I had wondered where all the old Slashdot trolls went. Looking at Pipedot, now I know. It's a pity, as the layout and UTF support are rather nice.

You forgot the /s.

If that wasn't intended to be sarcasm, note that the price for a five year old quad core machine on that site averages about $1200. You could get a new quad core i7 for two thirds that price. In short, prices for Macs represent terrible value, and have since about 2005.

Either the author is an idiot, or his universe has more dimensions than mine.

Hmm. I get 15 FPS on my mother in law's old laptop. Core 2, 2GB RAM, some shitty mobile Nvidia thing. Granted, that is with reduced settings, but I get get ~90FPS at full settings with my desktop machine that is still much less than yours. Perhaps you have a video driver problem?

The dreadnaughts effectively were made obsolete in the First World War. They were forced to stay far enough out to sea as to avoid the small, cheap, torpedo boats. By the time the Second World War rolled around, battleships couldn't safely leave port except in cloudy weather, or risk destruction by land based aircraft.

I suspect aircraft carriers are where the battleships were in the First World War. Great for force projection against lesser navies, but have to stay far from shore to keep from being overwhelmed by small, cheap, missile boats and land based missiles and aircraft. As always, you can't know until you try.

You know V for Vendetta wasn't a documentary, right?

Because oil tankers never call on ports in North Dakota or Alberta. It's a conspiracy, I tell you.

Powershell is a scripting environment, not a command line. The fact that you can enter your script interactively doesn't change the many inadequacies it still sports.

Wait. What does Capitalism have to do with democracy? Some Capitalist countries, especially the richest ones, are democratic, but democracy is by no means a required part of the Capitalist economic system.

A better statement might be to say that central planning of economies doesn't work. While central planning is a typical feature of Communism, they aren't always the same thing.

Nope. That's the Just In Time part of the JIT. Javascript can't be (efficiently) compiled to native code until the data types of function arguments are know. Since Javascript is a dynamic language, the types can't be known until the function is actually called.

No, but Inkscape does. Honestly, if your requirement for software is that you never have to learn anything new, you're stuck paying whatever Adobe wants to charge, forever.

Every problem looks like a thumb.

Did I get it right?

I find the truth is almost the opposite. The REST API is pretty good, at least compared to anything the OGC has put out. While ESRI's tools are okay for authoring maps, their server software is some of the worst crap I've ever had to work with. It's slow, and buggy. And slow. Map tile generation takes 7000 longer than on open source software, on the same hardware.

While technically all their stuff is documented, they have a nasty habit of creating a new documentation portal for every major release. And Google always takes me to the version from three releases back.

Rather than standardization, I just want a way to take a map document and turn out cartocss, or mapnik styles.

There's your problem.

When buying my last dishwasher, the salesperson gave me the big list of things that can go wrong, was really going for the hard sell on the extended warranty. I put on my best concerned face and replied "Oh gosh! Is it really that likely to break? I certainly don't want to buy such a poorly made appliance."

It's always fun watching them back-pedal like mad.