1) Fix a security hole by back porting a security fix
2) Re evaluate a completely new release
This is not a problem. And it doesn't take much to do #1... sure you have to find the right person to do it but it is far from impossible and expensive.... so no I am completely oblivious to corporations that just want to use something for free and then come a complain and whine that something isn't supported anymore... now if they had payed money for it then that's a completely different thing... doesn't RHEL6 support FF3.6 in any case? So there are options for these corporations that are utterly cheapass lazy and incompetent... however having said that... these enterprises will not survive for long so they should in no shape way or form dictate how a browser should be. If Microsoft and IE are fine with that thats their own big big problem. Stale stagnancy as with IE6 and nothing but problems and issues with that kind of an approach. Ok gotta stop before I blow a fuse.
I started when I was 11 and thankfully was a bit more open minded regarding courses but also lived in an education climate where we had mandatory curriculum.
My advice is that you need to learn humility and that is best done through the humanities because lets face it the computer is just a hyper mirror of your own super ego.
So how about jumping on something that is really a challenge like "Child rearing 101." Good luck and have fun you might actually learn something substantial.
When I first looked at iTunesDJ it contained a lot of stuff that I explicitly didn't want and had no time to investigate... remote stuff and all that. Now that I have looked deeper per your advice and turned off basically ALL functionality it works almost as the Rhythmbox queue (it doesn't continue previous playlist when DJ is finished)... however this functionality shouldn't have been this convoluted to get to... sure I need only do this once so its not a biggie. Ok so rather than sucking donkey rocks iTunes just plain sucks donkey now. Thanks!
Having gone from Rhythmbox to iTunes earlier this year I can wholeheartedly say that iTunes sucks donkey rocks in comparison. For instance, Where the hell is a simple play queue? Nothing more severe than ad-hoc play queue... no temporary playlists please. There are more small grating and annoying things... oh yeah not being able to fully read the id3 tags and it ends up selecting the one that is botched and not the full and correct one like Rhythmbox.
Sure I am speaking from a POV where I most likely will not buy new music because I have plenty of good music to listen to already and have no time to spend finding something that is AAA across the board so that it doesn't waste my time.
BTW: iTunes does use a form of SQL'sh datastore but it is stored in XML format... there are even perl scripts for it. And really why should we care how it stores its data?
online... it wasn't that good in online mode so I am not surprised that they are ditching it. Having something that works well has a lot of maintenance and running costs and is generally a money drain on the game. Having low numbers of players will make the economics even more poignant to that fact.
And to everyone thinking that you want to run a server at home... no really you don't... seriously you do not have time for it unless you actually get payed for it.
Games. No joystick and other input handling, no feedback and such. Now if the browsers would have this functionality possible as standard then I would say Microsoft would have a valid concern painting the devil on the wall that they think WebGL is. However without those crucial components its more likely not a valid concern... I argue that their own supposed IE9 3D accelerated rendered pages for 2D panes is already doing something they are now stating is inherently insecure... Microsoft is really now just saying "this shi*t is no way of doing it." In any event it is my honest opinion that Microsoft should not quip anything regarding this nor anyother security whatsoever because it really shows how out of touch they ultimately are.
Not really. In a capitalistic environment only the ones that have enough money to have proper security will flourish. So its good with these security breaches because it will cull the cruft. I wouldn't be surprised if lulzsec already has complete ownage of everything relevant on the net. And with that I hope they'll ramp up the disclosure so the rest of us know how bad it really is. My estimate so far is that it is worse than we can imagine.
Why not. Even MS Office... because then they can ban it too. Libre Office and all the like as well....a mass of reasoning discarded... They need to ditch IPv4 so that they can impinge a total control IPv6 on the populace.
On some level I agree that it would be nicer with a wiki BUT it is nice too to have something that if official and not something that is microedited into oblivion.
Reading between the lines should still be a required skill and having those lines explicitly put in place somewhat clips the wings of future understanding of other texts.
IMHO the initial blog entry is nothing more than bloghorea to me and not worthy a front-post link-whoring post on slashdot.
And remember it could be way worse... it could have been that it actually came in hardbound book only.
It's about history more than anything else and I do understand that all notable games may not be able to be in the final list BUT I do have to disagree with the general voting of this subject matter. Games evolved and there is quite a lineage between thoughts in some games that were expanded upon and so forth. Just because a game may have been successful doesn't mean that it should be on the list. Same goes with their Movie/Film list... I was under the impression that they would have some form of criteria where the History of games... well lets say the "red thread" or "the skeleton" if you will was more important... so IMHO the list is not entirely correct nor deep enough.
Sure... granted I've been in the game biz since the early days and may be vehemently biased on this subject matter.
If its History it should never miss some important ones... how about we cut out 10% of all US presidents... sure presidency is more important than computer games... that is not the problem... History is and it needs to be somewhat correct.
Yeah who am I kidding? The winners write the history... thus no Amiga in there what so ever.
I am very sad that this is happening with technology history... I can see why it happens in politics but technology? That's just bad... what's next... science being equally sifted from the theories that didn't work fully despite the fact that one can learn interesting things through failure and not tread the same path again.
Ok.... stopping my whiny rant before I blow a fuse.
With a list that doesn't have Elite nor Stellar 7 is not a entirely correct list. I still remember playing Arctic Fox on my Amiga... though it was not totally finished. Where are all the games from Psygnosis? Some from Epyx... granted the list would be enormous if one really had to take into consideration of everything.
I believe that version 1.0 in these kind of projects is equal to the perfect implementation... effectively unattainable by its very nature. This approach can be used for smaller closed problem sets that have very definite size of "impact."
Larger stuff like a browser, paint program, music composing are more open ended and will thus require many different major versions but sooner or later it will end up being irrelevant what it is.
So while the Chrome and Firefox version numbers (I argue the Fedora kernel version numbers too) have a crufty digitatis associated to them they do convey a lot of important information to the users who are in the know.
Slashdot Mirror
What is simpler?
1) Fix a security hole by back porting a security fix
2) Re evaluate a completely new release
This is not a problem. And it doesn't take much to do #1... sure you have to find the right person to do it but it is far from impossible and expensive.... so no I am completely oblivious to corporations that just want to use something for free and then come a complain and whine that something isn't supported anymore... now if they had payed money for it then that's a completely different thing... doesn't RHEL6 support FF3.6 in any case? So there are options for these corporations that are utterly cheapass lazy and incompetent... however having said that... these enterprises will not survive for long so they should in no shape way or form dictate how a browser should be. If Microsoft and IE are fine with that thats their own big big problem. Stale stagnancy as with IE6 and nothing but problems and issues with that kind of an approach. Ok gotta stop before I blow a fuse.
Isn't that already on the endangered species list?
So why doesn't the cheapass and lazy corporations support it themselves. The code is there for them to continue to use it as they want.
NOT! I thought I had seen the worst moves in the industry first hand but this one takes the cake... in a big big way.
I started when I was 11 and thankfully was a bit more open minded regarding courses but also lived in an education climate where we had mandatory curriculum.
My advice is that you need to learn humility and that is best done through the humanities because lets face it the computer is just a hyper mirror of your own super ego.
So how about jumping on something that is really a challenge like "Child rearing 101." Good luck and have fun you might actually learn something substantial.
You know its bloated when even
ls -la /usr/bin/vim /usr/bin/vim
2819728
+5MB for the system libs.
Sure just 0.5MB when it is running...
I remember like it was yesterday that I complained vehemently that the text editor used up more than 17k.
"We are all bloated now"
Or they sacked them because the breach was done years ago and the higher ups saw that their sec team was completely incompetent.
Regardless of why and how I firmly believe that the breach was wide open well before it got publicly known.
I think he meant monopoly money. :-D
When I first looked at iTunesDJ it contained a lot of stuff that I explicitly didn't want and had no time to investigate... remote stuff and all that. Now that I have looked deeper per your advice and turned off basically ALL functionality it works almost as the Rhythmbox queue (it doesn't continue previous playlist when DJ is finished) ... however this functionality shouldn't have been this convoluted to get to... sure I need only do this once so its not a biggie. Ok so rather than sucking donkey rocks iTunes just plain sucks donkey now. Thanks!
Having gone from Rhythmbox to iTunes earlier this year I can wholeheartedly say that iTunes sucks donkey rocks in comparison. For instance, Where the hell is a simple play queue? Nothing more severe than ad-hoc play queue... no temporary playlists please. There are more small grating and annoying things... oh yeah not being able to fully read the id3 tags and it ends up selecting the one that is botched and not the full and correct one like Rhythmbox.
Sure I am speaking from a POV where I most likely will not buy new music because I have plenty of good music to listen to already and have no time to spend finding something that is AAA across the board so that it doesn't waste my time.
BTW: iTunes does use a form of SQL'sh datastore but it is stored in XML format... there are even perl scripts for it. And really why should we care how it stores its data?
online... it wasn't that good in online mode so I am not surprised that they are ditching it. Having something that works well has a lot of maintenance and running costs and is generally a money drain on the game. Having low numbers of players will make the economics even more poignant to that fact.
And to everyone thinking that you want to run a server at home... no really you don't... seriously you do not have time for it unless you actually get payed for it.
Well it is more symbiotic than that when it is a business deal. IMHO it is always a mutual investment-buy rather than any selling.
Now we can not say "Nobody got fired for buying Microsoft" let it spread like wildfire... let all top execs that are Microsoft Horny get laid off.
Games. No joystick and other input handling, no feedback and such. Now if the browsers would have this functionality possible as standard then I would say Microsoft would have a valid concern painting the devil on the wall that they think WebGL is. However without those crucial components its more likely not a valid concern... I argue that their own supposed IE9 3D accelerated rendered pages for 2D panes is already doing something they are now stating is inherently insecure... Microsoft is really now just saying "this shi*t is no way of doing it." In any event it is my honest opinion that Microsoft should not quip anything regarding this nor anyother security whatsoever because it really shows how out of touch they ultimately are.
Not really. In a capitalistic environment only the ones that have enough money to have proper security will flourish. So its good with these security breaches because it will cull the cruft. I wouldn't be surprised if lulzsec already has complete ownage of everything relevant on the net. And with that I hope they'll ramp up the disclosure so the rest of us know how bad it really is. My estimate so far is that it is worse than we can imagine.
Why not. Even MS Office... because then they can ban it too. Libre Office and all the like as well. ...a mass of reasoning discarded... They need to ditch IPv4 so that they can impinge a total control IPv6 on the populace.
On some level I agree that it would be nicer with a wiki BUT it is nice too to have something that if official and not something that is microedited into oblivion.
Reading between the lines should still be a required skill and having those lines explicitly put in place somewhat clips the wings of future understanding of other texts.
IMHO the initial blog entry is nothing more than bloghorea to me and not worthy a front-post link-whoring post on slashdot.
And remember it could be way worse... it could have been that it actually came in hardbound book only.
how about fatassium and heavyasshitium. No, I am not serious but hey it's Monday.
IMHO it should have been done back with 2.6.19 or no later than 2.6.25. Better late than never though.
It's about history more than anything else and I do understand that all notable games may not be able to be in the final list BUT I do have to disagree with the general voting of this subject matter. Games evolved and there is quite a lineage between thoughts in some games that were expanded upon and so forth. Just because a game may have been successful doesn't mean that it should be on the list. Same goes with their Movie/Film list... I was under the impression that they would have some form of criteria where the History of games... well lets say the "red thread" or "the skeleton" if you will was more important... so IMHO the list is not entirely correct nor deep enough.
Sure... granted I've been in the game biz since the early days and may be vehemently biased on this subject matter.
If its History it should never miss some important ones... how about we cut out 10% of all US presidents... sure presidency is more important than computer games... that is not the problem... History is and it needs to be somewhat correct.
Yeah who am I kidding? The winners write the history... thus no Amiga in there what so ever.
I am very sad that this is happening with technology history... I can see why it happens in politics but technology? That's just bad... what's next... science being equally sifted from the theories that didn't work fully despite the fact that one can learn interesting things through failure and not tread the same path again.
Ok .... stopping my whiny rant before I blow a fuse.
And where the heck is Dragon's Lair?
With a list that doesn't have Elite nor Stellar 7 is not a entirely correct list. I still remember playing Arctic Fox on my Amiga... though it was not totally finished. Where are all the games from Psygnosis? Some from Epyx... granted the list would be enormous if one really had to take into consideration of everything.
I believe that version 1.0 in these kind of projects is equal to the perfect implementation... effectively unattainable by its very nature. This approach can be used for smaller closed problem sets that have very definite size of "impact."
Larger stuff like a browser, paint program, music composing are more open ended and will thus require many different major versions but sooner or later it will end up being irrelevant what it is.
So while the Chrome and Firefox version numbers (I argue the Fedora kernel version numbers too) have a crufty digitatis associated to them they do convey a lot of important information to the users who are in the know.
actually they took the 14:32:00 out... hmmm... something is fishy.
Oh they reclassified one of them. Makes sense.