But poorly managed proprietary projects risk going out of business, weeding them out of the system so that the better alternatives win. Because of that, you can be reasonably certain that a company that's been around a while knows what it's doing. A poorly managed open source project will linger on until it destroys itself, leaving orphaned users dependent on a dead project.
Why does it matter if someone else gets an epic-quality item? Does it somehow strip you of your earned rewards? And why is it so wrong if a 12 year old kid wants to do *exactly that* and take his Sword of OMG to the forest and kill boars? If he's enjoying it, why do you care? How does it affect *you*?
It affects others because giving the 12 year old kid an easy chance at that item requires removing the challenge and progression of the content, making the game boring to play. The item is no longer epic-quality if everyone can stroll in and get it.
All people do now in WoW is log in and farm heroics for badges. Even the normal ToC gives out gear on the level of Naxx. It's become a very boring game to play.
This is a tough thing for Blizzard to address. They definitely overshot it in Wrath of the Lich King. The idea of having a 10-player version of every raid seemed to be that you could casually run the content while the more difficult versions would play like past raids. Instead, though, there is very little crowd control required in any instances, so it's a massive AoE-spamming, damage-fest. On top of that, there are constant vehicle gimmicks, and the leveling content itself was very easy. I actually found myself missing zones like Blade's Edge Mountains and Nagrand because they had some difficult and memorable quests. I blasted through Northrend on two characters and don't remember much of it. There were barely any group quests.
In the name of convenience, a lot of the challenges in the game are being removed, and it's making it feel very dull and bland. When you log in now, you basically just farm easy heroics for badges. People were farming them so much that there were instance launch problems until recently.
Republicans are generally in favor of smaller government. Democrats are generally in favor of larger government. The negative consequences of a powerful, centralized government entity that controls your life and has the power of the law behind it are obvious.
Another Anonymous Coward bashing this story. I'm beginning to suspect you and the other ACs are some of the people who were found to be ripping off the artwork...
The artwork was developed by Delicious Monster artists.
What a dumb Slashdot post. Developing proprietary software for a proprietary platform doesn't affect your freedom in any way, shape, or form. It also has nothing to do with control. You even confirm this when you later write that you're free not to use his software. What you're really doing is mindlessly leaning on the word "freedom" as a cheap emotional tie-in to bolster some wild-eyed opposition you have to commercial software, as if someone who sells software is somehow opposed to freedom. You repeatedly use the word "proprietary" under the premise that it's something bad, as if you're some college dorm room denizen who read a FSF manifesto one night and decided all commercial software is "evil." What a stupid position.
Without actually explaining why, you tell us that Wil Shipley is greedy for going after people who are ripping off custom artwork in an application he sells to make a living. Delicious Library is well-known in the Mac software market for its interfaces. If those people want their own woodgrain artwork, they should stop being leeches and make their own instead of copying artwork made by artists at Delicious Library.
It's no wonder you posted as an Anonymous Coward. That someone modded up you as Insightful instead of properly marking it down as a Troll is the most distressing. Someone actually deemed your opinion valuable and worthy of spreading to others as an insight. Not only is your post idiotic for criticizing someone who's putting a stop to people ripping him off, it also suggests it's okay for people to be lazy and not do their own work.
On top of all that, the GPL relies on copyright. I have no doubt you would bash someone who "stole" copyrighted code and violated the GPL. The hypocrisy is astronomical.
This is the model wherein the browser becomes an application execution environment.
My problem with this is that I already have a fast, efficient application execution environment complete with standardized APIs--the operating system. Why would want to run an application to run applications?
What are you talking about? Apple has been airing ads and making it known that they have a great operating system that's better than Windows. They do have a motive of wanting to sell hardware, but that doesn't mean they're not also catering to people wanting a modern, non-Microsoft operating system.
That isn't quite true. OS X uses many of the same APIs from NeXTStep, but it's all implemented on top of the C-based CoreFoundation, and it uses Quartz for drawing instead of Display Postscript. These are new frameworks designed specifically for OS X. As for Objective-C being from the 1980s, you could easily point out that most Windows applications are written for Win32, which is C-based. Even the CLR is implemented on top of Win32.
It's a bit like an easy-to-use thread pool. You submit blocks to queues, and the operating system assigns those queues to a number of threads it determines based on available system resources. It's a very easy API to use, often consisting of only a single function call to pass the block.
That's a pretty specific issue compared to the statement you made previously that WebKit renders differently on the Mac and PC. One wonders if it's actually an issue with Silverlight.
By the way, Slashdot, nice job not posting a link to Arstechnica's epic 23-page Snow Leopard review from last week. It's not like they put out the most detailed reviews in the industry or anything.
One of the more ignorant replies to this story. You seem to believe all progression should stop at C and C++. Compared to Objective-C, application development using C++ blows. Not to mention that if C and C++ are so important to you, you can freely mix them with Objective-C code anyway. As for being obscure, you may have heard of a little thing called the iPhone and its App Store which houses apps developed in Objective-C. But I guess since Viol8 of Slashdot personally doesn't see the viability of Objective-C, Apple should give it up and go back to the drawing board. Good call.
Hell, you even added a slash for no reason in the name "OS X. Grr.
Jesus fucking christ, you goddamn idiots. Read the fucking article. This is about selector caching for Objective-C. Your fucking piece of shit Linux doesn't do that, you yogurt-eating, functionally brain-dead simpleton. Please douse yourself in gasoline, jump off a building, and ignite yourself so that you explode onto the crowd below, raining guts and vital organs like a grotesque storm of stupidity.
What the fuck? Nobody claimed Apple invented a dynamic loader. Nobody said this was a new technology. It's just a technical article about how Apple improved app launch time in Snow Leopard.
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But poorly managed proprietary projects risk going out of business, weeding them out of the system so that the better alternatives win. Because of that, you can be reasonably certain that a company that's been around a while knows what it's doing. A poorly managed open source project will linger on until it destroys itself, leaving orphaned users dependent on a dead project.
What I said:
What you said:
No difference whatsoever.
Not mentioned in the summary is the fact Blizzard is currently tracking about 180,000 bugs in WoW. Lovely.
Yeah, Slashdot sure isn't guilty of that when it takes every pro-piracy position possible.
It affects others because giving the 12 year old kid an easy chance at that item requires removing the challenge and progression of the content, making the game boring to play. The item is no longer epic-quality if everyone can stroll in and get it.
All people do now in WoW is log in and farm heroics for badges. Even the normal ToC gives out gear on the level of Naxx. It's become a very boring game to play.
This is a tough thing for Blizzard to address. They definitely overshot it in Wrath of the Lich King. The idea of having a 10-player version of every raid seemed to be that you could casually run the content while the more difficult versions would play like past raids. Instead, though, there is very little crowd control required in any instances, so it's a massive AoE-spamming, damage-fest. On top of that, there are constant vehicle gimmicks, and the leveling content itself was very easy. I actually found myself missing zones like Blade's Edge Mountains and Nagrand because they had some difficult and memorable quests. I blasted through Northrend on two characters and don't remember much of it. There were barely any group quests.
In the name of convenience, a lot of the challenges in the game are being removed, and it's making it feel very dull and bland. When you log in now, you basically just farm easy heroics for badges. People were farming them so much that there were instance launch problems until recently.
How the heck is my comment off-topic? This is an article about Congress wanting a vehicle mileage tax, yet posting about the government is off-topic?
You Americans elected this one-party Democrat supermajority. Now enjoy the consequences.
Republicans are generally in favor of smaller government. Democrats are generally in favor of larger government. The negative consequences of a powerful, centralized government entity that controls your life and has the power of the law behind it are obvious.
Huh? 2.2 came out recently.
Another Anonymous Coward bashing this story. I'm beginning to suspect you and the other ACs are some of the people who were found to be ripping off the artwork...
The artwork was developed by Delicious Monster artists.
What a dumb Slashdot post. Developing proprietary software for a proprietary platform doesn't affect your freedom in any way, shape, or form. It also has nothing to do with control. You even confirm this when you later write that you're free not to use his software. What you're really doing is mindlessly leaning on the word "freedom" as a cheap emotional tie-in to bolster some wild-eyed opposition you have to commercial software, as if someone who sells software is somehow opposed to freedom. You repeatedly use the word "proprietary" under the premise that it's something bad, as if you're some college dorm room denizen who read a FSF manifesto one night and decided all commercial software is "evil." What a stupid position.
Without actually explaining why, you tell us that Wil Shipley is greedy for going after people who are ripping off custom artwork in an application he sells to make a living. Delicious Library is well-known in the Mac software market for its interfaces. If those people want their own woodgrain artwork, they should stop being leeches and make their own instead of copying artwork made by artists at Delicious Library.
It's no wonder you posted as an Anonymous Coward. That someone modded up you as Insightful instead of properly marking it down as a Troll is the most distressing. Someone actually deemed your opinion valuable and worthy of spreading to others as an insight. Not only is your post idiotic for criticizing someone who's putting a stop to people ripping him off, it also suggests it's okay for people to be lazy and not do their own work.
On top of all that, the GPL relies on copyright. I have no doubt you would bash someone who "stole" copyrighted code and violated the GPL. The hypocrisy is astronomical.
My problem with this is that I already have a fast, efficient application execution environment complete with standardized APIs--the operating system. Why would want to run an application to run applications?
If WebGL becomes as obnoxiously abused as Flash, everyone will want to disable it. The web revolves around its users.
What are you talking about? Apple has been airing ads and making it known that they have a great operating system that's better than Windows. They do have a motive of wanting to sell hardware, but that doesn't mean they're not also catering to people wanting a modern, non-Microsoft operating system.
That isn't quite true. OS X uses many of the same APIs from NeXTStep, but it's all implemented on top of the C-based CoreFoundation, and it uses Quartz for drawing instead of Display Postscript. These are new frameworks designed specifically for OS X. As for Objective-C being from the 1980s, you could easily point out that most Windows applications are written for Win32, which is C-based. Even the CLR is implemented on top of Win32.
Good thing the fucking article has three links to explanations and tutorials in case you don't know what it is.
It's a bit like an easy-to-use thread pool. You submit blocks to queues, and the operating system assigns those queues to a number of threads it determines based on available system resources. It's a very easy API to use, often consisting of only a single function call to pass the block.
Here's an article with an introduction to GCD along with C examples.
That's a pretty specific issue compared to the statement you made previously that WebKit renders differently on the Mac and PC. One wonders if it's actually an issue with Silverlight.
That would be a silly way of reading it, since you can continue to purchase individual tracks. And why are you listening to top 40 radio?
You don't always have to be contrarian, you know.
Hmm. Why was I modded off-topic for linking to UTIs, introduced in Tiger, which describe types without using file extensions or creator codes?
Apparently, everyone has forgotten that UTIs have been in use since Tiger.
By the way, Slashdot, nice job not posting a link to Arstechnica's epic 23-page Snow Leopard review from last week. It's not like they put out the most detailed reviews in the industry or anything.
One of the more ignorant replies to this story. You seem to believe all progression should stop at C and C++. Compared to Objective-C, application development using C++ blows. Not to mention that if C and C++ are so important to you, you can freely mix them with Objective-C code anyway. As for being obscure, you may have heard of a little thing called the iPhone and its App Store which houses apps developed in Objective-C. But I guess since Viol8 of Slashdot personally doesn't see the viability of Objective-C, Apple should give it up and go back to the drawing board. Good call.
Hell, you even added a slash for no reason in the name "OS X. Grr.
Okay, it's time to bring out the fucking guns.
Jesus fucking christ, you goddamn idiots. Read the fucking article. This is about selector caching for Objective-C. Your fucking piece of shit Linux doesn't do that, you yogurt-eating, functionally brain-dead simpleton. Please douse yourself in gasoline, jump off a building, and ignite yourself so that you explode onto the crowd below, raining guts and vital organs like a grotesque storm of stupidity.
FUCKING HELL. RAWR.
What the fuck? Nobody claimed Apple invented a dynamic loader. Nobody said this was a new technology. It's just a technical article about how Apple improved app launch time in Snow Leopard.