Judging from the garbage on their lists (The #1 music download on the #2 site is "Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell III - The Monster Is Loose"), I'd say the problem is that the proprietors' taste in site design is about as good as their users' taste in what's worth stealing.
Speaking of which, I thought P2P was used primarily for legal downloads and that's why The Man was so eager to shut it down before Creative Commons drum'n'bass loops cut into the sales of, errr, "Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell III - The Monster Is Loose"? All I see on their top 10 lists is infringement and more infringement.
I dunno... $900 million from Yahoo is enough to buy a basketball team, pay exorbitant fines to the NBA and periodically hold forth on business as though you're Henry Ford, not some clown who unloaded his dot-bomb on some suckers just before it imploded.
Well yea because if your stealing older equipment then its alright... right?
Err, no. Not sure where you got that from.
You also have to take into account that they might not be the high end equipment but the would our could be used for many more years... our tax money at work replacing stolen equipment.
Again, these are census takers' computers! They're not being replaced, they'd just be sitting in a warehouse with the other hundred thousand they did get back. Even if they could be dusted off in 2010 (and it made economic sense to do so) -- how much money should the government spend on recovering every last laptop that you could replace on E-Bay for $20? Getting 99% back is plenty good for a project of this magnitude.
Given that 1) they have a massive short-term workforce of census takers and 2) I doubt they were giving them 1999's highest-end hardware, I can't get too worked up about this. What would the government do with a slightly higher stack of Pentium 120s, build a bigger Beowulf cluster? As long as there was no privacy violation, this doesn't sound like such a bad loss rate for such a huge project.
I haen't followed the PS3 story much, and am mostly familiar with it from that YouTube video ridiculing it. ("So here's this giant enemy crab....Riiidge Raaacer!") From that point of view, the game with the chewing rhino (I assume that's the one mentioned here) is the title I'm most looking forward to!
Consequently your glibc will be updated much less frequently (read: never) on a gentoo box, which is good.
Yes, I understand that. However:
1) You can't go 2-3 years without having to update your toolchain, either because of an explicit dependency on it or (and this is a problem in its own right) something that won't compile correctly, dependency or no, with your older versions. Eventually you have to pay the piper with a 400 package update, and then you're screwed. Read some of the other comments in this thread.
2) At any rate, even if you can get away with never updating key system components, that's hardly the incredible ease of use of Portage that hooked me on Gentoo in the first place!
You're completely missing the point. Of course *I* don't need a new version of glibc every week. But unless you update nothing, sooner or later you need to update everything. (Unless you manually intervene to avoid dependencies, which defeats the whole advantage of Portage.) And if you've let too many of those updates, package splits, package merges and whatever else pile up in the background and need to apply 300 updates at once to get that new point release of k3b -- that's when things start to collapse.
This was covered on the mailing lists, GWN, and forums. Don't blame Gentoo because you can't use the tools or read.
That pretty much sums up the problem with Gentoo, nowadays -- searching the forums is now a routine tool for getting your updates to work. It used to be that Portage was the biggest advantage of Gentoo; now it's one headache after another.
And we're not talking about an xmms extension or Firefox theme here. We're talking about fundamental login and security functionality, and the "simple" solution is searching the forums for "emerge -B shadow && emerge -C pam-login && emerge -1k shadow"!
I doubt there's the slightest possibility that the shooting wouldn't have happened with or without this guy's game but -- ughh, what a self-absorbed, pompous, whiny creep he is. Somebody plays his game and then goes and shoots up his school, and all Danny LeDonne can do is cry about how hard this has made life for Danny LeDonne and spray about what a hero he is.
The killer is going to be software, though; if they can't get a cohesive user experience down, the best software in the world isn't worth more than a VCR.
I looked into Neuros when shopping for an MP3 player (although I've never seen one in real life). It seems like they're firmly in the hobbyist niche, where spending endless time in forums and IRC to keep up with a constant stream of patches, upgrades and marginal new features is part of the fun.
I wish them luck with it, but I need fewer hobbies, not more, and bought an iPod.
First off, people who care that much about what others think about their taste in music (or food, clothes, whatever) are in need of serious psychological help.
I think that column is supposed to have a hefty tongue-in-cheek element that's gone over pretty much everyone's Furious Nerd head...
I'm at a loss. I actually have to ask myself how, in good faith, a developer implemented something that either works poorly or not at all.
Man, if you have this much existential angst over unreleased software (have you even used a beta of Vista?), I sure hope you never get near Lotus Notes!
In all seriousness -- where does a hipster idiot -- errr, sorry -- "indie kid" get a device on which to play these vinyl records? It's not like you can go into Best Buy and purchase one.
Thinking about that again -- that's a stupid question. We have an Internet nowadays...
In all seriousness -- where does a hipster idiot -- errr, sorry -- "indie kid" get a device on which to play these vinyl records? It's not like you can go into Best Buy and purchase one. I guess they can appropriate their grandparents' old record player along with their glasses and pants. (They'd do better to take the records, too -- maybe we could return to that brief period when Louis Prima drove Green Day off the radio for a few months in the 90's?)
As long as I'm posting, I also have to laugh at the spin on this story relative to last week's "People buy CDs instead of online tracks because of ideological opposition to DRM!" story.
I guess it would confuse a [disoriented] newbie though. hahahahahah
Hahahaha!!! Speaking of confused newbies, though, perhaps you could explain what motivates someone like yourself to post the fourth witless reply saying exactly the same thing three previous people already have? I'd have directed the question to the fifth witless guy, but you managed to combine it with questioning my intelligence.
The answer, by the way, is the same as the answer to every "X works for me! Yuo must be teh stupid!" comment about Linux -- the config tools are great when they work, but depending on your exact setup, they frequently won't.
The worst was when I went away, came back to a LOT of updates. Those updates (during the end of my time on gentoo) started to break things unfortunately.
I just posted a similar set of complaints, but you've touched on one I'd forgotten. The Portage system still works well *if* you're a Gentoo obsessive and emerge sync; emerge -uD world at least once a week. If you get behind, and need to update Portage, layouts, gcc, X and the kernel all at once, you start running into all sorts of really nasty collisions and breakages.
1) I used to be a big Gentoo fan not because of the (nebulous, in my experience) performance gains but because one you had it set up, it really was the easiest Linux to update. That's no longer the case, with Portage conflicts and things like that getting more and more frequent and serious.
2) A lot of the recent headaches (incuding #1) come from the fact that the project is just too damn big. It was a blast during that year or two when Gentoo usage skyrocketed, but the whole developer/support/user system hasn't scaled well.
3) *The* key to installing Gentoo -- unless you really know what you're doing, you need to install some other distro first and copy the xorg.conf, fstab and grub.conf files to use, or at least reference, for your Gentoo install. I can write an fstab by hand, if necessary, but there's no way I could do that for xorg.conf.
1) Given that the "secondhand-smoke" hysteria genuinely was shoddy pseudoscience as a pretext to legislate lifestyle, how useful is it to tie global warming to it? Or am I supposed to read about Big Tobacco, think "Ohmigod, it's *big*!" and fall under my desk in terror?
2) So does Big Oil (Aaaugghhh! Under the desk!!!) get some sort of apology now that it turns out that these groups were actually some sort of bizarre tobacco PR scheme?
The crusades were started by people influenced by the graphically violent board game chess, which has since become a video game.
Actually, it was the other side who played chess. At any rate, I'm sure you two and the "video games are caused by muslims" guy can have a fruitful discussion on your various points...
"So instead she zapped some graphics work she did earlier in the season for 'Sims 2 Pets' onto her iPod and plugged into a computer at a less-sensitive area."
I don't understand -- she wasn't allowed to bring a reporter into her work area, so she copied some work to display in an acceptable environment. I don't see where she (assuming that she was correct about what she was allowed to show) did anything wrong, let alone how you got "rampant corporate espionage" out of it.
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Speaking of which, I thought P2P was used primarily for legal downloads and that's why The Man was so eager to shut it down before Creative Commons drum'n'bass loops cut into the sales of, errr, "Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell III - The Monster Is Loose"? All I see on their top 10 lists is infringement and more infringement.
I dunno ... $900 million from Yahoo is enough to buy a basketball team, pay exorbitant fines to the NBA and periodically hold forth on business as though you're Henry Ford, not some clown who unloaded his dot-bomb on some suckers just before it imploded.
Err, no. Not sure where you got that from.
You also have to take into account that they might not be the high end equipment but the would our could be used for many more years... our tax money at work replacing stolen equipment.
Again, these are census takers' computers! They're not being replaced, they'd just be sitting in a warehouse with the other hundred thousand they did get back. Even if they could be dusted off in 2010 (and it made economic sense to do so) -- how much money should the government spend on recovering every last laptop that you could replace on E-Bay for $20? Getting 99% back is plenty good for a project of this magnitude.
Given that 1) they have a massive short-term workforce of census takers and 2) I doubt they were giving them 1999's highest-end hardware, I can't get too worked up about this. What would the government do with a slightly higher stack of Pentium 120s, build a bigger Beowulf cluster? As long as there was no privacy violation, this doesn't sound like such a bad loss rate for such a huge project.
I haen't followed the PS3 story much, and am mostly familiar with it from that YouTube video ridiculing it. ("So here's this giant enemy crab....Riiidge Raaacer!") From that point of view, the game with the chewing rhino (I assume that's the one mentioned here) is the title I'm most looking forward to!
Yes, I understand that. However:
1) You can't go 2-3 years without having to update your toolchain, either because of an explicit dependency on it or (and this is a problem in its own right) something that won't compile correctly, dependency or no, with your older versions. Eventually you have to pay the piper with a 400 package update, and then you're screwed. Read some of the other comments in this thread.
2) At any rate, even if you can get away with never updating key system components, that's hardly the incredible ease of use of Portage that hooked me on Gentoo in the first place!
I'm thinking it's highly unlikely that this will stay on for 13 weeks. I suppose they need to at least have enough for a DVD set.
Has Mel Brooks done anything worthwhile since -- I can't even remember a recent Mel Brooks movie -- Young Frankenstein?
You're completely missing the point. Of course *I* don't need a new version of glibc every week. But unless you update nothing, sooner or later you need to update everything. (Unless you manually intervene to avoid dependencies, which defeats the whole advantage of Portage.) And if you've let too many of those updates, package splits, package merges and whatever else pile up in the background and need to apply 300 updates at once to get that new point release of k3b -- that's when things start to collapse.
That pretty much sums up the problem with Gentoo, nowadays -- searching the forums is now a routine tool for getting your updates to work. It used to be that Portage was the biggest advantage of Gentoo; now it's one headache after another.
And we're not talking about an xmms extension or Firefox theme here. We're talking about fundamental login and security functionality, and the "simple" solution is searching the forums for "emerge -B shadow && emerge -C pam-login && emerge -1k shadow"!
I doubt there's the slightest possibility that the shooting wouldn't have happened with or without this guy's game but -- ughh, what a self-absorbed, pompous, whiny creep he is. Somebody plays his game and then goes and shoots up his school, and all Danny LeDonne can do is cry about how hard this has made life for Danny LeDonne and spray about what a hero he is.
I looked into Neuros when shopping for an MP3 player (although I've never seen one in real life). It seems like they're firmly in the hobbyist niche, where spending endless time in forums and IRC to keep up with a constant stream of patches, upgrades and marginal new features is part of the fun.
I wish them luck with it, but I need fewer hobbies, not more, and bought an iPod.
Meanwhile, in the time it took you to write all that (and me to read it!), David Banh completed dental school!
I think that column is supposed to have a hefty tongue-in-cheek element that's gone over pretty much everyone's Furious Nerd head...
Man, if you have this much existential angst over unreleased software (have you even used a beta of Vista?), I sure hope you never get near Lotus Notes!
What next, a funny Steve Ballmer chair throwing comment?!?
Thinking about that again -- that's a stupid question. We have an Internet nowadays...
As long as I'm posting, I also have to laugh at the spin on this story relative to last week's "People buy CDs instead of online tracks because of ideological opposition to DRM!" story.
Hahahaha!!! Speaking of confused newbies, though, perhaps you could explain what motivates someone like yourself to post the fourth witless reply saying exactly the same thing three previous people already have? I'd have directed the question to the fifth witless guy, but you managed to combine it with questioning my intelligence.
The answer, by the way, is the same as the answer to every "X works for me! Yuo must be teh stupid!" comment about Linux -- the config tools are great when they work, but depending on your exact setup, they frequently won't.
I just posted a similar set of complaints, but you've touched on one I'd forgotten. The Portage system still works well *if* you're a Gentoo obsessive and emerge sync; emerge -uD world at least once a week. If you get behind, and need to update Portage, layouts, gcc, X and the kernel all at once, you start running into all sorts of really nasty collisions and breakages.
2) A lot of the recent headaches (incuding #1) come from the fact that the project is just too damn big. It was a blast during that year or two when Gentoo usage skyrocketed, but the whole developer/support/user system hasn't scaled well.
3) *The* key to installing Gentoo -- unless you really know what you're doing, you need to install some other distro first and copy the xorg.conf, fstab and grub.conf files to use, or at least reference, for your Gentoo install. I can write an fstab by hand, if necessary, but there's no way I could do that for xorg.conf.
I'd guess correlation -- both developments reflect the swinging balance of power between the Muslim and Christian worlds over that period.
1) Given that the "secondhand-smoke" hysteria genuinely was shoddy pseudoscience as a pretext to legislate lifestyle, how useful is it to tie global warming to it? Or am I supposed to read about Big Tobacco, think "Ohmigod, it's *big*!" and fall under my desk in terror?
2) So does Big Oil (Aaaugghhh! Under the desk!!!) get some sort of apology now that it turns out that these groups were actually some sort of bizarre tobacco PR scheme?
Actually, it was the other side who played chess. At any rate, I'm sure you two and the "video games are caused by muslims" guy can have a fruitful discussion on your various points...
I don't understand -- she wasn't allowed to bring a reporter into her work area, so she copied some work to display in an acceptable environment. I don't see where she (assuming that she was correct about what she was allowed to show) did anything wrong, let alone how you got "rampant corporate espionage" out of it.
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