So if they embeded an image into their html popup that would be hotlinking, but if they embed a flash file into their html popup it is somehow not hotlinking?
They are linking directly to files on his server bypassing his web content, that is what hotlinking is.
Just because you pay for a service and that service can measured does not make it property. You don't OWN the electricity in your outlets either, even though it is measured and you are charged.
When someone utilizes bandwidth at your expense they are stealing your money, not your bandwidth, the bandwidth is a service not an asset.
No, that isn't the bottom of the page. That is a portion of the flash game itself.
Out of curiousity, what does the author's response juvenile or otherwise have to do with his ability to write software? If the answer is nothing, why are you using it as hiring criteria?
It is this kind of thinking that leads to such horribly inefficient operation and service in a large structure like corporations and government.
In a small structure like a small business or club nobody has the time or funds to waste on nonsense.
The Internet is not the machines, cable or infrastructure. That is merely where the Internet lives. The Internet is an intangible. As for the owners discretion, that owner excercises that discretion by restricting access. If the owner publishes information and does not restrict a type of access then it is fair game.
"Sorry, but business opportunities create wealth, jobs, and prosperity. People who think in terms of business opportunities are the entrepreneurs of today and the inventors of tommorrow. They're the self-reliant types who don't have to worry when Ford closes yet another assembly line staffed by day-shift drones."
Actually business opportunities create the need for wealth and jobs in order to have prosperity. People who think terms of business opportunities are the top 5% who live lavishly at the expense of others. Remember, everytime you vote to turn a profit you are ALWAYS doing so at the expense of someone else. It is the people who think like you that call hard working americans drones while you sit on your ass. Here is a tip, if you have to claim stress or responsibility is what justifies your salary you're a leech and not a producer.
right, that would be why he created a game that so strongly promoted hamburgers that it was linked by a fast food joint in the first place. I'm buying this.
"Some poor web developer -- not his boss, the CEO, or the shareholders -- had to give up a little bit of his weekend to unfuck this. Why take it out on this guy?"
Some poor web developer -- not his boss, the CEO, or the shareholders -- gave up a little bit of his week to fuck this in the first place. Why take it out on anyone but him?
You're right, that benchmark did not conclusively point to a thread problem. In fact the article did not conclusively prove a thread problem. However, it showed extremely poor numbers in several benchmarks that all have thread creation and not neccesarily process creation as a potential factor.
The TCP benches that followed the lmbench fork based tests were more dependant on threads than processes and MacOS X dive bombed on them as well.
Either by itself means nothing, but when you have both a thread problem is sounding more and more likely.
Fact: You can have the knowledge without having to pay to get a degree in any major. Another fact: Just because you have the degree does not mean you actually know the material as well as someone who does not have a degree. You might just be good at taking tests and conformity. So what is the point of getting a degree? To have a piece of paper?
1. The API's are more stable perhaps. Simply distributing a self-contained RPM that adheres to the LFS for file system locations would take care of almost all Linux distributions and virtually every Linux system not being used as a server. And has been capable of doing so for the past 6 yrs or so.
2. I don't know any Linux users who dual boot personally. I suppose there are some out there; I just don't know anyone. Nor do I know any who emulate windows to play games. Emulation is far too slow for any game that doesn't have an equivelant in Linux.
I do know some who run windows emulation for a couple of specific applications that don't run under native api implementations like wine, but I know more mac users doing the same.
3. The numbers were reported in a slashdot story months ago, possibly from last year. Linux is currently #2 in terms of total desktop market share (although as I recall the difference was within the margin of error).
If we eliminated computers not physically capable of running WOW that would probably severely hurt the Mac side. I think it is fair to say that Mac users upgrade far less frequently than PC users (an upgrade on a Mac basically means a new computer). Generally on the PC side computers get built around a game like WOW. When a user spends 10+hrs/day playing a game that becomes the single most important function of the machine. WOW in OpenGL mode is faster than WOW in any mode under windows with the same hardware.
If blizzard simply farmed out work to the winex guys in preparation for patches instead of making them work blindfolded and after the damage is done it would gain a significant chunk of the market. Including a chunk that could run as well as the recommended requirements with the hardware listed under minimum requirements on the box if they ran the game under Linux.
For a corporation. The copyright office on the other hand and non-profits can certainly require standards compliance.
Government offices are no stranger to require standards compatibility on other fronts, I see no reason for browsers to be different.
Okay, so maybe most of the standards the government requires are created privately and adopted after much back patting in order to limit potential competition for contracts by denying competitors compliance certification. But that does not mean standards can't be used legitimately by a government office as well.
There is no deadline on compliance and the paragraph before that makes it clear that those plans are not written in stone.
Basically if they don't get much response at this point they probably won't bother at all or will simply keep putting the issue on the back burner indefinately.
There is not even ONE advantage to using an IE only site. The only reason to do so is to provide a government granted monopoly.
Using a proprietary technology internally is one thing (although it should certainly be avoided if there is a choice), requiring citizens to use a proprietary technology to interact with their office is a completely different story.
Just like storing data that needs to be accessed after tomorrow in a proprietary format is a different ballgame than simply using a proprietary technology. If a vendor can revoke the legal right of a government office (by software patenting the technology to read the format to prevent reverse engineering and then revoking the software license on the government reader software) to access information to which I have a legal right of access to under the freedom of information act; it is a very serious issue indeed.
My question is related. Now that linux has overtopped the Marketshare of Macs on the desktop, will blizzard now be shipping linux clients rather than mac clients for games, or both?
The question is not whether the economy is influencable. The question is whether the price of essence really is an issue that makes or breaks the enjoyment of the game for most players.
And since the answer is no, why are the developers wasting so many resources to stop dupers and boters rather than using those resources to develop a real pvp system (the lack of one means the game ends at lvl 60) or even to stop the hackers that are cheating in pvp directly (teleport hacks, speed hacks, etc) rather than indirectly (gain money to get nice items that only make you equally competative with less work).
It seems to me that we are going to have a tough time determining if we can do anything about the climate change if don't attribute blame and determine where the problem lies.
If natural greenhouse gas emitters are blowing out 99% of the greenhouse gases then human behavior is an insignificant factor. In that case we need a technical solution and not a behavior change.
If human emissions are the primary source then a behavior change is in order.
I have to second perl. There are a large number of different programming tasks out there, and for each task there is one or two languages that excel; but the tasks that perl excels at are the ones you need a tool to accomplish 90% of the time.
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So if they embeded an image into their html popup that would be hotlinking, but if they embed a flash file into their html popup it is somehow not hotlinking?
They are linking directly to files on his server bypassing his web content, that is what hotlinking is.
He sent them to a slaughterhouse site. It's not content a burger joint wants people to see but it is hardly 'graphic'.
Just because you pay for a service and that service can measured does not make it property. You don't OWN the electricity in your outlets either, even though it is measured and you are charged.
When someone utilizes bandwidth at your expense they are stealing your money, not your bandwidth, the bandwidth is a service not an asset.
No, that isn't the bottom of the page. That is a portion of the flash game itself.
Out of curiousity, what does the author's response juvenile or otherwise have to do with his ability to write software? If the answer is nothing, why are you using it as hiring criteria?
It is this kind of thinking that leads to such horribly inefficient operation and service in a large structure like corporations and government.
In a small structure like a small business or club nobody has the time or funds to waste on nonsense.
The Internet is not the machines, cable or infrastructure. That is merely where the Internet lives. The Internet is an intangible. As for the owners discretion, that owner excercises that discretion by restricting access. If the owner publishes information and does not restrict a type of access then it is fair game.
"Sorry, but business opportunities create wealth, jobs, and prosperity. People who think in terms of business opportunities are the entrepreneurs of today and the inventors of tommorrow. They're the self-reliant types who don't have to worry when Ford closes yet another assembly line staffed by day-shift drones."
Actually business opportunities create the need for wealth and jobs in order to have prosperity. People who think terms of business opportunities are the top 5% who live lavishly at the expense of others. Remember, everytime you vote to turn a profit you are ALWAYS doing so at the expense of someone else. It is the people who think like you that call hard working americans drones while you sit on your ass. Here is a tip, if you have to claim stress or responsibility is what justifies your salary you're a leech and not a producer.
right, that would be why he created a game that so strongly promoted hamburgers that it was linked by a fast food joint in the first place. I'm buying this.
"Some poor web developer -- not his boss, the CEO, or the shareholders -- had to give up a little bit of his weekend to unfuck this. Why take it out on this guy?"
Some poor web developer -- not his boss, the CEO, or the shareholders -- gave up a little bit of his week to fuck this in the first place. Why take it out on anyone but him?
You're right, that benchmark did not conclusively point to a thread problem. In fact the article did not conclusively prove a thread problem. However, it showed extremely poor numbers in several benchmarks that all have thread creation and not neccesarily process creation as a potential factor.
The TCP benches that followed the lmbench fork based tests were more dependant on threads than processes and MacOS X dive bombed on them as well.
Either by itself means nothing, but when you have both a thread problem is sounding more and more likely.
Fact: You can have the knowledge without having to pay to get a degree in any major. Another fact: Just because you have the degree does not mean you actually know the material as well as someone who does not have a degree. You might just be good at taking tests and conformity. So what is the point of getting a degree? To have a piece of paper?
There is a not so distorted goatse image about 3/4 of the way down the page. Beware.
If the tools exist, but only on a blatantly inferior platform; they must be moved to a superior platform to yield an ideal solution.
1. The API's are more stable perhaps. Simply distributing a self-contained RPM that adheres to the LFS for file system locations would take care of almost all Linux distributions and virtually every Linux system not being used as a server. And has been capable of doing so for the past 6 yrs or so.
2. I don't know any Linux users who dual boot personally. I suppose there are some out there; I just don't know anyone. Nor do I know any who emulate windows to play games. Emulation is far too slow for any game that doesn't have an equivelant in Linux.
I do know some who run windows emulation for a couple of specific applications that don't run under native api implementations like wine, but I know more mac users doing the same.
3. The numbers were reported in a slashdot story months ago, possibly from last year. Linux is currently #2 in terms of total desktop market share (although as I recall the difference was within the margin of error).
If we eliminated computers not physically capable of running WOW that would probably severely hurt the Mac side. I think it is fair to say that Mac users upgrade far less frequently than PC users (an upgrade on a Mac basically means a new computer). Generally on the PC side computers get built around a game like WOW. When a user spends 10+hrs/day playing a game that becomes the single most important function of the machine. WOW in OpenGL mode is faster than WOW in any mode under windows with the same hardware.
If blizzard simply farmed out work to the winex guys in preparation for patches instead of making them work blindfolded and after the damage is done it would gain a significant chunk of the market. Including a chunk that could run as well as the recommended requirements with the hardware listed under minimum requirements on the box if they ran the game under Linux.
Because it is well known that IE has quite a bit of catching up to do to become worthy of competiting with Firefox; not the other way around.
For a corporation. The copyright office on the other hand and non-profits can certainly require standards compliance.
Government offices are no stranger to require standards compatibility on other fronts, I see no reason for browsers to be different.
Okay, so maybe most of the standards the government requires are created privately and adopted after much back patting in order to limit potential competition for contracts by denying competitors compliance certification. But that does not mean standards can't be used legitimately by a government office as well.
There is no deadline on compliance and the paragraph before that makes it clear that those plans are not written in stone.
Basically if they don't get much response at this point they probably won't bother at all or will simply keep putting the issue on the back burner indefinately.
There is not even ONE advantage to using an IE only site. The only reason to do so is to provide a government granted monopoly.
Using a proprietary technology internally is one thing (although it should certainly be avoided if there is a choice), requiring citizens to use a proprietary technology to interact with their office is a completely different story.
Just like storing data that needs to be accessed after tomorrow in a proprietary format is a different ballgame than simply using a proprietary technology. If a vendor can revoke the legal right of a government office (by software patenting the technology to read the format to prevent reverse engineering and then revoking the software license on the government reader software) to access information to which I have a legal right of access to under the freedom of information act; it is a very serious issue indeed.
This is the a government organization, their customers are every taxpaying citizen of the United States.
My question is related. Now that linux has overtopped the Marketshare of Macs on the desktop, will blizzard now be shipping linux clients rather than mac clients for games, or both?
The question is more like would you rather hav 1% of 90% or 1% of 90% and 80% of 10 more percent (9% total).
The question is not whether the economy is influencable. The question is whether the price of essence really is an issue that makes or breaks the enjoyment of the game for most players.
And since the answer is no, why are the developers wasting so many resources to stop dupers and boters rather than using those resources to develop a real pvp system (the lack of one means the game ends at lvl 60) or even to stop the hackers that are cheating in pvp directly (teleport hacks, speed hacks, etc) rather than indirectly (gain money to get nice items that only make you equally competative with less work).
Not to mention IE wins the market share by default because it is installed on every new pc by default.
It seems to me that we are going to have a tough time determining if we can do anything about the climate change if don't attribute blame and determine where the problem lies.
If natural greenhouse gas emitters are blowing out 99% of the greenhouse gases then human behavior is an insignificant factor. In that case we need a technical solution and not a behavior change.
If human emissions are the primary source then a behavior change is in order.
I could be wrong, but I was under the impression they took breaks FROM posting dupes by posting firefox download milestones...
I have to second perl. There are a large number of different programming tasks out there, and for each task there is one or two languages that excel; but the tasks that perl excels at are the ones you need a tool to accomplish 90% of the time.