I am all for getting rid of hamas militarily I am all for getting rid of hezbolla militarilly Same with Al-Qaeda, this shabbab,
None of these Islamic based militancy groups strike me as anything more than petty despots marginally worse than our own breed of fundamentalist assholes I don't like.
That said, when we start censoring the internet, who do we put in charge, what safe guards do we have, and what prevents this from setting a terrible precedent.
Just like home-grown extremists give them enough rope to hang themselves and let them know what terrible assholes they are.
Kicking them off twitter is not going to stop them from doing anything, except describe to everyone not with their group who they are.
"You can read 1000 praising comments, but if just one of them is bad, it will ruin your whole day.
The fact that I was trying to do something new with my game was evidently a horrible crime to many people and I would get utterly horrible comments ranging from put-downs to persanal abuse that would get them arrested if said in person… Even one or two death threats. It’s a sad fact of life that people who are too scared to follow their own dreams will often try to talk you out of following yours. It’s easy for people to say “just ignore those comments” but that’s simply not possible. "
This is the internet, your not going to last long if your easy troll food. I don't anything as epic as this guy does, but we all get trolled every one in a while. If you
Advice - roll with the punches. Surround yourself with supporters.
Which means if this was a non-politically motivated trial, the judge would have rescused herself out of conflict of intrests. This violates the very principle of a "fair trial".
But we'lve already heard the system, and its supports for justifying breaking whatever rules if the accussed is high profile, and politically relivant.
Does it sound like a little bit of history repeating.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair
except no one died in stratfor hacks. And its been established they were done at the behest of a man working as an agent of the US government.
"Riiight, because this hurts Windows.....how exactly? this just makes Mozilla look Mickey mouse, because IE comes in 64 bit and has for something like 7 years now poor lame Mozilla can't even write well enough to tell the difference between 32bit and 64bit bugs."
GNU/Linux has been stable and feature complete on x86-64 for over 5 years already, and in fact runs faster, and more stable(no PAE/memory ceiling).
Using Mozilla, Chome, and other open source browsers in 64bit are the exact same in 64 bit as 32 bit, if not faster.
Microshaft, like usual is playing catch up. This hurts MS, because its another great reason to switch to linux.
"Indeed, in the very episode the GP cites Guinan gives (then Captain) Scott a supply of rare brandy to drink from, a few scenes later we learn that this brandy had been a gift to her from Picard."
which is the only booze on the ship, and likely against regulations, and private stash of the capitan, like all the romulan ale they break out on special occasions, but still illegal.
X11, and just about any sort of GUI, command line, getty, or any user interface you'd want to run not android requires glibc and/or other GNU libraries at some point down the dependencie chain
and most of those, in addition are compiled with gcc, and gmake.
you should still at least honor him, because he did put lots of work into GNU which is widely used alongside Linux and more or less considered standard linux components.
"Why would you even need the Linux kernel if you had no hardware diversity to deal with, and very specific requirements"
because its a ready made kernel, that supports lot of hardware, giving the game designers great flexibility. It has great upstream support, so the console makers would have to spent less time developing what we think are trivial, but are insanely complex, and hard
hardware diversity give the console makes greater choice in picking hardware that is best suited for their needs. Again, they don't have to work out the complexities to tuning for maximum performance, or pay/crowd source work thats already been done.
"Linux just doesn't bring a lot to the table for game development guys, I hate to say it, but it's true. If they wanted something sort of hardware agnostic, I could see the kernel being used, but the OS would probably consist of new libraries for sound, input, storage, networking etc. " Thats probably the dumbest thing I've heard all day. If you don't want Linux, you want some form of Windows, some form of BSD, UNIX or another long standing, well tested stable OS, that has been actively developed for over 20 years.
Operating systems don't happen out of thin air, and any and all operating systems that you might want to use for any reason today, come from a long 20+ year line of refinement and bugtesting.
I also don't know what your smoking, but the drivers for networking, storage, sound, etc... are pretty damn good on modern linux systems.I also want to know if you start using something other than Linux, BSD, windows, or Solaris, who is going to write the video card drivers. Especially when nVidia in anticipation released a new version of their driver that tweaks linux performance, specificly for steam.
Its like asking steam to put in more work they don't have to, when instead all they have to do is make steam UI into a desktop. The reason this is viable, is because all the hardwork of making a powerful OS to run games, on modern hardware, is already done. So is designing hardware components. All the heavy lifting for this is done by someone else, and they don't have to pay for it.
Its what google did with Chrome OS, making a webbrowser into a desktop. I see no reason steam cannot do the same.
"but if Valve is just bringing Linux to the table with the same old "homebrew" friendly junk we have today" purpose built subsidized "loss leader" console, with standardized hardware. There is a lot of hardware that runs flawless on linux, and it wouldn't be hard for steam to find a good config, get it mass produced and ship it, just like the xbox. It would have that appeal to non-techinical users.
It would also run on linux desktops, with the same user exerpiance
Its important to make the distinction for two reasons.
1. Android/linux has a diffrent userland than gnu/linux. android is in fact %100 linux, but its not the "linux" most geeks want to use. They want their typical "linux user experiance", which means they want the rest of the programs that are bundled by most "linux" distributions. This user experiance has a name. Its called "GNU". Most importantly I assume that most geeks would want gcc, GNU make, glibc, etc..., so they can start compiling standard GNU/linux applications they enjoy on other platforms.
GNU here is the big keystone, because once you have GNU, to include GCC, glibc, gnu make, bash, etc..., then even if the thing didn't come with X11, and a widely used desktop, which it does(KDE), it'd make it a lot easier to port. It'd make it easier to port and run standard libraries.
So I'm just calling "standard linux stuff" by its proper name. "GNU"
2. Regardless of what you think of the man, Richard Stallman, and the FSF did/does put a considerable amount of effort into GNU, I'd say as much as Linus, and the kernel team does. Especially since the fact that gcc/gmake/glibc get used in to test new platforms, and are the crux of a good deal of linux software, to include the kernel.
Linus, and his kernel team get all the credit, while Stallman and the FSF who did/do put work in, get next to none. While I do hold Linus in high regard, the FSF deserves credit for GNU. Give it where its due.
by star trek world, you obviously mean Next Generation, where the ferengi apear.
as much as I'd love to agree with you, thev'e banned alcohol in favor of synathol.
Star Trek TNG was more a politically correct dystopia like Demolitian Man, than something I'd want to live in.
I'm with Mr Scott, fuck that shit. At least he remembers the good old days of getting tanked and punching Klingons in the face for doing as little as dishonoring his ship.
because both of them use linux as the kernel. So in this case it would be not just appriopriate, but important to seperate between GNU/Linux and Android/Linux.
This tablet runs GNU/Linux AND Android/Linux.
What will really impress me is if you can get a hybrid userland where you can run GNU on android.
"I want it to do more, but I don't want it to be running Linux, or Android, or any other mainstream OS"
you won't notice the linux, any more than you notice the windows in the xbox, except it recycles already compiled game code meant for linux.
linux is just a kernel. boot straight to whatever minimal controller based GUI you have, with a few auto-run runs for disk insertion, to run whatever game you insert.
That would be pretty trivial to write/configure with a mainstream linux setup. XBMC does this pretty nicely as a media player. Its just a UI that can run instead of a desktop.
just have init call it from boot, with a nice splash screen and you'd never knew it ran linux.
that said, you need a powerful multicore capable OS to run most major games today. It'd make the game desigeners lives easy if they were common libraries and a common OS underneath.
systemd has cut down boot time. a stripped system could run a UI like XBMC.
I've got XBMC installed on my linux desktop and it interfaces with console kit/polkit and DMs like any other desktop, it doesn't work tell as a desktop, but it work awesome on a TV top device UI, and even supports lirc commands(linux IR remote interfaces).
Given the plethora of USB joysticks and gamepads on the market, and linux's excellent handling of removable media(front end multi-flash memory kit), development should be really really easy.
Also remember the xbox runs a stripped down version of windows 2000 on x86 hardware.
"Who builds a watch with wires and "fuses" hanging out of it and then walks thru airport security? Really, who does that?"
steampunk?
mabey he is, but the TSA and local PD does itself no favors giving every dolt looking for free publicity, all the free publicity they want.
The "filfthy speech movement", made a career out of taunting the government into enforcing useless legislation to get the populace behind them, as did howard stern, and the legacy of the shock jock. The irony is, that, authorities, like a monkey with its hand on a grape nut in a trap, could let go and free itself anytime they want, but they never learn.
The FBI campaign against so called "radicals" on california university campuses made heros and legends out of the mundane, and wasted FBI resources, destroyed the credbility of the federal governement, and ultimately let the real communists get the bomb, and let the mafia grow uncontrolled, by diverting resources towards harmless protestors who didn't not result in putting away serious threats to the nation.
Mabey a few more idiots need to make fortunes before they catch on. All they are doing is degrading the reputation of the TSA, not catching any real terrorists(who take the efforts), and just repeating historical failures.
the democrats are tied up in protect big, monied intrests, dedicated to copyright enforcement, such as the RIAA, MPAA, BSA(Business Software Alliance, not the most excellent purveyors of british motorcycling)
They have also been seen protecting copyright trolls like monsanto, at the behest of small time organic farmers.
The democrats like to bill themselves as the party of the little guy protecting him from corporate greed, and this is going to hit them like one giant stain
Current IP law degrades innovation, and only allows technological innovation to be controlled by non-technological lawyers and state actors, profiting off innovation, while simultaneously jailing the people who drive it.
While I am certainly not a republican, It would be nice if the republicans make Big Media, UnFree Software, and the rest of the copyright trolls, and celebritiy culture a giant stinky liability for the dems.
change "liberal", with "democrat", and you are probably correct.
but don't tell me democrat care about other social issues is nothing more than attacking the party
I'm not a republican, but the RIAA and MPAA have been major sources of tyranny that have gone unchallenged too long, from a range of things from supression of freedom of speech and expression, to price fixing and anti-co-operative behavior, now copyright law that first puts offenders in the same catagory as brutal sea muggers(pirates), and gives them jail sentances and stigmas worse than rapists.
All this not to protect the biggest creators of goods, but the biggest idiots and failures in the industry, granting them artificial monopolies entrusted by frviolous law suits.
And yes, I'm laughing as a major party the republicans are finally going to club the democrats over the head for doing the same thing republicans have been doing for years, screwing the people to solict corporate dollars.
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Iran works pretty well, but you might not like their social programs.
How about saudi arabia?
don't let the door hit you on the way out.
Lets get this straight up front.
I am all for getting rid of hamas militarily
I am all for getting rid of hezbolla militarilly
Same with Al-Qaeda, this shabbab,
None of these Islamic based militancy groups strike me as anything more than petty despots marginally worse than our own breed of fundamentalist assholes I don't like.
That said, when we start censoring the internet, who do we put in charge, what safe guards do we have, and what prevents this from setting a terrible precedent.
Just like home-grown extremists give them enough rope to hang themselves and let them know what terrible assholes they are.
Kicking them off twitter is not going to stop them from doing anything, except describe to everyone not with their group who they are.
"You can read 1000 praising comments, but if just one of them is bad, it will ruin your whole day.
The fact that I was trying to do something new with my game was evidently a horrible crime to many people and I would get utterly horrible comments ranging from put-downs to persanal abuse that would get them arrested if said in person… Even one or two death threats. It’s a sad fact of life that people who are too scared to follow their own dreams will often try to talk you out of following yours. It’s easy for people to say “just ignore those comments” but that’s simply not possible.
"
This is the internet, your not going to last long if your easy troll food. I don't anything as epic as this guy does, but we all get trolled every one in a while. If you
Advice - roll with the punches. Surround yourself with supporters.
Life in prison for "hacking". and it didn't involve an axe?
Considering this was a government directed attack, isn't this a little much. If he was selling massive amounts of drugs he would have been safer.
Which means if this was a non-politically motivated trial, the judge would have rescused herself out of conflict of intrests. This violates the very principle of a "fair trial".
But we'lve already heard the system, and its supports for justifying breaking whatever rules if the accussed is high profile, and politically relivant.
Does it sound like a little bit of history repeating.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair
except no one died in stratfor hacks. And its been established they were done at the behest of a man working as an agent of the US government.
the tried this with "Do-Not-track", but its pretty obvious that many advertisers are just going to ignore it at their convience
"Riiight, because this hurts Windows.....how exactly? this just makes Mozilla look Mickey mouse, because IE comes in 64 bit and has for something like 7 years now poor lame Mozilla can't even write well enough to tell the difference between 32bit and 64bit bugs."
GNU/Linux has been stable and feature complete on x86-64 for over 5 years already, and in fact runs faster, and more stable(no PAE/memory ceiling).
Using Mozilla, Chome, and other open source browsers in 64bit are the exact same in 64 bit as 32 bit, if not faster.
Microshaft, like usual is playing catch up. This hurts MS, because its another great reason to switch to linux.
do it right, and thaw the turkey first.
otherwise it will explode as shown.
You CAN fry a turkey and it is delicious.
And not the oven.
Sit the turkey on the focal point of a parabolic dish attenna, and roast it until done. make sure to use a crisping sleeve.
best results - generate a 1.56 ghz sine way through the dish.
"Indeed, in the very episode the GP cites Guinan gives (then Captain) Scott a supply of rare brandy to drink from, a few scenes later we learn that this brandy had been a gift to her from Picard."
which is the only booze on the ship, and likely against regulations, and private stash of the capitan, like all the romulan ale they break out on special occasions, but still illegal.
copying a good deal of the design concepts from gnome-shell was probably the biggest thing they've done to shoot themselves in the foot.
at least on linux we have apt-get remove gnome;apt-get install xfce4
BusyBux is still written for gcc C, and even though it doesn't require GNU directly at run time, its GNU compatible, and still based off GNU.
In fact, its mostly code taken from GNU source.
X11, and just about any sort of GUI, command line, getty, or any user interface you'd want to run not android requires glibc and/or other GNU libraries at some point down the dependencie chain
and most of those, in addition are compiled with gcc, and gmake.
You don't have linux without the GNU userland.
you should still at least honor him, because he did put lots of work into GNU which is widely used alongside Linux and more or less considered standard linux components.
gcc, and the rest of the gnu compiler chain. most libre/Free software, to include the linux kernel uses them to compile, along with the userland.
GNU has produced a lot of usable shit, just not a kernel.
in steams case, they just spent the time and effort porting to linux.(not insignifigant?)
If they wanted to use another kernel, they'd have to spent more time and effort making another port.
So why bother, when you already have an OS+userland you already plan on developing.
One less codebase to maintain.
"Why would you even need the Linux kernel if you had no hardware diversity to deal with, and very specific requirements"
because its a ready made kernel, that supports lot of hardware, giving the game designers great flexibility. It has great upstream support, so the console makers would have to spent less time developing what we think are trivial, but are insanely complex, and hard
hardware diversity give the console makes greater choice in picking hardware that is best suited for their needs. Again, they don't have to work out the complexities to tuning for maximum performance, or pay/crowd source work thats already been done.
"Linux just doesn't bring a lot to the table for game development guys, I hate to say it, but it's true. If they wanted something sort of hardware agnostic, I could see the kernel being used, but the OS would probably consist of new libraries for sound, input, storage, networking etc. "
Thats probably the dumbest thing I've heard all day. If you don't want Linux, you want some form of Windows, some form of BSD, UNIX or another long standing, well tested stable OS, that has been actively developed for over 20 years.
Operating systems don't happen out of thin air, and any and all operating systems that you might want to use for any reason today, come from a long 20+ year line of refinement and bugtesting.
I also don't know what your smoking, but the drivers for networking, storage, sound, etc... are pretty damn good on modern linux systems.I also want to know if you start using something other than Linux, BSD, windows, or Solaris, who is going to write the video card drivers. Especially when nVidia in anticipation released a new version of their driver that tweaks linux performance, specificly for steam.
Its like asking steam to put in more work they don't have to, when instead all they have to do is make steam UI into a desktop. The reason this is viable, is because all the hardwork of making a powerful OS to run games, on modern hardware, is already done. So is designing hardware components. All the heavy lifting for this is done by someone else, and they don't have to pay for it.
Its what google did with Chrome OS, making a webbrowser into a desktop. I see no reason steam cannot do the same.
"but if Valve is just bringing Linux to the table with the same old "homebrew" friendly junk we have today"
purpose built subsidized "loss leader" console, with standardized hardware. There is a lot of hardware that runs flawless on linux, and it wouldn't be hard for steam to find a good config, get it mass produced and ship it, just like the xbox. It would have that appeal to non-techinical users.
It would also run on linux desktops, with the same user exerpiance
Its important to make the distinction for two reasons.
1. Android/linux has a diffrent userland than gnu/linux. android is in fact %100 linux, but its not the "linux" most geeks want to use. They want their typical "linux user experiance", which means they want the rest of the programs that are bundled by most "linux" distributions. This user experiance has a name. Its called "GNU". Most importantly I assume that most geeks would want gcc, GNU make, glibc, etc..., so they can start compiling standard GNU/linux applications they enjoy on other platforms.
GNU here is the big keystone, because once you have GNU, to include GCC, glibc, gnu make, bash, etc..., then even if the thing didn't come with X11, and a widely used desktop, which it does(KDE), it'd make it a lot easier to port. It'd make it easier to port and run standard libraries.
So I'm just calling "standard linux stuff" by its proper name. "GNU"
2. Regardless of what you think of the man, Richard Stallman, and the FSF did/does put a considerable amount of effort into GNU, I'd say as much as Linus, and the kernel team does. Especially since the fact that gcc/gmake/glibc get used in to test new platforms, and are the crux of a good deal of linux software, to include the kernel.
Linus, and his kernel team get all the credit, while Stallman and the FSF who did/do put work in, get next to none. While I do hold Linus in high regard, the FSF deserves credit for GNU. Give it where its due.
by star trek world, you obviously mean Next Generation, where the ferengi apear.
as much as I'd love to agree with you, thev'e banned alcohol in favor of synathol.
Star Trek TNG was more a politically correct dystopia like Demolitian Man, than something I'd want to live in.
I'm with Mr Scott, fuck that shit. At least he remembers the good old days of getting tanked and punching Klingons in the face for doing as little as dishonoring his ship.
because both of them use linux as the kernel. So in this case it would be not just appriopriate, but important to seperate between GNU/Linux and Android/Linux.
This tablet runs GNU/Linux AND Android/Linux.
What will really impress me is if you can get a hybrid userland where you can run GNU on android.
"I want it to do more, but I don't want it to be running Linux, or Android, or any other mainstream OS"
you won't notice the linux, any more than you notice the windows in the xbox, except it recycles already compiled game code meant for linux.
linux is just a kernel. boot straight to whatever minimal controller based GUI you have, with a few auto-run runs for disk insertion, to run whatever game you insert.
That would be pretty trivial to write/configure with a mainstream linux setup. XBMC does this pretty nicely as a media player. Its just a UI that can run instead of a desktop.
just have init call it from boot, with a nice splash screen and you'd never knew it ran linux.
that said, you need a powerful multicore capable OS to run most major games today. It'd make the game desigeners lives easy if they were common libraries and a common OS underneath.
systemd has cut down boot time. a stripped system could run a UI like XBMC.
I've got XBMC installed on my linux desktop and it interfaces with console kit/polkit and DMs like any other desktop, it doesn't work tell as a desktop, but it work awesome on a TV top device UI, and even supports lirc commands(linux IR remote interfaces).
Given the plethora of USB joysticks and gamepads on the market, and linux's excellent handling of removable media(front end multi-flash memory kit), development should be really really easy.
Also remember the xbox runs a stripped down version of windows 2000 on x86 hardware.
"Who builds a watch with wires and "fuses" hanging out of it and then walks thru airport security?
Really, who does that?"
steampunk?
mabey he is, but the TSA and local PD does itself no favors giving every dolt looking for free publicity, all the free publicity they want.
The "filfthy speech movement", made a career out of taunting the government into enforcing useless legislation to get the populace behind them, as did howard stern, and the legacy of the shock jock. The irony is, that, authorities, like a monkey with its hand on a grape nut in a trap, could let go and free itself anytime they want, but they never learn.
The FBI campaign against so called "radicals" on california university campuses made heros and legends out of the mundane, and wasted FBI resources, destroyed the credbility of the federal governement, and ultimately let the real communists get the bomb, and let the mafia grow uncontrolled, by diverting resources towards harmless protestors who didn't not result in putting away serious threats to the nation.
Mabey a few more idiots need to make fortunes before they catch on. All they are doing is degrading the reputation of the TSA, not catching any real terrorists(who take the efforts), and just repeating historical failures.
the democrats are tied up in protect big, monied intrests, dedicated to copyright enforcement, such as the RIAA, MPAA, BSA(Business Software Alliance, not the most excellent purveyors of british motorcycling)
They have also been seen protecting copyright trolls like monsanto, at the behest of small time organic farmers.
The democrats like to bill themselves as the party of the little guy protecting him from corporate greed, and this is going to hit them like one giant stain
Current IP law degrades innovation, and only allows technological innovation to be controlled by non-technological lawyers and state actors, profiting off innovation, while simultaneously jailing the people who drive it.
While I am certainly not a republican, It would be nice if the republicans make Big Media, UnFree Software, and the rest of the copyright trolls, and celebritiy culture a giant stinky liability for the dems.
change "liberal", with "democrat", and you are probably correct.
but don't tell me democrat care about other social issues is nothing more than attacking the party
I'm not a republican, but the RIAA and MPAA have been major sources of tyranny that have gone unchallenged too long, from a range of things from supression of freedom of speech and expression, to price fixing and anti-co-operative behavior, now copyright law that first puts offenders in the same catagory as brutal sea muggers(pirates), and gives them jail sentances and stigmas worse than rapists.
All this not to protect the biggest creators of goods, but the biggest idiots and failures in the industry, granting them artificial monopolies entrusted by frviolous law suits.
And yes, I'm laughing as a major party the republicans are finally going to club the democrats over the head for doing the same thing republicans have been doing for years, screwing the people to solict corporate dollars.