Sorry but the fact that this question still needs to be asked is a damning criticism of FOSS development.
Despite aiming to extend the reach of FOSS distros into the desktop developers still write software that most users can't use.
This gets brought to the community's attention quite frequently and despite this the core point remains unexamined and unanswered:
Geeks who write FOSS software aren't the ultimate market for those tools (or at least they aren't if you want to help spread FOSS) and until tools and software is written for a broader market then Linux will remain a server OS.
And while we're at it can we all drop phrases like "Joe User" and its ilk? Perjorative terms describing what is your actual target market don't help you create better software for them.
While I can understand that this is technically not related to the topic of Doom 3 perhaps if posts like this didn't get modded down the editors of this site might actually address what is a series issue.
Mainly that quite often its pointless to click the links in an article as the target servers have melted down within minutes of the article being made public.
Sorry but this gets brought up time and time again and yet the comments invariably get modded down and what should be an important topic for this community sinks down with the troll posts.
Lets deal with this issue instead of ignoring it via moderation
> Everything Director does can be done in QuickTime and was done in QuickTime BEFORE Director came out
Sorry to be rude but you're talking out your *ss here.
QuickTime didn't add any sort of interactive scripting capabilities until *well* after Director was in its seventh (IIRC) version.
And unless QuickTime added things like bitmap blitting (the most obvious difference I know of) I don't think that it can even do the same things that Director can.
I shudder to think about trying to build projects like XML based file browsers, networked RSS readers or even networked games in Quicktime...oh wait, you can't.
Seriously dude...check the facts out first. Director is a *far* more powerful tool than QuickTime. They aren't even in the same league.
BTW, why you'd even post a comment about Director in an article about Flash is rather beyond me as well.
Director != Flash
How long till this interminable day is over?
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How many times, when playing Dungeons and Dragons by yourself, or reading an RFC in the bed alone on a Friday night, have you thought 'Boy, I sure wish that slashdot would get over this April Fools nonsense. Or at least try a decent hoax and stop publishing these really poorly done "fake" news stories'
This avoids any possibility of continued legal action by the makers of "Dark Age of Camelot".
Not sure what the status of that suit was but with no game MS doesn't have to worry about taking a lawyer from their crack team of legal-ninjas scouring the globe for teenage website operators to sue.
Fair enough, but then post a news story about his release of his works (plural) under the licence and not muddle it with the, understandable and necessary, (self) promotion that Cory is doing for the book.
>> have you ever felt guilty over using Mac OS X instead of Linux?
Hell no. I only ever use Linux for servers.
Using any of the window managers that ship with Linux makes me love my OS X box even more.
And hardware lockin is a double-edged sword. If the hardware is of poor quality is is indeed a problem but I have never had an issue with any of the Apple hardware I have owned that I couldn't get fixed by an Apple tech in a few days.
Can't say that for some of the x86 beige box machines I've owned that I've had Linux on.
This will also help in tracking profressional card counting teams as they frequently carry large numbers of chips.
As well, if you can modify the ID in teh tags from time to time you could also "stale date" chips to stop pro-counters from storing chips for later use in a casino.
This also helps track who is alundering chips by cashing them for teams as well
And if using Webkit means that the folks at Omni have time to make more interesting user features like Workspaces and their tab implimentation then I'm all for it.
I'm actually quite excitied about this new iteration of the browser.
-- Doesn't the Omni Group realize that most people out there expand their browser window to be as big as possible?
I don't. I'm sure other people don't as well.
Your UI usage patterns != my UI usage patterns
Its paperwork not failure
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One issue I had with the article was this comment:
"At the risk of being too obvious, let us observe that every ISV is started by an entrepreneur who somehow overcomes fear of failure."
I think the fear of paperwork is probably just as powerful a deterrent as fear itself. I know that I'd rather have a software project bomb than have to deal with all the forms and paperwork running a business generally entails.
-- -- There is little funnier in the world than creative geeks pouring their hearts and souls into 'a haiku or limerick lamenting the demise of JenniCam.'"
-- I can think of some things...
"Full body cavity searches" is an easy start to what would turn out to be a pretty lengthy list.
I'd like to think that if I did I'd take some responsibility for them.
I'd also remember all the utterly violent and sexist crap I watched when I was a kid (remember Conan either the books or the movies) and realise that it is how you raise your kids that is just as important as what they watch.
I think that its becoming a fairly standard tactic to try and boost the raffic to a site by posting a Mac-baiting article.
(Qualifier...I didn't read the article nor will I as I don't want to legitimise this type of writing)
But when you see this
'How cocky are you feeling now, Mac elite? Hmm. Suddenly it's gotten pretty quiet around here."
as a quote from an article you have to wonder how much of this is realy journalism and how much of it is simply the author trying to drive traffic by POing Mac users?
I really wish people would just stop paying attention to this sort of thing.
It seems that NHS is looking at *Sun* and their tech support and not Linux.
As others have pointed out this isn't a victory for Linux...Sun isn't exactly the biggest fan of penguin branded OS and kernels. Heck they don't even call it Linux.
-- He was modded down for implying that Slashdot -- actively attempts to create DoS's (Denial of -- Service) crashed on various servers by -- "slashdotting" them.
Well I wasn't intending to imply anything nefarious on the part of the editors here. Not really sure why that is being assumed but I really can't see any other way to describe what happens here as anything other than an *inadvertent* and accidental DoS.
I'm not trying to say that someone is doing this deliberately but what other term is there to describe a situation where traffic brings down a site?
But one has to ask, at what point does this continued lack of action in response to a known problem become negligence?
The editors know this problem exists. Its a pretty common joke on the site. The term has entered common geek parlance.
Yet nothing appears to have been done to mitigate the potential effect that posting a story on/. *might* have on a site.
I'll accept the OT moderation but how exactly is this flamebait?
The editors here post stories that then bring down smaller/slower web servers with excessive traffic before the story even has 8 posts.
Surely the folks that run/. need to take some responsibility for the effect that their referential traffic has on other systems?
Its not like this isn't a known issue so it continues to bewilder me why something hasn't been done about it.
And discussing this certainly doesn't seem to me to be "flamebait". This is a problem, a well known problem, and it seems to me to be something worth discussing.
Certainly the folks that run and read this site have the technical chops to build a caching system.
Well its only funny if you weren't running the server. Can't imagine that people are going to continue to be happy with the editors here posting faux DoS attacks in the form of news stories.
They need to start caching pages on their own servers...at least/. seems to be able to handle/. levels of traffic.
I do not like David Weber, nor do I like the Honor Harrington books. I am deeply distrustful of anyone who does.
It really does make one wonder what the process was behind picking this "review" to post?
It is obnoxious, insulting and was written while he was finishing the book and browsing the web?
Maybe if he had spent the time focusing on the book instead of trying to multi-task he might have liked it some more. Or at least been able to offer some insight into the book other than foaming review he did post.
Is this the standard for/. reviews now? Makes me wonder if I'll even bother to read another one.
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Sorry but the fact that this question still needs to be asked is a damning criticism of FOSS development.
Despite aiming to extend the reach of FOSS distros into the desktop developers still write software that most users can't use.
This gets brought to the community's attention quite frequently and despite this the core point remains unexamined and unanswered:
Geeks who write FOSS software aren't the ultimate market for those tools (or at least they aren't if you want to help spread FOSS) and until tools and software is written for a broader market then Linux will remain a server OS.
And while we're at it can we all drop phrases like "Joe User" and its ilk? Perjorative terms describing what is your actual target market don't help you create better software for them.
While I can understand that this is technically not related to the topic of Doom 3 perhaps if posts like this didn't get modded down the editors of this site might actually address what is a series issue.
Mainly that quite often its pointless to click the links in an article as the target servers have melted down within minutes of the article being made public.
Sorry but this gets brought up time and time again and yet the comments invariably get modded down and what should be an important topic for this community sinks down with the troll posts.
Lets deal with this issue instead of ignoring it via moderation
> Everything Director does can be done in QuickTime and was done in QuickTime BEFORE Director came out
Sorry to be rude but you're talking out your *ss here.
QuickTime didn't add any sort of interactive scripting capabilities until *well* after Director was in its seventh (IIRC) version.
And unless QuickTime added things like bitmap blitting (the most obvious difference I know of) I don't think that it can even do the same things that Director can.
I shudder to think about trying to build projects like XML based file browsers, networked RSS readers or even networked games in Quicktime...oh wait, you can't.
Seriously dude...check the facts out first. Director is a *far* more powerful tool than QuickTime. They aren't even in the same league.
BTW, why you'd even post a comment about Director in an article about Flash is rather beyond me as well.
Director != Flash
How many times, when playing Dungeons and Dragons by yourself, or reading an RFC in the bed alone on a Friday night, have you thought 'Boy, I sure wish that slashdot would get over this April Fools nonsense. Or at least try a decent hoax and stop publishing these really poorly done "fake" news stories'
There are lies, damn lies, and market share percentages.
This avoids any possibility of continued legal action by the makers of "Dark Age of Camelot".
Not sure what the status of that suit was but with no game MS doesn't have to worry about taking a lawyer from their crack team of legal-ninjas scouring the globe for teenage website operators to sue.
Fair enough, but then post a news story about his release of his works (plural) under the licence and not muddle it with the, understandable and necessary, (self) promotion that Cory is doing for the book.
Is this news or a promotional item for Cory's book?
/. to advertise a product? Release it under the Creative Commons?
Is this all it requires to get
>> have you ever felt guilty over using Mac OS X instead of Linux?
Hell no. I only ever use Linux for servers.
Using any of the window managers that ship with Linux makes me love my OS X box even more.
And hardware lockin is a double-edged sword. If the hardware is of poor quality is is indeed a problem but I have never had an issue with any of the Apple hardware I have owned that I couldn't get fixed by an Apple tech in a few days.
Can't say that for some of the x86 beige box machines I've owned that I've had Linux on.
This will also help in tracking profressional card counting teams as they frequently carry large numbers of chips.
As well, if you can modify the ID in teh tags from time to time you could also "stale date" chips to stop pro-counters from storing chips for later use in a casino.
This also helps track who is alundering chips by cashing them for teams as well
-- This is about creating useful software.
And if using Webkit means that the folks at Omni have time to make more interesting user features like Workspaces and their tab implimentation then I'm all for it.
I'm actually quite excitied about this new iteration of the browser.
-- Doesn't the Omni Group realize that most people out there expand their browser window to be as big as possible?
I don't. I'm sure other people don't as well.
Your UI usage patterns != my UI usage patterns
One issue I had with the article was this comment:
"At the risk of being too obvious, let us observe that every ISV is started by an entrepreneur who somehow overcomes fear of failure."
I think the fear of paperwork is probably just as powerful a deterrent as fear itself. I know that I'd rather have a software project bomb than have to deal with all the forms and paperwork running a business generally entails.
-- -- There is little funnier in the world than creative geeks pouring their hearts and souls into 'a haiku or limerick lamenting the demise of JenniCam.'"
...
-- I can think of some things
"Full body cavity searches" is an easy start to what would turn out to be a pretty lengthy list.
-- Three French Hens
Aren't they Freedom Hens now?
So are we all just critically impatient or is the tech/gaming industry driven far too much by marketing hype?
Maybe if there were fewer PR people we wouldn't have this issue at all?
Or you could be running a Mac or Windows box and just refuse to pollute it with crappy MS software :-)
--You must not have children, then?
I'd like to think that if I did I'd take some responsibility for them.
I'd also remember all the utterly violent and sexist crap I watched when I was a kid (remember Conan either the books or the movies) and realise that it is how you raise your kids that is just as important as what they watch.
I think that its becoming a fairly standard tactic to try and boost the raffic to a site by posting a Mac-baiting article.
(Qualifier...I didn't read the article nor will I as I don't want to legitimise this type of writing)
But when you see this
'How cocky are you feeling now, Mac elite? Hmm. Suddenly it's gotten pretty quiet around here."
as a quote from an article you have to wonder how much of this is realy journalism and how much of it is simply the author trying to drive traffic by POing Mac users?
I really wish people would just stop paying attention to this sort of thing.
Then send someone a URL to an HTML page on a web server.
Why screw up one technology instead of using a simpler, existing solution?
It seems that NHS is looking at *Sun* and their tech support and not Linux.
As others have pointed out this isn't a victory for Linux...Sun isn't exactly the biggest fan of penguin branded OS and kernels. Heck they don't even call it Linux.
-- He was modded down for implying that Slashdot
/. *might* have on a site.
-- actively attempts to create DoS's (Denial of
-- Service) crashed on various servers by
-- "slashdotting" them.
Well I wasn't intending to imply anything nefarious on the part of the editors here. Not really sure why that is being assumed but I really can't see any other way to describe what happens here as anything other than an *inadvertent* and accidental DoS.
I'm not trying to say that someone is doing this deliberately but what other term is there to describe a situation where traffic brings down a site?
But one has to ask, at what point does this continued lack of action in response to a known problem become negligence?
The editors know this problem exists. Its a pretty common joke on the site. The term has entered common geek parlance.
Yet nothing appears to have been done to mitigate the potential effect that posting a story on
I'll accept the OT moderation but how exactly is this flamebait?
/. need to take some responsibility for the effect that their referential traffic has on other systems?
The editors here post stories that then bring down smaller/slower web servers with excessive traffic before the story even has 8 posts.
Surely the folks that run
Its not like this isn't a known issue so it continues to bewilder me why something hasn't been done about it.
And discussing this certainly doesn't seem to me to be "flamebait". This is a problem, a well known problem, and it seems to me to be something worth discussing.
Certainly the folks that run and read this site have the technical chops to build a caching system.
Well its only funny if you weren't running the server. Can't imagine that people are going to continue to be happy with the editors here posting faux DoS attacks in the form of news stories.
/. seems to be able to handle /. levels of traffic.
They need to start caching pages on their own servers...at least
It really does make one wonder what the process was behind picking this "review" to post?
It is obnoxious, insulting and was written while he was finishing the book and browsing the web?
Maybe if he had spent the time focusing on the book instead of trying to multi-task he might have liked it some more. Or at least been able to offer some insight into the book other than foaming review he did post.
Is this the standard for /. reviews now? Makes me wonder if I'll even bother to read another one.