> When the Linux community releases their versions of Half-Life 3, or Starcraft 2, or Unreal Tourney 2004 (Not BZFlag) exclusively on Linux, hordes of gamers will go with a dual installation. Until then, Linux will never be able to compete.
The Linux Community isn't responsible for porting games to Linux, that's the job of the game developers. Many developers don't port to Linux because they only know how to use Microsoft's APIs, and they can't be bothered writing cross-platform wrappers, and learning GL.
Pro tape, especially 2", is staggeringly expensive. And it still offers some qualities of sound which take a significant effort to duplicate with digital. Yes, this is aberration, but it's a desirable *analog* aberration, and studios that use tape contribute sort of a gestalt to the overall product, an organic quality.
You are refering to the "warm" sound of the 50s and 60s...
This is just nasty colouration that people happen to like. Personally, I'd much rather sample everything nice and cleanly, and then distort the stream later with a filter.
> Unauthorised software copying (I hate the term "pirating". We don't even call the scum robbing old lady in gunpoint a pirate...) also affects gaming industry... But, it is more like market differentiation.
you don't like it? seriously?!
Shiver me timbers, thar's a fine schooner of the starboard bow, Bosun! PREPARE FER PILLAGE 'N' PLUNDER! YARR!!! um, etc...
You have a very good point, which I agree with, but I would have said something more along the lines of....
"RAD languages like VB are not good because they're so easy to use. If anyone can write a program that will be used within their company or whatever, but doesn't approach the design and implementation with the mindset of a real programmer, the product will be flawed."
But I do disagree with part of your sentiment; if a program is OSS you don't _have_ to use it, everybody has the choice of using an app or not, and if it's not any good, nobody will use it.
Is it really beyond your comprehension that maybe he just wrote that? BTW, he _did_, because he didn't specify anywhere that he wanted to log in as root, and the user he sshed as on the local box wasn't root.
The letter says that PalmOS will be implemented as a layer directly on top of Linux. I'm assuming they mean through system calls. This means there's no GNU toolset or anything, so no POSIX compatibility. I understand that there's limited storage available, permanent and temporary, but this is going to make it hard to port UNIX apps.
It would be better for a site like that to use a caching proxy anyway. It puts all the effort on the server, and off the desktops, and you have no problem keeping track of what the desktops have stored on them, so if a desktop machine gets stolen, no sensitive info is on it. This has to be applied to other areas of their computing system as well, of course, but it probably already is, because it's really stupid to cache database results. So, if you use a caching proxy instead of client-side caching, you save bandwidth, you save space, you keep it fast for the users, and you don't have to worry about caching SSL pages on your user's machines.
You know, Jesus just a man, who a dozen nutjubs worshiped, and a few hundred years after he died, a bunch of people wrote down effectively was an urban legand. (I knew this guy, who knew this guy, who saw...). Unadmissible as evidence in courts for a reason. It's completely unreliable.
actually, it's very reliable. everything in the bible fits together, not contradicting at all. as to your "few hundred years after he died" argument, the Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke & John) were written in 60-65AD, 55-65AD, 60AD, and 85-90AD respectively. And it wasn't just a dozen people worshipping him. There were 12 disciples, yes, but he had far more followers. And he has way more than that today.
We did this thing in grade school to prove the point. We started at one side of the classroom. The teacher gave the first student a simple statement. Each person told the next person, until it got to the last person on the other side of the room. By the time it got there, it didn't even resemble the first statement.
right, and the teacher was using this to disparage the Christian faith? Only in America... Well, he/she was wrong. it might be like that in a class full of children (are they? what is grade school?), but in an adult world, where the original documents in question are still kept, that doesn't happen. In the pre-Gutenberg society, if there was even one tiny misprint in the entire text, the copier threw it all away. The original document today really is the original. Obviously, translated versions add their own discrepancies, because of the inabilities of the languages to express the sentiments of the original, without making it 20x longer.
So you have a belief system based off of something that may or may have happened 2000 years ago, in a book that was written hundreds of years later, and has been rewritten more times than you realize, to suit the political, economic, or social needs of the ruling party at that time.
See my above comment. It was only ever re-written as the Mormon Bible, which was never released under the same name.
But, since we're going to cite the bible about the loving and compassionate god, ya, he's a really swell fella.
Punished his first two creations by effectively disowning them and kicking them out of the garden of Eden.
Yeah, that's the thing about God. He can't abide sin. He told them not to touch that particular tree, and Satan came along and convinced them to.
Flooded a planet to kill everything but a pair of each creature.
Same again, in his perfect nature, he can't abide sin. Things got too dirty, so much so that Noah was the only guy on Earth that actually loved God. And he *did* promise not to do it again.
Because his loving creations wanted to be closer to him, he destroyed their tower, and made it so they couldn't understand each other.
Right... I assume that you're talking about the Tower of Babel. Wrong on all counts here, I'm afraid. They didn't want to be closer to him, and even if they did, i think they were intelligent enough to realize that altitude isn't related to your distance from God. If you'd read the passage in question, you'd know that they had got big-headed, and they actually said "let's all unite and build a tower to show how powerful we are". Then God split the languages so they couldn't communicate
And his treatment of a dissident was eternal damnation in hell.
Which dissident, Satan? I don't think you could say he's a dissident, he was found to be proud, he wanted to take over from God. Obviously, we can't be having that, so he's consigned to hell for all eternity...
That's not loving and caring. That's vengeful and spiteful.
No, you haven't actually included any examples of his followers here... I for one see God as loving and caring, because I have first-hand real-life, as in not-something-I-read-in-a-dodgy-book-once experience.
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> Anybody knows who to complain or what to do to take this idiot down?
Yeah, post the link to slashdot...
Hmm... I'm a sucker for flamebait...
> When the Linux community releases their versions of Half-Life 3, or Starcraft 2, or Unreal Tourney 2004 (Not BZFlag) exclusively on Linux, hordes of gamers will go with a dual installation. Until then, Linux will never be able to compete.
The Linux Community isn't responsible for porting games to Linux, that's the job of the game developers.
Many developers don't port to Linux because they only know how to use Microsoft's APIs, and they can't be bothered writing cross-platform wrappers, and learning GL.
Pro tape, especially 2", is staggeringly expensive. And it still offers some qualities of sound which take a significant effort to duplicate with digital. Yes, this is aberration, but it's a desirable *analog* aberration, and studios that use tape contribute sort of a gestalt to the overall product, an organic quality.
You are refering to the "warm" sound of the 50s and 60s...
This is just nasty colouration that people happen to like. Personally, I'd much rather sample everything nice and cleanly, and then distort the stream later with a filter.
Any children who would be reading /. are going to be mature enough not to be offended by the occasional dodgy work.
> Users can simply still run a virus that will just fsck their files over the network drive.
Is it really sensible to use fsck as a euphemism in a sentence about broken filesystems?
Never before have I felt so glad to be British.
Excuse me while I frighten small children with my extremely powerful ray of pure light.
>> (Granted an unsigned int would've worked better here, but that 64K limit could've also been reached.)
It should definitely have been an unsigned int. It's not even possible to have a negative number of crew changes...
He specified crowd-pleasing...
> I have always been cynical and said everything comes down to money- religion, lawyers, corporations- it all revolves around that little dollar sign.
What about the pound sterling, you insensitive clod?!
> The problem that I tend to have is those who claim that they follow Him and do terrible things instead, but in His name.
I hate that particular hypocrisy too, but it's up to God to judge them.
Incidentally, that's what most modern "terrorists" call themselves.
> Unauthorised software copying (I hate the term "pirating". We don't even call the scum robbing old lady in gunpoint a pirate...) also affects gaming industry... But, it is more like market differentiation.
you don't like it?
seriously?!
Shiver me timbers, thar's a fine schooner of the starboard bow, Bosun! PREPARE FER PILLAGE 'N' PLUNDER! YARR!!!
um, etc...
So, what are you saying? More fake sex, or more fake violence?
You have a very good point, which I agree with, but I would have said something more along the lines of....
"RAD languages like VB are not good because they're so easy to use. If anyone can write a program that will be used within their company or whatever, but doesn't approach the design and implementation with the mindset of a real programmer, the product will be flawed."
But I do disagree with part of your sentiment; if a program is OSS you don't _have_ to use it, everybody has the choice of using an app or not, and if it's not any good, nobody will use it.
I don't see why he copied it either, it's really insecure. Having an unrestricted PHP file upload mechanism is _bad_.
> If you have just 3-5 hours/week to play "exciting MMO games like World of Warcraft", I take it that you're working.
Or maybe he's in full-time education?
> Fact is, doing something like that would be so trivial that it should prove once and for all that Windows is a crime.
I think that's been proven a million times already. There's nothing to see here, move along.
Is it really beyond your comprehension that maybe he just wrote that?
BTW, he _did_, because he didn't specify anywhere that he wanted to log in as root, and the user he sshed as on the local box wasn't root.
What about prebubescent gays?
The letter says that PalmOS will be implemented as a layer directly on top of Linux. I'm assuming they mean through system calls.
This means there's no GNU toolset or anything, so no POSIX compatibility.
I understand that there's limited storage available, permanent and temporary, but this is going to make it hard to port UNIX apps.
You're taking on Microsoft. I think it's safe to say you have the full support of the Linux community.
Just because you have severe mental scarring from a previous experience doesn't mean you have to take it out on an entire TLD!
It would be better for a site like that to use a caching proxy anyway. It puts all the effort on the server, and off the desktops, and you have no problem keeping track of what the desktops have stored on them, so if a desktop machine gets stolen, no sensitive info is on it. This has to be applied to other areas of their computing system as well, of course, but it probably already is, because it's really stupid to cache database results.
So, if you use a caching proxy instead of client-side caching, you save bandwidth, you save space, you keep it fast for the users, and you don't have to worry about caching SSL pages on your user's machines.
You know, Jesus just a man, who a dozen nutjubs worshiped, and a few hundred years after he died, a bunch of people wrote down effectively was an urban legand. (I knew this guy, who knew this guy, who saw...). Unadmissible as evidence in courts for a reason. It's completely unreliable.
actually, it's very reliable. everything in the
bible fits together, not contradicting at all.
as to your "few hundred years after he died" argument, the Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke & John) were written in 60-65AD, 55-65AD, 60AD, and 85-90AD respectively.
And it wasn't just a dozen people worshipping him. There were 12 disciples, yes, but he had far more followers. And he has way more than that today.
We did this thing in grade school to prove the point. We started at one side of the classroom. The teacher gave the first student a simple statement. Each person told the next person, until it got to the last person on the other side of the room. By the time it got there, it didn't even resemble the first statement.
right, and the teacher was using this to disparage the Christian faith? Only in America...
Well, he/she was wrong. it might be like that in a class full of children (are they? what is grade school?), but in an adult world, where the original documents in question are still kept, that doesn't happen. In the pre-Gutenberg society, if there was even one tiny misprint in the entire text, the copier threw it all away. The original document today really is the original. Obviously, translated versions add their own discrepancies, because of the inabilities of the languages to express the sentiments of the original, without making it 20x longer.
So you have a belief system based off of something that may or may have happened 2000 years ago, in a book that was written hundreds of years later, and has been rewritten more times than you realize, to suit the political, economic, or social needs of the ruling party at that time.
See my above comment. It was only ever re-written as the Mormon Bible, which was never released under the same name.
But, since we're going to cite the bible about the loving and compassionate god, ya, he's a really swell fella.
Punished his first two creations by effectively disowning them and kicking them out of the garden of Eden.
Yeah, that's the thing about God. He can't abide sin. He told them not to touch that particular tree, and Satan came along and convinced them to.
Flooded a planet to kill everything but a pair of each creature.
Same again, in his perfect nature, he can't abide sin. Things got too dirty, so much so that Noah was the only guy on Earth that actually loved God. And he *did* promise not to do it again.
Because his loving creations wanted to be closer to him, he destroyed their tower, and made it so they couldn't understand each other.
Right... I assume that you're talking about the Tower of Babel. Wrong on all counts here, I'm afraid. They didn't want to be closer to him, and even if they did, i think they were intelligent enough to realize that altitude isn't related to your distance from God.
If you'd read the passage in question, you'd know that they had got big-headed, and they actually said "let's all unite and build a tower to show how powerful we are". Then God split the languages so they couldn't communicate
And his treatment of a dissident was eternal damnation in hell.
Which dissident, Satan?
I don't think you could say he's a dissident, he was found to be proud, he wanted to take over from God. Obviously, we can't be having that, so he's consigned to hell for all eternity...
That's not loving and caring. That's vengeful and spiteful.
No, you haven't actually included any examples of his followers here... I for one see God as loving and caring, because I have first-hand real-life, as in not-something-I-read-in-a-dodgy-book-once experience.
Oh, and don't forget the Crusades