Is it really that hard for tech reporters to slip in enough meaningful numbers to give us a full picture of what they are supposedly reporting about? Sure it might only take 6 minutes, but what kind of power was it drawing during those 6 minutes? Will the average house have a connection large enough to actually charge it that fast? Will it be practical to build "gas" stations that can charge several cars like this in a reasonable amount of time?
That's actually the issue. I usually use the 'classic index' so that slashdot will render nicely in browsers like elinks, but lately it's been defaulting back to slashdot 2.0 anyway.
Fair enough, but even so it still only takes fractions of a second in practice. The poster I was responding too was obviously assuming that deleting a file in unix involved also zeroing it out on disk. Anyone who's actually used linux can tell you it won't take you any human detectable amount of time to delete a file like that...
Notice I did not say I have not "used" them, my wording was deliberately present-tense. I'm familiar with playing games on all of them, but lack the bias rabid console fanbois have.
Yeah, the playstation controller was so bad, the public outcry forced Sony to redesign it like a dozen times over the past decade and a half.
Wait what? You mean the controller hasn't fundamentally changed in over a decade and half? Oh huh...
Sony bashing is fun, and pretty much always well deserved, but saying the playstation controller is worse than a controller that had not one, not two, but three different ways of holding it, depending on which buttons you wanted to use, is just stupid.
I don't own or use any of them, but even I can see that.
"Adding another month", will "add another month", so terribly clever. What will doing so actually accomplish though? Absolutely nothing. The problem here is not the result of not having enough time.
So because NAT happens to work for you, and your rather basic needs, we should delay the inevitable instead of fixing the fundamental underlying problem.
How do people who don't happen to like achievements, but do like cheating in the privacy of their own home, degrade the value that you derive from them? Believe it or not, you are free to continue enjoying your games no matter how many people chose to play them differently.
Since you obviously didn't get it, I'll spell it out to you: I'm not defending "achievements", I think they are retarded. I think the only thing more retarded than "achievements" is getting huffy when other people get them by cheating. I think that if anyone actually places real value on them, to the point where it becomes necessary to sue people over obtaining them "unfairly", they need to get a fucking life.
Lets not forget that these so called "achievements" are nothing more than little blurbs from your computer assuring you that you are not in fact wasting your time and are actually somehow being productive.
but your friends can see your achievement tooooooo...
And your friends can see your pacman high-score at the local arcade. So fucking what.
As much as people try to act like it's still 1999, every major operating system currently "just works", for any layman's sense of the word. Hell, even windows, though it's shit for a variety of other reasons.
No, this is a case of the "shinies", pure and simple.
Slashdot Mirror
Idea of the decade.
You self-censor the word sexual and expect people to take you seriously in a conversation about censorship?
Really?
Is it really that hard for tech reporters to slip in enough meaningful numbers to give us a full picture of what they are supposedly reporting about? Sure it might only take 6 minutes, but what kind of power was it drawing during those 6 minutes? Will the average house have a connection large enough to actually charge it that fast? Will it be practical to build "gas" stations that can charge several cars like this in a reasonable amount of time?
That's actually the issue. I usually use the 'classic index' so that slashdot will render nicely in browsers like elinks, but lately it's been defaulting back to slashdot 2.0 anyway.
Truly the best slashdot quote I've seen in a long time :)
"Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice"
Who cares why it's fucked up, all that matters is that it is very very fucked up.
Because Apple is the new blac^W Microsoft.
Good and fast obviously. Do you realize how many paid man-hours have gone into the linux kernel? It's been anything but cheap.
I'll be interested to see how they make turns in a frictionless vacuum. Maybe with an RCS?
Of course you do.
Why, is that how you delete files in your everyday usage pattern? Don't be silly.
Fair enough, but even so it still only takes fractions of a second in practice. The poster I was responding too was obviously assuming that deleting a file in unix involved also zeroing it out on disk. Anyone who's actually used linux can tell you it won't take you any human detectable amount of time to delete a file like that...
[user@host] ~ % time rm Fedora-13-x86_64-Live.iso
rm Fedora-13-x86_64-Live.iso 0.00s user 0.00s system 40% cpu 0.002 total
Huh-wha?
Deleting a file is no more intensive than renaming it. Both should complete in constant time.
Pot. Kettle. Black.
Notice I did not say I have not "used" them, my wording was deliberately present-tense. I'm familiar with playing games on all of them, but lack the bias rabid console fanbois have.
Yeah, the playstation controller was so bad, the public outcry forced Sony to redesign it like a dozen times over the past decade and a half.
Wait what? You mean the controller hasn't fundamentally changed in over a decade and half? Oh huh...
Sony bashing is fun, and pretty much always well deserved, but saying the playstation controller is worse than a controller that had not one, not two, but three different ways of holding it, depending on which buttons you wanted to use, is just stupid.
I don't own or use any of them, but even I can see that.
"Adding another month", will "add another month", so terribly clever. What will doing so actually accomplish though? Absolutely nothing. The problem here is not the result of not having enough time.
Newsflash: the odds of your child being abducted while walking to school are astronomically low. You are just yet another helicopter parent.
We've known this was coming for years. Do you really think adding on another month is going to do a single thing?
So because NAT happens to work for you, and your rather basic needs, we should delay the inevitable instead of fixing the fundamental underlying problem.
Got it.
How do people who don't happen to like achievements, but do like cheating in the privacy of their own home, degrade the value that you derive from them? Believe it or not, you are free to continue enjoying your games no matter how many people chose to play them differently.
Since you obviously didn't get it, I'll spell it out to you: I'm not defending "achievements", I think they are retarded. I think the only thing more retarded than "achievements" is getting huffy when other people get them by cheating. I think that if anyone actually places real value on them, to the point where it becomes necessary to sue people over obtaining them "unfairly", they need to get a fucking life.
Lets not forget that these so called "achievements" are nothing more than little blurbs from your computer assuring you that you are not in fact wasting your time and are actually somehow being productive.
but your friends can see your achievement tooooooo...
And your friends can see your pacman high-score at the local arcade. So fucking what.
So the gist of what you're saying here is that guys who like apple products are essentially cross-dressers?
As much as people try to act like it's still 1999, every major operating system currently "just works", for any layman's sense of the word. Hell, even windows, though it's shit for a variety of other reasons.
No, this is a case of the "shinies", pure and simple.