The US doesn't provide military support to anyone other than Israel (our 51st state!) If we didn't do so much to make people hate us, we probably wouldn't need to piss so much away on our military either.
I don't plan on turning Linux into a slow-ass operating system
That's cool, because I have no plans to do that to the Solaris machines I run. It hasn't been "hip" to call Solaris slow since 2.5.1, perhaps 2.6 -- about 4 years ago.
with no multimedia support
This is important on a server...
and 80MB Java footprints from a "Hello World" program
Yes, Java on Solaris sucks. The official Java distribution for Linux is also from Sun -- so go figure, it sucks on Linux too.
so I guess you're right that Linux will never do all the things Solaris does.
For ATA IDE interfaces, $10k for 2.5TB seems awfully expensive. I hate to sound like the typical slashdot wanker, but I can put together something like this using high-quality PC parts and FreeBSD for 1/3 the price.
If, instead, apple is aiming this at real enterprise-class applications, it still falls short: where are my redundant power supplies and where is my fiber channel or SCSI disk? IDE doesn't cut it (IMAO) in the real world, no matter whose badge is on the front of it.
And it won't just be the warez kiddies leaving in droves. Their friends, friends of their friends, and people just looking for the 'popular' IRC network will find themselves somewhere other than DALnet.
Trying to get fuckers on IRC to switch networks is like pulling teeth. They act like you've asked them to switch blood type. A few people might leave, but people on IRC are so lazy, shiftless, and stupid in their network-loyalty that getting them to move would require tactical nuclear devices, not simply the removal of a few large fserv channels.
IMO that's the strength of OSS games: they can evolve continuously rather than being discarded after a year due to marketing demands. Within a decade the best-of-breed in every gaming category will be an OSS game.
Yeah, within a decade, Linux will certainly have the best "xbill" implementation out there!
As for first-person shooters, sims, and, hell, even side-scrollers, allow me to vehemently disagree. Allow me to propose an alternate future scenario:
The commercial gaming sphere is where all the research and development money is and where all the cutting-edge games will continue to be produced; OSS will continue in its proud tradition of blatantly co-opting and copying everything the commercial game industry does. People will continue to purchase, play, and enjoy commercial offerings and the Linux Game Tome will still have trouble finding 24 Linux games to award "Happy Penguins" to.
Your pie-in-the-sky OSS fantasy is nice to think about, but, back in what I like to call "reality", things are a little different.
- A.P.
This list is why I keep a Windows box around.
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25 Best Linux Games
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· Score: 5, Interesting
Take a look at it -- best non-free game, Quake 3 arena? That came out, what, 3 years ago?
The state of gaming on Linux is terrible, and, unfortunately, I don't see it getting better any time soon.
Instead of mad ranting how about if you'd do something to prevent it from happening ever again? Like coding a good firewall or a program to help installing patches?
Because I wasn't put here to help other people do their job. People who profess to be MS SQL admins should, in fact, admin MS SQL servers instead of playing Snood all day, or whatever the hell MS SQL admins actually do when at work.
There are admins that are too incompetent/too lazy to install patches
My opinion is that those people should no longer be admins. After surveying the damage they caused last week, I hope others in higher positions will agree with me.
...a lot of unemployed second-rate MS SQL admins should be hitting monster.com soon, if management have any sense whatsoever.
That these morons basically brought the internet to its knees Friday night through gross incompetence should be reason enough to fire every last one of 'em.
If you're into live music, archive.org has been amassing an enormous collection of live concerts in SHN (and FLAC) format for about 6 months now. If you're bored at work (or home) and have a ton of bandwidth, go here.
So if I write a huge flame about the state of something in Linux, can I get it posted to Slashdot too?
Maybe, if you're jwz.
You seem to be slightly ignorant of the fact that this "article" is just a rant, one of many on jwz's rants page. When he's pissed off, he writes something there. He's pissed off about the state of multimedia players on linux, and he ought to be. They're a pain in the ass to install, configure, and use. This is a cold, hard fact; jwz just said it better than I could.
The source code for xbplayer is now available, and has been for quite some time. Make sure you read up before posting something like this; everything seems to have been worked out for the most part between both parties.
Cut the marketing bullshit. They're lies. Not all the kids on the entire Australian continent burn ill-gotten music to CD or DVD. If I can find one kid who burns perfectly legal CDs all the time (hey, there goes one now), I've proven this statement false.
Call a spade a spade and call bullshit when you see it from now on. This site doesn't need to put a spin on such blatantly false crap.
Because you seem to have forgotten about the good channels in the NYC market, like WFUV. There are a lot of colleges in NYC and its surrounds, each of which has a decent station. There are also several independently-owned stations that don't suck. NYC probably has more good radio stations than most other markets have stations whatsoever.
Why not ask first, call the usher second? They're clearly breaking the rules of the theater ("No Talking" is displayed rather prominently on the screen before each and every movie I've ever seen.)
Instead of taking the law into your own hands, vigilante-asshole style, just get the fuckers kicked out. It's a much more satisfying feeling, and the chance you'll get your ass kicked severely is much lower. Also, you'll be acting much less like a 12-year-old.
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The US doesn't provide military support to anyone other than Israel (our 51st state!) If we didn't do so much to make people hate us, we probably wouldn't need to piss so much away on our military either.
- A.P.
I don't plan on turning Linux into a slow-ass operating system
That's cool, because I have no plans to do that to the Solaris machines I run. It hasn't been "hip" to call Solaris slow since 2.5.1, perhaps 2.6 -- about 4 years ago.
with no multimedia support
This is important on a server...
and 80MB Java footprints from a "Hello World" program
Yes, Java on Solaris sucks. The official Java distribution for Linux is also from Sun -- so go figure, it sucks on Linux too.
so I guess you're right that Linux will never do all the things Solaris does.
Guess I am.
- A.P.
When will Sun come thru with there plan to phase-out Solaris in favor of Linux [as reported in a previous ./ article]?
When linux does all the things Solaris can do. Don't hold your breath.
- A.P.
I about crapped myself when I saw this. No, your little FreeBSD box can't do this, sorry. ;)
Why can't it? A 3ware card will do raid 0, 1, 3, 5, and 0+1 in hardware. The rest of it is easy to build or have built.
What is left that it can't do? Should I add an Apple badge and $7000?
- A.P.
For ATA IDE interfaces, $10k for 2.5TB seems awfully expensive. I hate to sound like the typical slashdot wanker, but I can put together something like this using high-quality PC parts and FreeBSD for 1/3 the price.
If, instead, apple is aiming this at real enterprise-class applications, it still falls short: where are my redundant power supplies and where is my fiber channel or SCSI disk? IDE doesn't cut it (IMAO) in the real world, no matter whose badge is on the front of it.
- A.P.
You cannot possibly download more than 1GB of work-related material per day. I'm waiting to be convinced otherwise
Easy. A redhat release.
Every DAY?
- A.P.
All I know is if Earthlink had the same policy I wouldn't be able to work.
I call bullshit. You cannot possibly download more than 1GB of work-related material per day. I'm waiting to be convinced otherwise.
Also, stop using your non-business account to conduct business. Your company should pay for your business line.
- A.P.
And it won't just be the warez kiddies leaving in droves. Their friends, friends of their friends, and people just looking for the 'popular' IRC network will find themselves somewhere other than DALnet.
Trying to get fuckers on IRC to switch networks is like pulling teeth. They act like you've asked them to switch blood type. A few people might leave, but people on IRC are so lazy, shiftless, and stupid in their network-loyalty that getting them to move would require tactical nuclear devices, not simply the removal of a few large fserv channels.
- A.P.
THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING!!!
No, wait... what the hell does this matter? We're shutting the few remaining vaxes at work off soon...isn't everyone?
- A.P.
IMO that's the strength of OSS games: they can evolve continuously rather than being discarded after a year due to marketing demands. Within a decade the best-of-breed in every gaming category will be an OSS game.
Yeah, within a decade, Linux will certainly have the best "xbill" implementation out there!
As for first-person shooters, sims, and, hell, even side-scrollers, allow me to vehemently disagree. Allow me to propose an alternate future scenario:
The commercial gaming sphere is where all the research and development money is and where all the cutting-edge games will continue to be produced; OSS will continue in its proud tradition of blatantly co-opting and copying everything the commercial game industry does. People will continue to purchase, play, and enjoy commercial offerings and the Linux Game Tome will still have trouble finding 24 Linux games to award "Happy Penguins" to.
Your pie-in-the-sky OSS fantasy is nice to think about, but, back in what I like to call "reality", things are a little different.
- A.P.
Take a look at it -- best non-free game, Quake 3 arena? That came out, what, 3 years ago?
The state of gaming on Linux is terrible, and, unfortunately, I don't see it getting better any time soon.
- A.P.
Instead of mad ranting how about if you'd do something to prevent it from happening ever again? Like coding a good firewall or a program to help installing patches?
Because I wasn't put here to help other people do their job. People who profess to be MS SQL admins should, in fact, admin MS SQL servers instead of playing Snood all day, or whatever the hell MS SQL admins actually do when at work.
There are admins that are too incompetent/too lazy to install patches
My opinion is that those people should no longer be admins. After surveying the damage they caused last week, I hope others in higher positions will agree with me.
- A.P.
...a lot of unemployed second-rate MS SQL admins should be hitting monster.com soon, if management have any sense whatsoever.
That these morons basically brought the internet to its knees Friday night through gross incompetence should be reason enough to fire every last one of 'em.
- A.P.
If you're into live music, archive.org has been amassing an enormous collection of live concerts in SHN (and FLAC) format for about 6 months now. If you're bored at work (or home) and have a ton of bandwidth, go here.
- A.P.
So if I write a huge flame about the state of something in Linux, can I get it posted to Slashdot too?
Maybe, if you're jwz.
You seem to be slightly ignorant of the fact that this "article" is just a rant, one of many on jwz's rants page. When he's pissed off, he writes something there. He's pissed off about the state of multimedia players on linux, and he ought to be. They're a pain in the ass to install, configure, and use. This is a cold, hard fact; jwz just said it better than I could.
- A.P.
Moderations: 40% Flamebait, 30% Insightful, 20% Funny
Is slashdot really the place to go for mathematical discussion?
- A.P.
The source code for xbplayer is now available, and has been for quite some time. Make sure you read up before posting something like this; everything seems to have been worked out for the most part between both parties.
- A.P.
Cut the marketing bullshit. They're lies. Not all the kids on the entire Australian continent burn ill-gotten music to CD or DVD. If I can find one kid who burns perfectly legal CDs all the time (hey, there goes one now), I've proven this statement false.
Call a spade a spade and call bullshit when you see it from now on. This site doesn't need to put a spin on such blatantly false crap.
- A.P.
You have absolutely no idea how inane this suggestion is. The good thing is, neither do the moderators!
- A.P.
That's a very valid point, if you happen to be walking in the street. Bikes aren't allowed on the sidewalk just about everywhere.
- A.P.
If I'm walking along on a sidewalk, the last thing I want is a bunch of morons zooming around me at 14 miles per hour.
I guess it isn't just me, though.
- A.P.
Because you seem to have forgotten about the good channels in the NYC market, like WFUV. There are a lot of colleges in NYC and its surrounds, each of which has a decent station. There are also several independently-owned stations that don't suck. NYC probably has more good radio stations than most other markets have stations whatsoever.
- A.P.
I mean, I'm not quite sure what your point is.
- A.P.
Why not ask first, call the usher second? They're clearly breaking the rules of the theater ("No Talking" is displayed rather prominently on the screen before each and every movie I've ever seen.)
Instead of taking the law into your own hands, vigilante-asshole style, just get the fuckers kicked out. It's a much more satisfying feeling, and the chance you'll get your ass kicked severely is much lower. Also, you'll be acting much less like a 12-year-old.
- A.P.
Yeah, if someone's bothering you, spill shit on them. Real smart!
You could, you know, just ask them to shut up.
- A.P.