It is a disgrace Wikipedia isn't more inclusive. Who the hell has the authority to fix this? Sometimes it seems like the (seemingly) self-elected moderators run the show and delete what they please.
8fps is fine for Freeciv. (And by the way check out Freeciv, especially if you liked any of the Civilization series. I am stoked to hear they're getting it working within a browser; goodbye productivity!)
Reading your post again I can see that it was a rhetorical question, and I agree that in general people won't pay for Google services (just that I would like the option to), so yes I agree with your point.
I'm not a big Google-privacy-paranoia guy, but my faith in them had been on the decline, and their recent China thing has definitely bought them some credibility in my eyes. It's easy to have a knee-jerk cynical reaction to it, but it may well show that they really are still putting principles before profits, and that their "Don't Be Evil" motto is more than a quirky relic of their early days.
Perhaps, I've been threatened with this myself by a user who wanted a feature I wasn't prepared to implement, but some things you should bear in mind:
Forking the code would be hard work, over a long period beyond that of an idle threat. It really isn't intimidating, especially if you mainly want to maintain legacy code and not add new features.
There's no threat from that at all, and if it turns out there is it's easy to implement legacy support and destroy all momentum the fork has at any moment.
You might think this or that task is surely easy compared to this or that feature that they have implemented, but whatever this or that feature was chances are they wanted it implemented themselves, and had fun coding it, whereas the thing you have in mind is probably mundane and of no usefulness to them.
This is really common, the boring fixes and maintenance really do just weigh you down and sap your enthusiasm, even while you're busy working on something that is much more difficult
Again I also hate being on the receiving end of this, I'm not saying it's good, but this is the reality of it. It's not out of spite but just because hobby projects can't survive if you need to maintain multiple versions and support legacy standards you're not interested in.
If you think Handbrake has a "duty" you should see hobby projects like SQLite, which are just the same. I submitted a pretty serious bug report regarding SQLite 2.x (the latest 2.x) and drh told me I should use 3.x instead, and SQLite 2.x has a lot more installations than Handbrake.
That's just the nature of a hobby project; if you want to tap into all that free work you've got to go with it, because no-one is going to maintain a fork with the dedication of the hobbyist themselves
As a user nothing pisses me off like reporting, say, a MySQL bug and getting the response "oh that's in 5.x.y not 5.x.(y+1)? Sorry but we only fix bugs in the latest release"
As a developer nothing pisses me off like a user expecting me to have every version of my code installed on every conceivable platform ready to be debugged and rereleased with fixes, it's just not practical (especially for FOSS projects).
So yes it's annoying as hell, but having around all the old code and dependencies when you want to keep moving to code forward is equally annoying; it's either you or them getting frustrated, and since it's their choice and there's no money involved to force their hand you're out of luck.
You didn't get a job in Apple Retail expecting to move up to working on Apple products did you? If so that would be the saddest thing I've heard in a while
Weird how far you have to scroll down to see this message, after all the conspiracy theories etc. The real question is how do they know this is the Chinese government and not a bunch of hacktivists or whatever they call themselves.
The McDonalds website was defaced a few years ago removing Taiwan being listed as a separate country from China, but does that mean Hu himself authorized the vandalism or was it some nationalist?
I think we really need more evidence than "it came from China, so it must be the Chinese government".
And who works for the car manufaturer? And how many for the car manufacturer? And how much tax money is made from those workers in the long run? And how much would be spent in welfare payments if they were out of work?
I don't think any government gives out money to spite the poor..
What about if it may save many human lives? Cosmetic testing is probably not as bad as drug/vaccine/antibiotic testing or general research, which can be pretty horrific and is pretty much guaranteed to cause great sufferring, but all those things are fundamental to our ability to save many people.
The world would be much worse for us without medical research, but it does create what might as well be factories of suffering for lab animals. They even breed lab animals specifically with the worst genetic diseases, which would be the ultimate cruelty if it didn't bring the possibility of future cures.
Hard not to be conflicted about it I think.
The Microsoft tool's dilemma: Should I stop making money selling software, or risk being called a Microsoft tool by an anonymous coward on/. (who writes iPhone apps, no vendor lock-in there of course).
There are plenty of alternatives to public-key crypto based on factoring. And it's pretty certain that it won't become "easy" for decades if ever, since quantum computers are coming along so slowly
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MBA: "And why do you need to do this refactoring?"
Programmer: "I didn't expect my code to be in use (in these ATMs) for more than a few years. Numbers don't come cheap in computers you know"
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As a smart company, don't you think there's a REASON that Adobe continues product development on Acrobat? Or do you think they're just throwing away their money without any profit expectation?
That's a neat gimmick you've used there, the old false dichotomy trick. Did you learn how to have intelligent discussion by watching Jerry Springer, or are you naturally an idiot? (How's that for a false dichotomy in return?)
I don't get it. Is there a reason they'd be developing Acrobat that doesn't involve making money that I haven't thought of? How is it a false dichotomy?
My laptop sticker says "Centrino 2", and I just happen to know that that's a Penryn (and what "Penryn" means). I think it's safe to say Intel's naming scheme sucks.
From the final of his four "papers" (right after he literally cites a fable of the emperor who wore no clothes):
Acknowledgments
This report and especially chapter IV about the “Future of Nuclear Energy: Facts and Fic-
tion” is a result of many unanswered questions which the author asked over the past few years
directly to scientists active within the fission and fusion research community. Essentially none was
answered and essentially no help was provided to get in contact with the corresponding “fission”
and “fusion” experts. Thus, in some kind of “hobby” research, which included discussions with
friends, colleagues and many believers in a never ending technological progress, the different pieces
concerning the future of nuclear energy summarized in this report came together.
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It is a disgrace Wikipedia isn't more inclusive. Who the hell has the authority to fix this? Sometimes it seems like the (seemingly) self-elected moderators run the show and delete what they please.
8fps is fine for Freeciv. (And by the way check out Freeciv, especially if you liked any of the Civilization series. I am stoked to hear they're getting it working within a browser; goodbye productivity!)
Reading your post again I can see that it was a rhetorical question, and I agree that in general people won't pay for Google services (just that I would like the option to), so yes I agree with your point.
I'm not a big Google-privacy-paranoia guy, but my faith in them had been on the decline, and their recent China thing has definitely bought them some credibility in my eyes. It's easy to have a knee-jerk cynical reaction to it, but it may well show that they really are still putting principles before profits, and that their "Don't Be Evil" motto is more than a quirky relic of their early days.
I would actually, especially considering how little they must make per person via ads it surely wouldn't cost much
There's no threat from that at all, and if it turns out there is it's easy to implement legacy support and destroy all momentum the fork has at any moment.
This is really common, the boring fixes and maintenance really do just weigh you down and sap your enthusiasm, even while you're busy working on something that is much more difficult
Again I also hate being on the receiving end of this, I'm not saying it's good, but this is the reality of it. It's not out of spite but just because hobby projects can't survive if you need to maintain multiple versions and support legacy standards you're not interested in.
If you think Handbrake has a "duty" you should see hobby projects like SQLite, which are just the same. I submitted a pretty serious bug report regarding SQLite 2.x (the latest 2.x) and drh told me I should use 3.x instead, and SQLite 2.x has a lot more installations than Handbrake.
That's just the nature of a hobby project; if you want to tap into all that free work you've got to go with it, because no-one is going to maintain a fork with the dedication of the hobbyist themselves
As a user nothing pisses me off like reporting, say, a MySQL bug and getting the response "oh that's in 5.x.y not 5.x.(y+1)? Sorry but we only fix bugs in the latest release"
As a developer nothing pisses me off like a user expecting me to have every version of my code installed on every conceivable platform ready to be debugged and rereleased with fixes, it's just not practical (especially for FOSS projects).
So yes it's annoying as hell, but having around all the old code and dependencies when you want to keep moving to code forward is equally annoying; it's either you or them getting frustrated, and since it's their choice and there's no money involved to force their hand you're out of luck.
You didn't get a job in Apple Retail expecting to move up to working on Apple products did you? If so that would be the saddest thing I've heard in a while
I expect in the remaining three pages there were some interview tips as per the summary..
In other news I just read the first page of Moby Dick, turns out there's some guy called Ishmael, what a shitty book..
Weird how far you have to scroll down to see this message, after all the conspiracy theories etc. The real question is how do they know this is the Chinese government and not a bunch of hacktivists or whatever they call themselves.
The McDonalds website was defaced a few years ago removing Taiwan being listed as a separate country from China, but does that mean Hu himself authorized the vandalism or was it some nationalist?
I think we really need more evidence than "it came from China, so it must be the Chinese government".
(Well, okay, maybe with paragraphs that long. But this isn't a book)
Not with paragraphs that long.
And who works for the car manufaturer? And how many for the car manufacturer? And how much tax money is made from those workers in the long run? And how much would be spent in welfare payments if they were out of work?
I don't think any government gives out money to spite the poor..
What about if it may save many human lives? Cosmetic testing is probably not as bad as drug/vaccine/antibiotic testing or general research, which can be pretty horrific and is pretty much guaranteed to cause great sufferring, but all those things are fundamental to our ability to save many people.
The world would be much worse for us without medical research, but it does create what might as well be factories of suffering for lab animals. They even breed lab animals specifically with the worst genetic diseases, which would be the ultimate cruelty if it didn't bring the possibility of future cures.
Hard not to be conflicted about it I think.
I wasn't offended, I just didn't think it was funny
The Microsoft tool's dilemma: Should I stop making money selling software, or risk being called a Microsoft tool by an anonymous coward on /. (who writes iPhone apps, no vendor lock-in there of course).
There are plenty of alternatives to public-key crypto based on factoring. And it's pretty certain that it won't become "easy" for decades if ever, since quantum computers are coming along so slowly
At least the situation is too embarrassing to file a bug report
MBA: "And why do you need to do this refactoring?" Programmer: "I didn't expect my code to be in use (in these ATMs) for more than a few years. Numbers don't come cheap in computers you know"
Ah nothing like a 9/11 joke to brighten my day
That's a neat gimmick you've used there, the old false dichotomy trick. Did you learn how to have intelligent discussion by watching Jerry Springer, or are you naturally an idiot? (How's that for a false dichotomy in return?)
I don't get it. Is there a reason they'd be developing Acrobat that doesn't involve making money that I haven't thought of? How is it a false dichotomy?
Isn't that fraud? How were they marketed?
I'm also surprised the Adobe Security Chief didn't consider the option of ditching PDF for HTML in this interview
My laptop sticker says "Centrino 2", and I just happen to know that that's a Penryn (and what "Penryn" means). I think it's safe to say Intel's naming scheme sucks.
Acknowledgments This report and especially chapter IV about the “Future of Nuclear Energy: Facts and Fic- tion” is a result of many unanswered questions which the author asked over the past few years directly to scientists active within the fission and fusion research community. Essentially none was answered and essentially no help was provided to get in contact with the corresponding “fission” and “fusion” experts. Thus, in some kind of “hobby” research, which included discussions with friends, colleagues and many believers in a never ending technological progress, the different pieces concerning the future of nuclear energy summarized in this report came together.
Oh dear..