And why modded _you_ insightful? The X11 protocol most definitely does NOT "blit the entire damn window over the network". That's how things like VNC and MS' Remote Desktop work (although with a lot of compression to make it workable).
But it is true that the protocol was made to work over relatively fast local network connections so not much thought was put into limiting the amount of traffic.
But if you want X over a slow connection you could try NX (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NX_technology).
I think the reason is that your assumption "even when there was every reason to go with Gecko" is wrong and you will find it difficult to give examples of companies that should have used Gecko.
That number is a bit exaggerated, my install of the latest Java 6 JRE is about 80MB (and the download is only 14MB).
One of the reasons it's so big is because it has a LOT of functionality. But you're right of course when you say that you don't need all of that to run a simple Java application. So Sun decided to do something about that: in the upcoming Java 6 Update N (what was previously called the "Consumer JRE") only a relatively small "kernel" will be installed which has only the most essential components. The rest will be downloaded "when needed".
"And by the way, there's not a sport in the world that can't be done both while fat and drinking alcohol (at the same time too). You just won't be able to compete on a professional level."
Hey hey! Don't forget darts! Most top level players there don't exactly fit the description "athletic" heheh
I'm an old gamer fart as well and own both a gaming PC and a Wii and although I agree 100% that the Wii is FUN... it only is when there are friends around to play it with. Not that I didn't enjoy any of the single player Wii games, but I know many PC games that are a lot more fun and that don't need a special controller. Besides (and this has been said a lot but it doesn't make it less true), for FPS games nothing beats mouse and keyboard.
Dunno, but if 4 out of 5 "non-sports" you mention appear regularly on just about any sports channel available you might want to reconsider your definition of "sports" because there seem to be quite a few people who disagree with you.
But even so, games seem to fit your definition perfectly: a lot of them are team games (CS:S, UT2k4, etc), require training (lots) and physical exertion (try [pro] gaming for hours and you _will_ be tired). So I left working out... ehm yeah, I'm not sure you need to work out to play sports. That athletes and sportsmen at professional level work out because they want to eek out the very last bit of advantage they can get okay, but I doubt if it's really necessary if you just train enough. But even so, does a Gamer who goes to his neighbourhood gym twice a week count as well?;)
Sorry but you're waaaay off, I really don't care what you believe in, as you say, as long as you're happy with that's okay with me. I have no problem with (most) people's beliefs and religions, except maybe when they call me silly and angry without basis;)
And nowhere did I say faith is about an afterlife, but it was what my parent was talking about and that was what I responded to.
But to use an unprovable "theory" (life after death in this case) to show that science has its limits, well _that_, imo, is silly.
Sorry, but you cannot just take any flight of fancy thought up by religions and say that because you cannot prove that it does NOT exist that whatever you think about is based on faith or is a dogma.
I'm sorry it just doesn't work that way. I KNOW that everything in this life ends, especially because we have not seen any examples of things that are eternal.
You might just as well ask what happens to the apple after you eat it, or to the soap bubble after it bursts, or the block of wood after is has burned to ashes. They... just.. cease... to... exist! Whatever is left will be used again in the circle of life but even if a seed from the apple grows into tree with apples, that particular apple that you ate is no more. I feel no need to PROVE that it ceases to exist. I don't need to invent stories that the apple is going to apple paradise because it has correctly fulfilled it's role in life.
And the same holds true for us, I see no reason whatsoever to believe in fairy tales about an afterlife.
The difference with dogmas and faith is that if anybody is ever able to prove me wrong I will happily accept that fact, I just consider it extremely unlikely that it will happen.
Another "fix" that sometimes works is to right-click on the game, select the option to make a desktop-shortcut and only start the game using that shortcut. It worked for me for several games.
"They have the skinny arms and the long hair, the dark T-shirts and the jokey nicknames. But few such figures have ever taken the risks that they have in the past few weeks, or achieved so much in a noble and dangerous cause."
I could just read this is "but few _persons_ have ever taken the risk..." because unfortunately that's always been true throughout history (and I'm not saying I would do any better).
But I actually think the author wants to convey the feeling that somehow skinny, long-haired youngsters that like to sit behind a computer are not hero material. So what do heroes look like? The perfectly groomed playboys we know from US cinema?
Gimme a break. History again shows us that most "heroes" are just people like you and me that "just do what they had to do" because they felt it was the only right option (and most probably didn't even think there _were_ any options to choose from).
Sorry but no, assuming they are all playing in a multi player game with largish number of people and active gameplay there will be spikes all the time. Where you are correct is that playing the same game it is a lot more probable that those spikes will coincide (assuming there isn't some kind of system already that won't send data to players that aren't "close" in the virtual world). But you we're talking about "a form of amplification/positive feedback loop" which this just isn't. The data won't just "amplify", the max data can be calculated easily by doing 16x max data per client/second. If your network can handle that it can easily handle the most chaotic fragfest those 16 students can throw at it.
Ehm no, there is no difference between 16 students playing together or each playing against 15 different people somewhere else. Exactly because this is client-server. Your story would be correct if this was still p2p like the old Command and Conquer games where each client had to tell each other client what it was doing.
And I'm hardly a MS fan, but to say this is because of "microsoftization of the gaming protocols" is just silly, gaming protocols have been done this way for years now, long before MS was even thinking of entering the gaming market.
I just remember one particular situation where we had forgotten to turn this feature off on one of our productions servers (well, to be honest it was because our sys admin was such an MS-fanboy that he could not in his wildest dreams conceive of MS ever doing something wrong so he had left it on) and we got a very angry customer in the morning asking why the website was down. It turned out that an update was installed, which had caused a system reboot but the server hadn't come up again.
At least it helped to convince our sys admin that MS does actually make mistakes (and convinced management to invest in monitoring services).
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Ehm, in most console games end bosses have no AI whatsover but are ridiculously difficult to kill sometimes. So yes, I can certainly understand switching to easy just to get through the fight scenes quicker instead of being bored to death;-)
No, it means that almost 1 in every 5 visitors of your website is using FF, you better not be neglecting them because that would be very bad for business (17% of your business to be exact, if you had shareholders they would lynch you if you said you don't care about them).
Which is of course only speculation, unless you have a crystal ball. It could very well happen that TiVo sees the light and will open up their hardware so it can run user-modded software. Or maybe they won't and will have to spend money re-implementing their system using proprietary code opening up the market for a competitor who _does_ agree with the GPLv3 and is therefore able to deliver a cheaper product.
Look what is happening now with AMD saying it will provide information and help to make an open source driver for their ATI graphics cards. Would that have happened if everybody would just have rolled over and accepted proprietary binary blobs in their Linux distros?
So we'll just have to wait and see and hope for the best:-)
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And why modded _you_ insightful? The X11 protocol most definitely does NOT "blit the entire damn window over the network". That's how things like VNC and MS' Remote Desktop work (although with a lot of compression to make it workable).
But it is true that the protocol was made to work over relatively fast local network connections so not much thought was put into limiting the amount of traffic.
But if you want X over a slow connection you could try NX (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NX_technology).
Just curious, what is this "major problem with Linux"?
Well, if you spend years on making something like the flashlight, level or pint apps, I certainly will NOT be running it on my phone!
Especially because by then we will all have a new phone! Dude, if you can't act (and program/test) quickly you will lose out on the market!
I think the reason is that your assumption "even when there was every reason to go with Gecko" is wrong and you will find it difficult to give examples of companies that should have used Gecko.
Hmmm strange, I had read he had it removed from the Internet Archive as well??
( http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080803135012312 but it only refers to "archives", probably I wrongly made the association with archive.org)
(Although here he says he will think about reinstating the archives again: https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15479871&postID=4348431689288397027&pli=1)
I think the slaves in the Americas would have been delighted by your definition of "free" ;)
A clever wife/cf wants to install Linux because she knows you will love her even more for it.
No, actually it's the other way around, that's why all 3rd party RedHat/Fedora repositories have already switched to the yum format years ago.
That number is a bit exaggerated, my install of the latest Java 6 JRE is about 80MB (and the download is only 14MB).
One of the reasons it's so big is because it has a LOT of functionality. But you're right of course when you say that you don't need all of that to run a simple Java application. So Sun decided to do something about that: in the upcoming Java 6 Update N (what was previously called the "Consumer JRE") only a relatively small "kernel" will be installed which has only the most essential components. The rest will be downloaded "when needed".
"And by the way, there's not a sport in the world that can't be done both while fat and drinking alcohol (at the same time too). You just won't be able to compete on a professional level."
Hey hey! Don't forget darts! Most top level players there don't exactly fit the description "athletic" heheh
I'm an old gamer fart as well and own both a gaming PC and a Wii and although I agree 100% that the Wii is FUN... it only is when there are friends around to play it with. Not that I didn't enjoy any of the single player Wii games, but I know many PC games that are a lot more fun and that don't need a special controller. Besides (and this has been said a lot but it doesn't make it less true), for FPS games nothing beats mouse and keyboard.
Dunno, but if 4 out of 5 "non-sports" you mention appear regularly on just about any sports channel available you might want to reconsider your definition of "sports" because there seem to be quite a few people who disagree with you.
;)
But even so, games seem to fit your definition perfectly: a lot of them are team games (CS:S, UT2k4, etc), require training (lots) and physical exertion (try [pro] gaming for hours and you _will_ be tired). So I left working out... ehm yeah, I'm not sure you need to work out to play sports. That athletes and sportsmen at professional level work out because they want to eek out the very last bit of advantage they can get okay, but I doubt if it's really necessary if you just train enough. But even so, does a Gamer who goes to his neighbourhood gym twice a week count as well?
Sorry but you're waaaay off, I really don't care what you believe in, as you say, as long as you're happy with that's okay with me. I have no problem with (most) people's beliefs and religions, except maybe when they call me silly and angry without basis ;)
And nowhere did I say faith is about an afterlife, but it was what my parent was talking about and that was what I responded to.
But to use an unprovable "theory" (life after death in this case) to show that science has its limits, well _that_, imo, is silly.
Bingo!! So it's no use making up stories.
Sorry, but you cannot just take any flight of fancy thought up by religions and say that because you cannot prove that it does NOT exist that whatever you think about is based on faith or is a dogma.
I'm sorry it just doesn't work that way. I KNOW that everything in this life ends, especially because we have not seen any examples of things that are eternal.
You might just as well ask what happens to the apple after you eat it, or to the soap bubble after it bursts, or the block of wood after is has burned to ashes. They... just.. cease... to... exist! Whatever is left will be used again in the circle of life but even if a seed from the apple grows into tree with apples, that particular apple that you ate is no more. I feel no need to PROVE that it ceases to exist. I don't need to invent stories that the apple is going to apple paradise because it has correctly fulfilled it's role in life.
And the same holds true for us, I see no reason whatsoever to believe in fairy tales about an afterlife.
The difference with dogmas and faith is that if anybody is ever able to prove me wrong I will happily accept that fact, I just consider it extremely unlikely that it will happen.
Another "fix" that sometimes works is to right-click on the game, select the option to make a desktop-shortcut and only start the game using that shortcut. It worked for me for several games.
"They have the skinny arms and the long hair, the dark T-shirts and the jokey nicknames. But few such figures have ever taken the risks that they have in the past few weeks, or achieved so much in a noble and dangerous cause."
I could just read this is "but few _persons_ have ever taken the risk..." because unfortunately that's always been true throughout history (and I'm not saying I would do any better).
But I actually think the author wants to convey the feeling that somehow skinny, long-haired youngsters that like to sit behind a computer are not hero material. So what do heroes look like? The perfectly groomed playboys we know from US cinema?
Gimme a break. History again shows us that most "heroes" are just people like you and me that "just do what they had to do" because they felt it was the only right option (and most probably didn't even think there _were_ any options to choose from).
Sorry but no, assuming they are all playing in a multi player game with largish number of people and active gameplay there will be spikes all the time. Where you are correct is that playing the same game it is a lot more probable that those spikes will coincide (assuming there isn't some kind of system already that won't send data to players that aren't "close" in the virtual world). But you we're talking about "a form of amplification/positive feedback loop" which this just isn't. The data won't just "amplify", the max data can be calculated easily by doing 16x max data per client/second. If your network can handle that it can easily handle the most chaotic fragfest those 16 students can throw at it.
Ehm no, there is no difference between 16 students playing together or each playing against 15 different people somewhere else. Exactly because this is client-server. Your story would be correct if this was still p2p like the old Command and Conquer games where each client had to tell each other client what it was doing. And I'm hardly a MS fan, but to say this is because of "microsoftization of the gaming protocols" is just silly, gaming protocols have been done this way for years now, long before MS was even thinking of entering the gaming market.
I just remember one particular situation where we had forgotten to turn this feature off on one of our productions servers (well, to be honest it was because our sys admin was such an MS-fanboy that he could not in his wildest dreams conceive of MS ever doing something wrong so he had left it on) and we got a very angry customer in the morning asking why the website was down. It turned out that an update was installed, which had caused a system reboot but the server hadn't come up again.
At least it helped to convince our sys admin that MS does actually make mistakes (and convinced management to invest in monitoring services).
Ehm, in most console games end bosses have no AI whatsover but are ridiculously difficult to kill sometimes. So yes, I can certainly understand switching to easy just to get through the fight scenes quicker instead of being bored to death ;-)
No, it means that almost 1 in every 5 visitors of your website is using FF, you better not be neglecting them because that would be very bad for business (17% of your business to be exact, if you had shareholders they would lynch you if you said you don't care about them).
Which is of course only speculation, unless you have a crystal ball. It could very well happen that TiVo sees the light and will open up their hardware so it can run user-modded software. Or maybe they won't and will have to spend money re-implementing their system using proprietary code opening up the market for a competitor who _does_ agree with the GPLv3 and is therefore able to deliver a cheaper product.
:-)
Look what is happening now with AMD saying it will provide information and help to make an open source driver for their ATI graphics cards. Would that have happened if everybody would just have rolled over and accepted proprietary binary blobs in their Linux distros?
So we'll just have to wait and see and hope for the best
You were right in expecting gibberish, just read here for example: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archive s/004867.html
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