Fileplanet actually has very good download speeds, even when their servers are full. I routinely maxed out my connection speed back when I lived at my parents' house, downloading from Fileplanet.
Steam makes finding demos even easier (assuming there is a demo). Go to the game's page (easy to find), click "Demo". Downloads from Steam are also snappy - in the last week I've (re)downloaded several titles at 1.5MB/sec (and that's over encrypted 802.11g).
Standard disclaimer: I don't work for Fileplanet (or whatever company owns it), nor do I work for Valve.
Except for a few rare cases (C&C3), I refuse to buy a game unless I can try a demo first, unless it costs less than $5. I bought Peggle Deluxe because I got Peggle Extreme with the Orange Box. I bought AudioSurf because of the demo. I bought Bioshock because I tried it on my friend's computer.
I've been tempted to buy the Penny-Arcade game, but I can't get Steam to let me download the demo (some IE7 bug or something, steam:// isn't registered in Windows anymore), so I won't buy the game.
Back when I pirated games, it was primarily for lack of money. I didn't have much money, and the money I did have I didn't want to spend on a game I wasn't sure would be worth it. I used to do it once in a while to get around the cd checking (it sucks carrying around a CD case with my laptop just to play games), but now I just make an ISO of the relevant (purchased) CDs.
That's not even close to being the point. I was pointing out a reason it's hard to switch away from Windows. Obviously having 20 years of legacy code would make it hard to switch away from Linux, but why would we want to do that?
I'd help you reach through the tubes and take away my stapler if I ever said that. No, it's because I'm unfamiliar with svn's command line. My experience with Subversion is twofold:
Client-side, I've used RapidSVN in Linux (briefly), and in Windows I've used VisualSVN (briefly) and TortoiseSVN (extensively). I've never delved into attempting to do anything via the command-line.
Server-side, I've set up various repositories in both Windows and Linux, on the command-line. I'm fine there.
So maybe my problem is simply not being familiar with the Subversion command-line client.
I find the lack of a good, intuitive Subversion GUI a major roadblock to me booting into Gentoo instead of Windows. Call me crazy if you want, but TortoiseSVN is so much easier to use than anything I've tried in Linux that I boot into Windows just for that.
Anyone have any alternatives? I'd really like one integrated into Gnome (or KDE, I'd switch for this) the way TortoiseSVN integrates with Windows Explorer, but failing that I'd like one more user-friendly than RapidSVN...
Do you have examples of where his intention in praying was to show others he was praying, other than as an example to them of how to pray (meaning the prayer during the Sermon on the Mount)?
Right, because a Mormon author is incapable of using non-Mormon sources to prove his point. I forgot about that.
Many of his sources are secular, and many are Catholic. He does occasionally use LDS scriptures in his arguments, but he also uses Old and New Testament scriptures and other Catholic sources.
Freemasonry is not a religion, it's more of a social club with rites. It is possible to be both a Freemason and a Catholic (or Presbyterian, or whatever).
Yeah, excommunicating a guy who protested an immoral church-supported activity (selling indulgences) doesn't interfere with a guy's life at all. How dare people accuse the Catholic Church of doing something wrong!
I suggest you read the book "The Great Apostasy" by James E. Talmage (available for free here: http://books.google.com/books?id=yJn69K_Q0y0C). It details not just the fall of the Church headed by Peter in Christ's time, but how various doctrines were corrupted and shows how corrupt the Catholic Church was. Talmage provides many, many sources for his material.
See especially footnote three of chapter nine (page 144).
Jesus said that to defend Mary's nice gesture to him; Judas said "we should sell that ointment and give to the poor" but Jesus was basically saying "it's ok to spend money to do something nice for someone. You can take care of the poor later."
This was shortly before his death, and he was about to go to the garden of Gethsemane to suffer for the sins of the world. Kind of more important than taking care of the poor.
So there's no need to insult Jesus by taking his comment out of context.
You seem to have missed the part in the Bible where Jesus prayed, in front of everybody, as an example of how to pray. He also prayed in the garden of Gethsemane in front of his apostles.
Prayer in front of others is only wrong if you're doing it so other people see you praying - similarly, Christ said that those who fast and act like they're fasting so others know they're fasting already have their reward. Praying in front of others is fine if your only intention is to pray, that is, if you do not do it for the praise of man.
A better idea would be to give each user a personalized filter, so they only train their own, the same way it works if you use Thunderbird's built-in filters to do your spam filtering (which is what I do). That way no individual user can screw things up for anyone else. It might take more processing power or disk space than it's worth though.
Both Google and Yahoo (not sure about Hotmail) use global spam filters that everyone trains, the idea being that the more training the filter gets, the more accurate it is. Seems there are flaws with that idea.
I want my spam filter to be accurate. I would not mark something "spam" if it were not actually spam - and certainly not if it were from a mailing list I deliberately subscribed to.
That's a terrible idea, and the fact that people do it irritates me. I'm sure it's the reason Google's spam filter is not as accurate as it used to be.
I don't have a PS3, but if memory serves it has USB ports, so you can plug in a keyboard and mouse. At least the PS2 did have USB ports, and I don't see a reason the PS3 would remove them...
If it's against AT&T rules and regulations, why does my Sony Ericsson W580i do it out of the box over bluetooth, as an advertised feature?
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what "tethering" means, but if I understand correctly it means using the phone as a relay for an internet connection, using the phone's data service, right?
I'm ok with people saying "the extra cost is worth it to me". For a lot of people, it is. Personally, I tend to treat my computers as if they're made of paper anyway - maybe I've been trained that way by using hand-me-down PCs my whole life, though that IBM Thinkpad I had was indestructible - so I prefer to save the money. I can understand other people preferring to pay more in order to have a more durable machine along with a nice OS like OSX.
It's when people deny that Apple machines usually cost more that I get irritated. Thank you, honesty is refreshing:)
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Fileplanet actually has very good download speeds, even when their servers are full. I routinely maxed out my connection speed back when I lived at my parents' house, downloading from Fileplanet.
Steam makes finding demos even easier (assuming there is a demo). Go to the game's page (easy to find), click "Demo". Downloads from Steam are also snappy - in the last week I've (re)downloaded several titles at 1.5MB/sec (and that's over encrypted 802.11g).
Standard disclaimer: I don't work for Fileplanet (or whatever company owns it), nor do I work for Valve.
Except for a few rare cases (C&C3), I refuse to buy a game unless I can try a demo first, unless it costs less than $5. I bought Peggle Deluxe because I got Peggle Extreme with the Orange Box. I bought AudioSurf because of the demo. I bought Bioshock because I tried it on my friend's computer.
I've been tempted to buy the Penny-Arcade game, but I can't get Steam to let me download the demo (some IE7 bug or something, steam:// isn't registered in Windows anymore), so I won't buy the game.
Back when I pirated games, it was primarily for lack of money. I didn't have much money, and the money I did have I didn't want to spend on a game I wasn't sure would be worth it. I used to do it once in a while to get around the cd checking (it sucks carrying around a CD case with my laptop just to play games), but now I just make an ISO of the relevant (purchased) CDs.
My wife told me (jokingly, I hope) that she wanted to vote for Obama "because he's good-looking". I was not amused.
That's not even close to being the point. I was pointing out a reason it's hard to switch away from Windows. Obviously having 20 years of legacy code would make it hard to switch away from Linux, but why would we want to do that?
I'd help you reach through the tubes and take away my stapler if I ever said that. No, it's because I'm unfamiliar with svn's command line. My experience with Subversion is twofold:
Client-side, I've used RapidSVN in Linux (briefly), and in Windows I've used VisualSVN (briefly) and TortoiseSVN (extensively). I've never delved into attempting to do anything via the command-line.
Server-side, I've set up various repositories in both Windows and Linux, on the command-line. I'm fine there.
So maybe my problem is simply not being familiar with the Subversion command-line client.
It seems I stand corrected.
It's even harder when you're not just *using* 20 years of legacy Windows code, but *developing* it...
Not really. Most Dell OEM XP cds are tied to the hardware they ship it with, unless they've changed that recently.
I find the lack of a good, intuitive Subversion GUI a major roadblock to me booting into Gentoo instead of Windows. Call me crazy if you want, but TortoiseSVN is so much easier to use than anything I've tried in Linux that I boot into Windows just for that.
Anyone have any alternatives? I'd really like one integrated into Gnome (or KDE, I'd switch for this) the way TortoiseSVN integrates with Windows Explorer, but failing that I'd like one more user-friendly than RapidSVN...
Do you have examples of where his intention in praying was to show others he was praying, other than as an example to them of how to pray (meaning the prayer during the Sermon on the Mount)?
Point taken.
Right, because a Mormon author is incapable of using non-Mormon sources to prove his point. I forgot about that.
Many of his sources are secular, and many are Catholic. He does occasionally use LDS scriptures in his arguments, but he also uses Old and New Testament scriptures and other Catholic sources.
Freemasonry is not a religion, it's more of a social club with rites. It is possible to be both a Freemason and a Catholic (or Presbyterian, or whatever).
Actually Judas was the treasurer until he betrayed Christ.
Yeah, excommunicating a guy who protested an immoral church-supported activity (selling indulgences) doesn't interfere with a guy's life at all. How dare people accuse the Catholic Church of doing something wrong!
I suggest you read the book "The Great Apostasy" by James E. Talmage (available for free here: http://books.google.com/books?id=yJn69K_Q0y0C). It details not just the fall of the Church headed by Peter in Christ's time, but how various doctrines were corrupted and shows how corrupt the Catholic Church was. Talmage provides many, many sources for his material.
See especially footnote three of chapter nine (page 144).
Jesus said that to defend Mary's nice gesture to him; Judas said "we should sell that ointment and give to the poor" but Jesus was basically saying "it's ok to spend money to do something nice for someone. You can take care of the poor later."
This was shortly before his death, and he was about to go to the garden of Gethsemane to suffer for the sins of the world. Kind of more important than taking care of the poor.
So there's no need to insult Jesus by taking his comment out of context.
You seem to have missed the part in the Bible where Jesus prayed, in front of everybody, as an example of how to pray. He also prayed in the garden of Gethsemane in front of his apostles.
Prayer in front of others is only wrong if you're doing it so other people see you praying - similarly, Christ said that those who fast and act like they're fasting so others know they're fasting already have their reward. Praying in front of others is fine if your only intention is to pray, that is, if you do not do it for the praise of man.
A better idea would be to give each user a personalized filter, so they only train their own, the same way it works if you use Thunderbird's built-in filters to do your spam filtering (which is what I do). That way no individual user can screw things up for anyone else. It might take more processing power or disk space than it's worth though.
It would help if you told us what country you live in. Or at least what language you speak there.
Up until last week I would have disagreed with you - but then my wife switched to gmail :D
Both Google and Yahoo (not sure about Hotmail) use global spam filters that everyone trains, the idea being that the more training the filter gets, the more accurate it is. Seems there are flaws with that idea.
I want my spam filter to be accurate. I would not mark something "spam" if it were not actually spam - and certainly not if it were from a mailing list I deliberately subscribed to.
That's a terrible idea, and the fact that people do it irritates me. I'm sure it's the reason Google's spam filter is not as accurate as it used to be.
I don't have a PS3, but if memory serves it has USB ports, so you can plug in a keyboard and mouse. At least the PS2 did have USB ports, and I don't see a reason the PS3 would remove them...
If it's against AT&T rules and regulations, why does my Sony Ericsson W580i do it out of the box over bluetooth, as an advertised feature?
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what "tethering" means, but if I understand correctly it means using the phone as a relay for an internet connection, using the phone's data service, right?
Finally, an honest pro-apple answer.
I'm ok with people saying "the extra cost is worth it to me". For a lot of people, it is. Personally, I tend to treat my computers as if they're made of paper anyway - maybe I've been trained that way by using hand-me-down PCs my whole life, though that IBM Thinkpad I had was indestructible - so I prefer to save the money. I can understand other people preferring to pay more in order to have a more durable machine along with a nice OS like OSX.
It's when people deny that Apple machines usually cost more that I get irritated. Thank you, honesty is refreshing :)