It turns out humans aren't the only species. For example, there are many that live in the water. And a lot of those live exclusively in the Gulf of Mexico.
If it killed the vast majority of them, I'd consider it an extinction event. And it looks like it might just do that.
Then you must be very unlucky. To be frank, I've never heard of anybody having specific issues with it (people have general issues with DRM, as do I, but nobody can ever say "this thing doesn't work and it should")
When you send a demo tape to a record label, you're not selling a song - you're selling your talent as a musician. Wouldn't make much sense for the label to sign you and only release a single.
Similarly, when you send around a screenplay, you're selling an idea. It will be reworked, changed around, modified - not too seriously, hopefully - but the studio, director, actors, and physical constraints will all modify the script. You're trying to sell a compelling plot and set of characters, not an implementation.
But who ever heard of a videogame selling based on individual talent? Or character development? A truly great video game will have a good plot, but that's not the central point of the game.
A videogame is 'worth' something because it's fun to play. Everything else is secondary. Who cared about the plot of Super Mario Brothers? Who complained about the artwork in Tetris? Why does Asteroids need a catchy score?
The upshot of all of this is that nobody cares about your videogame unless you have something you can play. And it really needs to be quite close to the intended final product, since otherwise a lot of work remains to be done on the gameplay - the core idea - and you have nothing to sell.
Now, let's say you do a lot of work finishing one level of a videogame, with character sketches and plot for the rest of it. You may be able to sell that, but by that point you've done most of the work of putting together the game. If you needed to write a new engine for your awesome and new gameplay, you're done with that. If you were reusing another engine, you've already got it set up the way you want it and can basically start plugging in models, textures, and maps.
So if you've done the work required to get to a marketable object, why not just self-publish? Stick it on Steam, they're very friendly to indie guys and pay quite nicely (ask 2D Boy). If it's any good, it'll do quite well.
Huh. My printer's working, for the first time in years. Not even that neighborhood kid could fix it.
WE MUST HAVE A NERDSPY!!
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How do you suggest separating PHP, HTML, and JS? Sure, the bulk of your code - especially reused libraries - should be separate but how do you use them without inline JS? And if you're using PHP, what are you using it for if not writing HTML (with the aforementioned JS)? Your PHP, even if it calls stored procedures, will also have SQL in it - and do you really need a stored proc for every one-shot thing? Repeated code, sure, but... And do you make one-shot CSS classes or blocks for everything?
Half of what you say is impossible, and the other half is not always practical. I appreciate the spirit... but let's not go overboard
Blu-Ray media wouldn't work on that processor, probably even if you had hardware acceleration. Even my 2.4Ghz C2D hardware-accelerated by a 9600M runs into trouble on bluray rips. The bitrate itself is about 1.4Mbps, and that's before decoding.
About half-full. But between the ghost 'investigators' and the other reality personality dramafests like Deadliest Catch, there's less and less good stuff.
But things like Mythbusters, Dirty Jobs, Time Warp (when it was on) and Life are all quality material. I just wish it wasn't $60/mo for that and the 4 other non-broadcast channels I watch.
First netbooks had small screens and awesome battery life. Then they made bigger screens, which used more battery. Then they put in larger and larger spinning hard drives, faster processors, and now dual-core?
So we go from a tiny, long-lived netbook to a large (and heavy) powerful and short-lived netbook. Also known as a laptop.
What's next - a high end graphics card so people can play games?
I have one of the early EeePCs - I think it's the 900A - with a 4GB SSD and a 9 inch screen. It runs for at least 5 hours, and depending on the pants I wear it can fit into a cargo pocket. *That's* a netbook.
I completely agree. I'm not at all happy that it's patent-encumbered. In fact, I don't like software patents at all... though I will admit that if any software should be patented, it's H.264. There's some cool tech in there.
And I wasn't trying to confuse the two. In fact, I was making clear the distinction. OSS can be patent-encumbered, and unpatented software can be proprietary. They are two different things.
Replace H.264 with MP3 instead, if you like, and re-read the anti-MS post above. It's really the same situation as the early years of MP3 - a far superior, but patented, codec takes over everything.
Now there's superior and truly free audio codecs as well. Let's hope the same thing happens with audio.
I do believe you are missing the forest for the trees, pardon the pun. Those trees will take a long time until they can re-support the developed ecosystem that had been there.
The clear implication was "geeks who bitch out Apple for making an appliance". You clearly don't fall into that camp; neither do I. So one could easily deduce that the comment doesn't apply to the people it doesn't implicate.
It's a Slashdot comment, not a mathematical proof.
I can see some stupid, stupid people thinking they need to go out and buy a new 500 dollar computer to fix this problem.
Replace "some stupid, stupid" with "a lot". There's a depressingly tremendous percentage of people who are convinced that the fix for a computer that's gotten slower over 2 years is a new computer. These are people with C2Ds with 2GB ram and 500GB hard drives.
Most people don't get the distinction between hardware and software. Most think that when the OS gets bogged down with craptons of spyware, the computer simply needs replacing; they just wear out over a few years. Dell obviously loves this, but it's tremendously wasteful.
By my estimations of my own compute repair, this is about 20% of users. Probably more - since the problem is that they don't call when the computer slows down, I wouldn't hear about it.
Incidentally, this is why Apple's doing so well. They want their computer to work like a microwave or TV - works indefinitely until it becomes inadequate for your needs, or breaks. Apple is perfectly happy to sell them something that works like that, and that's what us geeks don't understand.
The Internet was designed so that any computer could connect to any other computer. This is evident in the design of things like FTP, etc.
Every phone, watch, fridge, TiVo, computer, and printer should have a public IP address. Imagine if you didn't need to port forward for Bittorrent, if Skype could connect right to your friend's computer, or you could print to your home printer by just entering its address. That's how the internet was/is supposed to work.
NAT breaks this. Behind a NAT box, nobody can address a specific computer - only the NAT itself. This happens to lend some security, but is essentially accidental. With IPv6, your home router will instead be a firewall. Each computer will be addressable, but will still need to pass through.
Plus, there's enough address to give each subscriber many thousand. And they don't need to change. No more charging for a static IP...
Also, routing is more efficient since it can be done properly by hierarchy.
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Hahaha... good one! Mod parent funny, I guess
It turns out humans aren't the only species. For example, there are many that live in the water. And a lot of those live exclusively in the Gulf of Mexico.
If it killed the vast majority of them, I'd consider it an extinction event. And it looks like it might just do that.
Yes.
If you're in the beta, which is still ongoing. It's not out now.
Then you must be very unlucky. To be frank, I've never heard of anybody having specific issues with it (people have general issues with DRM, as do I, but nobody can ever say "this thing doesn't work and it should")
The summary is wrong. Team Fortress 2 will NOT be available today. It'll most likely be out next Wednesday.
In fact, it doesn't even show up in the list of owned games.
Yes. Just like they're doing for Mac.
Valve doesn't screw their customers.
No... not ball lightning, this is about ball lightening.
That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Biologically speaking, your life has no purpose other than to have children...
Why must people insist on fighting our absolute most basic laws handed to us by our very structure?
No, good sir, I'm on the level
You joke of course, but with Steam for OSX coming out in, say, 5 days - Mac computers will have several extremely popular games.
When you send a demo tape to a record label, you're not selling a song - you're selling your talent as a musician. Wouldn't make much sense for the label to sign you and only release a single.
Similarly, when you send around a screenplay, you're selling an idea. It will be reworked, changed around, modified - not too seriously, hopefully - but the studio, director, actors, and physical constraints will all modify the script. You're trying to sell a compelling plot and set of characters, not an implementation.
But who ever heard of a videogame selling based on individual talent? Or character development? A truly great video game will have a good plot, but that's not the central point of the game.
A videogame is 'worth' something because it's fun to play. Everything else is secondary. Who cared about the plot of Super Mario Brothers? Who complained about the artwork in Tetris? Why does Asteroids need a catchy score?
The upshot of all of this is that nobody cares about your videogame unless you have something you can play. And it really needs to be quite close to the intended final product, since otherwise a lot of work remains to be done on the gameplay - the core idea - and you have nothing to sell.
Now, let's say you do a lot of work finishing one level of a videogame, with character sketches and plot for the rest of it. You may be able to sell that, but by that point you've done most of the work of putting together the game. If you needed to write a new engine for your awesome and new gameplay, you're done with that. If you were reusing another engine, you've already got it set up the way you want it and can basically start plugging in models, textures, and maps.
So if you've done the work required to get to a marketable object, why not just self-publish? Stick it on Steam, they're very friendly to indie guys and pay quite nicely (ask 2D Boy). If it's any good, it'll do quite well.
Good luck, whatever you end up doing.
Huh. My printer's working, for the first time in years. Not even that neighborhood kid could fix it.
WE MUST HAVE A NERDSPY!!
How do you suggest separating PHP, HTML, and JS? Sure, the bulk of your code - especially reused libraries - should be separate but how do you use them without inline JS? And if you're using PHP, what are you using it for if not writing HTML (with the aforementioned JS)? Your PHP, even if it calls stored procedures, will also have SQL in it - and do you really need a stored proc for every one-shot thing? Repeated code, sure, but... And do you make one-shot CSS classes or blocks for everything?
Half of what you say is impossible, and the other half is not always practical. I appreciate the spirit... but let's not go overboard
Does anyone actually know someone whose problem was fixed by System Restore? I sure don't...
Are you kidding me? /tmp is TEMPORARY! It's transient - that's the whole point!
Programs that store data of ANY permanence in /tmp are broken. People who store data of ANY permanence in /tmp are foolish.
Blu-Ray media wouldn't work on that processor, probably even if you had hardware acceleration. Even my 2.4Ghz C2D hardware-accelerated by a 9600M runs into trouble on bluray rips. The bitrate itself is about 1.4Mbps, and that's before decoding.
About half-full. But between the ghost 'investigators' and the other reality personality dramafests like Deadliest Catch, there's less and less good stuff.
But things like Mythbusters, Dirty Jobs, Time Warp (when it was on) and Life are all quality material. I just wish it wasn't $60/mo for that and the 4 other non-broadcast channels I watch.
First netbooks had small screens and awesome battery life. Then they made bigger screens, which used more battery. Then they put in larger and larger spinning hard drives, faster processors, and now dual-core?
So we go from a tiny, long-lived netbook to a large (and heavy) powerful and short-lived netbook. Also known as a laptop.
What's next - a high end graphics card so people can play games?
I have one of the early EeePCs - I think it's the 900A - with a 4GB SSD and a 9 inch screen. It runs for at least 5 hours, and depending on the pants I wear it can fit into a cargo pocket. *That's* a netbook.
I completely agree. I'm not at all happy that it's patent-encumbered. In fact, I don't like software patents at all... though I will admit that if any software should be patented, it's H.264. There's some cool tech in there.
And I wasn't trying to confuse the two. In fact, I was making clear the distinction. OSS can be patent-encumbered, and unpatented software can be proprietary. They are two different things.
Replace H.264 with MP3 instead, if you like, and re-read the anti-MS post above. It's really the same situation as the early years of MP3 - a far superior, but patented, codec takes over everything.
Now there's superior and truly free audio codecs as well. Let's hope the same thing happens with audio.
H.264 is perfectly open-source, but patent encumbered. There's a tremendous difference. You do yourself a disservice to confuse the two.
What you're describing would be true if they supported only WMV, but absolutely false for h264.
I do believe you are missing the forest for the trees, pardon the pun. Those trees will take a long time until they can re-support the developed ecosystem that had been there.
The clear implication was "geeks who bitch out Apple for making an appliance". You clearly don't fall into that camp; neither do I. So one could easily deduce that the comment doesn't apply to the people it doesn't implicate.
It's a Slashdot comment, not a mathematical proof.
I can see some stupid, stupid people thinking they need to go out and buy a new 500 dollar computer to fix this problem.
Replace "some stupid, stupid" with "a lot". There's a depressingly tremendous percentage of people who are convinced that the fix for a computer that's gotten slower over 2 years is a new computer. These are people with C2Ds with 2GB ram and 500GB hard drives.
Most people don't get the distinction between hardware and software. Most think that when the OS gets bogged down with craptons of spyware, the computer simply needs replacing; they just wear out over a few years. Dell obviously loves this, but it's tremendously wasteful.
By my estimations of my own compute repair, this is about 20% of users. Probably more - since the problem is that they don't call when the computer slows down, I wouldn't hear about it.
Incidentally, this is why Apple's doing so well. They want their computer to work like a microwave or TV - works indefinitely until it becomes inadequate for your needs, or breaks. Apple is perfectly happy to sell them something that works like that, and that's what us geeks don't understand.
The Internet was designed so that any computer could connect to any other computer. This is evident in the design of things like FTP, etc.
Every phone, watch, fridge, TiVo, computer, and printer should have a public IP address. Imagine if you didn't need to port forward for Bittorrent, if Skype could connect right to your friend's computer, or you could print to your home printer by just entering its address. That's how the internet was/is supposed to work.
NAT breaks this. Behind a NAT box, nobody can address a specific computer - only the NAT itself. This happens to lend some security, but is essentially accidental. With IPv6, your home router will instead be a firewall. Each computer will be addressable, but will still need to pass through.
Plus, there's enough address to give each subscriber many thousand. And they don't need to change. No more charging for a static IP...
Also, routing is more efficient since it can be done properly by hierarchy.
So there's a bunch of reasons. Pick some.