Well then, we'll just have to leave that sucking gunshot wound to the chest alone... afterall, the body is capable of taking care of itself.
The human body is not always capable of taking care of itself. A hundred years ago people died of polio, smallpox, fairly minor bacterial infections, etc. - all easily preventable or treatable now.
If you refuse to acknowledge the innovation merely on the basis that it isn't platform specific (as if this was some indication of superior innovation) just so you can invent reasons why Linux might be inferior for yourself then please, by all means, don't let me stop you; I'll just leave you with the irony of making that claim as a mac user.
Given the way you trumpeted them as "inovation[sic] on the [Linux] desktop", the fact that they're not platform specific does matter.
The iTunes Music Store is/was an innovation by virtue of being the first successful pay-to-download music store. The fact that it is available for multiple platforms, in this case, has nothing to do with it.
America's Army and NWN, on the other hand, are just games - there are plenty others. They're not firsts, and they're not (arguably) bests. Thus, I don't consider them innovations like I do the iTMS.
You seem to think that humans are so different from the other animals. Not much separates us from chimps, dolphins, etc. other than our ability to use complex language.
Other animals learn, and we have instincts just like them (even if we mostly surpress them in our society).
how do you know lions teach their young to hunt?
Female lions will chase down and cripple a prey animal, then allow their young to kill it.
"Suck on mommy's nipples" would be a good example of an instinct.
That's not to say we don't learn any of our behavior from our parents, but the same goes for the animals. Lions teach their young how to hunt, for example.
the bible is not meant to be taken literally
Got a Bible reference for that? Is there an appendix or something that says "well, don't take this section literally, but these parts you should take verbatim"? I must have missed those on my perusal...
he knows the outcome of every decision and every choice we have
Assuming that God knows all, creates all, etc. means that God created Eve knowing that she'd disobey. It was a predetermined result. For it not to be a predetermined result, God can't be all-knowing.
It'd be like putting a bug in a computer program ON PURPOSE and calling it "free will."
God lied to Eve about the apple, too. Read your Bible - God says she'll die if she eats it, the snake says she'll merely gain knowledge.
Free will's an illusion, too, if God is all knowing, all powerful, and created all. He knew Eve would eat the apple when he created her - it's his fault, not hers.
Do you feel safer knowing that there are security companies out there that don't support full disclosure? I sure don't.
I feel safer knowing that there are security companies out there that support delayed disclosure, yes.
They're doing the public a service by allowing Microsoft to patch it before releasing the announcement to the virus writers. That's far more responsible than screwing everyone over for the sake of idealogy.
It could probably be somewhat simpler to disable it, but it's not all that bad. What they could do better is making sure that people know the difference between the Messenger service and the MSN Messenger app, as you seem to suggest.
It would appear you failed that particular test...
Once you've paid for it, you can do anything with it (within the GPL's limitations) - including re-selling it to someone else, or putting it up for free download via BitTorrent. If someone puts it up for free download, you can get it - perfectly legally - for free.
Mandrake also has the freedom NOT to provide it to anyone who hasn't paid, as long as the source is included with the binaries they're selling.
Having seen it from both sides (Dad's a doc who dabbled in programming in college, I do web apps for docs), I'd say a lot of the blame rests squarely on IT's shoulders.
You can tell when the UI was done by a programmer with no usability training... things are just counterintuitive, non-obvious, etc.
Yes, some docs are computer imbeciles... but their job is to fix people, not to sit taking computer training. Make it Incredibly Freaking Obvious (TM) and it's easier for everyone.:-p
Of course they could give two buttons and just default to having them do the same thing via software
<PHB> Which one do I press? <SecretTutor> It doesn't matter. <PHB> What do you mean it doesn't matter?! There are two buttons! Why are there two buttons if it doesn't matter?! * PHB throws mouse out the window *** SecretTutor was kicked by PHB (fired)
It's half the width, a size you could get in a plasma screen easily, and the image quality (esp. colors) looks shitty......but other than that, yeah, it's much better.
Homeworld 2 might have sold more copies had you gotten a copy of Homeworld free with your pre-order.
#4 on the US sales lists is hardly a poor showing, especially for a RTS game... and the source code for Homeworld is free, 'though I imagine Sierra squashed the idea of releasing the whole game (textures, models, etc.) as they own the franchise.
I saw Homeworld2's copy protection cracked the day before the official release date... there seems to be a pretty good network of people working on cracking the latest games.
I doubt this kind of protection will last much longer.
Slashdot Mirror
They take load off my desktop box by doing things like DNS, httpd, dhcpd, fetchmail, procmail, qmail, postgres, etc...
However I would like to see them move to gigabit ethernet.
How much traffic are you putting through your desktop box to require three servers, each with gigabit ethernet, to handle the load?
What?
I was under the impression that the torpedo warhead punching a sizeable hole in the ship's hull did the work.
Users not checking Slashdot hourly is perfectly acceptable.
Editors not knowing that the article was posted yesterday, however, is NOT acceptable. Keeping dupes out is their job.
Well then, we'll just have to leave that sucking gunshot wound to the chest alone... afterall, the body is capable of taking care of itself.
The human body is not always capable of taking care of itself. A hundred years ago people died of polio, smallpox, fairly minor bacterial infections, etc. - all easily preventable or treatable now.
If you refuse to acknowledge the innovation merely on the basis that it isn't platform specific (as if this was some indication of superior innovation) just so you can invent reasons why Linux might be inferior for yourself then please, by all means, don't let me stop you; I'll just leave you with the irony of making that claim as a mac user.
Given the way you trumpeted them as "inovation[sic] on the [Linux] desktop", the fact that they're not platform specific does matter.
The iTunes Music Store is/was an innovation by virtue of being the first successful pay-to-download music store. The fact that it is available for multiple platforms, in this case, has nothing to do with it.
America's Army and NWN, on the other hand, are just games - there are plenty others. They're not firsts, and they're not (arguably) bests. Thus, I don't consider them innovations like I do the iTMS.
These are all hit games that run natively on Linux.
They can hardly be called a Linux desktop innovation if they run natively on Windows, too.
You seem to think that humans are so different from the other animals. Not much separates us from chimps, dolphins, etc. other than our ability to use complex language.
Other animals learn, and we have instincts just like them (even if we mostly surpress them in our society).
how do you know lions teach their young to hunt?
Female lions will chase down and cripple a prey animal, then allow their young to kill it.
what instincts do humans have?
"Suck on mommy's nipples" would be a good example of an instinct.
That's not to say we don't learn any of our behavior from our parents, but the same goes for the animals. Lions teach their young how to hunt, for example.
the bible is not meant to be taken literally
Got a Bible reference for that? Is there an appendix or something that says "well, don't take this section literally, but these parts you should take verbatim"? I must have missed those on my perusal...
he knows the outcome of every decision and every choice we have
Assuming that God knows all, creates all, etc. means that God created Eve knowing that she'd disobey. It was a predetermined result. For it not to be a predetermined result, God can't be all-knowing.
It'd be like putting a bug in a computer program ON PURPOSE and calling it "free will."
Um... what?
It would be completely unscientific to claim that there is no God
:-p
No less scientific than claiming there are no purple polka-dotted aliens on Mars...
that "wonderful BIND patch" happened to have "unexpectedly broke at least 7 Top Level Domains"...
Um, humans have instincts too.
God lied to Eve about the apple, too. Read your Bible - God says she'll die if she eats it, the snake says she'll merely gain knowledge.
Free will's an illusion, too, if God is all knowing, all powerful, and created all. He knew Eve would eat the apple when he created her - it's his fault, not hers.
Do you feel safer knowing that there are security companies out there that don't support full disclosure? I sure don't.
I feel safer knowing that there are security companies out there that support delayed disclosure, yes.
They're doing the public a service by allowing Microsoft to patch it before releasing the announcement to the virus writers. That's far more responsible than screwing everyone over for the sake of idealogy.
It could probably be somewhat simpler to disable it, but it's not all that bad. What they could do better is making sure that people know the difference between the Messenger service and the MSN Messenger app, as you seem to suggest.
It would appear you failed that particular test...
Windows Messenger Service != MSN Messenger.
That'd be called a nuclear war...
Free != free.
Once you've paid for it, you can do anything with it (within the GPL's limitations) - including re-selling it to someone else, or putting it up for free download via BitTorrent. If someone puts it up for free download, you can get it - perfectly legally - for free.
Mandrake also has the freedom NOT to provide it to anyone who hasn't paid, as long as the source is included with the binaries they're selling.
I'm half tempted to create an account named "PHB Troll" and see how many answers I get everytime I post that question somewhere... heh.
Having seen it from both sides (Dad's a doc who dabbled in programming in college, I do web apps for docs), I'd say a lot of the blame rests squarely on IT's shoulders.
:-p
You can tell when the UI was done by a programmer with no usability training... things are just counterintuitive, non-obvious, etc.
Yes, some docs are computer imbeciles... but their job is to fix people, not to sit taking computer training. Make it Incredibly Freaking Obvious (TM) and it's easier for everyone.
Of course they could give two buttons and just default to having them do the same thing via software
<PHB> Which one do I press?
<SecretTutor> It doesn't matter.
<PHB> What do you mean it doesn't matter?! There are two buttons! Why are there two buttons if it doesn't matter?!
* PHB throws mouse out the window
*** SecretTutor was kicked by PHB (fired)
It's half the width, a size you could get in a plasma screen easily, and the image quality (esp. colors) looks shitty... ...but other than that, yeah, it's much better.
Well maybe that explains what's been making Slashdot unusable today...
Homeworld 2 might have sold more copies had you gotten a copy of Homeworld free with your pre-order.
#4 on the US sales lists is hardly a poor showing, especially for a RTS game... and the source code for Homeworld is free, 'though I imagine Sierra squashed the idea of releasing the whole game (textures, models, etc.) as they own the franchise.
I saw Homeworld2's copy protection cracked the day before the official release date... there seems to be a pretty good network of people working on cracking the latest games.
I doubt this kind of protection will last much longer.
Heh...
Nice to know the article had good research, eh?