Oh, very much not true. Webkit (either Chrome or Safari, take your pick) and Gecko render things very differently. Especially in regard to fonts. Not even Chrome and Safari render fonts the same way.
There's also some weirdness related to boxes, but that should come as no surprise to anyone.
My laptop's seven pounds. It's lighter than the textbooks it replaces (I always buy the online version of a textbook if it's offered to avoid having to lug them around).
And I like having my laptop at all times. If I want to go look something up real quick while at lunch or whatever, instead of finding a lab and hoping it's not overcrowded, I just pull out the laptop, bring it out of standby, look it up, and I'm done.
I spent $1200 on a laptop because I wanted upgrades to run games, Photoshop, and Maya better. I didn't want a desktop because I like being able to move around my computer. I like being able to go actually collaborate with people (you know, that "social interaction" stuff that the basement-dwelling crowd around here can't help but sneer at) by grabbing a conference room and plugging in our laptops. Yeah, we could use computer labs, if we wanted to deal with the prospect of 20+ people in the lab at the same time and wanted to deal with not having all our shit on hand. And that's not just notes. I work better with music--I can't exactly download shit from my file server to play on the crippled computer lab machines, even assuming that the machines have the software I need. Having a laptop mitigates these issues and provides other benefits, like not having to carry around textbooks (because all of mine have online editions) and instant connectivity anywhere I might be (because my campus has a very comprehensive wireless network). And why the fuck should I take notes on paper when I type faster and can better keep up with the professor's lecture with a portable computer?
Anybody who makes a blanket assumption like "anyone who spends $1000 on a laptop for school is an idiot" is beyond idiocy.
Somebody sounds envious of those people using Facebook--you know, the people with friends and social interactions. Silly fucktard, you had your chance and you blew it.
I bought a new laptop for college. It cost about $1200. Why? Because I wanted more RAM, a discrete graphics card, a bigger hard disk, and a better screen. It isn't a Mac. There are plenty of reasons to buy a more expensive computer that morons like you don't quite grasp.
On my campus, I know of about ten computer labs, five run by campus IT and another five run by departments. I'm sure there are more departmentals I don't know about. I work in the IT labs regularly, and I almost never seem them empty. But those other labs are always empty. Shrinking the number of labs to what people actually use is a good idea.
You can get financial aid money for a computer without difficulty. If you buy it through the university I go to, it's even just added to your student bill. Around here at least, it's not "can't buy a computer," it's "won't" (in the 0.1% of cases where people don't have one).
Problem is, then you can't make any real assumptions about specs, etc. for your code. If it's the same gear across the different platforms, you can stipulate the new shiny Python environment as a requirement. As it is, now you're balancing different specs on different platforms, which can really suck.
Parrot's a lot harder to use to interact with other languages. LLVM at least makes it possible for Python code to play nicely with C compiled via LLVM, for example.
Don't get me wrong. My Sansa plays OGG (dunno if it does normally, but I put on Rockbox and it does).
But I didn't buy an iPod. That alone makes me a minority among portable music player owners. Few people will bother with OGG because their shit just doesn't use it.
Ogg Vorbis has a serious marketing problem, like most open-source stuff, but this is a case where they can probably beat out the current de facto standard because their stuff really is that much better.`
Are you really that stupid? C#/Mono are a wonderful toolset that addresses most of the brain damages of Java (the fact that Java requires an ActionListener pattern at all, for example, indicates that somebody should have been fired for not having a clue) and generally avoids introducing new ones.
I'd love to see a C# plugin for NetBeans, personally. NetBeans 6.5 is the first release I'd call almost as good as Visual Studio (I can't stand Eclipse, personally), and there's not much work left to make it a genuine competitor for what I use it for. I'm already looking at moving my C++ development over to it. Having an.NET plugin would seal the deal for me.
Since 5.0 Netbeans has made tremendous improvements
This cannot be understated. NetBeans 6.5 is a joy to use. I still personally prefer Visual Studio, but NetBeans is awesome for when I have to use Java or want to develop in PHP. I can see NetBeans supplanting VS for my C++ work in pretty short order.
I can't see any ethical problem with downloading a disc for a game you have a legit key to. And I'm pretty sure that in such a situation you could call the publisher and they'd send you a replacement disc for a nominal fee.
Well, presumably you wouldn't convert to OGG because almost nothing plays it. (Which is a damn shame. Ogg Vorbis is an excellent format. Ogg Theora for video, not so much, but Vorbis is the bee's knees.)
Offline mode lasts a month or more, and IIRC you can see how long it has left before it needs a reauthorization (I could be wrong on that, it may just give you a one-week-left warning). That's reasonable enough for me; if I can't get to a network within a week I'm probably not going to be keeping enough battery life in my machine to be playing those games.
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Oh, very much not true. Webkit (either Chrome or Safari, take your pick) and Gecko render things very differently. Especially in regard to fonts. Not even Chrome and Safari render fonts the same way.
There's also some weirdness related to boxes, but that should come as no surprise to anyone.
I don't think anyone's talking about ganking those labs. Like I said upthread, mostly the Facebook-and-email labs.
Those aren't the labs that they're talking about ditching. It's the "check your Facebook and watch a YouTube" labs.
My laptop's seven pounds. It's lighter than the textbooks it replaces (I always buy the online version of a textbook if it's offered to avoid having to lug them around).
And I like having my laptop at all times. If I want to go look something up real quick while at lunch or whatever, instead of finding a lab and hoping it's not overcrowded, I just pull out the laptop, bring it out of standby, look it up, and I'm done.
I spent $1200 on a laptop because I wanted upgrades to run games, Photoshop, and Maya better. I didn't want a desktop because I like being able to move around my computer. I like being able to go actually collaborate with people (you know, that "social interaction" stuff that the basement-dwelling crowd around here can't help but sneer at) by grabbing a conference room and plugging in our laptops. Yeah, we could use computer labs, if we wanted to deal with the prospect of 20+ people in the lab at the same time and wanted to deal with not having all our shit on hand. And that's not just notes. I work better with music--I can't exactly download shit from my file server to play on the crippled computer lab machines, even assuming that the machines have the software I need. Having a laptop mitigates these issues and provides other benefits, like not having to carry around textbooks (because all of mine have online editions) and instant connectivity anywhere I might be (because my campus has a very comprehensive wireless network). And why the fuck should I take notes on paper when I type faster and can better keep up with the professor's lecture with a portable computer?
Anybody who makes a blanket assumption like "anyone who spends $1000 on a laptop for school is an idiot" is beyond idiocy.
Somebody sounds envious of those people using Facebook--you know, the people with friends and social interactions. Silly fucktard, you had your chance and you blew it.
I bought a new laptop for college. It cost about $1200. Why? Because I wanted more RAM, a discrete graphics card, a bigger hard disk, and a better screen. It isn't a Mac. There are plenty of reasons to buy a more expensive computer that morons like you don't quite grasp.
A few, sure.
On my campus, I know of about ten computer labs, five run by campus IT and another five run by departments. I'm sure there are more departmentals I don't know about. I work in the IT labs regularly, and I almost never seem them empty. But those other labs are always empty. Shrinking the number of labs to what people actually use is a good idea.
You can get financial aid money for a computer without difficulty. If you buy it through the university I go to, it's even just added to your student bill. Around here at least, it's not "can't buy a computer," it's "won't" (in the 0.1% of cases where people don't have one).
Problem is, then you can't make any real assumptions about specs, etc. for your code. If it's the same gear across the different platforms, you can stipulate the new shiny Python environment as a requirement. As it is, now you're balancing different specs on different platforms, which can really suck.
Parrot's a lot harder to use to interact with other languages. LLVM at least makes it possible for Python code to play nicely with C compiled via LLVM, for example.
IronPython too. Not quite as fast as Jython last I eval'd it, but at the time it had plenty of room to improve.
The only place I currently use Python is embedding the IronPython system in a Mono app, though, so I'll take what I can get.
Psyco may be x86-only, but this is Linux-only. That kills a lot of the appeal this might have in much the same way.
I'm not quite sure what benefits this gives that Psyco doesn't already.
Don't get me wrong. My Sansa plays OGG (dunno if it does normally, but I put on Rockbox and it does).
But I didn't buy an iPod. That alone makes me a minority among portable music player owners. Few people will bother with OGG because their shit just doesn't use it.
Ogg Vorbis has a serious marketing problem, like most open-source stuff, but this is a case where they can probably beat out the current de facto standard because their stuff really is that much better.`
I love how the ability to use more, varied tools is shot down by language zealots.
Were it that you all died in fires.
Are you really that stupid? C#/Mono are a wonderful toolset that addresses most of the brain damages of Java (the fact that Java requires an ActionListener pattern at all, for example, indicates that somebody should have been fired for not having a clue) and generally avoids introducing new ones.
I'd love to see a C# plugin for NetBeans, personally. NetBeans 6.5 is the first release I'd call almost as good as Visual Studio (I can't stand Eclipse, personally), and there's not much work left to make it a genuine competitor for what I use it for. I'm already looking at moving my C++ development over to it. Having an .NET plugin would seal the deal for me.
(It can't be any worse than MonoDevelop...)
Since 5.0 Netbeans has made tremendous improvements
This cannot be understated. NetBeans 6.5 is a joy to use. I still personally prefer Visual Studio, but NetBeans is awesome for when I have to use Java or want to develop in PHP. I can see NetBeans supplanting VS for my C++ work in pretty short order.
I just tested: you can save the UT3 installation from Steam and load it without Steam with that key. Your insane expectations are not my problem.
Those keys are not tied to Steam. They are legitimate keys. I know, because I've used it with UT3.
Stupid fearmongering is stupid.
How exactly would removing Offline Mode increase sales?
I know thinking before you type is very difficult, but please try.
I can't see any ethical problem with downloading a disc for a game you have a legit key to. And I'm pretty sure that in such a situation you could call the publisher and they'd send you a replacement disc for a nominal fee.
Well, presumably you wouldn't convert to OGG because almost nothing plays it. (Which is a damn shame. Ogg Vorbis is an excellent format. Ogg Theora for video, not so much, but Vorbis is the bee's knees.)
I should totally do that. Thanks for the idea.
Offline mode lasts a month or more, and IIRC you can see how long it has left before it needs a reauthorization (I could be wrong on that, it may just give you a one-week-left warning). That's reasonable enough for me; if I can't get to a network within a week I'm probably not going to be keeping enough battery life in my machine to be playing those games.