I think I figured out Sony's problem and the reason for their persistent shooting-in-the-foot: They keep telling their marketing department that their job is to pull production studios. If you consider for a moment the possibility that their marketing department *aren't even aware* that they have these things called consumers, then everything suddenly makes *perfect* sense.
Probably a redundant post by now but I'd just like to say.. ABOUT FUCKING TIME. The arguments against this classification of games has simply been draconian BULLSHIT since the start.
If Atkinson continued having his way, by now we wouldn't be able to buy steak knives without a license, and all electrical powerpoints in a house would have to be a mandatory 8ft from the floor.
Same. But boy was I ever pissed off and dismayed when they locked down the RSX access and left us with a shitty HV-mitigated framebuffer too slow to play back media or do any realtime visualization of anything. Shiny red Ferrari with no wheels.
You make it sound like they are unable to produce new machines, or that those 1760 machines sold equals 1760 actual gamer customers who now won't buy a ps3.
Spurious logic sorry, although I do understand your point about the business model in use.
And yes, the Australian government DOES require all cars to have an immobiliser.
It does? Since when? Can you cite a reference? Being an AU resident who owns a new car and has been head-to-toe over every inch including playing with it's various CANBus devices on both networks and tweaked a few firmwares here and there, I have to say I haven't seen hide nor hair of an immobilizer yet. There was a jack for an OnStar unit, but it was never installed from the factory as this service isn't really used here...
why would the window manager change the group instead of init/linux knowing to put that existing group+process name combination at a certain priority?
But you're right. Why among the zillions of settable process parameters would we pick something limiting and not realistically indicative of the requirements of the task (such as being launched in a tty or not!) This was more or less my point to begin with. Just meaning there are other ways to do this that are probably both more manageable and more effective.
How about:
"Or, y'know, just change the menu launcher to specify the group at execution time. Like how 'nice' works. Or an env var on the command line."
Also, ever heard of the setgid bit? Plenty things run as the current user but with a group specific to the app or nature of it's task
You shouldn't turn off swap, unless you're an embedded device and really have no choice. Swap is used for more than paging out memory requests when ram is full.
You can reduce it's size though so the oom killer kicks in sooner and gives you back control of your system. 8gb of swap, which I see regularly, is just ridiculous for desktops. (and servers too for that matter)
Is there another metric that can be used to determine which group a process should be bound to? Perhaps the group (from/etc/group) the process is running as. Or, y'know, just change the menu launcher to specify the group at execution time. Like how 'nice' works. Or an env var on the command line. Doesn't have to be automagic.
Eat the father, then the child, then take the mother as your own spouse (or if you're female, eat the mother and take the father).. Problem solved. Nature is satisfied.
I notice the usual download for the 3.41 update is a PATCH image not a full image. Perhaps the problem is people aren't putting a FULL 3.41 image on their usb sticks? Just an idea..
iPhone/iPad OS's version of Safari LIES about capabilities, says a lot of html5 stuff is supported when it isn't and just silently ignores it.
This is why we still need to use user agents... sure they aren't reliable, or even accurate sometimes but that is the web browser designer's fault for not conforming to standards, not the web developer's.
If you take the first century as being the years 0-99, or if you take the first century as being the years 1-100.. 1998 is still within the 20th century. Only if you (for some really silly reason) ignore the existence of the first century AD, and call the second set of 100 years after the first set of 100 years AD 'the first century', would 1998 be in the 19th century.
Don't try to think about it too long though, you'll only hurt yourself.
They didn't 'come up with' it, they re-invented it. I recall some of my childhood toys from the 80's that used this very concept.
And, rtfa? wtf? asif.
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I think I figured out Sony's problem and the reason for their persistent shooting-in-the-foot: They keep telling their marketing department that their job is to pull production studios. If you consider for a moment the possibility that their marketing department *aren't even aware* that they have these things called consumers, then everything suddenly makes *perfect* sense.
That felt good.
Probably a redundant post by now but I'd just like to say.. ABOUT FUCKING TIME. The arguments against this classification of games has simply been draconian BULLSHIT since the start. If Atkinson continued having his way, by now we wouldn't be able to buy steak knives without a license, and all electrical powerpoints in a house would have to be a mandatory 8ft from the floor.
Same. But boy was I ever pissed off and dismayed when they locked down the RSX access and left us with a shitty HV-mitigated framebuffer too slow to play back media or do any realtime visualization of anything. Shiny red Ferrari with no wheels.
You make it sound like they are unable to produce new machines, or that those 1760 machines sold equals 1760 actual gamer customers who now won't buy a ps3. Spurious logic sorry, although I do understand your point about the business model in use.
Unless you jailbreak and use AsbestOS. Just sayin'
Also keep in mind the reporter could be exaggerating and sensationalizing a bit. Wouldn't be the first time.
Unless of course they are committing unlawful behaviour and tampering with jurors. Oh wait.. RTFA.
Guys.. guys.. ... guys..
Can't we all.. just get along?
And yes, the Australian government DOES require all cars to have an immobiliser.
It does? Since when? Can you cite a reference? Being an AU resident who owns a new car and has been head-to-toe over every inch including playing with it's various CANBus devices on both networks and tweaked a few firmwares here and there, I have to say I haven't seen hide nor hair of an immobilizer yet. There was a jack for an OnStar unit, but it was never installed from the factory as this service isn't really used here...
'of', even.
I think you underestimate the intelligence pf the average "/computer/ criminal"
I seems to me that any criminal, no matter how petty, is smarter than the officials empowered to catch him. Sad but true.
why would the window manager change the group instead of init/linux knowing to put that existing group+process name combination at a certain priority? But you're right. Why among the zillions of settable process parameters would we pick something limiting and not realistically indicative of the requirements of the task (such as being launched in a tty or not!) This was more or less my point to begin with. Just meaning there are other ways to do this that are probably both more manageable and more effective.
Will this now require a desktop and server kernel? Where right now you can use the same kernel, and modify /etc/bashrc on desktop systems?
If you're that worried about performance, you'd be using server and desktop specific kernels anyway, like a lot of distributions do
How about: "Or, y'know, just change the menu launcher to specify the group at execution time. Like how 'nice' works. Or an env var on the command line." Also, ever heard of the setgid bit? Plenty things run as the current user but with a group specific to the app or nature of it's task
You shouldn't turn off swap, unless you're an embedded device and really have no choice. Swap is used for more than paging out memory requests when ram is full. You can reduce it's size though so the oom killer kicks in sooner and gives you back control of your system. 8gb of swap, which I see regularly, is just ridiculous for desktops. (and servers too for that matter)
Is there another metric that can be used to determine which group a process should be bound to? Perhaps the group (from /etc/group) the process is running as. Or, y'know, just change the menu launcher to specify the group at execution time. Like how 'nice' works. Or an env var on the command line. Doesn't have to be automagic.
.. inside another BeOS instance for double the performance gain!
Eat the father, then the child, then take the mother as your own spouse (or if you're female, eat the mother and take the father).. Problem solved. Nature is satisfied.
This is useless. Why is this here and not in IDLE?
I notice the usual download for the 3.41 update is a PATCH image not a full image. Perhaps the problem is people aren't putting a FULL 3.41 image on their usb sticks? Just an idea..
iPhone/iPad OS's version of Safari LIES about capabilities, says a lot of html5 stuff is supported when it isn't and just silently ignores it. This is why we still need to use user agents... sure they aren't reliable, or even accurate sometimes but that is the web browser designer's fault for not conforming to standards, not the web developer's.
If you take the first century as being the years 0-99, or if you take the first century as being the years 1-100.. 1998 is still within the 20th century. Only if you (for some really silly reason) ignore the existence of the first century AD, and call the second set of 100 years after the first set of 100 years AD 'the first century', would 1998 be in the 19th century. Don't try to think about it too long though, you'll only hurt yourself.
They didn't 'come up with' it, they re-invented it. I recall some of my childhood toys from the 80's that used this very concept. And, rtfa? wtf? asif.