The only thing that amazed me about Infinite was...how lame it was.
I'm sorry but as a die hard Bioshock fan (I even bought the Minerva DLC on release day even though frankly Bioshock II wasn't as good story wise as 1 and the protagonist of 2 was the definition of irritating) I could not believe how bad they fucked up the core combat, it was terrible! The guns not only had the lame Halo 2 gun rule but honestly they were not only not fun to use but the muscle bound "hero" could carry less bullets than my out of shape behind! But the plasmids...err vigors, OMFG WTF were they thinking? Not only was the range so underwhelming that you might as well just shoot the bad guy but they just weren't fun to use. I ended up sticking to just two (seduction and electric) because the rest just weren't fun. And the gears were just a waste and it made it even more painfully obvious that ALL the designers wanted you to do was use the fucking hook, I mean something like 70%+ of the gears revolved around the damned hook! I could hear Jeff Goldblum doing an Ian Malcom "Uhh there is going to be shooting in your first person shooter...yes?" the whole time because it felt like the designers fell in love with the hook (that was fun for a little bit but quickly became annoying) and the forgot to do anything else. Don't get me wrong, the story was decent (with the exception of a super lame face heel turn, you know the one) but a story without a decent game to back it up just isn't very good.
So while Bioshock I and II (along with the excellent Minerva, better story than II had IMHO) will always have a place on my drive as soon as I play Burial At Sea II I'll be uninstalling Infinite, most likely never to play again. Its not as broken as F3AR was but it really wasn't enjoyable, I ended up just slogging through to get to the next story bit, strictly a 1 and done for me and considering the low sales and studio closing I can only hope the next game under new management will wrap a decent story with enjoyable gameplay again.
Working at the shop I talk to a LOT of college aged kids, know what I've found? Frankly TV is The Lawrence Welk Show, something old folks liked that the kids honestly don't understand and don't want. They are used to having the net and "shows by appointment" is just something they really "don't get" and if they can't watch a show on THEIR schedule? Then they just don't care, they really don't.
Honestly the only young folks I found with TVs were the really poor, those without net use TV as a form of cheap entertainment. Even my fiance who swore "I'm not gonna be able to stand going without TV" when she moved in has been TV free for almost a year and the USB cap card I gave her for her lappy sits unused. Once I showed her the wealth of instant entertainment? She never went back.
So the broadcasters can bribe the government all they want, like the *.A.A they can't change the fact that their model has gone the way of the 8-track. The future is crowd funding and instant gratification, the days of "tune in, same bat time, same bat channel" as as dated as Adam West's Batman.
I don't become "cranky" I become the most cold blooded vicious son of a bitch you ever met, more than happy to tell you why your very existence is a waste and the world would be better of without you in it...what do you think happened to my last long term relationship? She begged and begged me to quit..well she got her wish, she left in tears after just 3 weeks of attempting to be around me.
Thanks to nicotine my senses stay a little dulled and that is a good thing, trust me. Even my own mother, who has COPD and begged me to quit when she did? Left a carton of smokes on my doorstep after being around me for 2 weeks without. Some people get cranky, you get cranky, I become bloodthirsy, vindictive, and will happily tear you a new asshole, BIG difference.
Really? In my head I heard " we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender"
Followed of course by the first bars of Iron Maiden's "Aces High".
I'm sorry but that is EXACTLY what those of us who were beta testers for Windows 8 were told, what did we get? "Sure we hear you" (we just don't give a fuck what you have to say).
The big difference here is until Alt is up and running we can't just "stick with the old one" or "use a different one" like we did with windows 8, because frankly there ISN'T ONE, there isn't any comment heavy site like/. catering to nerds, least not that I've found. instead you get "comments by Disqus" style pages where if an article is REALLY lucky you get...drumroll...10 comments! because at the end of the day its nothing more than a press release that nobody even gives enough fucks about to say anything, just glance and move on.
You say awareness has been brought...citation please? A single article by Soulskill or Timothy don't mean jack shit, they are tier 3 at best. show me a single thing, just one, from somebody in a high position at DH and I'll take your word for it and helpfully post right beside you that the #Fuckbeta needs to stop.
But you'd better provide it quick, because I won't be here from the 10th-17th.
And you think there is gonna be ANY on-topic comments to read when they switch to a "ZOMFG look at this Vlog yo! "Comments by Disqus" layout? Really?
You have better odds of getting decent comments during "OMG Ponies!" day than you do with that trash UI. I know that after spending a couple hours trying to deal with that eyesore i just went to other tech sites and didn't bother commenting on shit since it was too much of a PITA to follow a conversation but if all you want is channers? Well you'll be in luck, as I have a feeling most of the old guard will just give their UIDs to the 4Chan just for LULZ and walk away.
As for EA? What is sad is from the mid 80s to the mid to late 90s? They were actually a good company that cared about the games they put out, but then it became this big bloated monster that only cared about how much blood they could milk out of a property. You know a company sucks when they trade places back and forth with Activision in the "this company must be run by Satan" contest.
Uhhh...you didn't actually READ my post before you ran full speed to that soapbox, did you? Gotta give you credit it WAS an epic rant. Except...I quit 3 months ago, so all the "Don't give up!" crap? Kinda pointless.
And its not being "negative" to face reality, unless you consider somebody with 2 broken legs as being "negative" when they point out they can't walk. anybody who tells you that your body "will magically heal itself" after years of abuse? Blowing smoke up the wrong end, and I don't care WHAT you were abusing, be it drugs or booze or smokes. the body is capable of fixing a lot of things but its not invulnerable and its been proven repeatedly that as little as 3 years of smoking is enough to do permanent damage that all the "you can do it!" lectures in the world won't fix.
Still props on an epic rant, I'll be sure to blow some smoke rings with this ecig in your honor. Oh and yes I know I've just switched from one to the other but without my nicotine I'm a right bastard and would rather not throw away my current relationship, thanks.
One of the other posters answered your question, I'll highlight it for you "anyone who distributes GPLv3 code *must* give the recipients a royalty free license to any patents they own that are required to be able to use that particular product."
Sorry but no legal dept with a brain is gonna agree to that, you'd be wiping out the patent portfolio by linking in any way with GCC. This is why Apple made Clang, why companies are supporting LLVM, and why Google has a strict "No GPL V3" policy in place for ChromeOS and Android.
Between that and RMS himself saying the GPL is viral and pushing for GPL libraries over LGPL has made GPL verbotten in many places that previously were fine with it. We'll see if I'm right as we should have enough evidence in the next 24 months (to give time for enough to switch to GPL V3 to make most of Linux off limits) but I predict a lot of the money being spent on Linux dev will dry right up. You'll only have the "pure FOSS" companies like RH and Debian supporting it while the rest follow Google and Apple and switch to other licenses.
Oh please do you REALLY think that is the cause of Windows infections?
I got news for ya pal, I fix the systems that get pwned 6 days a week and I can tell ya that hasn't been even a major, much less main, source of infections since 2004 or so. How do Windows systems get infected? The same way this page shows you how to infect a Linux system in just 5 steps through good old fashioned social engineering. Here are the top sources of infections I see at the shop, I see these constantly..
1.- "You want to see teh hot lesbos? Just run 'Iz_Not_Viruz_Iz_Codex' to see teh hot lesbos today!" 2.- Hi, this is your (insert name of person they know whose system has been pwned) and I found something really cool! Just click this link (which goes to a page full of drive bys) to check it out!" 3.-ZOMFG u got teh viruz! Just run 'Iz_Not_Viruz_Iz_Cleanerz' to get rid of it ZOMFG!" 4.- "You are teh winrar of our contest! Just give us all your info on this page (so we can pull an ID theft while infecting you with drivebys) so you can get your prize u lucky dog!"
These work on ANY system because they target the weakest point, THE USER. As a matter of fact I've been seeing a sharp rise in infected Android smartphones and ID thefts from that last one. It seems that folks just can't equate one system to another so all those scams that haven't worked on a PC in a decade? Work great on a smartphone. Its endless September all over again. BTW please note that in NONE of those, nor in the Linux example does the OS matter because the weak spot hasn't been the OS in ages, the easy target has been and always will be the users.
Because man is fallible? There has never been an OS that is bug free and by placing the OS in ROM not only do you insure that no bugs will EVER be patched but that any improvements that would help make things run better/faster/smoother will likewise never happen.
Oh and even if you had the OS boot from a ROM its gonna have to have core files placed in memory sooner or later so an attacker could simply patch in RAM and still take control.
She's dead Jim., Dice filling the pipe with Slashvertisements (because they thought they could get paid for Slashads AND for regular ads) has killed the revenue, they took a complete writedown on the site already. Frankly at this point all one can do is move to Alt when its ready because Dice considers/. a BRAND and by "rebranding" they think they can make it into another Digg/Gawker/Fark. Hell the comments section might as well have "powered by Disqus" for all the ripping off they did.
As for TFA, as someone who smoked for 30 years and tried everything,patch,gum, pills, the only thing that worked was the "Ego style" ecigs, the ones with the separate tank and the 510 threading. Thanks to those I've been cigarette free for going on 3 months and have gone from a 30mg to 24mg to 18mg, although I'll probably stay on 18 a couple months as I tried 11mg in a VG and couldn't tell I was smoking the thing, maybe an 80/20 PG to VG will let me drop below 18Mg.
But as TFA shows the sad thing is you WILL get COPD, doesn't matter how long ago you quit as you WILL get it if something else don't get you first. So if you are quitting do it because you don't want to be smelling like smoke or be out of breath, because if you have smoked more than a couple of years you might as well accept COPD is in your future regardless.
I'll get hate for saying this but fuck it, truth is truth and RMS burnt a LOT of bridges with GPL V3 so I wouldn't be surprised to see more devs moving from GCC to LLVM and Clang.
What RMS and his fans just seem to refuse to accept is a simple little bit of reality which is thus...this ain't 1979 anymore, no matter how many times RMS calls everyone "hackers" like he's at a computer club meting. The chips, the designs...we are talking about INSANE complexity folks, it is just not something "a couple of guys banging away in their basement" is gonna be able to do. What you have to have is dozens of highly skilled, highly trained guys working on this stuff 8-12 hours a day every day...the requires funds folks, no way you can get around that.
What does that have to do with RMS giving corps the bird with GPL V3? Simple...where do you think ALL that money was coming from? Donations by individuals? Nope that was all being paid for by corps whom RMS made clear aren't welcome round here anymore. with GPL V2 you had kind of a "wink wink" with the corps while GPL V3 has made sure that you had better be a GPLed company if you want anything to do with GPL V3 code. This is why Google has a "No GPL V3" rule with ChromeOS and Android, and I have no doubt you'll be seeing money dry up for projects like GCC, simply because companies will be afraid to touch it.
At the end of the day encouraging corps to open their code is fine, flipping them the bird if they refuse to go GPL? Not the smartest thing. We should be able to tell within the next year whether all the money is gonna go to GCC or LLVM/Clang, I personally think it'll be the latter.
This is why I've always said BC is a Ponzi scheme, it let the insiders at the top of the scheme make a ton quickly and then cash out when it became no longer profitable to mine while those getting into BC mining now will never even make back the cost of power, much less hardware.
I'm all for a new cash that lets you bypass the Fed and their scams but this is just more of the same, the only difference is who got to make the big bux.
Not meaning to Godwin but look at what Stalin's Organs did to the Nazis on the eastern front to see why it very much IS a problem.
You should really look up the Chinese "sea skimmer" missile to see what we are talking about here, but I'll try to give a rough overview...picture a missile about the length of a telephone pole and a couple of times wider going at Mach 2+ a couple feet off the water....now picture 50 of those coming from multiple directions (because the launcher can be put in a shipping crate and mounted on any old boat) and you have...ohh I'd say if you are REALLY lucky about 6 seconds to get all 50!
What makes these dangerous is the handful of countries that have the skills to make these have the funds to fire them by the dozen and it really wouldn't be hard to have a sub loaded with these so you could fire them off from pretty much anywhere.
I look forward to actual nerd topics again, hardware, CPUs, GPUs, file systems, all that good old hardware porn we USED to get before all the "ZOMG yo, gotta see this slashvertisement for our new web 3.0 vertical synergy yo!" bullshit.
Look we ALL know what happened, okay? And don't blame Tim and soulskill, they are just poor schlubs trying to save their jobs which in this economy? Can't really blame 'em. Its really simple, DICE thought they could make DOUBLE the money by selling slashvertisements AND selling ads, but all the slashvertisements were for crap nobody cared about and the ads were just sad so the old guard started laying low, quality went down, then they got more and more lax with the AC trolls to try to make the thread counts look like/. before they bought it and it went straight down the shitter.
I've already told the altslash guys I'll be happy to clean up the spammers, deal with the crap, if that is what it takes to get a site where geeks can talk about geek stuff without having the "yo be sure to like my vertical empowerment on FB yo!" bullshit? old hairy will be happy to bust ass for free.
Exactly. I mean why would I give a shit about the stories, i get the same from a dozen more sites and often with a hell of a lot more depth. One doesn't come here for the stories, one comes here for the insiders and the arguments!
I mean where else could we have had a 200 post argument over file systems? Where a guy like me could say "I'm having trouble wrapping my head around a part of string theory" and have a guy from CERN actually break it down for me? Before Dice bought it and started filling the thing with Slashvertisements we'd have epic arguments and even if you didn't agree with somebody you LEARNED from the experience.
Beta is just another Digg/Fark/Gawker, where you read the article then get the hell off so that fugly Disqus comment system doesn't trash your eyeballs...well if I wanted that, why would I come here instead of Digg/Fark/Gawker? What benefit does it offer me over those? none that I can see because if anything beta is even worse than those as it takes the broken modding system and bolts it into a Disqus framework...eeew.
Look up "Dice Holding Slashdot writedown" and you'll find your answer. Dice thought they could load the place with Slashvertisements, make money off the articles AND the ads, and instead put the site into a nosedive so bad its now totally unprofitable, so much so they took a massive writedown on it.
So what does that have to do with the beta fucking? Simple Dice Holdings believes that Slashdot as a NAME could be worth something but not as a site so they are just gonna take a Gawker style layout (hell they might as well even have "powered by Disqus" at the top of the comment section, its such a ripoff) and simply bolt on the Slashdot name, simple as that.
Will the Slashcott work? No, even though I will be participating on GP the fact is they don't want the USERS, they want the BRAND. Like most retarded corps they don't know what has value, they think that just having the name Slashdot is the value when in reality nobody gave a shit what it was called, they came for all the insider comments and those will all be going to Alt (or whatever they call it) but again this doesn't matter to Dice as they think they can make another Fark with the Slashdot name.
Will it work? Possibly, they can get in the 20 somethings that vaguely remember the/. name and actually like the "ZOMFG look at my Vlog bro!" layout but I seriously doubt it'll get them what they originally wanted, which was a way to get paid for Slashvertisements while getting paid for ads too. most likely it will linger and falter before finally going the way of geocities, just another place from "back in the day" that was bought and trashed by a corp that didn't know WTF made the place what it was.
Simple they want to make "the brand" into another Gawker and if they have to run of everybody who has been here before? So be it. Look at how few of the sub 7 digit UIDs are left, look at how they let the Anon Cowards spam and troll with zero moderation, they don't give a fuck because they plan to turn the brand into something else and they know that means burning the users they have now.
So put me down for the Slashcott and I'll be happy to contribute to any AltDot that somebody wants to fork the code and set up. If I wanted Gawker I'd go to fucking Gawker so they can take beta and shove it.
Uhhh...in cased you missed the memo they have already said THERE IS NO ESCAPE as they will be pulling the plug on Classic, so you will get nothing but "ZOMFG Ponies Web 3.0 look at my Vlog Yo!" within less than a month.
As for TFA? Its NK so I doubt there are enough PCs out there to even worry about this one way or another, because if its one thing we have learned about these "cult of personality" countries its when they do finally collapse its like a time capsule.
Uhhh...you never actually worked helpdesk, have you? Or even dealt with them for any length of time? Let old Hairy clue you in, helpdesk guys usually don't know a damned thing that isn't written on a little sheet sitting in front of them and "pulling stuff out of their ass" is pretty much SOP. Hell when I used to have to deal with the Hughesnet helpdesk for several rural customers I HAD TO TEACH THEM because they didn't know the basics of how their equipment worked! I don't know how many times I got "I didn't know you could do that, we are recording so would you please walk me through it step by step so I'll have it when a customer has that problem?" from the Hughes guys and this was tier one! Tier 3 had one answer and that was "reboot" LOL.
So while i don't know if Verizon is fucking Netflix and it wouldn't surprise me if they were you REALLY can't go by the word of a helpdesk guy because they know less than nothing in most places.
Sigh, then I'll try to explain it very simply since you seem to have trouble following, mmmkay? Steve Jobs touted HTML V5 with H.26X (which he and Ballmer got together to push over webM, Dirac, Theora, or anything else you could have without patent trolling) as a suitable replacement for flash and IT SUCKS ASSHOLES, okay? It does NOT do the same jobs that Flash did, especially web animation and gaming (or pretty much any interactive content more complex than what JavaScript was doing half a decade ago) it sucks MORE CPU and RAM for the same content compared to Flash with VP6 (probably why Google bought On2) and more bandwidth as well, in every single metric it is WORSE than what we had before!
What has HTML V5 given us? It has given us a billion proprietary apps to allow the same content that before could have been accessed by any browser with Flash, it has given us a "standard" that is being pretty much controlled by Cupertino and Redmond who are pushing for DRM and other nasty shit that won't work on any platform but theirs, and it has given us websites that run like absolute shit on anything but the latest and greatest CPUs...sorry but that is NOT progress, that is a step back to the 90s and the likes of RMV and WMA and it sucks.
Don't forget that because of the VistaBomb that XP was sold on laptops and netbooks as late as 2009 and needless to say many of those folks don't want to shell out $100+ just to fix MSFT's fuckup. Frankly I think everybody that bought a system with XP after the Vistabomb should be given a free copy of Win 7 Starter or Home as a Mea Culpa but I can't say as i blame 'em as for basic net surfing those netbooks and laptops still work just fine and shelling out $100 just because MSFT couldn't make Vista not suck isn't very nice.
Have you ever compare the two? Calling HTML V5 a "replacement" is like saying "Hey this Pentium D is a replacement for your i3 as they are both dual cores, right?". HTML V5 is a PIG, full stop. Its such a pig they have to resort to tricks like hardware acceleration to try to cover up how big a pig it actually is, try turning HA off and see what the difference is. You can watch DVD quality, even most 720p content on pretty much any PC made in the last decade using Flash and VP6 (which is probably what made Google buy On2) but in HTML V5 and H.26x? Its a slideshow on anything less than a C2D without a graphics card taking up the slack.
So I appeal to all the web devs out there...web devs, don't buy Steve Jobs bullshit, quit dreaming about "iPad money" and stand up for the web! Refuse to code in HTML V5 and demand a replacement for Flash that 1.- Works with equal to or lesser than the resopurces Flash would take for the same content, 2.- Supports the same content Flash does INCLUDING web games and animation and 3.- Can do it all without needing HA is a crutch so that ALL can use it without having to replace their gear. What we have now obviously doesn't work (well for anybody but Apple who are making mad bank on the crappstore) and is requiring more and more to put out their own "apps" to deliver the same content they did before in a simple Flash because guess what? HTML V5 simply don't do shit compared to what flash does so if you want the same features? Gotta go with a proprietary app. Its a mess but if we don't get the web devs to stop supporting this trainwreck its gonna make the late 90s and all those proprietary players look like good times, because you are gonna end up needing dozens of "apps" just to surf the damned web with a fricking tablet!
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The only thing that amazed me about Infinite was...how lame it was.
I'm sorry but as a die hard Bioshock fan (I even bought the Minerva DLC on release day even though frankly Bioshock II wasn't as good story wise as 1 and the protagonist of 2 was the definition of irritating) I could not believe how bad they fucked up the core combat, it was terrible! The guns not only had the lame Halo 2 gun rule but honestly they were not only not fun to use but the muscle bound "hero" could carry less bullets than my out of shape behind! But the plasmids...err vigors, OMFG WTF were they thinking? Not only was the range so underwhelming that you might as well just shoot the bad guy but they just weren't fun to use. I ended up sticking to just two (seduction and electric) because the rest just weren't fun. And the gears were just a waste and it made it even more painfully obvious that ALL the designers wanted you to do was use the fucking hook, I mean something like 70%+ of the gears revolved around the damned hook! I could hear Jeff Goldblum doing an Ian Malcom "Uhh there is going to be shooting in your first person shooter...yes?" the whole time because it felt like the designers fell in love with the hook (that was fun for a little bit but quickly became annoying) and the forgot to do anything else. Don't get me wrong, the story was decent (with the exception of a super lame face heel turn, you know the one) but a story without a decent game to back it up just isn't very good.
So while Bioshock I and II (along with the excellent Minerva, better story than II had IMHO) will always have a place on my drive as soon as I play Burial At Sea II I'll be uninstalling Infinite, most likely never to play again. Its not as broken as F3AR was but it really wasn't enjoyable, I ended up just slogging through to get to the next story bit, strictly a 1 and done for me and considering the low sales and studio closing I can only hope the next game under new management will wrap a decent story with enjoyable gameplay again.
Working at the shop I talk to a LOT of college aged kids, know what I've found? Frankly TV is The Lawrence Welk Show, something old folks liked that the kids honestly don't understand and don't want. They are used to having the net and "shows by appointment" is just something they really "don't get" and if they can't watch a show on THEIR schedule? Then they just don't care, they really don't.
Honestly the only young folks I found with TVs were the really poor, those without net use TV as a form of cheap entertainment. Even my fiance who swore "I'm not gonna be able to stand going without TV" when she moved in has been TV free for almost a year and the USB cap card I gave her for her lappy sits unused. Once I showed her the wealth of instant entertainment? She never went back.
So the broadcasters can bribe the government all they want, like the *.A.A they can't change the fact that their model has gone the way of the 8-track. The future is crowd funding and instant gratification, the days of "tune in, same bat time, same bat channel" as as dated as Adam West's Batman.
I don't become "cranky" I become the most cold blooded vicious son of a bitch you ever met, more than happy to tell you why your very existence is a waste and the world would be better of without you in it...what do you think happened to my last long term relationship? She begged and begged me to quit..well she got her wish, she left in tears after just 3 weeks of attempting to be around me.
Thanks to nicotine my senses stay a little dulled and that is a good thing, trust me. Even my own mother, who has COPD and begged me to quit when she did? Left a carton of smokes on my doorstep after being around me for 2 weeks without. Some people get cranky, you get cranky, I become bloodthirsy, vindictive, and will happily tear you a new asshole, BIG difference.
Really? In my head I heard " we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender"
Followed of course by the first bars of Iron Maiden's "Aces High".
So you want to take away the users right to control their PC? We already have those, its called an iPhone..
I'm sorry but that is EXACTLY what those of us who were beta testers for Windows 8 were told, what did we get? "Sure we hear you" (we just don't give a fuck what you have to say).
The big difference here is until Alt is up and running we can't just "stick with the old one" or "use a different one" like we did with windows 8, because frankly there ISN'T ONE, there isn't any comment heavy site like /. catering to nerds, least not that I've found. instead you get "comments by Disqus" style pages where if an article is REALLY lucky you get...drumroll...10 comments! because at the end of the day its nothing more than a press release that nobody even gives enough fucks about to say anything, just glance and move on.
You say awareness has been brought...citation please? A single article by Soulskill or Timothy don't mean jack shit, they are tier 3 at best. show me a single thing, just one, from somebody in a high position at DH and I'll take your word for it and helpfully post right beside you that the #Fuckbeta needs to stop.
But you'd better provide it quick, because I won't be here from the 10th-17th.
And you think there is gonna be ANY on-topic comments to read when they switch to a "ZOMFG look at this Vlog yo! "Comments by Disqus" layout? Really?
You have better odds of getting decent comments during "OMG Ponies!" day than you do with that trash UI. I know that after spending a couple hours trying to deal with that eyesore i just went to other tech sites and didn't bother commenting on shit since it was too much of a PITA to follow a conversation but if all you want is channers? Well you'll be in luck, as I have a feeling most of the old guard will just give their UIDs to the 4Chan just for LULZ and walk away.
As for EA? What is sad is from the mid 80s to the mid to late 90s? They were actually a good company that cared about the games they put out, but then it became this big bloated monster that only cared about how much blood they could milk out of a property. You know a company sucks when they trade places back and forth with Activision in the "this company must be run by Satan" contest.
Uhhh...you didn't actually READ my post before you ran full speed to that soapbox, did you? Gotta give you credit it WAS an epic rant. Except...I quit 3 months ago, so all the "Don't give up!" crap? Kinda pointless.
And its not being "negative" to face reality, unless you consider somebody with 2 broken legs as being "negative" when they point out they can't walk. anybody who tells you that your body "will magically heal itself" after years of abuse? Blowing smoke up the wrong end, and I don't care WHAT you were abusing, be it drugs or booze or smokes. the body is capable of fixing a lot of things but its not invulnerable and its been proven repeatedly that as little as 3 years of smoking is enough to do permanent damage that all the "you can do it!" lectures in the world won't fix.
Still props on an epic rant, I'll be sure to blow some smoke rings with this ecig in your honor. Oh and yes I know I've just switched from one to the other but without my nicotine I'm a right bastard and would rather not throw away my current relationship, thanks.
One of the other posters answered your question, I'll highlight it for you "anyone who distributes GPLv3 code *must* give the recipients a royalty free license to any patents they own that are required to be able to use that particular product."
Sorry but no legal dept with a brain is gonna agree to that, you'd be wiping out the patent portfolio by linking in any way with GCC. This is why Apple made Clang, why companies are supporting LLVM, and why Google has a strict "No GPL V3" policy in place for ChromeOS and Android.
Between that and RMS himself saying the GPL is viral and pushing for GPL libraries over LGPL has made GPL verbotten in many places that previously were fine with it. We'll see if I'm right as we should have enough evidence in the next 24 months (to give time for enough to switch to GPL V3 to make most of Linux off limits) but I predict a lot of the money being spent on Linux dev will dry right up. You'll only have the "pure FOSS" companies like RH and Debian supporting it while the rest follow Google and Apple and switch to other licenses.
Oh please do you REALLY think that is the cause of Windows infections?
I got news for ya pal, I fix the systems that get pwned 6 days a week and I can tell ya that hasn't been even a major, much less main, source of infections since 2004 or so. How do Windows systems get infected? The same way this page shows you how to infect a Linux system in just 5 steps through good old fashioned social engineering. Here are the top sources of infections I see at the shop, I see these constantly..
1.- "You want to see teh hot lesbos? Just run 'Iz_Not_Viruz_Iz_Codex' to see teh hot lesbos today!" 2.- Hi, this is your (insert name of person they know whose system has been pwned) and I found something really cool! Just click this link (which goes to a page full of drive bys) to check it out!" 3.-ZOMFG u got teh viruz! Just run 'Iz_Not_Viruz_Iz_Cleanerz' to get rid of it ZOMFG!" 4.- "You are teh winrar of our contest! Just give us all your info on this page (so we can pull an ID theft while infecting you with drivebys) so you can get your prize u lucky dog!"
These work on ANY system because they target the weakest point, THE USER. As a matter of fact I've been seeing a sharp rise in infected Android smartphones and ID thefts from that last one. It seems that folks just can't equate one system to another so all those scams that haven't worked on a PC in a decade? Work great on a smartphone. Its endless September all over again. BTW please note that in NONE of those, nor in the Linux example does the OS matter because the weak spot hasn't been the OS in ages, the easy target has been and always will be the users.
Because man is fallible? There has never been an OS that is bug free and by placing the OS in ROM not only do you insure that no bugs will EVER be patched but that any improvements that would help make things run better/faster/smoother will likewise never happen.
Oh and even if you had the OS boot from a ROM its gonna have to have core files placed in memory sooner or later so an attacker could simply patch in RAM and still take control.
So does sugar and fat, since YOUR eating might hurt MY wallet when you can't afford healthcare so from now on you will ONLY eat what we approve of.
Its for your own good citizen.
She's dead Jim., Dice filling the pipe with Slashvertisements (because they thought they could get paid for Slashads AND for regular ads) has killed the revenue, they took a complete writedown on the site already. Frankly at this point all one can do is move to Alt when its ready because Dice considers /. a BRAND and by "rebranding" they think they can make it into another Digg/Gawker/Fark. Hell the comments section might as well have "powered by Disqus" for all the ripping off they did.
As for TFA, as someone who smoked for 30 years and tried everything,patch,gum, pills, the only thing that worked was the "Ego style" ecigs, the ones with the separate tank and the 510 threading. Thanks to those I've been cigarette free for going on 3 months and have gone from a 30mg to 24mg to 18mg, although I'll probably stay on 18 a couple months as I tried 11mg in a VG and couldn't tell I was smoking the thing, maybe an 80/20 PG to VG will let me drop below 18Mg.
But as TFA shows the sad thing is you WILL get COPD, doesn't matter how long ago you quit as you WILL get it if something else don't get you first. So if you are quitting do it because you don't want to be smelling like smoke or be out of breath, because if you have smoked more than a couple of years you might as well accept COPD is in your future regardless.
I'll get hate for saying this but fuck it, truth is truth and RMS burnt a LOT of bridges with GPL V3 so I wouldn't be surprised to see more devs moving from GCC to LLVM and Clang.
What RMS and his fans just seem to refuse to accept is a simple little bit of reality which is thus...this ain't 1979 anymore, no matter how many times RMS calls everyone "hackers" like he's at a computer club meting. The chips, the designs...we are talking about INSANE complexity folks, it is just not something "a couple of guys banging away in their basement" is gonna be able to do. What you have to have is dozens of highly skilled, highly trained guys working on this stuff 8-12 hours a day every day...the requires funds folks, no way you can get around that.
What does that have to do with RMS giving corps the bird with GPL V3? Simple...where do you think ALL that money was coming from? Donations by individuals? Nope that was all being paid for by corps whom RMS made clear aren't welcome round here anymore. with GPL V2 you had kind of a "wink wink" with the corps while GPL V3 has made sure that you had better be a GPLed company if you want anything to do with GPL V3 code. This is why Google has a "No GPL V3" rule with ChromeOS and Android, and I have no doubt you'll be seeing money dry up for projects like GCC, simply because companies will be afraid to touch it.
At the end of the day encouraging corps to open their code is fine, flipping them the bird if they refuse to go GPL? Not the smartest thing. We should be able to tell within the next year whether all the money is gonna go to GCC or LLVM/Clang, I personally think it'll be the latter.
This is why I've always said BC is a Ponzi scheme, it let the insiders at the top of the scheme make a ton quickly and then cash out when it became no longer profitable to mine while those getting into BC mining now will never even make back the cost of power, much less hardware.
I'm all for a new cash that lets you bypass the Fed and their scams but this is just more of the same, the only difference is who got to make the big bux.
Not meaning to Godwin but look at what Stalin's Organs did to the Nazis on the eastern front to see why it very much IS a problem.
You should really look up the Chinese "sea skimmer" missile to see what we are talking about here, but I'll try to give a rough overview...picture a missile about the length of a telephone pole and a couple of times wider going at Mach 2+ a couple feet off the water....now picture 50 of those coming from multiple directions (because the launcher can be put in a shipping crate and mounted on any old boat) and you have...ohh I'd say if you are REALLY lucky about 6 seconds to get all 50!
What makes these dangerous is the handful of countries that have the skills to make these have the funds to fire them by the dozen and it really wouldn't be hard to have a sub loaded with these so you could fire them off from pretty much anywhere.
I look forward to actual nerd topics again, hardware, CPUs, GPUs, file systems, all that good old hardware porn we USED to get before all the "ZOMG yo, gotta see this slashvertisement for our new web 3.0 vertical synergy yo!" bullshit.
Look we ALL know what happened, okay? And don't blame Tim and soulskill, they are just poor schlubs trying to save their jobs which in this economy? Can't really blame 'em. Its really simple, DICE thought they could make DOUBLE the money by selling slashvertisements AND selling ads, but all the slashvertisements were for crap nobody cared about and the ads were just sad so the old guard started laying low, quality went down, then they got more and more lax with the AC trolls to try to make the thread counts look like /. before they bought it and it went straight down the shitter.
I've already told the altslash guys I'll be happy to clean up the spammers, deal with the crap, if that is what it takes to get a site where geeks can talk about geek stuff without having the "yo be sure to like my vertical empowerment on FB yo!" bullshit? old hairy will be happy to bust ass for free.
Exactly. I mean why would I give a shit about the stories, i get the same from a dozen more sites and often with a hell of a lot more depth. One doesn't come here for the stories, one comes here for the insiders and the arguments!
I mean where else could we have had a 200 post argument over file systems? Where a guy like me could say "I'm having trouble wrapping my head around a part of string theory" and have a guy from CERN actually break it down for me? Before Dice bought it and started filling the thing with Slashvertisements we'd have epic arguments and even if you didn't agree with somebody you LEARNED from the experience.
Beta is just another Digg/Fark/Gawker, where you read the article then get the hell off so that fugly Disqus comment system doesn't trash your eyeballs...well if I wanted that, why would I come here instead of Digg/Fark/Gawker? What benefit does it offer me over those? none that I can see because if anything beta is even worse than those as it takes the broken modding system and bolts it into a Disqus framework...eeew.
Look up "Dice Holding Slashdot writedown" and you'll find your answer. Dice thought they could load the place with Slashvertisements, make money off the articles AND the ads, and instead put the site into a nosedive so bad its now totally unprofitable, so much so they took a massive writedown on it.
So what does that have to do with the beta fucking? Simple Dice Holdings believes that Slashdot as a NAME could be worth something but not as a site so they are just gonna take a Gawker style layout (hell they might as well even have "powered by Disqus" at the top of the comment section, its such a ripoff) and simply bolt on the Slashdot name, simple as that.
Will the Slashcott work? No, even though I will be participating on GP the fact is they don't want the USERS, they want the BRAND. Like most retarded corps they don't know what has value, they think that just having the name Slashdot is the value when in reality nobody gave a shit what it was called, they came for all the insider comments and those will all be going to Alt (or whatever they call it) but again this doesn't matter to Dice as they think they can make another Fark with the Slashdot name.
Will it work? Possibly, they can get in the 20 somethings that vaguely remember the /. name and actually like the "ZOMFG look at my Vlog bro!" layout but I seriously doubt it'll get them what they originally wanted, which was a way to get paid for Slashvertisements while getting paid for ads too. most likely it will linger and falter before finally going the way of geocities, just another place from "back in the day" that was bought and trashed by a corp that didn't know WTF made the place what it was.
Simple they want to make "the brand" into another Gawker and if they have to run of everybody who has been here before? So be it. Look at how few of the sub 7 digit UIDs are left, look at how they let the Anon Cowards spam and troll with zero moderation, they don't give a fuck because they plan to turn the brand into something else and they know that means burning the users they have now.
So put me down for the Slashcott and I'll be happy to contribute to any AltDot that somebody wants to fork the code and set up. If I wanted Gawker I'd go to fucking Gawker so they can take beta and shove it.
Uhhh...in cased you missed the memo they have already said THERE IS NO ESCAPE as they will be pulling the plug on Classic, so you will get nothing but "ZOMFG Ponies Web 3.0 look at my Vlog Yo!" within less than a month.
As for TFA? Its NK so I doubt there are enough PCs out there to even worry about this one way or another, because if its one thing we have learned about these "cult of personality" countries its when they do finally collapse its like a time capsule.
Uhhh...you never actually worked helpdesk, have you? Or even dealt with them for any length of time? Let old Hairy clue you in, helpdesk guys usually don't know a damned thing that isn't written on a little sheet sitting in front of them and "pulling stuff out of their ass" is pretty much SOP. Hell when I used to have to deal with the Hughesnet helpdesk for several rural customers I HAD TO TEACH THEM because they didn't know the basics of how their equipment worked! I don't know how many times I got "I didn't know you could do that, we are recording so would you please walk me through it step by step so I'll have it when a customer has that problem?" from the Hughes guys and this was tier one! Tier 3 had one answer and that was "reboot" LOL.
So while i don't know if Verizon is fucking Netflix and it wouldn't surprise me if they were you REALLY can't go by the word of a helpdesk guy because they know less than nothing in most places.
Sigh, then I'll try to explain it very simply since you seem to have trouble following, mmmkay? Steve Jobs touted HTML V5 with H.26X (which he and Ballmer got together to push over webM, Dirac, Theora, or anything else you could have without patent trolling) as a suitable replacement for flash and IT SUCKS ASSHOLES, okay? It does NOT do the same jobs that Flash did, especially web animation and gaming (or pretty much any interactive content more complex than what JavaScript was doing half a decade ago) it sucks MORE CPU and RAM for the same content compared to Flash with VP6 (probably why Google bought On2) and more bandwidth as well, in every single metric it is WORSE than what we had before!
What has HTML V5 given us? It has given us a billion proprietary apps to allow the same content that before could have been accessed by any browser with Flash, it has given us a "standard" that is being pretty much controlled by Cupertino and Redmond who are pushing for DRM and other nasty shit that won't work on any platform but theirs, and it has given us websites that run like absolute shit on anything but the latest and greatest CPUs...sorry but that is NOT progress, that is a step back to the 90s and the likes of RMV and WMA and it sucks.
Don't forget that because of the VistaBomb that XP was sold on laptops and netbooks as late as 2009 and needless to say many of those folks don't want to shell out $100+ just to fix MSFT's fuckup. Frankly I think everybody that bought a system with XP after the Vistabomb should be given a free copy of Win 7 Starter or Home as a Mea Culpa but I can't say as i blame 'em as for basic net surfing those netbooks and laptops still work just fine and shelling out $100 just because MSFT couldn't make Vista not suck isn't very nice.
Have you ever compare the two? Calling HTML V5 a "replacement" is like saying "Hey this Pentium D is a replacement for your i3 as they are both dual cores, right?". HTML V5 is a PIG, full stop. Its such a pig they have to resort to tricks like hardware acceleration to try to cover up how big a pig it actually is, try turning HA off and see what the difference is. You can watch DVD quality, even most 720p content on pretty much any PC made in the last decade using Flash and VP6 (which is probably what made Google buy On2) but in HTML V5 and H.26x? Its a slideshow on anything less than a C2D without a graphics card taking up the slack.
So I appeal to all the web devs out there...web devs, don't buy Steve Jobs bullshit, quit dreaming about "iPad money" and stand up for the web! Refuse to code in HTML V5 and demand a replacement for Flash that 1.- Works with equal to or lesser than the resopurces Flash would take for the same content, 2.- Supports the same content Flash does INCLUDING web games and animation and 3.- Can do it all without needing HA is a crutch so that ALL can use it without having to replace their gear. What we have now obviously doesn't work (well for anybody but Apple who are making mad bank on the crappstore) and is requiring more and more to put out their own "apps" to deliver the same content they did before in a simple Flash because guess what? HTML V5 simply don't do shit compared to what flash does so if you want the same features? Gotta go with a proprietary app. Its a mess but if we don't get the web devs to stop supporting this trainwreck its gonna make the late 90s and all those proprietary players look like good times, because you are gonna end up needing dozens of "apps" just to surf the damned web with a fricking tablet!