This wasn't a 1 in 9 problem, or even a 3 in 9 problem, this was a 1/9 or 3/9 problem after 5 hours of use. What about after another 5? 50? 500? You see where I'm going with this, right?
Even if it is a small subset with defective drives, are they supposed to just piss off because they drew the short straw or something? This race to the bottom is not going anyplace good.
I heard Dick Cheney's going to be available in late January! He'd be a great consultant to pull in for the final polish, whatwith his outstanding achievements, not the least of which was lobbying the Fuckyourself brand to the entire U.S. Congress.
That part was fine, the part about it being okay that he's a theocrat, just because he supports your favorite piece of legislation (that I happen to agree with, BTW) is the part that spurred my comment. You seem to be willing to accept a different flavor of authoritarianism, and that's what (I believe) makes my comment applicable.
Good for you, nice choice. Picking (what I would consider) a good candidate doesn't seem to have helped the partisan pain I mention above. (If you point out where I called you a Republican, I'll graciously concede). The fact that the discussion we SHOULD be having is about a process instantly makes it better than half of the things slashdot has been posting to the frontpage lately.
Nerds call getting someone to tell them their password 'social engineering', well, a nerd that can get someone to hand them a list of IBM board member and department head passwords would be a script kiddie compared to the social hackery which is the U.S. electoral system. Your obvious animosity aside, the topic is "appropriate" reading for slashdot.
Another thing, this is CmdrTaco's BLOG. Don't like the topic, start your own blog (or, more likely, make your current one not suck). Simple, no?
P.S. Not everyone who calls you out on off-topic whining is an asshole, but in this case you actually got it right. I -AM- an asshole, and I'm good at it. You on the other hand are a whiny little douche who would rather cry about something they don't like than to spend the mental effort it takes to discuss the topic at hand. Your post added nothing of value to the topic at hand, and did nothing but show everyone what kind of spoiled child you are. Pathetic and worthless.
NOW you're justified in calling me an asshole, douche.
I like what you're getting at, I really do, but the big problem with it is that it's been (almost) doen like that before, with horrid results.
Here's the thing; whenever you posit a change of laws, how the law will have positive effects should be your SECONDARY (not primary) point of interest. Your PRIMARY point of interest needs to be "how could this law be abused", and under THAT standard, your testing turns out to be a REALLY BAD idea. It's not that the principle isn't sound, it's that the possible (likely?) implementation of that principle is damaging to the civil rights of our citizens.
You started okay, but after the GP posted a perfectly reasonable reply, you went off half-cocked. Perhaps YOU cannot be trusted with a gun (I don't know that, but it's what you're implying), but I think that people like the GP and myself shouldn't be restricted because of your fear. What do you want after you come get my gun, to listen to my conversation to make sure I'm not platting something evil? Cut off all the natural gas to people's homes for fear of explosions?
No, if you look carefully, you'll realize that your rationalization for removing a freedom I enjoy is purely based on fear and speculation. I've seen you rally against this type of mindset before, what in this case puts you so firmly in the other camp?
If you seriously think that discussing how the electoral college works makes someone a democratic party hack, you are the single most butthurt partisan I've ever seen. So what, for the next 4-8 years, every time someone mentions anything having to do with the office of the president, they're a Democratic party hack? Waaaaaaa!!!!!!
Yeah, sorry to jump the gun back there. I think what people have been trying to say is that Wine just isn't equipped to do what you ask. You're absolutely right that it would be a nice chunk of the puzzle already done, but -I- sure as hell wouldn't want to program, and integrate with Wine, an x86 emulator for the PPC. Okay, maybe I do a little, but that's the wanna-be supernerd in me trying to get out. The regular nerd that I actually am finds even the prospect of such a task frightening.:-)
Yeah, you're right. Not being a Mac user, I was confusing Rosetta with Parallels(?). I apologize for jumping the gun there.
That being said, I would find it hard to believe (but I haven't googled it yet) that Rosetta could run PPC code at native speeds on an x86 architecture. I could be wrong, it's happened at least once today.:-D
Rosetta works on Intel Macs the way it does because of the Intel part. You're running x86 code on an x86 chip. Happiness and sunshine.
Now throw that code at a PPC chip and watch in horror as it laughs at you. No happiness, no sunshine, and no hope of getting it to run at anywhere near native speeds.
No, it's completely different. In one case, you have cars that have a special lane with a higher speed limit. That would be an un-neutral network. However, in THIS case, that's not happening. Google is effectively putting MORE CARS on the already existing lanes. The cars themselves don't go faster, but there are more of them, meaning when you call for a car, you are likely to get one sooner than before, because there is likely one closer to you than there would have been.
Having more servers doesn't mean they're getting preferential treatment.
I don't think that putting a DVD into a (hopefully) physically secured computer is as automagical as doing absolutely nothing on the client end while a script/daemon takes care of all the work.
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Heh...
It puts the lotion on it's skin, or it gets rm'd again.
Ahem... look at your parent posters username... :-D
No, it doesn't spin the other way when you're burning, silly!
It spins the other way when you're in the Southern Hemisphere.
What console maker did you say you worked for?
This wasn't a 1 in 9 problem, or even a 3 in 9 problem, this was a 1/9 or 3/9 problem after 5 hours of use. What about after another 5? 50? 500? You see where I'm going with this, right?
Even if it is a small subset with defective drives, are they supposed to just piss off because they drew the short straw or something? This race to the bottom is not going anyplace good.
I swear I've been thinking that same thing half this thread. From the sound of these things you can't even LOOK at them funny of the disc is toast.
I heard Dick Cheney's going to be available in late January! He'd be a great consultant to pull in for the final polish, whatwith his outstanding achievements, not the least of which was lobbying the Fuckyourself brand to the entire U.S. Congress.
Thanks for the correction.
Some of those external links on that wiki page are very interesting, thanks!
That part was fine, the part about it being okay that he's a theocrat, just because he supports your favorite piece of legislation (that I happen to agree with, BTW) is the part that spurred my comment. You seem to be willing to accept a different flavor of authoritarianism, and that's what (I believe) makes my comment applicable.
PS - I voted for Nader asshole.
Good for you, nice choice. Picking (what I would consider) a good candidate doesn't seem to have helped the partisan pain I mention above. (If you point out where I called you a Republican, I'll graciously concede). The fact that the discussion we SHOULD be having is about a process instantly makes it better than half of the things slashdot has been posting to the frontpage lately.
Nerds call getting someone to tell them their password 'social engineering', well, a nerd that can get someone to hand them a list of IBM board member and department head passwords would be a script kiddie compared to the social hackery which is the U.S. electoral system. Your obvious animosity aside, the topic is "appropriate" reading for slashdot.
Another thing, this is CmdrTaco's BLOG. Don't like the topic, start your own blog (or, more likely, make your current one not suck). Simple, no?
P.S. Not everyone who calls you out on off-topic whining is an asshole, but in this case you actually got it right. I -AM- an asshole, and I'm good at it. You on the other hand are a whiny little douche who would rather cry about something they don't like than to spend the mental effort it takes to discuss the topic at hand. Your post added nothing of value to the topic at hand, and did nothing but show everyone what kind of spoiled child you are. Pathetic and worthless.
NOW you're justified in calling me an asshole, douche.
Not to mention all the Israeli dual-citizens. AFAIK just being Jewish (by blood, not conversion?) makes you an Israeli citizen.
Oh, FFS, I almost thought -I- had posted that for a second... Had me thinking to myself "I haven't gotten drunk ALREADY, have I?". Heh.
I like what you're getting at, I really do, but the big problem with it is that it's been (almost) doen like that before, with horrid results.
Here's the thing; whenever you posit a change of laws, how the law will have positive effects should be your SECONDARY (not primary) point of interest. Your PRIMARY point of interest needs to be "how could this law be abused", and under THAT standard, your testing turns out to be a REALLY BAD idea. It's not that the principle isn't sound, it's that the possible (likely?) implementation of that principle is damaging to the civil rights of our citizens.
You started okay, but after the GP posted a perfectly reasonable reply, you went off half-cocked. Perhaps YOU cannot be trusted with a gun (I don't know that, but it's what you're implying), but I think that people like the GP and myself shouldn't be restricted because of your fear. What do you want after you come get my gun, to listen to my conversation to make sure I'm not platting something evil? Cut off all the natural gas to people's homes for fear of explosions?
No, if you look carefully, you'll realize that your rationalization for removing a freedom I enjoy is purely based on fear and speculation. I've seen you rally against this type of mindset before, what in this case puts you so firmly in the other camp?
I love how everyone insists that THEIR version of Authoritarianism is really the One and True Freedom.
Freeedom is great! Just don't be doing anything that I don't like.
If you seriously think that discussing how the electoral college works makes someone a democratic party hack, you are the single most butthurt partisan I've ever seen. So what, for the next 4-8 years, every time someone mentions anything having to do with the office of the president, they're a Democratic party hack? Waaaaaaa!!!!!!
Yeah, sorry to jump the gun back there. I think what people have been trying to say is that Wine just isn't equipped to do what you ask. You're absolutely right that it would be a nice chunk of the puzzle already done, but -I- sure as hell wouldn't want to program, and integrate with Wine, an x86 emulator for the PPC. Okay, maybe I do a little, but that's the wanna-be supernerd in me trying to get out. The regular nerd that I actually am finds even the prospect of such a task frightening. :-)
Yeah, you're right. Not being a Mac user, I was confusing Rosetta with Parallels(?). I apologize for jumping the gun there.
That being said, I would find it hard to believe (but I haven't googled it yet) that Rosetta could run PPC code at native speeds on an x86 architecture. I could be wrong, it's happened at least once today. :-D
Rosetta works on Intel Macs the way it does because of the Intel part. You're running x86 code on an x86 chip. Happiness and sunshine.
Now throw that code at a PPC chip and watch in horror as it laughs at you. No happiness, no sunshine, and no hope of getting it to run at anywhere near native speeds.
I think it's Taco's way of passive-aggressive intellectual baiting. He wants us to get pissed about the idea and shoot it down thoroughly.
At least that's what I -HOPE- is going on.
Yep, there's all of that, and then there's both Driver Hell for older devices and Incompatibility Limbo for older software.
Anyone else want to add to the 'why I'm not running Vista thread? :-D
No, it's completely different. In one case, you have cars that have a special lane with a higher speed limit. That would be an un-neutral network. However, in THIS case, that's not happening. Google is effectively putting MORE CARS on the already existing lanes. The cars themselves don't go faster, but there are more of them, meaning when you call for a car, you are likely to get one sooner than before, because there is likely one closer to you than there would have been.
Having more servers doesn't mean they're getting preferential treatment.
I don't think that putting a DVD into a (hopefully) physically secured computer is as automagical as doing absolutely nothing on the client end while a script/daemon takes care of all the work.
WAR KITTENS!