So? Perhaps they wanted to see how infared equipment should behave under such conditions? If they're using the scenery for a campaign, they would need to know details like this because Arma is supposed to be a highly realistic military simulator.
Then why call it 'espionage' if that isn't what they'll be charged for? Are the charges ridiculous or are you justifying the arrests because the laws exist? The former I agree with, but the latter is circular reasoning (the law is just because the law exists because it is just because...).
In free countries, the laws that do get passed make sense and the punishments fit, making charge stacking pointless and counterproductive.. In current trends, the states keep ramping up the punishments to the point of jaywalking = death to prop up political campaigns, and the prosecutors (or their equivalents) stack the charges as much as they can get away with. How long before cameras are covered as 'automatic weapons' under the law? Watch.. I'll bet it'll happen eventually.
What? So much for the 'free' western world. Since when is taking pictures of scenery 'espionage'? I know most people in the west mark the fall of the soviet union as a high point in history for freedom, but legislation/political action in various countries over the last 20 years or so makes it seem like the beginning of its decline.
none of this does anything but stave it off a few years anyway....assuming EVERYONE did this at once. the real answer is lower population and new energy sources.. of course no leadership in the west has the balls to be labeled the next hitler for suggesting we let unproductive, nonsustaining nations die off first, so I guess mass starvation is it.
so you want to take all the user empowering stuff out.. That way you can more easily bore out the back end, attach strings, and use them to jerk the user around into using your software in only the ways you want?
Look, your desires aren't that different from the GPL because the only true difference is in the currency. You want to be paid in cash and control, and the GPL demands payment in code to defend software freedom. I find it funny when commercial people whine about the gpl because they are actually the entitled ones. They're demanding access to free code only to turn it closed source so they can compete with the open project they forked it from.
If your business model relies on false scarcity alone you should go out of business.
There's no reason for that.. You're welcome to release closed binaries on linux.. It's done all the time.
'universal installer?' well I guess that's possible, but the binaries it installs are another matter. god..this is the mentality that spawned shitpiles like java and.net in the first place.. they were supposed to be platform neutral, but all they ended up doing was adding bloat and heftier hardware requirements..
just write the damn thing in lean, ANSI C and if you code it with some forethought, it'll be reasonably portable with a little work.. boxing your logic up into needless abstractions does not solve EITHER of these problems.
or that the 'problems' preventing wide spread adoption aren't problems at all, but attributes he finds valuable and doesn't want them lost for the sake of insipidity.
Perhaps he's happy with the linux desktop systems the way they are.. or perhaps his definition of 'accessible' does not include dumbing things down for tards to the point where it becomes useless for real work.
it lags when your modern cpu is idle? pathetic.. There is NO excuse for this.
poettering and his crew are trying to take those choices away by embedding their idiocy into every other project with their 'giant spaghetti blob' approach to 'Gnome OS'..from gnome3 to systemd..
Microsoft dumped their old but much easier to use design because they've always been wannabes. No, I blame apple and the whole tablet fad. The full screen start menu offers nothing of value over the existing one. Both allowed access to programs and files.. it's just that the new one is distracting and painful to use and the old menu isn't.
1. performance extends battery life.. 2. performance expands applications' potential.. 3. performance is vital to all users..
I'll bet all the GL accelerated window managers have much higher, perceptible latency than the old 2D accelerated blitter that comes with X. I even notice it on relatively powerful gpus, and on the typical gpus found in laptops, it's painful. This happens when a comparative metric fuckton of extra data gets shoved every time a window is moved, button clicked, or menu animated.. Sure, the bitmaps (or vectors) are in the gpu vram, but there's a lot of overhead in system land, and pixel shaders+layered surfaces have a way of bringing nearly any gpu to its knees. The shading and effects are not worth having my system taxed like this just to render a window. Not being able to turn them off is a deal breaker.
Yes.. and if osx is the shining example of a good HIG, these people are high on crack..or vacuum..or something. What they consider clutter is to others, a needed part of their workflow that makes things a lot easier. For example, the menu-at-the-top concept sucks for workflows with lots of applications and/or windows open.. On a 24" or larger screen, why should I have to click a little window on the lower right, then go all the way up to the upper left of the screen to access its menus? asinine.. Of course, if you accept the HIGs (apparent) fisher price attitude towards users, where fullscreen one-task-at-a-time rules the day, it doesn't matter so much since the menus will always be right above the 'window.'
Actually, it's 'useability commitees' that are usually the source for asstarded designs. The kind that only really make sense in the highest reaches of the ivory tower where they huff mostly vacuum. Everyone at gnome considers themselves 'designers' who apparently don't actually use the software they create. Just watch those 'this is how we made gnome...better" youtube videos to get an idea.
Having the menus at the top of the screen defined by the active window requires extra mouse antics, so I like the menus for each program contained within its window. I do not work in full screen unless I'm watching a video and doing little else. I have lots of windows open at once so I can monitor output simultaneously and provide input when required. How about some code open with an irc client, video/audio player open as well.. IM chat? video/audio editing software with encoders?
Some of us actually use the power we have in our desktops. We don't want that power sucked away with useless animations and idiotic limitations designed for constrained input like tablets. Seriously, it seems the current crop of 'designers' (I use the term loosely) working on gnome has never used a computer for anything more than checking facebook and playing music.
Usually, notifications can be set up to pop up for a time, then disappear, or have them stay up until they're dismissed. Gnome doesn't allow this choice?
The whole point of locking the screen is so that others can't see what's on it without your permission...that includes emails/messages and anything else. If you just want to see your messages and don't care about privacy or the lifespan of your display, turn off the screensaver and powersave features.
that's what I thought as well, but there are exceptions such as the after-mission jump in missions where the capital ship/base was in another system. I just figured the player just wasn't supposed to get that into it.
if it uses the stock freespace model, then no. The fighters had afterburners, but they would slow right back down again after the burn. Also, the 'subspace' laws are a bit ambiguous.. some ships could jump anywhere, others needed to do it at the system 'jump node.'...but that was sometimes too. In one freespace2 mission, even the player had to jump from the node or he'd lose the mission. After completing most missions, the fighter would jump to return to the home ship regardless if the home ship was in-system or not.. Someone didn't think it through all the way..
Not necessarily. How often do we encounter NIH syndrome? IP rights nonsense? bleh.. The most reliable car manufacturer can't even get electronic throttles as reliable as the old cabled' kind..
Well, we can argue statistics forever.. Until you can give me guarantee on par with your insanely high risk-adverse expectations that this won't be abused by authority, I'm not interested in handing over the control of yet another aspect of my life to some external ruled-by-committee agent who will then use it as yet another thorn to micromanage my behavior.
There is a point where things are good enough, and further optimization causes extreme harm to other aspects.
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haha.. maybe who knows.
So? Perhaps they wanted to see how infared equipment should behave under such conditions? If they're using the scenery for a campaign, they would need to know details like this because Arma is supposed to be a highly realistic military simulator.
Then why call it 'espionage' if that isn't what they'll be charged for? Are the charges ridiculous or are you justifying the arrests because the laws exist? The former I agree with, but the latter is circular reasoning (the law is just because the law exists because it is just because...).
In free countries, the laws that do get passed make sense and the punishments fit, making charge stacking pointless and counterproductive.. In current trends, the states keep ramping up the punishments to the point of jaywalking = death to prop up political campaigns, and the prosecutors (or their equivalents) stack the charges as much as they can get away with. How long before cameras are covered as 'automatic weapons' under the law? Watch.. I'll bet it'll happen eventually.
What? So much for the 'free' western world. Since when is taking pictures of scenery 'espionage'? I know most people in the west mark the fall of the soviet union as a high point in history for freedom, but legislation/political action in various countries over the last 20 years or so makes it seem like the beginning of its decline.
none of this does anything but stave it off a few years anyway....assuming EVERYONE did this at once. the real answer is lower population and new energy sources.. of course no leadership in the west has the balls to be labeled the next hitler for suggesting we let unproductive, nonsustaining nations die off first, so I guess mass starvation is it.
I think you are pretty ignorant if you think 'universal installers' are the real roadblocks involved..
so you want to take all the user empowering stuff out.. That way you can more easily bore out the back end, attach strings, and use them to jerk the user around into using your software in only the ways you want?
Look, your desires aren't that different from the GPL because the only true difference is in the currency. You want to be paid in cash and control, and the GPL demands payment in code to defend software freedom. I find it funny when commercial people whine about the gpl because they are actually the entitled ones. They're demanding access to free code only to turn it closed source so they can compete with the open project they forked it from.
If your business model relies on false scarcity alone you should go out of business.
There's no reason for that.. You're welcome to release closed binaries on linux.. It's done all the time.
'universal installer?' well I guess that's possible, but the binaries it installs are another matter. god ..this is the mentality that spawned shitpiles like java and .net in the first place.. they were supposed to be platform neutral, but all they ended up doing was adding bloat and heftier hardware requirements..
just write the damn thing in lean, ANSI C and if you code it with some forethought, it'll be reasonably portable with a little work.. boxing your logic up into needless abstractions does not solve EITHER of these problems.
or that the 'problems' preventing wide spread adoption aren't problems at all, but attributes he finds valuable and doesn't want them lost for the sake of insipidity.
Perhaps he's happy with the linux desktop systems the way they are.. or perhaps his definition of 'accessible' does not include dumbing things down for tards to the point where it becomes useless for real work.
it lags when your modern cpu is idle? pathetic.. There is NO excuse for this.
poettering and his crew are trying to take those choices away by embedding their idiocy into every other project with their 'giant spaghetti blob' approach to 'Gnome OS'..from gnome3 to systemd..
Microsoft dumped their old but much easier to use design because they've always been wannabes. No, I blame apple and the whole tablet fad. The full screen start menu offers nothing of value over the existing one. Both allowed access to programs and files.. it's just that the new one is distracting and painful to use and the old menu isn't.
sell your dildo mutual masturbatory marketing droid bullshit somewhere else..
Other peoples' emotions shouldn't affect your practical decision on desktop environment.. Gnome is a pos? use KDE or xfce or whatever..
1. performance extends battery life..
2. performance expands applications' potential..
3. performance is vital to all users..
I'll bet all the GL accelerated window managers have much higher, perceptible latency than the old 2D accelerated blitter that comes with X. I even notice it on relatively powerful gpus, and on the typical gpus found in laptops, it's painful. This happens when a comparative metric fuckton of extra data gets shoved every time a window is moved, button clicked, or menu animated.. Sure, the bitmaps (or vectors) are in the gpu vram, but there's a lot of overhead in system land, and pixel shaders+layered surfaces have a way of bringing nearly any gpu to its knees. The shading and effects are not worth having my system taxed like this just to render a window. Not being able to turn them off is a deal breaker.
Yes.. and if osx is the shining example of a good HIG, these people are high on crack..or vacuum..or something. What they consider clutter is to others, a needed part of their workflow that makes things a lot easier. For example, the menu-at-the-top concept sucks for workflows with lots of applications and/or windows open.. On a 24" or larger screen, why should I have to click a little window on the lower right, then go all the way up to the upper left of the screen to access its menus? asinine.. Of course, if you accept the HIGs (apparent) fisher price attitude towards users, where fullscreen one-task-at-a-time rules the day, it doesn't matter so much since the menus will always be right above the 'window.'
Uniqueness doesn't guarantee success nor should it be a measure of it.
Actually, it's 'useability commitees' that are usually the source for asstarded designs. The kind that only really make sense in the highest reaches of the ivory tower where they huff mostly vacuum. Everyone at gnome considers themselves 'designers' who apparently don't actually use the software they create. Just watch those 'this is how we made gnome...better" youtube videos to get an idea.
noo thanks.. I don't want to live in a police state so people can prop up false scarcity.
Having the menus at the top of the screen defined by the active window requires extra mouse antics, so I like the menus for each program contained within its window. I do not work in full screen unless I'm watching a video and doing little else. I have lots of windows open at once so I can monitor output simultaneously and provide input when required. How about some code open with an irc client, video/audio player open as well.. IM chat? video/audio editing software with encoders?
Some of us actually use the power we have in our desktops. We don't want that power sucked away with useless animations and idiotic limitations designed for constrained input like tablets. Seriously, it seems the current crop of 'designers' (I use the term loosely) working on gnome has never used a computer for anything more than checking facebook and playing music.
gak...
Usually, notifications can be set up to pop up for a time, then disappear, or have them stay up until they're dismissed. Gnome doesn't allow this choice?
I'm not sure I understand..(I'm not a gnome3 user). Everything should be hidden when the screen is locked. That's the point.
The whole point of locking the screen is so that others can't see what's on it without your permission...that includes emails/messages and anything else. If you just want to see your messages and don't care about privacy or the lifespan of your display, turn off the screensaver and powersave features.
that's what I thought as well, but there are exceptions such as the after-mission jump in missions where the capital ship/base was in another system. I just figured the player just wasn't supposed to get that into it.
if it uses the stock freespace model, then no. The fighters had afterburners, but they would slow right back down again after the burn. Also, the 'subspace' laws are a bit ambiguous.. some ships could jump anywhere, others needed to do it at the system 'jump node.'...but that was sometimes too. In one freespace2 mission, even the player had to jump from the node or he'd lose the mission. After completing most missions, the fighter would jump to return to the home ship regardless if the home ship was in-system or not.. Someone didn't think it through all the way..
Not necessarily. How often do we encounter NIH syndrome? IP rights nonsense? bleh.. The most reliable car manufacturer can't even get electronic throttles as reliable as the old cabled' kind..
Well, we can argue statistics forever.. Until you can give me guarantee on par with your insanely high risk-adverse expectations that this won't be abused by authority, I'm not interested in handing over the control of yet another aspect of my life to some external ruled-by-committee agent who will then use it as yet another thorn to micromanage my behavior.
There is a point where things are good enough, and further optimization causes extreme harm to other aspects.