tbh, I wasn't having a particular dig at WoW (or HL2 for that matter). I was just using them as examples of recent high profile games that I've not bothered with because I've been dissapointed so much with over hyped games that aren't really all that much fun to play
Last year I bought Doom 3 and was totally dissapointed with it. What was initially a great horror game became a repetitve formulaic (?) shooter. After that I still haven't got round to buying half life 2, halo 2, or even World of Warcraft (although I'm getting nagged by friends to get online with Warcraft)
The only games I've spent money on in the last 12 months have been indie games. Why? Because I got bored with sequels and pretty gaming engines. Games are meant to be fun and IMHO they are becoming products to be churned out. With the indie stuff I tend to find that more thought has gone into the level design and tuning the gameplay. Thay are never going to be the prettiest titles around, but I never feel cheated or dissapointed after a purchase. Pretty graphics only go so far . . .
Also worth bearing in mind that instead of doing the price conversion companies will frequently just port the numbers. Wouldn't be surprised to see UK prices get hiked to £59.99 for premium games under this extortionate policy.
Bring on the indie games. Outpost Kaloki is ace fun and only cost me $10 ish.
on the one hand you are promoting the fact that you can create applications from wizards (implying no skill required) and then you say that "it definitely doesnt make VB coders any less skilled than C coders"
can't have your cake and eat it. either vb is easy to develop because the wizards right most of your code, or it promotes skilled programmers who have to know the language inside out. Can't be both
Even more to the point, what about the screeners that get released. Lots of these movies come from studios that have been sent the screener for translation or for post production work. If they get their own security in order first then they can start looking outside.
Remove the source of the high quality pirated material and you will inevitably reduce the interest in the illegal copies.
I think the point he was making was that not everyone wants this. Many people just want a desktop. so they don't need all the extra bits. There's no reason why a Linux desktop + office suite can't fit onto a single CD. If suse can manage it with their personal edition, I don' tsee why RH/Fedora can't
you don't need 40G of storage though. Re-encode the movie to a bit-rate that's more acceptable for the PDA format and you can get a 700M divx down to ~ 150 / 160M. 1G of SD or CF is cheap as chips these days.
"If not for the headline, I wouldn't have known the post had anything to do with console games and third-party online services."
The first 3 lines of the post say
""XLink Kai, the only global gaming network that allows you to tunnel all link-compatible games for Xbox, PS2 and Gamecube, launched their new client. As almost all 'Online-enabled' games also allow 'link/network play', this makes Kai a free and legal alternative for Microsoft's Xbox LIVE and Sony's online PS2 service." "
There's one line that mentions the underlying technology with links to all three. So if you already know what they are, or aren't interested then you can ignore the links. If you want to learn a bit more about the underlying technology then you've got pointers (aside from google) to tell you where to look.
"I'm sorry to tell you that with the sheer traffic this site gets, it's almost a guarantee that a significant portion of the readership *doesn't* understand the aforementioned terms."
I wasn't suggesting that all Slashdot readers know what winpcap is. My point was that the audience that Slashdot is aimed at would go and find out for themselves if they were interested. The headline even included links to the stuff you didn't understand. If you couldn't work it out from the info provided then you probably weren't going to get it anyway.
I don't mean to be rude here but this IS Slashdot and the majority of readers here either:
a) know what WinPCAP and psSDK is or
b) are interested and switched on enough to go and find out for themselves
After all, this is "news for nerds" not "news for the casual internet user". If you want this stuff explained to you then Slashdot probably isn't the sort of news site you should be reading
We also use Extreme Switches and I can vouch for their reliability and performance. Instead of going for the "one big switch" approach though, we've got a pair of Black Diamond 6808's with 1u 48 port Summit 400 edge switches uplinked back to the core switch (excuse the marketing terminology). This makes cabling much tidier when you have a high number of servers as you can locate the edge switches all around the server room then just have the cables from the Summit's in the rack with the Black Diamond. It makes deploying new kit much easier, and tracing cables much easier as well. You don't end up with the switch rack being a massive mess of untraceable patch cables. The only servers that are patched directly into the Black Diamonds are those using the NAS (because they need as much bandwidth as possible)
not quite. It's a cross browser problem because whatever browser you use will pass the.wsz or.wal straight to winamp. But the embedded browser in winamp (which is IE) executes an.exe that's included within the.wsz archive because it thinks it's being run from the local zone instead of the Internet Zone. Therefore it's a bug in IE and Windows (and winamp).
The bug isn't that the browser passes the file to the correct handler app, but that the app itself executes code it shouldn't.
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the difference between googling for reviews / specs and Ask Slashdot is that he is trying to collate peer experience.
There is a perception that most of the readers of/. are like minded individuals and if a lot of people report similar experiences with kit then it's a good yardstick to measure what he will find the item useful.
So if he deletes the solitaire.exe and his boss complains he can fiegn ignorance and get the machine reinstalled. There's only so many times that a guy can complain that this game is missing off his PC before he looks ridiculous.
Although the tabbed browsing and popup blocking in MyIE2 is indeed a benefit over standard IE, there's no way that it blows away Firefox.
That comment is not me being an open source zealot, but from a MyIE -> Firefox convert. MyIE2 has the most irritating and frustrating bookmark organisation I've ever come accross. In that regard it is actually a downgrade on standard IE. And the development team is also less than helpful. There are lots of posts on the MyIE2 forums from users who complained about not being able to drag and drop bookmarks or change their order to suit. The postings tended to look like:
Q. How can I change the order of my bookmarks?
A. You should use the bookmarks sidebar to manage your bookmarks
Q. But I've spent ages in IE getting them in the correct order. I don't want to use the bookmark sidebar. How do I do it in the bookmark menu?
A.You don't understand, read the FAQ and use the bookmark sidebar.
I used MyIE2 for 6 months and was prepated to put up with the bookmark thing and it's various other irritations, but after using Firefox for a month now there's just no comparison.
Many sites are IE only (or at least designed with IE bugs in mind ), which means they render in IE prettier than in Mozilla.
Ao for a start it's easier for the non computer literate user to use the internet with IE.
Don't misunderstand me, I'm using firebird 0.9.2 now to post this reply. But regardless of whichever standard mozilla.org complies with, IMHO unknowledgable users will prefer IE over other (technically superior) choices
I think this is an interesting question. Is there really a desire to make Linux dominant on the desktop?
What is the goal of the KDE / GNOME project - to make a desktop which any idiot can use, or to make a desktop that the power user prefers and is more productive in.
Are the two mutually exclusive? Using Mozilla as an example, it's prefectly acceptable as a browser, but it really comes in to it's own when you start adding all the extensions into it. Without the extensions it's a below par browser to Internet Explorer (I'm thinking of the unknowledgable user here who doesn't want to have to do lots of work to get a functioning system but wants things to work immediately)
In reference to the parent, Open Source is about choice. But I've yet to see a system which is exactly what a newbie wants and yet retains all the functionality of the power user. Choice is something that the experience user wants. The unexperienced or infrequent user wants something that just works. IMHO these things are mutually exclusive.
Slashdot Mirror
"now an expert witness .....Barrett 'has helped put the British glam rocker Gary Glitter behind bars for pedophilia'"
It doesn't say he discovered Glitter's kiddie porn. It says he helped put him behind bars as an expert witness
even if they aren't producing their own content, they still have hosting costs and development costs to take into account, which aren't free
tbh, I wasn't having a particular dig at WoW (or HL2 for that matter). I was just using them as examples of recent high profile games that I've not bothered with because I've been dissapointed so much with over hyped games that aren't really all that much fun to play
Last year I bought Doom 3 and was totally dissapointed with it. What was initially a great horror game became a repetitve formulaic (?) shooter. After that I still haven't got round to buying half life 2, halo 2, or even World of Warcraft (although I'm getting nagged by friends to get online with Warcraft)
The only games I've spent money on in the last 12 months have been indie games. Why? Because I got bored with sequels and pretty gaming engines. Games are meant to be fun and IMHO they are becoming products to be churned out. With the indie stuff I tend to find that more thought has gone into the level design and tuning the gameplay. Thay are never going to be the prettiest titles around, but I never feel cheated or dissapointed after a purchase. Pretty graphics only go so far . . .
Also worth bearing in mind that instead of doing the price conversion companies will frequently just port the numbers. Wouldn't be surprised to see UK prices get hiked to £59.99 for premium games under this extortionate policy.
Bring on the indie games. Outpost Kaloki is ace fun and only cost me $10 ish.
on the one hand you are promoting the fact that you can create applications from wizards (implying no skill required) and then you say that "it definitely doesnt make VB coders any less skilled than C coders"
can't have your cake and eat it. either vb is easy to develop because the wizards right most of your code, or it promotes skilled programmers who have to know the language inside out. Can't be both
This also works: http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/execteam/email/fiorina/in dex.html
Even more to the point, what about the screeners that get released. Lots of these movies come from studios that have been sent the screener for translation or for post production work. If they get their own security in order first then they can start looking outside.
Remove the source of the high quality pirated material and you will inevitably reduce the interest in the illegal copies.
That would make it an N-Gage then?
I think the point he was making was that not everyone wants this. Many people just want a desktop. so they don't need all the extra bits. There's no reason why a Linux desktop + office suite can't fit onto a single CD. If suse can manage it with their personal edition, I don' tsee why RH/Fedora can't
you don't need 40G of storage though. Re-encode the movie to a bit-rate that's more acceptable for the PDA format and you can get a 700M divx down to ~ 150 / 160M. 1G of SD or CF is cheap as chips these days.
SpellBound
Were the links in the headline not enough???
"Using psSDK (instead of WinPCAP) and a new MAC caching subsystem allows them to become the fastest frame tunnel available. "
"If not for the headline, I wouldn't have known the post had anything to do with console games and third-party online services."
The first 3 lines of the post say
""XLink Kai, the only global gaming network that allows you to tunnel all link-compatible games for Xbox, PS2 and Gamecube, launched their new client. As almost all 'Online-enabled' games also allow 'link/network play', this makes Kai a free and legal alternative for Microsoft's Xbox LIVE and Sony's online PS2 service." "
There's one line that mentions the underlying technology with links to all three. So if you already know what they are, or aren't interested then you can ignore the links. If you want to learn a bit more about the underlying technology then you've got pointers (aside from google) to tell you where to look.
"I'm sorry to tell you that with the sheer traffic this site gets, it's almost a guarantee that a significant portion of the readership *doesn't* understand the aforementioned terms."
I wasn't suggesting that all Slashdot readers know what winpcap is. My point was that the audience that Slashdot is aimed at would go and find out for themselves if they were interested. The headline even included links to the stuff you didn't understand. If you couldn't work it out from the info provided then you probably weren't going to get it anyway.
I don't mean to be rude here but this IS Slashdot and the majority of readers here either:
a) know what WinPCAP and psSDK is or
b) are interested and switched on enough to go and find out for themselves
After all, this is "news for nerds" not "news for the casual internet user". If you want this stuff explained to you then Slashdot probably isn't the sort of news site you should be reading
damn, just run out of mod points.
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mod parent funny
We also use Extreme Switches and I can vouch for their reliability and performance. Instead of going for the "one big switch" approach though, we've got a pair of Black Diamond 6808's with 1u 48 port Summit 400 edge switches uplinked back to the core switch (excuse the marketing terminology). This makes cabling much tidier when you have a high number of servers as you can locate the edge switches all around the server room then just have the cables from the Summit's in the rack with the Black Diamond. It makes deploying new kit much easier, and tracing cables much easier as well. You don't end up with the switch rack being a massive mess of untraceable patch cables. The only servers that are patched directly into the Black Diamonds are those using the NAS (because they need as much bandwidth as possible)
not quite. It's a cross browser problem because whatever browser you use will pass the .wsz or .wal straight to winamp. But the embedded browser in winamp (which is IE) executes an .exe that's included within the .wsz archive because it thinks it's being run from the local zone instead of the Internet Zone. Therefore it's a bug in IE and Windows (and winamp).
The bug isn't that the browser passes the file to the correct handler app, but that the app itself executes code it shouldn't.
the difference between googling for reviews / specs and Ask Slashdot is that he is trying to collate peer experience.
/. are like minded individuals and if a lot of people report similar experiences with kit then it's a good yardstick to measure what he will find the item useful.
There is a perception that most of the readers of
Gun's don't kill people, rappers do
daikatana?
So if he deletes the solitaire.exe and his boss complains he can fiegn ignorance and get the machine reinstalled. There's only so many times that a guy can complain that this game is missing off his PC before he looks ridiculous.
Although the tabbed browsing and popup blocking in MyIE2 is indeed a benefit over standard IE, there's no way that it blows away Firefox.
That comment is not me being an open source zealot, but from a MyIE -> Firefox convert. MyIE2 has the most irritating and frustrating bookmark organisation I've ever come accross. In that regard it is actually a downgrade on standard IE. And the development team is also less than helpful. There are lots of posts on the MyIE2 forums from users who complained about not being able to drag and drop bookmarks or change their order to suit. The postings tended to look like:
Q. How can I change the order of my bookmarks?
A. You should use the bookmarks sidebar to manage your bookmarks
Q. But I've spent ages in IE getting them in the correct order. I don't want to use the bookmark sidebar. How do I do it in the bookmark menu?
A.You don't understand, read the FAQ and use the bookmark sidebar.
I used MyIE2 for 6 months and was prepated to put up with the bookmark thing and it's various other irritations, but after using Firefox for a month now there's just no comparison.
Many sites are IE only (or at least designed with IE bugs in mind ), which means they render in IE prettier than in Mozilla.
Ao for a start it's easier for the non computer literate user to use the internet with IE.
Don't misunderstand me, I'm using firebird 0.9.2 now to post this reply. But regardless of whichever standard mozilla.org complies with, IMHO unknowledgable users will prefer IE over other (technically superior) choices
I think this is an interesting question. Is there really a desire to make Linux dominant on the desktop?
What is the goal of the KDE / GNOME project - to make a desktop which any idiot can use, or to make a desktop that the power user prefers and is more productive in.
Are the two mutually exclusive? Using Mozilla as an example, it's prefectly acceptable as a browser, but it really comes in to it's own when you start adding all the extensions into it. Without the extensions it's a below par browser to Internet Explorer (I'm thinking of the unknowledgable user here who doesn't want to have to do lots of work to get a functioning system but wants things to work immediately)
In reference to the parent, Open Source is about choice. But I've yet to see a system which is exactly what a newbie wants and yet retains all the functionality of the power user. Choice is something that the experience user wants. The unexperienced or infrequent user wants something that just works. IMHO these things are mutually exclusive.