Although Linux can be a nice environment for programming, a framework which facilitates writing games specifically would be much easier to write games to. And that's where he's missing the point (on purpose or not). It's only for writing games. Linux enables you to do a bunch of other cool stuff (playing around with the Cell architecture, doing cheap clusters, etc). And theoretically, Sony could eventually provide people with a framework to write games on PS3 Linux, while still enabling us to do cool stuff.
I think you miss the GP's point. IMHO, he doesn't mean there aren't any real terrorists. He means other terrorist attacks won't necessarily lead to the voters actually electing the other party. That's because more terrorist attacks + media manipulation (yeah, call me a crazy biased liberal, I'm not even American to start with) can actually lead to an increase in the conservative vote (because then the neocons could say they were right all along, that they should have more power to restrict personal liberties, etc).
That could be a problem if there really are terrorists in the world, because they will be making plots, blowing up things, and getting away while you are working over some poor innocent bastard you picked up off the street.
You forgot Osama. Bush was duly punished in the polls for that, wasn't he?
Well, that would break the layer separation on the TCP/IP architecture. The lower layers aren't supposed to be concerned with the details of the application.
Actually, there was a study that showed that people are more likely to assess their skills incorrectly the lower their skills are. That means, people who suck at doing something are usually more likely to think they are good at doing it.
Anedoctal evidence: when I play chess with people who say they are good at it, I usually kick their asses and they end up saying "Wow, why did you say you didn't play very well?" Well, that's because I know enough about chess to actually realize I suck at playing it.
"Personally, I think the GPLv2 will sooner or later kill the Linux kernel. Some highly successful embedded Linux systems like the WRT54G only became hackable because the manufacturers made a mistake."
And why does this "kill the Linux kernel"? The Linux kernel will still be free and open source. Though I agree with you in saying that this is bad for the users and bad for the Open Source community (because the manufacturers do not/will not contribute).
I think people really miss the point with the "This is UNIX, I know this" scene from Jurassic Park.
The thing people should be complaining about is that the little girl was able to repair everything that was broken on the park just by running/usr/foobar.sh, which presumably contain all the initialization scripts for every single security problem that was happening on the park.
Yet Newman (yeah, I had to google the actor's name, it's Wayne Knight) was shown on screen burning the midnight oil trying to hack the security system. Unless Newman was trying to figure out "#!/bin/sh
services park_security off #HOLY CRAP T-REX RUNNING AROUND",
it couldn't have been that simple to make everything Just Work (TM) again.
PS: Yeah, I'm sure someone's going to correct me and say "Hey there was no services command in 1992, we had to tell the OS which services to run by changing bits on the initialization script on the HD with a magnet", or something of the sort. Well, I never ran System V, you know those damn kids that only know Linux and FreeBSD... But you got the point.
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Although Linux can be a nice environment for programming, a framework which facilitates writing games specifically would be much easier to write games to. And that's where he's missing the point (on purpose or not). It's only for writing games. Linux enables you to do a bunch of other cool stuff (playing around with the Cell architecture, doing cheap clusters, etc). And theoretically, Sony could eventually provide people with a framework to write games on PS3 Linux, while still enabling us to do cool stuff.
IANAL but I thought CG depictions of child sexuality are already illegal in the United States.
You would be wrong. The Supreme Court has ruled that banning CG depictions of child sexuality is a violation of First Amendment rights. See for example http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/00-795.ZO. html
I think you miss the GP's point. IMHO, he doesn't mean there aren't any real terrorists. He means other terrorist attacks won't necessarily lead to the voters actually electing the other party. That's because more terrorist attacks + media manipulation (yeah, call me a crazy biased liberal, I'm not even American to start with) can actually lead to an increase in the conservative vote (because then the neocons could say they were right all along, that they should have more power to restrict personal liberties, etc).
That could be a problem if there really are terrorists in the world, because they will be making plots, blowing up things, and getting away while you are working over some poor innocent bastard you picked up off the street.
You forgot Osama. Bush was duly punished in the polls for that, wasn't he?
So you're saying they forgot Poland?
No, but it should be handled at the application level, not at the TCP/IP stack.
How do you know that you have successfully done this? By definition, you can't remember having done it.
It's called doublethink. ;)
Well, that would break the layer separation on the TCP/IP architecture. The lower layers aren't supposed to be concerned with the details of the application.
So is this what they call Open Darwin? *DUCKS*
Actually, there was a study that showed that people are more likely to assess their skills incorrectly the lower their skills are. That means, people who suck at doing something are usually more likely to think they are good at doing it.
Anedoctal evidence: when I play chess with people who say they are good at it, I usually kick their asses and they end up saying "Wow, why did you say you didn't play very well?" Well, that's because I know enough about chess to actually realize I suck at playing it.
"Otherwise, when you (...) start dating someone (...)"
You must be new here...
"Personally, I think the GPLv2 will sooner or later kill the Linux kernel. Some highly successful embedded Linux systems like the WRT54G only became hackable because the manufacturers made a mistake."
And why does this "kill the Linux kernel"? The Linux kernel will still be free and open source. Though I agree with you in saying that this is bad for the users and bad for the Open Source community (because the manufacturers do not/will not contribute).
So Apple is trying to turn podcasts into outcasts? *DUCKS*
Does any country have a TLD .le? .mobi.le?
I mean, come on, isn't it obvious?
I think people really miss the point with the "This is UNIX, I know this" scene from Jurassic Park.
The thing people should be complaining about is that the little girl was able to repair everything that was broken on the park just by running /usr/foobar.sh, which presumably contain all the initialization scripts for every single security problem that was happening on the park.
Yet Newman (yeah, I had to google the actor's name, it's Wayne Knight) was shown on screen burning the midnight oil trying to hack the security system. Unless Newman was trying to figure out
"#!/bin/sh
services park_security off #HOLY CRAP T-REX RUNNING AROUND",
it couldn't have been that simple to make everything Just Work (TM) again.
PS: Yeah, I'm sure someone's going to correct me and say "Hey there was no services command in 1992, we had to tell the OS which services to run by changing bits on the initialization script on the HD with a magnet", or something of the sort. Well, I never ran System V, you know those damn kids that only know Linux and FreeBSD... But you got the point.
You can't fight entropy.
;)
I'm still waiting for the heat death of Windows, though.