I am somewhat minded of the Robert Heinlein quotation: "Anyone can have free speech if he owns a printing house." (IIRC) The upshot of this in internet terms is that you can only have free speech if you can get people to read what you post. This has long been a problem for magazines in that it is difficult to get people to read a new magazine until they hear it recommended by someone else.
By the way, if you want to combat this, you might like to visit my website-in-development at www.doublezero.uklinux.net. I am developing the code a bit like Slash, PHP-Nuke etc. but it has far to go before it even becomes capable of holding a community, let alone attracting one:->
I like FAT because reiserfs and ext are for wusses who actually want to read data from the partition after they've written it. This is why, although my linux root partition is ext2 (yes, still), all of my important files are on a FAT32 partition.
OK, to be honest it's because Stupidity 98 doesn't read ext partitions. I would like to use something better. In fact, I want a filesystem that recovers better from crashes than ext2, so I might consider changing at some point. Still, I like FAT16 for sheer nostalgia value. And NTFS still gets me sometimes. Just... go gently with it.
Of course it will. Now we can d/l pr0n at the same time as talking in a chat room AND checking for the latest stories on/.! Just what I always wanted...
Yes, I think that could be a very good game. I hope Maxis is listening. Imagine it: you spend ages buying new hubs to expand your network, and then you get a power cut just as your UPS is in for repair. Just imagine the UI though. It would be horrendous. Eeugh.
Sorry for the not-particularly-good subject line, I couldn't think of anything more descriptive.
OK, linux isn't just used on servers, but it tends to be used by people who run servers (or who can run servers). This means that the games marketing people could have a field day doing 'targeted marketing' and other such things as delight those people, but none of them seem to have realised it yet. Perhaps we should bring it to their attention... Or perhaps we wouldn't like to be shoved into a stereotype, but I think being exposed to 'the market' might bring linux games forward a bit. What do you think?
Anonymous postings are only used by people who know their argument is so feeble that they are vulnerable to being completely made a fool of in front of all their friends. If you are worthy of a name, post it here so that debate can be performed on equal terms rather than to a wisp of air. "To be criticised is not always to be wrong."
Look, if you want to insult me, you can leave your name. "Coward" is exactly the word for people who want to spread mud but can't take the heat. Come forward and post as yourself, you blissoming anile beldam, and stop irrumating up yourself.
You're just the sort of person Spooner would have called a 'shining wit'.
It might be difficult to do, but how about a tool that checks through a/. forum to see if what you're planning to post has already been commented on, because if another one of my comments gets moderated as redundant I may do something very bad.
Yes, thank you for sticking up for me. I was the third (I think) post on that article, and the other two hadn't been posted by the time I was there, so how can my article be redundant? You just want to lower my karma don't you.
Yes, that was really annoying. I not long ago refused to use QT, especially now that M*dia Player supports movs. Of course, now I feel justified in using W*ndows (please, no shouting) despite all of the M*c OS users going on about how much easier M*c OS is to use and how much better it is at detecting hardware and installing drivers etc. Well maybe it is but I've now got W*ndows set up just the way I like it and it hasn't crashed for ages so I'm ver<CONNECTION TERMINATED>
That would be a good idea, but it rests on the assumption that "Linux 3D developers could always stop hating M*crosoft for a few seconds. Enough said...
Oh well, I suppose they do. Of course, this is going to ruin the lives of people like us now. I think that we might possibly have to find some replacement, but what I wonder...
This thing is becoming far too common nowadays, where the threat of legal action is used to ensure compliance. Many ISPs now state quite clearly that they will remove your site if legal action is so much as hinted at. It's quite anoying that the fundamental right of freedom of expression is being compromised by big companies waving their arms and knocking people over with the breeze. If, as some suggested, M*crosoft are the Borg incarnated, their motto might perhaps be "Litigation is futile! You will be monopolated!" This links quite nicely to the N*pster case (which one?) in which the universities threatened with legal action immediately agreed to block the site from their users even though they had done nothing wrong. These are the days when no disclaimer is sufficient. Soon, ISPs will be sued just for RELAYING requests for particular pages. No-one will be safe. As well, software developers like M*crosoft are forcing more and more clauses into their EULAs. In response to even more _threatened_ legal action, browsers' EULAs will contain clauses to the effect that looking at any site which remotely annoys anyone will cause the product to automatically uninstall, to stop the developer being sued. Oh, I hope I'm not giving B*ll G*tes any ideas. The internet, the ultimate embodiment of free speech, is going to be legislated out of existence, and anyone who suddenly finds they now have nothing to do will switch to FidoNet, which M*crosoft will have anticipated and bought the rights to. Perhaps it IS all a clever marketing ploy... (Please note: Names have been changed to protect the guilty.)
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By the way, if you want to combat this, you might like to visit my website-in-development at www.doublezero.uklinux.net. I am developing the code a bit like Slash, PHP-Nuke etc. but it has far to go before it even becomes capable of holding a community, let alone attracting one :->
I like FAT because reiserfs and ext are for wusses who actually want to read data from the partition after they've written it. This is why, although my linux root partition is ext2 (yes, still), all of my important files are on a FAT32 partition.
OK, to be honest it's because Stupidity 98 doesn't read ext partitions. I would like to use something better. In fact, I want a filesystem that recovers better from crashes than ext2, so I might consider changing at some point. Still, I like FAT16 for sheer nostalgia value. And NTFS still gets me sometimes. Just... go gently with it.
Of course it will. Now we can d/l pr0n at the same time as talking in a chat room AND checking for the latest stories on /.!
Just what I always wanted...
"Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt."
-Mark Twain
Yes, I think that could be a very good game. I hope Maxis is listening. Imagine it: you spend ages buying new hubs to expand your network, and then you get a power cut just as your UPS is in for repair.
Just imagine the UI though. It would be horrendous. Eeugh.
OK, linux isn't just used on servers, but it tends to be used by people who run servers (or who can run servers). This means that the games marketing people could have a field day doing 'targeted marketing' and other such things as delight those people, but none of them seem to have realised it yet. Perhaps we should bring it to their attention...
Or perhaps we wouldn't like to be shoved into a stereotype, but I think being exposed to 'the market' might bring linux games forward a bit.
What do you think?
Anonymous postings are only used by people who know their argument is so feeble that they are vulnerable to being completely made a fool of in front of all their friends. If you are worthy of a name, post it here so that debate can be performed on equal terms rather than to a wisp of air.
"To be criticised is not always to be wrong."
Come forward and post as yourself, you blissoming anile beldam, and stop irrumating up yourself.
You're just the sort of person Spooner would have called a 'shining wit'.
Technonerds: coming soon on z1nc.org.uk
Yes, thank you for sticking up for me.
I was the third (I think) post on that article, and the other two hadn't been posted by the time I was there, so how can my article be redundant? You just want to lower my karma don't you.
Yes, that was really annoying. I not long ago refused to use QT, especially now that M*dia Player supports movs.
Of course, now I feel justified in using W*ndows (please, no shouting) despite all of the M*c OS users going on about how much easier M*c OS is to use and how much better it is at detecting hardware and installing drivers etc. Well maybe it is but I've now got W*ndows set up just the way I like it and it hasn't crashed for ages so I'm ver<CONNECTION TERMINATED>
That would be a good idea, but it rests on the assumption that "Linux 3D developers could always stop hating M*crosoft for a few seconds.
Enough said...
"Dis aliter visum"
Oh well, I suppose they do.
Of course, this is going to ruin the lives of people like us now. I think that we might possibly have to find some replacement, but what I wonder...
This thing is becoming far too common nowadays, where the threat of legal action is used to ensure compliance. Many ISPs now state quite clearly that they will remove your site if legal action is so much as hinted at. It's quite anoying that the fundamental right of freedom of expression is being compromised by big companies waving their arms and knocking people over with the breeze.
If, as some suggested, M*crosoft are the Borg incarnated, their motto might perhaps be "Litigation is futile! You will be monopolated!"
This links quite nicely to the N*pster case (which one?) in which the universities threatened with legal action immediately agreed to block the site from their users even though they had done nothing wrong. These are the days when no disclaimer is sufficient. Soon, ISPs will be sued just for RELAYING requests for particular pages. No-one will be safe.
As well, software developers like M*crosoft are forcing more and more clauses into their EULAs. In response to even more _threatened_ legal action, browsers' EULAs will contain clauses to the effect that looking at any site which remotely annoys anyone will cause the product to automatically uninstall, to stop the developer being sued. Oh, I hope I'm not giving B*ll G*tes any ideas.
The internet, the ultimate embodiment of free speech, is going to be legislated out of existence, and anyone who suddenly finds they now have nothing to do will switch to FidoNet, which M*crosoft will have anticipated and bought the rights to. Perhaps it IS all a clever marketing ploy...
(Please note: Names have been changed to protect the guilty.)
"Laws change, but justice remains the same."