I'm sure Microsoft will be more than happy to modify their TCP/IP stack to help make filesharing as easy as possible.
Ya, good thing that's my only choice...
But seriously, how many additional hoops do you think ticking the SSL button is? And hey, it's conceivable that most popular torrent clients in the near future come defaulting to SSL. What do you think the result would be? Do you think the software developers would have to explain when SSL traffic begins to be shaped en mass or would people be more inclined to ask their ISP's? Maybe even change them?
I see a few simple twists and this whole fight can back-fire. You can't stand in the way of change.
So you support the loss of network-wide net neutrality if you disagree with the actions of an individual who might oppose it or do you think both instances are of the same scale? Because otherwise the post reads like childish bitching.
free will is important for those that would argue determinism makes it otherwise. I'm a big fan of the human machine theory myself, but just like you I've sat with decisions that could have gone at times tragically one way or the other. I've struggled with good and bad decisions and tried to learn the difference. So if we are a reasoning machine which makes decisions based on patterns then maybe free will is the result of determinism, spread out over time.
But really I think anything that tries to distill things down to their simplest elements will often miss things that compose a bigger picture. It's the price we pay for the incredibly useful Occam's razor.
Maybe it's my threshold level, but I don't see a lot of such comments. But either way, I don't see the point of confusing a healthy distrust of government as anti-government. I think if you ask the average slashdotter if they support total deregulation they'd probably laugh at you. The only thing we trust less then government is unchecked business, you do the math.
So for the people who know and use the term "behavioral targeting", we can already assume they have a predisposition on the topic a bit.
Are you on crack? I work in the market, WTF do you think we call it? Behavioral targeting is a simple reality and sure, there's an uneasiness about it. The fact is the market is tough and advertisers need/want data. I could try to sell an ad service without collecting any such data but the simple truth is my customers would move somewhere else.
And the truth is a lot of it isn't nearly as bad as people seem to think it is. There are cookies and cross-site tracking with the bigger networks which I imagine is probably what a lot of people think about. That can be creepy. But a lot of the behavioral data can things like path data and basic things like impression tracking.
Does anyone else remember when eMusic offered a flat-rate all-you-can-eat service? I found myself listening to a huge variety of music I'd ordinarily avoid, like jazz and blues. It's a very nice way to sample a lot of music and honestly a 30 second clip *is not* a reliable way to review unfamiliar music (or genres).
If it's important that your game offer some support to Timmy and his underpowered bargin-pc then flag him. When I put my PC into safe mode and I have to revert to all the retarded minimal setting I have a desktop that even Microsoft doesn't want me to interperate as the Windows experience. What do they do? The plaster notices all over my desktop.
I understand the value in supporting even the lowliest hardware feasible. You will inevitably have users who don't read/understand/care about the requirements and punishing them with pedantic requirements isn't exactly the most business friendly thing to do.
However acknowledging the problem then simply pointing fingers makes it sound like you, as a developer, are unable to provide your own reasonable solution. But it seems quite simple: write reasonable hardware requirements and when a game does have to fall back to support unsupported configurations..
clearly warn the user.
As a user myself I can guarantee that enough of us are intelligent enough to know that when our software warns us that it's running in a lower resolution mode on an underpowered and unsupported configuration we will not run out and tell every one who will listen that your games graphics suck. We will be thankful that the game works at all.
If you don't let us know you can expect what you've already been seeing.
If you don't remind us you can expect what you've already been seeing.
We're lazy and opinionated by we're not that stupid.
How long until someone smart and articulate enough creates a mirror/. with real news for nerds and real stuff that matters. A few years ago it was kind of novel having our very own tabloid but now the jokes over and our little community is turning into just another glorified narrative.
Reading/. used to be like a dirty little secret. A guilty pleasure periodically through-out the work-day. But more and more often I'm left just feeling dirty. Or simply mis-informed.
And I don't mean to suggest that I'm either smart or articulate. Just that/. has created a model and a community and now it seems they have created a vacuum in their own misguided attempt at revelry or viewership.
First it was their overpricing themselves out of all but the students-and-pirates market.
Stop right there.
Why would you pirate something that isn't valuable? I mean if I can't look at my desktop and say I've got Xcagillion dollars worth of software on it why would I even bother to pirate?
I think the discussion (which is kind of ongoing really) is regarding the desktop.
And if you're honest with yourself for a second while a Linux system can be *great* for doing a lot of things, when it comes to the hum-drum or the mindless/day-to-day you'll still find yourself pulling hair over tasks you've learned to take for granted most everywhere else.
And then there's the philosophic battles which require I have a special repository enabled (you know if I didn't use Linux I wouldn't know or care what a repository is?) just to install Flash. Major distros don't include MP3 or DVD support out of the box.
Kernel drivers break and/or require recompiles or upgrades frequently.
If you think about it everywhere that Linux based operating systems come into contact with third-party vendors the situation is strained.
But the average users doesn't care about any of this. They just don't like Linux.
I've been using Linux based systems for about 9 years now. *Linux* is fine but the desktop environments that run on top of it are not. It's 2008 and and after spending a long day at work fixing problems on the server I just don't have the energy to pretend that desktop Linux works acceptably.
The user experience even on the more polished DE's is still uneven. The patchwork of disparate projects that make Linux-based systems so powerful also working against us. You never have the feeling that you're using a single system with a single design philosophy, and you aren't.
KDE (my DE of choice) is great but you never shake the feeling that you're using something that's simply clamped onto the system. There's no clear over-arching design. Some things work, some things don't.
It's that kind of inconsistency that I suspect is something the average user will be turned off by. Vista, even with it's flaws is still more consistently *Vista* then any Linux-based distro I've seen.
It's like everyone's afraid to truly deviate from the norm, so we end up with 100's of slight variations of the same theme. But their all propagating the same short-comings.
Encoding a movie whilst listening to music and editing photos
I think we can all agree that spreadsheets won't be a particularly taxing task. But ya, music/encoding/compiling/SETI/virus-scanning/searching-indexing/updating/archiving are all fairly common background tasks that have at one time or another probably impacted all of us.
I'm just wondering if the fellow who did the tests in the article would have been disappointed with the system performance if he'd used it over time with heavier (application) use.
It's fine to deride the extra cores as superfluous if in fact they are but I wonder if a real-world user might have a remarkably different experience (which would make 99.99% of these types of articles only useful to the ~5% of users who might actually only run single-task environments).
Anyway, it was really more of a question. The only seriously multi-core computers I use are database and web servers. I multi-task on a single-core, memory-starved workstation.
I enjoy the/. corrections like this (as usual). What I wonder is how do systems like this hold up under reasonable load in real multi-application environments?
I mean looking at my task manager and task bar right now, on a normal business day, I have about 10 applications running using varying amounts of my system resources (plus services). Is the way I work multi-threaded and if so will I notice a difference when I spread this work across these cores? I mean I appreciate they might be saying that single multi-threaded applications are showing disappointing increases but in a normal working environment what about multiple multi/singe threaded applications? I mean single application test environments might not show a very complete picture when compared to real-world use, defeating the very point of the article(s).
Most large/popular websites can fall into 1 of 2 categories: 1) business ventures of some sort or 2) personal itches. I run one that falls into the second category and because I don't want my attempts at commoditization to take away from the project I foot the bill myself.
But artists are not (strictly) business people.
Gene Simmons excepted (but is that the future you'd suggest?).
Abstinence in choice is simply letting someone else make that choice (and then living with it). Not that I don't understand the sentiment, but to be proud of it?
and decide to randomly audit the system you can perform a pretty thorough audit. You can also audit the code itself and make sure the voting system doesn't contain any unforeseen errors and check for back doors.
You're absolutely right that OSS isn't a magic bullet, but it certainly carries plenty of clear advantages over anything else.
Transparency in the election process isn't something we should have to beg for. It's a right.
Slashdot Mirror
Running an infected bot is inherently risky, just like the virus or worm that caused it. Moral concerns should be moderated appropriately.
But seriously, how many additional hoops do you think ticking the SSL button is? And hey, it's conceivable that most popular torrent clients in the near future come defaulting to SSL. What do you think the result would be? Do you think the software developers would have to explain when SSL traffic begins to be shaped en mass or would people be more inclined to ask their ISP's? Maybe even change them?
I see a few simple twists and this whole fight can back-fire. You can't stand in the way of change.
So you support the loss of network-wide net neutrality if you disagree with the actions of an individual who might oppose it or do you think both instances are of the same scale? Because otherwise the post reads like childish bitching.
that terrorism is a political label first and an accurate description second.
free will is important for those that would argue determinism makes it otherwise. I'm a big fan of the human machine theory myself, but just like you I've sat with decisions that could have gone at times tragically one way or the other. I've struggled with good and bad decisions and tried to learn the difference. So if we are a reasoning machine which makes decisions based on patterns then maybe free will is the result of determinism, spread out over time.
But really I think anything that tries to distill things down to their simplest elements will often miss things that compose a bigger picture. It's the price we pay for the incredibly useful Occam's razor.
Maybe it's my threshold level, but I don't see a lot of such comments. But either way, I don't see the point of confusing a healthy distrust of government as anti-government. I think if you ask the average slashdotter if they support total deregulation they'd probably laugh at you. The only thing we trust less then government is unchecked business, you do the math.
And the truth is a lot of it isn't nearly as bad as people seem to think it is. There are cookies and cross-site tracking with the bigger networks which I imagine is probably what a lot of people think about. That can be creepy. But a lot of the behavioral data can things like path data and basic things like impression tracking.
Tell that to you CEO as your IT department scrambles to install wiki's and forums and blogs that will never really be used.
If your BMW changes lanes, and you don't have the blinker on, electrocute.
Finally, a feature that's worth-while.
Does anyone else remember when eMusic offered a flat-rate all-you-can-eat service? I found myself listening to a huge variety of music I'd ordinarily avoid, like jazz and blues. It's a very nice way to sample a lot of music and honestly a 30 second clip *is not* a reliable way to review unfamiliar music (or genres).
I just can't sympathize with this.
If it's important that your game offer some support to Timmy and his underpowered bargin-pc then flag him. When I put my PC into safe mode and I have to revert to all the retarded minimal setting I have a desktop that even Microsoft doesn't want me to interperate as the Windows experience. What do they do? The plaster notices all over my desktop.
I understand the value in supporting even the lowliest hardware feasible. You will inevitably have users who don't read/understand/care about the requirements and punishing them with pedantic requirements isn't exactly the most business friendly thing to do.
However acknowledging the problem then simply pointing fingers makes it sound like you, as a developer, are unable to provide your own reasonable solution. But it seems quite simple: write reasonable hardware requirements and when a game does have to fall back to support unsupported configurations..
clearly warn the user.
As a user myself I can guarantee that enough of us are intelligent enough to know that when our software warns us that it's running in a lower resolution mode on an underpowered and unsupported configuration we will not run out and tell every one who will listen that your games graphics suck. We will be thankful that the game works at all.
If you don't let us know you can expect what you've already been seeing.
If you don't remind us you can expect what you've already been seeing.
We're lazy and opinionated by we're not that stupid.
How long until someone smart and articulate enough creates a mirror /. with real news for nerds and real stuff that matters. A few years ago it was kind of novel having our very own tabloid but now the jokes over and our little community is turning into just another glorified narrative.
/. used to be like a dirty little secret. A guilty pleasure periodically through-out the work-day. But more and more often I'm left just feeling dirty. Or simply mis-informed.
/. has created a model and a community and now it seems they have created a vacuum in their own misguided attempt at revelry or viewership.
Reading
And I don't mean to suggest that I'm either smart or articulate. Just that
Why would you pirate something that isn't valuable? I mean if I can't look at my desktop and say I've got Xcagillion dollars worth of software on it why would I even bother to pirate?
Why should we limit absurd warnings to technology? How about a warning on religion?
but for who? Manufacturers?
I think the discussion (which is kind of ongoing really) is regarding the desktop.
And if you're honest with yourself for a second while a Linux system can be *great* for doing a lot of things, when it comes to the hum-drum or the mindless/day-to-day you'll still find yourself pulling hair over tasks you've learned to take for granted most everywhere else.
And then there's the philosophic battles which require I have a special repository enabled (you know if I didn't use Linux I wouldn't know or care what a repository is?) just to install Flash. Major distros don't include MP3 or DVD support out of the box.
Kernel drivers break and/or require recompiles or upgrades frequently.
If you think about it everywhere that Linux based operating systems come into contact with third-party vendors the situation is strained.
But the average users doesn't care about any of this. They just don't like Linux.
I've been using Linux based systems for about 9 years now. *Linux* is fine but the desktop environments that run on top of it are not. It's 2008 and and after spending a long day at work fixing problems on the server I just don't have the energy to pretend that desktop Linux works acceptably.
The user experience even on the more polished DE's is still uneven. The patchwork of disparate projects that make Linux-based systems so powerful also working against us. You never have the feeling that you're using a single system with a single design philosophy, and you aren't.
KDE (my DE of choice) is great but you never shake the feeling that you're using something that's simply clamped onto the system. There's no clear over-arching design. Some things work, some things don't.
It's that kind of inconsistency that I suspect is something the average user will be turned off by. Vista, even with it's flaws is still more consistently *Vista* then any Linux-based distro I've seen.
It's like everyone's afraid to truly deviate from the norm, so we end up with 100's of slight variations of the same theme. But their all propagating the same short-comings.
I'm just wondering if the fellow who did the tests in the article would have been disappointed with the system performance if he'd used it over time with heavier (application) use.
It's fine to deride the extra cores as superfluous if in fact they are but I wonder if a real-world user might have a remarkably different experience (which would make 99.99% of these types of articles only useful to the ~5% of users who might actually only run single-task environments).
Anyway, it was really more of a question. The only seriously multi-core computers I use are database and web servers. I multi-task on a single-core, memory-starved workstation.
I enjoy the /. corrections like this (as usual). What I wonder is how do systems like this hold up under reasonable load in real multi-application environments?
I mean looking at my task manager and task bar right now, on a normal business day, I have about 10 applications running using varying amounts of my system resources (plus services). Is the way I work multi-threaded and if so will I notice a difference when I spread this work across these cores? I mean I appreciate they might be saying that single multi-threaded applications are showing disappointing increases but in a normal working environment what about multiple multi/singe threaded applications? I mean single application test environments might not show a very complete picture when compared to real-world use, defeating the very point of the article(s).
Most large/popular websites can fall into 1 of 2 categories: 1) business ventures of some sort or 2) personal itches. I run one that falls into the second category and because I don't want my attempts at commoditization to take away from the project I foot the bill myself.
But artists are not (strictly) business people.
Gene Simmons excepted (but is that the future you'd suggest?).
Abstinence in choice is simply letting someone else make that choice (and then living with it). Not that I don't understand the sentiment, but to be proud of it?
and decide to randomly audit the system you can perform a pretty thorough audit. You can also audit the code itself and make sure the voting system doesn't contain any unforeseen errors and check for back doors.
You're absolutely right that OSS isn't a magic bullet, but it certainly carries plenty of clear advantages over anything else.
Transparency in the election process isn't something we should have to beg for. It's a right.
I live in the city, but I'm pretty sure not everyone does.
to any government.
With a second patent for your physical object.
And by your logic we might as well drink and drive too.