Waste would have done just this - create a private, crypographically secure, p2p file sharing network. Alas, AOL decided to kill yet another cool NullSoft invention, apparently breaking the camel's back and resulting in the resignation of Mr. Frankel.
Yeah, the "OMIGOD MICROS0FT SI TEH DEVAL!!" rabidness is getting out of hand..NET is a nice architecture, certainly a damn sight better than the god forsaken cruddy mix of C/C++/COM/DCOM/ActiveX/Fnord/WTF technologies they had before. Even gnome and GNU (GNU OF ALL ORGANIZATIONS!) is adopting the.NET (well, CLR) runtime. Good riddence to C/C++ hodgepodge.
Expending extra effort to make a linux-native game will not be worthwhile until there is actually a linux games market. There won't be a linux games market without games. So I think WineX/Transgaming/whatever is probably helping in this regard, bootstrapping the process. Short of some sort of technical feat which makes games perform, say, 10% better on Linux, there is just no reason to write to linux (unless you are John Carmack, and have wads of money to blow on maintaining your geek ethos). That Linux is the Right Thing, makes no difference in the market (it rarely does).
Instead of star wars we could just have a frozen Lance Bass orbiting earth to scare off attacking aliens. "Your puny intellect is no match for MYGOD THEY HAVE BOY BANDS, LETSGETTHEFUCKOUTTAHERE"
"I'm not saying anything bad, but she is not a hero in any conventional sense. She didn't hold any bad guys off till her ammo was out as was said early on. And really didnt' do anything than be in the wrong place at the wrong time."
Dude. What the fuck is wrong with you? If any American gets attacked any time for any reason they are instantly heroes. It's in the fucking law.
I'd also like to take this opportunity to honor all those brave brave auto mechanics, fixing our cars for exorbitant prices in our time of need. True heroes.
Usually it is not the wheel that is dirty, but the axial rollers inside the mouse. I usually pop out the ball, and then scrap my fingernail against each of the rollers to get off the crud that accumulates in a stripe where the mouse ball hits the roller.
I have this great method and apparatus for electronic information dispersal based on distributed best effort store and forward. I am going to make a mint on this.
Why do we need fast file systems? Or rather, why should we spend so much effort on performance differences of such small magnitude (take out reiser4 and its high cpu usage)? The only things I can think of are: swapping memory - this will really slow the system down, because disk is orders of magnitude slower than main memory; and databases that absolutely require high performance. But both of these typically *already* use custom file systems (or raw partitions) tailored to their exact needs. As normal user (somebody who is not constantly copying Mozilla source tries around), why should this matter? I can't remember the last time I thought "boy, this file access was slow, I wish I had a faster file system".
Uh, the parent post was specifically askinb about the performance and library and code generation quality of GCJ, not Java in general, so untie your panties there.
But due to conservation of blame, after you have been watching the TV for 2 hours waiting, you will then be asked to go, at which point you will have discovered you have misplaced your keys.
Continual use is not sufficient, because the content SHOULD go to the public eventually. Although, Lessig does have a proposal to require a charge of $1 for copyrighted works, which would allow vast amounts of stuff that is copyrighted, but has not been claimed or used, to fall into the public domain. Still, it's not the complete solution.
"They still haven't fixed VAC (valve anti-cheat) so wine users can play Half-Life."
And why should they burn money supporting a niche customer base which either 1) won't pay for software or 2) already has a copy of the windows version of a game that is OVER FIVE YEARS OLD? There are like, 3 people that play half life through wine.
"This doesn't stop them from assuming Linux fans will host their games via dedicated servers though. I'm still a little pissed off that they think Linux is good enough to host their games but not worthy of a client."
They don't assume shit. Linux is a popular server operating system that is run by MANY hosting services, so naturally they would port the dedicated server to linux. The dedicated server is much easier to port than the full blown client with graphics (duh).
"This is just more of the same old excellent community support from Valve."
Let's see:
* publish half life sdk with tools, source, and documentation * maintain strong mod community relationships with valve-erc website * support popular mods: socially, technically, financially, etc. * listen to the incessent bitching of every kiddie who wants something for nothing
Yeah, I'd say it is excellent support. Quityerbitchin.
Are these the same fruitcakes that want to populate the universe with auto-replicating robots because of some crackpot omega point theory about a benevolent super-entity that will create a fantasy land for humans as the universe hits a big crunch? My god, what crack are these people smoking.
STFU and get off our planet, where we have to deal with REAL "messy" problems like disease and famine and torture and poverty and wars. This bourgeios technological masturbation is revolting.
"Marriages" should be certified by religious institutions according to whatever rules they want, and "civil unions" should be certified by the government (regardless of race, gender, hairdo, etc.), and never the twain should meet. One should have absolutely nothing to do with the other. The concept of government-sponsored marriage is a big stinking pile of bullshit.
Actually, no I wasn't...if POSIX is dictating where SYSTEM FILES live, I think that is completely distinct from "the api you should support", which would indicate that these two things should be seperating into independent specs.
"As our society moved into the industrial revolution... it meant unrealistic controlls over labor (slavery) had to go."
Wow, I guess you must have missed that gigantic backlash against the dehumanizing qualities of industrialization, and the tendency to "wage slavery". Do the words Luddite, and Marxism mean anything to you?
I guess I misunderstood POSIX then...it actually is just a "portable C api" and not really an operating system spec (although you have to grant that an API into something can and does have an influence on the implementation (or potential implementations) of that concept).
I guess my point is that people program to libraries, not directly to the OS...so instead of having one big monolithic calcified "OPERATING SYSTEM COMMANDMENTS FROM GOD", instead let each language community come up with standard APIs for *their language* and then map them to the particular system as necessary (e.g. Java has its own APIs for threads and files, etc., but each of course is mapped differently to each OS...same for perl, php, most languages...). This way, the operating system just has to support the concepts in some manner or another instead of supporting explicit API calls, which really reduces the variety in operating systems (take a look at most POSIX systems...besides maybe BeOS and QNX, they all look pretty damn identical (and boring)).
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Waste would have done just this - create a private, crypographically secure, p2p file sharing network. Alas, AOL decided to kill yet another cool NullSoft invention, apparently breaking the camel's back and resulting in the resignation of Mr. Frankel.
Yeah, the "OMIGOD MICROS0FT SI TEH DEVAL!!" rabidness is getting out of hand. .NET is a nice architecture, certainly a damn sight better than the god forsaken cruddy mix of C/C++/COM/DCOM/ActiveX/Fnord/WTF technologies they had before. Even gnome and GNU (GNU OF ALL ORGANIZATIONS!) is adopting the .NET (well, CLR) runtime. Good riddence to C/C++ hodgepodge.
Expending extra effort to make a linux-native game will not be worthwhile until there is actually a linux games market. There won't be a linux games market without games. So I think WineX/Transgaming/whatever is probably helping in this regard, bootstrapping the process. Short of some sort of technical feat which makes games perform, say, 10% better on Linux, there is just no reason to write to linux (unless you are John Carmack, and have wads of money to blow on maintaining your geek ethos). That Linux is the Right Thing, makes no difference in the market (it rarely does).
Instead of star wars we could just have a frozen Lance Bass orbiting earth to scare off attacking aliens. "Your puny intellect is no match for MYGOD THEY HAVE BOY BANDS, LETSGETTHEFUCKOUTTAHERE"
"I'm not saying anything bad, but she is not a hero in any conventional sense. She didn't hold any bad guys off till her ammo was out as was said early on. And really didnt' do anything than be in the wrong place at the wrong time."
Dude. What the fuck is wrong with you? If any American gets attacked any time for any reason they are instantly heroes. It's in the fucking law.
I'd also like to take this opportunity to honor all those brave brave auto mechanics, fixing our cars for exorbitant prices in our time of need. True heroes.
Usually it is not the wheel that is dirty, but the axial rollers inside the mouse. I usually pop out the ball, and then scrap my fingernail against each of the rollers to get off the crud that accumulates in a stripe where the mouse ball hits the roller.
I have this great method and apparatus for electronic information dispersal based on distributed best effort store and forward. I am going to make a mint on this.
"I wish Fox provided a reasonably priced, high-quality, quickly-downloadable version of shows they take off the air, like Futurama."
So, in addition to not making money, they can lose money? Sounds like a business plan! Not that I would actually mind it.
Why do we need fast file systems? Or rather, why should we spend so much effort on performance differences of such small magnitude (take out reiser4 and its high cpu usage)? The only things I can think of are: swapping memory - this will really slow the system down, because disk is orders of magnitude slower than main memory; and databases that absolutely require high performance. But both of these typically *already* use custom file systems (or raw partitions) tailored to their exact needs. As normal user (somebody who is not constantly copying Mozilla source tries around), why should this matter? I can't remember the last time I thought "boy, this file access was slow, I wish I had a faster file system".
"This is an important step because it will allow an outbreak of Ebola to be stopped quickly."
:)
I love this type of insightful analysis on Slashdot.
Yeah, Apache should help usability ;)
messenger service/net send?
This may leave you open to spammage on this service (but chances are this is already enabled on all of your win2k/xp workstations anyway).
Uh, the parent post was specifically askinb about the performance and library and code generation quality of GCJ , not Java in general, so untie your panties there.
"What language is Java/Python etc written in, C/C++ undoubtably."
Well, Sun's Java tools, for one, are written all in java (javac, jar, etc.).
But due to conservation of blame, after you have been watching the TV for 2 hours waiting, you will then be asked to go, at which point you will have discovered you have misplaced your keys.
Continual use is not sufficient, because the content SHOULD go to the public eventually. Although, Lessig does have a proposal to require a charge of $1 for copyrighted works, which would allow vast amounts of stuff that is copyrighted, but has not been claimed or used, to fall into the public domain. Still, it's not the complete solution.
"They still haven't fixed VAC (valve anti-cheat) so wine users can play Half-Life."
And why should they burn money supporting a niche customer base which either 1) won't pay for software or 2) already has a copy of the windows version of a game that is OVER FIVE YEARS OLD? There are like, 3 people that play half life through wine.
"This doesn't stop them from assuming Linux fans will host their games via dedicated servers though. I'm still a little pissed off that they think Linux is good enough to host their games but not worthy of a client."
They don't assume shit. Linux is a popular server operating system that is run by MANY hosting services, so naturally they would port the dedicated server to linux. The dedicated server is much easier to port than the full blown client with graphics (duh).
"This is just more of the same old excellent community support from Valve."
Let's see:
* publish half life sdk with tools, source, and documentation
* maintain strong mod community relationships with valve-erc website
* support popular mods: socially, technically, financially, etc.
* listen to the incessent bitching of every kiddie who wants something for nothing
Yeah, I'd say it is excellent support. Quityerbitchin.
Shut Up Shut Up Shut Up Shut Up
Are these the same fruitcakes that want to populate the universe with auto-replicating robots because of some crackpot omega point theory about a benevolent super-entity that will create a fantasy land for humans as the universe hits a big crunch? My god, what crack are these people smoking.
STFU and get off our planet, where we have to deal with REAL "messy" problems like disease and famine and torture and poverty and wars. This bourgeios technological masturbation is revolting.
quidditch? /me ducks
No, statistically, you will probably become permanently deaf around 78 years of age.
"Marriages" should be certified by religious institutions according to whatever rules they want, and "civil unions" should be certified by the government (regardless of race, gender, hairdo, etc.), and never the twain should meet. One should have absolutely nothing to do with the other. The concept of government-sponsored marriage is a big stinking pile of bullshit.
Actually, no I wasn't...if POSIX is dictating where SYSTEM FILES live, I think that is completely distinct from "the api you should support", which would indicate that these two things should be seperating into independent specs.
"As our society moved into the industrial revolution ... it meant unrealistic controlls over labor (slavery) had to go."
Wow, I guess you must have missed that gigantic backlash against the dehumanizing qualities of industrialization, and the tendency to "wage slavery". Do the words Luddite, and Marxism mean anything to you?
I guess I misunderstood POSIX then...it actually is just a "portable C api" and not really an operating system spec (although you have to grant that an API into something can and does have an influence on the implementation (or potential implementations) of that concept).
I guess my point is that people program to libraries, not directly to the OS...so instead of having one big monolithic calcified "OPERATING SYSTEM COMMANDMENTS FROM GOD", instead let each language community come up with standard APIs for *their language* and then map them to the particular system as necessary (e.g. Java has its own APIs for threads and files, etc., but each of course is mapped differently to each OS...same for perl, php, most languages...). This way, the operating system just has to support the concepts in some manner or another instead of supporting explicit API calls, which really reduces the variety in operating systems (take a look at most POSIX systems...besides maybe BeOS and QNX, they all look pretty damn identical (and boring)).