I actually read the article and it appears that you need to merge a reg file with the register on the host you want to play starcraft on. That means no starcraft on a pc without admin-rights.
IE has failed to do what it was designed for, dominate the standards. Internet Explorer's aim was to change the standard from the open w3HTML to MSHTML and use it to bind "The Internet" to Windows and Microsoft as its Autocrat. Now with the rise of Firefox and open standards another attempt to control the standards will only break old (IE-only) sites therefore MS has decided to throw in the towel(or so is the theory) and stop working on its rendering engine. The use of Webkit is probably because it's a widespread engine(a lot of browsers use it) and it's not Gecko(although I don't know if you can use Gecko in close sourced software). Internet Explorer is a burden now, so they will probably only do what is neccesairy for its healthy development(bugfixes and essential features).
I think you invented some aliases for the usage of apt-get. I suggest that somebody build some packages that support this(even if it is for some simple laughs)
"All I see is a bunch of politicians disconnected from the real world, and from the people who vote on them."
All I see is a bunch of people who are in power for many decades. It's the people who vote (for them) who have a disconnect with reality. The joke is on the people, not the politicians.
I live in a city so the light pollution messes up any chances I have at looking at a starry sky. I have as a child always found it incomprehensible that people said that you couldn't count all the stars because I can surely do it where I live.
"If you park your car downtown with the windows rolled down and the keys in the ignition, you may be an idiot. But the guy who takes it is still a thief. And the quiet little towns where nobody will take it... those are treasures."
"Once again it seems like 'porn is blazing a path to a new media format"
Again the myth that porn has decided the formatwars is called upon again.
"Many theories regarding why Sony's Betamax failed have arisen over the years. One of the more amusing (and false) is that Sony refused to allow pornographic material on their system. A quick perusal of the Betamax library reveals that adult entertainment was readily available. For example, Playboy Industries released their videos in a dual format, both Betamax and VHS, for most of the 1970s and 80s (and can be confirmed with a quick search through Ebay's adult section, or other used video markets). Second, the adult industry is too small to have any lasting impact on standards selection. According to Forbes.com, adult video income is approximately $1 billion. "The industry is tiny next to broadcast television ($32.3 billion in 1999), cable television ($45.5 billion), the newspaper business ($27.5 billion), Hollywood ($31 billion), even to professional and educational publishing ($14.8 billion). When one really examines the numbers, the porn industry--while a subject of fascination--is every bit as marginal as it seems at first glance." (Link - http://www.forbes.com/2001/05/25/0524porn.html )"
yet, but I am eager to learn. What happens if you exceed the limit of writes? How does usage degrade the disks? Is heat bad? Does using the SSD as virtual memory degrade the disk fast?
What about bad sectors, how do they compare with HDDs? Are SSDs generally more sturdy(longer lifespans) than HDDs?
"Yeah changes nothing, apart from say, how we define what is and isn't categorised as a planet? I mean like, let's re-define the symbol "=" to be the addition operator, I mean that changes nothing right? "=" is the equality operator, does that make you happy?"
The operator = has a clear funtion and can be used all over.
You can't do (3 + planet)
sqrt(planet)
planet + (planet)' = moon
People are treating the IAU's words like they're God's own.
""If an elected group of people decide that pi equals 3, who are a bunch of snobbish mathematicians to deny that?" "
Pi is a letter from the Greek alphabet, and is not inherently coupled to the ratio of a circle and it's diameter. If you would want to call the ratio of a cicle to it's diameter beta it doesn't change anything.
Fact is, the ratio of a circle to it's diameter is larger than 3(you can prove this mathematically) and this is not open to definition(lest you want to redefine circle and diameter or even number) but inherently coupling pi and a circle is foolish and shows what kind of effect a definition can have.
"Our Sun is a star called Sol We call it the Sun because it is what we are in orbit around. If we were in orbit around an other star we would call that Star the Sun."
And if my anut had a moustache, she would be my uncle.
The Sun is a clearly defined object with a name(Sun or Sol for people who like to switch to Latin for no apparent reason) otherwise the definition would refer to A sun not THE Sun.
I don't get how much people are trying to wiggle themselves out of the hole created by the IAU while still defending it.
"The IAU definition of a planet is more extensive than that."
A celestial body that is (a) in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (c) has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.
"You can say that it's "just a definition", but I don't see where it's the place of a legislature to make scientific definitions to scientists."
Moot. The IAU claims to define it for everyboy on the entire world. If I claim that Pluto is a planet what would happen? People would say that it isn't anymore. Most people don't know how or why, they will just say that Pluto isn't a planet anymore. With that the IAU has decided to undemocratically decide that Pluto is not a planet and I personally refuse to acknowledge that.
If an elected group of people decide that Pluto is a planet(which changes absolutely NOTHING), who are a bunch of snobbish scients to deny that?
Some say it is, some say it isn't. Personally I do not care if you define it when you use it. It doesn't make ANY difference if Pluto is a planet or not since it does not change ANYTHING.
There are 8 planets in the universe right now, does that make you happy?
There are now 8 planets in the UNIVERSE because they defined a planet as a body orbiting the sun. The definition sucks so I have no problem if states are defining a planet as something else than a small club of grey men(IAU).
Personally, I don't see Blu-Ray working like DVD and CD did. When the CD was released it was huge compared to HDDs. I remember possessing a 4GB drive, 7 CDs would match that. And CDs were pretty cheap by that time. Then came the DVD which was 100 times better than old magnetic tapes(I still have some of those lying around, dumb spacefillers).
Now we have expensive Blu-ray which is 25GB per disc(50 for dl) and it's not at all impressive. It doesn't kick the ass of DVD. I can live with the quality DVD for a quite a while it's nothing compared to the ugly mess that we call VHS-tapes. They are not impressively big(with 1TB drives around for ca. eur. 100) and they cost a ton. Not only is the optical drive prohibitly expensive, the discs themselves do not come cheap). When the price of a Blu-Ray disc is 6x that of a DVD(they carry around 6 times the storage, sounds fair to me) call me again. Until that time, HDDs and DVDs will do just nicely.
Slashdot Mirror
"Thankfully we at Slashdot are most likely gifted with the technological acumen to block these cookies...many others, however, won't."
I'm cookiemonster you insensitive clod!
"(But not Warp 10 retarded shit VOY broke out)"
Then you must find the warp 12(or something ridiculous like that) even more absurd and that happened during TNG(with the traveler).
I actually read the article and it appears that you need to merge a reg file with the register on the host you want to play starcraft on. That means no starcraft on a pc without admin-rights.
IE has failed to do what it was designed for, dominate the standards. Internet Explorer's aim was to change the standard from the open w3HTML to MSHTML and use it to bind "The Internet" to Windows and Microsoft as its Autocrat. Now with the rise of Firefox and open standards another attempt to control the standards will only break old (IE-only) sites therefore MS has decided to throw in the towel(or so is the theory) and stop working on its rendering engine. The use of Webkit is probably because it's a widespread engine(a lot of browsers use it) and it's not Gecko(although I don't know if you can use Gecko in close sourced software). Internet Explorer is a burden now, so they will probably only do what is neccesairy for its healthy development(bugfixes and essential features).
I think you invented some aliases for the usage of apt-get. I suggest that somebody build some packages that support this(even if it is for some simple laughs)
"All I see is a bunch of politicians disconnected from the real world, and from the people who vote on them."
All I see is a bunch of people who are in power for many decades. It's the people who vote (for them) who have a disconnect with reality. The joke is on the people, not the politicians.
"However, I live in the flight path of a nearby airport. How can I tell the difference between ISS, and a passing plane?"
If you fire a stinger at it and it hits, it's most certainly a plain. If it misses, it's probably the ISS.
Works for me.
I live in a city so the light pollution messes up any chances I have at looking at a starry sky. I have as a child always found it incomprehensible that people said that you couldn't count all the stars because I can surely do it where I live.
"If you park your car downtown with the windows rolled down and the keys in the ignition, you may be an idiot. But the guy who takes it is still a thief. And the quiet little towns where nobody will take it... those are treasures."
So copying is theft? How distorted.
"How would you feel if someone hot-linked your content, consumed your bandwidth, and gave you no advertising revenue in exchange?"
Probably like a person with a very broken business model, but that's just me.
In Soviet Symantec, people working at the helpdesk charge YOU!
MOre like:
In Soviet Russia, if you try to shame the goverment, they will disappear YOU!
"Once again it seems like 'porn is blazing a path to a new media format"
Again the myth that porn has decided the formatwars is called upon again.
"Many theories regarding why Sony's Betamax failed have arisen over the years. One of the more amusing (and false) is that Sony refused to allow pornographic material on their system. A quick perusal of the Betamax library reveals that adult entertainment was readily available. For example, Playboy Industries released their videos in a dual format, both Betamax and VHS, for most of the 1970s and 80s (and can be confirmed with a quick search through Ebay's adult section, or other used video markets). Second, the adult industry is too small to have any lasting impact on standards selection. According to Forbes.com, adult video income is approximately $1 billion. "The industry is tiny next to broadcast television ($32.3 billion in 1999), cable television ($45.5 billion), the newspaper business ($27.5 billion), Hollywood ($31 billion), even to professional and educational publishing ($14.8 billion). When one really examines the numbers, the porn industry--while a subject of fascination--is every bit as marginal as it seems at first glance." (Link - http://www.forbes.com/2001/05/25/0524porn.html )"
There, it should be over now.
yet, but I am eager to learn. What happens if you exceed the limit of writes? How does usage degrade the disks? Is heat bad? Does using the SSD as virtual memory degrade the disk fast?
What about bad sectors, how do they compare with HDDs? Are SSDs generally more sturdy(longer lifespans) than HDDs?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Gah, foiled again by the bearded lady.
"Yeah changes nothing, apart from say, how we define what is and isn't categorised as a planet? I mean like, let's re-define the symbol "=" to be the addition operator, I mean that changes nothing right? "=" is the equality operator, does that make you happy?"
The operator = has a clear funtion and can be used all over.
You can't do (3 + planet)
sqrt(planet)
planet + (planet)' = moon
People are treating the IAU's words like they're God's own.
""If an elected group of people decide that pi equals 3, who are a bunch of snobbish mathematicians to deny that?" "
Pi is a letter from the Greek alphabet, and is not inherently coupled to the ratio of a circle and it's diameter. If you would want to call the ratio of a cicle to it's diameter beta it doesn't change anything.
Fact is, the ratio of a circle to it's diameter is larger than 3(you can prove this mathematically) and this is not open to definition(lest you want to redefine circle and diameter or even number) but inherently coupling pi and a circle is foolish and shows what kind of effect a definition can have.
"Our Sun is a star called Sol We call it the Sun because it is what we are in orbit around. If we were in orbit around an other star we would call that Star the Sun."
And if my anut had a moustache, she would be my uncle.
The Sun is a clearly defined object with a name(Sun or Sol for people who like to switch to Latin for no apparent reason) otherwise the definition would refer to A sun not THE Sun.
I don't get how much people are trying to wiggle themselves out of the hole created by the IAU while still defending it.
"The IAU definition of a planet is more extensive than that."
A celestial body that is (a) in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (c) has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.
"You can say that it's "just a definition", but I don't see where it's the place of a legislature to make scientific definitions to scientists."
Moot. The IAU claims to define it for everyboy on the entire world. If I claim that Pluto is a planet what would happen? People would say that it isn't anymore. Most people don't know how or why, they will just say that Pluto isn't a planet anymore. With that the IAU has decided to undemocratically decide that Pluto is not a planet and I personally refuse to acknowledge that.
If an elected group of people decide that Pluto is a planet(which changes absolutely NOTHING), who are a bunch of snobbish scients to deny that?
Question:
is zero part of the natural numbers?
Some say it is, some say it isn't. Personally I do not care if you define it when you use it. It doesn't make ANY difference if Pluto is a planet or not since it does not change ANYTHING.
There are 8 planets in the universe right now, does that make you happy?
It's just a definition.
There are now 8 planets in the UNIVERSE because they defined a planet as a body orbiting the sun. The definition sucks so I have no problem if states are defining a planet as something else than a small club of grey men(IAU).
l0l
"google Daimanta bluray"
Ok.
I got this link:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/05/190242
Personally, I don't see Blu-Ray working like DVD and CD did. When the CD was released it was huge compared to HDDs. I remember possessing a 4GB drive, 7 CDs would match that. And CDs were pretty cheap by that time. Then came the DVD which was 100 times better than old magnetic tapes(I still have some of those lying around, dumb spacefillers).
Now we have expensive Blu-ray which is 25GB per disc(50 for dl) and it's not at all impressive. It doesn't kick the ass of DVD. I can live with the quality DVD for a quite a while it's nothing compared to the ugly mess that we call VHS-tapes. They are not impressively big(with 1TB drives around for ca. eur. 100) and they cost a ton. Not only is the optical drive prohibitly expensive, the discs themselves do not come cheap). When the price of a Blu-Ray disc is 6x that of a DVD(they carry around 6 times the storage, sounds fair to me) call me again. Until that time, HDDs and DVDs will do just nicely.