Shut your damned dirty whore mouth!

Online... Pffft, Even Bethesda wouldn't do something that jaw-droppingly stupid.

How did it get to version 4 before I heard of it?

How have you not heard of it before now?

Anyway, looks very cool... too cool, I worry - I just hope they didn't sacrifice the amazing gameplay of its predecessors in favor of eye-candy.

Not so sure about the dog, though - All the FO games have allowed you to have dogs as party members, but having one required? That better not make the whole game one giant escort mission...

The short answer to why it remains seemingly just as far away? Money.

The single most useful, highest technology endeavor mankind has ever dared try, and we commit a mere one fifth as much to it as we do in fossil fuel subsidies per year.

In 1980, we really did have fusion 40 years away. And five years later, we got bored with that and moved on to something else shiny.

The control systems for a nuclear reactor or a flight data processing system don't ever need to run CreateDancingBunniesDrawingsIn0Days.exe, or any arbitrary code for that matter.

Neither, for that matter, do 99% of modern office workers - They don't need anything beyond what amounts to a dumb terminal with a dedicated connection to their ERP system. In security-insensitive environments, we've gotten used to having a web browser and music player and Solitaire and maybe even the ability to customize our desktop and cursors and so on; but AP voucher entry doesn't require any of that.

This 100k module clearly just does old-fashioned whitelisting, albeit at several levels beyond mere code execution (I/O, memory access, etc). The only really interesting angle of it, IMO, comes from the claim that it doesn't require binary signatures, so how does it know what to allow? As my best guess, they could evaluate the use cases for each client and just compile the list right into the binary, but I doubt we have any way to confirm or deny that.

Sure, PayPal, go ahead and call me!

Because on the few occasions when I've found myself with no choice but to use your crappy guest checkout (no, I will never have a "real" account with you), and you insist that I give a phone number...

I enter yours.

So let 'em fly, boys! Feel free to let your "partners" waste the time of some poor secretary at your corporate HQ.

but running a text transcript that covers our 20+ minute conversation with SJVN. Is this is a good idea? Please let us know.

YES, thank you!

I can read all the transcripts I want at work, but unless the video starts with the Microsoft theme song and immediately proceeds to Mark Russanovich telling me how to make Windows its bitch, I'll pretty much never look at anything requiring sound.

That said, the front page also has a 'Video Bytes' line half way down full of crap, so I guess someone is really keen on killing the site.

This. I thought Slashdot had managed to break their CSS (again) when I first saw that abomination.

Serious "WTF" here, guys! Polls go in the sidebar, and videos go nowhere (or as links in the summaries, if absolutely necessary as a reference for the FP).

Ah, "desktop processors" counts as the key phrase there.

No, not joking... Just an idiot who can't read. :)

Did I miss something here? I've run a Broadwell i5 in my NUC for about three months now.

Wait, so do they rip the DVD/BDs, add in some ads, then re-burn them?

Of course, I still wouldn't see them, since I rip them before watching specifically to remove the ads and "unskippable" bullshit, but...

Oh! Wait - This only affects people already happily paying for a lower qual*BUFFERING*ity product. Never mind, then - Carry on with your paid inferior YouTube clone. ;)

-Keep every e-mail.

A follow-up to that - Document everything via email. Even that guy who does his damnedest to never go on the record with his requirements (and you'll meet plenty of them), summarize your conversation and email it to him for a yes/no confirmation that you understood his intent.

Of course, depending on who asks, this won't keep you from needing to fix other people's mistakes, but it can save your sanity, and possibly even your job, when Mr. Blowhard swears up and down that he told you X and you did Y.

The obvious response to which is

... "No."

I don't provide useful information to my opponent in a negotiation, simple as that.

"Oh, come now, Mr. Jones, I see from your pay stubs that you can afford a much nicer car than that Fiesta - Sorry, I must insist you buy a Fusion or Taurus!".

Other than "type var[size];" there is no primitive array type

I agree with most of what you said, but this one stumps me. You've just defined a primitive array - An array named var of type type and size size. Other than its... well, primitiveness (no fancy default conversions, no memory management, no overloads to deal with it as a whole), what about that syntax do you object to?

If it were in existence ~1400 years ago, perhaps we would have nipped Islam in the bud.

If it were in existence ~2000 years ago, perhaps we would have nipped Christianity in the bud.

And I wonder how many readers agreed with my first line, then threw a shit-fit when they got to my second line.

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