Slashdot needs a new moderation type - "Potentially Insightful Answers". This moderation class should +1 a post, however whenever any child post is given +1 Insightful, the parent should have 1 point removed (to a minimum of 1). So if someone asks "Where in Soviet Russia can I find Natalie Portman's hot grits?", they can be moderated up to give visibility to potential answeres. However once someone answers the question, they are moderated up at the cost of the original post.
As it is, it's a tried-and-true karma whoring technique of asking an obvious, every-wants-to-know question as quickly as possible. Every moderator that wants to know the answer will mod it up, hoping that truly insightful/informative people will come along and see it. Yet the question itself isn't insightful/informative whatsoever, and is usually a very cheap post.
The firewall added by SP2 significantly reduces the threat profile, especially for those people connected to the net bare. Even if a lot of local services are vulnerable, it's less of a threat if external probes can't reach them.
BTW: When I say "model" in that post, I'm referring to it modelling the AI and actions of each unit, individually controlling the "motives" and actions of a mobile SA launcher, a tank, and so on.
A good hypothesis, however graphics really weren't the most demanding part of Falcon 4. While they are pretty good looking, vector wise it was relatively simplistic.
The real demands in Falcon 4 came about because of the intensity with which it modeled the FLOT (where the action happens) - as you approached, at a time when it wasn't visually displaying anything, the game would start to successively slow to a crawl trying to model all of the military characters on the ground. This game actually tried to superficially model a entire war, and the result was very computationally demanding.
Yes, exactly - Software "bloats" and gets slower because it adds features and functionality, or quite simply aesthetics and pizazz (which to many users is just as worthwhile. w. It isn't just Windows users that are buying Athlon 64 level machines - Mac users seem to be rushing to the get the G5, and most Linux users have cutting edge machines as well.
OpFlash is a remarkable game, and like you said it can utilize a level of PC far beyond what is available today. OpFlash is actually a great example of the compromises of inadequate computing power (even putting aside visual requirements) - instead of having a complex, full island war, they had to resort to small little areas of units, with the rest of the islands basically uninhabited. They did this because of the inability to reasonable model the AI of a large number of units. My dream game would be opflash but with a fully populated, fully operating island world where you really could fight the war the way you wanted.
Another game that demands more power than even exists today is Falcon 4. Release in 1999, it can still bring a modern PC to a crawl.
...it's unfortunately become a driving marketing factor for the industry... ...people realize they don't really need more than a 1Ghz to surf the web, send pictures, and listen to music... ...Moore's Law was coming to an end based on simple technical limitations...
Huh? These three points don't mesh at all. A driving marketing factor -> people don't need that much power -> but it doesn't matter because it's coming to an end.
If you can't imagine the use for more processing power, then you're not very imaginative.
Processing power is a remarkable thing - you're talking about 1Ghz as being a pedestrian, adequate level of computing, yet you in a prior life (or rather prior year), back in 2001, were undoubtedly saying "Oh who'd need these crazy 1Ghz processors? A 300Mhz is all anyone would ever need...". Even the luddites somehow pull their requirements forward to be just behind the curve, and I've been hearing the same "who needs more than X" mantra quite seriously since the 386 days. Some people never learn from history though.
Evolutionary principles may tell us what happens, but they can never justify those choices. Your arguement could equally be used to rationalize male polygamy because of evolutionary tendancies. LEAVE DARWIN OUT OF IT.
Leave Darwin out of it? Leave Darwin out of PROCREATION? Wow.
Procreation is one of the most powerful impulses affecting the human mind, and it drives a tremendous amount of our behaviour. It is a core tenet of Darwinism.
However, I think the grandparent simplified (possibly for the purposes of brevity) when they talked about it as "spreading their genes". There are two primary instinctive "rewards" for parenting, only one of which is continuing your gene line.
The second instinctive reward is the continuance of your value/belief systems. The second is the reason that people can adopt and still be extremely satisfied with their life when lying on their deathbed, and it's why most fathers have an enormous connection with their children (at least in the formative years).
It's also the reason why it isn't enough to simply impregnate a bunch of random women.
Some believe their purpose is to make kids, for some it's to make money, some think they need to protect the institution of marriage, but for the superior minority of intelligent people, who are the only ones really worthy of living, the purpose is self-improvement, learning about the world and bettering it in creative ways.
Are you for real? Do you really roll out of bed in the morning (after you mother keeps banging on your door because the Taco Bell keeps calling) and assure yourself that you're in a "superior minority of intelligent people"?
What an idiot.
I'll make a more accurate guess - you're a sad, lonely person who has no hope in hell of procreating unless you start hitting the bingo parlos and bag yourself a BBW. Instead you'll march through this life in futility, die, and no one will notice.
Learn what a paragraph is. When you've created the executive summary maybe we'll give it a read.
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How lazy can you get?
The submitter was obviously one of the ViperLair people, who are the people behind TFA.
Really, though, Slashdot submissions should contain next to no information from TFA - invariably that just gives superficial material for the first post warriers to pretend they have some knowledge of TFA, when of course they never actually read it. Then the drovers of replies feed off of the incorrect information leading to some giant recursive loop of ignorance.
GPL is great because it prevents welfare programs like BSD. BSD is just a giant welfare program for commercial software writers. It's just people volunteering their services so that companies can make money off them.
Oh god....gut busting. This is too fucking rich. Tell me something - are you really this incredibly stupid? (I suspect so) Are you so blinded by your idiotic zeal that you think this is rational and well-thought out?
Perhaps you missed the prior point (of course you did), but the overwhelming majority of GPL software users are not developers, and they will never contribute anything back. You understand that? Many of them are using this software to replace commercial software. Understand? Many of them are running businesses, and GPL nutbars like yourself have them laughing to the bank, allowing a critical part of their infrastructure to be free.
Yet all your raving nuts can see is some developer who might link a piece of GPLd software into a commercial product. Hilarious. It's like a bunch of dumb, insect-like lobsters all crawling around at the bottom of the tank, desperately trying to pull other lobsters down, all while the cooks (users and business) are getting ready for their lobster meat feast.
GPL only kick in when you MODIFY the softare AND redistribute it.
And in this case the commercial license came into play because, as is classic in the innovative world of OSS, someone was working their hardest to steal the design of Bitkeeper. It was hardly an arbitrary decision.
Yes people will complain loudly when you attempt to leech off of their labor without agreeing to their terms.
Leech...I love that term. It's stated as if everyone of the people out there using Linux are busy contributing to the kernel. The reality, of course, is that overwhelmingly, probably 100,000:1, it's "free software", and the fact that it is GPLd is no different from it being freeware- it's free as in beer.
However I, and many others, will negatively mention the GPL because it is a selfish and self-serving license (yes, JUST LIKE COMMERCIAL LICENSES), yet GPL fanatics dream that it is the second coming. Thanks, but no thanks. My software stack is commercial and BSD.
If this whole absurd scenario is not an object lesson on why not to choose proprietary software nothing is.
Imagine that Linux is writing commercial software, and for competitive purposes decides to keep the source for himself. Suddenly all of the makers of GPL software libraries come running, arms in the air screaming about thawing and re-activating the Stallbot. If that isn't a lesson on why not to choose GPLd software nothing is.
Yes, absolutely - these new TLDs will allow registrars like GodAddy to ding everyone a little more when they defensively protect their namespace from alternate TLD squatters. It's brilliant.
Well, if you consider this a loophole, I suggest you go to hell. You are killing the internet community right at it's root.
Well it wouldn't kill it - it would just cause a mass migration away from anything GPLd. Already the apps you listed are under much more liberal licenses than the viral GPL (and OMG look at how the evil c0rpor4ti0n$ stole it and deprived us of our open source!), and it would just intensify if this idiotic maneuver were pursued.
Most of the advocates of the GPL are so logically deprived and obtuse that it really defies categorization. Their arguments make no sense, and they just seem intent upon shooting themselves in the foot.
Alexa's traffic estimates are, to the best of my knowledge, based upon users who voluntarily installed the Alexa toolbar - it basically reports back each site visit. Now how many users install the Alexa toolbar, and how evenly distributed among the computing population are they?
My own observations are that there are very few, and they are very unevenly distributed. One of my sites generally is listed as having no traffic, but then in one week, a week with no more traffic than normal, I happened to have several Alexa users visit and suddenly my ranking was considerable...then it dropped out again.
The submission of this story is so incredibly ignorant it boggles the mind, and already in the follow-up posts it's clear that many participants of this forum really are clueless about Windows security in the NT and after world. Windows has had extraordinarily pervasive, and extremely granular, security for many, many years. The idea that they're going to adopt "UNIX like" security, dumbing down their security, is absurd.
What Microsoft is doing is quite simply forcing application vendors to follow the rules regarding expected user rights, rather than relying upon the "see the world" leftover of the Windows 9x era. Things like applications that store user data in HKLM, which itself is admin writable only.
In fact, let me take a quote directly from the article.
"The [LUA] framework we're talking about has been there for ten years...
THIS IS NOTHING NEW. Microsoft is simply going to start separating the wheat from the chaff among third party apps (hopefully they take a close look at their own as well) to ensure that apps don't require more rights than they really should.
Guess the advice from the Slashdot folks not to impose your own political views when moderating falls on deaf ears.
Dear idiot,
Apparently you are too lazy, or too dumb, to read several of the other responses I added in this thread, instead jumping to your own idiotic, partisan conclusion and fervently posting your ignorance.
The greatest thing this thread is an indictment of is how tiny-minded and defensive so many people are about their political views.
What an extraordinary situation where, even when specifically being told that it wasn't a partisan comment, some people just can't help unleashing their tired rhetoric. Apparently I should have given equal time to mock Dole for a viagra ad in response to an article about Gore.
Innovation? I think the universities in China produce a lot of top-notch research and publications.
I've said elsewhere that there is absolutely no doubt that China has a lot of incredibly smart people, and world class education institutions. However without the ability for people to pursue naturally selfish goals, the drive to innovate just isn't there.
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Slashdot needs a new moderation type - "Potentially Insightful Answers". This moderation class should +1 a post, however whenever any child post is given +1 Insightful, the parent should have 1 point removed (to a minimum of 1). So if someone asks "Where in Soviet Russia can I find Natalie Portman's hot grits?", they can be moderated up to give visibility to potential answeres. However once someone answers the question, they are moderated up at the cost of the original post.
As it is, it's a tried-and-true karma whoring technique of asking an obvious, every-wants-to-know question as quickly as possible. Every moderator that wants to know the answer will mod it up, hoping that truly insightful/informative people will come along and see it. Yet the question itself isn't insightful/informative whatsoever, and is usually a very cheap post.
No (or at least not to the same scale).
The firewall added by SP2 significantly reduces the threat profile, especially for those people connected to the net bare. Even if a lot of local services are vulnerable, it's less of a threat if external probes can't reach them.
BTW: When I say "model" in that post, I'm referring to it modelling the AI and actions of each unit, individually controlling the "motives" and actions of a mobile SA launcher, a tank, and so on.
A good hypothesis, however graphics really weren't the most demanding part of Falcon 4. While they are pretty good looking, vector wise it was relatively simplistic.
The real demands in Falcon 4 came about because of the intensity with which it modeled the FLOT (where the action happens) - as you approached, at a time when it wasn't visually displaying anything, the game would start to successively slow to a crawl trying to model all of the military characters on the ground. This game actually tried to superficially model a entire war, and the result was very computationally demanding.
Yes, exactly - Software "bloats" and gets slower because it adds features and functionality, or quite simply aesthetics and pizazz (which to many users is just as worthwhile. w. It isn't just Windows users that are buying Athlon 64 level machines - Mac users seem to be rushing to the get the G5, and most Linux users have cutting edge machines as well.
OpFlash is a remarkable game, and like you said it can utilize a level of PC far beyond what is available today. OpFlash is actually a great example of the compromises of inadequate computing power (even putting aside visual requirements) - instead of having a complex, full island war, they had to resort to small little areas of units, with the rest of the islands basically uninhabited. They did this because of the inability to reasonable model the AI of a large number of units. My dream game would be opflash but with a fully populated, fully operating island world where you really could fight the war the way you wanted.
Another game that demands more power than even exists today is Falcon 4. Release in 1999, it can still bring a modern PC to a crawl.
...it's unfortunately become a driving marketing factor for the industry...
...people realize they don't really need more than a 1Ghz to surf the web, send pictures, and listen to music...
...Moore's Law was coming to an end based on simple technical limitations...
Huh? These three points don't mesh at all. A driving marketing factor -> people don't need that much power -> but it doesn't matter because it's coming to an end.
If you can't imagine the use for more processing power, then you're not very imaginative.
Processing power is a remarkable thing - you're talking about 1Ghz as being a pedestrian, adequate level of computing, yet you in a prior life (or rather prior year), back in 2001, were undoubtedly saying "Oh who'd need these crazy 1Ghz processors? A 300Mhz is all anyone would ever need...". Even the luddites somehow pull their requirements forward to be just behind the curve, and I've been hearing the same "who needs more than X" mantra quite seriously since the 386 days. Some people never learn from history though.
Umm...thanks. It was a ranting leaf comment that evaded the karma retribution crew. Now you've gone and highlighted it.
Awesome post. Thanks for a laugh. I thought it was going one way, and then zing - a surprize ending.
Evolutionary principles may tell us what happens, but they can never justify those choices. Your arguement could equally be used to rationalize male polygamy because of evolutionary tendancies. LEAVE DARWIN OUT OF IT.
Leave Darwin out of it? Leave Darwin out of PROCREATION? Wow.
Procreation is one of the most powerful impulses affecting the human mind, and it drives a tremendous amount of our behaviour. It is a core tenet of Darwinism.
However, I think the grandparent simplified (possibly for the purposes of brevity) when they talked about it as "spreading their genes". There are two primary instinctive "rewards" for parenting, only one of which is continuing your gene line.
The second instinctive reward is the continuance of your value/belief systems. The second is the reason that people can adopt and still be extremely satisfied with their life when lying on their deathbed, and it's why most fathers have an enormous connection with their children (at least in the formative years).
It's also the reason why it isn't enough to simply impregnate a bunch of random women.
Some believe their purpose is to make kids, for some it's to make money, some think they need to protect the institution of marriage, but for the superior minority of intelligent people, who are the only ones really worthy of living, the purpose is self-improvement, learning about the world and bettering it in creative ways.
Are you for real? Do you really roll out of bed in the morning (after you mother keeps banging on your door because the Taco Bell keeps calling) and assure yourself that you're in a "superior minority of intelligent people"?
What an idiot.
I'll make a more accurate guess - you're a sad, lonely person who has no hope in hell of procreating unless you start hitting the bingo parlos and bag yourself a BBW. Instead you'll march through this life in futility, die, and no one will notice.
Learn what a paragraph is. When you've created the executive summary maybe we'll give it a read.
How lazy can you get?
The submitter was obviously one of the ViperLair people, who are the people behind TFA.
Really, though, Slashdot submissions should contain next to no information from TFA - invariably that just gives superficial material for the first post warriers to pretend they have some knowledge of TFA, when of course they never actually read it. Then the drovers of replies feed off of the incorrect information leading to some giant recursive loop of ignorance.
GPL is great because it prevents welfare programs like BSD. BSD is just a giant welfare program for commercial software writers. It's just people volunteering their services so that companies can make money off them.
Oh god....gut busting. This is too fucking rich. Tell me something - are you really this incredibly stupid? (I suspect so) Are you so blinded by your idiotic zeal that you think this is rational and well-thought out?
Perhaps you missed the prior point (of course you did), but the overwhelming majority of GPL software users are not developers, and they will never contribute anything back. You understand that? Many of them are using this software to replace commercial software. Understand? Many of them are running businesses, and GPL nutbars like yourself have them laughing to the bank, allowing a critical part of their infrastructure to be free.
Yet all your raving nuts can see is some developer who might link a piece of GPLd software into a commercial product. Hilarious. It's like a bunch of dumb, insect-like lobsters all crawling around at the bottom of the tank, desperately trying to pull other lobsters down, all while the cooks (users and business) are getting ready for their lobster meat feast.
GPL only kick in when you MODIFY the softare AND redistribute it.
And in this case the commercial license came into play because, as is classic in the innovative world of OSS, someone was working their hardest to steal the design of Bitkeeper. It was hardly an arbitrary decision.
Yes people will complain loudly when you attempt to leech off of their labor without agreeing to their terms.
Leech...I love that term. It's stated as if everyone of the people out there using Linux are busy contributing to the kernel. The reality, of course, is that overwhelmingly, probably 100,000:1, it's "free software", and the fact that it is GPLd is no different from it being freeware- it's free as in beer.
However I, and many others, will negatively mention the GPL because it is a selfish and self-serving license (yes, JUST LIKE COMMERCIAL LICENSES), yet GPL fanatics dream that it is the second coming. Thanks, but no thanks. My software stack is commercial and BSD.
If this whole absurd scenario is not an object lesson on why not to choose proprietary software nothing is.
Imagine that Linux is writing commercial software, and for competitive purposes decides to keep the source for himself. Suddenly all of the makers of GPL software libraries come running, arms in the air screaming about thawing and re-activating the Stallbot. If that isn't a lesson on why not to choose GPLd software nothing is.
Yes, absolutely - these new TLDs will allow registrars like GodAddy to ding everyone a little more when they defensively protect their namespace from alternate TLD squatters. It's brilliant.
.com2, .com3, .comX.
Now they just need to add
Well, if you consider this a loophole, I suggest you go to hell. You are killing the internet community right at it's root.
Well it wouldn't kill it - it would just cause a mass migration away from anything GPLd. Already the apps you listed are under much more liberal licenses than the viral GPL (and OMG look at how the evil c0rpor4ti0n$ stole it and deprived us of our open source!), and it would just intensify if this idiotic maneuver were pursued.
Most of the advocates of the GPL are so logically deprived and obtuse that it really defies categorization. Their arguments make no sense, and they just seem intent upon shooting themselves in the foot.
Alexa's traffic estimates are, to the best of my knowledge, based upon users who voluntarily installed the Alexa toolbar - it basically reports back each site visit. Now how many users install the Alexa toolbar, and how evenly distributed among the computing population are they?
My own observations are that there are very few, and they are very unevenly distributed. One of my sites generally is listed as having no traffic, but then in one week, a week with no more traffic than normal, I happened to have several Alexa users visit and suddenly my ranking was considerable...then it dropped out again.
The submission of this story is so incredibly ignorant it boggles the mind, and already in the follow-up posts it's clear that many participants of this forum really are clueless about Windows security in the NT and after world. Windows has had extraordinarily pervasive, and extremely granular, security for many, many years. The idea that they're going to adopt "UNIX like" security, dumbing down their security, is absurd.
What Microsoft is doing is quite simply forcing application vendors to follow the rules regarding expected user rights, rather than relying upon the "see the world" leftover of the Windows 9x era. Things like applications that store user data in HKLM, which itself is admin writable only.
In fact, let me take a quote directly from the article.
"The [LUA] framework we're talking about has been there for ten years...
THIS IS NOTHING NEW. Microsoft is simply going to start separating the wheat from the chaff among third party apps (hopefully they take a close look at their own as well) to ensure that apps don't require more rights than they really should.
So what does 2.8 Ghz in AMD mean in terms of Intel performance?
Duh...
2.8Ghz -> 9081 AMD Cybermarks -> 84.7 ISO 9011:2005 quartets -> 1.7E10 Intel TruePerfs.
I think that was fairly obvious.
Your anti-social tendencies are noted.
I'm not anti-social, just anti-you.
Thank you.
Guess the advice from the Slashdot folks not to impose your own political views when moderating falls on deaf ears.
Dear idiot,
Apparently you are too lazy, or too dumb, to read several of the other responses I added in this thread, instead jumping to your own idiotic, partisan conclusion and fervently posting your ignorance.
The greatest thing this thread is an indictment of is how tiny-minded and defensive so many people are about their political views.
What an extraordinary situation where, even when specifically being told that it wasn't a partisan comment, some people just can't help unleashing their tired rhetoric. Apparently I should have given equal time to mock Dole for a viagra ad in response to an article about Gore.
Innovation? I think the universities in China produce a lot of top-notch research and publications.
I've said elsewhere that there is absolutely no doubt that China has a lot of incredibly smart people, and world class education institutions. However without the ability for people to pursue naturally selfish goals, the drive to innovate just isn't there.