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Comment Re: Console makers are also to blame. (Score 1) 40

Agreed and this failure to verify games before making them visible in the store will cost the console manufacturers sales I think. On PC it will likely promote piracy because from what I hear *cough*... the pirated versions of many games have patches etc integrated vs having to download an endless stream of patches when trying to buy a game legitimately... not to mention all the DRM that is removed in the less than official versions of such games

Comment Re:Just when you believe it cannot be done... (Score 1) 87

... Microsoft steps up to the plate and brings out an even more useless version.

It pains me to see Microsoft use the SE name in this way. Windows 98 SE was a good OS for gaming back in its day and I still consider Windows 98 SE to be the best of the non-NT based Windows version.

Comment Re:It's Microsoft being Microsoft... (Score 3, Insightful) 134

If you had been under a mistaken impression that Microsoft had changed from the malicious arrogance of the 1990's and 2000's, then you've been in a dream world. Microsoft knows it has a lock-hold on the desktop PC world, especially in the lucrative enterprise market. So why should Microsoft even try to give the impression it cares about what Windows users think?

. Just wait for the forced migration of desktops to the cloud. My guess is that it is coming sooner than later...

very likely... and I wouldnt be surprised if a pro version could also end up needing some kind of subscription to stay activated... I would think that Apples 'scanning' functionality in ios would also make its way to Windows 11 at some point.

Comment Re:Too bad (Score 1) 58

They're hardware. Just what kind of fleas do you think they'll get?

Moral fleas. But meta/facebook would buy those servers nomatter what and because of that, I'd rather the money goes to AMD than to Intel, because AMD needs the cash more than Intel does. The more AMD can grow, the better competition we can get in the future and hopefully also lower prices as a result in the long term.

Comment Re:all 3 users are happy (Score 1) 53

There is still a decent Amiga community out there, lots of people doing interesting things.

Yep.

As a game developer of the Amiga era I can say I'm really impressed by (eg.) this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

You should look at Dread, That is likely THE most impressive Amiga game in recent history... https://www.youtube.com/user/k...

Comment Re: Yukky (Score 1) 112

In Javascript, "2" + 3 is "23", whereas in Python it gives an error, but "2" * 3 is 6 in Javascript, but "222" in Python. Yes, if you learned the language specs, you know all that, but it's far from intuitive.

Automatic type conversions are the source of many many errors.

I would say that comparing the automatic type conversion of JavaScript and Python in this particular example, I would say that Python has what I would consider the most logical type conversion. However when looking at the code from a programmers point of view, then I would say that it should be either result in a type error or in the type conversion that JavaScript does. On the other hand, logically it seems like multiplication of a String should be a thing. If one was new to programming and were learning Python as their first language, then they likely wouldnt think that "2" * 3 = "222" is odd. I think that the only reason anyone would want "2" * 3 to be 6... is that we have been using other langugages that would do something similar. I think Python is unique in this regard, but perhaps not unique in a bad way? The safe and perhaps also the most intuitive? approach is the one taken by Pascal/Delphi and some other languages, where all types must be explicit converted if needed as another type Python and even JavaScript are attempting to help the coder by making these automatic conversions much like one can write c++ or c+=1 instead of c=c+1 in the c family of languages Some languages takes this to the extreme and can result in code that can be difficult to read months later

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