The PC video game industry has managed to get trapped into DirectX out of lazyness; the logic is: our codebase uses DirectX, we know it cripples porting to other platforms but we cant be bothered to rewrite the codebase based on less proprietary APIs (OpenGL/OpenAL/OpenCL in this case)
Now you see companies like Valve who basically put all their eggs in the DirectX basket having (rather succesfuly however) to modify their codebase for OpenGL costing them time and money in the process. Should they have used OpenGL right from the start this would not be happening and they would have had Source games running on many more platforms straight away.
This is similar to the Germans here, they started using Windows (because it is the "standard" everybody is using it blahblahblah marketing... incentives from Microsoft...) and got lazy and got used to it, they probably started exploiting strange bugs in Office to get stuff done the way they want (bugs that obviously are probably not in OpenOffice), got used to dealing with Windows quirks and possibly even started thinking of them as features (like possibly guest logins by default, im just speculating here). Now that they were asked to move to another system with different (I am resisting the urge to say less because even though I am a tux lover I know linux isn't perfect) quirks they feel that "interoperability" and "features" are not the same... The question is: should linux distros implement some of Windows's bugs/"features"/quirks to make people feel more at home ?
I am probably going to get modded down as usual, for obscure reasons... but that is my take on things. People love Windows quirks, hell I grew fond myself of the constant scratching of my hard drive at idle (swap activity, updates, indexing? who knows!) in Windows, I ended up thinking it was *cute* even though the Linux geek in me know it was just so wrong... (PS: does anyone know how I can make a HD scratch in a similar way in Linux? I miss it, i truly do, that cute little *sccrgrrrscrr*)
I have been seeing this coming since say 2000, with the very nature of most home connections being ADSL, thus it favors one way communication by design to limit your own hosting/contribution possibilities.
I thought this was going to get better with fiber but no it seems in alot of places the same inane ADSL down/up bandwidth ratios apply to fiber... I don't quite see the technical reason for it but whatever...
SDSL connections are kept very expensive for that reason. Would it be much trouble for the ISP to allow you to pick when you subscribe to an ADSL line? How much up bandwidth do you want? etc...
I am quite tired of the current "everything in the browser" culture. People come to expect the internet to be confined to the web browser window and anything that isn't web based is ignored or seen as obsolete. Eventually people will be unaware of the true nature of the internet and only ports 80 and 443 will work; and also, in the long run web sites will have to be "certified" by governments or risk being black listed.
The internet is right now on a slippery slope to becoming a mall and "authorized/legal" media delivery service.
Jean Michel Jarre (who i do not particularly like) did say recently that eventually people who know better will flee the internet because it will become too P.C, normalized, censored.
Server software = linux as far as I can tell = finnish/international
Internet = international, how hard can it be to understand really? THE INTERNET IS A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT OF MANY COUNTRIES. Arpanet was a prototype from which it evolved.
Computer = Made in china, better luck next time dimwit
Nationality = French (yeah yeah surrender monkey blahblahblah, white flag blahblahblah, and no we dont bend over for ego tantrums like the Iraq wars)
Lost = never watched, probably garbage, besides I am only interested in Scifi not in psychodrama
No, we wouldn't. Why ignorant people like you insist upon attributing to the United States the sort of evil grandiosity more correctly placed upon old-school Russia, (or maybe modern China once the United States is no longer a major player, hard to say what their long-term plans are) is beyond me. We've fought in a number of conflicts since World War II, some on ideological grounds, others for purely utilitarian or economic reasons. However, America is not now, and never will be, an Empire in the sense that the Soviets were. Empires are incredibly expensive and frankly, you're fooling yourself if you believe that we care enough about you to want to occupy your country, that (with only a few exception) you have anything we want. Other than your women. Yes, we do want your women, but we'd much, much rather buy your oil at inflated prices and sell you iTunes tracks.
Because hiroshima and nagasaki ? No other nation in the world had the guts to pull such a retarded move and kill thousands of people in the blink of an eye. Americans had the nuke, fresh from the factory, and they just had to try it out, for the lolz didn't they? Try out their new toy of mass destruction. If it wasn't enough, they did it AGAIN! You are going to argue "pearl harbour, military target, booohooo, soldiers die" or "without our new toy war would never end", right dont justify killing innocent civilians with the worst weapon that has come out of humanity's imagination so far by claiming that soldiers (who at the time were spending their time surfing and not doing what soldiers do, prepare for attack) weren't aware of the inherent risks of their line of work? or that MAYBE/MAYBE NOT war would have not ended otherwise. May I remind you at the end of the day what ended WW2 was the combined efforts of european countries and russians (oh noes the evil russians!) and certainly not the Americans who showed up when the war was about to end anyway and quite conviniently claiming all the credit and pillaging what remained of Germany at the time. (need I remind you that alot of technology you like to brag about (like the Apollo rocket) were actually NAZI INVENTIONS)
Look an American beating a dead horse, again, wake up, russians have moved on from communist era, the nazis are not in power anymore!
Americans are stuck with past paranoias and "glory" or what?
Failed basic economics? One would have to be blind to see the dollar is completely aimless and keeps dropping every other day. The euro and the british pound are much more stable and really safer bets in the future. And for that you can in big part blame your own greedy banks.
Everyone is concerned about the americans; most of them are very ripe for the psych ward.
So yes such a contraption in orbit would actually give them total dominion over the world, which is of course what they would like; it would also violate an amazin amount of international laws but we all know what they do to international laws, they just sit on them and call them irrelevant.
And you know what we are going to do about it if it happens? NOTHING, we are just once again going to bend over for the US and take it up the back passage, in the name of the "almighty" dollar (which nowadays is really a joke, if possible avoid getting paid in dollars, it is Monopoly money, it is basically worthless)
The US is world champion of egomania and shows it again...
They simply cannot resist building war toys, it is just an addiction to them. They want to feel safe? perhaps stop brandishing weapons and bragging would help gain them some sympathy around the world. What are they possibly going to use it for? another war to "liberate" another third world country and give them an occasion to finally use their very expensive and overpowered deadly contraptions ?
Americans, man, I sure wish they'd snap out of their addiction to war, money and egocentrism, they could actually be decent people...
Eventually they'll come out of it, I think, but will it be of their own volition or will it be forced by some other nation that has had it with their tantrums?
but when will we see user friendly features like "delete my pr0n (history/cache) when I close Chrome" or "do not fail miserably at importing my firefox profile data" or "do not block any ports, i know what i am doing"...
but when will we see user friendly features like "delete my pr0n (history/cache) when I close Chrome" or "do not fail miserably at importing my firefox profile data" or "do not block any ports, i know what i am doing"...
people will just leech this version, play with it for lolz and then wait for the finished product to come out and pirate that and play it more seriously. or they just wont bother with the finished product and skip to a fun game (if there is such a thing nowadays)
Of course it is a trap that is why i won't bother getting it.
Under other circumstances I might have leeched it to try it on my OS for a bit of a laugh.
However would my OS be supported I might have actually bought the damm thing, nevermind if the game itself sucks but to make a point that there is a market for games on my OS.
Now, with the "leak" and it not being supported on my OS anyhow, at best it will be a thing to do when looking for a laugh at how retarded game devs are nowadays.
"faker" server? what makes servers "fake"? non "mission critical" servers are fake servers and therefore worthless? because it's not labelled as "mission critical super elitist cisco quadruple xeon megablade" makes it "fake" and worthless
sorry thought, apparently your trolling is mission critical... better get a $$$$$$$$$ REAL server then because let me tell you your laptop ain't gonna cut it, doesn't matter if one can run a whole city's traffic system on a laptop right, its not gonna cut it because it is FAKE! woohoo!
you sir know NOTHING of computing, I don't know what you are doing on slashdot, this is a geek's place after all.
Gamer communities? servers? and so on? Leechers ftp? fserves and so on?
Organizations. Mission-critical required.
As I said nobody can say that their projects are more important than other's projects.
Basically this is just short-changing people who can't afford "mission-critical grade" hardware, even though their "mission" may be very critical to them.
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If properly tuned... that is ... or else I see disaster looming...
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The PC video game industry has managed to get trapped into DirectX out of lazyness; the logic is: our codebase uses DirectX, we know it cripples porting to other platforms but we cant be bothered to rewrite the codebase based on less proprietary APIs (OpenGL/OpenAL/OpenCL in this case)
Now you see companies like Valve who basically put all their eggs in the DirectX basket having (rather succesfuly however) to modify their codebase for OpenGL costing them time and money in the process. Should they have used OpenGL right from the start this would not be happening and they would have had Source games running on many more platforms straight away.
This is similar to the Germans here, they started using Windows (because it is the "standard" everybody is using it blahblahblah marketing... incentives from Microsoft...) and got lazy and got used to it, they probably started exploiting strange bugs in Office to get stuff done the way they want (bugs that obviously are probably not in OpenOffice), got used to dealing with Windows quirks and possibly even started thinking of them as features (like possibly guest logins by default, im just speculating here). Now that they were asked to move to another system with different (I am resisting the urge to say less because even though I am a tux lover I know linux isn't perfect) quirks they feel that "interoperability" and "features" are not the same...
The question is: should linux distros implement some of Windows's bugs/"features"/quirks to make people feel more at home ?
I am probably going to get modded down as usual, for obscure reasons... but that is my take on things. People love Windows quirks, hell I grew fond myself of the constant scratching of my hard drive at idle (swap activity, updates, indexing? who knows!) in Windows, I ended up thinking it was *cute* even though the Linux geek in me know it was just so wrong... (PS: does anyone know how I can make a HD scratch in a similar way in Linux? I miss it, i truly do, that cute little *sccrgrrrscrr*)
I was considering switching to Chrome for speed but two things put me off, apparently Google likes to decide what is best for you...
- Can't delete cache/history when closing.
- Blocked ports (WTF!) requiring a command line option to unblock.
I have been seeing this coming since say 2000, with the very nature of most home connections being ADSL, thus it favors one way communication by design to limit your own hosting/contribution possibilities.
I thought this was going to get better with fiber but no it seems in alot of places the same inane ADSL down/up bandwidth ratios apply to fiber... I don't quite see the technical reason for it but whatever...
SDSL connections are kept very expensive for that reason. Would it be much trouble for the ISP to allow you to pick when you subscribe to an ADSL line? How much up bandwidth do you want? etc...
I am quite tired of the current "everything in the browser" culture. People come to expect the internet to be confined to the web browser window and anything that isn't web based is ignored or seen as obsolete. Eventually people will be unaware of the true nature of the internet and only ports 80 and 443 will work; and also, in the long run web sites will have to be "certified" by governments or risk being black listed.
The internet is right now on a slippery slope to becoming a mall and "authorized/legal" media delivery service.
Jean Michel Jarre (who i do not particularly like) did say recently that eventually people who know better will flee the internet because it will become too P.C, normalized, censored.
Seems like such a waste.
Server software = linux as far as I can tell = finnish/international
Internet = international, how hard can it be to understand really? THE INTERNET IS A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT OF MANY COUNTRIES. Arpanet was a prototype from which it evolved.
Computer = Made in china, better luck next time dimwit
Nationality = French (yeah yeah surrender monkey blahblahblah, white flag blahblahblah, and no we dont bend over for ego tantrums like the Iraq wars)
Lost = never watched, probably garbage, besides I am only interested in Scifi not in psychodrama
No, we wouldn't. Why ignorant people like you insist upon attributing to the United States the sort of evil grandiosity more correctly placed upon old-school Russia, (or maybe modern China once the United States is no longer a major player, hard to say what their long-term plans are) is beyond me. We've fought in a number of conflicts since World War II, some on ideological grounds, others for purely utilitarian or economic reasons. However, America is not now, and never will be, an Empire in the sense that the Soviets were. Empires are incredibly expensive and frankly, you're fooling yourself if you believe that we care enough about you to want to occupy your country, that (with only a few exception) you have anything we want. Other than your women. Yes, we do want your women, but we'd much, much rather buy your oil at inflated prices and sell you iTunes tracks.
Because hiroshima and nagasaki ?
No other nation in the world had the guts to pull such a retarded move and kill thousands of people in the blink of an eye.
Americans had the nuke, fresh from the factory, and they just had to try it out, for the lolz didn't they? Try out their new toy of mass destruction.
If it wasn't enough, they did it AGAIN!
You are going to argue "pearl harbour, military target, booohooo, soldiers die" or "without our new toy war would never end", right dont justify killing innocent
civilians with the worst weapon that has come out of humanity's imagination so far by claiming that soldiers (who at the time were spending their time surfing and not doing what soldiers do, prepare for attack) weren't aware of the inherent risks of their line of work? or that MAYBE/MAYBE NOT war would have not ended otherwise.
May I remind you at the end of the day what ended WW2 was the combined efforts of european countries and russians (oh noes the evil russians!) and certainly not the Americans who showed up when the war was about to end anyway and quite conviniently claiming all the credit and pillaging what remained of Germany at the time. (need I remind you that alot of technology you like to brag about (like the Apollo rocket) were actually NAZI INVENTIONS)
Look an American beating a dead horse, again, wake up, russians have moved on from communist era, the nazis are not in power anymore!
Americans are stuck with past paranoias and "glory" or what?
Failed basic economics? One would have to be blind to see the dollar is completely aimless and keeps dropping every other day. The euro and the british pound are much more stable and really safer bets in the future. And for that you can in big part blame your own greedy banks.
Well keep thinking in that tribal "I am better than you" way this is going to help humanity a whole lot....
Go back to neanderthal the time frame you belong.
Everyone is concerned about the americans; most of them are very ripe for the psych ward.
So yes such a contraption in orbit would actually give them total dominion over the world, which is of course what they would like; it would also violate an amazin amount of international laws but we all know what they do to international laws, they just sit on them and call them irrelevant.
And you know what we are going to do about it if it happens? NOTHING, we are just once again going to bend over for the US and take it up the back passage, in
the name of the "almighty" dollar (which nowadays is really a joke, if possible avoid getting paid in dollars, it is Monopoly money, it is basically worthless)
The US is world champion of egomania and shows it again...
They simply cannot resist building war toys, it is just an addiction to them.
They want to feel safe? perhaps stop brandishing weapons and bragging would help gain them some sympathy around the world.
What are they possibly going to use it for? another war to "liberate" another third world country and give them an occasion to finally use their very expensive and overpowered deadly contraptions ?
Americans, man, I sure wish they'd snap out of their addiction to war, money and egocentrism, they could actually be decent people...
Eventually they'll come out of it, I think, but will it be of their own volition or will it be forced by some other nation that has had it with their tantrums?
but when will we see user friendly features like "delete my pr0n (history/cache) when I close Chrome" or "do not fail miserably at importing my firefox profile data" or "do not block any ports, i know what i am doing"...
but when will we see user friendly features like "delete my pr0n (history/cache) when I close Chrome" or "do not fail miserably at importing my firefox profile data" or "do not block any ports, i know what i am doing"...
what exactly do they "consume" using a web browser? ...
I doubt I can actually download food
Enjoy wasting money.
except nobody is going to BUY the full game.
people will just leech this version, play with it for lolz and then wait for the finished product to come out and pirate that and play it more seriously.
or they just wont bother with the finished product and skip to a fun game (if there is such a thing nowadays)
I don't even want to touch it in the first place.
I am just sick of unimaginative games with lots of wow-effect but little substance.
I'll stick to Minecraft on my 2xGTX460
I dont buy overhyped games, they are often copy/pasta.
I just pirate them, play them for 10 minutes, get bored, delete.
Of course it is a trap that is why i won't bother getting it.
Under other circumstances I might have leeched it to try it on my OS for a bit of a laugh.
However would my OS be supported I might have actually bought the damm thing, nevermind if the game itself sucks but to make a point that there is a market for games on my OS.
Now, with the "leak" and it not being supported on my OS anyhow, at best it will be a thing to do when looking for a laugh at how retarded game devs are nowadays.
Everything is "illegal" nowadays, im not astonished.
Only media corporations are pretending to be astonished so they can go and whine about the "astonishingly illegal" sites to politicians.
Find a mobile operator that will charge you by the minute only?
Cisco has always been way over rated IMHO...
One thing for sure though they have huge ego and people becoming so-called Cisco "Experts" do as well....
More iGadgets.
You may be joking but the french government is considering doing that...
Yes it is beyond retarded.
They shouldn't sell it in the first place out of respect for their customers.
First it was the drivers, people we like "oh ok the drivers are abit dodgy but i'll work around that..."
now its the hardware...
do big corporate have no accountability anymore for the PROPER WORKING of their products?
how far will this go?
"faker" server? what makes servers "fake"? non "mission critical" servers are fake servers and therefore worthless? because it's not labelled as "mission critical super elitist cisco quadruple xeon megablade" makes it "fake" and worthless
sorry thought, apparently your trolling is mission critical... better get a $$$$$$$$$ REAL server then because let me tell you your laptop ain't gonna cut it, doesn't matter if one can run a whole city's traffic system on a laptop right, its not gonna cut it because it is FAKE!
woohoo!
you sir know NOTHING of computing, I don't know what you are doing on slashdot, this is a geek's place after all.
get your logic straight dopehead!
Wrong, again.
Gamer communities? servers? and so on?
Leechers ftp? fserves and so on?
Organizations. Mission-critical required.
As I said nobody can say that their projects are more important than other's projects.
Basically this is just short-changing people who can't afford "mission-critical grade" hardware, even though their "mission" may be very critical to them.