Patriotism ain't got shit to do with it, the second the money became electronic the people lost. the reason they lost is unlike in decades past being able to move billions in a nanosecond gave the banksters and their elite buddies the ability to truly destroy a nation's economy, simply move a large chunk out when things are shaky followed by a "we have no confidence in" statement and watch Rome burn. Like it or not the government (mainly Ronnie Raygun and his deregs, but Clinton killing Glass Steagal certainly helped) has allowed the banksters to grow to the point that when the financial market DOES collapse, which it will, the bubble has grown too big to be deflated slowly without massive political fallout so politicians will kick the can down the road until it blows up, it WILL make the great depression look like a flash crash.
BTW if you thought patriotism was a "thing" a few decades ago you haven't read "War is a racket" written by U.S. General Smedley Butler in the 1930s! here is an excerpt, see if it sounds familiar..
I helped make Mexico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.
In and of itself, taking pleasure in the same sex is an inappropriate reaction to that stimulus; A symptom of mental illness.
See the problem Sparky? if you start ignoring obvious signs of a damaged brain and just start labeling anything the society considers inappropriate behavior as "a sign of mental illness" pretty soon anybody who isn't Wally or June is a candidate for the padded cell.
Either we humans have free will, in which case there will be times when someone chooses to do something considered evil, or nobody has free will in which case whether you spend the rest of your life in a padded cell is truly at the whim of the state who can decide tomorrow that anything that doesn't fit a certain mold is deviant and dangerous...sorry but I prefer a world that believes the former NOT the latter.
Riiight, that is why the kernel.org repo was infected by malware. Oh and just FYI it was either the Debian or ubuntu repo that was serving a rootkitted Quake 3 install for THREE YEARS, don't have time to look it up ATM, feel free to google it.
I'm sorry but not only is that a slippery slope, as in the past gays were listed as "mentally ill" because they didn't match up with what the state considered normal but its also ignoring the fact that some just get off on causing pain, see Gacey, Hansen, Lake & Ng for examples. They aren't "mentally ill" as they knew EXACTLY what they were doing, they simply gained pleasure from the suffering and death of others. Some such as Hansen and Gacey even changed their patterns when they knew they were being watched by the police which blows your impulse argument out of the water, because if it were an impulse they wouldn't be able to change when they were at risk.
Sorry, bullshit. Working in the shop I've met more "Joe Pirate" types than you have had hot meals and ya know what? they pirate several orders of magnitude more than they will EVER use. I know one guy has over 30 spindles of music, how much has he listened to? NONE, because the thousand or so songs he actually listens to are already loaded on his laptop but if he likes ONE song from an artist he feels compelled to get EVERY song by that artist, even if he will never listen to a single one except that one hit he already has on his laptop!
I've seen the same thing in games, both with guys that have every game for every console while playing MAYBE a dozen games out of the whole smash, and with the guys that collect genres like FPS or RPG where again they play maybe 1 out of every 50 that they download, and in movies where they will download every movie in a genre (say horror) or every top 10 movie while watching again MAYBE 1 out of every 50. I don't know whether its a compulsion like hoarding or just a need to collect something but I'd say if you magically made perfect DRM tomorrow there isn't a single pirate that has walked through my shop that would buy more than a handful of the stuff they listen/watch/play all the time and the rest? It would just go into a giant "don't care" black hole never to be seen or heard from again.
Hell even I am guilty of this as I'm addicted to Steam sales and Humble Bundles, I have nearly 200 titles in my Steam, and probably just as much if not more in DRM free formats like GOG and direct downloads from the bundles...how many have I actually played? Maybe a quarter if that, how many have I played more than 10 minutes? Maybe half of those, all the way through? Maybe TEN. So if Humble Bundles and Steam sales didn't exist i would be just as happy as i am now if I would have only bought 10 games, looking at what I've been playing of late 4 RPGs and 6 shooters would be more than enough, so the only difference is those that made the other 390 games would not have a snowball's chance in hell of tempting me with squat as i would have never sampled their wares, that's all.
And at least in my case I can state the opposite is also true, i wouldn't have the entire Joss Whedon collection as well as the Marvel movies if it weren't for piracy, as there was no WB in my area so the first half season of Buffy on P2P got me hooked on Joss Whedon's writing so if it weren't for P2P I wouldn't now have the box sets for Buffy, Angel, Firefly, as well as the Avengers and the Marvel cinematic universe, all because i caught those first episodes of Buffy on P2P. Would I have bought them otherwise? Not a chance in hell, a horror series starring a soap actress and the guy from the Taster's Choice ads? Doesn't sound appealing from where I sit.
Well to be fair they seriously screwed the pooch when it came to the PS3, which is why you'll never see backwards compatibility with the PS3. the chip they chose, the IBM cell, turned out to be a total dead end that never sold squat for anything else which kept the price of chips high AND they were hell to code for to boot. this is the same problem with the PS2 as the emotion engine is a custom chip that likewise wasn't used in squat but the PS2 and the funky way it was set up in both means you'd have to basically stuff an entire PS2 AND an entire PS3 into a PS4 to have BC. needless to say most folks aren't wiling to pay 3DO prices for a PS4 so no BC.
If it gives you any comfort the odds of either MSFT or Sony going back to custom chips now that they are on X86, where its both easier to code for and which has much higher economies of scale than PPC is insanely low so the PS5 and Xbone Plus 1 will be bc with Xbone and PS4. Although looking at the PS4 arch they MIGHT be able to do PS2 emulation completely in software so there is the possibility of a virtual console store like on the Wii.
They wouldn't need to bother Google, after all as we saw thanks to the AT&T whistleblower they have backbone access at the ISPs. This means they 1.- Know what OS you are running and 2.- Can perform a MITM on said OS. Lets say you use Linux? All they do is intercept the update mechanism for whatever flavor you are running and one of the dozens of packages you get during an update has a backdoor, with Windows or OSX it would work the same, intercept the update mechanism and force in a backdoor. Hell depending on what video player you are running they might not even do that as I'm sure they have a couple of Flash zero days lying around, simply wait until you request a video and replace it with a zero day infected vid.
Remember folks when they have access to the backbone ALL bets are off, with a MITM everything becomes MUCH easier.
Sorry but go back and read the case, the DoJ wasn't arguing monopoly when it came to the browser, they were arguing that because Windows had such a large share of the market (just like how Google owns the largest share of mobile devices) that MSFT having the ability to bundle a browser, a thing that until recently companies had charged for, that it was giving them a monopoly while product dumping.
So if you applied the exact same argument the DoJ used against with MSFT to Google and Apple? yeah they would be busted and looking at tens to hundreds of millions in fines. It just shows the difference that being a villain versus being a villain with good PR is, it lets you pull shit the other guy can't. I would point out that to this very day MSFT has to offer Windows without IE and WMP in the EU along with a stupid browser ballot yet neither Apple nor Google has to do the same on their devices.
But just as "on the Internet" and "on a mobile device" let the USPTO hand out obvious patents to their corp buddies so too will "Internet enabled appliance" allow the corps and trolls to put up yet more roadblocks with obvious ideas appended with the catchphrase.
That is like saying a Ford and a Chevy are the same thing since they both have motors. All the current Chromium based are just that, based on Chromium. they follow the Chromium tree, implement most if not all that Chromium does, etc. With QTWeb they are going back to the original Webkit source (which Chromium doesn't follow) and building from there, so if anything you could compare it to Safari.
And that is different from any other long term software....how exactly? I've had to build NOS systems for customers whose ancient software wouldn't run on anything newer than an IDE drive loaded with with Win2K (XP would run it but it was buggy as 3 day old shit in the woods) and seen dedicated software that you couldn't even INSTALL on a modern OS because it had to be tied with some lousy old version of Flash or Java.
So nothing you have said makes dedicated a better choice over spreadsheets, on the contrary I've never seen an old sheet that wouldn't run on a new OS while I've seen plenty of dedicated where you'd need an old box lying around just to fire it up.
He is using the same argument the DoJ used against MSFT bundling IE, that since a good 90%+ use the defaults it gives the company a defacto monopoly. I personally thought the DOJ arguments were bullshit but you can't support one but not the other since its the exact same argument...company owns platform, company bundles browser into platform, company gets 90%+ of users using their bundled browser...seems like a pretty straightforward argument if you ask me, whether you personally agree with it or not.
Luckily this isn't the bad old days where it was just IE and netscape, today you DO have options! There is Comodo Dragon (what I use, better security features and no phone home to Google) Chromium, SWIron, and Opera which my oldest boy swears is the greatest thing ever (boy is he still pissed they quit using presto) and on the gecko side there is Firefox, PaleMoon (the other browser I use, I prefer the UI over IceDragon and it seems snappier), SeaMonkey, IceDragon, if you need really low resource there is always Kmeleon which runs really well even on a P3 running Win98SE and if you want to avoid BOTH the Chromium and Gecko engines you can go with QTWeb which is just what it says on the tin, a cross platform browser that uses Webkit and the QT framework...quite nice actually and of course Safari if you are into Apple. There is one other....what was it? Oh yeah the big blue E thing.;-)
So if you don't like the direction Google is going? Don't use their products. After they started getting nasty with the TOS and trying to ram G+ down our throats I dropped Google like a bad habit, I set up a throwaway Gmail I never use just for my Android phone (so they can't tie my desktop and mobile together) and use my main Gmail for a spam dump, switched to Bing for my search and Yahoo for my mail so no one company has access too all my online data and ya know what? couldn't be happier. What DOES really piss me off about Google is how they have become a drive by spammer, you have no idea how many Chrome "infections" I've had to clean off of customers PCs because some "freeware" had Chrome tied into it. We used to get seriously pissed at how McCrappee and Horton used to dump their stupid scanners onto us with freeware so why isn't everyone mad at how Google is spamming Chrome? An unwanted install that takes over defaults...hmmm...if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck?
Perfect is the enemy of good. If your workflow benefits from spreadsheets? Then just ignore the jerk in TFA which frankly smacks of elitist BS. Why the fuck should my customer NEED to use a dedicated program for each task if the work gets done fast and correct with a spreadsheet?
Are there jobs where a dedicated is better? YES, for example I would be hard pressed to find anything better for a small business owner than Quickbooks, you can run everything from payroll to taxes with just a QB girl (and for some reason its ALWAYS a girl, you'd think they had a union) and the place will run like a Swiss watch but just because ONE job is better with a dedicated does NOT mean that ALL jobs are better and for every one like the QB example there are probably a dozen where a spreadsheet can be whipped off and fill the roll just fine.
Even better...both sides pay into a "lawyer fund" and each side is given exactly half the fund, this would be for criminal as well as civil...this way rich corp (or the state) can't stack the deck with a whole legal team complete with a dozen experts for hire while the poor person can't afford more than an ambulance chaser.
As an upside this would discourage lawsuits as the case would have to be about the merits NOT who could hire the best legal team. Frankly this would IMHO bring things back to the way the founding fathers had originally envisioned which is two ordinary folks arguing their case before a judge who would then weigh the case and decide. if you want a fair legal system you have to take money OUT of the equation and by making both sides 100% equal on funds you have made money no longer a deciding factor.
IIRC a lot of the OS I/O stack was coded in ASM to squeeze every drop of performance out. To see what a difference being coded in ASM you should try Kolibri sometime, a full OS with networking that fits on a single floppy,just crazy what you can do by going bare metal.
If you believe voting has done jack shit in the past 30+ years? I have some swampland you may be interested in. Voting hasn't done shit since Ronnie Raygun removed the rules blocking corps from buying all the media stations in an area, between that and outright bribery the congress critters don't give a shit WHAT you think or want. Look up "study shows USA is an oligarchy" to see what REALLY happens, they get a cushy job as a lobbyist if you run them out and the next guy cashes check written by the first.
So if you want to see what a total scam is just look at democracy in the U$A. Democracy here is two rich guys deciding how many taxes the poor should pay and what laws the poor will have to follow while giving themselves tax breaks for doing so.
WRONG Drinkypoo, not even close. Can your coworkers that are not above you in the chain of command order you around, possibly even order your boss around? She said that often happens there because the coworker is in a higher caste. She likened it to the segregated south of the 50s in that even where blacks could dine and shop you had to always "know your place" and defer to any white person no matter what. She said the caste system is the same, doesn't matter what you did in a company, how many years you put in, somebody hired right off the street could order you around if they are in a higher caste.
I was told something similar from an Indian, she said it is simply the fact that India is still VERY strong with the caste system and nobody dares think outside the box because "you have to know your place" which is why she got the fuck out. She said she would gladly wait tables here before working an IT firm there simply because of how rigid things are there. She said there you can be doing something so obviously wrong it isn't funny but if the person who told you to do it is in a higher caste? Doesn't matter if its pants on head retarded, you are beneath them so STFU and do it.
Or even better just ask around and find which local shop has a good rep and buy from them! I never understood somebody trying to save $20 by buying an HP or Dell "special" only to end up pulling their hair out because the only "support" if a third tier Indian reading from a cue card whose answer to everything is reboot or wipe. you buy from bob's shop down the street and then you can just walk in and say "Hey Bob I have a problem!" and since we small shops live and die by word of mouth? We actually CARE whether you are happy or not, because when you are happy you are more likely to recommend us to your friends.
So just buy local, you'll get better hardware, better service, and someone you can actually just go to with issues!
Actually that makes me want his game less, as he did Starlancer which control scheme sucked ass.
What so many devs forget is a control schema can make or break a game and frankly Freelancer had the best control schema of ANY flying game, BAR NONE. So far it is the ONLY flying game I've seen where keyboard and mouse can be equal to flight stick, with all others if you try to do anything with the keyboard you are instantly crippled. Just try playing mechwarrior mercs against a stick player when you are on a kb and mouse and watch how quickly they bitchslap your ass.
Like it or not the days of the $100+ flight stick being standard are over so if they want a large player base it HAS to be good with both kb and stick and if its anything like Starlancer? yeah...no.
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Why should he (or anyone else) bother with keyboard shortcuts when the guys at bell labs proved that mouse beats keyboard by a pretty large margin?
Hey ain't he the guy that did Freelancer? oh please oh please oh PLEASE tell me its gonna be as sweet to fly as the lance! That is one of the few games I keep on my PC 24/7, even after 11 years Freelancer is a treat, even still has MP servers out there run by fans.
Its also an outright lie because they are confusing ADBLOCK with ADBLOCK PLUS, which are two DIFFERENT PRODUCTS. It would be like someone telling you to get an iPhone and the guy behind you says "I bought an iPhoneY and they sucks"...not the same thing, just has a similar name because the one is trying to piggyback on the other. I have been running ABP for several years and the difference with both Chromium based and gecko based browsers with and without ABP is so low as to not even be worth calculating, somewhere on the order of a couple hundred MB and that is with multiple tabs. if you figure up how much those tabs would be taking if you let the flash ads load? it would be more than ABP is taking, so its a wash really and the amount of time wasted cleaning malware makes running ABP worth a couple hundred MB.
Descent was the single handed cause of insane numbers of joystick sales because myself and every gamer I knew back in the day tried that game ONCE on keyboard and then practically ran to the store to grab a joystick with a hat button. Between Descent and Mechwarrior many a joystick was worn out and i would happily find some room on my gaming table for another stick for a new Descent and Mechwarrior Mercs.
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Patriotism ain't got shit to do with it, the second the money became electronic the people lost. the reason they lost is unlike in decades past being able to move billions in a nanosecond gave the banksters and their elite buddies the ability to truly destroy a nation's economy, simply move a large chunk out when things are shaky followed by a "we have no confidence in" statement and watch Rome burn. Like it or not the government (mainly Ronnie Raygun and his deregs, but Clinton killing Glass Steagal certainly helped) has allowed the banksters to grow to the point that when the financial market DOES collapse, which it will, the bubble has grown too big to be deflated slowly without massive political fallout so politicians will kick the can down the road until it blows up, it WILL make the great depression look like a flash crash.
BTW if you thought patriotism was a "thing" a few decades ago you haven't read "War is a racket" written by U.S. General Smedley Butler in the 1930s! here is an excerpt, see if it sounds familiar..
I helped make Mexico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.
In and of itself, taking pleasure in the same sex is an inappropriate reaction to that stimulus; A symptom of mental illness.
See the problem Sparky? if you start ignoring obvious signs of a damaged brain and just start labeling anything the society considers inappropriate behavior as "a sign of mental illness" pretty soon anybody who isn't Wally or June is a candidate for the padded cell.
Either we humans have free will, in which case there will be times when someone chooses to do something considered evil, or nobody has free will in which case whether you spend the rest of your life in a padded cell is truly at the whim of the state who can decide tomorrow that anything that doesn't fit a certain mold is deviant and dangerous...sorry but I prefer a world that believes the former NOT the latter.
Riiight, that is why the kernel.org repo was infected by malware. Oh and just FYI it was either the Debian or ubuntu repo that was serving a rootkitted Quake 3 install for THREE YEARS, don't have time to look it up ATM, feel free to google it.
I'm sorry but not only is that a slippery slope, as in the past gays were listed as "mentally ill" because they didn't match up with what the state considered normal but its also ignoring the fact that some just get off on causing pain, see Gacey, Hansen, Lake & Ng for examples. They aren't "mentally ill" as they knew EXACTLY what they were doing, they simply gained pleasure from the suffering and death of others. Some such as Hansen and Gacey even changed their patterns when they knew they were being watched by the police which blows your impulse argument out of the water, because if it were an impulse they wouldn't be able to change when they were at risk.
Sorry, bullshit. Working in the shop I've met more "Joe Pirate" types than you have had hot meals and ya know what? they pirate several orders of magnitude more than they will EVER use. I know one guy has over 30 spindles of music, how much has he listened to? NONE, because the thousand or so songs he actually listens to are already loaded on his laptop but if he likes ONE song from an artist he feels compelled to get EVERY song by that artist, even if he will never listen to a single one except that one hit he already has on his laptop!
I've seen the same thing in games, both with guys that have every game for every console while playing MAYBE a dozen games out of the whole smash, and with the guys that collect genres like FPS or RPG where again they play maybe 1 out of every 50 that they download, and in movies where they will download every movie in a genre (say horror) or every top 10 movie while watching again MAYBE 1 out of every 50. I don't know whether its a compulsion like hoarding or just a need to collect something but I'd say if you magically made perfect DRM tomorrow there isn't a single pirate that has walked through my shop that would buy more than a handful of the stuff they listen/watch/play all the time and the rest? It would just go into a giant "don't care" black hole never to be seen or heard from again.
Hell even I am guilty of this as I'm addicted to Steam sales and Humble Bundles, I have nearly 200 titles in my Steam, and probably just as much if not more in DRM free formats like GOG and direct downloads from the bundles...how many have I actually played? Maybe a quarter if that, how many have I played more than 10 minutes? Maybe half of those, all the way through? Maybe TEN. So if Humble Bundles and Steam sales didn't exist i would be just as happy as i am now if I would have only bought 10 games, looking at what I've been playing of late 4 RPGs and 6 shooters would be more than enough, so the only difference is those that made the other 390 games would not have a snowball's chance in hell of tempting me with squat as i would have never sampled their wares, that's all.
And at least in my case I can state the opposite is also true, i wouldn't have the entire Joss Whedon collection as well as the Marvel movies if it weren't for piracy, as there was no WB in my area so the first half season of Buffy on P2P got me hooked on Joss Whedon's writing so if it weren't for P2P I wouldn't now have the box sets for Buffy, Angel, Firefly, as well as the Avengers and the Marvel cinematic universe, all because i caught those first episodes of Buffy on P2P. Would I have bought them otherwise? Not a chance in hell, a horror series starring a soap actress and the guy from the Taster's Choice ads? Doesn't sound appealing from where I sit.
Well to be fair they seriously screwed the pooch when it came to the PS3, which is why you'll never see backwards compatibility with the PS3. the chip they chose, the IBM cell, turned out to be a total dead end that never sold squat for anything else which kept the price of chips high AND they were hell to code for to boot. this is the same problem with the PS2 as the emotion engine is a custom chip that likewise wasn't used in squat but the PS2 and the funky way it was set up in both means you'd have to basically stuff an entire PS2 AND an entire PS3 into a PS4 to have BC. needless to say most folks aren't wiling to pay 3DO prices for a PS4 so no BC.
If it gives you any comfort the odds of either MSFT or Sony going back to custom chips now that they are on X86, where its both easier to code for and which has much higher economies of scale than PPC is insanely low so the PS5 and Xbone Plus 1 will be bc with Xbone and PS4. Although looking at the PS4 arch they MIGHT be able to do PS2 emulation completely in software so there is the possibility of a virtual console store like on the Wii.
They wouldn't need to bother Google, after all as we saw thanks to the AT&T whistleblower they have backbone access at the ISPs. This means they 1.- Know what OS you are running and 2.- Can perform a MITM on said OS. Lets say you use Linux? All they do is intercept the update mechanism for whatever flavor you are running and one of the dozens of packages you get during an update has a backdoor, with Windows or OSX it would work the same, intercept the update mechanism and force in a backdoor. Hell depending on what video player you are running they might not even do that as I'm sure they have a couple of Flash zero days lying around, simply wait until you request a video and replace it with a zero day infected vid.
Remember folks when they have access to the backbone ALL bets are off, with a MITM everything becomes MUCH easier.
Sorry but go back and read the case, the DoJ wasn't arguing monopoly when it came to the browser, they were arguing that because Windows had such a large share of the market (just like how Google owns the largest share of mobile devices) that MSFT having the ability to bundle a browser, a thing that until recently companies had charged for, that it was giving them a monopoly while product dumping.
So if you applied the exact same argument the DoJ used against with MSFT to Google and Apple? yeah they would be busted and looking at tens to hundreds of millions in fines. It just shows the difference that being a villain versus being a villain with good PR is, it lets you pull shit the other guy can't. I would point out that to this very day MSFT has to offer Windows without IE and WMP in the EU along with a stupid browser ballot yet neither Apple nor Google has to do the same on their devices.
But just as "on the Internet" and "on a mobile device" let the USPTO hand out obvious patents to their corp buddies so too will "Internet enabled appliance" allow the corps and trolls to put up yet more roadblocks with obvious ideas appended with the catchphrase.
That is like saying a Ford and a Chevy are the same thing since they both have motors. All the current Chromium based are just that, based on Chromium. they follow the Chromium tree, implement most if not all that Chromium does, etc. With QTWeb they are going back to the original Webkit source (which Chromium doesn't follow) and building from there, so if anything you could compare it to Safari.
And that is different from any other long term software....how exactly? I've had to build NOS systems for customers whose ancient software wouldn't run on anything newer than an IDE drive loaded with with Win2K (XP would run it but it was buggy as 3 day old shit in the woods) and seen dedicated software that you couldn't even INSTALL on a modern OS because it had to be tied with some lousy old version of Flash or Java.
So nothing you have said makes dedicated a better choice over spreadsheets, on the contrary I've never seen an old sheet that wouldn't run on a new OS while I've seen plenty of dedicated where you'd need an old box lying around just to fire it up.
He is using the same argument the DoJ used against MSFT bundling IE, that since a good 90%+ use the defaults it gives the company a defacto monopoly. I personally thought the DOJ arguments were bullshit but you can't support one but not the other since its the exact same argument...company owns platform, company bundles browser into platform, company gets 90%+ of users using their bundled browser...seems like a pretty straightforward argument if you ask me, whether you personally agree with it or not.
Luckily this isn't the bad old days where it was just IE and netscape, today you DO have options! There is Comodo Dragon (what I use, better security features and no phone home to Google) Chromium, SWIron, and Opera which my oldest boy swears is the greatest thing ever (boy is he still pissed they quit using presto) and on the gecko side there is Firefox, PaleMoon (the other browser I use, I prefer the UI over IceDragon and it seems snappier), SeaMonkey, IceDragon, if you need really low resource there is always Kmeleon which runs really well even on a P3 running Win98SE and if you want to avoid BOTH the Chromium and Gecko engines you can go with QTWeb which is just what it says on the tin, a cross platform browser that uses Webkit and the QT framework...quite nice actually and of course Safari if you are into Apple. There is one other....what was it? Oh yeah the big blue E thing. ;-)
So if you don't like the direction Google is going? Don't use their products. After they started getting nasty with the TOS and trying to ram G+ down our throats I dropped Google like a bad habit, I set up a throwaway Gmail I never use just for my Android phone (so they can't tie my desktop and mobile together) and use my main Gmail for a spam dump, switched to Bing for my search and Yahoo for my mail so no one company has access too all my online data and ya know what? couldn't be happier. What DOES really piss me off about Google is how they have become a drive by spammer, you have no idea how many Chrome "infections" I've had to clean off of customers PCs because some "freeware" had Chrome tied into it. We used to get seriously pissed at how McCrappee and Horton used to dump their stupid scanners onto us with freeware so why isn't everyone mad at how Google is spamming Chrome? An unwanted install that takes over defaults...hmmm...if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck?
Perfect is the enemy of good. If your workflow benefits from spreadsheets? Then just ignore the jerk in TFA which frankly smacks of elitist BS. Why the fuck should my customer NEED to use a dedicated program for each task if the work gets done fast and correct with a spreadsheet?
Are there jobs where a dedicated is better? YES, for example I would be hard pressed to find anything better for a small business owner than Quickbooks, you can run everything from payroll to taxes with just a QB girl (and for some reason its ALWAYS a girl, you'd think they had a union) and the place will run like a Swiss watch but just because ONE job is better with a dedicated does NOT mean that ALL jobs are better and for every one like the QB example there are probably a dozen where a spreadsheet can be whipped off and fill the roll just fine.
Even better...both sides pay into a "lawyer fund" and each side is given exactly half the fund, this would be for criminal as well as civil...this way rich corp (or the state) can't stack the deck with a whole legal team complete with a dozen experts for hire while the poor person can't afford more than an ambulance chaser.
As an upside this would discourage lawsuits as the case would have to be about the merits NOT who could hire the best legal team. Frankly this would IMHO bring things back to the way the founding fathers had originally envisioned which is two ordinary folks arguing their case before a judge who would then weigh the case and decide. if you want a fair legal system you have to take money OUT of the equation and by making both sides 100% equal on funds you have made money no longer a deciding factor.
IIRC a lot of the OS I/O stack was coded in ASM to squeeze every drop of performance out. To see what a difference being coded in ASM you should try Kolibri sometime, a full OS with networking that fits on a single floppy,just crazy what you can do by going bare metal.
If you believe voting has done jack shit in the past 30+ years? I have some swampland you may be interested in. Voting hasn't done shit since Ronnie Raygun removed the rules blocking corps from buying all the media stations in an area, between that and outright bribery the congress critters don't give a shit WHAT you think or want. Look up "study shows USA is an oligarchy" to see what REALLY happens, they get a cushy job as a lobbyist if you run them out and the next guy cashes check written by the first.
So if you want to see what a total scam is just look at democracy in the U$A. Democracy here is two rich guys deciding how many taxes the poor should pay and what laws the poor will have to follow while giving themselves tax breaks for doing so.
WRONG Drinkypoo, not even close. Can your coworkers that are not above you in the chain of command order you around, possibly even order your boss around? She said that often happens there because the coworker is in a higher caste. She likened it to the segregated south of the 50s in that even where blacks could dine and shop you had to always "know your place" and defer to any white person no matter what. She said the caste system is the same, doesn't matter what you did in a company, how many years you put in, somebody hired right off the street could order you around if they are in a higher caste.
I was told something similar from an Indian, she said it is simply the fact that India is still VERY strong with the caste system and nobody dares think outside the box because "you have to know your place" which is why she got the fuck out. She said she would gladly wait tables here before working an IT firm there simply because of how rigid things are there. She said there you can be doing something so obviously wrong it isn't funny but if the person who told you to do it is in a higher caste? Doesn't matter if its pants on head retarded, you are beneath them so STFU and do it.
Or even better just ask around and find which local shop has a good rep and buy from them! I never understood somebody trying to save $20 by buying an HP or Dell "special" only to end up pulling their hair out because the only "support" if a third tier Indian reading from a cue card whose answer to everything is reboot or wipe. you buy from bob's shop down the street and then you can just walk in and say "Hey Bob I have a problem!" and since we small shops live and die by word of mouth? We actually CARE whether you are happy or not, because when you are happy you are more likely to recommend us to your friends.
So just buy local, you'll get better hardware, better service, and someone you can actually just go to with issues!
Actually that makes me want his game less, as he did Starlancer which control scheme sucked ass.
What so many devs forget is a control schema can make or break a game and frankly Freelancer had the best control schema of ANY flying game, BAR NONE. So far it is the ONLY flying game I've seen where keyboard and mouse can be equal to flight stick, with all others if you try to do anything with the keyboard you are instantly crippled. Just try playing mechwarrior mercs against a stick player when you are on a kb and mouse and watch how quickly they bitchslap your ass.
Like it or not the days of the $100+ flight stick being standard are over so if they want a large player base it HAS to be good with both kb and stick and if its anything like Starlancer? yeah...no.
Why should he (or anyone else) bother with keyboard shortcuts when the guys at bell labs proved that mouse beats keyboard by a pretty large margin?
Hey ain't he the guy that did Freelancer? oh please oh please oh PLEASE tell me its gonna be as sweet to fly as the lance! That is one of the few games I keep on my PC 24/7, even after 11 years Freelancer is a treat, even still has MP servers out there run by fans.
Its also an outright lie because they are confusing ADBLOCK with ADBLOCK PLUS, which are two DIFFERENT PRODUCTS. It would be like someone telling you to get an iPhone and the guy behind you says "I bought an iPhoneY and they sucks"...not the same thing, just has a similar name because the one is trying to piggyback on the other. I have been running ABP for several years and the difference with both Chromium based and gecko based browsers with and without ABP is so low as to not even be worth calculating, somewhere on the order of a couple hundred MB and that is with multiple tabs. if you figure up how much those tabs would be taking if you let the flash ads load? it would be more than ABP is taking, so its a wash really and the amount of time wasted cleaning malware makes running ABP worth a couple hundred MB.
Descent was the single handed cause of insane numbers of joystick sales because myself and every gamer I knew back in the day tried that game ONCE on keyboard and then practically ran to the store to grab a joystick with a hat button. Between Descent and Mechwarrior many a joystick was worn out and i would happily find some room on my gaming table for another stick for a new Descent and Mechwarrior Mercs.