After charging per use I bet they come out with an "unlimited" plan for $xxx, and when that gets unmanageable cause people will be eager to abuse the shit out of it, they dump everybody back to capped kinda like veringular.
Users = customers in this case, it's free retard, are you referring to me when you say?
People who just use the project but don't contribute anything are totally irrelevant.
Are you sure I wouldn't beg to differ?
P.S. you can't speak for software developers, it's questionable if you even are one, but certainly not for others. Free projects that don't care about the users can be independent projects, no need or morality in hijacking a good and stable project like firefox but your ideology is extreme, the firefox project hasn't gotten this bad yet. I don't say this often, but your views are f'in stupid, and nobody would hire you or let you work on any open source project with such views.
They sound like a throwback to the 90s superiority complex where some developers were able to anchor themselves in their jobs by not providing any docs or manageability of their projects making it very hard to fire them, once realized, the developer develops the f the users attitude.
I completely get where your coming from, and that is a very good way to look at it, of course different from my views, but respectable nevertheless. The new features are kinda seesaw like for me, I don't really mind them, nor do I really use them. But here's the thing, they can do w/e they want w the product in terms of features, private browsing mode was a good one, however, they are introducing bugs w these features, firefox has never frozen on the google home page before, or frozen on a download, only in the recent couple of years. They are doing the equivalent of a kernel upgrade for linux except on a monthly basis, they aren't just adding new features, they're fuckin up the existing core functionality and stability. Something changed at mozilla to allow this to happen, the QC has gone to shit and thus the underlying source. I'm complaining against a high standard of firefox though, but IE & Chrome seem to meet it...
There is another factor here to consider, developers are a lot more hesitant to take on slop projects, if the source is so bugged and has core cracks because of bad development, thats the death of the project right there, nobody will want to work on it.
What your missing is w/e you created was used only by you probably. Firefox is used by millions, you seriously can't tell the difference? If you wrote a wallpaper rotator or something, that is WAY WAY WAY different from working on firefox or linux or even openoffice.
If that is indeed his goal, he should not be on the firefox dev team, but start his own project deriving off the firefox source with the blessings of its organizers.
And the politicians have figured out a way to work around this long ago, bribes, bonsues, "incentives", "product samples", the list can get quite long I'm sure.
With the way things have been going for firefox, it was a matter of time, not competition. The community said they wanted a swing and the firefox team has consistently provided a tire. I get that firefox is open source and they don't have the resources of google or microsoft, but still for a long time they were extremely competitive. What happened? My guess is they either stopped caring about anybody actually using firefox for anything reliable and began toying with the source, or senior developers left the project and were replaced by monkeys.
I actually had a chat on slashdot with a developer of ff. The guy was so disillusioned towards why would people ever have expectations of an open source project and he can do wtf he wants cause he's not getting paid to do it. Well he's right, but what will he do when nobody is using firefox anymore?
But eventually you need to upgrade the kernel to continue receiving updates, even if that's 2 years from now. The larger the environment, the harder this is of course. And when you upgrade the kernel, I doubt you can opt out of the new "features".
Reading the heading of the article, I'm surprised they only got around to it now, we use combustion quite a bit as humans and it would be quite useful in space, I also wonder how artificial gravity would affect it considering something like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautilus-X .
I totally agree, I loved gamepro back in the day, the day I'd get it in the mail was a good day. I don't need it in the mail nowadays because I go online google the game and come up with a ton of reviews, I've come across some gamepro reviews, but they've been dropping away. One thing I did notice though is compared to the old magazines, the reviews I found online from gamepro often left me unsatisfied and unsure on my decision of whether to buy, or sometimes even whether I should pursue the game at all.
I don't want to see them go away at all and reading the article heading made me genuinely sad, but at the same time I wish they'd increase their quality of writing and as OP states, why can't they be dynamic? The print market has been dying for the past decade, the trees are thankful, and numerous new markets have opened up, people certainly have not stopped reading game reviews.
Outside of the troll like presentation, he has a point, China would not report its top secret cyber attacks against the states on this call line, and when they happen they'll just point back at the call line and irresponsible Americans who did not call in:)
Listen, 10 years have done nothing for you, your still an immature little pos who likes to troll others to make yourself feel better about your worthless life. Your posts are stupid and redundant. Where was your dumb ass when x64 rolled out? You seriously forgot the incompatibilities? I guess working at your tier 1 support job lets you escalate it to your many superiors, but still how f'in dumb can you be? Nobody is talking about abandoning x64 and btw and the correct term is not x86_64 it's x64 for short, nobody uses x86_64 except for argument or research purposes.
This faggot keeps trailing my posts and prolly has mod points on his real account applying against me, if I cared I'd report abuse, but I don't.
Seriously dude, gtfo off slashdot and go catch some sunlight or something, calling you a loser would be an insult to the word.
The x86 market? Wtf still runs on x86, x64 was meant as the replacement, not side by side architecture. It's superior in every way, shame people can't dev for it proper, but that's not the architecture's problem and enough works on x64 that it's 99.9% impossible for me to justify x86 for anything. A few years ago I was building PCs for clients (my hobby, not profitable at all) with AMD processors for the price point performance. More recently it's been harder and harder to justify AMD over intel even on eco builds. I don't know what's going on with AMD, but I would appreciate a new competitor entering the consumer market that isn't intel or AMD that can compete w the former on some level. Stating they are going to go the x86 route sounds like they are throwing in the towel, I don't see this as a sustainable business strategy, every consumer desktop at best buy on display has been x64 for the past few years.
Because the UK is the first government to rely heavily on media to toot its agenda? Sounds more like they want to further lock down the internet for the people of the UK than actually stop cyber criminals. Big brother is watching.
Good point, there is some logic behind this though,
think about it, a crime by definition is the breaking of a law, a law is made by society. Thereby committing a crime has nothing to do with right or wrong, it has to do with going against society. If we could justify murder as a society, it would not be a crime in an extreme case. However, obviously our instincts repulse us at the idea (well most of us anyways). So when we apply this to the legal system, the "bad" people will know the system and work it. Robbing a house and robbing a house with a gun are two different categories of offense for example. Scoping and robbing an old lady doesn't require a gun so why risk the penalty? On the other side you have people trying to live their lives who through circumstance or bad luck get tangled w the system and have no idea what to do cause they haven't spent a life time trying to circumvent it. Money helps get those that can but 90% of the time it isn't available, thus the "good" person goes to prison / jail. This is why so many people say our legal system is f'ed up (well one of many), fixing it would require a truly gargantuan effort.
Perhaps I didn't word it correctly, it can cause a lack of sleep because of the realization that there is a lot more tracking going on than anybody thought and most of it is obscured by offshore IPs and domain names usually without PTR records. The tracking that goes on behind the scenes when surfing the web can make people a bit paranoid especially if your browser's security is wide open (no user config).
They took that niche from myspace. Who would have thought that was going anywhere? Pre-fb you would have had to say the same about myspace, just sayin.
Haha, I've heard of this one before, it's definitely a sleep taker if you catch my drift. Unfortunately I do not have enough tin foil in my home to make a hat large and thick enough to ever want to use this non-professionally and have yet had a reason to do so for profit. Just like comodo in paranoid mode, some things just don't add up to the why, but don't matter either.
If this game was released in Iran, it would demonstrate to the Iranian people that despite the government's reassurance, Iran actually can't do much against an invading USA. Political motives for invading Iran aside, the concern is probably that the people will lose faith in the regime and go the way of egypt and syria. It works a little different when your government relies on censorship and misinformation to make itself look good in what is technically a desert, so things like bf3's portrayal matter a lot more in their culture than they do in ours. Then again you don't see a whole lot of games where the states are being invaded by anything besides aliens and even then the Americans always win, just not a good selling point I guess.
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I'm not your mom buddy.
After charging per use I bet they come out with an "unlimited" plan for $xxx, and when that gets unmanageable cause people will be eager to abuse the shit out of it, they dump everybody back to capped kinda like veringular.
Users = customers in this case, it's free retard, are you referring to me when you say?
People who just use the project but don't contribute anything are totally irrelevant.
Are you sure I wouldn't beg to differ?
P.S. you can't speak for software developers, it's questionable if you even are one, but certainly not for others. Free projects that don't care about the users can be independent projects, no need or morality in hijacking a good and stable project like firefox but your ideology is extreme, the firefox project hasn't gotten this bad yet. I don't say this often, but your views are f'in stupid, and nobody would hire you or let you work on any open source project with such views.
They sound like a throwback to the 90s superiority complex where some developers were able to anchor themselves in their jobs by not providing any docs or manageability of their projects making it very hard to fire them, once realized, the developer develops the f the users attitude.
I completely get where your coming from, and that is a very good way to look at it, of course different from my views, but respectable nevertheless. The new features are kinda seesaw like for me, I don't really mind them, nor do I really use them. But here's the thing, they can do w/e they want w the product in terms of features, private browsing mode was a good one, however, they are introducing bugs w these features, firefox has never frozen on the google home page before, or frozen on a download, only in the recent couple of years. They are doing the equivalent of a kernel upgrade for linux except on a monthly basis, they aren't just adding new features, they're fuckin up the existing core functionality and stability. Something changed at mozilla to allow this to happen, the QC has gone to shit and thus the underlying source. I'm complaining against a high standard of firefox though, but IE & Chrome seem to meet it...
There is another factor here to consider, developers are a lot more hesitant to take on slop projects, if the source is so bugged and has core cracks because of bad development, thats the death of the project right there, nobody will want to work on it.
What your missing is w/e you created was used only by you probably. Firefox is used by millions, you seriously can't tell the difference? If you wrote a wallpaper rotator or something, that is WAY WAY WAY different from working on firefox or linux or even openoffice.
If that is indeed his goal, he should not be on the firefox dev team, but start his own project deriving off the firefox source with the blessings of its organizers.
And the politicians have figured out a way to work around this long ago, bribes, bonsues, "incentives", "product samples", the list can get quite long I'm sure.
With the way things have been going for firefox, it was a matter of time, not competition. The community said they wanted a swing and the firefox team has consistently provided a tire. I get that firefox is open source and they don't have the resources of google or microsoft, but still for a long time they were extremely competitive. What happened? My guess is they either stopped caring about anybody actually using firefox for anything reliable and began toying with the source, or senior developers left the project and were replaced by monkeys.
I actually had a chat on slashdot with a developer of ff. The guy was so disillusioned towards why would people ever have expectations of an open source project and he can do wtf he wants cause he's not getting paid to do it. Well he's right, but what will he do when nobody is using firefox anymore?
But eventually you need to upgrade the kernel to continue receiving updates, even if that's 2 years from now. The larger the environment, the harder this is of course. And when you upgrade the kernel, I doubt you can opt out of the new "features".
Not to mention everybody who is running Red Hat in production, who will probably be forced to accept the new features if they like security updates.
The convenient timing and a large tin foil hat. What's your evidence against?
How ever will the mayor receive his annual bonus?
Perhaps they can propose MIT volunteers implement their algorithm across every city? Show of hands from MIT students?
Reading the heading of the article, I'm surprised they only got around to it now, we use combustion quite a bit as humans and it would be quite useful in space, I also wonder how artificial gravity would affect it considering something like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautilus-X .
I totally agree, I loved gamepro back in the day, the day I'd get it in the mail was a good day. I don't need it in the mail nowadays because I go online google the game and come up with a ton of reviews, I've come across some gamepro reviews, but they've been dropping away. One thing I did notice though is compared to the old magazines, the reviews I found online from gamepro often left me unsatisfied and unsure on my decision of whether to buy, or sometimes even whether I should pursue the game at all.
I don't want to see them go away at all and reading the article heading made me genuinely sad, but at the same time I wish they'd increase their quality of writing and as OP states, why can't they be dynamic? The print market has been dying for the past decade, the trees are thankful, and numerous new markets have opened up, people certainly have not stopped reading game reviews.
Outside of the troll like presentation, he has a point, China would not report its top secret cyber attacks against the states on this call line, and when they happen they'll just point back at the call line and irresponsible Americans who did not call in :)
Listen, 10 years have done nothing for you, your still an immature little pos who likes to troll others to make yourself feel better about your worthless life. Your posts are stupid and redundant. Where was your dumb ass when x64 rolled out? You seriously forgot the incompatibilities? I guess working at your tier 1 support job lets you escalate it to your many superiors, but still how f'in dumb can you be? Nobody is talking about abandoning x64 and btw and the correct term is not x86_64 it's x64 for short, nobody uses x86_64 except for argument or research purposes.
This faggot keeps trailing my posts and prolly has mod points on his real account applying against me, if I cared I'd report abuse, but I don't.
Seriously dude, gtfo off slashdot and go catch some sunlight or something, calling you a loser would be an insult to the word.
The x86 market? Wtf still runs on x86, x64 was meant as the replacement, not side by side architecture. It's superior in every way, shame people can't dev for it proper, but that's not the architecture's problem and enough works on x64 that it's 99.9% impossible for me to justify x86 for anything. A few years ago I was building PCs for clients (my hobby, not profitable at all) with AMD processors for the price point performance. More recently it's been harder and harder to justify AMD over intel even on eco builds. I don't know what's going on with AMD, but I would appreciate a new competitor entering the consumer market that isn't intel or AMD that can compete w the former on some level. Stating they are going to go the x86 route sounds like they are throwing in the towel, I don't see this as a sustainable business strategy, every consumer desktop at best buy on display has been x64 for the past few years.
Because the UK is the first government to rely heavily on media to toot its agenda? Sounds more like they want to further lock down the internet for the people of the UK than actually stop cyber criminals. Big brother is watching.
Good point, there is some logic behind this though,
think about it, a crime by definition is the breaking of a law, a law is made by society. Thereby committing a crime has nothing to do with right or wrong, it has to do with going against society. If we could justify murder as a society, it would not be a crime in an extreme case. However, obviously our instincts repulse us at the idea (well most of us anyways). So when we apply this to the legal system, the "bad" people will know the system and work it. Robbing a house and robbing a house with a gun are two different categories of offense for example. Scoping and robbing an old lady doesn't require a gun so why risk the penalty? On the other side you have people trying to live their lives who through circumstance or bad luck get tangled w the system and have no idea what to do cause they haven't spent a life time trying to circumvent it. Money helps get those that can but 90% of the time it isn't available, thus the "good" person goes to prison / jail. This is why so many people say our legal system is f'ed up (well one of many), fixing it would require a truly gargantuan effort.
Perhaps I didn't word it correctly, it can cause a lack of sleep because of the realization that there is a lot more tracking going on than anybody thought and most of it is obscured by offshore IPs and domain names usually without PTR records. The tracking that goes on behind the scenes when surfing the web can make people a bit paranoid especially if your browser's security is wide open (no user config).
based on real events...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1131729/
A diamond bends light (a laser in this case) via reflection rather than quantum vacuum fluctuations? Maybe I'm missing something...
Anyways, I find hardware based cryptography much more scalable and attainable than tfa.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_random_number_generator
Also, I've never heard of a hacker trying to reverse engineer an encryption algorithm to break into a system, 0 day IIS exploits on the other hand...
They took that niche from myspace. Who would have thought that was going anywhere? Pre-fb you would have had to say the same about myspace, just sayin.
Haha, I've heard of this one before, it's definitely a sleep taker if you catch my drift. Unfortunately I do not have enough tin foil in my home to make a hat large and thick enough to ever want to use this non-professionally and have yet had a reason to do so for profit. Just like comodo in paranoid mode, some things just don't add up to the why, but don't matter either.
If this game was released in Iran, it would demonstrate to the Iranian people that despite the government's reassurance, Iran actually can't do much against an invading USA. Political motives for invading Iran aside, the concern is probably that the people will lose faith in the regime and go the way of egypt and syria. It works a little different when your government relies on censorship and misinformation to make itself look good in what is technically a desert, so things like bf3's portrayal matter a lot more in their culture than they do in ours. Then again you don't see a whole lot of games where the states are being invaded by anything besides aliens and even then the Americans always win, just not a good selling point I guess.
Only if they were buddhism believers at the time with beliefs about the frugality of possessions.