This so much. Put a typical Linux desktop (say, Linux Mint MATE or Cinnamon) on a netbook and see how the desktop is sluggish and even basic window animations are choppy.
More than anything, Facebook has become my address book for so many people that I don't have other means to contact.
This. Facebook comes with a lot of crap, but for contacting casually any person you know, it's a damn powerful tool. Because "everyone" is there, it's a quite comprehensive address book of the world.
Future generations will be creating editors for Call of Duty or Elder Scrolls or Portal or something like that.
Not necessarily. The data formats are so much more complex that you likely need full-time engineers to work on the editors. It took a long time even for the community-made Prince of Persia level editors to be finished.
Will old games such as this also interest future generations or will they gradually lose their appeal because of technological advances?
No problem. Many times when I watch gameplay videos of old DOS games in YouTube there are comments like "where can I download this game for Mac??" The right answer is to show them DOSBox and GOG... But the point being, there still is a lot of interest of these kind of old, simple games. Look at something like Papers, Please. Technologically that could have been implemented for a 286 DOS PC, and yet people love it despite "technological advances". Simple, good games, into which you can get quickly by bashing Enter, not having to wait 3 minute long load times.
really - is the average user going to notice 800MB/sec reads and writes over say, 1GB/sec reads/writes?
After you have eliminated the bottleneck of mechanical hard drive seek times it is smooth sailing for the average computer. There isn't even much benefit from going from 100MB/s to 600MB/s.
One incentive could be that all your messages begin at +1 moderation. Also, you get a (rather crusty) messaging system telling about replies to your comments.
You mean, unlike the sock puppets who seek to get/. to outlaw anonymous posting by constantly trolling every thread with "hosts file", "golden girls", "frost piss", and other stupidity?
The weirdest spammer around here is the one which posts short messages with pseudo-random words, usually including the word "BSD" there somewhere. The topic of the message is usually something like "m0d do3n". That one has been around here for almost a decade I think.
Speaking of the command line, I have never seen a terminal emulator which mimics the smooth scroll effect of some of the hardware terminals. Have you seen such?
Linux and Mac need this.:) I would create it myself, but am too occupied with other stuff (like lethargically reading Slashdot) and probably would be too stupid to do it anyway.
It's easier to shoot yourself in the foot with the GUI. A wrong click at some position might cause a lot of unexpected behavior and leave a good mess to clean. Just offering a counter-argument for the sake of discussion.
Good counter-argument, actually. With command line you have the chance to describe accurately what you want and review it, instead of your mouse accidentally poking some widget along the way.
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This so much. Put a typical Linux desktop (say, Linux Mint MATE or Cinnamon) on a netbook and see how the desktop is sluggish and even basic window animations are choppy.
More than anything, Facebook has become my address book for so many people that I don't have other means to contact.
This. Facebook comes with a lot of crap, but for contacting casually any person you know, it's a damn powerful tool. Because "everyone" is there, it's a quite comprehensive address book of the world.
His "missingness" was the thing that was discovered, not him.
Nerd rage, the funniest form of rage... ;)
I wonder when the new site will be rolled out (in its current form I hope never, cause it sucks).
They asked for feedback 3 months ago and then the Beta has been just lurking there.
Why isn't it possible to delete a Slashdot account, and have all your old posts become Anonymous?
That would be almost like rewriting history. Bad idea.
Future generations will be creating editors for Call of Duty or Elder Scrolls or Portal or something like that.
Not necessarily. The data formats are so much more complex that you likely need full-time engineers to work on the editors. It took a long time even for the community-made Prince of Persia level editors to be finished.
Will old games such as this also interest future generations or will they gradually lose their appeal because of technological advances?
No problem. Many times when I watch gameplay videos of old DOS games in YouTube there are comments like "where can I download this game for Mac??" The right answer is to show them DOSBox and GOG... But the point being, there still is a lot of interest of these kind of old, simple games. Look at something like Papers, Please. Technologically that could have been implemented for a 286 DOS PC, and yet people love it despite "technological advances". Simple, good games, into which you can get quickly by bashing Enter, not having to wait 3 minute long load times.
7 years? That's way too short. Time flies quickly. You might have created a really good brand which might easily survive for more than 7 years.
Hey, at least he finally submitted it as a proper news item.
Unlike the iOS gestures, the BB10 gestures actually increase my workflow.
So they add extra burden into your workflow? ;) You probably meant "improve my workflow".
I'm mostly fine with the UX of Unity, but it is laggy like hell.
really - is the average user going to notice 800MB/sec reads and writes over say, 1GB/sec reads/writes?
After you have eliminated the bottleneck of mechanical hard drive seek times it is smooth sailing for the average computer. There isn't even much benefit from going from 100MB/s to 600MB/s.
One incentive could be that all your messages begin at +1 moderation. Also, you get a (rather crusty) messaging system telling about replies to your comments.
You mean, unlike the sock puppets who seek to get /. to outlaw anonymous posting by constantly trolling every thread with "hosts file", "golden girls", "frost piss", and other stupidity?
The weirdest spammer around here is the one which posts short messages with pseudo-random words, usually including the word "BSD" there somewhere. The topic of the message is usually something like "m0d do3n". That one has been around here for almost a decade I think.
Also, Windows is surprisingly problem free in general these days. Microsoft puts a huge effort in quality assurance and smoke testing.
They don't even make Creative Suite anymore, wisecrack.
What the heck, why do you call them "aps"? :)
I also heard that Fisher-Price is negotiating a huge deal with Microsoft.
There are many different versions of various 3ghz processors out there with vastly differing prices.
A 3GHz Pentium 4 should come off cheap. ;)
It's not Linux's fault that the developers of Final Cut Pro and Lightroom specifically chose *not* to support Linux.
How do you know? Maybe they thought that Linux is a garbage platform. In that way it would be "Linux's fault".
Final Cut Pro and Lightroom work so well in Linux.
By the way, there exists now an open source Lightroom clone called Darktable.
Speaking of the command line, I have never seen a terminal emulator which mimics the smooth scroll effect of some of the hardware terminals. Have you seen such?
Linux and Mac need this. :) I would create it myself, but am too occupied with other stuff (like lethargically reading Slashdot) and probably would be too stupid to do it anyway.
But if someone needs an open source project.
True.
It's easier to shoot yourself in the foot with the GUI. A wrong click at some position might cause a lot of unexpected behavior and leave a good mess to clean. Just offering a counter-argument for the sake of discussion.
Good counter-argument, actually. With command line you have the chance to describe accurately what you want and review it, instead of your mouse accidentally poking some widget along the way.