It's refreshing to see Apple wrong so many times in a row. Watching them backpedal is amusing.
I knew this would happen, I've been waiting my whole life for Apple to be wrong!! Oh they couldn't be so wrong, this is rich. Finally, after decades of waiting, they are wrong wrong wrong. I love it! They couldn't be right forever, I knew it, it was a matter of time. Oh, victory is so sweet, hey I just wet myself.
Actually I see Sun going after HP's server market tooth and nail as well as Dell's.
I agree with you that this is what Oracle needs to do, them being Sun's two biggest threats in the data center and all. It seems like such an obvious thing to say, but what the hell was Sun doing the last couple years??
Their hardware/software integration is worse than a Dell running Linux. There is no excuse for that. Apple's desktops have had EFI for how long now? Why do Sun x86 servers still have legacy BIOS? They could have evolved the prom interface and unified both systems. GRUB booting Solaris... boot archives, FFS. ELOM/ILOM/FACEPALM
They have so much good tech that needs polishing. T-series is "OK", but very misunderstood. Why wasn't corestat functionality built into Solaris in the fist place? Today's UNIX admins don't generally know what the implications of super scalar architectures & hardware threads are or what bandwidth computing actually is.
Sun should have learned a valuable lesson early on from MS, then Linux. People are ignorant, and mentally lazy. Tell them what they want to hear and make it truish. "Easy to install", "Best server OS evarr", "repositories are better than stable interfaces", "Low TCO", "Well supported", "Just works", "Free", "Open", etc.. It's like they caught on too late. Say Solaris on/. and people respond "ZFS?" See, that's because of "Last filesystem you'll ever need" It worked. If you can't say "Our own OS is easy to install on our own hardware" and be at least halfway true, daaamn..../rant sorry
The only good use case I have, and I've run into this before, is shrinking ZFS in a virtualized environment. Say you expand a zpool by adding virtual scsi devices and later want to reclaim some space by removing whole scsi disks, not resizing them in any way.
It is just a 'nice to have' feature. If you're so hard pressed for storage you absolutely have to shrink virtual guests... delete all those crap VMs you don't use any more. Otherwise, you're doing storage wrong. Gotta be pretty crazy to pick shrinking storage pools over a long list of better things to do.
It is not up to you to decide what is sensitive or classified, and kept a secret from not only the public at large, but compartmentalized and kept a secret from any persons without a need to know.
We have an elected panel of citizens who represent you and have the power to declassify things. Go talk to them.
I've yet to discover an android app that's incompatible with my phone. Maybe that's because the Galaxy S has a superset of currently available features
Har Har Hardy Har Har, "maybe"
So as long as some jerk doesn't along with the el cheapo E-Machine of smart phones, everything will be just peachy? Well, you'll be alright anyway because you'll just buy the good ones, just like everyone else. It's not like people have ever bought cheap computers in masses and then blamed the software for performance problems, right?
This from the guys that literally double the dimensions of the iPhone's apps just to run on the tablet?
Android isn't designed for Tablet either to be fair.
I don't get what you're saying, something designed for multiple screen sizes in your mind should use exclusively scalable graphics?
How can anyone stand by the claim that an entirely touch screen based UI was conceived for a freaking phone without consideration of larger general purpose devices. A _phone_ without buttons. Before a general purpose tablet sized computer with a touch screen. You know, like the ones from 2000. NO, Apple couldn't have possibly heard of those! Really dude, touch screen tablet computers are over a decade old now, and you're seriously going to claim that Apple designed an all touch screen phonputer with an application store, and this idea for a tablet, and I'm not even going to qualify that with 'touch screen' because TOUCHSCREEN AND TABLET ARE REDUNDANT, this idea for a general purpose tablet sized computing device with an application store came after the success of the PHONE?
Maybe they did take the idea of the tablet PC from ~2000 and said "these wont work, but what if we shrunk it and made it into a phone with no buttons?" Then later, with a successful, established software marketplace for cellular phones, in a eureka sort of moment, Jobs wipes the coke off his face and screams "OI! What if we made the phone bigger... but get this... we get rid of the PHONE part, and extend our software marketplace to it because it's basically a computer!!!!11"
There's nothing specifically brilliant about IOS that makes it a tablet user's wet dream besides the fact that it already had touch as its primary interface (admittedly this is one of the primary reasons that previous tablet computing initiatives died out quickly).
So they fixed the tablet concept by making a touch centric UI for a touch centric device, turn it into a little phone with no buttons, then it dawns on them that uhh.. gorsh, we fixed the tablet concept and have an exclusive software store, why not sell those too?
What gets you out of bed each day? D... do you get out of bed?? If you didn't realize this was all planned out the MOMENT you heard "App Store" you should get off Slashdot. I'm sorry, it should be so obvious to any self respecting geek that the App Store was/is headed other places. Please, act real surprised for me when when they announce whatever OS X marketplace is being cooked up so we can have this retarded discussion again in the future.
In the _original_ Team Fortress, for Quake, you'd never know for sure if someone who just looked at a flash grenade was really blinded or not, because the system was insecure as f*ck. Ten seconds in a hex editor, _any_ noob could disable visual effects in Quake by renaming a client variable. No amount of input checking will help you there unless you're into some really fancy heuristics with a TON of false positives.
We're talking the very early beginnings of online-multiplayer games with ultra-untrusted (open sourced QuakeWorld) clients here, so this isn't new. You can't fix cheating by watching the inputs. How do you even know if you're really standing in a shadow? That's some pretty profound cheating just not rendering a shadow, or water, or a tree, etc, places the server can't avoid divulging player locations.
Well said. I'm still perplexed why some people think that connecting everyone else together will lead to collective enlightenment.
I mean look all around, we already have probably most of the world meeting together in big rooms regularly to discuss things, and they're not blazing any new trails. So bigger rooms will help us? You'll have the people from little room A standing over in that corner while the people from little room B stand over in another one in the grand room C.
We have pretty good public education services in developed countries, but I think they fail to teach open mindedness, and reasoning. Maybe it isn't something that can be taught, or maybe we just have a really f'ing stupid education system. It doesn't matter how much information you have if people pick the parts they like. That's a problem. Another one is with a giant pit of anonymously sourced information, it's hard to separate fact from opinion from outright lies.
Sure the Internet is powerful, you can lie to somebody instantly on the other side of the planet. If you happen think Americans are stupid for falling for Internet scams, think about the millions of barely literate people from across the globe slowly getting on board. They'll learn everything.. or nothing.. or.. well, one thing's for certain, they'll believe what someone else wants them to.
So if RIM were a Chinese company, or better - Iranian, or say head quartered in Dubai, would you have any problems with BlackBerries being used by the majority of our government officials & heads of industry? These people have more than enough reason to be wary of our intelligence services. Without knowing any specifics, you should at least have a _little_ faith in their (our intel) capabilities. It's just a little silly to think the rest of the world is just a bunch of tinfoil hat types when it's no secret that we, and everybody else do pay people to collect information on, stuff. AKA spy.
Since there are still WWII vets around, games with Nazis should be no-go
What do you think? Would you walk up to a WWII vet and tell them you play a bloodthirsty nazi in video games? I hope not. Should you be able to enjoy doing that without bothering WWII vets, sure. Is that STILL disrespectful? Is pissing on grave when nobody's looking still disrespectful? What do you honestly think?
Now what about playing a Taliban militant in a game marketed to the same generation that is still dying by Taliban hands? Isn't that just a tad bit different? I honestly hope nobody you knew dies while you were fucking around in a game set in their hell. It wouldn't even hurt you to give a moment of thought about the realities of past wars once in a while too, because as you said, some of the people who experienced them are still around.
Just a few minutes of your time to think about your fellow countrymen who put their lives on the line, that's all I'm asking. Your children, your parents, your siblings and friends are fighting among other things, the Taliban, right now. But hey, we're just talking about video games right? Go have fun, you earned it, right?
It is somewhat misleading to the public, although you could argue that the concerns are minor. However, the effect it would have on the ecosystem would be that companies are very careful and proactive in correctly labeling patent marking. That's not a particularly horrible scenario IMO.
Look around, in this climate, what is the incentive to clearly mark your products with patent information at all?
This is what I just read: "Patent marking permits the patent owner to seek monetary damages (in addition to injunctive relief) in a patent infringement action without proof that the infringer had actual notification of the patent."
I only see more patent trolls in the future because of these shenanigans, with the other side playing patent lottery:\
A good number of Mac fans seem to have an abusive-spouse kind of relationship with Apple. I mean I can understand if Apple makes a product you like so you buy it.
However I don't get the people who continually bemoan the things Apple leaves out, or the products they won't produce, yet flock to Apple's products time after time.
I'm pretty sure people in an abusive-spouse relationship don't cry to their neighbors about how bad the situation is while slugging through it.
I AM sure that people in normal, healthy relationships do complain about each other, sometimes frequently, and the complaining is not a clear sign to outsiders that the relationship is not an overall success.
So.. is that hard for you to understand, or are you one of those nitwits that _thinks_ they have no complaints about their spouse, or that it isn't normal?
Grown up people usually go for "stability" over the "shiny stuff".
It is 2010, grown adults play video games, this has been true for decades now. Also, games are more stable in Windows, so I'm not sure where this is going...
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Monetize your content all you want. Prosecute illegal distribution. Just let me play it with my own device and software.
I'm confused, did the moderators just assign points to a single sentence of a post or did /. readership get hit with a clue bat all of a sudden?
Further proof that DRM is, for all intents and purposes
as secure as the underlying cryptography.
It's refreshing to see Apple wrong so many times in a row. Watching them backpedal is amusing.
I knew this would happen, I've been waiting my whole life for Apple to be wrong!! Oh they couldn't be so wrong, this is rich. Finally, after decades of waiting, they are wrong wrong wrong. I love it! They couldn't be right forever, I knew it, it was a matter of time. Oh, victory is so sweet, hey I just wet myself.
Actually I see Sun going after HP's server market tooth and nail as well as Dell's.
I agree with you that this is what Oracle needs to do, them being Sun's two biggest threats in the data center and all. It seems like such an obvious thing to say, but what the hell was Sun doing the last couple years??
Their hardware/software integration is worse than a Dell running Linux. There is no excuse for that. Apple's desktops have had EFI for how long now? Why do Sun x86 servers still have legacy BIOS? They could have evolved the prom interface and unified both systems. GRUB booting Solaris... boot archives, FFS. ELOM/ILOM/FACEPALM
They have so much good tech that needs polishing.
T-series is "OK", but very misunderstood. Why wasn't corestat functionality built into Solaris in the fist place? Today's UNIX admins don't generally know what the implications of super scalar architectures & hardware threads are or what bandwidth computing actually is.
Sun should have learned a valuable lesson early on from MS, then Linux. People are ignorant, and mentally lazy. Tell them what they want to hear and make it truish. "Easy to install", "Best server OS evarr", "repositories are better than stable interfaces", "Low TCO", "Well supported", "Just works", "Free", "Open", etc.. It's like they caught on too late. Say Solaris on /. and people respond "ZFS?" See, that's because of "Last filesystem you'll ever need" It worked. If you can't say "Our own OS is easy to install on our own hardware" and be at least halfway true, daaamn.... /rant sorry
The only good use case I have, and I've run into this before, is shrinking ZFS in a virtualized environment. Say you expand a zpool by adding virtual scsi devices and later want to reclaim some space by removing whole scsi disks, not resizing them in any way.
It is just a 'nice to have' feature. If you're so hard pressed for storage you absolutely have to shrink virtual guests... delete all those crap VMs you don't use any more. Otherwise, you're doing storage wrong. Gotta be pretty crazy to pick shrinking storage pools over a long list of better things to do.
It's now called Solaris Express again, FYI
Exactly.
Let me get this straight: you want to tax corporate interests so much that they want to leave the US. And when they do,
Then we tax their imports even more? I'm feeling a have the cake/eat the cake too situation here.
My eyes must "record" at less than 60Hz.
If they're not in phase with the source, it doesn't matter. Would the market accept indoor lighting that doesn't bother some people?
It is not up to you to decide what is sensitive or classified, and kept a secret from not only the public at large, but compartmentalized and kept a secret from any persons without a need to know.
We have an elected panel of citizens who represent you and have the power to declassify things. Go talk to them.
I've yet to discover an android app that's incompatible with my phone.
Maybe that's because the Galaxy S has a superset of currently available features
Har Har Hardy Har Har, "maybe"
So as long as some jerk doesn't along with the el cheapo E-Machine of smart phones, everything will be just peachy? Well, you'll be alright anyway because you'll just buy the good ones, just like everyone else. It's not like people have ever bought cheap computers in masses and then blamed the software for performance problems, right?
glhf
This from the guys that literally double the dimensions of the iPhone's apps just to run on the tablet?
Android isn't designed for Tablet either to be fair.
I don't get what you're saying, something designed for multiple screen sizes in your mind should use exclusively scalable graphics?
How can anyone stand by the claim that an entirely touch screen based UI was conceived for a freaking phone without consideration of larger general purpose devices. A _phone_ without buttons. Before a general purpose tablet sized computer with a touch screen. You know, like the ones from 2000. NO, Apple couldn't have possibly heard of those! Really dude, touch screen tablet computers are over a decade old now, and you're seriously going to claim that Apple designed an all touch screen phonputer with an application store, and this idea for a tablet, and I'm not even going to qualify that with 'touch screen' because TOUCHSCREEN AND TABLET ARE REDUNDANT, this idea for a general purpose tablet sized computing device with an application store came after the success of the PHONE?
Maybe they did take the idea of the tablet PC from ~2000 and said "these wont work, but what if we shrunk it and made it into a phone with no buttons?" Then later, with a successful, established software marketplace for cellular phones, in a eureka sort of moment, Jobs wipes the coke off his face and screams "OI! What if we made the phone bigger... but get this... we get rid of the PHONE part, and extend our software marketplace to it because it's basically a computer!!!!11"
There's nothing specifically brilliant about IOS that makes it a tablet user's wet dream besides the fact that it already had touch as its primary interface (admittedly this is one of the primary reasons that previous tablet computing initiatives died out quickly).
So they fixed the tablet concept by making a touch centric UI for a touch centric device, turn it into a little phone with no buttons, then it dawns on them that uhh.. gorsh, we fixed the tablet concept and have an exclusive software store, why not sell those too?
What gets you out of bed each day? D... do you get out of bed?? If you didn't realize this was all planned out the MOMENT you heard "App Store" you should get off Slashdot. I'm sorry, it should be so obvious to any self respecting geek that the App Store was/is headed other places. Please, act real surprised for me when when they announce whatever OS X marketplace is being cooked up so we can have this retarded discussion again in the future.
Yah, validate inputs, psssh.
In the _original_ Team Fortress, for Quake, you'd never know for sure if someone who just looked at a flash grenade was really blinded or not, because the system was insecure as f*ck. Ten seconds in a hex editor, _any_ noob could disable visual effects in Quake by renaming a client variable. No amount of input checking will help you there unless you're into some really fancy heuristics with a TON of false positives.
We're talking the very early beginnings of online-multiplayer games with ultra-untrusted (open sourced QuakeWorld) clients here, so this isn't new. You can't fix cheating by watching the inputs. How do you even know if you're really standing in a shadow? That's some pretty profound cheating just not rendering a shadow, or water, or a tree, etc, places the server can't avoid divulging player locations.
But yeah, its a pretty big deal not being able to have lots of content such as Team Fortress 2.
OTHER PS3 games get downloadable updates, patches, and free or paid expansions, the first half of which are mandatory to play the game online.
There's only one party to place the blame on for Orange Box being as unmaintained as it is, and that is Valve.
Well said. I'm still perplexed why some people think that connecting everyone else together will lead to collective enlightenment.
I mean look all around, we already have probably most of the world meeting together in big rooms regularly to discuss things, and they're not blazing any new trails. So bigger rooms will help us? You'll have the people from little room A standing over in that corner while the people from little room B stand over in another one in the grand room C.
We have pretty good public education services in developed countries, but I think they fail to teach open mindedness, and reasoning. Maybe it isn't something that can be taught, or maybe we just have a really f'ing stupid education system. It doesn't matter how much information you have if people pick the parts they like. That's a problem. Another one is with a giant pit of anonymously sourced information, it's hard to separate fact from opinion from outright lies.
Sure the Internet is powerful, you can lie to somebody instantly on the other side of the planet. If you happen think Americans are stupid for falling for Internet scams, think about the millions of barely literate people from across the globe slowly getting on board. They'll learn everything.. or nothing.. or.. well, one thing's for certain, they'll believe what someone else wants them to.
So if RIM were a Chinese company, or better - Iranian, or say head quartered in Dubai, would you have any problems with BlackBerries being used by the majority of our government officials & heads of industry? These people have more than enough reason to be wary of our intelligence services.
Without knowing any specifics, you should at least have a _little_ faith in their (our intel) capabilities. It's just a little silly to think the rest of the world is just a bunch of tinfoil hat types when it's no secret that we, and everybody else do pay people to collect information on, stuff. AKA spy.
Well, considering general natures of government and military today, I was willing to believe...
Hey, what do /., AM radio talk shows, and FOX News have in common? People like you!!!!!!
Since there are still WWII vets around, games with Nazis should be no-go
What do you think? Would you walk up to a WWII vet and tell them you play a bloodthirsty nazi in video games?
I hope not. Should you be able to enjoy doing that without bothering WWII vets, sure. Is that STILL disrespectful?
Is pissing on grave when nobody's looking still disrespectful? What do you honestly think?
Now what about playing a Taliban militant in a game marketed to the same generation that is still dying by Taliban hands? Isn't that just a tad bit different?
I honestly hope nobody you knew dies while you were fucking around in a game set in their hell. It wouldn't even hurt you to give a moment of thought about the realities of past wars once in a while too, because as you said, some of the people who experienced them are still around.
Just a few minutes of your time to think about your fellow countrymen who put their lives on the line, that's all I'm asking. Your children, your parents, your siblings and friends are fighting among other things, the Taliban, right now. But hey, we're just talking about video games right? Go have fun, you earned it, right?
Please, go self-censor yourself.
It is somewhat misleading to the public, although you could argue that the concerns are minor. However, the effect it would have on the ecosystem would be that companies are very careful and proactive in correctly labeling patent marking. That's not a particularly horrible scenario IMO.
Look around, in this climate, what is the incentive to clearly mark your products with patent information at all?
This is what I just read:
"Patent marking permits the patent owner to seek monetary damages (in addition to injunctive relief) in a patent infringement action without proof that the infringer had actual notification of the patent."
I only see more patent trolls in the future because of these shenanigans, with the other side playing patent lottery :\
Or they could not print patent information on products at all, since it's optional and that's even easier. No problems with that right? Congrats!
A good number of Mac fans seem to have an abusive-spouse kind of relationship with Apple. I mean I can understand if Apple makes a product you like so you buy it.
However I don't get the people who continually bemoan the things Apple leaves out, or the products they won't produce, yet flock to Apple's products time after time.
I'm pretty sure people in an abusive-spouse relationship don't cry to their neighbors about how bad the situation is while slugging through it.
I AM sure that people in normal, healthy relationships do complain about each other, sometimes frequently, and the complaining is not a clear sign to outsiders that the relationship is not an overall success.
So.. is that hard for you to understand, or are you one of those nitwits that _thinks_ they have no complaints about their spouse, or that it isn't normal?
Linux user = more brains than money ...?
Mac user = more money than brains
Windows user =
Correct, users of free stuff have less money than brains, and Mac users have waaaaaaaaaay more money.
So has everything else in production today. What's next, it'll absorb the best features of Windows 95?
Grown up people usually go for "stability" over the "shiny stuff".
It is 2010, grown adults play video games, this has been true for decades now. Also, games are more stable in Windows, so I'm not sure where this is going...