actaully the windows 7 caching model is great. on games the difference between the first loading of a level and subsequent loads are night and day thanks to it's caching model.
First off, that has to do with the game's own caching system, not Windows 7.
Second, you type in all lowercase using chat acronyms for some reason. This isn't texting on your cell phone, it's a technical web forum full of intelligent people. Write properly.
The counterargument to that is that this is a government agency, so we're paying for it. If some private business doesn't care what its employees are doing on the job, that's their concern, but in this case the expenses come out of our pocket by force (through taxes), so there's a higher standard applied here.
First off, Slashdot is opposed to copyright law, so calling for a GPL violation won't work because the GPL is a copyright license, and we're opposed to copyright licenses, remember?
Second, Google is like any other closed company. It only uses free software when it benefits them. They're greedy, selfish, and only in it to make money--just like Microsoft. It just happens that Google's business model allows them to rely on free stuff as part of their campaign to get users using their closed search engine and other closed technologies--which together make up Google's advertising platform.
It's amazing how quickly Slashdotters will rush to defend Google over anything. I notice you've made many other comments in this story defending Google. If this was Microsoft, they'd be portrayed as the greedy corporation exploiting software licenses to shut down freedom. When it's Google, we're supposed to shut our eyes and cover our ears. "Case closed."
Man, there are a lot of uninformed people posting to this article. Apple has used Uniform Type Identifiers since 10.4 Tiger. Creator codes have been deprecated for years.
What freedom am I losing if I use a Mac or Windows-based PC? What freedom am I gaining from using Ubuntu?
I don't mean hypothetical, idealistic legalese that only matters to people who type in all lowercase on Slashdot. Tell me exactly how it's going to affect my free will. Having used all three systems, I have to say I hadn't noticed a difference.
If all you can offer is "GPL source code," I don't consider the GPL free, either.
You use the phrase "non-issue" twice in your post as well as pulling a "90%" figure completely out of thin air, which leads me to believe you're shilling for Microsoft here. It's not a non-issue, and the crash isn't just caused by chkdsk.exe but by the Windows disk check utility.
Ignoring the fact that you would effectively be removing capitalism, you'd also only be getting access to their five year old software. Meanwhile, the proprietary vendors could get your five year old GPL code, copy in all the public changes you've made since, and they'd never be caught for violating the GPL because you'd only ever see what they did five years later when the GPL code they took has again lost its protection.
Greenpeace's own founder is against Greenpeace. It's time to stop letting insane left-wingers threaten everybody into living the way they want them to live.
For those unaware of what DotA is, it's a team based strategy game where you control a single character (called your hero) because you're a dumb Diablo player incapable of commanding a multi-unit army in Starcraft, so you resorted to Warcraft III mods that play your armies for you using the AI. Like other creepy DotA players, you will, for some reason, only play DotA, even though it's not that fun nor is it worth that much attention. You will rarely find genuine Warcraft III games on Battle.net. It's non-stop DotA games.
During the course of the game, you attempt to curse and swear at the other 12-year-olds as much as possible in an attempt to recreate the Counter-Strike community circa 2000. When you get into the strategy a bit more, there are far more insults and profanities to throw out because you care way too much about victory in a cartoon RPG mod. There is little depth in the imbalanced game play.
As the subject says, DotA is really the only game I play these days, and I've been playing it for years. There are around 100 heroes, but a select few are the most powerful, which DotA players will defend by telling you to just not pick them. The game is boring to play and always pisses you off. It also runs on old hardware, being based on a blizzard game, although it can take a while to load.
If this game is even a fraction as fun as DotA, and has a native Linux client, it's a must buy from me.
The article is talking about skill-based character progression systems in RPGs (e.g., Elder Scrolls), not player skill in the general sense. There's a goddamn paragraph on the first page that clarifies this, but apparently that wasn't enough.
I know that's the stereotypical Slashdotters' position on the matter, but reality is that H.264 is a higher quality-per-bandwidth codec, and there are hardware H.264 decoders already available and in-use in mobile devices so that watching video doesn't drain your battery in 20 minutes.
It's cute that sites like Wikipedia insist on using formats like Theora, but the industry players have committed to H.264, and H.264 is going to be the standard.
I don't know if you saw the article a while back that was posted on Slashdot that claimed piracy was good, but basically, the story claimed that people should forget about making money off their product and instead supplement their incoming with "concerts and speaking tours."
Seriously, that's the excuse Slashdotters use to justify piracy. Concerts and speaking tours.
What a stupid comment. Google Chrome is based on WebKit, a non-Gecko rendering engine initiated by Apple and derived from KHTML, which has nothing to do with Firefox. It would exist with or without it. People who "paid way too much for their computers" are still running Safari, because it's the faster, better browser, and there's a Windows version available.
Internet Explorer still commands something like 90% of the market based on most studies, so those "browser wars" only exist in dwindling niche circles like Slashdot. If anything, Firefox is losing the war since WebKit has been adopted by Google and is also being used on several mobile devices. Gecko is a messy engine that few understand.
I'm confused, because the GPL is a copyright license. The FSF says right on its website that the GPL protects the rights of the author by assuring copyright over the software. Why do Slashdotters believe the rights of the content creators whose material is pirated on PirateBay don't matter, but the rights of GPL authors do? If copyright law is wrong, then I can do whatever I want with your precious GPL code and completely ignore the usage restrictions described in the copyright license.
Seriously, do Slashdotters realize how self-serving and hypocritical they come off when they rant about the "MAFIAA" (the latest goofy Slashdot meme) while defending the GPL? The GPL is a copyright license with usage restrictions, the very things everybody is suddenly opposed to when the copyright is applied to something else!
Conclusion--if copyright is wrong, then so is the GPL.
Okay, so is Slashdot for or against copyright today? You guys rant every day about copyright law, but then when somebody disregards the copyright license that benefits you, suddenly there are "violations." If copyright law is evil and wrong, then the GPL has no legal standing, and people can do whatever they want with your code.
Are you suddenly finding out what it feels like to have your rights violated as a content owner?
I implore you to continue your campaign on Slashdot to make me feel less guilty. I know that not paying someone for their work is wrong, but if Slashdot posts enough articles bashing the RIAA/MPAA/copyright law/whatever, it's easier for me to accept what I'm doing emotionally by visualizing someone else as the bad guy. Once on the forefront of relevant IT news, Slashdot is now a lame repository of mainstream pseudoscience links and pro-piracy articles to appease a dwindling readership. I am overjoyed.
Even though the open source community is about giving back as much as it is taking, I'm just going to take. I'm a human leech with self-serving beliefs and an inability to empathize with content creators who are trying to make a living.
I don't believe John Carmack should be paid for his work. I'm going to sit on my ass while he spends years coding the next advanced 3D engine from id Software. When their game comes out, I'm going to pirate it without giving a second thought about paying John Carmack for his work. I'm just so used to pirating things now that I take it for granted. If anyone mentions John Carmack to make me feel guilty, I'll look for Slashdot articles that bolster my viewpoint, such as this one, amusingly posted in the Your Rights Online section even though none of my rights are being violated.
According to that study, it's okay to not pay people for their work because there's some vague hope that they'll make up the difference in income through "concerts and speaking tours." Artists are now forced to take time out of doing what they want to do. John Carmack must stop programming in order to make money from programming. It's genius. The study does exactly what I need it to--make me feel less guilty when I pirate. We've managed to stretch the truth so far that we're actually telling ourselves that we're helping artists by not paying them for their work. Excellent job.
I look forward to Slashdot telling me everyday who the bad guys are. Even though Slashdot has sued websites in the past for copyright infringement, and they've pretended to care about plagiarism, we're supposed to go along with Slashdot's anti-copyright agenda. I'm okay with that hypocrisy because it serves me. It makes me feel less guilty when I pirate something. Remember, I'm not the bad guy--the RIAA/MPAA/whatever is. That makes it okay for me to not pay people for their work.
EULAs and copyright licenses are wrong, yet the GPL is good. Piracy isn't theft, yet GPL violations are referred to as "stolen GPL code." I accept all of these double-standards because it serves me. I pretend not to notice when someone points out that the GPL relies on copyright law, and if I want to get rid of copyright, my beloved open source code will no longer be protected by the GPL. I don't care, because I'm too busy concerning myself with what I want for free, not about the consequences. I want to get rid of copyrights because I've been told that copyrights are the bad guy, and they are an obstacle to my rampant piracy.
Fellow pirates, let us continue our selfish leeching. Let us paint others as the bad guys to absolve us of our emotional guilt. Our goal is to convince people that piracy is something the good guys are doing in a fight with the evil corporations. Making money is wrong, even though Slashdot displays ads, and it cost me money to buy the computer I'm using to pirate stuff.
Weird, I'm using my reliance on actualfigures to support my conclusion that it isn't. I understand, however, that not being able to blame society for destroying the planet in some way doesn't allow lefties to feel enlightened and judgmental or convince the public to accept increased government control over their lives.
Yeah, you're not biased whatsoever. Let's ignore that Republicans took over Congress two years into Clinton's term, and that unemployment under Bush was lower than it was under Clinton. Not to mention that the planning for the 9/11 attacks began in 1998, back when we had "world diplomat" Clinton as president, so blaming Bush for hate from people around the globe is crap.
Why do people pretend they're not biased? I don't get it...I don't get how someone could not be self-aware of how their mind works. Did you know scientists found a location in the brain that stimulates you emotionally when your belief system is bolstered, and that the same location is stimulated when you disregard criticism of your beliefs? That explains why you justify criticism of Bush but dismiss criticism of Obama, even though Obama has become Bush 2.0 (he even supports warrantless wiretaps!).
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First off, that has to do with the game's own caching system, not Windows 7.
Second, you type in all lowercase using chat acronyms for some reason. This isn't texting on your cell phone, it's a technical web forum full of intelligent people. Write properly.
The summary already mentions the indexing change.
From the summary:
I like how you happily proved his point about PC users' bias by providing an example. Some dumb moderator even rated it up.
The counterargument to that is that this is a government agency, so we're paying for it. If some private business doesn't care what its employees are doing on the job, that's their concern, but in this case the expenses come out of our pocket by force (through taxes), so there's a higher standard applied here.
First off, Slashdot is opposed to copyright law, so calling for a GPL violation won't work because the GPL is a copyright license, and we're opposed to copyright licenses, remember?
Second, Google is like any other closed company. It only uses free software when it benefits them. They're greedy, selfish, and only in it to make money--just like Microsoft. It just happens that Google's business model allows them to rely on free stuff as part of their campaign to get users using their closed search engine and other closed technologies--which together make up Google's advertising platform.
It's amazing how quickly Slashdotters will rush to defend Google over anything. I notice you've made many other comments in this story defending Google. If this was Microsoft, they'd be portrayed as the greedy corporation exploiting software licenses to shut down freedom. When it's Google, we're supposed to shut our eyes and cover our ears. "Case closed."
Man, there are a lot of uninformed people posting to this article. Apple has used Uniform Type Identifiers since 10.4 Tiger. Creator codes have been deprecated for years.
What freedom am I losing if I use a Mac or Windows-based PC? What freedom am I gaining from using Ubuntu?
I don't mean hypothetical, idealistic legalese that only matters to people who type in all lowercase on Slashdot. Tell me exactly how it's going to affect my free will. Having used all three systems, I have to say I hadn't noticed a difference.
If all you can offer is "GPL source code," I don't consider the GPL free, either.
You use the phrase "non-issue" twice in your post as well as pulling a "90%" figure completely out of thin air, which leads me to believe you're shilling for Microsoft here. It's not a non-issue, and the crash isn't just caused by chkdsk.exe but by the Windows disk check utility.
Ignoring the fact that you would effectively be removing capitalism, you'd also only be getting access to their five year old software. Meanwhile, the proprietary vendors could get your five year old GPL code, copy in all the public changes you've made since, and they'd never be caught for violating the GPL because you'd only ever see what they did five years later when the GPL code they took has again lost its protection.
What power does Stallman wield? He doesn't want users to lose their access to source code. That's power for the users, not for Richard Stallman.
Greenpeace's own founder is against Greenpeace. It's time to stop letting insane left-wingers threaten everybody into living the way they want them to live.
Not only are you completely flat-out wrong about "98%" of OpenOffice being C++, you also use the phrase "Bzzzt wrong," which makes you obnoxious.
Went ahead and corrected your post for you.
The article is talking about skill-based character progression systems in RPGs (e.g., Elder Scrolls), not player skill in the general sense. There's a goddamn paragraph on the first page that clarifies this, but apparently that wasn't enough.
I know that's the stereotypical Slashdotters' position on the matter, but reality is that H.264 is a higher quality-per-bandwidth codec, and there are hardware H.264 decoders already available and in-use in mobile devices so that watching video doesn't drain your battery in 20 minutes.
It's cute that sites like Wikipedia insist on using formats like Theora, but the industry players have committed to H.264, and H.264 is going to be the standard.
I don't know if you saw the article a while back that was posted on Slashdot that claimed piracy was good, but basically, the story claimed that people should forget about making money off their product and instead supplement their incoming with "concerts and speaking tours."
Seriously, that's the excuse Slashdotters use to justify piracy. Concerts and speaking tours.
I love how biased Slashdotters are. They're ALL Democrats.
What a stupid comment. Google Chrome is based on WebKit, a non-Gecko rendering engine initiated by Apple and derived from KHTML, which has nothing to do with Firefox. It would exist with or without it. People who "paid way too much for their computers" are still running Safari, because it's the faster, better browser, and there's a Windows version available.
Internet Explorer still commands something like 90% of the market based on most studies, so those "browser wars" only exist in dwindling niche circles like Slashdot. If anything, Firefox is losing the war since WebKit has been adopted by Google and is also being used on several mobile devices. Gecko is a messy engine that few understand.
I'm confused, because the GPL is a copyright license. The FSF says right on its website that the GPL protects the rights of the author by assuring copyright over the software. Why do Slashdotters believe the rights of the content creators whose material is pirated on PirateBay don't matter, but the rights of GPL authors do? If copyright law is wrong, then I can do whatever I want with your precious GPL code and completely ignore the usage restrictions described in the copyright license.
Seriously, do Slashdotters realize how self-serving and hypocritical they come off when they rant about the "MAFIAA" (the latest goofy Slashdot meme) while defending the GPL? The GPL is a copyright license with usage restrictions, the very things everybody is suddenly opposed to when the copyright is applied to something else!
Conclusion--if copyright is wrong, then so is the GPL.
Okay, so is Slashdot for or against copyright today? You guys rant every day about copyright law, but then when somebody disregards the copyright license that benefits you, suddenly there are "violations." If copyright law is evil and wrong, then the GPL has no legal standing, and people can do whatever they want with your code.
Are you suddenly finding out what it feels like to have your rights violated as a content owner?
Fellow pirates,
I implore you to continue your campaign on Slashdot to make me feel less guilty. I know that not paying someone for their work is wrong, but if Slashdot posts enough articles bashing the RIAA/MPAA/copyright law/whatever, it's easier for me to accept what I'm doing emotionally by visualizing someone else as the bad guy. Once on the forefront of relevant IT news, Slashdot is now a lame repository of mainstream pseudoscience links and pro-piracy articles to appease a dwindling readership. I am overjoyed.
Even though the open source community is about giving back as much as it is taking, I'm just going to take. I'm a human leech with self-serving beliefs and an inability to empathize with content creators who are trying to make a living.
I don't believe John Carmack should be paid for his work. I'm going to sit on my ass while he spends years coding the next advanced 3D engine from id Software. When their game comes out, I'm going to pirate it without giving a second thought about paying John Carmack for his work. I'm just so used to pirating things now that I take it for granted. If anyone mentions John Carmack to make me feel guilty, I'll look for Slashdot articles that bolster my viewpoint, such as this one, amusingly posted in the Your Rights Online section even though none of my rights are being violated.
According to that study, it's okay to not pay people for their work because there's some vague hope that they'll make up the difference in income through "concerts and speaking tours." Artists are now forced to take time out of doing what they want to do. John Carmack must stop programming in order to make money from programming. It's genius. The study does exactly what I need it to--make me feel less guilty when I pirate. We've managed to stretch the truth so far that we're actually telling ourselves that we're helping artists by not paying them for their work. Excellent job.
I look forward to Slashdot telling me everyday who the bad guys are. Even though Slashdot has sued websites in the past for copyright infringement, and they've pretended to care about plagiarism, we're supposed to go along with Slashdot's anti-copyright agenda. I'm okay with that hypocrisy because it serves me. It makes me feel less guilty when I pirate something. Remember, I'm not the bad guy--the RIAA/MPAA/whatever is. That makes it okay for me to not pay people for their work.
EULAs and copyright licenses are wrong, yet the GPL is good. Piracy isn't theft, yet GPL violations are referred to as "stolen GPL code." I accept all of these double-standards because it serves me. I pretend not to notice when someone points out that the GPL relies on copyright law, and if I want to get rid of copyright, my beloved open source code will no longer be protected by the GPL. I don't care, because I'm too busy concerning myself with what I want for free, not about the consequences. I want to get rid of copyrights because I've been told that copyrights are the bad guy, and they are an obstacle to my rampant piracy.
Fellow pirates, let us continue our selfish leeching. Let us paint others as the bad guys to absolve us of our emotional guilt. Our goal is to convince people that piracy is something the good guys are doing in a fight with the evil corporations. Making money is wrong, even though Slashdot displays ads, and it cost me money to buy the computer I'm using to pirate stuff.
Yours truly,
A fellow Slashbot
Weird, I'm using my reliance on actual figures to support my conclusion that it isn't. I understand, however, that not being able to blame society for destroying the planet in some way doesn't allow lefties to feel enlightened and judgmental or convince the public to accept increased government control over their lives.
Yeah, you're not biased whatsoever. Let's ignore that Republicans took over Congress two years into Clinton's term, and that unemployment under Bush was lower than it was under Clinton. Not to mention that the planning for the 9/11 attacks began in 1998, back when we had "world diplomat" Clinton as president, so blaming Bush for hate from people around the globe is crap.
Why do people pretend they're not biased? I don't get it...I don't get how someone could not be self-aware of how their mind works. Did you know scientists found a location in the brain that stimulates you emotionally when your belief system is bolstered, and that the same location is stimulated when you disregard criticism of your beliefs? That explains why you justify criticism of Bush but dismiss criticism of Obama, even though Obama has become Bush 2.0 (he even supports warrantless wiretaps!).