In fact the graphics might be as realistic as some people want them to be. I like FPS and sandbox type games, but I am not sure I would want to play one that is photo real. Part of the fun of these games is that its cartoon violence. If they reminded me more of the terrible things I have seen, or the really terrible things I have seen on the news I think it would remove the joy of play.
Do you really want to drive down a street in GTA past some meth-head twitching with withdraw showing their missing teeth and jaw swollen infection? Do you really want see the guy you just shot go pale and grab at the wound in despair? These games are about escapism to some degree and while up to a point making them more and more realistic made them more emmersive, we are near the place where if we carry it much farther we are going to start feeling bad for the fates of the characters. If that is what you want perhaps you'd find a John Stienbeck novel more satisfying than a game.
Where do you draw the line? See you disassemble and rebuild and engine analogy to my mind would be more comparable to knowing how to implement something like netfliter than to knowing how to use the iptables command to manipulate it.
If you and other people maintain this silly attitude that its unreasonable to have to *learn* something in order to operate complex tools there is no end in sight. Next you will be telling us you should not have to know where to click in all those menus and buttons.
The real value of consoles is they are hassle free. You never have issues with drivers, or have to wonder if your rig will perform well enough to make the experience worth while, you can just take the game home and play.
If you are willing to tinker and have money to burn then yes the PC experience can be amazing next to a console for at least the latter 2/3 of any given console generations life cycle, but it takes *work* that many people just don't want to put into playing games.
This is not true, nor is it ideal. If a whole generation of people, or even half of that generation, is willing to continually break the rules to use their own devices, employers cannot commence with the wholesale termination of half their labor force. Production would grind to a halt. There would be economic turmoil.
No they won't engage in wholesale termination they will identify a few people they don't like for whatever reason that was not really good enough to justify firing them before, and make a lot of noise like "John Doe" was insubordinate and violated or policy. The rest of you are on notice!
And the rest of em will realize that the job market is still tough and getting caned because "I could not respect my employers desire for me not to have my IPad on their network is kinda stupid. " Much better to keep collecting that check every two weeks so I can buy toys to play with at home.
I work in IT security and I have been told in no uncertain terms what my job is by upper management.
They don't want to find themselves having to put something in the notes to the financials that our trade secrets have leaked, or that our competitors no our costs. They don't want to be embarrassed and have to apologize for leaking customer data. We are a manufacturing company we sell tools to professionals they expect us to be professions as well as look it. Management does not want to look like Sony.
I don't get off on saying "no" to people. I really don't but if I let a device be connected to the network I have to be able to know DLP policies are being followed. That means I probably have to have more control over your toys than you want me to have, or you have to settle less than great experiences. No you can't read e-mail on your IPhone APP, you can use Citrix to read it in Notes via your IPhone, and yes that probably is to painful to be worth while. We can't afford a large cached copy of your mail file to be sitting on a device you might lose which *may* be recoverable by its next possessor.
Your personal laptop, certainly if you let me put our full disk encryption software on it, and our endpoint policy enforcement tools and only IT Security gets root. You won't like that though, and I know it. Trouble is I don't have better solutions.
That is kinda of the problem Righthaven wants it both ways. They want the protection of the corporate veil so their creator's assets are not ever at any risk from a counter suit or other action, and at the same time wants to be able to collect damages from others who may have impaired those assets.
Microsoft's IDEs are pigs, the great if you have powerful machine to run them on but suck donkey balls otherwise. Using Visual studio on an highend workstation is a joy, using it on just some PC is like going to the dentist.
Codeblocks on the other hand runs great even on an anemic netbook and has all the really important features for the C/C++ programmer. I switched and I will never go back.
Thank you! I have raised this issue before and mostly gotten flamed for it. Words have meanings or they should. I don't why we can't just call high speed Internet um... high speed Internet, and keep broadband referring to transmission method.
And none of that stuff is hard to deal with. Look end users don't build Gnome unless they are pretty advanced. Distributions package Gnome or they don't. So all you have to do is have a middle layer. That middle layer has a specified backend. You tell the distros look you need to create a/etc/gnome.rc directory (or something else if you pass option to configure). In that directory you need to have scripts for the following named rd.wireless, rc.firewall, rc.adduser, rc.deluser, rc.moduser and so on and so forth. Those scripts will take the following arguments blah blah blah.
The people packaging gnome for the distro then simply write the scripts to do what they have to do make the configuration changes. This is not a hard problem to solve... It would mean Gnomes firewall, wireless, widgets would work everywhere!
Its doing great. It still runs like top even on the underpowered netbook, and its every bit as pretty and functional as Gnome and KDE. Try it I think you will like it very much.
Outside a few egomaniacs with a one distro to bind them all mentality, this is not how things have been done up till now. I don't think the larger community wants to change either.
FreeDesktop.org has turned out some nice software but I don't like what they doing. Its one thing to suggest some high-level standards and try to create some consistency among projects that are already tied to a set of core libraries, its another to have to assume your specific daemon systemd or whatever is running. There is no reason to require something like that when it would be simple enough to abstract things in away that highlevel stuff like a gtk dialog can start an stop services in whatever way a particular distro wants to set things up.
Taking Gnome entirely Linux specific is the same deal, it means you have to accept a whole heap of stuff and conventions or you can't use it all. Thats dumb, ultimately its going to make distributions more varied not less. As a few core decisions will determine the entire software stack.
Over the short term it will enable people to polish up somethings and make them work real nice, as time marches on though its going to mean that something written for a Debian based distro wont be portable at all to something based on REHL or Slackware, or any of the BSDs. We will all end up with few software choices not more.
Would not help at all. Wine is two things, its an implementation of the Windows api and a loader. If you have the source you can compile your windows api application for other some architectures using winelib. So you might be able to port your program to ARM Linux with it. You would not need winelib on Windows because Windows will provide the windows api.
You can't use wines loader and server functions to run x86 code on ARM period, it does not provide a virtual machine. All it can do is let you run binaries build for x86 windows on other x86 platforms. So wine is useless for running legacy software on ARM Windows.
Nintendo is probably ok because by all indications they don't store CC numbers. You have to enter it every time you want to buy WiiPoints.
The other thing Nintendo has going for them is they don't ask for your name, except when you use the a CC which makes me think that again they are not keeping the data. It seems like most of the time as far as Nintendo is concerned you are WiiNumber and nothing more. I could be wrong they could be keeping CC information attached to all that transaction data; but the big question would then be why if they don't use it for anything..
I don't think he saying that at all. What he is saying is there is line somewhere where when you cross it you need to be something of an expert or find someone who is. Should you be able to change your wallpaper and screen resolution with a few mouse clicks yes, just like you should be able to tune a new radio station in your car with the push of button or twist of knob.
Whey move into the realm of things fewer people need to do or into doing things that might have consequences which need to be understood there is no real reason for develops to spend a whole lot of time making it easy. Changing the pistons in an engine with larger ones will alter other properties than just torque and horse power. You have to know something about engines to want to do it in the first place, why should engineers spend a whole lot of time making it possible to change pistons without removing the head (if that were even possible). Anyone who would want to do it, is capable of removing the head and putting it back and setting the timing again.
Its the same thing if you know what huge page file is you know how to make the kernel build changes required for that, and if you don't you at least would be able understand the documentation when you look it up.
The problem with the Linux/Unix CLI, is that it assumes you know the name of the program/tool you want to use.
Umm how about using apropos?
What the arguments that the CLI is to hard for most people come down to is "I am unwilling to learn anything." Sure unlike a gui which can lead you a little bit that blinking cursor does nothing to suggest any course of action at all more specific than "type something" however after a maybe 30min primer anyone who is not completely lazy could know enough to get started and use tools to locate the additional information they need.
Right if Linux is ever going to be excepted by the main stream consumer market we need to provide a high quality easy to use tool, dedicated to editing configuration data like regedit.
While I am not sure about the quality of this article and its unclear how some of these conclusions are reached should this events be corroborated later this is a big deal. If true it kinda throws out some of the hey it stood up to way more than was ever expected, these things really are safe narrative.
BtrFS can upgrade in place as well, and even better it can leave the old file system meta data intact so until you commit the snapshot you can even down grade back to ext2/3 if you like; but you'd loose any other changes made to the file system since the switch to BtrFS as well.
I agree the stated reason was to help home owners, after all it would be terrible politics to say we are doinging this to help bankers get rich. Still I don't think its all that helpful to home owners. While it does create a substantial tax savings for millions of people my self included, I doubt the interest tax decuction really has a major impact on affordability for most buyers. What it does is encorage people to borrow more. They buy sooner putting less money down or they buy more because the tax break effectively lowers the interest rate. It distorts the time value and real costs of money; in way that is favorable to bankers who make money be lending it. The government is essentialy encoraging the use of the service the banks provide. They are moving the tipping point where that service is a good value for the consumer, distorting the invisable hands pressure and enriching bankers at the expense of the rest of the non-home buying public.
What's the point of taxing someone 30%, then giving them a mortgage deduction, education deduction, horse rodeo operator deduction, etc.?
There are two reasons, first many of those things are giveaways to certain interest groups to buy votes, that is probably the big one. The second reason is the tax code is abused to distort the market place and encourage behaviors the government likes and discourage those it does not like. The will then whine about how free market capitalism does not work and forget that they are the ones who broke it in the first place.
Do think that mortgage deduction was done in the first place to create market for more borrowers so that the FED and their banking cartel buddies could steal the savings of nation? I do.
More importantly, it doesn't matter what the terrorists think will get them what they want, eroding liberties is the thing most likely to lead to them actually getting what they want.
Great point! The brief group hug after 911 aside, who here thinks this country is more unified now than before? Really let me see a show of hands. The fact is real harm was done to are national morale and its created all kinds of division and disillusionment. America is weaker today than it was on September 10th 2001.
Well they do hate us for our freedom. Granted this was a European paper but remember the reaction when that carton of Mohammad was published? Also Bin Laden stated he objected to our culture and called us infidels. Maybe his immediate plans were for the middle east but Its short silly to think he would not impose an Islamist government on the entire world if he could have, and simply killed some other groups like Jewish people.
So yes I do think the they hate our freedom narrative, while overly simplistic is not incorrect.
Don't be a snot. That Outlook monitor probably makes a real difference to allot of those folks. Usually its a matter of the company not having efficient work flow and other tools but plenty of people in the business office side of the house just LIVE in E-MAIL. Being able to look at letter and an order entry type screen at the same time means the world to them.
Just like being able to watch tail, while you do stuff in your application means the world to you.
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In fact the graphics might be as realistic as some people want them to be. I like FPS and sandbox type games, but I am not sure I would want to play one that is photo real. Part of the fun of these games is that its cartoon violence. If they reminded me more of the terrible things I have seen, or the really terrible things I have seen on the news I think it would remove the joy of play.
Do you really want to drive down a street in GTA past some meth-head twitching with withdraw showing their missing teeth and jaw swollen infection? Do you really want see the guy you just shot go pale and grab at the wound in despair? These games are about escapism to some degree and while up to a point making them more and more realistic made them more emmersive, we are near the place where if we carry it much farther we are going to start feeling bad for the fates of the characters. If that is what you want perhaps you'd find a John Stienbeck novel more satisfying than a game.
Where do you draw the line? See you disassemble and rebuild and engine analogy to my mind would be more comparable to knowing how to implement something like netfliter than to knowing how to use the iptables command to manipulate it.
If you and other people maintain this silly attitude that its unreasonable to have to *learn* something in order to operate complex tools there is no end in sight. Next you will be telling us you should not have to know where to click in all those menus and buttons.
The real value of consoles is they are hassle free. You never have issues with drivers, or have to wonder if your rig will perform well enough to make the experience worth while, you can just take the game home and play.
If you are willing to tinker and have money to burn then yes the PC experience can be amazing next to a console for at least the latter 2/3 of any given console generations life cycle, but it takes *work* that many people just don't want to put into playing games.
This is not true, nor is it ideal. If a whole generation of people, or even half of that generation, is willing to continually break the rules to use their own devices, employers cannot commence with the wholesale termination of half their labor force. Production would grind to a halt. There would be economic turmoil.
No they won't engage in wholesale termination they will identify a few people they don't like for whatever reason that was not really good enough to justify firing them before, and make a lot of noise like "John Doe" was insubordinate and violated or policy. The rest of you are on notice!
And the rest of em will realize that the job market is still tough and getting caned because "I could not respect my employers desire for me not to have my IPad on their network is kinda stupid. " Much better to keep collecting that check every two weeks so I can buy toys to play with at home.
I work in IT security and I have been told in no uncertain terms what my job is by upper management.
They don't want to find themselves having to put something in the notes to the financials that our trade secrets have leaked, or that our competitors no our costs. They don't want to be embarrassed and have to apologize for leaking customer data. We are a manufacturing company we sell tools to professionals they expect us to be professions as well as look it. Management does not want to look like Sony.
I don't get off on saying "no" to people. I really don't but if I let a device be connected to the network I have to be able to know DLP policies are being followed. That means I probably have to have more control over your toys than you want me to have, or you have to settle less than great experiences. No you can't read e-mail on your IPhone APP, you can use Citrix to read it in Notes via your IPhone, and yes that probably is to painful to be worth while. We can't afford a large cached copy of your mail file to be sitting on a device you might lose which *may* be recoverable by its next possessor.
Your personal laptop, certainly if you let me put our full disk encryption software on it, and our endpoint policy enforcement tools and only IT Security gets root. You won't like that though, and I know it. Trouble is I don't have better solutions.
That is kinda of the problem Righthaven wants it both ways. They want the protection of the corporate veil so their creator's assets are not ever at any risk from a counter suit or other action, and at the same time wants to be able to collect damages from others who may have impaired those assets.
Microsoft's IDEs are pigs, the great if you have powerful machine to run them on but suck donkey balls otherwise. Using Visual studio on an highend workstation is a joy, using it on just some PC is like going to the dentist.
Codeblocks on the other hand runs great even on an anemic netbook and has all the really important features for the C/C++ programmer. I switched and I will never go back.
Thank you! I have raised this issue before and mostly gotten flamed for it. Words have meanings or they should. I don't why we can't just call high speed Internet um... high speed Internet, and keep broadband referring to transmission method.
Still think a 15pct cross the board cutting of the Federal budget is out of line?
And none of that stuff is hard to deal with. Look end users don't build Gnome unless they are pretty advanced. Distributions package Gnome or they don't. So all you have to do is have a middle layer. That middle layer has a specified backend. You tell the distros look you need to create a /etc/gnome.rc directory (or something else if you pass option to configure). In that directory you need to have scripts for the following named rd.wireless, rc.firewall, rc.adduser, rc.deluser, rc.moduser and so on and so forth. Those scripts will take the following arguments blah blah blah.
The people packaging gnome for the distro then simply write the scripts to do what they have to do make the configuration changes. This is not a hard problem to solve... It would mean Gnomes firewall, wireless, widgets would work everywhere!
Its doing great. It still runs like top even on the underpowered netbook, and its every bit as pretty and functional as Gnome and KDE. Try it I think you will like it very much.
Outside a few egomaniacs with a one distro to bind them all mentality, this is not how things have been done up till now. I don't think the larger community wants to change either.
FreeDesktop.org has turned out some nice software but I don't like what they doing. Its one thing to suggest some high-level standards and try to create some consistency among projects that are already tied to a set of core libraries, its another to have to assume your specific daemon systemd or whatever is running. There is no reason to require something like that when it would be simple enough to abstract things in away that highlevel stuff like a gtk dialog can start an stop services in whatever way a particular distro wants to set things up.
Taking Gnome entirely Linux specific is the same deal, it means you have to accept a whole heap of stuff and conventions or you can't use it all. Thats dumb, ultimately its going to make distributions more varied not less. As a few core decisions will determine the entire software stack.
Over the short term it will enable people to polish up somethings and make them work real nice, as time marches on though its going to mean that something written for a Debian based distro wont be portable at all to something based on REHL or Slackware, or any of the BSDs. We will all end up with few software choices not more.
So what happens when I injure a hand working on the car or something and have to do my keyboarding with only my right or only my left? I can't login?
Would not help at all. Wine is two things, its an implementation of the Windows api and a loader. If you have the source you can compile your windows api application for other some architectures using winelib. So you might be able to port your program to ARM Linux with it. You would not need winelib on Windows because Windows will provide the windows api.
You can't use wines loader and server functions to run x86 code on ARM period, it does not provide a virtual machine. All it can do is let you run binaries build for x86 windows on other x86 platforms. So wine is useless for running legacy software on ARM Windows.
Nintendo is probably ok because by all indications they don't store CC numbers. You have to enter it every time you want to buy WiiPoints.
The other thing Nintendo has going for them is they don't ask for your name, except when you use the a CC which makes me think that again they are not keeping the data. It seems like most of the time as far as Nintendo is concerned you are WiiNumber and nothing more. I could be wrong they could be keeping CC information attached to all that transaction data; but the big question would then be why if they don't use it for anything..
I don't think he saying that at all. What he is saying is there is line somewhere where when you cross it you need to be something of an expert or find someone who is. Should you be able to change your wallpaper and screen resolution with a few mouse clicks yes, just like you should be able to tune a new radio station in your car with the push of button or twist of knob.
Whey move into the realm of things fewer people need to do or into doing things that might have consequences which need to be understood there is no real reason for develops to spend a whole lot of time making it easy. Changing the pistons in an engine with larger ones will alter other properties than just torque and horse power. You have to know something about engines to want to do it in the first place, why should engineers spend a whole lot of time making it possible to change pistons without removing the head (if that were even possible). Anyone who would want to do it, is capable of removing the head and putting it back and setting the timing again.
Its the same thing if you know what huge page file is you know how to make the kernel build changes required for that, and if you don't you at least would be able understand the documentation when you look it up.
The problem with the Linux/Unix CLI, is that it assumes you know the name of the program/tool you want to use.
Umm how about using apropos?
What the arguments that the CLI is to hard for most people come down to is "I am unwilling to learn anything." Sure unlike a gui which can lead you a little bit that blinking cursor does nothing to suggest any course of action at all more specific than "type something" however after a maybe 30min primer anyone who is not completely lazy could know enough to get started and use tools to locate the additional information they need.
Right if Linux is ever going to be excepted by the main stream consumer market we need to provide a high quality easy to use tool, dedicated to editing configuration data like regedit.
While I am not sure about the quality of this article and its unclear how some of these conclusions are reached should this events be corroborated later this is a big deal. If true it kinda throws out some of the hey it stood up to way more than was ever expected, these things really are safe narrative.
BtrFS can upgrade in place as well, and even better it can leave the old file system meta data intact so until you commit the snapshot you can even down grade back to ext2/3 if you like; but you'd loose any other changes made to the file system since the switch to BtrFS as well.
I agree the stated reason was to help home owners, after all it would be terrible politics to say we are doinging this to help bankers get rich. Still I don't think its all that helpful to home owners. While it does create a substantial tax savings for millions of people my self included, I doubt the interest tax decuction really has a major impact on affordability for most buyers. What it does is encorage people to borrow more. They buy sooner putting less money down or they buy more because the tax break effectively lowers the interest rate. It distorts the time value and real costs of money; in way that is favorable to bankers who make money be lending it. The government is essentialy encoraging the use of the service the banks provide. They are moving the tipping point where that service is a good value for the consumer, distorting the invisable hands pressure and enriching bankers at the expense of the rest of the non-home buying public.
What's the point of taxing someone 30%, then giving them a mortgage deduction, education deduction, horse rodeo operator deduction, etc.?
There are two reasons, first many of those things are giveaways to certain interest groups to buy votes, that is probably the big one. The second reason is the tax code is abused to distort the market place and encourage behaviors the government likes and discourage those it does not like. The will then whine about how free market capitalism does not work and forget that they are the ones who broke it in the first place.
Do think that mortgage deduction was done in the first place to create market for more borrowers so that the FED and their banking cartel buddies could steal the savings of nation? I do.
More importantly, it doesn't matter what the terrorists think will get them what they want, eroding liberties is the thing most likely to lead to them actually getting what they want.
Great point! The brief group hug after 911 aside, who here thinks this country is more unified now than before? Really let me see a show of hands. The fact is real harm was done to are national morale and its created all kinds of division and disillusionment. America is weaker today than it was on September 10th 2001.
Well they do hate us for our freedom. Granted this was a European paper but remember the reaction when that carton of Mohammad was published? Also Bin Laden stated he objected to our culture and called us infidels. Maybe his immediate plans were for the middle east but Its short silly to think he would not impose an Islamist government on the entire world if he could have, and simply killed some other groups like Jewish people.
So yes I do think the they hate our freedom narrative, while overly simplistic is not incorrect.
Don't be a snot. That Outlook monitor probably makes a real difference to allot of those folks. Usually its a matter of the company not having efficient work flow and other tools but plenty of people in the business office side of the house just LIVE in E-MAIL. Being able to look at letter and an order entry type screen at the same time means the world to them.
Just like being able to watch tail, while you do stuff in your application means the world to you.