Not sure what you are meaning by feedback, but I've seen some pretty direct feedback on Slashdot when posting, such as NOSHOUTING and the like.
Usually when you enter a comment somewhere it's either accepted straight away or you get some kind of feedback to say that something is happening.
When you enter a comment on the NEW SUPER IMPROVED SLASHDOT, you sit there for twenty seconds wondering whether something is going to happen. Sure, there's a 'Working' icon at the bottom of the screen... BUT IT'S THERE ALL THE TIME. The bastard 'Working' icon is sitting there spinning away right now as I type this. What does it mean? What is it 'Working' to do? Does anyone know? Or is it just lying to me?
And why can't I get new comments without refreshing the entire page after I've clicked the 'new comments' button? Why does it go away if there are no more comments at the time yet not return when there are more comments?
Slashdot was a dozen times better back before it went all 'Web 2.0' 'Cloud' whatever. Now it's a horrible mess of unintuitive and/or stupid design choices.
Having first-hand experience with OnLive (got a code for Trine on OnLive with a Humble Bundle), I'd say that it's not that bad. It complains if you're over wireless, but any wired broadband connection should be fine.
Cool. So tablet users will have to plug in a LAN cable to play games...
But that's really irrelevant unless the company generating the seeds is inept and uses 8-bit seeds: if your seed contains as little as 128 bits and is truly random then you'd need to sell about 2^64 tokens before you'd expect a dupe.
And why would it matter anyway? The odds of a cracker happening to buy a token which also matches the other token that they want to exploit would be minute... far less than the odds of said cracker managing to steal the seed from a stored copy on the manufacturer's server that's used to prevent dupes.
As mentioned above, if you really, really must eliminate dupes then just store a hash and reject any generated seed that matches. Storing the key itself is insane.
And so many overblown, uninteresting stories! A minimal storyline can be fine but the more involved it is, the better it had be.
Trying to force stories into games is one of the reasons why so many new games are so bad. I buy a game, install it, start it up, have to sit and wait through a bunch of stupid videos, have to sit and wait through uber-cool animated menus to start the game, and then I have to sit and wait through half an hour of unskippable cutscenes where I make two dialog choices which have no real impact on the game. So an hour after I started it up I get to do something for two minutes before the next unskippable cutscene.
I'll take a game with the storyline of 'Doom' any day over tedious, poorly-written, poorly-acted, repetitive cutscenes. If I wanted to spend my time watching poorly-written, poorly-acted CG I'd subscribe to the Sci-Fi channel.
I love how she drives all you socialist losers crazy. Keep trying to knock her down. It makes your side look like the petty, angry little losers you are.
Not to mention hypocrites. If she was a Democrat, the feministas would be all over the media demanding that people stop calling her stupid, because all womyn are smarter than men, etc.
I suspect you'll find most Republicans remember Gingrich from the 90s. I can't see that he has a hope in hell of getting nominated.
And most Republicans I know only like Palin because she pisses off liberals so much; they probably wouldn't vote for her either, but so long as liberals are concentrating on attacking Palin the real candidates can get on with preparing for the election.
Crackers simply assume that the *hash* is available. It is in fact very easy to get it if you have access to the console, both for Linux or Windows.
If you have access to the console and can boot a live CD you have access to every file on the machine; you might still want the password if the users have encrypted home directories, but you can just install a hacked library which sends you the passwords as they log in.
Console access == pwned in the vast majority of cases. Fortunately crackers rarely have console access to the machines they want to crack into.
Why? Econ 101. Commerce comes to a grinding halt if I'm trying to pay you with chickens and you only accept widgets, and you need to pay somebody with gold. It doesn't work.
Wow. It's amazing that the human race managed to conduct commerce for thousands of years before the Fed came about. Or that we can build products today with components from numerous countries using numerous different currencies.
The value of the US dollar has always experienced mild inflation.
Losing 99+% of your value in a hundred years is not 'mild inflation'. Sterling pretty much maintained its value for several centuries before central banking was imposed. Since then it's fared even worse than the dollar.
The Federal Reserve has been around for almost 100 years, and in those 100 years, the US has had the most stable currency on the planet.
It's a funny old world when losing 99% of its value in a hundred years is considered 'stable'. And I'm not aware of any competing currency which is not based on fiat money backed by a central bank.
Regular Joes who carry are actually on average much better shots than the cops. We're also statistically less likely to commit a crime than a police officer, and all the other firearm carriers I've met have a much better understanding of their state laws than the police (at least in the areas of law that have come up during conversations with police).
They're also statistically less likely to shoot innocent bystanders.
Money needs to be organized and controlled by a single point.
Why?
The value of the US dollar has fallen more than 99% since the Federal Reserve was set up as the 'single point' controlling the US money supply. Similar things have happened in other countries. Your position has clearly proven disastrous because it provides a single point of failure where the bad guys can loot the system.
False, I have been updating from one version of Ubuntu to the next for at least 2 years, with minimal problems.
Aside from the fact that upgrades take about six hours, the last time I upgraded my MythTV server the upgrade crashed part-way through and took some effort to fix. For the laptop and netbook I generally just copy/home to an external disk and then reinstall because it's faster and more reliable.
There is no need for people to HAVE to view this information.
There is if they want to know what's actually going on.
Look at the AF447 airliner crash; the problems started when they lost airspeed indication, but the reason they crashed appears to be that the aircraft designers didn't think they needed to give the pilots the information which they would have required to indicate that the plane was stalled. They apparently fell into the sea all along believing that they had control of the plane because the 'AI' in the computer had disabled the stall warning.
We need to move BEYOND what we have have, what we know.
Sure, but that means something better than top, not some dumb-down interface that hides all the useful information.
We need to have systems that actually exhibit some of the AI we've been working for decades on
If we actually had any kind of AI that might make sense. Generally speaking, in my experience when you try to hide the details from users you end up with an interface that's Artificially Stupid, not Artificially Intelligent.
This is a perfect example of a community that again proves itself incapable of actually inventing anything, and instead just copies what someone else has done.
Because there's never been an open source voice protocol.
The issue with open source VOIP is not technical, but financial. You can easily set up voice calls over the Internet, but once you want to hook that into the telephone system it becomes much more complex and expensive.
The problem is that those corporations end up lobbying that very same government and don't actually end up competing in a truly free market.
The problem is that government bureaucrats are spending other people's money, so they have no incentive to make good decisions and good incentives to make bad decisions ('but we only provide crappy service because you don't give us a large enough budget, give us more money and it will all be wonderful'). Nothing will change that.
I like the Metro style MS has going on here, but there seems to be a lot of concern in the.NET community that they are tossing the "traditional" developers overboard to chase HTML5 over Js.
Microsoft have always forgotten about the old shiny when the new shiny came along. Anyone who develops for Windows should have known that would happen.
This interface leads me to believe MSFT believes we'll have a Kinect-type device being on PC's by the time Windows 8 comes out.
I look forward to the day when offices are full of people jumping up and down and flinging their arms around trying to control their Excel spreadsheets and Powerpoint slideshows.
In many cases, the real problem is not the science, or the journals, but how to communicate the science to the lay public, who can only really comprehend what's actually told to them.
You're seriously claiming that the 'lay public' didn't realise that the 'coffin nails' they were smoking might be bad for their health until scientists told them they were?
Last virus to hurt me would've done the same no matter how careful I'd been. A normally-safe and trustworthy site got hacked (smbc-comics.com, for the record), put a malicious Java applet into the page.
You run Java? In your web browser? And you're surprised your machine gets remotely pwned?
I thought everyone who cared about security deleted the Java and PDF plugins from their web browser years ago.
All I'm saying is that getting from 2% to 8% market share will be much easier than getting from 8% to 32% and now that they're getting to almost an 8% market share, the first signs of malware are popping up.
But by this defintiion of malware, Unix had malware when it had a 0.001% market share.
echo 'Hey, dude, forward this email to everyone you know, then type sudo rm -rf/' | mail bozo@idiotsrus.com
By the definition being used here, that's not just unix malware, it's a unix virus. Yet no-one in their right mind would be worried about it.
And half the Xbox library doesn't run on Xbox 360. And Windows 3.1 apps don't run on Windows Vista 64-bit or Windows 7 Starter or Home Premium 64-bit. (I haven't had a chance to try them in Windows XP Mode on Windows 7 Professional.)
So which store are you buying your Windows 3.1 apps from? We're not even talking about old Windows apps here, we're talking about ordinary everyday Windows apps that you buy and try to install on your tablet and it doesn't work.
And while I haven't tried it, I strongly suspect that 32-bit Windows 3.1 apps will run on 64-bit Windows 7; it's the 16-bit apps that can't run on a 64-bit x86.
Yet. If Windows 8 is really intended to unify Windows NT and Windows Phone, then perhaps Microsoft will require all apps carrying a "designed for Windows 8" logo to be rewritten for Silverlight or XNA, just like it already requires of all apps for Windows Phone 7 or Xbox Live Indie Games.
Yeah, that'll work. 'I bought this Windows game and it won't run on my tablet 'Look on the back of the box, does it say it's designed for Windows 8? No, see, it won't work.' 'But it's Windows, why won't it work?'.
Microsoft have built their fortune on backwards compatibility; there's no reason for an average user to buy a Windows tablet if it can't run their Windows programs.
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Not sure what you are meaning by feedback, but I've seen some pretty direct feedback on Slashdot when posting, such as NOSHOUTING and the like.
Usually when you enter a comment somewhere it's either accepted straight away or you get some kind of feedback to say that something is happening.
When you enter a comment on the NEW SUPER IMPROVED SLASHDOT, you sit there for twenty seconds wondering whether something is going to happen. Sure, there's a 'Working' icon at the bottom of the screen... BUT IT'S THERE ALL THE TIME. The bastard 'Working' icon is sitting there spinning away right now as I type this. What does it mean? What is it 'Working' to do? Does anyone know? Or is it just lying to me?
And why can't I get new comments without refreshing the entire page after I've clicked the 'new comments' button? Why does it go away if there are no more comments at the time yet not return when there are more comments?
Slashdot was a dozen times better back before it went all 'Web 2.0' 'Cloud' whatever. Now it's a horrible mess of unintuitive and/or stupid design choices.
Having first-hand experience with OnLive (got a code for Trine on OnLive with a Humble Bundle), I'd say that it's not that bad. It complains if you're over wireless, but any wired broadband connection should be fine.
Cool. So tablet users will have to plug in a LAN cable to play games...
Stats 101: The odds of a collision between any two seeds is substantially higher than that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_paradox
But that's really irrelevant unless the company generating the seeds is inept and uses 8-bit seeds: if your seed contains as little as 128 bits and is truly random then you'd need to sell about 2^64 tokens before you'd expect a dupe.
And why would it matter anyway? The odds of a cracker happening to buy a token which also matches the other token that they want to exploit would be minute... far less than the odds of said cracker managing to steal the seed from a stored copy on the manufacturer's server that's used to prevent dupes.
As mentioned above, if you really, really must eliminate dupes then just store a hash and reject any generated seed that matches. Storing the key itself is insane.
And so many overblown, uninteresting stories! A minimal storyline can be fine but the more involved it is, the better it had be.
Trying to force stories into games is one of the reasons why so many new games are so bad. I buy a game, install it, start it up, have to sit and wait through a bunch of stupid videos, have to sit and wait through uber-cool animated menus to start the game, and then I have to sit and wait through half an hour of unskippable cutscenes where I make two dialog choices which have no real impact on the game. So an hour after I started it up I get to do something for two minutes before the next unskippable cutscene.
I'll take a game with the storyline of 'Doom' any day over tedious, poorly-written, poorly-acted, repetitive cutscenes. If I wanted to spend my time watching poorly-written, poorly-acted CG I'd subscribe to the Sci-Fi channel.
I love how she drives all you socialist losers crazy. Keep trying to knock her down. It makes your side look like the petty, angry little losers you are.
Not to mention hypocrites. If she was a Democrat, the feministas would be all over the media demanding that people stop calling her stupid, because all womyn are smarter than men, etc.
I suspect you'll find most Republicans remember Gingrich from the 90s. I can't see that he has a hope in hell of getting nominated.
And most Republicans I know only like Palin because she pisses off liberals so much; they probably wouldn't vote for her either, but so long as liberals are concentrating on attacking Palin the real candidates can get on with preparing for the election.
Crackers simply assume that the *hash* is available. It is in fact very easy to get it if you have access to the console, both for Linux or Windows.
If you have access to the console and can boot a live CD you have access to every file on the machine; you might still want the password if the users have encrypted home directories, but you can just install a hacked library which sends you the passwords as they log in.
Console access == pwned in the vast majority of cases. Fortunately crackers rarely have console access to the machines they want to crack into.
Why? Econ 101. Commerce comes to a grinding halt if I'm trying to pay you with chickens and you only accept widgets, and you need to pay somebody with gold. It doesn't work.
Wow. It's amazing that the human race managed to conduct commerce for thousands of years before the Fed came about. Or that we can build products today with components from numerous countries using numerous different currencies.
The value of the US dollar has always experienced mild inflation.
Losing 99+% of your value in a hundred years is not 'mild inflation'. Sterling pretty much maintained its value for several centuries before central banking was imposed. Since then it's fared even worse than the dollar.
The Federal Reserve has been around for almost 100 years, and in those 100 years, the US has had the most stable currency on the planet.
It's a funny old world when losing 99% of its value in a hundred years is considered 'stable'. And I'm not aware of any competing currency which is not based on fiat money backed by a central bank.
I didn't ask them to protect me. They took it upon themselves. They coerce their keep from my paycheck.
And in most countries they also disarm you so you can't protect yourself, thereby justifying their continued existence.
Regular Joes who carry are actually on average much better shots than the cops. We're also statistically less likely to commit a crime than a police officer, and all the other firearm carriers I've met have a much better understanding of their state laws than the police (at least in the areas of law that have come up during conversations with police).
They're also statistically less likely to shoot innocent bystanders.
Money needs to be organized and controlled by a single point.
Why?
The value of the US dollar has fallen more than 99% since the Federal Reserve was set up as the 'single point' controlling the US money supply. Similar things have happened in other countries. Your position has clearly proven disastrous because it provides a single point of failure where the bad guys can loot the system.
False, I have been updating from one version of Ubuntu to the next for at least 2 years, with minimal problems.
Aside from the fact that upgrades take about six hours, the last time I upgraded my MythTV server the upgrade crashed part-way through and took some effort to fix. For the laptop and netbook I generally just copy /home to an external disk and then reinstall because it's faster and more reliable.
There is no need for people to HAVE to view this information.
There is if they want to know what's actually going on.
Look at the AF447 airliner crash; the problems started when they lost airspeed indication, but the reason they crashed appears to be that the aircraft designers didn't think they needed to give the pilots the information which they would have required to indicate that the plane was stalled. They apparently fell into the sea all along believing that they had control of the plane because the 'AI' in the computer had disabled the stall warning.
We need to move BEYOND what we have have, what we know.
Sure, but that means something better than top, not some dumb-down interface that hides all the useful information.
We need to have systems that actually exhibit some of the AI we've been working for decades on
If we actually had any kind of AI that might make sense. Generally speaking, in my experience when you try to hide the details from users you end up with an interface that's Artificially Stupid, not Artificially Intelligent.
This is a perfect example of a community that again proves itself incapable of actually inventing anything, and instead just copies what someone else has done.
Because there's never been an open source voice protocol.
The issue with open source VOIP is not technical, but financial. You can easily set up voice calls over the Internet, but once you want to hook that into the telephone system it becomes much more complex and expensive.
The problem is that those corporations end up lobbying that very same government and don't actually end up competing in a truly free market.
The problem is that government bureaucrats are spending other people's money, so they have no incentive to make good decisions and good incentives to make bad decisions ('but we only provide crappy service because you don't give us a large enough budget, give us more money and it will all be wonderful'). Nothing will change that.
This could be a bigger opportunity for Linux on the desktop than Vista was. Hopefully it doesn't get blown again like it did last time.
Unfortunately with Gnome and Ubuntu committing UI suicide in a similar manner, there's not much hope of that.
I like the Metro style MS has going on here, but there seems to be a lot of concern in the .NET community that they are tossing the "traditional" developers overboard to chase HTML5 over Js.
Microsoft have always forgotten about the old shiny when the new shiny came along. Anyone who develops for Windows should have known that would happen.
This interface leads me to believe MSFT believes we'll have a Kinect-type device being on PC's by the time Windows 8 comes out.
I look forward to the day when offices are full of people jumping up and down and flinging their arms around trying to control their Excel spreadsheets and Powerpoint slideshows.
Of course after all the Californians move there it won't be a low tax, low regulation state for long.
In many cases, the real problem is not the science, or the journals, but how to communicate the science to the lay public, who can only really comprehend what's actually told to them.
You're seriously claiming that the 'lay public' didn't realise that the 'coffin nails' they were smoking might be bad for their health until scientists told them they were?
Last virus to hurt me would've done the same no matter how careful I'd been. A normally-safe and trustworthy site got hacked (smbc-comics.com, for the record), put a malicious Java applet into the page.
You run Java? In your web browser? And you're surprised your machine gets remotely pwned?
I thought everyone who cared about security deleted the Java and PDF plugins from their web browser years ago.
All I'm saying is that getting from 2% to 8% market share will be much easier than getting from 8% to 32% and now that they're getting to almost an 8% market share, the first signs of malware are popping up.
But by this defintiion of malware, Unix had malware when it had a 0.001% market share.
echo 'Hey, dude, forward this email to everyone you know, then type sudo rm -rf /' | mail bozo@idiotsrus.com
By the definition being used here, that's not just unix malware, it's a unix virus. Yet no-one in their right mind would be worried about it.
No software can protect the user from themselves.
An OS which doesn't allow the user to download and install random executable files can. Of course it's also not terribly useful for most users.
And half the Xbox library doesn't run on Xbox 360. And Windows 3.1 apps don't run on Windows Vista 64-bit or Windows 7 Starter or Home Premium 64-bit. (I haven't had a chance to try them in Windows XP Mode on Windows 7 Professional.)
So which store are you buying your Windows 3.1 apps from? We're not even talking about old Windows apps here, we're talking about ordinary everyday Windows apps that you buy and try to install on your tablet and it doesn't work.
And while I haven't tried it, I strongly suspect that 32-bit Windows 3.1 apps will run on 64-bit Windows 7; it's the 16-bit apps that can't run on a 64-bit x86.
Yet. If Windows 8 is really intended to unify Windows NT and Windows Phone, then perhaps Microsoft will require all apps carrying a "designed for Windows 8" logo to be rewritten for Silverlight or XNA, just like it already requires of all apps for Windows Phone 7 or Xbox Live Indie Games.
Yeah, that'll work. 'I bought this Windows game and it won't run on my tablet 'Look on the back of the box, does it say it's designed for Windows 8? No, see, it won't work.' 'But it's Windows, why won't it work?'.
Microsoft have built their fortune on backwards compatibility; there's no reason for an average user to buy a Windows tablet if it can't run their Windows programs.