Nah, it's pretty funny - but only because it's true. They guy has a legitimate message, but there's a lot to said for a good presentation. Not so far different from the people who type in abbreviated "netspeak", and then wonder why nobody takes them seriously.
As far as my own hanging - feel free to joke about whatever you wish. I hope that I can find humor then too - I do tend to see it in every situation, and can only hope I don't prove myself the ultimate hypocrite in the end.
I'm not entirely sure I follow that godawful summary, but after reading TFA and various places it's referenced...
As far as I can tell, this "new proposal" isn't anything to do with standard HTML, but rather someone's blog posting about the idea that has been 'twitted' and blogged about a lot?
The same thing can be accomplished with a URL rewrite, without needing to modify each and every individual application to understand these URLs.
WTF is "linkrot apocalypse"?
So I guess what I'm saying is... um, what's the point?
One of the Japanese people I followed suddenly tweeted a couple lines in English about StalkDaily and I was like 'wtf?' At least now I know it wasn't them.
Heh - and now you also know that you were one of the victims. Kind of like that movie where everyone who watched a video type died. Except without the death. And the water.
This is something that I'm not understanding about virtualization.
If you're running 30 different services on 30 different machines, wouldn't it make as much sense to consolidate them to 15 services on each of two modern machines, instead of needing to maintain 30 different virtual machines? That way, you're also getting native performance without the overhead of virtualization.
On the other hand, in cases where someone is hosting thousands of the same application on individual servers, it makes a lot more sense.
What are you talking about? Your average person is not traveling 4.3 hours every day. Indeed even you didn't travel 4.3 hours every day. and I severally doubt you averaged 80mph. Hook up a meter to your car. Stopping for gas and/or eating, pissing or whatever tanks your average. You probably averaged less than 50mph. Trust me.
If it took him 3.5 hours to 280 miles, he pretty much had no choice but to average 80mph. Trust me. Or... erm, do the math: 280/3.5 = 80.
The Tesla can easily keep up with your silly assed car. The only time wasters is if you have to recharge, which is generally done at night when you aren't billing any of those precious and expensive billable hours anyway!
It's going to hold a charge for the same mileage doing 80mph? That seems unlikely - if he maintained that speed, he'd have to stop for an hour to recharge.
You sound like an idiot who doesn't know the first thing about what you are talking about!
When was this something that needed to be proven? I've found plenty of entertaining science fiction around. Did I miss the elitist newsletter that told us all we had to say science fiction was crap now?
I'm onto your game.
First you say that science fiction as entertainment doesn't need to be proven. You say that science fiction is valid entertainment whether we believe in it or not. That we must take it on faith.
Next post, you'll be telling us that Xenu is real. Wait and see if you don't.
Haven't had those issues. Takes me a second to load the page, period. I've had no noticeable delays in processing script. I have had no other tabs get blocked while loading slashdot pages.
Your response is consistent with the theme of replies to my post: "I personally (don't use|don't like|have bad experience) with the new interface, therefore there is no advantage to it and you are wrong."
Some of us like to, you know, Read The Fine Article first.
What does that have to do with anything? Click reply. Wait for the reply page to load. Article is in a different tab and already read...
But anyway - to summarize, you're saying that I don't need the services I think I need, because you don't, and therefore nobody should. Does that about cover it?
I've actually tried the new-style discussion interface several times since it was introduced, and frankly I just can't bring myself to like it. Partly because I hate floating widgets (they flicker too much), partly because I can't (i.e. haven't felt like taking the time to) figure out how comments are ordered, and partly, well, just because; maybe it's the Office 2007 ribbon effect of being annoyed by an arbitrarily changed interface.
Fair enough, but again yours is not the only user experience. Clearly sufficient numbers of slashdotters have left it enabled and continue to use it - therefore see some value in it.
Tangentally - flickering? Actually not sure what you're referring to here, I haven't seen anything like that.
I really like the new system(s), especially the async page loading and 'fetch on demand' aspects of comments. But...
Please oh please, add a "submit" button next to the moderation dropdown? It should do the same asynchronous post that selection change of that dropdown does today. It's very easy (especially using a sensitive touchpad) to mis-click on a moderation option - which you can then only undo by replying in the conversation, and losing any point(s) awarded.*
A submit button would remove the accidental moderation issue, and still allow the all the ajaxified web2.0 paradigms to remain intact;)
* then - to add insult to injury - usually get that corrective post modded down as offtopic because of some moderator a power trip
True - even a simple javascript popup (You're about to mod this most XXX, continue? yes/no) would actually be helpful - as much as I usually dislike those as a UI method. Better would be a submit button that does the same asynchronous goodness that selection change does now.
Those of us with a functioning brain switched off the Javascript Web 2.0 crap the day you foisted it on us, and we'll continue to read Slashdot the way we always have.
Those of you with functioning brains prefer larger downloads, and waiting for full page loads before replying and after moderating? Ah, right, and having to refresh the page every time you change your threshold?
Phew. Sure am glad my brain is broken then. Among other advantages, those of us with non-functional brains realize that just because a technology happens to have a buzzword attached to it doesn't mean that the technology itself is a bad thing.
Companies are coming around, I think, albeit slowly. Offering unlimited data plans is a really major step that fundamentally changes the way people use data on their phone
Heh - this is what's most frustrating. I have "unlimited data transfer" plan for $30/month with AT&T, but if I tether, I'm in violation of the TOS. My other other option is to pay for a tethering plan - which is $70/month and limits me to 5GB.
So on the one hand they have a plan they call "unlimited" which really means "unlimited transfer within a strict set of limitations" - clearly they don't expect it to be used for very much data transfer. To make sure of that, they put fine print in their TOS that prevents me from using it for anything practical - while conveniently offering me a severely capped plan at over twice the price.
What's funny is that my first reaction as I read the article was, "doesn't yeast produce wastes that are foreign and toxic to the human body?" And wouldn't you know it, the next section was entitled, "Waste problem". Guess they're reading my mind.:-P
Nah, what's funny is that my first reaction to the summary was, "Ok, I'm getting tired of the April Fools' articles."
And yeah, the entire game (including side stuff) is likely to take about 50 hours, divided into five chapters. As for "what kind of game"--mix together Shining Force, Suikoden, and Phantasy Star IV, then shake liberally, and you'll have the start of an idea.:-)
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter;) Seriously, any info/web site, or is it too early?
I would counter that if it is not worth buying, there's possible excuse could there be for pirating it - other than simply not wanting to pay. Let's call it what it is and move on.
My suggestion is a very simple key system with no online validation. There's no magic bullet that will stop people from pirating. However hard you make it, if the game is worth playing someone will go to the trouble of cracking it and releasing the crack.
The people who were going to pay for it will pay for it anyway. The ones who would pirate it will do so anyway. This is fatalist, but also true.
As you mention, it's the casual copiers that you want to stop- the ones who might not stop to think that maybe they shouldn't just give a copy to a friend without ensuring it gets paid for.
A simple product key scheme can remind them of that, especially if the caption to that key entry screen is something like "This game is not free. It cost time and money to develop. Please purchase your product key at our secure web site [linked url here] for only $x. "
You could take it one step further: require the game to register once with the web site, to ensure that each key is a) one that you provided and b) is not already in use. Make it very easy to replace a key to get another install - submit their existing key + email address to a form, get a new key (and deactivate the old). This only works if you will be selling by download in the first place, otherwise you can't reasonably add something that requires a connection.
The above is a relatively simple scheme (similar to what GP suggested, but not quite the same) that will stop the next level of casual copiers: "I'll just use my friend's key to install it". It won't stop someone from using a keygen, but the person who goes to download a keygen wasn't going to pay anyway.
(And holy carp... ten hours for first 20%? What genre/kind of game?)
SO true, while i could most likely pirate pennyarcade's drm less game, i have not and will not, why? because i like the guys. on the otherhand OFC i have a pirated copy of spore despite its DRM because i have no intention of paying for something produced by EA.
So in other words, stealing the value of someone's time and effort is OK depending on who you're taking it from? I wish my morals were that flexible, life would be easy.
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As far as my own hanging - feel free to joke about whatever you wish. I hope that I can find humor then too - I do tend to see it in every situation, and can only hope I don't prove myself the ultimate hypocrite in the end.
So I guess what I'm saying is ... um, what's the point?
One of the Japanese people I followed suddenly tweeted a couple lines in English about StalkDaily and I was like 'wtf?' At least now I know it wasn't them.
Heh - and now you also know that you were one of the victims. Kind of like that movie where everyone who watched a video type died. Except without the death. And the water.
This is something that I'm not understanding about virtualization.
If you're running 30 different services on 30 different machines, wouldn't it make as much sense to consolidate them to 15 services on each of two modern machines, instead of needing to maintain 30 different virtual machines? That way, you're also getting native performance without the overhead of virtualization.
On the other hand, in cases where someone is hosting thousands of the same application on individual servers, it makes a lot more sense.
What does this have to do with what I said?
Dude, have you seen that web site? I'd want to ban it too, at least until it got a serious redesign... ;)
What are you talking about? Your average person is not traveling 4.3 hours every day. Indeed even you didn't travel 4.3 hours every day. and I severally doubt you averaged 80mph. Hook up a meter to your car. Stopping for gas and/or eating, pissing or whatever tanks your average. You probably averaged less than 50mph. Trust me.
If it took him 3.5 hours to 280 miles, he pretty much had no choice but to average 80mph. Trust me. Or... erm, do the math: 280/3.5 = 80.
The Tesla can easily keep up with your silly assed car. The only time wasters is if you have to recharge, which is generally done at night when you aren't billing any of those precious and expensive billable hours anyway!
It's going to hold a charge for the same mileage doing 80mph? That seems unlikely - if he maintained that speed, he'd have to stop for an hour to recharge.
You sound like an idiot who doesn't know the first thing about what you are talking about!
Great way to wrap up an argument ;)
When was this something that needed to be proven? I've found plenty of entertaining science fiction around. Did I miss the elitist newsletter that told us all we had to say science fiction was crap now?
I'm onto your game.
First you say that science fiction as entertainment doesn't need to be proven. You say that science fiction is valid entertainment whether we believe in it or not. That we must take it on faith.
Next post, you'll be telling us that Xenu is real. Wait and see if you don't.
Same here (firefox only). Strange; I don't see it on home or work systems, or winxp and linux.
Presumably those of you at those workplaces turn off the new interface... (I do at work for the same reason.)
Haven't had those issues. Takes me a second to load the page, period. I've had no noticeable delays in processing script. I have had no other tabs get blocked while loading slashdot pages.
Your response is consistent with the theme of replies to my post: "I personally (don't use|don't like|have bad experience) with the new interface, therefore there is no advantage to it and you are wrong."
Some of us like to, you know, Read The Fine Article first.
What does that have to do with anything? Click reply. Wait for the reply page to load. Article is in a different tab and already read...
But anyway - to summarize, you're saying that I don't need the services I think I need, because you don't, and therefore nobody should. Does that about cover it?
I've actually tried the new-style discussion interface several times since it was introduced, and frankly I just can't bring myself to like it. Partly because I hate floating widgets (they flicker too much), partly because I can't (i.e. haven't felt like taking the time to) figure out how comments are ordered, and partly, well, just because; maybe it's the Office 2007 ribbon effect of being annoyed by an arbitrarily changed interface.
Fair enough, but again yours is not the only user experience. Clearly sufficient numbers of slashdotters have left it enabled and continue to use it - therefore see some value in it.
Tangentally - flickering? Actually not sure what you're referring to here, I haven't seen anything like that.
is your friend!
I really like the new system(s), especially the async page loading and 'fetch on demand' aspects of comments. But...
Please oh please, add a "submit" button next to the moderation dropdown? It should do the same asynchronous post that selection change of that dropdown does today. It's very easy (especially using a sensitive touchpad) to mis-click on a moderation option - which you can then only undo by replying in the conversation, and losing any point(s) awarded.*
A submit button would remove the accidental moderation issue, and still allow the all the ajaxified web2.0 paradigms to remain intact ;)
* then - to add insult to injury - usually get that corrective post modded down as offtopic because of some moderator a power trip
True - even a simple javascript popup (You're about to mod this most XXX, continue? yes/no) would actually be helpful - as much as I usually dislike those as a UI method. Better would be a submit button that does the same asynchronous goodness that selection change does now.
Those of us with a functioning brain switched off the Javascript Web 2.0 crap the day you foisted it on us, and we'll continue to read Slashdot the way we always have.
Those of you with functioning brains prefer larger downloads, and waiting for full page loads before replying and after moderating? Ah, right, and having to refresh the page every time you change your threshold?
Phew. Sure am glad my brain is broken then. Among other advantages, those of us with non-functional brains realize that just because a technology happens to have a buzzword attached to it doesn't mean that the technology itself is a bad thing.
Accidentally modded you wrongly, posting to undo
First tag: flamebait.
Does anyone else see the irony here?
Companies are coming around, I think, albeit slowly. Offering unlimited data plans is a really major step that fundamentally changes the way people use data on their phone
Heh - this is what's most frustrating. I have "unlimited data transfer" plan for $30/month with AT&T, but if I tether, I'm in violation of the TOS. My other other option is to pay for a tethering plan - which is $70/month and limits me to 5GB.
So on the one hand they have a plan they call "unlimited" which really means "unlimited transfer within a strict set of limitations" - clearly they don't expect it to be used for very much data transfer. To make sure of that, they put fine print in their TOS that prevents me from using it for anything practical - while conveniently offering me a severely capped plan at over twice the price.
What's funny is that my first reaction as I read the article was, "doesn't yeast produce wastes that are foreign and toxic to the human body?" And wouldn't you know it, the next section was entitled, "Waste problem". Guess they're reading my mind. :-P
Nah, what's funny is that my first reaction to the summary was, "Ok, I'm getting tired of the April Fools' articles."
The same goes with machines from Swedens largest bank Swedbank.
Where /do/ they come up with these delightful names!
And yeah, the entire game (including side stuff) is likely to take about 50 hours, divided into five chapters. As for "what kind of game"--mix together Shining Force, Suikoden, and Phantasy Star IV, then shake liberally, and you'll have the start of an idea. :-)
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter ;) Seriously, any info/web site, or is it too early?
I would counter that if it is not worth buying, there's possible excuse could there be for pirating it - other than simply not wanting to pay. Let's call it what it is and move on.
The people who were going to pay for it will pay for it anyway. The ones who would pirate it will do so anyway. This is fatalist, but also true.
As you mention, it's the casual copiers that you want to stop- the ones who might not stop to think that maybe they shouldn't just give a copy to a friend without ensuring it gets paid for.
A simple product key scheme can remind them of that, especially if the caption to that key entry screen is something like "This game is not free. It cost time and money to develop. Please purchase your product key at our secure web site [linked url here] for only $x. "
You could take it one step further: require the game to register once with the web site, to ensure that each key is a) one that you provided and b) is not already in use. Make it very easy to replace a key to get another install - submit their existing key + email address to a form, get a new key (and deactivate the old). This only works if you will be selling by download in the first place, otherwise you can't reasonably add something that requires a connection.
The above is a relatively simple scheme (similar to what GP suggested, but not quite the same) that will stop the next level of casual copiers: "I'll just use my friend's key to install it". It won't stop someone from using a keygen, but the person who goes to download a keygen wasn't going to pay anyway.
(And holy carp... ten hours for first 20%? What genre/kind of game?)
SO true, while i could most likely pirate pennyarcade's drm less game, i have not and will not, why? because i like the guys. on the otherhand OFC i have a pirated copy of spore despite its DRM because i have no intention of paying for something produced by EA.
So in other words, stealing the value of someone's time and effort is OK depending on who you're taking it from? I wish my morals were that flexible, life would be easy.