I really don't understand where this myth that laggy players make a server laggy came from. It's simply not true so please stop propagating it around the net.
Giving credit where it is due windows 7 does two things which I think Ubuntu currently doesn't..
- alt + tabbing out of games in windows 7 is very quick - if you're playing a game in windows 7 and you plug in a usb audio device it starts working without user intervention
I think those are two things that Ubuntu could really improve upon although it might be difficult because: - on the first point due to all the propitiatory drivers. - the second point due to the fact that sound on linux is really in limbo. Pulse Audio is making things "better" but its seen by some as the wrong direction. APIs upon APIs upon APIs where as they'd rather see OSS v4 replace it.
uh, what you talking about. I just went to ubuntu.com and it says "Ubuntu LTS is here!" and it has a link to download 10.04. Nowhere does it say that it's still in development.
What I don't understand is why they don't focus on the gdm login screen. The default looks horrible and they removed the option screen to add your own themes.
They really should replace it with something like this by default but with the current wallpaper they have.
I have it installed here now and F-Spot doesn't even have cropping. It can only rotate images left and right which is completely stupid because you have an image viewer app by default that does that too.
So you double click open an image and the image viewer appears with the following options.. rotate left/right, zoom, next/last image and a button called "edit image" which opens f-spot..
So what do you get when you click the edit image button to open f-spot? rotate left/right, zoom and next/last image.. This is a complete joke. The worse part is that I've been using 10.04 for a while and I am sure they used to have the crop in there at the beginning.
Call back when it's 100% done and bug free. No one wants a half broken phone when they can buy an Android or iPhone and jail break it to get exactly what you're complaining about.
I know this is going to come as a shock to you so brace yourself. Not everyone wants/likes the iPhone.
So comments like yours and from the article are really only from YOUR opinions. Now brace yourself for another shock, people have different opinions!
For example, some people like to walk rather then take the bus. Now sure walking is slower and less convenient, but yet people still do it. That doesn't mean however that it is better or worse then taking the bus or a car.
Sometimes you don't need to demand someone justify every minute detail in the hopes of advocating someone to switch to your favourite thing. If the guy prefers the android phones then just let him be and accept that not everyone likes the same things you do.
and from reading the article it looks like the created a testing nightmare..
The protection was designed to produce effects almost indistinguishable from bugs, so testing was also affected. If any false positives occurred in the protection, they could be reported incorrectly. For this reason a very thorough debugging plan was produced just for the protection. Every location that could trigger protection was listed, along with how long it would take to trigger, what the exact effect would be, and where you had to look to see the effect. Testers had to visit the locations, wait the required amount of time, and then look to see if the protection had been triggered. Having any of the protection give a false positive was obviously our biggest worry. Therefore all the protection was set up on a compile-time switch so that it could be turned off at any time if we weren't absolutely sure that the protection was reliable (and believe me, there were a few moments when it didn't seem to be).
In the real world however this doesn't seem to happen..
The BBC in the UK is publically funded and they make money of various sales from their publically funded shows and movies. The MET office which collects weather data in the UK sells its more detailed reports on to airports and other businesses.
The idea is that by making these publically funded organisations more profitable then we can spend less tax on them (like that ever happens). However this situation with universities holding copyright to data is different. It's simple greed for personal gain and as I have a personal grudge against the parasitic universities in england (which take tax payers money and use it for marketing to international students to get even more at the expense of english students. Oh, and the middle management that only care about office politics) I say fuck'em.
I read the title and got excited. "Wow EA is really innovating" I thought.
Then I read the summary and found it was just a shitty evony clone riding off the success of the best RPG series. These games have been done for decades, why make yet another.
They're also the easiest things to make, reports of bugs just shows how shit EA really is. No original ideas, crap programmers.
I disagree about expanding it to be "unjustified enrichment", perhaps a better word for that is exploitation.
The huge majority of people however would agree stolen to mean taking something without permission of the owner, or better yet; knowingly not having permission to take it. Even if the thing taken was a copy the original.
You can debate all you want about the specifics or what this means in law, the slashdot summary is still correct and it's what the majority of people understand it to be.
It's like the decade old "it's crackers not hackers" argument. Not to 99% of the population.
I grow tired of making this distinction on every single post which deals with an infringement of copyright or other licensed work.
Then perhaps you should just stop fighting a losing battle trying to "educate" everyone on what you think words should mean. Language and laws are formed by agreement from the majority. If the vast majority call it stealing then it is.
You don't happen to also spam threads telling people to use the term "cracker" instead of "hacker" as well do you?
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Indeed, not only that but you can do it in the browser too.
I really don't understand where this myth that laggy players make a server laggy came from. It's simply not true so please stop propagating it around the net.
Chinese law != US law
What makes you so sure they'd even bother to look for evidence on your local computer?
No, he just sits on the h.264 board and has his own quicktime format.. no conflict of interest at all..
Try OSS v4
Thanks I never knew that before.
Also you can use ctrl+alt+t to open a new terminal window.
Why should your personal choice of config be default when only you want to use it compared to the millions of people who don't?
That just changes the button layout. Then you're stuck with the button's background image not matching up correctly.
So instead of looking like this...
(_ _ _)
You get this..
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Giving credit where it is due windows 7 does two things which I think Ubuntu currently doesn't..
- alt + tabbing out of games in windows 7 is very quick
- if you're playing a game in windows 7 and you plug in a usb audio device it starts working without user intervention
I think those are two things that Ubuntu could really improve upon although it might be difficult because:
- on the first point due to all the propitiatory drivers.
- the second point due to the fact that sound on linux is really in limbo. Pulse Audio is making things "better" but its seen by some as the wrong direction. APIs upon APIs upon APIs where as they'd rather see OSS v4 replace it.
uh, what you talking about. I just went to ubuntu.com and it says "Ubuntu LTS is here!" and it has a link to download 10.04. Nowhere does it say that it's still in development.
What I don't understand is why they don't focus on the gdm login screen. The default looks horrible and they removed the option screen to add your own themes.
They really should replace it with something like this by default but with the current wallpaper they have.
I have it installed here now and F-Spot doesn't even have cropping. It can only rotate images left and right which is completely stupid because you have an image viewer app by default that does that too.
So you double click open an image and the image viewer appears with the following options.. rotate left/right, zoom, next/last image and a button called "edit image" which opens f-spot..
So what do you get when you click the edit image button to open f-spot? rotate left/right, zoom and next/last image.. This is a complete joke. The worse part is that I've been using 10.04 for a while and I am sure they used to have the crop in there at the beginning.
Total fail.
My bad, I missed a couple of decimal points. woops. :)
The problem however is that Microsoft is approaching the point where they have lost almost as much as Google is worth ($1.5 Bil?).
Call back when it's 100% done and bug free. No one wants a half broken phone when they can buy an Android or iPhone and jail break it to get exactly what you're complaining about.
I know this is going to come as a shock to you so brace yourself. Not everyone wants/likes the iPhone.
So comments like yours and from the article are really only from YOUR opinions. Now brace yourself for another shock, people have different opinions!
For example, some people like to walk rather then take the bus. Now sure walking is slower and less convenient, but yet people still do it. That doesn't mean however that it is better or worse then taking the bus or a car.
Sometimes you don't need to demand someone justify every minute detail in the hopes of advocating someone to switch to your favourite thing. If the guy prefers the android phones then just let him be and accept that not everyone likes the same things you do.
and from reading the article it looks like the created a testing nightmare..
In the real world however this doesn't seem to happen..
The BBC in the UK is publically funded and they make money of various sales from their publically funded shows and movies.
The MET office which collects weather data in the UK sells its more detailed reports on to airports and other businesses.
The idea is that by making these publically funded organisations more profitable then we can spend less tax on them (like that ever happens). However this situation with universities holding copyright to data is different. It's simple greed for personal gain and as I have a personal grudge against the parasitic universities in england (which take tax payers money and use it for marketing to international students to get even more at the expense of english students. Oh, and the middle management that only care about office politics) I say fuck'em.
All of which should have been answered in the research paper that the data was used for.
While making reference to the original data? That's called science.
While not referencing the original data? That's called plagiarism, it's happened in science before and usually ends your career.
I read the title and got excited. "Wow EA is really innovating" I thought.
Then I read the summary and found it was just a shitty evony clone riding off the success of the best RPG series. These games have been done for decades, why make yet another.
They're also the easiest things to make, reports of bugs just shows how shit EA really is. No original ideas, crap programmers.
I disagree about expanding it to be "unjustified enrichment", perhaps a better word for that is exploitation.
The huge majority of people however would agree stolen to mean taking something without permission of the owner, or better yet; knowingly not having permission to take it. Even if the thing taken was a copy the original.
You can debate all you want about the specifics or what this means in law, the slashdot summary is still correct and it's what the majority of people understand it to be.
It's like the decade old "it's crackers not hackers" argument. Not to 99% of the population.
Then perhaps you should just stop fighting a losing battle trying to "educate" everyone on what you think words should mean. Language and laws are formed by agreement from the majority. If the vast majority call it stealing then it is.
You don't happen to also spam threads telling people to use the term "cracker" instead of "hacker" as well do you?
I simply took the definition from Google.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=&q=define:stolen&btnG=Search
Just because I don't conform to your world view I'm suddenly working for the music industry? Grow up.
It could be if someone wrote something better using the stolen source code.