illegitimate authority
Ha! You wish it was illegitimate authority. Unfortunately, those are your elected representatives. Totally legitimate.
Oh, right, that is sad, not funny
including the majestic moose.
A møøse bit my sister once....
I wonder when some church is going to claim their did it.
And another will claim these people are no longer human.
No one question there would be a backslash, but the parent posted said it would face ENORMOUS legal problems. Which certainly would not be the case. There are ways to protect against it, even in Europe.
NO it cant. Sony would face ENORMOUS legal problems changing the discs from physical licenses to not in mid-cycle.
Make sure you read the license on all those discs, then, and also on the console. While you do that, be certain to have a paper bag handy for when you start throwing up.
it'll probably be too late for the XBone.
With the amount of money MS can throw behind it, it is never too late. See what they are doing (attempting? I don't have current numbers) on the smartphone market...
Why is there money to be made by making potential customers more angry at you? Sony got smacked throughout the PS3 because they were king of the hill. Maybe they as a group have actually learned that being smug ass-holes to their customers does not convert to higher sales. They LEARN, well one would hope.
Personally, I won't even consider a console this gen unless it works as an amazing media screener ala xbmc without the crap storm which is DLNA, supports simple 'open' marketplaces that actually support indy dev's to succeed. I'm not holding my breath though.
There is money to be make despite the customers getting angry. Restricting used games and resale is an example. Remember a company doesn't make decisions. People make decisions. And those people make money based on perceptions. How happy the board is with you, how happy the stock holders are with you. If you tell the stock holders "this will stop people from buying used games, if they want to play they will have to buy from us, and us only", you are likely to get a raise (WARNING FOR PEDANTIC READERS: this is an exaggeration! Things are more subtle than this. This is an illustration to show a point).
You (and me) are a very small part of the market. The bulk of their customers won't create enough of a ripple to matter. See the whole PS3/Linux debacle, as an example.
The real problem is, it can change any time. PS4 can become more stringent, and XBox One could become less (well, in theory).
I'm not sure I trust Sony not to be an asshole regarding DRM. It doesn't have that good a track record. It is a good bet the moment the marketing hype dies down, and the stock holders start pressing, they will tighten their DRM.
But when you go back far enough, it does requires the belief that everything which set off the chain of events somehow came into being without an intelligent creator.
No, it doesn't. "I don't know" is a perfectly valid answer, without having to attribute it to a god, faeries, gnomes or the flying spaghetti monster.
"I don't know, so there must be a god" is without any fundament, and leads to what is known as "god of the gaps".
(Also, whoever modded parent "flamebait", you are being unfair. He is stating his views in a very polite way, and obviously ready to discuss the subject. Praise him for it, since it is so rare among religious people.)
Hitchhiker's humor? Hum? Hum?
Please turn back your geek card at the door, on your way out.
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When the Prius first got popular the same thing was said about it. Was soon proved false.
Yes and no. If you compare it to a regular car running on USA Gas, then yes, without a doubt. However, if you compare it to a car running on, say, Brazilian ethanol, the studies are still inconclusive.
My point is that most studies are valid under a given set of conditions, and we need to take those into account. If we make a case for the Tesla S polluting more, shouldn't we tackle the issue that energy production needs to pollute less? Alternative energy generation, better battery technology, those are the things we should focus on. So, if they are wrong about how much the Tesla S pollutes, we (the planet) win. And if they are right, they are still wrong, because their proposed solution, which is pretty much turning back time, is wrong.
The problem is with the cost of a context swap.
The code that managed context swapping is part of the scheduler, at least on Linux. Yes, it can be costly, which is why it needs to be implemented correctly, and why you keep getting alternative schedulers (not as often as you once did, it was crazy back in early 2.0). There is classic problem with Intel-HT and Postgresql that caused context swapping for database I/O to be extracostly, as you probably recall. And it can be done correctly, as was proven in this case, and then again for Oracle.
It is absolutely possible to have high performance userspace graphics, as was proven with some of the more up-to-date drivers. I think it was ATI that first did it, by the way. The trick is to keep as much as possible in userspace, but that requires a change in mentality for developers.
Linux has a macro kernel... all the drivers are part of the kernel and run in kernel in kernel space...
Linux is currently a mix of macro (monolithic) and micro kernel concepts. Not all drivers run in kernel space. I'm sure you were remembering the old Linus vs. Tannenbaum disagreement when you wrote that one.
Regardless, the focus of this discussing is graphic routines which, except for a few proprietary cases (most notably, nVidia), run in userspace. Which is one of the problems people have with the proprietary nvidia driver (another is it not being free, but w/e).
So, anyway, not ALL drivers are part of the kernel, more and more are moving out of it as time goes by. But yes, many drivers still are. Our Minix legacy.
The registry gets a lot of hate
Yeah. And then those same people who keep hating windows registry go and implement the same thing for Gnome, in a even more crappy way than windows did.
Gnome is, AFAIC, the current bane of Linux.
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