Honestly, I have never lost data with Reiser4 and I have a toddler who loves pushing power buttons. However every single time I have tried ext3 or ext4 I have lost data. And I've lost data within weeks with ext3 and ext4.
Reiser4 recovers "dirty" shutdowns better than ext3.
I had one time when I had a dirty shutdown, and e2fsck decided to wipe my/etc directory and put all the files in lost+found.
TiVo did release source code to any GPLed software stack they used, yet people were upset that TiVo was trying to prevent hackers from not paying for TiVo service. Stallman presented this is a new breed of evil that needed to be addressed and added hardware stipulations to the GPLv3 that were really unneeded.
If it was just a matter of releasing the source and honoring the GPLv2, there would be no need to write a new one, just enforce the existing license.
With the GPLv3, hardware manufacturers are going to be less willing to include OSS. How is that a positive move? Again, Stallman in the name of freedom removed choice, antagonized people, added restrictions, and tarnished the public image of OSS. For every step forward, he provides two backwards.
As someone who played SF2 religiously as a kid, I grew up and never played many of the later iterations of the series, nor have I watched all the Japanese anime series. Many of the characters I keep hearing about, I know nothing about.
Is there a good source to read up on the apparent Street Fighter canon?
Exactly. I can use ext3 in Windows, but only if I mount ext3 with the right options. For instance, when I installed openSUSE 11 on my dual-boot box, I decided to use writeback for journaling, and now none of the ext3 options for Windows can mount that drive. ntfs in Linux is painfully slow, even with ntfs-3g.
I'm looking to build my next box with 4 x 1.5TB drives and I'm debating how to partition and format it for a dual-boot Windows/Linux setup. Do I keep most of shared media (I'm going to rip my entire DVD collection, not to mentiom my emulator/rom collection, e-books, MP3's, etc) on NTFS or EXT3?
Hans was a jerk who has difficult to work with, and now he is a convicted murderer. That doesn't change the fact that Reiser4 as is may be the best desktop file system for Linux users, even with plenty of room for improvement.
There are filesystems in development like Btrfs and Tux3 that look promising, but why should Reiser4 be abandoned? It is GPL. Anyone can pick it up and maintain it, or fork it.
Does anyone know anything about the future of Reiser4?
Stallman attacking Chrome for being too proprietary, saying Gmail and cloud computing is worse than stupidity because it is a trap by Google to lock you into a proprietary trap, him attacking them for violating your privacy and keeping your data, Google not always using licenses he approves, not opening enough software, etc.
Everytime there is a positive OSS story it seems Stallman is lurking around the corner to explain why it isn't good enough and why companies we should be praising are evil. Mozilla includes a proprietary talkback extension! How dare they!
He misses the forest for the trees. We should commend companies that embrace OSS, and encourage more of it. But every major corporation I've worked at is terrified of the GPL because of the hullabaloo that he creates. We use Linux and OSS in a few place, but we are always reticent to include OSS.
I love the ideology of OSS. However as a proponent of freedom and choice, I do not believe freedom is best served by an ever-growing number of restrictions. Stallman preaches a "my way only" strict dichotomy where there is no freedom or choice. Only the licenses he approves (which he can change when he feels like it) or else.
Stallman spends most of his time criticizing people for good deeds. If Microsoft opens more documentation, standards and protocols, he blasts them for it. If Google opens up a bunch of their code, he blasts them for it. Over and over again.
How is Stallman helping anymore? Starting GNU was a huge contribution, but these days Stallman does far more harm than good.
The intel open source drivers don't even come close and both open source and closed source ATI drivers are a joke.
Is that why KDE 4 absolutely flies on an ancient box with a weak on-board Intel GPU, and crawls with a top-end CPU and top-end Nvidia GPU? Admittedly, xrender performance just increased in the Nvidia driver release, but Nvidia refuses to address a number of problems with their drivers.
ATI's drivers are really getting better and better all the time since AMD bought them out.
And I'd like to see a source that ATI's cards and drivers don't support the full OpenGL spec.
In fact I'm pretty sure I've seen your entire list in recent ATI drivers. When was the last time you checked them out?
Let's assume that Nvidia completely opened their driver tommorrow and broke NDAs and third-party licenses to do so.
Stallman would still complain that Firefox allows proprietary extensions.
Stallman would still complain that Google supports proprietary software too much.
Stallman would still complain that patents exist. (He may have a good point here).
Stallman would still complain that some drivers in the kernel contain proprietary firmware.
Stallman would still complain that Ubuntu doesn't use all free artwork.
Stallman would still complain that we use proprietary BIOS on our motherboard.
Stallman would still complain that companies are using GPL software to turn a profit and not enabling their customers to not pay them (ala Tivo).
Remember kiddies, true freedom is only achieved through constant vigilance and annoyance, and an ever-increasing strict list of restrictions that remove choice.
(Yes, I'm prepared to burn karma for the inevitable flame/troll mods, but search your feelings Skywalker, you know these words to be true.)
Other than die-hard believers here on Slashdot, to the rest of the world, what percentage of the population cares of their software gets the Stallman stamp of approval, and what percentage just wants their software to work?
Now I understand that having OSS drivers helps the kernel devs troubleshoot those drivers, and keep them up to date with constantly changing ABIs/APIs. I prefer free software, but I won't be a zealot about it. I am quite comfortable with proprietary software if it is the best solution for my need.
I didn't hear numbers of GTA IV, but I remember when GTA:SA came out, they said the budget to produce GTA:SA was 85 million dollars. Then they had lawsuits and legal troubles added on to that. Yet you think them charging the standard industry price is not an honest price?
Lets assume inflation wasn't a factor and GTA:IV also cost 85 million, as opposed to costing increasingly more as each title they've done has. If the retail cost is $19.95, how much money is Rockstar getting for the sale of that game, and how many copies do they have to sell before they break even?
One could contend you get far more content and bang for your buck in a GTA game than you do with most other games. I'd be pissed if I bought a platformer/FPS title with no replay value that I beat in less than 10 hours. But plenty of people get 200+ hrs out of a GTA game.
I'd bitch about other games not offering honest pricing when they provide hardly any content, but GTA? Get real.
Not really. In the 80's games like Starflight came with code wheels, but people would have floppy copy parties, because no one used software based DRM really.
I won't justify piracy on the whole because I am not entitled to free content automagically. However there are plenty of people who use piracy in lieu of a demo. It could very well be that World of Goo has a supposed high piracy rate because everyone was recommending it to others, and it was easy to pirate and check out. Some of those people may have initially pirated the game to check it out and then later purchased it.
So let's say they have 1000 customers who bought the game, but they have supposedly tracked 9000 other customers who downloaded it illegally. If those 1000 customers downloaded it illegally first and then bought it, the actual rate of piracy is lower, not to mention many of those people probably would never have seen, or purchased the game had they not had a pirate/demo copy earlier.
I never once heard of that game until I heard the piracy numbers. I'm half temped to download it myself not to check it out.
This is what gets me, is that no one attempts to sprearhead and channel all the users and traffic here.
What if CmdrTaco made a post on the front page tomorrow asking every visitor to Slashdot to send EA a message that they will refuse to purchase any game with DRM. One email won't do it. 100 emails won't do it. But a few thousand emails in a single day is hard to ignore. How many people visit Slashdot in a day? Is a few thousand emails unreasonable for a coordinated effort from the Slashdot community on an issue we all largely seem to agree on?
And perhaps another day CmdrTaco posts a request asking everyone to email Nvidia about their Linux drivers.
Seriously, right now we're an unorganized group of people bitching to each other about issues we agree on as opposed to an organized group expressing our opinion to the appropriate parties.
Ultima V was my favorite because of how they showed the exact same virtues can be twisted when taken to extremes. The other virtue systems (Gargoyles, Guardians, Fellowship) provided interesting contrast as well.
Bioware has repeatedly had contests where they've asked the community to open up the NWN toolset, write some dialogue and send it to them. The proof is in the pudding.
And it should be noted that writing typical fiction or exposition is different from writing threaded dialogue in a game, hence that is why they ask people to submit basic mods made in their toolset.
BTW, as an America, when I went over to England my family took me to Burger King right away. The menu was completely different, and many terms seemed foreign (dip pots?) but I could immediately discern what everything meant. There are idiosyncrasies in English between the States and England, but people should be able to figure them out. It is after all, the same language.
A Big Mac is a Big Mac, a specific burger. And they weren't asking you the size of the sandwich. McDonalds meals have SIZES FOR THE MEALS which dictate the size of fries and drink. You didn't understand the question being asked you, and in turn you assume all Americans are stupid.
For shame, I routinely enjoy your posts and consider you an intelligent poster here.
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Monopoly isn't all about market share. It is about anti-competitive practices.
Honestly, I have never lost data with Reiser4 and I have a toddler who loves pushing power buttons. However every single time I have tried ext3 or ext4 I have lost data. And I've lost data within weeks with ext3 and ext4.
Reiser4 recovers "dirty" shutdowns better than ext3.
I had one time when I had a dirty shutdown, and e2fsck decided to wipe my /etc directory and put all the files in lost+found.
One of my laws is that a geeks social aptitude is most often inversely tied to their technical prowess.
TiVo did release source code to any GPLed software stack they used, yet people were upset that TiVo was trying to prevent hackers from not paying for TiVo service. Stallman presented this is a new breed of evil that needed to be addressed and added hardware stipulations to the GPLv3 that were really unneeded.
If it was just a matter of releasing the source and honoring the GPLv2, there would be no need to write a new one, just enforce the existing license.
With the GPLv3, hardware manufacturers are going to be less willing to include OSS. How is that a positive move? Again, Stallman in the name of freedom removed choice, antagonized people, added restrictions, and tarnished the public image of OSS. For every step forward, he provides two backwards.
As someone who played SF2 religiously as a kid, I grew up and never played many of the later iterations of the series, nor have I watched all the Japanese anime series. Many of the characters I keep hearing about, I know nothing about.
Is there a good source to read up on the apparent Street Fighter canon?
Exactly. I can use ext3 in Windows, but only if I mount ext3 with the right options. For instance, when I installed openSUSE 11 on my dual-boot box, I decided to use writeback for journaling, and now none of the ext3 options for Windows can mount that drive. ntfs in Linux is painfully slow, even with ntfs-3g.
I'm looking to build my next box with 4 x 1.5TB drives and I'm debating how to partition and format it for a dual-boot Windows/Linux setup. Do I keep most of shared media (I'm going to rip my entire DVD collection, not to mentiom my emulator/rom collection, e-books, MP3's, etc) on NTFS or EXT3?
Hans was a jerk who has difficult to work with, and now he is a convicted murderer. That doesn't change the fact that Reiser4 as is may be the best desktop file system for Linux users, even with plenty of room for improvement.
There are filesystems in development like Btrfs and Tux3 that look promising, but why should Reiser4 be abandoned? It is GPL. Anyone can pick it up and maintain it, or fork it.
Does anyone know anything about the future of Reiser4?
Seriously?
Stallman attacking Chrome for being too proprietary, saying Gmail and cloud computing is worse than stupidity because it is a trap by Google to lock you into a proprietary trap, him attacking them for violating your privacy and keeping your data, Google not always using licenses he approves, not opening enough software, etc.
Everytime there is a positive OSS story it seems Stallman is lurking around the corner to explain why it isn't good enough and why companies we should be praising are evil. Mozilla includes a proprietary talkback extension! How dare they!
He misses the forest for the trees. We should commend companies that embrace OSS, and encourage more of it. But every major corporation I've worked at is terrified of the GPL because of the hullabaloo that he creates. We use Linux and OSS in a few place, but we are always reticent to include OSS.
I love the ideology of OSS. However as a proponent of freedom and choice, I do not believe freedom is best served by an ever-growing number of restrictions. Stallman preaches a "my way only" strict dichotomy where there is no freedom or choice. Only the licenses he approves (which he can change when he feels like it) or else.
Stallman spends most of his time criticizing people for good deeds. If Microsoft opens more documentation, standards and protocols, he blasts them for it. If Google opens up a bunch of their code, he blasts them for it. Over and over again.
How is Stallman helping anymore? Starting GNU was a huge contribution, but these days Stallman does far more harm than good.
That is the issue to many devs who just want to put out the best product they can. For others the issue is having a completely "free" box.
The intel open source drivers don't even come close and both open source and closed source ATI drivers are a joke.
Is that why KDE 4 absolutely flies on an ancient box with a weak on-board Intel GPU, and crawls with a top-end CPU and top-end Nvidia GPU? Admittedly, xrender performance just increased in the Nvidia driver release, but Nvidia refuses to address a number of problems with their drivers.
ATI's drivers are really getting better and better all the time since AMD bought them out.
And I'd like to see a source that ATI's cards and drivers don't support the full OpenGL spec.
In fact I'm pretty sure I've seen your entire list in recent ATI drivers. When was the last time you checked them out?
Let's assume that Nvidia completely opened their driver tommorrow and broke NDAs and third-party licenses to do so.
Stallman would still complain that Firefox allows proprietary extensions.
Stallman would still complain that Google supports proprietary software too much.
Stallman would still complain that patents exist. (He may have a good point here).
Stallman would still complain that some drivers in the kernel contain proprietary firmware.
Stallman would still complain that Ubuntu doesn't use all free artwork.
Stallman would still complain that we use proprietary BIOS on our motherboard.
Stallman would still complain that companies are using GPL software to turn a profit and not enabling their customers to not pay them (ala Tivo).
Remember kiddies, true freedom is only achieved through constant vigilance and annoyance, and an ever-increasing strict list of restrictions that remove choice.
(Yes, I'm prepared to burn karma for the inevitable flame/troll mods, but search your feelings Skywalker, you know these words to be true.)
Other than die-hard believers here on Slashdot, to the rest of the world, what percentage of the population cares of their software gets the Stallman stamp of approval, and what percentage just wants their software to work?
Now I understand that having OSS drivers helps the kernel devs troubleshoot those drivers, and keep them up to date with constantly changing ABIs/APIs. I prefer free software, but I won't be a zealot about it. I am quite comfortable with proprietary software if it is the best solution for my need.
I didn't hear numbers of GTA IV, but I remember when GTA:SA came out, they said the budget to produce GTA:SA was 85 million dollars. Then they had lawsuits and legal troubles added on to that. Yet you think them charging the standard industry price is not an honest price?
Lets assume inflation wasn't a factor and GTA:IV also cost 85 million, as opposed to costing increasingly more as each title they've done has. If the retail cost is $19.95, how much money is Rockstar getting for the sale of that game, and how many copies do they have to sell before they break even?
One could contend you get far more content and bang for your buck in a GTA game than you do with most other games. I'd be pissed if I bought a platformer/FPS title with no replay value that I beat in less than 10 hours. But plenty of people get 200+ hrs out of a GTA game.
I'd bitch about other games not offering honest pricing when they provide hardly any content, but GTA? Get real.
Not really. In the 80's games like Starflight came with code wheels, but people would have floppy copy parties, because no one used software based DRM really.
I won't justify piracy on the whole because I am not entitled to free content automagically. However there are plenty of people who use piracy in lieu of a demo. It could very well be that World of Goo has a supposed high piracy rate because everyone was recommending it to others, and it was easy to pirate and check out. Some of those people may have initially pirated the game to check it out and then later purchased it.
So let's say they have 1000 customers who bought the game, but they have supposedly tracked 9000 other customers who downloaded it illegally. If those 1000 customers downloaded it illegally first and then bought it, the actual rate of piracy is lower, not to mention many of those people probably would never have seen, or purchased the game had they not had a pirate/demo copy earlier.
I never once heard of that game until I heard the piracy numbers. I'm half temped to download it myself not to check it out.
This is what gets me, is that no one attempts to sprearhead and channel all the users and traffic here.
What if CmdrTaco made a post on the front page tomorrow asking every visitor to Slashdot to send EA a message that they will refuse to purchase any game with DRM. One email won't do it. 100 emails won't do it. But a few thousand emails in a single day is hard to ignore. How many people visit Slashdot in a day? Is a few thousand emails unreasonable for a coordinated effort from the Slashdot community on an issue we all largely seem to agree on?
And perhaps another day CmdrTaco posts a request asking everyone to email Nvidia about their Linux drivers.
Seriously, right now we're an unorganized group of people bitching to each other about issues we agree on as opposed to an organized group expressing our opinion to the appropriate parties.
I thought Lord British was the big floozie and you had to find a creative means to kill him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_British
There is an overwhelming shortage of Singles references out there. You sir, win.
Ultima V was my favorite because of how they showed the exact same virtues can be twisted when taken to extremes. The other virtue systems (Gargoyles, Guardians, Fellowship) provided interesting contrast as well.
No, Bioware directly hires from these contests.
This just screams dedicated database storage.
Bioware has repeatedly had contests where they've asked the community to open up the NWN toolset, write some dialogue and send it to them. The proof is in the pudding.
And it should be noted that writing typical fiction or exposition is different from writing threaded dialogue in a game, hence that is why they ask people to submit basic mods made in their toolset.
BTW, as an America, when I went over to England my family took me to Burger King right away. The menu was completely different, and many terms seemed foreign (dip pots?) but I could immediately discern what everything meant. There are idiosyncrasies in English between the States and England, but people should be able to figure them out. It is after all, the same language.
A Big Mac is a Big Mac, a specific burger. And they weren't asking you the size of the sandwich. McDonalds meals have SIZES FOR THE MEALS which dictate the size of fries and drink. You didn't understand the question being asked you, and in turn you assume all Americans are stupid.
For shame, I routinely enjoy your posts and consider you an intelligent poster here.