Neckbeards, you have to admire their brand of nerd sophistry.
You see, the reason IE has multiple versions is because Microsoft has to maintain backwards compatibility. And no, they are not complete rewrites and nobody has claimed they are. Firefox has the luxury of just telling people "Oh, just update". IE has no such luxury as Microsoft actually sells a product and must support it in a broad range of environments.
You dweebs really do crack me up. Seriously, do you think Firefox doesn't have security flaws? Some guy above was all proud that Firefox "just crashed" on a page while IE did something seemingly nefarious. Of course, some people understand that if your browser crashes on a page there's probably a flaw that can be exploited.
The asinine "sound business decision" argument gets trotted out all the time in arguments like this. It's not a sound business decision, and if it was clearly Amazon would make the "sound business decision". It seems people just like to claim everything they like is a "sound business decision" and that they are forcing it on someone for their own good.
I think it's obviously true that if you post online _you_ have no reasonable expectation for privacy concerning what you post online. But even if I post my most lurid secrets online but I intentionally keep other data protected on my machine, I implicitly have a reasonable expectation that that _other_ data is secret.
His line of reasoning reminds me of claiming that a rape victim who is promiscuous in her personal life therefore wasn't "raped" because she "wanted it". She can screw every Tom, Dick, and Harry around the block but if she tells Duane "no" and he rapes her it's still rape in every sense of the word.
A reasonable expectation of privacy doesn't mean certain types of information are deemed to be not worthy of privacy protection because everyone else releases the data, it means that by the situations I put myself in and the actions I take can I expect MY data to be private.
Huh? By the logic in your first paragraph shit, anything can be rendered on the CPU that you can imagine by a program written in C given enough time. Therefore C is as good a 3D graphics language as OpenGL or Direct3D. The whole point is that Direct3D is a better choice for developing games on Windows. I don't really understand why people are arguing this point.
Advanced things like this, right? I'm sure that would be cake in OpenGL.
But let's not be disingenuous. At a basic level you can access the hardware and do whatever the hell you want. By that reasoning, I guess Java is just a good a language to write a Linux device driver in because theoretically you could use JNI and some limited Java VM in-module to handle the work, right?
Direct3D, as an API, supports more hardware features at the API level than OpenGL does without reverting to basically bypassing OpenGL and going straight to the hardware.
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For shutter technology - if your television set can refresh itself cleanly in at least 48Hz* - congratulations, you've got all that you realistically need to get a 3D set going on for film content (24fps). You'll need an emitter and the glasses to sync with, and you'll still need a player to output the alternating left/right streams to your television in sync with the emitter (or make the emitter sync with whatever the output is), but that's not a whole new TV set.
( * You'll want more to make it not be quite so flickery, of course - but a 96Hz set will do just fine.. 240Hz is just that more relaxed. )
Doesn't work that way. Even NVidia's solution has pretty strict limitations on what you can use, has to be a 120Hz LCD or a supported DLP. The problem is trying to synchronize the glasses based on an unknown lag between when you send the signal and the TV actually puts it up on the screen. If NVidia couldn't get it to work on Run of the Mill 60Hz LCD's, you're not going to see it working for far more complex arbitrary TV's.
Furthermore, there's no incentive. The market makes more money by forcing you to buy a new TV.
Umm, did you watch Avatar? Nothing "jumped out at you" and it wasn't blurry. Maybe you had a bad showing. The purpose of the 3D in Avatar was immersion, not to have things jumping out at you.
Riiight. And this killer app will compare with "Look at these 10 games released in the last 3 months and the insane graphics they support" how?
OpenGL is, for the purposes of developing high end 3D content utilizing the latest GPUs from AMD/NVidia, inferior technically to Direct3D. It just can't keep up.
Does that mean it sucks? Absolutely not. It's just used for a different type of application - e.g. cross platform stuff, CAD stuff, etc...
What rubbish. The simple fact is that on the highest end hardware DirectX supports more features. OpenGL is well behind now. The original somehow turns Direct3D's deficiencies a decade ago into a reason for modern game developers not to use it. Yeah - that makes sense.
OpenGL is a better choice for cross-platform development. It's not a better choice for high end game development on Windows. In fact it's a worse choice. Period.
It's just more false choice syndrome. Use OpenGL where it makes sense, and use DirectX where it makes sense.
Wow, you mean a company came out with a product that showcases its own technologies and products?! Jeepers, creepers, there are shenanigans afoot! Quick, call the FTC!
And what exactly is the great burden that HDCP imposes on you? Can you describe it, or should it just get off your lawn? Is it preventing you from using all those great HDMI ripping tools? I admit I miss all those inexpensive mechanisms for ripping HDCP-free content from a DVI connector. Oh - wait, there was absolutely no such thing, I forgot.
Some movies are good to watch at home. Others - silly. I'm not going to wait for Avatar to come out on DVD and watch it in 2D on my 65" screen. I'd be missing the entire draw of the movie which is the 3D effects.
And the windows mobile "marketplace" is far more open and varied
Uhh.. huh? Far more mature and polished - yes. Open and varied? Laughably untrue. Have you been to the android market lately? If anything there's too much shit of too many types.
Informative? Ahahaha. Right. That's one _hell_ of a source you have there. Don't get me wrong, Dubya was a retard and a horrible President but seriously, that's not what you'd call a credible source.
On an entirely different subject...Oh my God, I just found out Bat Boy trapped Santa! Holy crap! I even have a source
NVidia isn't real happy about this. No Christmas cards for those guys! In fact the developers should expect some insipid, obvious, and unfunny cartoons will be drawn about them.
Verizon sucks anyway. Their plans are laughable. Try pricing out a smartphone plan with them. Oh, and don't forget the (lol) extra $24 for the data plan. For an average family plan with smartphones they come out to like $40+ more than Verizon for just two lines, and it goes up as you get more lines.
Verizon can rot in hell. Can you hear me now? Yes? Well, what I said was "fuck you, Verizon".
Non-existent.NET model? Huh? "Right-Mouse->Deploy"? msdeploy? msbuild? WIX? VS2008 built in installer projects? Seriously, there is only one type of person who thinks Eclipse is "far better" than VS2008, and that's someone who doesn't know what he's talking about. Eclipse is certainly a better Java development environment, I'll give it that.
There's a 95% chance my large shop is larger than your large shop and you've got to be kidding if you think large shops don't run anything on Windows but AD or print file sharing. That's wrong to the point of being just ridiculous.
Umm, you do understand that ASP.NET is a server side technology, right? In your huge lack of being informed what you're saying is like me saying "Ruby and Perl CGI need to stay off my internet!". One could write an ASP.NET page where you would be completely unable to tell it was developed in ASP.NET (yes, including the URL not having.aspx).
Not a convincing argument since original argument postulates guided missiles (kinetic) anyway. Regardless - it doesn't matter how huge space is, hitting a 1 meter area with a missile is no harder in space than it is on Earth assuming you have the reaction mass to get the missile the (increased) distance. Missile guidance is pretty much a solid technology now.
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Neckbeards, you have to admire their brand of nerd sophistry.
You see, the reason IE has multiple versions is because Microsoft has to maintain backwards compatibility. And no, they are not complete rewrites and nobody has claimed they are. Firefox has the luxury of just telling people "Oh, just update". IE has no such luxury as Microsoft actually sells a product and must support it in a broad range of environments.
You dweebs really do crack me up. Seriously, do you think Firefox doesn't have security flaws? Some guy above was all proud that Firefox "just crashed" on a page while IE did something seemingly nefarious. Of course, some people understand that if your browser crashes on a page there's probably a flaw that can be exploited.
You guys are a hoot, really you are. Keep it up!
And messy and embarrassing. Oh, wait...
Did the Kindle "sabotage" all the other competitive products' capabilities, too? No? Oh, so your point is meaningless. I see.
The asinine "sound business decision" argument gets trotted out all the time in arguments like this. It's not a sound business decision, and if it was clearly Amazon would make the "sound business decision". It seems people just like to claim everything they like is a "sound business decision" and that they are forcing it on someone for their own good.
I think it's obviously true that if you post online _you_ have no reasonable expectation for privacy concerning what you post online. But even if I post my most lurid secrets online but I intentionally keep other data protected on my machine, I implicitly have a reasonable expectation that that _other_ data is secret.
His line of reasoning reminds me of claiming that a rape victim who is promiscuous in her personal life therefore wasn't "raped" because she "wanted it". She can screw every Tom, Dick, and Harry around the block but if she tells Duane "no" and he rapes her it's still rape in every sense of the word.
A reasonable expectation of privacy doesn't mean certain types of information are deemed to be not worthy of privacy protection because everyone else releases the data, it means that by the situations I put myself in and the actions I take can I expect MY data to be private.
Huh? By the logic in your first paragraph shit, anything can be rendered on the CPU that you can imagine by a program written in C given enough time. Therefore C is as good a 3D graphics language as OpenGL or Direct3D. The whole point is that Direct3D is a better choice for developing games on Windows. I don't really understand why people are arguing this point.
Advanced things like this, right? I'm sure that would be cake in OpenGL.
But let's not be disingenuous. At a basic level you can access the hardware and do whatever the hell you want. By that reasoning, I guess Java is just a good a language to write a Linux device driver in because theoretically you could use JNI and some limited Java VM in-module to handle the work, right?
Direct3D, as an API, supports more hardware features at the API level than OpenGL does without reverting to basically bypassing OpenGL and going straight to the hardware.
For shutter technology - if your television set can refresh itself cleanly in at least 48Hz* - congratulations, you've got all that you realistically need to get a 3D set going on for film content (24fps). You'll need an emitter and the glasses to sync with, and you'll still need a player to output the alternating left/right streams to your television in sync with the emitter (or make the emitter sync with whatever the output is), but that's not a whole new TV set. ( * You'll want more to make it not be quite so flickery, of course - but a 96Hz set will do just fine.. 240Hz is just that more relaxed. )
Doesn't work that way. Even NVidia's solution has pretty strict limitations on what you can use, has to be a 120Hz LCD or a supported DLP. The problem is trying to synchronize the glasses based on an unknown lag between when you send the signal and the TV actually puts it up on the screen. If NVidia couldn't get it to work on Run of the Mill 60Hz LCD's, you're not going to see it working for far more complex arbitrary TV's.
Furthermore, there's no incentive. The market makes more money by forcing you to buy a new TV.
Umm, did you watch Avatar? Nothing "jumped out at you" and it wasn't blurry. Maybe you had a bad showing. The purpose of the 3D in Avatar was immersion, not to have things jumping out at you.
Riiight. And this killer app will compare with "Look at these 10 games released in the last 3 months and the insane graphics they support" how?
OpenGL is, for the purposes of developing high end 3D content utilizing the latest GPUs from AMD/NVidia, inferior technically to Direct3D. It just can't keep up.
Does that mean it sucks? Absolutely not. It's just used for a different type of application - e.g. cross platform stuff, CAD stuff, etc...
What rubbish. The simple fact is that on the highest end hardware DirectX supports more features. OpenGL is well behind now. The original somehow turns Direct3D's deficiencies a decade ago into a reason for modern game developers not to use it. Yeah - that makes sense.
OpenGL is a better choice for cross-platform development. It's not a better choice for high end game development on Windows. In fact it's a worse choice. Period.
It's just more false choice syndrome. Use OpenGL where it makes sense, and use DirectX where it makes sense.
Wow, you mean a company came out with a product that showcases its own technologies and products?! Jeepers, creepers, there are shenanigans afoot! Quick, call the FTC!
And what exactly is the great burden that HDCP imposes on you? Can you describe it, or should it just get off your lawn? Is it preventing you from using all those great HDMI ripping tools? I admit I miss all those inexpensive mechanisms for ripping HDCP-free content from a DVI connector. Oh - wait, there was absolutely no such thing, I forgot.
Some movies are good to watch at home. Others - silly. I'm not going to wait for Avatar to come out on DVD and watch it in 2D on my 65" screen. I'd be missing the entire draw of the movie which is the 3D effects.
And the windows mobile "marketplace" is far more open and varied
Uhh.. huh? Far more mature and polished - yes. Open and varied? Laughably untrue. Have you been to the android market lately? If anything there's too much shit of too many types.
Nonsense. Getting into Israel is the easy part. The flight out is where they grill you and it's 10X worse than anything you face in the US.
By outside chance, you mean...Zero right? Literally: Zero.
Informative? Ahahaha. Right. That's one _hell_ of a source you have there. Don't get me wrong, Dubya was a retard and a horrible President but seriously, that's not what you'd call a credible source.
On an entirely different subject...Oh my God, I just found out Bat Boy trapped Santa! Holy crap! I even have a source
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NVidia isn't real happy about this. No Christmas cards for those guys! In fact the developers should expect some insipid, obvious, and unfunny cartoons will be drawn about them.
Oops, "they come out to like $40+ more than Sprint", that is.
Verizon sucks anyway. Their plans are laughable. Try pricing out a smartphone plan with them. Oh, and don't forget the (lol) extra $24 for the data plan. For an average family plan with smartphones they come out to like $40+ more than Verizon for just two lines, and it goes up as you get more lines.
Verizon can rot in hell. Can you hear me now? Yes? Well, what I said was "fuck you, Verizon".
Non-existent .NET model? Huh? "Right-Mouse->Deploy"? msdeploy? msbuild? WIX? VS2008 built in installer projects? Seriously, there is only one type of person who thinks Eclipse is "far better" than VS2008, and that's someone who doesn't know what he's talking about. Eclipse is certainly a better Java development environment, I'll give it that.
There's a 95% chance my large shop is larger than your large shop and you've got to be kidding if you think large shops don't run anything on Windows but AD or print file sharing. That's wrong to the point of being just ridiculous.
Umm, you do understand that ASP.NET is a server side technology, right? In your huge lack of being informed what you're saying is like me saying "Ruby and Perl CGI need to stay off my internet!". One could write an ASP.NET page where you would be completely unable to tell it was developed in ASP.NET (yes, including the URL not having .aspx).
Not a convincing argument since original argument postulates guided missiles (kinetic) anyway. Regardless - it doesn't matter how huge space is, hitting a 1 meter area with a missile is no harder in space than it is on Earth assuming you have the reaction mass to get the missile the (increased) distance. Missile guidance is pretty much a solid technology now.