Posts by Oninoshiko

I thought it was where the horses went.

Jockeys go home after a day's work, just like the rest of us, I assume.

Re: applications always run 10 times as slow and take 4 times the memory still

I'm pretty sure the slowness is the crap developers writing java like the daily WTF was a contest.

The java where I work haunts my nightmares.

@DJV

You can set your mind at ease, it was the 1981 version.

If you want protection against lightning hitting your house wiring directly, then I know of no system that gives total protection.

The best protection against that is religion (It works as well as anything else).

What "successes" did Elop achieve at Nokia? He (deliberately?) nearly ran it into the ground before the miracle Microsoft buyout.

Well if the objective was to drive Nokia into the ground, then that would, by definition, be a success.

Re: John Carter

I had not read the books, but I had a friend who did, so we watched it on DVD later. It was certainly entertaining.

The problem was the advertising. If I didn't know someone who was a fan of the book, I would have no idea (and indeed, didn't until he told me) what to make of it.

Re: When you talk about the evolving functionality of the PS3

The took away two. Reverse compatibility which they never did completely get working (some games worked, some didn't), and the other-os.

Say what you will about Other-OS being useless for the average gamer, but reverse compatibility WAS a useful feature (excepting it's buggyness).

Re: Hype combo points

Cocoa is a narcotic?

Cocaine (INN) (benzoylmethylecgonine, an ecgonine derivative) is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant.

(shamelessly plagiarized from wackypedia)

Re: Old

"Particularly when there's easy, elegant & reliable work arounds like Classic Shell. I'm running 8.1, it works well, I never see TIFKAM, I have a full functional start button and menus. And CSGO runs like stink (even if I'm crap at it)."

Why should you have to install a 3rd party app to work around the fact the MS broke the UI? They broke it, they should be called out on it.

aye, also make note of the wind direction!

Wasn't it netflix that was offering to give ISPs a box to cache netflix content?

Once the content is on your network, it doesn't cost you anything to deliver it to the end user. They even are willing to do all the work to set the damn thing up!

Makeup of rockstar consortum

MS was one of the members mentioned by AC2. I would say the others on the list are only mildly interesting. Most of the articles seems to emphasize the MS and Apple stakes too, so AC2 and I are not alone.

Re: A question

Well, one point is that US Laws (as much as US Lawmakers want to feel to the contrary) have little to no effect in china.

Re: Advertising Standards

noisy ads made me modify my hosts file at work. It's also why I use noscript at home.

I agree with you fully, I don't mind non-obtrusive ads. Occasionally I'll even click on one. ONE ad that makes noise, and I block your network.

The exceptions are ads in videos. I'm expecting the video to make noise, so the ad isn't so bad, provided it's not exceptionally louder then the video.

Re: Hmm

ET did not almost kill video gaming. ET just happens to be used as a poster-child of the problems with games at the time. Shovelware almost killed video-games in the 80s, and the saving grace what nintendo's draconian productions limits on studios (they set limits on how many titles any company could release in a year. better choose your best ones!), as well as their censorship rules. We may laugh now that you can't kill anything on a nintendo game, and a lot of it was overboard, but setting a baseline quality standard ment that gold seal gave you a good idea what you where getting.

Incidentally, ET's only problem was about 5 bugs. It was never anything systemic in the game. With the games I've see that the premise was awful to began with, ET hardly ranks as the worst with just a handful of bugs.

Re: They haven't

Really? I would think the beating everyone over the head with "He's not heterosexual" thing in torchwood wouldn't appeal to the conservative colonial sensibilities.

Re: Have they fixed

Actually, I won it in a drawing.

No, I would not pay what they ask for it.

Re: @Trevor_Pott

so: Sie/Hir then?

Re: Bright

THIS.

Luckily, for me, I have thick walls, so I stick mine on the windowsill, outside the curtain. I do lothe blue LEDs.

Re: Good.

I think he thinks that if it keeps getting more bad, people will eventually stop putting up with it. It's a cute, naive position.

Re: Commercial Software Vendor hates FOSS!

Actually, if it's being developed inhouse chances are that somebody involved will stand up and tell the people doing it that if they change the requirement 400 times that it's going to take ages and cost loads. Chances are that they also have some idea what is actually meant to be achieved, unlike consultants.

Not really, after the first few weeks of pointing this out daily, ranting and raving about it, it just becomes a form-letter, for which there is a scripted deletion of. I think you must not understand the ability of bureaucracy to remove any semblance of sensibility from any organization.

Re: Take a Number

Im not sure why you put a Joke Alert tag here. This is literally one of the reasons they gave for wanted to delay it.

I don't always watch cat videos on youtube,

but when I do, they are robot cat death machines.

Re: bah haven't had many downvotes lately

Who the hell plays a 3rd person shooter online anyway? Generally you buy them in the bargain bin and enjoy the single player experience.

16 million over the first five days of release.

Re: Get it right

Independent moderate, my ass.

We in the U.S. are about half a century behind nearly every developed society on the planet with regard to healthcare.

Can you tell me what THIS BILL does to alter that? The only people who benefit from this are insurance companies.

Those who could not afford health insurance before, only get it now to avoid the fine, but they buy the cheapest thing they can to do it. It's called a "Bronze level plan" under the Affordable Care Act. These are high deductible plans, so they still have to pay for much more then they can afford out of pocket (only now, that they are play for the insurance too, they can afford even less!).

Those of who have insurance will see rates go up, in addition, many plans (in particular the ones negotiated by organized labour) will be taxed, along with taxes added to medical devices (pacemakers, insulin pumps, etc).

The penalty for businesses not offering insurance only affects full-time employees, and even then only for businesses with greater then 50 full time employees. Encouraging hiring part-time staff to keep your full time staff at 49 or less.

So, please remind me, how compassionate are the backers of this bill?

Re: @the dude

Just goes to show you how good they are...

Re: Logic Chain

Easy:

If they cannot determine it, they don't spy.