I'm sorry, the facts aren't clear. I've read the research, and I find it's speculative. Isn't part of the scientific method accepting criticism from your peers? Because your acceptance of criticism reminds me more of a religious organization - if you don't believe us you're stupid. That's not science.
Then how about that is your talking point rather than make up stories of gloom and doom? I agree with everything you're saying about human impact, but let's make that the main part of your campaign, rather than this global warming nonsense. The problem is, Gore and company choose the latter, and lost credibility as a leader for these issues.
Let's go with the facts: Humans use a lot of resources. We don't know what effect they have on the planet, so let's try to be conservative and waste as little as possible. Let's try to use renewable resources, because that will reduce our carbon footprint, and help improve air quality in populated areas. Doesn't that sound much more reasonable than gloom and doom "we're causing the earth's temperature to rise oh no"?
It's all about getting the facts. The fact is, the impact humans can make to change global temperature is... well we really have no clue, it's all guessing.
They could release a PC version of the game, however, they would need to segment those players somehow for balancing purposes.
Instead of having just one planetary battle, have two or more, one (or more) being console vs console, and another one (or more) being PC vs PC. I don't see why this wouldn't work, planets are huge, there could be multiple planetary battles going on at the same time. Instead of one battle deciding the outcome, multiple planetary battles simultaneously decide the outcome, maybe having several stages after each round of win/losses. Doing something like this, you will need contracts in both PC and console version to succeed.
You can still have your console + PC game, still be in one universe, but not have to deal with balancing FPS for console vs PC.
Thank you. I'm sure Apple is full aware of how many users is was going to alienate. They probably figured out how much it would cost to support XP users, and what effect it would have for not supporting XP users. They decided putting legacy cruft in their codebase to support XP was not worth it to them.
A few years from now, more people will have upgraded/bought new machines, and the XP userbase will continue to get smaller and smaller. I think now is a very good time to start deciding to drop support for XP.
I personally only watched it because I saw this/. article about it. I didn't find anything particularly offensive about it, unless you consider not bowing to Julian Assange as the second coming of Christ offensive. I thought they were critical, but fair, as Frontline usually is.
If only that were true. Current US deficit is more than twice the annual cost of the military, including a few wars in there. A lot of that is the US paying an economic premium for having an unusually bad batch of idiots in charge. Maybe getting rid of the military and putting in someone with some good economic and political chops might do it. I suspect however, that the sacred entitlement herd will have to be culled too.
Perfect, so let's cut military spending in half, and use that half to pay off a quarter of the deficit every year (or whatever fraction it is) and we'll be high sailing in 4 years or so (5-6 depending on how your math works). I'm assuming your numbers aren't pulled out of your ass.
If there were no patent trolls, there would be be no need for patent defense lawyer. It's a system where having more lawyers creates the need for more lawyers.. which in turn.. well you get the idea.
There are many parallels between lawyers and the nuclear arms race. If there were less lawyers in the first place, there would be less of a demand for lawyers as well.
Just because it's good enough for you, still doesn't mean a mobile device will ever be faster than a larger piece of equipment, such as a console. The current generation of handhelds will always be slower than the current generation of consoles.
If it gets to the point where the handhelds are "good enough" where consoles don't make sense economically anymore, then maybe. Miniaturization has a cost, take any two equally powerful machines, one desktop sized, one laptop sized, the laptop-sized will always cost more. A good comparison would be an HTPC and an equivalent plain desktop. Similarly priced, the plain desktop will always be more powerful and have a larger featureset.
No, it really is not substantial. It's there, but you really have to be looking for it.
Besides, this attitude of "with modern X being what it is", we create this computing culture of throwing hardware at the problem when there are performance issues, rather than trying to solve the root issue at hand.
While PNG is a great format for digital artwork, and maybe even archiving, it's a terrible format for distributing pictures on the web. JPEG, while lossy, still looks good at high resolutions, and compresses down to smaller image sizes for distribution of photography on the web. It's the difference between FLAC and high bitrate MP3... while the FLAC is "technically" superior in terms of quality, most people aren't going to be able to tell the difference between 256kbps MP3 and FLAC.
Saving that photo as a JPEG cut the size by 75% without trying very hard, and I can hardly tell the difference at a glance (small differences, but not that important).
You're a dumbass, you're not supposed to drive in the left lane, it's for passing. If someone wants to pass, you let them. Forcing them to pass on the right is dangerous, and you're creating unsafe driving conditions.
You need to get off your high horse where you think you're better than everybody else and think everybody should drive slower than you. I usually drive in the left lane, and faster than most other people on the road. You know what happens when I see some guy whipping down the road at breakneck speeds? I move the fuck out of the way and give him right-of-way. I don't want that jerkwad driver tailgating me.
I watched it for about 5 hours before I left. It came back with nothing when I got there in the morning, just gone. I did some research and the symptoms were that of an older GPT+XFS bug (exact error, different version of GPT).
Partition was gone, recreating them didn't help, the filesystem was still hosed. Fortunately it was used as a scratch drive, but the "architect" who designed the backups for that system decided it was best to store the data archive on a series of USB disks on a shelf.... If I only could convince somebody to go buy a tape deck for that thing.
The distros turn this behavior off. On Debian and Ubuntu, Firefox, Thunderbird, and VLC have their self-autoupdate disabled (and is non-trivial to enable). If you download the standalone binary and install it yourself, it has the autoupdate feature turned on. Same for Windows.
All 3 programs have a checkbox to turn that feature off if you really think it's intrusive to your privacy.
Funny you say that. I rebooted a server today (clean/soft reboot, not hard reboot), and one of the XFS filesystems never came back up. I had to run xfs_repair on a tiny 20TB volume.
That utility produces lots of dots, and no useful output. No idea if it's even fixed, I clocked out before it finished.
I agree. I can always find Perl installed (most of the *nixes come with this by default due to dependencies), but python is less frequently installed, and ruby is almost never installed. Perl works fine for those hack-type scripts, so I don't see a pressing need to go start installing ruby or python everywhere. If ease of use is the deciding factor for choosing the language, then Perl is certainly the easiest to deploy of the full fledged scripting languages.
What does UI have have to do with the backend implementation? The UI goes in a bunch of template files, which could theoretically be language agnostic.
Any task (with regards to web apps) a modern language can do, Perl can do (and visa versa). One may be easier than the other for certain things, but Perl isn't a choice. Maybe not the best choice, but certainly far from unusable.
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I'm not debating CO2, see my comment 3 comments up 4 posts up.
I'm sorry, the facts aren't clear. I've read the research, and I find it's speculative. Isn't part of the scientific method accepting criticism from your peers? Because your acceptance of criticism reminds me more of a religious organization - if you don't believe us you're stupid. That's not science.
Then how about that is your talking point rather than make up stories of gloom and doom? I agree with everything you're saying about human impact, but let's make that the main part of your campaign, rather than this global warming nonsense. The problem is, Gore and company choose the latter, and lost credibility as a leader for these issues.
Let's go with the facts: Humans use a lot of resources. We don't know what effect they have on the planet, so let's try to be conservative and waste as little as possible. Let's try to use renewable resources, because that will reduce our carbon footprint, and help improve air quality in populated areas. Doesn't that sound much more reasonable than gloom and doom "we're causing the earth's temperature to rise oh no"?
It's all about getting the facts. The fact is, the impact humans can make to change global temperature is... well we really have no clue, it's all guessing.
Take that Al Gore!
They could release a PC version of the game, however, they would need to segment those players somehow for balancing purposes.
Instead of having just one planetary battle, have two or more, one (or more) being console vs console, and another one (or more) being PC vs PC. I don't see why this wouldn't work, planets are huge, there could be multiple planetary battles going on at the same time. Instead of one battle deciding the outcome, multiple planetary battles simultaneously decide the outcome, maybe having several stages after each round of win/losses. Doing something like this, you will need contracts in both PC and console version to succeed.
You can still have your console + PC game, still be in one universe, but not have to deal with balancing FPS for console vs PC.
It doesn't just output bad HTML, it puts other random tags and attributes that have no purpose and aren't HTML.
Thank you. I'm sure Apple is full aware of how many users is was going to alienate. They probably figured out how much it would cost to support XP users, and what effect it would have for not supporting XP users. They decided putting legacy cruft in their codebase to support XP was not worth it to them.
A few years from now, more people will have upgraded/bought new machines, and the XP userbase will continue to get smaller and smaller. I think now is a very good time to start deciding to drop support for XP.
Well you ain't gettin a pizza roll.
I personally only watched it because I saw this /. article about it. I didn't find anything particularly offensive about it, unless you consider not bowing to Julian Assange as the second coming of Christ offensive. I thought they were critical, but fair, as Frontline usually is.
You can watch the Frontline episode on PBS's website. I love how PBS publishes a lot of their TV content online.
Yeah, but what happens when you pummel transistors with ionized radiation? Oh....
If only that were true. Current US deficit is more than twice the annual cost of the military, including a few wars in there. A lot of that is the US paying an economic premium for having an unusually bad batch of idiots in charge. Maybe getting rid of the military and putting in someone with some good economic and political chops might do it. I suspect however, that the sacred entitlement herd will have to be culled too.
Perfect, so let's cut military spending in half, and use that half to pay off a quarter of the deficit every year (or whatever fraction it is) and we'll be high sailing in 4 years or so (5-6 depending on how your math works). I'm assuming your numbers aren't pulled out of your ass.
If there were no patent trolls, there would be be no need for patent defense lawyer. It's a system where having more lawyers creates the need for more lawyers.. which in turn.. well you get the idea.
There are many parallels between lawyers and the nuclear arms race. If there were less lawyers in the first place, there would be less of a demand for lawyers as well.
Just because it's good enough for you, still doesn't mean a mobile device will ever be faster than a larger piece of equipment, such as a console. The current generation of handhelds will always be slower than the current generation of consoles.
If it gets to the point where the handhelds are "good enough" where consoles don't make sense economically anymore, then maybe. Miniaturization has a cost, take any two equally powerful machines, one desktop sized, one laptop sized, the laptop-sized will always cost more. A good comparison would be an HTPC and an equivalent plain desktop. Similarly priced, the plain desktop will always be more powerful and have a larger featureset.
No, it really is not substantial. It's there, but you really have to be looking for it.
Besides, this attitude of "with modern X being what it is", we create this computing culture of throwing hardware at the problem when there are performance issues, rather than trying to solve the root issue at hand.
While PNG is a great format for digital artwork, and maybe even archiving, it's a terrible format for distributing pictures on the web. JPEG, while lossy, still looks good at high resolutions, and compresses down to smaller image sizes for distribution of photography on the web. It's the difference between FLAC and high bitrate MP3... while the FLAC is "technically" superior in terms of quality, most people aren't going to be able to tell the difference between 256kbps MP3 and FLAC.
Saving that photo as a JPEG cut the size by 75% without trying very hard, and I can hardly tell the difference at a glance (small differences, but not that important).
You're a dumbass, you're not supposed to drive in the left lane, it's for passing. If someone wants to pass, you let them. Forcing them to pass on the right is dangerous, and you're creating unsafe driving conditions.
You need to get off your high horse where you think you're better than everybody else and think everybody should drive slower than you. I usually drive in the left lane, and faster than most other people on the road. You know what happens when I see some guy whipping down the road at breakneck speeds? I move the fuck out of the way and give him right-of-way. I don't want that jerkwad driver tailgating me.
It needs to be Linux Kernel 6.1, but the OS should be Linux 7. For marketing, of course.
Hardware keeps getting better and better. If you can't emulate it today, eventually the hardware will catch up in time.
I watched it for about 5 hours before I left. It came back with nothing when I got there in the morning, just gone. I did some research and the symptoms were that of an older GPT+XFS bug (exact error, different version of GPT).
Partition was gone, recreating them didn't help, the filesystem was still hosed. Fortunately it was used as a scratch drive, but the "architect" who designed the backups for that system decided it was best to store the data archive on a series of USB disks on a shelf.... If I only could convince somebody to go buy a tape deck for that thing.
The distros turn this behavior off. On Debian and Ubuntu, Firefox, Thunderbird, and VLC have their self-autoupdate disabled (and is non-trivial to enable). If you download the standalone binary and install it yourself, it has the autoupdate feature turned on. Same for Windows.
All 3 programs have a checkbox to turn that feature off if you really think it's intrusive to your privacy.
Funny you say that. I rebooted a server today (clean/soft reboot, not hard reboot), and one of the XFS filesystems never came back up. I had to run xfs_repair on a tiny 20TB volume.
That utility produces lots of dots, and no useful output. No idea if it's even fixed, I clocked out before it finished.
I agree. I can always find Perl installed (most of the *nixes come with this by default due to dependencies), but python is less frequently installed, and ruby is almost never installed. Perl works fine for those hack-type scripts, so I don't see a pressing need to go start installing ruby or python everywhere. If ease of use is the deciding factor for choosing the language, then Perl is certainly the easiest to deploy of the full fledged scripting languages.
What does UI have have to do with the backend implementation? The UI goes in a bunch of template files, which could theoretically be language agnostic.
Any task (with regards to web apps) a modern language can do, Perl can do (and visa versa). One may be easier than the other for certain things, but Perl isn't a choice. Maybe not the best choice, but certainly far from unusable.