Would you argue that proprietary software has better or worse chance of having unknown errors?
Ah, If only the world was so black & white as that. Obviously, it is not.
I wouldn't argue either way as an absolute statement, that would be naive. It comes down to the particular project, the skills, mental capacity, diligence, attention to detail, and talents of all those involved. At this point you may be tempted to further argue, "Ah, open source has far more people involved so it must be better!". In this case, the whole may be less than the sum of it's parts.
I know many different eyes with different motivations have scrutinized "the code" and haven't found any problems
And right here is perhaps one of the worst assumptions about open source security. While it's true that many different eyes and motivations COULD scrutinized "the code" that is not necessarily the case. Unless you know for sure that applies to the program in question (or you have scrutinized it personally as is your option)... but there's no automatic open source guarantee that it HAS actually happened.
Just look at NVidia. Their driver package is up to version 270.51.
I've started to like 3 part version numbers lately, although only if proper change significance is applied. The standard GNU version numbering with major.minor.revision seems useful and appropriate.
do you honestly believe that 95% of the people buying Android phones give 2 shits about Openess?
Obviously the general public does not care about that. What the public DOES care about is the phone doing what they need / want it to do. When people see certain apps / features work on another android phone but not theirs then that is when people will give a shit. Only problem being if the vendors are all shipping crippled phones that contrast becomes much more subtle.
Have an iPad? you must be rich. no really, it has that "feel" that has been perpetuated by apple.
Part of that perception really is the Apple store design. The basic concept of the Apple store was to make it feel similar to jewelry stores. So the whole "luxury" experience starts right at the door.
So I guess everyone just assumes that nothing actually happens today? I mean, if there was some big real story, it would take at least a couple days of follow up before anyone thinks it really happened.
but on the console I can have pretty good settings if not the same quality as the PC.
This is for the most part completely false, the exception being the shitty console ports that just copy everything directly. The simple fact is many console games are not even rendering at 1080p because it cannot get a smooth frame rate at that resolution. Some games are even rendering below 720p. So already the quality has taken a drastic drop due to the upscaling, possibly even for the lower end HD, and that doesn't even consider the advanced effects settings. Of course you may consider this a benefit, that you don't have a lot of menu sliders to play with, but for games that are made with a good scalable engine, your console is certainly not running it with anything close to the "extreme" end visuals on a PC.
On the PC when I set my resolution to 1080p, I'm getting actual 1080p rendering and still managing to get 60 fps. If that can be done with the sliders maxed, on a good engine, the quality comparison isn't even in the same ballpark.
I guess people just like to feel like they are not getting the inferior experience, so they spew this stuff out about equal performance. Maybe if you say it enough you'll start believing it too.
If people are putting code in headers that are worthy of copyright my first reaction would be "they're doing it wrong".
Depends on exactly what you are doing with them. That would be my normal reaction as well.
Microsoft has some very interesting headers in VC10 that are on-purpose multiple includes with some clever macros that basically hack variadic template support in. At least I thought it was sorta interesting.
I suppose I should not be surprised... People complain that Guitar Hero is trash and stupid because it's not playing a real guitar. Ergo, game is designed to use real guitar and now the complaint is that it is a real guitar. At least now everyone gets something to complain about.
I think that Portal easily qualifies as "worthy of comparison". In fact, it beats the hell out of the lesser entertainment forms he mentions. I don't even see why people care about having games defined as "art", the great games go so far beyond that. The experience is much more personal in games, you are not forced to spend your time from the outside looking in. You spend your time actually in it. This tool Ebert admits to not have the credentials to make a valid comparison so I don't see why anyone even cares what he thinks.
Go play Golden Sun 1 and 2 (if you can get them; they're running for $100-$150 each now)
It's called an emulator. No matter how much fun I had with the first game, it's simply not worth that. Maybe eventually it could be a release as some kind of collectors edition.
You'll always be able to justify spending $50 for the amount of entertainment that something like Fallout gives
And this is the concern with where traditional gaming is going. I don't recall where I heard it, but some developer said that to be successful now, getting into the 90+ review category is basically required. There's no more room for mediocrity, for getting something wrong. For big AAA titles anyway, where the asking price is 50 and up there can be no mistakes. Personally I'm enjoying the innovation seen with the Indie developers, and with Steam offerings, the access to these lower budget titles is great. At the lower prices, those games are allowed to make some mistakes and have less content, providing overall the game is fun. I don't necessarily see these 99 cent deals taking over, but I do think the mid-range Indie could put some pressure on the top tier.
You also don't have to worry about spending hundreds of dollars on upgrades in order to play the latest games.
Unless you intentionally buy the BARE MINIMUM components on an upgrade then the PC is going to be good for years likely. So yes, if you go into a PC upgrade with extreme penny pinching then maybe you'll need another upgrade soon. No serious gamer with some discretionary income should be doing that, as that will waste far more money in the long term. Spend on the video card and the box will perform well throughout a typical consoles lifetime (this generation is odd as seen in TFA).
Meh, they compared it to the 980X and other well known i7 chips though. There was also shockingly no mention of malfunctioning SATA ports either. It's an article about an extreme chip, so performance/$ is pointless, it's obviously not meant for that.
2 weeks is of course the length of time a zombie can last without eating brains. Assuming that the zombies did not get a chance to eat any of your neighbors you can now go exploring for food. The remaining difficulty is with migratory zombies, so there is still some chance of "miserable death" occuring.
There is a short story along these lines "The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner", although it is from the view of one of her minions. Still from the "other side" in general though. Meyer also has a draft posted called "Midnight Sun" which was a fair chunk of the first book from Edwards viewpoint.
Although based on block size you are somewhat likely to have the text file downloaded anyway based on the order the data is arranged in the torrent. That is unless it's one of those strange mangled torrents some people make which have padding between every file to finish up the block. In the end that file might not be parsed out and just get left in a lump of cache data which will be erased, but you probably are at least downloading those tiny things most of the time, even if they never manifest as a separate file.
Well, the Safe Mode video driver does feel somewhat ancient at least. 256 colors and screen blitting you can time on a stopwatch.
Anyway, the analogy is totally ridiculous as is. Safe Mode actually performs a desirable function (when needed) within the system. I don't think the same can be said for cancer.
If only... it would be easier to track down information when needed if Apple did have some kind of basic numbering. Or even somewhat non-intuitive number like NVidia, but at least something to point at and say "it's laptop version such-and-such" rather than trying to remember exactly what year it was purchased.
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Would you argue that proprietary software has better or worse chance of having unknown errors?
Ah, If only the world was so black & white as that. Obviously, it is not.
I wouldn't argue either way as an absolute statement, that would be naive. It comes down to the particular project, the skills, mental capacity, diligence, attention to detail, and talents of all those involved. At this point you may be tempted to further argue, "Ah, open source has far more people involved so it must be better!". In this case, the whole may be less than the sum of it's parts.
I know many different eyes with different motivations have scrutinized "the code" and haven't found any problems
And right here is perhaps one of the worst assumptions about open source security. While it's true that many different eyes and motivations COULD scrutinized "the code" that is not necessarily the case. Unless you know for sure that applies to the program in question (or you have scrutinized it personally as is your option)... but there's no automatic open source guarantee that it HAS actually happened.
How do you ever disprove that we are in the Matrix?
Come on, have you even watched the Matrix? You swallow a red pill and touch a mirror. And if you are in the Matrix you'll be out shortly.
Just look at NVidia. Their driver package is up to version 270.51.
I've started to like 3 part version numbers lately, although only if proper change significance is applied. The standard GNU version numbering with major.minor.revision seems useful and appropriate.
do you honestly believe that 95% of the people buying Android phones give 2 shits about Openess?
Obviously the general public does not care about that. What the public DOES care about is the phone doing what they need / want it to do. When people see certain apps / features work on another android phone but not theirs then that is when people will give a shit. Only problem being if the vendors are all shipping crippled phones that contrast becomes much more subtle.
Have an iPad? you must be rich. no really, it has that "feel" that has been perpetuated by apple.
Part of that perception really is the Apple store design. The basic concept of the Apple store was to make it feel similar to jewelry stores. So the whole "luxury" experience starts right at the door.
So I guess everyone just assumes that nothing actually happens today? I mean, if there was some big real story, it would take at least a couple days of follow up before anyone thinks it really happened.
It could have been worse, they could have scanned it with McAfee and rendered the machine unable to boot.
but on the console I can have pretty good settings if not the same quality as the PC.
This is for the most part completely false, the exception being the shitty console ports that just copy everything directly. The simple fact is many console games are not even rendering at 1080p because it cannot get a smooth frame rate at that resolution. Some games are even rendering below 720p. So already the quality has taken a drastic drop due to the upscaling, possibly even for the lower end HD, and that doesn't even consider the advanced effects settings. Of course you may consider this a benefit, that you don't have a lot of menu sliders to play with, but for games that are made with a good scalable engine, your console is certainly not running it with anything close to the "extreme" end visuals on a PC.
On the PC when I set my resolution to 1080p, I'm getting actual 1080p rendering and still managing to get 60 fps. If that can be done with the sliders maxed, on a good engine, the quality comparison isn't even in the same ballpark.
I guess people just like to feel like they are not getting the inferior experience, so they spew this stuff out about equal performance. Maybe if you say it enough you'll start believing it too.
Another outbreak of insanity. There is also a chance it will swing the other way.
Hopefully a strong ruling will set precedent to prevent any such stupidity in the future.
Unless ads are being cut, I don't see what this has to do with revenue different from TV.
If people are putting code in headers that are worthy of copyright my first reaction would be "they're doing it wrong".
Depends on exactly what you are doing with them. That would be my normal reaction as well.
Microsoft has some very interesting headers in VC10 that are on-purpose multiple includes with some clever macros that basically hack variadic template support in. At least I thought it was sorta interesting.
I suppose I should not be surprised... People complain that Guitar Hero is trash and stupid because it's not playing a real guitar. Ergo, game is designed to use real guitar and now the complaint is that it is a real guitar. At least now everyone gets something to complain about.
I think that Portal easily qualifies as "worthy of comparison". In fact, it beats the hell out of the lesser entertainment forms he mentions. I don't even see why people care about having games defined as "art", the great games go so far beyond that. The experience is much more personal in games, you are not forced to spend your time from the outside looking in. You spend your time actually in it. This tool Ebert admits to not have the credentials to make a valid comparison so I don't see why anyone even cares what he thinks.
Go play Golden Sun 1 and 2 (if you can get them; they're running for $100-$150 each now)
It's called an emulator. No matter how much fun I had with the first game, it's simply not worth that. Maybe eventually it could be a release as some kind of collectors edition.
You'll always be able to justify spending $50 for the amount of entertainment that something like Fallout gives
And this is the concern with where traditional gaming is going. I don't recall where I heard it, but some developer said that to be successful now, getting into the 90+ review category is basically required. There's no more room for mediocrity, for getting something wrong. For big AAA titles anyway, where the asking price is 50 and up there can be no mistakes. Personally I'm enjoying the innovation seen with the Indie developers, and with Steam offerings, the access to these lower budget titles is great. At the lower prices, those games are allowed to make some mistakes and have less content, providing overall the game is fun. I don't necessarily see these 99 cent deals taking over, but I do think the mid-range Indie could put some pressure on the top tier.
Unless you intentionally buy the BARE MINIMUM components on an upgrade then the PC is going to be good for years likely. So yes, if you go into a PC upgrade with extreme penny pinching then maybe you'll need another upgrade soon. No serious gamer with some discretionary income should be doing that, as that will waste far more money in the long term. Spend on the video card and the box will perform well throughout a typical consoles lifetime (this generation is odd as seen in TFA).
That old version? I'm at 11.0.689.0 (76563) so I'm even MORE blasé about this.
I was a little paranoid about running "unstable" builds for a while but I haven't really seen any problems with it.
Meh, they compared it to the 980X and other well known i7 chips though. There was also shockingly no mention of malfunctioning SATA ports either. It's an article about an extreme chip, so performance/$ is pointless, it's obviously not meant for that.
What does that have to do with anything? THIS IS SLASHDOT!
Perhaps you didn't look at the user profile. I didn't really care much before, but after seeing that, NOW I really am outraged.
2 weeks is of course the length of time a zombie can last without eating brains. Assuming that the zombies did not get a chance to eat any of your neighbors you can now go exploring for food. The remaining difficulty is with migratory zombies, so there is still some chance of "miserable death" occuring.
There is a short story along these lines "The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner", although it is from the view of one of her minions. Still from the "other side" in general though. Meyer also has a draft posted called "Midnight Sun" which was a fair chunk of the first book from Edwards viewpoint.
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella
Midnight Sun
Although based on block size you are somewhat likely to have the text file downloaded anyway based on the order the data is arranged in the torrent. That is unless it's one of those strange mangled torrents some people make which have padding between every file to finish up the block. In the end that file might not be parsed out and just get left in a lump of cache data which will be erased, but you probably are at least downloading those tiny things most of the time, even if they never manifest as a separate file.
Well, the Safe Mode video driver does feel somewhat ancient at least. 256 colors and screen blitting you can time on a stopwatch.
Anyway, the analogy is totally ridiculous as is. Safe Mode actually performs a desirable function (when needed) within the system. I don't think the same can be said for cancer.
Does Apple make a MacBook 2?
If only... it would be easier to track down information when needed if Apple did have some kind of basic numbering. Or even somewhat non-intuitive number like NVidia, but at least something to point at and say "it's laptop version such-and-such" rather than trying to remember exactly what year it was purchased.