And that's exactly what the real native true blooded igneous rock formations should have done when your self-replicating arrangements of hydrocarbons waltzed on in pretending they had some kind of a right to be there.
People who care about Line-In jacks buy decent ones, instead of using the bare-minimum crap that gets shipped on many motherboards. Of course, I suppose some people care about line-in jacks and are retarded... I suppose those people couldn't figure out that the microphone jack provides the exact same function, and is just as superfluous nowadays as a separate line-in jack, since most PC microphones these days are USB.
Mine is secured with WPA, broadcasts SSID, and lists my address. (not the full address, for brevity, but certainly enough for anyone on the street to contact me).
Now, what information is actually being exposed here that I wouldn't want out there?
How is pointing out that not only is the iPhone can not only combine all of these, but that it is also capable of doing so in a way which is actually secure (unlike these Identi-ease cards which are being proposed), "troll"?
split-screen is horrible stupid lame crap. How about: if you can't design your game to work on one screen, don't bother releasing co-op mode.
Yes, split-screen is a quick hacky work-around for FPS, but for a 3rd-person game, just move the camera around or have the player who has dropped their controller to go get more cheetos drop off the screen until they come back.
Yeah, good advertising campaign. Try fitting "Use us instead of our competitors, because they attempt to filter child porn and we don't! No, really, we don't want you using it for child porn, we just think that automated filtering is a technically unsolvable problem, and prone to corruption, so it's better to not have them in order to prevent legitimate sites from getting blocked." into a slogan.
Isn't it kind of hard to "predict" something that someone else has already spent the time and energy on to attempt an implementation?
I would like to know what fucked-up definition of "prediction" you have.
"I predict that we will have flying cars in the next five years" is in no way diminished by the huge amount of effort put forth by many people seeking to make flying cars a reality.
Okay, I was focusing on #2. I suppose #1 is covered by this too, though.
See here for a brief note about #3. In even-shorter: Five incompatible package managers + the non-sanely-supported-by-package-managers need to install things manually is equivalent to "still needing to install everything else manually" in any non-trivial setup.
As a thought experiment: how would you implement file-checker on Linux?
for reasons of simplicity I'll ignore that "just get everything from the package manager!" is about as sane as saying "Just get everything from Microsoft, then you can run Microsoft-Update for everything!"
I've noticed a lot of people hold their hands rigidly and stress tiny muscles which are not naturally used often. I would like to develop carpal tunnel syndrome as part of a research project I'm doing; so, could anyone teach me to cause more stress on my hands and wrists?
"No, this is true! Really, I'll prove it: Install this thing from ten years ago and upgrade it to its most current version!"
Last time I tried installing a two-year-old Linux (debian, I think. And this was possibly a decade ago) and then upgrading it to its most current version, it couldn't even do it.
So here goes: I challenge you to find a continuously-maintained linux distribution from October 25, 2001 (debian seems like a good candidate, network install is cheating, no harm in using virtualbox, if you can) and upgrade it to the point where it is identical in features and functionality to a fresh install of a debian release from March 5, 2010.
I'll be watching this thread, and I really don't know what the results will be. I expect utter failure, but I would be pleasantly surprised to be proven wrong.
apt, CPAN, Gems, Firefox, Eclipse, Thunderbird, and various things which need to be hand-compiled... Everyone with a plug-in / library / module system wants to own it, and there's no standard of hooks which they can all use to report to each-other. A handful of systems which are not only independent and incompatible, but also overlapping, seems worse to me than twenty-two different systems which do not overlap.
and yet they're repeatedly comparing iPad to netbooks, as an alternative to netbooks, worlds better than netbooks, etc.
Yes, it's got a lot of different features, a lot of more expensive components, etc. That's not the point.
If you're comparing yourself to the $99 model, don't tout the features of the $300 model as your advantage. Especially when your model costs $400.
"New, Laptop computer! Worlds better than a pocket calculator! Only $400, and can connect to the internet! Can your pocket calculator connect to the internet? Of course it can't, we checked!"
When you are comparing yourself to something which routinely costs under $200, yes, $499 is obscene.
And this is Apple. Everyone was surprised when they didn't charge an order of magnitude more than their competition, sure. But charging three times as much is still fairly absurd.
If you paid 20 experts to write code for a year, and didn't allow anyone other than those experts to see it, would their output be better than the same 20 experts writing code for the same year but allowing anyone in the world to see it?
Few people are writing open-source software out of the kindness of their hearts. It's either because they are being paid specifically to do so, or because they're being paid to do something else and they can get their job done better by submitting a patch to an existing codebase than they could by writing something from scratch.
Reading the first couple of sentences of the summary "finally, common sense! Executives have been convicted over violating the poster's privacy by leading police to him!" one RTFS and RTFA later, and... for fuck's sake.
This is like saying that Firefox is backpeddling on open source because Mozilla.org is free to block you if you spam their forums.
However, I hear that because of the new policy, Emerald is closing shop. Anything that gets rid of those "giving access to our change history would mean someone could release binaries of our changes before we do!!" assholes is a good thing.
Your hypothetical example is merely absurd. Sure, it's possible to put a price tag on something which is equal to the amount of energy, etc it took to produce it, but that doesn't define worth.
Two examples of why you are wrong: 1) A company spends all its time and resources smashing rocks to in a specially devised shape which makes them utterly useless. It takes thousands of man-hours to produce one. Is the rock worth anything? 2) Two companies produce widgets. Company A has one man who can produce 5 widgets an hour. Company B takes five hundred men to produce one widget an hour. The end result is the same widget. Which company's widgets are worth more? 2.a) Bonus question: which company, in your hypothetical economy, would be considered to be worth more, and what is the logical repercussion on society as a whole?
Now stop reading about martians and do your economics homework.
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Some mornings I can't get into my own e-mail account in under two hours, why so low? Why not.. three?
Here's guessing a blogger will get into one by next month.
And that's exactly what the real native true blooded igneous rock formations should have done when your self-replicating arrangements of hydrocarbons waltzed on in pretending they had some kind of a right to be there.
People who care about Line-In jacks buy decent ones, instead of using the bare-minimum crap that gets shipped on many motherboards. Of course, I suppose some people care about line-in jacks and are retarded... I suppose those people couldn't figure out that the microphone jack provides the exact same function, and is just as superfluous nowadays as a separate line-in jack, since most PC microphones these days are USB.
"figure out what it means"? Why do you want to avoid people doing that? What do you actually think you're protecting?
Mine is secured with WPA, broadcasts SSID, and lists my address. (not the full address, for brevity, but certainly enough for anyone on the street to contact me).
Now, what information is actually being exposed here that I wouldn't want out there?
How is pointing out that not only is the iPhone can not only combine all of these, but that it is also capable of doing so in a way which is actually secure (unlike these Identi-ease cards which are being proposed), "troll"?
Yeah, it's called an iPhone.
sounds like you need a new compiler/language. Aren't we, as programmers, intended to be too lazy to make compromises like that?
split-screen is horrible stupid lame crap.
How about: if you can't design your game to work on one screen, don't bother releasing co-op mode.
Yes, split-screen is a quick hacky work-around for FPS, but for a 3rd-person game, just move the camera around or have the player who has dropped their controller to go get more cheetos drop off the screen until they come back.
have you tried driving safely?
Yeah, good advertising campaign. Try fitting "Use us instead of our competitors, because they attempt to filter child porn and we don't! No, really, we don't want you using it for child porn, we just think that automated filtering is a technically unsolvable problem, and prone to corruption, so it's better to not have them in order to prevent legitimate sites from getting blocked." into a slogan.
Isn't it kind of hard to "predict" something that someone else has already spent the time and energy on to attempt an implementation?
I would like to know what fucked-up definition of "prediction" you have.
"I predict that we will have flying cars in the next five years" is in no way diminished by the huge amount of effort put forth by many people seeking to make flying cars a reality.
Okay, I was focusing on #2. I suppose #1 is covered by this too, though.
See here for a brief note about #3. In even-shorter: Five incompatible package managers + the non-sanely-supported-by-package-managers need to install things manually is equivalent to "still needing to install everything else manually" in any non-trivial setup.
As a thought experiment: how would you implement file-checker on Linux?
for reasons of simplicity I'll ignore that "just get everything from the package manager!" is about as sane as saying "Just get everything from Microsoft, then you can run Microsoft-Update for everything!"
I've noticed a lot of people hold their hands rigidly and stress tiny muscles which are not naturally used often. I would like to develop carpal tunnel syndrome as part of a research project I'm doing; so, could anyone teach me to cause more stress on my hands and wrists?
so you're saying not only are they bits, but they're power-of-ten giga-?
re-read the book if you think that is a valid statement.
"No, this is true! Really, I'll prove it: Install this thing from ten years ago and upgrade it to its most current version!"
Last time I tried installing a two-year-old Linux (debian, I think. And this was possibly a decade ago) and then upgrading it to its most current version, it couldn't even do it.
So here goes: I challenge you to find a continuously-maintained linux distribution from October 25, 2001 (debian seems like a good candidate, network install is cheating, no harm in using virtualbox, if you can) and upgrade it to the point where it is identical in features and functionality to a fresh install of a debian release from March 5, 2010.
I'll be watching this thread, and I really don't know what the results will be. I expect utter failure, but I would be pleasantly surprised to be proven wrong.
apt, CPAN, Gems, Firefox, Eclipse, Thunderbird, and various things which need to be hand-compiled...
Everyone with a plug-in / library / module system wants to own it, and there's no standard of hooks which they can all use to report to each-other.
A handful of systems which are not only independent and incompatible, but also overlapping, seems worse to me than twenty-two different systems which do not overlap.
and yet they're repeatedly comparing iPad to netbooks, as an alternative to netbooks, worlds better than netbooks, etc.
Yes, it's got a lot of different features, a lot of more expensive components, etc. That's not the point.
If you're comparing yourself to the $99 model, don't tout the features of the $300 model as your advantage. Especially when your model costs $400.
"New, Laptop computer! Worlds better than a pocket calculator! Only $400, and can connect to the internet! Can your pocket calculator connect to the internet? Of course it can't, we checked!"
When you are comparing yourself to something which routinely costs under $200, yes, $499 is obscene.
And this is Apple. Everyone was surprised when they didn't charge an order of magnitude more than their competition, sure. But charging three times as much is still fairly absurd.
If you paid 20 experts to write code for a year, and didn't allow anyone other than those experts to see it, would their output be better than the same 20 experts writing code for the same year but allowing anyone in the world to see it?
Few people are writing open-source software out of the kindness of their hearts. It's either because they are being paid specifically to do so, or because they're being paid to do something else and they can get their job done better by submitting a patch to an existing codebase than they could by writing something from scratch.
Reading the first couple of sentences of the summary "finally, common sense! Executives have been convicted over violating the poster's privacy by leading police to him!"
one RTFS and RTFA later, and... for fuck's sake.
This is like saying that Firefox is backpeddling on open source because Mozilla.org is free to block you if you spam their forums.
However, I hear that because of the new policy, Emerald is closing shop. Anything that gets rid of those "giving access to our change history would mean someone could release binaries of our changes before we do!!" assholes is a good thing.
Your hypothetical example is merely absurd. Sure, it's possible to put a price tag on something which is equal to the amount of energy, etc it took to produce it, but that doesn't define worth.
Two examples of why you are wrong:
1) A company spends all its time and resources smashing rocks to in a specially devised shape which makes them utterly useless. It takes thousands of man-hours to produce one. Is the rock worth anything?
2) Two companies produce widgets. Company A has one man who can produce 5 widgets an hour. Company B takes five hundred men to produce one widget an hour. The end result is the same widget. Which company's widgets are worth more?
2.a) Bonus question: which company, in your hypothetical economy, would be considered to be worth more, and what is the logical repercussion on society as a whole?
Now stop reading about martians and do your economics homework.
and flying fish glide.