He lacked vision, (let alone intelligence, awareness and knowledge.)
Anyone designing a file systems asks basic engineering questions:
* What's the use case? * What's the maximum filename length a user would like? * If we're going to be stuck with this thing for years how long should filenames be?
This isn't rocket science, just basic computer science. You can see the complete clusterfuck of idiotic design in the various OS File System Comparisons
Instead of picking something reasonable like 16, 24 or 32 characters, Gary pulled 8.3 chars out his ass due to his stupidity and short sightedness. He was completely ignorant of The Mother of All Demo back in 1968 (!) that demonstrated 16 key technologies:
* The personal computer * The mouse. * Internetworks. * Network service discovery. * Live collaboration and desktop/app sharing. * Hierarchical structure within a file system and within a document. * Cut/copy/paste, with drag-and-drop. * Paper metaphor for word processing. * Advanced pattern search and macro search. * Keyword search and multiple weighted keyword search. * Catalog-based information retrieval. * Flexible interactive formatting and line drawing. * Hyperlinks within a document and across documents. * Tagging graphics, and parts of graphics, as hyperlinks. * Shared workgroup document collaboration with annotations etc. * Live shared workgroup collaboration with live audio/video teleconference in a window.
I'm glad he and his myopic vision of 8.3 is long dead.
So yeah, Fuck him and his stupidity for inflicting it upon the world.
I don't. HIs retarded 8.3 filenames (in 1973) when Apple DOS had 30 character filenames (WITH spaces) back in 1978 set back the industry 22 years. i.e. It took MS until 1995 to support long filenames. If we was smart he would have supported 15 character filenames pascal style: The preceding nibble (or byte) would be the string length.
> Don't buy any machine for specs--buy it because it does what you need.
Huh?? I bought a MacBook Pro, Mid 2014, back in February (this year) because I need an nVidia GPU for CUDA work. The latest MBP have switched to AMD -- and there is no information on what GPU the new MBP's will use. (Thankfully eGPU's are a solution for _that_ contingency but I digress)
If I had waited buying the (new) MacBook Pro, guess what, I'd STILL be waiting!
> The notion that I should buy a new computer every two years is ridiculous.
Indeed.
It is not that your computer stops magically working the instant Apple releases a new model -- it just doesn't have all the latest bugs and features./cynical But it's not *shiny* !/Oblg. What it is like to own an Apple product
It is more of a case of buyer's remorse. Guess what, ALL electronics are eventually obsolete. It is not if, but when.
(British) Political Philosopher John Stewart Mill (1806-1873) made an argument for free speech including that of hate speech for a good reason, too:
He argued that if we censor hate speech our fundamental beliefs of what is right and wrong are not tested.
If our beliefs are aren't argued against then we don't attempt to rationalize what we believe to be true. We don't think about why our beliefs are right.
When we don't question our beliefs we don't think about them.
And when we don't think about our beliefs we don't learn new things. We don't advance and improve our thoughts about what is right and wrong.
Even if someone's argument is wrong it still serves a purpose of making us rationalize and check our beliefs and even improve them. Being able to listen to an argument that is wrong lets us understand what makes an argument wrong and improve our own beliefs from learning from someone else's failure.
I thought groupthink was limited to/. and reddit but I see it is alive and well in new areas now:
/sarcasm Yeah, let's censor reviews we don't agree with!
Uh, No, "this movie sucks" is an opinion. You don't have to like it, or even agree with it, but trying to censor opinions you don't disagree just because it hurts your bottom line is just plain stupid. We already have the legal right to "voice" our opinion as long as it isn't slander nor libel.
Ah good catch. Thanks. I had bytes on the brain, not 7.68Kpx.
> Further, 1 KB = 1024 bytes. Always has, always will. Take your KiB nonsense and shove it.
100% Agree !
I guess the hardware engineers wanted an unambiguous term. But no one ever sends just 10 bits or 1,000 bits. They send 8 + header or 1,024 + header, etc.
We have a long history of standardized naming. "720p" and "1080p" referred to the vertical resolution of 1280x720 and 1920 x 1080p, respectively.
Then some marketing idiot starting calling the horizontal resolution of 3840x 2160 as "4K" so they could sell more TVs. No, it is 2160p.
This shenanigans of "8K" continuing by referring to the horizontal resolution of 7,680 x 4,320 needs to stop. This is almost as bad as drive manufacturers when they refer to disk space using GB, instead of GiB to artificially inflate their numbers. 8 KB is 8,000, and 8 KiB is 8192, not 7,680. Either call it 7.5K (7*1024 = 7680) or call it 4320p.
Lastly, 4320p is a non-issue. Most people don't care about 4320p due to the chicken-and-egg problem:
* No content, no sales of TVs. * No sales of TV's, no incentive to make content.
I'm already running Win 7, Linux (Ubuntu), and OSX (10.10).
They all suck.:-)
MSVC debugger is definitely a more user-friendly then GDB, but for general programming, I use the same Vim config across all three OS's, which makes Windows tolerable for the rest of the time.
> They are these crazy standards that allow you to fairly precisely define exactly what you want the picture you are sending to look like, it's pretty cutting edge.
Unfortunately Unicode is slowly becoming hijacked where they start adding every image under the sun. If we're going down that route, then why not add every concept, noun, verb, to Unicode then?? I mean if it worked for hieroglyphics and partially for Chinese then why not just finish the job of cannibalizing Unicode?
The funny thing is MS had a 20 years head starton mobile with WinCE and consumers STILL didn't want it. Apple and Google come along and they accomplish in less then 5 years (Android was released on Dec 6, 2010) what MS couldn't do in 20 years!! LOL
Yup, there are numerous problems with the design of No Man's Sky. Some find it boring, but the biggest one is that it doesn't bring anything new to the table:
Q. Can you mine the ground and build your own tunnels like you can in Minecraft? A. No
Q. Are there Player-Owned-Structures like in Eve Online? A. No
Q. Does it have multiplayer groups like Elite: Dangerous? A. Technically it has multiplayer but since there is no grouping and no party quests it is kind of pointless play multiplayer. Worse, good luck even finding your buddies since everyone spawns in random locations across the universe! It will take you several day of real-time travel just to even meet.
Over on/r/NoMansSkyTheGame, I found this extremely handy comparisons between Elite: Dangerous, Eve Online, Minecraft, No Man's Sky, and Star Citizen.
Players share the same universe but start light years apart. There is no ability to group nor do party quests.
IMO, basically Elite:Dangerous, Eve Online, or Minecraft does it better.
Maybe someone has more up-to-date information? --
/Hey redditards and slashtards: The downvote is NOT "I disagree"
> I must be getting in early as there is no whining so far about GIMP being far inferior to Photoshop.
Yup, you're early.
> What real world work can be done in Photoshop but not GIMP? I'm not trolling, this is a serious question... often obscure seldom-used features get compared
Layer Effects are hardly obscure user features.
I have a Photoshop file I created with CS 2. Yes, years ago, back in ~2004. Gimp _still_ can't import it properly without screwing something up. (Every few years I test to see how Gimp handles importing it -- it doesn't -- but it slowly gets better every new version.)
i.e. Gimp didn't support layer folders. That took years. Gimp didn't support all of Photoshop's blend modes. That took years. The latest stable version, Gimp 2.8.18, still doesn't support all of Photoshop's Layer effects properly. This isn't rocket science, just basic computer graphics.
I've downloaded a nightly snapshot of 2.9 but I'm not holding out any hope that this has fixed basic Photoshop compatibility.
Is Gimp capable of basic stuff? Sure. I've created fonts with it, and created a RTS "cheat sheet" showing every unit and their counters. Gimp can do the basic stuff of Photoshop but it doesn't hold a candle to the advanced features such as Layer Effects and HDR support.
And they recently (back in Feb, 2016) open sourced their AAA engine, Lumberyard, which is based on CryEngine. (See the FAQ) * https://aws.amazon.com/lumbery...
So yeah, that's great Amazon is on a hiring spree for now. What's the turn over rate going to be in 1 - 5 years? How many people will enjoy what they are working on in 2+ years?
-- "Show me your code and I'll guess at your data, Show me your data and I'll know your code."
-- Remove the corruption from politics: Pool ALL campaign contributions and divide them equally among all the runners every month. No more buying the vote.
As an audiophile I'm quite aware of adjusting the center channel independently, but thanks though.:-)
The problem is two-fold:
1. I also watch movies at a friends house and they only have 2 speakers -- the dialog is "blown out" more often then not.:-/ Since they aren't interested in a sound bar there are little options. There is only so much futzing around with the downmixing / sound modes one can do.:-(
2. Even on my own system I'm come across the occasional movies where someone screwed up the dialog channel. Tends to be action / foreign films the most for some reason. Go figure.
> at least not as well as my plasma.
Man after my own heart. =)
Digressing... I honestly don't know what I'm going to do when my Panny TC-P60VT60 goes out. Hopefully OLED will come down from the stratosphere by then. http://www.forbes.com/sites/jo...
I like to *read* the characters names so I know how to spell & pronounce them instead of playing a guessing game just because there is too much foreground / background music to clearly hear the dialogue.
I also like to watch movies in their original language with English sub-titles. It adds to the "authenticity" experience.
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You completely missed the point.
He lacked vision, (let alone intelligence, awareness and knowledge.)
Anyone designing a file systems asks basic engineering questions:
* What's the use case?
* What's the maximum filename length a user would like?
* If we're going to be stuck with this thing for years how long should filenames be?
This isn't rocket science, just basic computer science. You can see the complete clusterfuck of idiotic design in the various OS File System Comparisons
Instead of picking something reasonable like 16, 24 or 32 characters, Gary pulled 8.3 chars out his ass due to his stupidity and short sightedness. He was completely ignorant of The Mother of All Demo back in 1968 (!) that demonstrated 16 key technologies:
* The personal computer
* The mouse.
* Internetworks.
* Network service discovery.
* Live collaboration and desktop/app sharing.
* Hierarchical structure within a file system and within a document.
* Cut/copy/paste, with drag-and-drop.
* Paper metaphor for word processing.
* Advanced pattern search and macro search.
* Keyword search and multiple weighted keyword search.
* Catalog-based information retrieval.
* Flexible interactive formatting and line drawing.
* Hyperlinks within a document and across documents.
* Tagging graphics, and parts of graphics, as hyperlinks.
* Shared workgroup document collaboration with annotations etc.
* Live shared workgroup collaboration with live audio/video teleconference in a window.
I'm glad he and his myopic vision of 8.3 is long dead.
So yeah, Fuck him and his stupidity for inflicting it upon the world.
> I liked Gary Kildall.
I don't. HIs retarded 8.3 filenames (in 1973) when Apple DOS had 30 character filenames (WITH spaces) back in 1978 set back the industry 22 years. i.e. It took MS until 1995 to support long filenames. If we was smart he would have supported 15 character filenames pascal style: The preceding nibble (or byte) would be the string length.
--
Hindsight is 20/20.
> Don't buy any machine for specs--buy it because it does what you need.
Huh?? I bought a MacBook Pro, Mid 2014, back in February (this year) because I need an nVidia GPU for CUDA work. The latest MBP have switched to AMD -- and there is no information on what GPU the new MBP's will use. (Thankfully eGPU's are a solution for _that_ contingency but I digress)
If I had waited buying the (new) MacBook Pro, guess what, I'd STILL be waiting!
> The notion that I should buy a new computer every two years is ridiculous.
Indeed.
It is not that your computer stops magically working the instant Apple releases a new model -- it just doesn't have all the latest bugs and features. /cynical But it's not *shiny* ! /Oblg. What it is like to own an Apple product
It is more of a case of buyer's remorse. Guess what, ALL electronics are eventually obsolete. It is not if, but when.
You misunderstand.
I value opposing viewpoints, even if I don't agree with them.
As Vexxed so eloquently quotes
I thought groupthink was limited to /. and reddit but I see it is alive and well in new areas now:
Uh, No, "this movie sucks" is an opinion. You don't have to like it, or even agree with it, but trying to censor opinions you don't disagree just because it hurts your bottom line is just plain stupid. We already have the legal right to "voice" our opinion as long as it isn't slander nor libel.
As they say, Everyone is a critic.
Which ironically has this gem:
Harrison's Postulate: "For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism"
Yup, that's been the case since at least the Windows 95 days.
MS doesn't give a fuck about your respecting your partition table and "non-MS" OS's.
> But 7680 would be 7.68K.
Ah good catch. Thanks. I had bytes on the brain, not 7.68Kpx.
> Further, 1 KB = 1024 bytes. Always has, always will. Take your KiB nonsense and shove it.
100% Agree !
I guess the hardware engineers wanted an unambiguous term. But no one ever sends just 10 bits or 1,000 bits. They send 8 + header or 1,024 + header, etc.
We have a long history of standardized naming. "720p" and "1080p" referred to the vertical resolution of 1280x720 and 1920 x 1080p, respectively.
Then some marketing idiot starting calling the horizontal resolution of 3840x 2160 as "4K" so they could sell more TVs. No, it is 2160p.
This shenanigans of "8K" continuing by referring to the horizontal resolution of 7,680 x 4,320 needs to stop. This is almost as bad as drive manufacturers when they refer to disk space using GB, instead of GiB to artificially inflate their numbers. 8 KB is 8,000, and 8 KiB is 8192, not 7,680. Either call it 7.5K (7*1024 = 7680) or call it 4320p.
Lastly, 4320p is a non-issue. Most people don't care about 4320p due to the chicken-and-egg problem:
* No content, no sales of TVs.
* No sales of TV's, no incentive to make content.
Rinse and repeat.
Why wait !?
I'm already running Win 7, Linux (Ubuntu), and OSX (10.10).
They all suck. :-)
MSVC debugger is definitely a more user-friendly then GDB, but for general programming, I use the same Vim config across all three OS's, which makes Windows tolerable for the rest of the time.
+1 Informative.
> but Unicode is not an image format,
You nit the nail on the head!
> They are these crazy standards that allow you to fairly precisely define exactly what you want the picture you are sending to look like, it's pretty cutting edge.
Unfortunately Unicode is slowly becoming hijacked where they start adding every image under the sun. If we're going down that route, then why not add every concept, noun, verb, to Unicode then?? I mean if it worked for hieroglyphics and partially for Chinese then why not just finish the job of cannibalizing Unicode?
1.46% Linux compared to all OS's, or 1.7% Mint compared to Linux
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Windows 10 has ~21% but I guess MS had to force upgrades to even get those numbers.
Nice to see Windows 7 holding steady at 42%
The funny thing is MS had a 20 years head start on mobile with WinCE and consumers STILL didn't want it. Apple and Google come along and they accomplish in less then 5 years (Android was released on Dec 6, 2010) what MS couldn't do in 20 years!! LOL
Microsoft still has a ways to go when 2 years ago Linux run on over 1 Billion Devices and 99.4% of the Top 500 supercomputers run Linux; hell even iOS had 800 million back then.
But keeping MS, because you're (slowly) becoming irrelevant.
> You talk about bringing new things to the table and then list a bunch of features from other games?
The point being that No Man's Sky is a step backwards. It doesn't even have features from other popular games.
It is yet-another-procedural-generated universe. *yawn*
Yup, there are numerous problems with the design of No Man's Sky. Some find it boring, but the biggest one is that it doesn't bring anything new to the table:
Q. Can you mine the ground and build your own tunnels like you can in Minecraft?
A. No
Q. Are there Player-Owned-Structures like in Eve Online?
A. No
Q. Does it have multiplayer groups like Elite: Dangerous?
A. Technically it has multiplayer but since there is no grouping and no party quests it is kind of pointless play multiplayer. Worse, good luck even finding your buddies since everyone spawns in random locations across the universe! It will take you several day of real-time travel just to even meet.
Over on /r/NoMansSkyTheGame, I found this extremely handy comparisons between Elite: Dangerous, Eve Online, Minecraft, No Man's Sky, and Star Citizen.
IMO, basically Elite:Dangerous, Eve Online, or Minecraft does it better.
Maybe someone has more up-to-date information?
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Just tested Gimp 2.9.5 on my .PSD file. Gimp still has broken PSD support for Layer Effects.
Reference of Layer Effect Styles:
* https://helpx.adobe.com/photos...
> I must be getting in early as there is no whining so far about GIMP being far inferior to Photoshop.
Yup, you're early.
> What real world work can be done in Photoshop but not GIMP? I'm not trolling, this is a serious question ... often obscure seldom-used features get compared
Layer Effects are hardly obscure user features.
I have a Photoshop file I created with CS 2. Yes, years ago, back in ~2004. Gimp _still_ can't import it properly without screwing something up. (Every few years I test to see how Gimp handles importing it -- it doesn't -- but it slowly gets better every new version.)
i.e.
Gimp didn't support layer folders. That took years.
Gimp didn't support all of Photoshop's blend modes. That took years.
The latest stable version, Gimp 2.8.18, still doesn't support all of Photoshop's Layer effects properly. This isn't rocket science, just basic computer graphics.
I've downloaded a nightly snapshot of 2.9 but I'm not holding out any hope that this has fixed basic Photoshop compatibility.
Is Gimp capable of basic stuff? Sure. I've created fonts with it, and created a RTS "cheat sheet" showing every unit and their counters. Gimp can do the basic stuff of Photoshop but it doesn't hold a candle to the advanced features such as Layer Effects and HDR support.
Yup, I know most people go "What? Amazon makes game??"
Yes, for a few years actually.
They have a game studio:
* https://games.amazon.com/
And they recently (back in Feb, 2016) open sourced their AAA engine, Lumberyard, which is based on CryEngine. (See the FAQ)
* https://aws.amazon.com/lumbery...
Their AWS (Amazon Web Services) is used by game devs:
* https://aws.amazon.com/gaming/
My friend was actually in a non-gaming section, but they hire game devs due to their experience and mind set of solving technical problems.
Quantity != Quality.
A game developer friend of mine just left Amazon for greener pastures. There are many reasons he left but the two biggest were:
* Compensation for good work is lacking,
* Amazon still uses stack ranking.
I asked him about this Amazon piece and he sadly agreed with it:
http://www.geekwire.com/2015/o...
So yeah, that's great Amazon is on a hiring spree for now. What's the turn over rate going to be in 1 - 5 years?
How many people will enjoy what they are working on in 2+ years?
--
"Show me your code and I'll guess at your data,
Show me your data and I'll know your code."
Shooting the messengers doesn't solve the problem of
a) everyone ignoring them,
b) a bogus message.
That said, it would be a good start. =)
+1 for Tabs Outliner! (shows all tabs, vertically, in a separate window)
Tabs Outliner
* https://chrome.google.com/webs...
You really don't understand how First Past the Goal Post voting and the spoiler effect works, do you?
--
Remove the corruption from politics: Pool ALL campaign contributions and divide them equally among all the runners every month. No more buying the vote.
Welcome to the cis / trans / I-dont-know-what-the-fuck-anymore gender of the millennials.
They can't commit to anything, even their gender, apparently. :-)
As an audiophile I'm quite aware of adjusting the center channel independently, but thanks though. :-)
The problem is two-fold:
1. I also watch movies at a friends house and they only have 2 speakers -- the dialog is "blown out" more often then not. :-/ Since they aren't interested in a sound bar there are little options. There is only so much futzing around with the downmixing / sound modes one can do. :-(
2. Even on my own system I'm come across the occasional movies where someone screwed up the dialog channel. Tends to be action / foreign films the most for some reason. Go figure.
> at least not as well as my plasma.
Man after my own heart. =)
Digressing ... I honestly don't know what I'm going to do when my Panny TC-P60VT60 goes out. Hopefully OLED will come down from the stratosphere by then.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jo...
Back on topic, yup, for black levels Plasma kicks projectors.
* http://www.avsforum.com/forum/...
--
"When I die I hope my wife sells my speakers for what they're worth rather than what I told her I paid for them."
You forgot the two killer feature for me:
* Option to turn on sub-titles
I like to *read* the characters names so I know how to spell & pronounce them instead of playing a guessing game just because there is too much foreground / background music to clearly hear the dialogue.
I also like to watch movies in their original language with English sub-titles. It adds to the "authenticity" experience.
* Volume Control
I can turn my sub up / down as needed.
That reminds me of an old joke ...
Q. Why do sharks not attack lawyers? :-)
A. Professional courtesy.
ba-dum-tsh
--
TIL: ba dum tsh is called a sting