1. Dumbing things down just breeds better idiots who will then require even more dumbing down. Offering challenge above and beyond the players current ability is what grants the opportunity for improvement. You don't learn how to play by sticking with "I'm too young to die" mode. 2. we won't know who might want to as long as they refuse to release the tools required.
Maybe gaming has become a victim of the race to the bottom. It's too bad, because I remember a vibrant modding community across many titles: mapping competitions, whole communities surrounding specific mods, LAN events and the like. Now it's all feed-it-to-me-through-a-needle.
The mod tools usually were whatever the developers used to make the assets released under a free to use license that prevented you from selling what you made with them. There's little 'development' involved other than zipping them up and putting them on an ftp. Same thing with mod sdks.
If the state is in dire straits, he should donate some of his profit to help it. Why should the tax payer take on even more of the corporate welfare debt?
Actually, it's microsoft that doesn't play well with much else. Since the driver development consists of closed and open teams, the openness of the code isn't the issue here (though it would be nice to have).
Try doing anything with radeon cards that the installed drivers were not 'optimized' (ie hacked together to get working) for and watch your $500 graphics card fail horribly. eg: 1. Older games (not just ancient, but only a few years ago). 2. demoscene - most demos have trouble with radeon or ship with radeon specific binaries. 3. gpu accelerated desktop applications, 3d design, video editors, CAD, etc. you could argue that one should only use these programs with the 'professional' model cards, but these models share the same driver code with few modifications. The only difference is that they hide the bugs with stupid certification statements like "Only use driver 4.0.456.456.22 with autocad 15.4. While nvidia drivers have issues too, by and large, it's possible to run these applications quite acceptably on the 'gamer' class cards (which are software restricted in the driver) anyway. This is great for the gamer who wants to dabble in other things.
Maybe opengl needs a reworking.. the whole point of an api is to insulate the programmer from the differences in the hardware.
Sending private funds to a specific political platform that isn't friendly to gay rights is NOT equal to using pro gay systemic bias to oust someone from a job. The litmus test is role reversal: If he got them ousted because they were gay, what would you think? Right. The left has manufactured a with us/against us culture around the protected castes in 'affirmative action' that is little different than the one neocons created around christianity. Both are reprehensible and detrimental to individual liberty.
Taking a moral stand and then resorting to end-justifies-means logic in the name of 'pragmatism', even when it contradicts the moral stand, is typical these days..
How about simple unadorned windows, maybe with a few simple hard gradients, where applications conform to the UI standards and conventions the OS imposes on them? Sadly enough, I think windows 2000 did this best, or xp with luna turned off. Everything that came after, from any vendor, not just ms, was just overdone plumbing. When the 3D accelerated stuff came along with aqua and aero, it just made things slower and laggier..and uglier. Now it's swinging hard back the other way, leaving the bloat, ugly, and wasted screen space, yet simplifying things into fisherprice counterparts.
Every time the ASP changes shit for changes sake, or nixes needed features altogether, any money saved initially goes right out the window. Outsourcing is not the answer, no matter what the PHBs think.
How good would your car mechanic be if his tools were changed around, removed, added, altered every night before reporting for work the next day? Not very.
Actually, no, that's not what I said at all. You might try rereading, and if you still don't get it, perhaps a reading comprehension course at your local community college would help.
Japan is one of the most feminized countries on the planet. Men there have been feminized to the point of absurdity such that the women there want little to do with them unless they're willing to put in inhuman hours at work to 'support' a family (ie top 10 percent).. Basically these guys are just opting out of the rat race because they've realized the costs to life, health and sanity outweigh what few benefits the women might offer, leaving the women to fight for the dwindling supply of 'alphas' at the top. The west should take note of this trend because while japan has some unique attributes to its culture, we have our own version of it now too. Today's feminism damns men for doing and damns them for not, so more and more of them are realizing it's cheaper, healthier and saner to be damned for nothing than to work at it.
No. Anarchy is a stateless society. Ever notice how communist countries never seem to move beyond that 'transition' state where a small party elite has absolute control over 99% of the country's resources?
No. Anarchy is a stateless society. Ever notice how communist countries never seem to move beyond that 'transition' period where a small party elite has absolute power and control over 99% of the country's resources?
If anyone is harassing here, it's the gay employees who used their social and political dominance in society (at mozilla, friendly politicians and policy, and public sentiment) to get someone fired from his job. If this was flipped around, and he managed to get these gay employees fired using similar methods because he didn't like the fact they were gay, that would be harassment too. Except, oh wait, this isn't harassment, it's discrimination, a completely different concept. He was discriminated against because of his (I'm assuming) religious convictions, which are already protected rights under the law (unlike the gay marriage proposition at the time of his donation). If you expect him to respect the rights of gays (whatever you perceive them to be), then you must also demand these employees respect his. Being fired for backing the wrong politics is NOT acceptable in a free society.
So what does this say about who's the oppressed and who's the oppressor? In this particular case those employees acted despicably and hypocritically, claiming victimhood and then enabling the same kind of systemic discrimination they claim is so vile. In fact, most 'harassment' these days seems to be little more than professional victimhood (Atheism+, anita sarkesian, sarah sharp, donglegate , obama's dear colleague letter demanding lower evidence standards for 'sexual harassment' tribunals in colleges etc). The bottom line is, if you're truly being harassed by someone, you don't try to get them fired, or engage in catty little passive aggressive witchhunts. You call the police.
I am sure the gay employees at mozilla have spent private funds supporting their politics, and I didn't see that new ceo hassling them for it, even if he disagrees. Who's the better person here?
Anyway, none of this should matter because work is not a place where you get to hang out with the people you want to hang out with. You're going to encounter people who have beliefs and lifestyles that differ from yours. You're all there to work, not to establish little gay (or christian, or athletic etc) cliques and then demand the rest of society shield you from it. Whining and saying "I feel offended/unsafe" just to get someone fired for conflicting political beliefs is exactly the kind of systemic oppression people like yourself claim is such a problem. Nothing kills legitimacy faster than hypocrisy.
I don't see how systemd could be any better at stopping runaway/zombie'd processes than the kill command. The cgroup stuff is interesting, but not worth the rest of the complexity. I don't think anyone is saying that sysV init is perfect, but that it is good enough to do what needs doing without being over complicated. In terms of 'proper logs', to me a proper log is a text file that can be easily searched without using some fumble fuck interface that reminds me of event viewer in windows or it's horrid powershell command line backend.
Maybe people would be more receptive to systemd if it weren't a huge monolithic solution that runs counter to 40 years of unix evolution that has worked quite well.
Yeah I remember looking at that a few years ago when it was announced on the forums.. It was too much in an alpha state to be usable at the time. I'll have another look..
scheme? Why would you write a system init in a functional language? It's ALL about states and dependencies. Your examples would, at best, be managed as dependent what-if events by init.. There's no reason for init to have carnal knowledge of openafs etc.
It is not a static situation. There is an overt attempt to force the community to use something that violates a lot of long standing design principles (KISS, readability etc).. Just because they're old doesn't mean they're not still relevant. I happen to think they're the reason unix is a lot more robust than other operating systems.
'hating change' is an ad hominem that distorts the issue. Change can bring good, but it can also bring bad. Change for changes sake usually results in the latter.
here are the big ones. 1. totally unnecessary complexity for startup, logs, and other things. This is really the big one. What's next? a registry to track settings? 2. KISS doesn't break and can be validated for security. systemd is like modern cars that dont come with spare tires and have the dealer locked computer between you and everything.. Even if you could replace that alternator yourself and get home, the dealer still needs to unlock it before the car will start again, resulting in a tow anyway. Why? $$$ and control freakery, which is really what this is about for redhat.
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1. Dumbing things down just breeds better idiots who will then require even more dumbing down. Offering challenge above and beyond the players current ability is what grants the opportunity for improvement. You don't learn how to play by sticking with "I'm too young to die" mode.
2. we won't know who might want to as long as they refuse to release the tools required.
Maybe gaming has become a victim of the race to the bottom. It's too bad, because I remember a vibrant modding community across many titles: mapping competitions, whole communities surrounding specific mods, LAN events and the like. Now it's all feed-it-to-me-through-a-needle.
The mod tools usually were whatever the developers used to make the assets released under a free to use license that prevented you from selling what you made with them. There's little 'development' involved other than zipping them up and putting them on an ftp. Same thing with mod sdks.
If the state is in dire straits, he should donate some of his profit to help it. Why should the tax payer take on even more of the corporate welfare debt?
Actually, it's microsoft that doesn't play well with much else. Since the driver development consists of closed and open teams, the openness of the code isn't the issue here (though it would be nice to have).
Try doing anything with radeon cards that the installed drivers were not 'optimized' (ie hacked together to get working) for and watch your $500 graphics card fail horribly.
eg:
1. Older games (not just ancient, but only a few years ago).
2. demoscene - most demos have trouble with radeon or ship with radeon specific binaries.
3. gpu accelerated desktop applications, 3d design, video editors, CAD, etc. you could argue that one should only use these programs with the 'professional' model cards, but these models share the same driver code with few modifications. The only difference is that they hide the bugs with stupid certification statements like "Only use driver 4.0.456.456.22 with autocad 15.4. While nvidia drivers have issues too, by and large, it's possible to run these applications quite acceptably on the 'gamer' class cards (which are software restricted in the driver) anyway. This is great for the gamer who wants to dabble in other things.
Maybe opengl needs a reworking.. the whole point of an api is to insulate the programmer from the differences in the hardware.
Sending private funds to a specific political platform that isn't friendly to gay rights is NOT equal to using pro gay systemic bias to oust someone from a job. The litmus test is role reversal: If he got them ousted because they were gay, what would you think? Right. The left has manufactured a with us/against us culture around the protected castes in 'affirmative action' that is little different than the one neocons created around christianity. Both are reprehensible and detrimental to individual liberty.
Taking a moral stand and then resorting to end-justifies-means logic in the name of 'pragmatism', even when it contradicts the moral stand, is typical these days..
How about simple unadorned windows, maybe with a few simple hard gradients, where applications conform to the UI standards and conventions the OS imposes on them? Sadly enough, I think windows 2000 did this best, or xp with luna turned off. Everything that came after, from any vendor, not just ms, was just overdone plumbing. When the 3D accelerated stuff came along with aqua and aero, it just made things slower and laggier..and uglier. Now it's swinging hard back the other way, leaving the bloat, ugly, and wasted screen space, yet simplifying things into fisherprice counterparts.
fuck skeuomorphic rubbish.. that shit's as bad as the worst custom skinned vb application.
how is this a troll?
Every time the ASP changes shit for changes sake, or nixes needed features altogether, any money saved initially goes right out the window. Outsourcing is not the answer, no matter what the PHBs think.
How good would your car mechanic be if his tools were changed around, removed, added, altered every night before reporting for work the next day? Not very.
Actually, no, that's not what I said at all. You might try rereading, and if you still don't get it, perhaps a reading comprehension course at your local community college would help.
Japan is one of the most feminized countries on the planet. Men there have been feminized to the point of absurdity such that the women there want little to do with them unless they're willing to put in inhuman hours at work to 'support' a family (ie top 10 percent).. Basically these guys are just opting out of the rat race because they've realized the costs to life, health and sanity outweigh what few benefits the women might offer, leaving the women to fight for the dwindling supply of 'alphas' at the top. The west should take note of this trend because while japan has some unique attributes to its culture, we have our own version of it now too. Today's feminism damns men for doing and damns them for not, so more and more of them are realizing it's cheaper, healthier and saner to be damned for nothing than to work at it.
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No. Anarchy is a stateless society. Ever notice how communist countries never seem to move beyond that 'transition' state where a small party elite has absolute control over 99% of the country's resources?
No. Anarchy is a stateless society. Ever notice how communist countries never seem to move beyond that 'transition' period where a small party elite has absolute power and control over 99% of the country's resources?
If anyone is harassing here, it's the gay employees who used their social and political dominance in society (at mozilla, friendly politicians and policy, and public sentiment) to get someone fired from his job. If this was flipped around, and he managed to get these gay employees fired using similar methods because he didn't like the fact they were gay, that would be harassment too. Except, oh wait, this isn't harassment, it's discrimination, a completely different concept. He was discriminated against because of his (I'm assuming) religious convictions, which are already protected rights under the law (unlike the gay marriage proposition at the time of his donation). If you expect him to respect the rights of gays (whatever you perceive them to be), then you must also demand these employees respect his. Being fired for backing the wrong politics is NOT acceptable in a free society.
So what does this say about who's the oppressed and who's the oppressor? In this particular case those employees acted despicably and hypocritically, claiming victimhood and then enabling the same kind of systemic discrimination they claim is so vile. In fact, most 'harassment' these days seems to be little more than professional victimhood (Atheism+, anita sarkesian, sarah sharp, donglegate , obama's dear colleague letter demanding lower evidence standards for 'sexual harassment' tribunals in colleges etc). The bottom line is, if you're truly being harassed by someone, you don't try to get them fired, or engage in catty little passive aggressive witchhunts. You call the police.
I am sure the gay employees at mozilla have spent private funds supporting their politics, and I didn't see that new ceo hassling them for it, even if he disagrees. Who's the better person here?
Anyway, none of this should matter because work is not a place where you get to hang out with the people you want to hang out with. You're going to encounter people who have beliefs and lifestyles that differ from yours. You're all there to work, not to establish little gay (or christian, or athletic etc) cliques and then demand the rest of society shield you from it. Whining and saying "I feel offended/unsafe" just to get someone fired for conflicting political beliefs is exactly the kind of systemic oppression people like yourself claim is such a problem. Nothing kills legitimacy faster than hypocrisy.
take it up with careserv newb!
I don't see how systemd could be any better at stopping runaway/zombie'd processes than the kill command. The cgroup stuff is interesting, but not worth the rest of the complexity. I don't think anyone is saying that sysV init is perfect, but that it is good enough to do what needs doing without being over complicated. In terms of 'proper logs', to me a proper log is a text file that can be easily searched without using some fumble fuck interface that reminds me of event viewer in windows or it's horrid powershell command line backend.
Maybe people would be more receptive to systemd if it weren't a huge monolithic solution that runs counter to 40 years of unix evolution that has worked quite well.
Yeah I remember looking at that a few years ago when it was announced on the forums.. It was too much in an alpha state to be usable at the time. I'll have another look..
Fuck those app stores.. just give me a download for the zip file..
Might as well use gentoo or slack.
scheme? Why would you write a system init in a functional language? It's ALL about states and dependencies. Your examples would, at best, be managed as dependent what-if events by init.. There's no reason for init to have carnal knowledge of openafs etc.
It is not a static situation. There is an overt attempt to force the community to use something that violates a lot of long standing design principles (KISS, readability etc).. Just because they're old doesn't mean they're not still relevant. I happen to think they're the reason unix is a lot more robust than other operating systems.
'hating change' is an ad hominem that distorts the issue. Change can bring good, but it can also bring bad. Change for changes sake usually results in the latter.
here are the big ones.
1. totally unnecessary complexity for startup, logs, and other things. This is really the big one. What's next? a registry to track settings?
2. KISS doesn't break and can be validated for security. systemd is like modern cars that dont come with spare tires and have the dealer locked computer between you and everything.. Even if you could replace that alternator yourself and get home, the dealer still needs to unlock it before the car will start again, resulting in a tow anyway. Why? $$$ and control freakery, which is really what this is about for redhat.
You mean like windows 2000 interface to metro? Gnome 2 to Gnome 3? It's change alright, but is it improvement? Change can make things worse too.