Unless this unified "Open Container Project" supports both the unprivileged, isolated "machine" concept of a container AND the trusted, shared "app" concept of a container, it's going nowhere fast for me.
Solaris Zones. linux-vserver containers. Now Canonical's lxd. Few of the participants in the container effort, except these three, seem to understand the value of having containers as *machines*. Give each machine its own static IP, isolate all its resources (memory, processes, users and groups, files, networking, etc.) from the other containers on the system, and you have what's basically a traditional VM (in the early 2000s sense of the word), but with a lot less overhead, because no hypervisor and only one centralized kernel.
Docker seems to pretend like VM-style containers don't (or shouldn't) exist. I disagree fundamentally with that. I dislike that Docker pushes containers so hard while ignoring this very important use case. I hope the rest of the Linux Foundation is smart enough to recognize the value of this use case and support it.
If not, I'll just have to hope that Canonical's lxd continues to mature and improve.
That's what I've been saying since the beginning of this whole mess. I firmly believe that any women should have the right to enter the STEM field if she so chooses, just as I believe that any man should have the right to become a fashion model or a ballerina if he so chooses. If we treat both boys and girls with respect and allow them to become whatever they chose, that will do far more for "inequality" than giving preferential treatment to one or special toys for one will ever accomplish.
However, this is a bit off topic, but even so: Glassworking has been a hobby of mine for quite a long time, as even though it's somewhat artsy (and I do enjoy being artsy every now and then), it also requires a very high degree of multitasking, practice, quick thinking, and the strive for perfection (and it also has a practical use too, unlike most art things). Although this is just personal observation, there are many more women in the field then men - In fact, out of a group of maybe 10 or 12 people, I have sometimes been the only male in the entire thing. However, even when that happens, the nobody here gives a crap: we're here to make things and to learn, not to stare at each other in a lustful manner. Similarly, when there's only one woman in the class (a much rarer occurrence, granted), it's the same as usual. Nobody cares, so even though there are more woman than men statistically, everybody's treated equally - the difference essentially doesn't exist, because no one's treated differently. I don't know if it's a special quirk of the studio where I go to make glass, but I suspect it's pretty similar throughout most of them. Maybe it's the fact the skill is hands-on, as opposed to a field of conceptual thinking, but it might be worth looking at why that is.
The Catholic Church has been pro-science for a while now.
A church almost by definition cannot be truly pro-science. Their entire MO is based on faith in unproven/unprovable things and do not readily accept questioning of that faith even in the face of overwhelming evidence. The fact that the catholic church hasn't stood in the way of science isn't the same thing as being pro-science. I think science and faith of the sort espoused by organized religion are irreconcilable to one another.
You have evidently never heard of the Jesuits. It's entirely possible to believe in religion and still be a grounded person - and it's entirely possible to be completely devoted to science and still be crazy (see Nazi Germany as an example). Religion when taught as a form of philosophy (which is what it really should be) can make for a great moral compass. Religion when taught in the form of governmental law is what's harmful.
This entire summary reads like a slew of buzzwords. "Big data animal tracking"? "Massive multi-individual"? "Quorem sensing"? "Global animal collective"!?
.......
Yeah. Or, in other words, implanting GPS chips on the skin so that you can attempt to creepily stalk every living organism's location on this planet. Same thing as we've been doing for the last thirty years, but now with "big data" attached.
Can an animal even give consent to have a tag attached to it? What happens when this tag falls off? Does it leak toxic chemicals from its battery into the environment? What happens if the animal eats it? For animals that don't swim underwater, are they designed to be waterproof?
Did they really think that Amazon is going to put its profit on the line to fulfill some code of ethics, even if their views did prevail? (the article mentions that is was a "voluntary agreement", so they were not bound to follow it)
Who the fuck would think it's smart to use some web service like that, where some third party ends up with your passwords, even if they are encrypted in some way?
They're very handy for websites that have poor native security, as the passwords Lastpass generates are extremely tough. In a lot of cases, I'd rather trust Lastpass's security over that of a native website, and they have open sourced their client side decryption process as well (which has received several audits). I don't use it for anything I consider super sensitive (my bank account, for example), but it's pretty good for a lot of other applications.
They chose a very strange wording to categorize in this report. Why "responded"? Why not "complied with" or "fulfilled"? Do they mean to imply that they don't actually follow through with them all, even if law enforcement gets involved? Do they simply blow off those that they don't think are important? Very interesting, I wonder what the hidden meaning is...
This guy has anawful lot of confidence in how the universe works, I'll give him that much. I am only a lowly being compared to him, but isn't this all speculation? I'm pretty sure this is not a science with any kind of proof or even basic consistent knowledge, but don't let me get in the way.
"Why are they supposed to replace it if it does the job?"
As stated in the article, replacement parts are now becoming too hard to source.
The very next sentence in my paragraph and I entertain that exact thought. It was more meant as a barb for people who'd throw it out because it's not new, which I don't think is a very good reason - trashing it just because it's old. However, I do sympathize on the parts issue.
Why the negative backlash here? I think it's AWESOME that stuff from the 80's is still running to this day, and I think that's a mark of quality construction if the Amiga still runs to this day. Why are they supposed to replace it if it does the job? It's not like there's any networking here or areas that are exposed to the public, just a computer controlling the temperature. If anything, I can understand replacing it because the maintenance is getting difficult (Amiga parts are quite hard to find nowadays), and maybe when something on the Amiga actually does break that puts it out of commission for good (the processor, for instance). Replacing it because ZOMG IT'S FROM THE EIGHTIES KILL IT WITH FIRE seems like a very irrational and kneejerk reaction to me. If nothing else, let me have it! I'd love to see how this person did it, seems like a very interesting project. I once did something similar with a system that controlled automatic doors - I don't know if it's still running or not though.
On a more serious note I've been a loyal Firefox user for the past 12 years however I'm getting rather upset with the direction it has taken the past couple years, however I don't want to use Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer or Edge (all of which are owned and maintained by large corporations) and since Opera has jumped on the WebKit bandwagon making it a glorified Chrome skin I'm thinking maybe it's time for a new open source browser. The only browser I can think of that isn't tied to some other browser is Konqueror but unfortunately I find KHTML to be somewhat awful and even if it wasn't Konqueror is *nix only.
tl;dr: Mozilla has become detached from what made early Firefox versions great and it's probably time for them to be replaced.
Try looking at Seamonkey sometime. Even though it packs several additional features and modes to Firefox, it feels significantly more lightweight to me at least, and the interface is really nice to use (especially when you come from the older Mozilla crowd).
So what you are saying is that once someone does something you like (and gets nothing in return from you), they are somehow obligated (technically, legally, morally, whatever) to continue doing that for you (for free) forever? How entitled can you get?
It's about expectations. If Mozilla never expected to accommodate their users, they should never have written their statements to make it sound like they will. It turns out that saying one thing and doing the opposite tends to draw people's ire.
"You can change the source, you have the power!" Yeah, not so much... nobody is really going to do anything except complain. (Well, except that one guy who is now going to make it his life work to fork it into something he calls Freefox that gets used by around 53 people... but those 53 people are very happy about it.)
Firefox has been forked already. More than 53 people are very happy about it.
Pale Moon
Seamonkey is a pretty decent cousin. It's what Firefox itself was forked from!
But open source is supposed to be about what the users want
Since when? Seems to me open source is primarily about what the developers want, and if the 'user' happens to have developer skills he can make it what he wants. Which open source projects are the ones that do what the users (vs developers) want?
Open source is more centric on the developers, yes. They are not strictly obligated to listen to their users. However, if you make something that people depend on everyday for their use, the product itself becomes rather personal to them. Observe: if I were to loan you my Netflix account, and let you use it however you liked, you would become rather annoyed with me if I took it away from you after several months of use. It's human nature; you form attachments to things you interact frequently with. If Mozilla explicitly was developed solely for their developers use, I think they should have explicitly said so. Navigate to their home page, and what do you see? "When it’s personal, choose Firefox." Right there, big bold letters. Turning around and then telling their users that they aren't entitled to anything does not send good messages, it makes them look deceitful.
Mozilla hasn't done anything technically wrong, but they've done an exceptionally poor job of communicating what their user's position in their eye was. Or perhaps their policies changed over time. Who knows, but it's one reason why I prefer to rely on Seamonkey instead as a web-browser.
TempleOS has always struck me very similar to the ancient LISP machines, the ones that everyone loves so much. It's such a shame that the OS will forever be held back by its author, as well as some of its more practical limitations (*cough* no sound support *cough*), because it has some very good ideas. It particular, the indexing and documentation system are just overall fantastic; Java is widely lauded for its excellent documentation features, but it doesn't have anything compared to this. The shell is another really awesome idea; a multimedia shell is something that I've actually never considered, to be totally honest, it never crossed my mind. Imagine a shell you could just live in; one in which you could browse your system, listen to music, do your email, etc. all without ever having to leave your coding environment. I know emacs exists, but it's not quite on this level - I wish other operating systems like FreeBSD or Linux had an equivalent.
Just release 10 home for free to everyone. This will overnight solve a lot of problems and increase adoption back to the levels you want.
I thought the new CEO was a smart guy, but it seems he just doesn't get it.
They were originally going to. Then everyone through a temper tantrum when they released pirates would be getting it for free too.
Seriously, how does Microsoft get away with this shit? Virus scanners should block this "update" as malware. And Microsoft should be sued. Your average Windows 7 user isn't going to know how to uninstall this crap.
Sooooo..... A free offer for the next version of the OS that is trivially removable with the most basic of knowledge counts as "malware" now? And you want to SUE them for this?
.............
You remind me a lot of an incompetent manager. Praytell, is that your job?
> If this doesn't have Minecraft's extensive modding community, it's dead in the water.
That's not true. There are tons of people who play vanilla.
> Nobody plays Minecraft longer than a week or so because of the gameplay: it's the social aspect of the servers...
Probably
>.. and the (actually quite amazing) quality of the modifications and plugins available fro the game.
Nope. Go read Reddit's/r/minecraft if you want a sense of how many people play with mods. It is far lower then what you think it is.
From what I know, the people who write these modifications tend to keep to their specific communities on Github or on their self hosted sites. You don't seem them in a place as public as Reddit, not with how crowded it is. In addition, since so many modifications are server side nowadays instead of client side, many of the newer players have no idea that they're not playing purely stock Minecraft.
I'll concede that I may have been wrong on how many players use the modifications. I don't know for sure - Reddit's not really a very objective sample of the community. But still, I don't think it has a chance of seriously challenging Minecraft, not without some kind of miracle. The biggest hurdle is that it doesn't have multiplayer, Minecraft's biggest allure, and I can see it failing compared to Minecraft for that reason and that one alone.
I cannot comprehend this entitled attitude. on cable tv you see ads. in a magazine or newspaper you see ads. before movies you see ads. during movies you see ad placements. so it's not like Netflix is proposing a crazy new concept, to show you an ad even though you pay a subscription. why so angry bro?
I wouldn't want to see ads on TV either; it's the big reason that a lot of people (myself included) switched away from regular TV service. In a magazine or a newspaper, I can easily skip right over those ads, and they tend to actually be useful services in the case of a newspaper - plus, I don't have to see the same one over and over again. During a movie theater is ridiculous, and I don't often go to them for that reason (aside from the outrageous concessions pricing).
Just because everyone does it doesn't make it right. The difference though is that the other methods aren't so obnoxious and atmosphere-breaking, and tend to be more informational. The exception is Cable TV, and like I said, I wouldn't touch that with a meter length pole. Especially not given that it's many times the price of a Netflix subscription...
If this doesn't have Minecraft's extensive modding community, it's dead in the water. Nobody plays Minecraft longer than a week or so because of the gameplay: it's the social aspect of the servers and the (actually quite amazing) quality of the modifications and plugins available fro the game. The fact it runs on pretty much any computer really helped its popularity too, as did the fact that the company (used to be) fairly responsive to its user community.
A new game with no multiplayer, pretty much non-existent modding, launched on a restrictive platform (compared to Minecraft of course) for only one OS, and with fairly high system requirements to top it all off. I'm pretty skeptical.
This is news because Sourceforge used to be trustworthy.
It used to be a respected site where open-source developers could host their binaries without fear of someone tampering with it.
Yeah, I know. USED to be. Seriously guys, they've been doing stuff like this since 2013. I remember telling it to everyone back then, but was only met with dismissal. Why is everyone so outraged now? Here, here's a blog post from that period where they started it. Did nobody keep up with what was going on? Did nobody use Sourceforge at all in that time period?
I know I sound incredulous, but it's because I am. I've known about this for years, yet nobody cared at all. I don't know why GIMP is a special snowflake compared to the other projects whose reputations they've ruined in the meantime, and I'm pretty sure even GIMP's had this installer for quite a bit longer than this last week (I don't know for sure, I don't use GIMP to be truthful).
Seriously, if you're downloading from a third-party mirror, why would you not check the hash of the binary compared to the original? I mean, why would anyone even use Sourceforge for this in the first place? The official website has the official versions, and whatever distro you're using has screened versions in their repos. If you're using the Windows i guess I can see the temptation, but honestly, ever since websites (including CNET and Sourceforge) started offering only these "special installers", I've stopped using them for Windows. WAAAAYYYY too easy to accidentally click "Yes" on one of those prompts, and I heavily suspect that it would install things anyway. HATE those things.
Also, looking forward to not seeing this on every page, I've been getting sick of hearing about it. As much fun as it is for the conspiracy theorists here to presume Slashdot is some tyrannical overlord, I figured there was a different reason for not posting it. Way too much paranoia on this website, it's not healthy when you think every single person is out to get you (which I have no doubt some of you do).
Google is shuttering a FREE service that has mostly been eclipsed by better technology!
Listen, Luddites, Google has no obligation to provide you with squat, unless you are paying them.
Move on.
No one here's demanding the feature, they're pointing out why it's a stupid move. Google may fully have the right to remove any features it wants, but doing a favor for someone usually goes a long way. If I see you struggling with your groceries, I may not be under any obligation to help - but you would still consider it polite for me to assist you, yes?
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Unless this unified "Open Container Project" supports both the unprivileged, isolated "machine" concept of a container AND the trusted, shared "app" concept of a container, it's going nowhere fast for me.
Solaris Zones. linux-vserver containers. Now Canonical's lxd. Few of the participants in the container effort, except these three, seem to understand the value of having containers as *machines*. Give each machine its own static IP, isolate all its resources (memory, processes, users and groups, files, networking, etc.) from the other containers on the system, and you have what's basically a traditional VM (in the early 2000s sense of the word), but with a lot less overhead, because no hypervisor and only one centralized kernel.
Docker seems to pretend like VM-style containers don't (or shouldn't) exist. I disagree fundamentally with that. I dislike that Docker pushes containers so hard while ignoring this very important use case. I hope the rest of the Linux Foundation is smart enough to recognize the value of this use case and support it.
If not, I'll just have to hope that Canonical's lxd continues to mature and improve.
I think FreeBSD's Jails would appeal to you.
That's what I've been saying since the beginning of this whole mess. I firmly believe that any women should have the right to enter the STEM field if she so chooses, just as I believe that any man should have the right to become a fashion model or a ballerina if he so chooses. If we treat both boys and girls with respect and allow them to become whatever they chose, that will do far more for "inequality" than giving preferential treatment to one or special toys for one will ever accomplish.
However, this is a bit off topic, but even so: Glassworking has been a hobby of mine for quite a long time, as even though it's somewhat artsy (and I do enjoy being artsy every now and then), it also requires a very high degree of multitasking, practice, quick thinking, and the strive for perfection (and it also has a practical use too, unlike most art things). Although this is just personal observation, there are many more women in the field then men - In fact, out of a group of maybe 10 or 12 people, I have sometimes been the only male in the entire thing. However, even when that happens, the nobody here gives a crap: we're here to make things and to learn, not to stare at each other in a lustful manner. Similarly, when there's only one woman in the class (a much rarer occurrence, granted), it's the same as usual. Nobody cares, so even though there are more woman than men statistically, everybody's treated equally - the difference essentially doesn't exist, because no one's treated differently. I don't know if it's a special quirk of the studio where I go to make glass, but I suspect it's pretty similar throughout most of them. Maybe it's the fact the skill is hands-on, as opposed to a field of conceptual thinking, but it might be worth looking at why that is.
The Catholic Church has been pro-science for a while now.
A church almost by definition cannot be truly pro-science. Their entire MO is based on faith in unproven/unprovable things and do not readily accept questioning of that faith even in the face of overwhelming evidence. The fact that the catholic church hasn't stood in the way of science isn't the same thing as being pro-science. I think science and faith of the sort espoused by organized religion are irreconcilable to one another.
You have evidently never heard of the Jesuits. It's entirely possible to believe in religion and still be a grounded person - and it's entirely possible to be completely devoted to science and still be crazy (see Nazi Germany as an example). Religion when taught as a form of philosophy (which is what it really should be) can make for a great moral compass. Religion when taught in the form of governmental law is what's harmful.
and that VIM customers, "have full access to all advisories."
Ha! Take that, Emacs users! ;P
This entire summary reads like a slew of buzzwords. "Big data animal tracking"? "Massive multi-individual"? "Quorem sensing"? "Global animal collective"!?
Yeah. Or, in other words, implanting GPS chips on the skin so that you can attempt to creepily stalk every living organism's location on this planet. Same thing as we've been doing for the last thirty years, but now with "big data" attached.
Can an animal even give consent to have a tag attached to it? What happens when this tag falls off? Does it leak toxic chemicals from its battery into the environment? What happens if the animal eats it? For animals that don't swim underwater, are they designed to be waterproof?
Did they really think that Amazon is going to put its profit on the line to fulfill some code of ethics, even if their views did prevail? (the article mentions that is was a "voluntary agreement", so they were not bound to follow it)
Who the fuck would think it's smart to use some web service like that, where some third party ends up with your passwords, even if they are encrypted in some way?
They're very handy for websites that have poor native security, as the passwords Lastpass generates are extremely tough. In a lot of cases, I'd rather trust Lastpass's security over that of a native website, and they have open sourced their client side decryption process as well (which has received several audits). I don't use it for anything I consider super sensitive (my bank account, for example), but it's pretty good for a lot of other applications.
They chose a very strange wording to categorize in this report. Why "responded"? Why not "complied with" or "fulfilled"? Do they mean to imply that they don't actually follow through with them all, even if law enforcement gets involved? Do they simply blow off those that they don't think are important? Very interesting, I wonder what the hidden meaning is...
This guy has anawful lot of confidence in how the universe works, I'll give him that much. I am only a lowly being compared to him, but isn't this all speculation? I'm pretty sure this is not a science with any kind of proof or even basic consistent knowledge, but don't let me get in the way.
"Why are they supposed to replace it if it does the job?"
As stated in the article, replacement parts are now becoming too hard to source.
The very next sentence in my paragraph and I entertain that exact thought. It was more meant as a barb for people who'd throw it out because it's not new, which I don't think is a very good reason - trashing it just because it's old. However, I do sympathize on the parts issue.
Why the negative backlash here? I think it's AWESOME that stuff from the 80's is still running to this day, and I think that's a mark of quality construction if the Amiga still runs to this day. Why are they supposed to replace it if it does the job? It's not like there's any networking here or areas that are exposed to the public, just a computer controlling the temperature. If anything, I can understand replacing it because the maintenance is getting difficult (Amiga parts are quite hard to find nowadays), and maybe when something on the Amiga actually does break that puts it out of commission for good (the processor, for instance). Replacing it because ZOMG IT'S FROM THE EIGHTIES KILL IT WITH FIRE seems like a very irrational and kneejerk reaction to me. If nothing else, let me have it! I'd love to see how this person did it, seems like a very interesting project. I once did something similar with a system that controlled automatic doors - I don't know if it's still running or not though.
Why not? It works for Apple.
On a more serious note I've been a loyal Firefox user for the past 12 years however I'm getting rather upset with the direction it has taken the past couple years, however I don't want to use Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer or Edge (all of which are owned and maintained by large corporations) and since Opera has jumped on the WebKit bandwagon making it a glorified Chrome skin I'm thinking maybe it's time for a new open source browser. The only browser I can think of that isn't tied to some other browser is Konqueror but unfortunately I find KHTML to be somewhat awful and even if it wasn't Konqueror is *nix only.
tl;dr: Mozilla has become detached from what made early Firefox versions great and it's probably time for them to be replaced.
Try looking at Seamonkey sometime. Even though it packs several additional features and modes to Firefox, it feels significantly more lightweight to me at least, and the interface is really nice to use (especially when you come from the older Mozilla crowd).
So what you are saying is that once someone does something you like (and gets nothing in return from you), they are somehow obligated (technically, legally, morally, whatever) to continue doing that for you (for free) forever? How entitled can you get?
It's about expectations. If Mozilla never expected to accommodate their users, they should never have written their statements to make it sound like they will. It turns out that saying one thing and doing the opposite tends to draw people's ire.
"You can change the source, you have the power!" Yeah, not so much... nobody is really going to do anything except complain. (Well, except that one guy who is now going to make it his life work to fork it into something he calls Freefox that gets used by around 53 people... but those 53 people are very happy about it.)
Firefox has been forked already. More than 53 people are very happy about it. Pale Moon
Seamonkey is a pretty decent cousin. It's what Firefox itself was forked from!
But open source is supposed to be about what the users want
Since when? Seems to me open source is primarily about what the developers want, and if the 'user' happens to have developer skills he can make it what he wants. Which open source projects are the ones that do what the users (vs developers) want?
Open source is more centric on the developers, yes. They are not strictly obligated to listen to their users. However, if you make something that people depend on everyday for their use, the product itself becomes rather personal to them. Observe: if I were to loan you my Netflix account, and let you use it however you liked, you would become rather annoyed with me if I took it away from you after several months of use. It's human nature; you form attachments to things you interact frequently with. If Mozilla explicitly was developed solely for their developers use, I think they should have explicitly said so. Navigate to their home page, and what do you see? "When it’s personal, choose Firefox." Right there, big bold letters. Turning around and then telling their users that they aren't entitled to anything does not send good messages, it makes them look deceitful.
Mozilla hasn't done anything technically wrong, but they've done an exceptionally poor job of communicating what their user's position in their eye was. Or perhaps their policies changed over time. Who knows, but it's one reason why I prefer to rely on Seamonkey instead as a web-browser.
TempleOS has always struck me very similar to the ancient LISP machines, the ones that everyone loves so much. It's such a shame that the OS will forever be held back by its author, as well as some of its more practical limitations (*cough* no sound support *cough*), because it has some very good ideas. It particular, the indexing and documentation system are just overall fantastic; Java is widely lauded for its excellent documentation features, but it doesn't have anything compared to this. The shell is another really awesome idea; a multimedia shell is something that I've actually never considered, to be totally honest, it never crossed my mind. Imagine a shell you could just live in; one in which you could browse your system, listen to music, do your email, etc. all without ever having to leave your coding environment. I know emacs exists, but it's not quite on this level - I wish other operating systems like FreeBSD or Linux had an equivalent.
Stop being idiots.
Just release 10 home for free to everyone. This will overnight solve a lot of problems and increase adoption back to the levels you want. I thought the new CEO was a smart guy, but it seems he just doesn't get it.
They were originally going to. Then everyone through a temper tantrum when they released pirates would be getting it for free too.
Sometimes you just can't win.
Seriously, how does Microsoft get away with this shit? Virus scanners should block this "update" as malware. And Microsoft should be sued. Your average Windows 7 user isn't going to know how to uninstall this crap.
Sooooo..... A free offer for the next version of the OS that is trivially removable with the most basic of knowledge counts as "malware" now? And you want to SUE them for this?
You remind me a lot of an incompetent manager. Praytell, is that your job?
> If this doesn't have Minecraft's extensive modding community, it's dead in the water.
That's not true. There are tons of people who play vanilla.
> Nobody plays Minecraft longer than a week or so because of the gameplay: it's the social aspect of the servers ...
Probably
> .. and the (actually quite amazing) quality of the modifications and plugins available fro the game.
Nope. Go read Reddit's /r/minecraft if you want a sense of how many people play with mods. It is far lower then what you think it is.
From what I know, the people who write these modifications tend to keep to their specific communities on Github or on their self hosted sites. You don't seem them in a place as public as Reddit, not with how crowded it is. In addition, since so many modifications are server side nowadays instead of client side, many of the newer players have no idea that they're not playing purely stock Minecraft.
I'll concede that I may have been wrong on how many players use the modifications. I don't know for sure - Reddit's not really a very objective sample of the community. But still, I don't think it has a chance of seriously challenging Minecraft, not without some kind of miracle. The biggest hurdle is that it doesn't have multiplayer, Minecraft's biggest allure, and I can see it failing compared to Minecraft for that reason and that one alone.
The summary is full of Typos!
I cannot comprehend this entitled attitude. on cable tv you see ads. in a magazine or newspaper you see ads. before movies you see ads. during movies you see ad placements. so it's not like Netflix is proposing a crazy new concept, to show you an ad even though you pay a subscription. why so angry bro?
I wouldn't want to see ads on TV either; it's the big reason that a lot of people (myself included) switched away from regular TV service. In a magazine or a newspaper, I can easily skip right over those ads, and they tend to actually be useful services in the case of a newspaper - plus, I don't have to see the same one over and over again. During a movie theater is ridiculous, and I don't often go to them for that reason (aside from the outrageous concessions pricing).
Just because everyone does it doesn't make it right. The difference though is that the other methods aren't so obnoxious and atmosphere-breaking, and tend to be more informational. The exception is Cable TV, and like I said, I wouldn't touch that with a meter length pole. Especially not given that it's many times the price of a Netflix subscription...
If this doesn't have Minecraft's extensive modding community, it's dead in the water. Nobody plays Minecraft longer than a week or so because of the gameplay: it's the social aspect of the servers and the (actually quite amazing) quality of the modifications and plugins available fro the game. The fact it runs on pretty much any computer really helped its popularity too, as did the fact that the company (used to be) fairly responsive to its user community.
A new game with no multiplayer, pretty much non-existent modding, launched on a restrictive platform (compared to Minecraft of course) for only one OS, and with fairly high system requirements to top it all off. I'm pretty skeptical.
This is news because Sourceforge used to be trustworthy. It used to be a respected site where open-source developers could host their binaries without fear of someone tampering with it.
Yeah, I know. USED to be. Seriously guys, they've been doing stuff like this since 2013. I remember telling it to everyone back then, but was only met with dismissal. Why is everyone so outraged now? Here, here's a blog post from that period where they started it. Did nobody keep up with what was going on? Did nobody use Sourceforge at all in that time period?
I know I sound incredulous, but it's because I am. I've known about this for years, yet nobody cared at all. I don't know why GIMP is a special snowflake compared to the other projects whose reputations they've ruined in the meantime, and I'm pretty sure even GIMP's had this installer for quite a bit longer than this last week (I don't know for sure, I don't use GIMP to be truthful).
Seriously, if you're downloading from a third-party mirror, why would you not check the hash of the binary compared to the original? I mean, why would anyone even use Sourceforge for this in the first place? The official website has the official versions, and whatever distro you're using has screened versions in their repos. If you're using the Windows i guess I can see the temptation, but honestly, ever since websites (including CNET and Sourceforge) started offering only these "special installers", I've stopped using them for Windows. WAAAAYYYY too easy to accidentally click "Yes" on one of those prompts, and I heavily suspect that it would install things anyway. HATE those things.
Also, looking forward to not seeing this on every page, I've been getting sick of hearing about it. As much fun as it is for the conspiracy theorists here to presume Slashdot is some tyrannical overlord, I figured there was a different reason for not posting it. Way too much paranoia on this website, it's not healthy when you think every single person is out to get you (which I have no doubt some of you do).
Waaaaaa! Call me a WAMBULANCE!
Google is shuttering a FREE service that has mostly been eclipsed by better technology!
Listen, Luddites, Google has no obligation to provide you with squat, unless you are paying them.
Move on.
No one here's demanding the feature, they're pointing out why it's a stupid move. Google may fully have the right to remove any features it wants, but doing a favor for someone usually goes a long way. If I see you struggling with your groceries, I may not be under any obligation to help - but you would still consider it polite for me to assist you, yes?