Not. Cut the puritan crap and start using your brain there, chief. This site is popular BECAUSE IT'S WHAT PEOPLE WANT. That neither makes it bad nor good - just filling a giant void that exists in our collective consciousness. There wouldn't be X million page views after 8 days if it weren't for the simple fact that this is what we as a society WANT. Personally I think it's a bit of a farce, but appearantly it fills a deep-seated void in someone. Just because you like to judge other people doesn't mean they will change their behavior, nor does it make your attitude and laughable arrogance (not to mention faux-authoritarianism) correct in any fashion whatsoever. Get over the nature of the proletariat - this is not your fucking Freshman sexual ethics class.
Regarding your 'AM I HOT OR NOT LEADS TO RAPE. REALLY!!' babble (I can't even classify this as an assertion), my advice is to consider a career in mainstream journalism where there exists a DESPERATE need for your brand of scare-mongering America's dearly beloved soccer moms. Yes it is possible to use Linux or apache for purposes you may not like (Oh my God! Child pornography!! Horrors!! Quick, let's ignore the fact that slaking people's lusts only makes realworld harm LESS LIKELY and go on a jihad against Gnutella, brother!). This does not justify your trying to stampede the herd in a damnably Quixotic fashion - I would be willing to bet my entire next year's paycheck that Am I Hot or Not has caused, to date, absolutely zero rapes. Not to mention that rape is not a buzzword that automatically makes you right to any of the people you're talking to (ie, people who might conceivably agree the service is immature in nature). I think you need to lay off the katie.com pipe here. Small hint: just in case you're new to the game, this kind of behaviour will NOT get you laid. The demographic of women reading slashdot is the same demographic that tends to prefer thoughtful, intelligent people who are capable of maintaining an open mind to a topic. I know this from first hand experience.
People go 'out' in the real world for the sole purpose of rating other people. Rape occurs here all the time precisely because it is the real world and the insulation of the Internet is removed. You sound like you could stand to get out a litte, by the way.
--Ryvar
My girlfriend (whom I met over the 'net) and I wrote this in bed on my, er, laptop, after some really great consensual rape.
I could be wrong about the RSA connection here, but doesn't it seem wrong to run so contrary to their demonstrated attitude? I mean, SSH is founded on their pub/priv key encryption system, and when the time to jettison their patent into the public space came, what did they do? Politely did so early. I mean, if this is the example set by a big, evil corporation - what the hell is Tatu saying about himself with these actions?
--Ryvar
I swear . . . sometimes people, no matter how much I may respect their past accomplishments, make me want to rip off my own head and beat it vigorously against the nearest wall in frustration.
The OpenSSH 'product'? I don't think of OpenSSH as a product, a product is something 'consumers' 'buy' or 'sell', not a freely distributed tool. I realize that not everyone is going to be a security guru right off the bat, but until you actually are able to distinguish SSH from OpenSSH, then I'm not sure why it matters as you clearly haven't passed the minimum intelligence test to use either. Is SSH1 broken? Yes, but (BUT!) . . . SSH2 isn't available for a lot of things that SSH1 IS available for - and SSH1 is a hell of a lot better than 'telnet '
--Ryvar
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Justin Frankel of Nullsoft is the closest person to that. And he got bought by - AOL-TimeWarner
--Ryv
ATI's two main sources of income are it's OEMs (integrated video for desktops, laptop video 'cards'), and it's TV-editing series. While the Radeon is by no means underpowered (and in fact generally renders a SLIGHTLY superior image to a GeForce 2) it is not selling on merits of gaming-card alone, but rather on 'can do TV too'. As for the OEMs . . . just about everyone except Compaq (shudder) is moving away from integrated video for at least the higher-end packages, and I have this strange feeling the upcoming GeForce 2Go will completely dominate the mobile vid scene in upcoming months.
Despite what most of the 'Open Source or Die!' kiddies think (not that I have ANY problem with Open Source, just zealotry), 3Dfx produced crap on a stick, pure and simple, ever since the Voodoo 2s. 22-bit rendering on the V3? No porting of OpenGL's T&L ops to your miniGL ICD or any basic standardization of said ops at all such that you can actually do hardware T&L someday? The 'T-buffer', a glorification of and minor extension to a longtime standard feature of the OpenGL API? Motion blur that The Carmack himself publicly denounced? Multiple chips that require duplicate copies of each texture rendering those '64MB' V5 5500s into functional 32MB cards? The list goes on and on and on.
ATI produces good, solid cards as far as the Radeon goes, but they are going to have to SERIOUSLY shore up their driver coders in the months to come, PLUS come out with another Radeon-class hit to stay competitive. Right now their biggest weakpoint is that they do not update drivers at all (a lot of serious gamers are starting to make the move to Windows 2000 and the Radeon drivers for that were 'experimental' last I checked). Beyond that, they have to compete with the upcoming NV20 and nVidia's incredible new per-pixel and per-vertex effects (if you've read up on these, you know this is a MUCH bigger deal than T&L ever was). So, sure, they're around, but they have REALLY got to not drop the ball if they want to remain that way - particularly with nVidia poised to gobble their OEMs alive.
--Ryvar
Working retail and fighting ignorance on the front lines so you don't have to!
What the hell good is a reactionless drive to me when my dog is dead, my girlfriend has sex with five different guys a day while making me watch and I can't even solve basic addition problems?
Solution a) Use the 'jolt' to save pooch
Solution b) Use the 'vibrating' to save sex life
Solution c) Smack your forehead 400,000 times a second. I'll come to you.
After reading through the better part of 'Securing and Optimizing Linux: Redhat Edition', I got the impression that a fairly stable (if stripped-down) OS was the end result. However, no expert on security, I was curious as to what other/. users had to say on this manual as a means of securing Linux . ..
That's exactly right - Deus Ex (an incredibly well-storied FPS in the vein of System Shock 2 that used the shitty Unreal engine) was the work of Warren Specter and Ion Storm Austin. It was NOT touched by the hideous inbred mosaic of prima donnas that has become Ion Storm Dallas (under the loving guidance of one John Romero).
Keep in mind Warren Specter a) Started Thief to begin with, b) Does not tolerate interference with his team, c) Put out a kickass title under Ion Storm, d) is rehiring many LGS members for Thief 3. Things are DEFINITELY looking up as long as they remain unshackled by the hideous Epic (excuse the pun) monstrosity that is the Unreal engine.
My favorite conspiracy theory goes something like this: Eidos could fund LGS, OR leave them go hanging and snap up the same kickass properties for pennies. Consider that 10+ execs of Eidos went home with several, several hundred Gs this year - which could have kept LGS operating for months, at least.
With regards to 'why hasn't someone thrown a lot of money at this?'; the words 'intellectual property', 'patent', 'copyright', and last but certainly not least 'sue the pants off of' come to mind. I'd be willing to bet I'm one of the most pro-MS Slashdot readers out there, but even I don't think MS is *THAT* nice to not raise serious hell.
nVidia in the GeForce GTS at least uses a form of antialiasing similar to Photoshop's bicubic filtering which is computationally FAR more expensive than 3Dfx's pseudo-nearest-neighbor anti-aliasing approach. nVidia is sacrificing fillrate (of which the GeForce 2 GTS has marginially more than even the TOP of the line V5) for visual quality, same as always. Don't forget per-pixel shading, etc., either. Of course, in terms of overall 'value' of the cards there's the simple fillrate advantage of the GTS (1.6Gtexels/sec as opposted to the V5 6000's 1.3) and nVidia having T&L which 3Dfx STILL does not have.
As someone who has coded a good measure under both Windows and Linux, at times using Glide, OpenGL, and DirectX, I have to agree that starting around DirectX6 D3D really became a competitor for OpenGL (of which Glide is a really poor, proprietary miniport - I can't believe I saw people defending it here of all places) and the overall package would seem to make it the most attractive game-authoring API for i386. Because Microsoft's structure allows rapid and extensive changes to APIs - and now that Epic has put themselves in a position to influence the direction of those changes - I hardly fault Sweeney for taking advantage of this. It may not properly fit into the mental framework of the more dogmatic posters here but this was a pretty sound business decision on Epic's part, and a sound technical one on Sweeney's.
Last I checked Carmack was still keeping everything nice and cross-platform anyway, right? Quake 3: Arena with it's milestone parametric surfaces in a commercial product is the real technical innovator. With more to come in it's successor which will be available to the honestly commercially negligible Linux and Mac gaming communities, I'm really not understanding why people are getting so bent out of shape about this. MS did something right - in a corporation so broad and fear-inducingly all-encompassing do we dare paint everything as 'evil' regardless of actual merit? I would hope for more objectivity from the idealistic opensource/free speech community than that! Complain about shoddy work, and let good work from your competition inspire you to outpace them for everyone's benefit.
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Regarding your 'AM I HOT OR NOT LEADS TO RAPE. REALLY!!' babble (I can't even classify this as an assertion), my advice is to consider a career in mainstream journalism where there exists a DESPERATE need for your brand of scare-mongering America's dearly beloved soccer moms. Yes it is possible to use Linux or apache for purposes you may not like (Oh my God! Child pornography!! Horrors!! Quick, let's ignore the fact that slaking people's lusts only makes realworld harm LESS LIKELY and go on a jihad against Gnutella, brother!). This does not justify your trying to stampede the herd in a damnably Quixotic fashion - I would be willing to bet my entire next year's paycheck that Am I Hot or Not has caused, to date, absolutely zero rapes. Not to mention that rape is not a buzzword that automatically makes you right to any of the people you're talking to (ie, people who might conceivably agree the service is immature in nature). I think you need to lay off the katie.com pipe here. Small hint: just in case you're new to the game, this kind of behaviour will NOT get you laid. The demographic of women reading slashdot is the same demographic that tends to prefer thoughtful, intelligent people who are capable of maintaining an open mind to a topic. I know this from first hand experience.
People go 'out' in the real world for the sole purpose of rating other people. Rape occurs here all the time precisely because it is the real world and the insulation of the Internet is removed. You sound like you could stand to get out a litte, by the way.
--Ryvar
My girlfriend (whom I met over the 'net) and I wrote this in bed on my, er, laptop, after some really great consensual rape.
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I like to sign him up for ALL the newsletters the company may offer.
--Ryvar
*sighs*
--Ryvar
--Ryvar
I could be wrong about the RSA connection here, but doesn't it seem wrong to run so contrary to their demonstrated attitude? I mean, SSH is founded on their pub/priv key encryption system, and when the time to jettison their patent into the public space came, what did they do? Politely did so early. I mean, if this is the example set by a big, evil corporation - what the hell is Tatu saying about himself with these actions? --Ryvar
The OpenSSH 'product'? I don't think of OpenSSH as a product, a product is something 'consumers' 'buy' or 'sell', not a freely distributed tool. I realize that not everyone is going to be a security guru right off the bat, but until you actually are able to distinguish SSH from OpenSSH, then I'm not sure why it matters as you clearly haven't passed the minimum intelligence test to use either. Is SSH1 broken? Yes, but (BUT!) . . . SSH2 isn't available for a lot of things that SSH1 IS available for - and SSH1 is a hell of a lot better than 'telnet '
--Ryvar
Justin Frankel of Nullsoft is the closest person to that. And he got bought by - AOL-TimeWarner --Ryv
ATI's two main sources of income are it's OEMs (integrated video for desktops, laptop video 'cards'), and it's TV-editing series. While the Radeon is by no means underpowered (and in fact generally renders a SLIGHTLY superior image to a GeForce 2) it is not selling on merits of gaming-card alone, but rather on 'can do TV too'. As for the OEMs . . . just about everyone except Compaq (shudder) is moving away from integrated video for at least the higher-end packages, and I have this strange feeling the upcoming GeForce 2Go will completely dominate the mobile vid scene in upcoming months.
Despite what most of the 'Open Source or Die!' kiddies think (not that I have ANY problem with Open Source, just zealotry), 3Dfx produced crap on a stick, pure and simple, ever since the Voodoo 2s. 22-bit rendering on the V3? No porting of OpenGL's T&L ops to your miniGL ICD or any basic standardization of said ops at all such that you can actually do hardware T&L someday? The 'T-buffer', a glorification of and minor extension to a longtime standard feature of the OpenGL API? Motion blur that The Carmack himself publicly denounced? Multiple chips that require duplicate copies of each texture rendering those '64MB' V5 5500s into functional 32MB cards? The list goes on and on and on.
ATI produces good, solid cards as far as the Radeon goes, but they are going to have to SERIOUSLY shore up their driver coders in the months to come, PLUS come out with another Radeon-class hit to stay competitive. Right now their biggest weakpoint is that they do not update drivers at all (a lot of serious gamers are starting to make the move to Windows 2000 and the Radeon drivers for that were 'experimental' last I checked). Beyond that, they have to compete with the upcoming NV20 and nVidia's incredible new per-pixel and per-vertex effects (if you've read up on these, you know this is a MUCH bigger deal than T&L ever was). So, sure, they're around, but they have REALLY got to not drop the ball if they want to remain that way - particularly with nVidia poised to gobble their OEMs alive.
--Ryvar Working retail and fighting ignorance on the front lines so you don't have to!
Solution a) Use the 'jolt' to save pooch
Solution b) Use the 'vibrating' to save sex life
Solution c) Smack your forehead 400,000 times a second. I'll come to you.
--Ryvar
Computers will never reason, and neither will humans. Death to top-down connectionism, long live neural nets. --Ryv
--Ryv
Keep in mind Warren Specter a) Started Thief to begin with, b) Does not tolerate interference with his team, c) Put out a kickass title under Ion Storm, d) is rehiring many LGS members for Thief 3. Things are DEFINITELY looking up as long as they remain unshackled by the hideous Epic (excuse the pun) monstrosity that is the Unreal engine.
My favorite conspiracy theory goes something like this: Eidos could fund LGS, OR leave them go hanging and snap up the same kickass properties for pennies. Consider that 10+ execs of Eidos went home with several, several hundred Gs this year - which could have kept LGS operating for months, at least.
--Ryv
With regards to 'why hasn't someone thrown a lot of money at this?'; the words 'intellectual property', 'patent', 'copyright', and last but certainly not least 'sue the pants off of' come to mind. I'd be willing to bet I'm one of the most pro-MS Slashdot readers out there, but even I don't think MS is *THAT* nice to not raise serious hell.
nVidia in the GeForce GTS at least uses a form of antialiasing similar to Photoshop's bicubic filtering which is computationally FAR more expensive than 3Dfx's pseudo-nearest-neighbor anti-aliasing approach. nVidia is sacrificing fillrate (of which the GeForce 2 GTS has marginially more than even the TOP of the line V5) for visual quality, same as always. Don't forget per-pixel shading, etc., either. Of course, in terms of overall 'value' of the cards there's the simple fillrate advantage of the GTS (1.6Gtexels/sec as opposted to the V5 6000's 1.3) and nVidia having T&L which 3Dfx STILL does not have.
Last I checked Carmack was still keeping everything nice and cross-platform anyway, right? Quake 3: Arena with it's milestone parametric surfaces in a commercial product is the real technical innovator. With more to come in it's successor which will be available to the honestly commercially negligible Linux and Mac gaming communities, I'm really not understanding why people are getting so bent out of shape about this. MS did something right - in a corporation so broad and fear-inducingly all-encompassing do we dare paint everything as 'evil' regardless of actual merit? I would hope for more objectivity from the idealistic opensource/free speech community than that! Complain about shoddy work, and let good work from your competition inspire you to outpace them for everyone's benefit.
--Ryv