Comment Re:NASA PR machine (Score 3, Funny) 120
This is just part of a cron script that send a news "Voyager I just left the solar system" once a month to the media. No human intervention required.
This is just part of a cron script that send a news "Voyager I just left the solar system" once a month to the media. No human intervention required.
Funny and quite accurate as well. I was just thinking "This means that we'll see yet another new regarding Voyager I leaving the solar system"!
That's been the excuse for YEARS now! If they haven't addressed this issue in all this time, it's because they don't WANT to release documentation, not because they can't.
Times are changing fast. Intel's GPUs are catching up with nvidia's. Last-gen games run great on an Intel HD 5000, and the gap between Intel and nvidia/amd is shinking fast!
This does no apply if they're different OS/Architecture (eg: i686 vs amd64. Nor if i had a Windows or OS X PC).
DRM is not a bad thing when used properly, and Steam is an example of it being used properly. Developers need a way to advertise their products, and also make sure they get paid for them. To this end, Steam has been wonderfully supportive of the indy communities and large game studios alike.
DRM is not necesary for steam to achieve these goals in any way.
This is an open standard. I'll be able to install Steam OS on my gaming computer, or I can buy the valve hardware, or I can buy third party Steam-boxes. I can also upgrade my "steam-boxes" at will, and continue to use the Steam software on any platform of my choice should I not like the platform they create. I'll also be able to smartly stream my game to any display device in the house and use an open architecture style of controller that finally breaks the 10 year old original xbox/keyboard mouse paradigm. This compared to what we have now (x-box, playstation, nintendo, windows gaming) is certainly more of an open standard, and quite frankly a welcome revolution.
If it's an open standard, please, explain to me how I port this over to my PowerPC laptop, or how someone else would port it to X architecture.
Is it perfect from a pure fossie standpoint? Probably not.. but the pure Stallman view is never going to be 100% compatible with industry. Still, companies like Google and Valve are figuring out how to create real, profitable business models around open standards. Puritan ideals aside, this is what's best for the end user and should be applauded.
How is it best for me, the end user? I have three computers, and due to DRM I need to download each game on EACH computer once, and one at a time. Without DRM, I can just copy the installer over.
I moved recently, and had no internet for a few days. I could not install games I had on my desktop onto my laptop, hence, I could not play games I had payed for (well, I could, because I bought them outside Steam and had the non-steam version - but that's besides the point).
Steam may be "practical" today, but it's in no way open. It deprives the end user of plenty of practical things (backup installers for no-internet scenarios, future, etc). Heck, I can't even install a game on my laptop (for a trip during the weekend), while I play another on my desktop. And just due to artificial DRM-related limitations.
You can just use NSA standard when doing work for the government and something else when doing other work, what's the big deal?
You could have copied [to your clipboard] what you wanted to paste into the URL bar and pasted using rightclick->paste. There, simple. AND middle-click-to-paste would not affect you in any way.
We were all new users at some point, yet we leart to use a PC. I didn't know about middle-click-to-paste twenty years ago either.
Why all this crap about "making stuff easier for new users by crapping on old users who already know how to use a PC"? Just exaplain what a each of the THREE buttons on a mouse are for to new users and the problem is solved!
Ever heard of Desura? They made it to Linux before Steam did.
This is a fantastic leap forward for gaming and open standards. Unfortunately Microsoft is just barely figuring out how to poorly copy the declining success of the Apple model... looks like they'll have to play catch up again.
"Open standards"? They're trying to grow their market to sell more DRM-based stuff, that's not really open. The Linux kernel is just a tool, not their target.
That's ridiculous. You're saying that houses with a single room have a living room but NOT a bedroom? The single room serves the both purpouses, and most likely, won't have living-room furniture due to space constraints (My single-room flat is a clear example of that).
Nope, wrong, it's just steam on linux really.
"Moved on"? You make is sound as if Hurd was relevat once!
cron is userspace, so that's not an issue, he's talking about kernel-used CPU cycles, of stuff tighly integrated into the lower levels of the OS.
crontab -e will let you edit cron tabs that you distro preconfigured easily, completely unrelated to Linux itself.
And 20 minutes, you say? The Windows box was probably downloading and processing updates. You know, when booting up a Linux which has never been updated, it would also be prudent to have it updated during the first 20 minutes.
Not unless I configure it to do so.
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