I just hate it when some supposedly "hardcore" gamer redefine "games" to refer to certain watt-sucking/heat-sink-busting games. FYI there are plenty, at least hundreds, maybe even thousands of games for Linux (if you're willing to go the grey market emulator route). Maybe not games as visually impressive as Crysis. But they're there. A simple "apt-cache search games" or its Fedora/rpm equivalent should prove my point.
Righto. All the Slashdot stories I've read about flying cars turn out to be prototypes for vehicles that look more like a helicopter or a VTOL jet plane. So what's to prevent somebody putting some road-worthy wheels on an airship or rocket and calling that a flying car?
My idea of a flying car is a car that lifts off the ground for longer than an action movie chase scene and looks no weirder than the Batmobile in default configuration. I'll cut some slack for Transformer-like vehicles that can change modes.
"But over time I've gravitated to BSD like licenses, because I really do want as many people as possible using something."
If you're a developer, yes, the choice of a free/open source license makes a difference. But for the majority of software "users" who don't program for a living, the BSD and the GPL are practically the same. I mean what's the difference between GPL and BSD licensed programs when it comes to downloading and running the binaries? Is it the Source? This can be a mere link to a code repository like GitHub.
is that while in desktop GNU/Linux a firewall is designed to keep the nasties out, in Android a firewall like Droidwall is designed to keep the nasties in, i.e. prevent them from phoning home.
For those who want to be anal pedantic I know the "backend" in both Android and GNU/Linux is pretty much the same iptables that can be configured to keep out/in both external and internal threats. However, I was quite surprised when I first learned what Android firewall apps, which typically require root-level access to do their trick, were designed to do, to protect users against apps that abuse their network access privileges.
"What non-evil solution do you have to the problem of mass copyright infringement?"
By doing something more evil. Ok, I'm trolling. What I mean is that you create a game that doesn't care whether it's bittorrented to hell. Some "evil" games are able to get clueless players addicted who'd be willing to pay $$$ to level up. So why not create a FPShooter where a less-skilled player gets a chance to buy tokens for an Ironman-style exoskeleton impervious to most low-to-mid-grade attacks? Technically this will involve DRM of some sort, but not of the always-on variety, and the player will always have the option to spend hours training or simply pay up for some instant XP.
Even today information is in many ways more valuable than money. These tax evaders obviously knew some information that less privileged people don't normally have access to, be it the name of a corrupt government contact or a tax loophole buried in GB's of legalese. Now if we can put that privileged information onto the Internet, maybe this might make a difference in tearing down the Information/BigData tyranny of the elite.
"Seriously; had Korea not been divided it would be immensely powerful economically and militarily, due to mineral wealth PLUS strong agriculture and industry; a genuine rival to China and more powerful than Russia in the region. It would have been a major threat to American control over Japan following WW2 due to the sway it would have had over the post-war Japanese economy. So between them they engineered North VS South and divided the peninsula."
You have your history wrong. Besides the undisputed leader Japan, the most economically advanced countries in the region at the time were Russia, China, the stagnating medieval superpower, and the Philippines, as a newly independent former US colony.
Korea was an agricultural backwater that the Japanese plundered for labor and whatnot. Having gone through its own civil war, China suffered economically but was still a more productive country than undivided Korea. South Korea's economic significance then and now pales in comparison to China and Japan's.
It's a stretch to compare a united Korea to Germany, which was already an economic powerhouse before it was partitioned by the victorious Allies. South Korea gained significance only after it was split off from the North.
"A united Korea will be the biggest economic challenger to China."
A unified Korea can't be any mightier economically than the US, India or even a stagnating Japan. Unlike Japan, Korea Inc is only a few brands, chiefly a certain Apple competitor, and one or two motor companies.
Good and evil are religious concepts, particularly of monotheistic religions that divide the world into two opposing camps. If you're an atheist, you should avoid using the words or you'll fall into the same dogmatic trap.
Nice try. But the passage appears to have been lifted direct from the NYT. The only ambiguity I see in the original is if you turn grammar nazi on antecedents, etc. But the sense is clear to anyone who knows what spam fighters do, they maintain blacklists.
I get what you're saying. But have you seen a real-life TV evangelist damning everybody but the chosen few to hell? That's the picture I have of an "evangelist". So in this case she fits the description to a T, an evangelist who needs a forum, Twitter, her blogt, etc, to air her views rather than a diplomat who'd quietly work behind the scenes, i.e. approach the PyCon organizers to report the incident or better talk to the "loud" mouthed men.
If I get paid by getting laid, do I still report it to the taxman? Seriously if I fix somebody's faucet and the payment is having that person fix my oven at some indeterminate future date, how would I report that?
"The Chinese are simply smart enough to take advantage of Shuttleworth's generousity."
Mark is richer than 99% of the people here on Slashdot, but he's barely a billionaire, nowhere near the wealth of Mark Z, the Google twins, let alone Bill G. The Chinese have a cash pile that runs into the hundreds of billions. They have no need for Shuttleworth's generosity.
Then swim over to the Philippines. No death penalty, no monarchy, but more drugs and sex with risk of infectious diseases. Mostly christian like the USA. Real fun place if you don't mind the random kidnapping and shooting, which may or may not make you feel more at home. Gun laws stricter than the US but lots of loose firearms.
"TPB _HAS_ older porn (and other stuff) than this movie"
Citation required. Please provide links so I may satisfy my academic curiosity.
Seriously I can find porn several decades older than the said movie, but TFA is talking about the torrent file itself. You might upload your VHS rip of Deep Throat today but that won't make it older than the torrent of this movie.
"but regardless of what Google's marketing materials may tell you, Android is a Linux distribution, and GNU and GNOME have been perfecting Linux distributions for over two decades."
No and no. Or do you consider OS X a BSD distribution? Let me just mention a few of the ways in which Android is much more incompatible to a typical Linux distribution than even the most brain-damaged system/UI "innovation" coming from Ubuntu and Fedora.
* Every program package or "app" in Android comes with its own user ID. While many daemons and services in a typical Linux distro do run under their own unique user ID, Android carries this to an extreme, extending the design even to end-user applications.
* Android is mostly a single-user OS as far as the human end-user is concerned. Stock Android doesn't even come with the "su" program that allows for multiple log-ins. Or a a/home/ directory for that matter.
* Android doesn't use X or any of the major graphical toolkits used by Linux distros as diverse as Fedora, Ubuntu, Slackware or even Puppy Linux.
* Android is infested with proprietary programs to an extent that makes Ubuntu look like St. iGNUcius.
And no, GNU have not "been perfecting Linux distributions for over two decades" although you can read recommendations on their site about which "GNU"-slash-Linux distro they prefer you to install.
It's okay to treat your consumers "poorly" provided they don't notice it. Hence it's okay for a cellphone company to rob you on installment, or for Google to acquire a little bit more of your private information every day. Maybe game developers/studio should start give away all their games and earn their keep from the in-game purchases needed to unlock anything higher than novice level. Console makers should take a hit from the way the Kindle Fire/Nexus 7 was sold at the cost of production and charge the game developers a cut off every game sold. That or they develop an Apple-esque console that can qualify as a status symbol.
Proof perhaps that the US is becoming a Third World country? For example, it's not unusual for foreign-born nurses in many US hospitals to actually hold a degree in medicine. In the past, before the jobs were altogether outsourced, you'd get lots of low-level programmers who graduated with PhDs in computer science/engineering. Maybe companies' expectations have shifted higher? Maybe the PHBs are thinking, why should we hire a college graduate for 90K when we can hire a PhD for 30K, even if the Third World PhD is worse than an Ivy League MA?
Charge them Ivy League rates and yo'll see the attrition rate drop significantly. The courses will have far fewer takers in the first place though.
When you're giving something away, whether it's a somebody else's copyrighted media, porn, or free beer, you'll get a far larger audience than would be willing to buy the product with a price tag.
There are screenshots at the very first link, fragboy, but you don't want to look at them. Hint: do you remember when DOS was the gaming platform of choice?
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I just hate it when some supposedly "hardcore" gamer redefine "games" to refer to certain watt-sucking/heat-sink-busting games. FYI there are plenty, at least hundreds, maybe even thousands of games for Linux (if you're willing to go the grey market emulator route). Maybe not games as visually impressive as Crysis. But they're there. A simple "apt-cache search games" or its Fedora/rpm equivalent should prove my point.
Righto. All the Slashdot stories I've read about flying cars turn out to be prototypes for vehicles that look more like a helicopter or a VTOL jet plane. So what's to prevent somebody putting some road-worthy wheels on an airship or rocket and calling that a flying car?
My idea of a flying car is a car that lifts off the ground for longer than an action movie chase scene and looks no weirder than the Batmobile in default configuration. I'll cut some slack for Transformer-like vehicles that can change modes.
"But over time I've gravitated to BSD like licenses, because I really do want as many people as possible using something."
If you're a developer, yes, the choice of a free/open source license makes a difference. But for the majority of software "users" who don't program for a living, the BSD and the GPL are practically the same. I mean what's the difference between GPL and BSD licensed programs when it comes to downloading and running the binaries? Is it the Source? This can be a mere link to a code repository like GitHub.
is that while in desktop GNU/Linux a firewall is designed to keep the nasties out, in Android a firewall like Droidwall is designed to keep the nasties in, i.e. prevent them from phoning home.
For those who want to be anal pedantic I know the "backend" in both Android and GNU/Linux is pretty much the same iptables that can be configured to keep out/in both external and internal threats. However, I was quite surprised when I first learned what Android firewall apps, which typically require root-level access to do their trick, were designed to do, to protect users against apps that abuse their network access privileges.
"What non-evil solution do you have to the problem of mass copyright infringement?"
By doing something more evil. Ok, I'm trolling. What I mean is that you create a game that doesn't care whether it's bittorrented to hell. Some "evil" games are able to get clueless players addicted who'd be willing to pay $$$ to level up. So why not create a FPShooter where a less-skilled player gets a chance to buy tokens for an Ironman-style exoskeleton impervious to most low-to-mid-grade attacks? Technically this will involve DRM of some sort, but not of the always-on variety, and the player will always have the option to spend hours training or simply pay up for some instant XP.
s/Internet/Information/
Even today information is in many ways more valuable than money. These tax evaders obviously knew some information that less privileged people don't normally have access to, be it the name of a corrupt government contact or a tax loophole buried in GB's of legalese. Now if we can put that privileged information onto the Internet, maybe this might make a difference in tearing down the Information/BigData tyranny of the elite.
"Seriously; had Korea not been divided it would be immensely powerful economically and militarily, due to mineral wealth PLUS strong agriculture and industry; a genuine rival to China and more powerful than Russia in the region. It would have been a major threat to American control over Japan following WW2 due to the sway it would have had over the post-war Japanese economy. So between them they engineered North VS South and divided the peninsula."
You have your history wrong. Besides the undisputed leader Japan, the most economically advanced countries in the region at the time were Russia, China, the stagnating medieval superpower, and the Philippines, as a newly independent former US colony.
Korea was an agricultural backwater that the Japanese plundered for labor and whatnot. Having gone through its own civil war, China suffered economically but was still a more productive country than undivided Korea. South Korea's economic significance then and now pales in comparison to China and Japan's.
It's a stretch to compare a united Korea to Germany, which was already an economic powerhouse before it was partitioned by the victorious Allies. South Korea gained significance only after it was split off from the North.
"A united Korea will be the biggest economic challenger to China."
A unified Korea can't be any mightier economically than the US, India or even a stagnating Japan. Unlike Japan, Korea Inc is only a few brands, chiefly a certain Apple competitor, and one or two motor companies.
Good and evil are religious concepts, particularly of monotheistic religions that divide the world into two opposing camps. If you're an atheist, you should avoid using the words or you'll fall into the same dogmatic trap.
Nice try. But the passage appears to have been lifted direct from the NYT. The only ambiguity I see in the original is if you turn grammar nazi on antecedents, etc. But the sense is clear to anyone who knows what spam fighters do, they maintain blacklists.
I get what you're saying. But have you seen a real-life TV evangelist damning everybody but the chosen few to hell? That's the picture I have of an "evangelist". So in this case she fits the description to a T, an evangelist who needs a forum, Twitter, her blogt, etc, to air her views rather than a diplomat who'd quietly work behind the scenes, i.e. approach the PyCon organizers to report the incident or better talk to the "loud" mouthed men.
If I get paid by getting laid, do I still report it to the taxman? Seriously if I fix somebody's faucet and the payment is having that person fix my oven at some indeterminate future date, how would I report that?
"The Chinese are simply smart enough to take advantage of Shuttleworth's generousity."
Mark is richer than 99% of the people here on Slashdot, but he's barely a billionaire, nowhere near the wealth of Mark Z, the Google twins, let alone Bill G. The Chinese have a cash pile that runs into the hundreds of billions. They have no need for Shuttleworth's generosity.
Then swim over to the Philippines. No death penalty, no monarchy, but more drugs and sex with risk of infectious diseases. Mostly christian like the USA. Real fun place if you don't mind the random kidnapping and shooting, which may or may not make you feel more at home. Gun laws stricter than the US but lots of loose firearms.
"TPB _HAS_ older porn (and other stuff) than this movie"
Citation required. Please provide links so I may satisfy my academic curiosity.
Seriously I can find porn several decades older than the said movie, but TFA is talking about the torrent file itself. You might upload your VHS rip of Deep Throat today but that won't make it older than the torrent of this movie.
So in effect you're saying his "pentile" is bigger than yours?
"but regardless of what Google's marketing materials may tell you, Android is a Linux distribution, and GNU and GNOME have been perfecting Linux distributions for over two decades."
No and no. Or do you consider OS X a BSD distribution? Let me just mention a few of the ways in which Android is much more incompatible to a typical Linux distribution than even the most brain-damaged system/UI "innovation" coming from Ubuntu and Fedora.
* Every program package or "app" in Android comes with its own user ID. While many daemons and services in a typical Linux distro do run under their own unique user ID, Android carries this to an extreme, extending the design even to end-user applications.
* Android is mostly a single-user OS as far as the human end-user is concerned. Stock Android doesn't even come with the "su" program that allows for multiple log-ins. Or a a /home/ directory for that matter.
* Android doesn't use X or any of the major graphical toolkits used by Linux distros as diverse as Fedora, Ubuntu, Slackware or even Puppy Linux.
* Android is infested with proprietary programs to an extent that makes Ubuntu look like St. iGNUcius.
And no, GNU have not "been perfecting Linux distributions for over two decades" although you can read recommendations on their site about which "GNU"-slash-Linux distro they prefer you to install.
"Get some cargo pants." And travel to the nearest airport for some TSA loving.
640,000 times?
Is that decimal or binary?
It's okay to treat your consumers "poorly" provided they don't notice it. Hence it's okay for a cellphone company to rob you on installment, or for Google to acquire a little bit more of your private information every day. Maybe game developers/studio should start give away all their games and earn their keep from the in-game purchases needed to unlock anything higher than novice level. Console makers should take a hit from the way the Kindle Fire/Nexus 7 was sold at the cost of production and charge the game developers a cut off every game sold. That or they develop an Apple-esque console that can qualify as a status symbol.
Hmm, based on your post, I would posit that wherever you're from, the people there can't read a post and see the sarcasm.
Proof perhaps that the US is becoming a Third World country? For example, it's not unusual for foreign-born nurses in many US hospitals to actually hold a degree in medicine. In the past, before the jobs were altogether outsourced, you'd get lots of low-level programmers who graduated with PhDs in computer science/engineering. Maybe companies' expectations have shifted higher? Maybe the PHBs are thinking, why should we hire a college graduate for 90K when we can hire a PhD for 30K, even if the Third World PhD is worse than an Ivy League MA?
Charge them Ivy League rates and yo'll see the attrition rate drop significantly. The courses will have far fewer takers in the first place though.
When you're giving something away, whether it's a somebody else's copyrighted media, porn, or free beer, you'll get a far larger audience than would be willing to buy the product with a price tag.
"The minority with a burning hatred for Sony may be vocal, but they don't represent us all."
LOL. Hatred is reserved for things that still matter. Like Apple, Microsoft, Facebook maybe even Google. Sony is quite simply irrelevant.
"Screenshots motherfuckers, do you have them?"
There are screenshots at the very first link, fragboy, but you don't want to look at them. Hint: do you remember when DOS was the gaming platform of choice?