Please don't misuse the word "troll". Like it or not, he is pointing out a very serious issue that affects all operating systems, be it Windows, Mac OS X, OpenBSD, UnixWare, OS/2, MS-DOS, VMS, or basically any other operating system.
Frequent updates are necessary, especially when it comes to networked systems. Concurrently, many users (even experienced administrators) fail to keep their systems patched and up to date, be it for a lack of time or due to financial constraints.
Remember, Mac OS X is often targetted towards more inexperienced users, or those who just want a system that works. For the most part, that is true of Mac OS X. It does often just work. But likewise, it is necessary to keep it updated.
Now, he isn't a "troll" for pointing out that very real, very serious fact. Sure, it might have angered some people, but that's not his fault in any way.
If your doctor were to diagnose you with AIDS, and you did indeed have the syndrome, he would not be a "troll", regardless of how much you were angered by his diagnosis. In much the same way, this BBC author is not a "troll".
Some may recall the 1970s concept of a "computing cockpit". It is like an aircraft cockpit, but instead of looking out a window, one looks at a screen (or screens). They're seated in a comfortable seat, surrounded by keyboards and other control devices. Many even included foot pedals that could be used to control the computer systems.
It sounds like systems like this are moving back towards that idea, except perhaps at a more consumer-oriented level.
Indeed. Not only will the laptop not exceed 60 fps, but visually he is probably only able to notice any difference up until about 30 fps. Many people notice no difference over about 25 fps. Thus a lot of resources are wasted computing and rendering the other 1850 frames each second.
What is your definition of "best" in this case? Is it marketing "best", in that he presents the data that tricks the consumer the best, or engineering "best", in that he presents that data that highlights the best (and worst) aspects of the system?
One should lose all respect of a computer company that only presents the best benchmark, from a marketing perspective. That just goes to show that they're not there to provide high-performance, high-reliability systems, but rather want to make a quick buck by selling consumers what might be utter crap. If they provide quality data highlighting both the best and worst performing aspects of the system, then you know they're a company to deal with. At least they show some degree of engineering know-how.
What many people who advocate deregulaton fail to realize is that there was often a damn good reason why regulations were put there in the first place. That's not surprising, however, when you consider that many people were born 30 or so years after such regulation.
Being fairly old, I recall hearing directly about the days of deregulated utilities in America from relatives I had living there. Situations similar to this were common, where the service would be terrible, if not outright exploitive. The users had no real choice in the matter, either, nor any remedy. Eventually things would get far out of hand, and regulations would be put in place and enforced.
I always laugh when I hear Republicans talking about how much better it is for certain markets to be deregulated. They go on about the free market, and all that. But the regulations are there because the free market failed horribly, as it sometimes does, and thus government intervention was necessary. Not only that, but the people supporting such things were born years after the regulations were first put in place, and thus did not understand the conditions that lead to the regulations.
Your baseless ad hominem attacks against me further prove that I am correct when I say that the system here works just fine. I am the victor, yet again!
No, the GCC implementation of Objective-C is not a preprocessor. It is a full-blown compiler, just like the GCC C, C++, Java, Fortran, and Ada compilers. The Stepstone implementation, which hasn't been widely used for ages, was a preprocessor.
How will it be subverted? Microsoft taking code from FreeBSD, for instance, and not releasing the changes isn't subverting the license. The license allows for that, if it doesn't outright encourage it.
It's not a very good summary at all. The second sentence of the reply is blatantly incorrect. Go refer to the MIT license itself to see how incorrect the poster's claim is.
But the changes are irrelevant. The original BSD licensed software is still freely available.
If your theory about those with resources throwing money at the projects until they disappear was correct, then we wouldn't have directly competing projects such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD around, because Microsoft would have bought them out. But that didn't happen, and most likely wouldn't, thus your theory is incorrect. And nevertheless, even if your theory were correct, that yet again wouldn't prevent the original code from being freely available.
How exactly is Microsoft, for instance, going to suddenly make FreeBSD "unfree"? Sure, they may take code from FreeBSD, modify it, and not release the changes. But that doesn't change the fact that the original FreeBSD code would still be freely available.
We'd all be better off if Microsoft took even more code from open source projects. Why is that? Because it could very well increase the quality of their products.
How does that directly affect you, you may ask? Well, first of all it may reduce the number of Windows-based PCs that can be compromised, and used to send the spam that clogs up your mail servers or your inbox.
Second of all, it may lead to the adoptation of open source developed software and open standards. This allows for better interoperability between Windows and non-Windows systems. For those of us running massive heterogenous networks, anything that eases interaction between different systems is a blessing.
San Francisco, of all places. Considering the large number of high-tech firms in that region, I thought that there would be a greater degree of tolerance towards such games. But perhaps its proximity to Hollywood and L.A. has some effect, too.
The comments were towards the culture itself, not towards the service of the store clerks, or anything of that sort. I believe one of the comments was along the lines of "limp-wristed nerd faggots playing their Torture and Dragons". I remember that particular one because of the homophobia it displayed, along with a complete lack of understanding regarding the gaming culture itself (mislabelling the game as "Torture and Dragons").
I think I will continue to stick with the MIT license. It has plain, easy to comprehend terms. It's concise.
I appreciate the effort the FSF is making, but things may be getting out of hand. I know of many developers who feel the same as I do. They just want to create software, without having to get bogged down with legalities. Thankfully, licenses like the BSD license and the MIT license work wonderfully well for us.
Actually, I have never played D&D, or any such games. I have watched others play, but never bothered to play it myself. And as for my parents, they have been dead for decades, and thus no longer own a house with a basement.
Perhaps the problem was dealing with Netgear in the first place.
I have relatives who ran into many problems with routers from them. Linksys was no better. They found that items from D-Link were perhaps the best consumer-level products available. Many of the other brands were pure shite, even if they cost the same as the equivalent D-Link model.
After the recent debacle involving even high-end CD-Rs only lasting five or so years (even though they were claimed to last 100 years), you should be careful about trusting those DVD-Rs. Do you take care to store them in cool, dark places?
You might as well start big right away. Digital media is sure to explode in the near future, even more so than it already has. Soon enough you'll find that.5 TB is nowhere near enough capacity. You may be requiring 500 to 600 TB in even just two or three years.
While you'll want to leave yourself room to grow, of course, don't underestimate your future needs. You will need more disc space, that is almost guaranteed. Set your target very high.
When I was in the US several years ago I visited a mall, and noticed that they had a D&D shop next to the mall eatery. You know, a shop where they sell board and roleplaying games targetting the geek/nerd community.
In any case, what surprised me most were comments I heard while I was sitting there eating. Many people had a very, very negative image of the shop. I counted at least eight negative comments during the 15 or so minutes I was sitting there.
I have to wonder how much the negative image such gaming has in the eyes of popular culture leans people away from investigating it. It is quite likely that many of those who made the negative comments had never actually played any of the games in question, yet they still felt the need to believe the negative (and false) stereotypes associated with such games.
Perhaps the industry should work on legitimizing such games in the eyes of the general public. Even a single celebrity endorsement might turn the tide.
Is the Linux kernel or the BSDs about ego? After all, they are reimplementations of UNIX.
Perhaps some of the developers do it to supplement their ego. But more often than not you find that people contribute to Linux and the BSDs because they have something beneficial to add, but cannot do so under the existing framework or system (ie. UNIX).
Sometimes one must do some reimplementation in order to make improvements. That appears to be what the case is here. Of course such improvements could be made to Google, but most likely not by those who wish to make such enhancements. Thus they need to create their own similar platform to work with.
The Republicans who whine most about "Communists" and "Liberals" destroying the free market are often amongst those who actively propose and advocate anti-free market solutions for many issues.
If there was a market for France and Germany to sell such material, knowledge, services, etc., to other countries, then according to the pro-free market Republicans ideology, France and Germany should have been able to make such sales.
Collaboration is what helps bring different nations and people together, even if it is on weaponry. Of course, it is almost always better for all when nations and people collaborate on non-lethal projects, such as search engines.
Such collaboration will lead to peace and stability far sooner than illegitimate invasions and questionable elections ever will. Of course, such invasions and elections may be engineered to cause more strife, but now we're getting into a completely different discussion.
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Please don't misuse the word "troll". Like it or not, he is pointing out a very serious issue that affects all operating systems, be it Windows, Mac OS X, OpenBSD, UnixWare, OS/2, MS-DOS, VMS, or basically any other operating system.
Frequent updates are necessary, especially when it comes to networked systems. Concurrently, many users (even experienced administrators) fail to keep their systems patched and up to date, be it for a lack of time or due to financial constraints.
Remember, Mac OS X is often targetted towards more inexperienced users, or those who just want a system that works. For the most part, that is true of Mac OS X. It does often just work. But likewise, it is necessary to keep it updated.
Now, he isn't a "troll" for pointing out that very real, very serious fact. Sure, it might have angered some people, but that's not his fault in any way.
If your doctor were to diagnose you with AIDS, and you did indeed have the syndrome, he would not be a "troll", regardless of how much you were angered by his diagnosis. In much the same way, this BBC author is not a "troll".
Any decent hardware is capable of adding motion blur on the fly. SGI systems from the early to mid 1990s were capable of it.
Some may recall the 1970s concept of a "computing cockpit". It is like an aircraft cockpit, but instead of looking out a window, one looks at a screen (or screens). They're seated in a comfortable seat, surrounded by keyboards and other control devices. Many even included foot pedals that could be used to control the computer systems.
It sounds like systems like this are moving back towards that idea, except perhaps at a more consumer-oriented level.
Indeed. Not only will the laptop not exceed 60 fps, but visually he is probably only able to notice any difference up until about 30 fps. Many people notice no difference over about 25 fps. Thus a lot of resources are wasted computing and rendering the other 1850 frames each second.
What is your definition of "best" in this case? Is it marketing "best", in that he presents the data that tricks the consumer the best, or engineering "best", in that he presents that data that highlights the best (and worst) aspects of the system?
One should lose all respect of a computer company that only presents the best benchmark, from a marketing perspective. That just goes to show that they're not there to provide high-performance, high-reliability systems, but rather want to make a quick buck by selling consumers what might be utter crap. If they provide quality data highlighting both the best and worst performing aspects of the system, then you know they're a company to deal with. At least they show some degree of engineering know-how.
What many people who advocate deregulaton fail to realize is that there was often a damn good reason why regulations were put there in the first place. That's not surprising, however, when you consider that many people were born 30 or so years after such regulation.
Being fairly old, I recall hearing directly about the days of deregulated utilities in America from relatives I had living there. Situations similar to this were common, where the service would be terrible, if not outright exploitive. The users had no real choice in the matter, either, nor any remedy. Eventually things would get far out of hand, and regulations would be put in place and enforced.
I always laugh when I hear Republicans talking about how much better it is for certain markets to be deregulated. They go on about the free market, and all that. But the regulations are there because the free market failed horribly, as it sometimes does, and thus government intervention was necessary. Not only that, but the people supporting such things were born years after the regulations were first put in place, and thus did not understand the conditions that lead to the regulations.
Your baseless ad hominem attacks against me further prove that I am correct when I say that the system here works just fine. I am the victor, yet again!
What sort of damage, and of what severity, could occur if this battery were to leak?
No, the GCC implementation of Objective-C is not a preprocessor. It is a full-blown compiler, just like the GCC C, C++, Java, Fortran, and Ada compilers. The Stepstone implementation, which hasn't been widely used for ages, was a preprocessor.
How will it be subverted? Microsoft taking code from FreeBSD, for instance, and not releasing the changes isn't subverting the license. The license allows for that, if it doesn't outright encourage it.
It's not a very good summary at all. The second sentence of the reply is blatantly incorrect. Go refer to the MIT license itself to see how incorrect the poster's claim is.
But the changes are irrelevant. The original BSD licensed software is still freely available.
If your theory about those with resources throwing money at the projects until they disappear was correct, then we wouldn't have directly competing projects such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD around, because Microsoft would have bought them out. But that didn't happen, and most likely wouldn't, thus your theory is incorrect. And nevertheless, even if your theory were correct, that yet again wouldn't prevent the original code from being freely available.
How exactly is Microsoft, for instance, going to suddenly make FreeBSD "unfree"? Sure, they may take code from FreeBSD, modify it, and not release the changes. But that doesn't change the fact that the original FreeBSD code would still be freely available.
We'd all be better off if Microsoft took even more code from open source projects. Why is that? Because it could very well increase the quality of their products.
How does that directly affect you, you may ask? Well, first of all it may reduce the number of Windows-based PCs that can be compromised, and used to send the spam that clogs up your mail servers or your inbox.
Second of all, it may lead to the adoptation of open source developed software and open standards. This allows for better interoperability between Windows and non-Windows systems. For those of us running massive heterogenous networks, anything that eases interaction between different systems is a blessing.
San Francisco, of all places. Considering the large number of high-tech firms in that region, I thought that there would be a greater degree of tolerance towards such games. But perhaps its proximity to Hollywood and L.A. has some effect, too.
The comments were towards the culture itself, not towards the service of the store clerks, or anything of that sort. I believe one of the comments was along the lines of "limp-wristed nerd faggots playing their Torture and Dragons". I remember that particular one because of the homophobia it displayed, along with a complete lack of understanding regarding the gaming culture itself (mislabelling the game as "Torture and Dragons").
I think I will continue to stick with the MIT license. It has plain, easy to comprehend terms. It's concise.
I appreciate the effort the FSF is making, but things may be getting out of hand. I know of many developers who feel the same as I do. They just want to create software, without having to get bogged down with legalities. Thankfully, licenses like the BSD license and the MIT license work wonderfully well for us.
The system you describe is actually the epitome of failure.
Actually, I have never played D&D, or any such games. I have watched others play, but never bothered to play it myself. And as for my parents, they have been dead for decades, and thus no longer own a house with a basement.
Perhaps the problem was dealing with Netgear in the first place.
I have relatives who ran into many problems with routers from them. Linksys was no better. They found that items from D-Link were perhaps the best consumer-level products available. Many of the other brands were pure shite, even if they cost the same as the equivalent D-Link model.
After the recent debacle involving even high-end CD-Rs only lasting five or so years (even though they were claimed to last 100 years), you should be careful about trusting those DVD-Rs. Do you take care to store them in cool, dark places?
It's quite easy to find used, tiny 700-1000 MHz Celeron PCs for a fraction of $130, and you do not need to bother with a $30 mod chip.
You might as well start big right away. Digital media is sure to explode in the near future, even more so than it already has. Soon enough you'll find that .5 TB is nowhere near enough capacity. You may be requiring 500 to 600 TB in even just two or three years.
While you'll want to leave yourself room to grow, of course, don't underestimate your future needs. You will need more disc space, that is almost guaranteed. Set your target very high.
When I was in the US several years ago I visited a mall, and noticed that they had a D&D shop next to the mall eatery. You know, a shop where they sell board and roleplaying games targetting the geek/nerd community.
In any case, what surprised me most were comments I heard while I was sitting there eating. Many people had a very, very negative image of the shop. I counted at least eight negative comments during the 15 or so minutes I was sitting there.
I have to wonder how much the negative image such gaming has in the eyes of popular culture leans people away from investigating it. It is quite likely that many of those who made the negative comments had never actually played any of the games in question, yet they still felt the need to believe the negative (and false) stereotypes associated with such games.
Perhaps the industry should work on legitimizing such games in the eyes of the general public. Even a single celebrity endorsement might turn the tide.
Is the Linux kernel or the BSDs about ego? After all, they are reimplementations of UNIX.
Perhaps some of the developers do it to supplement their ego. But more often than not you find that people contribute to Linux and the BSDs because they have something beneficial to add, but cannot do so under the existing framework or system (ie. UNIX).
Sometimes one must do some reimplementation in order to make improvements. That appears to be what the case is here. Of course such improvements could be made to Google, but most likely not by those who wish to make such enhancements. Thus they need to create their own similar platform to work with.
The Republicans who whine most about "Communists" and "Liberals" destroying the free market are often amongst those who actively propose and advocate anti-free market solutions for many issues.
If there was a market for France and Germany to sell such material, knowledge, services, etc., to other countries, then according to the pro-free market Republicans ideology, France and Germany should have been able to make such sales.
Collaboration is what helps bring different nations and people together, even if it is on weaponry. Of course, it is almost always better for all when nations and people collaborate on non-lethal projects, such as search engines.
Such collaboration will lead to peace and stability far sooner than illegitimate invasions and questionable elections ever will. Of course, such invasions and elections may be engineered to cause more strife, but now we're getting into a completely different discussion.