Throw in the garbage collector, which also isn't as free as unwinding the stack
malloc/free aren't as free as the stack either, what is your point? Poo on your stack based programming too, real men don't need stacks, it's much faster that way.
Ok, lets both just sit back in our armchairs and relax bro. Most Java developers at this stage in the game are doing enterprise software development, and the idea of only using the stack makes you sound like a tard.
smaller active resident set size vs. processors designed with more cache Guess which way the tides are moving?
It's all about customer satisfaction. Running the store they sell the DRM-secured software from gives them good enough reason to keep the experience painless. Someone like Walmart isn't going to give a crap about a video game publisher's drive-by DRM tactics unless you walk back in the store and complain, in numbers. They probably won't care very much about loss of PC software sales either, chalking it up to piracy or whatever. Steam needs some competition though, IMHO.
I sent an email to a member of the Team Fortress 2 team regarding an issue with the game overlay I was having, I was put into contact with one of their programmers who examined some stack traces I sent over and helped troubleshoot the issue. Their executives also have a sense of humor and personally respond to emails frequently.
Java is dying just like C. It has been replaced by the technologically superior C++. Just like Perl, which has been replaced by the syntaxically superior python. Like Assembler which has been replaced by the easy to use.net framework.
I do get your drift, but what I want to know is what killed Java, or are we just out of programming frameworks now?
The ubergeek wouldn't have bought an iPad and then bitched about things he knew would happen, or would be reverse engineering it to run linux.
Wait, geeks don't not buy something and complain about it... a lot? Huh? So what's the difference between a whining geek that does and does not buy Apple products? One knows what he is talking about? Bingo.
As a FOSS geek I'm not interested in apple and have identified a bunch of really nice looking alternatives to the iPad. It's just a shame none of them seem to quite make it to market!
"Damn it, I wanted to be in this group because it was exclusive, what are those wackos doing here??.. lets draw a circle over there and make a smaller one for me over here, with a fancy new title.. there.. they don't intersect and I have no relation to them, hah!"
BTW, I'm a Computer Geek, and we look down and laugh at your petty squabbling, but have an innate fear of RPN and carburetors.
I have family in the USMC. Trust me, they get paid alot better than that.
I think they would be laughing at you right now, for a few reasons probably;)
Hey, you should call them right now and tell them how crazy this Smedley Butler guy is! They teach us about him in boot camp though, so I would advise against doing that before reading more about him.
Now, MS is going to have a hard time convincing people to believe any of their long-term promises about much of anything.
I doubt it. A. Longhorn was not the first time this happened, with Microsoft, or anyone. B. There are several long-term Microsoft promises in the pipeline right now and people (& media) have bought into them.
It's an old trick that they probably learned from IBM's heydays.
No reason for it to stop working now unfortunately.
Rinse, repeat.
I suspect you already know what I'm talking about:\
It's sad that even here on/. I feel like the only one that rolls my eyes at things like Kinect. Or statements about what the next version of Windows will do. Or what the next Microsoft product _period_ will do, before it is on shelves. Or ANY crazy idea that sounds too good to be true, and I'm left to fill in crucial blanks (with more goodness of course). I'm not saying they are bad ideas, or Microsoft can't release good products, or that unicorns don't exist. Just this.. why is there anyone on Earth left that judges a Microsoft product based on what Microsoft promises it will be? It might still be decent, but haven't you all been let down enough yet??? Easy fix is to stop making ridiculous promises, or uhh.. stop believing them at least.
Why is it common sense to not buy into the first revision of a high-tech product, but our eyes glaze over just thinking about how cool something new might be, as if the world was perfect? Oh Jesus, a prototype, it must all be true now!
A good idea is just that, until it's in our hands. Anything beyond that, and the parties involved better have pretty darned good reputations. But hey, this is the Internet I'm talking to, maybe if we invest a little more opinion into this idea it will be even betterer!!!1
Consider this, Apple has their own branded stores worldwide, do TV ad campaigns and they only have a pathetic 5% on stat counter. The fact that Linux has 0.7% with absolutely no advertising is amazing in itself.
Yah, real amazing, considering it is free, you need to buy specific hardware for OS X, and Windows is still perennially entrenched in the minds & budgets of it's users. Oh! Actually it isn't.. amazing.. because that pretty much explained it. All you have to do is be free, or not suck, then win over hearts & minds. You already got free, I'm surprised Linux isn't doing better than the expensive OS X!/sarcasm.
We get paid the same, war, or no war. We even get the GI Bill, without a war. Somewhere there is a lower class family who's son or daughter volunteered to defend this country, and hopes to someday get an education in return, and maybe a better life than their folks had. But, whatever, they are probably just greedy bloodthirsty goons bent on making a profit.
This thread was originally about profiteering, and now you're trying to claim that soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines make a profit from war?
I somehow doubt that the person complaining about people profiteering will give his entire combat pay to charity.
You need to be punched in the fucking head for that. I have a better idea, how about you and war profiteers go earn his pay? By earn, I mean do his work, and get his paycheck. I'll bet he would trade you for a few weeks.
I like this man's thinking. Does anyone think we are getting a real deal on UAVs, cruise missiles, MRAPs, etc? And now private security forces. Ugh.
The only way to smash this racket is to conscript capital and industry and labor before the nations manhood can be conscripted. One month before the Government can conscript the young men of the nation - it must conscript capital and industry and labor. Let the officers and the directors and the high-powered executives of our armament factories and our munitions makers and our shipbuilders and our airplane builders and the manufacturers of all the other things that provide profit in war time as well as the bankers and the speculators, be conscripted - to get $30 a month, the same wage as the lads in the trenches get.
I've spent the last few days reading about game AI algorithms and the same theme comes up.. "for most genres it's hard to be competitive without cheating, but in a FPS the AI has to be dumbed down because it'll be too good". You can find that sentiment in dozens of articles.
Think about it.. the problem isn't that AI programming is too easy, it's because PC FPS games have no depth, the weapons are hyper accurate, while running, and being shot.. Fix that and the AI is hard, viola.
The picture of a strategic FPS game you tried to paint fell apart soon as you say "head shots are almost mandatory". Bad game.. bad. Your brain should be the weapon of choice. Why is a bullet to the head such a bitch, but a bullet to the thigh, gut, arm your holding the rifle with, foot, etc are all merely flesh wounds?
"Pros are serious overkill for gaming" That's a stupid statement. That just means they will be used for gaming longer. Unles the ones you buy are alsways magically over powered.
ECC memory, and Xeon processors are stupidly overkill for gaming. Mac Pros are workstations.
I don't know about grapes, but I've heard you'll have a hard time taking agave plants out of Mexico. A lot of agriculture products are restricted exports, take Japan and it's beef cattle for another example. Even if making something elsewhere isn't a problem, sometimes there are laws or rules defining what you can or can't call a product based on where it was made, among other things. Bourbon whiskey for example.
I would be very surprised if _France_ had no restrictions on wine/grapes?!
You are clearly of the "Apple" school of thinking where "Simple" means "Remove functionality". Most of the world doesn't work like this, making something "simple" means "a series of easy to follow steps in a logical order" or simply not requiring specialist knowledge.
To do this, you'll eventually end up hiding functionality, and be accused of doing the same thing Apple does for the exact same reasons... You should think long and hard what "simple" is in the real world instead of the anti-Apple echo chamber where somehow they successfully sell devices that do nothing, easily.
EX: a car - how much functionality is lost in an automatic vs. manual?
It's unfortunate that every time someone wants to talk about Linux, they seem interested in only one metric: can Average Joe use it?
Other than coming across as a remarkably modern rendition of Solaris 9, what else does it have going for it? It's not even the most developer friendly OS anymore because the world largely moved on to Windows centric or Java development. Free software is easier to use on Windows or OS X. That's not a lie.
Then there's the obvious fact that this/. submission is titled "Gestures With Multitouch In Ubuntu", and you've got to wonder why NOT ask if the Average Joe can use it??
You can pick your own reason for not using it; fine. But don't pretend like you have some magical solution to fix the thing you hate so dearly.
You don't like the Average Joe nitpicking? Fine.
Here's a suggestion: repos and the "everything must be in the repo" concept exist because of the unstable nature of free software. Unstable as in constantly changing in incompatible ways. FIX IT!
There is no good reason why I can't go install the latest GIT binary on an old copy of CentOS or RHEL. Don't fix it for the sake of free software though, at least make install is an option for some people. (food for though: Is make install really an answer for those who would run RHEL?) fix it so people can write non-free software for Linux and not target a hundred platforms. Why is libstdc*-compat* even an optional install? Why does your competition have a three line answer to this problem? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1406645/building-a-backwards-compatible-os-x-app-when-a-new-api-is-present And your biggest competitor at least has an answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1073509/should-i-redistribute-msvcrt-dll-with-my-application Normally, you'd vote with your wallet on a problem like this. Free & quality is such a mind fuck.
When will the Linux community pull its head from its ass and stop repeating the "only good software is free software" BULL SHIT. It needs non-free software, period. There's my magical solution to something I hate. I'm sorry, but what metric do wish us to judge Linux by? When your only answers are full of dogma and ideology, it's hard for outsiders to take you seriously. It's popular to personify Microsoft and Apple as emotionally charged beings wrecking havoc on your lives, just as it's popular to personify the government the same way. In politics though, we call those people kooks. Get on with business folks.
On a more cheery note, I think Linux will continue to be used where it makes sense. If you have a stake in where that is.. you MAY want to start suggesting metrics.
If she wants to protest against modern conflict games that's fine, but to protest just against american deaths is purely hypocritical.
This American protesting against American deaths is not hypocrisy. Was she killing non-Americans? Does she advocate killing Afghan citizens? Is she, being an American, not entitled to a little itty bit of bias? She is rightfully biased, and not a hypocrite.
What is the Afghan citizen crap about anyway? The United States of America recognize the Taliban as a terrorist organization. We are in an ongoing conflict with them, not Afghanistan. Afghans SHOULD ALSO be offended by this, and they ARE. They have their own bias and prejudices which all play into why a video game set in a current conflict is a bad idea. Not to mention the idea of our children playing video games about killing people in a present conflict just miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight piss off those who already dislike western culture, especially the ones we're currently engaged with. How... how.. HOW can letting you kill both sides make this a better idea? That's like saying if you sell guns to BOTH sides it makes it fair. You see, it doesn't work like that because both sides end up hating you. If you've already made the unwise decision to get involved with something best left alone, the smartest move is pick a fucking side that likes you.
Why is it hard for you people to see the difference between this and past conflicts? Games portraying them are also insensitive to those involved but at least times have changed and one party either does not even exist any more or we are no longer at war with them. The generations playing those games have no idea the realities of those wars. Fictional settings of war between any two peaceful neighbors would even be acceptable with most people. A current conflict??? Are you nucking futs.
This is in poor taste plain and simple. Even if you were selling it to a completely uninvolved market, it is blatantly disrespectful.
RE: Cops and Robbers If your children are playing "kill the cop" in the front yard and a cop's death happens to make the evening news, it would be prudent to real the "free speech" flag down for a little while and switch to sugar free koolaid.
RE: Freedom of Speech & Freedom of Expression A graveyard is just a large expanse of dirt with a smattering of half-height stones stuck in it. It is either the world's greatest paintball setting, or a place to pay respects to and mourn the dead. Choose your adventure.
Enjoy your freedom of speech responsibly folks. Think about that next time you reach for the moderate button. Note to bloodhawk: don't take it personal, I'm obviously replying to whole page.
Yah, sorry, I should have explained a little. In a storage context, online means always available, offline means not. Sort of like "online documentation" has always meant documentation available while using the application.. nothing to do with the Internet:)
Autochangers & VTL muddy things up, but that's the gist of it.
In addition, most of these types of enclosures/docking stations have a button on them that talk to a special driver (usually Win/Mac only, though) and fire up pre-configured backups (usually of the entire drive).. couldn't be simpler for home use, really.
I know, this is what I was saying about those, and I did mention Internet based services somewhere too.
"Online backups have been making a push for a while now because they are multipurpose, storage/backup." - online as in spinning disk
OS X & Windows have pretty good software built in to use them and they ship with their own software too. The problem with online backups is it's a lot like just a mirror of your data, and it's not as easily expanded as offline backups. Offline as in tape, cd/dvd, flash etc.
hmm... home offline backup system using flash devices.. interesting. Cheapish, expandable, no need for moving parts, that would be nice. All you'd need is a big USB hub I guess & software support for tracking the media. Totally patenting it!!!!1;)
Now instead of slow diskettes for backups, I use redundant drives and DVD-Rs for off-line backups and purchased software solutions. (And I know about using "Time Machine" to back up the Macs every night, but that's local, not off-line.)
The market for home offline backups is probably incredibly small. Online backups have been making a push for a while now because they are multipurpose, storage/backup. There are also a lot of Internet based backup systems available.
I don't think you'll find much for home offline backups unless you have some money and look at small business offerings. I don't see why that should ever change either:\ I hear you though, I want such a system too, but I know I'm very biased with enterprise backup experience. If it isn't very low maintenance it just isn't going to do very well in the home PC user market. Even enterprise users lean towards disk because of a ill-placed fear of tape complexity. I've seen people opt for shared online storage over tape/VTL.. *sigh*
Yah, encourage users to use an obvious pattern, good one. Then if I get one of your passwords I have it forever.
It's already bad enough in less severe environments where people do password++number every iteration What is the point of enforcing password changes and history checks if you're going to use an easily guessable pattern?
People need to realize that password policy has sharply diminishing returns, and two factor authentication is sooooooooooooooo much better than just one more character class.
Such a bald-ass simple statement really requires back up. I've not had ANY stability problems, much less severe. And I've been running this distro since Feisty Fawn. The worst thing about Ubuntu that I've ever experienced is its ridiculous desktop color schemes, and they never seem to get any better, but that's easily changed.
Well, the Linux community has redefined 'stability' to mean 'does not randomly crash', making this an impossible argument, but I will attempt the impossible! Stability used to refer to developer/administrator/user interfaces not changing, thus not breaking any dependancies. Obviously large swaths of what make up Linux, to include the kernel itself does not consider that a worthwhile goal and the term took on the meaning "does not crash", or "future updates do not cause crashing". For any definition of crash.
To create some semblance of stability in the old sense (which is typically a superset of the new meaning), some Linux distributions slow the rate of change as best they can. Ubuntu is not one of those. Lets be at least a little professional here and not write the OP off with the "stability means BSOD and I don't have those" response please. EX: An option name being arbitrarily renamed could be a stability issue. An API arbitrarily changing could be a stability issue. Crashing is a much bigger, narrower problem.
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Throw in the garbage collector, which also isn't as free as unwinding the stack
malloc/free aren't as free as the stack either, what is your point?
Poo on your stack based programming too, real men don't need stacks, it's much faster that way.
Ok, lets both just sit back in our armchairs and relax bro. Most Java developers at this stage in the game are doing enterprise software development, and the idea of only using the stack makes you sound like a tard.
smaller active resident set size vs. processors designed with more cache
Guess which way the tides are moving?
Call me back when your operating system is written in Java. Oh wait, Sun tried that - another failure.
You're an idiot.
LOL.. you were moderated funny because readers had to scroll past abut twenty informative replies about NTFS & VSS to find your little gem.
It's all about customer satisfaction. Running the store they sell the DRM-secured software from gives them good enough reason to keep the experience painless. Someone like Walmart isn't going to give a crap about a video game publisher's drive-by DRM tactics unless you walk back in the store and complain, in numbers. They probably won't care very much about loss of PC software sales either, chalking it up to piracy or whatever. Steam needs some competition though, IMHO.
I sent an email to a member of the Team Fortress 2 team regarding an issue with the game overlay I was having, I was put into contact with one of their programmers who examined some stack traces I sent over and helped troubleshoot the issue. Their executives also have a sense of humor and personally respond to emails frequently.
What's that smell??
Java is dying just like C. It has been replaced by the technologically superior C++. Just like Perl, which has been replaced by the syntaxically superior python. Like Assembler which has been replaced by the easy to use .net framework.
I do get your drift, but what I want to know is what killed Java, or are we just out of programming frameworks now?
The ubergeek wouldn't have bought an iPad and then bitched about things he knew would happen, or would be reverse engineering it to run linux.
Wait, geeks don't not buy something and complain about it... a lot? Huh?
So what's the difference between a whining geek that does and does not buy Apple products? One knows what he is talking about? Bingo.
As a FOSS geek I'm not interested in apple and have identified a bunch of really nice looking alternatives to the iPad. It's just a shame none of them seem to quite make it to market!
"Damn it, I wanted to be in this group because it was exclusive, what are those wackos doing here??.. lets draw a circle over there and make a smaller one for me over here, with a fancy new title.. there.. they don't intersect and I have no relation to them, hah!"
BTW, I'm a Computer Geek, and we look down and laugh at your petty squabbling, but have an innate fear of RPN and carburetors.
That's because Smedley Butler was talking about WWI, which was the most recent major conflict at the time when he had written that.
Some things never change, and people still find them shocking.
I'm waiting for an english transcription of Art of War to show up on wikileaks outing our wartime espionage activities.
I have family in the USMC. Trust me, they get paid alot better than that.
I think they would be laughing at you right now, for a few reasons probably ;)
Hey, you should call them right now and tell them how crazy this Smedley Butler guy is!
They teach us about him in boot camp though, so I would advise against doing that before reading more about him.
Now, MS is going to have a hard time convincing people to believe any of their long-term promises about much of anything.
I doubt it.
A. Longhorn was not the first time this happened, with Microsoft, or anyone.
B. There are several long-term Microsoft promises in the pipeline right now and people (& media) have bought into them.
It's an old trick that they probably learned from IBM's heydays.
No reason for it to stop working now unfortunately.
Rinse, repeat.
I suspect you already know what I'm talking about :\
It's sad that even here on /. I feel like the only one that rolls my eyes at things like Kinect. Or statements about what the next version of Windows will do. Or what the next Microsoft product _period_ will do, before it is on shelves. Or ANY crazy idea that sounds too good to be true, and I'm left to fill in crucial blanks (with more goodness of course).
I'm not saying they are bad ideas, or Microsoft can't release good products, or that unicorns don't exist. Just this.. why is there anyone on Earth left that judges a Microsoft product based on what Microsoft promises it will be? It might still be decent, but haven't you all been let down enough yet??? Easy fix is to stop making ridiculous promises, or uhh.. stop believing them at least.
Why is it common sense to not buy into the first revision of a high-tech product, but our eyes glaze over just thinking about how cool something new might be, as if the world was perfect? Oh Jesus, a prototype, it must all be true now!
A good idea is just that, until it's in our hands. Anything beyond that, and the parties involved better have pretty darned good reputations.
But hey, this is the Internet I'm talking to, maybe if we invest a little more opinion into this idea it will be even betterer!!!1
Consider this, Apple has their own branded stores worldwide, do TV ad campaigns and they only have a pathetic 5% on stat counter. The fact that Linux has 0.7% with absolutely no advertising is amazing in itself.
Yah, real amazing, considering it is free, you need to buy specific hardware for OS X, and Windows is still perennially entrenched in the minds & budgets of it's users. Oh! Actually it isn't.. amazing.. because that pretty much explained it. All you have to do is be free, or not suck, then win over hearts & minds. You already got free, I'm surprised Linux isn't doing better than the expensive OS X! /sarcasm.
We get paid the same, war, or no war. We even get the GI Bill, without a war. Somewhere there is a lower class family who's son or daughter volunteered to defend this country, and hopes to someday get an education in return, and maybe a better life than their folks had. But, whatever, they are probably just greedy bloodthirsty goons bent on making a profit.
This thread was originally about profiteering, and now you're trying to claim that soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines make a profit from war?
Read this, douche.
http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm
I somehow doubt that the person complaining about people profiteering will give his entire combat pay to charity.
You need to be punched in the fucking head for that. I have a better idea, how about you and war profiteers go earn his pay? By earn, I mean do his work, and get his paycheck. I'll bet he would trade you for a few weeks.
I like this man's thinking. Does anyone think we are getting a real deal on UAVs, cruise missiles, MRAPs, etc? And now private security forces. Ugh.
The only way to smash this racket is to conscript capital and industry and labor before the nations manhood can be conscripted. One month before the Government can conscript the young men of the nation - it must conscript capital and industry and labor. Let the officers and the directors and the high-powered executives of our armament factories and our munitions makers and our shipbuilders and our airplane builders and the manufacturers of all the other things that provide profit in war time as well as the bankers and the speculators, be conscripted - to get $30 a month, the same wage as the lads in the trenches get.
head shots are almost mandatory,
typical PC FPS garbage to me.
I've spent the last few days reading about game AI algorithms and the same theme comes up.. "for most genres it's hard to be competitive without cheating, but in a FPS the AI has to be dumbed down because it'll be too good". You can find that sentiment in dozens of articles.
Think about it.. the problem isn't that AI programming is too easy, it's because PC FPS games have no depth, the weapons are hyper accurate, while running, and being shot.. Fix that and the AI is hard, viola.
The picture of a strategic FPS game you tried to paint fell apart soon as you say "head shots are almost mandatory". Bad game.. bad. Your brain should be the weapon of choice.
Why is a bullet to the head such a bitch, but a bullet to the thigh, gut, arm your holding the rifle with, foot, etc are all merely flesh wounds?
"Pros are serious overkill for gaming"
That's a stupid statement. That just means they will be used for gaming longer. Unles the ones you buy are alsways magically over powered.
ECC memory, and Xeon processors are stupidly overkill for gaming. Mac Pros are workstations.
How they would? Grapes come with no passport.
I don't know about grapes, but I've heard you'll have a hard time taking agave plants out of Mexico.
A lot of agriculture products are restricted exports, take Japan and it's beef cattle for another example.
Even if making something elsewhere isn't a problem, sometimes there are laws or rules defining what you can or can't call a product based on where it was made, among other things. Bourbon whiskey for example.
I would be very surprised if _France_ had no restrictions on wine/grapes?!
You are clearly of the "Apple" school of thinking where "Simple" means "Remove functionality". Most of the world doesn't work like this, making something "simple" means "a series of easy to follow steps in a logical order" or simply not requiring specialist knowledge.
To do this, you'll eventually end up hiding functionality, and be accused of doing the same thing Apple does for the exact same reasons...
You should think long and hard what "simple" is in the real world instead of the anti-Apple echo chamber where somehow they successfully sell devices that do nothing, easily.
EX: a car - how much functionality is lost in an automatic vs. manual?
You must not match one of his two tests.
There's my magical solution to something I hate.
I hate it, because I know it will never change.
It's unfortunate that every time someone wants to talk about Linux, they seem interested in only one metric: can Average Joe use it?
Other than coming across as a remarkably modern rendition of Solaris 9, what else does it have going for it? It's not even the most developer friendly OS anymore because the world largely moved on to Windows centric or Java development. Free software is easier to use on Windows or OS X. That's not a lie.
Then there's the obvious fact that this /. submission is titled "Gestures With Multitouch In Ubuntu", and you've got to wonder why NOT ask if the Average Joe can use it??
You can pick your own reason for not using it; fine. But don't pretend like you have some magical solution to fix the thing you hate so dearly.
You don't like the Average Joe nitpicking? Fine.
Here's a suggestion: repos and the "everything must be in the repo" concept exist because of the unstable nature of free software. Unstable as in constantly changing in incompatible ways. FIX IT!
There is no good reason why I can't go install the latest GIT binary on an old copy of CentOS or RHEL. Don't fix it for the sake of free software though, at least make install is an option for some people. (food for though: Is make install really an answer for those who would run RHEL?) fix it so people can write non-free software for Linux and not target a hundred platforms. Why is libstdc*-compat* even an optional install? Why does your competition have a three line answer to this problem? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1406645/building-a-backwards-compatible-os-x-app-when-a-new-api-is-present
And your biggest competitor at least has an answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1073509/should-i-redistribute-msvcrt-dll-with-my-application
Normally, you'd vote with your wallet on a problem like this. Free & quality is such a mind fuck.
When will the Linux community pull its head from its ass and stop repeating the "only good software is free software" BULL SHIT. It needs non-free software, period. There's my magical solution to something I hate.
I'm sorry, but what metric do wish us to judge Linux by? When your only answers are full of dogma and ideology, it's hard for outsiders to take you seriously. It's popular to personify Microsoft and Apple as emotionally charged beings wrecking havoc on your lives, just as it's popular to personify the government the same way. In politics though, we call those people kooks. Get on with business folks.
On a more cheery note, I think Linux will continue to be used where it makes sense. If you have a stake in where that is.. you MAY want to start suggesting metrics.
Speaking of drivers, I bought an HP printer with claims to support only Mac and Windows. Lo and behold, turns out there is a 'NIX driver,
Call HP and ask them why it's not printing with the highest DPI setting (even if it is.. humor me). Then you'll learn the meaning of support.
Undoing mods for this trash.
If she wants to protest against modern conflict games that's fine, but to protest just against american deaths is purely hypocritical.
This American protesting against American deaths is not hypocrisy. Was she killing non-Americans? Does she advocate killing Afghan citizens? Is she, being an American, not entitled to a little itty bit of bias? She is rightfully biased, and not a hypocrite.
What is the Afghan citizen crap about anyway? The United States of America recognize the Taliban as a terrorist organization. We are in an ongoing conflict with them, not Afghanistan. Afghans SHOULD ALSO be offended by this, and they ARE. They have their own bias and prejudices which all play into why a video game set in a current conflict is a bad idea. Not to mention the idea of our children playing video games about killing people in a present conflict just miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight piss off those who already dislike western culture, especially the ones we're currently engaged with. How... how.. HOW can letting you kill both sides make this a better idea? That's like saying if you sell guns to BOTH sides it makes it fair. You see, it doesn't work like that because both sides end up hating you. If you've already made the unwise decision to get involved with something best left alone, the smartest move is pick a fucking side that likes you.
Why is it hard for you people to see the difference between this and past conflicts? Games portraying them are also insensitive to those involved but at least times have changed and one party either does not even exist any more or we are no longer at war with them. The generations playing those games have no idea the realities of those wars. Fictional settings of war between any two peaceful neighbors would even be acceptable with most people. A current conflict??? Are you nucking futs.
This is in poor taste plain and simple. Even if you were selling it to a completely uninvolved market, it is blatantly disrespectful.
RE: Cops and Robbers
If your children are playing "kill the cop" in the front yard and a cop's death happens to make the evening news, it would be prudent to real the "free speech" flag down for a little while and switch to sugar free koolaid.
RE: Freedom of Speech & Freedom of Expression
A graveyard is just a large expanse of dirt with a smattering of half-height stones stuck in it. It is either the world's greatest paintball setting, or a place to pay respects to and mourn the dead. Choose your adventure.
Enjoy your freedom of speech responsibly folks. Think about that next time you reach for the moderate button.
Note to bloodhawk: don't take it personal, I'm obviously replying to whole page.
Maybe I'm mis-reading the 'offline backups' thing
Yah, sorry, I should have explained a little. In a storage context, online means always available, offline means not. Sort of like "online documentation" has always meant documentation available while using the application.. nothing to do with the Internet :)
Autochangers & VTL muddy things up, but that's the gist of it.
In addition, most of these types of enclosures/docking stations have a button on them that talk to a special driver (usually Win/Mac only, though) and fire up pre-configured backups (usually of the entire drive).. couldn't be simpler for home use, really.
I know, this is what I was saying about those, and I did mention Internet based services somewhere too.
"Online backups have been making a push for a while now because they are multipurpose, storage/backup." - online as in spinning disk
OS X & Windows have pretty good software built in to use them and they ship with their own software too. The problem with online backups is it's a lot like just a mirror of your data, and it's not as easily expanded as offline backups. Offline as in tape, cd/dvd, flash etc.
hmm... home offline backup system using flash devices.. interesting. Cheapish, expandable, no need for moving parts, that would be nice. All you'd need is a big USB hub I guess & software support for tracking the media. Totally patenting it!!!!1 ;)
Now instead of slow diskettes for backups, I use redundant drives and DVD-Rs for off-line backups and purchased software solutions. (And I know about using "Time Machine" to back up the Macs every night, but that's local, not off-line.)
The market for home offline backups is probably incredibly small. Online backups have been making a push for a while now because they are multipurpose, storage/backup. There are also a lot of Internet based backup systems available.
I don't think you'll find much for home offline backups unless you have some money and look at small business offerings. I don't see why that should ever change either :\
I hear you though, I want such a system too, but I know I'm very biased with enterprise backup experience. If it isn't very low maintenance it just isn't going to do very well in the home PC user market. Even enterprise users lean towards disk because of a ill-placed fear of tape complexity. I've seen people opt for shared online storage over tape/VTL.. *sigh*
Yah, encourage users to use an obvious pattern, good one. Then if I get one of your passwords I have it forever.
It's already bad enough in less severe environments where people do password++number every iteration
What is the point of enforcing password changes and history checks if you're going to use an easily guessable pattern?
People need to realize that password policy has sharply diminishing returns, and two factor authentication is sooooooooooooooo much better than just one more character class.
Such a bald-ass simple statement really requires back up. I've not had ANY stability problems, much less severe. And I've been running this distro since Feisty Fawn. The worst thing about Ubuntu that I've ever experienced is its ridiculous desktop color schemes, and they never seem to get any better, but that's easily changed.
Well, the Linux community has redefined 'stability' to mean 'does not randomly crash', making this an impossible argument, but I will attempt the impossible!
Stability used to refer to developer/administrator/user interfaces not changing, thus not breaking any dependancies. Obviously large swaths of what make up Linux, to include the kernel itself does not consider that a worthwhile goal and the term took on the meaning "does not crash", or "future updates do not cause crashing". For any definition of crash.
To create some semblance of stability in the old sense (which is typically a superset of the new meaning), some Linux distributions slow the rate of change as best they can. Ubuntu is not one of those.
Lets be at least a little professional here and not write the OP off with the "stability means BSOD and I don't have those" response please. EX: An option name being arbitrarily renamed could be a stability issue. An API arbitrarily changing could be a stability issue. Crashing is a much bigger, narrower problem.
Now, reconsider what the OP said please.