Its a lot more safe when you have your users READ whats on the screen before clicking 'yes'.
Linux users tend to do that. Windows users do not. Thats the biggest problem, IMHO.
Linux is inherently more secure, that I'll grant you.... BUT.... when you have your grandmother running it and something pops up saying it needs root password to run, and she happens to know what that password is, you're then going to have the same problems that Windows has..... yeah, I am honest.
At first I thought you were being serious. Then I realized you were trying to be sarcastic. You have no idea what you're talking about, and your sarcasm just happens to mirror reality.
my sarcasm just happens to mirror reality? so you're saying in fact that I am correct, but I arrived there accidentally? or are you just not making any sense whatsoever?
can I have some of whatever you're smoking?... well me and my 'ignorance' are going to go play BF2. Lemme know when they get that working on Linux.
.... First off, your average linux user is far far far more computer competant than your average windows user. Also, look at the difference in market share. You even those 2 things out and suddenly Linux wouldn't have such an advantage in that regard.
p.s. I love linux myself, but am going to be honest about it...
whether its the stellar video driver support, or the fantastic sound card support, to the plethora of games and business apps that all work flawlessly without hours of tweaking.... you're right, linux kicks ass.
I view these things kind of like the 'grammar checker' in Word. Yeah, kind of useful once in a while maybe, but its not going to help you if you _dont_ know what you are doing, and its probably not going to be of any use if you _do_ know what you are doing.
Well lets see, prisoners get more free time, more television channels, better food, more sex, more movies, and better workout equipment than I do/have, all at the cost (to them) of zero dollars.
-sounds pretty good to me
--maybe not the sex part
For years man has divided travel routes into highways. Many of these highways have lanes. And even more interchanges among them and more beyond them and so forth based on belonging to a gregarious system of paved travel.
Disclaimer: I am a driver. One thing I find myself asking not only myself but other drivers is what is their primary routes. What I mean by that term is which of these highways (if any) supercedes all?
Are you a driver of the United States Interstate Highway System first? A driver of Texas's I35? Do you drive in downtown Chicago? The Bronx? Do you drive all around North America? Do you just stay at home? At what point do you consider yourself a driver of an automobile that will look out for other drivers?
Occasionally, we catch ourselves engaging in activities that would indicate we are world travelers first and travelers of the United States second. I know it's a tough concept to comprehend but we do stop to help hot women change flat tires, we do attempt to allow others to merge in front of us no matter how much we fsck it up or act in our best interest. So there's some amount of talk about the United States actually being good drivers. This act of ceding control of the merge point today is a step in that direction.
Is it a good step or bad step remains to be seen and can be easily debated. One thing is clear, it sends a message to the rest of the world that the United States drivers are conscious of the rights of other drivers. And this isn't a case of we need to help their vehicle because if it stalls, we'll probably hit it. On the surface this actually appears to be a gift of some little amount of power. This is not a historically common occurrence for a driver such as Anonymous Coward. Are we becoming more aware of the other drivers around us? I certainly hope so.
nice political troll. france telecom is a private company. doesn't really have anything to do with government policies. telcos in the US could do the same thing.
... I've had the ends of several of my fingers severed (many many years ago).
While I wouldn't consider myself handicapped (I still type much faster than most people), there are some definate accessibility concerns for some of these things that I have not seen addressed...
That is all accurate, you're friends are correct...
I think though that if you're designing a game from scratch there's no reason that OpenGL wouldn't work just fine though... like pacific storm, for example
double the development time, double the support issues for an additional one percent in sales. just isn't worth it. yeah you can re-use much of it from one platform to the next, but you also have OS specific problems with each.
I don't know why they don't put games on boot disks, whatever OS they want to use. Would solve a lot of the problems that normal end users have with bad performance due to viruses and spyware, plus the game developers would likely use a linux based system. no compatibility issues, no install issues, no software conflict issues, seems they'd save a bunch on support
but what do i know. (goes back to writing SQL queries)
Often when I am on a page that looks SQL-injectionable, I'll try a few things just for giggles. I've been doing this for a few years now. I'd say that there are much, much fewer injectionable sites then there used to be...
AIDS _and_ climate prediction? Which client is that? And how do they determine which is more important, the AIDS or the climate prediction? or do they just split it 50-50?
Slashdot Mirror
as long as there is human oversight
I've been testing this first-hand since 1977
I'm good, dont worry 'bout it...
sounds like it just speeds up existing AI routines..... and existing AI routines, well, SUCK.
I dont think we are going to get any good AI until it has some method of "learning"
I have one. No, you can't see it.
Its a lot more safe when you have your users READ whats on the screen before clicking 'yes'.
.... yeah, I am honest.
Linux users tend to do that. Windows users do not. Thats the biggest problem, IMHO.
Linux is inherently more secure, that I'll grant you.... BUT.... when you have your grandmother running it and something pops up saying it needs root password to run, and she happens to know what that password is, you're then going to have the same problems that Windows has.
At first I thought you were being serious. Then I realized you were trying to be sarcastic. You have no idea what you're talking about, and your sarcasm just happens to mirror reality.
... well me and my 'ignorance' are going to go play BF2. Lemme know when they get that working on Linux.
my sarcasm just happens to mirror reality? so you're saying in fact that I am correct, but I arrived there accidentally? or are you just not making any sense whatsoever?
can I have some of whatever you're smoking?
.... First off, your average linux user is far far far more computer competant than your average windows user. Also, look at the difference in market share. You even those 2 things out and suddenly Linux wouldn't have such an advantage in that regard.
p.s. I love linux myself, but am going to be honest about it...
whether its the stellar video driver support, or the fantastic sound card support, to the plethora of games and business apps that all work flawlessly without hours of tweaking.... you're right, linux kicks ass.
fission and fusion.
well not completely free, but would be close enough if we built more reactors.
All these awesome science stories, cutting edge stuff that not even digg or fark dares to post.
(looks closer) Oh. Its a roland piquapallawhatever submitted story.
(is eaten by a grue)
I view these things kind of like the 'grammar checker' in Word. Yeah, kind of useful once in a while maybe, but its not going to help you if you _dont_ know what you are doing, and its probably not going to be of any use if you _do_ know what you are doing.
It's newspeak. Microsoft free, free as in prison.
Well lets see, prisoners get more free time, more television channels, better food, more sex, more movies, and better workout equipment than I do/have, all at the cost (to them) of zero dollars. -sounds pretty good to me --maybe not the sex part
For years man has divided travel routes into highways. Many of these highways have lanes. And even more interchanges among them and more beyond them and so forth based on belonging to a gregarious system of paved travel.
Disclaimer: I am a driver. One thing I find myself asking not only myself but other drivers is what is their primary routes. What I mean by that term is which of these highways (if any) supercedes all?
Are you a driver of the United States Interstate Highway System first? A driver of Texas's I35? Do you drive in downtown Chicago? The Bronx? Do you drive all around North America? Do you just stay at home? At what point do you consider yourself a driver of an automobile that will look out for other drivers?
Occasionally, we catch ourselves engaging in activities that would indicate we are world travelers first and travelers of the United States second. I know it's a tough concept to comprehend but we do stop to help hot women change flat tires, we do attempt to allow others to merge in front of us no matter how much we fsck it up or act in our best interest. So there's some amount of talk about the United States actually being good drivers. This act of ceding control of the merge point today is a step in that direction.
Is it a good step or bad step remains to be seen and can be easily debated. One thing is clear, it sends a message to the rest of the world that the United States drivers are conscious of the rights of other drivers. And this isn't a case of we need to help their vehicle because if it stalls, we'll probably hit it. On the surface this actually appears to be a gift of some little amount of power. This is not a historically common occurrence for a driver such as Anonymous Coward. Are we becoming more aware of the other drivers around us? I certainly hope so.
nice political troll. france telecom is a private company. doesn't really have anything to do with government policies. telcos in the US could do the same thing.
work about as well as a 1980 Pinto
... I've had the ends of several of my fingers severed (many many years ago).
While I wouldn't consider myself handicapped (I still type much faster than most people), there are some definate accessibility concerns for some of these things that I have not seen addressed...
That is all accurate, you're friends are correct...
I think though that if you're designing a game from scratch there's no reason that OpenGL wouldn't work just fine though... like pacific storm, for example
double the development time, double the support issues for an additional one percent in sales. just isn't worth it. yeah you can re-use much of it from one platform to the next, but you also have OS specific problems with each.
I don't know why they don't put games on boot disks, whatever OS they want to use. Would solve a lot of the problems that normal end users have with bad performance due to viruses and spyware, plus the game developers would likely use a linux based system. no compatibility issues, no install issues, no software conflict issues, seems they'd save a bunch on support
but what do i know. (goes back to writing SQL queries)
Often when I am on a page that looks SQL-injectionable, I'll try a few things just for giggles. I've been doing this for a few years now. I'd say that there are much, much fewer injectionable sites then there used to be...
...that said XP was slow and bloated. and 2000 was slow and bloated. and NT was slow and bloated.
I never had a problem with any of those.... now 9x/ME were a steaming pile, that much I'll grant.
I have a few concerns regarding Vista, but size and speed really aren't among them.
Just another flamebait story, without any meat in the article.
Cheap for a uni student? I certainly didn't have that sort of money laying about when I was at university.
/got my computer for 50 bucks
//i didn't ask where it came from...
well this guy could beat Super Mario 3 about 4 times over in 15 minutes
AIDS _and_ climate prediction? Which client is that? And how do they determine which is more important, the AIDS or the climate prediction? or do they just split it 50-50?
Of course you'd say that, you have the brainpan of a stagecoach tilter!
Well yeah.
but...... I personally have never felt the need to write my own OS and Web server from scratch.