Exactly my sentiments. Yahoo "small business", which became Luminate, er, Aabaco Small Business, is even slower to "manage." The inability to download mail preserving the folder structure is retarded. It takes forever to FTP upload.
If Yahoo makes this stupid ad blocker permanent I'll probably move my domains + websites over to a different provider.
What's a good alternative to Yahoo webhosting these days?
Cars kill more people then guns. We don't ban something simply because a few idiots mis-use them. (ir)Responsible use of the tools is the issue.
You will never solve the problem by "banning" something. Censorship didn't work for literature, it didn't work for prohibition, it didn't work for (non-alcohol) drugs , and it doesn't work for guns or have you learn _nothing_ from history??
* Almost all violence stems from insecurity.
Educating people to how to be _spiritually mature_ is the solution; reminding them there is only one "master" race:
* The Human Race
As long as people are ignorant, and intolerant of the fact that we are all brothers and sisters with differing opinions, philosophies, politics, and religion, violence will continue.
If the government spend more time helping and educating people instead of wasting money to be the biggest mass murder bullies around, things would change. Since *all* government is simply an extension of We, The People, that means we _all_ must learn to be responsible, have self-control, treat ourselves and others with respect. Just because Science is completely amoral does not imply morality doesn't exist. Regardless of theism, atheism, there are better and worse ways to treat each other. The spiritual law of:
* You receive what you give, and
Along with the highest principal of:
* Unconditional Love
Should be the primary focus.
Only a complete idiot would think you can treat the world as children with some group/government being the "parent".
It is called turning down the Video Options quality. Back in the Voodoo 1 days I would run glQuake at 512x384 to guarantee 60 Hz. These days that means turning off all the anti-aliasing and lowering the shader quality.
Basically, you don't know what the fuck you are talking about.
Every platform has its strengths and weaknesses. There is no such thing as an "perfect" platform.
I've been custom building PC since the 90's and haven't had driver issues on PC in **years.** Stop buying cheap-ass parts. Go with nVidia, Intel, Asus, and Corsair. For ordering parts: Newegg, Micro Center, NCIX, Amazon have all great prices, and most importantly: ratings. i.e. Don't buy a part from NewEgg if the 4/5 and 5/5 eggs combines have a score of less then 80%.
PC + Mods + 4K resolution + 120+ Hz framerate + Steam --> *tons* of games on sale + Games that will never be on the console, such as RTS's, the free and excellent Path of Exile, Guild Wars 2, Civ 4/5, Eve Online, World of Warcraft, Terraria, etc. + Variable pricing = way better scalability. i.e. My primary dev box: 32 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD, GeForce 980 Ti, etc. It will be 10 years before a console can even come close to matching this performance. + Mouse / Keyboard / Throttle == Elite:Dangerous bliss + 3D support - Configuration / Driver issues - crappy console ports
Console + Just "works" + Console "exclusive" titles + Far cheaper = only 1080p - crappy 30 Hz; maybe 60 Hz if you are _really_ lucky - crappy FPS gamepad
Just get a PC, PS4, and XBone -- that way everyone is happy, and you can properly evaluate which one was the better investment down the road.
Note: PC kick console's asses to the curb and back. Consoles barely do 1080p @ 60 Hz, PC gaming is doing 4K at 120+ Hz. There are tons of Budget PC Gaming Rigs
> but Jackson is too in love with his creation to edit objectively.
At least Jackson has the balls to admit he screwed up.
In contradistinction to George Lucas who was completely oblivious to how bad his writing was for ages. He is/was surrounded by far too many "yes men" to tell him the Emperor had no Clothes. Lucas finally admitted he is the king of wooden dialogue.
As someone who has shipped a few PS2 games and did PS3 dev support, emulating the 3.2 GHz PowerPC along with the 6 SPUs on an 8-core x86 would have been a **huge** performance hit.
In contradistinction the PS2's CPU, the EEE, only runs ~ 300 Mhz. Likewise the other processors, the VU0, VU1, GS, SPU run at ~ 150 MHz. (The SPU runs only at 8 MHz.) FAR easier to emulate -- you basically just throw hardware at the problem.:-) At that is even accounting for the wicked fast PS2's GS VRAM transfer speed.
3D UI's don't work (well) because they are horribly inefficient.
There is a reason we have shortcuts, aliases, scripts, batch files, etc. A command line, or hell, even a 2D grid of icons, is far faster time-wise then 3D spatial navigation. A modeling program such as Blender, Max, Maya, etc., are some of the most complicated UI's ever designed -- they are probably tied with the cockpit of a planes. Guess what, they all don't use a 3D UI.
This is almost as stupid as voice navigation -- invisible interfaces are likewise inefficient.
Ho Le Fook, I can't believe someone is this fucking stupid.
**EVERYTHING** can be _misused_ as a weapon, dumb@$$. You don't ban tools simply because a few retards mis-use them. i.e. Cars cause more death then guns, or drinking too much water causes poisoning, etc.
Encryption was NOT designed to kill people, only facilitate communication.
Unlike assault rifles whose sole purpose is to kill, maim, or cause fear.
If you want to shut ISIS down then shut down the profit. Beat them at the financial war and education, because violence only begets more violence.
> but Visual Studio is the best code editor currently available.
Define "best"... ?... for "what" exactly ?
Because while VS is fine for Windows debugging its text editor has sucked for years. Windows only, closed source, slow, etc. I'd rather use Vim or Emacs which works across multiple platforms (I use the same.vimrc config file across Windows, OSX, and Linux), is fast, has tons of features and plugins, and isn't interested in putting the menu in ALL CAPS because some retard UI designer doesn't have a fucking clue about _good_ UI design.
But since the article was talking about VS Code and not Visual Studio, here's the roadmap for VS Code Oh look, VS Code _still_ doesn't support:
* code folding. * Global search and replace
I'll just an editor that _already_ works, not some buggy, incomplete, PoS.
Agreed. "What could possible go wrong with censorship?"
Let's toss the baby out with the bath water simply because 1 person, accidentally, or intentionally, access it. Does this mean google.com, microsoft.com, etc. would be shut down?:-)
Funny, how it is always the US demanding that other countries abide by _their_ morality instead of them to theirs.
> I'm sick and tired of the Microsoft is evil crap.
Sticking your head in the sand doesn't make the problem go away.
1. Maybe if Microsoft would come clean with how much data they collect people might actually trust them again.
Microsoft also provides some country specific domains such as.co.uk,.fr,.it,.de,.es,.th,.tk,.co.jp * Currently all e-mail service customer data is stored in the U.S. even if the account name contains a country specific domain.
I first heard about this from one of the developers of the hit game SimCity, who told me that there was a critical bug in his application: it used memory right after freeing it, a major no-no that happened to work OK on DOS but would not work under Windows where memory that is freed is likely to be snatched up by another running application right away. The testers on the Windows team were going through various popular applications, testing them to make sure they worked OK, but SimCity kept crashing. They reported this to the Windows developers, who disassembled SimCity, stepped through it in a debugger, found the bug, and added special code that checked if SimCity was running, and if it did, ran the memory allocator in a special mode in which you could still use memory after freeing it.
No wonders Windows is so buggy. They keep enabling other people's crap.
Jul 19, 2015 - For the record, I don't run any ad blockers. Basically, I consider them unethical (the full explanation is longer, but that's the thumbnail).ï
and when someone points out his stupidity:
So going to the bathroom when an ad appears is "unethical" ??? What about going to kitchen?? Because using technology to block ads has the exact same effect. It is not my job to support your broken business model. Furthermore, the last time I checked, my eyes belong to me so kindly fuck off with your bullshit "ethics" justifications.
TL:DR; I guess only stupid people watch ads -- the rest of us are too busy doing something else.
... only to get get censored then this issue is far from settled.
Even Mozilla has this stupid mindset WRT Do Not Track:
The Do Not Track feature is turned off by default./blockquote
Slashdot Mirror
Exactly my sentiments. Yahoo "small business", which became Luminate, er, Aabaco Small Business, is even slower to "manage." The inability to download mail preserving the folder structure is retarded. It takes forever to FTP upload.
If Yahoo makes this stupid ad blocker permanent I'll probably move my domains + websites over to a different provider.
What's a good alternative to Yahoo webhosting these days?
>Tools matter.
Focusing on the symptom, doesn't stop the cause.
Cars kill more people then guns. We don't ban something simply because a few idiots mis-use them. (ir)Responsible use of the tools is the issue.
You will never solve the problem by "banning" something. Censorship didn't work for literature, it didn't work for prohibition, it didn't work for (non-alcohol) drugs , and it doesn't work for guns or have you learn _nothing_ from history??
* Almost all violence stems from insecurity.
Educating people to how to be _spiritually mature_ is the solution; reminding them there is only one "master" race:
* The Human Race
As long as people are ignorant, and intolerant of the fact that we are all brothers and sisters with differing opinions, philosophies, politics, and religion, violence will continue.
If the government spend more time helping and educating people instead of wasting money to be the biggest mass murder bullies around, things would change. Since *all* government is simply an extension of We, The People, that means we _all_ must learn to be responsible, have self-control, treat ourselves and others with respect. Just because Science is completely amoral does not imply morality doesn't exist. Regardless of theism, atheism, there are better and worse ways to treat each other. The spiritual law of:
* You receive what you give, and
Along with the highest principal of:
* Unconditional Love
Should be the primary focus.
Only a complete idiot would think you can treat the world as children with some group/government being the "parent".
> Not a chance in hell ANY PC gamer is getting 4K at 120HZ or higher framerates
Doing it _right_ now on my i7 4770K @ 4 GHz + GTX 980 Ti with Elite:Dangerous, Team Fortress 2, Path of Exile.
> you can't even BUY a display that can go higher than 60
Then why do I have **two** monitors that support 144 Hz ??
* ASUS VG248QE Black 24" Gaming Monitor, 144Hz
* ASUS VG278HE 27" Full HD 1920x1080 144Hz 2ms
> and most guys with $2000 in video cards are having trouble staying anywhere near 60hz at 4K.
My GTX 980 Ti was $669 + $58.20 tax = $727.20
It is called turning down the Video Options quality. Back in the Voodoo 1 days I would run glQuake at 512x384 to guarantee 60 Hz. These days that means turning off all the anti-aliasing and lowering the shader quality.
Basically, you don't know what the fuck you are talking about.
Every platform has its strengths and weaknesses. There is no such thing as an "perfect" platform.
I've been custom building PC since the 90's and haven't had driver issues on PC in **years.** Stop buying cheap-ass parts. Go with nVidia, Intel, Asus, and Corsair. For ordering parts: Newegg, Micro Center, NCIX, Amazon have all great prices, and most importantly: ratings. i.e. Don't buy a part from NewEgg if the 4/5 and 5/5 eggs combines have a score of less then 80%.
PC
+ Mods
+ 4K resolution
+ 120+ Hz framerate
+ Steam --> *tons* of games on sale
+ Games that will never be on the console, such as RTS's, the free and excellent Path of Exile, Guild Wars 2, Civ 4/5, Eve Online, World of Warcraft, Terraria, etc.
+ Variable pricing = way better scalability. i.e. My primary dev box: 32 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD, GeForce 980 Ti, etc. It will be 10 years before a console can even come close to matching this performance.
+ Mouse / Keyboard / Throttle == Elite:Dangerous bliss
+ 3D support
- Configuration / Driver issues
- crappy console ports
Console
+ Just "works"
+ Console "exclusive" titles
+ Far cheaper
= only 1080p
- crappy 30 Hz; maybe 60 Hz if you are _really_ lucky
- crappy FPS gamepad
> I could get just about any movie or recent TV show I was in the mood for.
I love Netflix too but greed over licenses is really hurting Netflix.
* None of the Iron Man trilogy are available. (Iron Man 2 _was_ available but pulled a year+ (?) ago)
* _Still_ waiting for Seinfeld...
Just get a PC, PS4, and XBone -- that way everyone is happy, and you can properly evaluate which one was the better investment down the road.
Note: PC kick console's asses to the curb and back. Consoles barely do 1080p @ 60 Hz, PC gaming is doing 4K at 120+ Hz. There are tons of Budget PC Gaming Rigs
> but Jackson is too in love with his creation to edit objectively.
At least Jackson has the balls to admit he screwed up.
In contradistinction to George Lucas who was completely oblivious to how bad his writing was for ages. He is/was surrounded by far too many "yes men" to tell him the Emperor had no Clothes. Lucas finally admitted he is the king of wooden dialogue.
Haha, that was great.
This youtube comment was spot on:
> That sub-second syncronization is integral to the function of both GPS
No. GPS does NOT use leap seconds.
what-if xkcd #26 is actually on-topic for once.
As someone who has shipped a few PS2 games and did PS3 dev support, emulating the 3.2 GHz PowerPC along with the 6 SPUs on an 8-core x86 would have been a **huge** performance hit.
Why?
Remember the PS4 is only running at a pathetic 1.6 GHz.
In contradistinction the PS2's CPU, the EEE, only runs ~ 300 Mhz. Likewise the other processors, the VU0, VU1, GS, SPU run at ~ 150 MHz. (The SPU runs only at 8 MHz.) FAR easier to emulate -- you basically just throw hardware at the problem. :-) At that is even accounting for the wicked fast PS2's GS VRAM transfer speed.
3D UI's don't work (well) because they are horribly inefficient.
There is a reason we have shortcuts, aliases, scripts, batch files, etc. A command line, or hell, even a 2D grid of icons, is far faster time-wise then 3D spatial navigation. A modeling program such as Blender, Max, Maya, etc., are some of the most complicated UI's ever designed -- they are probably tied with the cockpit of a planes. Guess what, they all don't use a 3D UI.
This is almost as stupid as voice navigation -- invisible interfaces are likewise inefficient.
Ho Le Fook, I can't believe someone is this fucking stupid.
**EVERYTHING** can be _misused_ as a weapon, dumb@$$. You don't ban tools simply because a few retards mis-use them. i.e. Cars cause more death then guns, or drinking too much water causes poisoning, etc.
Encryption was NOT designed to kill people, only facilitate communication.
Unlike assault rifles whose sole purpose is to kill, maim, or cause fear.
If you want to shut ISIS down then shut down the profit. Beat them at the financial war and education, because violence only begets more violence.
+1 for lame attempt at humor :-)
NASCAR is a sport the same way two idiots punching the living shit out of each is.
Just because it is stupid doesn't imply it not a sport.
If you have a winner/loser, and viewers, it is a sport (regardless of how dumb it is.)
> Bill Nye is another anti-Sagan (just like Tyson).
I haven't heart that before.
I'm curious what makes you say Nye is anti-Sagan?
Ditto for Tyson ?
We could only wish; we could only wish.
> but Visual Studio is the best code editor currently available.
Define "best" ... ? ... for "what" exactly ?
Because while VS is fine for Windows debugging its text editor has sucked for years. Windows only, closed source, slow, etc. I'd rather use Vim or Emacs which works across multiple platforms (I use the same .vimrc config file across Windows, OSX, and Linux), is fast, has tons of features and plugins, and isn't interested in putting the menu in ALL CAPS because some retard UI designer doesn't have a fucking clue about _good_ UI design.
But since the article was talking about VS Code and not Visual Studio, here's the roadmap for VS Code Oh look, VS Code _still_ doesn't support:
* code folding.
* Global search and replace
I'll just an editor that _already_ works, not some buggy, incomplete, PoS.
Ironically I was reading this article yesterday which goes into more detail how Microsoft lost momentum to web clients:
How Microsoft Lost the API War
/sarcasm Now don't go confusing the representatives with facts. :-)
Agreed. "What could possible go wrong with censorship?"
Let's toss the baby out with the bath water simply because 1 person, accidentally, or intentionally, access it. Does this mean google.com, microsoft.com, etc. would be shut down? :-)
Funny, how it is always the US demanding that other countries abide by _their_ morality instead of them to theirs.
Then we don't have to waste our time fast-forwarding listening to all the sales pitching useless crap that we don't want nor need.
If something is good enough to be "advertised" by word of mouth, it probably isn't worth it.
> I'm sick and tired of the Microsoft is evil crap.
Sticking your head in the sand doesn't make the problem go away.
1. Maybe if Microsoft would come clean with how much data they collect people might actually trust them again.
2. Gee, nice to know MS is back porting their privacy-invading Windows 10 features to Windows 7, 8.
Every time you turn around MS is selling you out.
> Microsoft has an amazing history of backwards compatibility. I mean, the SimCity hack is just my favorite,
Ah, you're referring to How Microsoft Lost the API War
No wonders Windows is so buggy. They keep enabling other people's crap.
... making excuses for for ad blockers:
and when someone points out his stupidity:
Even Mozilla has this stupid mindset WRT Do Not Track:
Sweet. Thanks!