Westwood is dead and BioWare is going the same way. In the "best" case the name will stick around for a while as a front for EA, of all the actual talent nobody still works at BioWare and hasn't for a while (which I personally think should be pretty obvious if you look at their latest releases).
MMOwise I only have some faith in World of Darkness as far as mainstream releases go, it's the only game developed by a company known for successfully running a not-a-dime-a-dozen-MMO game for years (EVE is turning 10 this year). Then again it seems they want to crack open the casual market with Dust (sucking up to Sony, that can't end well) and WoD, so we'll have to see how many of their "greed is good" attitude stuck around, they might just be trying to decrease their dependance on EVE so they can force unpopular decisions through without risking the company, but maybe I'm just cynical...(I'm also digressing horribly) But at least they know (from experience with EVE) that politics (and economics) can make for really interesting gameplay elements, most mainstream MMO lack proper politics or a proper player market.
BioWare is dead (also Westwood Studios says "Hi!"), it's EAWare now, with everything that implies. We had better get used to it. I have rather low expectations for their games now (good production quality but generic gameplay, I rather have the other way around if I can't have both).
Didn't know Wasteland 2 was coming out this year though, and a new isometric Divinity game. Maybe we'll get some good RPGs this year for a change...
Honestly, the same goes for the GNOME project. Just have a read here. This situation is possibly even worse for FLOSS in the long run than the FSF's conservativeness.
FLOSS development is supposed to be about choice, I find it very unsettling that various entities try to take that choice away. "If you're not a GNOME project you don't matter, in fact we'll actively try to make your life harder." is basically what they say.
The same can be said about the entire systemd debacle, is it an improvement over what we have now? Maybe so, but that is irrelevant to this discussion, but the way they are trying to force it on everyone whether you need it or not, whether you want it or not is sickening and unworthy of a FLOSS project.
Personally I'll take the FSF's slowass development, seemingly archaic policies and Stallman's insistence on correcting every use of "Linux" to "GNU/Linux" over the current trend emanating from the likes of the GNOME project.
While true here I feel the effort is wasted. We don't have two different Office suites but rather twice more or less the same Office suite with a different license. The likelihood of both projects spending/wasting quite a bit of time/effort trying to not deviate too much from each other seems rather big, this effort would have been better spent on competing with actually different office suites (or standalone applications) instead of with their clone.
No we don't, one was donated by Oracle so they didn't have to maintain it (because they managed to piss off most of the devs). The right thing for the community would have been for Apache to drop it as a clear signal to Oracle and its ilk so they maybe might start fixing their attitude, now Oracle just gets what it wants: an updated Office suite they can do whatever they want with whenever they want (due to the license).
The main reason as I see it, to keep this "thing" "alive" is out of anti-GPL sentiment, which is just a plain retarded reason in my book.
Sure, only the language. But not the libraries that make it useful... You might want to update your knowledge on which parts of.Net are actually "safe" to use, let me tell you MUCH less than what Mono implements.
It's not irrevocable (they can easily get out of their promise if they want) and only covers a relatively small part of the entire.Net runtime, much less than you need for it to be actually useful, iow, Mono implements a lot that doesn't fall under this promise. The FSF has covered this ground time and time again.
Because they were mostly a nomadic people. It's only when their land got taken from under them that they saw the need for a "state" or "identity" as such. You can hardly lay claim on a land you haven't lived in for like 3000years without sounding like a lunatic. Most peoples aren't native to the country they live in, having displaced other peoples or having been displaced by other peoples multiple times in the course of history. The Old Belgians for example got driven quite out a few times and most of them now probably live somewhere way south in Europe (Southern France, Spain, maybe even Turkey), it would be pretty insane if they suddenly tried to reclaim their former land after like 1300 years.
As usual, two wrongs don't make a right, but enough wrongs make damn sure you keep running in circles. Which seems exactly what is happening here.
Indeed, if this feature was actually useful in an enterprise setting RedHat would have implemented it years ago. The simple fact that they did not is in itself enough proof that it is a useless feature.
For my personal usage I barely have any files I could compress and save any reasonable amount of space with. Old documents tend to go in tar bzipped files which, incidentally, I can just browse as if they ware normal folders with my file manager of choice. If the OP can't with his then his file manager is a gimped piece of crap that needs replacing.
File system compression is a non-solution to a non-problem.
IMHO the time to desktop means nothing, especially on Windows as you note, the system isn't usable for minutes after the desktop's shown up. Adding in a faster drive (eg, an SSD or a hybrid drive) will cut down on the startup time, but the issue remains. So whether you load everything before showing the desktop or after will only make a difference in perceived bootup time, not in actual "time until the system is actually usable". In other words, it's just a cheap way to appear to boot faster without any actual benefit to the user.
My experience is quite the opposite, when transferring large files from windows to Linux (over a gigabit link) or vice versa it's always the Windows machine that chokes on the IO trashing like a madman (seen with, Debian/Gentoo and Windows XP/Vista/7 with either ReiserFS/ext3/ext4 vs NTFS).
My guess is your distribution isn't set up properly for your workload.
In that respect I guess it would be appropriate to state that he invented concrete (C) and then went and used it to build something (UNIX). And apparently the design didn't suck as it's still used widely as a basis for other OSs (this goes for both C and UNIX, of course;-) ).
I know 60-65% (depending on source) speaks Flemish - I work in Flanderen, I understand/read/partially speak dutch - Doesn't change that No Matter what I do, I have to use French when dealing with my local Municipality (Inside the larger Brussels area), government, when going to stores, when getting letters from just about anything. Fuck it, the university-hospital I went to recently had ALL signs in French, and only some in dutch.
Except you are dead wrong
No, I am not wrong: French is required if you want to live in Belgium - Even registering as a foreigner in Belgium is done in French!
(Note: My observations are based on living in Brussels for half a decade; a place where French and Dutch are both legally equal, and where companies are required by law to offer their services in both languages)
French IS the Lingua Franca in Belgium, even if 60% or more speaks natively Dutch/Flemish, simply because most people knows and uses French.
I tend to refuse to speak French to any official in Brussels which has worked just fine for me, any official not offering papers or help in either Dutch or French (your choice) in the Brussels area is in violation of the law and if you wanted to you could make that a problem for them (of which they are keenly aware if you remind them). The fact that a lot of the Flemish places around Brussels have been "Francophonised" is one of the big issues why radical nationalist parties like the NVA and the Vlaams Belang are rapidly winning ground. Most Flemish are getting tired of being the "bitches" of the French speaking bourgeoisie.
Irregardless of whether I agree with them given the current things that are on the negotiation table I expect them to win even more ground in the next elections resulting in another, probably worse deadlock. It seems rather obvious nobody has the intention to actually solve this issue in a proper way most seem more concerned about grabbing a minister spot.
Note: Reason you don't have a government is due to the political system of having Flemish and Waloon parties, and having the 2 groups given 50% of the seats. if parties were based on political topics, and you had proportional representation, you wouldn't have automated deadlocks:)
And as soon as that starts to happen software will start having options to send DNS queries to other ports than 53, the same happened with SMTP (most providers block port 25, so my hosting provider runs their mailserver on 25 AND 2525, problem solved...)
Except you are dead wrong as about 60% of the Belgian inhabitants is Flemish (Dutch) speaking. The fact that most of them speak French when spoken to in French while it doesn't exactly go the other way around does not change the facts. It does however give a pretty good picture of what's wrong with this country and why we still have no bloody government.
The only thing that happens if a despaired citizen takes the law in their own hands with a shotgun is that we lose (even) more privacy and citizen rights. Governments only "treat" the effects, not the causes.
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Westwood is dead and BioWare is going the same way. In the "best" case the name will stick around for a while as a front for EA, of all the actual talent nobody still works at BioWare and hasn't for a while (which I personally think should be pretty obvious if you look at their latest releases).
MMOwise I only have some faith in World of Darkness as far as mainstream releases go, it's the only game developed by a company known for successfully running a not-a-dime-a-dozen-MMO game for years (EVE is turning 10 this year). Then again it seems they want to crack open the casual market with Dust (sucking up to Sony, that can't end well) and WoD, so we'll have to see how many of their "greed is good" attitude stuck around, they might just be trying to decrease their dependance on EVE so they can force unpopular decisions through without risking the company, but maybe I'm just cynical...(I'm also digressing horribly) But at least they know (from experience with EVE) that politics (and economics) can make for really interesting gameplay elements, most mainstream MMO lack proper politics or a proper player market.
BioWare is dead (also Westwood Studios says "Hi!"), it's EAWare now, with everything that implies. We had better get used to it. I have rather low expectations for their games now (good production quality but generic gameplay, I rather have the other way around if I can't have both). Didn't know Wasteland 2 was coming out this year though, and a new isometric Divinity game. Maybe we'll get some good RPGs this year for a change...
Honestly, the same goes for the GNOME project. Just have a read here. This situation is possibly even worse for FLOSS in the long run than the FSF's conservativeness.
FLOSS development is supposed to be about choice, I find it very unsettling that various entities try to take that choice away. "If you're not a GNOME project you don't matter, in fact we'll actively try to make your life harder." is basically what they say.
The same can be said about the entire systemd debacle, is it an improvement over what we have now? Maybe so, but that is irrelevant to this discussion, but the way they are trying to force it on everyone whether you need it or not, whether you want it or not is sickening and unworthy of a FLOSS project.
Personally I'll take the FSF's slowass development, seemingly archaic policies and Stallman's insistence on correcting every use of "Linux" to "GNU/Linux" over the current trend emanating from the likes of the GNOME project.
While true here I feel the effort is wasted. We don't have two different Office suites but rather twice more or less the same Office suite with a different license. The likelihood of both projects spending/wasting quite a bit of time/effort trying to not deviate too much from each other seems rather big, this effort would have been better spent on competing with actually different office suites (or standalone applications) instead of with their clone.
No we don't, one was donated by Oracle so they didn't have to maintain it (because they managed to piss off most of the devs). The right thing for the community would have been for Apache to drop it as a clear signal to Oracle and its ilk so they maybe might start fixing their attitude, now Oracle just gets what it wants: an updated Office suite they can do whatever they want with whenever they want (due to the license).
The main reason as I see it, to keep this "thing" "alive" is out of anti-GPL sentiment, which is just a plain retarded reason in my book.
So Apple is a bit like your average Western government then?
Which seems to be the same thing in today's world. Sadly.
Well, my 15year old 2MB S3 2D only card can't run it anymore, so I need new hardware! RAAAAGE! ;-)
Sure, only the language. But not the libraries that make it useful... You might want to update your knowledge on which parts of .Net are actually "safe" to use, let me tell you MUCH less than what Mono implements.
It's not irrevocable (they can easily get out of their promise if they want) and only covers a relatively small part of the entire .Net runtime, much less than you need for it to be actually useful, iow, Mono implements a lot that doesn't fall under this promise. The FSF has covered this ground time and time again.
Because they were mostly a nomadic people. It's only when their land got taken from under them that they saw the need for a "state" or "identity" as such. You can hardly lay claim on a land you haven't lived in for like 3000years without sounding like a lunatic. Most peoples aren't native to the country they live in, having displaced other peoples or having been displaced by other peoples multiple times in the course of history. The Old Belgians for example got driven quite out a few times and most of them now probably live somewhere way south in Europe (Southern France, Spain, maybe even Turkey), it would be pretty insane if they suddenly tried to reclaim their former land after like 1300 years.
As usual, two wrongs don't make a right, but enough wrongs make damn sure you keep running in circles. Which seems exactly what is happening here.
Indeed, if this feature was actually useful in an enterprise setting RedHat would have implemented it years ago. The simple fact that they did not is in itself enough proof that it is a useless feature.
For my personal usage I barely have any files I could compress and save any reasonable amount of space with. Old documents tend to go in tar bzipped files which, incidentally, I can just browse as if they ware normal folders with my file manager of choice. If the OP can't with his then his file manager is a gimped piece of crap that needs replacing.
File system compression is a non-solution to a non-problem.
IMHO the time to desktop means nothing, especially on Windows as you note, the system isn't usable for minutes after the desktop's shown up. Adding in a faster drive (eg, an SSD or a hybrid drive) will cut down on the startup time, but the issue remains. So whether you load everything before showing the desktop or after will only make a difference in perceived bootup time, not in actual "time until the system is actually usable". In other words, it's just a cheap way to appear to boot faster without any actual benefit to the user.
My experience is quite the opposite, when transferring large files from windows to Linux (over a gigabit link) or vice versa it's always the Windows machine that chokes on the IO trashing like a madman (seen with, Debian/Gentoo and Windows XP/Vista/7 with either ReiserFS/ext3/ext4 vs NTFS).
My guess is your distribution isn't set up properly for your workload.
You are most likely already doing that already anyway. What do you think your bank does with your money?
Makes for a nice change of pace in between all the companies slapping each other with lawsuits though.
If you can't beat them, join them. -- Queen
In that respect I guess it would be appropriate to state that he invented concrete (C) and then went and used it to build something (UNIX). And apparently the design didn't suck as it's still used widely as a basis for other OSs (this goes for both C and UNIX, of course ;-) ).
Oculos habent sed non vident, aures habent sed non audiunt.
I know 60-65% (depending on source) speaks Flemish - I work in Flanderen, I understand/read/partially speak dutch - Doesn't change that No Matter what I do, I have to use French when dealing with my local Municipality (Inside the larger Brussels area), government, when going to stores, when getting letters from just about anything. Fuck it, the university-hospital I went to recently had ALL signs in French, and only some in dutch.
Except you are dead wrong
No, I am not wrong: French is required if you want to live in Belgium - Even registering as a foreigner in Belgium is done in French! (Note: My observations are based on living in Brussels for half a decade; a place where French and Dutch are both legally equal, and where companies are required by law to offer their services in both languages)
French IS the Lingua Franca in Belgium, even if 60% or more speaks natively Dutch/Flemish, simply because most people knows and uses French.
I tend to refuse to speak French to any official in Brussels which has worked just fine for me, any official not offering papers or help in either Dutch or French (your choice) in the Brussels area is in violation of the law and if you wanted to you could make that a problem for them (of which they are keenly aware if you remind them). The fact that a lot of the Flemish places around Brussels have been "Francophonised" is one of the big issues why radical nationalist parties like the NVA and the Vlaams Belang are rapidly winning ground. Most Flemish are getting tired of being the "bitches" of the French speaking bourgeoisie.
Irregardless of whether I agree with them given the current things that are on the negotiation table I expect them to win even more ground in the next elections resulting in another, probably worse deadlock. It seems rather obvious nobody has the intention to actually solve this issue in a proper way most seem more concerned about grabbing a minister spot.
Note: Reason you don't have a government is due to the political system of having Flemish and Waloon parties, and having the 2 groups given 50% of the seats. if parties were based on political topics, and you had proportional representation, you wouldn't have automated deadlocks :)
Totally agree.
This would be within Vincent Van Quickenborne's (minister of ICT & telecommunication) portfolio if I'm not mistaken.
And as soon as that starts to happen software will start having options to send DNS queries to other ports than 53, the same happened with SMTP (most providers block port 25, so my hosting provider runs their mailserver on 25 AND 2525, problem solved...)
Except you are dead wrong as about 60% of the Belgian inhabitants is Flemish (Dutch) speaking. The fact that most of them speak French when spoken to in French while it doesn't exactly go the other way around does not change the facts. It does however give a pretty good picture of what's wrong with this country and why we still have no bloody government.
The only thing that happens if a despaired citizen takes the law in their own hands with a shotgun is that we lose (even) more privacy and citizen rights. Governments only "treat" the effects, not the causes.
Yes. Now back to work, maggot! And don't you dare smile!
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