Welcome to the online world, where the actual reason someone gets banned has absolutely nothing to do with why they claim they got banned.
If you havent seen it a zillion times even just on slashdot (stories saying "I GOT BANNED FOR X, NOT FAIR" that are completely bogus), then you havent been paying attention.
Glad Im not the only one who immediately thought of that. People read these dystopian books and suppose that its just hypothetical. No, there really are people who think the government is justified in any and every means that it can use to maintain ironclad order.
Because the one freedom that should be held untouchable above all others is the freedom to think. Destroying that, making someone something that theyre not, is sickening.
Right, and being locked up or punished because of what you have done is what we call "justice". Actually taking someone's cognitive abilities away? Did you miss the point of 1984, or Clockwork Orange? These kind of things should cause a reflexive horror, and for good reason. To die a conscious and aware man for your crimes is better than that the government decide how you should think.
Losing a friend because he made bad decisions is tragic, and cause for grief. Having a friend lobotomized because the government has decided youre making bad decisions is horrifying, and cause for outrage.
There is a big difference between making bad decisions freely, and having the government decide that you are no longer fit to make your own decisions.
Your game isn't intrinsically better than others because it looks like a SNES game.
For those of us who grew up with an SNES, yes, it is.
Stop making games that think that difficulty for difficulty sake is the best mechanic a game can have.
One of the things you notice after going back to Wii VC and playing old NES games is that modern games dont have any idea what "difficulty" is. We're remarkably pampered with easy games and unlimited continues compared to games years ago.
Torchlight 1 and 2, for example, were excellent games, but they were also dead easy and had mechanics that could get abused in ridiculous ways. Go play Gauntlet and then lets talk about difficulty.
Ive always understood it best to install from the repositories, since that way a kernel update wont break your 3d.
Not a guru here but I understand it has something to do with graphics kernel modules and needing to be built for new kernels and that not happening if you use the semi-voodoo official nVidia install script.
I thought they had a shell script that you could just doubleclick... yea, it pops open a terminal window, but AFAIK all you have to do is scroll thru the agreement and press enter or some such.
Its capitalist, its just regulated capitalism. It still operates on principles of competition (hence antitrust regulation) and privately run enterprises.
The idea that we "gave up on capitalism" is kind of odd; what would gp call what we have now?
Theyre also several times their component cost, and horribly cost-ineffective if you are throwing OSX out the window.
Intel chipsets tend to be supported very well. Generally if you want to know compatibility, dont look @ "is this motherboard supported", just look at whether:
* The northbridge is supported
* The southbridge is supported
* The NICs are supported
Generally Intel stuff is VERY well supported, and GENERALLY year-old chips are supported fairly well. Try to stay away from brand new stuff unless youve done the research to make sure the kernel supports it. Googling something like "Linux support RTL8187" or "linux support P77" should give you some ideas. I wouldnt sweat it too much tho, just pilot one machine and if it goes well roll the config out.
Im not super clear on why UEFI would cause a big issue for a Linux install, but I also havent paid that much attention to it. I have an ASUS UEFI mobo, and I believe it had an option to pretend to be a normal BIOS or something, though Im using Win8 and havent really messed with it.
Thats not correct; there are certain times I ran into "access denied" attempting to kill some task (ie, some virus scanner process) as admin, while the same operation succeeded once I elevated to SYSTEM and killed the process there.
Security aside there were other differences, such as local environment obviously.
Once you get admin, you could trivially install a service with system-level access to elevate yourself further. This was easily done on XP, where you could set cmd.exe to run as an interactive service, which when started presented you with a System-level command prompt.
It can be done on Windows 7 as well, though I believe you can no longer just do it with cmd.exe.
The guy who created them had neither the time nor the expertise to "develop" new drivers. He repackaged the bog-standard drivers and tweaked some settings, including opening up an already existing but hidden overclocking GUI.
If this guy was able to develop his own drivers from scratch, I have a feeling the Nouveau guys would be reaching out to him for information.
Because by the time you get 5 or 6 of them, they will be absolutely dominated by an equivalent cost AMD 8 core processor. Get 9 or 10 of them and watch it get slaughtered by an Intel i7. And all the while the single-chip solutions have no IP stack or clustering overhead.
Your points arent generally wrong, but I disagree with your opinions, like that Android isnt "Unix-like". You can make kiosk or appliance style *nix distros, and they are in fact common: OpenFiler, pfSense, a LOT of NAS boxes out there, etc. Some of them it is easy to get to the "unix" part of them (pfsense, etc); others it is very difficult (many NAS boxes). That doesnt make them "fake NASes", any more than a Windows box set to hide explorer and launch a locked down firefox is "fake Windows".
Android was designed to run on a phone, and as such it has certain design constraints and goals. One of the goals is not to have a terminal window directly accessible to 99% of its userbase; another is to require no maintenance despite allowing people to install whatever programs they want. On Android, you can install packages all day long, then uninstall all of them, and be assured that your phone wont have any problems. Try that on a normal GNU/Linux. For instance, go into Ubuntu and do an 'apt-get remove --purge evolution', and then try to get your system back to where it was with a functioning Gnome (dunno if this still works, but it definitely caused problems in 10.04 and earlier).
The "out-of-the-box" limitations are a reflection of its intent as an appliance OS, not of some anti-FOSS, anti-*nix, or anti-GNU philosophy from Google.
Our people tend to have life expectancies in the very late 70s, and have the ability to leave the country whensoever we want. Check out the situation in N Korea, you might find that its slightly different.
The last century called. They wanted to let us know that they tried communism, and it didnt work so well.
I tried to tell them about the various catastrophies they were in for, but they insisted that it was more important that we really understand that communism doesnt work.
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"Cracking down" as in "allowed an illegal occupation of a private park for months before getting fed up with the ghetto that resulted"?
Wow, super harsh. OWS was full of itself from day 1.
Welcome to the online world, where the actual reason someone gets banned has absolutely nothing to do with why they claim they got banned.
If you havent seen it a zillion times even just on slashdot (stories saying "I GOT BANNED FOR X, NOT FAIR" that are completely bogus), then you havent been paying attention.
Glad Im not the only one who immediately thought of that. People read these dystopian books and suppose that its just hypothetical. No, there really are people who think the government is justified in any and every means that it can use to maintain ironclad order.
Because the one freedom that should be held untouchable above all others is the freedom to think. Destroying that, making someone something that theyre not, is sickening.
Right, and being locked up or punished because of what you have done is what we call "justice". Actually taking someone's cognitive abilities away? Did you miss the point of 1984, or Clockwork Orange? These kind of things should cause a reflexive horror, and for good reason. To die a conscious and aware man for your crimes is better than that the government decide how you should think.
Losing a friend because he made bad decisions is tragic, and cause for grief. Having a friend lobotomized because the government has decided youre making bad decisions is horrifying, and cause for outrage.
There is a big difference between making bad decisions freely, and having the government decide that you are no longer fit to make your own decisions.
Adding to list: Checkpoint / Truecrypt / insert disk encryption solution.
Your game isn't intrinsically better than others because it looks like a SNES game.
For those of us who grew up with an SNES, yes, it is.
Stop making games that think that difficulty for difficulty sake is the best mechanic a game can have.
One of the things you notice after going back to Wii VC and playing old NES games is that modern games dont have any idea what "difficulty" is. We're remarkably pampered with easy games and unlimited continues compared to games years ago.
Torchlight 1 and 2, for example, were excellent games, but they were also dead easy and had mechanics that could get abused in ridiculous ways. Go play Gauntlet and then lets talk about difficulty.
And quit fucking blaming everything on piracy.
Agreed, but it might help if everyone quit pretending piracy was OK.
Probably going to get modded down for this but I dont really care:
Ive always understood it best to install from the repositories, since that way a kernel update wont break your 3d.
Not a guru here but I understand it has something to do with graphics kernel modules and needing to be built for new kernels and that not happening if you use the semi-voodoo official nVidia install script.
better than Pulse which seems to crap itself on update
Curse those release-candidate kernels!
I thought they had a shell script that you could just doubleclick... yea, it pops open a terminal window, but AFAIK all you have to do is scroll thru the agreement and press enter or some such.
It hardly qualifies as having to use a CLI.
Its capitalist, its just regulated capitalism. It still operates on principles of competition (hence antitrust regulation) and privately run enterprises.
The idea that we "gave up on capitalism" is kind of odd; what would gp call what we have now?
Theyre also several times their component cost, and horribly cost-ineffective if you are throwing OSX out the window.
Intel chipsets tend to be supported very well. Generally if you want to know compatibility, dont look @ "is this motherboard supported", just look at whether:
* The northbridge is supported
* The southbridge is supported
* The NICs are supported
Generally Intel stuff is VERY well supported, and GENERALLY year-old chips are supported fairly well. Try to stay away from brand new stuff unless youve done the research to make sure the kernel supports it. Googling something like "Linux support RTL8187" or "linux support P77" should give you some ideas. I wouldnt sweat it too much tho, just pilot one machine and if it goes well roll the config out.
Im not super clear on why UEFI would cause a big issue for a Linux install, but I also havent paid that much attention to it. I have an ASUS UEFI mobo, and I believe it had an option to pretend to be a normal BIOS or something, though Im using Win8 and havent really messed with it.
Thats not correct; there are certain times I ran into "access denied" attempting to kill some task (ie, some virus scanner process) as admin, while the same operation succeeded once I elevated to SYSTEM and killed the process there.
Security aside there were other differences, such as local environment obviously.
It works a lot better than communism. Ever wonder why even China gave up on communism and went capitalist?
Once you get admin, you could trivially install a service with system-level access to elevate yourself further. This was easily done on XP, where you could set cmd.exe to run as an interactive service, which when started presented you with a System-level command prompt.
It can be done on Windows 7 as well, though I believe you can no longer just do it with cmd.exe.
A user with admin privileges can gain system level access.
The guy who created them had neither the time nor the expertise to "develop" new drivers. He repackaged the bog-standard drivers and tweaked some settings, including opening up an already existing but hidden overclocking GUI.
If this guy was able to develop his own drivers from scratch, I have a feeling the Nouveau guys would be reaching out to him for information.
A post like yours would be greatly enhanced by a link or two.
Because by the time you get 5 or 6 of them, they will be absolutely dominated by an equivalent cost AMD 8 core processor. Get 9 or 10 of them and watch it get slaughtered by an Intel i7. And all the while the single-chip solutions have no IP stack or clustering overhead.
Your points arent generally wrong, but I disagree with your opinions, like that Android isnt "Unix-like". You can make kiosk or appliance style *nix distros, and they are in fact common: OpenFiler, pfSense, a LOT of NAS boxes out there, etc. Some of them it is easy to get to the "unix" part of them (pfsense, etc); others it is very difficult (many NAS boxes). That doesnt make them "fake NASes", any more than a Windows box set to hide explorer and launch a locked down firefox is "fake Windows".
Android was designed to run on a phone, and as such it has certain design constraints and goals. One of the goals is not to have a terminal window directly accessible to 99% of its userbase; another is to require no maintenance despite allowing people to install whatever programs they want. On Android, you can install packages all day long, then uninstall all of them, and be assured that your phone wont have any problems. Try that on a normal GNU/Linux. For instance, go into Ubuntu and do an 'apt-get remove --purge evolution', and then try to get your system back to where it was with a functioning Gnome (dunno if this still works, but it definitely caused problems in 10.04 and earlier).
The "out-of-the-box" limitations are a reflection of its intent as an appliance OS, not of some anti-FOSS, anti-*nix, or anti-GNU philosophy from Google.
Our people tend to have life expectancies in the very late 70s, and have the ability to leave the country whensoever we want. Check out the situation in N Korea, you might find that its slightly different.
Iran is putting 50km objects in orbit?
Better prep those mass driver shelters.
Money, money, money....
The last century called. They wanted to let us know that they tried communism, and it didnt work so well.
I tried to tell them about the various catastrophies they were in for, but they insisted that it was more important that we really understand that communism doesnt work.