Most of the public doesn't use SSDs, doesn't need volume for each application nor does it need GPU accelerated rendering.
I'll give you the SSDs. GPU acceleration is not critical but still a nice-to-have even for the average Joe. Sound per application? This is a lot less esoteric than you'd expect -- all it takes is trying to Skype someone while you have ANY other application open and you'll see why you want that. Not sure how much use it gets by most people, but I like Aero Snap enough that I installed BetterTouchTool on my Mac just to get that one feature.
Sure, and we'll also start spelling out International Business Machines. Except that International Business Machines at least is recognizable as IBM. I doubt that most people familiar with SAP would recognize Systemanalyse und Programmentwicklung.
Here's the thing: If you take a random usb drive and plug it in your personal computer, the more immediate consequences of the act are limited to your computer and those in your local network (your family's computers, presumably). If you're a government employee and you plug in a random pen drive into your work computer, any and all data in your government office network is at risk. The level of paranoia that should be applied in each situation is different.
It's needlessly churn to rapidly inflate version numbers for no gain for anyone.
Not really. Sure, there are problems with the scheme, but the reasoning behind it is good enough. The previous mentality was "Features for firefox 4 are x, y and z. We'll release when those features are ready". But then the team that was doing x moves on to work on feature k, because x is done and both y and z are outside their area of expertise. But, since k is almost finished by the time y and z are complete, might as well wait for that to be finished too. Also, are you sure x, y and z are finished? They could get a little more polish until they're just right. You've now delayed your release for a while longer than it needed. Also, x could've been available to the users months ago, and it was kept on hold because of k, y and z.
Instead, now they're saying "Firefox n+1 comes out 12 weeks after Firefox n" (or however long it is). Each team works on their own thing, features that are deemed complete get integrated, and a release comes out. Either they crunch to finish a feature in time, or say "no go, this waits until the next release", and you get updates on a reliable timeframe and frequent, if incremental, feature updates.
Not necessarily. When I first got into computers I was 3. By the age of 11 I was writing code and liking it. Yet it wasn't until I was programming in university (while getting a maths degree) and a friend showed me gdb that I really really fell head over heels for it. Oddly enough, my favourite part of programming is debugging, and it's hard to explain to someone else the joy of examining a large call stack, looking at every parameter, and tracing the root problem all the way back to its origin.
Actually, the exact same thing got me into that maths degree in the first place. Maths teaching at the high school level does nothing to show you how beautiful maths can be, all it shows you is the loathsome drudgery. It would've turned me off maths if I hadn't had several people in my life that showed me the other side of it, from the surprising richness of Pascal's triangle to the elegance of group theory.
The -only- thing that you can buy with real money in League of Legends that you can't buy with points earned from playing is: new skins. So paying customers and non-paying customers are on the exact same level in terms of what they can accomplish.
League of Legends is a curious example. You do have XP/IP boosts that give you "more bang for your buck" sort of bonuses, and those mean that two players that start at the same time and only play together will see the paying player be a fair bit more powerful than the non-paying player after a while. But then that difference melts away once you reach level 30 (cap) and, once you have the champions and runes you want, you'll find yourself with enough excess IP that you can just collect stuff because you feel like it.
As a paying player, you can buy champions and rune pages, paying your way into more flexibility earlier than a non-paying player would have it. But then, neither of those things really gives you any in-game edge, and the one single thing that could provide a palpable in-game advantage can't be purchased with RP: runes. In the typical F2P model, they'd charge some cash for better-than-normal runes. Instead, you can't even buy them at all with cash! So cash is only a way to scratch the itches of impatience and vanity.
I find that mine are shaped mostly by my years playing world of warcraft, since it makes a lot more use of the keyboard than any fps I played before that. My formative years with FPS games were spent playing DooM though. It started off on WoW with vanilla WASD like the default keybindings, found myself having every single available button around the WASD cluster being used for something, and, as I started feeling the need for even more keybindings, I eventually moved my movement keys to ESDF just so I'd gain an extra column's worth of keys handy. The next revolutionary event was buying an intellimouse explorer 3, and putting the two thumb buttons to use. That was pretty damn awesome.
Nowadays I rebind every game to ESDF, quickly try to and feel the waters and figure out what works well on the thumb buttons (usually they're the utility and panic buttons, whatever that means in the game I'm playing), and need to shift the keyboard a bit when I'm stuck with WASD.
You might be able to stay with me on a trivial site with a couple of pages/templates, but I guarantee you that as soon as you start working on anything non-trivial (like the 100,000+ static documents I currently administer), a real text editor and the basic set of *nix utilities will leave any IDE looking weak and impoverished.
What, then, does your world view make of my day-to-day pattern of using Vim for most html/css/js, netbeans for all my java, and the command line to tie it all together?
That's certainly in their best financial interests to release this way, but it doesn't work for me. As such they now have to work harder for my gaming dollar.
Can you accept that it works for others though? I'm not too much into the whole competitive online side of Starcraft, yet still bought WoL for the campaign. Granted, I didn't get to play as zerg (and played only a mock-protoss sort of thing) yet I still did not, in any way, shape, or form, feel cheated out of my money.
There's no visual do-it-yourself heart transplant tools either. For a reason.
Damn right there are good reasons why there are no DIY heart transplant tools. But then again, first aid kits are pretty useful things to have lying about. I trust you can see how the metaphor still applies.
It's a good question, but version numbers would really imply the wrong thing here. SpiderMonkey is the "root" Javascript implementation. TraceMonkey adds trace trees to SpiderMonkey (which apparently means it JIT compiles a type-specialised version of a function if it detects a specific version of a function to be "hot" -- executes very often). Jaeger Monkey uses a more traditional "JIT compile everything" perspective, but then apparently also has the tracing feature in the backend to further optimise hot paths. From skimming TFA, IonMonkey adds to this a first pass that translates all the code into an intermediate representation that makes further optimisations easier. So in reality, all the FooMonkeys seem, to me, to be closer to large-scale plugins into SpiderMonkey than new engine versions per se.
Actually, I'd call their naming strategy a success. In discussions about Ubuntu, I mostly see versions being referred to by the adjective part of the Adjectivated Animal pattern, rather than attempting to refer to the actual version name. People comparing Jaunty to Karmic seems to work remarkably well, unlike comparing 9.04 to 9.10, but like comparing Tiger to Leopard. Plus, ever since Breezy, they've been sticking to incrementing the initials of the name with every version, which is a damned handy mnemonic.
Microsoft didn't close the source to Windows because it was never open in the first place. If it helps you see it for what it is: Google's developing Android in a cathedral model, rather than a bazaar model.
click and drag eh? How are developers supposed to differentiate that from a pan gesture? Or do you mean we should be listening to different mouse and touch events in our applications (like we already do in html/javascript applications)? There goes the "only the OS needs to know what input devices you're using" idea.
Yes, of course gamestop isn't in in a very favorable position, and apple had a very good starting point to work from. But my point was just that it's unwise to completely dismiss a company just because it's entering a new market.
Chrome's UI is vastly different from safari's (as "vastly" as the difference between two browsers can be anyway). The devtools aren't an imitation, they're the same: the webkit inspector. Seeing as webkit provides fully fleshed-out dev tools, why would Google re-implement or re-skin them? Just so they look different?
Yeah, and a company that excels at niche-market computers knows what it takes to build a smartphone. And they can do it better and more cost effectively than the dozes and dozens of companies that have at least announced... Yeah, you're absolutely right.
No, they're claiming that profit and piracy are separate metrics, and that that a strategy which is (presumably) optimal when looking at the profit metric is not so optimal when measuring piracy.
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Most of the public doesn't use SSDs, doesn't need volume for each application nor does it need GPU accelerated rendering.
I'll give you the SSDs. GPU acceleration is not critical but still a nice-to-have even for the average Joe. Sound per application? This is a lot less esoteric than you'd expect -- all it takes is trying to Skype someone while you have ANY other application open and you'll see why you want that. Not sure how much use it gets by most people, but I like Aero Snap enough that I installed BetterTouchTool on my Mac just to get that one feature.
Sure, and we'll also start spelling out International Business Machines. Except that International Business Machines at least is recognizable as IBM. I doubt that most people familiar with SAP would recognize Systemanalyse und Programmentwicklung.
Here's the thing: If you take a random usb drive and plug it in your personal computer, the more immediate consequences of the act are limited to your computer and those in your local network (your family's computers, presumably). If you're a government employee and you plug in a random pen drive into your work computer, any and all data in your government office network is at risk. The level of paranoia that should be applied in each situation is different.
It's needlessly churn to rapidly inflate version numbers for no gain for anyone.
Not really. Sure, there are problems with the scheme, but the reasoning behind it is good enough. The previous mentality was "Features for firefox 4 are x, y and z. We'll release when those features are ready". But then the team that was doing x moves on to work on feature k, because x is done and both y and z are outside their area of expertise. But, since k is almost finished by the time y and z are complete, might as well wait for that to be finished too. Also, are you sure x, y and z are finished? They could get a little more polish until they're just right. You've now delayed your release for a while longer than it needed. Also, x could've been available to the users months ago, and it was kept on hold because of k, y and z.
Instead, now they're saying "Firefox n+1 comes out 12 weeks after Firefox n" (or however long it is). Each team works on their own thing, features that are deemed complete get integrated, and a release comes out. Either they crunch to finish a feature in time, or say "no go, this waits until the next release", and you get updates on a reliable timeframe and frequent, if incremental, feature updates.
Not necessarily. When I first got into computers I was 3. By the age of 11 I was writing code and liking it. Yet it wasn't until I was programming in university (while getting a maths degree) and a friend showed me gdb that I really really fell head over heels for it. Oddly enough, my favourite part of programming is debugging, and it's hard to explain to someone else the joy of examining a large call stack, looking at every parameter, and tracing the root problem all the way back to its origin.
Actually, the exact same thing got me into that maths degree in the first place. Maths teaching at the high school level does nothing to show you how beautiful maths can be, all it shows you is the loathsome drudgery. It would've turned me off maths if I hadn't had several people in my life that showed me the other side of it, from the surprising richness of Pascal's triangle to the elegance of group theory.
The -only- thing that you can buy with real money in League of Legends that you can't buy with points earned from playing is: new skins. So paying customers and non-paying customers are on the exact same level in terms of what they can accomplish.
League of Legends is a curious example. You do have XP/IP boosts that give you "more bang for your buck" sort of bonuses, and those mean that two players that start at the same time and only play together will see the paying player be a fair bit more powerful than the non-paying player after a while. But then that difference melts away once you reach level 30 (cap) and, once you have the champions and runes you want, you'll find yourself with enough excess IP that you can just collect stuff because you feel like it.
As a paying player, you can buy champions and rune pages, paying your way into more flexibility earlier than a non-paying player would have it. But then, neither of those things really gives you any in-game edge, and the one single thing that could provide a palpable in-game advantage can't be purchased with RP: runes. In the typical F2P model, they'd charge some cash for better-than-normal runes. Instead, you can't even buy them at all with cash! So cash is only a way to scratch the itches of impatience and vanity.
I find that mine are shaped mostly by my years playing world of warcraft, since it makes a lot more use of the keyboard than any fps I played before that. My formative years with FPS games were spent playing DooM though. It started off on WoW with vanilla WASD like the default keybindings, found myself having every single available button around the WASD cluster being used for something, and, as I started feeling the need for even more keybindings, I eventually moved my movement keys to ESDF just so I'd gain an extra column's worth of keys handy. The next revolutionary event was buying an intellimouse explorer 3, and putting the two thumb buttons to use. That was pretty damn awesome.
Nowadays I rebind every game to ESDF, quickly try to and feel the waters and figure out what works well on the thumb buttons (usually they're the utility and panic buttons, whatever that means in the game I'm playing), and need to shift the keyboard a bit when I'm stuck with WASD.
You might be able to stay with me on a trivial site with a couple of pages/templates, but I guarantee you that as soon as you start working on anything non-trivial (like the 100,000+ static documents I currently administer), a real text editor and the basic set of *nix utilities will leave any IDE looking weak and impoverished.
What, then, does your world view make of my day-to-day pattern of using Vim for most html/css/js, netbeans for all my java, and the command line to tie it all together?
...didn't realize... So... you missed all the clips and previews, then?
So... you missed the bit where he said he thought it was a reboot? It being a prequel was news to me as well.
So how is a kindle more distracting than an actual physical book then?
Yeah, but you also don't get subpixel rendering/antialising on text on the horizontal axis, which is where it matters.
That's a great idea, if everyone important in your life lives within a distance that's drivable in an emergency.
That's certainly in their best financial interests to release this way, but it doesn't work for me. As such they now have to work harder for my gaming dollar.
Can you accept that it works for others though? I'm not too much into the whole competitive online side of Starcraft, yet still bought WoL for the campaign. Granted, I didn't get to play as zerg (and played only a mock-protoss sort of thing) yet I still did not, in any way, shape, or form, feel cheated out of my money.
There's no visual do-it-yourself heart transplant tools either. For a reason.
Damn right there are good reasons why there are no DIY heart transplant tools. But then again, first aid kits are pretty useful things to have lying about. I trust you can see how the metaphor still applies.
10.5 still supported PPC
It's a good question, but version numbers would really imply the wrong thing here. SpiderMonkey is the "root" Javascript implementation. TraceMonkey adds trace trees to SpiderMonkey (which apparently means it JIT compiles a type-specialised version of a function if it detects a specific version of a function to be "hot" -- executes very often). Jaeger Monkey uses a more traditional "JIT compile everything" perspective, but then apparently also has the tracing feature in the backend to further optimise hot paths. From skimming TFA, IonMonkey adds to this a first pass that translates all the code into an intermediate representation that makes further optimisations easier. So in reality, all the FooMonkeys seem, to me, to be closer to large-scale plugins into SpiderMonkey than new engine versions per se.
Actually, I'd call their naming strategy a success. In discussions about Ubuntu, I mostly see versions being referred to by the adjective part of the Adjectivated Animal pattern, rather than attempting to refer to the actual version name. People comparing Jaunty to Karmic seems to work remarkably well, unlike comparing 9.04 to 9.10, but like comparing Tiger to Leopard. Plus, ever since Breezy, they've been sticking to incrementing the initials of the name with every version, which is a damned handy mnemonic.
Microsoft didn't close the source to Windows because it was never open in the first place. If it helps you see it for what it is: Google's developing Android in a cathedral model, rather than a bazaar model.
They haven't closed the source though. They just haven't opened it up yet (which is completely different)
Right, economics lives in a world of games with artificial rules.
Because nobody else does that.
click and drag eh? How are developers supposed to differentiate that from a pan gesture? Or do you mean we should be listening to different mouse and touch events in our applications (like we already do in html/javascript applications)? There goes the "only the OS needs to know what input devices you're using" idea.
Yes, of course gamestop isn't in in a very favorable position, and apple had a very good starting point to work from. But my point was just that it's unwise to completely dismiss a company just because it's entering a new market.
Chrome's UI is vastly different from safari's (as "vastly" as the difference between two browsers can be anyway). The devtools aren't an imitation, they're the same: the webkit inspector. Seeing as webkit provides fully fleshed-out dev tools, why would Google re-implement or re-skin them? Just so they look different?
Yeah, and a company that excels at niche-market computers knows what it takes to build a smartphone. And they can do it better and more cost effectively than the dozes and dozens of companies that have at least announced... Yeah, you're absolutely right.
No, they're claiming that profit and piracy are separate metrics, and that that a strategy which is (presumably) optimal when looking at the profit metric is not so optimal when measuring piracy.