You apparently haven't been using Dreamhost very long, or you haven't been paying much attention. "Reliable" is not the right term for DH. Still, even though they're horribly oversold, I like them enough to keep my account (had it since 2004, when they were already oversold and unreliable, but not quite as bad). The price is right for what it is, and for things that need to be reliable, I use other services.
I'm an engineer, so in many ways, I am not stupid, but in other ways, I think I am. I think I may be worse at some types of CAPTCHAs than a machine. It gets pretty frustrating, really.
One CAPTCHA I did get correct recently required me to enter a greek letter (to access an English-speaking forum). I didn't know how to type that letter, but I successfully copied and pasted it from Wikipedia, and it told me I was correct. These things are getting awfully exciting.
Well, sort of. There's a limit on how much money can be multiplied though. Although it's increased quite a lot past 10:1 thanks to various shady practices like sweeping, you still need money in the first place in order to multiply it via FRB, and the more of that you have, the more FRB has to work with.
No. Context is important, here. It is defined in some contexts, but that is the exception rather than the rule. It is undefined in most common contexts.
OEM costs money, and pirating requires a lack of ethics. That said, I spent the money, but I still prefer to play games on Linux when I have the option, since Windows is just annoying.
Don't worry. The Japanese are even better than Americans at picking out scapegoats when things go wrong. Sure, they won't be the people at fault, but that's not what people care about, is it? Just that heads will roll, not whose.
I don't know anything about "Art" with a capital A, but Pitfall 2 stands out to me as the clearest example of a good single-player game for the 2600. It's a nonlinear exploration game with checkpoints rather than lives, situational music, scrolling on the X and Y axes, and is really pretty fun! (It had an extra chip which added extra sound channels and made the graphics nicer, so it exceeded those limits you're talking about, at least a little bit.)
Of course, it's a matter of taste, but if I were going to nominate anything on 2600, that'd be my first choice.
Someone I barely even know seems convinced that I tried to "hack his Facebook", because I am a magical hacker fairy who knows all his passwords (and, apparently, cares about his Facebook account). I'm tired of the mythos.
Giant, dark, less battery life. The DS lite was a major improvement on all 3 points, unless you dislike small things (e.g. have big hands) or dislike backlights. Unfortunately, the DS lite is also less durable, particularly the hinge and plastic around the GBA slot. I also think its start and select buttons aren't as good, and my personal DS lite has started losing power rather than sleeping when I close it. All in all, I think the original DS is a much better piece of hardware, but I like the cuteness and ultra-brightness of the lite.
The DSi is worse than the lite in every way, with all of the new features being detriments. The 3DS looks interesting, but I don't know much about it yet. One negative I haven't seen mentioned in this thread yet is region locking. Meh. I'm sitting this round out.
No, it was removed so that when they enabled OSSp, everything would be shunted through that. But they never got around to enabling it, so they broke all OSS apps by accident. Cite: Ubuntu Bug 579300. Here's their rationale for disabling OSS:
we're investigating using OSSp to shunt all apps attempting to use the older, in-kernel OSS API to use pulse instead. To do so, we'll need to disable all forms of OSS (native and emulated)
Hey, look! That's not about disabling OSS at all. That's about changing the way OSS support is provided. Sure, it's completely braindead to use Pulseaudio for anything, but that's not the issue here, which is whether OSS support was supposed to be turned off. It wasn't, or it wouldn't have been conditional on enabling OSSp.
Now, they made this change back in May of 2010, for the next release (10.10), assuming by then OSSp would be enabled. Witness the flood of complaints (same URL) when 10.10 came out, however, and OSSp not only wasn't enabled by default, but didn't even compile! The best part is watching the people on the bug claim it was by design, and not by accident. ("OSS is deprecated!" Nope, OSS3 is deprecated. Entirely different. OSS was not and is not deprecated. Good job, guys!)
Way to break everyone's audio on accident, then refuse to do anything about it, claiming it was on purpose. I think that about sums up Ubuntu in a nutshell.
ps | grep? I've been happy since pgrep was added (to Solaris first, but then reimplemented on Linux and FreeBSD/NetBSD). I thought I'd mention it here in case some people reading haven't run into it yet, 'cause even though it's a pretty minor thing, it's neat:-)
Which is why I'm amused every time software makes me agree to the GPL before I install it. The GPL is pretty easy to read and understand, and I can only imagine that someone would use it as a clickwrap license if they hadn't actually bothered to read the thing.
(Well, to be fair, some people are probably using braindead installers which require some clickwrap step. Ugh.)
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When you put it that way, I can agree wholeheartedly.
Yes, but the point is, you have to be an asshole or a moron to do so.
You apparently haven't been using Dreamhost very long, or you haven't been paying much attention. "Reliable" is not the right term for DH. Still, even though they're horribly oversold, I like them enough to keep my account (had it since 2004, when they were already oversold and unreliable, but not quite as bad). The price is right for what it is, and for things that need to be reliable, I use other services.
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Criminal, yes. The crimes in question have absolutely nothing to do with terrorism, though.
Here's a citation to back up the parent's claim that "voice recognition of lies doesn't work at all". Language Log: Speech-based lie detection in Russia
I'm an engineer, so in many ways, I am not stupid, but in other ways, I think I am. I think I may be worse at some types of CAPTCHAs than a machine. It gets pretty frustrating, really.
One CAPTCHA I did get correct recently required me to enter a greek letter (to access an English-speaking forum). I didn't know how to type that letter, but I successfully copied and pasted it from Wikipedia, and it told me I was correct. These things are getting awfully exciting.
Well, sort of. There's a limit on how much money can be multiplied though. Although it's increased quite a lot past 10:1 thanks to various shady practices like sweeping, you still need money in the first place in order to multiply it via FRB, and the more of that you have, the more FRB has to work with.
No. Context is important, here. It is defined in some contexts, but that is the exception rather than the rule. It is undefined in most common contexts.
Learn more: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/DivisionbyZero.html
OEM costs money, and pirating requires a lack of ethics. That said, I spent the money, but I still prefer to play games on Linux when I have the option, since Windows is just annoying.
Only if you're rich enough to buy them. No? Then good luck!
Don't worry. The Japanese are even better than Americans at picking out scapegoats when things go wrong. Sure, they won't be the people at fault, but that's not what people care about, is it? Just that heads will roll, not whose.
I assure you, Yahoo! is one of those companies, despite what "Robbins lists".
I don't know anything about "Art" with a capital A, but Pitfall 2 stands out to me as the clearest example of a good single-player game for the 2600. It's a nonlinear exploration game with checkpoints rather than lives, situational music, scrolling on the X and Y axes, and is really pretty fun! (It had an extra chip which added extra sound channels and made the graphics nicer, so it exceeded those limits you're talking about, at least a little bit.)
Of course, it's a matter of taste, but if I were going to nominate anything on 2600, that'd be my first choice.
Your name isn't Dave, is it?
Someone I barely even know seems convinced that I tried to "hack his Facebook", because I am a magical hacker fairy who knows all his passwords (and, apparently, cares about his Facebook account). I'm tired of the mythos.
I was hoping no one had post this word yet. I was hoping to reply with "A natural extension of teledildonics!"
Yet.
Giant, dark, less battery life. The DS lite was a major improvement on all 3 points, unless you dislike small things (e.g. have big hands) or dislike backlights. Unfortunately, the DS lite is also less durable, particularly the hinge and plastic around the GBA slot. I also think its start and select buttons aren't as good, and my personal DS lite has started losing power rather than sleeping when I close it. All in all, I think the original DS is a much better piece of hardware, but I like the cuteness and ultra-brightness of the lite.
The DSi is worse than the lite in every way, with all of the new features being detriments. The 3DS looks interesting, but I don't know much about it yet. One negative I haven't seen mentioned in this thread yet is region locking. Meh. I'm sitting this round out.
You weren't online before 1997? What are you doing on /.?
Fuck you, Interpol.
No, it was removed so that when they enabled OSSp, everything would be shunted through that. But they never got around to enabling it, so they broke all OSS apps by accident. Cite: Ubuntu Bug 579300. Here's their rationale for disabling OSS:
Hey, look! That's not about disabling OSS at all. That's about changing the way OSS support is provided. Sure, it's completely braindead to use Pulseaudio for anything, but that's not the issue here, which is whether OSS support was supposed to be turned off. It wasn't, or it wouldn't have been conditional on enabling OSSp.
Now, they made this change back in May of 2010, for the next release (10.10), assuming by then OSSp would be enabled. Witness the flood of complaints (same URL) when 10.10 came out, however, and OSSp not only wasn't enabled by default, but didn't even compile! The best part is watching the people on the bug claim it was by design, and not by accident. ("OSS is deprecated!" Nope, OSS3 is deprecated. Entirely different. OSS was not and is not deprecated. Good job, guys!)
Way to break everyone's audio on accident, then refuse to do anything about it, claiming it was on purpose. I think that about sums up Ubuntu in a nutshell.
ps | grep? I've been happy since pgrep was added (to Solaris first, but then reimplemented on Linux and FreeBSD/NetBSD). I thought I'd mention it here in case some people reading haven't run into it yet, 'cause even though it's a pretty minor thing, it's neat :-)
In the UK, they have "Windows", as ridiculous as that is. Hence the wxWindows rename to wxWidgets.
Which is why I'm amused every time software makes me agree to the GPL before I install it. The GPL is pretty easy to read and understand, and I can only imagine that someone would use it as a clickwrap license if they hadn't actually bothered to read the thing.
(Well, to be fair, some people are probably using braindead installers which require some clickwrap step. Ugh.)