Sadly, that's categorically incorrect. As a western-Canadian Shaw customer I can confidently assert that despite my connection's maximum speed of 1Mb/sec (tested using speed tests and some fast external servers) bittorrent, even on well-seeded (>2000 seeds) torrents _never_ exceeds 300k/sec. I can and do have dozens of torrents running, and no matter how many individual ones there are they don't top 300k/sec between them.
A less anecdotal bit of supporting evidence is that, after an odyssey with technical support that got me as far as someone claiming to be one of Shaw's network engineers, Shaw told me themselves that they throttle P2P connectivity.
I would suggest that the reason most don't is that, suddenly, all of your normal OS commands -- ls, cat, et al -- are no longer first-class commands and now require extra syntax to execute. This is not a good thing for most people.
I've tried it myself, but was put off it by the difficulty (relative) of getting an "ls -l" to work. Which should tell you something.
Judging from the complaints I'm seeing so far in the postings to this story, the issues that have been brought up over and over again with respect to usability in F/OSS software are still alive and well here.
Which is, of course, not a surprise to anyone literate.
The thing with this list, and I'll agree that TFA is pretty picky, is that they are all little things that, much like the Uncanny Valley, are the key to making the step from half-baked to user-friendly. Bear in mind, please, that I am writing this from a 96-hour old installation of Hoary, myself, and I'm quite pleased with it. However, the issues he has mentioned overlap rather thoroughly with issues that I've had.
I'd like to see more open source software make it in the real world -- I've tried to get my girlfriend to use this laptop, but, well, I've lost that battle from the first time she had to ask me how to make movies play (and we're not talking about someone clueless here, either!). So, something with a bit more polish is going on here this weekend, and I'm back to using the laptop for only web surfing and movie watching.
Anyway...
Seriously, guys. Yes, he's a nitpicker. But he's also right. Polish is everything, and polish means picking at every little thing.
I hate to say it, but other than a bit of glitz in the combat (The shields look about like they did for WC3, which is a step up on Privateer, at least) this game looks like crap.
I'm not sure how they can characterize this as 1.0, all things considered. I mean, I get graphics corruption just on the launch screen, not to mention the apparent non-function of the game start menu (is there one? I didn't see one, I just randomly hit keys after the last loaded image until something happened)
I loved the original game, and I suspect that if this one were cleaned up a bit, it'd be as good, but right now it's fricken 'orrible.
It happened to me somewhat like described: I installed iTunes, and in the process of installing its drivers for burning, it ate my CDRW and CDROM drives. It seems that the driveres conflicted in some fashion, but i didn't stick around long enough to find out: i used the system restore point set just before iTunes was installed and went back to a working setup.
I know it's commonly held that people are all equal, etc... But i'd like to weigh in on the idea that lazy people should be encouraged to program. In fact, i'd like to weigh in on it so heavily that the idea is crushed to the ground, never to be restored. Frankly, the idea that lazy people should have their hands held through a programming book is one of the reasons MCSE's are swarming over the land like a plague of locusts.
What the computer science and IT worlds need isn't more programmers, it's a stricter filtering of the lazy ones. Lazy coders leave in buffer overflows and fail to check for vulnerabilities in their code, thereby leaving us the mess we presently have in the computer software world today.
So, no. Code examples, while not necessarily a bad thing, are not mandatory for a good book.
I've run into at least one instance of onMouseOver() firing the open() event - but that was a few iterations of Mozilla back, and i haven't seen it for a while. I'm not sure if that's because the site changed their advert code, or if it's because Mozilla changed the popup blocker...
Smoothwall remains one of the best ideas i've ever seen in home firewall solutions, under the GPL. It's the first one i tried, and i remain very pleased with the idea.
That being said, the execution needs work - i ran into all kinds of technical issues with the setup (had to do with my cheap network cards) that i, as a novice linux user, couldn't handle on my own. However, when i attempted to get assistance on the IRC channel that is suggested as a method of 'free' support, i was basically told flatly to "Suck it up, b**ch, or donate"
Kinda hard to justify donating. Given that i couldn't get the damn thing to run at all, isn't it?
Conveniently, most of the music put out by the major labels these days IS worthless. Maybe that's the plan. Personally speaking, you couldn't pay me enough to waste my time duplicating more than 99% of the music released in any given year.
The security people who keep all that expensive computer hardware we all love so much from becoming another crime statistic.
And bear in mind - the security guards you see are probably not getting paid nearly enough to miss out on all the family and social aspects of the season, because they're not really given a choice in the matter.
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Your.sig is "it's the content, stupid" and you're quibbling over the APIs used to provide that content? Make up your mind...
Probably the best voice acting i've ever heard in any game goes to the System Shock series - from Shodan on down to the fear in the voices on the logs. SSII was incredible, but SS set the bar on voice-acting in a game, as far as i'm concerned. Pure gold from start to finish.
Read it. Or at least about 10 pages of it:/ Hated it. Glad i only paid half-price for it in a secondhand bookstore (And not at all surprised to see it there, in hindsight.
My god.. i honestly can't remember a worse read than this.
...or ones such as SPK, Einsturzende Neubauten (sp?) Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, and may others, who really led the industrial "revolution" (damn, that's just too easy a metaphor:)
...Or, the ones that are taking it in new and fascinating directions today, such as Imminent Starvation, Winterkalte, Feindflug, Gridlock, and others of that sort...
Problem is, especially given the more esoteric musics that you hear in the "industrial" genre, pretty much all the bands you name qualify as "pop". Hell, i've seen all of them on MuchMusic at least once:) Now, if you ever see a video for Imminent Starvation, i'd sell my own mom for a copy;)
Now IE is quite stable, and comparitively lightweight. I still can't bring myself to use it, but it is certianly technically superior in almost every way
Wow. You're a smart one - So, what are the hoops a program has to jump through to win your approval? Should it be "morally correct", or perhaps you'd rather it was...
Ah, christ. This is like trying to explain circular reasoning to a christian fundamentalist. i don't even know why i bothered.
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... and you think that speaking from the perspective of the "uninformed mob" is a justification for what you're saying?!!
Become informed. Don't use ignorance as an excuse, and especially not as a justification of an insupportable position.
Or, even better, we here could pare out the bureaucratic innefficiencies that plague the healthcare system, cut out services for people who have abused their own bodies to near-death through alcohol abuse, drug abuse, and smoking (all the same thing, i know...) and have enough money left over after this to pay the provincial debt off in one shot.
And, as a side note, what's wrong with two-tiered healthcare? Terrified that you might actually have to earn that care? Uh-oh...
Well, being a newbie here, i rarely feel comfortable weighing in on these discussions, but i feel that the barrel of tripe that i've just read demands a reply of some kind...
Steeltoe, what world are you living in? Open-source is one thing, but you're basically making excuses for out-and-out theft of intellectual property here... And, while i, personally, am a big proponent of the GPL model of licensing, the choice of such things does, last time i checked, remain in the hands of those who create the art in question.
Are you truly so interested in living in a world where you can't choose how what you create should be disseminated? i'm not. (To paraphrase, cos i don't recall the exact quote) "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need" is what you're pointing at, albeit obliquely. While i'm not 100% innocent (shame on me) of this myself, at least i don't try to defend my stance as a moral one. There is no moral justification for the removal from a person or entity of any kind that which they have created. (And, not to start a flamewar or anything, that's my stance on the whole MS issue, too:/ )
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Sadly, that's categorically incorrect. As a western-Canadian Shaw customer I can confidently assert that despite my connection's maximum speed of 1Mb/sec (tested using speed tests and some fast external servers) bittorrent, even on well-seeded (>2000 seeds) torrents _never_ exceeds 300k/sec. I can and do have dozens of torrents running, and no matter how many individual ones there are they don't top 300k/sec between them.
A less anecdotal bit of supporting evidence is that, after an odyssey with technical support that got me as far as someone claiming to be one of Shaw's network engineers, Shaw told me themselves that they throttle P2P connectivity.
Which is my point, better made than I could have hoped.
I would suggest that the reason most don't is that, suddenly, all of your normal OS commands -- ls, cat, et al -- are no longer first-class commands and now require extra syntax to execute. This is not a good thing for most people.
I've tried it myself, but was put off it by the difficulty (relative) of getting an "ls -l" to work. Which should tell you something.
Judging from the complaints I'm seeing so far in the postings to this story, the issues that have been brought up over and over again with respect to usability in F/OSS software are still alive and well here.
Which is, of course, not a surprise to anyone literate.
The thing with this list, and I'll agree that TFA is pretty picky, is that they are all little things that, much like the Uncanny Valley, are the key to making the step from half-baked to user-friendly. Bear in mind, please, that I am writing this from a 96-hour old installation of Hoary, myself, and I'm quite pleased with it. However, the issues he has mentioned overlap rather thoroughly with issues that I've had.
I'd like to see more open source software make it in the real world -- I've tried to get my girlfriend to use this laptop, but, well, I've lost that battle from the first time she had to ask me how to make movies play (and we're not talking about someone clueless here, either!). So, something with a bit more polish is going on here this weekend, and I'm back to using the laptop for only web surfing and movie watching.
Anyway...
Seriously, guys. Yes, he's a nitpicker. But he's also right. Polish is everything, and polish means picking at every little thing.
I hate to say it, but other than a bit of glitz in the combat (The shields look about like they did for WC3, which is a step up on Privateer, at least) this game looks like crap.
I'm not sure how they can characterize this as 1.0, all things considered. I mean, I get graphics corruption just on the launch screen, not to mention the apparent non-function of the game start menu (is there one? I didn't see one, I just randomly hit keys after the last loaded image until something happened)
I loved the original game, and I suspect that if this one were cleaned up a bit, it'd be as good, but right now it's fricken 'orrible.
Well, Microsoft can do it. Why can't Novell?
Better yet, why can't $DISTRO?
Now what i have to wonder is, did they modify every version of the ad, expunging the existence of the old from the collective consciousness?
It happened to me somewhat like described: I installed iTunes, and in the process of installing its drivers for burning, it ate my CDRW and CDROM drives. It seems that the driveres conflicted in some fashion, but i didn't stick around long enough to find out: i used the system restore point set just before iTunes was installed and went back to a working setup.
I know it's commonly held that people are all equal, etc... But i'd like to weigh in on the idea that lazy people should be encouraged to program. In fact, i'd like to weigh in on it so heavily that the idea is crushed to the ground, never to be restored. Frankly, the idea that lazy people should have their hands held through a programming book is one of the reasons MCSE's are swarming over the land like a plague of locusts.
What the computer science and IT worlds need isn't more programmers, it's a stricter filtering of the lazy ones. Lazy coders leave in buffer overflows and fail to check for vulnerabilities in their code, thereby leaving us the mess we presently have in the computer software world today.
So, no. Code examples, while not necessarily a bad thing, are not mandatory for a good book.
So there.
Do you actually have a reply to his comment, or are you simply engaging in ad hominem attacks?
I've run into at least one instance of onMouseOver() firing the open() event - but that was a few iterations of Mozilla back, and i haven't seen it for a while. I'm not sure if that's because the site changed their advert code, or if it's because Mozilla changed the popup blocker...
Smoothwall remains one of the best ideas i've ever seen in home firewall solutions, under the GPL. It's the first one i tried, and i remain very pleased with the idea.
That being said, the execution needs work - i ran into all kinds of technical issues with the setup (had to do with my cheap network cards) that i, as a novice linux user, couldn't handle on my own. However, when i attempted to get assistance on the IRC channel that is suggested as a method of 'free' support, i was basically told flatly to "Suck it up, b**ch, or donate"
Kinda hard to justify donating. Given that i couldn't get the damn thing to run at all, isn't it?
...but maybe i'm just weird.
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Conveniently, most of the music put out by the major labels these days IS worthless. Maybe that's the plan. Personally speaking, you couldn't pay me enough to waste my time duplicating more than 99% of the music released in any given year.
[elitism:OFF]
The security people who keep all that expensive computer hardware we all love so much from becoming another crime statistic.
And bear in mind - the security guards you see are probably not getting paid nearly enough to miss out on all the family and social aspects of the season, because they're not really given a choice in the matter.
Your .sig is "it's the content, stupid" and you're quibbling over the APIs used to provide that content? Make up your mind...
Probably the best voice acting i've ever heard in any game goes to the System Shock series - from Shodan on down to the fear in the voices on the logs. SSII was incredible, but SS set the bar on voice-acting in a game, as far as i'm concerned. Pure gold from start to finish.
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Read it. Or at least about 10 pages of it :/ Hated it. Glad i only paid half-price for it in a secondhand bookstore (And not at all surprised to see it there, in hindsight.
My god.. i honestly can't remember a worse read than this.
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Gross. That's the only word i have for that attitude. Since when is theft a right?
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...or ones such as SPK, Einsturzende Neubauten (sp?) Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, and may others, who really led the industrial "revolution" (damn, that's just too easy a metaphor :)
...Or, the ones that are taking it in new and fascinating directions today, such as Imminent Starvation, Winterkalte, Feindflug, Gridlock, and others of that sort...
Problem is, especially given the more esoteric musics that you hear in the "industrial" genre, pretty much all the bands you name qualify as "pop". Hell, i've seen all of them on MuchMusic at least once :) Now, if you ever see a video for Imminent Starvation, i'd sell my own mom for a copy ;)
Elitist mode := OFF
Thanks for listening :)
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Wow. You're a smart one - So, what are the hoops a program has to jump through to win your approval? Should it be "morally correct", or perhaps you'd rather it was...
Ah, christ. This is like trying to explain circular reasoning to a christian fundamentalist. i don't even know why i bothered.
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... and you think that speaking from the perspective of the "uninformed mob" is a justification for what you're saying?!!
Become informed. Don't use ignorance as an excuse, and especially not as a justification of an insupportable position.
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... and you think that speaking from the perspective of the "uninformed mob" is a justification for what you believe?!!
Become informed. Don't use ignorance as an excuse.
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Or, even better, we here could pare out the bureaucratic innefficiencies that plague the healthcare system, cut out services for people who have abused their own bodies to near-death through alcohol abuse, drug abuse, and smoking (all the same thing, i know...) and have enough money left over after this to pay the provincial debt off in one shot.
And, as a side note, what's wrong with two-tiered healthcare? Terrified that you might actually have to earn that care? Uh-oh...
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Well, being a newbie here, i rarely feel comfortable weighing in on these discussions, but i feel that the barrel of tripe that i've just read demands a reply of some kind...
Steeltoe, what world are you living in? Open-source is one thing, but you're basically making excuses for out-and-out theft of intellectual property here... And, while i, personally, am a big proponent of the GPL model of licensing, the choice of such things does, last time i checked, remain in the hands of those who create the art in question.
Are you truly so interested in living in a world where you can't choose how what you create should be disseminated? i'm not. (To paraphrase, cos i don't recall the exact quote) "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need" is what you're pointing at, albeit obliquely. While i'm not 100% innocent (shame on me) of this myself, at least i don't try to defend my stance as a moral one. There is no moral justification for the removal from a person or entity of any kind that which they have created. (And, not to start a flamewar or anything, that's my stance on the whole MS issue, too :/ )
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