Spaceballs.

There goes the planet.

I like Win 8.1. It's fast and reliable. I don't think it has ever crashed.

I can do everything I want pretty easily: edit videos, produce music, play games, run Steam, run overclocked hardware.

Yes, I'm sure you can do all that stuff that the cool kids are doing. I don't see anyone here questioning Windows 8's capabilities; people are complaining about the fact that it's a tablet interface that's been shoehorned into a desktop, and everything about it is designed to push you back to the tablet interface (which, conveniently for Microsoft, is a walled garden that they control).

At any rate, Windows 7 does all that cool kid stuff too, and the interface is sensible for desktop users.

I agree that everyone has a right to express their views. The ex-CEO of Mozilla has a right to express his, and the people who decided to boycott the product over his views have a right to express theirs. No one's rights were violated, so I'm not sure where the Thought Police come into this.

Notch doesn't owe you any more work. He's already hired a bunch of people to continue development on Minecraft, so any obligations he might have for the Minecraft community are fulfilled. If he wants to spend the rest of his life sipping mixed drinks on an island somewhere, that's his prerogative.

There was a study a while back (I wish I had the link) that found that more money can make you happy, but only if you're not already born into money. And Notch himself has said in an interview that he basically accepts that his biggest achievement is now behind him.

The happiest people in the world aren't the ones who are driven by ambition; they're the ones who can realize that they've achieved something and then stop and enjoy life. Notch is doing what he loves to do, because he can afford to do that. He can afford to not sell out, because frankly, once you're a multi-millionaire, you can pretty much invest your money and live comfortably off of the returns for the rest of your life. I hope, on the off chance that I ever strike it rich, that I'm able to do the same thing Notch is rather than get caught up in that cycle of always wanting more.

it's not their 'tollbooth', it's their road

It can be "their road" when they pay land owners for the lines through their property, and pay back the tax money that was given to them to subsidize its construction.

An eighteen wheeler can cause more damage to the road that requires more maintenance than a motorcycle, this is the same thing: a movie that needs to be streamed a million times takes up much more capacity and energy and basically uses the system much more than millions of small individual requests do.

Netflix is already paying a provider for bandwidth. You may or may not know this, Slashdot Libertarian, but as your bandwidth usage goes up, your bandwidth prices go up too. As such, Netflix is already paying extra money to run that 18 wheeler due to the wear and tear on that road. AT&T is trying to bill them extra because the truck is carrying a product that competes with them.

Is that their prerogative? No. They built their network on public dollars and on peoples' private property under the conditions that they would act as a utility. If they want to not act like a public utility, then they can come to me and pay me a fair price to run lines through my property (or better yet, since I don't use AT&T at all, how about I just cut their line? It's my property after all.)

It would be a delicious irony if people were able to recover some of their lost value due to government regulations.

...vanishes into thin air again.

No, I don't trust Bitcoin. Never really did.

I love how all the Slashdot Libertarians who are all about Internet Corporate Freedom (that is, against any laws the actually protect consumers from selective throttling and other anti-neutrality bullshit) are suddenly in favor of net neutrality now that the Obama administration has said that they're not going to do anything about it.

If the simulation is of branching timelines rather than a single one, a good coder might optimize it such that particles actually exist as probability fields until they come into contact with other particles. That would drastically reduce how often you'd have to fork the simulation.

I also have a list of things that are like slavery if anyone is interested.

Oh! Oh! Is it raising taxes a few percent?

Also, something something profit motive government can never do anything right.

This is one thing I don't get about some of the more ardent supporters of weak copylefts. It's fine if someone wants to take my code and make it so no one can see it, but god forbid take it and require that it stay open source.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1051333/combing-an-external-event-loop-with-qts