That's nice, but I can read whole books on an LCD with no light source - and have done so. So we're pretty much back to square one as to saying which technology will work.
LCD is just another surface being illuminated the same way the page of a book is.
Uhh.... LCD's are backlit, and in a dark room that strains the eyes. In what way is that at all similar to how one might light a book's pages?
Not at all, I get eyestrain on laptops if I can't make the screen bright enough. The iPhone (on which I have read books) can be brighter (but also auto-dims in low lighting situations), also generally when you are reading a book you are settling into a position that works for the long haul (or you are trapped in an airline seat).
These things dim to not strain your eyes as much, but this is a problem for you?
Again, eyestrain is all about lighting plus font plus font size.
If your idea of good lighting is staring into a bright light in a dark room, you are waaaaaaaaay off.
Go talk to an optometrist, don't take my word for it.. for the sake of your eyes man..
Except for those exploits that target Acrobat, or Flash, or.. or.. or.
Microsoft has made some improvements with DEP and IE8 on Win7, but there are still far too many vulnerabilities in commonly used and widely distributed applications to make me comfortable with Windows.
There are many, many vulnerabilities in commonly used and widely distributed software available for any platform.
Go read just the last month's worth of CVE's
I know, I know.. you're going to say "but I don't use any of _those_ ones" Hah, gotcha.
Total Annihilation had a superior game engine but I was really wrapped up in Warcraft's story.
Warcraft, II anyway, did have a high quality story line for its day - but TA didn't just have the superior game engine, it had arguably, the best gameplay for an RTS.. ever..
It wasn't just a 3D RTS for the sake of being 3D (as in every single RTS since TA), it was only 3D enough to add gameplay value. Tons of it... planes that actually moved in a 3D space and collided with stray projectiles, oceans with depth, real hills from which weapons could be shot further, indirect weapons that actually worked, valleys that provided cover, etc. 3D aside, there were combined land, air and sea forces of equal capacity, distributed resource gathering, multiple methods of gathering resources, terrain advantages, radar, radar jamming, waypointing, distributed base construction, nuclear missiles, nuclear missile interceptors, you really EARNED super weapons, and really open ended play with very high replayablity.
Maybe in ten years, C&C 17 will have indirect weapons that don't require line of sight.. or units that are not flat, or terrain that offers [dis]advantages.. like in what's it called, The Art of War? Maybe hill=good is too hard for RTS gamers to digest, who knows.
I know you weren't trying to dog TA, I'm just saying gameplay is the most important and ignored aspect of a game. Everything else is icing on the cake. I thought it was really funny you used TA in your example, because so many RTS games at that time lacked both imaginative story _and_ gameplay, and TA knocked one of those right out the park. Just too many RTS games back then:\
Maybe the real problem with modern MMOs is that they either encourage or cultivate a player culture obsessed with maximum statistical performance?
Is this really a problem? How is this different from any other competitive activity?
Uh, because spectator sports are all about giving the viewers a good show? Or because we teach our children "it's just a game, have fun"?
Removing entertainment from this, we get professional, non-spectator sports, which is pretty much what the GP describes. Is the sense of virtual achievement worth the time required to have fun playing modern MMOs? The amount of downtime between brief moments of rewarding gameplay in a MMO is staggering. QuakeWorld and Unreal Tournament used to be the SHIT in online gaming, back in the day, what the fuck happened? Has everyone pretty much given up trying to figure out fun, balanced, multiplayer gameplay? Is the market for that so damned narrow, it can't be reached without rewarding the "winners" with home field advantage, a sense of accomplishment for beating the "losers" in an unbalanced game of grab ass; AKA modern online games?
I've got an image in my mind of me paying monthly fees to play Quake online with first party content stretched out over a few years worth of "experience" with a leveling system that rewards the most jobless^H^H^H^Hskilled. Ouch. # played # Level 49 Demoman +305 hours, 9 minutes # Congratulations! You've reached level 50! # You've learned "Pipe Bomb" # You've unlocked the Sniper Deck in 2forts # Please speak to a Skill Trainer to advance
The next question might be, why does each instance of your in-house code need a private OS to function? At least, that's what I wonder each day at my own workplace. Virtualizing UNIX systems doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Containers make a little more sense, but why is it so hard to run multiple applications on one UNIX system now?
Mac os 9 and prior also used spacial views, and gnome borrowed much more from Mac os classic than any other desktop environment.
Maybe spacial views was one of the things that hurt Apple prior to OS X?
Maybe Mac OS 9 and prior didn't have disgustingly deep directory structures that users touched on a daily basis./usr/local/genericLokigamefromthetime/blah/gar/maps/home/user/.hiddennondescriptfolder/whydoesmydesktopkeepbreaking/foo/conf/really/another
I tried really hard to get used to the spatial crap in Gnome, but there was just nothing between the user and the brutish Linux file system. Even a users home directory wasn't (isn't) safe from crazy directory depth. If you take an honest look at OS X, even with the ugly UNIX filesystem heritage, consider what users will spend 90% of their time with ad look hard at the Places list and their structures. Applications, Desktop, Documents, Movies, Photos, etc.
Sure, there are some confusing paths in there somewhere, but at the time Gnome made the spatial switch, it and KDE still had separate desktop directories - one being hidden. It just does not compare.
This type of thing is wide spread across the entire company, everyones little app/process/product emails home to their respective BB carrying owners, as well as a laundry list of middle and upper management, and like I said the on-call folks. It seems that our company overly relied on the use of BB when it should have been obvious to also CC these emails to our local NOC in the case of an unthinkable nationwide BB outage. -Anon with good reason.
Just be glad you have a NOC to make use of. Some of us have to sleepily respond to "pages" from small/mid sized OLTP systems (non-mainframe) ) on corporate BB's, praying service is/is not available some nights depending on if a code release recently happened. I bet you have an enterprise backup system too, lucky dog.
I know my house very well, and actually better than any number of photos could tell you. I know details about the wiring, the wall construction, and the fact that the carpet on the fourth stair is loose and can make you slide if you're not careful. If there's a guy there with a camera, I know that someone is interested in my house and is taking pictures of it. I'd know not to bring in strippers while he's standing there snapping pix. That's when I bring in the groceries, mow the lawn, fix my bike, etc. Once he gets bored and leaves, it's party time!
So, let's say that I'm in Afghanistan and I'm a terrorist. If I know where the Predators are, then I know what areas the US is interested in. I don't HAVE to know what the pictures are because I know better than the drones what's in those areas. "Hmm, predator in this area, use the back tunnel instead." Once the signals stop, then bring out the weapons shipments because it's party time!
The problem becomes, does your party of N people have enough discipline to maintain these charades when you think know you are being watched and when you are not sure. Bringing the example to your house, and taking your own discipline for granted, how long do you really think your wife, children, and guests will hold their tongues, or will they even listen to you at all? It only takes one slip for all of you..
Maybe you do have one serious, die-hard family, but discipline is central to any military force, and you should be wary trying yours against theirs.
There wis a local mid-sized company which recently migrated their workstations from Windows XP to Linux. Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice...it did everything they needed to do, and it was free!
Productivity dropped sharply shortly after the migration. No prob, everybody thought, just a temporary result of the learning curve. Rolling out a standard backup image was a huge hassle because there were different brands and models of workstations.
Updates would break the entire operating system and the IT staff had to hire temps just to fix driver problems and roll the dice editing config files. Users were complaining about having to sit aside all day while their workstations were being "fixed". Users were becoming frustrated with not knowing how to do anything without getting "file permissions" errors, and some of them threatened to quit altogether after a training session showed them how to use the terminal to navigate to a word document and use sudo to open it, while the same action would have been only a double-click on Windows. It took 5 months before the computers were perfectly configured and everybody got the hang of using Linux, but it still didn't solve the problem of random OS lockups which caused a lot of lost data.
Why is Linux still locking up? Windows fixed that problem years ago with 2k/XP!
Linux doesn't go out of it's way to do stupid things for a dubious gain in "convenience".
Yes it does.
Linux never bought into this idea of blurring the line between data and programs. Linux never encouraged executing random executables from unknown and untrusted sources.
Even Apache and Tomcat keep user data local to their install locations. Almost all third party unix software also do this. Software that stick to the/opt/etc/opt/var/opt conventions are far and few between. Also, I'm sorry, but compiling and executing random software from unknown and untrusted sources is no safer than tossing around executables. Tell me how the encouraged "./configure; make; sudo make install" makes Linux any better.
Neither did MacOS, or FreeBSD, or any of the commercial Unixen.
They are all in the same boat. There are no magical requirements that separate data from application installations, because there was never a strong need to make said data easily portable between systems. Maybe it was desired, but not enforced on any OS I have found.
In that regard, merely avoiding Microsoft apps while running their OS can avoid most of the potential trouble.
Their own apps usually jive the best with their own OS's. I mean Windows isn't anywhere near perfect at encouraging good application design, but MS's own apps are not bad at all..
Linux is neat and all man, but you can't give it credit for blindly following decades old UNIX design, or for not having large numbers of commercial ISV's. A commercial OS vendor has to listen and cooperate with ISV's as well as users, and can easily wind up with the least technically impressive solution to a problem because of that. Linux distros can choose to ignore whatever they want or fork it, users and developers be damned.
You are completely incorrect. See the other posts.
Take a small anecdotal sample. My girlfriend and I, entering a WoW Battleground together, have about a +200% chance of winning it compared to us entering alone. Just us two working together.
Our RNG hasn't changed but our strategy, tactics, and focus have.
Emphasis added. Skill is a really silly metric when the gameplay mechanics are not balanced for competitive play. For example, there is no guarantee the other team had any healers, or as many as yours did; you may have been the only two, or two more then they had, or any other nefarious duo. Players' knowledge and abilities count the most when the game is balanced. Gameplay can still be chaotic, or entirely dependent on player skill, but balanced gameplay means both sides stand an equal chance of winning, skill aside. As you are aware, player skill in WoW BG's are also highly random, as with almost any online PC game. It is not unexpected then, for merely two coordinated players on a large team to tip the scales because you could take advantage of both lack of gameplay and skill balance guarantees.
I hope this helps someone understand why board games use dice and why Nintendo multiplayer games are fun for the whole family;)
What has always amused me, is how PC & console multiplayer games that favor fun (no healing, no problem) over fair, put so much emphasis on "skill", which multiplied over a number of random players will inevitably suck the fun away from half of them. Then team switching is thrown in./facepalm. I swear teenagers are contracted out to design these games*. The way to get around that without randomness is A. gameplay balance B. match making system to keep people like you and your friend playing against equally equipped teams. Any real sport is balanced in both ways, where "games" usually have more elements of randomness. Video games are in a fucked up backwards world with no balance or randomness.
*How CoD games reward kill streaks with _additional kills_ blows my mind. I know both sides have the same conditions, but this is a skill multiplier in a game with no guarantees of balanced skill level, exacerbating the problems. Why not make this a gameplay mechanic unrelated to skill, and uhh.. reward the _losing_ team to compensate for skill unbalance. It's almost like these games were designed so that fun is the winner's reward. *sigh*
The problem is in the USA Apple and Microsoft have dominated the OS market so everybody gets this impression that Linux is this little thing that shouldn't be developed for. It isn't. It has a larger user base than Mac
Oh, I get it, the problem is software companies just haven't heard the news yet. Uh huh.
0.7 is a milestone. 2.0.5 is a milestone. Any special significance 1.0 has TO YOU is just that, an invention of your own mind, irrelevant to the rest of the world,
Really? Let me get this straight, we're talking about revision numbering schemes, and you're saying that "1" has no special meaning? None at all? The rest of the world agrees?
Are you fucking nuts? Of course it has no technical meaning, it is a revision identifier. It is also the first number, genius. Meaning the first of something in most damned cultures. There may have been rough drafts, demos, tests, mock ups, etc with prerelease version tracking identifiers, but "1" is the one you put in front of your audience as the first release. How you can get up on/. of all places and say labeling a product "1" has no special meaning is insane. The next most meaningful identifier would be "2", arguably your first real version number.
You are free to throw any made up numbering system along with any unrefined piece of trash at your audience, but having the balls to stand up and tell them explicitly that THIS is my product, as-built, "one dot fucking oh" is extremely meaningful.
Release 0.6x: - User authentication I must add at minimum LDAP authentication... For NIS and RADIUS I must check if it's possible (don't know if it's possible to use PAM for samba).
Release 0.7x: - Migrate to FreeBSD 7.0 (with ZFS support) - Testing a new way for configuring/using share: 'Adding a new disk' will automatically initialize it (format under UFS) and mount it (transparent process for the user). . 'Creating a share'(create a folder on a selected disk), with user/group/quota property on this share
Release 0.8x:
- Adding monitoring features (SNMP, email alerting, etc..) - Adding other features (I18n Web GUI, LCD, disk encryption, etc...)
Release 0.9x:
- Only Bug fixes, no more new features - This step will depend a lot's about the development of the "geom vinum tools". If this tools is not stable at this moment, I will replace it by 'geom mirror' for RAID 1 and by 'geom stripe' for RAID 0.
Release 1.0:
- The D day! - Lot's of documentation: User guide and developers guide.
and...
Date: 2009-09-17 17:23 Sender: votdev --- cut --- Anyway, 0.7 seems to be the last version of FreeNAS as it is right at the moment. For the next version the whole system will be recoded (what i'm doing at the moment). There will be no more embedded installs anymore, also the OS will be Debian.
Regards Volker
By any other definition, this would be a fork. It's not even FreeNAS any more, it will be CoreNAS? Anyone have more insight into what's REALLY going on with this project?
This was sometimes through no fault of their own, simply because they tested it with IE and assumed that worked. Sometimes it was deliberate -- why waste time supporting less than 5% of the population, when 95% can view your page?
Sorry, I forgot IE was the reference browser for the Internet and Microsoft failed, or wait, it wasn't, and developers only tested with IE? Who's problem was this again?
File compression? Standards work, there isn't a monopoly problem, and you don't need a file compression utility to download a file compression utility.
Standard file compression, which one, are you serious? ZOMG, Microsoft the monopoly is bundling file compression utilities with Windows, what about WinZip?/sarcasm. BTW, conveniently, all of my examples were being sold prior to being available on the Internet. Yes, I've heard there was such a time.
Is there any indication that Gimp is a monopoly of anything, or that it's abused that monopoly power?
Gimp isn't RedHat is!1 They are strong arming you into using one project over another, that's favoritism. They should use ballots!1.
When has any needed to be? Come to think of it, when has Linux, or anything currently running on Linux, ever abused monopoly power, or had a monopoly of anything to abuse?
I'm not talking about monopolies, I'm poking fun at the reactions to them. If RedHat were found to be a monopoly, would random ballots make any more sense? God, I hope not. They don't make sense in open source (or do they*) and they don't make sense in Windows, monopoly or not. It's like we've opened this big "So You've Got Yourself a Monopoly" book, flipped to Ch. XVIIJ "Punishments", and... oh, there's a blank page! Well, just make stuff up, that feels good, run with it. I've heard the same authors wrote "Mergers and Acquisitions for Dummies"
*You and I both know that many, many flamewars would end if every distro offered to log you into KDE or Gnome, listed in random order. I could extend that to a great deal other open source project categories as well. Yes, that is as fucked up an idea as random browser ballots.
In a civil lawsuit, the victim brings a case for money damages against the offender or a third party for causing physical or emotional injuries. Regardless of the outcome of any criminal prosecution, or even if there was no prosecution, crime victims can file civil lawsuits against offenders and other responsible parties. The person who starts the lawsuit is called the plaintiff, and the person or entity against whom the case is brought is called the defendant. Unlike a criminal case, in which the central question is whether the offender is guilty of the crime, in a civil lawsuit, the question is whether an offender or a third party is responsible for the injuries suffered.
I...I..I really don't get why people do this. Do you really think that just because some software won't run on every computer in the world that it shouldn't be made.
I...I..I really don't get why people do this. Do you really think that just because some software could run on a computer that it should.
I never suggested that Nintendo should stop producing the Wii in favour of an emulator.
"Just give me what I want, neeeeooowwww."
You might as well close the entire games industry because the Amish wouldn't be able to play the games.
"PC game market:PC market::World:Amish"
It would just be an option for those people who want it.
"I want it so you should make it for me."
We don't need to start having telethons to buy a powerful enough PCs for all the destitute African children before you can start making the software. It wouldn't have to run on that 8086 that still running in the Romanian technology museum.
"Fuck you, I'm gaming."
PC gamers understand that they need to look at the system requirements when they buy any software. We have had to do this ever since Ada Lovelace asked Charles Babbage whether his computer could play Solitaire.
"It's good enough for me, it's good enough for everyone else."
We have had to do this ever since Ada Lovelace asked Charles Babbage whether his computer could play Solitaire.
"I love cabbage."
The fact that some people (who obviously aren't that interested in games) wouldn't be able to run it would not be a major factor.
Your problem is you're making it seem that people who can't run it are not interested in it. People who want to but can't are a MAJOR problem.
If you have never been informed, being part of the tiny "can/will/would pay" segment of the PC market doesn't give you much sway in the real world. I bet you'd want cut-throat pricing on it too, in spite of your insignificance.
will appear in random order each time the ballot is displayed
The implications of this are very saddening. That's beyond promoting competition, and just dividing up the booty.
Why stop at browsers then? We could breath new life into the text editor market, casual picture editing market, file compression market, file browser market, music player market, etc. These ALL existed! Where are their randomized ballot windows? Hell, that's free advertising! Where do I sign up to have the VB 3 based browser I wrote in 8th grade added? We could all be using HyperMonkeyMarkup right now!
If this is what the web browser market needs to be competitive, imagine what it could do for open source. There is redundancy up the wazoo, we could have random ballots for EVERY category. Then people will have the ultimate freedom, and those who merely pick the top of the list will randomly populate lopsided projects like Gnome/KDE, Linux/*BSD/OpenSolaris/Hurd, GIMP/MyFirstPictureEditor, MySQL/Postgres, vi/emacs. It makes PERFECT sense, Hurd+KDE+mono port of emacs has been in the shadows too long, time to send the clueless masses that way and even things out.
On a serious note, when has choice in Linux ever been randomized? What message would that send?
"The bottom line is that while Linux the OS, the kernel, and the memory manager are attractive to users, Linux the philosophy -- and users banding together ad hoc to create new things -- is anathema to potential users."
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That's nice, but I can read whole books on an LCD with no light source - and have done so. So we're pretty much back to square one as to saying which technology will work.
LCD is just another surface being illuminated the same way the page of a book is.
Uhh.... LCD's are backlit, and in a dark room that strains the eyes. In what way is that at all similar to how one might light a book's pages?
Not at all, I get eyestrain on laptops if I can't make the screen bright enough. The iPhone (on which I have read books) can be brighter (but also auto-dims in low lighting situations), also generally when you are reading a book you are settling into a position that works for the long haul (or you are trapped in an airline seat).
These things dim to not strain your eyes as much, but this is a problem for you?
Again, eyestrain is all about lighting plus font plus font size.
If your idea of good lighting is staring into a bright light in a dark room, you are waaaaaaaaay off.
Go talk to an optometrist, don't take my word for it.. for the sake of your eyes man..
I guess you missed the IE8 zero day exploit just last week? It's only the latest way in which PC users get owned through no fault of their own.
It's not like OS X never had glaring 0-day exploits of its own, so what's your point?
Got a z-series in my closet, what's YOUR point?
Except for those exploits that target Acrobat, or Flash, or .. or .. or.
Microsoft has made some improvements with DEP and IE8 on Win7, but there are still far too many vulnerabilities in commonly used and widely distributed applications to make me comfortable with Windows.
There are many, many vulnerabilities in commonly used and widely distributed software available for any platform.
Go read just the last month's worth of CVE's
I know, I know.. you're going to say "but I don't use any of _those_ ones" Hah, gotcha.
Total Annihilation had a superior game engine but I was really wrapped up in Warcraft's story.
Warcraft, II anyway, did have a high quality story line for its day - but TA didn't just have the superior game engine, it had arguably, the best gameplay for an RTS.. ever..
It wasn't just a 3D RTS for the sake of being 3D (as in every single RTS since TA), it was only 3D enough to add gameplay value. Tons of it... planes that actually moved in a 3D space and collided with stray projectiles, oceans with depth, real hills from which weapons could be shot further, indirect weapons that actually worked, valleys that provided cover, etc. 3D aside, there were combined land, air and sea forces of equal capacity, distributed resource gathering, multiple methods of gathering resources, terrain advantages, radar, radar jamming, waypointing, distributed base construction, nuclear missiles, nuclear missile interceptors, you really EARNED super weapons, and really open ended play with very high replayablity.
Maybe in ten years, C&C 17 will have indirect weapons that don't require line of sight.. or units that are not flat, or terrain that offers [dis]advantages.. like in what's it called, The Art of War? Maybe hill=good is too hard for RTS gamers to digest, who knows.
I know you weren't trying to dog TA, I'm just saying gameplay is the most important and ignored aspect of a game. Everything else is icing on the cake. I thought it was really funny you used TA in your example, because so many RTS games at that time lacked both imaginative story _and_ gameplay, and TA knocked one of those right out the park. Just too many RTS games back then :\
Maybe the real problem with modern MMOs is that they either encourage or cultivate a player culture obsessed with maximum statistical performance?
Is this really a problem? How is this different from any other competitive activity?
Uh, because spectator sports are all about giving the viewers a good show?
Or because we teach our children "it's just a game, have fun"?
Removing entertainment from this, we get professional, non-spectator sports, which is pretty much what the GP describes. Is the sense of virtual achievement worth the time required to have fun playing modern MMOs? The amount of downtime between brief moments of rewarding gameplay in a MMO is staggering. QuakeWorld and Unreal Tournament used to be the SHIT in online gaming, back in the day, what the fuck happened? Has everyone pretty much given up trying to figure out fun, balanced, multiplayer gameplay? Is the market for that so damned narrow, it can't be reached without rewarding the "winners" with home field advantage, a sense of accomplishment for beating the "losers" in an unbalanced game of grab ass; AKA modern online games?
I've got an image in my mind of me paying monthly fees to play Quake online with first party content stretched out over a few years worth of "experience" with a leveling system that rewards the most jobless^H^H^H^Hskilled. Ouch.
# played
# Level 49 Demoman +305 hours, 9 minutes
# Congratulations! You've reached level 50!
# You've learned "Pipe Bomb"
# You've unlocked the Sniper Deck in 2forts
# Please speak to a Skill Trainer to advance
The next question might be, why does each instance of your in-house code need a private OS to function? At least, that's what I wonder each day at my own workplace. Virtualizing UNIX systems doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Containers make a little more sense, but why is it so hard to run multiple applications on one UNIX system now?
I'd hate to break it to you, but...
Cider -> Cedega -> WineX -> Wine -> Is Not an Emulator.
You know, the not an emulator that ran Counter Strike faster on Linux than Windows?
'Playing Windows games with WineX' has been beaten to death years ago, lets not resurrect it under a different name.
I'd hate to break it to you, but...
Cider -> Cedega -> WineX -> Wine -> Is Not an Emulator.
You know, the not an emulator that ran Counter Strike faster on Linux than Windows?
It's funny how open source technologies are propped up in one context, then slammed under a different one because of obvious bias.
Mac os 9 and prior also used spacial views, and gnome borrowed much more from Mac os classic than any other desktop environment.
Maybe spacial views was one of the things that hurt Apple prior to OS X?
Maybe Mac OS 9 and prior didn't have disgustingly deep directory structures that users touched on a daily basis. /usr/local/genericLokigamefromthetime/blah/gar/maps /home/user/.hiddennondescriptfolder/whydoesmydesktopkeepbreaking/foo/conf/really/another
I tried really hard to get used to the spatial crap in Gnome, but there was just nothing between the user and the brutish Linux file system. Even a users home directory wasn't (isn't) safe from crazy directory depth. If you take an honest look at OS X, even with the ugly UNIX filesystem heritage, consider what users will spend 90% of their time with ad look hard at the Places list and their structures.
Applications, Desktop, Documents, Movies, Photos, etc.
Sure, there are some confusing paths in there somewhere, but at the time Gnome made the spatial switch, it and KDE still had separate desktop directories - one being hidden. It just does not compare.
This type of thing is wide spread across the entire company, everyones little app/process/product emails home to their respective BB carrying owners, as well as a laundry list of middle and upper management, and like I said the on-call folks. It seems that our company overly relied on the use of BB when it should have been obvious to also CC these emails to our local NOC in the case of an unthinkable nationwide BB outage. -Anon with good reason.
Just be glad you have a NOC to make use of. Some of us have to sleepily respond to "pages" from small/mid sized OLTP systems (non-mainframe) ) on corporate BB's, praying service is/is not available some nights depending on if a code release recently happened. I bet you have an enterprise backup system too, lucky dog.
I know my house very well, and actually better than any number of photos could tell you. I know details about the wiring, the wall construction, and the fact that the carpet on the fourth stair is loose and can make you slide if you're not careful. If there's a guy there with a camera, I know that someone is interested in my house and is taking pictures of it. I'd know not to bring in strippers while he's standing there snapping pix. That's when I bring in the groceries, mow the lawn, fix my bike, etc. Once he gets bored and leaves, it's party time!
So, let's say that I'm in Afghanistan and I'm a terrorist. If I know where the Predators are, then I know what areas the US is interested in. I don't HAVE to know what the pictures are because I know better than the drones what's in those areas. "Hmm, predator in this area, use the back tunnel instead." Once the signals stop, then bring out the weapons shipments because it's party time!
The problem becomes, does your party of N people have enough discipline to maintain these charades when you think know you are being watched and when you are not sure. Bringing the example to your house, and taking your own discipline for granted, how long do you really think your wife, children, and guests will hold their tongues, or will they even listen to you at all? It only takes one slip for all of you..
Maybe you do have one serious, die-hard family, but discipline is central to any military force, and you should be wary trying yours against theirs.
There wis a local mid-sized company which recently migrated their workstations from Windows XP to Linux. Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice...it did everything they needed to do, and it was free!
Productivity dropped sharply shortly after the migration. No prob, everybody thought, just a temporary result of the learning curve. Rolling out a standard backup image was a huge hassle because there were different brands and models of workstations.
Updates would break the entire operating system and the IT staff had to hire temps just to fix driver problems and roll the dice editing config files. Users were complaining about having to sit aside all day while their workstations were being "fixed". Users were becoming frustrated with not knowing how to do anything without getting "file permissions" errors, and some of them threatened to quit altogether after a training session showed them how to use the terminal to navigate to a word document and use sudo to open it, while the same action would have been only a double-click on Windows. It took 5 months before the computers were perfectly configured and everybody got the hang of using Linux, but it still didn't solve the problem of random OS lockups which caused a lot of lost data.
Why is Linux still locking up? Windows fixed that problem years ago with 2k/XP!
Uhhh,, "-1 Truth Hurts" ?
So the SQL injection which landed those vulnerabilities on 100+ thousand formerly trusted sites is not a real problem?
Linux doesn't go out of it's way to do stupid things for a dubious gain in "convenience".
Yes it does.
Linux never bought into this idea of blurring the line between data and programs. Linux never encouraged executing random executables from unknown and untrusted sources.
Even Apache and Tomcat keep user data local to their install locations. Almost all third party unix software also do this. Software that stick to the /opt /etc/opt /var/opt conventions are far and few between. Also, I'm sorry, but compiling and executing random software from unknown and untrusted sources is no safer than tossing around executables. Tell me how the encouraged "./configure; make; sudo make install" makes Linux any better.
Neither did MacOS, or FreeBSD, or any of the commercial Unixen.
They are all in the same boat. There are no magical requirements that separate data from application installations, because there was never a strong need to make said data easily portable between systems. Maybe it was desired, but not enforced on any OS I have found.
In that regard, merely avoiding Microsoft apps while running their OS can avoid most of the potential trouble.
Their own apps usually jive the best with their own OS's. I mean Windows isn't anywhere near perfect at encouraging good application design, but MS's own apps are not bad at all..
Linux is neat and all man, but you can't give it credit for blindly following decades old UNIX design, or for not having large numbers of commercial ISV's. A commercial OS vendor has to listen and cooperate with ISV's as well as users, and can easily wind up with the least technically impressive solution to a problem because of that. Linux distros can choose to ignore whatever they want or fork it, users and developers be damned.
You are completely incorrect. See the other posts.
Take a small anecdotal sample. My girlfriend and I, entering a WoW Battleground together, have about a +200% chance of winning it compared to us entering alone. Just us two working together.
Our RNG hasn't changed but our strategy, tactics, and focus have.
Emphasis added. Skill is a really silly metric when the gameplay mechanics are not balanced for competitive play. For example, there is no guarantee the other team had any healers, or as many as yours did; you may have been the only two, or two more then they had, or any other nefarious duo. Players' knowledge and abilities count the most when the game is balanced. Gameplay can still be chaotic, or entirely dependent on player skill, but balanced gameplay means both sides stand an equal chance of winning, skill aside. As you are aware, player skill in WoW BG's are also highly random, as with almost any online PC game. It is not unexpected then, for merely two coordinated players on a large team to tip the scales because you could take advantage of both lack of gameplay and skill balance guarantees.
I hope this helps someone understand why board games use dice and why Nintendo multiplayer games are fun for the whole family ;)
What has always amused me, is how PC & console multiplayer games that favor fun (no healing, no problem) over fair, put so much emphasis on "skill", which multiplied over a number of random players will inevitably suck the fun away from half of them. Then team switching is thrown in. /facepalm. I swear teenagers are contracted out to design these games*. The way to get around that without randomness is A. gameplay balance B. match making system to keep people like you and your friend playing against equally equipped teams.
Any real sport is balanced in both ways, where "games" usually have more elements of randomness. Video games are in a fucked up backwards world with no balance or randomness.
*How CoD games reward kill streaks with _additional kills_ blows my mind. I know both sides have the same conditions, but this is a skill multiplier in a game with no guarantees of balanced skill level, exacerbating the problems. Why not make this a gameplay mechanic unrelated to skill, and uhh.. reward the _losing_ team to compensate for skill unbalance. It's almost like these games were designed so that fun is the winner's reward. *sigh*
Who in their right mind would use javascript for financial calculations that need to be relied on?
Nobody will, now. Is this a good or bad artificial limitation? What's the latest groupthink on this, I'm out of sync with the collective.
When the security lines get densely packed it's like an airplane with no aisle, quite a bit more dense.
Yah, and my loveseat is more densely packed than either of those. Don't be naive, 'densely packed' is an oversimplification of 'optimal b_mb target'.
The problem is in the USA Apple and Microsoft have dominated the OS market so everybody gets this impression that Linux is this little thing that shouldn't be developed for. It isn't. It has a larger user base than Mac
Oh, I get it, the problem is software companies just haven't heard the news yet. Uh huh.
0.7 is a milestone. 2.0.5 is a milestone. Any special significance 1.0 has TO YOU is just that, an invention of your own mind, irrelevant to the rest of the world,
Really? Let me get this straight, we're talking about revision numbering schemes, and you're saying that "1" has no special meaning? None at all? The rest of the world agrees?
Are you fucking nuts? Of course it has no technical meaning, it is a revision identifier. It is also the first number, genius. Meaning the first of something in most damned cultures. There may have been rough drafts, demos, tests, mock ups, etc with prerelease version tracking identifiers, but "1" is the one you put in front of your audience as the first release. How you can get up on /. of all places and say labeling a product "1" has no special meaning is insane. The next most meaningful identifier would be "2", arguably your first real version number.
You are free to throw any made up numbering system along with any unrefined piece of trash at your audience, but having the balls to stand up and tell them explicitly that THIS is my product, as-built, "one dot fucking oh" is extremely meaningful.
Release 0.6x:
- User authentication I must add at minimum LDAP authentication... For NIS and RADIUS I must check if it's possible (don't know if it's possible to use PAM for samba).
Release 0.7x:
- Migrate to FreeBSD 7.0 (with ZFS support)
- Testing a new way for configuring/using share:
'Adding a new disk' will automatically initialize it (format under UFS) and mount it (transparent process for the user).
. 'Creating a share'(create a folder on a selected disk), with user/group/quota property on this share
Release 0.8x:
- Adding monitoring features (SNMP, email alerting, etc..) - Adding other features (I18n Web GUI, LCD, disk encryption, etc...)
Release 0.9x:
- Only Bug fixes, no more new features - This step will depend a lot's about the development of the "geom vinum tools". If this tools is not stable at this moment, I will replace it by 'geom mirror' for RAID 1 and by 'geom stripe' for RAID 0.
Release 1.0:
- The D day! - Lot's of documentation: User guide and developers guide.
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Anyway, 0.7 seems to be the last version of FreeNAS as it is right at the moment. For the next version the whole system will be recoded (what i'm doing at the moment). There will be no more embedded installs anymore, also the OS will be Debian.
Regards
Volker
By any other definition, this would be a fork. It's not even FreeNAS any more, it will be CoreNAS?
Anyone have more insight into what's REALLY going on with this project?
This was sometimes through no fault of their own, simply because they tested it with IE and assumed that worked. Sometimes it was deliberate -- why waste time supporting less than 5% of the population, when 95% can view your page?
Sorry, I forgot IE was the reference browser for the Internet and Microsoft failed, or wait, it wasn't, and developers only tested with IE? Who's problem was this again?
File compression? Standards work, there isn't a monopoly problem, and you don't need a file compression utility to download a file compression utility.
Standard file compression, which one, are you serious? ZOMG, Microsoft the monopoly is bundling file compression utilities with Windows, what about WinZip? /sarcasm.
BTW, conveniently, all of my examples were being sold prior to being available on the Internet. Yes, I've heard there was such a time.
Is there any indication that Gimp is a monopoly of anything, or that it's abused that monopoly power?
Gimp isn't RedHat is!1 They are strong arming you into using one project over another, that's favoritism. They should use ballots!1.
When has any needed to be? Come to think of it, when has Linux, or anything currently running on Linux, ever abused monopoly power, or had a monopoly of anything to abuse?
I'm not talking about monopolies, I'm poking fun at the reactions to them. If RedHat were found to be a monopoly, would random ballots make any more sense? God, I hope not. They don't make sense in open source (or do they*) and they don't make sense in Windows, monopoly or not. It's like we've opened this big "So You've Got Yourself a Monopoly" book, flipped to Ch. XVIIJ "Punishments", and... oh, there's a blank page! Well, just make stuff up, that feels good, run with it. I've heard the same authors wrote "Mergers and Acquisitions for Dummies"
*You and I both know that many, many flamewars would end if every distro offered to log you into KDE or Gnome, listed in random order. I could extend that to a great deal other open source project categories as well. Yes, that is as fucked up an idea as random browser ballots.
In a civil lawsuit, the victim brings a case for money damages against the offender or a third party for causing physical or emotional injuries. Regardless of the outcome of any criminal prosecution, or even if there was no prosecution, crime victims can file civil lawsuits against offenders and other responsible parties. The person who starts the lawsuit is called the plaintiff, and the person or entity against whom the case is brought is called the defendant. Unlike a criminal case, in which the central question is whether the offender is guilty of the crime, in a civil lawsuit, the question is whether an offender or a third party is responsible for the injuries suffered.
I...I..I really don't get why people do this. Do you really think that just because some software won't run on every computer in the world that it shouldn't be made.
I...I..I really don't get why people do this. Do you really think that just because some software could run on a computer that it should.
I never suggested that Nintendo should stop producing the Wii in favour of an emulator.
"Just give me what I want, neeeeooowwww."
You might as well close the entire games industry because the Amish wouldn't be able to play the games.
"PC game market:PC market::World:Amish"
It would just be an option for those people who want it.
"I want it so you should make it for me."
We don't need to start having telethons to buy a powerful enough PCs for all the destitute African children before you can start making the software. It wouldn't have to run on that 8086 that still running in the Romanian technology museum.
"Fuck you, I'm gaming."
PC gamers understand that they need to look at the system requirements when they buy any software. We have had to do this ever since Ada Lovelace asked Charles Babbage whether his computer could play Solitaire.
"It's good enough for me, it's good enough for everyone else."
We have had to do this ever since Ada Lovelace asked Charles Babbage whether his computer could play Solitaire.
"I love cabbage."
The fact that some people (who obviously aren't that interested in games) wouldn't be able to run it would not be a major factor.
Your problem is you're making it seem that people who can't run it are not interested in it. People who want to but can't are a MAJOR problem.
If you have never been informed, being part of the tiny "can/will/would pay" segment of the PC market doesn't give you much sway in the real world.
I bet you'd want cut-throat pricing on it too, in spite of your insignificance.
will appear in random order each time the ballot is displayed
The implications of this are very saddening. That's beyond promoting competition, and just dividing up the booty.
Why stop at browsers then? We could breath new life into the text editor market, casual picture editing market, file compression market, file browser market, music player market, etc. These ALL existed! Where are their randomized ballot windows? Hell, that's free advertising! Where do I sign up to have the VB 3 based browser I wrote in 8th grade added? We could all be using HyperMonkeyMarkup right now!
If this is what the web browser market needs to be competitive, imagine what it could do for open source. There is redundancy up the wazoo, we could have random ballots for EVERY category. Then people will have the ultimate freedom, and those who merely pick the top of the list will randomly populate lopsided projects like Gnome/KDE, Linux/*BSD/OpenSolaris/Hurd, GIMP/MyFirstPictureEditor, MySQL/Postgres, vi/emacs. It makes PERFECT sense, Hurd+KDE+mono port of emacs has been in the shadows too long, time to send the clueless masses that way and even things out.
On a serious note, when has choice in Linux ever been randomized? What message would that send?
"The bottom line is that while Linux the OS, the kernel, and the memory manager are attractive to users, Linux the philosophy -- and users banding together ad hoc to create new things -- is anathema to potential users."