I have to disagree. I'm not looking to give free stuff to friends.
Without steam, I can buy 2 games and play one one my computer while my son plays the other on the family computer. I cannot do that with this 'sharing' plan.
It is not useful to me. Steam is still a pain when making purchases for the household.
Normally I would have ignored this as crazy tin foil hat talk. But given recent events I guess I have to consider that you might be correct and may even be a little optimistic in your assessment.
Hmm, I just walked across my design company's open-plan office floor and saw a Mac Pro under every desk and not a single fanboi was found.
Well, of course not. They're all getting ready for WWDC next week. You'll lose them again in September when they lineup for the new iPhone. I hear it has a better camera.
Perhaps I missed something. Is the W3C defining an ABI for web browser plugins? And do they think they can provide a way to prevent the user from inserting code between the plugin and video driver?
I thought the W3C only defined the document formats and network protocols. Failure to define an ABI will prevent the ability to implement a "standard" browser independent plugin. Failure to to lock down the full path from he html5 API to the video driver in proprietary code will render any DRM ineffective.
This is a feeble attempt to relabel the current state of affairs with its incompatible, insecure closed plugins as "standard". Nothing meaningful is being standardized and it does not increase in portability or accessibility of any content.
A backend-agnostic toolkit such as Qt will be an equal citizen on X11, Wayland, Mir, Win32, OS X, Android, Haiku. It should be possible to run the same binary on the same host selecting X11 or Wayland as a backend by loading the appropriate.so at runtime.
Is this going to work as well as using SDL to select between Alsa & Pulseaudio? If so, then I think Microsoft still be able to maintain a monopoly on the desktop with Windows 8.
So at what point does such software 'depend' on Wayland?
* When a vendor statically links a binary against Wayland? - complain to the vendor, you're paying for it.
... and the vendor will say "Fine, but we will only support the most bloody bleeding edge version of Ubuntu" to avoid multi-distribution shared library dependency hell. And once they've done that, they might as well only support Mir.
Not to imply the GP isn't trolling, but think about it. Someone out there is going to think this guy's doing it 'right' and create a separate distro for it. It's like rule 34. There'll be a "Norbuntu" or something like it soon.
So it's wrong when they do it but not when the US does it, is that what you're saying?
It's kinda like a non-cyber attack. If you someone attacks you without provocation, there is generally reasonable grounds to consider their action "wrong". If someone whom you've just attacked without provocation attacks you, there might be less reasonable grounds to consider their action "wrong". Rhetoric and other situations can make things more complicated to asses.
It's an error handle approach called "Fail fast". Most environments that use this error handling philosophy try to fail the moment something goes wrong or at least as soon as the error can be recognized. They usually try to optimism by narrowing or removing the time between the failure and the time the failure is recognized.
It should have been obvious that this approach is purely reactive and that a proactive/preemptive approach to failures and reporting them is needed. This might be truly novel. A triumph in innovative error handling! Bravo!
I'm sure I'm very ignorant on the topic of Dinosaurs, but I'm curious what caused a 'Renaissance'? During your work were there any interesting breakthroughs that opened the door? Did new tools become available or new methods for analyzing things? Was there some piece of information that changed how we understand things or just an "a-ha" idea that opened the door to better understanding things? Or is it just a case of increased interest and slow persistence?
You are 100% wrong in your assumptions about me. If anything I empathize with the girls more. I hate being embarrassed. I wouldn't want a nude photo of me posted anywhere on the internet. Although of course he didn't actually do that. He just threatened to.
In retaliation for not complying within 10 seconds, the unknown person, without authorisation, logged into [a friend of both girls'] Facebook account and added the [topless] photo of [victim 2] to [the friend's] Facebook wall. The unknown person then instant messaged [the victim] on Skype and sent the link to Facebook with the compromising photo attached. The link was [sic] the photos he had just put on their Facebook walls since they did not comply to his demands.
350 is a large number. How many has he done that sort of thing to? I know nothing of the man, but if he shows no remorse and is ready to do more, I'd be glad to have him out of circulation. If it's some dumb kid who's feeling his hormones and went way too far, maybe he just needs some time to grow up and learn why that's not socially acceptable. I don't know. He's done damage that cannot be undone.
I guess this is Glee and Fox showing us that not only is copyright violation acceptable, being plagiarized is something to be grateful for. And if they don't get raided and fined then I guess we could assume that prosecutors agree and feel it isn't criminal. I guess we'll have to see how it plays out.
Well a lot of us spend time fixing, testing and upgrading to make sure y2k didn't to get youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu. The job would have been easier if we would have had more time. Fear of (or customer interest in) y2k came late enough that it was a rush job. Be glade if people start addressing it sooner this time.
However, it got a friend of mine. Part way through 1998 he got a notice that his lifetime subscription to a ham radio magazine would expire. Naturally he called the magazine company, as one would, to ask them if they knew something he and his doctor should be aware of.
Sorry. I didn't see this sooner. I've helped on the Groups / Desura / Forum / Application Linux with all sorts of issues involving library compatibility issues. The problem is real. I've told countless people how to use tools like ldd and readelf to figure out what is wrong. What wasn't bundled. What was bundled and should not have been. I've seen several updates to game to rebundle in different versions of libraries so games will run. I've help find out what was missing in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH at different times. And people still report problems.
It has gotten better on the forums as of late, but it's a recurring theme. And I'm not blaming Desura. I appreciate the work you and others there have done. (I'm assuming you're the Protekor we all know and love.) I want Desura on Linux (and in general) to succeed. I'm not blaming the developers either. It's just a lot easier to do a 'Release' build for windows and have it work on all supported versions than it is to do anything similar for Linux. I wish that would change. I'd help! But it will take a commitment on the part of the distributions.
I'm currently running the "State of Mind" demo from 2000 (compiled against glibc2.0) on Ubuntu 10.04. But 10.04 isn't new, and I had to gut pulseaudio to get sound that didn't stutter and ultimately die in less then a minute of game play.
Desura is the perfect place to prove that Linux is a pain to support. Games are failing because of incompatible versions of system libraries. I manifests as sound issues, 3D issues, segfaults and links errors.
It might be possible to compile something that will work on several releases of several distributions, but the means of doing so is not easy, well documented or supported. You want your program to run on a given release of a given distribution. The supported solution is to compile for that release of that distribution.
I don't get it. I'm not arguing against what you are saying, but what does that have to do with the comment he was calling BS? The one about "corporate abuses of civil liberties." Is there a connection between the Pro-Life rally and privatizing the TSA?
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I have to disagree. I'm not looking to give free stuff to friends.
Without steam, I can buy 2 games and play one one my computer while my son plays the other on the family computer. I cannot do that with this 'sharing' plan.
It is not useful to me. Steam is still a pain when making purchases for the household.
Normally I would have ignored this as crazy tin foil hat talk. But given recent events I guess I have to consider that you might be correct and may even be a little optimistic in your assessment.
Is code different in California due to quakes? Do they only frack mine in areas with building codes like California?
Parts will be walled off no matter what. Standardize DRM and you buttress those walls.
It's somewhat like the Stasi.
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The effects were chilling.
Oh wait! I just just had a brilliant idea to help reverse Global Warming!
Hmm, I just walked across my design company's open-plan office floor and saw a Mac Pro under every desk and not a single fanboi was found.
Well, of course not. They're all getting ready for WWDC next week. You'll lose them again in September when they lineup for the new iPhone. I hear it has a better camera.
Perhaps I missed something. Is the W3C defining an ABI for web browser plugins? And do they think they can provide a way to prevent the user from inserting code between the plugin and video driver?
I thought the W3C only defined the document formats and network protocols. Failure to define an ABI will prevent the ability to implement a "standard" browser independent plugin. Failure to to lock down the full path from he html5 API to the video driver in proprietary code will render any DRM ineffective.
This is a feeble attempt to relabel the current state of affairs with its incompatible, insecure closed plugins as "standard". Nothing meaningful is being standardized and it does not increase in portability or accessibility of any content.
At $42K a year per kid? I think it's time to start on that family of 20!
How to you perceive things they are relative?
A backend-agnostic toolkit such as Qt will be an equal citizen on X11, Wayland, Mir, Win32, OS X, Android, Haiku. It should be possible to run the same binary on the same host selecting X11 or Wayland as a backend by loading the appropriate .so at runtime.
Is this going to work as well as using SDL to select between Alsa & Pulseaudio? If so, then I think Microsoft still be able to maintain a monopoly on the desktop with Windows 8.
So at what point does such software 'depend' on Wayland? * When a vendor statically links a binary against Wayland? - complain to the vendor, you're paying for it.
... and the vendor will say "Fine, but we will only support the most bloody bleeding edge version of Ubuntu" to avoid multi-distribution shared library dependency hell. And once they've done that, they might as well only support Mir.
Not to imply the GP isn't trolling, but think about it. Someone out there is going to think this guy's doing it 'right' and create a separate distro for it. It's like rule 34. There'll be a "Norbuntu" or something like it soon.
Maybe as soon as they are able to impose their will on humanity but chose not to?
So it's wrong when they do it but not when the US does it, is that what you're saying?
It's kinda like a non-cyber attack. If you someone attacks you without provocation, there is generally reasonable grounds to consider their action "wrong". If someone whom you've just attacked without provocation attacks you, there might be less reasonable grounds to consider their action "wrong". Rhetoric and other situations can make things more complicated to asses.
It says that 5.4 additional people died. I would like to see the other 0.6 of the last person to die.
He was an organ donor.
It's an error handle approach called "Fail fast". Most environments that use this error handling philosophy try to fail the moment something goes wrong or at least as soon as the error can be recognized. They usually try to optimism by narrowing or removing the time between the failure and the time the failure is recognized.
It should have been obvious that this approach is purely reactive and that a proactive/preemptive approach to failures and reporting them is needed. This might be truly novel. A triumph in innovative error handling! Bravo!
I'm sure I'm very ignorant on the topic of Dinosaurs, but I'm curious what caused a 'Renaissance'? During your work were there any interesting breakthroughs that opened the door? Did new tools become available or new methods for analyzing things? Was there some piece of information that changed how we understand things or just an "a-ha" idea that opened the door to better understanding things? Or is it just a case of increased interest and slow persistence?
You are 100% wrong in your assumptions about me. If anything I empathize with the girls more. I hate being embarrassed. I wouldn't want a nude photo of me posted anywhere on the internet. Although of course he didn't actually do that. He just threatened to.
Not to get involved in the whole conversation, but that doesn't appear to be true. I saw this in another comment referencing http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-01/30/internet-criminals.
In retaliation for not complying within 10 seconds, the unknown person, without authorisation, logged into [a friend of both girls'] Facebook account and added the [topless] photo of [victim 2] to [the friend's] Facebook wall. The unknown person then instant messaged [the victim] on Skype and sent the link to Facebook with the compromising photo attached. The link was [sic] the photos he had just put on their Facebook walls since they did not comply to his demands.
350 is a large number. How many has he done that sort of thing to? I know nothing of the man, but if he shows no remorse and is ready to do more, I'd be glad to have him out of circulation. If it's some dumb kid who's feeling his hormones and went way too far, maybe he just needs some time to grow up and learn why that's not socially acceptable. I don't know. He's done damage that cannot be undone.
It is possible to fail to copy OSx and still be worse than it.
I guess this is Glee and Fox showing us that not only is copyright violation acceptable, being plagiarized is something to be grateful for. And if they don't get raided and fined then I guess we could assume that prosecutors agree and feel it isn't criminal. I guess we'll have to see how it plays out.
Well a lot of us spend time fixing, testing and upgrading to make sure y2k didn't to get youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu. The job would have been easier if we would have had more time. Fear of (or customer interest in) y2k came late enough that it was a rush job. Be glade if people start addressing it sooner this time.
However, it got a friend of mine. Part way through 1998 he got a notice that his lifetime subscription to a ham radio magazine would expire. Naturally he called the magazine company, as one would, to ask them if they knew something he and his doctor should be aware of.
If I don't want my data to be collected, I either give them false info
.....
I think that could get you years in prison in some places.
This is ridiculous. As a customer I willingly hand over my personal information to Google. Why the hell should the government get involved here?
Because the government would like your personal information too, but they'll settle for money.
It will be there but it won't cause you any trouble. Windows 8 will boot just fine.
Sorry. I didn't see this sooner. I've helped on the Groups / Desura / Forum / Application Linux with all sorts of issues involving library compatibility issues. The problem is real. I've told countless people how to use tools like ldd and readelf to figure out what is wrong. What wasn't bundled. What was bundled and should not have been. I've seen several updates to game to rebundle in different versions of libraries so games will run. I've help find out what was missing in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH at different times. And people still report problems.
It has gotten better on the forums as of late, but it's a recurring theme. And I'm not blaming Desura. I appreciate the work you and others there have done. (I'm assuming you're the Protekor we all know and love.) I want Desura on Linux (and in general) to succeed. I'm not blaming the developers either. It's just a lot easier to do a 'Release' build for windows and have it work on all supported versions than it is to do anything similar for Linux. I wish that would change. I'd help! But it will take a commitment on the part of the distributions.
I'm currently running the "State of Mind" demo from 2000 (compiled against glibc2.0) on Ubuntu 10.04. But 10.04 isn't new, and I had to gut pulseaudio to get sound that didn't stutter and ultimately die in less then a minute of game play.
Desura is the perfect place to prove that Linux is a pain to support. Games are failing because of incompatible versions of system libraries. I manifests as sound issues, 3D issues, segfaults and links errors.
It might be possible to compile something that will work on several releases of several distributions, but the means of doing so is not easy, well documented or supported. You want your program to run on a given release of a given distribution. The supported solution is to compile for that release of that distribution.
I don't get it. I'm not arguing against what you are saying, but what does that have to do with the comment he was calling BS? The one about "corporate abuses of civil liberties." Is there a connection between the Pro-Life rally and privatizing the TSA?