Comment Spies spying? (Score 1) 145
I'm shocked. SHOCKED!
Seriously, WTF did you THINK they were doing exactly?
I'm shocked. SHOCKED!
Seriously, WTF did you THINK they were doing exactly?
There is no one under 30 that can do what Abrash does.
Oh I'm sure there are, but try hiring one. Those bugger shit pure gold.
If you wanted an explanation, you could have asked for one.
Or he could have taken the 10 seconds to google it instead of being a dick, but the poor fool didn't realize he was wading into a gunfight with a pencil sharpener.
I agree. Last I heard, we *wanted* people to use Linux on the desktop.
That's just a rumor that the Gnome guys would take issue with.
fixing a null pointer dereference is something that needs to be done.
FFS... that's the issue?
Screw hiring developers, let's start a kickstarter and hire someone to break the kneecaps of whoever committed the broken code.
If only that were true, I can only conclude that you must be new here.
Your right of course that a shit ton of websites have been single platform / single browser over the years. But by and large the majority of the web has been cross-platform, and the situation today is better than its ever been.
I think the web has been a great leveler platform wise and the situation has improved enormously, but I think the majority being cross-platform is relatively recent. Between 2002 and 2008 or so IE had a stranglehold and there are TONS of IE specific applications out there.
Right now with XP support disappearing the companies that invested heavily in Microsofts platform specific technologies, that Microsoft have now basically abandoned themselves. These companies are now scrambling to either migrate off XP and either find (crazy) ways to support their legacy apps or replace them entirely. (Yes Lloyds, I'm looking at you, you and your silly banking friends.)
On the upside, the're a royal fuckton of money to be made helping them.
IT'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN!
[ insert epic synthesizer intro here ]
*The world rumbles as millions of geeks dance badly, scaring pets and spilling drinks the world over.*
Like pretty much any website. Ever
If only that were true, I can only conclude that you must be new here.
Turn in your geek card.
In addition to what other people have already said, his columns on graphics in the old dead-tree version of DDJ were a must-read.
For people into that sort of thing.
Which is but a select subset of a subset of the Slashdot crowd.
Get over yourself... "turn in your geek card" indeed...
What do we have to to do? Make you an offer you can't refuse?
Kids these days.
Two thoughts:
1) How fast do your wheels spin now?
2) How often do they shatter?
If you are a careful driver and plan ahead to avoid quick braking, and also accelerate at a very modest rate your benefits would be small with this kind of system. It helps compensate for aggressive driving but it seems like it won't benefit drivers that already are trying to get good gas mileage.
Very true of highway driving, less so for stop and go city traffic.
My father's been involved in alternative energy research since the 70's, I'm pretty sure I heard about regenerative braking with flywheels in the early 80s. (This is what happens when you're related to mad scientists whose idea of fun involves steam engines, solar panels and ocean thermal energy, preferably at the same time...)
Here's a patent filed in 81 and granted in 85.
This stuff is like clothing fashions, just wait long enough and they'll all come back, hopefully with the patents expired.
I would have agreed with you until I got a 60Mbps connection with unlimited download limit so I could work at home.
The revolution will not be televised.... etc.
Curious...
Are you trying to argue that DVDs are NOT a dying medium?
I ask because that's exactly the opposite of what I see.
They want this to win, they need it to run on UNIX & BSD.
Seriously? Linux is a very small fraction of the desktop market and (other than OSX) any other UNIX or BSD is a very small fraction of that.
They don't need BSD support to win anything other than friendship.
He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him. -- Bion
