You're telling me that devfs was entirely removed from 2.6.13? Great... Just fucking great. Gentoo previously defaulted to devfs, and I've got a bunch of Gentoo boxes in production.
That's just fucking fantastic.
I had read previously that devfs was going to remain for the life of 2.6. Of course, with the constant turmoil happening in 2.6 development, I really shouldn't be surprised.
Ok, so I read most of the claims. Uhm, this is like, the same sort of things people have done before with player "health" or "damage", except this is a seperate "sanity" level.
My question is this: how is this different than patenting a plot device in, say, a book or movie?
- Driver support. While most chips work, they don't take advantage of most advanced features of most cards. 3D sound, surround sound, even tone controls are missing with most boards.
- Sound APIs. There are numerous, incompatible sound APIs. It is, as far as I can tell, impossible to develop an app for Linux that uses sound but doesn't conflict with other components of the system. Many desktops use a sound server, like arts or esd. If you run, say, a game, hopefully there aren't any beeps within 2 seconds of the game opening the sound device, else it will be busy(unless you have a sound card with a hardware mixer, that is supported in linux with a driver that properly handles said hardware mixer - ie. unless you have a SB Live).
Alsa was supposed to be the be all end all of sound on Linux. It has failed, miserably. We still have no software mixing fallback for cards lacking hardware mixing. Direct Sound has had this for... like 7 or 8 years.
The only thing Alsa offers to handle software mixing is dmix, which is just slightly more than worthless. It doesn't even work for most apps that use the Alsa API. Configuring it to work right is also absolutely out of the question for 99% of Linux users. The information you will find on google will quite likely leave you with tinny sound or awful skipping.
Because about half the desktop PCs out there, and even more laptops, have ATI graphics chips that, while supported on Linux, are not supported well enough for most games. Aside from that, Linux doesn't support DirectX/3D, which most PC game programmers are very accustomed to... unfortuneately.
Sounds drivers are still pretty weak in Linux too. While most cards have some support, most "advanced" features are still absent.
Criminal, felony charges for playing with computers they were given(as in handed, for use for the entire school year). See, they didn't physically damage them or anything, so... Shove it up your ass you fascist bastard.
So fucking what? He was pointing out the utter stupidity of the administration. It's all a moot point anyway. Who the fuck cares. It's obvious the administration was completely incompetent.
All this yammering is fucking off-topic anyway. The real, serious issue here is that these kids are getting charged with a felony for PLAYING with computers they were given. The term "ridiculous" just does not do this situation any justice at all. No, this certainly transcends ridiculosity.
They caused noone any serious harm. People get off MUCH easier for vicious physical violence. If we MUST hand down felony charges to kids, I think it would be much more constructive to charge the kids who physically assault others for being "nerdy" and whatnot with felony assault.
That assumes that the United
States Government still functions as it was intended. That, unfortuneately, is just not the case. If it still functioned properly, the government wouldn't do a complete 180 every time a new president is elected.
The president has far more power these days than was ever intended.
A lot of these groups actually want to do just that, completely eradicate things they consider objectionable. They try with every single new type of media. If they can set a precedent, they may gain latitude to re-attack the already established forms of media.
Grand Theft Auto, Leisure Suit Larry, Playboy Mansion. These sort of titles. How can a reasonable person think they are for children?
If it wasn't the complete eradication they were after, wouldn't they be trying to educate parents, instead of attacking the companies and pushing for legislation to get the games out of stores?
This is just like the groups lobbying for stricter controls on alcohol with the ultimate goal of prohibition.
I guess freedom is just a buzzword in the U.S. these days.
Seriously, I hate most journalists. I have to deal with your ilk all the time. It's absolutely exhausting. Nothing is sacred to you. Nothing is off-limits. There's no bounds you won't go to to get, or create out of thin air, a story.
Just because you CAN do a thing, doesn't give you the right. ZDNet went too far in delivering its message. Sure, they could have gone further, but that might have been criminal, or at least made them liable for some kind of damages in a civil court. Google's response was perfectly rational. Who WOULD bother to talk to someone personally attacking them? Noone, except for the purpose of firing back.
Journalists so often act without thinking, because they don't have time to think. It's all about getting that scoop, beating everyone else to the "story." So often they get it completely wrong because of that.
So much of our "news" these days is the shit that should be relegated to tabloids.
Let me know when there's some actually decent investigative journalism going on again in the world. I hate blogs/bloggers because they are full of unsubstantiated bullshit. Journalistst, however, are no different these days. Have some fucking integrity...
You are blatently lying. Either that or you haven't read the documents you keep linking too.
The documents do in fact affirm that you can be prohibited from fraternizing with coworkers while not on duty, REGARDLESS OF WEARING A WORK UNIFORM OR NOT. Posting the same thing 50 times does not make it so.
In the threads below where you argue your point, you subtletly change your position, and end up admitting that prohibiting worker fraternization, on or off duty, in or out of uniform, IS LEGAL according to this ruling. What IS protected, however, is the right to form a union. The argument being that banning fraternization doesnt' impact the right of the workers to form a union, as an employee wouldn't assume that employee communication between employees regarding unionization matters would be considered fraternizing.
Of course, by the time the actual facts are admitted to by you, in a very spun convoluted manner, the moderators have lost interest, so it goes unnoticed by the casual reader.
People keep talking about this dragondrop. What IS dragondrop? That's a really funny name; does it have something to do with dragons, or did the inventor just like dragons a lot?
Apparently it has something to do with copying and pasting. I didn't know you could do that just using the keyboard! Control+C to copy, and Control+V to paste. It's hard to hit the plus key exactly at the right time though, I think they should work on that to make it easier for computer newbies like me.
Is that what dragondrop is, copying and pasting with the keyboard? But why would I want to look at the back of the windows?
You're all over the goddamn place in this discussion and it's pretty clear that the only form of government you're willing to accept is that which you personally approve of. The BBC has existed for decades and it's not going away, so learn to fucking deal. Ok? No? Too fucking bad. The world doesn't revolve around you and your ideals.
I'm at the point these days where I hate software. All software. It's all shitty, literally all of it. After all these years, we should have much better software. OS X, Windows, Linux... Yeah, I'm sorry but they all suck, truly.
But anyway, I'm not going to go into it all right now, I just want to mention some problems I've had with windows recently, on my laptop.
I have an HP ZD7000. It's a pretty decent piece of hardware, if you don't mind the size and weight. It's actually not too heavy considering the size and quality of the display and the hardware inside the thing. It's a beast. 3.2 P4 w/hyperthreading, GeForce FX Go 5700 128M, 17" widescreen display, 1680x1040 native resolution.
Getting this thing in proper order for gaming was not easy. The only "signed" video drivers available are somewhat old(so no HL2 or Doom3 perf. improvements), and don't support a large number of resolutions! As far as I could tell, there's no way to tell windows that there's other resolutions that should be supported, so it is necessary to "hack" the.inf file(s) for the video driver. Long story short, I used the latest NVIDIA drivers(which DO NO support Go chipsets, as laptop vendors are _supposed_ to customize the drivers for their specific power / resolutions / etc.) with a hacked up.inf file, which I had to add my own resolutions to, had to instruct windows to ignore the lack of proper signage, and manually clean out the previous driver files prior so that it didn't use the wrong files. Very, very shitty process.
Linux is just as bad, of course. To get everything working on Linux, you have to download the NVIDIA drivers, install them and get them working(tls / no-tls, wtf?), and add several resolutions by hand to get them working. I have no idea how to come up with the timing BS on my own... I've done it before, but that was 5+ years ago, so... Without google, there's no way I would have been able to get all the resolutions I wanted working.
I don't know how many hours I spent f*cking with windows so I could play HL2 in all(ok, most) of its glory, but I don't want to go through it again.
Who's fault is it? NVIDIA's, HP's, Microsoft's? Maybe a little of all of them, perhaps mostly HP for not having updated drivers(and not even including all the supported resolutions OF THEIR OWN HARDWARE!), but is it too much to ask that they update their "customized" driver every time NVIDIA releases a new driver? And why doesn't it Just Work? Shouldn't it somehow know all the resolutions it supports on its own? Why the #$@% do I have to manually clean out driver files to prevent Windows from screwing up?
Funny enough, I was thinking about WWII this morning while getting ready to go to work. I was specifically thinking about the atomic bomb, the making of it, the science and engineering, and the eventual deployment of it against the Japanese. I thought about Nanking, the allied firebombing of European cities, how all that compared to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Was it justified? Would the alternative have been worse?
Many people today point at the U.S. and use actions from WWII in their arguments regarding U.S. actions today. Of course, they only do themselves and their arguments a disservice. Allied Europeans helped to build the bombs, provided resources, condoned their use, etc. It was a question of justification at the time; it was just survival. In fact, those primitive nuclear weapons did far less damage than the many firebombings during WWII. They were something people had never seen. It was shocking and terrible. It was a more effective terrorism than the firebombing that had been engaged in previously. The firebombing that was initiated by the European Allies.
People continue to make all kinds of silly justifications, "Hiroshima was payback for Pearl Harbour,"(payback is justification?) and criticisms, "The U.S. is the only country to ever use a nuclear bomb"(the point being that, the U.S. is and always has been, evil). Of course, the truth is that it was a strategic action taken during the greatest(ie. most fucking horriffic) war of all of human history. The devastation caused by the atom bomb is a drop in the bucket in the context of WWII.
Was it justified? Was it wrong? Those questions have very little meaning. It is just not that simple; all meaning is lost when looked at in such simple terms. There is nothing to be learned when viewed out of its historic context.
OTOH, since the discussion here is veering all over the place, I submit that the current U.S. administration's discussion about deploying tactical nukes is pure fucking insanity and clearly shows just how stupid and ignorant they are, and further that the administration's lying to the public to further its agenda is a clear fucking sign regarding its (lack of) integrity and self-serving purposes.
Whether it IS more than just another stupid tamagotchi-style game or not is irrelevent to me for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that I won't buy a DS until / if ever there is a game lineup I feel is more worth my time.
Secondly, whether it's more than a gimmicky fad of a game or not, whether it's a bit RPG-ish or not... I hate fads and gimmicks, and there are tons of highly acclaimed RPGs that I still haven't had a chance to play yet.
My time is precious, and as I said there's tons of great games that I haven't played yet, so if you want to pique my interest enough to get me to invest a little of my time in your product, skip the BS and the gimmicks. They worked when I was a kid, but as an adult I just don't have time to check out every stupid little bullshit fad.
I am sick of Nintendo rehashes! I loved Nintendo since the NES, the SNES was my favorite system of all time, but these days Nintendo seems to release more versions of its handhelds than they do original games to play on them! Frankly, I find it disturbing that so many people get so excited about being able to get a GBA in their favorite color, so much so that they'll drop another $70 on a new GBA when they ALREADY HAVE ONE! And, not that graphics are that important to me, but a lot of their damn rehashes appear to use the same sprites as the original NES versions.
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Sorry, I didn't mean for this to turn into a rant. But since it has, I'm going to go ahead and post it and hope to see some interesting viewpoints from others.
OTOH, I am really excited about the upcoming Gamecube titles, to say the least. So it's not all news for me as far as Nintendo is concerned.
I wasn't talking about how much movies make, but rather about how 90% of that money goes into the hands of only a few people, rather than (a little) more evenly distributed to the people who put in long hours to make the movie. A director and a couple actors don't make a movie by themselves.
Hollywood is bullshit. Noone deserves to make 20,000,000 USD for 6 weeks of work. Fuck that shit. Really. I'd rather keep that sort of gross overvaluing of certain individuals out of other industries.
I really, really can't see how anyone can claim that ignorance of the law is never an excuse these days, when the law is so fucking complicated, so huge, so inconsistent, that simply knowing about the whole body of law a citizen is governed by is probably impossible for a human being. The law is so complex, broken, and obtuse, that lawyers literally come up with hundreds of interpretations. How, then, does an ordinary citizen _know_ the law.
Actually, parrot is really coming along nicely it looks like. People are really starting to work on compilers to target parrot now too. It WILL be a scripting nirvana, just wait and see. In fact, don't wait, get involved; start hacking one whichever project you're interested it!
Well, I imagine they will try to verify the claims first before giving out legit copies of XP. Maybe if they can't verify they don't hand over the goods. And as another poster said, that sort of scam could land you in jail if you get caught.
I finally decided to mark you as a foe, because...
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YOU ARE AN ASSHOLE!!!
No, seriously, the OP just said he liked RMS. He made absolutely no speculation about anything you drummed up out of your dumb ass.
I like RMS too. I often don't agree with him, but I sure as hell respect the guy and even, *gasp* like him. And whadoyaknow, I'm a software developer. Proprietary software is not a necessity for developers to get paid for their work. Quite the opposite, actually; proprietary software often has other people getting paid far more for developers' hard work than the developers themselves get.
I have two nits to pick with you. For the most part I do agree, though.
Are you afraid that someone is going to track down your Super-Private online goings-on and share your secret with others? For example... is Safeway (grocery chain) going to track down all your online purchases of ass ailment treatments, and then, in their store, announce over the loud speaker, John Doe, We're currently featuring 10 cents off Assinol Plus with the purchase of Roidwipes2000? No. Could they? Perhaps. Would they? No. Their legal department would forbid it, for fear of frivolous lawsuits such as the one you'd hit them with 10 minutes later.
Nit #1. I wouldn't call that lawsuit frivilous. I think people have a pretty good expectation of not being made a spectacle of in the middle of a store due to medical conditions.
Nit #2. The Constitution does not define the rights we have. Just because it's not explicitly stated in the Constitution means absolutely nothing at all.
There are, however, reasonble limits to invasion and protection of privacy. I fear that unreasonable people are taking control of what those limits are, though.
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That's just fucking fantastic.
I had read previously that devfs was going to remain for the life of 2.6. Of course, with the constant turmoil happening in 2.6 development, I really shouldn't be surprised.
Yay, more fun stuff to deal with down the line.
My question is this: how is this different than patenting a plot device in, say, a book or movie?
- Driver support. While most chips work, they don't take advantage of most advanced features of most cards. 3D sound, surround sound, even tone controls are missing with most boards.
- Sound APIs. There are numerous, incompatible sound APIs. It is, as far as I can tell, impossible to develop an app for Linux that uses sound but doesn't conflict with other components of the system. Many desktops use a sound server, like arts or esd. If you run, say, a game, hopefully there aren't any beeps within 2 seconds of the game opening the sound device, else it will be busy(unless you have a sound card with a hardware mixer, that is supported in linux with a driver that properly handles said hardware mixer - ie. unless you have a SB Live).
Alsa was supposed to be the be all end all of sound on Linux. It has failed, miserably. We still have no software mixing fallback for cards lacking hardware mixing. Direct Sound has had this for... like 7 or 8 years.
The only thing Alsa offers to handle software mixing is dmix, which is just slightly more than worthless. It doesn't even work for most apps that use the Alsa API. Configuring it to work right is also absolutely out of the question for 99% of Linux users. The information you will find on google will quite likely leave you with tinny sound or awful skipping.
Sounds drivers are still pretty weak in Linux too. While most cards have some support, most "advanced" features are still absent.
Next time you do 5 over on the highway, maybe you should be shot.
Asshole.
All this yammering is fucking off-topic anyway. The real, serious issue here is that these kids are getting charged with a felony for PLAYING with computers they were given. The term "ridiculous" just does not do this situation any justice at all. No, this certainly transcends ridiculosity.
They caused noone any serious harm. People get off MUCH easier for vicious physical violence. If we MUST hand down felony charges to kids, I think it would be much more constructive to charge the kids who physically assault others for being "nerdy" and whatnot with felony assault.
The president has far more power these days than was ever intended.
Grand Theft Auto, Leisure Suit Larry, Playboy Mansion. These sort of titles. How can a reasonable person think they are for children?
If it wasn't the complete eradication they were after, wouldn't they be trying to educate parents, instead of attacking the companies and pushing for legislation to get the games out of stores?
This is just like the groups lobbying for stricter controls on alcohol with the ultimate goal of prohibition.
I guess freedom is just a buzzword in the U.S. these days.
Just because you CAN do a thing, doesn't give you the right. ZDNet went too far in delivering its message. Sure, they could have gone further, but that might have been criminal, or at least made them liable for some kind of damages in a civil court. Google's response was perfectly rational. Who WOULD bother to talk to someone personally attacking them? Noone, except for the purpose of firing back.
Journalists so often act without thinking, because they don't have time to think. It's all about getting that scoop, beating everyone else to the "story." So often they get it completely wrong because of that.
So much of our "news" these days is the shit that should be relegated to tabloids.
Let me know when there's some actually decent investigative journalism going on again in the world. I hate blogs/bloggers because they are full of unsubstantiated bullshit. Journalistst, however, are no different these days. Have some fucking integrity...
The documents do in fact affirm that you can be prohibited from fraternizing with coworkers while not on duty, REGARDLESS OF WEARING A WORK UNIFORM OR NOT. Posting the same thing 50 times does not make it so.
In the threads below where you argue your point, you subtletly change your position, and end up admitting that prohibiting worker fraternization, on or off duty, in or out of uniform, IS LEGAL according to this ruling. What IS protected, however, is the right to form a union. The argument being that banning fraternization doesnt' impact the right of the workers to form a union, as an employee wouldn't assume that employee communication between employees regarding unionization matters would be considered fraternizing.
Of course, by the time the actual facts are admitted to by you, in a very spun convoluted manner, the moderators have lost interest, so it goes unnoticed by the casual reader.
Apparently it has something to do with copying and pasting. I didn't know you could do that just using the keyboard! Control+C to copy, and Control+V to paste. It's hard to hit the plus key exactly at the right time though, I think they should work on that to make it easier for computer newbies like me.
Is that what dragondrop is, copying and pasting with the keyboard? But why would I want to look at the back of the windows?
Ummm... I hate to break it to you, but evolution can mean a species dying out or inadvertently extinguishing itself.
We should at least STRIVE for better.
But anyway, I'm not going to go into it all right now, I just want to mention some problems I've had with windows recently, on my laptop.
I have an HP ZD7000. It's a pretty decent piece of hardware, if you don't mind the size and weight. It's actually not too heavy considering the size and quality of the display and the hardware inside the thing. It's a beast. 3.2 P4 w/hyperthreading, GeForce FX Go 5700 128M, 17" widescreen display, 1680x1040 native resolution.
Getting this thing in proper order for gaming was not easy. The only "signed" video drivers available are somewhat old(so no HL2 or Doom3 perf. improvements), and don't support a large number of resolutions! As far as I could tell, there's no way to tell windows that there's other resolutions that should be supported, so it is necessary to "hack" the .inf file(s) for the video driver. Long story short, I used the latest NVIDIA drivers(which DO NO support Go chipsets, as laptop vendors are _supposed_ to customize the drivers for their specific power / resolutions / etc.) with a hacked up .inf file, which I had to add my own resolutions to, had to instruct windows to ignore the lack of proper signage, and manually clean out the previous driver files prior so that it didn't use the wrong files. Very, very shitty process.
Linux is just as bad, of course. To get everything working on Linux, you have to download the NVIDIA drivers, install them and get them working(tls / no-tls, wtf?), and add several resolutions by hand to get them working. I have no idea how to come up with the timing BS on my own... I've done it before, but that was 5+ years ago, so... Without google, there's no way I would have been able to get all the resolutions I wanted working.
I don't know how many hours I spent f*cking with windows so I could play HL2 in all(ok, most) of its glory, but I don't want to go through it again.
Who's fault is it? NVIDIA's, HP's, Microsoft's? Maybe a little of all of them, perhaps mostly HP for not having updated drivers(and not even including all the supported resolutions OF THEIR OWN HARDWARE!), but is it too much to ask that they update their "customized" driver every time NVIDIA releases a new driver? And why doesn't it Just Work? Shouldn't it somehow know all the resolutions it supports on its own? Why the #$@% do I have to manually clean out driver files to prevent Windows from screwing up?
Many people today point at the U.S. and use actions from WWII in their arguments regarding U.S. actions today. Of course, they only do themselves and their arguments a disservice. Allied Europeans helped to build the bombs, provided resources, condoned their use, etc. It was a question of justification at the time; it was just survival. In fact, those primitive nuclear weapons did far less damage than the many firebombings during WWII. They were something people had never seen. It was shocking and terrible. It was a more effective terrorism than the firebombing that had been engaged in previously. The firebombing that was initiated by the European Allies.
People continue to make all kinds of silly justifications, "Hiroshima was payback for Pearl Harbour,"(payback is justification?) and criticisms, "The U.S. is the only country to ever use a nuclear bomb"(the point being that, the U.S. is and always has been, evil). Of course, the truth is that it was a strategic action taken during the greatest(ie. most fucking horriffic) war of all of human history. The devastation caused by the atom bomb is a drop in the bucket in the context of WWII.
Was it justified? Was it wrong? Those questions have very little meaning. It is just not that simple; all meaning is lost when looked at in such simple terms. There is nothing to be learned when viewed out of its historic context.
OTOH, since the discussion here is veering all over the place, I submit that the current U.S. administration's discussion about deploying tactical nukes is pure fucking insanity and clearly shows just how stupid and ignorant they are, and further that the administration's lying to the public to further its agenda is a clear fucking sign regarding its (lack of) integrity and self-serving purposes.
Secondly, whether it's more than a gimmicky fad of a game or not, whether it's a bit RPG-ish or not... I hate fads and gimmicks, and there are tons of highly acclaimed RPGs that I still haven't had a chance to play yet.
My time is precious, and as I said there's tons of great games that I haven't played yet, so if you want to pique my interest enough to get me to invest a little of my time in your product, skip the BS and the gimmicks. They worked when I was a kid, but as an adult I just don't have time to check out every stupid little bullshit fad.
I am sick of Nintendo rehashes! I loved Nintendo since the NES, the SNES was my favorite system of all time, but these days Nintendo seems to release more versions of its handhelds than they do original games to play on them! Frankly, I find it disturbing that so many people get so excited about being able to get a GBA in their favorite color, so much so that they'll drop another $70 on a new GBA when they ALREADY HAVE ONE! And, not that graphics are that important to me, but a lot of their damn rehashes appear to use the same sprites as the original NES versions.
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Sorry, I didn't mean for this to turn into a rant. But since it has, I'm going to go ahead and post it and hope to see some interesting viewpoints from others.
OTOH, I am really excited about the upcoming Gamecube titles, to say the least. So it's not all news for me as far as Nintendo is concerned.
I've never been so excited in my life!
I find that very Orwellian.
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YOU ARE AN ASSHOLE!!!
No, seriously, the OP just said he liked RMS. He made absolutely no speculation about anything you drummed up out of your dumb ass.
I like RMS too. I often don't agree with him, but I sure as hell respect the guy and even, *gasp* like him. And whadoyaknow, I'm a software developer. Proprietary software is not a necessity for developers to get paid for their work. Quite the opposite, actually; proprietary software often has other people getting paid far more for developers' hard work than the developers themselves get.
Are you afraid that someone is going to track down your Super-Private online goings-on and share your secret with others? For example... is Safeway (grocery chain) going to track down all your online purchases of ass ailment treatments, and then, in their store, announce over the loud speaker, John Doe, We're currently featuring 10 cents off Assinol Plus with the purchase of Roidwipes2000? No. Could they? Perhaps. Would they? No. Their legal department would forbid it, for fear of frivolous lawsuits such as the one you'd hit them with 10 minutes later.
Nit #1. I wouldn't call that lawsuit frivilous. I think people have a pretty good expectation of not being made a spectacle of in the middle of a store due to medical conditions.
Nit #2. The Constitution does not define the rights we have. Just because it's not explicitly stated in the Constitution means absolutely nothing at all.
There are, however, reasonble limits to invasion and protection of privacy. I fear that unreasonable people are taking control of what those limits are, though.