It used to be. 2.0.0 for me (quad core Mac Pro 10.7.2) locks up way more often and refuses to play files that the previous version played before. The change in behavior of the > buttons is more than a little frustrating, as is the behavior of playing video at the *bottom* of the window stack. The persistent window with the sources sidebar and file history is, as others have said, annoying. Playback stutters on files that played smoothly with 1.1.9.
Basically, functionality appears to be eschewed in favor of weird crap that I'll never use, in other words it's become like Linux. Color me Not Impressed.
The article makes it clear that AMD has suffered a perfect storm of; Lack of leadership
Oh, there was leadership, just embarrassing leadership, eg. a president or CEO or whatever he was having a poster made of him as Indiana Jones with his trophy wife.
Many of the "credit towards a future flight" that I've seen have been worthless: they are applicable only to a full-price unrestricted fare, which generally cares a premium that's greater than the credit is for, especially when factoring in the expense of getting to/from the airport, wasted time, etc.. Meal vouchers are worthless - the one time I got them, everything in the airport closed 10 minutes later -- and these days airports tend to have roughly nothing I can eat.
Indeed, the fact that any version of Star/Neo/Libre/whateverOffice has been miserably unable to accept and render the real-world MS Office documents that HR sends out is secondary in importance.
Yes, but they'll divert you and make you wait for another ten minutes while they make a show of testing the bottle. Since my son drinks hemp milk I've worried about some stupid false positive for cannabis but that hasn't been a problem.
If they tried to make him drink at the checkpoint he'd probably hit them in the face with his sippy bottle.
"Doing customs clearance without the passenger is hopeless, how can he for example go through the red zone?"
I don't know what the red zone is
Male announcer: The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the red zone.
Female announcer: The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the red zone.
Male announcer: [later] The red zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the white zone.
Female announcer: No, the white zone is for loading of passengers and there is no stopping in a RED zone.
Male announcer: The red zone has always been for loading and unloading of passengers. There's never stopping in a white zone.
Female announcer: Don't you tell me which zone is for loading, and which zone is for stopping!
Male announcer: Listen Betty, don't start up with your white zone shit again.
I don't understand the fundamental problem with "games that have been intentionally made from the ground up with the intent and purpose of telling a story or expressing a philosophy or giving a designer's narrative."
The guy's a twit with a complete lack of perspective. He doesn't have to share my (autistic) son's fondness for Pop-Up Peter Rabbit, but saying that it shouldn't exist at all just shows him to be an oxygen thief.
That's the whole point though. Up till now, if you bought a Nokia N900 or N9, you were worrying what happens when you lose the device in two years time and there isn't anything equivalent on the market.
Why would one worry? Two very easy options:
1) eBay
2) Get a normal, widely-available phone and spend the time saved looking for a girlfriend.
Linux has its disadvantages (for the love of all that is holy - WTF will it take to get a DECENT.pdf editor!?).
I personally don't give a rat's ass about editing PDF's. I see all too much fluff in the Linux world, uproar over KDE and GNOME and other pointless stuff, while the lack of a usable modern filesystem is an ongoing hassle. Yeah, sure btrfs blah blah blah, it's going to be ready RSN, sure it is, really. Shiny new ext4 can't even handle a filesystem >16TB, and having to layer the anachronistic MD an LVM systems separately is like going back in time fifteen years.
Yep, I went there to look and saw those. Alibris has similarly pricey copies.
Around the same time I saw a book claiming that there were transparent amoeba-like creatures floating around in the air but can't remember the name of that one.
Wow, hadn't expected a reference to that book. My public library had a copy when I was a kid, but I haven't managed to find a copy since. I remember pictures of what the author called X drones, and a claim that mining was going on.
Is it really? Do you suppose they would do something so stupid, when they could readily be countered?
While I do accept that we have meteorites that originated on various other bodies, in answer to the above I have to write "Why not? The Chinese regularly fake fossils".
$300 is indeed overpriced. I would have rather spent $100 or whatever on a Roku for playing files over the net rather than $200 for a Boxee Box, but the latter has superior format compatibility, and $200 for a BB was more palatable to my wife than $500 for an Oppo BD player that may have still required hoops to just mount and play files on a local system, if it could at all.
DVR - no appeal to me, we watch 1-2 game shows on a single OTA station and don't care if we miss one.
Physical media: have an existing DVD player that's rarely used, again a "don't care" for us.
The irony is that the service processors on pretty much *all* x64 hardware -- anything not made by Soracle AFAICT -- requires a graphical / network connection to set up and do things.
Agreed - plus, updating my VM to MS Windows 7 would consume more resources, right? I only use the thing for interacting with Sun and HP service processors, and XP works for that without requiring that I figure out a mostly-different OS.
A WiFi network that isn't connected upstream is of rather limited utility -- "huge coverage" entails a lot more than just stuffing a WAP into each Coke machine. Upstream connectivity, handling a dozen of these within feet of each other competing for channels, etc.
I rarely bother with "free wifi" -- too many hassles. Almost always such networks don't "just work"; one has to fire up a web browser to get some acceptable-use policy page before packets will be routed, and a fair percentage of the time these don't work properly, or subsequent proxying / filtering breaks a significant fraction of uses. I wasted about 20 minutes at SFO before I gave up and just used my 3G-equipped phone instead, and gave up on Tully's hopelessly-broken setup years ago.
This is really two issues: a static vs. dynamic address, and a *routable* vs private address. It would be feasible for a residential NSP to use DHCP to give a given customer a static 172.16.x.x address that's NAT'd at their end.
Many residential customers don't have a compelling need for a static address, but it could be nice in that eg. a bank's web site wouldn't prompt for additional authentication on every visit. Some want a static address so they can run servers of various sorts without hassling with some sketchy dynamic DNS contrivance.
I personally pay the extra $5/mo for a static address so that ACL's of various sorts at work can be configured *once* to let me through.
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It used to be. 2.0.0 for me (quad core Mac Pro 10.7.2) locks up way more often and refuses to play files that the previous version played before. The change in behavior of the > buttons is more than a little frustrating, as is the behavior of playing video at the *bottom* of the window stack. The persistent window with the sources sidebar and file history is, as others have said, annoying. Playback stutters on files that played smoothly with 1.1.9. Basically, functionality appears to be eschewed in favor of weird crap that I'll never use, in other words it's become like Linux. Color me Not Impressed.
The article makes it clear that AMD has suffered a perfect storm of; Lack of leadership
Oh, there was leadership, just embarrassing leadership, eg. a president or CEO or whatever he was having a poster made of him as Indiana Jones with his trophy wife.
Many of the "credit towards a future flight" that I've seen have been worthless: they are applicable only to a full-price unrestricted fare, which generally cares a premium that's greater than the credit is for, especially when factoring in the expense of getting to/from the airport, wasted time, etc.. Meal vouchers are worthless - the one time I got them, everything in the airport closed 10 minutes later -- and these days airports tend to have roughly nothing I can eat.
Indeed, the fact that any version of Star/Neo/Libre/whateverOffice has been miserably unable to accept and render the real-world MS Office documents that HR sends out is secondary in importance.
Yes, but they'll divert you and make you wait for another ten minutes while they make a show of testing the bottle. Since my son drinks hemp milk I've worried about some stupid false positive for cannabis but that hasn't been a problem. If they tried to make him drink at the checkpoint he'd probably hit them in the face with his sippy bottle.
"Doing customs clearance without the passenger is hopeless, how can he for example go through the red zone?"
I don't know what the red zone is
Male announcer: The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the red zone.
Female announcer: The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the red zone.
Male announcer: [later] The red zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the white zone.
Female announcer: No, the white zone is for loading of passengers and there is no stopping in a RED zone.
Male announcer: The red zone has always been for loading and unloading of passengers. There's never stopping in a white zone.
Female announcer: Don't you tell me which zone is for loading, and which zone is for stopping!
Male announcer: Listen Betty, don't start up with your white zone shit again.
Yeah, Canada is getting more like the US every day. Sorry to hear that, guys. You had a helluva nice civilised country up there.
Indeed, vivisecting baby seals is the epitome of gentility.
I don't understand the fundamental problem with "games that have been intentionally made from the ground up with the intent and purpose of telling a story or expressing a philosophy or giving a designer's narrative."
The guy's a twit with a complete lack of perspective. He doesn't have to share my (autistic) son's fondness for Pop-Up Peter Rabbit, but saying that it shouldn't exist at all just shows him to be an oxygen thief.
That's the whole point though. Up till now, if you bought a Nokia N900 or N9, you were worrying what happens when you lose the device in two years time and there isn't anything equivalent on the market.
Why would one worry? Two very easy options: 1) eBay 2) Get a normal, widely-available phone and spend the time saved looking for a girlfriend.
Linux has its disadvantages (for the love of all that is holy - WTF will it take to get a DECENT .pdf editor!?).
I personally don't give a rat's ass about editing PDF's. I see all too much fluff in the Linux world, uproar over KDE and GNOME and other pointless stuff, while the lack of a usable modern filesystem is an ongoing hassle. Yeah, sure btrfs blah blah blah, it's going to be ready RSN, sure it is, really. Shiny new ext4 can't even handle a filesystem >16TB, and having to layer the anachronistic MD an LVM systems separately is like going back in time fifteen years.
Yep, I went there to look and saw those. Alibris has similarly pricey copies. Around the same time I saw a book claiming that there were transparent amoeba-like creatures floating around in the air but can't remember the name of that one.
Wow, hadn't expected a reference to that book. My public library had a copy when I was a kid, but I haven't managed to find a copy since. I remember pictures of what the author called X drones, and a claim that mining was going on.
Is it really? Do you suppose they would do something so stupid, when they could readily be countered?
While I do accept that we have meteorites that originated on various other bodies, in answer to the above I have to write "Why not? The Chinese regularly fake fossils".
... the lack of food
Do you REALLY need such a complex interface to interact with a TV for watching Netflix?
$300 is indeed overpriced. I would have rather spent $100 or whatever on a Roku for playing files over the net rather than $200 for a Boxee Box, but the latter has superior format compatibility, and $200 for a BB was more palatable to my wife than $500 for an Oppo BD player that may have still required hoops to just mount and play files on a local system, if it could at all. DVR - no appeal to me, we watch 1-2 game shows on a single OTA station and don't care if we miss one. Physical media: have an existing DVD player that's rarely used, again a "don't care" for us.
Roku's inexplicable contempt for xvid/divx is a dealbreaker for me.
Objective-C is strong because of iOS and OS X.
... and because most devs have never had to work with Brad Cox.
The irony is that the service processors on pretty much *all* x64 hardware -- anything not made by Soracle AFAICT -- requires a graphical / network connection to set up and do things.
Given that Roku staunchly and anomalously refuses to support DivX, ^Roku^BoxeeBox
An unlocked phone that only operates on the band(s) used by a single provider is little different from a locked phone.
Factor in the time spent dicking with the hardware too. Perhaps the GP's time is worth $0/hour, but mine sure isn't.
Agreed - plus, updating my VM to MS Windows 7 would consume more resources, right? I only use the thing for interacting with Sun and HP service processors, and XP works for that without requiring that I figure out a mostly-different OS.
A WiFi network that isn't connected upstream is of rather limited utility -- "huge coverage" entails a lot more than just stuffing a WAP into each Coke machine. Upstream connectivity, handling a dozen of these within feet of each other competing for channels, etc. I rarely bother with "free wifi" -- too many hassles. Almost always such networks don't "just work"; one has to fire up a web browser to get some acceptable-use policy page before packets will be routed, and a fair percentage of the time these don't work properly, or subsequent proxying / filtering breaks a significant fraction of uses. I wasted about 20 minutes at SFO before I gave up and just used my 3G-equipped phone instead, and gave up on Tully's hopelessly-broken setup years ago.
This is really two issues: a static vs. dynamic address, and a *routable* vs private address. It would be feasible for a residential NSP to use DHCP to give a given customer a static 172.16.x.x address that's NAT'd at their end. Many residential customers don't have a compelling need for a static address, but it could be nice in that eg. a bank's web site wouldn't prompt for additional authentication on every visit. Some want a static address so they can run servers of various sorts without hassling with some sketchy dynamic DNS contrivance. I personally pay the extra $5/mo for a static address so that ACL's of various sorts at work can be configured *once* to let me through.