Have you used, say, Solaris or AIX recently? They have evolved as well. In particular Solaris changed a lot in version 11. AIX has always been different afaik. The problem is not that Linux is no longer "Unix" (Unix is no longer "Unix"). The problem is that people don't like change.
This means that more than twice the food is produced now than then. This means, according to your theory, the world population should have stopped growing because heaps more food was becoming available. Instead, the population doubled.
But the food is unevenly distributed. The world population has stopped growing where the food is available and you can expect your kids to survive.
But the population isn't really increasing in the western world where we have all the food we can eat. By your reasoning western populations should be increasing a lot. The number of people will stop increasing when also poor countries have enough food and good health care so that parents are confident that the children they get will reach adulthood.
They DO measure streaming as well, at least here in Sweden. I've got their equipment hooked up to my TV. They snoop on the sound from my media player, game console, etc, and on the sound from the TV to the receiver. This way they know what piece of equipment made what sound when, and by using (I guess) some kind of fingerprint algorithm they can compare it to a database of known shows/movies/whatever, and compile the result.
Thus, I have a simple recommendation: Use ZFS in a VMware machine exported via CIFS/WebDAV/NFS/AFP to Linux, Windows or Mac OS X. A small FreeNAS VM with 256MB of RAM can run in VMWare Player and Workstation on Windows/Linux and Fusion on OS X.
ZFS uses checksumming on the filesystem blocks, which lets you know of the silent corruptions. Furthermore, by design, it will be able to roll-back any incomplete filesystem transactions.
Seconded. I'm running a similar setup right now for precisely these reasons, although I'm not running FreeNAS virtually, but rather have a dedicated machine for it. Once you get used to ZFS you will not want anything else (possibly with the exception of btrfs once it matures). I'm currently moving away from Linux to PC-BSD (an easy to setup FreeBSD variant) to be able to have a ZFS root file system. Snapshoting and cloning are incredibly useful even on a single-disk machine, and incremental backups are trivial.
2. Clicking in a window DID NOT RAISE IT!!!! You clicked in the title bar to raise it. Thank you! I didn't know I wanted #2, but your post made look through my window manager settings, and indeed, I could set it to this behaviour. It makes so much sense. I'm one of those who always configure #1, and now I'll also use #2. (This is with KDE 3.5.8: KControl->Desktop->Window Behaviour->Uncheck "Click raise active window")
all new builds for the past 30 years (at least) requiring lots of insulation and double glazing.
Oh, come on. You're just proving his point. Dual glazing is so 1920's where I live. If you build a new house today you should go for triple glazing with some insulating gas.
If everyone is equal, why hold the US up to higher standards?
Everyone isn't equal. We (people in other democratic states) hold the U.S. to higher standards than e.g. China, Cuba, Iran, etc. Bad behaviour by bad states is just what we expect. Bad behaviour by good states is news.
Or is the US better than most?
Many used to think that the U.S. was better than [insert your favourite rogue regime here], but recent events has made many of them reconsider.
On the other hand, as long as bad behaviour by the U.S. is headline news, there is not too much to worry about. As soon as that behaviour is so commonplace that it doesn't make the headlines, then it is time to be really worried.
The UN does not seem to care about what China does but yet the Americans drop a bomb on the wrong house and the world freaks out.
That's because we hold you to higher standards. When the U.S. doesn't live up to it's standard, it's newsworthy. Lately the U.S. has been in the news alot.
So the European equivalent of the MPAA/RIAA will have succeeded in shutting down file sharing of copyrighted material in Sweden only to see it pop up elsewhere in the world.
Actually, they have not succeeded in anything except that they are now allowed to store and process personal information about file sharers. Recently the data board classified IP-adresses as personal information, which meant they needed permission to store and process it without the users consent. They now have this permission. However, since it is now clear that they are subject to this law (called PUL, which means something like Law of Personal Information), they are also required to tell the registered person about the registration. In order to do this they need to know who has a particular IP, and only the ISP can help with this, but they refuse to cooperate. It is all very confusing and amusing to follow.
And the fact that BSD ports downloads, configures, builds, and installs all specified components *from source* leads BSD bigots into thinking that the BSD ports packagers must be doing a much better job then Red Hat or Debian packagers. Rather, they just bypass the problem of binary compatability.
This is the most important reason as to why I run Gentoo. It lets me escape dependency hell. Binary packages will always be more dependancy sensitive. I hope your post will make others see the problem with binary packages, and that there is a solution. Great post!
"A feature will be implemented if and only if there is a developer who wants to implement it"
Why should someone be compelled to develop software he doesn't want to develop? When you're forced to do something you don't want to do, that's called work, not a hobby.
But the thing is we can affect what the developers want by giving input, and that's what the discussion is about. It seems to me that parts of the GNOME development team don't even want users to give input. From personal experience I know that knowing what the users want most makes me want to work on exactly that. IMHO not letting users vote for feature requests on bugzilla removes motivation from developers.
It's all about affecting what the developers want. No one wants to force anyone to do anything.
Those who aren't willing to CONTRIBUTE to an Open Source/Free Software project are not entitled to an opinion. But those who do not write code can still contribute. They can test and report bugs, write documentation, maintain infrastructure, help work the mailing lists and answer the easy questions to free up the devels time, contribute storage & bandwidth, cash, etc.
Or they can write a piece that brings the issue out, so other people get aware of the problem.
Bitching without a willingness to enter the trenches first isn't a positive contribution
I think it is, if it's bitching in a way that spurs discussion. Unfortunately, so far it's mostly been a meta discussion here on slashot.
There's an option to disable these animations. Pretty vital, especially in LAN multiplayer.
Actually, no (AFAICT). There is an option to turn off animations but it doesn't turn them off completely. I still se the units move from one point to another with this option turned off. It will just make an uglier move. With alot of units, just watching them move between turns can take 2-3 minutes when playing a huge world.
If I have to do it again when my character died, I'd quit at that point. I don't care if it was only two weeks, I have better things to do with my time. Perma-death is long term bad because it pushes people out of the game when they lose their character.
But what if you didn't have to replay anything when you die? You're assuming you have to replay stuff because that's what you're used to. You fall under his point #3, and hence support his argument. The same can be said about your comments on instancing and teleporting.
I think you have to expand your paradigm a bit. For example.. do you truly object to 'Permanent Death'.. or are you really objecting to 'Replaying the same content again'?
I believe he's really objecting to 'Replaying the same content again', which makes him fall under Bartle's #3:
Point #3: Players judge all virtual worlds as a reflection of the one they first got into.
In many games, PM would lead to replaying content, but that doesn't make PM an inherently bad thing. Actually, most of the posts so far that object to Bartle seem to fall under #3. They object to PD, no teleportation, and no instances because they imagine what it would do to the games they know, not what it would mean for a New And Better Game (tm). And that would make that New And Better Game fail, which is Bartle's point.
I've been told the file system for Tops-20 had built-in version control. I tried to google for a reference, but failed. Maybe someone could enlighten me?
I suppose that depends on what definition you use. Sweden is neutral in the sense that we are not part of any military alliance, and it was that definition I used. We are however not afraid to critizise and take side in different situations, so in that sense we are not neutral.
It might be a ubiquitous term in english, but it certainly is not in finnish or swedish. This is problably the most important reason for the US-judge to come to a different conclusion than the finnish and swedish judges. This is a fair ruling IMHO.
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Have you used, say, Solaris or AIX recently? They have evolved as well. In particular Solaris changed a lot in version 11. AIX has always been different afaik. The problem is not that Linux is no longer "Unix" (Unix is no longer "Unix"). The problem is that people don't like change.
I've been using btrfs on all my machines/laptops for more than 2 years now. I've never had corruption or lost data
How do you know?
This means that more than twice the food is produced now than then. This means, according to your
theory, the world population should have stopped growing because heaps more food was becoming available.
Instead, the population doubled.
But the food is unevenly distributed. The world population has stopped growing where the food is available and you can expect your kids to survive.
But the population isn't really increasing in the western world where we have all the food we can eat. By your reasoning western populations should be increasing a lot. The number of people will stop increasing when also poor countries have enough food and good health care so that parents are confident that the children they get will reach adulthood.
They DO measure streaming as well, at least here in Sweden. I've got their equipment hooked up to my TV. They snoop on the sound from my media player, game console, etc, and on the sound from the TV to the receiver. This way they know what piece of equipment made what sound when, and by using (I guess) some kind of fingerprint algorithm they can compare it to a database of known shows/movies/whatever, and compile the result.
Thus, I have a simple recommendation:
Use ZFS in a VMware machine exported via CIFS/WebDAV/NFS/AFP to Linux, Windows or Mac OS X. A small FreeNAS VM with 256MB of RAM can run in VMWare Player and Workstation on Windows/Linux and Fusion on OS X.
ZFS uses checksumming on the filesystem blocks, which lets you know of the silent corruptions. Furthermore, by design, it will be able to roll-back any incomplete filesystem transactions.
Seconded. I'm running a similar setup right now for precisely these reasons, although I'm not running FreeNAS virtually, but rather have a dedicated machine for it. Once you get used to ZFS you will not want anything else (possibly with the exception of btrfs once it matures). I'm currently moving away from Linux to PC-BSD (an easy to setup FreeBSD variant) to be able to have a ZFS root file system. Snapshoting and cloning are incredibly useful even on a single-disk machine, and incremental backups are trivial.
1. focus follows mouse
2. Clicking in a window DID NOT RAISE IT!!!! You clicked in the title bar to raise it. Thank you! I didn't know I wanted #2, but your post made look through my window manager settings, and indeed, I could set it to this behaviour. It makes so much sense. I'm one of those who always configure #1, and now I'll also use #2. (This is with KDE 3.5.8: KControl->Desktop->Window Behaviour->Uncheck "Click raise active window")
What does that daemon have to do with integrated graphics? I thought it was wireless networking that needed that daemon.
all new builds for the past 30 years (at least) requiring lots of insulation and double glazing.
Oh, come on. You're just proving his point. Dual glazing is so 1920's where I live. If you build a new house today you should go for triple glazing with some insulating gas.
If everyone is equal, why hold the US up to higher standards?
Everyone isn't equal. We (people in other democratic states) hold the U.S. to higher standards than e.g. China, Cuba, Iran, etc. Bad behaviour by bad states is just what we expect. Bad behaviour by good states is news.
Or is the US better than most?
Many used to think that the U.S. was better than [insert your favourite rogue regime here], but recent events has made many of them reconsider.
On the other hand, as long as bad behaviour by the U.S. is headline news, there is not too much to worry about. As soon as that behaviour is so commonplace that it doesn't make the headlines, then it is time to be really worried.
The UN does not seem to care about what China does but yet the Americans drop a bomb on the wrong house and the world freaks out.
That's because we hold you to higher standards. When the U.S. doesn't live up to it's standard, it's newsworthy. Lately the U.S. has been in the news alot.
So the European equivalent of the MPAA/RIAA will have succeeded in shutting down file sharing of copyrighted material in Sweden only to see it pop up elsewhere in the world.
Actually, they have not succeeded in anything except that they are now allowed to store and process personal information about file sharers. Recently the data board classified IP-adresses as personal information, which meant they needed permission to store and process it without the users consent. They now have this permission. However, since it is now clear that they are subject to this law (called PUL, which means something like Law of Personal Information), they are also required to tell the registered person about the registration. In order to do this they need to know who has a particular IP, and only the ISP can help with this, but they refuse to cooperate. It is all very confusing and amusing to follow.
but these graphics are not the kind of thing that'll attract users to the platform
:-)
Considering your nickname, I'm sure you can contribute some nice graphics to the game that will attract users...
And the fact that BSD ports downloads, configures, builds, and installs all specified components *from source* leads BSD bigots into thinking that the BSD ports packagers must be doing a much better job then Red Hat or Debian packagers. Rather, they just bypass the problem of binary compatability.
This is the most important reason as to why I run Gentoo. It lets me escape dependency hell. Binary packages will always be more dependancy sensitive. I hope your post will make others see the problem with binary packages, and that there is a solution. Great post!
"A feature will be implemented if and only if there is a developer who wants to implement it"
Why should someone be compelled to develop software he doesn't want to develop? When you're forced to do something you don't want to do, that's called work, not a hobby.
But the thing is we can affect what the developers want by giving input, and that's what the discussion is about. It seems to me that parts of the GNOME development team don't even want users to give input. From personal experience I know that knowing what the users want most makes me want to work on exactly that. IMHO not letting users vote for feature requests on bugzilla removes motivation from developers.
It's all about affecting what the developers want. No one wants to force anyone to do anything.
Those who aren't willing to CONTRIBUTE to an Open Source/Free Software project are not entitled to an opinion. But those who do not write code can still contribute. They can test and report bugs, write documentation, maintain infrastructure, help work the mailing lists and answer the easy questions to free up the devels time, contribute storage & bandwidth, cash, etc.
Or they can write a piece that brings the issue out, so other people get aware of the problem.
Bitching without a willingness to enter the trenches first isn't a positive contribution
I think it is, if it's bitching in a way that spurs discussion. Unfortunately, so far it's mostly been a meta discussion here on slashot.
I think most geeks would like Robo Rally. You use movement cards to "program" the movement of your robot in a race against other robots. Great fun!
There's an option to disable these animations. Pretty vital, especially in LAN multiplayer.
Actually, no (AFAICT). There is an option to turn off animations but it doesn't turn them off completely. I still se the units move from one point to another with this option turned off. It will just make an uglier move. With alot of units, just watching them move between turns can take 2-3 minutes when playing a huge world.
If I have to do it again when my character died, I'd quit at that point. I don't care if it was only two weeks, I have better things to do with my time. Perma-death is long term bad because it pushes people out of the game when they lose their character.
But what if you didn't have to replay anything when you die? You're assuming you have to replay stuff because that's what you're used to. You fall under his point #3, and hence support his argument. The same can be said about your comments on instancing and teleporting.
I think you have to expand your paradigm a bit. For example.. do you truly object to 'Permanent Death'.. or are you really objecting to 'Replaying the same content again'?
I believe he's really objecting to 'Replaying the same content again', which makes him fall under Bartle's #3:
Point #3: Players judge all virtual worlds as a reflection of the one they first got into.
In many games, PM would lead to replaying content, but that doesn't make PM an inherently bad thing. Actually, most of the posts so far that object to Bartle seem to fall under #3. They object to PD, no teleportation, and no instances because they imagine what it would do to the games they know, not what it would mean for a New And Better Game (tm). And that would make that New And Better Game fail, which is Bartle's point.
I've been told the file system for Tops-20 had built-in version control. I tried to google for a reference, but failed. Maybe someone could enlighten me?
Try King's Quest 9
It's a sequel to the King's Quest series made by fans. After following this project for about a year, I believe they will pull it through.
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
Hehe...
Where I live we have six wolves and a big whale that don't move very fast, and the wolves don't even realise they can't swim.
And you are swedish?
Yes.
no both aren't neutral...
I suppose that depends on what definition you use. Sweden is neutral in the sense that we are not part of any military alliance, and it was that definition I used. We are however not afraid to critizise and take side in different situations, so in that sense we are not neutral.
It might be a ubiquitous term in english, but it certainly is not in finnish or swedish. This is problably the most important reason for the US-judge to come to a different conclusion than the finnish and swedish judges. This is a fair ruling IMHO.