If you want to be that reductionist, then you could say dictionaries are useless because every entry simply consists of a term followed by the same term. Ballmer gave a fairly thin, but at least somewhat substantive account of what the strategy is.
Not that their conduct in standards committees resembles competing on merit in any way. So either Ballmer's lying or not in control.
Right, because if a gunman is holding my family hostage and my neighbor calls to report it, the first thing I want the police to do is knock on the door and calmly ask the guy if everything is going swimmingly.
Yes, instead I'd prefer they charged in with guns blazing without assessing the situation at all.
Enjoining the specific document would of course require the cooperation of WikiLeaks, which for some inexplicable reason, it doesn't want to do:^)
This is really rich though. At this rate, the Swiss authorities are likely to bring the hammer down on Julius Baer, just to get their banking system out of the spotlight. Normally it'd blow over, but these clowns just keep handing major international media new stories on this every damn day.
XFS is pretty decent (but only recommendable for 64 bit systems). ReiserFS is nice until it actually does need a fsck (it happens). If by some chance your partition actually survives its awesomely broken fsck process, it may still be faster to simply copy back all the data on the drive from backups. By hand. With tiny magnets.
> Having a robotic military means that no humans have to die (or very little). Which is a VERY good thing.
Assuming you're the side with the robots. The side willing to kill plenty of humans since you no longer have to really experience the mess of actual combat.
Of course this is how the politicians see actual soldiers now, and there's a whole establishment built around turning people into order-following robots anyway, so really, what's the difference?
> The NT kernel was designed to be able to project different "personalities", much in the same way that Mac OS X does.
From everything I've heard, Darwin does not run BSD as a personality, but it's instead quite integrated into the kernel. Which makes me suspect it doesn't quite support personalities to the degree of Mach.
The fact that the GP's interpretation is apropos to this case, and that the modified quote was posted totally in isolation was a good enough contextual clue -- I got it instantly. Your sarcasm detectors do indeed need adjustment.
It is possible to speak to laypeople without using terms that are unscientific, vague, obsolete, and generally useless. No need to get hysterical about it.
(people with well tuned joke detectors need not reply with the obvious)
FOSS is about as capitalist as it gets. It represents the bar of efficiency you have to pass: if you can't compete with people who are just doing it for fun, if you can't add something of value that people would actually pay for, and others wouldn't easily develop, then your product just doesn't pass.
Companies that pour several millions into FOSS might be leaning on the lever somewhat, but like he said, it's a minority, and thus shouldn't be destroying the market, should it?
This is about as bad as Bob "I invented Ethernet, I deserve your worship" Metcalfe. The irony about mister Ruggedly Indepent Capitalist here is that the only other game he created that actually got any traction is Hexic... a "free" pack-in with XBoxes (perhaps not technically free, but it's not even available for download on XBLA).
The problem with the Smart Strip is that they don't make UPS versions of it. The CPU has to go into a UPS, the rest don't -- even if the one plug in the UPS is rated for the load of a strip, you don't want your peripherals sucking down battery.
Better to shop for equipment (and demand it in standards) that includes the ability to turn standby mode off, with that being the factory setting. My TV does this, and while it's a bit of a bother to wait the extra 5 seconds for it to power up, the energy savings are significant. Lots of power companies are asking for this (which seems strange, but they're running past capacity every summer and that hurts them).
Indeed, Tomcat is not to blame for speed problems. In fact current versions start up faster than Resin.
On Windows, however, it does have the distinction of being the only app server incapable of undeploying wars through the expedient of merely deleting their directory. It runs into the file locking issues on Windows, which I do suppose is partly the blame of Windows, but I'd also point out that no other app servers have this problem.
It also has classloader leaks that go back to the beginning of Tomcat, have never been fixed, and instead get blamed on bugs in the JVM (again it's a 50/50 thing, but Tomcat appears to be the only one incapable of working around it) .
It is fast, but so much junk for all these reasons. For just plain servlets, Jetty is king now.
YAML needs a bullet to the head, it's such an ad-hoc goofy format that makes wikitext look rigorous. Or perhaps just a subset that isn't barkingly insane. Like JSON, perhaps.
Argh... that's most uses i've seen in non-games. Like pre-game UI stuff, or browsing. Most of the UI elements don't even obey fitt's law, so you have to make sure you fit the cursor arrow inside the button box. Awfully clunky compared to just pushing a button.
> Linux + mythfrontend + wiimote sounds like a pretty killer multimedia option
Assuming a decent radial menu system, maybe. Most uses of the Wiimote I've seen in games have treated it like a mouse, making you aim at buttons, which is about the last thing I want in a remote.
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If you want to be that reductionist, then you could say dictionaries are useless because every entry simply consists of a term followed by the same term. Ballmer gave a fairly thin, but at least somewhat substantive account of what the strategy is.
Not that their conduct in standards committees resembles competing on merit in any way. So either Ballmer's lying or not in control.
Right, because if a gunman is holding my family hostage and my neighbor calls to report it, the first thing I want the police to do is knock on the door and calmly ask the guy if everything is going swimmingly.
Yes, instead I'd prefer they charged in with guns blazing without assessing the situation at all.
Enjoining the specific document would of course require the cooperation of WikiLeaks, which for some inexplicable reason, it doesn't want to do :^)
This is really rich though. At this rate, the Swiss authorities are likely to bring the hammer down on Julius Baer, just to get their banking system out of the spotlight. Normally it'd blow over, but these clowns just keep handing major international media new stories on this every damn day.
This is the same firm that on repeat occasions refused to identify its client. IANAL, but isn't that a serious breach of bar rules?
> ReiserFS or XFS are much, much quicker.
XFS is pretty decent (but only recommendable for 64 bit systems). ReiserFS is nice until it actually does need a fsck (it happens). If by some chance your partition actually survives its awesomely broken fsck process, it may still be faster to simply copy back all the data on the drive from backups. By hand. With tiny magnets.
> Microsoft's biggest mistake was thinking people wouldn't write complicated apps in Javascript.
Uhm they were like the first company to do so. AJAX? They sort of invented it.
> Having a robotic military means that no humans have to die (or very little). Which is a VERY good thing.
Assuming you're the side with the robots. The side willing to kill plenty of humans since you no longer have to really experience the mess of actual combat.
Of course this is how the politicians see actual soldiers now, and there's a whole establishment built around turning people into order-following robots anyway, so really, what's the difference?
> The NT kernel was designed to be able to project different "personalities", much in the same way that Mac OS X does.
From everything I've heard, Darwin does not run BSD as a personality, but it's instead quite integrated into the kernel. Which makes me suspect it doesn't quite support personalities to the degree of Mach.
WEIRDNIX wouldn't happen to be the native OS of the DeathStation 9000, would it?
CoLinux runs User Mode Linux on NT. It's really quite a far cry from "running on top of the NT kernel", and more like a paravirtualized guest.
Yeah we never had power outages before.
Idiot. No, not strong enough. Epic thinking fail.
The fact that the GP's interpretation is apropos to this case, and that the modified quote was posted totally in isolation was a good enough contextual clue -- I got it instantly. Your sarcasm detectors do indeed need adjustment.
> You realize that emotion and reason are pretty much opposites right?
It's far more accurate to say that they're orthogonal. Emotion may often interfere with reason, but it certainly does not preclude it.
It is possible to speak to laypeople without using terms that are unscientific, vague, obsolete, and generally useless. No need to get hysterical about it.
(people with well tuned joke detectors need not reply with the obvious)
FOSS is about as capitalist as it gets. It represents the bar of efficiency you have to pass: if you can't compete with people who are just doing it for fun, if you can't add something of value that people would actually pay for, and others wouldn't easily develop, then your product just doesn't pass.
... a "free" pack-in with XBoxes (perhaps not technically free, but it's not even available for download on XBLA).
Companies that pour several millions into FOSS might be leaning on the lever somewhat, but like he said, it's a minority, and thus shouldn't be destroying the market, should it?
This is about as bad as Bob "I invented Ethernet, I deserve your worship" Metcalfe. The irony about mister Ruggedly Indepent Capitalist here is that the only other game he created that actually got any traction is Hexic
The problem with the Smart Strip is that they don't make UPS versions of it. The CPU has to go into a UPS, the rest don't -- even if the one plug in the UPS is rated for the load of a strip, you don't want your peripherals sucking down battery.
Better to shop for equipment (and demand it in standards) that includes the ability to turn standby mode off, with that being the factory setting. My TV does this, and while it's a bit of a bother to wait the extra 5 seconds for it to power up, the energy savings are significant. Lots of power companies are asking for this (which seems strange, but they're running past capacity every summer and that hurts them).
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"Neurosis"? Where is that in the DSM-IV? We've come a long way from the 19th century, Dr Freud.
Indeed, Tomcat is not to blame for speed problems. In fact current versions start up faster than Resin.
On Windows, however, it does have the distinction of being the only app server incapable of undeploying wars through the expedient of merely deleting their directory. It runs into the file locking issues on Windows, which I do suppose is partly the blame of Windows, but I'd also point out that no other app servers have this problem.
It also has classloader leaks that go back to the beginning of Tomcat, have never been fixed, and instead get blamed on bugs in the JVM (again it's a 50/50 thing, but Tomcat appears to be the only one incapable of working around it) .
It is fast, but so much junk for all these reasons. For just plain servlets, Jetty is king now.
Psst. code.google.com works for everyone.
Some people will bitch about anything and everything I guess.
YAML needs a bullet to the head, it's such an ad-hoc goofy format that makes wikitext look rigorous. Or perhaps just a subset that isn't barkingly insane. Like JSON, perhaps.
Argh ... that's most uses i've seen in non-games. Like pre-game UI stuff, or browsing. Most of the UI elements don't even obey fitt's law, so you have to make sure you fit the cursor arrow inside the button box. Awfully clunky compared to just pushing a button.
> Linux + mythfrontend + wiimote sounds like a pretty killer multimedia option
Assuming a decent radial menu system, maybe. Most uses of the Wiimote I've seen in games have treated it like a mouse, making you aim at buttons, which is about the last thing I want in a remote.
I love the PowerGlove, it's so Bad!
Took me a few blinks to realize it wasn't a reply.