We had more than 10 hours of power outages from failure in our datacentre just last year, not decade. and we are in a major city. mains power is vulnerable to stuffups, backhoes, flooding and all manner of incidents that DO occur even in a perfectly maintained system. Incidentally of those 10 hours of power failure at least 4 hours of it were complete outages as the backup generators failed due to fault transfer switches once and then a faulty building UPS, but hey that is still way better than 10 hours.
Since when did the US laws apply to everyone else in the world? The case could easily be argued that this video was meant to incite violence and hence falls under laws that prohibit such in most countries (prior examples in the world easily demonstrate that a reasonable person could well expect that posting such a video would lead to people getting injured or killed), Watching the poor quality of it you could probably argue that the producers of it had sufficiently low intelligence level to be able realise the innocents that might get hurt by their video, but none the less that only excuses them, not those allowing it to be hosted.
Microsoft/IBM/Oracle and just about every other big name vendor. I have personally used both Microsoft and IBM critical support processes, hell MS even flew in a field engineer to our office to debug the product on site on a sunday.
Gabe Newell used to work at Microsoft. He knows about Stac and Sendo, WordPerfect, Novell, Lotus, Aldus, Borland, Netscape and the entire litany of other companies Microsoft decided had had enough time to develop an interesting basket of customers to steal. He knows Microsoft has now decided to have his share, and he cannot defeat them while working on their operating system. That strategy always fails because Microsoft deliberately makes the operating system incompatible with their victims' software. Always. He knows he cannot win on Windows in the long term.
That doesn't mean he's abandoning Windows immediately. Of course not. The money's still coming in and there's no reason to throw it away. But right here in this thread are the first trickle of "increasingly glitchy, unreliable, unstable..." that eventually will become a flood not because Valve suddenly forgot how to write code, but because the ware cannot transcend an OS that deliberately undermines it. It is just not possible. It's not Gabe that's going to take Valve on Windows away from you: it's Microsoft, who will make it work worse and worse until you uninstall it.
So the man has no choice. It's this or fold your tent and retire to your private island.
That isn't what Gabe fears at all. He has rightly identified a huge threat to his business, that is that his entire business model will become irrelevant, he is already excluded from game consoles and apple despite his constant bleating. Steam has no real value add, it is just a digital resale business and like any service business the model needs to change with the times, with everything becoming connected and all the big PLayers having their own stores what need is their for steam? Them running to another OS isn't going to help them, they need to evolve or die.
ahhhh yes brings back memories of playing my half blind dwarf gromit, he could see a distance of 1, if I wasn't in a group I wasn't able to find the other side of a room. From memory I was connecting from a VAX terminal. At the time MUD's stunned me with how powerful and complex a multi player gaming environment could be and was amazed to see so many people in the same game.
perhaps you might want to actually read the article. The chip isn't crippled, it is an X86 based chip, if you want to get one and run Linux on it you can, if you want to make the effort of porting all the android arm based stuff to it you can and AMD will probably thank you for it.
probably because the usual limiting factor with new chips isn't demand, rather manufacturing capacity. MS have probably locked up a large amount of the demand with advance orders, so promising anything to anyone else would just be bad form on their part.
unfortunately even that is not an apples to apples comparison. they used a 32 bit Linux build vs a 64 bit windows build. perhaps the differences there end up being small, but still you have to wonder about any comparison where they don't try to equalize the variables as much as possible, especially when it is known that that difference can be a factor.
You seem to be assuming valve will just abandon windows and the many hundreds of millions they make there or that somehow valve has more control over what platform a gamer plays on than the consumers and publishers funding the games. I am sure that valve will do everything to fight what at this stage looks like inevitable destruction for them, but if you think the result will be millions and millions of gamers suddenly ditch there windows gaming platform and all there libraries of games to jump into a smaller market then you are the one with the invalid argument. More likely valve will have to alter its business model and find some value add that MS can't stomp them on.
Vista had a bunch of DRM and other features that were friendly to manufacturers but bad for consumers.
In order to judge the relevance of this statement to the rest of your point, I need your answer to the following question: Which of these manufacturer-friendly features of Windows Vista were eliminated from Windows 7?
And of course the answer is none, actually they introduced more. But their were plenty of irrational articles claiming it was the anti-Christ, and plenty of the non techy crowd like the person your responding to believed all the FUD, Vista sucked, but that had more to do with poor driver support early on and the damned UAC prompted, Win 7 removed those 2 problems and suddenly everything is wonderful.
If your solo and have no qualifications so to speak, then you need your evidence of past work and probably references from happy customers you have done this for. If you don't have either of those then you are up shit creek without a paddle as why would anyone hire a freelancer without those in a market where there are plenty of skilled individuals that have the evidence to back it up and many of them willing to do the job at good prices. Not saying you are one of these, but people who "think" they know how to do what you described because they built there home network and installed their own systems and help all there friends technically are a dime a dozen, and thankfully they keep the rest of us busy and paid cleaning up the mess they leave behind.
It isn't about having a differing opinion. Just like when you yell fire in a crowded movie theatre, the video had a very predictable outcome, both of which end up being very bad for innocent victims. Both cases people have a risk of dieing for nothing more than a moronic act. I have no religious beliefs and really could not give a shit about Christianity, islam or any other cult, but common sense and decency for others beliefs and even more important their safety should take precedence over someones right to be a douchebag.
Actually I bought him an expensive bottle of wine for xmas that year:-). I like my job and what I do, but I look at it this way. If I had a choice to do anything I wanted with my time it would NOT be working here, I would rather be skiing in Europe, relaxing on a beach or riding my dirt bike in the mountains, as such it makes more sense to ensure I optimise my work time to maximise my capacity to do what I would really prefer to be doing in life. Hence how happy I am at work doesn't really factor into my work decisions, coincidentally once I start treating work as something that is irrelevant to my enjoyment of life I found work far less stressful and more enjoyable regardless of what is thrown my way.
could not agree more. You work so you can do whatever else you enjoy, if you happen to enjoy work it is a happy bonus. You may well regret later on not taking opportunities presented to you as one thing is almost certain is that your current working environment WILL change, people will move on, management will change, perhaps for the better. I had a similar problem about 10 years ago and luckily for me I had a fantastic director who I told about the opportunity, his response was "don't be a fucking moron, take the job, you owe no loyalty to me or this company, if you weren't great at what you do regardless of what everyone says about how great it is here we would dump you in a heartbeat. Work is how you pay the bills, not your life", I took the job and that old company was bought out by its main competitor around 6 months later and completely gutted while I marched on happily.
Not sure why you got marked flamebait, Even as a developer I find your comments spot on. If you are not experienced enough to know the answer to this topic then/. is not the place to be asking as you won't have the knowledge to sort the garbage from the good advise. Incidentally I would love to know the name of this new site as I think it is one I would avoid for my own safety.
when I say cost, cost is not always in financial terms (they I suppose these do have financial impacts too). processing 2048 bit encryption is more expensive processor wise than 1024 bit. Higher bit keys mean you are sacrificing performance/CPU/battery in order to utilise better security, The more SSL negotiations you require in your device/app/webpage etc the higher this cost is. if better security isn't required then that sacrifice may not be worth while in some scenarios.
because in many environments 1024 are still quite commonly used, especially in scenarios where cost of encryption for 2048 is a factor. Breaking the rare place that uses less than 1024 is probably ok, breaking the MANY that still use 1024 would have huge repercussions. while 1024 is not long enough to be considered completely secure, it is still good enough for many scenarios.
just because it is closed source doesn't mean people can't read the source. thousands of universities and government agencies and even other organisations have access to the source code for windows for development purposes, security evaluation purposes and research purposes.
An opt-in setting would mean the vast majority will not get the benefit. Basically this is the Ad companies saying we don't mind if a few people prevent us tracking them but if it becomes the norm we are going to ignore you. Well they can go fuck themselves, Sounds to me like time for government to step in and regulate them if they wish to ignore a persons right to privacy.
This is just fucked up. It should always be assumed someone wants privacy unless explicitly stated. If ad networks believe otherwise then it is time for government to step in with laws that require them to respect a users privacy by default.
The DNT setting applies to everyone, and ironically it appears MS are about the only ones that abide by it. I having DNT by default seems to me to be the intelligent choice, The default should always err on the side of a users privacy. Why the fuck are people suddenly supporting the right to be tracked??? You should require explicit permissions from the person in order to track them.
If you had any sense you would have simply taken an aspirin in the first place. Given common sense has failed at step one it isn't hard to imagine them chewing it.
No, he had surgury after he realised "oh shit my magic cures aren't working". By then the cancer had progressed to the stage that surgery was a big deal and unfortunately for him far too late.
anyone that wants enough battery life to be able to actually make phone calls when needed? My phone works as an MP3 player and FM radio as well, i still always use an external mp3 player.
Huh? Last I saw Linux (all variants) were somewhere in the 65% of web servers in operation right now.
No,65% of web SITES in operation are on Linux. There is a very significant difference as hosters are parkers are very much in the Linux space as Apache seems to run the massive hosting models better than IIS, I would guess Linux probably still has the larger server base for web servers, but that is only one fragment of the server market.
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We had more than 10 hours of power outages from failure in our datacentre just last year, not decade. and we are in a major city. mains power is vulnerable to stuffups, backhoes, flooding and all manner of incidents that DO occur even in a perfectly maintained system. Incidentally of those 10 hours of power failure at least 4 hours of it were complete outages as the backup generators failed due to fault transfer switches once and then a faulty building UPS, but hey that is still way better than 10 hours.
Since when did the US laws apply to everyone else in the world? The case could easily be argued that this video was meant to incite violence and hence falls under laws that prohibit such in most countries (prior examples in the world easily demonstrate that a reasonable person could well expect that posting such a video would lead to people getting injured or killed), Watching the poor quality of it you could probably argue that the producers of it had sufficiently low intelligence level to be able realise the innocents that might get hurt by their video, but none the less that only excuses them, not those allowing it to be hosted.
Microsoft/IBM/Oracle and just about every other big name vendor. I have personally used both Microsoft and IBM critical support processes, hell MS even flew in a field engineer to our office to debug the product on site on a sunday.
Gabe Newell used to work at Microsoft. He knows about Stac and Sendo, WordPerfect, Novell, Lotus, Aldus, Borland, Netscape and the entire litany of other companies Microsoft decided had had enough time to develop an interesting basket of customers to steal. He knows Microsoft has now decided to have his share, and he cannot defeat them while working on their operating system. That strategy always fails because Microsoft deliberately makes the operating system incompatible with their victims' software. Always. He knows he cannot win on Windows in the long term.
That doesn't mean he's abandoning Windows immediately. Of course not. The money's still coming in and there's no reason to throw it away. But right here in this thread are the first trickle of "increasingly glitchy, unreliable, unstable..." that eventually will become a flood not because Valve suddenly forgot how to write code, but because the ware cannot transcend an OS that deliberately undermines it. It is just not possible . It's not Gabe that's going to take Valve on Windows away from you: it's Microsoft, who will make it work worse and worse until you uninstall it.
So the man has no choice. It's this or fold your tent and retire to your private island.
That isn't what Gabe fears at all. He has rightly identified a huge threat to his business, that is that his entire business model will become irrelevant, he is already excluded from game consoles and apple despite his constant bleating. Steam has no real value add, it is just a digital resale business and like any service business the model needs to change with the times, with everything becoming connected and all the big PLayers having their own stores what need is their for steam? Them running to another OS isn't going to help them, they need to evolve or die.
ahhhh yes brings back memories of playing my half blind dwarf gromit, he could see a distance of 1, if I wasn't in a group I wasn't able to find the other side of a room. From memory I was connecting from a VAX terminal. At the time MUD's stunned me with how powerful and complex a multi player gaming environment could be and was amazed to see so many people in the same game.
perhaps you might want to actually read the article. The chip isn't crippled, it is an X86 based chip, if you want to get one and run Linux on it you can, if you want to make the effort of porting all the android arm based stuff to it you can and AMD will probably thank you for it.
probably because the usual limiting factor with new chips isn't demand, rather manufacturing capacity. MS have probably locked up a large amount of the demand with advance orders, so promising anything to anyone else would just be bad form on their part.
unfortunately even that is not an apples to apples comparison. they used a 32 bit Linux build vs a 64 bit windows build. perhaps the differences there end up being small, but still you have to wonder about any comparison where they don't try to equalize the variables as much as possible, especially when it is known that that difference can be a factor.
You seem to be assuming valve will just abandon windows and the many hundreds of millions they make there or that somehow valve has more control over what platform a gamer plays on than the consumers and publishers funding the games. I am sure that valve will do everything to fight what at this stage looks like inevitable destruction for them, but if you think the result will be millions and millions of gamers suddenly ditch there windows gaming platform and all there libraries of games to jump into a smaller market then you are the one with the invalid argument. More likely valve will have to alter its business model and find some value add that MS can't stomp them on.
Vista had a bunch of DRM and other features that were friendly to manufacturers but bad for consumers.
In order to judge the relevance of this statement to the rest of your point, I need your answer to the following question: Which of these manufacturer-friendly features of Windows Vista were eliminated from Windows 7?
And of course the answer is none, actually they introduced more. But their were plenty of irrational articles claiming it was the anti-Christ, and plenty of the non techy crowd like the person your responding to believed all the FUD, Vista sucked, but that had more to do with poor driver support early on and the damned UAC prompted, Win 7 removed those 2 problems and suddenly everything is wonderful.
If your solo and have no qualifications so to speak, then you need your evidence of past work and probably references from happy customers you have done this for. If you don't have either of those then you are up shit creek without a paddle as why would anyone hire a freelancer without those in a market where there are plenty of skilled individuals that have the evidence to back it up and many of them willing to do the job at good prices. Not saying you are one of these, but people who "think" they know how to do what you described because they built there home network and installed their own systems and help all there friends technically are a dime a dozen, and thankfully they keep the rest of us busy and paid cleaning up the mess they leave behind.
It isn't about having a differing opinion. Just like when you yell fire in a crowded movie theatre, the video had a very predictable outcome, both of which end up being very bad for innocent victims. Both cases people have a risk of dieing for nothing more than a moronic act. I have no religious beliefs and really could not give a shit about Christianity, islam or any other cult, but common sense and decency for others beliefs and even more important their safety should take precedence over someones right to be a douchebag.
Actually I bought him an expensive bottle of wine for xmas that year :-). I like my job and what I do, but I look at it this way. If I had a choice to do anything I wanted with my time it would NOT be working here, I would rather be skiing in Europe, relaxing on a beach or riding my dirt bike in the mountains, as such it makes more sense to ensure I optimise my work time to maximise my capacity to do what I would really prefer to be doing in life. Hence how happy I am at work doesn't really factor into my work decisions, coincidentally once I start treating work as something that is irrelevant to my enjoyment of life I found work far less stressful and more enjoyable regardless of what is thrown my way.
could not agree more. You work so you can do whatever else you enjoy, if you happen to enjoy work it is a happy bonus. You may well regret later on not taking opportunities presented to you as one thing is almost certain is that your current working environment WILL change, people will move on, management will change, perhaps for the better. I had a similar problem about 10 years ago and luckily for me I had a fantastic director who I told about the opportunity, his response was "don't be a fucking moron, take the job, you owe no loyalty to me or this company, if you weren't great at what you do regardless of what everyone says about how great it is here we would dump you in a heartbeat. Work is how you pay the bills, not your life", I took the job and that old company was bought out by its main competitor around 6 months later and completely gutted while I marched on happily.
Not sure why you got marked flamebait, Even as a developer I find your comments spot on. If you are not experienced enough to know the answer to this topic then /. is not the place to be asking as you won't have the knowledge to sort the garbage from the good advise. Incidentally I would love to know the name of this new site as I think it is one I would avoid for my own safety.
when I say cost, cost is not always in financial terms (they I suppose these do have financial impacts too). processing 2048 bit encryption is more expensive processor wise than 1024 bit. Higher bit keys mean you are sacrificing performance/CPU/battery in order to utilise better security, The more SSL negotiations you require in your device/app/webpage etc the higher this cost is. if better security isn't required then that sacrifice may not be worth while in some scenarios.
because in many environments 1024 are still quite commonly used, especially in scenarios where cost of encryption for 2048 is a factor. Breaking the rare place that uses less than 1024 is probably ok, breaking the MANY that still use 1024 would have huge repercussions. while 1024 is not long enough to be considered completely secure, it is still good enough for many scenarios.
just because it is closed source doesn't mean people can't read the source. thousands of universities and government agencies and even other organisations have access to the source code for windows for development purposes, security evaluation purposes and research purposes.
An opt-in setting would mean the vast majority will not get the benefit. Basically this is the Ad companies saying we don't mind if a few people prevent us tracking them but if it becomes the norm we are going to ignore you. Well they can go fuck themselves, Sounds to me like time for government to step in and regulate them if they wish to ignore a persons right to privacy.
This is just fucked up. It should always be assumed someone wants privacy unless explicitly stated. If ad networks believe otherwise then it is time for government to step in with laws that require them to respect a users privacy by default.
The DNT setting applies to everyone, and ironically it appears MS are about the only ones that abide by it. I having DNT by default seems to me to be the intelligent choice, The default should always err on the side of a users privacy. Why the fuck are people suddenly supporting the right to be tracked??? You should require explicit permissions from the person in order to track them.
If you had any sense you would have simply taken an aspirin in the first place. Given common sense has failed at step one it isn't hard to imagine them chewing it.
No, he had surgury after he realised "oh shit my magic cures aren't working". By then the cancer had progressed to the stage that surgery was a big deal and unfortunately for him far too late.
anyone that wants enough battery life to be able to actually make phone calls when needed? My phone works as an MP3 player and FM radio as well, i still always use an external mp3 player.
Huh? Last I saw Linux (all variants) were somewhere in the 65% of web servers in operation right now.
No,65% of web SITES in operation are on Linux. There is a very significant difference as hosters are parkers are very much in the Linux space as Apache seems to run the massive hosting models better than IIS, I would guess Linux probably still has the larger server base for web servers, but that is only one fragment of the server market.