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Comment Re:except the investors, who paid everybody up fro (Score 1) 181

Never have had any sympathy for investors making less money, never will have any sympathy.

Funny I thought you might of had a 401k, savings, and some investments not? What about your mother if she is still around?

Never have sympathy for yourself and your mother. They are the shareholders. Not some smartass prick driving a Bently on Wall Street but us.

Comment Re: Perl is more expressive (Score 1) 192

std::sort(lines.begin(), lines.end(), [](auto &l, auto &l2) { return l1.name l2.name; });

Pretty simple in c++14 as well

Mod parent up.

It is funny as I have not coded in either language in over 10 years but this C++ version is very readable compared to the perl version. Also mentioning STD in C++ can be a little nasty and difficult to read yet I understood this much easier.

Comment Re:Betteridge (Score 1) 192

Perl 6 .. from what I read a decade ago ... has 100 different data types? It is a monster which should be avoided for any project where people have to read this stuff. Larry Wall is a linguist turned programmer where Perl is based on expressiveness.

I have not seen Perl used at work for many years besides some dependency for some Linux distro app.

In other words it is the SystemD of programming languages compared to Perl 5.

Comment Re:And the game continues (Score 1) 181

??
Wow just wow.

I will remember not to pay you and see how you like it and make up some rationalization you already got paid. Who needs your 401k you already got paid greedy socialist etc.

Sorry that is stealing and no if the contract was they get paid for the life of the product you can't not have it unless you pay too. You are a thief plain and simple and I know I sound assholish and a troll here on Slashdot but we work in software and expect to keep getting paid for our work. You can not expect to start a company make a software product and then I use it for free saying you already got paid and make up an excuse you charged too much.

How would you feel? You would want to sue me and mess me up if I did that and provided financial harm right? How is this any different? It is licensed and not sold. As long as people are willing to pay I see nothing wrong as this is capitalism 101.

And how does piracy help Hollywood? Since you refuse to pay them anyway you will never go see a band in concert or got to a movie anyway.

Comment Re:Anyone know how Zotac cards hold up? (Score 2) 66

It was printed on the graphics card box. Most boards with good caps and certifications loudly advertise it including MSI as well.

Basically the military certs mean they test to see if it runs between -40F and up to a hot 200F and other tests. Maybe overblown and juding on the language think it is silly, but when most old Pentium IVs XP boxes fail these days it is caused by 2 things
1. Power supply going out
2. Caps on the board failing to provide adaquite voltage in spikes causing BSOD.

Home routers too get weak after a few years due to caps aging. True a gaming system board will be obsolete by then but I do VMware Workstation for certs on mind too and mostly run MMOs so no biggie. I have a feeling by 2020 my i7 4770K will still be competitive as cpus have leveled off in major upgrades compared to the past where 10 years meant 10,000 times faster. A 1990 386 16 MHz vs a Pentium IV was quite impressive in differences. Not true today.

Comment Re:And the game continues (Score 1) 181

What they need to do is make their shit available to Amazon Prime, Netflix, Hulu, etc?

I have a subscription and guess what. They will get paid by these too. Younger generations hate TV and tiers and paying through the nose for broadcasting fees.

I am opposed to TPB and think piracy is wrong on all levels! I like getting paid for my work. But I won't buy your lousy shit but I do subscribe to Amazon, Hulu, and Netflix and run a Roku III on my TV for streaming what I want. Make it available and I may watch it and you will get paid too. Probably more money too as the DishNetwork, Comcast, and other others will rob you blind. I will pay you directly with just 1 middle mad who charges less (the streaming provider).

Roku, Fire TV, and Android setup boxes by 2020 will be close to majority by then. I highly recommend other slashdotters to buy a streaming device. You can save a fortune.

Comment Re:Anyone know how Zotac cards hold up? (Score 1) 66

I almost bought a gigabyte. The sales guy convinced me to get an Asus based on returns.

No their caps on their average boards now are military grade. I had a bad Asus experience from a core2 go and threw it out. It worked fine for a few years.

Gigabyte does make GPUs too but they do not seem as good. Maybe next upgrade I will try a gigabyte if they sell military grade with VRM voltage regulators and chokes too like the Asus. Well worth the extra $50 for testing and certification

Comment Re:This is not new. (Score 1) 198

Every serious (read "non-vendor-sponsored") study for the last 20 years has shown that computers in school hinder education.

Actually not entirely true.

My ex has a masters in special education and researched some studies.

With a properly trained teacher and a strong curriculum it can enhance certain subjects and bring interests. If you go to a bunch of disadvantaged children who have no interest in learning and just want to chat with their friends and listen to music and give them a computer. Yes it will harm learning.

Wired magazine had an article about a Mexican middle school math teacher. He realized letting his kids research on their own with proper supervision increased test scores more than a curriculum! Students went on Wikipedia religiously, searched youtube for common math issues explained by other teachers, and scores went up as an increase in learning.

Comment Re:Anyone know how Zotac cards hold up? (Score 1) 66

I only buy Asus and XFX. Asus stepped up its game after it fucked up royally with crappy caps on their motherboards last decade. The Asus 770 in my box has chocks and several VRM voltage regulators and cost $25 more than a similiarly priced 770 but was well worth the cost as it wont bust and has a solid cooper heatsink and is very quiet :-)

Go to a microcenter or tigerdirect and not bestbuy which only stocks the cheapest products at the most expensive prices.

Comment Re:The Win 10 subscription model (Score 1) 123

There is all this talk but so far no subscription. MS even said free updates for the life of the product. This hints 10 might be the final OS of Windows like MacOSX is the final for Apple with just updated .1 releases added over time.

Rumor at arstechnica and neowin show MS will play with it perhaps for business editions who need AD access and services like Azure and OneDrive pro edition. Home users will get it free as the app store will generate the revenue to pay for it and will update itself to all operating system versions quicker than the corporate versions which will be 3 -5 years updates but will cost more.

I have given up on Linux sadly on the desktop by 2011 when I saw gnome 3 and still always had bugs or config files I had to edit to get it to do certain things. I run Linux now as an appliance in a VM for development with www.turnkeylinux.com.

Let's hope I am right as I do not want to be like these XP users acting all crazy during EOL like 7 was a horrible abomination because of familiarity and fear of change? 7 is aging and already does not recognize USB 3 without special drivers and virtually no 4K support at all, poor battery life, and no locked down boot loader and forced cpu instructions to prevent exploits. XP SP 2 and later have some support for separating data and execution bits but it does not enforce it in hardware for 100% of services and apps like 8.1 does. If Cortana is not so damn intrusive in the final builds (I love instant search in 7!) I will not mind upgrading if it is free. No subscription later on of course.

Comment Re:Ewww thunderbolt (Score 1) 123

Well it is a workstation grade laptop with Quadro graphics. So it will be expensive. It is certified for highloads with extra QA for stability. Not the junk you get at Walmart if you want cheap. People who run Linux at work are programmers, administrators, 3d artists, or engineers so this laptop reflects their needs. Not hobbyists.

Thunderbolt does add cost as it is a 10 gig transfer tecnology directly to the PCI-Express bus. But I am a fan of thunderbolt until USB 3.1 and OEMs get their act together and peripherals can be made to take advantage like HDMI and ethernet dongles etc.But is useful to make it thin and for hi res HDMI presentations with a thunderbolt dongle since engineers and animators will be using this laptop for this purpose.

Comment Re:AMD is coming out with the 390 (Score 1) 66

I hope so. The 900 series really is a knockout right now. I think these benchmarks might be biased as I saw a more narrow comparison. I wonder how much ram the 290x had?

But AMD needs to up its game and I remember nvidia cut their prices nearly 50% when ATI did the r2xx series!

I do not want to pay $600 for my next card which is what the 780 GTX and the Titan was $1000 before ATI came roaring back??! WTF

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