Well in the US the price of the games are usually the same, but there is a difference that your post helped me to realize, the costs with licensing are based on how many copies you sell, however the extra costs associated with PCs are sunk by the time the game is released, whether it sells well or not.
Um, no. This seems to be a common meme on slashdot, but it has very little to do with reality. While the increased number of possible graphics cards/hardware configs of PCs are a problem, the cost of supporting them is dwarfed by the license costs for consoles. Anyone can release a game on Windows/OS X and not pay Microsoft or Apple a dime, but you cannot release a game on a console without giving Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo a cut of your revenue. Long story short companies that don't release games for the PC aren't doing so because they simply don't think it will sell for whatever reasons. If companies thought they could sell as many copies of a game released only on the PC as they could console games you bet they would release more for the PC even if it requires spending a little bit more on doing QA.
I neither hate the government nor fetishize businesses, but there is a key difference between the two. If business does what the government does, a more agile competitor can come along and create their products more efficiently. That doesn't happen with the government and I have no power to change how a business conducts itself, I have a say in how the government does.
The government will probably react to this like they always do, add more bureaucracy to help "prevent" waste but in actuality simply causes more of it. The pains you have to go through to get the government to approve anything is insane. Ostensibly the entire program exists to prevent waste, not cause it, but thats the end result. For example an iOS enterprise license costs $399/year, however the labor necessary to get the purchase approved probably cost at least that much, if not more. But thats not how people actually think about the problem and the end result will probably be more, not less, waste.
A little late to the party, but a lot of schools have a policy of explicitly not admitting students who have a PhD in another field. For instance, here is MITs official stance on that:
10. If I already have a PhD, can I apply for another PhD in EECS?
No, we will not admit an applicant who already holds a PhD degree (even if it is in a different area such as Physics or Math)
Well, I've never heard of making a silk purse out of a sow's ear, but putting the cart before the horse probably stayed alive because it's quite easy to visualize. However if you have never heard a record before then you would have no idea that a "broken record" repeats continuously, and thus the phrase is likely to go away as time goes on.
Technology isn't just adding new terms to the language, it's also changing, and in some cases erasing, idioms that already exist. Take for example the phrase, "you sound like a broken record". How many people under the age of 25 even know what a broken record sounds like? As time goes on I expect that phrase to become increasingly rare, and to be replaced by a similar phrase, thus completing the circle of life:P
Maybe they have some sort of deal with some of the big box retailers. By releasing on Sunday you pretty much guarantee that the only people who can get it on launch day are ones that bought it(or more likely pre-ordered it) from a physical store as most delivery companies don't do Sunday delivery.
TFA specifically mentions the Macbook air, on which you can install the OS and tons of apps from the mac app store and it even has a built in recovery partition from which you can always boot if you need to re-install the OS.
It has to do with retailers really. For whatever reason, in most areas of the world new games(and movies, and music etc.) are only released on a certain day of the week. Not sure why they continue that tradition, but there it is.
Um, this should not be REQUIRED at all, that was my entire point. Yes I can do it on my own, but why should I have to? Why can't C just include an import statement that does this for me? Also, there are 0 rules on naming conventions, it's possible that a naming collision can cause really hard to track down errors.
while some smart programmers think it's necessary to over-use the preprocessor
And that is ultimately my main beef with C, it's impossible to write non-trivial code that DOESNT make use of the pre-processor. Header guards in 2011? Really? C either needs to make an Objective-c like import statement a standard or else make #pragma once standard and make it default, so that if in the rare case you do actually need to include a file more than once, THEN you have to use a pre-processor command. I think the pre-processor is a really useful feature of C, but it should never be essentially mandatory to use it.
Yeah but since DropBox is essentially just a front end bolted on to Amazon's S3 service, they actually do not have all that much control over the terms of service, if Amazon's is different or they change their terms of service afterward then Dropbox is screwed.
Actually there are valid reasons to compress at least some of your files beyond the need for saving space, namely that the speed differential between I/O(esp. platter drives) and CPUs is continuing to grow incredibly fast. The performance gap is getting to the point that for files that tend to compress(executables and libraries are among them), the time it takes to read the compressed file off the disk and then decompress it in memory may be less than the time it takes to read the entire uncompressed file from disk.
Now there are tools that allow you to do this just for executables, but since they don't run on all platforms you can be in kind of a bind. By putting your executables and libraries in their own file compressed file system, you can gain a lot of the advantages of executable compression while still being able to use it on pretty much any platform.
This makes Finder pretty useless and stops any users learning about the true directory hierarchy.
Um, if any user is smart enough, or actually cares enough to learn about the true directory hierarchy, they will be using Terminal to do so, not finder. Also, telling Finder not to hide any folders is pretty easy to do, but the default for hiding them makes sense as most Mac users don't need, or even want, to see them, so hiding them makes the interface much cleaner.
Maybe not permanently, but it wouldn't be that hard for someone to visit the prison who has a smart phone with tethering or one of those pocket wi-fi dealies and create a wifi network temporarily so their compatriot can do whatever they need to do.
Actually a lot of the hijackers believed that performing jihad basically exempted them from pretty much any of the rules of Islam, and as such many of the hijackers drank.
All I had to do was read the first line of your post to realize that you have 0 clue about anything, so there was no reason to even bother with the rest, you are just some MSCE who is worried because your platform is becoming irrelevant. Android uses the Linux kernel yes, but that doesn't make it some sort of "Linux variant", at least not in the same way that you seem to think it is. Unlike Windows, anyone is free to modify Linux, and the overwhelming majority of the "flaws" you point out are with things that Google or other parties have added on to the Linux kernel, Android and the OS that runs on web servers are very different beasts. But yeah, I'm sure with that MSCE cert you will go far in a world that is ditching Windows as fast as it can because it's such flaming pile of insecure shit.
HAHAHAHAHA, it's so adorable that you believe that Microsoft bullshit. You want to know why Microsoft servers are so rarely hacked? Because so many people got burned running Windows bullshit that very, VERY few websites actually run Windows or IIS, and thus they are not compromised. Also, the # of vulnerabilities is a bullshit metric that Microsoft likes to tout because it's the ONLY metric that makes them look good, the thing is the vast majority of Linux kernel bugs are actually escalation of privilege attacks that require a local account and even then they are mostly theoretical, now compare that to Windows where the patched vulnerabilities are serious remote exploit bugs that represent real threats. Not to mention that Linux, being OPEN, actually accurately reports it's vulnerabilities, whereas Microsoft does not.NOt to mention that huge security vulnerability that Microsoft calls a feature called Genuine Advantage.
But yeah, continue to use that toy called Windows and consider yourself secure, I'm sure the hackers will enjoy just how easy you are making it to hack you.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Japanese are pumping huge amounts of money into this venture right now. With the Japanese economy being heavily invested in industries that use these minerals Japan definitely wants to wean itself off of reliance on China, and the insanely strong yen makes investing in the US incredibly cheap right now. Japanese companies would be incredibly remiss if they weren't taking advantage of this opportunity(and they may even get support for the government who wants to weaken the yen)
They don't need particularly sophisticated techniques when their favored targets insist on using that steaming pile of insecure shit known as Windows. Using Windows for anything critical is sort of like being a gazelle and bathing in meat tenderizer, you are just making it too easy and too tempting for the lion to come and eat you.
This guy had some actual scientific doubts about global warming, he wasn't against it because it was what his "gut" told him, or because it was the party line, he actually had some reservations, which is what any good scientist should have, and wanted to do some more study. He did, and upon further investigation he had his doubts assuaged. This is the scientific process in action.
However, probably only 1% of the AGW are like this guy and are legitimately uncertain about the science and want to know more Most are like Glenn Beck or Rick Perry and don't believe in global warming simply because it is(for them anyway), politically and economically expedient to do so. They will of course evoke the word "science" as if somehow just using that word automatically gives credence to what they are saying, but those guys don't even have a basic grasp of climate science, or even the scientific method as a whole.
I remember one of the rabid right-wing blogs going crazy because a new paper had shed more light on a particular topic and thus they seemed to think that it somehow "disproved" all climate science.... BUT THAT IS HOW SCIENCE FUCKING WORKS! The beauty about the scientific method is that we are constantly getting a clearer picture of what is going on and increasing our understanding of how things work, and reversals of some research is inevitable AND a good thing. However, these people look at changing your beliefs in response to new information as an anathema, you must be ideologically pure and no amount of empirical data should ever change how you view the world.....
Anyway, getting back on topic, this data will not convince the 99% of the AGW whose beliefs about global warming aren't even remotely rooted in science, and so the dark ages in the US will continue.
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Well in the US the price of the games are usually the same, but there is a difference that your post helped me to realize, the costs with licensing are based on how many copies you sell, however the extra costs associated with PCs are sunk by the time the game is released, whether it sells well or not.
Um, no. This seems to be a common meme on slashdot, but it has very little to do with reality. While the increased number of possible graphics cards/hardware configs of PCs are a problem, the cost of supporting them is dwarfed by the license costs for consoles. Anyone can release a game on Windows/OS X and not pay Microsoft or Apple a dime, but you cannot release a game on a console without giving Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo a cut of your revenue. Long story short companies that don't release games for the PC aren't doing so because they simply don't think it will sell for whatever reasons. If companies thought they could sell as many copies of a game released only on the PC as they could console games you bet they would release more for the PC even if it requires spending a little bit more on doing QA.
But pedantry and incitefullness are :P
I neither hate the government nor fetishize businesses, but there is a key difference between the two. If business does what the government does, a more agile competitor can come along and create their products more efficiently. That doesn't happen with the government and I have no power to change how a business conducts itself, I have a say in how the government does.
The government will probably react to this like they always do, add more bureaucracy to help "prevent" waste but in actuality simply causes more of it. The pains you have to go through to get the government to approve anything is insane. Ostensibly the entire program exists to prevent waste, not cause it, but thats the end result. For example an iOS enterprise license costs $399/year, however the labor necessary to get the purchase approved probably cost at least that much, if not more. But thats not how people actually think about the problem and the end result will probably be more, not less, waste.
A little late to the party, but a lot of schools have a policy of explicitly not admitting students who have a PhD in another field. For instance, here is MITs official stance on that:
10. If I already have a PhD, can I apply for another PhD in EECS?
No, we will not admit an applicant who already holds a PhD degree (even if it is in a different area such as Physics or Math)
Man you had me until you mentioned MS Paint, exposing a kid to Microsoft garbage at such a young age is akin to child abuse. Stop the insanity!
Well, I've never heard of making a silk purse out of a sow's ear, but putting the cart before the horse probably stayed alive because it's quite easy to visualize. However if you have never heard a record before then you would have no idea that a "broken record" repeats continuously, and thus the phrase is likely to go away as time goes on.
Technology isn't just adding new terms to the language, it's also changing, and in some cases erasing, idioms that already exist. Take for example the phrase, "you sound like a broken record". How many people under the age of 25 even know what a broken record sounds like? As time goes on I expect that phrase to become increasingly rare, and to be replaced by a similar phrase, thus completing the circle of life :P
Maybe they have some sort of deal with some of the big box retailers. By releasing on Sunday you pretty much guarantee that the only people who can get it on launch day are ones that bought it(or more likely pre-ordered it) from a physical store as most delivery companies don't do Sunday delivery.
TFA specifically mentions the Macbook air, on which you can install the OS and tons of apps from the mac app store and it even has a built in recovery partition from which you can always boot if you need to re-install the OS.
It has to do with retailers really. For whatever reason, in most areas of the world new games(and movies, and music etc.) are only released on a certain day of the week. Not sure why they continue that tradition, but there it is.
Um, this should not be REQUIRED at all, that was my entire point. Yes I can do it on my own, but why should I have to? Why can't C just include an import statement that does this for me? Also, there are 0 rules on naming conventions, it's possible that a naming collision can cause really hard to track down errors.
while some smart programmers think it's necessary to over-use the preprocessor
And that is ultimately my main beef with C, it's impossible to write non-trivial code that DOESNT make use of the pre-processor. Header guards in 2011? Really? C either needs to make an Objective-c like import statement a standard or else make #pragma once standard and make it default, so that if in the rare case you do actually need to include a file more than once, THEN you have to use a pre-processor command. I think the pre-processor is a really useful feature of C, but it should never be essentially mandatory to use it.
There are job fairs for jobs in Japan in the US, MIT does one for jobs in Europe, etc. Nothing all that unique about doing one for India.
Yeah but since DropBox is essentially just a front end bolted on to Amazon's S3 service, they actually do not have all that much control over the terms of service, if Amazon's is different or they change their terms of service afterward then Dropbox is screwed.
Actually there are valid reasons to compress at least some of your files beyond the need for saving space, namely that the speed differential between I/O(esp. platter drives) and CPUs is continuing to grow incredibly fast. The performance gap is getting to the point that for files that tend to compress(executables and libraries are among them), the time it takes to read the compressed file off the disk and then decompress it in memory may be less than the time it takes to read the entire uncompressed file from disk.
Now there are tools that allow you to do this just for executables, but since they don't run on all platforms you can be in kind of a bind. By putting your executables and libraries in their own file compressed file system, you can gain a lot of the advantages of executable compression while still being able to use it on pretty much any platform.
This makes Finder pretty useless and stops any users learning about the true directory hierarchy.
Um, if any user is smart enough, or actually cares enough to learn about the true directory hierarchy, they will be using Terminal to do so, not finder. Also, telling Finder not to hide any folders is pretty easy to do, but the default for hiding them makes sense as most Mac users don't need, or even want, to see them, so hiding them makes the interface much cleaner.
Maybe not permanently, but it wouldn't be that hard for someone to visit the prison who has a smart phone with tethering or one of those pocket wi-fi dealies and create a wifi network temporarily so their compatriot can do whatever they need to do.
Actually a lot of the hijackers believed that performing jihad basically exempted them from pretty much any of the rules of Islam, and as such many of the hijackers drank.
All I had to do was read the first line of your post to realize that you have 0 clue about anything, so there was no reason to even bother with the rest, you are just some MSCE who is worried because your platform is becoming irrelevant. Android uses the Linux kernel yes, but that doesn't make it some sort of "Linux variant", at least not in the same way that you seem to think it is. Unlike Windows, anyone is free to modify Linux, and the overwhelming majority of the "flaws" you point out are with things that Google or other parties have added on to the Linux kernel, Android and the OS that runs on web servers are very different beasts. But yeah, I'm sure with that MSCE cert you will go far in a world that is ditching Windows as fast as it can because it's such flaming pile of insecure shit.
HAHAHAHAHA, it's so adorable that you believe that Microsoft bullshit. You want to know why Microsoft servers are so rarely hacked? Because so many people got burned running Windows bullshit that very, VERY few websites actually run Windows or IIS, and thus they are not compromised. Also, the # of vulnerabilities is a bullshit metric that Microsoft likes to tout because it's the ONLY metric that makes them look good, the thing is the vast majority of Linux kernel bugs are actually escalation of privilege attacks that require a local account and even then they are mostly theoretical, now compare that to Windows where the patched vulnerabilities are serious remote exploit bugs that represent real threats. Not to mention that Linux, being OPEN, actually accurately reports it's vulnerabilities, whereas Microsoft does not.NOt to mention that huge security vulnerability that Microsoft calls a feature called Genuine Advantage.
But yeah, continue to use that toy called Windows and consider yourself secure, I'm sure the hackers will enjoy just how easy you are making it to hack you.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Japanese are pumping huge amounts of money into this venture right now. With the Japanese economy being heavily invested in industries that use these minerals Japan definitely wants to wean itself off of reliance on China, and the insanely strong yen makes investing in the US incredibly cheap right now. Japanese companies would be incredibly remiss if they weren't taking advantage of this opportunity(and they may even get support for the government who wants to weaken the yen)
They don't need particularly sophisticated techniques when their favored targets insist on using that steaming pile of insecure shit known as Windows. Using Windows for anything critical is sort of like being a gazelle and bathing in meat tenderizer, you are just making it too easy and too tempting for the lion to come and eat you.
This guy had some actual scientific doubts about global warming, he wasn't against it because it was what his "gut" told him, or because it was the party line, he actually had some reservations, which is what any good scientist should have, and wanted to do some more study. He did, and upon further investigation he had his doubts assuaged. This is the scientific process in action.
However, probably only 1% of the AGW are like this guy and are legitimately uncertain about the science and want to know more Most are like Glenn Beck or Rick Perry and don't believe in global warming simply because it is(for them anyway), politically and economically expedient to do so. They will of course evoke the word "science" as if somehow just using that word automatically gives credence to what they are saying, but those guys don't even have a basic grasp of climate science, or even the scientific method as a whole.
I remember one of the rabid right-wing blogs going crazy because a new paper had shed more light on a particular topic and thus they seemed to think that it somehow "disproved" all climate science.... BUT THAT IS HOW SCIENCE FUCKING WORKS! The beauty about the scientific method is that we are constantly getting a clearer picture of what is going on and increasing our understanding of how things work, and reversals of some research is inevitable AND a good thing. However, these people look at changing your beliefs in response to new information as an anathema, you must be ideologically pure and no amount of empirical data should ever change how you view the world.....
Anyway, getting back on topic, this data will not convince the 99% of the AGW whose beliefs about global warming aren't even remotely rooted in science, and so the dark ages in the US will continue.