...how do open source games (Especially FPS ones) deal with cheating.
I saw a social solution to this problem. Back in the day of Descent and Descent ][, (Both of which were closed source apps at the time.) folks would host matches explicitly for folks who wanted to cheat. If you ran into a cheater in normal play, you either ignored him, or generated another game. (IIRC, there was no kick/ban feature.) D1 and D2 were P2P games, not server/client, so it was trivially easy to cheat. Very few people did.
That *is* crazy talk.:) *pulls out his 4MP camera*
And the whole revision markup collaboration workfow
I've never used Sharepoint. I'd be willing to bet that a significant percentage of those using it would be happy with TSVN and its pre-packaged scripts for doing diffs between revisions of MSFT Office documents. (OTOH, I'm sure that there are some for whom it is genuinely indispensable.)
Another way of looking at the story of Word would be:
The Word team was the best at delivering the kind of word processor people want to pay money for.
Another way of looking at the story of Word would be:
MSFT Word has been in use for so long that none of the established players in the corporate world really wants to take a risk in evaluating the available alternatives. Whole businesses have developed processes and templates around MSFT Office products. They're unwilling to change. (Sometimes even when MSFT forces the change on them.)
...they figured out that users were not trained to expect a floppy to spin immediately upon insertion...
No. The feature was canned 'cause they couldn't figure out a good time/UI to test which one of the two types of floppy drives were installed in the system. If they had managed to figure it out (see later in this thread for a really good way to do it), then a floppy disk inserted in the system would *not* have spun up. It would have been detected with no moving parts at all. When you went to access it in Windows Exploder, it would have moved. (Or if the autorun app that was installed on the disk ran.)
The way I see it, Windows 95 could do a read with or without the floppy at start up.
That's the very first thing that popped into my head when I finished reading the article. I wish that we'd get all of the context behind the situation to understand why these obviously good ideas aren't implemented.
My hardware, just some plain USB speakers, hasn't been reliable since the first day people started fucking around with audio.
Since the late 19th century, then?
It has something to do with idiotic ALSA developers who explicitly prevent...
It sounds like this is unrelated to your "I only want one sound stream to be able to play on my speakers at a single time." rant. Why are you switching gears?
Plain old OSS worked very well.
I have an audiophile friend who adores OSSv4. It sounds like it would be really good for it to be introduced to Linux. Regardless... why don't you go back to using OSS? OSSv4 works in *BSD. You might like BSD-land.
*seconds the "hda_intel actually has supported ALSA mixing" comment*
OTOH, some Apple machines have hda_intel hardware that's rather unsupported. From what I understand, it's very hard to determine if you have a crummy card or not.
If everything gets mixed together, it becomes a mess.
I think that you are one of the few people in this world who *don't* want multiple apps to be able to use the sound system simultaneously. I suppose that you don't use any of the scads of cards that work correctly with ALSA's software mixing?
However, I really wish that ALSA's dmix would have the network/source transparency bits of PA pushed into it. We *really* don't need yet another Linux audio system.
Unless you need menus. VLC doesn't handle them properly - it doesn't loop so you need to make your selections more or less quickly depending on the menu.
WORKSFORME on VLC 0.8.something on Windows. OTOH, the deinterlacing looked terrible!
...some people can't dial 911 because several of the biggest companies are telephone companies...
Cite? It seems remarkably short-sighted to put E911 service in the hands of a single facility. What happens if a meteor hits it? Power failure? etc. etc. etc.
They damn well BETTER find terrorism or kiddie porn just to save face
Heh. They'll just pull some out of the vault and plant it on a server or two.
Which, if it isn't outright insecure in the first place (I'm looking at you Microsoft!) will provide a convenient avenue for the government to insert its own backdoors for spying on the public at large.
Be aware that any backdoors that are inserted by friendly forces can be used by the enem(y|ies) to compromise said weakened systems. If you know *anything* about security (or have been on/. sometime in the past five years) you already know that "security through obscurity" is no security at all. Despite what conventional wisdom tells you, the ignorant CEOs and CTOs of the government world are (almost always) advised by some very bright, clueful folks.
I'm pretty sure the government and military also runs Linux/BSD/Unix in certain applications...
Absolutely (and not just in "certain applications"). Ask google about something called "Trusted Solaris". There's a DoD org that's responsible for producing "blessed" versions of all major (and many minor) OS and software packages called the DODIIS. (Yes, you pronounce it "dodus".)
the reason for this is that children and teenagers are still in the formative stages of their sexuality and their identity...
So, the best way for teenagers to develop their sexual identity is to always refuse when their SO makes a sexual request? And this goes double when their SO makes a request that carries with it a permanent record?
Believe it or not, the kind of guys that girls want - i.e., the kind who are looking for a wife rather than a lay - won't be too impressed by said pictures floating around the internet.
*nods* That is just you. If I require installation of a driver on someone's machine, I go to the machine's operator and make my case.
If your driver installation process installs no crapware, what is there to lose? Pride due to the social awkwardness of being told "No, I don't want you to install that on my system." by the operator?
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...how do open source games (Especially FPS ones) deal with cheating.
I saw a social solution to this problem. Back in the day of Descent and Descent ][, (Both of which were closed source apps at the time.) folks would host matches explicitly for folks who wanted to cheat. If you ran into a cheater in normal play, you either ignored him, or generated another game. (IIRC, there was no kick/ban feature.) D1 and D2 were P2P games, not server/client, so it was trivially easy to cheat. Very few people did.
...so that a screen shot can't be taken of it?
That *is* crazy talk. :) *pulls out his 4MP camera*
And the whole revision markup collaboration workfow
I've never used Sharepoint. I'd be willing to bet that a significant percentage of those using it would be happy with TSVN and its pre-packaged scripts for doing diffs between revisions of MSFT Office documents. (OTOH, I'm sure that there are some for whom it is genuinely indispensable.)
Another way of looking at the story of Word would be:
The Word team was the best at delivering the kind of word processor people want to pay money for.
Another way of looking at the story of Word would be:
MSFT Word has been in use for so long that none of the established players in the corporate world really wants to take a risk in evaluating the available alternatives. Whole businesses have developed processes and templates around MSFT Office products. They're unwilling to change. (Sometimes even when MSFT forces the change on them.)
You should take the spirit behind your Grammar Nazi .sig and apply it to the post directly above yours. Good luck!
...they figured out that users were not trained to expect a floppy to spin immediately upon insertion...
No. The feature was canned 'cause they couldn't figure out a good time/UI to test which one of the two types of floppy drives were installed in the system. If they had managed to figure it out (see later in this thread for a really good way to do it), then a floppy disk inserted in the system would *not* have spun up. It would have been detected with no moving parts at all. When you went to access it in Windows Exploder, it would have moved. (Or if the autorun app that was installed on the disk ran.)
The way I see it, Windows 95 could do a read with or without the floppy at start up.
That's the very first thing that popped into my head when I finished reading the article. I wish that we'd get all of the context behind the situation to understand why these obviously good ideas aren't implemented.
My hardware, just some plain USB speakers, hasn't been reliable since the first day people started fucking around with audio.
Since the late 19th century, then?
It has something to do with idiotic ALSA developers who explicitly prevent...
It sounds like this is unrelated to your "I only want one sound stream to be able to play on my speakers at a single time." rant. Why are you switching gears?
Plain old OSS worked very well.
I have an audiophile friend who adores OSSv4. It sounds like it would be really good for it to be introduced to Linux. Regardless... why don't you go back to using OSS? OSSv4 works in *BSD. You might like BSD-land.
*seconds the "hda_intel actually has supported ALSA mixing" comment*
OTOH, some Apple machines have hda_intel hardware that's rather unsupported. From what I understand, it's very hard to determine if you have a crummy card or not.
PulseAudio: the answer to a question no one asked.
I asked for this feature a million years ago. I like having a good answer to it. PA is not a good answer.
If everything gets mixed together, it becomes a mess.
I think that you are one of the few people in this world who *don't* want multiple apps to be able to use the sound system simultaneously. I suppose that you don't use any of the scads of cards that work correctly with ALSA's software mixing?
It works for me, more or less.
However, I really wish that ALSA's dmix would have the network/source transparency bits of PA pushed into it. We *really* don't need yet another Linux audio system.
1) PA generally sucks, hard core.
2) KDE 4.x's PA integration seems to work just fine on my Gentoo systems.
It can't be imported, it can't be stocked, and it can't be sold.
Unless an OEM takes it upon themselves to license the tech in question...
Plays DVDs
Unless you need menus. VLC doesn't handle them properly - it doesn't loop so you need to make your selections more or less quickly depending on the menu.
WORKSFORME on VLC 0.8.something on Windows. OTOH, the deinterlacing looked terrible!
...some people can't dial 911 because several of the biggest companies are telephone companies...
Cite? It seems remarkably short-sighted to put E911 service in the hands of a single facility. What happens if a meteor hits it? Power failure? etc. etc. etc.
They damn well BETTER find terrorism or kiddie porn just to save face
Heh. They'll just pull some out of the vault and plant it on a server or two.
... panic'd ...
It seems that you have failed to type the word "panicked". Perhaps this error will be avoided in the future.
The King Kong movie is probably more questionable, since I'm guessing at some point a computer model was made of the building.
This.
Which, if it isn't outright insecure in the first place (I'm looking at you Microsoft!) will provide a convenient avenue for the government to insert its own backdoors for spying on the public at large.
Be aware that any backdoors that are inserted by friendly forces can be used by the enem(y|ies) to compromise said weakened systems. If you know *anything* about security (or have been on /. sometime in the past five years) you already know that "security through obscurity" is no security at all. Despite what conventional wisdom tells you, the ignorant CEOs and CTOs of the government world are (almost always) advised by some very bright, clueful folks.
I'm pretty sure the government and military also runs Linux/BSD/Unix in certain applications...
Absolutely (and not just in "certain applications"). Ask google about something called "Trusted Solaris". There's a DoD org that's responsible for producing "blessed" versions of all major (and many minor) OS and software packages called the DODIIS. (Yes, you pronounce it "dodus".)
...but it's quicker sometimes to just use the IP.
If and only if you don't have the host registered in DNS.
It is ALWAYS ff02::2. Period. No exceptions. If it is not, it is not IPv6.
I must not have IPV6 correctly configured at my site...
$ ssh root@ff02::2%eth0
ssh: connect to host ff02::2%eth0 port 22: Network is unreachable
$ ssh root@fe80::200:ff:fe00:0%eth0
BusyBox v1.4.2 (2007-09-29 09:01:24 CEST) Built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
[PRETEND THAT THE OPENWRT BANNER IS HERE.
THE FILTER HATES ASCII ART.]
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root@OpenWrt:~#
the reason for this is that children and teenagers are still in the formative stages of their sexuality and their identity...
So, the best way for teenagers to develop their sexual identity is to always refuse when their SO makes a sexual request? And this goes double when their SO makes a request that carries with it a permanent record?
Believe it or not, the kind of guys that girls want - i.e., the kind who are looking for a wife rather than a lay - won't be too impressed by said pictures floating around the internet.
LOL Puritianfilter!
*nods*
That is just you. If I require installation of a driver on someone's machine, I go to the machine's operator and make my case.
If your driver installation process installs no crapware, what is there to lose? Pride due to the social awkwardness of being told "No, I don't want you to install that on my system." by the operator?
Most people are Administrators of the machines that they run
Not at an Internet cafe:
I don't run the machine that I use at an internet cafe... unless I'm the manager of said cafe.