Given that the government has been pumping the idea for a while that somehow terrorists are "recruiting" online in places like Second Life , not long at all.
I for one, can't wait for the day that national monuments are knocked over by giant flying penises.
The cynical me wonders when the Open Source community will abandon the OpenID standard now that Microsoft has committed to it.
I haven't exactly seen the Open Source community embracing it, to begin with. If they "abandon" it, it will have exactly the same attention it received before from the Open Source community.
VB in all its forms before.NET murder was and is the best RAD tool ever.
I disagree.
VB allowed me to have a GUI and trivial code up in a few minutes and call a C or assembly dll for expensive code.
I can do the same in Delphi and just rely on objects to provide all the functionality I need from Delphi's vast object library without an worry about maintaining the code like I would with VB.
Now I use Linsux and I spend hours designing crap GUIs which are all any UNIX app will ever look like.
I don't run 'UNIX app' stuff on my Linux system (as most things in Linux, especially GUI related are not actually following some kind of UNIX specification). I additionally don't understand what is limiting you in GUI design? Toolkits like Qt, GTK pretty much allow you to recreate all the GUI functionality that you can do under Windows/OS X.
Linux distributions currently do not pass Unix certification due to the fact the kernel and userland differ from Unix certifications, because of disagreements on how things should be done and just general progress for technological superiority.
And the lame Sun UNIX guys invented and adopted Java which is the evilest piece of shit ever.
We collect data from the browsers of site visitors to our exclusive on-demand network of live stats customers.
Such data collection methods are not accurate. It just shows various user data about who visits the specific sites they are monitoring.
Forbes, Wall street journal, New York Times, Computer world, Information week - Why am I not surprised that they don't have such a large amount of Linux users (the only ones I've ever even heard of is WSJ and NYT) -- because the Internet just America (it's only tracking a few news sites and only American ones at that), right?
That's because there can never be credit in a virtual world. If I lend someone a virtual $1000 what's to stop them deleting their character the next day and running off with the money? Nothing at all.
Rent the money from a bank in real life and convert the money to lindens. This not any different from converting money to casino chips etc.
All these years people in the Unixy world gave Microsoft a ton of crap for VB, and now, after all this time, they've come up with something arguably worse... javascript, and now, a javascript compiler.
Javascript was not created by the opensource community (it was created by Brendan Eich and ended up becoming part of Netscape, which was not open source at the time). Additionally, Javascript has reasonable structures that don't deteriorate when the software expands to large sizes.
Check out Synchronet, it has IRC servers, NNTP servers, Gopher servers etc. all written in javascript. The code is completely readable (generally not the case with VB when the code reaches that complexity) and cross-platform.
There is nothing fundamentally wrong with the Javascript language, like there is in visual basic.
What I really think is that many of the people who blast Macs want to use OS X, but want to pay less for the hardware.
It really isn't that, I just feel ripped off, take a look at my price comparison. The difference between the prices and what you get are just too great for me to even consider.
OS X is no more, more Unix than Windows is. Windows has a POSIX subsystem that is 100% compliant (without little issues like broken signaling) and has Unix certification too.
Since I've switched to Macs from Wintel
Since you use the term 'Wintel', I assume you switched to Macs during the days it wasn't on Intel based hardware.
my upgrade cycles have lengthened tenfold
And I use Linux, I prefer the release early, release often scheme. I don't get stuck with outdated non-sense.
Things don't need "re-installed".
Neither do they on Windows or Linux.
Shit just works.
Pretty much is the case on Windows and Linux.
I've thoroughly used HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, GNU/Linux, OSX, Win3.11, 95, 98, and XP, on all kinds of hardware.
I have used more and I'm platform agnostic.
Macs are the nice place in between crap and waaaaay expensive.
I don't think you're truely telling the truth. If you have had as much experience as you claim, you would know a lot of the issues that exist in other operating systems pretty much exist on OS X too. You would also be aware of how Apple completely ignores issues until they have (if they want to) fix them. You also failed to point out how a large amount of Apple computer products have "logicboard failures", excessive adhesive applied to the processor (even to this day, they still do that - wtf?), bad drivers (see wireless) etc.
You failed to point out additionally how OS X cannot do signaling correctly with it's BSD subsystem, you failed to mention how Java was bastardized by extending it (the very thing that Sun sued Microsoft for) with Aqua specific functions, making Java applications useless on other platforms. You did not mention the fact that with every.x upgrade, a lot of OS X software just breaks - no decent backwards compatibility (most "Unix platforms" have very good backwards compatibility).
There are plenty of other issues I come up with, but at this point, I see no reason to continue.
So for $200 less than the new Macbook, we've got a computer that rivals the nicer Macbook pro in everything but CPU speed. Yes, the Apple tax is fucking high. No, comparing a Mac to the most overpriced piece of shit (as far as Sony is concerned, anyway) notebooks on the market isn't a COMPARISON. It's a RATIONALIZATION.
You should see the price I got my laptop, it's pretty much the same price as a Mac Mini and does far more than the Mac Mini, Macbook, Macbook pro etc.
After unsuccessfully fighting suspend / resume with Linux, I am now considering a Mac laptop. You could argue that a laptop without a good suspend / resume that works well is not really a laptop.
It's funny, I've never really had those issues on Linux, but I have had when running the OS on the hardware it was intended for (Windows/OS X).
i got moer than four years os use out of my pb g4, which i retired with a brand spanking new mb; my wife has had her 12' g4 for almost five years.
I got seven years out of my old HP laptop, now it serves as a server and I intend to use it for a lot longer.
I ran and still run Linux on it. At one point it was Mandrake/Mandriva Linux (with a membership plan - in other words, I actually paid money), later I switched to Kubuntu and now it runs SuSE Linux for a server.
Demanding that you download something so large and slow to see some 5year old graphics and badly coded game-like crap isn't appealing to most of web users.
It isn't five year old graphics, it's what computers can handle without prerendering. You cannot do prerendering on Second life due it's dynamic nature.
They are moving to flash and making most
resources download-as-you-go.Flash has Local Storage Objects for this.
Flash would give terrible FPS.
Disable scripts completely.They should be
allowed for premium customers or staff if at all.
Why?
Disable large/heavy ram textures.
Maximum texture size is currently 1024x1024 - nothing wrong with that. If you have hardware that cannot handle that, it just won't fully load (progressive images).
Focus on quality vs size.Alot of crappy textures don't increase quality.
Then use better textures. Note that this is all user created content. You go to a crappy user created area, you get crappy user created content.
Take hints from 3D gaming.3D gaming is successful platform.
Most of the things 3D gaming platforms do is entirely impossible on Second life due to the fact it cannot do prerendering.
Great! Can you give the URL for where I can download the version for Ubuntu?/P
Ubuntu comes with Wine by default, and it works fine with Word Viewer, so simply downloading the Windows version of Word Viewer and installing it, should be sufficient.
Nah, it was someone who had some thing against me. They used all their mod points on different posts I made on different articles, more or less at the same time.
yeah, but if you're a pirate, then mounting a DVD image of one more game isn't a huge effort, as you've already got the relevant software set up for your other pirated games.
They would still have the DRM and suffer any weird problems the DRM gives you. Such as SecuROM's numerous bugs, issues starting games because certain software is installed, wrecked disc drives from anti-piracy checking tools etc.
Let's divide people into three groups: those who buy, those who make the pirated (DRM-free) version, and those who pirate.
There are plenty of games on TPB which have DRM, they just use those CDROM emulators to trick TAGES, Starforce etc.
Don't believe me? Just search for "x3: Terran Conflict" on TBP (I actually own a legal copy in you check my games list).
Those who pirate never see the DRM in the first place.
Sure they do, I just proved it to you.
Those who make the pirated version will have an easier time; this benefits the pirates ever so slightly, but DRM is often defeated faster than you can say Yo-Ho, so the benefit is ever so slight.
What? Mounting a cd image? Err.. If it still has the DRM, I don't see how.
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Elite and it's sequals. I really enjoyed Frontier: Elite II on the Amiga.
I for one, can't wait for the day that national monuments are knocked over by giant flying penises.
What about accounts for Anonymous Cowards?
I haven't exactly seen the Open Source community embracing it, to begin with. If they "abandon" it, it will have exactly the same attention it received before from the Open Source community.
Oh, I appologize.
To my knowledge, Brendan Eich did not touch Unixy stuff (unless you consider porting GCC to a non-unix-like environment as Unixy stuff).
What are you responding to? I see no quotation.
I disagree.
I can do the same in Delphi and just rely on objects to provide all the functionality I need from Delphi's vast object library without an worry about maintaining the code like I would with VB.
I don't run 'UNIX app' stuff on my Linux system (as most things in Linux, especially GUI related are not actually following some kind of UNIX specification). I additionally don't understand what is limiting you in GUI design? Toolkits like Qt, GTK pretty much allow you to recreate all the GUI functionality that you can do under Windows/OS X.
Linux distributions currently do not pass Unix certification due to the fact the kernel and userland differ from Unix certifications, because of disagreements on how things should be done and just general progress for technological superiority.
The discussion was on JavaScript, not Java.
Such data collection methods are not accurate. It just shows various user data about who visits the specific sites they are monitoring.
Forbes, Wall street journal, New York Times, Computer world, Information week - Why am I not surprised that they don't have such a large amount of Linux users (the only ones I've ever even heard of is WSJ and NYT) -- because the Internet just America (it's only tracking a few news sites and only American ones at that), right?
I have never seen any of those.
Rent the money from a bank in real life and convert the money to lindens. This not any different from converting money to casino chips etc.
Javascript was not created by the opensource community (it was created by Brendan Eich and ended up becoming part of Netscape, which was not open source at the time). Additionally, Javascript has reasonable structures that don't deteriorate when the software expands to large sizes.
Check out Synchronet, it has IRC servers, NNTP servers, Gopher servers etc. all written in javascript. The code is completely readable (generally not the case with VB when the code reaches that complexity) and cross-platform.
There is nothing fundamentally wrong with the Javascript language, like there is in visual basic.
It really isn't that, I just feel ripped off, take a look at my price comparison. The difference between the prices and what you get are just too great for me to even consider.
OS X is no more, more Unix than Windows is. Windows has a POSIX subsystem that is 100% compliant (without little issues like broken signaling) and has Unix certification too.
Since you use the term 'Wintel', I assume you switched to Macs during the days it wasn't on Intel based hardware.
And I use Linux, I prefer the release early, release often scheme. I don't get stuck with outdated non-sense.
Neither do they on Windows or Linux.
Pretty much is the case on Windows and Linux.
I have used more and I'm platform agnostic.
I don't think you're truely telling the truth. If you have had as much experience as you claim, you would know a lot of the issues that exist in other operating systems pretty much exist on OS X too. You would also be aware of how Apple completely ignores issues until they have (if they want to) fix them. You also failed to point out how a large amount of Apple computer products have "logicboard failures", excessive adhesive applied to the processor (even to this day, they still do that - wtf?), bad drivers (see wireless) etc.
You failed to point out additionally how OS X cannot do signaling correctly with it's BSD subsystem, you failed to mention how Java was bastardized by extending it (the very thing that Sun sued Microsoft for) with Aqua specific functions, making Java applications useless on other platforms. You did not mention the fact that with every .x upgrade, a lot of OS X software just breaks - no decent backwards compatibility (most "Unix platforms" have very good backwards compatibility).
There are plenty of other issues I come up with, but at this point, I see no reason to continue.
You should see the price I got my laptop, it's pretty much the same price as a Mac Mini and does far more than the Mac Mini, Macbook, Macbook pro etc.
It's funny, I've never really had those issues on Linux, but I have had when running the OS on the hardware it was intended for (Windows/OS X).
I got seven years out of my old HP laptop, now it serves as a server and I intend to use it for a lot longer.
I ran and still run Linux on it. At one point it was Mandrake/Mandriva Linux (with a membership plan - in other words, I actually paid money), later I switched to Kubuntu and now it runs SuSE Linux for a server.
It isn't five year old graphics, it's what computers can handle without prerendering. You cannot do prerendering on Second life due it's dynamic nature.
Flash would give terrible FPS.
Why?
Maximum texture size is currently 1024x1024 - nothing wrong with that. If you have hardware that cannot handle that, it just won't fully load (progressive images).
Then use better textures. Note that this is all user created content. You go to a crappy user created area, you get crappy user created content.
Most of the things 3D gaming platforms do is entirely impossible on Second life due to the fact it cannot do prerendering.
Ubuntu comes with Wine by default, and it works fine with Word Viewer, so simply downloading the Windows version of Word Viewer and installing it, should be sufficient.
Source?
Nah, it was someone who had some thing against me. They used all their mod points on different posts I made on different articles, more or less at the same time.
How is this trolling?
It is a fact, that common properly educated people have a tendency to not choose to do so, even when heavily fatigued or simply unmotivated.
How was this flamebait?
They would still have the DRM and suffer any weird problems the DRM gives you. Such as SecuROM's numerous bugs, issues starting games because certain software is installed, wrecked disc drives from anti-piracy checking tools etc.
There are plenty of games on TPB which have DRM, they just use those CDROM emulators to trick TAGES, Starforce etc.
Don't believe me? Just search for "x3: Terran Conflict" on TBP (I actually own a legal copy in you check my games list).
Sure they do, I just proved it to you.
What? Mounting a cd image? Err.. If it still has the DRM, I don't see how.
Get a better router that measures the usage.
The one I got from BT does so. But I'm not limited (business class connection).
In short, yes.
In long, I'm pretty certain the news channels would air it, newspapers would have a tidbit on it and there would be a online article on it.