The theory is that people will pirate games just to get them as soon as they're available, rather than wait days/weeks (depending on the game) for a local legit release. Provide a worldwide electronic distribution system, and at the very least, this argument for copying the games goes away.
It breaks lots of things. I don't know if there are cases where microsoft specifically is to blame; I guess one could argue that backwards compatibility with a system where everyone is root is bogus.
Agreed. It's just the sheer frequency of updates that annoys me (not that I don't want them, but there shouldn't be so damn many).
There is autoupdate functionality, it's not fully enabled and having a few issues as yet, so I'm not sure if they're using that to announce this patch. Post ff 1.0, it should work as well as IE's system.
Bah, if they were really onto it, they would have embedded the exploit in the slashdot page and use it to patch your browser without clicking ANYTHING!
He wasn't denying that, or complaining. He came up with a creative solution that didn't infringe on anyone's rights. Okay, so it wasn't very nice to the competitor, but they presumably didn't have any more right to complain about "leeches" than he did.
Actually, what I heard was a bunch of whiners complaining about how the new theme was an abomination and they wanted their Qute back, despite the reasons for the change, the fact that it was a work in progress, and that Qute was clearly still available. The decision had been made, and still stands - the default 0.91 theme is a much-improved winstripe.
(Don't get me wrong, I like Qute, and the 0.9 theme had problems, but the venom the devs got was ridiculous).
It may be your favourite project, but the people who do the work get to make the decisions.
Maybe when 1.0 comes out I'll give it another shot. And hopefully they'll improve the install. I particularly hate the fact that I can't just type in an install directory name, but have to go browse the directory. It defaults to C:\Program Files\Firefox and I just want to change the C: to a D: Why does that have to be so difficult?
I agree with your point, but you'll save time in the longrun by changing HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\ProgramFilesDir to "D:\Program Files" in the registry.
Hmm, although it does still say it's a tech preview on the firefox page, it's listed as a main item (above mozilla) on the mozilla.org front page... I guess they're trying to push it as their "main browser" now.
2.4 is no longer being "developed" as such, it's being "maintained". So, in theory, you only get new releases for bugfixes of one kind or another.
2.6, while "stable", is still under development. It seems a little inconsistent, but it seems to work - the kernel guys get it reasonably stable for 2.6.0, a horde of regular users gets it and so there's more feedback/bug reports, and it all develops quite fast for a while, eventually everything calms down and the Downtime Costs Me $1000 A Minute people pick it up, and the kernel guys get to work on a (much more fun, I'm sure) unstable (odd-numbered) branch. At least that's how it looks to me...
That last point is a critical one that we shouldn't forget, no matter who we are or how we publish on the Web. I've said before that nobody owns anything on the Web. The fact is, we're all renters here. That means our sites, our blogs, our businesses, live in a commercial marketplace. Our Web presences live at the grace of the companies on which we depend. Companies change, and so do the people that comprise them.
Seems to be a little revisionism here: the corporations built the internet, regular people can tag along as long as their efforts are profitable? Did I miss the memo?
1) Java has bounds checking for arrays, C++ doesn't. This is specified in the language. This affects performance.
Definitely.
2) Java has garbage collection, C++ doesn't. This is specified in the language. This affects performance.
Hmm... this is probably true in a lot of cases, but read this. (The guy's written a C++ compiler, and the D compiler - D is garbage-collected).
Also, the specification of Java says that it should be compiled to byte code and executed in a JVM.
Really? IIRC, the language spec only defines the semantics of the language, and the VM spec talks about the format of programs, so GCJ could in theory be compliant with the language spec, but the VM spec would be irrelevant. Of course the language was designed to be interpreted, so there are probably performance penalties in both JITed and precompiled code there...
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Absolutely nothing, just as now. You're removing an incentive to copy the game (I want to play it now, not in 3 weeks when it comes out in $COUNTRY).
The theory is that people will pirate games just to get them as soon as they're available, rather than wait days/weeks (depending on the game) for a local legit release. Provide a worldwide electronic distribution system, and at the very least, this argument for copying the games goes away.
Seems unlikely... they can't push DirectX to the exclusion of OpenGL if they're marketing GL games.
So you don't have to refresh slashdot every five minutes, I guess. I will anyway, of course, I gotta be the first to get 4.0.3!
Huh? No they won't. Unless you're talking on the order of five hundred million tonnes of robots...
It breaks lots of things. I don't know if there are cases where microsoft specifically is to blame; I guess one could argue that backwards compatibility with a system where everyone is root is bogus.
There is autoupdate functionality, it's not fully enabled and having a few issues as yet, so I'm not sure if they're using that to announce this patch. Post ff 1.0, it should work as well as IE's system.
You just nicely demonstrated that slashdot isn't bugfree :-)
Bah, if they were really onto it, they would have embedded the exploit in the slashdot page and use it to patch your browser without clicking ANYTHING!
He wasn't denying that, or complaining. He came up with a creative solution that didn't infringe on anyone's rights. Okay, so it wasn't very nice to the competitor, but they presumably didn't have any more right to complain about "leeches" than he did.
But a mile's not all that far... and I like peanuts!
The point is the OP used whom instead of who, which makes him sound like a pretentious idiot.
It wasn't?
(Don't get me wrong, I like Qute, and the 0.9 theme had problems, but the venom the devs got was ridiculous).
It may be your favourite project, but the people who do the work get to make the decisions.
I agree with your point, but you'll save time in the longrun by changing HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\ProgramFilesDir to "D:\Program Files" in the registry.
100% more GPU and expense. 77% more performance. It's a better deal than going from the slightly-obsolete products to the first tier, anyway...
A witty saying proves nothing.
Hmm, although it does still say it's a tech preview on the firefox page, it's listed as a main item (above mozilla) on the mozilla.org front page... I guess they're trying to push it as their "main browser" now.
2.6, while "stable", is still under development. It seems a little inconsistent, but it seems to work - the kernel guys get it reasonably stable for 2.6.0, a horde of regular users gets it and so there's more feedback/bug reports, and it all develops quite fast for a while, eventually everything calms down and the Downtime Costs Me $1000 A Minute people pick it up, and the kernel guys get to work on a (much more fun, I'm sure) unstable (odd-numbered) branch. At least that's how it looks to me...
Just recently there were a bunch of mremap exploits allowing local root access. This is less severe (but still very bad).
Seems to be a little revisionism here: the corporations built the internet, regular people can tag along as long as their efforts are profitable? Did I miss the memo?
Definitely.
2) Java has garbage collection, C++ doesn't. This is specified in the language. This affects performance.
Hmm... this is probably true in a lot of cases, but read this. (The guy's written a C++ compiler, and the D compiler - D is garbage-collected).
Also, the specification of Java says that it should be compiled to byte code and executed in a JVM.
Really? IIRC, the language spec only defines the semantics of the language, and the VM spec talks about the format of programs, so GCJ could in theory be compliant with the language spec, but the VM spec would be irrelevant. Of course the language was designed to be interpreted, so there are probably performance penalties in both JITed and precompiled code there...
Well, a combination of that and geographic differences.
Huh? It looks to me like he experimented with changes to three icons, and chose to keep them as they were.
How much bandwidth is it going to take to stream HDTV, potentially for hours and hours at a time?