I wasn't trying to be nice. In fact, what I said is arguably at least as selfish as anything else.
By virtue of this, I ignore your having an AOL IM account.:)
I can't figure out what the joke is, here. Most likely, that makes me even more worthy of whatever the mockery is.:-P But anyway, people of my generation in my part of the world almost all use AIM primarily. So that answers that. I have an ICQ account that I log onto only for the pure sake of it; I haven't used it in about a decade.
Unless you're saying that being able to spend your time developing a filesystem is such an attractive alternative to freedom that people contemplating murder don't find it to be a real deterrent, I don't see why his finding his work on ReiserFS enjoyable is a problem.
So it's not because the creator of the filesystem committed a crime, it's because the product has an unsavoury name
Actually, it's more likely because the creator and main developer of the filesystem is suddenly gone. As I understand it, he wasn't a very friendly guy (surprise!) and drove others away from the project.
Personally, I think Hans should have been allowed to continue his work on ReiserFS while incarcerated. Better to let a guilty man contribute to society than do nothing but rot in prison, no?
I liked Zork, but I hate the "twisty little passages". It practically ruins the game. It, as anyone who managed to finish the game knows, creates "difficulty" by having some places warp you to other places without any indication that it's doing so. In fact, it never gives you any indication of where you are ("all alike"). When you create a "puzzle" that can't be solved using logic or intuition, that's NOT FUN. It's just irritating.
When I was a kid, though I certainly disliked having blood drawn, I would always stare intently at the needle and tube and all that. Now that I'm an adult, I have to look away and close my eyes and think about kitties and butterflies.
Personally, I assign IPs within a certain range to known MAC addresses. Everyone else gets IPs in a different range, and I use packet shaping to give the latter the lowest priority. So people can use my wireless router if they like, but only extra bandwidth that I'm not using.
I think he clearly understands it quite well, or at least its sociological effect. The concept of "artistic ownership" is an unfortunate consequence of an economic system that commidifies everything, even ideas. Open source represents something outside of capitalist production, producing for use value instead of exchange value.
Open source culture has indeed spread the idea that ideas shouldn't be treated like property, and should be proud that it demonstrates an alternative.
It never occurs to him at any point along the way to ask Nintendo for their permission and support.
There's no way they would have received it. This way, it got made and people saw it, and Nintendo even allowed them to keep showing it through 2009. The summary here is perhaps purposely misleading. The sentence being skipped over with '...' is "In the spirit of the holiday season they were good enough to let us keep the movie up for you to watch and enjoy through the end of 2009, but not past 2009."
Even the for- or not-for-profit issue aside, Nintendo has actually apparently been pretty cool about it (so I take back my own sarcastic comment in another thread). From the movie's website: "We came to an agreement with Nintendo earlier this month to stop distributing the film. In the spirit of the holiday season they were good enough to let us keep the movie up for you to watch and enjoy through the end of 2009, but not past 2009."
Other examples of Nintendo being cool is the way they never tried to stop the fan translation of Mother 3 after they announced it wasn't going to be ported here.
Comparing our voluntary invasion of sovereign nations to WWII and the Revolutionary War is completely ridiculous. Afghanistan's government requested Soviet military support to quell the fundamentalist Islamo-Fascists from overthrowing their secular Marxist government.
Not quite true. Afghanistan had a Marxist, Soviet-aligned government threatened by Islamist ("Islamo-Fascism" is a bullshit term that has nothing to do with history), US-backed insurgents, but they specifically told the Soviet Union NOT to send troops, knowing that it would severely harm the government's already fragile public support. The Soviet Union decided to be its usual arrogant self and figured that it knew socialism a hell of a lot better than the silly Afghans, and that its own interests were paramount (a US-backed regime on their border wasn't a happy prospect for them), and invaded anyway, toppled the Marxist government and installed a puppet regime.
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If there's one thing American have cared about since day one, it's returning royalty to their rightful seat on the throne.
You could also fail to survive the attempt.
Which is entirely distinct from failing the attempt itself.
For the rest of forever, we would sit around and argue whether games should let us do more or tell us better stories.
Uh, which one is Pong supposed to represent? Aren't "can do more" and "have actual story" the two historic strengths of RPGs?
I think you're a nice person to say that.
I wasn't trying to be nice. In fact, what I said is arguably at least as selfish as anything else.
By virtue of this, I ignore your having an AOL IM account. :)
I can't figure out what the joke is, here. Most likely, that makes me even more worthy of whatever the mockery is. :-P But anyway, people of my generation in my part of the world almost all use AIM primarily. So that answers that. I have an ICQ account that I log onto only for the pure sake of it; I haven't used it in about a decade.
Are we really so barbaric that conditions provided to criminals are unacceptable if they're not miserable enough?
Unless you're saying that being able to spend your time developing a filesystem is such an attractive alternative to freedom that people contemplating murder don't find it to be a real deterrent, I don't see why his finding his work on ReiserFS enjoyable is a problem.
As another poster said, the victim's family shouldn't have a say in the murderer's punishment. They're hardly an unbiased party.
But I'm not even sure why that's relevant. Why *wouldn't* the family agree with what I said?
Simply removing the second comma would make the sentence entirely correct:
"In their benchmarking, EXT4 and XFS performed as impressively as each other."
Adding "each" would make it a bit clearer, but the meaning is already obvious. I don't know why you think it has to be "THE other".
So it's not because the creator of the filesystem committed a crime, it's because the product has an unsavoury name
Actually, it's more likely because the creator and main developer of the filesystem is suddenly gone. As I understand it, he wasn't a very friendly guy (surprise!) and drove others away from the project.
Personally, I think Hans should have been allowed to continue his work on ReiserFS while incarcerated. Better to let a guilty man contribute to society than do nothing but rot in prison, no?
!!eleventy!!!
Wouldn't that parse to "!!110!!!"?
I liked Zork, but I hate the "twisty little passages". It practically ruins the game. It, as anyone who managed to finish the game knows, creates "difficulty" by having some places warp you to other places without any indication that it's doing so. In fact, it never gives you any indication of where you are ("all alike"). When you create a "puzzle" that can't be solved using logic or intuition, that's NOT FUN. It's just irritating.
mind you this was back in the day when you just learned cooties didn't really exist
I think you mean "when you stopped caring".
When I was a kid, though I certainly disliked having blood drawn, I would always stare intently at the needle and tube and all that. Now that I'm an adult, I have to look away and close my eyes and think about kitties and butterflies.
No idea why.
Well he did say he volunteered at a blood drive. Doesn't that count?
Personally, I assign IPs within a certain range to known MAC addresses. Everyone else gets IPs in a different range, and I use packet shaping to give the latter the lowest priority. So people can use my wireless router if they like, but only extra bandwidth that I'm not using.
Seriously, google, do I need to see on every one of your sites your insipid little ADs pushing me to use your browser on OSX
now?
"Ad" is an abbreviation for advertisement. It is not an acronym.
I think he clearly understands it quite well, or at least its sociological effect. The concept of "artistic ownership" is an unfortunate consequence of an economic system that commidifies everything, even ideas. Open source represents something outside of capitalist production, producing for use value instead of exchange value.
Open source culture has indeed spread the idea that ideas shouldn't be treated like property, and should be proud that it demonstrates an alternative.
It never occurs to him at any point along the way to ask Nintendo for their permission and support.
There's no way they would have received it. This way, it got made and people saw it, and Nintendo even allowed them to keep showing it through 2009. The summary here is perhaps purposely misleading. The sentence being skipped over with '...' is "In the spirit of the holiday season they were good enough to let us keep the movie up for you to watch and enjoy through the end of 2009, but not past 2009."
Even the for- or not-for-profit issue aside, Nintendo has actually apparently been pretty cool about it (so I take back my own sarcastic comment in another thread). From the movie's website: "We came to an agreement with Nintendo earlier this month to stop distributing the film. In the spirit of the holiday season they were good enough to let us keep the movie up for you to watch and enjoy through the end of 2009, but not past 2009."
Other examples of Nintendo being cool is the way they never tried to stop the fan translation of Mother 3 after they announced it wasn't going to be ported here.
Got a link?
Yup.
Way to go, Nintendo. I'd never heard of the movie before, but because of this story, I'm downloading it as we speak.
Sadly, the closest we'll ever get to a return of Scorpio!
Actually, "lol" is now an anti-abbreviation for a period. For example:
"today i went to the store and got some orange juice lol"
Comparing our voluntary invasion of sovereign nations to WWII and the Revolutionary War is completely ridiculous. Afghanistan's government requested Soviet military support to quell the fundamentalist Islamo-Fascists from overthrowing their secular Marxist government.
Not quite true. Afghanistan had a Marxist, Soviet-aligned government threatened by Islamist ("Islamo-Fascism" is a bullshit term that has nothing to do with history), US-backed insurgents, but they specifically told the Soviet Union NOT to send troops, knowing that it would severely harm the government's already fragile public support. The Soviet Union decided to be its usual arrogant self and figured that it knew socialism a hell of a lot better than the silly Afghans, and that its own interests were paramount (a US-backed regime on their border wasn't a happy prospect for them), and invaded anyway, toppled the Marxist government and installed a puppet regime.
He relies on some impressive gadgets: miniature flying robots, advanced satellites, highly sensitive surveillance devices
So Santa's had this technology for hundreds of years and he didn't share it with anyone? WTF?