1) This is old. Old, old old. And the fact that it runs on Linux (if that is the point of the article) is also old news. AFAIK the thing is recognized just like any other USB device and it works with X just fine. Unless this is just slashvertising. Oops, did I just say that.
2) This is a stupid device to use with games. Phear me, I wield the Gyroscope!!!.... MOMOMOMONSTER KILL!!!!!! Give me a break. This is good basically for presentations, not for any sort of extended use. Certainly not for gaming. The best gaming input device is a trackball, period. No RSI and perfect motion control. Especially for FPS.
In each of those cases, the user was polite and clear about what they were asking for, but there requests were unrelated to the scope of the project. Maybe yours weren't as relevant as you thought, either?
No. First of all, I'm a developer as well and I'm used to getting requests from users. My users happen to be other developers, but it's the same thing. My post exaggerates of course but ultimately it is a good sampling of what I've seen over the past few years with many open source projects. OTOH, others are OK. I don't submit patches to the Linux kernel because I have no blinking idea of how it works, nor do I care to. I'm talking about types of software which I understand and in some cases even have written before.
I know what is out of scope or irrelevant, and I know exactly why I'm suggesting a given change (or even a patch). A response like "I don't have time" or "look, I just revised the scope and your request is out of scope because I have a shitload of stuff to do" is OK. I'm not bitching about being rebuffed or even ignored, I have a problem with the type of responses I get.
There's a difference between "Nope, sorry" and "Fuck off and go back to Windoze", especially when I'm suggesting a change preceded with "You know, if you do this your app will be far easier to use and more people will download it".
And then when you (humbly) send an email or post a suggestion about how to (possibly) make [insert technology] a bit more friendly, the responses tend to go like this:
[no response. evar]
This is different from Windoze - I know that! I don't want "Windoze" (how cute, BTW) I want to tell you that your fucking design sucks rocks!
If you want stupid, use Windoze instead - Again, very cute. Also arrogant and stupid.
This is how it's done in Linux - Well shiieet, of course it is. That doesn't mean it's correct.
Did you RTFM|Google? - Well of course, for the last fucking 4 hours, just.
The next version will have... - That's great except that if I Google for what you said about this version I see the same thing. Wow, Usenet is great, eh?
We're not going to add that, that's stupid - Of course!
Use [x] instead - Yeah, except that [x] has been in alpha for the past nine years.
Check out [this page] - Fantastic. If that's not a 404 I guess I'll have to learn Japanese! Weee!
You're welcome to ask for a refund - Wahahaha!!!
It takes a rant from ESR (who despite his pretensions doesn't know much about human interaction) to get people to do things right? Wow.
I always get a chuckle when people compare Linux to OS X or Windows in usability terms. KDE looks absolutely fantastic after I log in, but the fun stops there. If I actually want to do anything else I have to fire up vi and edit 1,000 conf files. Give me a break.
And yes, ESR is right. This is one of the things that keep Windows users in Windows and perpetuate what you folks call "monoculture". Whining about it and blaming everything on "M$" won't fix anything. Great software ultimately sucks if I can't use it.
Interesting progression on that page. Still, I believe the entropy laws dictate that eventually people will look for pretty specs, the engine will recurse unto itself, hits will become relevant again and Google will have created yet another meme quoted to death in the blogosphere.
Google gets/.'ed as 1 million frustrated and lonely nerds figure out how to get free pr0n after having Mom's credit card taken away (again) and giving up on that complicated USENET thingy.
If I look for articles on linux, I get articles about linux alternatives (mostly M$ content).
Bullshit. Would you like to provide some backing on this? MSN search sucks because it's a "normal" search engine with cruft Google doesn't have, just like most other engines out there. But to go from there to claim that they're manipulating the results when you look for "switch to Linux" or whatever is total bullshit.
Or are you just gaming the mods? "Overlords" reference, a few "M$" sprinkled here and there, a vague accusation against the Evil Empire and proper veneration of Linux. +5 material, for sure.
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Look at your UIN! OK, so, given that you've obviously been reading/. for the past decade (or it just seems that way), we want teh skooop as the/. editors would say... do you use any personality traits exhibited by people who hang around here as basis for your characters? C'mon, you can tell us!
Worse, I've heard that In SOVIET RUSSIA, freenet drags YOUR wife all over your disgruntal.
... but as I always say to people who have "legitimate" complaints about free speech: It works both ways. You just don't have anything interesting to say, whereas your wife does.
This is especially true for poeple who live in places like Saudi Arabia or China. That's what Freenet is all about.
Because Robertson - kook that he is - is stomping his little foot in the sand and making a "joke" that only 0.001% of the total computer-using population of the planet gets or cares about.
I was wondering where are all the retarded zealots that came out of the woodwork to make "insightful" arguments about how the blackout was somehow Microsoft's fault - most especially Slashdot's very own Robin "roblimo" Miller who if I remember correctly was the one to "explore" the possibility that a worm targeting Windows systems was the culprit in an "interesting" NewsForge article a few months back. Just an innocent suggestion mind you, nothing concrete.
Also, where are all the +5 posts that unequivocally claimed "this is the type of thing open source would have prevented" what with all those eyes looking at all those bugs.
Nope, all I can hear is the sound of crickets in the background.
Oh but wait, we don't want to talk about these things here, $deity forbid that the "community" be somehow characterized as hysterical FUD-spreading blob of mindless sheep. Kinda like that FUD-spreading mindless corporation they accuse of everything and anything. Nah, that would be just too painful.
We also don't want to compare roblimo's article with the BBC's editorial that gently placed the MyDoom blame on open source developers. Wait, I don't remember anyone complaining about the utter stupidity of the NewsForge article so I guess we can't compare them. Although one might certainly make the case that they're basically the same thing, if one wanted.
And I'll post this at +2, just so I can bleed off more moderator points. But reality sucks, doesn't it?
You're absolutely right, I completely misread what you were saying and then proceeded to jump the gun. I apologize. I understood your post as saying something else.
HAHAHAH!! Do you know how many Soviet cosmonauts and ground crew members died from the 1950's to the mid 1970's? Far more than US astronauts and crew my dear "they only sent robot" friend. And this is just counting the ones we know of, lest we forget how open the USSR was with these types of things as opposed to the western media. Shit, even counting test aircraft deaths related to the space programs. Here's a good example:
On October 24, 1960 the Soviet Premier, Nikita S. Khrushchev was boiling mad. Two launches to Mars on the 13th and 15th of October had failed while he was preparing to make a big propaganda speech at the United Nations bragging once again about the superiority of the Communist system. His appointed lackey, Field Marshal Nedelin, was told to launch a vehicle to Mars, or else. When the countdown reached zero, the huge SS-6 rocket did not ignite. Feeling the pressure from Khrushchev, Nedelin disobeyed all safety regulations concerning rocket misfires and sent the technicians out to work on the rocket. Korolev was extremely safety conscious and he argued with Nedelin about sending the engineers out to accomplish maintenance on the unstable space vehicle. In an action of bravado, Nedelin took his entire staff and some chairs to sit by the rocket as it was being inspected by the technicians. Korolev and a deputy Yangel went into a blast shelter to have a cigarette when the rocket exploded. Instantly, Nedelin, his staff, their chairs, and over 100 technicians on the rocket were incinerated in the worst accident in the history of the Soviet space program. Rather than admitting that such an event occurred, the Soviet Press claimed that Nedelin was killed in an aircraft accident. About once every month after the accident, three or four space technicians would have their obituaries in the press; it took thirty months for all the Nedelin disaster technicians to be officially recognized as dead. Such was the secrecy of the Soviet space program in the early years. At the Tyuratam Rocket Launch Facility there is now an obelisk with the names of the scientists and technicians who perished in "The Nedelin Disaster".
HAHAHAH!!! The Soviet Union cared more about life than the US? The Soviet Union?? HAHAHAHAAH!!!
Even accounting for recent US losses with the space shuttle, the Soviets/Russians have a very healthy lead.
So strongly I suggest you check your facts before posting your "omfg amerikans are so teh evil, i hate them" trash, or otherwise just shut the fuck up.
Psst! Hey, I have a bridge in Mare Tranquillitatis I can sell you! And I'll even throw in a lot of Smolotov Blackov Helikopertnishkin if you call in the next five minutes! Act Now!
The longer that it remained unfixed, the greater the chance of someone discovering it. Microsoft truely can't afford many more "RPC DCOM"-like disasters...
Especially since the exploit was released into the wild after the vulnerability was reported and a fix was issued.
Now that there's a recent Linux kernel-level root exploit in the wild I'm sure everyone will claim "well they're stupid and they deserved it, there's a patch" whenever more 2.4 boxes are rooted. When a worm targets Microsoft boxes it's always MSFT's fault, not the "stupid users".
Don't sweat it. I think SkyOS is cool, and it's refreshing to see something more complex than Notepad that doesn't come with a political agenda. The crap you read here is just the Bashdork groupthink in action:
NOT [L]GPL!!! KILL!! KILL!!!! MY COUSIN VINNY SAID A FRIEND OF A FRIEND OF A FRIEND TOLD HIM THE SKYOS TEAM EAT CHILDREN WITH TABASCO SAUCE!!! OK, MOD ME UP!!!1! NEXT FUD ARTICLE!!! LOOK, SHINY!!! OOOOHHHHH!!!
Just keep doing what you're doing and ignore the warts - especially here. The warts in the nadir of the internet are about as worthy of attention as... well, you get the idea.
Moral and technical (nee quality) considerations of things like "Rent-A-Coder" aside (which seems to employ foreign or very junior developers as a rule) this tells me that a) At some point you considered using their services. I'd have to question your wisdom in that; and b) The guy, while of course looking out for his revenue stream, is also protecting the poor sod that actually slaved to produce the code. That can't be bad.
What makes you think that sponsoring == hosting? What was the last time you saw microsoft.com "slashdotted"? And the other site seems to be running JSP. No witty report about it? I'll leave it to you to see what your DNS server tells you about wwmx.org - I'll be impressed then.
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Hey, that's cool. It looks better than the happy hacker ones. Strangely enough it's cheaper direct from IBM than other places, like here.
2) This is a stupid device to use with games. Phear me, I wield the Gyroscope!!! .... MOMOMOMONSTER KILL!!!!!! Give me a break. This is good basically for presentations, not for any sort of extended use. Certainly not for gaming. The best gaming input device is a trackball, period. No RSI and perfect motion control. Especially for FPS.
No. First of all, I'm a developer as well and I'm used to getting requests from users. My users happen to be other developers, but it's the same thing. My post exaggerates of course but ultimately it is a good sampling of what I've seen over the past few years with many open source projects. OTOH, others are OK. I don't submit patches to the Linux kernel because I have no blinking idea of how it works, nor do I care to. I'm talking about types of software which I understand and in some cases even have written before.
I know what is out of scope or irrelevant, and I know exactly why I'm suggesting a given change (or even a patch). A response like "I don't have time" or "look, I just revised the scope and your request is out of scope because I have a shitload of stuff to do" is OK. I'm not bitching about being rebuffed or even ignored, I have a problem with the type of responses I get.
There's a difference between "Nope, sorry" and "Fuck off and go back to Windoze", especially when I'm suggesting a change preceded with "You know, if you do this your app will be far easier to use and more people will download it".
- [no response. evar]
- This is different from Windoze - I know that! I don't want "Windoze" (how cute, BTW) I want to tell you that your fucking design sucks rocks!
- If you want stupid, use Windoze instead - Again, very cute. Also arrogant and stupid.
- This is how it's done in Linux - Well shiieet, of course it is. That doesn't mean it's correct.
- Did you RTFM|Google? - Well of course, for the last fucking 4 hours, just.
- The next version will have... - That's great except that if I Google for what you said about this version I see the same thing. Wow, Usenet is great, eh?
- We're not going to add that, that's stupid - Of course!
- Use [x] instead - Yeah, except that [x] has been in alpha for the past nine years.
- Check out [this page] - Fantastic. If that's not a 404 I guess I'll have to learn Japanese! Weee!
- You're welcome to ask for a refund - Wahahaha!!!
It takes a rant from ESR (who despite his pretensions doesn't know much about human interaction) to get people to do things right? Wow.I always get a chuckle when people compare Linux to OS X or Windows in usability terms. KDE looks absolutely fantastic after I log in, but the fun stops there. If I actually want to do anything else I have to fire up vi and edit 1,000 conf files. Give me a break.
And yes, ESR is right. This is one of the things that keep Windows users in Windows and perpetuate what you folks call "monoculture". Whining about it and blaming everything on "M$" won't fix anything. Great software ultimately sucks if I can't use it.
Well, it could happen.
Google gets /.'ed as 1 million frustrated and lonely nerds figure out how to get free pr0n after having Mom's credit card taken away (again) and giving up on that complicated USENET thingy.
Oh wait...
Bullshit. Would you like to provide some backing on this? MSN search sucks because it's a "normal" search engine with cruft Google doesn't have, just like most other engines out there. But to go from there to claim that they're manipulating the results when you look for "switch to Linux" or whatever is total bullshit.
Or are you just gaming the mods? "Overlords" reference, a few "M$" sprinkled here and there, a vague accusation against the Evil Empire and proper veneration of Linux. +5 material, for sure.
Look at your UIN! OK, so, given that you've obviously been reading /. for the past decade (or it just seems that way), we want teh skooop as the /. editors would say... do you use any personality traits exhibited by people who hang around here as basis for your characters? C'mon, you can tell us!
This is especially true for poeple who live in places like Saudi Arabia or China. That's what Freenet is all about.
Because Robertson - kook that he is - is stomping his little foot in the sand and making a "joke" that only 0.001% of the total computer-using population of the planet gets or cares about.
Afterwards the lucky winner gets to recoup some of the $9M by selling 4x4m patches of bubble wrap at $50, easing the anxieties of thousands.
Later, the guy is sued by the makers of Prozac.
You heard it here first.
Also, where are all the +5 posts that unequivocally claimed "this is the type of thing open source would have prevented" what with all those eyes looking at all those bugs.
Nope, all I can hear is the sound of crickets in the background.
Oh but wait, we don't want to talk about these things here, $deity forbid that the "community" be somehow characterized as hysterical FUD-spreading blob of mindless sheep. Kinda like that FUD-spreading mindless corporation they accuse of everything and anything. Nah, that would be just too painful.
We also don't want to compare roblimo's article with the BBC's editorial that gently placed the MyDoom blame on open source developers. Wait, I don't remember anyone complaining about the utter stupidity of the NewsForge article so I guess we can't compare them. Although one might certainly make the case that they're basically the same thing, if one wanted.
And I'll post this at +2, just so I can bleed off more moderator points. But reality sucks, doesn't it?
- Write free software
- Promote using techie bimbo and assortment of stuffed toys (was: ???)
- Profit!
A great day indeed.You're absolutely right, I completely misread what you were saying and then proceeded to jump the gun. I apologize. I understood your post as saying something else.
HAHAHAH!!! The Soviet Union cared more about life than the US? The Soviet Union?? HAHAHAHAAH!!!
Even accounting for recent US losses with the space shuttle, the Soviets/Russians have a very healthy lead.
So strongly I suggest you check your facts before posting your "omfg amerikans are so teh evil, i hate them" trash, or otherwise just shut the fuck up.
Psst! Hey, I have a bridge in Mare Tranquillitatis I can sell you! And I'll even throw in a lot of Smolotov Blackov Helikopertnishkin if you call in the next five minutes! Act Now!
Especially since the exploit was released into the wild after the vulnerability was reported and a fix was issued.
Now that there's a recent Linux kernel-level root exploit in the wild I'm sure everyone will claim "well they're stupid and they deserved it, there's a patch" whenever more 2.4 boxes are rooted. When a worm targets Microsoft boxes it's always MSFT's fault, not the "stupid users".
Funny how that works.
NOT [L]GPL!!! KILL!! KILL!!!! MY COUSIN VINNY SAID A FRIEND OF A FRIEND OF A FRIEND TOLD HIM THE SKYOS TEAM EAT CHILDREN WITH TABASCO SAUCE!!! OK, MOD ME UP!!!1! NEXT FUD ARTICLE!!! LOOK, SHINY!!! OOOOHHHHH!!!
Just keep doing what you're doing and ignore the warts - especially here. The warts in the nadir of the internet are about as worthy of attention as... well, you get the idea.
Moral and technical (nee quality) considerations of things like "Rent-A-Coder" aside (which seems to employ foreign or very junior developers as a rule) this tells me that a) At some point you considered using their services. I'd have to question your wisdom in that; and b) The guy, while of course looking out for his revenue stream, is also protecting the poor sod that actually slaved to produce the code. That can't be bad.
I don't see why I need XML 1.1. I've been doing markup in Mongolian for ages:
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Sheesh, really.
Well, the only thing I haven't been able to figure out is why they did that thing with the NEL or whatever weird carriage return marker.
Well... the nice thing about standards is that there's so many of them to choose from =)
Wow, thanks.
And does it also indicate that the IP is hosted out of the same boxes that serve microsoft.com and their other high-traffic domains?
For all practical purposes this might be a crappy little PIII under a desk at MS Research.
Or to put it another way, when the last time you noticed microsoft.com was down due to a front-page link posted here, which happens every other day?
What makes you think that sponsoring == hosting? What was the last time you saw microsoft.com "slashdotted"? And the other site seems to be running JSP. No witty report about it? I'll leave it to you to see what your DNS server tells you about wwmx.org - I'll be impressed then.