Is there a deadline of any kind for emerging from Chapter 11 before they declare that the company is too completely screwed and deserves to be liquidated? Or is this the sort of thing determined case-by-case in the bankruptcy courts?
Seriously, this is a teenager, not a six year old. Her concern should be revolving around what her kid is actually motivated to view, because it ain't being pushed to him against his control.
But this is your boss, and not someone you want to give this lecture to. Just throw the names of some filters and/or logging spyware for corporate intranets at her, and let it go. Do not fight her battles.
I hardly think Valve is a timid animal, and dealing with the demands of its existing customers is almost certainly more difficult. Anyway, the dedicated servers already run on Linux, so it's not like they're never touched it before.
About the only thing more annoying than "hardcore gamers" are those who use the term derisively.
Bioshock is nice. I also like the HD graphics on Viva Pi&nata. I'll probably like Mass Effect (then again I thought I'd like Advent Rising.). I also like Hexic, though I could take or leave the HD aspect of it. Carcassone is really fun too. Someone should help me find the box I fit into.
I guess there is one thing more annoying, and that's the kids on most game discussion boards. I thought lead paint had been phased out before they were born, but I swear most of them must have eaten pounds of the stuff off their cribs.
This is the same dumbshit who posted the "7 deadly sins of haskell". He's a crank, and a troll and please don't feed him. Now that I've plonked him into my enemies list, I hopefully won't have to see his drivel anymore.
> why don't they just use bigger prime numbers (and here's the kicker)... found using Shor's algorithm.
Because it doesn't matter -- if you come up with a key twice as big that way, you only make decrypting it twice as slow instead of millions of times slower. Having the ultimate lockpick doesn't automatically give you the ability to design a better lock with it.
Mine installed just fine on my SATA drives, though it's MCE 2005. I'm sure Microsoft is at fault though for not inventing the technology to make its 2002-vintage install CD's update themselves to include SATA support.
Are they awarding the prize for the post-launch delivery, or does the organization have to design the ground-based launch vehicle too? Governments aren't too keen on private enterprises developing their own ICBM's, yunno.
> (I still shudder realizing that the "latest" version of XP REQUIRES A FLOPPY TO LOAD DEVICE DRIVERS DURING INSTALLATION)
No, it can use a floppy to load extra drivers if you need them. I've never had to do so. Whereas in the average Linux installer, if it doesn't come with the drivers already bundled, you're just SOL.
It would have been nice if the installer kernel were able to read USB thumb drives, but reinstalling isn't somethign I do often enough to care.
There have been discussions about "natively" loading other formats, but I think the consensus was that it just wasn't really a win. Symbol resolution and relocation and whatnot isn't really the province of the kernel anyway, it's up to the loader. An ELF executable simply uses/lib/ld-linux.so as its loader, while other apps use other ELF executables. So you might save the space of the loader "stub" if you supported other formats natively, but I don't see any extra functionality coming out of it, and there isn't a lot of demand for high-performance multi-user systems running mostly non-native executables.
> I just can't understand those complaining about no multiplayer.
Much as I prefer single player games, and laud any game brave enough to be single-player-only, I have to admit that a multi-player Bioshock would be an absolute fucking blast. With all the creative ways to kill, I think it would be the most fun sort of multiplayer since Duke Nukem 3d.
Well, theoretically anyway. Problem is, the fun of a LAN game against your co-workers after hours (or hell, at lunchtime) is pretty much gone these days, and you're more or less forced to play against the foul-mouthed teabagging kiddiez online. Even games with ladders are usually full of griefers who self-kill to stay down the ladder for no reason other than to ruin it for the n00bs.
This produces, just before you try to exit a level, a preposterous peice of fourth-wall-exploding nonsense - a dialog box pops up and tells you "you haven't either rescued or harvested any little sisters on this level - you should go back and do this otherwise the game will be very difficult later on".
That might make sense as a tutorial message -- does it really do this on every level? Yikes.
I've only played the demo, but I'm having a hard time seeing a really hard moral decision about the little sisters. I mean, the one I saw was a creepy zombie girl with a big stabby stabby needle... not exactly a hapless little waif. Eh, maybe they make it a harder decision later, I don't know. I'm content with waiting til next year for the price drop.
Maybe I'm just jaded, but Bioshock doesn't seem to offer a lot for an FPS beyond the (admittedly very cool) art deco setting. Even Gears of War feels more innovative, with its combat mechanic of cover points. System Shock 2 was supremely creepy from word go. "The Many SEEK!".
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Gahh, I so wish wish wish I could just TURN OFF achievements. Know that GamerZone I'm in? It says "casual"! Shouldn't that mean "I don't care about stupid score stats that really just track how many games I buy"? Nothing takes me out of a game quite like those stupid little achievement popups. Worst feature ever.
> You can swap out the kernel of your system and not notice any clear difference. For example, you can run a *BSD kernel with GNU (or the Hurd, if you're daring).
By all means, show me this wondrous swappable kernel project in action.
Also, hundreds of People Who Were Not RMS improved on gcc and the GNU userland. RMS acts like he was the sole inventer of all of them and all the concepts behind them. He continuously derides Linux as "just a kernel", and minimizes the contributions of everyone else.
I also respect RMS's right to express his views, even though I think he's steering himself into irrelevance with his rhetoric.
The hippies provided a fan base to some good musicians, but other than that, weren't really the force of activism people would have you imagine. Take a look at the Free Speech Movement and the Freedom Riders for example -- pretty clean-cut types.
Nowadays, while there's still a good deal of slackers with a veneer of idealism that you could call hippies, the term "hippy" is usually just a convenient foil for reactionary numbskulls who can't even update their arguments to the current decade. It sounds to me like whatever organization sponsored your friend's trip in Ecquador wasn't terribly well-run. Reputable organizations usually screen out the inexperienced and inept before they even step on a plane.
> I think the ramifications and implications of the "I can record my entire life on a wearable device" alone makes for a major revolution.
You can do that now, for at least several years worth of your life at a time. The rest is a matter of getting the video connection back to wherever you've stashed your archives. Or hell, you could just stream it there directly.
Thing is, most people don't want to do that, and they don't want you to do so either, at least when they're involved. Revolutions happen when people change attitudes. Technology may enable the attitude change, but it certainly doesn't always drive it.
When we can access directly via our brains, then we might be closer to the hive. Til then, it's just information, and 99% of it is useless.
Actually it's fraud. Copyright infringement is making an unauthorized copy of Windows. Fraud is when the OEM takes your money and hands you a bogus product.
Why don't you go ahead and change some bits in a banking or trading application to credit your account instead of the proper one, and see what they call it.
Yes, I find Steam to be pretty buggy, from not launching games except the second time I select the launch, to losing games in my list until I log out and back in, to a very sluggish store UI, which is merely an embedded IE component.
But it still beats the living crap out of dealing with physical discs, and it's still a much better delivery service than Direct2Drive. I've never found the authentication to be slow, and BTW, it only has to do it once if you're not doing multiplayer.
Your criticisms might carry a little more weight if you even knew what the name of the app was called. You sound like my gf's mother, who says things like "My Microsoft is slow".
I was complaining that they didn't have a single game I own or have even played, but then I listened to the samples and realized that nothing could hold a candle to the sheer awfulness embodied in them.
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Is there a deadline of any kind for emerging from Chapter 11 before they declare that the company is too completely screwed and deserves to be liquidated? Or is this the sort of thing determined case-by-case in the bankruptcy courts?
Seriously, this is a teenager, not a six year old. Her concern should be revolving around what her kid is actually motivated to view, because it ain't being pushed to him against his control.
But this is your boss, and not someone you want to give this lecture to. Just throw the names of some filters and/or logging spyware for corporate intranets at her, and let it go. Do not fight her battles.
> You are coaxing a timid animal out of its hole
I hardly think Valve is a timid animal, and dealing with the demands of its existing customers is almost certainly more difficult. Anyway, the dedicated servers already run on Linux, so it's not like they're never touched it before.
About the only thing more annoying than "hardcore gamers" are those who use the term derisively.
Bioshock is nice. I also like the HD graphics on Viva Pi&nata. I'll probably like Mass Effect (then again I thought I'd like Advent Rising.). I also like Hexic, though I could take or leave the HD aspect of it. Carcassone is really fun too. Someone should help me find the box I fit into.
I guess there is one thing more annoying, and that's the kids on most game discussion boards. I thought lead paint had been phased out before they were born, but I swear most of them must have eaten pounds of the stuff off their cribs.
> you and the Xbox 360 fanbois ...
> i would rather eat manure than play one
Know what? I'd really like to see you exercise that option. Why is this subject so important to you if you profess that it means so little?
Sorry, did my use of actual English throw you there?
This is the same dumbshit who posted the "7 deadly sins of haskell". He's a crank, and a troll and please don't feed him. Now that I've plonked him into my enemies list, I hopefully won't have to see his drivel anymore.
> why don't they just use bigger prime numbers (and here's the kicker) ... found using Shor's algorithm.
Because it doesn't matter -- if you come up with a key twice as big that way, you only make decrypting it twice as slow instead of millions of times slower. Having the ultimate lockpick doesn't automatically give you the ability to design a better lock with it.
Mine installed just fine on my SATA drives, though it's MCE 2005. I'm sure Microsoft is at fault though for not inventing the technology to make its 2002-vintage install CD's update themselves to include SATA support.
Are they awarding the prize for the post-launch delivery, or does the organization have to design the ground-based launch vehicle too? Governments aren't too keen on private enterprises developing their own ICBM's, yunno.
> (I still shudder realizing that the "latest" version of XP REQUIRES A FLOPPY TO LOAD DEVICE DRIVERS DURING INSTALLATION)
No, it can use a floppy to load extra drivers if you need them. I've never had to do so. Whereas in the average Linux installer, if it doesn't come with the drivers already bundled, you're just SOL.
It would have been nice if the installer kernel were able to read USB thumb drives, but reinstalling isn't somethign I do often enough to care.
> I'm not, in any way, implying that Mr. Stallman is a Nazi;
I told Mr. Godwin to go away after reading that, but he insisted on handing me a telegram:
YOU LOSE STOP
There have been discussions about "natively" loading other formats, but I think the consensus was that it just wasn't really a win. Symbol resolution and relocation and whatnot isn't really the province of the kernel anyway, it's up to the loader. An ELF executable simply uses /lib/ld-linux.so as its loader, while other apps use other ELF executables. So you might save the space of the loader "stub" if you supported other formats natively, but I don't see any extra functionality coming out of it, and there isn't a lot of demand for high-performance multi-user systems running mostly non-native executables.
> Is the attribution requirement of the BSD license really a GPL killer?
There is no attribution requirement, at least none more than the GPL has (GPLv2, section 1). The advertisement clause was removed some time ago.
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php
> I just can't understand those complaining about no multiplayer.
Much as I prefer single player games, and laud any game brave enough to be single-player-only, I have to admit that a multi-player Bioshock would be an absolute fucking blast. With all the creative ways to kill, I think it would be the most fun sort of multiplayer since Duke Nukem 3d.
Well, theoretically anyway. Problem is, the fun of a LAN game against your co-workers after hours (or hell, at lunchtime) is pretty much gone these days, and you're more or less forced to play against the foul-mouthed teabagging kiddiez online. Even games with ladders are usually full of griefers who self-kill to stay down the ladder for no reason other than to ruin it for the n00bs.
This produces, just before you try to exit a level, a preposterous peice of fourth-wall-exploding nonsense - a dialog box pops up and tells you "you haven't either rescued or harvested any little sisters on this level - you should go back and do this otherwise the game will be very difficult later on".
... not exactly a hapless little waif. Eh, maybe they make it a harder decision later, I don't know. I'm content with waiting til next year for the price drop.
That might make sense as a tutorial message -- does it really do this on every level? Yikes.
I've only played the demo, but I'm having a hard time seeing a really hard moral decision about the little sisters. I mean, the one I saw was a creepy zombie girl with a big stabby stabby needle
Maybe I'm just jaded, but Bioshock doesn't seem to offer a lot for an FPS beyond the (admittedly very cool) art deco setting. Even Gears of War feels more innovative, with its combat mechanic of cover points. System Shock 2 was supremely creepy from word go. "The Many SEEK!".
Gahh, I so wish wish wish I could just TURN OFF achievements. Know that GamerZone I'm in? It says "casual"! Shouldn't that mean "I don't care about stupid score stats that really just track how many games I buy"? Nothing takes me out of a game quite like those stupid little achievement popups. Worst feature ever.
> The only thing stopping me from being a WoW nerd is my specs.
WoW's specs are insanely low, and you can max out all settings on a $50 card. If you can't afford that, you can't afford WoW anyway.
> You can swap out the kernel of your system and not notice any clear difference. For example, you can run a *BSD kernel with GNU (or the Hurd, if you're daring).
By all means, show me this wondrous swappable kernel project in action.
Also, hundreds of People Who Were Not RMS improved on gcc and the GNU userland. RMS acts like he was the sole inventer of all of them and all the concepts behind them. He continuously derides Linux as "just a kernel", and minimizes the contributions of everyone else.
I also respect RMS's right to express his views, even though I think he's steering himself into irrelevance with his rhetoric.
The hippies provided a fan base to some good musicians, but other than that, weren't really the force of activism people would have you imagine. Take a look at the Free Speech Movement and the Freedom Riders for example -- pretty clean-cut types.
Nowadays, while there's still a good deal of slackers with a veneer of idealism that you could call hippies, the term "hippy" is usually just a convenient foil for reactionary numbskulls who can't even update their arguments to the current decade. It sounds to me like whatever organization sponsored your friend's trip in Ecquador wasn't terribly well-run. Reputable organizations usually screen out the inexperienced and inept before they even step on a plane.
> Thankfully I grew up into a slightly more rounded individual
My guess is that RMS is rounder than you. Linus is also starting to pack on some weight too.
> I think the ramifications and implications of the "I can record my entire life on a wearable device" alone makes for a major revolution.
You can do that now, for at least several years worth of your life at a time. The rest is a matter of getting the video connection back to wherever you've stashed your archives. Or hell, you could just stream it there directly.
Thing is, most people don't want to do that, and they don't want you to do so either, at least when they're involved. Revolutions happen when people change attitudes. Technology may enable the attitude change, but it certainly doesn't always drive it.
When we can access directly via our brains, then we might be closer to the hive. Til then, it's just information, and 99% of it is useless.
Actually it's fraud. Copyright infringement is making an unauthorized copy of Windows. Fraud is when the OEM takes your money and hands you a bogus product.
Why don't you go ahead and change some bits in a banking or trading application to credit your account instead of the proper one, and see what they call it.
Yes, I find Steam to be pretty buggy, from not launching games except the second time I select the launch, to losing games in my list until I log out and back in, to a very sluggish store UI, which is merely an embedded IE component.
But it still beats the living crap out of dealing with physical discs, and it's still a much better delivery service than Direct2Drive. I've never found the authentication to be slow, and BTW, it only has to do it once if you're not doing multiplayer.
Your criticisms might carry a little more weight if you even knew what the name of the app was called. You sound like my gf's mother, who says things like "My Microsoft is slow".
Oh. My. Freakin. God. That was hilarious.
I was complaining that they didn't have a single game I own or have even played, but then I listened to the samples and realized that nothing could hold a candle to the sheer awfulness embodied in them.
"It's HAAAHling at the top of its lungs."
It's his own blog.