"We all"? Fuck off. If nobody protested, there sure were loads of nobodies at the time. Blame yourself, but don't say we didn't warn you. You just failed to take any criticism.
Their Macintosh consumer software experience. They've had a lot of years of practice making sure most, but not all, software runs on older (and newer) versions of their Mac OS. That experience translates directly to making sure the same thing happens on the iProduct lines.
LOLwhut? My Macintosh consumer software experience is that as soon as a new version of the OS is released, no new software released for the platform will work on the older version of the OS. That includes lots of trivially simple software. Forced obsolescence is one of the main drawbacks of the Macintosh experience. Using a five years old Mac is a pain. Not that Android is any better on this point: few Andoid phones get OS updates. Seems like Apple has decided that supporting two to three generations of iPhone is enough.
On Friday, the New York Times reported that the federal Minerals Management Service (MMS) repeatedly violated environmental requirements when approving oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, ignoring and overruling scientists who noted the risk of potentially catastrophic spills. In the April 2009 issue of Harper’s Magazine, Bryant Urstadt discussed the “culture of ethical failure” at the MMS and its wasteful Royalty-in-Kind program.
It's not very long (a few pages), but a shocking read.
You're the one getting your panties in a knot, moron. I just posted a link to a related item that I thought would interest Slashdotters more, with all the concerns regarding html5 video lately.
No, this is the link you're looking for. Wave is old (relatively), and people found out they couldn't use it for anything. WebM is a "new" container format for streaming internet video (apparently a subset of Matroska) to be used with Google's recently open-sourced VP8 and Vorbis.
I have no idea why Slashdot decided to run with the Wave news before that.
I can't just jump in and re-write the script at this time. It would be like re-writing Emacs, a fairly robust and stable software package, into something which it was never meant to be. On the other hand, I can either (as a consumer) watch one of the numerous films that I actually enjoy or (as a creator) write a script of my own and try to get others to collaborate.
It's all well and good that it's "open source" when its fundamental vision is one I just find trite and boring. If it's only meant as a tech demo, like GooberToo claims, then I think it's very good indeed. But buying a copy? Never.
Until someone manages to cough up stats that show the iPad is actually bought by grandmothers and not mainly 30-something hipsters with an internet addiction, I consider the whole grandmother myth as what it is -- a myth.
Until so many people have chosen slavery that freedom becomes impractical or illegal. See software patents, h.264. It's important to make people aware that when they choose Apple, they choose to get locked in to a platform that dictates what they can and can't do, and that is deliberately designed to make it expensive to switch, and designed with forced obsolescence in mind.
Yes, that's it. It gives the impression of being something from a computer game, but as the actual game parts are left out, there's just nothing to it to get me interested.
Yes, it looks great, kind of. It looks visually impressive, but having seen the trailer I just don't want to see the whole thing. It just gives me a sense of genre, and does not pique my curiosity at all. Manga style characters? Cliched fantasy story? It just gives a sense of being one among thousands of films just like it, except that it's a tech demo for the power of Blender at the same time. Disappointing in an Avatar kind of way.
Nice comment, but I'm not sure you're speaking the absolute truth. John Carmack pretty much reinvented the side scroller for PC hardware with the Commander Keen series (scrolling is easy on the Amiga, but difficult to do well on a primitive EGA/VGA screen), and he wasn't an Amiga programmer. When he went on to make the more influential Wolfenstein and Doom, he still wasn't an Amiga programmer. On the demo scene, the legendary Future Crew apparently moved from the C64. Wing Commander, the game that finally took the computer gaming crown to the PC, was certainly not done in Amiga style -- it was full of DOS hacks, and the graphics didn't replicate any of the techniques made popular by the Amiga.
Yes, that sounds very much like what occured to me as well. If it is, it's not so much corruption as a silly demand to have the user run fsck instead of doing it automatically. I think ext4 is pretty robust when it comes to corruption these days.
That's pretty much it, although I never said 3 -- but you've got a good point. The distro should make sure the root FS is good and properly fsck'ed, and not rely on user input. I'm just pointing out that what the OP thought was a file system error might be something else.
Are you certain that it's due to FS corruption? I've had ext4 fail to boot due to silly errors like the last write being one hour into the future (some kind of time zone confusion), but no corruption at all. I ask only because most people seem incapable of reading an error message and just doing the/sbin/fsck.ext4/dev/sdaX that it explicitly calls for.
No, you should be more specific, instead of reposting old crap that you don't understand. Yes, I know you're only trolling for positive moderation (X11 "critics" have always been far more popular than they deserve), but you failed, and I'll just leave it at that.
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"We all"? Fuck off. If nobody protested, there sure were loads of nobodies at the time. Blame yourself, but don't say we didn't warn you. You just failed to take any criticism.
No, it makes Apple's customers losers.
Their Macintosh consumer software experience. They've had a lot of years of practice making sure most, but not all, software runs on older (and newer) versions of their Mac OS. That experience translates directly to making sure the same thing happens on the iProduct lines.
LOLwhut? My Macintosh consumer software experience is that as soon as a new version of the OS is released, no new software released for the platform will work on the older version of the OS. That includes lots of trivially simple software. Forced obsolescence is one of the main drawbacks of the Macintosh experience. Using a five years old Mac is a pain. Not that Android is any better on this point: few Andoid phones get OS updates. Seems like Apple has decided that supporting two to three generations of iPhone is enough.
Why the hell should trite, overused clichés be modded up?
But don't forget that it's garbage.
Spoken like someone who's never used Darwin. Absolutely nothing useful in OS X is open.
True, but only the shit parts of OS X are open.
Related link from Harpers.org April 2009:
On Friday, the New York Times reported that the federal Minerals Management Service (MMS) repeatedly violated environmental requirements when approving oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, ignoring and overruling scientists who noted the risk of potentially catastrophic spills. In the April 2009 issue of Harper’s Magazine, Bryant Urstadt discussed the “culture of ethical failure” at the MMS and its wasteful Royalty-in-Kind program.
It's not very long (a few pages), but a shocking read.
You're the one getting your panties in a knot, moron. I just posted a link to a related item that I thought would interest Slashdotters more, with all the concerns regarding html5 video lately.
Wrong. At least three people had submitted stories about it before this was posted to the front page.
No, this is the link you're looking for. Wave is old (relatively), and people found out they couldn't use it for anything. WebM is a "new" container format for streaming internet video (apparently a subset of Matroska) to be used with Google's recently open-sourced VP8 and Vorbis.
I have no idea why Slashdot decided to run with the Wave news before that.
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I can't just jump in and re-write the script at this time. It would be like re-writing Emacs, a fairly robust and stable software package, into something which it was never meant to be. On the other hand, I can either (as a consumer) watch one of the numerous films that I actually enjoy or (as a creator) write a script of my own and try to get others to collaborate.
It's all well and good that it's "open source" when its fundamental vision is one I just find trite and boring. If it's only meant as a tech demo, like GooberToo claims, then I think it's very good indeed. But buying a copy? Never.
Yes, the same way that I can re-write Emacs to be vim. Then again, I could just use vim, or write my own editor from scratch.
Until someone manages to cough up stats that show the iPad is actually bought by grandmothers and not mainly 30-something hipsters with an internet addiction, I consider the whole grandmother myth as what it is -- a myth.
Until so many people have chosen slavery that freedom becomes impractical or illegal. See software patents, h.264. It's important to make people aware that when they choose Apple, they choose to get locked in to a platform that dictates what they can and can't do, and that is deliberately designed to make it expensive to switch, and designed with forced obsolescence in mind.
Yes, that's it. It gives the impression of being something from a computer game, but as the actual game parts are left out, there's just nothing to it to get me interested.
Yes, it looks great, kind of. It looks visually impressive, but having seen the trailer I just don't want to see the whole thing. It just gives me a sense of genre, and does not pique my curiosity at all. Manga style characters? Cliched fantasy story? It just gives a sense of being one among thousands of films just like it, except that it's a tech demo for the power of Blender at the same time. Disappointing in an Avatar kind of way.
Nice comment, but I'm not sure you're speaking the absolute truth. John Carmack pretty much reinvented the side scroller for PC hardware with the Commander Keen series (scrolling is easy on the Amiga, but difficult to do well on a primitive EGA/VGA screen), and he wasn't an Amiga programmer. When he went on to make the more influential Wolfenstein and Doom, he still wasn't an Amiga programmer. On the demo scene, the legendary Future Crew apparently moved from the C64. Wing Commander, the game that finally took the computer gaming crown to the PC, was certainly not done in Amiga style -- it was full of DOS hacks, and the graphics didn't replicate any of the techniques made popular by the Amiga.
Yes, that sounds very much like what occured to me as well. If it is, it's not so much corruption as a silly demand to have the user run fsck instead of doing it automatically. I think ext4 is pretty robust when it comes to corruption these days.
That's pretty much it, although I never said 3 -- but you've got a good point. The distro should make sure the root FS is good and properly fsck'ed, and not rely on user input. I'm just pointing out that what the OP thought was a file system error might be something else.
Are you certain that it's due to FS corruption? I've had ext4 fail to boot due to silly errors like the last write being one hour into the future (some kind of time zone confusion), but no corruption at all. I ask only because most people seem incapable of reading an error message and just doing the /sbin/fsck.ext4 /dev/sdaX that it explicitly calls for.
Sure, many species would survive. Most people would starve to death.
Getting screwed with automatic updates is better than having your non-DRM'ed game stop working when you upgrade your OS. IMHO, of course.
No, you should be more specific, instead of reposting old crap that you don't understand. Yes, I know you're only trolling for positive moderation (X11 "critics" have always been far more popular than they deserve), but you failed, and I'll just leave it at that.
You don't know what you're talking about.
What is it about people who don't know what they're talking about, that makes them talk about X11?