Yes, every alpha does have bugs. But one would expect that people who claim to write secure software would actually, you know, be somewhat competent at writing secure software.
Just like how Hans Reiser couldn't have possibly killed his wife? No, no no. She ran away to Russia!! Wait, no. She was killed by some random dude whose story didn't check out!! Wait, no. She was killed by another dude!! Wait, no.
And there is no actual evidence that they are actually cheating. The article writer puts forth 2 other highly likely situations but then dismisses them for no good reason for the "cheating".
This is the nature of benchmarks... whenever people start caring about them enough, software/hardware designers optimize for the benchmark.
Except that the article writer tries to claim that that couldn't possibly be the case and thus claims that Microsoft is "cheating" instead. Basically this is an invented controversy.
Because a 7 month old version of Ubuntu is remotely comparable to a 10 year old Windows version, right? Oh wait... Now if you want a an actual analogous situation show me a repository with debs for Debian 2.2 that have FF 3.6 or FF 4.x beta. Yeah, I'm not going to hold my breath on that way.
I prefer the current situation, where installing software on Linux is much easier than installing software on Windows and OS X.
Like when you have to upgrade your entire Ubuntu install just to get the latest version of Firefox? Whereas I can install Firefox 4 beta on a 10 year old version of Windows?
Yes, if you ignore when the version of the package you want doesn't exist in the repos and it also requires dependencies that are of a higher version than in the repost. And this isn't an uncommon case.
You're brother-in-law must be an idiot. There is no HDCP requirement for playing games otherwise one would be unable to use the composite or component cables that Sony themselves sell for the PS3.
*yawn* The story was only aimed at current users of Hulu. Since one has to be in the U.S. to use Hulu it is quite clear to anyone but people trying to be intentionally dense or are just plain stupid that the "available to all" was only aimed at people who can use Hulu which means only people in the U.S.
Using 'us', if the writer was from the US, would be imprecise but not wrong.
Why would it be wrong? People use the term "us" and phrases like "all of us" all the time to refer to only certain groups of people. And, yes, this is even done by people *gasp* outside of the U.S.
This site is supposed to be "News for nerds. Stuff that matters" not "News for US nerds. Stuff that matters to americans."
So then you equally whine about stories that are only relevant to people in the UK? Or in Germany? Or in Japan? I can find numerous such stories and I doubt I will see you whining about them.
and I don't even feel bad about using them because older movies are difficult to get hold of. Try to get Nash Bridges episodes legally to see what I mean.
Or it's that the target audience of the story is American users of Hulu and thus it is only targeted to one group. Clearly no one in any other country uses the terms "us" or "all" to only refer to people inside their own country.
The term "available to all" is talking about it being available to all people that regular Hulu is already available to. Yes, yes, we know for the 5 millionth time that it's not available to Europe, etc etc. Do we really need to beat this dead horse in every Hulu story?
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So kdawson couldn't post this FUD himself? He needed Soulskill to do it for him?
Yes, so awesome that you need another framework on top of them just to manage all the dependencies. Brilliant!!
No one made a stink about it, becasue he was unlikely to shoot anyone with it.
How exactly do you shoot someone with a sword?
No, he didn't say that. But why should anyone trust the person/group/company running a Diaspora seed?
Just choose to host your data on your own server then?
Because that's what my grandma wants to do have to do just to keep in touch with her grandchildren.
Yes, every alpha does have bugs. But one would expect that people who claim to write secure software would actually, you know, be somewhat competent at writing secure software.
Yeah except for the fact that it offers nothing that the average user of Facebook wants or cares about.
And yet has gone down from over 60% to barely over 40% in only around 2 years.
Just like how Hans Reiser couldn't have possibly killed his wife? No, no no. She ran away to Russia!! Wait, no. She was killed by some random dude whose story didn't check out!! Wait, no. She was killed by another dude!! Wait, no.
Because explanation number 2 doesn't feed into the hatred of Microsoft and create all sorts of controversy in order to drive more ad revenue?
And there is no actual evidence that they are actually cheating. The article writer puts forth 2 other highly likely situations but then dismisses them for no good reason for the "cheating".
This is the nature of benchmarks... whenever people start caring about them enough, software/hardware designers optimize for the benchmark.
Except that the article writer tries to claim that that couldn't possibly be the case and thus claims that Microsoft is "cheating" instead. Basically this is an invented controversy.
But how is that poor blogger going to keep up their ad revenue if Slashdot links the real story and not a third party version?
You mean except for all of the actual executable code being Oracle's?
Because a 7 month old version of Ubuntu is remotely comparable to a 10 year old Windows version, right? Oh wait... Now if you want a an actual analogous situation show me a repository with debs for Debian 2.2 that have FF 3.6 or FF 4.x beta. Yeah, I'm not going to hold my breath on that way.
I prefer the current situation, where installing software on Linux is much easier than installing software on Windows and OS X.
Like when you have to upgrade your entire Ubuntu install just to get the latest version of Firefox? Whereas I can install Firefox 4 beta on a 10 year old version of Windows?
Yes, if you ignore when the version of the package you want doesn't exist in the repos and it also requires dependencies that are of a higher version than in the repost. And this isn't an uncommon case.
You're brother-in-law must be an idiot. There is no HDCP requirement for playing games otherwise one would be unable to use the composite or component cables that Sony themselves sell for the PS3.
I'm concerned with the idiotic requirement for HDCP equipped displays, even when running games.
The only one being idiotic is you. Since there are both composite and component cables. In conclusion, you're a moron.
And yet Bruce holds his own secrets about an open source case. This is just Bruce once again being a troll and a hypocrite.
*yawn* The story was only aimed at current users of Hulu. Since one has to be in the U.S. to use Hulu it is quite clear to anyone but people trying to be intentionally dense or are just plain stupid that the "available to all" was only aimed at people who can use Hulu which means only people in the U.S.
Using 'us', if the writer was from the US, would be imprecise but not wrong.
Why would it be wrong? People use the term "us" and phrases like "all of us" all the time to refer to only certain groups of people. And, yes, this is even done by people *gasp* outside of the U.S.
This site is supposed to be "News for nerds. Stuff that matters" not "News for US nerds. Stuff that matters to americans."
So then you equally whine about stories that are only relevant to people in the UK? Or in Germany? Or in Japan? I can find numerous such stories and I doubt I will see you whining about them.
Duh. The story's target audience is Americans.
and I don't even feel bad about using them because older movies are difficult to get hold of. Try to get Nash Bridges episodes legally to see what I mean.
Yeah it was so hard that it took all of 2 seconds searching on Amazon to find: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddvd&field-keywords=nash+bridges&x=0&y=0
Wait, what was your point?
Or it's that the target audience of the story is American users of Hulu and thus it is only targeted to one group. Clearly no one in any other country uses the terms "us" or "all" to only refer to people inside their own country.
The term "available to all" is talking about it being available to all people that regular Hulu is already available to. Yes, yes, we know for the 5 millionth time that it's not available to Europe, etc etc. Do we really need to beat this dead horse in every Hulu story?