Yeah, JMS mentions his politics here in a good obituary - http://www.epictimes.com/07/28...

So true, the green movement needs a new motto:

Stop Global Warming, Stop The Sun!

Agreed. What he meant to say was "BlackBerry will not comply with that sort of directive ... unless it makes economic sense to do so"

I'm so glad I now know that taking a selfie while swimming with sharks is not a good idea.

Huh? That's the best response I can give without using spoilers but I'm not sure you've read all 3 books.

As for the series I'm not sure I liked all of it, the later two books certainly dragged on slightly too long and probably should have been compressed into one novel. However the series as a whole, especially the first book, certainly know how to generate an incredibly creepy atmosphere with everyone lost in a strange world of paranoia and genuine weirdness.

I'm no fan of M$, far from it, but despite that I'll be the first to admit that Visual Studio has always been a very good product. You can tell those that write the IDE also use it themselves and know what developers need / want. So a cross platform version is certainly interesting.

The Frostbite Game Engine is the best looking one around at present so yes, these scenes may have been generated real-time but it will be just like those in other games using the engine. Cut-scenes like this turn off unwanted background game processing and then set gfx settings up to the max. In game =/= In engine.

Sure it looks pretty but there are enough negatives to make me want to avoid this

> EA
> DLC, DLC, and some more DLC with a side helping of micro-transactions.
> Buggy DiCE software
> Combat is even more simplified than Call-of-Duty.

These aren't jokes. Jokes are supposed to be funny.

Make it stop please.

It's not asinine but it is probably overly harsh.

PHP is popular because it's easy for beginners to learn, easy to get stuff done quickly & simply, and easy for programmers familiar in C & C++ to start web development without having to grok a completely unfamiliar language.

PHP is bad because it's easy for everyone using it to write insecure code.

"Removing unneeded components .." like systemd .. oh damn, someone beat me to that joke already.

I think /. needs to audit their own posts ...

http://it.slashdot.org/story/1...

Only a valid analogy if those new spark plugs also want to control your entry system, brakes, transmission and radio too.

I hope so. We've put our upgrade from RHEL 6 to version 7 on permanent hold basically because of systemd and all other associated forced-down-your-throat changes they have made. This is no longer a seamless, non-intrusive upgrade unlike every previous major release.

For desktop users, yeah I understand it's probably a non-issue for them. But if you are a sysadmin managing thousands of servers with possibly tens of thousands of VM's on top of that it's a major issue.

I thought the majority of voice circuits in the US were restricted to the callerid they could display? Only certain VoIP services and carrier level interconnects would allow you to set anything you wanted?