Last I checked, VS depends heavily on Windows COM libraries. I mean, you could port the IDE, but without the libraries behind it why would anyone want to use it? And yeah, IntelliJ IDEA > Eclipse > VS.
Why wouldn't they? Linux is the no.2 server OS last time I heard with a not-insubstantial slice of that very significant market.
I respectfully disagree, what you are suggesting is merely a side-effect of a law that ensures city revenue, much like arbitrarily set speed limits (aka:speed traps) ensure county and state revenue. It may be legally correct, but that does not make it any less amoral.
Example: You are legally obligated to interact with the ever-helpful government officials. They are located downtown, but for some strange reason there are no publicly accessable parking structures nearby. Good thing this never takes more than 2 hours...
I don't know where you live, but near me the cap is generally set to the same amount of time you're legally allowed to park in the spot. Technically, in those spots you're not supposed to go 'feed the meter', and if you do you could get a ticket anyway.
The cap is so you don't stay parked in the same spot too long so the rest of us can have a chance at a place to park.
Sign me up right now. My government has been borrowing against my future and my 3 year old kid's future to finance futile wars and corporate handouts since um, 1981.
GWB is all pissed off about these dictators that his g*damned daddy helped put into power as head of the CIA. That won't be on Fox news later, but it's still true. Maybe if he'd joined the Marines instead of the Women's Auxiliary Balloon Corps he might have some second thoughts about all of this retardo-mon BS
In a digital age where we are dealing with Intellectual Property, digitial censorship and hidden taxes it makes me wonder just what excatly a revolt or revolution against it would be like?
I can't imagine thousands of people marching through the streets finding government officals and decapating them, but you would think we will eventually get to a point where everything just gets too much.
Indeed, it's only fair what with having all of those frenchmen and being forced to live in igloos. Here in the land of milk, honey and/or massive stockpiles of nuclear weapons I suspect there will be no great rush to implement this. The cities make far more cash handing out tickets than they do collecting fiddling small change from the parking meters. Heck, why do you think the meters have 2 hour (or less) caps on them?
If I am not mistaken, this is illegal in Canada. You cannot put a "boot" on a vehicle here. Something to do with unlawful confinement or some malarky like that.
In reality-land, Tivo is between a rock and a hard place. I really salute them for creating this, but between the MPAA bitching about piracy, advertisers trying to axe them for enabling ad-skipping and the cable companies trying to undercut them on price (why buy a Tivo if you get virtually the same thing for free from your cable provider?), they are so screwed. Hard core geeks will build their own hacked PVR's that stream 8 feeds at once for $0 a month, and have no watermarking bullshit. If they can't sell this on Joe 6-pack they are DOA, and Joe 6-pack is just not clued in on this whole PVR digital media transfer thing.
Tivo is no where close to being the Apple of the set top industry. They are in danger of ceasing to exist because their annual revenue is still short of $200 million per year and they continue to burn their available cash on hand. They just do not have the capital needed to create the next great leap of innovation.
You are indeed correct that temporary bleaching,by itself, does not kill a reef. However large numbers of extremely slow growing corals are now dead in both the Carribean and off Australia's coast. Where else do we have big reefs that are still alive? Not too many other places Chester
This is directly verifible by you, go grab a scuba tank and take a look. These reefs may well be dead in our lifetimes. The major killer is when the reef gets contaminated with waste, otherwise known in the lingua franca as sewage, though climate changes are now causing a lot of mortality as well.
Per my 10 second search on google, here are some articles on the subject. Way to stay informed Mr. Science.
Coral reefs have been around for 225 million years. Now most of them are dead because they can't stand the heat and pollution. How much more proof do you need?" show me proof that "most" of them are dead. Don't get me wrong, I'm concerned about it- I've participated in environmentalist events, I parked my car for good a while back and now just use public transportation, etc.... but I was a marine biology major in college, and coral bleaching is not as big an issue as greenpeace makes it sound. How much more proof do I need? how about some proof to start with.
Um, only the people who worked AT the port would have to drive there. Hell, you can put in a freaking bullet train for all I care, that's still way less than the 8+ billion.
History has nothing to do with it, since they already bulldozed most of it after the floods. I would love to be able to call GWB and let him know that he should stop spending billions of dollars we don't have, but for some reason I, like 99.9% of america, just don't have that kind of pull.
You're right, they have to rebuild the city anyway, but the place has stood for a couple hundred years, gets hit by a hurricane once, and all of a sudden it's a lost cause? Make the investment, do it right, and get people moved back in. Your country will throw away how many trillions into a war with a country the size of California, but won't put 8 billion ensuring a historical and economic entitiy survives.
Look, I know you're from the EU and all USians are morons by default, but give me a break. Just because you put the port there doesn't mean you have to put the houses and shops there. They had to rebuild the city ANYWAY. There are these things we have in the USA called um, cars?
So you want to take a huge ocean port city, with many of the industries relying on said ports, and move it... away from the ocean.. and don't see a problem with this?
Um, I'm pretty sure the Dutch don't have the option of moving their towns 40 miles away and avoiding the whole freaking problem to begin with. You guys have spent massive amounts of cash building protection for your country. That's awesome. It's also totally unnecessary here.
As a Dutch reader of/. I can tell you that it is most certainly possible to live and work below sea level. As a matter of fact, about 2/3's of our entire country is below sea level, yes, even our most important economic area with cities like Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht, etc.
Combine the Prius and greater fuel efficiency with more bio-fuels, more solar, and various other solutions, and combined they'll make a big difference. The hostility towards them from some people is truly moronic.
Perhaps I wasn't clear, though I'm not quite sure how. When other massive industrial powers have essentially zero pollution controls, the miniscule benefit of hybrid electric vehicle adoption in the states is meaningless.
If you look at a lot of the so called environmental friendliness in the USA these days, what's really happened is we've exported our pollution generating needs (heavy manufacturing, electronics recycling) to countries where there are no EPA laws. It's much cheaper that way, in the short run. In the long run we ALL LOSE.
New Orleans was and is a retarded idea. Since they had to rebuild it anyway, why not move it say 40 miles away where the ground is above f*king sea level?? Thats as dumb as the beach front properties on the east coast that the government keeps helping rebuild every 5 years when another big storm *mysteriously* demolishes them.
Apparently you haven't noticed, but this is a *global* issue. Pass all the legislation you want, if all the major industrial polluters (India, China, etc.) don't buy in, all the happy friendly hybrid Prius's in the universe won't help you one bit.
Nuclear winter would almost be a damn blessing at this point. Coral reefs have been around for 225 million years. Now most of them are dead because they can't stand the heat and pollution. How much more proof do you need?
Just for the record my dad owned one of those trucks. Those tanks weren't safe. It didn't have a liner. Yes, statistically it was safe, simply because
A. gasoline just isn't that volatile in it's liquid state, it's the vapors that are easily ignited/explosive.
and
B. that part of the truck wasn't usually taking the crash impact
and
C. 'statistically speaking', bigger cars win in an accident. Provided you get in one, which smaller and better balanced vehicles are far better at avoiding. Of course there are no statistics on those, so they aren't in the report.
Don't let your hatred of the liberal treehuggers blind you to reality sir.
This isn't even an isolated incident for auto-makers, read below for some more creative examples of *ah*, 'cost cutting'.
Example #1: Who is at fault for the dangerous Firestone tires on the Ford Explorer a few years back? Answer: Ford. They basically said 'give me the cheapest tire you can make, so we can cut costs'. Firestone was perfectly willing to make them better ones, but those would have cost more.
Example #2: Virtually all full sized GM pickups with side tanks had the tanks positioned OUTSIDE the frame rails until quite recently (86?). This means on a side impact the tanks can rupture/leak, causing people to potentially die a fiery death in relatively minor accidents. GM decided it was cheaper to pay the claims than issue a recall, since the fix would have been expensive to do. Since they're classed as trucks, they don't have to adhere to the same safety standards cars do (also true of minivans and suv FYI).
1. Hire a team of 1000 programmers, artists, marketers, executives, executive's kids, executive's semi-close relatives and executive's general layabout buddies.
2. Program some game that's been done, like, a billion times.
3. Drive your employees like naked slave children in the salt mines.
4. Profit
OK, that's four steps. So sue me. But you'll have to get in line behind Electronic Arts who will be suing me for revealing their secret corporate process.
Ha! I tease EA! They be my bitch.
You are both insightful and funny sir. If I had any mod points they would be going into your trust fund. If I have to see yet another lame remix/art project (you know the ones, they buy/re-use an old game engine, slap some new textures on it and try to sell it for $50 a box) I think I may have to become very drunk.
Cheers,
-David
Yeah that is all nice and good, but what about the hardware required including pre-amps and amps and speakers that can actually *allow* the better signal to be differentiated by our ears? This type of equipment is not likely to exist in common computer electronics... so I'm not sure your definition of hi-fi really fits here...
I think there's even a mobo out that has a tube in it's onboard audio circuit, but you're right, true hi-fi is not coming to a computer near you anytime soon, if ever.
I recommend taking the cash you were going to fork out for that shiny Creative AudioVunder2000XL++ and spending it on a quality pair of stereo speakers and a decent receiver/amp. Those things may take up a lot more space than the crapola 3" radio shack specials you're using now, but they sure do sound better.
I thought the article was worthless too. I think this "MMO mouse" is more marketing than anything. They are just trying to get a marketing edge. I play WoW and WC3(DotA) competativly
Indeed sir, why buy this mouse if it won't help with gold farming/botting 3 or 4 other 'zombie' accounts around.
Not that I'd know anything about that, but I'd recommend a nice trackball with programmable buttons. When one of your lame clerics can't bother to show up on time for the raid it can be a lifesaver, literally.
Every time "voodoo" economics is brought up, nobody ever explains just how the upper 5% of the population will ever manage to "trickle down" anywhere near as effectively as middle class could do it.
It's very simple really. Rich people usually build their homes on top of hills, so that they won't have to look at the poor people living outside their palatial mansions. Due to gravitational attraction, small change falling out of their pockets will roll down the hill towards the poor people. Don't forget that you can probably deduct that from your capital gains tax as a charitable contribution!
It is called a race toward the bottom.
I have personally witnessed outsourcing of people who make $1.25/hr in the Dominican Republic. "Their Jobs" are now over in China where the pay is $0.10/hr. 2/3 of the factories in the tax free zone of La Romana are now sitting vacant.
I hope the hippie treehuggers are all happy when everyone in the world becomes 'equal', and we're globally transformed from 1st, 2nd and 3rd world nations to one big global poverty playground. After all, it was what they wanted right?
I think his point was that there's plenty of occasions where the underdog has won. However, going up against big business is a painful process, whether you win or lose.
Too true, and while their business model may not survive, there is no denying that big business owns the IP. Whether their content gets distributed for pennies 'per use' or dollars per DVD, they still win.
What infuriates me the most personally is that these companies are allowed to hold IP hostage. If it weren't for the 'Hezbollah' this stuff might never see the light of day again.
Example#1. I would happily buy old MST3K episodes legally (yeah I'm wierd), but many of them simply aren't available at any price.
Example#2. The Sci-fi channel bought up rights to the original outer limits, therefore shutting out my local PBS station. Which would be ok if they actually aired them occassionally, but you know...they dont.
I can't believe SCO is still around. I wonder what is going to be their next step in order to regain lost market... A new release of SCO XENIX maybe? hehehhee
I'm sure if they had a viable business strategy they would have used it by now, instead of all this legal crap. What amazes me is that (as with Sun) people are willing to buy/hold shares in a company that just loses money year after year.
Am I the only one who's reminded of the gradual decline of the Big Mainframe Companies way back when (aka IBM and The Seven Dwarves)? To stave off eventual extinction, they kept merging with each other (read: business alliances) as their respective sales/earnings fell, again and again ad nauseum....
But hey, the world is a big spinning carousel -- and here we are again.
23 May 2006.
Microsoft released its latest patch set today for all versions of it's Windows Operating systems.
24 May 2006.
Symantec Products Failing en-mass.
Reports are coming in from all over the world today that Symantecs software is failing on all versions of windows, Symantec cannot explain it, and microsoft are not commenting.
sigh...
Wow, MS upgrades that intentionally target third party competition? That's sure never happened before...oh wait. QEMM anyone?
If you inflation adjust TVs, vcrs, dvd players, stereos, computers, or ANY other consumer electronic device you will see a violently declining price.
violently declining price along with equally declining quality. For most consumer goods, buying anything and expecting it to last a lifetime is a pipe dream. You just bought thing X, expect to buy it again next year. And no, we won't sell you the parts to fix last years model.
I can think of a couple more optional add-ons. There's the gun for duck hunt (The Zapper), the pad for track and field, the microphone for Mario Party (SNES and GC), the Super Scope (Nintendo Scope in Europe), and the Mouse in Mario Paint. Though I think that Nintendo is better about optional add-ons than many other video game companies, they have used them more often than you indicate.
For myself, I think optional controllers are a great idea, Nintendo just hasn't made many that were worth having.
Here are some fun examples from Sega, king of the one-off/unusual controllers. Some of them were pricey, but when you're porting an arcade title or doing something equally wierd, you can't much better than a game specific control pad:
DDR/dance pad, Virtual On/twin stick, Samba De Amigo/maraccas, Quake3/keyboard+mouse,Seaman/microphone..and lets not forget the fishing controller. Sure other consoles had the ubiquitous driving controllers, the arcade sticks, but a fishing controller??
Sega may be dead as a hardware manufacturer, but lets not forget their legacy.
I believe the RX-8 has the highest specific output (horsepower/liter) of any production car, ever, topping the Bugatti EB110. As the other poster pointed out it's apples and oranges, but they're still interesting numbers.:-)
Why should I care? An S2000 puts out a ton of horsepower for its size too (albeit with a lousy torque curve), but that doesn't win races nor does it guarantee good mileage.
If you want a goofy electric car, have at it. If you want to play on the dragstrip may I suggest you invest $3000 in a fox body mustang, $1000 for a direct port nitrous system and blow the other $96,000 on loose women and beer.
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Example: You are legally obligated to interact with the ever-helpful government officials. They are located downtown, but for some strange reason there are no publicly accessable parking structures nearby. Good thing this never takes more than 2 hours...
GWB is all pissed off about these dictators that his g*damned daddy helped put into power as head of the CIA. That won't be on Fox news later, but it's still true. Maybe if he'd joined the Marines instead of the Women's Auxiliary Balloon Corps he might have some second thoughts about all of this retardo-mon BS
This is directly verifible by you, go grab a scuba tank and take a look. These reefs may well be dead in our lifetimes. The major killer is when the reef gets contaminated with waste, otherwise known in the lingua franca as sewage, though climate changes are now causing a lot of mortality as well.
Per my 10 second search on google, here are some articles on the subject. Way to stay informed Mr. Science.
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2006-03-30-ca
History has nothing to do with it, since they already bulldozed most of it after the floods. I would love to be able to call GWB and let him know that he should stop spending billions of dollars we don't have, but for some reason I, like 99.9% of america, just don't have that kind of pull.
Perhaps I wasn't clear, though I'm not quite sure how. When other massive industrial powers have essentially zero pollution controls, the miniscule benefit of hybrid electric vehicle adoption in the states is meaningless.
If you look at a lot of the so called environmental friendliness in the USA these days, what's really happened is we've exported our pollution generating needs (heavy manufacturing, electronics recycling) to countries where there are no EPA laws. It's much cheaper that way, in the short run. In the long run we ALL LOSE.
K, do we all get it now?
New Orleans was and is a retarded idea. Since they had to rebuild it anyway, why not move it say 40 miles away where the ground is above f*king sea level?? Thats as dumb as the beach front properties on the east coast that the government keeps helping rebuild every 5 years when another big storm *mysteriously* demolishes them.
Apparently you haven't noticed, but this is a *global* issue. Pass all the legislation you want, if all the major industrial polluters (India, China, etc.) don't buy in, all the happy friendly hybrid Prius's in the universe won't help you one bit.
Nuclear winter would almost be a damn blessing at this point. Coral reefs have been around for 225 million years. Now most of them are dead because they can't stand the heat and pollution. How much more proof do you need?
Just for the record my dad owned one of those trucks. Those tanks weren't safe. It didn't have a liner. Yes, statistically it was safe, simply because
A. gasoline just isn't that volatile in it's liquid state, it's the vapors that are easily ignited/explosive.
and
B. that part of the truck wasn't usually taking the crash impact
and
C. 'statistically speaking', bigger cars win in an accident. Provided you get in one, which smaller and better balanced vehicles are far better at avoiding. Of course there are no statistics on those, so they aren't in the report.
Don't let your hatred of the liberal treehuggers blind you to reality sir.
This isn't even an isolated incident for auto-makers, read below for some more creative examples of *ah*, 'cost cutting'.
Example #1: Who is at fault for the dangerous Firestone tires on the Ford Explorer a few years back? Answer: Ford. They basically said 'give me the cheapest tire you can make, so we can cut costs'. Firestone was perfectly willing to make them better ones, but those would have cost more.
Example #2: Virtually all full sized GM pickups with side tanks had the tanks positioned OUTSIDE the frame rails until quite recently (86?). This means on a side impact the tanks can rupture/leak, causing people to potentially die a fiery death in relatively minor accidents. GM decided it was cheaper to pay the claims than issue a recall, since the fix would have been expensive to do. Since they're classed as trucks, they don't have to adhere to the same safety standards cars do (also true of minivans and suv FYI).
You are both insightful and funny sir. If I had any mod points they would be going into your trust fund. If I have to see yet another lame remix/art project (you know the ones, they buy/re-use an old game engine, slap some new textures on it and try to sell it for $50 a box) I think I may have to become very drunk. Cheers, -David
I recommend taking the cash you were going to fork out for that shiny Creative AudioVunder2000XL++ and spending it on a quality pair of stereo speakers and a decent receiver/amp. Those things may take up a lot more space than the crapola 3" radio shack specials you're using now, but they sure do sound better.
Indeed sir, why buy this mouse if it won't help with gold farming/botting 3 or 4 other 'zombie' accounts around.
Not that I'd know anything about that, but I'd recommend a nice trackball with programmable buttons. When one of your lame clerics can't bother to show up on time for the raid it can be a lifesaver, literally.
It's very simple really. Rich people usually build their homes on top of hills, so that they won't have to look at the poor people living outside their palatial mansions. Due to gravitational attraction, small change falling out of their pockets will roll down the hill towards the poor people. Don't forget that you can probably deduct that from your capital gains tax as a charitable contribution!
I hope the hippie treehuggers are all happy when everyone in the world becomes 'equal', and we're globally transformed from 1st, 2nd and 3rd world nations to one big global poverty playground. After all, it was what they wanted right?
Too true, and while their business model may not survive, there is no denying that big business owns the IP. Whether their content gets distributed for pennies 'per use' or dollars per DVD, they still win.
What infuriates me the most personally is that these companies are allowed to hold IP hostage. If it weren't for the 'Hezbollah' this stuff might never see the light of day again.
Example#1. I would happily buy old MST3K episodes legally (yeah I'm wierd), but many of them simply aren't available at any price.
Example#2. The Sci-fi channel bought up rights to the original outer limits, therefore shutting out my local PBS station. Which would be ok if they actually aired them occassionally, but you know...they dont.
I'm sure if they had a viable business strategy they would have used it by now, instead of all this legal crap. What amazes me is that (as with Sun) people are willing to buy/hold shares in a company that just loses money year after year.
Life Day . . . renew, renew.
Wow, MS upgrades that intentionally target third party competition? That's sure never happened before...oh wait. QEMM anyone?
violently declining price along with equally declining quality. For most consumer goods, buying anything and expecting it to last a lifetime is a pipe dream. You just bought thing X, expect to buy it again next year. And no, we won't sell you the parts to fix last years model.
To paraphrase.."Hi, welcome to Walmart."
There have been more, and worse.
Bear witness to the horror that is R.O.B....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.O.B./
And of course, the never-popular Power Glove...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerglove/
For myself, I think optional controllers are a great idea, Nintendo just hasn't made many that were worth having.
Here are some fun examples from Sega, king of the one-off/unusual controllers. Some of them were pricey, but when you're porting an arcade title or doing something equally wierd, you can't much better than a game specific control pad:
DDR/dance pad, Virtual On/twin stick, Samba De Amigo/maraccas, Quake3/keyboard+mouse,Seaman/microphone..and lets not forget the fishing controller. Sure other consoles had the ubiquitous driving controllers, the arcade sticks, but a fishing controller??
Sega may be dead as a hardware manufacturer, but lets not forget their legacy.
Why should I care? An S2000 puts out a ton of horsepower for its size too (albeit with a lousy torque curve), but that doesn't win races nor does it guarantee good mileage.
If you want a goofy electric car, have at it. If you want to play on the dragstrip may I suggest you invest $3000 in a fox body mustang, $1000 for a direct port nitrous system and blow the other $96,000 on loose women and beer.