I frequently hear this type of reasoning. It should be listed as a known/cataloged talking point so we can all absorb it once and move on, instead of seeing it rehashed every time this sort of discussion comes up.
If we did that with every oft-repeated argument or piece of information on here, the number of comments attached to most articles would drop through the floor.
For example your discussion of the fact that insecure machines affect everyone on the net is hardly new. In response, I will merely refer you to the common talking point "it's the users, not the OS" (or "if everyone ran *nix machines the same naive/uncaring/stupid users who get their Windows machines infected would get their *nix machines infected and the problem would remain the same").
In addition, if you are worried consider that future buyers may also be worried. Unless you plan to either die in the apartment or leave it to your children, resale ability and ease of resale may be things you wish to consider.
Blame the moderation system; funny doesn't give karma while insightful does, and some people seem to care about that sort of thing (though don't ask me why).
Also, Thief 3. The original game was a masterpiece, and Thief 2 built well on its foundations.
Thief 3 was pretty, I'll give it that, but it was rendered half brain dead by being designed for console compatibility. Watered-down, simplified game play, and levels that actually had clouds of fog representing the transition point between "bit you have loaded" to "bit you need to load"; walk into one and it told you what was happening and sought confirmation.
Way to kill the immersion that was one of the best features of the first 2.
Oh, and while we're on the subject, Bioshock. Great game, but given it's essentially System Shock 3 it too was dumbed-down too much in order to cater to the console gaming crowd.
What I mean by this is, on their 24Mbit plan, I would get no higher than about 200Kbytes per second
24Mbps is an ADSL speed not a cable one, ADSL is notoriously poor because of BT's shitty telephone wires. Virgin cable broadband offers speeds in whole 10s of Mbps - from memory, 10, 20 or 50 currently. I have the 10Mbps service and get pretty-much exactly that; downloads speeds of 1.1MB/s or higher are the norm for me, not the exception.
that's because it's going to be variable, as the last mile isn't fibre optic. See also ADSL connections that promise up to 8MB
Well I can't comment on what exactly the cable coming through my wall is, but I have Virgin cable broadband and my experience is that I get pretty-much every last bit of my "up to 10Mbps" connection.
That compares extremely favourably with my old ADSL connection, which while advertised as "up to 8Mbps" actually reported a line speed of ~2Mbps and rarely delivered much above about 1.5Mbps, and that only when the equipment at the exchange didn't throttle it back to as little as 330kpbs because of perceived connectivity problems.
I'm not saying everyone will definitely get full speed, just that my own individual experience has been very positive.
It's absolute crap for listening to music (limited storage space, crappy tinny speaker, etc)
Storage space I can see being a problem if you have a huge library of music and/or videos, but crappy tinny speaker as a criticism? Buy a pair of earphones or a speaker dock!
It doesn't explain why the humans didn't just take the mountains and / or use orbital bombardment.
That was one of the things I didn't like about Avatar; in real life once we were thrown off the planet, we'd have gone back in force and either invaded or just bombarded the site from orbit. Kind of made it hard to have the warm fuzzy feeling that we were obviously meant to leave the cinema with.
Well, he did say "in Germany" so it's just possible that he doesn't live in the US...
On the other hand, there are similar legal provisions here in the UK - landlords have to give notice if they want to enter the property while you're renting it, they can't just turn up and demand to be let in (or let themselves in).
(Of course there are also provisions for dealing with unreasonable tenants - you can't keep a landlord out forever, you do have to let them in at some point when they ask)
"Browser Game" implies a game that is started by visiting a web page. No local installation existing before.
True, but even Flash objects are cached by browsers (assuming you don't disable the caching). I don't see any reason why this wouldn't load and cache resources on demand (or slightly ahead of demand); there would be a start-up hit, but that's pretty-much inevitable anyway.
While all that's true, the comment you've replied to said that WebGL can't use DirectX, not D3D. DX most definitely does supply many features that OGL does not.
Whether any of those are relevant to this discussion is another matter of course.
No, I think what the OP means is that an app developed on one release of one distro is not guaranteed to work on any version of any other distro, or even any other version of the same distro.
This isn't about machines talking to one another, it's about software dependency resolution (or lack thereof).
One of the pieces of US legislation I'm most envious of, as an European is FOIA (the time span should be considerably shorter, but over here, governments are free to keep things secret forever).
That's not entirely true; the UK is both a member state and has a Freedom of Information Act, though I confess I've neither read ours nor the US one, so can't compare the two. More details on the UK one are available on the OPSI website.
after reading a bit of his "opinion" piece (written way more formally than any opinion piece I've read)
That will be because it is his opinion as the European Data Protection Supervisor; he is not just speaking personally, he is speaking in his official capacity. That rather requires a certain degree of formality.
As I promised earlier, if you donate to the site and are unhappy about the rolls, let me know and I will pull a die out of the machine, melt it flat and mail it to you, as an object lesson to the other dice. Tangible revenge.
Windows update checks for the authenticity of Windows.
As a result on millions of computers the OS is un-updated and anti-virus is absent.
Running a copy of Windows that has failed WGA is no excuse for not running AV software, there are plenty of free alternatives to MS Security Essentials. (In fact that's a pretty late comer to the game, there has been free AV software available for years)
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That sounds like an awful lot of effort... Kill it with fire!
You will always be able to find one on e-bay.
That probably isn't good enough for a company selling a service...
No suitable candidate in your area? Stand yourself. That is how democracy works.
People pay for it trough their taxes.
No we do not, we pay for it through the TV licence fee. That may well have every appearance of being a tax, but it is not.
I frequently hear this type of reasoning. It should be listed as a known/cataloged talking point so we can all absorb it once and move on, instead of seeing it rehashed every time this sort of discussion comes up.
If we did that with every oft-repeated argument or piece of information on here, the number of comments attached to most articles would drop through the floor.
For example your discussion of the fact that insecure machines affect everyone on the net is hardly new. In response, I will merely refer you to the common talking point "it's the users, not the OS" (or "if everyone ran *nix machines the same naive/uncaring/stupid users who get their Windows machines infected would get their *nix machines infected and the problem would remain the same").
In addition, if you are worried consider that future buyers may also be worried. Unless you plan to either die in the apartment or leave it to your children, resale ability and ease of resale may be things you wish to consider.
Yes it's a joke - he's talking about drinking alcohol.
Blame the moderation system; funny doesn't give karma while insightful does, and some people seem to care about that sort of thing (though don't ask me why).
Hear hear.
Also, Thief 3. The original game was a masterpiece, and Thief 2 built well on its foundations.
Thief 3 was pretty, I'll give it that, but it was rendered half brain dead by being designed for console compatibility. Watered-down, simplified game play, and levels that actually had clouds of fog representing the transition point between "bit you have loaded" to "bit you need to load"; walk into one and it told you what was happening and sought confirmation.
Way to kill the immersion that was one of the best features of the first 2.
Oh, and while we're on the subject, Bioshock. Great game, but given it's essentially System Shock 3 it too was dumbed-down too much in order to cater to the console gaming crowd.
Don't have to worry about "karma" when saying what you truly think.
Oh, fuck karma.
Having a login is only so the Slashdot's owner can BS their advertisers to "show" how many eyeballs they have.
Slashdot had accounts long before it had advertising.
Get a grip: it's only Slashdot.
Now that one I whole-heartedly agree with.
What I mean by this is, on their 24Mbit plan, I would get no higher than about 200Kbytes per second
24Mbps is an ADSL speed not a cable one, ADSL is notoriously poor because of BT's shitty telephone wires. Virgin cable broadband offers speeds in whole 10s of Mbps - from memory, 10, 20 or 50 currently. I have the 10Mbps service and get pretty-much exactly that; downloads speeds of 1.1MB/s or higher are the norm for me, not the exception.
that's because it's going to be variable, as the last mile isn't fibre optic. See also ADSL connections that promise up to 8MB
Well I can't comment on what exactly the cable coming through my wall is, but I have Virgin cable broadband and my experience is that I get pretty-much every last bit of my "up to 10Mbps" connection.
That compares extremely favourably with my old ADSL connection, which while advertised as "up to 8Mbps" actually reported a line speed of ~2Mbps and rarely delivered much above about 1.5Mbps, and that only when the equipment at the exchange didn't throttle it back to as little as 330kpbs because of perceived connectivity problems.
I'm not saying everyone will definitely get full speed, just that my own individual experience has been very positive.
It's absolute crap for listening to music (limited storage space, crappy tinny speaker, etc)
Storage space I can see being a problem if you have a huge library of music and/or videos, but crappy tinny speaker as a criticism? Buy a pair of earphones or a speaker dock!
It doesn't explain why the humans didn't just take the mountains and / or use orbital bombardment.
That was one of the things I didn't like about Avatar; in real life once we were thrown off the planet, we'd have gone back in force and either invaded or just bombarded the site from orbit. Kind of made it hard to have the warm fuzzy feeling that we were obviously meant to leave the cinema with.
Well, he did say "in Germany" so it's just possible that he doesn't live in the US...
On the other hand, there are similar legal provisions here in the UK - landlords have to give notice if they want to enter the property while you're renting it, they can't just turn up and demand to be let in (or let themselves in).
(Of course there are also provisions for dealing with unreasonable tenants - you can't keep a landlord out forever, you do have to let them in at some point when they ask)
"Browser Game" implies a game that is started by visiting a web page.
No local installation existing before.
True, but even Flash objects are cached by browsers (assuming you don't disable the caching). I don't see any reason why this wouldn't load and cache resources on demand (or slightly ahead of demand); there would be a start-up hit, but that's pretty-much inevitable anyway.
While all that's true, the comment you've replied to said that WebGL can't use DirectX, not D3D. DX most definitely does supply many features that OGL does not.
Whether any of those are relevant to this discussion is another matter of course.
943 applications [...] That’s roughly 5 apps a day, every day, for 250 days
Someone failed maths (yes I realise you're just quoting an article).
you think that masterbation is unhealthy. So either you're a woman
I have it on excellent authority that women masturbate too. Not as many or as often as men perhaps, but they certainly do.
No, I think what the OP means is that an app developed on one release of one distro is not guaranteed to work on any version of any other distro, or even any other version of the same distro.
This isn't about machines talking to one another, it's about software dependency resolution (or lack thereof).
One of the pieces of US legislation I'm most envious of, as an European is FOIA (the time span should be considerably shorter, but over here, governments are free to keep things secret forever).
That's not entirely true; the UK is both a member state and has a Freedom of Information Act, though I confess I've neither read ours nor the US one, so can't compare the two. More details on the UK one are available on the OPSI website.
after reading a bit of his "opinion" piece (written way more formally than any opinion piece I've read)
That will be because it is his opinion as the European Data Protection Supervisor; he is not just speaking personally, he is speaking in his official capacity. That rather requires a certain degree of formality.
As I promised earlier, if you donate to the site and are unhappy about the rolls, let me know and I will pull a die out of the machine, melt it flat and mail it to you, as an object lesson to the other dice. Tangible revenge.
Twisted; I like it.
Windows update checks for the authenticity of Windows.
As a result on millions of computers the OS is un-updated and anti-virus is absent.
Running a copy of Windows that has failed WGA is no excuse for not running AV software, there are plenty of free alternatives to MS Security Essentials. (In fact that's a pretty late comer to the game, there has been free AV software available for years)
The VideoLAN website lists the following postal contact address:
VideoLAN
18, rue Charcot
75013 Paris
France
I don't know for sure what the situation is with software patents here in the EU, but I was under the impression that we don't recognise them.