But this is slashdot. To claim this is a breakthrough on slashdot is moronic. Because its not a breakthrough, its setting us back further.
"This argument is repeated time and again here on Slashdot and the fact is it is rediculous. Want to know why? Because Novell's customers want it."
No, its not "rediculous", its perfectly accurate and valid. Because Novell's customers don't matter to linux developers. We want a free operating system we can support and debug. Novell's customers can blow a goat.
Copycatting what? What memory address to write what bytes to? What is copying that going to accomplish? All it would do is let your competitors write drivers for your hardware, it wouldn't help them copy your hardware in any way.
"It is a breakthrough, because having a shitty, flaky, unfixable and unsupportable binary-only driver is better than having no driver at all."
No, its not. See how when you want to use an ethernet adapter, you just put it in the machine and it works? See how when you want to use a wireless adapter, its a huge hassle, barely works, and will likely cause you machine to randomly hang?
If people keep accepting binary only shit like this, then the situation will just keep getting worse. Soon, you won't be able to buy any hardware that works, you will only be able to buy hardware + crappy driver for some OS you may or may not use. Demand documentation so the people writing the kernel can write the drivers, and everything will work smoothly and without any hassles, in any OS.
No, they certainly work around such bugs when they know of them, but there is no hiding going on. You find comments in the source documenting this bugs, frequently in not-so-friendly terms.
Why is having shitty, flaky, unfixable, unsupportable binary-only drivers a breakthrough? Closed vendor drivers suck, they are designed to hide bugs in the hardware/firmware, and are written by people who don't know the first thing about the OS they are writing drivers for.
There are 4 valid content types for xhtml, one of which is text/html. Just because it won't be treated as xhtml anymore, doesn't mean its not a valid content type.
That's just plain retarded. Why kind of security issue is the protocol going to have? And the guy wrote xntpd, not the ntp protocol. It would make no sense for him to be proud that an incredibly simple protocol that he had nothing to do with has had no security problems. Unfortunately, it also makes no sense for him to be proud of the security record of the ntp software he wrote, since it is complete and utter shit.
The reference ntpd implimentation (xntpd) has had numerous security issues, including at least one remote root exploit. This would not suprise anyone who has look at the code. OpenNTPd exists for a reason you know.
As much as I hate RMS, he is one of the few people actually trying to make it so you can have real, fast 3d graphics out of the box on linux. Linus and the other linux developers who bend over for nvidia and ati's binary only shit are the problem. If they demanded docs from nvidia and ati, you would have accelerated drivers that work out of the box, don't randomly crash X, don't randomly lock up your machine, and work all the time, no matter what other kernel options you have chosen. As long as people keep accepting half-assed, broken, unfixable binary drivers, you will never have decent hardware support.
Every time I have to use linux I have problems. Its a random mess of crap from random people. Every driver works differently. Everything is configured differently. Everything is *WAY* more complex than it needs to be. Linux is not ready for anything, its a horrible pain to use. And this is not coming from a windows user, this is coming from an openbsd user. I use openbsd on my laptop because linux is so convoluted and broken.
Look, if you want to claim all MMOGs are like this now, and MMOGs aren't massive anymore that's up to you. But it makes no sense to claim that all MMOGs are not massive, therefore guildwars is massive. If every MMOG is a completely instanced diablo 2 clone (they aren't by the way) then they are all not massive, it doesn't magically make guildwars and diablo 2 mmogs. And why do you insist on arguing against the developers of the game, who also tell you its not a mmog, and to quit being so dumb?
You can pretend guildwars is a MMOG all you want, but you can't pretend its new, or different, or doing anything "revolutionary". If you call guildwars a MMOG, you have to call diablo 2 a MMOG too, along with counter-strike, day of defeat, unreal tournament, quake, etc, etc. You get 32 people in each zone in a typical FPS, and there's thousands of people playing in hundreds or even thousands of zones.
"Massive" and "I like it" are not the same.
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All you did was explain why you like guildwars/diablo style games. That's fine, like them all you want, but they aren't massive just because you like them. In order to qualify as massive, you have to be able to play with a massive number of other people. You cannot do this in guildwars or diablo 2, so they are not massively multiplayer online games. They are just regular old online games.
And just because people point this out, it doesn't mean they have anything against guildwars or diablo. I've played more hours of both than I care to admit. I even run a guildwars fan site. I like counter-strike too, but even though there's thousands of people playing at the same time, only a handful are playing in the same shared space, so its not massive.
No, admittedly I don't gotta admit that at all. They said they didn't get to choose and download the games to run, they only got to play the 5 that were already there.
Oh wait a second, its just an online game. Like counter-strike, or diablo 2! Its only massively multiplayer if massive numbers of people can play together. The fact that massive numbers of people own the game, and may be playing independently at the same time does not make it massive.
Guildwars is EXACTLY the same as diablo 2 gameplay wise, they just added a "city" backdrop to the different chatrooms before you get a group and go into your not massive at all 8 player zone.
Someone makes a retarded comment (grandparent post) and gets modded insightful. Then someone else (the parent) points out the simple fact that the retarded comment is retarded, and that the grandparent should have read the article, and he's modded flamebait. Way to go mods, if you keep up the hard work, you can make digg and fark look intellegent compared to slashdot.
Peter Lada's is the only one that even works, the other two are trendy broken code trash that doesn't work in safari, opera, some versions of ff/moz, and all old browsers.
And taco, you are a retard and a douche for not hosting the entries. There's no copyright infringment excuse here, they entries have been submitted to be part of the site, you can host them on the site.
Yes, softupdates are superior. Journalling creates extra writes by logging all metadata operations, and does not give the same guarentee that softupdates do for consistancy.
Obviously you need journalling filesystems to use an OS right? Its not like softupdates are a superior solution to the same problem or anything.
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It does appear to offer it just fine. And it has for ages.:cal SetSyn("ocaml")
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This is why you shouldn't use linux. Vi and Vim are not the same. Vi should be small, and usable for disaster recovery without any special changes. Your problem was likely because of vim trying to create a backup file, there's some command line switch to prevent that.
No, its in/usr/bin. Any unix OS that #!/usr/bin/perl fails on is broken. Retarded/sw and/opt nonsense is the stupidest thing loonix retards have done in their quest to make the crappiest possible unix-like system.
And WTF version of AIX are you using? It definately has/usr/bin/env.
I realize its not saying much given the collective pile of shit that is slashdot, but that has to be the most insightful post in the history of slashdot.
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"Novell isn't /. - this is the real world."
But this is slashdot. To claim this is a breakthrough on slashdot is moronic. Because its not a breakthrough, its setting us back further.
"This argument is repeated time and again here on Slashdot and the fact is it is rediculous. Want to know why? Because Novell's customers want it."
No, its not "rediculous", its perfectly accurate and valid. Because Novell's customers don't matter to linux developers. We want a free operating system we can support and debug. Novell's customers can blow a goat.
Copycatting what? What memory address to write what bytes to? What is copying that going to accomplish? All it would do is let your competitors write drivers for your hardware, it wouldn't help them copy your hardware in any way.
"It is a breakthrough, because having a shitty, flaky, unfixable and unsupportable binary-only driver is better than having no driver at all."
No, its not. See how when you want to use an ethernet adapter, you just put it in the machine and it works? See how when you want to use a wireless adapter, its a huge hassle, barely works, and will likely cause you machine to randomly hang?
If people keep accepting binary only shit like this, then the situation will just keep getting worse. Soon, you won't be able to buy any hardware that works, you will only be able to buy hardware + crappy driver for some OS you may or may not use. Demand documentation so the people writing the kernel can write the drivers, and everything will work smoothly and without any hassles, in any OS.
No, they certainly work around such bugs when they know of them, but there is no hiding going on. You find comments in the source documenting this bugs, frequently in not-so-friendly terms.
"but nothing prevents anyone from installing and maintaining RPM packages on a machine running Ubuntu."
Except common sense.
Why is having shitty, flaky, unfixable, unsupportable binary-only drivers a breakthrough? Closed vendor drivers suck, they are designed to hide bugs in the hardware/firmware, and are written by people who don't know the first thing about the OS they are writing drivers for.
There are 4 valid content types for xhtml, one of which is text/html. Just because it won't be treated as xhtml anymore, doesn't mean its not a valid content type.
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-media-types/
That's just plain retarded. Why kind of security issue is the protocol going to have? And the guy wrote xntpd, not the ntp protocol. It would make no sense for him to be proud that an incredibly simple protocol that he had nothing to do with has had no security problems. Unfortunately, it also makes no sense for him to be proud of the security record of the ntp software he wrote, since it is complete and utter shit.
The reference ntpd implimentation (xntpd) has had numerous security issues, including at least one remote root exploit. This would not suprise anyone who has look at the code. OpenNTPd exists for a reason you know.
As much as I hate RMS, he is one of the few people actually trying to make it so you can have real, fast 3d graphics out of the box on linux. Linus and the other linux developers who bend over for nvidia and ati's binary only shit are the problem. If they demanded docs from nvidia and ati, you would have accelerated drivers that work out of the box, don't randomly crash X, don't randomly lock up your machine, and work all the time, no matter what other kernel options you have chosen. As long as people keep accepting half-assed, broken, unfixable binary drivers, you will never have decent hardware support.
Every time I have to use linux I have problems. Its a random mess of crap from random people. Every driver works differently. Everything is configured differently. Everything is *WAY* more complex than it needs to be. Linux is not ready for anything, its a horrible pain to use. And this is not coming from a windows user, this is coming from an openbsd user. I use openbsd on my laptop because linux is so convoluted and broken.
Look, if you want to claim all MMOGs are like this now, and MMOGs aren't massive anymore that's up to you. But it makes no sense to claim that all MMOGs are not massive, therefore guildwars is massive. If every MMOG is a completely instanced diablo 2 clone (they aren't by the way) then they are all not massive, it doesn't magically make guildwars and diablo 2 mmogs. And why do you insist on arguing against the developers of the game, who also tell you its not a mmog, and to quit being so dumb?
You can pretend guildwars is a MMOG all you want, but you can't pretend its new, or different, or doing anything "revolutionary". If you call guildwars a MMOG, you have to call diablo 2 a MMOG too, along with counter-strike, day of defeat, unreal tournament, quake, etc, etc. You get 32 people in each zone in a typical FPS, and there's thousands of people playing in hundreds or even thousands of zones.
All you did was explain why you like guildwars/diablo style games. That's fine, like them all you want, but they aren't massive just because you like them. In order to qualify as massive, you have to be able to play with a massive number of other people. You cannot do this in guildwars or diablo 2, so they are not massively multiplayer online games. They are just regular old online games.
And just because people point this out, it doesn't mean they have anything against guildwars or diablo. I've played more hours of both than I care to admit. I even run a guildwars fan site. I like counter-strike too, but even though there's thousands of people playing at the same time, only a handful are playing in the same shared space, so its not massive.
No, admittedly I don't gotta admit that at all. They said they didn't get to choose and download the games to run, they only got to play the 5 that were already there.
Massively Multiplayer:
nope.
online:
check
game:
check
Oh wait a second, its just an online game. Like counter-strike, or diablo 2! Its only massively multiplayer if massive numbers of people can play together. The fact that massive numbers of people own the game, and may be playing independently at the same time does not make it massive.
Guildwars is EXACTLY the same as diablo 2 gameplay wise, they just added a "city" backdrop to the different chatrooms before you get a group and go into your not massive at all 8 player zone.
Someone makes a retarded comment (grandparent post) and gets modded insightful. Then someone else (the parent) points out the simple fact that the retarded comment is retarded, and that the grandparent should have read the article, and he's modded flamebait. Way to go mods, if you keep up the hard work, you can make digg and fark look intellegent compared to slashdot.
Says the guy who is too lazy and/or stupid to pay off his own debt, and begs for money online instead. No, not hypocritical at all.
Peter Lada's is the only one that even works, the other two are trendy broken code trash that doesn't work in safari, opera, some versions of ff/moz, and all old browsers.
And taco, you are a retard and a douche for not hosting the entries. There's no copyright infringment excuse here, they entries have been submitted to be part of the site, you can host them on the site.
Yes, softupdates are superior. Journalling creates extra writes by logging all metadata operations, and does not give the same guarentee that softupdates do for consistancy.
Obviously you need journalling filesystems to use an OS right? Its not like softupdates are a superior solution to the same problem or anything.
It does appear to offer it just fine. And it has for ages. :cal SetSyn("ocaml")
This is why you shouldn't use linux. Vi and Vim are not the same. Vi should be small, and usable for disaster recovery without any special changes. Your problem was likely because of vim trying to create a backup file, there's some command line switch to prevent that.
No, its in /usr/bin. Any unix OS that #!/usr/bin/perl fails on is broken. Retarded /sw and /opt nonsense is the stupidest thing loonix retards have done in their quest to make the crappiest possible unix-like system.
/usr/bin/env.
And WTF version of AIX are you using? It definately has
I realize its not saying much given the collective pile of shit that is slashdot, but that has to be the most insightful post in the history of slashdot.