Indeed, it did look terrible for that particular rogue KOffice developer to go around insulting longtime users of the KOffice and KDE software. And then to blame his indiscretion on a headache? That's not a valid excuse for such behaviour. Any McDonalds worker pulling a similar stunt would've been fired instantly.
While it may support JavaScript, and may render the pages on such a small screen, the end result is hardly usable. Try using GMail with one of those devices, for instance. Not very pleasant.
The PostgreSQL database contains about 3.2 million records and takes up 600 MB of disk space.
600 MB is obviously not a few TB. It's not even 1 GB!
RubyForge is currently running on a single machine with two 2.8 GHz Xeon CPUs, 2 GB of RAM, and a hardware RAID 5 SCSI array of 210 GB.
They have 2 GB of RAM for a 600 MB database. Even assuming the web server, mail server, Linux, etc., take half of the available real memory (probably unlikely), that still leaves 1 GB or so for the database. More than enough for the database itself to be resident in RAM.
And history has shown that those allies who did not participate in the attacks of sovereign nations were correct. The claims the US made were false, and most likely were knowingly false.
But the things you want (ie. improved AI, interactive environments, better stories) are all hallmarks of RPGs. Have you considered playing those instead?
This isn't something to be proud of. I mean, this is what any decent news organization should be doing constantly. They haven't done anything particularly outstanding in this case. This is what they should've been doing all along!
I don't think we should commend FOX News for the lone time they aren't negligent. I think we should rather focus on all of the times that the quality of their reporting has been suspect.
Just because the standards for corporate news agencies have dropped significantly doesn't mean that we should commend them when they don't obviously fuck up.
Seriously, go to Japan. Look for some games there. You can find some pretty odd adult games. Many of the games would make even the most extreme of Western perverts cringe.
I stayed with relatives who had been to Japan. I ran across some of their games while using their computer. Boy, was I surprised! There are games where you go around as a big octopus tentacle ripping the cloths off of people in the street. Then you proceed to tentacle rape them. In one of the games, for instance, you rape people up the ass. Then, for whatever reason, you were able to control their limbs. Now if that's not absurd enough, you can go to dance competitions. You have to make the person embedded anally on your tentacle dance.
They were addicting games, that's for sure. And challenging. Real mind-benders, too.
Remember, it's not so much about what the publishers will sell, but rather about what the consumers will buy. After all, the publishers could offer a game with a great storyline and semi-decent graphics. And you know what? It may very well not well.
I'm sure many of the major game publishers have looked into the possibility of offering games like you describe. But the potential benefits most likely do not outweigh the risks. When you're dealing with millions upon millions of dollars, you usually don't want to go wrong.
Why not a funnel? Because as stated earlier, the designers most likely looked into that possibility and deemed it unsuitable. They found that the flower shape would work best.
Why not a garbage can lid? Again, because it does not fit the criteria. It does not work.
Why a flower? Well, most likely because it suggests that it can be folded up, launched into space, and the opened/deployed. Sending up a fully formed, stadium-sized garage funnel is obviously a stupid thing to do if there are better alternatives (ie. a flower-shaped, deployable design) available.
But how do you want the gameplay "reinvented"? I often hear people request this with respect to games, but they never really seem to be able to pinpoint what specific changes they'd like. Perhaps you can offer some suggestions?
I'm just not sure that there's really any way to reinvent the killing of people and monsters. Unless you want to transition to virtual reality suits and holodecks, there probably isn't much more that could be done. Such games are already in 3D, and thus already at the level of reality. And if they add more environmental/story interaction to the basic DooM-esque theme, you end up with an RPG. Many people play shooters because they don't want the hassle of an RPG storyline.
So why are you, apparently as an American, sitting on your fat ass (quite possibly eating some more KFC) doing about your president who has lied repeatedly to you and the world?
The least you could do is protest. And I don't mean here on Slashdot or some blog.
It is shaped like a flower rather than a funnel because that is the design the designers found would work best. The matter was investigated by professionals, and people who are experts at designing such equipment. I would trust their judgement on this matter over that of somebody who thinks it should be shaped like a garage funnel.
That's more a problem with PHP in general. PHP is, like it or not, lousy. Many apps developed with it are by far the shittiest pieces of software I've ever seen. Very little of PHP encourages good programming practices, and as such many inexperienced users are able to create monstrosities with it.
Considering its recent security problems, I'd be very weary to use PHP, or any software written in PHP, for any serious task.
Indeed, in that particular instance the developer was treated with nothing but respect. It was the developer who came out of the blue and attacked the user, due to a discussion the user was having with others.
Yes, in the open source world the users are the equivalent of business customers. That cannot be denied.
And it sounds like your "professional experience" has been marred by a complete lack of professionalism. I would hope that you have a good idea about how damaging a lack of professionalism can be, whether it is a doctor, a businessman or an open source developer who is lacking such skills.
Neither Republicans nor Democrats are interested in a free press. Why is that? Because a truly free press in the US would show both Democrats and Republicans as the scum that they are. Luckily, that's what we're beginning to see with blogs. The faults in the system are being exposed. And out come the politicians, trying to dam up that freedom of expression gusher before it's too late for them.
Indeed. Even the janitors and burger flippers at McDonalds know not to insult the customers. I would hope that an open source developer could hold himself or herself to that basic standard, if not far exceed it.
The fact that it's moderated +5 shows that professionalism is a concept that many in the open source community fail to grasp. Now, that doesn't surprise me in a way. The community itself has academic roots, and many members do not have the experience necessary to understand professionalism.
If you follow that particular discussion back far enough, you would clearly see that that KOffice developer was incorrect with respect to his basic points. Follow it forwards and you'll see him blame his inappropriate behaviour on a headache. Either way, such behavior is inexcusable. It shouldn't fly here, and it would never fly in a business setting.
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Indeed, it did look terrible for that particular rogue KOffice developer to go around insulting longtime users of the KOffice and KDE software. And then to blame his indiscretion on a headache? That's not a valid excuse for such behaviour. Any McDonalds worker pulling a similar stunt would've been fired instantly.
While it may support JavaScript, and may render the pages on such a small screen, the end result is hardly usable. Try using GMail with one of those devices, for instance. Not very pleasant.
We have the data available to us.
g e_site_status.html
http://rubyforge.org/docman/view.php/5/11/rubyfor
The PostgreSQL database contains about 3.2 million records and takes up 600 MB of disk space.
600 MB is obviously not a few TB. It's not even 1 GB!
RubyForge is currently running on a single machine with two 2.8 GHz Xeon CPUs, 2 GB of RAM, and a hardware RAID 5 SCSI array of 210 GB.
They have 2 GB of RAM for a 600 MB database. Even assuming the web server, mail server, Linux, etc., take half of the available real memory (probably unlikely), that still leaves 1 GB or so for the database. More than enough for the database itself to be resident in RAM.
And history has shown that those allies who did not participate in the attacks of sovereign nations were correct. The claims the US made were false, and most likely were knowingly false.
Performance wise, how does this new release of MySQL compare with other open source databases like PostgreSQL, Firebird and perhaps even SQLite?
Even going with a conservative estimate of 8 hits/second at times, that's still something that a modern server should be able to handle without issue.
No, unfortunately. I wish I knew where TripMaster Monkey went, as well. I miss his insightful comments and his occasional funny post.
What sort of hardware is behind RubyForge?
240000 hits/day is just under 3 hits/second, after all.
When you consider the power of today's hardware, it should be able to cope with such a load, even when doing fairly heavy database activity.
To be honest, I hate RPGs. So I don't think I'm qualified to recommend one to you.
But the things you want (ie. improved AI, interactive environments, better stories) are all hallmarks of RPGs. Have you considered playing those instead?
This isn't something to be proud of. I mean, this is what any decent news organization should be doing constantly. They haven't done anything particularly outstanding in this case. This is what they should've been doing all along!
I don't think we should commend FOX News for the lone time they aren't negligent. I think we should rather focus on all of the times that the quality of their reporting has been suspect.
Just because the standards for corporate news agencies have dropped significantly doesn't mean that we should commend them when they don't obviously fuck up.
Seriously, go to Japan. Look for some games there. You can find some pretty odd adult games. Many of the games would make even the most extreme of Western perverts cringe.
I stayed with relatives who had been to Japan. I ran across some of their games while using their computer. Boy, was I surprised! There are games where you go around as a big octopus tentacle ripping the cloths off of people in the street. Then you proceed to tentacle rape them. In one of the games, for instance, you rape people up the ass. Then, for whatever reason, you were able to control their limbs. Now if that's not absurd enough, you can go to dance competitions. You have to make the person embedded anally on your tentacle dance.
They were addicting games, that's for sure. And challenging. Real mind-benders, too.
Remember, it's not so much about what the publishers will sell, but rather about what the consumers will buy. After all, the publishers could offer a game with a great storyline and semi-decent graphics. And you know what? It may very well not well.
I'm sure many of the major game publishers have looked into the possibility of offering games like you describe. But the potential benefits most likely do not outweigh the risks. When you're dealing with millions upon millions of dollars, you usually don't want to go wrong.
Why not a funnel? Because as stated earlier, the designers most likely looked into that possibility and deemed it unsuitable. They found that the flower shape would work best.
Why not a garbage can lid? Again, because it does not fit the criteria. It does not work.
Why a flower? Well, most likely because it suggests that it can be folded up, launched into space, and the opened/deployed. Sending up a fully formed, stadium-sized garage funnel is obviously a stupid thing to do if there are better alternatives (ie. a flower-shaped, deployable design) available.
It looks like you lost the debate.
But how do you want the gameplay "reinvented"? I often hear people request this with respect to games, but they never really seem to be able to pinpoint what specific changes they'd like. Perhaps you can offer some suggestions?
I'm just not sure that there's really any way to reinvent the killing of people and monsters. Unless you want to transition to virtual reality suits and holodecks, there probably isn't much more that could be done. Such games are already in 3D, and thus already at the level of reality. And if they add more environmental/story interaction to the basic DooM-esque theme, you end up with an RPG. Many people play shooters because they don't want the hassle of an RPG storyline.
Actually, I'm basically always correct. That's just how it works. I sense some jealousy from you, but that's okay. I won't hold it against you.
My good man, you have yourself a nice day!
So why are you, apparently as an American, sitting on your fat ass (quite possibly eating some more KFC) doing about your president who has lied repeatedly to you and the world?
The least you could do is protest. And I don't mean here on Slashdot or some blog.
It is shaped like a flower rather than a funnel because that is the design the designers found would work best. The matter was investigated by professionals, and people who are experts at designing such equipment. I would trust their judgement on this matter over that of somebody who thinks it should be shaped like a garage funnel.
That's more a problem with PHP in general. PHP is, like it or not, lousy. Many apps developed with it are by far the shittiest pieces of software I've ever seen. Very little of PHP encourages good programming practices, and as such many inexperienced users are able to create monstrosities with it.
Considering its recent security problems, I'd be very weary to use PHP, or any software written in PHP, for any serious task.
Indeed, in that particular instance the developer was treated with nothing but respect. It was the developer who came out of the blue and attacked the user, due to a discussion the user was having with others.
Yes, in the open source world the users are the equivalent of business customers. That cannot be denied.
And it sounds like your "professional experience" has been marred by a complete lack of professionalism. I would hope that you have a good idea about how damaging a lack of professionalism can be, whether it is a doctor, a businessman or an open source developer who is lacking such skills.
Neither Republicans nor Democrats are interested in a free press. Why is that? Because a truly free press in the US would show both Democrats and Republicans as the scum that they are. Luckily, that's what we're beginning to see with blogs. The faults in the system are being exposed. And out come the politicians, trying to dam up that freedom of expression gusher before it's too late for them.
Indeed. Even the janitors and burger flippers at McDonalds know not to insult the customers. I would hope that an open source developer could hold himself or herself to that basic standard, if not far exceed it.
The fact that it's moderated +5 shows that professionalism is a concept that many in the open source community fail to grasp. Now, that doesn't surprise me in a way. The community itself has academic roots, and many members do not have the experience necessary to understand professionalism.
If you follow that particular discussion back far enough, you would clearly see that that KOffice developer was incorrect with respect to his basic points. Follow it forwards and you'll see him blame his inappropriate behaviour on a headache. Either way, such behavior is inexcusable. It shouldn't fly here, and it would never fly in a business setting.