Linus has a long history of flapping his jaw about kernel development topics he knows nothing about as well. To his credit, they often become topics that he didn't know about at the time that he then becomes well-educated on (SMP and/dev/poll to name a couple) but sometimes it's on things he religiously refuses to learn anything further about (microkernel architectures).
He's an excellent assembly hacker, a fast learner, and at least a majority of the time a nice guy, so most people overlook it.
How about a more apt analogy: you don't feel like paying for a concert, so you don't pay. After all, it's not like the other people can't hear. Yes, I know space in the concert hall isn't infinite. You think paying customers are? Games are a multi-million dollar performance.
As for this case, looks like a German IP lawsuit mill has found an abundant new racket. Amazing how black and white things aren't, isn't it?
> anyone playing with duct tape mod or whatever completely missed the point and basically pissed all over a lot of careful level design
Careful level design that kept going back to the same well for the same tired mechanic: "It is dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue^H^H^H^Hdemon". A mechanic that was hard to believe in the first place. I could have bought it if the protaganist wasn't a freakin MARINE.
That and monster closets.
Id makes a nice engine, but they haven't had a coherent story since Quake II. I hope they have better luck licensing the engine this time: only major Doom3 licensee I can remember was Prey.
It's still about €2500 for one commercial seat, but if you spend one less day wrestling with glade and glib's half-assed I/O libraries, it pays for itself.
Windows in fact does keep a catalog of all.msi installed apps and updates it whenever msiexec is used. MSI has the notion of sub-packages and dependencies between them, which is cool, but what MSI lacks is dependency handling between individual.msi packages, which means it lacks basic things like requires/provides.
Then there's the problem that most apps are still packaged in some other installer format, and other than adding add/remove entries in the registry, there's no other API they can target for writing their package metadata (such as the aforementioned "provides" strings)
Windows is actually in a really good position to fix this sort of thing and provide a solution that would work across diverse package managers. Unfortunately, it's still not taking advantage of it this position. In defense of inaction, it's probably because you really can't trust that an app that claimed to provide MSVCRT version x actually provided a real compatible version x, so it's easier to just bundle the damn dependencies instead.
Second only to StarForce in fucking up systems with driver-level malware. I have no problems with DRM that doesn't get in my face or worm into my system; I buy a new game on steam roughly once a month on a whim. But for Spore, I'll be grabbing a crack post-haste.
> I don't what "snarky" means and I don't know what "schadenfreude" is.
Being the unfrozen... er, simple down-home country lawyer that you are, right?
Don't get me wrong, I rather like that someone is chronicling the Keystone Kops legal antics of the RIAA, and I never asked for an objective source in you, only a more objective source from somewhere.
I just think that when you're the only source that seems to get any coverage on slashdot, I don't think it really serves the truth to be slavering over Rule 11 sanctions that aren't likely to happen, or any more likely to happen because the RIAA is a bunch of rat-bastards.
I might share your slant, but I think it stands as object lesson how blogs are no substitute for journalism. Or at least shouldn't be.
> Really, I'm surprised the NYCL though that Rule 11 sanctions would be even a possibility for filing a 12(b)(6) motion
NYCL's postings all drip with snarky schadenfreude that pretty much overwhelms any technical analysis he has to give. If PACER is at one end of objectivity, NYCL has raced past Groklaw to reside at the other.
I'm happy to see the RIAA get what's coming to them too, but NYCL's postings are purely for entertainment value, not edification.
> Could anybody actually see the inside of a cell over this?
No.
Not even sanctions. Really. Seriously, people, I know you've all been whipped into a frenzy and want to see the public executions of every spouse and child of every clerk and paralegal of every law firm who's ever done business with the RIAA, but all that happened was that the plaintiffs made a useless motion, and the judge gave it the due consideration it deserved, which was nothing. Trust me when I say that no baby seals were clubbed in the process.
If anything, UMG should be pissed that their legal team phoned it in when it came to this motion. These are pretty serious counterclaims and they don't appear to be taking them seriously. Hubris does that I guess.
Judicial enforcement of a blanket gag order on an entire subject could quite easily be interpreted as an infringement of free speech. It largely depends on the forum and manner of speech, I suspect. Such a settlement would be largely invalid if that were the case, but I don't think Take-Two's lawyers are entirely dumb, and they crafted it in the language of refraining from interfering with business, not mere expression of opinion.
> Unless somebody else is requesting that exact same movie (and requesting it at the exact same time as you) how the hell does multicast help
Someone probably is requesting the exact same movie at roughly the same time. Have a few multicast streams going that are offset by some interval. You request the chunks that aren't being multicast, then synchronize to the first available multicast stream when it's available.
> Do you really want someone intelligent taking over his spot?
It's not a zero-sum game here -- if he's gone, there's no sign anyone else is going to take his place. It's not as if the moral crusaders of the world have been holding back and waiting for him to vacate the spot.
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They can sell at whatever price they want, but the license for the Quadro brand costs much more, and there is probably a requirement for much more QA.
Linus has a long history of flapping his jaw about kernel development topics he knows nothing about as well. To his credit, they often become topics that he didn't know about at the time that he then becomes well-educated on (SMP and /dev/poll to name a couple) but sometimes it's on things he religiously refuses to learn anything further about (microkernel architectures).
He's an excellent assembly hacker, a fast learner, and at least a majority of the time a nice guy, so most people overlook it.
How about a more apt analogy: you don't feel like paying for a concert, so you don't pay. After all, it's not like the other people can't hear. Yes, I know space in the concert hall isn't infinite. You think paying customers are? Games are a multi-million dollar performance.
As for this case, looks like a German IP lawsuit mill has found an abundant new racket. Amazing how black and white things aren't, isn't it?
> anyone playing with duct tape mod or whatever completely missed the point and basically pissed all over a lot of careful level design
Careful level design that kept going back to the same well for the same tired mechanic: "It is dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue^H^H^H^Hdemon". A mechanic that was hard to believe in the first place. I could have bought it if the protaganist wasn't a freakin MARINE.
That and monster closets.
Id makes a nice engine, but they haven't had a coherent story since Quake II. I hope they have better luck licensing the engine this time: only major Doom3 licensee I can remember was Prey.
It's still about €2500 for one commercial seat, but if you spend one less day wrestling with glade and glib's half-assed I/O libraries, it pays for itself.
Windows in fact does keep a catalog of all .msi installed apps and updates it whenever msiexec is used. MSI has the notion of sub-packages and dependencies between them, which is cool, but what MSI lacks is dependency handling between individual .msi packages, which means it lacks basic things like requires/provides.
Then there's the problem that most apps are still packaged in some other installer format, and other than adding add/remove entries in the registry, there's no other API they can target for writing their package metadata (such as the aforementioned "provides" strings)
Windows is actually in a really good position to fix this sort of thing and provide a solution that would work across diverse package managers. Unfortunately, it's still not taking advantage of it this position. In defense of inaction, it's probably because you really can't trust that an app that claimed to provide MSVCRT version x actually provided a real compatible version x, so it's easier to just bundle the damn dependencies instead.
You may think they don't have the right to imaginary property... Fine, so what makes you think you have the right to it?
People like you are the reason we get mostly titles like Madden [year] every single year.
Second only to StarForce in fucking up systems with driver-level malware. I have no problems with DRM that doesn't get in my face or worm into my system; I buy a new game on steam roughly once a month on a whim. But for Spore, I'll be grabbing a crack post-haste.
Would someone like to explain, for the benefit of us still in the dark, why internet 2 can't just be connected to the rest of the internet
Because it was built for research purposes that don't include being oversubscribed by ISP's that are disinterested in maintaining the infrastructure.
Under the new regime, wouldn't that be a "Yobibyte" or something similarly idiotic?
> I don't what "snarky" means and I don't know what "schadenfreude" is.
... er, simple down-home country lawyer that you are, right?
Being the unfrozen
Don't get me wrong, I rather like that someone is chronicling the Keystone Kops legal antics of the RIAA, and I never asked for an objective source in you, only a more objective source from somewhere.
I just think that when you're the only source that seems to get any coverage on slashdot, I don't think it really serves the truth to be slavering over Rule 11 sanctions that aren't likely to happen, or any more likely to happen because the RIAA is a bunch of rat-bastards.
I might share your slant, but I think it stands as object lesson how blogs are no substitute for journalism. Or at least shouldn't be.
> Really, I'm surprised the NYCL though that Rule 11 sanctions would be even a possibility for filing a 12(b)(6) motion
NYCL's postings all drip with snarky schadenfreude that pretty much overwhelms any technical analysis he has to give. If PACER is at one end of objectivity, NYCL has raced past Groklaw to reside at the other.
I'm happy to see the RIAA get what's coming to them too, but NYCL's postings are purely for entertainment value, not edification.
> Could the lawyers involved be disbarred?
No.
> Could anybody actually see the inside of a cell over this?
No.
Not even sanctions. Really. Seriously, people, I know you've all been whipped into a frenzy and want to see the public executions of every spouse and child of every clerk and paralegal of every law firm who's ever done business with the RIAA, but all that happened was that the plaintiffs made a useless motion, and the judge gave it the due consideration it deserved, which was nothing. Trust me when I say that no baby seals were clubbed in the process.
If anything, UMG should be pissed that their legal team phoned it in when it came to this motion. These are pretty serious counterclaims and they don't appear to be taking them seriously. Hubris does that I guess.
> You don't have to be in academia to have a high signal-to-noise ratio.
If you have a high signal to noise ratio, you're doing pretty well.
Yeah, it's pedantic but we are talking about academia here.
> They could pull an Apple, and completely redo their windowing system.
They DID. It's called WPF. Every last thing you can look at or click on is redone in WPF.
Brilliant! Jolly good! Cheerio!
Okay I think I need to down a case of Bud to re-americanize now...
Wish I could get paid just for clicking "approve" and filling in the text in the "from the ____ dept".
> Nice troll.
"retry" delivery failures are local.
And it was a joke anyway. Do try to keep up, old chap.
Has nvidia gotten around to allowing OpenSolaris to distribute their driver, or do you still have to download and install it manually?
> Ended up installing a barracuda
You better have changed the default settings, or you just added to the backscatter problem.
Does slashdot exercise NO quality control at all? Is it just the firehose now? Is there even a reason to have editors at all?
Judicial enforcement of a blanket gag order on an entire subject could quite easily be interpreted as an infringement of free speech. It largely depends on the forum and manner of speech, I suspect. Such a settlement would be largely invalid if that were the case, but I don't think Take-Two's lawyers are entirely dumb, and they crafted it in the language of refraining from interfering with business, not mere expression of opinion.
> Unless somebody else is requesting that exact same movie (and requesting it at the exact same time as you) how the hell does multicast help
Someone probably is requesting the exact same movie at roughly the same time. Have a few multicast streams going that are offset by some interval. You request the chunks that aren't being multicast, then synchronize to the first available multicast stream when it's available.
> If anything, GTA IV and GTA3:SA show how much a life of crime sucks
Well, at least until you get your car sprayed.
> Do you really want someone intelligent taking over his spot?
It's not a zero-sum game here -- if he's gone, there's no sign anyone else is going to take his place. It's not as if the moral crusaders of the world have been holding back and waiting for him to vacate the spot.