I, for one, am shocked, that many products from several sources on various carriers have collectively outsold a single product available on a single carrier that doesn't even have the most market share. Utterly amazing, isn't it?
What do you mean, "many products"? It's all Lilnux.
I'm sure open ended exploration can be quite enjoyable, but what I dislike about Oblivion's design is that iirc the level up bonuses to attributes are randomized
Incorrect. The levelups in Oblivion are completely deterministic, although the rules can seem a little subtle. See here.
I think of the exact opposite. I don't like sandbox games at all. If I'm playing a game with a storyline and a quest, I want the gameplay to be tight, focused on the storyline, and with minimum to no distractions or side quests. I play those games for the story, I don't want to wander around lost or go off and do other things- I want the story, and I want a well written plotline engaging and long enough to be worth the game with nothing else tacked on.
So I am not going to buy any of the games you buy and you are not going to buy any of the games I buy. Stories on rails bore me to tears. I gave up on Final Fantasy XIII in disgust 20 hours in. If I want that I will watch a movie. As the GP noted (where are the mods) Oblivion is my idea of a near-perfect game.
And that's not necessarily a bad thing. If every member of the OHA commits all of its changes back to Android then we'll have a fairly homogenized Android market. What would the handset companies be competing over? A better camera? More storage? If it's fast enough the user experience will be pretty damn similar across the board and would end up hurting Android.
It is a bad thing if the libraries fork, which makes it harder to write cross platform applications in return for no benefit whatsoever. It is in nobody's interest for Android apps to be platform specific. On the other hand, there is nothing at all wrong with creating a proprietary top level user interface, just as HTC does with Sense.
Going Apache instead of GPL for the libraries was an epic blunder. A blunder that could be fixed, but we shall see.
You're entirely right. That's why they fund several thousand students worldwide to join open-source projects and contribute code to those projects every summer, even if the projects in question don't directly benefit Google.
Google summer of code is mainly a recruiting event from Google's point of view.
Why not standardize on an ABI for the minor version number? 2.6 versus 2.8 for example.
There is no 2.8 on the horizon, the next number over to the right has become the de facto minor version number, and the module ABI is stable within each of those releases. Clearly, you are not involved in actual kernel development, but thanks for playing.
People are laughing at me when I suggest that future iMacs will have app store lockdowns and now will be "ad-supported" to boot. It's iPhone 4.0 today and OSX 11 tomorrow. And it will still be irresistibly shiny.
I have not installed 3.21, however I can state state that after installing 3.10 or 3.15 (I forget which and will need to check later) my PS slim suddenly got wifi problems as described in the article ("Internet connectivity after the upgrade is sluggish, non-existent or subject to frequent unexplained disconnections"). Investigation on the LAN side shows 90%+ packet loss. The packet loss is moderate when the PS3 is powered on then increases to an unusable level after an hour or two.
I have had bad luck with Sony and PS3. If I return this machine it will be my fourth return. The first was a launch model that got the infamous blu-ray death shortly after a firmware update. That machine was returned to me completely busted - it powered on for about 15 minutes then died with video garbage on the screen, never to function again. This "repair" cost me $150, as my machine was out of warranty. I returned that machine and received a refurbished replacement that bricked itself in about six weeks. Having invested a ridiculous number of hours in going through Sony's horribly broken RMA procedures up to this point, I invested $300 in a slim, thus no longer being able to play the PS2 titles I had purchased. Now this machine has developed network problems as I mentioned. Color me very unimpressed.
Each time around this kooky loop, I lost all my downloaded content, much of which is no longer available, all my game saves and all the games I purchased online, with no recourse. Color me livid.
The worst thing about this whole experience is the stonewalling from Sony where they pretend there is no systematic problem.
Shareholder revolts do not matter to Google's triumvirate because the common shareholders have no votes. A lawsuit might matter but conditions would have to be pretty extreme to trigger one and shareholders would have to have lost a bundle, which they have not. Also, $Billions in the corporate piggy bank buys management plenty of legal comfort, while common shareholders would have to foot the bill themselves.
I get the feeling this whole showdown is a Larry and Sergey thing. And that Eric Schmidt is against it, and probably the rest of the board is as well. They would rather be pusillanimous like John Chambers and just make as much money off China as possible, even if it means aid and abet totalitarianism and not standing for anything except quarterly share price (again: see John Chambers). I applaud refusing to censor information on the internet, this is a line in the sand they have drawn, to perhaps 'do no evil' and in Slashdot spirit we should all be behind it....
I suspect you are right, having observed the three of them at work up close. Except, I think that it is pretty much all Sergey and not Larry, who tends to demonstrate flexible morality from time to time. The illustrious Dr Schmidt would appear to rather more concerned with the great issues of jousting with Microsoft and maximizing profit than making the world a better place.
Except, of course, those things didn't happen in USSR since 50's.
By the way, "Americans don't have long lines in the grocery stores!" was a major propaganda point in late 80's when former Communist politicians tried to paint US as the model for the "new direction" of their country. A lot of people actually believed that US has no lines at the checkout -- the only kind of "line in the grocery store" one would find in Russia in 80's. Personally, when I arrived in US, I was *SHOCKED* to see that in this particular aspect US and USSR had exactly the same kind of parity one would expect in nuclear weapons.
Big difference: the lines at US stores are at the checkout counters, while the lines at communist stores were at the entrance. By the way, I observed the empty stores with my own eyes on a visit to Czchechoslovakie in 1989. Nothing on the shelves except a few red cabbages, with people lined up to get in nonetheless. I presume you grew up on some other planet.
Good on Sergey & Google. To those clods who will joke about how a six year old can be influenced let me just say I remember when the Berlin Wall was erected. I was six years old and although I don't remember the political details I vividly recall seeing a front page photo in the Detroit News that showed what Woodward Avenue (the main street in downtown Detroit) would look like if the Wall had been built right down the center. It scared the crap out of me then even without knowing why and it remains an image that has stayed with me. Of *course* Sergey was affected.
Indeed; I was only about 7 when it fell & I remember seeing it on the news & being very happy. Obviously at 6 years old, I had no idea of the significance of the falling of the wall, but I sure as hell was able to absorb the atmosphere here in the UK. Both the highs and lows would have been amplified on the other side of the iron curtain.
Thirded. For me the age of six was the height of the cold war and I clearly remember going to sleep many nights wondering if I would wake up the next day or just be incinerated in my sleep.
if open video technology really wants to win, they have to be technically better. There is no other way.
I disagree. General availability easily trumps a few DB of bandwidth savings when it comes to free content. And thanks to Wikipedia, no doubt can remain about the power of free, user generated content. Good enough rules in this domain and Theora is certainly good enough.
Seriously, it's called a file cache. That's how it's supposed to work. Nice job, idiots.
The system is not supposed to slow down when the cache becomes full. Under load, Linux normally runs with all available memory used for cache and takes a negligible performance hit in that state.
IPv6 is the only way to go, if you like it or not.
Oh, I don't know. There is always the chance that IPv6 may die a well deserved death to be replaced by a viable solution based on extending the IPv4 stack.
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Mod up... it's the Florian Mueller of European software patent fame.
That's why it might make more sense to just use H.264 and save yourself from future problems.
"Nice little codec ya gotcherself there... shame if something should... happen to it."
If Windows takes the same route with Mobile 7 and doesn't allow manual installs then they'll be just as evil as Apple
We used to say "just as evil as Microsoft". Funny how times have changed.
I, for one, am shocked, that many products from several sources on various carriers have collectively outsold a single product available on a single carrier that doesn't even have the most market share. Utterly amazing, isn't it?
What do you mean, "many products"? It's all Lilnux.
glass-steagall got introduced in the senate today, something like mccain-cantwell amendment
Close, it's Cantwell-McCain
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer. In a similar vein, Mitch Radcliffe said "A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exception of handguns and tequila."
I'm sure open ended exploration can be quite enjoyable, but what I dislike about Oblivion's design is that iirc the level up bonuses to attributes are randomized
Incorrect. The levelups in Oblivion are completely deterministic, although the rules can seem a little subtle. See here.
I think of the exact opposite. I don't like sandbox games at all. If I'm playing a game with a storyline and a quest, I want the gameplay to be tight, focused on the storyline, and with minimum to no distractions or side quests. I play those games for the story, I don't want to wander around lost or go off and do other things- I want the story, and I want a well written plotline engaging and long enough to be worth the game with nothing else tacked on.
So I am not going to buy any of the games you buy and you are not going to buy any of the games I buy. Stories on rails bore me to tears. I gave up on Final Fantasy XIII in disgust 20 hours in. If I want that I will watch a movie. As the GP noted (where are the mods) Oblivion is my idea of a near-perfect game.
And that's not necessarily a bad thing. If every member of the OHA commits all of its changes back to Android then we'll have a fairly homogenized Android market. What would the handset companies be competing over? A better camera? More storage? If it's fast enough the user experience will be pretty damn similar across the board and would end up hurting Android.
It is a bad thing if the libraries fork, which makes it harder to write cross platform applications in return for no benefit whatsoever. It is in nobody's interest for Android apps to be platform specific. On the other hand, there is nothing at all wrong with creating a proprietary top level user interface, just as HTC does with Sense.
Going Apache instead of GPL for the libraries was an epic blunder. A blunder that could be fixed, but we shall see.
You're entirely right. That's why they fund several thousand students worldwide to join open-source projects and contribute code to those projects every summer, even if the projects in question don't directly benefit Google.
Google summer of code is mainly a recruiting event from Google's point of view.
Why not standardize on an ABI for the minor version number? 2.6 versus 2.8 for example.
There is no 2.8 on the horizon, the next number over to the right has become the de facto minor version number, and the module ABI is stable within each of those releases. Clearly, you are not involved in actual kernel development, but thanks for playing.
The truth is, Google doesn't really get open source even though its livelihood depends on it.
People are laughing at me when I suggest that future iMacs will have app store lockdowns and now will be "ad-supported" to boot. It's iPhone 4.0 today and OSX 11 tomorrow. And it will still be irresistibly shiny.
So are you saying we'll just be switching out our Microsoft Clones for Apple Zombies?
I have not installed 3.21, however I can state state that after installing 3.10 or 3.15 (I forget which and will need to check later) my PS slim suddenly got wifi problems as described in the article ("Internet connectivity after the upgrade is sluggish, non-existent or subject to frequent unexplained disconnections"). Investigation on the LAN side shows 90%+ packet loss. The packet loss is moderate when the PS3 is powered on then increases to an unusable level after an hour or two.
I have had bad luck with Sony and PS3. If I return this machine it will be my fourth return. The first was a launch model that got the infamous blu-ray death shortly after a firmware update. That machine was returned to me completely busted - it powered on for about 15 minutes then died with video garbage on the screen, never to function again. This "repair" cost me $150, as my machine was out of warranty. I returned that machine and received a refurbished replacement that bricked itself in about six weeks. Having invested a ridiculous number of hours in going through Sony's horribly broken RMA procedures up to this point, I invested $300 in a slim, thus no longer being able to play the PS2 titles I had purchased. Now this machine has developed network problems as I mentioned. Color me very unimpressed.
Each time around this kooky loop, I lost all my downloaded content, much of which is no longer available, all my game saves and all the games I purchased online, with no recourse. Color me livid.
The worst thing about this whole experience is the stonewalling from Sony where they pretend there is no systematic problem.
Nice Troll.
their map services, music portal and Gmail servers all remain in China
Utter nonsense.
Shareholder revolts do not matter to Google's triumvirate because the common shareholders have no votes. A lawsuit might matter but conditions would have to be pretty extreme to trigger one and shareholders would have to have lost a bundle, which they have not. Also, $Billions in the corporate piggy bank buys management plenty of legal comfort, while common shareholders would have to foot the bill themselves.
Why did Google initially agree to censor search results in the first place if this was their philosophy?
Disagreement between Larry and Eric on the one hand and Sergey on the other.
I get the feeling this whole showdown is a Larry and Sergey thing. And that Eric Schmidt is against it, and probably the rest of the board is as well. They would rather be pusillanimous like John Chambers and just make as much money off China as possible, even if it means aid and abet totalitarianism and not standing for anything except quarterly share price (again: see John Chambers). I applaud refusing to censor information on the internet, this is a line in the sand they have drawn, to perhaps 'do no evil' and in Slashdot spirit we should all be behind it....
I suspect you are right, having observed the three of them at work up close. Except, I think that it is pretty much all Sergey and not Larry, who tends to demonstrate flexible morality from time to time. The illustrious Dr Schmidt would appear to rather more concerned with the great issues of jousting with Microsoft and maximizing profit than making the world a better place.
Except, of course, those things didn't happen in USSR since 50's.
By the way, "Americans don't have long lines in the grocery stores!" was a major propaganda point in late 80's when former Communist politicians tried to paint US as the model for the "new direction" of their country. A lot of people actually believed that US has no lines at the checkout -- the only kind of "line in the grocery store" one would find in Russia in 80's. Personally, when I arrived in US, I was *SHOCKED* to see that in this particular aspect US and USSR had exactly the same kind of parity one would expect in nuclear weapons.
Big difference: the lines at US stores are at the checkout counters, while the lines at communist stores were at the entrance. By the way, I observed the empty stores with my own eyes on a visit to Czchechoslovakie in 1989. Nothing on the shelves except a few red cabbages, with people lined up to get in nonetheless. I presume you grew up on some other planet.
Good on Sergey & Google. To those clods who will joke about how a six year old can be influenced let me just say I remember when the Berlin Wall was erected. I was six years old and although I don't remember the political details I vividly recall seeing a front page photo in the Detroit News that showed what Woodward Avenue (the main street in downtown Detroit) would look like if the Wall had been built right down the center. It scared the crap out of me then even without knowing why and it remains an image that has stayed with me. Of *course* Sergey was affected.
Indeed; I was only about 7 when it fell & I remember seeing it on the news & being very happy. Obviously at 6 years old, I had no idea of the significance of the falling of the wall, but I sure as hell was able to absorb the atmosphere here in the UK. Both the highs and lows would have been amplified on the other side of the iron curtain.
Thirded. For me the age of six was the height of the cold war and I clearly remember going to sleep many nights wondering if I would wake up the next day or just be incinerated in my sleep.
if open video technology really wants to win, they have to be technically better. There is no other way.
I disagree. General availability easily trumps a few DB of bandwidth savings when it comes to free content. And thanks to Wikipedia, no doubt can remain about the power of free, user generated content. Good enough rules in this domain and Theora is certainly good enough.
Seriously, it's called a file cache. That's how it's supposed to work. Nice job, idiots.
The system is not supposed to slow down when the cache becomes full. Under load, Linux normally runs with all available memory used for cache and takes a negligible performance hit in that state.
There is always the chance that IPv6 may die a well deserved death to be replaced by a viable solution based on extending the IPv4 stack.
That extension is IPv6.
If only it were. But alas, IPv6 was conceived as an incompatible replacement for IPv4, not an extension.
IPv6 is the only way to go, if you like it or not.
Oh, I don't know. There is always the chance that IPv6 may die a well deserved death to be replaced by a viable solution based on extending the IPv4 stack.