It's a story - in fact, it's a story that I think is provided for entertainment - this is not Starship Troopers or 1984. You won't hear literary critics talking about it for the rest of their lives.
On the converse, the only masters theses you'll hear about HL2 will be about it's engine and perhaps about it's approach to story at a macro level, not about the story itself - no one in their right mind is going to pick apart something that has more holes in it than a block of swiss cheese.
It's a game - I'm happy you're finding enlightenment in it, but I think you, with the connections you made, would have found that enlightenment in anything.
Oh get off your Star Trek utopia kick. This is the real world.
We have the internet, a high-powered communication tool, levelling barriers to anonymity and such, and with all the money behind it people are still fighting over fucking food in africa.
Nanotech, if it ever comes forth, with be fucking expensive for at least 50 years, and won't be ubiquitous for at least 200 if history is any indicator.
And by that time, someone will be doing software better than our buddy linus, or the old gold standard will still be working like it has for hundreds of years - investors who think and laborers who work. Some would say that OSS has only done the difference of putting the power in the laborers, has not changed anything else.
All I'm saying, is that it's not surprising that big backers of the OSS movement are Anarchists (Socialist Libertarians), given their focus on power in labor.
Most IM services use a range to enable direct connections, also, sometimes port forwarding isn't always an option (see: corporate networks).
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With all the problems that steam was supposed to solve (cheating, abstraction of cd-key validation), there are still people out there using key gens and wall hacks in steam.
I understand your rationale, but for valve to give out any more information would be idiotic at this point - especially since one of their pets is the golden child of CAL and the CPL. Translation: if people think they can make money doing it they are going to accept anything that will let them do it.
My best guess, viewing their architecture from a purely end-user view, is that it's similar in operation to Kerberos and AFS (ticket-based authentication and distributed caching filesystem), but most certainly does not use either of these technologies.
It's a plot device, relax. Have you ever played a PnP RPG? Ever get pissed at the guy who constantly quotes the fucking PHB everytime the DM tries to get things going?
One DM I used to play with had this little saying, "give me your character sheet". He'd tear it in two, and tell you how you died. That's what you got for telling the world creator he was wrong.
And the result is that we got through campaigns a lot quicker and had a lot more fun when assholes like that didn't join his games.
NS's problem is that it was really complex and poorly documented... I tried it out, it looked like it would be fun, but having someone explain it to me while everyone is pulling classic "n00b!" cat calls does not make it enjoyable.
That said, I've been playing CS since beta 2, so I guess I'm not surprised in the least by such actions.
DoD is more CTF-ish. It's also pretty damn slow, so factor that in.. it's nothing like Quake CTF.
TF2 has been promised since long before HL2 was announced (IIRC, TF2 has been "in development" since original HL came out), so I wouldn't count on it. It's also the reason that I don't take anything valve says as "in the works" as anything more than a rumor until I see it.
I haven't got the chance to play it yet, but I beat HL 1 twice (well, I cheated and used a save), and the "choice" you get at the end might have something to do with it.
How on earth did you make that connection? Do you have success getting the positive sides of two magnets to attract or something?
HL2 is a video game - it's about aliens, not terrorists, and the fact that it has "evil government" in it is not a reason to push your silly political agenda down our throat.
perhaps some other field might be up your alley. most OS's don't even use the same binary format, much less anything else.
so either you aren't prepared to ask that question (and you shouldn't care until you are), or you are expecting bill gates and bill joy to hold hands and walk in the park, talk rememberances, and announce that they are getting married a week later.
Actually, depending on your definition of "application", it's quite true. I don't think there's a version of ipfwadm that works with 2.4 or even 2.6, but I bet you can find patches for it.
Personally, I don't see the problem with applications targetting minor versions of a kernel at an autoconf (or similar) level. It's intelligent from a performance perspective, and allows system programmers to be much more liberal in making changes that affect backwards compatibility.
AppleScript is a pretty decent example of how this works well - it's close enough, in fact a little to far for my taste... often finding the "right words" becomes a chore.
example:
set bDmg to true
display dialog "Compress DMG?" buttons {"Yes", "No"} default button 2
if the button returned of the result is "Yes" then
set sDmgFormat to " -format UDZO "
else
set sDmgFormat to " -format UDRW "
end if
groupadd wheel (might as well take advantage of it since it rarely exists on linux machines) visudo
in vi:
%wheel ALL=(ALL)
If you don't want a password prompt:
%wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
if 'man sudoers' is a "great deal of research", perhaps you shouldn't be using unix? I apologize, but it's very frustrating that people write very long, fruitful man pages (and they do it well, as is the case with this document), and you complain that it's hard to read.
Heck, that line is commented out in the default sudoers on freebsd.
If you are literal in your "command alias" wording, Cmnd_Alias is described on the second page of the sudoers manpage. sheesh.
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It's a story - in fact, it's a story that I think is provided for entertainment - this is not Starship Troopers or 1984. You won't hear literary critics talking about it for the rest of their lives.
On the converse, the only masters theses you'll hear about HL2 will be about it's engine and perhaps about it's approach to story at a macro level, not about the story itself - no one in their right mind is going to pick apart something that has more holes in it than a block of swiss cheese.
It's a game - I'm happy you're finding enlightenment in it, but I think you, with the connections you made, would have found that enlightenment in anything.
You had me up until "will be here in less than 20 years".
By all means, keep reading your Esther Dyson.
I will keep reading my changelogs and believing it when I see it.
I'm not trying to be rude, but Canadians celebrate thanksgiving? I mean, it's a very US-centric holiday, after all.
Or do Canucks just like to eat a lot of turkey?
Holy over-analyzed crap batman!
Oh get off your Star Trek utopia kick. This is the real world.
We have the internet, a high-powered communication tool, levelling barriers to anonymity and such, and with all the money behind it people are still fighting over fucking food in africa.
Nanotech, if it ever comes forth, with be fucking expensive for at least 50 years, and won't be ubiquitous for at least 200 if history is any indicator.
And by that time, someone will be doing software better than our buddy linus, or the old gold standard will still be working like it has for hundreds of years - investors who think and laborers who work. Some would say that OSS has only done the difference of putting the power in the laborers, has not changed anything else.
All I'm saying, is that it's not surprising that big backers of the OSS movement are Anarchists (Socialist Libertarians), given their focus on power in labor.
Sorry, sarcasm doesn't translate well and we are on slashdot after all. I thought you were serious. :)
Most IM services use a range to enable direct connections, also, sometimes port forwarding isn't always an option (see: corporate networks).
With all the problems that steam was supposed to solve (cheating, abstraction of cd-key validation), there are still people out there using key gens and wall hacks in steam.
I understand your rationale, but for valve to give out any more information would be idiotic at this point - especially since one of their pets is the golden child of CAL and the CPL. Translation: if people think they can make money doing it they are going to accept anything that will let them do it.
My best guess, viewing their architecture from a purely end-user view, is that it's similar in operation to Kerberos and AFS (ticket-based authentication and distributed caching filesystem), but most certainly does not use either of these technologies.
A fun experience from when I tried out CS:Source (still haven't bought anything yet, but plan to),
I was in a tunnel, I think it was de_dust, and another guy was on the other side, we were both covered and pinned down.
I had a rifle and he had a pistol. There was an AK in the middle.
Two shots in the direction of the AK, bounced it to him, he picked it up and we ended up winning the round.
I was awe-struck.
It's a plot device, relax. Have you ever played a PnP RPG? Ever get pissed at the guy who constantly quotes the fucking PHB everytime the DM tries to get things going?
One DM I used to play with had this little saying, "give me your character sheet". He'd tear it in two, and tell you how you died. That's what you got for telling the world creator he was wrong.
And the result is that we got through campaigns a lot quicker and had a lot more fun when assholes like that didn't join his games.
It's called "suspension of disbelief".
NS's problem is that it was really complex and poorly documented... I tried it out, it looked like it would be fun, but having someone explain it to me while everyone is pulling classic "n00b!" cat calls does not make it enjoyable.
That said, I've been playing CS since beta 2, so I guess I'm not surprised in the least by such actions.
DoD is more CTF-ish. It's also pretty damn slow, so factor that in.. it's nothing like Quake CTF.
TF2 has been promised since long before HL2 was announced (IIRC, TF2 has been "in development" since original HL came out), so I wouldn't count on it. It's also the reason that I don't take anything valve says as "in the works" as anything more than a rumor until I see it.
I haven't got the chance to play it yet, but I beat HL 1 twice (well, I cheated and used a save), and the "choice" you get at the end might have something to do with it.
How on earth did you make that connection? Do you have success getting the positive sides of two magnets to attract or something?
HL2 is a video game - it's about aliens, not terrorists, and the fact that it has "evil government" in it is not a reason to push your silly political agenda down our throat.
if you are serious about asking this question...
perhaps some other field might be up your alley. most OS's don't even use the same binary format, much less anything else.
so either you aren't prepared to ask that question (and you shouldn't care until you are), or you are expecting bill gates and bill joy to hold hands and walk in the park, talk rememberances, and announce that they are getting married a week later.
enjoy finding the parallel to CREATE SEQUENCE. (hint: there is none, only auto-incrementing table BS)
(If someone knows different, I'd love to hear it - i've scoured that damn site looking for it)
MySQL is fast and it's easier to use than berkeleyDB. that's really where it ends.
If it doesn't, it's inflexible. There's rarely a middle ground.
Newsflash: programmer makes mistake, annoying gamer thinks he's smarter as a result.
Holy crap, you think it could have been an accident?
Actually, depending on your definition of "application", it's quite true. I don't think there's a version of ipfwadm that works with 2.4 or even 2.6, but I bet you can find patches for it.
Personally, I don't see the problem with applications targetting minor versions of a kernel at an autoconf (or similar) level. It's intelligent from a performance perspective, and allows system programmers to be much more liberal in making changes that affect backwards compatibility.
Repeat after me, Network Address Translation.
If there's a way for me to keep my IM conversations off the server through NAT, I'd love to hear it.
Yeah, those crazy POSIX guys were on to something, weren't they?
I quit playing Doom 3 because I thought I was going to have a damned heart attack if I kept going.
I can't wait to get to HL2.
AppleScript is a pretty decent example of how this works well - it's close enough, in fact a little to far for my taste... often finding the "right words" becomes a chore.
.dmg files.
example:
set bDmg to true
display dialog "Compress DMG?" buttons {"Yes", "No"} default button 2
if the button returned of the result is "Yes" then
set sDmgFormat to " -format UDZO "
else
set sDmgFormat to " -format UDRW "
end if
From a script I use to build
bah.
honk if(you love perl);
that dork is a show-off.
groupadd wheel (might as well take advantage of it since it rarely exists on linux machines)
visudo
in vi:
%wheel ALL=(ALL)
If you don't want a password prompt:
%wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
if 'man sudoers' is a "great deal of research", perhaps you shouldn't be using unix? I apologize, but it's very frustrating that people write very long, fruitful man pages (and they do it well, as is the case with this document), and you complain that it's hard to read.
Heck, that line is commented out in the default sudoers on freebsd.
If you are literal in your "command alias" wording, Cmnd_Alias is described on the second page of the sudoers manpage. sheesh.