I actually have to overclock my video card if it changes resolutions (like, say, every time I start playing something) or I crash in crazy video instability
Dood, your videocard becomes unstable after overclocking it? Hmm. Mine did too, because it was melting. 120*C not good for GPUs, you see. The laws of thermodynamics are not Vista bugs. (Does that make them "features"?)
If you want to play DX10 games, go buy an extra gig of memory and stop whining. If you're happy with DX9, stick to XP.
By that time the Wine (www.winehq.org) team will have released DX10 libraries that use opengl and thus can run on Win XP or older (and of course Linux!).
Can you explain to me how WINE is going to use OpenGL to get DX10 hardware acceleration features out of video cards? I kind of like not turning my video card into a brick.
Blame the man who let his PC get infected; not the poor server op who has to deal with the attacks.
Besides, I don't know of any systems that keep individual IPs permanently blocked; the perma-bans seem reserved for troubled subnets. Very rarely does an entire network change hands; and TFA is complaining not about permanence, but that manual response is "too slow."
There is no such thing as an "evil IP address" any more than there is an "evil house." These systems are technically, logically, as well as ethically flawed. Anybody who buys into blacklist-based technology is a reactionary and a bigot.
And you're a poopy-head!
If you're getting hammered with DoS attacks, spam, interweb herpaids or whatever TFA is about, you block the source. Blocking an IP address has nothing to do with some irrational fear of 32-bit numbers - it blocks the person using that number from destroying your network.
I hope you don't use a firewall or have a router, you bigot.
The problems come from the people, not the organizational method
So, because every "organizational method" has people, we shouldn't care about the quality of the organization method?
Suggesting that a bloated bureacracy that doesn't have to balance a budget, or pay its employees minimum wage, or follow it's own laws, or even ensure it's not getting defrauded ($400 toilet seats? Lockheed Martin realizing they overcharged the government millions of dollars, and the gov't didn't notice?) is not better oversight.
Where is the Sarbanes-Oxley Act for government? If a business did any of these things, their CEOs would be some combination of fired and arrested!
Sure, we vote for our elected representatives, and business is just evil and out there whether we want it or not, doing evil, greedy, business-y things. But, we voluntarily give our money to businesses; government must exact taxes by force.
Secondly is the SUV. It needs to be banned tomorrow. Those things pose more of a risk to the safety and well being of the United States than any terrorist has, ever.
Gee, and here I was, thinking stupid drivers that run over bicyclists were the real problem.
Remember, the size of the vehicle you use doesn't matter: right of way is 1/2m * v^2. You see, mass is only a first-order term, but velocity is a second order term. Notice how bicycles have neither mass nor velocity, but even a Toyota Rollerskate Hybrid(tm) on a densely populated residential road will be going 18 miles an hour over the posted limit.
As an aside, it's not always the drivers fault a bicyclist got hit. A few of the bicyclists I've witnessed (and missed!)
Wearing dark clothes at night without reflectors
Zig-zagging back and forth between lanes across the center line because you're 8 years old and should never be untied from your leash in the front yard.
Ignoring traffic signals - "I can go on red because stoplights are for cars!"
Listening to mp3 players
Americans are 8x as likely(pdf warning and beefy academic paper warning, though there are graphs) to die per bicycle trip than their European counterparts.
why sequester the methane when you can turn around and burn it again?
Because it's a joke. Natural Gas = Methane. Parent is suggesting that we burn natural gas, convert the CO2 back into natural gas, and then pump it back underground.
Now mods have to take away the parent's "funny" modifier, because I explained the joke, therefore killing it.
Do the time sensitive parts of your code in C/C++/Asm and the rest do in a higher level language such as Python
C++ is more on par with Java, not assembler. Go looky at MFC, for example - your program is an object, your window is an object, everything you can think of is a CSomeObject that does CSomeObject->SomeMethod() stuff - not MOV AH, AL
What we need to do is eliminate the electoral college and just go with the popular vote. Imagine a country where the voice of the people actually counted for something.
The electoral college is designed to punish candidates who appeal to a limited geographic region.
The only time the electoral college system makes any real difference is when the popular vote is close - then the number of states you won ends up making a difference.
The 2000 election is a good example. Al Gore won the popular vote by 0.5% - but Bush carried 9 more states, which earned him 5 more EC votes than Gore.
Is this a good system? I think so. It doesn't ignore "the voice of the people" - you elect the electors, and the system forces candidates to represent the entire country instead of just the East.
Worse: it's completely accurate. make your pick: sex or computer games.
You just have to pick better. I've been with my girlfriend for a bit more than a year now. Before, I used to play WoW 5 hours a day if I didn't have homework or if friends didn't kidnap me mid-raid.
Blu-Ray vs. HD DVD wasteful standard war that hurts consumers and developers
Nope. All I see is a bunch of people scurrying like Frenchmen trying to make their platform cheaper and better than the other guy, and to do it faster. This kind of corporate freakout is exactly what an economy needs every once and a while.
There is no judge-made law and there is no "precedent".
Don't know what country you're talking about, but here in the States judges don't make laws, either. They interpret laws. And everybody goes "oh, that's what that means" and life goes on.
Sadly, before we can improve public transport, we'll need to change attitudes like yours.
Wrong. Public transportation competes with "private" transportation like personal automobiles. If you want people to use public transportation, there has to be a compelling reason other than "guilt."
You'll see people use trains and whatnot when they're better than cars. That's a tough goal, but as long as people have options, it's what's going to happen.
Hehe. No it isnt. With Windows there is *always* another way.
Depends on how they lock it down. My school used some stupid program called "Fool Proof." (Kind of ironic, isn't it?) All it did was install some hooks (on Windows 98) to try to keep you from doing very specific things a very specific way - and there was always another way its creators didn't think to block. Besides, the password to disable it was common knowledge. (Pst: If you want real IT security at schools, don't let the teachers have stick-it notes.) Besides, 98 Group Policy or whatever they called it sucks.
XP (and the rest of the NT versions that use NTFS) support file system and user permissions roughly equivalent to *nix. If you set up an XP/Vista machine right ("right" as in properly configured Active Directory and whatnot), nobody's fucking with anything. When my school got XP machines, however, they didn't do that either - they bought another ineffective program to do what was built into the OS.
So, yea, the NTs have all had their chmod and beyond for a long time. If my one-sample survey is any indication of the rest of the country, however, most schools prefer to have something that looks like it works as opposed to something that does - even if the latter is free and part of the OS.
When you want a shell, you get a Unix one on a certified Unix OS; in a fancy translucent window if you so choose.
I choose the unholy union of C# and Perl (aka Windows Powershell) and Aero Glass! And just try to defeat my unstoppable DirectX 10... Tremble in fear!!!1!!1eleven
Once again, near obsolete middlemen decide it's far easier to shit on everyone else's rights [...]
Funny thing is, Valve made Steam in an attempt to cut out the middleman. They got pissed at having to pay publishers ridiculous sums for shiny cardboard box and shipping privileges. They're trying to become their own publisher to cut out said middleman.
BUT, said middleman publisher got pissed. If Valve wants cardboard privileges, they currently have to sell games on Steam for approximately what they'd retail for in stores (despite the total lack of physical media, shipping infrastructure, opportunity cost of shelf space, retail markup, etc.) and enforce region/localization restrictions. Or their publishers ditch them and they have to go go sans-cardboard-box quicker than planned.
ALSO, they've made Steam a great platform for the indie developer. (Hey, Darwinia was fun, and Valve publishes more and gouges less than traditional publishers.) Point is, protectionism of this nature doesn't help Valve at all - self-publishing would save them a lot of money and save them the bad publicity of having to do things like this.
They're the good guys. Trust me. And support your indie devs.
Need I go on? A 5.5% raise is still a 4-7% DECREASE in buying power verses the world economy.
No it doesn't.
A 5.5% raise means you have 5.5% more money.
An 11.1% fall against the Euro means you have 11.1% less purchasing power when buying goods imported from Europe. You're not any "poorer" than they are.
It also means our goods are 11.1% less expensive for Europeans, which means more exports and lessened trade deficit.
Just because our currency lost value against another country's doesn't mean we're now "poorer" than they are.
think the answer about what they should do is create a new method called newFoo() and deprecate the old method so that everything that uses the old method doesn't break. That's what I think.
They did. They have LoadFile(), LoadFileEx(), LoadLibrary(), LoadLibraryEx(), RegisterClass(), RegisterClassEx(), etc., etc.
There's a gazillion FooMethodEx() functions in existence that supplanted some OldFooMethodNonEx() function - and that's just in the 32-bit API. They still maintain support for old Windows 3.1 memory locking and sharing and other 16-bit ickyness.
They do a pretty good job maintaining their API - but developers are lazy. For example, the DirectX APIs contain a FAILED() macro that, guess what, returns a boolean if its parameter function FAILED. But, a lot of people test DirectInput8Create(... ) == 0 instead of FAILED(DirectInput8Create(... )). What's an API maintainer to do?
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I actually have to overclock my video card if it changes resolutions (like, say, every time I start playing something) or I crash in crazy video instability
Dood, your videocard becomes unstable after overclocking it? Hmm. Mine did too, because it was melting. 120*C not good for GPUs, you see. The laws of thermodynamics are not Vista bugs. (Does that make them "features"?)
If you want to play DX10 games, go buy an extra gig of memory and stop whining. If you're happy with DX9, stick to XP.
By that time the Wine (www.winehq.org) team will have released DX10 libraries that use opengl and thus can run on Win XP or older (and of course Linux!).
Can you explain to me how WINE is going to use OpenGL to get DX10 hardware acceleration features out of video cards? I kind of like not turning my video card into a brick.
Blame the man who let his PC get infected; not the poor server op who has to deal with the attacks.
Besides, I don't know of any systems that keep individual IPs permanently blocked; the perma-bans seem reserved for troubled subnets. Very rarely does an entire network change hands; and TFA is complaining not about permanence, but that manual response is "too slow."
There is no such thing as an "evil IP address" any more than there is an "evil house." These systems are technically, logically, as well as ethically flawed. Anybody who buys into blacklist-based technology is a reactionary and a bigot.
And you're a poopy-head!
If you're getting hammered with DoS attacks, spam, interweb herpaids or whatever TFA is about, you block the source. Blocking an IP address has nothing to do with some irrational fear of 32-bit numbers - it blocks the person using that number from destroying your network.
I hope you don't use a firewall or have a router, you bigot.
Since when is Family Guy "off-topic"?
Oh, wait, that's the entire premise behind most of their humor, isn't it?
But... they're not the "smaller vehicles" in question. Evidently SUVs make the roads significantly more unsafe for them, y'see
The problems come from the people, not the organizational method
So, because every "organizational method" has people, we shouldn't care about the quality of the organization method?
Suggesting that a bloated bureacracy that doesn't have to balance a budget, or pay its employees minimum wage, or follow it's own laws, or even ensure it's not getting defrauded ($400 toilet seats? Lockheed Martin realizing they overcharged the government millions of dollars, and the gov't didn't notice?) is not better oversight.
Where is the Sarbanes-Oxley Act for government? If a business did any of these things, their CEOs would be some combination of fired and arrested!
Sure, we vote for our elected representatives, and business is just evil and out there whether we want it or not, doing evil, greedy, business-y things. But, we voluntarily give our money to businesses; government must exact taxes by force.
Actually, large SUVs are a significant hazard to smaller vehicles
So... Don't buy a tiny car. Don't punish those who take safety into consideration when purchasing a vehicle.
Secondly is the SUV. It needs to be banned tomorrow. Those things pose more of a risk to the safety and well being of the United States than any terrorist has, ever.
Gee, and here I was, thinking stupid drivers that run over bicyclists were the real problem.
Remember, the size of the vehicle you use doesn't matter: right of way is 1/2m * v^2. You see, mass is only a first-order term, but velocity is a second order term. Notice how bicycles have neither mass nor velocity, but even a Toyota Rollerskate Hybrid(tm) on a densely populated residential road will be going 18 miles an hour over the posted limit.
As an aside, it's not always the drivers fault a bicyclist got hit. A few of the bicyclists I've witnessed (and missed!)
Americans are 8x as likely(pdf warning and beefy academic paper warning, though there are graphs) to die per bicycle trip than their European counterparts.
Yes, but Europe doesn't have cars.
Because private companies are the pinnacle of competence and government is the pit of deepest stupidity.
Well, duh. Private companies make money, government takes money. It's a perverted extension of "If you can't do, teach."
But, you could argue that the "takers" are the really smart people...
why sequester the methane when you can turn around and burn it again?
Because it's a joke. Natural Gas = Methane. Parent is suggesting that we burn natural gas, convert the CO2 back into natural gas, and then pump it back underground.
Now mods have to take away the parent's "funny" modifier, because I explained the joke, therefore killing it.
I had a friend in high school who liked he was almost thirty before he even turned twenty.
Maybe he looked thirty because he was smoking too much.
And maybe that made it easier for him to get cigarettes from the machine... which let him smoke more...
Do the time sensitive parts of your code in C/C++/Asm and the rest do in a higher level language such as Python
C++ is more on par with Java, not assembler. Go looky at MFC, for example - your program is an object, your window is an object, everything you can think of is a CSomeObject that does CSomeObject->SomeMethod() stuff - not MOV AH, AL
What we need to do is eliminate the electoral college and just go with the popular vote. Imagine a country where the voice of the people actually counted for something.
The electoral college is designed to punish candidates who appeal to a limited geographic region.
The only time the electoral college system makes any real difference is when the popular vote is close - then the number of states you won ends up making a difference.
The 2000 election is a good example. Al Gore won the popular vote by 0.5% - but Bush carried 9 more states, which earned him 5 more EC votes than Gore.
Is this a good system? I think so. It doesn't ignore "the voice of the people" - you elect the electors, and the system forces candidates to represent the entire country instead of just the East.
Worse: it's completely accurate. make your pick: sex or computer games.
You just have to pick better. I've been with my girlfriend for a bit more than a year now. Before, I used to play WoW 5 hours a day if I didn't have homework or if friends didn't kidnap me mid-raid.
Now, she plays my account more than I do.
Very well said. While the average person is "wowed" by numbers and equations, the /. community is not so easily fooled.
Actually, 39.5% of the /. community are easily fooled...
Blu-Ray vs. HD DVD wasteful standard war that hurts consumers and developers
Nope. All I see is a bunch of people scurrying like Frenchmen trying to make their platform cheaper and better than the other guy, and to do it faster. This kind of corporate freakout is exactly what an economy needs every once and a while.
There is no judge-made law and there is no "precedent".
Don't know what country you're talking about, but here in the States judges don't make laws, either. They interpret laws. And everybody goes "oh, that's what that means" and life goes on.
Sadly, before we can improve public transport, we'll need to change attitudes like yours.
Wrong. Public transportation competes with "private" transportation like personal automobiles. If you want people to use public transportation, there has to be a compelling reason other than "guilt."
You'll see people use trains and whatnot when they're better than cars. That's a tough goal, but as long as people have options, it's what's going to happen.
Hehe. No it isnt. With Windows there is *always* another way.
Depends on how they lock it down. My school used some stupid program called "Fool Proof." (Kind of ironic, isn't it?) All it did was install some hooks (on Windows 98) to try to keep you from doing very specific things a very specific way - and there was always another way its creators didn't think to block. Besides, the password to disable it was common knowledge. (Pst: If you want real IT security at schools, don't let the teachers have stick-it notes.) Besides, 98 Group Policy or whatever they called it sucks.
XP (and the rest of the NT versions that use NTFS) support file system and user permissions roughly equivalent to *nix. If you set up an XP/Vista machine right ("right" as in properly configured Active Directory and whatnot), nobody's fucking with anything. When my school got XP machines, however, they didn't do that either - they bought another ineffective program to do what was built into the OS.
So, yea, the NTs have all had their chmod and beyond for a long time. If my one-sample survey is any indication of the rest of the country, however, most schools prefer to have something that looks like it works as opposed to something that does - even if the latter is free and part of the OS.
When you want a shell, you get a Unix one on a certified Unix OS; in a fancy translucent window if you so choose.
I choose the unholy union of C# and Perl (aka Windows Powershell) and Aero Glass! And just try to defeat my unstoppable DirectX 10... Tremble in fear!!!1!!1eleven
Once again, near obsolete middlemen decide it's far easier to shit on everyone else's rights [...]
Funny thing is, Valve made Steam in an attempt to cut out the middleman. They got pissed at having to pay publishers ridiculous sums for shiny cardboard box and shipping privileges. They're trying to become their own publisher to cut out said middleman.
BUT, said middleman publisher got pissed. If Valve wants cardboard privileges, they currently have to sell games on Steam for approximately what they'd retail for in stores (despite the total lack of physical media, shipping infrastructure, opportunity cost of shelf space, retail markup, etc.) and enforce region/localization restrictions. Or their publishers ditch them and they have to go go sans-cardboard-box quicker than planned.
ALSO, they've made Steam a great platform for the indie developer. (Hey, Darwinia was fun, and Valve publishes more and gouges less than traditional publishers.) Point is, protectionism of this nature doesn't help Valve at all - self-publishing would save them a lot of money and save them the bad publicity of having to do things like this.
They're the good guys. Trust me. And support your indie devs.
Need I go on? A 5.5% raise is still a 4-7% DECREASE in buying power verses the world economy.
No it doesn't.
A 5.5% raise means you have 5.5% more money.
An 11.1% fall against the Euro means you have 11.1% less purchasing power when buying goods imported from Europe. You're not any "poorer" than they are.
It also means our goods are 11.1% less expensive for Europeans, which means more exports and lessened trade deficit.
Just because our currency lost value against another country's doesn't mean we're now "poorer" than they are.
Nope. Let Steam save your password. It will start in "offline mode."
It's possible; I beat portal after forgetting my wireless network adapter and going without one of the internets for a weekend.
think the answer about what they should do is create a new method called newFoo() and deprecate the old method so that everything that uses the old method doesn't break. That's what I think.
They did. They have LoadFile(), LoadFileEx(), LoadLibrary(), LoadLibraryEx(), RegisterClass(), RegisterClassEx(), etc., etc.
There's a gazillion FooMethodEx() functions in existence that supplanted some OldFooMethodNonEx() function - and that's just in the 32-bit API. They still maintain support for old Windows 3.1 memory locking and sharing and other 16-bit ickyness.
They do a pretty good job maintaining their API - but developers are lazy. For example, the DirectX APIs contain a FAILED() macro that, guess what, returns a boolean if its parameter function FAILED. But, a lot of people test DirectInput8Create( ... ) == 0 instead of FAILED(DirectInput8Create( ... )). What's an API maintainer to do?