Amen. The second worst thing about this (besides the human tragedy, of course) is that now the anti-nuclear luddites will be blathering about it for decades. "Oh, but what if we have an earthquake!!? What about that Mr. Nuclear Power?!". It's going to be very tiresome.
We should have invested about 1/2 trillion dollars 25 years ago in nuclear power research, and another trillion over the last decade building safe nuclear power plants. Our power issues would be all but over.
Instead we have morons on the right claiming God (via Earth and abiogenesis) will always see we have enough oil, and retards on the left pretending solar and wind power can ever supply even a majority of our power needs.
What a load of nonsense. They're doing a primitive processor on a (by today's standard) primitive process. And then they're going to _really_ turn it on with a 16 core processor using a really modern process!
Don't get me wrong. I do believe it'll happen. Maybe in 2016, when modern chips are on 14nm processes.
Yet more generalized arguments from the "it's 1998!" crew. It's not "hard to get to work the way you want it", and VS2010 does not feel bloated. Good luck porting that Android app to iPhone because you were smart enough to use Eclipse, btw. That'll work out real well for you.
Nobody takes these people seriously. Visual Studio is arguably the best IDE there is, it doesn't matter how a bunch of clueless, angry dweebs mod someone for saying it.
Yeah, we know, you don't like anything related to M$, MicroShaft, or Micro$oft, and de Icaza is a total sellout. Having choice is great, as long as you choose (insert technology here), amirite?
Or even compatibility reasons. And I'm definitely not an MS hater. I use it because of the well implemented and widely used plugin system. IE has something similar but it's just not as well done and doesn't have as rich an ecosystem. So I don't really care about a 10% difference here, or an 8.5% difference there that I will never notice anyway.
Yeah, frankly I'm a Windows guy these days and mock Linux on the desktop as pointless. I was hoping to find myself adding this to the list of reasons why, but I don't think it's a bad idea. Why _not_ just double click on the titlebar to maximize or use context to minimize? I don't really care about the min/max icons and they take up a little space and cost a little in terms of aesthetics.
I don't think it's a bad idea, and one of the strengths of a UI like Gnome is they can afford to try new shit.
That wasn't my point. My point was more of a "so what?". Zimbabwe is a shithole, who didn't know that. If you post anything the government doesn't like, be it on facebook, in spraypaint on your house, or just talking to 50 of your best buddies the government will come after you. Facebook is a form of speech, and speech has consequences, even righteous or sometimes even inoffensive seeming speech. If your government doesn't like your speech (threats in the US, hate speech in Europe,...anything anti-government in much of the world) they could take action.
Right. If you post "let's go kill so and so, we'll do it by such and such on such and such a date!" someone will come find you. As I said, saying something illegal (in your country) will get you into trouble. I guess I'm saying "yeah, and...?".
Go make some crazy-ass threats to some public figure on your facebook and see what happens. Facebook posts are no different than any other forum for speech - if you post shit that's illegal in your country, they can arrest you.
True enough, but that doesn't mean we, the readers, don't have a right to be pissed off. He's selling a product, and we're expecting new version of that product. If our needs aren't met maybe we won't buy the product. I'll probably read the new book but maybe I'll do a petty protest like getting it from the library instead of buying it;)
It's like a cell phone. I bought a Samsung Moment and at the time it was a good enough phone. But lo and behold Samsung is poor at updates. The phone does what it was supposed to when I bought it, Samsung had no contract with me to provide free updates. That's all fine - but I might be a lot more hesitant about buying a new Samsung phone in the future because they left me hanging and were slow with updates.
Yeah, I'd put the odds at 50/50 that this series will ever be completed and I'm starting to think about the same policy in terms of epic series. I'll wait for the second book - if it comes out within 1.5 years of the first, I'll read it. Otherwise I might not - why read something that might not ever be finished?
BS on multiple counts. First, there's no "problem". Second, obviously if it would raise that much in taxes nobody would do it, so it wouldn't balance any budgets.
The odds are that the guy you know is lying - it's almost impossible to get sex offender status for something like that even these days, when it's really pretty easy. Back 30+ years ago it wouldn't have happened, and he could easily have gotten it expunged.
Yeah, nerds have strange priorities. The guy sent a shitload of annoying mails. Sure, you can make up some meaningless aggregate number for the damage he did, but if you cost each person in the world $.01 you've suddenly done (OH NOES!!!) ~$50M in damages. It's a bullshit metric.
His sentence was appropriate, he served it, and he's out. He didn't murder a child or rape an old man or something like that. Grow up, nerds. Spam isn't the worst thing in the world.
Yeah...except for the Xoom, which looks better in almost every dimension.
September? Is that when Apple is releasing the 3rd version? I would say they are laughably cynical if they think people will stand for that, but they're probably right and I'm sure some non-single-digit percentage of iPad owners will have bought the 1st and 2nd gen, and will fork out for the 3rd gen 6 months later.
They already had a controller chip, and the Marvell split off was well before their SSDs. Could be some Marvell ties there somewhere maybe, my guess is SSD controllers just became commodity (those things are coming out like every month now) and performed well enough (they didn't a few years ago) to use now.
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Amen. The second worst thing about this (besides the human tragedy, of course) is that now the anti-nuclear luddites will be blathering about it for decades. "Oh, but what if we have an earthquake!!? What about that Mr. Nuclear Power?!". It's going to be very tiresome.
We should have invested about 1/2 trillion dollars 25 years ago in nuclear power research, and another trillion over the last decade building safe nuclear power plants. Our power issues would be all but over.
Instead we have morons on the right claiming God (via Earth and abiogenesis) will always see we have enough oil, and retards on the left pretending solar and wind power can ever supply even a majority of our power needs.
What a load of nonsense. They're doing a primitive processor on a (by today's standard) primitive process. And then they're going to _really_ turn it on with a 16 core processor using a really modern process!
Don't get me wrong. I do believe it'll happen. Maybe in 2016, when modern chips are on 14nm processes.
Yet more generalized arguments from the "it's 1998!" crew. It's not "hard to get to work the way you want it", and VS2010 does not feel bloated. Good luck porting that Android app to iPhone because you were smart enough to use Eclipse, btw. That'll work out real well for you.
Not all of us are writing shitty little CLI programs running on obscure platforms, douchebag.
Find me an enterprise developer using vi, strace, and gdb and I'll find you some crusty old clueless fart who needs to be fired.
Nobody takes these people seriously. Visual Studio is arguably the best IDE there is, it doesn't matter how a bunch of clueless, angry dweebs mod someone for saying it.
Yeah, we know, you don't like anything related to M$, MicroShaft, or Micro$oft, and de Icaza is a total sellout. Having choice is great, as long as you choose (insert technology here), amirite?
Yeah, man! Like, information totally wants to be free! Down with our corporate, like, overlords man!! Waaaavvvyyy Graaaavy!
Idiocy. Those codes were currency tokens, exchanged for goods or services. What they stole was the services they purchased with fraudulent currency.
Or even compatibility reasons. And I'm definitely not an MS hater. I use it because of the well implemented and widely used plugin system. IE has something similar but it's just not as well done and doesn't have as rich an ecosystem. So I don't really care about a 10% difference here, or an 8.5% difference there that I will never notice anyway.
Yeah, frankly I'm a Windows guy these days and mock Linux on the desktop as pointless. I was hoping to find myself adding this to the list of reasons why, but I don't think it's a bad idea. Why _not_ just double click on the titlebar to maximize or use context to minimize? I don't really care about the min/max icons and they take up a little space and cost a little in terms of aesthetics.
I don't think it's a bad idea, and one of the strengths of a UI like Gnome is they can afford to try new shit.
That wasn't my point. My point was more of a "so what?". Zimbabwe is a shithole, who didn't know that. If you post anything the government doesn't like, be it on facebook, in spraypaint on your house, or just talking to 50 of your best buddies the government will come after you. Facebook is a form of speech, and speech has consequences, even righteous or sometimes even inoffensive seeming speech. If your government doesn't like your speech (threats in the US, hate speech in Europe, ...anything anti-government in much of the world) they could take action.
Absolutely it is. But again, what does facebook have to do with it?
Patent: Oppressing your citizens. Oops, that's taken.
Patent: Oppressing your citzens...using the Internet!
So..third world shitholes don't have freedom of speech. Quick, call Channel 6 News, we need to get the word out!!!!
Right. If you post "let's go kill so and so, we'll do it by such and such on such and such a date!" someone will come find you. As I said, saying something illegal (in your country) will get you into trouble. I guess I'm saying "yeah, and...?".
Go make some crazy-ass threats to some public figure on your facebook and see what happens. Facebook posts are no different than any other forum for speech - if you post shit that's illegal in your country, they can arrest you.
True enough, but that doesn't mean we, the readers, don't have a right to be pissed off. He's selling a product, and we're expecting new version of that product. If our needs aren't met maybe we won't buy the product. I'll probably read the new book but maybe I'll do a petty protest like getting it from the library instead of buying it ;)
It's like a cell phone. I bought a Samsung Moment and at the time it was a good enough phone. But lo and behold Samsung is poor at updates. The phone does what it was supposed to when I bought it, Samsung had no contract with me to provide free updates. That's all fine - but I might be a lot more hesitant about buying a new Samsung phone in the future because they left me hanging and were slow with updates.
Yeah, I'd put the odds at 50/50 that this series will ever be completed and I'm starting to think about the same policy in terms of epic series. I'll wait for the second book - if it comes out within 1.5 years of the first, I'll read it. Otherwise I might not - why read something that might not ever be finished?
BS on multiple counts. First, there's no "problem". Second, obviously if it would raise that much in taxes nobody would do it, so it wouldn't balance any budgets.
The odds are that the guy you know is lying - it's almost impossible to get sex offender status for something like that even these days, when it's really pretty easy. Back 30+ years ago it wouldn't have happened, and he could easily have gotten it expunged.
Yeah, nerds have strange priorities. The guy sent a shitload of annoying mails. Sure, you can make up some meaningless aggregate number for the damage he did, but if you cost each person in the world $.01 you've suddenly done (OH NOES!!!) ~$50M in damages. It's a bullshit metric.
His sentence was appropriate, he served it, and he's out. He didn't murder a child or rape an old man or something like that. Grow up, nerds. Spam isn't the worst thing in the world.
Wow, you mean the iPad caught up with my cell phone's mini-hdmi output?! Revolutionary!
Yeah...except for the Xoom, which looks better in almost every dimension.
September? Is that when Apple is releasing the 3rd version? I would say they are laughably cynical if they think people will stand for that, but they're probably right and I'm sure some non-single-digit percentage of iPad owners will have bought the 1st and 2nd gen, and will fork out for the 3rd gen 6 months later.
You mean a scifi writer wrote a book about some scifi concepts? Amazing!
They already had a controller chip, and the Marvell split off was well before their SSDs. Could be some Marvell ties there somewhere maybe, my guess is SSD controllers just became commodity (those things are coming out like every month now) and performed well enough (they didn't a few years ago) to use now.
I wonder why they outsourced their controller chip, previous incarnations used an Intel controller.
Next thing you know he'll be in the tabloids rumored to have snorted blow off Lindsay Lohan's ass.