Very true I hate to admit. If there is not hardware or a service to sell then selling the program and giving away the source just will not work together. I can not tell you how I hate to admit that.
Add to that duel licensed libraries. Last I heard Trolltech was still in business.
The GPL does not mean you are giving away your source code, it means you are charging the right to see changes in return for your code. So....
Service: I charge one person for my code, and frankly release it under BSD if you are thinking Give it Away, GPL if you want to see improvements back.
Hardware: I'm not charging for my code, but I very much want to see improvements back... go GPL. (iRex iLiad, asked the community for calibration code, most of their own under GPL).
Duel License: I either want money from people not willing to publish their changes or changes from people not wanting to give me money.
And there is probably some other method of making money while still publishing code under the GPL that I haven't listed. The trick is to remember that GPL code is not code given away, its code sold for changes in return, a barter. Saying that GPLing code is giving it away kinda misses the whole point of the GPL.
Back to the poster. The GPL isn't as bad as it seems to cash development. Like I said, you are not giving your code away, you are asking for something different back. Be very clear over who will give you money and what they want.
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Suggesting that all television will end if too many people download their television illegally, is a rather doubtful claim. Art existed before any copyright laws, and will continue even if all copyright laws are scrapped. Fair enough. I still think TV would be different, but that may not be a bad thing for consumers.
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Saying "why should he? This is what he's good at" is equivalent to a little child saying "it's not fair". No, it isn't fair. Get over it. So, "Its not fair" is a something the piracy crowd get to say to justify the movie downloads or drumkit ripoffs, but when someone has their lively-hood stolen, a lively-hood created within the rules of the society, they have to just "Get over it".
If you were ripping of the genome for GM corn, or something that related to the fundamental requirements for life such as food, shelter and health, you could claim some moral ground. But seriously, most of the people I've heard claim a moral ground for violating copyright are after luxury items, not needs. That movie you downloaded? you didn't do it for some higher purpose, you did it because you managed to justify to yourself ripping off the person who made it.
Personally, I'm fine with people who violate copyright - its the ones who try to convince me that there is some moral imperative I can't stand. Admit you are gaining something that cost someone something to make. Admit that if everyone followed your lead and downloaded the TV shows without buying them, without generating advertising revenue, that there would be no more TV shows. Don't claim the whole "use another business model" unless you actually support other business models.
Some just want to get past the 3 hours collecting a low drop. Others just want to get from x0 to x8 so they can get into battlegrounds again. More have 3 classes at 60 already and have seen all the story/content. Unless you think people haven't read a book or seen a movie unless they have seen/read it four or more times?
Personally, I blame blizzards cookie-cutter ai and monster behavior that exists all the way from 1-60. There is good content in WoW, its just a pity so much of it is hidden behind mind numbing grinds. The rogue quest leading up to ST is a prime example. Three hours grinding, half the items needed. I know someone who cancelled their subscription right there (although not entirely for that reason alone)
For me it was glide or quit. I chose quit, but I have no disrespect for those glide - if thats how the game stays fun for you, go for it. Noobs get to level 60 even without glider.
Lets say your kids get sick. You take blood samples, send them to a Pharma company and the develop a cure. But you don't get it because they price it beyond your reach.
Then they ask for more blood samples. Wouldn't you be inclined to do something to help make sure you get the cure from the next blood sample?
And your response to Indonesia's effort to help them look after people's lives at the expense of someone's pocket book is to blockade the country?
Evil can be reached via stupidity as well. Mind you I think making health a commercially driven process is pretty stupid-evil as well. Lets commercialize the fire service as well, that way the wealthiest can have faster response times and the poorest can find they can't afford more than a man with a hose. How about the police? Wouldn't you love to be able to pay a subscription to be ignored if seen speeding? And don't tell me the free market is working for Phrama, I only need to look at my spam folder, at the lobbying done by Pharma against cheaper medicine (generic drugs) and and news articles about the harm Pharma ads are doing to see it isn't working.
I assumed your point was that you played both and felt single player practice lead to competitive multiplayer, e.g. 'I play both'. Reading again I see I probably misunderstood.
My point was to provide reasoning why single-player does not provide the skill-set needed for multi-player, something I didn't see posted elsewhere in the thread. Yes, just for the point that single doesn't lead to good multi was listed, but only in the "I whoop single player players". Is so, Is not matches seem kinda pointless.
My FPS multi-history is a little ancient, but I've done recent FPS's single player and ancient (quake3) ones multiplayer. If you've done both you should realize like I that single player campaign AI's are forgiving to the point of babysitting. Or maybe you just never played against good Multiplayers.
In single player, you have to be as good as the difficultly level you select, however good means having a good knowledge of your abilities and what the opponent will do. Your opponent is still an AI and even in the latest FPS's.
In multi player you have to know everything you did as single player, but you also need to learn how to adapt to changing behavior on the part of your opponent, or in the case of most bad multi-players start accusing people of cheating.
As a solid example. In quake I could aim as fast as any multi-player. I knew how much damage weapons did, how to bounce grenades, jumps, etc. However my opponent knew all of that and exactly how long it takes the average player to move from point A to point B so he could shoot me as I came out a blind door. Something single player just never gave the opportunity to learn.
In WoW a hunter in PvE does not move much, the fight has a main assist and revolves around a tank holding agro. In fact I've had people whine if the hunter does move. In PvP, especially with multiple opponents, if you fight like that you die very fast. Well, unless your opponents are all PvE's in which case they die fast and go to the forums and complain how hunters need to be nerfed. For every class I owned another from that same class gave me an even fight. And all the ones that got owned behaved like I was some dumb AI, fought like I saw them fight in PvE. The ones who beat me fought in ways I never see in PvE fights. Now of course the AI in WoW is about as dumb as it gets, but you can't tell me modern FPS do any more than simulated strategy.
The first part we are all aware of. The second part... on what basis did that come from? I can't think of a single person who "likes" Windows. They simply use Windows because they don't have a whole lot of choice: it's either all they know how to use, or the only OS that plays their games, or the only OS that runs on, etc.
And sometimes find they don't have to use it after all......
When the intel macs came out I got one because I could put windows on a second partition and would be able to use it when I needed to or wanted to. Its been six months since I booted into that partition.
Yes, I can't play Half-Life on OS X, and some free DvD 'backup' software won't run under OS X. The shock for me was finding I'd rather not do those things than reboot my machine (twice, I'd want to get back to OS X). In fact I bought iWork even though I had Office for my Windows partition, so AUD$119 preferable rebooting into XP a dozen times or so.
No, I don't think I'm 'hip'. I don't run OS X because I think its cool or the boxes look better (huge scratch on the case of mine, couldn't care less). I use it because it works. Its something I didn't appreciate until I had used a mac for quite a few months. Its not the tech, the features, the company (Apple is evil as well). Quite frankly its probably just the User-Interface-Guidelines... that even the majority of open-source developers for OS X seem to follow.
I went less with "you are stupid" and more with "this is how easy it is to prove you are stupid". I think quoted emails are less effective when sent in bulk, so I'll just list the points.
No game asks you to do more than a slightly moderate swing
Hooking the controller up to a blue-tooth enabled PC will show that the motion sensors saturate well short of the speeds needed to break the strap, something like six times less.
This isn't the first product that required someone to move and object around inside. It is preceded by a number that don't even have wrist-straps.
They will lose, it would be nice if they costed society a little less money to do so though.
Believe it or not, 100cores requires optimized code as well. programs don't magically become multi-threaded, a developer has to work out how to split the work up into 2/4/100 threads and not lose performance due to locking/thread communication.
What will the cost be in making it all work 'just' for AMD?
Probably about the same as making it work for a new graphics card
How locked in would any code be?
It sounds to me they are talking optimization. hence it would run on an intel, just slower.
Over the life of a project, will it be worth 'porting' code to AMD?
Ah, I'm not going to try and answer this one. But it is an excellent question and should be asked (and answered) by AMD.
It probably still was the best decision in a bad situation No, it wasn't.
I looked for a place to pull over while driving too fast for a road I didn't know You were driving too fast. I don't really care why you made your decision, you made it. And you crashed, according to your own words. I can't see how you can claim that was the best decision.
Maybe it will take another close call for you to learn that you were in error. I hope you and those around you survive it.
I fully agree. You can't blame your driving on anyone else. If the car tailgating you hits you can causes an accident its their fault. If you drove faster and had an accident without them hitting you its yours, even if their driving was more dangerous than your own.
I like the idea of ticketing tailgaters not only because they are dangerous but because so many drivers will drive more dangerously in response. I know people who 'tap the brakes and try and frighten tailgaters'. Or 'slow down to half the speed limit to annoy tailgaters'. Unless you are in law enforcement other peoples driving is not your responsibility. Nor is your driving theirs.
To dblll. We are not saying you are a bad driver, everyone makes mistakes. We are just saying you can't blame you going to fast on someone tailgating you. However I think you already said you would act differently next time so you have already learned from your mistake.
My learning experiences come from over-taking and took two close calls for me to learn. Now I just make sure I leave enough time to make the journey even if the person in front of me is going 10mph under the limit. I also tend to leave more room in front of me than most other drivers I see. This means I get cut in front of more, but if it also means I avoid an accident I think I can live with that.
Just noticed, a topic on Dutch politics, I'm replying as an Australian, and Slashdot is using a graphic of the American flag in its title for this topic. Of course given then 'flag wrapped' nature of campaigning I can't say I'm surprised.
I seem to remember a three month conference once in politics just to agree what what question to ask the people, although I'll admit I can't remember details. The best way to get around the phrasing of the question problem would be simply to let the user see how each party would phrase the question.
However even without that safeguard I found it interesting, if only as a tool for seeing what points you agree or disagree with each party. Something like this in Australia would be good at election time.
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I'm not even sure the gates of Ahn'Qiraj was about creating a player generated event.
Look at the materials that need gathering. Then look up some of the research on economies on games like World-of-Warcraft. Ahn'Qiraj may have been merely a sink to pull crafting resources out of the economy until there was a player base to support the crafted item economy, or at least provide partial value to selling crafted items.
After all, crafted items to work well need a large player base to sell the items to. However on a new server the population is small and most people are in a tight level band. So rather than flooding the market with worthless skill up crafted items, it pulls the mats to make them into the war effort. Then when there is a population 0-60, ensured because even the top level items have been collected, the gates open and the sink disapears.
Doesn't make much sence when the population was in place, but the event remains for every new server which leads me to believe it is about creating an artificual sink during a specific period of server population pattern, and the requirements are nothing more than a self-regulated test to determine when to plug the sink.
I write open source software (or rather I work for a company for which I write software that they release under the GPL).
I earn more than enough to support a wife and six kids.
Of course not everyone who writes open source software attempts to do it for a living. Some people do it in their spare time. You know, like how some people will give time to help out their local school? Or some people will devote time to a hobbie?
Never mind that when I buy a gaming mag, I don't really want to read a feature on "The National Summit on Video Games, Youth, and Public Policy". Its not exactly the kind of thing the majority of their market would expect to find in a mag that quite often is bought for its reviews of the latest games, tech and entertainment.
I can't speak for everyone, but I buy a gaming mag for two reasons. First as a sort of voluntary advertising, to see what new games I might like to buy. Second for something that is enjoyable to read. Quite frankly the summit is neither.
lol, I read the summary, saw JFFS2, and then got wikipedia article. What made you think I didn't see him suggest JFFS2 as one of his options?
As for the scalability issue, well I haven't come accross a need for 1gb in a single mount point yet, but that could just be me. Just because he needs 1gb of storage does not mean he is unable to partition it into two or more jffs2 partitions.
However I will admit I don't see as much use of jffs as I used to. It has been a while since I've been involved directly in choosing the file system for a flash based storage so my information may be a little out of date.
If you did even a small amount of research you would have seen that JFFS2 was designed for flash memory devices, and has journaling. Its a little harder to make file systems for (at least the last time I was doing so) but given your criteria its what you are looking for.
It costs half the price of a plasma? Yeah, I'll believe that when I see it. You really think if this tech actually works they'll sell it that level? No. Better picture - more expensive. Smaller/lighter - more expensive. Combine the two.. get ready to mortgage your house for small one. Manufacturing cost has nothing to do with it - things are *not* sold for what they cost to produce. They are sold for what people are prepared to pay.
Well, if most people won't pay for a plasma and they can manufacture it cheaper, then by your own logic it will be sold cheaper. Better to say they will price it at the point where they get the most profit, which is (sellprice - manufacturingprice)*consumers. If 10 times more people buy it if they half their profit margin, they would be idiots not to do so.
1) I agree with some people I call zealots (.e.g. I agree broadly with them, but am horrified at how much damage they do to the general argument by how far they take it.) 2) I know more Zealots I agree with than disagree with
In my book, a Zealot is someone who will keep to a cause for its core tenant while blinding themselves to any and all other factors, even at the cost of the core tenant. Think cat-caring Zealot that actually provides a poorer environment for cats by trying to save too many of them.
Religion is where people hold values not based on reason but on belief. e.g. Without references, facts, or even logic.
It has nothing to do with whether someone disagrees with you or not. Well, unless you are one:)
How about the whole graphics model of the operating system prevents direct access to graphics hardware. Run WoW on an intel mac, then run it in the windows boot. You will see then just what I mean.
I can't believe the article writer thought macs would be better at running games than a PC.
I can't believe the article write bought an old mac to play games on. I mean he could have probably gotten a PC twice as fast to play that one game, and when you are in the game can you really tell what the OS is? Apart from the massive speed hit?
Of course I disagree with the entire point. Consistent messaging has value to. Apple seems to me to be positioning itself as the home user pc. not the gaming unit, not the business unit, the manage your life unit.
I bought an Xbox, then I bought a mac. Who says mac users can't be gamers, well the sane ones not taking it as a religion anyway.
Before you mod me flamebait, let's rather try to find out just WHY WoW has the share it has. Because, frankly, I can't see the reason. Yes, I played it, yes, I was bored stiff after 3 months.
Did you play with friends? or just pickup groups and solo? I joined way back, played for three months, got bored, put it on the shelf for more than a year. Then got to know a few people in real-life who played, convinced a few more, then it was one of the best games I've played.
You need to take advantage of the 'online' part of the genre. If you play it like a single-player game of course its going to suck. The fastest way to make it suck is to focus on 'beating' the game like you would say half-life or dungeon-seige.
To provide the other possible answer to your question, not everyone likes chocolate either.
I read back over it. I accept I might have misinterpreted the point.
Although I hadn't realized the Applications directory was writable by the admin group. thats terrible. I had thought(assumed) it was the wheel group like/System. I'm going to have to look more closely into exactly what the difference is between the wheel and admin groups. Although I can't think of any reason to have that folder default writable by admin and I can't think of any way that could still be safe.
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Add to that duel licensed libraries. Last I heard Trolltech was still in business.
The GPL does not mean you are giving away your source code, it means you are charging the right to see changes in return for your code. So....
Service: I charge one person for my code, and frankly release it under BSD if you are thinking Give it Away, GPL if you want to see improvements back.
Hardware: I'm not charging for my code, but I very much want to see improvements back... go GPL. (iRex iLiad, asked the community for calibration code, most of their own under GPL).
Duel License: I either want money from people not willing to publish their changes or changes from people not wanting to give me money.
And there is probably some other method of making money while still publishing code under the GPL that I haven't listed. The trick is to remember that GPL code is not code given away, its code sold for changes in return, a barter. Saying that GPLing code is giving it away kinda misses the whole point of the GPL.
Back to the poster. The GPL isn't as bad as it seems to cash development. Like I said, you are not giving your code away, you are asking for something different back. Be very clear over who will give you money and what they want.
If you were ripping of the genome for GM corn, or something that related to the fundamental requirements for life such as food, shelter and health, you could claim some moral ground. But seriously, most of the people I've heard claim a moral ground for violating copyright are after luxury items, not needs. That movie you downloaded? you didn't do it for some higher purpose, you did it because you managed to justify to yourself ripping off the person who made it.
Personally, I'm fine with people who violate copyright - its the ones who try to convince me that there is some moral imperative I can't stand. Admit you are gaining something that cost someone something to make. Admit that if everyone followed your lead and downloaded the TV shows without buying them, without generating advertising revenue, that there would be no more TV shows. Don't claim the whole "use another business model" unless you actually support other business models.
Not everyone who glides to get past the story.
Some just want to get past the 3 hours collecting a low drop. Others just want to get from x0 to x8 so they can get into battlegrounds again. More have 3 classes at 60 already and have seen all the story/content. Unless you think people haven't read a book or seen a movie unless they have seen/read it four or more times?
Personally, I blame blizzards cookie-cutter ai and monster behavior that exists all the way from 1-60. There is good content in WoW, its just a pity so much of it is hidden behind mind numbing grinds. The rogue quest leading up to ST is a prime example. Three hours grinding, half the items needed. I know someone who cancelled their subscription right there (although not entirely for that reason alone)
For me it was glide or quit. I chose quit, but I have no disrespect for those glide - if thats how the game stays fun for you, go for it. Noobs get to level 60 even without glider.
Right, think your family instead of indonesia
Lets say your kids get sick. You take blood samples, send them to a Pharma company and the develop a cure. But you don't get it because they price it beyond your reach.
Then they ask for more blood samples. Wouldn't you be inclined to do something to help make sure you get the cure from the next blood sample?
And your response to Indonesia's effort to help them look after people's lives at the expense of someone's pocket book is to blockade the country?
Evil can be reached via stupidity as well. Mind you I think making health a commercially driven process is pretty stupid-evil as well. Lets commercialize the fire service as well, that way the wealthiest can have faster response times and the poorest can find they can't afford more than a man with a hose. How about the police? Wouldn't you love to be able to pay a subscription to be ignored if seen speeding? And don't tell me the free market is working for Phrama, I only need to look at my spam folder, at the lobbying done by Pharma against cheaper medicine (generic drugs) and and news articles about the harm Pharma ads are doing to see it isn't working.
I assumed your point was that you played both and felt single player practice lead to competitive multiplayer, e.g. 'I play both'. Reading again I see I probably misunderstood.
My point was to provide reasoning why single-player does not provide the skill-set needed for multi-player, something I didn't see posted elsewhere in the thread. Yes, just for the point that single doesn't lead to good multi was listed, but only in the "I whoop single player players". Is so, Is not matches seem kinda pointless.
My FPS multi-history is a little ancient, but I've done recent FPS's single player and ancient (quake3) ones multiplayer. If you've done both you should realize like I that single player campaign AI's are forgiving to the point of babysitting. Or maybe you just never played against good Multiplayers.
In single player, you have to be as good as the difficultly level you select, however good means having a good knowledge of your abilities and what the opponent will do. Your opponent is still an AI and even in the latest FPS's.
In multi player you have to know everything you did as single player, but you also need to learn how to adapt to changing behavior on the part of your opponent, or in the case of most bad multi-players start accusing people of cheating.
As a solid example. In quake I could aim as fast as any multi-player. I knew how much damage weapons did, how to bounce grenades, jumps, etc. However my opponent knew all of that and exactly how long it takes the average player to move from point A to point B so he could shoot me as I came out a blind door. Something single player just never gave the opportunity to learn.
In WoW a hunter in PvE does not move much, the fight has a main assist and revolves around a tank holding agro. In fact I've had people whine if the hunter does move. In PvP, especially with multiple opponents, if you fight like that you die very fast. Well, unless your opponents are all PvE's in which case they die fast and go to the forums and complain how hunters need to be nerfed. For every class I owned another from that same class gave me an even fight. And all the ones that got owned behaved like I was some dumb AI, fought like I saw them fight in PvE. The ones who beat me fought in ways I never see in PvE fights. Now of course the AI in WoW is about as dumb as it gets, but you can't tell me modern FPS do any more than simulated strategy.
"Tons upon tons of people use it and like it."
The first part we are all aware of. The second part... on what basis did that come from? I can't think of a single person who "likes" Windows. They simply use Windows because they don't have a whole lot of choice: it's either all they know how to use, or the only OS that plays their games, or the only OS that runs on, etc.
And sometimes find they don't have to use it after all......
When the intel macs came out I got one because I could put windows on a second partition and would be able to use it when I needed to or wanted to. Its been six months since I booted into that partition.
Yes, I can't play Half-Life on OS X, and some free DvD 'backup' software won't run under OS X. The shock for me was finding I'd rather not do those things than reboot my machine (twice, I'd want to get back to OS X). In fact I bought iWork even though I had Office for my Windows partition, so AUD$119 preferable rebooting into XP a dozen times or so.
No, I don't think I'm 'hip'. I don't run OS X because I think its cool or the boxes look better (huge scratch on the case of mine, couldn't care less). I use it because it works. Its something I didn't appreciate until I had used a mac for quite a few months. Its not the tech, the features, the company (Apple is evil as well). Quite frankly its probably just the User-Interface-Guidelines... that even the majority of open-source developers for OS X seem to follow.
They will lose, it would be nice if they costed society a little less money to do so though.
Where will all the optimised code come from?
Believe it or not, 100cores requires optimized code as well. programs don't magically become multi-threaded, a developer has to work out how to split the work up into 2/4/100 threads and not lose performance due to locking/thread communication.
What will the cost be in making it all work 'just' for AMD?
Probably about the same as making it work for a new graphics card
How locked in would any code be?
It sounds to me they are talking optimization. hence it would run on an intel, just slower.
Over the life of a project, will it be worth 'porting' code to AMD?
Ah, I'm not going to try and answer this one. But it is an excellent question and should be asked (and answered) by AMD.
Maybe it will take another close call for you to learn that you were in error. I hope you and those around you survive it.
I'm out of mod points so I'll reply :)
I fully agree. You can't blame your driving on anyone else. If the car tailgating you hits you can causes an accident its their fault. If you drove faster and had an accident without them hitting you its yours, even if their driving was more dangerous than your own.
I like the idea of ticketing tailgaters not only because they are dangerous but because so many drivers will drive more dangerously in response. I know people who 'tap the brakes and try and frighten tailgaters'. Or 'slow down to half the speed limit to annoy tailgaters'. Unless you are in law enforcement other peoples driving is not your responsibility. Nor is your driving theirs.
To dblll. We are not saying you are a bad driver, everyone makes mistakes. We are just saying you can't blame you going to fast on someone tailgating you. However I think you already said you would act differently next time so you have already learned from your mistake.
My learning experiences come from over-taking and took two close calls for me to learn. Now I just make sure I leave enough time to make the journey even if the person in front of me is going 10mph under the limit. I also tend to leave more room in front of me than most other drivers I see. This means I get cut in front of more, but if it also means I avoid an accident I think I can live with that.
Just noticed, a topic on Dutch politics, I'm replying as an Australian, and Slashdot is using a graphic of the American flag in its title for this topic. Of course given then 'flag wrapped' nature of campaigning I can't say I'm surprised.
I seem to remember a three month conference once in politics just to agree what what question to ask the people, although I'll admit I can't remember details. The best way to get around the phrasing of the question problem would be simply to let the user see how each party would phrase the question.
However even without that safeguard I found it interesting, if only as a tool for seeing what points you agree or disagree with each party. Something like this in Australia would be good at election time.
I'm not even sure the gates of Ahn'Qiraj was about creating a player generated event.
Look at the materials that need gathering. Then look up some of the research on economies on games like World-of-Warcraft. Ahn'Qiraj may have been merely a sink to pull crafting resources out of the economy until there was a player base to support the crafted item economy, or at least provide partial value to selling crafted items.
After all, crafted items to work well need a large player base to sell the items to. However on a new server the population is small and most people are in a tight level band. So rather than flooding the market with worthless skill up crafted items, it pulls the mats to make them into the war effort. Then when there is a population 0-60, ensured because even the top level items have been collected, the gates open and the sink disapears.
Doesn't make much sence when the population was in place, but the event remains for every new server which leads me to believe it is about creating an artificual sink during a specific period of server population pattern, and the requirements are nothing more than a self-regulated test to determine when to plug the sink.
I write open source software (or rather I work for a company for which I write software that they release under the GPL).
I earn more than enough to support a wife and six kids.
Of course not everyone who writes open source software attempts to do it for a living. Some people do it in their spare time. You know, like how some people will give time to help out their local school? Or some people will devote time to a hobbie?
Not everything in life is about $$$
Never mind that when I buy a gaming mag, I don't really want to read a feature on "The National Summit on Video Games, Youth, and Public Policy". Its not exactly the kind of thing the majority of their market would expect to find in a mag that quite often is bought for its reviews of the latest games, tech and entertainment.
I can't speak for everyone, but I buy a gaming mag for two reasons. First as a sort of voluntary advertising, to see what new games I might like to buy. Second for something that is enjoyable to read. Quite frankly the summit is neither.
lol, I read the summary, saw JFFS2, and then got wikipedia article. What made you think I didn't see him suggest JFFS2 as one of his options?
As for the scalability issue, well I haven't come accross a need for 1gb in a single mount point yet, but that could just be me. Just because he needs 1gb of storage does not mean he is unable to partition it into two or more jffs2 partitions.
However I will admit I don't see as much use of jffs as I used to. It has been a while since I've been involved directly in choosing the file system for a flash based storage so my information may be a little out of date.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JFFS2
If you did even a small amount of research you would have seen that JFFS2 was designed for flash memory devices, and has journaling. Its a little harder to make file systems for (at least the last time I was doing so) but given your criteria its what you are looking for.
It costs half the price of a plasma? Yeah, I'll believe that when I see it. You really think if this tech actually works they'll sell it that level? No. Better picture - more expensive. Smaller/lighter - more expensive. Combine the two.. get ready to mortgage your house for small one. Manufacturing cost has nothing to do with it - things are *not* sold for what they cost to produce. They are sold for what people are prepared to pay.
Well, if most people won't pay for a plasma and they can manufacture it cheaper, then by your own logic it will be sold cheaper. Better to say they will price it at the point where they get the most profit, which is (sellprice - manufacturingprice)*consumers. If 10 times more people buy it if they half their profit margin, they would be idiots not to do so.
1) I agree with some people I call zealots (.e.g. I agree broadly with them, but am horrified at how much damage they do to the general argument by how far they take it.)
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2) I know more Zealots I agree with than disagree with
In my book, a Zealot is someone who will keep to a cause for its core tenant while blinding themselves to any and all other factors, even at the cost of the core tenant. Think cat-caring Zealot that actually provides a poorer environment for cats by trying to save too many of them.
Religion is where people hold values not based on reason but on belief. e.g. Without references, facts, or even logic.
It has nothing to do with whether someone disagrees with you or not. Well, unless you are one
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How about the whole graphics model of the operating system prevents direct access to graphics hardware. Run WoW on an intel mac, then run it in the windows boot. You will see then just what I mean.
I can't believe the article writer thought macs would be better at running games than a PC.
I can't believe the article write bought an old mac to play games on. I mean he could have probably gotten a PC twice as fast to play that one game, and when you are in the game can you really tell what the OS is? Apart from the massive speed hit?
Of course I disagree with the entire point. Consistent messaging has value to. Apple seems to me to be positioning itself as the home user pc. not the gaming unit, not the business unit, the manage your life unit.
I bought an Xbox, then I bought a mac. Who says mac users can't be gamers, well the sane ones not taking it as a religion anyway.
Unfortunately, users can't be patched.
There are Nicotine patches to stop smoking,
Birth Control patches for unwanted pregnancies,
so why not Microsoft patches to quit Windows?
What? you mean like a piece of blue card with a paperclip attached?
Before you mod me flamebait, let's rather try to find out just WHY WoW has the share it has. Because, frankly, I can't see the reason. Yes, I played it, yes, I was bored stiff after 3 months.
Did you play with friends? or just pickup groups and solo? I joined way back, played for three months, got bored, put it on the shelf for more than a year. Then got to know a few people in real-life who played, convinced a few more, then it was one of the best games I've played.
You need to take advantage of the 'online' part of the genre. If you play it like a single-player game of course its going to suck. The fastest way to make it suck is to focus on 'beating' the game like you would say half-life or dungeon-seige.
To provide the other possible answer to your question, not everyone likes chocolate either.
I read back over it. I accept I might have misinterpreted the point.
/System. I'm going to have to look more closely into exactly what the difference is between the wheel and admin groups. Although I can't think of any reason to have that folder default writable by admin and I can't think of any way that could still be safe.
Although I hadn't realized the Applications directory was writable by the admin group. thats terrible. I had thought(assumed) it was the wheel group like