Yeah, PJ on groklaw is an anonymous blogger alright
I have the utmost respect for PJ's writings through the SCO case. That said, since then she's gone completely off the rails. She's not worth listening to, it seems, unless it has to do with SCO. When on any other subject, she's a slavering, drooling GNUtard. (And yes, despite developing open-source software myself, I will use the appellation "GNUtard" for anyone like her.)
The problem is that, once people start using OO, Firefox, etc., they will eventually realize that they can run that exact same software on a free OS.
Woo, they can run their office suite and web browser on a free OS. Except--wait! They aren't paying for Windows, they're getting it with a new computer. So they're already using it on a free OS--free to them; your GNUtard insistence on splitting hairs when it comes to definitions doesn't matter to Joe User. He just thinks you sound like some nutcase.
I use FOSS software every day, run a Linux machine, and I'm still calling your suggestion stupid. Linux will gain appreciable market share on the desktop until it can seamlessly run everything Windows can. Everything. That includes games running whatever the newest version of DirectX happens to be at the given time. And it needs to do so flawlessly or users will go "this sucks, I quit" because they don't give two shits about "but it's Free, rms said so!".
Oh god yes. Mod parent up, he's spot-on. The Open XML specification is arguably more implementable than the ODF spec; there are numerous cases in ODF where fairly vital information (cryptography comes to mind) is left up to the implementor, and incompatible versions exist.
And your service men have slaughtered, and ARE slaughtering, hundreds of thousands of civilian men women and children.
Okay, maybe I should have said "things that our servicemen are actually doing, and not things that are happening in the area".
If you think American servicemen are killing "hundreds of thousands of civilian men women and children" (protip: commas go in between items on a list), you are fucking deluded. So, no, your false example doesn't turn my stomach. Fuck off.
I abhor the idea that killing is a solution to any problem. Hitler says hi. Or Stalin, or any of the tin-pot dictators killing their own citizens. (No, not an attempt to Godwin the thread, but killing is a valid solution to lots of problems that are difficult to solve so effectively or, yes, so cleanly otherwise.)
A gun is a machine designed to kill. The idea is kill your killer before he kills you. Why, yes, it might a shocker but Darwinism works! If you aren't the fittest, you won't kill your killer before he kills you, and you Lose The Game.
This is a morally dubious proposition and incompatible with the Christian theology I grew up with. ...you're joking, right? Your sky god has influenced more slaughter than anything else I can think of.
That's nonsense, because no such model exists outside of an MMO-type game with company-operated central servers. If you aren't selling an MMO, you aren't selling anything that can have "support" that also doesn't require copyright protection because that's the only thing the user still has to pay you for (and then, if the GPL zealots had their way, not even then).
How do you propose to offer "support" for games that don't require an external server for players to connect to? What value-add is there over the base software that does not also require copyright protection (because episodic content goes out the window too).
The only way that Blizzard's "support" makes money is because they are essentially selling software as a service, which doesn't work for non-MMOs.
I can see why people will want to buy the XP version but they should really buy the linux version (which has a bigger HD in the new generation 9in ones) and then decide later if they want to pop XP on it.
Not interested. I don't want to fight with drivers or anything else. I want it to just work and I want applications to just work (which means Linux is right out).
I also don't have a spare XP license lying around.
(I love how my previous post got modded flamebait for calling twitter a sockpuppet.)
then don't make it.. then the would-be 'pirates' will have to make it themselves. go do something that will make you money instead of asking the government to prop up your business model.
The stupidity of this (AC-posted) comment is so utterly plain that it stands for itself. Let me quote something to you, though.
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
So like it or not, securing for limited times is Constitutional. What the RIAA does is bad. Throwing the baby out with the bathwater is idiotic.
Are you kidding? Selling support for games makes Blizzard Entertainment more than a billion dollars a year. In Korea, they give World of Warcraft away for free, just to make it easier to get customers wanting support.
So you want nothing but subscription games? I don't want everything to become an MMO, do you?
I think that all digital art will become free for those who do not want to earn money from it. If a magazine wants to use one of your photos or if a corporation wants to use your music for an add, you should get paid. The rest will come from donations from fans or derived products. If you think this kind of business model will work for commodity software, such as computer games, you're out of your mind. (And no, selling support won't work for games, go away Stallmanites, and no, selling content won't work because they'll pirate that too. There are some goods, even electronic ones, that require strong copyright, and you can shove it if you want to tell me that you'll just steal it with no thought to the creator.)
Ars has veered pretty hard toward "OMG MACS R SO GR8" over the last couple years. I mean, they always covered Macs, which is fine, but the drooling adoration is becoming way too annoying.
While eye candy is not necessary, I suppose, that doesn't mean it doesn't serve a productive purpose. For hardcore multitaskers, expose is a must - in a second you can pick the window you want out of the 20 that you have open.
For you. I think Expose is more trouble than it's worth, because I can alt-tab faster than you can locate flying documents.
I seem to remember Marvel actually approached Samuel L. Jackson back in 2001 and asked if they could use his likeness for the Ultimate version of Nick Fury.
Yep. They did.
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People come here to read about technology and how it affects us, how we can shape it and use it to our benefit, and helps us become better at what we do, as nerds and free-thinkers.
Take that stick out of your ass. It's a good movie. Entertaining. You don't want to see the stories regarding it? Remove "Movies" from your front page and shut the hell up.
I use Windows 2003. Works great; playing games takes a bit of hackery, but nothing special. Direct3D had its moments of sheer blinding hatemongering (would silently close out D3D apps) until I found a page that explained why there were problems and how to get around them. About the biggest complaint I had was that Photoshop CS3 got itself confused and thought that Windows 2003 was older than XP SP2, so I had to download a Microsoft tool and make the installer think I was running on XP SP2; the applications run just fine without the same treatment.
You are misinterpreting what he is saying. A Rails application could easily have 400 instances. They were restarting them once or twice a day. I'm not sure where it is off hand, but there is a DHH quote that confirms what I am saying. Given how mindnumbingly idiotic DHH is, I'll go with Zed on this one.
No, he said that they were restarting the application 400 times a day. Quote:
(15:11:12) DHH: before fastthread we had _400 restarts/day
(15:11:22) DHH: now we have perhaps 10
(15:11:29) Zed S.: oh nice
(15:11:33) Zed S.: and that's still fastcgi right?
Notice how it took me a few seconds to reply. This one single statement basically means that we all got duped. The main Rails application that DHH created required restarting _400 times/day. That's a production application that canâ(TM)t stay up for more than 4 minutes on average.
Let me put this into perspective for you: I've ran servers that needed to be restarted once in a year. They were written in PHP, Python, Java, C, C++, you name it. Hell, I've got this blog on a server I've restarted maybe 10-20 times the whole year.
Now, DHH tells me that he's got 400 restarts a mother fucking day. That's 1 restart about ever 4 minutes bitches. These restarts went away after I exposed bugs in the GC and Threads which Mentalguy fixed with fastthread (like a Ninja, Mentalguy is awesome).
If anyone had known Rails was that unstable they would have laughed in his face. Think about it further, this means that the creator of Rails in his flagship products could not keep them running for longer than 4 minutes on average.
Repeat that to yourself. "He couldn't keep his own servers running for longer than 4 minutes on average."
Assuming his statements are true (which we may never know) he basically duped us all. Thank you, come again.
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Yeah, PJ on groklaw is an anonymous blogger alright
I have the utmost respect for PJ's writings through the SCO case. That said, since then she's gone completely off the rails. She's not worth listening to, it seems, unless it has to do with SCO. When on any other subject, she's a slavering, drooling GNUtard. (And yes, despite developing open-source software myself, I will use the appellation "GNUtard" for anyone like her.)
The problem is that, once people start using OO, Firefox, etc., they will eventually realize that they can run that exact same software on a free OS.
Woo, they can run their office suite and web browser on a free OS. Except--wait! They aren't paying for Windows, they're getting it with a new computer. So they're already using it on a free OS--free to them; your GNUtard insistence on splitting hairs when it comes to definitions doesn't matter to Joe User. He just thinks you sound like some nutcase.
I use FOSS software every day, run a Linux machine, and I'm still calling your suggestion stupid. Linux will gain appreciable market share on the desktop until it can seamlessly run everything Windows can. Everything. That includes games running whatever the newest version of DirectX happens to be at the given time. And it needs to do so flawlessly or users will go "this sucks, I quit" because they don't give two shits about "but it's Free, rms said so!".
claims about the content of the specification
Oh god yes. Mod parent up, he's spot-on. The Open XML specification is arguably more implementable than the ODF spec; there are numerous cases in ODF where fairly vital information (cryptography comes to mind) is left up to the implementor, and incompatible versions exist.
And your service men have slaughtered, and ARE slaughtering, hundreds of thousands of civilian men women and children.
Okay, maybe I should have said "things that our servicemen are actually doing, and not things that are happening in the area".
If you think American servicemen are killing "hundreds of thousands of civilian men women and children" (protip: commas go in between items on a list), you are fucking deluded. So, no, your false example doesn't turn my stomach. Fuck off.
It's posted via bot.
Hardware hack, smart guy.
I think I'm being trolled.
That's nonsense, because no such model exists outside of an MMO-type game with company-operated central servers. If you aren't selling an MMO, you aren't selling anything that can have "support" that also doesn't require copyright protection because that's the only thing the user still has to pay you for (and then, if the GPL zealots had their way, not even then).
How do you propose to offer "support" for games that don't require an external server for players to connect to? What value-add is there over the base software that does not also require copyright protection (because episodic content goes out the window too).
The only way that Blizzard's "support" makes money is because they are essentially selling software as a service, which doesn't work for non-MMOs.
I can see why people will want to buy the XP version but they should really buy the linux version (which has a bigger HD in the new generation 9in ones) and then decide later if they want to pop XP on it.
Not interested. I don't want to fight with drivers or anything else. I want it to just work and I want applications to just work (which means Linux is right out).
I also don't have a spare XP license lying around.
(I love how my previous post got modded flamebait for calling twitter a sockpuppet.)
then don't make it.. then the would-be 'pirates' will have to make it themselves. go do something that will make you money instead of asking the government to prop up your business model.
The stupidity of this (AC-posted) comment is so utterly plain that it stands for itself. Let me quote something to you, though.
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
So like it or not, securing for limited times is Constitutional. What the RIAA does is bad. Throwing the baby out with the bathwater is idiotic.
Are you kidding? Selling support for games makes Blizzard Entertainment more than a billion dollars a year. In Korea, they give World of Warcraft away for free, just to make it easier to get customers wanting support.
So you want nothing but subscription games? I don't want everything to become an MMO, do you?
Ars has veered pretty hard toward "OMG MACS R SO GR8" over the last couple years. I mean, they always covered Macs, which is fine, but the drooling adoration is becoming way too annoying.
No one is going to buy the XP version of EEE PC
I will. Fuck off, sockpuppet.
While eye candy is not necessary, I suppose, that doesn't mean it doesn't serve a productive purpose. For hardcore multitaskers, expose is a must - in a second you can pick the window you want out of the 20 that you have open.
For you. I think Expose is more trouble than it's worth, because I can alt-tab faster than you can locate flying documents.
You're a terribly shitty spammer. Hell, you can't even spell "programming".
I seem to remember Marvel actually approached Samuel L. Jackson back in 2001 and asked if they could use his likeness for the Ultimate version of Nick Fury.
Yep. They did.
People come here to read about technology and how it affects us, how we can shape it and use it to our benefit, and helps us become better at what we do, as nerds and free-thinkers.
Take that stick out of your ass. It's a good movie. Entertaining. You don't want to see the stories regarding it? Remove "Movies" from your front page and shut the hell up.
Ultimate's Nick Fury looks like Samuel L. Jackson. Probably there?
I use Windows 2003. Works great; playing games takes a bit of hackery, but nothing special. Direct3D had its moments of sheer blinding hatemongering (would silently close out D3D apps) until I found a page that explained why there were problems and how to get around them. About the biggest complaint I had was that Photoshop CS3 got itself confused and thought that Windows 2003 was older than XP SP2, so I had to download a Microsoft tool and make the installer think I was running on XP SP2; the applications run just fine without the same treatment.
(15:11:22) DHH: now we have perhaps 10
(15:11:29) Zed S.: oh nice
(15:11:33) Zed S.: and that's still fastcgi right?
Notice how it took me a few seconds to reply. This one single statement basically means that we all got duped. The main Rails application that DHH created required restarting _400 times/day. That's a production application that canâ(TM)t stay up for more than 4 minutes on average.
Let me put this into perspective for you: I've ran servers that needed to be restarted once in a year. They were written in PHP, Python, Java, C, C++, you name it. Hell, I've got this blog on a server I've restarted maybe 10-20 times the whole year.
Now, DHH tells me that he's got 400 restarts a mother fucking day. That's 1 restart about ever 4 minutes bitches. These restarts went away after I exposed bugs in the GC and Threads which Mentalguy fixed with fastthread (like a Ninja, Mentalguy is awesome).
If anyone had known Rails was that unstable they would have laughed in his face. Think about it further, this means that the creator of Rails in his flagship products could not keep them running for longer than 4 minutes on average.
Repeat that to yourself. "He couldn't keep his own servers running for longer than 4 minutes on average."
Assuming his statements are true (which we may never know) he basically duped us all. Thank you, come again.
He's (mostly) joking. It's part of a very angry act.