Plenty of people have valid US photo IDs even though they're not US citizens. Any foreigner who lives in the U.S. and drives a car, for example, probably has a driver's license (in whatever state they live).
1) You didn't even vaguely respond to my question.
2) Why should I give up PC games just because you think it's better to run Linux as the host? I like PC games, and I consider the risk of viruses to be no greater with a Windows host than a Linux host.
Windows 7 is more than good enough as the host machine, and I have far more need of graphics performance in Windows than in Linux. As long as I don't do anything stupid, I'm not in any more danger of getting a virus than I would be running a Linux host.
If I were working in a government lab with secret projects and whatnot, maybe I'd do as you suggest. But at home, where I just want to play games and tinker with C++ projects in Linux, I see absolutely no reason to be that paranoid.
Do you have a better suggestion for how the OP can get good performance out of Photoshop and friends (for nontrivial projects!) while still having easy, convenient access to Linux on the same physical machine?
Yes, that does tend to be a problem. (Of course, I tended to have problems watching fullscreen flash in Linux when I was dual-booting.) If I want to watch e.g. Hulu fullscreen, I do it with a browser on the host machine.
I have noticed that flash video is significantly less choppy in my Linux VM when 3D Video Acceleration is enabled, but that's probably mostly a compositing thing with the Linux window manager. I guess we need Adobe to make a less sucky Flash plugin.
If I weren't a PC gamer, I would certainly do it the other way around (Linux host, Windows VM). The reality of PC gaming is such that I have little choice in the matter.
I used to dual-boot as a solution, but it got tiring having to reboot all the time. Running a Linux VM on a Windows host instead gets me exactly what I need: access to both arbitrary games and arbitrary linux tools without having to reboot:)
IMO if he wants to do that sort of thing, he should run Linux in VirtualBox on a Windows 7 host, and run Photoshop and friends on the host. Best of both worlds, right? That's what I do, except I use the Windows host mostly for gaming...
I also set up an OSX VM so I can write iPhone apps. I just posted a tutorial on setting that up on my blog; click my Homepage link to get there.
Considering that ObjectiveC started life as a set of C preprocessor macros layered on top of C, I would have to say that ObjectiveC is hardly "lean and effective". "Obtuse and difficult to comprehend" is more accurate.
Seriously, what nincompoop thinks the "+" and "-" method modifiers in any way make ObjectiveC easier to use or understand or develop than the alternatives?
I guess using modifiers that are intuitively obvious in meaning - like, I don't know, defaulting to instance methods and providing "static" for the other - was too non-lean and un-effective?
ObjectiveC is full of WTFs even without people claiming it's lean and effective. Trying to write software in ObjectiveC drives me insane every time.
Lean and effective? How can ObjectiveC be leaner than C++ when C++ is arguably a subset of ObjectiveC? (Remember, ObjectiveC allows C++ code to be mixed in with your ObjectiveC code.) And ObjectiveC's memory management is a lot more manual than Java's...
And on top of that, the one major IDE made to be good at ObjectiveC, Xcode, is an utter failure of an IDE...
I tried updating gedit by hand once. Upon attempting to start the updated version, I was presented with a long list of dependent libraries which would also need to be updated by hand.
I immediately abandoned the idea.
You see, I'm well aware that I can install software myself. I do it all the time, at home. But at home, my system's libraries are not six years old.
5.4 is the latest version that has been vetted by our security team. I don't make the decisions, but I still have to live with them.
I'm very wary of installing relatively new software on my Linux desktop at work. RHEL5 (and even 5.4) is old enough that I end up having to install a long string of dependency updates as well, and that of course takes time away from being productive...
I use RHEL5 at work. I hate it with the fiery passion of a million supernovas. It doesn't help that rhel5 is like six years old, and 5.4 isn't much better. Who else likes using a version of gedit so old it doesn't even have syntax highlighting? My hobbyist Linux development environment at home should not far outshine my professional Linux development environment at work.
While I agree that your parent probably shouldn't be installing pre-release OSes on production machines, I have to admit that given the choice between pre-release Ubuntu and RHEL5, I'd choose pre-release Ubuntu in a heartbeat.
As far as I know, question marks are legal now, but it hasn't gotten much better. Almost all forms of number words (and their corresponding numerical representations) are still banned, and a lot of quest-objective words are off limits as well.
Indeed, and it's why I haven't bothered to *use* the in-game chat. It's useless. I was trying to get another player to work with me to get one of the goodies, and I couldn't tell him "we need to build all four at the same time", because "four" is not in the dictionary. Indeed, almost none of the number words (or numeric representations) are in the dictionary.
Every single time I try to use the chat to either ask for help or get help from another player, I end up having to say it in the most roundabout way possible, in broken English. LEGO's chat is completely useless.
That said, the nostalgia alone makes the game fairly fun:)
I mentioned Amazon because Bezos is opposing this bill, and his company is hiring like mad, despite your statement that he, as one of the rich people opposing the bill, was merely "swimming in profits, but not hiring or undertaking other projects that would create jobs indirectly".
(Since we're on the topic, I'll also point out that Ballmer, the other guy in the headline, is also running a company that is still hiring.)
I made my statement based on one or two very large examples, specifically because of the headline of this article, whereas you made yours based on... what... guesswork? You've given no evidence to the contrary.
Why should we believe you, when you've presented nothing but your opinion, over me, when I've pointed out that one of the opponents of this bill from this story's headline is actively hiring in contradiction to your claims?
How would you comply with this without disconnecting repeat infringers, counselor?
You wait until the person is convicted in court of infringing at least twice, of course. The RIAA's word should not be sufficient evidence for considering a customer a "repeat infringer".
You can, but it starts a new billing cycle at the time of change. New 30 days, new limit, new charge.
When I went from Unlimited to 200MB, it didn't start a new 30-day billing cycle, it just prorated things. The charges, anyway, I'm not really sure about the data.
I merely said that the iPhone unlimited data contract allowed AT&T to take action against users who used what they considered to be excessive amounts. Whether AT&T actually did so is irrelevant.
Nevertheless, when I get home I will dig out the contract AT&T mailed me after I got my iPhone last year and let you know what it says. (If you really want I'll even scan it for you.)
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Plenty of people have valid US photo IDs even though they're not US citizens. Any foreigner who lives in the U.S. and drives a car, for example, probably has a driver's license (in whatever state they live).
What does swap have to do with hibernation? It couldn't use the swap partition to save state, because the swap might contain state.
I've been wondering why I can't paste into Slashdot comment boxes...
Psh. Half my gaming is multiplayer :P
1) You didn't even vaguely respond to my question.
2) Why should I give up PC games just because you think it's better to run Linux as the host? I like PC games, and I consider the risk of viruses to be no greater with a Windows host than a Linux host.
Windows 7 is more than good enough as the host machine, and I have far more need of graphics performance in Windows than in Linux. As long as I don't do anything stupid, I'm not in any more danger of getting a virus than I would be running a Linux host.
If I were working in a government lab with secret projects and whatnot, maybe I'd do as you suggest. But at home, where I just want to play games and tinker with C++ projects in Linux, I see absolutely no reason to be that paranoid.
Do you have a better suggestion for how the OP can get good performance out of Photoshop and friends (for nontrivial projects!) while still having easy, convenient access to Linux on the same physical machine?
Yes, that does tend to be a problem. (Of course, I tended to have problems watching fullscreen flash in Linux when I was dual-booting.) If I want to watch e.g. Hulu fullscreen, I do it with a browser on the host machine.
I have noticed that flash video is significantly less choppy in my Linux VM when 3D Video Acceleration is enabled, but that's probably mostly a compositing thing with the Linux window manager. I guess we need Adobe to make a less sucky Flash plugin.
If I weren't a PC gamer, I would certainly do it the other way around (Linux host, Windows VM). The reality of PC gaming is such that I have little choice in the matter.
I used to dual-boot as a solution, but it got tiring having to reboot all the time. Running a Linux VM on a Windows host instead gets me exactly what I need: access to both arbitrary games and arbitrary linux tools without having to reboot :)
It does a full install, yes.
IMO if he wants to do that sort of thing, he should run Linux in VirtualBox on a Windows 7 host, and run Photoshop and friends on the host. Best of both worlds, right? That's what I do, except I use the Windows host mostly for gaming...
I also set up an OSX VM so I can write iPhone apps. I just posted a tutorial on setting that up on my blog; click my Homepage link to get there.
Considering that ObjectiveC started life as a set of C preprocessor macros layered on top of C, I would have to say that ObjectiveC is hardly "lean and effective". "Obtuse and difficult to comprehend" is more accurate.
Seriously, what nincompoop thinks the "+" and "-" method modifiers in any way make ObjectiveC easier to use or understand or develop than the alternatives?
I guess using modifiers that are intuitively obvious in meaning - like, I don't know, defaulting to instance methods and providing "static" for the other - was too non-lean and un-effective?
ObjectiveC is full of WTFs even without people claiming it's lean and effective. Trying to write software in ObjectiveC drives me insane every time.
ObjectiveC has stayed lean and effective
Lean and effective? How can ObjectiveC be leaner than C++ when C++ is arguably a subset of ObjectiveC? (Remember, ObjectiveC allows C++ code to be mixed in with your ObjectiveC code.) And ObjectiveC's memory management is a lot more manual than Java's...
And on top of that, the one major IDE made to be good at ObjectiveC, Xcode, is an utter failure of an IDE...
Nope. Large interweb retailer.
I tried updating gedit by hand once. Upon attempting to start the updated version, I was presented with a long list of dependent libraries which would also need to be updated by hand.
I immediately abandoned the idea.
You see, I'm well aware that I can install software myself. I do it all the time, at home. But at home, my system's libraries are not six years old.
5.4 is the latest version that has been vetted by our security team. I don't make the decisions, but I still have to live with them.
I'm very wary of installing relatively new software on my Linux desktop at work. RHEL5 (and even 5.4) is old enough that I end up having to install a long string of dependency updates as well, and that of course takes time away from being productive...
I use RHEL5 at work. I hate it with the fiery passion of a million supernovas. It doesn't help that rhel5 is like six years old, and 5.4 isn't much better. Who else likes using a version of gedit so old it doesn't even have syntax highlighting? My hobbyist Linux development environment at home should not far outshine my professional Linux development environment at work.
While I agree that your parent probably shouldn't be installing pre-release OSes on production machines, I have to admit that given the choice between pre-release Ubuntu and RHEL5, I'd choose pre-release Ubuntu in a heartbeat.
I rather like the tab bar on the left in Windows 7, with window titles disabled...
He didn't *have* to use that word, you know.
I think you're wearing them wrong.
As far as I know, question marks are legal now, but it hasn't gotten much better. Almost all forms of number words (and their corresponding numerical representations) are still banned, and a lot of quest-objective words are off limits as well.
Chat is limited to a pre-defined dictionary list.
Indeed, and it's why I haven't bothered to *use* the in-game chat. It's useless. I was trying to get another player to work with me to get one of the goodies, and I couldn't tell him "we need to build all four at the same time", because "four" is not in the dictionary. Indeed, almost none of the number words (or numeric representations) are in the dictionary.
Every single time I try to use the chat to either ask for help or get help from another player, I end up having to say it in the most roundabout way possible, in broken English. LEGO's chat is completely useless.
That said, the nostalgia alone makes the game fairly fun :)
I mentioned Amazon because Bezos is opposing this bill, and his company is hiring like mad, despite your statement that he, as one of the rich people opposing the bill, was merely "swimming in profits, but not hiring or undertaking other projects that would create jobs indirectly".
(Since we're on the topic, I'll also point out that Ballmer, the other guy in the headline, is also running a company that is still hiring.)
I made my statement based on one or two very large examples, specifically because of the headline of this article, whereas you made yours based on... what... guesswork? You've given no evidence to the contrary.
Why should we believe you, when you've presented nothing but your opinion, over me, when I've pointed out that one of the opponents of this bill from this story's headline is actively hiring in contradiction to your claims?
How would you comply with this without disconnecting repeat infringers, counselor?
You wait until the person is convicted in court of infringing at least twice, of course. The RIAA's word should not be sufficient evidence for considering a customer a "repeat infringer".
You can, but it starts a new billing cycle at the time of change. New 30 days, new limit, new charge.
When I went from Unlimited to 200MB, it didn't start a new 30-day billing cycle, it just prorated things. The charges, anyway, I'm not really sure about the data.
I merely said that the iPhone unlimited data contract allowed AT&T to take action against users who used what they considered to be excessive amounts. Whether AT&T actually did so is irrelevant.
Nevertheless, when I get home I will dig out the contract AT&T mailed me after I got my iPhone last year and let you know what it says. (If you really want I'll even scan it for you.)