Bingo, I'm tired of this shit, and I'm not even old. You can thank MS for whispering "cloud computing" in the backroom to people at every conference for the past year. My S.O. and others in IT/enterprise have been whining that cloud computing has been a term selling to the upper management above IT who have no idea what it means. I have no idea how they managed to infiltrate that crowd.
I give it about another year or two before people go "Wait, didn't we have virtualization before?". Or "wait, why does MS want more of our money for virtualization?"
Uh? How about you think before you type. Oh, whoops huh? I bet you meant to do that anonymous coward, but same diff. I hope someone karma's you out of oblivion.
the linux community at large can't even use *ANYTHING* they put out there. Not legally, and the source code doesn't help anyone. You do realize they can sue people for using a reference implementation brought in by MS, right?
Lots of MS source has been available forever. Thanks to the DMCA and other things, it's not been legal to use. Plenty of people know how to get around MS issues if they didn't have to deal with patents and DMCA in seconds. Ask a real software engineer. Thanks to GPLv2 and it not covering MS's patent covenant, it's still not legal to use. That may not be MS's fault or decision, but they deserve no praise for this. This posting of GNU code that they have done is forced because they were already violating the GPL.
Congrats for ousting yourself as either a shill or obtuse.
LMGTFY. Speaks for itself. When you don't have to be a genius and just do a google search to find the answer, it's not in the "difficult decisions" category.
Your whole thing there, doesn't involve physical effort or stress. Thus, it will not turn people on or off from any activity. It doesn't even have to do with people making the decision to do an activity, as above.
I'd say that public stigma has had a whole lot more to do with anything than "can linux make money". There's never been a question that having more programmers at your fingertips (if it's an interesting project, etc) than you can afford to hire is extremely valuable.
If it was a big change, they'd go GPLv3. This is just them making their own services work better. As is, this isn't even worth much on slashdot. This amounts to a butterfly fart off the coast of Antarctica in terms of the world of open source.
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Uh?
Most of these addons take a total of 3 clicks, you pick your album, you press upload, and you pick the pictures for the online album for the site of your choice.
That's considered a mess/difficult?
I do get that not all users are the typical slashdot fare but I would hardly consider that in the realm of something to turn away most users.
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even good ole discussion forums where everyone quotes eachother and modifies, creates new threads for other topics, etc would work just fine. Subversion would make that easier and the google docs suggestion or open office can do this too.
Bingo. As much as I hate MS, I would absolutely make an about face on my opinions if they started joining in on putting things in under GPLv3 (without skirting it's intent). That's all I ask. I don't get why they don't, the whole marketplace would support them if they did so. I guess they don't like expanding marketshare in ways that benefits everyone as opposed to themselves (PS microsoft: this is how you make friends instead of enemies).
wow first post was dead on. Games have gone from "made for quality" to "made for quantity/filler/gametime", especially this year it's become more prominent. Is this supposed to be a surprise?
They will make their money, get a few suckers, and move on. Good business for an exec to cash out basically. Meanwhile, "proprietary" is usually another word for "We haven't patented it/probably won't unless we get enough suckers".
Uh, even my 8600M GT can handle most graphic effects in a stunning fashion if not amazing. I don't know what you're talking about but both Nvidia and ATI cards are handled pretty darn well on Linux nowadays.
Don't forget a big whoops when a legitimate image file matches one of their filters and gets deleted, or when this becomes full blown steganography (which I'm sure it has by the time of this writing)
That's not even close to what the op was implying. Go strawman/recycle republican talking points elsewhere.
The reality is, traffic shaping when used to stifle your competition, is anticompetitive by definition. This is a problem. Nobody has an issue with not having enough bandwidth, but it's very easy to go from managing a lack of bandwidth to anticompetitive and definitely tempting for large corrupt companies.
What you are saying relies on the accuracy of the person doing the psych evaluation, not the Rorschach. There are other equivalents out there. Placebo was not the right word, but to say that it is psychosomatic doesn't make it any more valid, because the whole foundation of Rorschach will certainly live on in other ways, meanwhile it is already in public documents as cited by wikipedia.
This is just attempts at document control, which is never a feasible concept. Best practices -> move on.
Blizzard will whore themselves to wherever the biggest markets are and rightfully so. They (implied and obviously) intend to make a version for windows, so how is this exactly MS using clout?
At some point, people are going to have to see any form of uncomfortable truth. Keeping people in the dark does not do anything other than delay this. So no, its for the greater good not to leave the general public in the dark. Or how did you like the last 8 years of US presidency, for the easily implied example?
People wouldn't be defensive about having things to hide if they were ethical. Instead, politically, people are not.
After the fact? who cares? If you can debunk it on the spot, that can actually be interesting. Whoopty do. Copperfield didn't fly an inch off the ground when he kept his front close to the ground and raised his back foot. Double Whoopty do. Is this supposed to be disenheartening (masqueraded as unethical)?
If people are this afraid for the future/coming up with things such as replacements for the Rorschach test, or finding real answers for things that sounded charming when they were ignorant, then they are clearly of no current contribution to society at large, either.
I can hardly see how debunking what is in essence a subtle placebo as something that is unethical. In by that same stretch, debunking magic would be unethical. Pretty lame really. It's something almost 100 years old. For it to be phased out now due to there being far more accurate psychoanalysis is a good thing.
I really only meant with PVP as far as gameplay, sorry I definitely didn't make that clear. Outside of that, it's basically lineage with newer graphics. Many people have indeed said the animations are impressive but I didn't pay much attention.
I was a wow player (hardcore on us dark iron before I swapped servers and later quit), tried aion, tried warhammer, playing eve, tried almost every mmo under the sun including free asian ones, sco (not the company), flyff, shattered galaxy, planetside, lineage, atlantica, a wide gamut of styles. The only major mmo ones I skipped were D&D online and hardcore EQ1.
I agree that wow is heading to burnout. With that to say, the word I intend to add is "thankfully". The game was a game-changer at first, but now it's just gimmick. I wonder how much activision had to do with that.
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Bingo, I'm tired of this shit, and I'm not even old. You can thank MS for whispering "cloud computing" in the backroom to people at every conference for the past year. My S.O. and others in IT/enterprise have been whining that cloud computing has been a term selling to the upper management above IT who have no idea what it means. I have no idea how they managed to infiltrate that crowd.
I give it about another year or two before people go "Wait, didn't we have virtualization before?". Or "wait, why does MS want more of our money for virtualization?"
Uh? How about you think before you type. Oh, whoops huh? I bet you meant to do that anonymous coward, but same diff. I hope someone karma's you out of oblivion.
the linux community at large can't even use *ANYTHING* they put out there. Not legally, and the source code doesn't help anyone. You do realize they can sue people for using a reference implementation brought in by MS, right?
Lots of MS source has been available forever. Thanks to the DMCA and other things, it's not been legal to use. Plenty of people know how to get around MS issues if they didn't have to deal with patents and DMCA in seconds. Ask a real software engineer. Thanks to GPLv2 and it not covering MS's patent covenant, it's still not legal to use. That may not be MS's fault or decision, but they deserve no praise for this. This posting of GNU code that they have done is forced because they were already violating the GPL.
Congrats for ousting yourself as either a shill or obtuse.
simple phrase that incorporates why the GPLv3 is a big deal for MS to license under instead:
patent covenants.
LMGTFY. Speaks for itself. When you don't have to be a genius and just do a google search to find the answer, it's not in the "difficult decisions" category.
Your whole thing there, doesn't involve physical effort or stress. Thus, it will not turn people on or off from any activity. It doesn't even have to do with people making the decision to do an activity, as above.
I'd say that public stigma has had a whole lot more to do with anything than "can linux make money". There's never been a question that having more programmers at your fingertips (if it's an interesting project, etc) than you can afford to hire is extremely valuable.
If it was a big change, they'd go GPLv3. This is just them making their own services work better. As is, this isn't even worth much on slashdot. This amounts to a butterfly fart off the coast of Antarctica in terms of the world of open source.
Uh?
Most of these addons take a total of 3 clicks, you pick your album, you press upload, and you pick the pictures for the online album for the site of your choice.
That's considered a mess/difficult?
I do get that not all users are the typical slashdot fare but I would hardly consider that in the realm of something to turn away most users.
Yes, it is that trivial.
Most have a search feature to find people by email/account/etc. Also if you have your albums hosted somewhere sites like picasa can upload them directly to whatever account you have.
even good ole discussion forums where everyone quotes eachother and modifies, creates new threads for other topics, etc would work just fine. Subversion would make that easier and the google docs suggestion or open office can do this too.
Bingo. As much as I hate MS, I would absolutely make an about face on my opinions if they started joining in on putting things in under GPLv3 (without skirting it's intent). That's all I ask. I don't get why they don't, the whole marketplace would support them if they did so. I guess they don't like expanding marketshare in ways that benefits everyone as opposed to themselves (PS microsoft: this is how you make friends instead of enemies).
Maybe you want to look into the old "microsoft patent covenant doesn't cover GPLv2 but could be forced under GPLv3" thing.
GPL3 is different than GPL 2. This was GPL2, meaning it's only covered by Microsoft's "covenant".
wow first post was dead on. Games have gone from "made for quality" to "made for quantity/filler/gametime", especially this year it's become more prominent. Is this supposed to be a surprise?
They will make their money, get a few suckers, and move on. Good business for an exec to cash out basically. Meanwhile, "proprietary" is usually another word for "We haven't patented it/probably won't unless we get enough suckers".
Uh, even my 8600M GT can handle most graphic effects in a stunning fashion if not amazing. I don't know what you're talking about but both Nvidia and ATI cards are handled pretty darn well on Linux nowadays.
People even use it for gaming! .
Maybe you should try running Linux. It's clear you aren't currently.
eh I prefer Honey Bunches of Oats.
Don't forget a big whoops when a legitimate image file matches one of their filters and gets deleted, or when this becomes full blown steganography (which I'm sure it has by the time of this writing)
That's not even close to what the op was implying. Go strawman/recycle republican talking points elsewhere.
The reality is, traffic shaping when used to stifle your competition, is anticompetitive by definition. This is a problem. Nobody has an issue with not having enough bandwidth, but it's very easy to go from managing a lack of bandwidth to anticompetitive and definitely tempting for large corrupt companies.
What you are saying relies on the accuracy of the person doing the psych evaluation, not the Rorschach. There are other equivalents out there. Placebo was not the right word, but to say that it is psychosomatic doesn't make it any more valid, because the whole foundation of Rorschach will certainly live on in other ways, meanwhile it is already in public documents as cited by wikipedia.
This is just attempts at document control, which is never a feasible concept. Best practices -> move on.
which does for them what?
Blizzard will whore themselves to wherever the biggest markets are and rightfully so. They (implied and obviously) intend to make a version for windows, so how is this exactly MS using clout?
At some point, people are going to have to see any form of uncomfortable truth. Keeping people in the dark does not do anything other than delay this. So no, its for the greater good not to leave the general public in the dark. Or how did you like the last 8 years of US presidency, for the easily implied example?
People wouldn't be defensive about having things to hide if they were ethical. Instead, politically, people are not.
After the fact? who cares? If you can debunk it on the spot, that can actually be interesting. Whoopty do. Copperfield didn't fly an inch off the ground when he kept his front close to the ground and raised his back foot. Double Whoopty do. Is this supposed to be disenheartening (masqueraded as unethical)?
If people are this afraid for the future/coming up with things such as replacements for the Rorschach test, or finding real answers for things that sounded charming when they were ignorant, then they are clearly of no current contribution to society at large, either.
I can hardly see how debunking what is in essence a subtle placebo as something that is unethical. In by that same stretch, debunking magic would be unethical. Pretty lame really. It's something almost 100 years old. For it to be phased out now due to there being far more accurate psychoanalysis is a good thing.
I really only meant with PVP as far as gameplay, sorry I definitely didn't make that clear. Outside of that, it's basically lineage with newer graphics. Many people have indeed said the animations are impressive but I didn't pay much attention.
I was a wow player (hardcore on us dark iron before I swapped servers and later quit), tried aion, tried warhammer, playing eve, tried almost every mmo under the sun including free asian ones, sco (not the company), flyff, shattered galaxy, planetside, lineage, atlantica, a wide gamut of styles. The only major mmo ones I skipped were D&D online and hardcore EQ1.
I agree that wow is heading to burnout. With that to say, the word I intend to add is "thankfully". The game was a game-changer at first, but now it's just gimmick. I wonder how much activision had to do with that.