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Comment not burdensome pay your tax (Score 0, Flamebait) 143

NO - "The tax targeted revenue generated from Canadian users rather than corporate profits, making it particularly burdensome for technology companies"

if you dont have a ledger of Candaian users your pretty much a fail as a company oh wait the americans dont like to pay ANY tax so will lie cheat do whatever it takes..

they are literally taking the republicans for a ride... not that any of them will refuse a ride...

 

Comment Re:Resonate with customers (Score 1) 79

This was a pre-emissions model (the car wasn't new when I got it). The only pollution control I remember it having was a PCV valve. After adjusting net vs gross HP, the 5.7L engine was rated for similar power as my current (non turbo) 2.5L. It also probably burned through 2.5X the fuel, and produced orders of magnitude more smog.

The new car is probably heavier, but I assume that a wider power band and more efficient transmission give my current car the overall edge in performance specs. The old car probably had better bottom-end torque, so it could do burnouts easier. That, along with the loud noise, rattling chassis and very scary handling characteristics probably made it feel faster than the current car, but that's nothing but psychology.

Comment You could remove vmware (Score 1) 82

Companies have two choices:

Remove VMware entirely and stop using it.

Or

Make sure you are using your perpetual seats to the letter of the agreement then let them audit you.

It's your choice.

Just beware. Old Java prior to 2019 may be free but if you have so much as one copy installed you have to pay for everyone in your organization

These cartels are shaking you down and you must eliminate them entirely

Comment Re:Speed it up! (Score 2) 11

Where did I say I was expecting similar performance? But Python is slow even for an interpreted language especially given its usually compiled to bytecode first. I would expect similar performance to Java , not run at approx 1/100th the speed of compiled C!

1/100 the speed of compiled languages is typical for interpreted languages.

Non-ancient implementations of Java are fully compiled. Toy benchmarks and Java programs carefully written as if there were no automatic memory management (and don't call standard libraries) can run just as fast ac C code.

Java can't directly support features that depend on dynamic typing and similar flexible run-time behavior that interpreted languages. However, many Java developers sorely miss those features, so they heavily use the reflection APIs and various "beans" frameworks to work around the pre-compilable static typing. This can actually end up running *slower* than Python because many of those Java features are dog slow.

You can already get implementations of Python that do JIT compiling like Java. They often run in the ballpark of about 1/10 the speed of C.

Comment Vulkan windows, Linux, Macos, Android, iOS, switch (Score 1) 35

why cant we have a consistent base API rather than compatibility layers.... then custom depending on what the dev's want to show off now we just have DirectX and a complete monopoly that steam have to work hard to provide a layer for....

Vulkan exists and works on the majority of phones...

what are steamOS recommendations for game dav's ?
(do they have a equipment/dev pipeline recommendations like netflix do ?)

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