Comment Re:Everybody has left (Score 1) 245
I sure have. My first exposure to BSD was NetBSD and then I switched to OpenBSD several years ago and haven't looked back.
Macs aren't any better. They leave configurations behind.
except that Macs don't come with crapware preloaded.
Nor do iPhones for that matter.
I also discovered that Dell doesn't put (much) crapware on their Precision line. I bought a Precision laptop a few months ago and it had a few harmless Dell utilities and one trial version of TrendMicro which I could have avoided had I been paying attention to the custom build configuration. (You can turn the TrendMicro trial off) The Precision is a very solid machine and virtually no crapware. Can't say the same for the equivalent Lenovo. I ordered a ThinkPad W530 (an *expensive* machine) for a coworker and it came preloaded with as much crap as you'd expect on a $500 Acer laptop.
You shouldn't have go through linguistic gymnastics to determine whether or not your official party platform opposes the teaching of critical thinking skills in schools. Really
Read that again:
We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills,
... critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education ...
I think a fair reading of that is that they consider all teaching of critical thinking skills to be a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education and, therefore, the platform opposes all teaching of critical thinking. If they, in fact, do not oppose all teaching of critical thinking skills, then that is very poorly worded.
Not entirely limited to Apple:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/04/17/1826215/gimp-core-mostly-ported-to-gegl
Not in 2.8, but it will be in 2.10.
huh? Not sure how you're going to get around a whole bunch of extra writes when you're dealing with swap space. Good filesystem design can only help you so much.
The only reason they would enable virtual memory is if they think their flash chips can handle the extra writes. Assuming the results of a quick Google search are correct, it appears that VM is disabled on the iPhone. Enabling it would probably improve performance, but it would reduce the lifespan of the phone.
And you realize of course than phones also can have a virtual memory / "swap" (working decently nice, considering flash storage), right?
It is generally considered a bad idea to use SSDs for swap space because it forces the drive to make lots of extra writes and, thus, wears it out faster.
math fail to you, too
Some people can see magnitudes smaller arcmin than
up close? The angle is constant for all distances.
I think Jobs was justified in saying what he did as long as the average person can't distinguish the pixels
That multipalyer is forced to be on battle.net only is slightly annoying, but I had not intended to play anywhere else anyways.
I did. Some of my favorite Starcraft 1 games were played with my friends on an ad hoc LAN in the middle of nowhere while on vacation.
Earlier this year gamers reacted angrily to the strict DRM used by Ubisoft
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StarCraft II developer Blizzard is taking a different approach.
Is the author a Blizzard employee? Did they give him a free Warcraft account for a year? Seriously -- requiring an internet connection to play against someone who is across the room from me is just as bad as requiring one for a single player game.
You can't have it both ways, Blizzard. The gaming community is more than willing to shower you with good will (and lots of sales) if you legitimately want to denounce DRM and remove it from your games. But we're not morons. You can't pretend to be anti-DRM and use it anyway -- even if it is slightly less draconian than Ubisoft's implementation.
"If we've done our job right and implemented Battle.net in a great way people will want to be connected
This is a red herring. I'm sure Battle.net is a good service, but they're repeating this talking point to distract from the fact that one of Battle.net's primary functions is DRM. Great service or not, I shouldn't have to be connected to it to play over my LAN.
Wait till you see the 64-bit version of flash, it has twice the number of bits!!
so...it's like orange juice with more pulp?
Too bad all browsers don't equally support the same features of HTML/CSS/JavaScript. Flash also isn't completely there yet, but it's closer on the platforms it does support.
Yes, but there is a very workable subset of HTML/css/JavaScript that is supported by all the major browsers -- especially if you decide not to support IE6.
Plus, support for those standards is improving at a much greater rate than flash is improving. Firefox and Chrome have finally forced Microsoft to actually try to improve Internet explorer.
64-bit enthusiasts?
x86-64 is THE de-facto architecture. Save the enthusiast label for all the retro x86 steam punk guys.
no kidding. I can't stand Flash. Heck, the 32-bit Linux version is barely passable. The web would be so much better off if people just used open standards for web sites. With javascript and CSS, you can do all sorts of cool stuff and it'll run perfectly on any platform -- even my PowerPC Linux box.
How's the PowerPC Linux port of Flash coming, Adobe? right...
"Look! There! Evil!.. pure and simple, total evil from the Eighth Dimension!" -- Buckaroo Banzai
