While Keyboard Shortcuts is making great strides at being more use accessible it still doesn't hold a candle to how WebStorm handles shortcuts. Namely, what makes Webstorm great is that you can *search* ALL of the UI for hotkeys / shortcuts and it shows ALL the menu locations for partial matches.
Unfortunately the stupidity of Politics / greed would put the kibosh on that but one can always dream / hope that we'll put aside our differences and share our resources one day.
Geothermal is another alternative that is basically ignored.
>> The problem is you have no control where the money is spent. > That's the problem with all taxes, is not it?
Indeed. A more balanced solution would take X% to a general fund, and (100-X%) to a specific fund. i.e. Taxpayer designates 80% goes to education, remaining 20% goes to general expenses.
The problem is you have no control where the money is spent. If you want the money spent on something constructive like roads or education but the government wants to spend it destructively on murdering foreigners there is nothing you can do.
The "dumb-ass majority" will quickly change their tune when their home gets p0wned, badly. i.e. Devices stay on consuming electricity, fridge constantly shuts off so they are forced to rebuy all their groceries, little Johnny's lights keep switching on/off all day, etc.
I'm actually waiting for the hackers to have a field day with this; then maybe the dumb-ass majority will actually learn their lesson:
* Just because you _can_ hook a device up to the internet, doesn't mean you _should_.
... then wasting time socializing on bullshit topics likes (un)reality TV, soaps, social media, etc.
That's not to say they don't check social media like/. or Reddit -- they do -- but they would rather be creating then socializing the majority of the time.
/me Back to working on my OS...
-- "Stop telling your big dreams to small minded people"
I got my whole family switched over to Macs ~ 10 years back. It was an dead easy "sell" as my Dad was so fed up with Microsoft's constantly nickeling and diming. IF Microsoft would be reasonable and sell Windows (licenses) for $20 instead of $200 Windows 10 Pro USB flash drive then MAYBE people would stick with them but that ship has sailed LONG AGO in our family. Macs are just easier to use & support for non-technical people.
I am sticking with Windows 7 Pro only because of a few Direct3D 11 games and I need a version of Windows for game dev that supports my 32 GB RAM. But future Microsoft upgrades? Fuck 'em. I already have used two MacBook Pro's from work that I've been using for the past 4 years and absolute love them; I just bought my own MacBook Pro once I found out I can I can use my GTX 980Ti as en eGPU.
I tell my friends, "Sorry, I no longer support Windows past ver 7. I recommend a Mac or Linux box unless you have a specific reason you _need_ Windows. Microsoft has no respect for your privacy nor for empowering the UI. Why would you continue to give them money to allow them to constantly abuse you??"
I work for a Fortune 50 company -- you would be surprised at how many Mac's we have here. WAY, WAY, more then I would ever expect. The IT guys love Mac OSX significantly more then Windows. Hell, we're STILL upgrading Windows XP systems to Windows 7 systems.
The harder MS pushes Windows 10 the more people they are going to piss off. Push too hard and they could find themselves irrelevant much like IBM is today. Don't think this is a possibility? Consider the facts:
Linux powers 98.8% of the top 500 supercomputers in the world; this is something Microsoft can only *dream* about. * http://www.top500.org/statisti...
Free is eventually going to win over corporate greed. It doesn't really matter how long it takes; Microsoft's days are numbered. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but 20 years down the road MS will be struggling to maintain any sense of relevancy.
So yeah, MS _does_ undermine themselves. They are just to big to recognized it and they don't care. That's fine. I'll just take my business elsewhere. Apparently a lot of us geeks do as well.
-- Microsoft Windows 8 and 10, noun: A 64-bit compilation of 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor written by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition with 0 bit of understanding good UI.
The ironic thing is that back in ~1992 that the Dept. of Commerce already warned about the the US's policy of encryption hindered the US more then it helped:
In our April 29, 1992, testimony before your Subcommittee, we stated that economic espionage hurts U.S. industry. U.S. vendors of products with encryption capabilities and telecommunications-service providers also testified that U.S. government policy hinders both the safekeeping of U.S. industry's competitive secrets and international competitiveness. They further testified that because products with commercial encryption technology are available internationally, the U.S. government should relax restrictions on the export of such products to improve their ability to compete in the world marketplace.
A study was commissioned a few years later "A STUDY OF THE INTERNATIONAL MARKET FOR COMPUTER SOFTWARE WITH ENCRYPTION"
In the security specific software market, however, U. S. manufacturers face competition in several foreign markets from such encryption exporting countries as the United Kingdom, Germany, and Israel. To a large extent, markets for these products tend to be "national. " Not only do export controls affect sales, but local vendors of security-specific products are at a competitive advantage in that they are better situated to work closely with end- users and develop encryption solutions tailored to meet the conditions of the local environment. (U)
In 2000, the "Revised U.S. Encryption Export Control Regulations" had this note:
Note: Encryption software is controlled because of its functional capacity, and not because of any informational value of such software; such software is not accorded the same treatment under the EAR as other "software"; and for export licensing purposes, encryption software is treated under the EAR in the same manner as a commodity included in ECCN 5A002.
Ford, whose electrical engineers couldnâ(TM)t solve some problems they were having with a gigantic generator, called Steinmetz in to the plant. Upon arriving, Steinmetz rejected all assistance and asked only for a notebook, pencil and cot. According to Scott, Steinmetz listened to the generator and scribbled computations on the notepad for two straight days and nights. On the second night, he asked for a ladder, climbed up the generator and made a chalk mark on its side. Then he told Fordâ(TM)s skeptical engineers to remove a plate at the mark and replace sixteen windings from the field coil. They did, and the generator performed to perfection.
Henry Ford was thrilled until he got an invoice from General Electric in the amount of $10,000. Ford acknowledged Steinmetzâ(TM)s success but balked at the figure. He asked for an itemized bill.
Steinmetz, Scott wrote, responded personally to Fordâ(TM)s request with the following:
Exactly. As soon as Timmy loses his life and the bus company is sued to kingdom come for due negligence this idea will be shot down faster then Helsinki's failed On-Demand buses.
I'm not sure whether to laugh or feel depressed that you're probably right.
-- WTF happened to the History Channel ? You keep using this word "history"; I don't think it means what you think it means. Aliens won't make history until ~2024...
> Leap years were created so people in the Northern hemisphere wouldn't be celebrating summer in December as the calendar drifts away from Earth's position in its orbit..
First World Problems. Someone call the wambulance.
/sarcasm Someone should ask how Australia struggles to manage winter in July. Oh wait, they don't.
Just use TAI where no fucking hacks are needed, and get rid of this retarded leap second, leap year, and DST.
/sarcasm The same reason it is "wrong" to close your eyes, mute your sound, and/or go do something else. Oh wait, you implied a valid reason -- there is none -- you're talking to fucktards who don't understand the concept of respect.
/sarcasm I have a simple solution: Ban all ads -- they are immoral, disrespectful, & malware./Oblg. And nothing of value was lost.
Obviously you haven't worked with compilers long enough to understand the "compiling to assembly code" is the defacto standard nomenclature (regardless of pedantry) even if you emit bytecode on the backend, or technically compile to Lithium, an IR (intermediate Representation) like you do in V8 in the latter case. * http://www.mattzeunert.com/201... * http://jayconrod.com/posts/51/...
Blizzard will NEVER release any source code -- remember these are the people who sued the opensource bnetd project even though they used ZERO Blizzard code and got an idiot judge to agree with them.
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I see the video @ 0:58 mentions "Keyboard Shortcuts"
https://youtu.be/JU2f_jkPRq4?t...
While Keyboard Shortcuts is making great strides at being more use accessible it still doesn't hold a candle to how WebStorm handles shortcuts. Namely, what makes Webstorm great is that you can *search* ALL of the UI for hotkeys / shortcuts and it shows ALL the menu locations for partial matches.
* https://youtu.be/PNZJox8pkls
* https://www.jetbrains.com/img/...
Unfortunately the stupidity of Politics / greed would put the kibosh on that but one can always dream / hope that we'll put aside our differences and share our resources one day.
Geothermal is another alternative that is basically ignored.
True, that has a been a sore spot for us graphics + game devs + OpenGL guys for a long time.
At least there is eGPU alternative :-/
2013 13" Macbook Pro + GTX970@16Gbps-TB2 (AKiTiO Thunder2) + Win8.1/OSX10.10
* https://www.techinferno.com/in...
>> The problem is you have no control where the money is spent.
> That's the problem with all taxes, is not it?
Indeed. A more balanced solution would take X% to a general fund, and (100-X%) to a specific fund.
i.e. Taxpayer designates 80% goes to education, remaining 20% goes to general expenses.
The problem is you have no control where the money is spent. If you want the money spent on something constructive like roads or education but the government wants to spend it destructively on murdering foreigners there is nothing you can do.
* https://www.fms.treas.gov/faq/...
The "dumb-ass majority" will quickly change their tune when their home gets p0wned, badly.
i.e. Devices stay on consuming electricity, fridge constantly shuts off so they are forced to rebuy all their groceries, little Johnny's lights keep switching on/off all day, etc.
I'm actually waiting for the hackers to have a field day with this; then maybe the dumb-ass majority will actually learn their lesson:
* Just because you _can_ hook a device up to the internet, doesn't mean you _should_.
> 3 mac mini with quad core, actually capable of ooomph and a couple drives, the mini old server format.
^ THIS
My wish list would add:
4 MacBook Pro with GTX 980M (for CUDA support)
5 OpenGL 4.4 support
6 Official support for eGPU
... then wasting time socializing on bullshit topics likes (un)reality TV, soaps, social media, etc.
That's not to say they don't check social media like /. or Reddit -- they do -- but they would rather be creating then socializing the majority of the time.
--
"Stop telling your big dreams to small minded people"
You're forgetting one tiny little thing:
Us geeks influence friends and family.
I got my whole family switched over to Macs ~ 10 years back. It was an dead easy "sell" as my Dad was so fed up with Microsoft's constantly nickeling and diming. IF Microsoft would be reasonable and sell Windows (licenses) for $20 instead of $200 Windows 10 Pro USB flash drive then MAYBE people would stick with them but that ship has sailed LONG AGO in our family. Macs are just easier to use & support for non-technical people.
I am sticking with Windows 7 Pro only because of a few Direct3D 11 games and I need a version of Windows for game dev that supports my 32 GB RAM. But future Microsoft upgrades? Fuck 'em. I already have used two MacBook Pro's from work that I've been using for the past 4 years and absolute love them; I just bought my own MacBook Pro once I found out I can I can use my GTX 980Ti as en eGPU.
I tell my friends, "Sorry, I no longer support Windows past ver 7. I recommend a Mac or Linux box unless you have a specific reason you _need_ Windows. Microsoft has no respect for your privacy nor for empowering the UI. Why would you continue to give them money to allow them to constantly abuse you??"
I work for a Fortune 50 company -- you would be surprised at how many Mac's we have here. WAY, WAY, more then I would ever expect. The IT guys love Mac OSX significantly more then Windows. Hell, we're STILL upgrading Windows XP systems to Windows 7 systems.
The harder MS pushes Windows 10 the more people they are going to piss off. Push too hard and they could find themselves irrelevant much like IBM is today. Don't think this is a possibility? Consider the facts:
Android is already used by over 1.4 Billion people.
* http://www.theverge.com/2015/9...
Linux powers 98.8% of the top 500 supercomputers in the world; this is something Microsoft can only *dream* about.
* http://www.top500.org/statisti...
Free is eventually going to win over corporate greed. It doesn't really matter how long it takes; Microsoft's days are numbered. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but 20 years down the road MS will be struggling to maintain any sense of relevancy.
So yeah, MS _does_ undermine themselves. They are just to big to recognized it and they don't care. That's fine. I'll just take my business elsewhere. Apparently a lot of us geeks do as well.
--
Microsoft Windows 8 and 10, noun: A 64-bit compilation of 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor written by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition with 0 bit of understanding good UI.
The ironic thing is that back in ~1992 that the Dept. of Commerce already warned about the the US's policy of encryption hindered the US more then it helped:
* https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/...
A study was commissioned a few years later "A STUDY OF THE INTERNATIONAL MARKET FOR COMPUTER SOFTWARE WITH ENCRYPTION"
* https://epic.org/crypto/export...
In 2000, the "Revised U.S. Encryption Export Control Regulations" had this note:
* https://epic.org/crypto/export...
Couldn't have said it better myself.
That reminds me of an old engineering joke:
* http://www.snopes.com/business...
* http://www.smithsonianmag.com/...
Exactly. As soon as Timmy loses his life and the bus company is sued to kingdom come for due negligence this idea will be shot down faster then Helsinki's failed On-Demand buses.
I'm not sure whether to laugh or feel depressed that you're probably right.
-- ...
WTF happened to the History Channel ? You keep using this word "history"; I don't think it means what you think it means. Aliens won't make history until ~2024
Assuming the plastic doesn't melt ... :-)
> Leap years were created so people in the Northern hemisphere wouldn't be celebrating summer in December as the calendar drifts away from Earth's position in its orbit..
First World Problems. Someone call the wambulance.
Just use TAI where no fucking hacks are needed, and get rid of this retarded leap second, leap year, and DST.
Because the leap second like DST are _artificial_ and adds unnecessary complexity to an otherwise brain-dead simple algorithm. Complexity == Bugs.
The only one who gives a fuck about leap seconds are scientists.
Stop over-engineering a simple concept. Time should be monotonic, and consistent. Not this one-off shenanigans.
/sarcasm The same reason it is "wrong" to close your eyes, mute your sound, and/or go do something else. Oh wait, you implied a valid reason -- there is none -- you're talking to fucktards who don't understand the concept of respect.
Obviously you haven't worked with compilers long enough to understand the "compiling to assembly code" is the defacto standard nomenclature (regardless of pedantry) even if you emit bytecode on the backend, or technically compile to Lithium, an IR (intermediate Representation) like you do in V8 in the latter case.
* http://www.mattzeunert.com/201...
* http://jayconrod.com/posts/51/...
Hell, even the V8 engine uses that terminology:
* https://github.com/v8/v8/blob/...
/Oblg. https://www.destroyallsoftware...
I think the conflation comes about due to Javascript compiling to assembly code.
Exactly.
This practice of holding knowledge + data "hostage" is extremely short-sighted.
Open up EVERYTHING so others can
a) access it, and
b) duplicate the data
Play the long-term "advancement of civilization" game, not the short-term greed game.
The link isn't in the summary -- but off to the right of the title.
I've hated this "feature" of /. every since they implemented a year or so ago.
Blizzard will NEVER release any source code -- remember these are the people who sued the opensource bnetd project even though they used ZERO Blizzard code and got an idiot judge to agree with them.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
LOL -- nice!