Or for that matter, anything at all to do with Chrono Trigger.
They have done something with it. They used it as a legal weapon to kick their fans in the balls when the fans tried to make their own high-def rerelease.
Why do they keep putting time and effort into making sequels of shit games, yet they refuse to do the minimal-effort massive-profit thing of re-releasing FF7 with high-def graphics?:-|
Why should you waste time and money supporting them?
Because the amount of money you make from supporting them is greater than the amount spent to do so?
If you're running a personal site for your own amusement, then sure, do whatever you think is fun; but when you're trying to make a living (in any industry), rudely telling half your customers to go away is rarely a wise decision
Isn't that perfectly allowed, as long as they don't copy any actual code, data, or trademarks? If cloning a concept is a problem, then there are a lot of open source projects and indie games in trouble:S
Has anyone ever seen any of these books? Last I checked, the recaptcha site describes itself as working on free texts for the good of mankind, but I've never seen the output, and when I tried searching all I could find was other people asking the same question...
If some random dude on the street said "buy this" would you?
It's not an order, but a statement of "I bought this and it was good", and often that is the deciding factor -- when the official specs are too confusing to make an objective assessment (eg, comparing computer parts from different manufacturers), and you don't know anyone with the expertise to have a valid trusted opinion, what is left but to go to the internet and take the average of the untrusted opinions?
Yeah, they abandoned that a few years ago, current plan is something along the lines of "six weeks development, two weeks bugfixes-only, release, repeat", incrementing the third part of the version number each time (ie there are no plans for the "2.6" part to ever change AFAIK)
I always thought that "zero-day" means "before the product is released publicly" -- so eg "zero-day crack" would be a cracked, leaked copy of some software, "one-day exploit" would be an exploit found the same day it was released, etc. But now it seems that "zero-day" is being applied to absolutely every exploit ever. Am I totally mis-remembering? Mis-understanding? Can anyone explain?
When they were getting started, the choice was chop up for radio or don't get signed at all -- it's only now that they're famous that they have the power to do what they always wanted to without being trampled.
(And a theoretical afterthought -- would you make every decision today the same way you made it 40 years ago?)
Because it's a for-profit gossip rag, and more gossip = more ad views. Thankfully you can normally wait 5 minutes then look at the comments and see 10 posts along the lines of "here's why the article is bull and the slashdot editor is a tard" and get some links to actually informative sites.
What really confuses me is why the editors seem to reject submissions with links to source data, and approve submissions that come in hours or days later linking to some third party's useless opinion blog o_O
Just because anything distributed is automatically cooler?
It's not a causal link, but the correlation is pretty much 1:1 -- when I first moved from svn to git, what blew me away was that the command line tools were simply better in basically every way ("git subcommand --help" gives you a scrollable searchable man page rather than wall of text on stdout; coloured output makes it much easier to read; having a local copy of the history makes everything a million times faster, etc) -- it was a few months in before I did anything actually distributed with it...
Plus, the git client tools can bridge to an SVN server (or many other types of VCS), so you can start using all this loveliness whenever you're ready, no need to make it a company-wide change
Who needs a distributed source control system if everyone on my team works in the same office.
Your code is still distributed among multiple people; and even for a single person, you could have several unrelated features being worked on in parallel.
Plus, even if you personally prefer the centralised approach, DVCSes tend to be better at that too (eg - looking at a commit log with SVN was always a chore as you need to wait for the server. Git not only lets you look at it easily, but make use of it, for instance being able to automatically do a binary search across a range of commits to see which patch introduced a bug)
The general public were starting to learn what placebos are, and not believing in them any more, and the effect stopped; now that there is "proof" that they work, the skeptics can believe again, so the effect returns.
News in 10 years: "Placebos still work even when you learn that the 'placebos still work without deception' story was fake"
AFAIK you need to have your code digitally signed by microsoft before it'll be loaded by the xbox OS -- in theory, this stops piracy; in practice, it stops homebrow / third party development
When's the last time you lost data with mysql that was directly attributable to the database
A couple of years ago (the last time I used mysql), I was running it on a tiny VM, where I found it hit the memory and disk limits quite frequently -- and in each case, the server would crash and leave corrupt tables which required 20-30 mins of fixing. Running postgres in the same situation, out of memory causes a single worker process to die (but you can then reconnect, it's not the whole server that's down), out of disk causes "error, out of disk space" (and you can still make read-only queries).
Also, running a pretty high load website (>1000 queries/sec) on not-that-great hardware, it seems mysql would randomly drop table indexes when it couldn't keep up with inserts, thus bringing the whole site grinding to a halt. Since switching that site to postgres, it's been a lot more reliable (it's also been faster, since postgres' indexes are better, and it runs straightforward queries better, where I was always contorting queries to avoid mysql performace gotchas, but those aren't really data loss)
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Or for that matter, anything at all to do with Chrono Trigger.
They have done something with it. They used it as a legal weapon to kick their fans in the balls when the fans tried to make their own high-def rerelease.
Why do they keep putting time and effort into making sequels of shit games, yet they refuse to do the minimal-effort massive-profit thing of re-releasing FF7 with high-def graphics? :-|
Why should you waste time and money supporting them?
Because the amount of money you make from supporting them is greater than the amount spent to do so?
If you're running a personal site for your own amusement, then sure, do whatever you think is fun; but when you're trying to make a living (in any industry), rudely telling half your customers to go away is rarely a wise decision
pronounce their work [irssi.org]
L-eye-nux / L-ee-nux, fair enough; but this guy's using syllables that don't exist in half the world!
copying the concept
Isn't that perfectly allowed, as long as they don't copy any actual code, data, or trademarks? If cloning a concept is a problem, then there are a lot of open source projects and indie games in trouble :S
don't forget the 5th type of post;
- Holier-than-thou git making generalisations of slashdot, complaining of low signal to noise ratio, while their post itself adds to the noise
It could be so much better if this energy was spent on more useful tasks!
Says the guy posting on slashdot
imminent
C++0x
Did anybody else laugh out loud seeing those two words next to each other?
Has anyone ever seen any of these books? Last I checked, the recaptcha site describes itself as working on free texts for the good of mankind, but I've never seen the output, and when I tried searching all I could find was other people asking the same question...
Akismet only works for filtering text -- captchas have much wider uses
If some random dude on the street said "buy this" would you?
It's not an order, but a statement of "I bought this and it was good", and often that is the deciding factor -- when the official specs are too confusing to make an objective assessment (eg, comparing computer parts from different manufacturers), and you don't know anyone with the expertise to have a valid trusted opinion, what is left but to go to the internet and take the average of the untrusted opinions?
I use connectbot a lot, but the android soft keyboard sucks for programmers -- it's possible to create custom input methods, has anybody done so?
Yeah, they abandoned that a few years ago, current plan is something along the lines of "six weeks development, two weeks bugfixes-only, release, repeat", incrementing the third part of the version number each time (ie there are no plans for the "2.6" part to ever change AFAIK)
I always thought that "zero-day" means "before the product is released publicly" -- so eg "zero-day crack" would be a cracked, leaked copy of some software, "one-day exploit" would be an exploit found the same day it was released, etc. But now it seems that "zero-day" is being applied to absolutely every exploit ever. Am I totally mis-remembering? Mis-understanding? Can anyone explain?
When they were getting started, the choice was chop up for radio or don't get signed at all -- it's only now that they're famous that they have the power to do what they always wanted to without being trampled.
(And a theoretical afterthought -- would you make every decision today the same way you made it 40 years ago?)
Why is slashdot providing us with opinions?
Because it's a for-profit gossip rag, and more gossip = more ad views. Thankfully you can normally wait 5 minutes then look at the comments and see 10 posts along the lines of "here's why the article is bull and the slashdot editor is a tard" and get some links to actually informative sites.
What really confuses me is why the editors seem to reject submissions with links to source data, and approve submissions that come in hours or days later linking to some third party's useless opinion blog o_O
going extinct is much better than letting them stay around and suffer
You're clearly stressed about this, can we kill you now? :-)
Just because anything distributed is automatically cooler?
It's not a causal link, but the correlation is pretty much 1:1 -- when I first moved from svn to git, what blew me away was that the command line tools were simply better in basically every way ("git subcommand --help" gives you a scrollable searchable man page rather than wall of text on stdout; coloured output makes it much easier to read; having a local copy of the history makes everything a million times faster, etc) -- it was a few months in before I did anything actually distributed with it...
Plus, the git client tools can bridge to an SVN server (or many other types of VCS), so you can start using all this loveliness whenever you're ready, no need to make it a company-wide change
Who needs a distributed source control system if everyone on my team works in the same office.
Your code is still distributed among multiple people; and even for a single person, you could have several unrelated features being worked on in parallel.
Plus, even if you personally prefer the centralised approach, DVCSes tend to be better at that too (eg - looking at a commit log with SVN was always a chore as you need to wait for the server. Git not only lets you look at it easily, but make use of it, for instance being able to automatically do a binary search across a range of commits to see which patch introduced a bug)
this comic seems to be accurate and appropriate every time a slashdot article title ends with a question mark...
The general public were starting to learn what placebos are, and not believing in them any more, and the effect stopped; now that there is "proof" that they work, the skeptics can believe again, so the effect returns.
News in 10 years: "Placebos still work even when you learn that the 'placebos still work without deception' story was fake"
Multiplayer lego, with zombies
But how in the hell they can stop them?
AFAIK you need to have your code digitally signed by microsoft before it'll be loaded by the xbox OS -- in theory, this stops piracy; in practice, it stops homebrow / third party development
Google confirms it: nerdy in-jokes alienate most of the population
When's the last time you lost data with mysql that was directly attributable to the database
A couple of years ago (the last time I used mysql), I was running it on a tiny VM, where I found it hit the memory and disk limits quite frequently -- and in each case, the server would crash and leave corrupt tables which required 20-30 mins of fixing. Running postgres in the same situation, out of memory causes a single worker process to die (but you can then reconnect, it's not the whole server that's down), out of disk causes "error, out of disk space" (and you can still make read-only queries).
Also, running a pretty high load website (>1000 queries/sec) on not-that-great hardware, it seems mysql would randomly drop table indexes when it couldn't keep up with inserts, thus bringing the whole site grinding to a halt. Since switching that site to postgres, it's been a lot more reliable (it's also been faster, since postgres' indexes are better, and it runs straightforward queries better, where I was always contorting queries to avoid mysql performace gotchas, but those aren't really data loss)