How they intend to sell the overpriced product in Staples is a mystery to me. They don't compete with the $5 bin at Wal*Mart. If they include the more recent/popular titles, they would compete with the $20 discs on the shelf. If they only include the older/less popular titles, they wouldn't be able to compete with the $5 bin.
If from your experience they have only included those older/less popular titles, that might explain why few have seen them in the last five years.
Wedding guest #2: [Shout from back of hall] He's not quite dead!
King: Since the near-fatal wounding of her father--
Wedding guest #2: [Shout from back] He's getting better!
King: [Discreet nod to soldier] For, since her own father, who, when he seemed about to recover, suddenly felt the icy black hand of death upon him.
[Scuffle at the back]
Wedding guest #2: [Shout from back] Oh, he's died!
King: I want his only daughter to look upon me as her own dad, in a very real, and legally binding sense.
It's a legal monopoly granted by copyright. I am not a lawyer, but the method of extending the monopoly through the copyright license seems reasonable: "you can share in my monopoly so long as you then extend that privilege to users of the monopoly you derive from mine."
Or if their scanner didn't detect that particular radiation... or something.
Still doesn't completely let them off the hook. The job is 'don't let it through'. If the scanner fails, they might have something to point their finger at and say "this is the part of the procedure we'll be working to improve" but not "don't blame me for not getting my job done, it's the tool's fault."
Also, don't they have a note that most of the translations are provided by third parties and may not be thoroughly vetted?
Why replace the (mouse | right stick) in an FPS? Add this as another input.
Keep the left stick or WASD keys controlling footwork, and the right stick or mouse controlling the point of view, but add this to allow interacting with some place other than the center of the screen.
The only problem I see is that, the way it works right now, you can spot a target and move the mouse so the target is at the center of the screen. Once you've got it there you can shoot at it while looking around the periphery of the screen for your next target and sort of focus half on you current target and half on finding/keeping track of other targets. If your aim follows your eyes, you lose something... no longer being able to shoot in one direction while taking a little of your focus in another.
But Comcast are being oppressed by the dirty P2P users who take advantage of the generous unlimited service to flood the network and lower the quality of service to those honorable customers who only check email and browse the web, like Comcast^Wgod intended.
I remember buying Red Hat Linux in a box at Best Buy a few times. I forget exactly what the branding was, something like Red Hat Linux Desktop Premium. I picked up versions 6, 7, 8, and 9 (was there a 9?). Each version was better and better. I was very happy with the last version of the desktop product.
They had been playing around with the branding on the server product and around the time they went with "Red Hat Enterprise Linux" is about the same time they stopped the desktop product and announced the Fedora project.
So if they're announcing that they're no longer targeting the home desktop, isn't that what they've been doing for something like 10 years? Or, are they really changing to only targeting servers and moving away from workstations altogether?
I think most of us here ignore UTC. Non-geeks don't know what it is most of the time and geeks only care when in full on geek mode.
I don't think of standard US, Central as UTC-6 and standard US, Eastern as UTC-5.
I think of Eastern as "what time it is here plus one." and similar for the other two zones I deal with once in a while.
I'm just guessing that when we organize a conference call with someone from each zone, they're more likely to think "They're in central time, so (add|subtract) an hour or two to get what time I need to call." rather than "it says UTC-6 and we're UTC-5..."
Our Exchange admin still bitched about the update process and I too find it rather silly that they all have to implement their own time subsystem. But I think this might be why there isn't much (if any) outcry from end-users.
It would be nice if I could tell a person where the power button is on his computer is and get an income from that one action for the rest of my life.
I know the analogy falls apart (having created something is different from providing a service) but if an artist hasn't created something new in ten or fifteen years is copyright doing its job? That sounds like discouraging creativity.
Sure it probably already takes a bunch of creative works to make a living... and a bunch of those don't make any money... I think the point still stands.
If you can make some number of works (enough to have a few big hits and several smaller hits and so on) and be guaranteed an income for the rest of your life why make any more? For the love of the art? I would hope so, but using that as an argument for decreasing copyright (people will still make art because they are people and people make art) gets laughed at.
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If they only include the older/less popular titles, they wouldn't be able to compete with the $5 bin.
If from your experience they have only included those older/less popular titles, that might explain why few have seen them in the last five years.
Is it a nanopencil? that might put it at 8 by 5 atoms.
Wedding guest #2: [Shout from back of hall] He's not quite dead! King: Since the near-fatal wounding of her father-- Wedding guest #2: [Shout from back] He's getting better! King: [Discreet nod to soldier] For, since her own father, who, when he seemed about to recover, suddenly felt the icy black hand of death upon him. [Scuffle at the back] Wedding guest #2: [Shout from back] Oh, he's died! King: I want his only daughter to look upon me as her own dad, in a very real, and legally binding sense.
Thanks for the link. Just what I needed.
[too-happy-to-not-be-fake-voice]
Of course sir. No problem. Sorry for the inconvenience.
We'll throw in a refill of magic smoke at no charge.
I've got modpoints, but I don't see a +1 God-like
only about half
It's a legal monopoly granted by copyright. I am not a lawyer, but the method of extending the monopoly through the copyright license seems reasonable: "you can share in my monopoly so long as you then extend that privilege to users of the monopoly you derive from mine."
Or if their scanner didn't detect that particular radiation... or something.
Still doesn't completely let them off the hook. The job is 'don't let it through'. If the scanner fails, they might have something to point their finger at and say "this is the part of the procedure we'll be working to improve" but not "don't blame me for not getting my job done, it's the tool's fault."
Also, don't they have a note that most of the translations are provided by third parties and may not be thoroughly vetted?
Would you need to worry about block size or anything? Does it not matter, or does the default work?
/dev/zero then /dev/urandom once or twice would be good enough for just about anybody.
I'm guessing doing
like:
for i in 1 2
do
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk
dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/disk
done
Why replace the (mouse | right stick) in an FPS? Add this as another input.
Keep the left stick or WASD keys controlling footwork, and the right stick or mouse controlling the point of view, but add this to allow interacting with some place other than the center of the screen.
The only problem I see is that, the way it works right now, you can spot a target and move the mouse so the target is at the center of the screen. Once you've got it there you can shoot at it while looking around the periphery of the screen for your next target and sort of focus half on you current target and half on finding/keeping track of other targets. If your aim follows your eyes, you lose something... no longer being able to shoot in one direction while taking a little of your focus in another.
similar to how Linus owns the trademark Linux when applied to software, and somebody else owns the trademark Linux when applied to laundry detergent.
Different domain, different trademark.
Heh... that summary says there are over 200 different trademarks for the term Linux.
But Comcast are being oppressed by the dirty P2P users who take advantage of the generous unlimited service to flood the network and lower the quality of service to those honorable customers who only check email and browse the web, like Comcast^Wgod intended.
[/sarcasm]
Stop anthropomorphizing the climate. It hates it when you do that.
They had been playing around with the branding on the server product and around the time they went with "Red Hat Enterprise Linux" is about the same time they stopped the desktop product and announced the Fedora project.
So if they're announcing that they're no longer targeting the home desktop, isn't that what they've been doing for something like 10 years? Or, are they really changing to only targeting servers and moving away from workstations altogether?
My killbot features Exim and kill 9!
Just don't surf long distance
Didn't I hear not too long ago* that you could see that Windows was more secure than Linux because it didn't have to patch as often?
Now Windows patches more often than OS X and that is also an indicator that it is more secure?
* I remember reading it here on /. and the ensuing "that's not true" conversation, but I can't find it at the moment.
by the time that conversation is done (42 years each hop) we may actually have the technology to deliver :)
he wins in jackassory! ~ hypocrite ~ :P
I think most of us here ignore UTC. Non-geeks don't know what it is most of the time and geeks only care when in full on geek mode.
I don't think of standard US, Central as UTC-6 and standard US, Eastern as UTC-5.
I think of Eastern as "what time it is here plus one." and similar for the other two zones I deal with once in a while.
I'm just guessing that when we organize a conference call with someone from each zone, they're more likely to think "They're in central time, so (add|subtract) an hour or two to get what time I need to call." rather than "it says UTC-6 and we're UTC-5..."
Our Exchange admin still bitched about the update process and I too find it rather silly that they all have to implement their own time subsystem. But I think this might be why there isn't much (if any) outcry from end-users.
I did a few things when I was 17 that I would now say, "WTF was I thinking?"
It will run GNU HURD and have Duke Nukem Forever pre-installed. Early beta is expected to start in the year of the Linux desktop.
Frayed knot.
It would be nice if I could tell a person where the power button is on his computer is and get an income from that one action for the rest of my life.
I know the analogy falls apart (having created something is different from providing a service) but if an artist hasn't created something new in ten or fifteen years is copyright doing its job? That sounds like discouraging creativity.
Sure it probably already takes a bunch of creative works to make a living... and a bunch of those don't make any money... I think the point still stands.
If you can make some number of works (enough to have a few big hits and several smaller hits and so on) and be guaranteed an income for the rest of your life why make any more? For the love of the art? I would hope so, but using that as an argument for decreasing copyright (people will still make art because they are people and people make art) gets laughed at.