Tell this to cameras, PDAs, consoles, embedded devices...
In a windows-dominated world, what else would you use that everyone could read from write to? NTFS? Ha, no.
...If McAfee has a clause in their EULA somewhere that limits their responsibility, and should that be the case, if it is legally enforcable.
Maybe someone with access to said EULA could look it up?
Microsoft once pushed their accountability as a selling point for the Windows Server platform against Linux, if I recall well -- however their maximum responsibility was something like 50$. I wonder what is McAfee's stance in this regard.
I can't tell the difference between HL2 in Windows and in WINE on my system. It does require the non-free drivers, but if I'm playing Steam games I'm not likely to be that bothered.
I can, because last time I tried, wine did not provide all the dx9 shaders the engine used. So it certainly looks different to me, as in, slightly better on Windows. But then again it's been a while since I tried it, maybe wine changed significantly since I last did.
See, I don't get this. People so far either don't get this at all, or get the idea that it represented sexting.
I didn't see an instance of sexting, or something advocating it. I saw some guy going WAIT THAT WILL BE FUNNY! and some girl on the receiving end going Oh you~ Haha!
In other words, I think the ad was meant to endorse goofing around with friends via the magical commodity that is the internet. Not e-tit-flashing for sexual porposes, at all.
However, it seems that somehow, some assholes decided it meant "you can do sexting on our device, easier" and somehow a boatload of people went "OH SO THAT'S WHAT IT MEANT!" and assumed it was offensive.
I'm not defending the ad, it's horribly cryptic with weird music, not to my liking at all. But to me it just highlighted how the device could integrate in your daily life of fun and goofing around -- that is, if the video is representative of your daily life of fun and goofing around. Not sure who the target market is.
Repeat after me: "Anything one program can do, another program can do."
Before you go investing your faith in some web article about what's possible, try to get read up on the classics like Alan Turing's amazing body of work. Especially if you're going to go to a site like Slashdot and air out your ingnorance in front of the world.
Your point is valid, even if made in a really condescending way.
However, I think what they mean is that it would be unpractical to the point of not being a viable venture, which is certainly true. They cannot practically change fundamental inner-workings of Windows XP and dedicating man hours to such a project would be ridiculous, which is the point everyone have been making, that you seem to be missing.
Because one can do something doesn't mean it's a practical, valid idea that is worth pursuing.
Well it's fairly simple. OpenSolaris is licenced under the CDDL, which is incompatible with the GPL, which is the license the Linux kernel is released under. Nothing "supposed" there, it's a fact.
It is, however, compatible with the BSD license, which is why FreeBSD has ZFS support now.
What is the big deal? I hate DRM as much as the next guy, but nobody is complaining to Blizzard that they can't play their game offline.
World of Warcraft will not immediately boot you back to the login screen if your connection drops for a bit, which is not exactly uncommon. It's extremely resilient, somehow.
AC2, on the other hand being a single player, offline game, will do just that, according to TFA. And that limitation is purely artificial, for DRM purposes.
Now let's say World of Warcraft is an orange, and you were to compare it to this game, which is, let's say, an apple, and...
Since windows vista, you can hit a button in task manager that basically translates to "resource monitor" on my localized system. The "Memory" tab accounts for superfetch and shows a colored bar for memory used by the cache, but that memory is considered "available".
If you'd believe the "physical memory" metrics you'd think out of the 4gb of memory my windows 7 workstation has, only 18 megabytes are available. But that wouldn't be accurate.
Right now I seem to actually be using a little over 60% of my memory (a guesstimate based on eyeballing the graph). And I have netbeans loaded with a glassfish instance.
The hard faults column is hardly populated too, which seems to counter the implied claim in the article that superfetch is causing applications to hit the swap more frequently thus reducing performance.
This has been stated many, many times in the comments but just to reiterate with a tangible example:
Windows 7 has a better superfetch than Vista. It will cache *anything* you might want loaded in memory at some point based on your usage. For instance if you play World of Warcraft a lot, you'll notice the data files are already in ram when you boot your workstation, ready to be accessed. But again, those files are still marked as "available" so if you suddenly need that memory it will be immediately freed.
So either Barth knows something I don't, or he's an idiot with no understanding of the Windows 7 memory model. Both are equally possible at this point since the article is being mind-numbingly vague.
I have gotten quite nostalgic lately, of my adolescence, the games I used to play, the older, tamer internet back then, the multiple game server services, the inanity of Windows 9x and its song and dance to install drivers, DOS boot disks that could save your life and more.
So what I did is, I pulled out this old IBM machine with a Pentium 200 MMX processor and 64 megabytes of memory I had adopted, saving it from a trash bin in a weird alley behind a bar three years ago, installed Windows 98SE on it, and all my old games which don't run nearly as well in dosbox or NTVDM. I also hunted the backstore of local computer stores to find a 3Dfx Voodoo 3 PCI since I used to be such a 3Dfx fanboy. It took a while but I found one, the exact model I wanted.
A friend of mine built a similar machine, brought it to my place, and we're having old-school, nostalgia-filled LAN parties. Over IPX/SPX.
It really is a ton of fun. Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, Blood, Diablo, Warcraft 2, Take no prisoners, Quake and assorted mods... I'm discovering Diablo 2 ten years too late. And a bunch of games I had always wanted to play over network, which wasn't necessarily possible back then, most of my friends didn't even have modems at that point.
A bit off topic, but if you are to save old machines, try using them for that purpose, it's really fun and makes you feel 14 again.
Well, I can't seem for the life of me to find the original article, but I recall clearly that Gabe Newell stated that Valve has a decryption key ready to go out, at the press of a button in case they go belly up.
The summary made it sound like it was something extremely unique, special, and peculiar. It's not. I was bringing the point that their business model doesn't make them necessarily different than someone just selling licenses, as support is not optional, something that isn't mentioned at all in the summary.
Thank you for assuming I'm an illiterate idiot, though.
Yeah, nevermind the fact that support is not optional with Red Hat products. At all. The update service requires a subscription. So while the software itself is free as in beer, you end up paying a "license" in the form a subscription to get patches, or anything else from Red Hat to make it useable.
So the fact that people who use the software keep buying support for it is not that impressive. Granted, they could run CentOS if they wanted, but management likes support, and it is not that hard to picture a pointy haired boss refusing to run anything else than Red Hat either.
No no, I'm fairly certain he is reffering to the BMP handling exploit, which was refered to in one of the Stealing The Network series, I think it was "How to own the box". Not sure.
Cheating at Doom made me better at blind typing on foreign kbmaps.
I learned to type with Doom cheats.
Interestingly enough, being french canadian and playing the French localized version of warcraft 2 made me able to type on AZERTY keyboard, so your woes are not unheard of the other way around:)
...effectively annihilated the enemy fleet, destroying thousands of dollars' worth of in-game assets.
If you have played eve, at this point you will know that a thousand ISK is small change. Even a million is pretty much small change. In fact, the Titan ships mentionned in there are rumored to cost around 60 billions. Sixty billions. That's far from thousands.
It is annoying when the CIO inquires every five minutes about how things are going, and if we are nearing resolution, offering different ways of patching the problem, each diverting from the problem at hand every single time.
Then again, it is terribly annoying when the CIO asks for something very last minute, demands that it be ready for tommorow, and then takes off, leaving everyone to work on it until 10pm.
Not sure which is more annoying. I wish there was a middle ground somewhere.
I this the parent's point was that a company acquiring another would have to either keep developping or support the target company's assets, or Open Source them instead of burying them in a shallow grave, never to be heard of again. Which would be a Good Thing (tm).
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Tell this to cameras, PDAs, consoles, embedded devices... In a windows-dominated world, what else would you use that everyone could read from write to? NTFS? Ha, no.
...If McAfee has a clause in their EULA somewhere that limits their responsibility, and should that be the case, if it is legally enforcable.
Maybe someone with access to said EULA could look it up?
Microsoft once pushed their accountability as a selling point for the Windows Server platform against Linux, if I recall well -- however their maximum responsibility was something like 50$. I wonder what is McAfee's stance in this regard.
I can't tell the difference between HL2 in Windows and in WINE on my system. It does require the non-free drivers, but if I'm playing Steam games I'm not likely to be that bothered.
I can, because last time I tried, wine did not provide all the dx9 shaders the engine used. So it certainly looks different to me, as in, slightly better on Windows. But then again it's been a while since I tried it, maybe wine changed significantly since I last did.
There could still be a chance that the support there is only to launch dedicated servers easily, no? Or am I missing something?
See, I don't get this. People so far either don't get this at all, or get the idea that it represented sexting.
I didn't see an instance of sexting, or something advocating it. I saw some guy going WAIT THAT WILL BE FUNNY! and some girl on the receiving end going Oh you~ Haha!
In other words, I think the ad was meant to endorse goofing around with friends via the magical commodity that is the internet. Not e-tit-flashing for sexual porposes, at all.
However, it seems that somehow, some assholes decided it meant "you can do sexting on our device, easier" and somehow a boatload of people went "OH SO THAT'S WHAT IT MEANT!" and assumed it was offensive.
I'm not defending the ad, it's horribly cryptic with weird music, not to my liking at all. But to me it just highlighted how the device could integrate in your daily life of fun and goofing around -- that is, if the video is representative of your daily life of fun and goofing around. Not sure who the target market is.
You should look up "Mono" in a Spanish to English dictionary.
Well, I am now enlightened.
Stop playing with monkeys.
Was this intentional? Because it's pretty clever, if you consider, you know, Ximian.
Repeat after me: "Anything one program can do, another program can do."
Before you go investing your faith in some web article about what's possible, try to get read up on the classics like Alan Turing's amazing body of work. Especially if you're going to go to a site like Slashdot and air out your ingnorance in front of the world.
Your point is valid, even if made in a really condescending way.
However, I think what they mean is that it would be unpractical to the point of not being a viable venture, which is certainly true. They cannot practically change fundamental inner-workings of Windows XP and dedicating man hours to such a project would be ridiculous, which is the point everyone have been making, that you seem to be missing.
Because one can do something doesn't mean it's a practical, valid idea that is worth pursuing.
Lets just hope the money gets to the struggling artists!
I envy your optimism. It will most likely go the recording industry -- the ones who have to be appeased over the digital equivalent of mixtapes.
Steve Jobs could through a baby into a industrial tree shredder and you would still defend him.
In his defense the baby was being kind of a dick.
Yeah we don't know what was that baby's problem.
Well it's fairly simple. OpenSolaris is licenced under the CDDL, which is incompatible with the GPL, which is the license the Linux kernel is released under. Nothing "supposed" there, it's a fact.
It is, however, compatible with the BSD license, which is why FreeBSD has ZFS support now.
What is the big deal? I hate DRM as much as the next guy, but nobody is complaining to Blizzard that they can't play their game offline.
World of Warcraft will not immediately boot you back to the login screen if your connection drops for a bit, which is not exactly uncommon. It's extremely resilient, somehow.
AC2, on the other hand being a single player, offline game, will do just that, according to TFA. And that limitation is purely artificial, for DRM purposes.
Now let's say World of Warcraft is an orange, and you were to compare it to this game, which is, let's say, an apple, and...
Since windows vista, you can hit a button in task manager that basically translates to "resource monitor" on my localized system. The "Memory" tab accounts for superfetch and shows a colored bar for memory used by the cache, but that memory is considered "available".
If you'd believe the "physical memory" metrics you'd think out of the 4gb of memory my windows 7 workstation has, only 18 megabytes are available. But that wouldn't be accurate. Right now I seem to actually be using a little over 60% of my memory (a guesstimate based on eyeballing the graph). And I have netbeans loaded with a glassfish instance.
The hard faults column is hardly populated too, which seems to counter the implied claim in the article that superfetch is causing applications to hit the swap more frequently thus reducing performance.
This has been stated many, many times in the comments but just to reiterate with a tangible example: Windows 7 has a better superfetch than Vista. It will cache *anything* you might want loaded in memory at some point based on your usage. For instance if you play World of Warcraft a lot, you'll notice the data files are already in ram when you boot your workstation, ready to be accessed. But again, those files are still marked as "available" so if you suddenly need that memory it will be immediately freed.
So either Barth knows something I don't, or he's an idiot with no understanding of the Windows 7 memory model. Both are equally possible at this point since the article is being mind-numbingly vague.
I have gotten quite nostalgic lately, of my adolescence, the games I used to play, the older, tamer internet back then, the multiple game server services, the inanity of Windows 9x and its song and dance to install drivers, DOS boot disks that could save your life and more.
So what I did is, I pulled out this old IBM machine with a Pentium 200 MMX processor and 64 megabytes of memory I had adopted, saving it from a trash bin in a weird alley behind a bar three years ago, installed Windows 98SE on it, and all my old games which don't run nearly as well in dosbox or NTVDM. I also hunted the backstore of local computer stores to find a 3Dfx Voodoo 3 PCI since I used to be such a 3Dfx fanboy. It took a while but I found one, the exact model I wanted.
A friend of mine built a similar machine, brought it to my place, and we're having old-school, nostalgia-filled LAN parties. Over IPX/SPX.
It really is a ton of fun. Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, Blood, Diablo, Warcraft 2, Take no prisoners, Quake and assorted mods... I'm discovering Diablo 2 ten years too late. And a bunch of games I had always wanted to play over network, which wasn't necessarily possible back then, most of my friends didn't even have modems at that point.
A bit off topic, but if you are to save old machines, try using them for that purpose, it's really fun and makes you feel 14 again.
Well, I can't seem for the life of me to find the original article, but I recall clearly that Gabe Newell stated that Valve has a decryption key ready to go out, at the press of a button in case they go belly up.
The summary made it sound like it was something extremely unique, special, and peculiar. It's not. I was bringing the point that their business model doesn't make them necessarily different than someone just selling licenses, as support is not optional, something that isn't mentioned at all in the summary.
Thank you for assuming I'm an illiterate idiot, though.
You haven't seen a lot of big production environments then. They're more than common in larger buisnesses.
Yeah, nevermind the fact that support is not optional with Red Hat products. At all. The update service requires a subscription. So while the software itself is free as in beer, you end up paying a "license" in the form a subscription to get patches, or anything else from Red Hat to make it useable.
So the fact that people who use the software keep buying support for it is not that impressive. Granted, they could run CentOS if they wanted, but management likes support, and it is not that hard to picture a pointy haired boss refusing to run anything else than Red Hat either.
No no, I'm fairly certain he is reffering to the BMP handling exploit, which was refered to in one of the Stealing The Network series, I think it was "How to own the box". Not sure.
But I remember this clearly as well.
Cheating at Doom made me better at blind typing on foreign kbmaps.
I learned to type with Doom cheats.
Interestingly enough, being french canadian and playing the French localized version of warcraft 2 made me able to type on AZERTY keyboard, so your woes are not unheard of the other way around :)
Oh, you're probably right. Nevermind me then, and this only makes the story more amusing.
...effectively annihilated the enemy fleet, destroying thousands of dollars' worth of in-game assets.
If you have played eve, at this point you will know that a thousand ISK is small change. Even a million is pretty much small change. In fact, the Titan ships mentionned in there are rumored to cost around 60 billions. Sixty billions. That's far from thousands.
What they are proposing sounds an awful lot like freenet, in practice.
It is annoying when the CIO inquires every five minutes about how things are going, and if we are nearing resolution, offering different ways of patching the problem, each diverting from the problem at hand every single time.
Then again, it is terribly annoying when the CIO asks for something very last minute, demands that it be ready for tommorow, and then takes off, leaving everyone to work on it until 10pm.
Not sure which is more annoying. I wish there was a middle ground somewhere.
I this the parent's point was that a company acquiring another would have to either keep developping or support the target company's assets, or Open Source them instead of burying them in a shallow grave, never to be heard of again. Which would be a Good Thing (tm).