverable. I know! I'll "link" information together forming a network. Now there could be a multiple networks -- so we could call the network of networks, an Intra-Net.
Timeline of LG
* 1947 Lak-Hui Chemical Industrial Corp established
* 1958 Goldstar established
* 1958 Lucky-Goldstar merge
* 1995 Lucky-GoldStar Corporation renamed to "LG"
References:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
With apologies to Ben Franklin:
His original quote is
Is this the same Theatre Security Airport (TSA) that gave us this bullshit ?
Airport Logic
3 oz + 3 oz + 3 oz = Allowed
9 oz = Not allowed
--
When did the USA turn into a land of wussies?
Instead of adding crap that no one wants how about fixing the stuff that people actually DO want? Like respecting the user's choice to turn off forced updates.
https://community.skype.com/t5...
Considering we already have movie written entirely by an artificial ignorance last year, Sunspring (2016), yeah, it isn't TOO far off.
* https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
Note: It's crap but still a milestone.
Other notables include:
* https://vimeo.com/61686359
* https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
* https://entertainment.slashdot...
> People were bitching about games being monochrome saying that 16 color monitors were pointless back in the day.
I'll calling shenanigans on this.
Everyone hooked their (8-bit) computers (Apple ][, C64, Atari 400/800) up to the our CRT TV's so we could play our games in COLOR. i.e. Try playing the Apple 2 game Gumball on a monochrome screen.
* Monochrome provided for **higher** resolution output, usually in with a vector monitor, like Asteroids.
* No one was complaining that 1-bit color (monochrome) was "good enough" compared to 4-bit color. Everyone wanted **more** color not less. VGA with its 18-bit palette and 8-bit pixels was finally "good" enough, albeit at a low resolution of 320x200.
What people **were** complaining about was that color had "blurry" / "fuzzy" text. The Hercules Graphics Card had a resolution of 720 x 348 and natively supported MDA's 9x14 font -- compared to CGA's crappy 8x8 glyphs.
In 2017, guess what, color monitors STILL suck. I want a monitor that can do:
* 120 Hz
* support 4K resolution
* support 12-bit/channel
And costs less then $500.
> I'm sure many long time readers here will attest to this that RadioShack for many years has lost its way.
Indeed.
> There was an episode of Seinfeld in the 90s where they made fun of RadioShack for asking for your phone number when you buy batteries.
Perfect textbook-case example!
I didn't realize how bad their complete lack of respect was until ~2001 when a friend was buying something trivial from them. His response to the telephone question was "Cash customer." I thought that was a very clever and polite way to say "Fuck Off with your Marketing bullshit already!"
The Clerk didn't even blink and continued the sale.
> A product selection that was out of date with what was available on the market and prices that were unreasonably high. Even with their 90% discount on component electronics and maker stuff, I still wasn't interested in buying what they had left because it was still no better than online pricing.
Yup, you've succinctly nailed the 2 reasons why Radio Shack failed.
> RatShack (Its pet names go way back)
WHOA, haven't heard that in a LONG time.
The one we used was "RadioShit" .. because they were slowly turning to crap and seemed to be completely oblivious to the sinking of the Titanic.
Everyone whines that "Internet is killing Brick-and-Mortar stores" -- but considering I don't have to deal with pushy salespeople, or completely CLUELESS sales people (I"m looking at you "Worst Buy") -- then you didn't have to be a Kreskin to know that Radio Shack's primary failure was the inability to adapt.
Why didn't RadioShack become the next DigiKey ?
Why didn't they hire knowledgeable people ?
They were so focused on the bottom line that they became the bottom.
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Fuck You Red Cross for hijacking the color red, and the + operator hundreds of years AFTER the Templars.
> Do any real unix filesystems ...
What is your criteria to evaluate a "pseudo" unix from a "real" unix??
> ... unix filesystems have magic filenames?
Uh, what do you think
are?
Reference:
What are reserved filenames for various platforms?"
> Netflix ... maybe, later after they buy Comcast in 10 years.
Wishful thinking doesn't change reality no matter how much we wish it was true. As much as I hate to "defend" Comcast, let's take a look at the facts shall we:
* Comcast is a Fortune 37 company with a Market cap of 190 Billion, Revenue is $8,163 Million, Assets $166,574 Million.
* Netflix is a Fortune 379 company with a Market cap of 70 Billion, Revenue is $123 Million, Assets $10,203 Million.
Netflix buying a company that has 66x their revenue and 16x their assets within 10 years LOL, yeah right. Not going to happen. But I have a bridge to sell you ...
Netflix can't afford the License renewal fees -- so they started making their own original shows. Netflix is not interested in streaming live sporting events. They also don't own any of the physical infrastructure that the cable guys do. All Netflix does is leech off of the existing internet infrastructure of everyone else. Netflix buying an ISP is ridiculous at best. They are in a completely different market space.
The bigger question is "Why hasn't Comcast already bought Netflix?" The answer, I suspect, is that because they already own a 30% stake in Hulu
> The technology is fine.
No it isn't -- HTML is crap and is the THIRD time the web has been re-invented. It is a pale shadow of what could have been.
Alan Kay - Normal Considered Harmful