Maybe I'm slow, but you'll have to explain this one. I've always viewed strong emotional attachment to nationality a bit silly, so I'm a bit hesitant to believe I'd be guilty of this sin.
As a matter of fact, after reading my comment again, I'm totally in the dark about your intention: All I did was provide a personal experience and compare it to yours (your experience didn't actually exist, but I couldn't know that). So, WTF?
Ok, how about a retort, just for fun. So Americans didn't like it because we don't want to see a big blue dong for half a movie. Europeans on the other hand will love it because they DO like seeing a big blue dong for half a movie.
As a european I thought I'd give you a data point: I didn't even notice a penis was actually shown (it's not like it's central to the scene), and when we discussed the movie with friends later, no-one mentioned the nudity...
You on the other hand used the term "half a movie" to describe how long the penis was shown. Other people are saying it was actually shown for 11 seconds-- if this is correct it means about 1 thousandth of the movie.
Could you try to phrase the problem really clearly? As it is, I understood you saying that mutation isn't an observed phenomenon. That would be bollocks.
Point mutations are relatively common and easy to find in short generation organisms. Even human mutation is quite well documented: E.g. retinoblastoma is (or at least was) lethal childhood condition, so it's a good guess that each new case is (was) a mutation. IIRC the average mutation count calculated for a human is something between 0.1-10 mutations per person.
This was all from memory, so don't bite my head off if some details are wrong. The point is that I really fail to see the problem here.
Ah, the shiny install disk that you will use... as a cup holder, I guess? It's not much use on netbooks, at least if you were trying to imply that the installation is somehow really easy.
I think Khyber has a point actually. Multi-user is a more advanced concept than most users actually understand. All the technical reasons why separating data is a good idea are a black box to them, and really can't be considered common sense. I don't think many of them really grasp the concept of user versus system data.
You didn't explain what his point really is...Of course normal users do not need to know where their saved games end up in, the game should just work. That doesn't change the fact that data should end up in a User Data directory (for all the reasons explained so many times in this thread).
Khyber is supporting a model that is not simpler at all, but in which backup programs won't find your data, other users can delete your data by accident, you can accidentally delete application files, etc. It's just a phenomenally bad idea.
Additional suggestion: When you encounter a problem and ask for help, do not immediately assume that the system is broken and you are doing everything correctly. I have no problem with people making mistakes, but adding snide remarks about decisions that actually make a lot of sense is stupid. They make you look like someone who is not interested in learning (which makes me uninterested in helping).
I'm pretty sure you only read the short log -- changes from -rc8 -- as there should be several new drivers. More importantly, support for new devices is added to existing drivers if possible. Each kernel release usually supports hundreds of new devices.
I have a dream that the cohesion that is characteristic of the Linux kernel as a "final product" gets to visit its desktop environment as well.
Cohesion? No no. There are people developing all sorts of BSDs, Darwin, Hurd, etc. It's shockingly wasteful, I know. All these people should stop wasting their time and start developing a unified kernel.
In Finland Toyota is the most reliable car brand year after year (meaning most km per fault). People do not really seem to view Toyota as a quality car here either but the statistics tell a clear story. I don't have access to US Consumer Reports data but from their "used car reliability" summary I noticed that the most reliable 5 year old model is Toyota Echo...
If you had some actual, comparable statistics to support your case I'd take your complaints seriously -- the consumer reports data would be awesome.
Gas prices affect the people who are priced out of the core of cities and into suburbs the most, the people who can least afford some unknown expenses.
This is mostly just a punishment for the insane city planning you guys have done in the states... Building cities with working public transport is not that difficult (and I'm not saying you don't have examples of that in the US, just that it's not the norm).
I'm beginning to think I'm just being trolled here, but I'm not in a hurry today so I'll bite...
Most games come with loadable and savable user profiles - which are almost ALWAYS in the game's actual directory
In my 25 years of computer use I've seen quite a few games, and based on that experience I'm going to call bullshit on that assessment.
some games even backup your progress for you on their own servers...
This has absolutely no relevance to the issue at hand.
if you're so worried about your data to begin with on a multi-user system then odds are you probably shouldn't be using the system in the first place, because your data is far safer on a single-user system than a multi-user system.
Well that's just so over the top that I guess I really was trolled:) That's ok, I'm having a really nice day.
The system you describe "made sense" because MS-DOS was a single user operating system. Windows NT is not and what you propose makes absolutely no sense.
I notice you didn't answer my question (what you expect the game to do when another user starts the game).
Wrong? Maybe... Note that MS-PL is not compatible with GNU GPL. That may have been just a coincidence from other requirements they had, but it may also have been #1 requirement for all MS-* licenses.
As far as I can tell MS-PL is exactly like BSD license, except it has a clause that makes it GPL-incompatible. MS-RL is very much like GPL plus a clause that makes it GPL-incompatible. I notice a trend here and it fits parents comment quite well.
Note that I'm not saying everything needs to be GPL-incompatible, I'm just pointing out an important feature in these license.
I'm just your average user, not a developer. Intuitively, when something is saved, especially something like a game save, I EXPECT it to be written to the game's fucking application directory.
I'll try to be civil, since you've just been brainwashed by all those idiotic applications expecting a single user system... The point is: Just because you have an intuition doesn't mean you're correct.
Think about it for a second. What if another user logs in to the machine and starts the game: Do you really want that user to play your saved games and to be able save on top of your saved games?
TFA says 1.5 billion downloads happened last year. That sounds a bit fishy since Apple alone sold 2 billion songs last year (see e.g. techcrunch article).
But it doesn't produce any revenue - between credit card processing costs and what they are paying to the copyright owners, they end up with maybe $0.10 a sale, if that
Do you realize $0.1 a download equals $250 million dollars a year (as of last year, the figure seems to almost double every year)?
iTunes doesn't really make money, for anyone except maybe the credit card companies, so that is pointless.
Ok, I see this said a lot and I don't get it. Do you have any references for that because my back-of-the-envelope calculations say Apple is making tons of money. So I'm calling bullshit unless you can show me a mistake here:
Apple sells 2.5 billion songs yearly at roughly $1 a piece. Last I heard their cut is ~30%. That makes $750 million in revenue for Apple. Running itunes is probably not cheap, but I doubt their expenses are that big.
Then again, when you do setup things (such as dual monitors) on Debian, things will just work. I see my girlfriend fighting with her Windows laptop about 50% of the time she plugs an additional monitor to it -- sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, and no amount of configuration tweaking* seems to change this.
*) and don't get me started on the windows dual screen configuration programs: the one in Windows itself is mostly sane, it just often doesn't do what it should and you end up using the programs provided by the graphics chip manufacturer. I've seen a few of those and every single one has been pure UI horror.
I love rail transport as well, but you are overlooking some of of its downsides. It needs massive amounts of people to work and is infrastructurally very expensive/slow: New lines need to be planned 10 years in advance and any mistakes are costly as hell.
Rail transport won't work without a supporting private transportation network that routes around any bottlenecks in the rail network and balances load.
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Maybe I'm slow, but you'll have to explain this one. I've always viewed strong emotional attachment to nationality a bit silly, so I'm a bit hesitant to believe I'd be guilty of this sin.
As a matter of fact, after reading my comment again, I'm totally in the dark about your intention: All I did was provide a personal experience and compare it to yours (your experience didn't actually exist, but I couldn't know that). So, WTF?
As a european I thought I'd give you a data point: I didn't even notice a penis was actually shown (it's not like it's central to the scene), and when we discussed the movie with friends later, no-one mentioned the nudity...
You on the other hand used the term "half a movie" to describe how long the penis was shown. Other people are saying it was actually shown for 11 seconds-- if this is correct it means about 1 thousandth of the movie.
So who's being silly here, dAzED1?
Ok. I note that you still haven't explained why it is wrong for kids to see boobs or a dick...
Could you try to phrase the problem really clearly? As it is, I understood you saying that mutation isn't an observed phenomenon. That would be bollocks.
Point mutations are relatively common and easy to find in short generation organisms. Even human mutation is quite well documented: E.g. retinoblastoma is (or at least was) lethal childhood condition, so it's a good guess that each new case is (was) a mutation. IIRC the average mutation count calculated for a human is something between 0.1-10 mutations per person.
This was all from memory, so don't bite my head off if some details are wrong. The point is that I really fail to see the problem here.
Ah, the shiny install disk that you will use... as a cup holder, I guess? It's not much use on netbooks, at least if you were trying to imply that the installation is somehow really easy.
Khyber, I have to thank you. This has been the most hilarious rant-thread in a long time.
Come on mods, give him the "+1, Funny" he's going for.
You didn't explain what his point really is...Of course normal users do not need to know where their saved games end up in, the game should just work. That doesn't change the fact that data should end up in a User Data directory (for all the reasons explained so many times in this thread).
Khyber is supporting a model that is not simpler at all, but in which backup programs won't find your data, other users can delete your data by accident, you can accidentally delete application files, etc. It's just a phenomenally bad idea.
Additional suggestion: When you encounter a problem and ask for help, do not immediately assume that the system is broken and you are doing everything correctly. I have no problem with people making mistakes, but adding snide remarks about decisions that actually make a lot of sense is stupid. They make you look like someone who is not interested in learning (which makes me uninterested in helping).
I'm pretty sure you only read the short log -- changes from -rc8 -- as there should be several new drivers. More importantly, support for new devices is added to existing drivers if possible. Each kernel release usually supports hundreds of new devices.
Cohesion? No no. There are people developing all sorts of BSDs, Darwin, Hurd, etc. It's shockingly wasteful, I know. All these people should stop wasting their time and start developing a unified kernel.
I'm starting to sound like a Toyota fanboy but I found something worth linking in the end: CR best and worst used cars.
Summary: Toyota is well represented in all "best used" categories. More interestingly the "worst used" list includes:
Logical Zebra, I rest my case. Please respond with some statistics if you want to continue this discussion.
In Finland Toyota is the most reliable car brand year after year (meaning most km per fault). People do not really seem to view Toyota as a quality car here either but the statistics tell a clear story. I don't have access to US Consumer Reports data but from their "used car reliability" summary I noticed that the most reliable 5 year old model is Toyota Echo...
If you had some actual, comparable statistics to support your case I'd take your complaints seriously -- the consumer reports data would be awesome.
This is mostly just a punishment for the insane city planning you guys have done in the states... Building cities with working public transport is not that difficult (and I'm not saying you don't have examples of that in the US, just that it's not the norm).
I'm beginning to think I'm just being trolled here, but I'm not in a hurry today so I'll bite...
In my 25 years of computer use I've seen quite a few games, and based on that experience I'm going to call bullshit on that assessment.
This has absolutely no relevance to the issue at hand.
Well that's just so over the top that I guess I really was trolled :) That's ok, I'm having a really nice day.
The system you describe "made sense" because MS-DOS was a single user operating system. Windows NT is not and what you propose makes absolutely no sense.
I notice you didn't answer my question (what you expect the game to do when another user starts the game).
Wrong? Maybe... Note that MS-PL is not compatible with GNU GPL. That may have been just a coincidence from other requirements they had, but it may also have been #1 requirement for all MS-* licenses.
As far as I can tell MS-PL is exactly like BSD license, except it has a clause that makes it GPL-incompatible. MS-RL is very much like GPL plus a clause that makes it GPL-incompatible. I notice a trend here and it fits parents comment quite well.
Note that I'm not saying everything needs to be GPL-incompatible, I'm just pointing out an important feature in these license.
I'll try to be civil, since you've just been brainwashed by all those idiotic applications expecting a single user system... The point is: Just because you have an intuition doesn't mean you're correct.
Think about it for a second. What if another user logs in to the machine and starts the game: Do you really want that user to play your saved games and to be able save on top of your saved games?
TFA says 1.5 billion downloads happened last year. That sounds a bit fishy since Apple alone sold 2 billion songs last year (see e.g. techcrunch article).
Do you realize $0.1 a download equals $250 million dollars a year (as of last year, the figure seems to almost double every year)?
Ok, I see this said a lot and I don't get it. Do you have any references for that because my back-of-the-envelope calculations say Apple is making tons of money. So I'm calling bullshit unless you can show me a mistake here:
Apple sells 2.5 billion songs yearly at roughly $1 a piece. Last I heard their cut is ~30%. That makes $750 million in revenue for Apple. Running itunes is probably not cheap, but I doubt their expenses are that big.
So, why the fuck is that not a business model?
No, it does not. Or maybe my Linksys router is a PC?
Then again, when you do setup things (such as dual monitors) on Debian, things will just work. I see my girlfriend fighting with her Windows laptop about 50% of the time she plugs an additional monitor to it -- sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, and no amount of configuration tweaking* seems to change this.
*) and don't get me started on the windows dual screen configuration programs: the one in Windows itself is mostly sane, it just often doesn't do what it should and you end up using the programs provided by the graphics chip manufacturer. I've seen a few of those and every single one has been pure UI horror.
Rail transport won't work without a supporting private transportation network that routes around any bottlenecks in the rail network and balances load.
They have physical access and are sniffing cards. How do you think you can prevent that by adding encryption or authentication?