I don't mind Slashdot punishing the people who would use Unicode. Mind you, it would mostly be used for emoticons, and we can do without those. Really, they should just trim off bit 8 entirely.
What I like is that Apple is putting all their resources into Mobile, and slowly the competition is taking them down in that sector.
But that isn't the really good part. The good part is that Apple for some reason has abandoned the Macintosh section of the company. They've quit doing anything that would convince people to buy a new Mac. So they might fucking die over this.
So, we agree that just about anybody wha has ever set foot in the District of Columbia is disqualified to be persident. And yet you and people like you are hellbound in your determination to vote in the pack of sausage makers currently festering in Philadelphia. Ok, I guess.
I like playing games with hardware controllers more than smearing and wiping my fingers all over a glass surface. Sure, there are various physical controller kludges for Android, but they are not consistent and it's never a "just use it" experience.
The other difference is that few mobile game publishers have the confidence in their product to just charge the fucking money for their game that it is supposedly worth. I really wish the Android Play Store had a search option to only show games priced $5 or more, because micro transaction and spam-the-player are dismal experiences.
Game creators: quit fucking with us. If your game isn't shit, make a spam free 'demo' version, then charge for the full. Don't be a mosquito for Google.
But what WINE can do is convince publishers they don't need to work on native ports for anything but Windows. If a 'good enough' approximate Windows application runs on WINE there is less motivation to produce anything more.
They learned this lesson the hard way at OS/2. It had great Windows 16 bit interoperability, in fact it was the "better Windows than Windows." So nobody published native OS/2 versions of their products. Then 32 bit Windows happened along and OS/2 users found themselves marooned with only the old versions of the applications they needed.
The AR component of Pokemon Go isn't really a key feature. It doesn't even work on phones that don't have a hardware gyroscope, and that means a majority of the Android phones. It's actually easier to 'catch' a pokemon with the AR feature disabled, and many people play the game that way.
The key features of Pokemon Go is the GPS, that objectives are hard physical locations in the real world, and that logging kilometers of walking is one of the objectives in gameplay.
When I play Pokemon Go, I am looking around at the world. Because my phone vibrates when a Pokemon is in range, so I don't need to stare at it continuously.
If somebody else is having a conversation that you are not a part of, you cannot simply barge in and disrupt their conversation.
We have the freedom of association in the US. We are free to choose who we associate with. Racist skinheads are not permitted to disrupt church services at Black churches. This is no different.
The fact that it's a weed that grows nearly anywhere is a barrier to approval. The government likes to tax euphoric agents heavily. They've heavily loaded pot sales with taxes where it's been legalized. The busybodies traditionally use taxes as a throttle to control access.
This goes back to the 19th century when the gin taxes were imposed. When the processes were discovered to make alcohol in the form of gin, it was suddenly so cheap and plentiful that even the poorest could stay drunk all of the time. The goverment elected to artificially raise the price as the "solution."
Indeed. The seething hatred of people who don't conform to the prescribed viewpoint is certainly detrimental. For instance all the hatred directed toward, for instance, Thiel, for not toeing the line of the Gay Liberation agenda. The hatred of jeering protesters at political rallies and events.
True, but will Hillary go back to Little Rock, or NYC, or Chicago? Will she divorce Bill and get married to Huma? (Bill and the Wiener can get a bachelor apartment together)
It would lock you out of your Slashdot account. You get to decide how important it would be to have to abandon your current/. account and have to set up a new one.
The citizen killer in Dallas was a human, not a robot. He was discharged panty raider, who was thrown out of the military for stealing a woman's underpants. But not small enough to consider a gnome.
A low level programmer is one who remembers to initiate or at least mask off all the timers and interrupts. When there's NOTHING but bare iron beneath your code, which starts from the reset vector, that stuff becomes important.
The only reason I use high level compilers for PIC and AVR parts is the library support. It's nice to just bolt on I/O components. Other than that, the abstraction of a high level language just gets in the way.
Modern low-cost CPUs aren't 'One Dollar CPU's incidentally. They're 6-20 cent CPUs. "A few pennies more" is a big deal and management won't approve of it.
It's probably not the plans. It's probably the tooling. Tooling even for fairly simple parts is really expensive. If you can convince a supplier to sell you parts made with an expensive competitors tooling (at night, on a third shift, when the main customer isn't looking) you can make a lot of $$.
I have bought Textool ZIF sockets from a Chinese eBay seller. They were $7 for four of them. Real Textool ZIF sockets from DigiKey are nearly $20 each. The parts from China appear to be Textool sockets with 3M's trademark branding, but are made of a coarser grade plastic. If I were using them in a production environment and not just in a hobby setting, they probably wouldn't hold up well. The plastic likely has inferior temperature specs, and would quickly fail in a production burn-in or environmental test application. For my use they are perfectly adequate.
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They're also cursing the plumbers for using pex.
I don't mind Slashdot punishing the people who would use Unicode. Mind you, it would mostly be used for emoticons, and we can do without those. Really, they should just trim off bit 8 entirely.
The Mac Pro is an expensive workstation to use for developing iOS apps.
It's kinda like the expensive proprietary hardware that Game Developers had/have to buy to develop games for Nintendo and Sony consoles.
The term that mainstream journalists use is:
Apple is a gadget company.
They even make expensive novelty gadgets now, like a computer disguised as a kitchen trash can.
What I like is that Apple is putting all their resources into Mobile, and slowly the competition is taking them down in that sector.
But that isn't the really good part. The good part is that Apple for some reason has abandoned the Macintosh section of the company. They've quit doing anything that would convince people to buy a new Mac. So they might fucking die over this.
We can be optimistic, anyway.
So, we agree that just about anybody wha has ever set foot in the District of Columbia is disqualified to be persident. And yet you and people like you are hellbound in your determination to vote in the pack of sausage makers currently festering in Philadelphia. Ok, I guess.
I like playing games with hardware controllers more than smearing and wiping my fingers all over a glass surface. Sure, there are various physical controller kludges for Android, but they are not consistent and it's never a "just use it" experience.
The other difference is that few mobile game publishers have the confidence in their product to just charge the fucking money for their game that it is supposedly worth. I really wish the Android Play Store had a search option to only show games priced $5 or more, because micro transaction and spam-the-player are dismal experiences.
Game creators: quit fucking with us. If your game isn't shit, make a spam free 'demo' version, then charge for the full. Don't be a mosquito for Google.
Get in bed with Sony on a purported "open source" initiative? Are you kidding??
Windows 7 at least has mainstream 64 bit support. Who wants to stick with XP an it's inherent limit to a few gigs of RAM?
But what WINE can do is convince publishers they don't need to work on native ports for anything but Windows. If a 'good enough' approximate Windows application runs on WINE there is less motivation to produce anything more.
They learned this lesson the hard way at OS/2. It had great Windows 16 bit interoperability, in fact it was the "better Windows than Windows." So nobody published native OS/2 versions of their products. Then 32 bit Windows happened along and OS/2 users found themselves marooned with only the old versions of the applications they needed.
All marching around with guns forcing people to do things. Fuck off.
"The guy did something really dumb" is the implied takeaway. Not that he or anybody else can or cannot afford to do so.
The AR component of Pokemon Go isn't really a key feature. It doesn't even work on phones that don't have a hardware gyroscope, and that means a majority of the Android phones. It's actually easier to 'catch' a pokemon with the AR feature disabled, and many people play the game that way.
The key features of Pokemon Go is the GPS, that objectives are hard physical locations in the real world, and that logging kilometers of walking is one of the objectives in gameplay.
The AR part is, kinda, just a shiney bit.
When I play Pokemon Go, I am looking around at the world. Because my phone vibrates when a Pokemon is in range, so I don't need to stare at it continuously.
If somebody else is having a conversation that you are not a part of, you cannot simply barge in and disrupt their conversation.
We have the freedom of association in the US. We are free to choose who we associate with. Racist skinheads are not permitted to disrupt church services at Black churches. This is no different.
The fact that it's a weed that grows nearly anywhere is a barrier to approval. The government likes to tax euphoric agents heavily. They've heavily loaded pot sales with taxes where it's been legalized. The busybodies traditionally use taxes as a throttle to control access.
This goes back to the 19th century when the gin taxes were imposed. When the processes were discovered to make alcohol in the form of gin, it was suddenly so cheap and plentiful that even the poorest could stay drunk all of the time. The goverment elected to artificially raise the price as the "solution."
Indeed. The seething hatred of people who don't conform to the prescribed viewpoint is certainly detrimental. For instance all the hatred directed toward, for instance, Thiel, for not toeing the line of the Gay Liberation agenda. The hatred of jeering protesters at political rallies and events.
True, but will Hillary go back to Little Rock, or NYC, or Chicago? Will she divorce Bill and get married to Huma? (Bill and the Wiener can get a bachelor apartment together)
It would lock you out of your Slashdot account. You get to decide how important it would be to have to abandon your current /. account and have to set up a new one.
The citizen killer in Dallas was a human, not a robot. He was discharged panty raider, who was thrown out of the military for stealing a woman's underpants. But not small enough to consider a gnome.
A low level programmer is one who remembers to initiate or at least mask off all the timers and interrupts. When there's NOTHING but bare iron beneath your code, which starts from the reset vector, that stuff becomes important.
The only reason I use high level compilers for PIC and AVR parts is the library support. It's nice to just bolt on I/O components. Other than that, the abstraction of a high level language just gets in the way.
Modern low-cost CPUs aren't 'One Dollar CPU's incidentally. They're 6-20 cent CPUs. "A few pennies more" is a big deal and management won't approve of it.
Or did they shut down the ticket turnstile to the Lincoln Bedroom in 2001?
If they can get a build environment going, then NetBSD's pkgsrc collection ported over, we are in good shape.
It's probably not the plans. It's probably the tooling. Tooling even for fairly simple parts is really expensive. If you can convince a supplier to sell you parts made with an expensive competitors tooling (at night, on a third shift, when the main customer isn't looking) you can make a lot of $$.
I have bought Textool ZIF sockets from a Chinese eBay seller. They were $7 for four of them. Real Textool ZIF sockets from DigiKey are nearly $20 each. The parts from China appear to be Textool sockets with 3M's trademark branding, but are made of a coarser grade plastic. If I were using them in a production environment and not just in a hobby setting, they probably wouldn't hold up well. The plastic likely has inferior temperature specs, and would quickly fail in a production burn-in or environmental test application. For my use they are perfectly adequate.