"It just means that RMT would require higher USD prices because people want to take shortcuts and will pay to avoid grind, regardless of the expense" isn't an argument?
Or are you stupid, too?
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Civilians never had the right to go around carrying guns (the police don't either, excep for select groups), so from which orifice are you pulling your statistics?
The rise in UK gun crime is a long term trend that is apparently unaffected by the state of UK firearms legislation. [27] Before the 1997 ban, handguns were only held by 0.1% of the population,[28] and while the number of crimes involving firearms in England and Wales increased from 13,874 in 1998/99 to 24,070 in 2002/03, they remained relatively static at 24,094 in 2003/04, and have since fallen to 21,521 in 2005/06.
Sources are cited in the article. I've heard nothing but horror stories from friends in the UK who've had their homes broken into and had the police recommend only "hide." Me? Well, I don't live in a high-crime area, but a firearm is in my bedroom (in a thumbprint-locked safe) and I am quite qualified in its use; any who broke into my home would regret the act.:)
As for criminals, they will be criminals and the rest of society has no control over them. The whole point of being a criminal is to set yourself aside (outcast yourself, if you will) from the common aspirations of the community.
Correct--but that the populace in the UK still voted themselves into defenselessness. Laughable and sad, really.
Maybe no need to buy or steal Windows, but still run Windows games and applications? That is certainly a legitimate goal.
ReactOS: free at 75% the efficacy. Pirating Windows: free at 100% the efficacy. Hrm, I wonder.
Let's get real here, my friend. ReactOS will not be "good enough," will never be good enough, while Windows is essentially $0. Do you really think that Microsoft cares that much about piracy on the home desktop? Piracy is good for Windows and Microsoft, because the corporate market is all that really matters. People pirate it at home and buy it at work. Same goes for Adobe.
If ReactOS got to the point where it was anywhere near a Windows competitor (it's not, and frankly, probably never will be), Microsoft would almost certainly release an equivalent (or better) version for $0. And ReactOS would remain useless.
And the people you consider important can kiss my ass.
Oh, so users don't matter? Interesting. I guess you and KDE's Troy Unrau have something in common.
What can ReactOS do that WINE on Linux won't do? WINE is an equally free alternative that provides similar benefits. Here one could claim that redundant work is done.
There's considerable code-sharing going on between ReactOS and WINE. Why are you even talking on the subject if you don't know anything about it?
This said, nobody is forced to contribute to ReactOS and the proverb about not looking a gift horse into the mouth applies.
On this we agree, and I wouldn't presume to be so arrogant as to tell the ReactOS guys to stop; if they like what they're doing, more power to them. The great-grandparent post, however, can go fuck a blender, as can your post's sibling blathering about shoving his politics on his user.
"Other programmers" go where the users are. Your high-and-mighty bullshit utterly fails--or would if anyone actually used the software you wrote; as you brag about being a PHP programmer, I'm going to go with "LOL, no"--because if people aren't using your software, your software doesn't matter.
I write open-source. I write open-source on Windows as well as Linux. Why? Because I want to benefit others instead of pushing my political views on them. Your arrogance is astonishing and rather GNU-ish (and that's never, ever a compliment). Fortunately, thanks to the elegant philosophy of open source, if you did write something worthwhile, somebody could give the finger to your arrogant political stances and port it to Windows. (But you won't, so--hey, who cares?)
You do know that OEMs (and yeah, a small shop or reseller qualifies) get Windows for dirt cheap, right?
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The rate of gun crime in England didn't exactly go down when the legal guns were taken away. If you take away the legal firearms, only the criminals (and the people who you have tacitly accepted as your civil masters, the police) will have access to them.
You don't know that the people you see won't be armed. You hope they won't be. Saying anything else is cowardly, self-important self-delusion.
If not for these vile creatures of the 3rd world, game economies would be much, much easier to manage and not get so out of balance the normal players would have to resort to paying money for gold.
"Vile creatures"? LOL. You're a fucking dipshit. (Any WoW player calling anyone else a "vile creature" is a fucking dipshit, but really, you're extra-dipshitful.)
Furthermore, no, game economies wouldn't be balanced. It just means that RMT would require higher USD prices because people want to take shortcuts and will pay to avoid grind, regardless of the expense.
Do you have any idea how economics works, "vile creature"?
ReactOS will never mimic Windows perfectly, so why the hell should anyone bother dual-booting ReactOS and Linux? What benefit do you get that you don't get without Windows and Linux?
"It's free as in beer" is unacceptable; Windows is essentially free and everyone knows it.
"It's free as in freedom" is equally unacceptable because nobody important gives a shit.
You do know that you don't have to screw around with any of that in a managed language, right? "Very easily make the different processor needs compatible" my ass--Java/C# do it on their own.
No. Microsoft is an enemy of the GPL, as I think pretty much everyone should be (because the GPL is unethical). They have their own OSI-approved licenses that they use for a great deal of code.
You misunderstand. A firearm is a lethal weapon. There is no "non-lethal" shot. If you are shooting a firearm at a person, your intention is always to kill. There is no case where that does not hold; saying otherwise reveals your ignorance about what a firearm is and how to handle one. Even a leg or arm shot may be fatal given not-that-uncommon circumstances.
In the first case you cite, using a firearm is the wrong strategy; using a firearm in such a case should be avoided entirely, not "shooting to wound." In the second--if the civilian is putting his hand out of sight for a wallet, etc. without police direction, he is a potential threat. The civilian is acting counter to the direction of the acknowledged law enforcement officer (whether you in particular like it or not, we have decided a a society that law enforcement officers have the power to deliver said directions) and may potentially be a threat to the officer and to other civilians. Given the poor reliability of less-than-lethal weapons when attempting to subdue people (especially those under the influence of drugs, etc.), a lethal option is the safest first option for the police officer and other civilians who may be harmed.
You are not talking about "a policeman in the hospital." You are talking about a potentially dead police officer; once injured, a police officer, or any other combatant, is much less likely to be able to defend himself or others against an assailant. And while you are no doubt ready and raring to blather on about how you'd rather a dead police officer than a dead civilian, keep in mind that, in the worst case, it's not the police officer but other civilians who may be injured or killed.
The problem with DBus is that it kind of sucks at present. It's extremely difficult to learn and use and it's limited by the biggest fault in pretty much all IPC: not everything groks the same language, so you have translation shims and weird serialization and other ad-hockery (I'm referring to passing objects over it, of course, not just standard messages--but if you think standard messages are enough, you're fucking cracked).
There's no documentation worth mentioning (no, the halfassed tutorial made by the original dev and splattered all over the web isn't worth the electricity it takes to display it) and the response you get from most people is "the code is the documentation." The code is not the documentation and is never the documentation. Shit like that is why potentially good stuff like DBus doesn't get a lot of coverage.
It also isn't anything like OS X's system services, unless you wanted to build some monster on top of it.
The South Ossetians want to be an independent country. The voted overwhelmingly to do so in 2006. The Russians respect that. The Georgians and their allies (read: us) do not.
Do you really think the Russians are just going to leave?
Final Fantasy XI runs on Playstation 2, Xbox 360 and Windows 98 or higher (I have the original box, never mind what the website says in 2008). And if you think that game is small, it is clear you have never played it for more than a few days.
FFXI is "small" in the sense that it loads relatively small areas into RAM (and the developers spent quite a bit of time working on techniques to pack it all in). It is small, compared to WoW et al.
Also, they could be releasing Star Trek Online on the Mac, but they're not. Same thing for Linux.
Why would they? Macs can run Windows if their users want to play games, removing most of the reason to port to OS X unless an OS X port is projected to make more money than both the cost of porting and the following support costs. Same for Linux--I develop on Linux, but if I was writing closed-source applications (no, gnutards, you do not get to jump in and say "IT SHOULD BE OPEN SOURCE^W^WFREE SOFTWARE" here), I'd tell the Linux users to fuck off, too. The platform isn't friendly to closed-source development; you either have to target--and test and support--multiple distros, or some wanker will whine that it only supports Ubuntu and not Fedora. If there was a standard base that people use (and nobody uses LSB, so that's right out) that anybody could target, you could get somewhere, but as it is, it's a fucking mess. Most developers won't find it worthwhile.
I'm tired of having to choose between Microsoft and Microsoft. DirectX is killing the games market.
If there were reasonable alternatives, I'm sure some people would use them. OpenGL is shit. Why, you ask?
Everything's a GLuint; you have to generate wrapper classes left and right to provide a modicum of type safety. By the time you're done, you might as well have just done it in DirectX, because you just wasted a lot of time replicating its object model.
The official specs are utterly useless. You usually have to go look at the extensions docs to get anything worthwhile. Extensions themselves are a pain in the ass; modularity for modularity's sake is not a plus.
Can't store vertex declarations conveniently; you get stuck managing that by hand, which is pretty laughable when...
...every time you change VBO, all your vertex setup is trashed and you have to call all the *Pointer functions again.
GLSL sucks because of hardware support (and yes, this is the manufacturer's fault, but that remains an OpenGL failure for somebody who wants to work any way you slice it): nVidia cards run it through a modified Cg frontend, and they'll pass bad GLSL code easily.
GLSL is retarded. There are cases where no casting actually happens (no implicit integers to floats), so typing "1" where it expects "1.0" will break it.
There's no really effective (or even ineffective) way to query for GLSL functionality on the platform. One of the canonical examples is noise(), which pretty much everybody returns as a constant, usually (but not always!) black.
There's no real equivalent to D3DX. The big killer here is no equivalent to D3DX Effect. CgFX is not a decent alternative.
OpenGL is a library that tries to solve problems in what's easiest for the OpenGL programmers, not the consumer programmers; DirectX actually has developers who are interested in what the consumer programmers want and need, and attempts to get to that point.
Would it be nice if OpenGL didn't suck? Sure! I'd like to see more games on Linux, too; there aren't many things keeping on Windows, but games are one of them. Are we at that point? LOL, no.
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"It just means that RMT would require higher USD prices because people want to take shortcuts and will pay to avoid grind, regardless of the expense" isn't an argument?
Or are you stupid, too?
Civilians never had the right to go around carrying guns (the police don't either, excep for select groups), so from which orifice are you pulling your statistics?
The rise in UK gun crime is a long term trend that is apparently unaffected by the state of UK firearms legislation. [27] Before the 1997 ban, handguns were only held by 0.1% of the population,[28] and while the number of crimes involving firearms in England and Wales increased from 13,874 in 1998/99 to 24,070 in 2002/03, they remained relatively static at 24,094 in 2003/04, and have since fallen to 21,521 in 2005/06.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_the_United_Kingdom#Homicide_and_firearms_crime
Sources are cited in the article. I've heard nothing but horror stories from friends in the UK who've had their homes broken into and had the police recommend only "hide." Me? Well, I don't live in a high-crime area, but a firearm is in my bedroom (in a thumbprint-locked safe) and I am quite qualified in its use; any who broke into my home would regret the act. :)
As for criminals, they will be criminals and the rest of society has no control over them. The whole point of being a criminal is to set yourself aside (outcast yourself, if you will) from the common aspirations of the community.
Correct--but that the populace in the UK still voted themselves into defenselessness. Laughable and sad, really.
Maybe no need to buy or steal Windows, but still run Windows games and applications? That is certainly a legitimate goal.
ReactOS: free at 75% the efficacy. Pirating Windows: free at 100% the efficacy. Hrm, I wonder.
Let's get real here, my friend. ReactOS will not be "good enough," will never be good enough, while Windows is essentially $0. Do you really think that Microsoft cares that much about piracy on the home desktop? Piracy is good for Windows and Microsoft, because the corporate market is all that really matters. People pirate it at home and buy it at work. Same goes for Adobe.
If ReactOS got to the point where it was anywhere near a Windows competitor (it's not, and frankly, probably never will be), Microsoft would almost certainly release an equivalent (or better) version for $0. And ReactOS would remain useless.
And the people you consider important can kiss my ass.
Oh, so users don't matter? Interesting. I guess you and KDE's Troy Unrau have something in common.
What can ReactOS do that WINE on Linux won't do? WINE is an equally free alternative that provides similar benefits. Here one could claim that redundant work is done.
There's considerable code-sharing going on between ReactOS and WINE. Why are you even talking on the subject if you don't know anything about it?
This said, nobody is forced to contribute to ReactOS and the proverb about not looking a gift horse into the mouth applies.
On this we agree, and I wouldn't presume to be so arrogant as to tell the ReactOS guys to stop; if they like what they're doing, more power to them. The great-grandparent post, however, can go fuck a blender, as can your post's sibling blathering about shoving his politics on his user.
"Other programmers" go where the users are. Your high-and-mighty bullshit utterly fails--or would if anyone actually used the software you wrote; as you brag about being a PHP programmer, I'm going to go with "LOL, no"--because if people aren't using your software, your software doesn't matter.
I write open-source. I write open-source on Windows as well as Linux. Why? Because I want to benefit others instead of pushing my political views on them. Your arrogance is astonishing and rather GNU-ish (and that's never, ever a compliment). Fortunately, thanks to the elegant philosophy of open source, if you did write something worthwhile, somebody could give the finger to your arrogant political stances and port it to Windows. (But you won't, so--hey, who cares?)
You do know that OEMs (and yeah, a small shop or reseller qualifies) get Windows for dirt cheap, right?
The rate of gun crime in England didn't exactly go down when the legal guns were taken away. If you take away the legal firearms, only the criminals (and the people who you have tacitly accepted as your civil masters, the police) will have access to them.
You don't know that the people you see won't be armed. You hope they won't be. Saying anything else is cowardly, self-important self-delusion.
Pathetic, as are all moral relativists.
If not for these vile creatures of the 3rd world, game economies would be much, much easier to manage and not get so out of balance the normal players would have to resort to paying money for gold.
"Vile creatures"? LOL. You're a fucking dipshit. (Any WoW player calling anyone else a "vile creature" is a fucking dipshit, but really, you're extra-dipshitful.)
Furthermore, no, game economies wouldn't be balanced. It just means that RMT would require higher USD prices because people want to take shortcuts and will pay to avoid grind, regardless of the expense.
Do you have any idea how economics works, "vile creature"?
ReactOS will never mimic Windows perfectly, so why the hell should anyone bother dual-booting ReactOS and Linux? What benefit do you get that you don't get without Windows and Linux?
"It's free as in beer" is unacceptable; Windows is essentially free and everyone knows it.
"It's free as in freedom" is equally unacceptable because nobody important gives a shit.
You do know that you don't have to screw around with any of that in a managed language, right? "Very easily make the different processor needs compatible" my ass--Java/C# do it on their own.
It's not a benefit to system security; just run the script engine (PHP, whatever) as the user who owns the account.
I wonder...
Sounds like I have a project to poke at for a few days.
I don't think you quite get the idea of a tongue-in-cheek remark.
Microsoft is a sworn enemy of software freedom.
No. Microsoft is an enemy of the GPL, as I think pretty much everyone should be (because the GPL is unethical). They have their own OSI-approved licenses that they use for a great deal of code.
It doesn't "want to uninstall," it says that they're packages that nothing depends on and can be removed.
Stop anthropomorphizing the poor computer. :(
You misunderstand. A firearm is a lethal weapon. There is no "non-lethal" shot. If you are shooting a firearm at a person, your intention is always to kill. There is no case where that does not hold; saying otherwise reveals your ignorance about what a firearm is and how to handle one. Even a leg or arm shot may be fatal given not-that-uncommon circumstances.
In the first case you cite, using a firearm is the wrong strategy; using a firearm in such a case should be avoided entirely, not "shooting to wound." In the second--if the civilian is putting his hand out of sight for a wallet, etc. without police direction, he is a potential threat. The civilian is acting counter to the direction of the acknowledged law enforcement officer (whether you in particular like it or not, we have decided a a society that law enforcement officers have the power to deliver said directions) and may potentially be a threat to the officer and to other civilians. Given the poor reliability of less-than-lethal weapons when attempting to subdue people (especially those under the influence of drugs, etc.), a lethal option is the safest first option for the police officer and other civilians who may be harmed.
You are not talking about "a policeman in the hospital." You are talking about a potentially dead police officer; once injured, a police officer, or any other combatant, is much less likely to be able to defend himself or others against an assailant. And while you are no doubt ready and raring to blather on about how you'd rather a dead police officer than a dead civilian, keep in mind that, in the worst case, it's not the police officer but other civilians who may be injured or killed.
Soldiers have a rationale to shoot to kill instead of wounding, but police should not.
Shooting to wound doesn't work. Shooting to incapacitate is, in nearly all cases, the same as shooting to kill.
Er, no. Read what apt says--it doesn't uninstall those packages, they're just marked as unnecessary and can be removed.
The problem with DBus is that it kind of sucks at present. It's extremely difficult to learn and use and it's limited by the biggest fault in pretty much all IPC: not everything groks the same language, so you have translation shims and weird serialization and other ad-hockery (I'm referring to passing objects over it, of course, not just standard messages--but if you think standard messages are enough, you're fucking cracked).
There's no documentation worth mentioning (no, the halfassed tutorial made by the original dev and splattered all over the web isn't worth the electricity it takes to display it) and the response you get from most people is "the code is the documentation." The code is not the documentation and is never the documentation. Shit like that is why potentially good stuff like DBus doesn't get a lot of coverage.
It also isn't anything like OS X's system services, unless you wanted to build some monster on top of it.
Yeah, this one.
I'm watching this project with a lot of interest. I just hope they don't get C&D'd.
The South Ossetians want to be an independent country. The voted overwhelmingly to do so in 2006. The Russians respect that. The Georgians and their allies (read: us) do not.
Do you really think the Russians are just going to leave?
Given how awesome TIE Fighter was? I'd take that.
If D3D couldn't address those needs, why are a number of CAD developers moving to D3D instead of OpenGL?
Final Fantasy XI runs on Playstation 2, Xbox 360 and Windows 98 or higher (I have the original box, never mind what the website says in 2008). And if you think that game is small, it is clear you have never played it for more than a few days.
FFXI is "small" in the sense that it loads relatively small areas into RAM (and the developers spent quite a bit of time working on techniques to pack it all in). It is small, compared to WoW et al.
Also, they could be releasing Star Trek Online on the Mac, but they're not. Same thing for Linux.
Why would they? Macs can run Windows if their users want to play games, removing most of the reason to port to OS X unless an OS X port is projected to make more money than both the cost of porting and the following support costs. Same for Linux--I develop on Linux, but if I was writing closed-source applications (no, gnutards, you do not get to jump in and say "IT SHOULD BE OPEN SOURCE^W^WFREE SOFTWARE" here), I'd tell the Linux users to fuck off, too. The platform isn't friendly to closed-source development; you either have to target--and test and support--multiple distros, or some wanker will whine that it only supports Ubuntu and not Fedora. If there was a standard base that people use (and nobody uses LSB, so that's right out) that anybody could target, you could get somewhere, but as it is, it's a fucking mess. Most developers won't find it worthwhile.
I'm tired of having to choose between Microsoft and Microsoft. DirectX is killing the games market.
If there were reasonable alternatives, I'm sure some people would use them. OpenGL is shit. Why, you ask?
OpenGL is a library that tries to solve problems in what's easiest for the OpenGL programmers, not the consumer programmers; DirectX actually has developers who are interested in what the consumer programmers want and need, and attempts to get to that point.
Would it be nice if OpenGL didn't suck? Sure! I'd like to see more games on Linux, too; there aren't many things keeping on Windows, but games are one of them. Are we at that point? LOL, no.
Is it a car analogy? Because if it is, I am sold!
(For the mods and the stupid: the previous post was a joke.)