Breaking backwards compatiblity

[Nick Sabalausky]

"H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx> wrote in message 
news:mailman.446.1331424217.4860.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 05:16:15PM -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> Which reminds me, I still need to figure out what domain it contacts
>> to check whether or not to incessently nag me about *cough*
>> "upgrading" *cough*, so I can ban the damn thing via my hosts file.
>
> Umm... you *could* just point Opera at opera:config, then search for
> "Disable Opera Package AutoUpdate", y'know...
>

Ugh. If the authors of a GUI program can't be bothered to put an option in 
their own options menus, then that option may as well not exist. Why can't 
they learn that? I searched every inch of Opera's options screens and never 
found *any* mention or reference to any "Disable AutoUpdate" or 
"opera:config". What the fuck did they expect? Clairvoyance? Omniscience?

Thanks for the tip, though.

>
>> > And people keep talking about web apps and the browser as a
>> > "platform".  Sigh.
>>
>> Yea. There's even an entire company dedicated to pushing that moronic
>> agenda (*and* tracking you like Big Brother). They're called
>> "Microsoft Mark 2"...erm...wait...I mean "Google".
>
> lol...
>

Heh :) I really do see modern Google as "the new microsoft" though, but just 
with less respect for personal privacy. (Heck, aren't half their employees 
former MS employees anyway?) I don't care how much they chant "Don't be 
evil", it's actions that count, not mantras.

Hell, that's what happened to MS and Apple, too. *They* used to be the 
"Google" to IBM's "evil", and then they themselves became the new IBMs. That 
famous Apple II commercial is so depressingly ironic these days. Success 
changes corporations.

>
> [...]
>> > We get a kickback from our hardware manufacturers and we sell more
>> > software without actually adding any new features! It's a win-win
>> > situation!"
>> >
>>
>> That's one of the reasons I despise the modern-day Epic and Valve:
>> *Complete* graphics whores (not to mention Microsoft sluts,
>> particularly in Epic's case), and I don't believe for a second that
>> what you've described isn't the exact nature of...what does Epic call
>> it? Some sort of "Alliance" with NVIDIA and ATI that Epic was so
>> *publically* proud of. Fuck Cliffy, Sweeny, "Fat Fuck" Newell, et al.
>> Shit, and Epic actually used to be pretty good back in their
>> "Megagames" days.
> [...]
>
> I root for indie games. That's where the real creativity's at.
> Creativity has died in big-budget games years ago.
>

Absolutely. And it's not just from the gamer's side, but from the 
developer's side too. I grew up wanting to join an id or an Apogee, Sierra, 
Sega, etc., but when I got to college twelve years ago, I looked at the 
state of the industry and decided "If I'm going to do games, it's going to 
be as an indie." I hate the web dev I do, yet I still vastly prefer it to 
joining an EA or "yet another group of 'developers' who are really just 
trying to get into Pixar" or any of the smaller houses that Bobby Kodick and 
Activision are holding by the balls.