First, why does the poster claim that Desktop Linux was killed. How is the fact that the number of desktop linux user has been growing, continually, although perhaps not as fast as some afficionados claimed, illustrating that the Linux Desktop was killed? It doesn't make sense.
Second, where is the data? Which statistic shows that Linux developers migrated in masses to Mac OS X? Somehow I doubt that. What I am inclined to believe is that more developers write cross-platform code nowadays in comparison to 10-15 years ago.
Hopefully with these arrests and others a few months back, the keyboard warriors out there will start to realise that they're not untraceable and can't just do as they damn well please on the internet.
Funny how different opinions can be. I just hope they'll be more careful in future.
You've missed the bit about security auditing that the OP mentioned. I hope you remember the Apple file vault debacle, which allowed users to recover the file vault password by a simple one-line grep statement that you could copy & paste in terminal? It took Apple several years to close this hole.
It would be pretty naive to believe that iOS can be considered good enough for confidential information. But I guess the other poster has a point that it's pretty hard to use an iPad for anything useful anyway...
1. If [Company releases additional content for Game], then [Game was deficient in content]. 2. [Company releases additional content for Game]. 3. Therefore, [Game was deficient in content].
This is called affirming the consequent and is a formal fallacy.
I can't speak for other non-Americans but I personally do care for the elections. Romney would be as bad as Bush jr., perhaps even worse, and nobody wants that. We still haven't figured out how you could vote for Bush jr. two times, though. I have met many Americans in my life and all of them were nice, reasonable, intelligent, and voting for Democrats. I'm not kidding you, I have never met personally or heard of any personal acquaintance of a friend with an American who was even remotely a Republican, pro Bush, pro Romney, pro Palin, anti-abortion, fundamential christian, pro guns or any other things like that. What's even more bizarre, a friend of mine is living in LA and he told me that he never met such a person there either. As it seems, the US is not just divided into few rich people and many poor people, with a rapidly dwindling middle class, but also between the coasts and the countryside, and only the people at the coasts have occasional contacts with the rest of the world.
Looks like an uninhabited pile of rock and sand to me. Now could we move on and build a huge space station with artificial gravity? Quickly please, because we're going to need it.
I'm not in a love-hate relationship with any piece of software and Firefox works just fine for me. Then again, Netscape worked just fine for me, too. What I don't understand is why people constantly confuse feature-bloat with real progress.
You mean whenever I decide to compile a custom kernel I'd need to pay $80 to Microsoft to run it on a machine with SecureBoot? To run my custom kernel on my computer?
Sorry, that doesn't sound like a good deal to me. Real secure boot would look like this:
"You are trying to boot from a new kernel or an existing kernel has been modified. This might indicate that a virus is trying to gain access to your computer. Choose Use Previous Kernel if you are unsure about the reason for this message. Would you like to boot with this kernel and add it to the list of accepted kernels?
Even if those are not hooked up to the main computers all it takes is one mistake...
But perhaps not watching porn increases the likelyhood of making a mistake? Who knows what they'll do when they get really bored and have no porn, video games or other distraction, they'll probably start screwing around with the missile systems...
In my personal experience pirate sites are relatively safe even when browsing them from Windows, I've never had any problems with sites like solarmovie.eu, demonoid.ph/demonoid.me or thepiratebay.org. Actually, I've personally had less problems so far with pirated content than with dysfunctional DRM schemes. Perhaps your relatives are a bit too careless or need better anti-virus software? (Porn sites, on the other hand, are full of malware.)
But anyway there is an easy remedy: Install GNU/Linux for them and tell them to use GNU/Linux for downloading all the great pirated content out there. Afterwards they can check their downloads with a nice anti-virus software before using them in any way Windows. Works like a charm, keeps your system 100% malware free.
Sorry, you're wrong about basically everything you say. I've never owned a console and would never buy one. Skyrim looks fine with extremely high-detail texture enhancements and a number of other mods, but even then doesn't look realistic. (For a start, even with additional tree mods it has by far not enough vegetation.) Crysis 2 does look good, but is easily spotted as fake/game graphics. BF3 looks in no way more realistic than maxed out Arma 2 -- assuming, of course, that all postprocessing is turned off in Arma 2.
Yes, I meant ray of good. No, I'm not retarded, I have a Ph.D. degree. Of course, rays of god exist in reality, but they do not look like in video games in reality and occur very rarely. Same for colored clouds.
Depth of field is a postprocessing effect in video games, and this effect has virtually nothing to do with depth of field in cameras and optical devices. It just blurs objects farther apart from the viewer, which is ridiculous. In reality, you can see sharply for many miles on a clear day, you don't see a blurry blob if the object is hundred meters away. If you turn the postprocessing effect off, the game looks realistic; with the effect on, every game looks like shit. Perhaps there is a PC game with a "hard-coded" depth of field effect, but I have never seen one and I've played hundreds of games since the early 90ies.
When I stuck my head out of the car, what I see is not blurry, except for a very narrow range where I'm looking at. When I turn my head, nothing blurrs either. Artificial motion blur is already annoying in CGI effects in the Cinema---yes, I spot these easily, they came to cinema during the last decade like the plague and are not realistic at all. In PC games the same effect is much more crappy and the first thing to turn off if you like good graphics.
Sorry AC, but are you sure you are not just a console gamer? Because you sound a lot like one.
If I was a programmer for embedded microcontrollers of elevators, I'd make sure that the elevator comes faster and overrides other requests if you push the button fast and repeatedly, but I wouldn't tell anyone... just for fun.
I'm an immersive gamer and like good graphics. For me, there cannot be enough graphical detail and variation -- but it has to look realistic. Unfortunately, practically no game nowadays fullfils the last criterion, except perhaps Arma 2 at extremely high graphics settings. If it's just console-style graphics with lots of effects, colored clouds and wrong exaggerated colors in general, or "ray of good" sunrays, then I don't give the slightest damn about detail.
Oh yeah, and don't bother with detail or realism if you afterward smear over it with crappy postprocessing effects like "depth of field" or "motion blur."
That's right. As it seems,Apple did this: They copied Sony's idea based on their description of a product, not any real product, then patented the design as if they had invented it themselves as something genuinely new, and then sued Samsung for damages, claiming that it took them millions of dollars of R&D costs to come up with the design and the product specifications in the first place.
How about putting legal and moral pressure on hardware manufacturers to change the implementation of the "Secure Boot" system to something more reasonable?
Which OSes become bootable ought to be uniquely decided by the users during installation without any complex fiddling and there should be the same procedure for any OS. For example, require the computer to have a hardware switch that when set to INSTALL ON will allow a new OS to be installed and when set to INSTALL OFF does not allow any changes to the bootloader. That's how it should work, and it's technically feasible.
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Why do you want a million dollars?
First, why does the poster claim that Desktop Linux was killed. How is the fact that the number of desktop linux user has been growing, continually, although perhaps not as fast as some afficionados claimed, illustrating that the Linux Desktop was killed? It doesn't make sense.
Second, where is the data? Which statistic shows that Linux developers migrated in masses to Mac OS X? Somehow I doubt that. What I am inclined to believe is that more developers write cross-platform code nowadays in comparison to 10-15 years ago.
Hopefully with these arrests and others a few months back, the keyboard warriors out there will start to realise that they're not untraceable and can't just do as they damn well please on the internet.
Funny how different opinions can be. I just hope they'll be more careful in future.
The US has just pissed off a few hundred more Iranians. Ahmadinejad couldn't be more happy.
Cypernetic weapons are en vogue again. Probably part of the Air Force's steampunk efforts. Next: Attack Zeppelins!
Rule #2: Don't post your escape plan on /.
For a few million dollars Siemens will quickly patch it.
You've missed the bit about security auditing that the OP mentioned. I hope you remember the Apple file vault debacle, which allowed users to recover the file vault password by a simple one-line grep statement that you could copy & paste in terminal? It took Apple several years to close this hole.
It would be pretty naive to believe that iOS can be considered good enough for confidential information. But I guess the other poster has a point that it's pretty hard to use an iPad for anything useful anyway...
1. If [Company releases additional content for Game], then [Game was deficient in content].
2. [Company releases additional content for Game].
3. Therefore, [Game was deficient in content].
This is called affirming the consequent and is a formal fallacy.
Looks like perfectly valid modus ponens to me.
I can't speak for other non-Americans but I personally do care for the elections. Romney would be as bad as Bush jr., perhaps even worse, and nobody wants that. We still haven't figured out how you could vote for Bush jr. two times, though. I have met many Americans in my life and all of them were nice, reasonable, intelligent, and voting for Democrats. I'm not kidding you, I have never met personally or heard of any personal acquaintance of a friend with an American who was even remotely a Republican, pro Bush, pro Romney, pro Palin, anti-abortion, fundamential christian, pro guns or any other things like that. What's even more bizarre, a friend of mine is living in LA and he told me that he never met such a person there either. As it seems, the US is not just divided into few rich people and many poor people, with a rapidly dwindling middle class, but also between the coasts and the countryside, and only the people at the coasts have occasional contacts with the rest of the world.
Perhaps it's time to split the country into two?
Looks like an uninhabited pile of rock and sand to me. Now could we move on and build a huge space station with artificial gravity? Quickly please, because we're going to need it.
At least for the kind of books I order, the book depository is practically always cheaper and delivery is free.
I'm not in a love-hate relationship with any piece of software and Firefox works just fine for me. Then again, Netscape worked just fine for me, too. What I don't understand is why people constantly confuse feature-bloat with real progress.
The kinds of people that are going to like Linux are the sorts of people that would love screw with their BIOS.
Wrong. My girlfriend like Ubuntu a lot and doesn't even know what a BIOS is.
You mean whenever I decide to compile a custom kernel I'd need to pay $80 to Microsoft to run it on a machine with SecureBoot? To run my custom kernel on my computer?
Sorry, that doesn't sound like a good deal to me. Real secure boot would look like this:
"You are trying to boot from a new kernel or an existing kernel has been modified. This might indicate that a virus is trying to gain access to your computer. Choose Use Previous Kernel if you are unsure about the reason for this message. Would you like to boot with this kernel and add it to the list of accepted kernels?
Accept New Kernel / Use Previous Kernel."
Even if those are not hooked up to the main computers all it takes is one mistake...
But perhaps not watching porn increases the likelyhood of making a mistake? Who knows what they'll do when they get really bored and have no porn, video games or other distraction, they'll probably start screwing around with the missile systems...
In my personal experience pirate sites are relatively safe even when browsing them from Windows, I've never had any problems with sites like solarmovie.eu, demonoid.ph/demonoid.me or thepiratebay.org. Actually, I've personally had less problems so far with pirated content than with dysfunctional DRM schemes. Perhaps your relatives are a bit too careless or need better anti-virus software? (Porn sites, on the other hand, are full of malware.)
But anyway there is an easy remedy: Install GNU/Linux for them and tell them to use GNU/Linux for downloading all the great pirated content out there. Afterwards they can check their downloads with a nice anti-virus software before using them in any way Windows. Works like a charm, keeps your system 100% malware free.
Sorry, you're wrong about basically everything you say. I've never owned a console and would never buy one. Skyrim looks fine with extremely high-detail texture enhancements and a number of other mods, but even then doesn't look realistic. (For a start, even with additional tree mods it has by far not enough vegetation.) Crysis 2 does look good, but is easily spotted as fake/game graphics. BF3 looks in no way more realistic than maxed out Arma 2 -- assuming, of course, that all postprocessing is turned off in Arma 2.
Yes, I meant ray of good. No, I'm not retarded, I have a Ph.D. degree. Of course, rays of god exist in reality, but they do not look like in video games in reality and occur very rarely. Same for colored clouds.
Depth of field is a postprocessing effect in video games, and this effect has virtually nothing to do with depth of field in cameras and optical devices. It just blurs objects farther apart from the viewer, which is ridiculous. In reality, you can see sharply for many miles on a clear day, you don't see a blurry blob if the object is hundred meters away. If you turn the postprocessing effect off, the game looks realistic; with the effect on, every game looks like shit. Perhaps there is a PC game with a "hard-coded" depth of field effect, but I have never seen one and I've played hundreds of games since the early 90ies.
When I stuck my head out of the car, what I see is not blurry, except for a very narrow range where I'm looking at. When I turn my head, nothing blurrs either. Artificial motion blur is already annoying in CGI effects in the Cinema---yes, I spot these easily, they came to cinema during the last decade like the plague and are not realistic at all. In PC games the same effect is much more crappy and the first thing to turn off if you like good graphics.
Sorry AC, but are you sure you are not just a console gamer? Because you sound a lot like one.
If I was a programmer for embedded microcontrollers of elevators, I'd make sure that the elevator comes faster and overrides other requests if you push the button fast and repeatedly, but I wouldn't tell anyone ... just for fun.
I'm an immersive gamer and like good graphics. For me, there cannot be enough graphical detail and variation -- but it has to look realistic. Unfortunately, practically no game nowadays fullfils the last criterion, except perhaps Arma 2 at extremely high graphics settings. If it's just console-style graphics with lots of effects, colored clouds and wrong exaggerated colors in general, or "ray of good" sunrays, then I don't give the slightest damn about detail.
Oh yeah, and don't bother with detail or realism if you afterward smear over it with crappy postprocessing effects like "depth of field" or "motion blur."
Reminds me of this.
That's right. As it seems,Apple did this: They copied Sony's idea based on their description of a product, not any real product, then patented the design as if they had invented it themselves as something genuinely new, and then sued Samsung for damages, claiming that it took them millions of dollars of R&D costs to come up with the design and the product specifications in the first place.
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Please mod parent up!
How about putting legal and moral pressure on hardware manufacturers to change the implementation of the "Secure Boot" system to something more reasonable?
Which OSes become bootable ought to be uniquely decided by the users during installation without any complex fiddling and there should be the same procedure for any OS. For example, require the computer to have a hardware switch that when set to INSTALL ON will allow a new OS to be installed and when set to INSTALL OFF does not allow any changes to the bootloader. That's how it should work, and it's technically feasible.
Seems that my post missing an auxiliary verb. Sorry!