It is still a very hit and miss affair, many many USB drives will simply not work when doing this and I have had absolutely no luck installing XP with any USB device.
No, free doe not just have to mean money. if it is physically harder then simply picking up the drink then it is not free and if there is any chance of getting charged for a criminal offence then it is not free.
But if for example you lived in a city that had a law that water fountains could not be used by African Americans on a Sunday (I would not be surprised if this actually existed somewhere), but this law was no longer enforced I would direct all African Americans who asked on a Sunday to the nearest water fountain.
I am not sure if that is true for over here in north america either.
Passwords have never been considered all that private. Lots of companies make their employees give theirs out, and you always hear about court cased that involved a judge ordered password reveal.
I don't know what definition you are using, but in my books if you can get something without paying anything in return and absolutely no restrictions are placed on how you use that product then it is free in my books.
Well I would imagine that picking games that recipients have not heard of might be a perk. And in Alabama dominoes may not be played on Sunday by rule of law, but like abandon-ware that law is not and cannot be enforced therefore it is not really illegal. Note: obviously some companies are still around that hold the copyright to some of these abandon-ware games, so while no one has ever been prosecuted for abandoner-ware stealing it is theoretically possible.
Roms don't have to be illegal, you just have a smaller number to choose from if you are looking for freeware roms. But it is not like everyone does not already pirate roms, lets face it the consoles and the original games are no longer produced if you wanted to pay money for them you would only be paying some used games store owner not anyone involved in making the game in the first place anyways. Now you can make a very good argument that the developers of the game deserve your money, but I have yet to hear one for the owner of the used store.
Transmission is one of the worse bittorrent client available. Might as well just have them use a command line utility with the gui available in Transmission. Never been a fan of gimp either, it it both too complicated and bloated for a simple paint replacement and does not have enough features to replace Photoshop. For torrents you need uTorrent or its far crappier linux brother ktorrent. and then for windows at least: rename master 7-zip agent ransack chrome Infra Recorder Notepad++
And then for games I would recommend emulators and roms. Dosbox, scummvm, Snex9x And you could probably set up all of them to work directly from the drive (linux and windows both, since the emulators are all pretty small) with the games pre-installed.
I would recommend focusing on the games and picking something personally from you and not just 10,000 roms you found in a torrent. Because for the apps at least either the receiver is technically savvy enough they he should already be able to find good software if he needs it or will not appreciated being able to search faster and better (agent ransack).
It very well might be NP-complete (but probably more of a fuzzy NP complete as there a certain assumptions you can make about the content and it cannot be compressed down to a purely simple mathematical problem) but I think that if that were so that it would be NP-complete for humans as well as there is no best guess and good enough solution. And no human could even hold enough of the puzzle in their head to attempt any kind of effective solution. So yes it might be hard to solve in a reasonable time with a computer, but even a every day computer should be millions of times faster at solving it then a human.
Or I might be comprehending the problem incorrectly.
Is it just me or does this make little to no sense. You cannot scale putting together puzzle pieces because the same person needs to both see two pieces that go together and recognize that they match. So yes more people help, but if there are 10 million pieces then the average person would have to look at over 1 million pieces before they have even seen two that go together.
And this seems like a very easy thing to computise. You digitize the shredded documents. You run a program that looks for similarities around the edges. You stick likely candidates together and either ask for human confirmation or run a text recognition algorithm to see if the result makes sense.
Now this becomes harder if the direct edge of many of the shredded parts are blank, but still more then doable if you use spacing recognition(calc how big a space is in this document and look for the correspond amount of missing space on the other side), line up the text rows, and some basic word statistic (if you see "he...", for example you are likely looking for a "T" on the right side of another strip).
And why would peaceful protesters who want to protest for more then one day not want to have a tent. Is the line between peaceful protester and squatter that the protester wants ti sleep on the ground out in the rain and snow?
Only most of the time. Personally, while some agree, I would say that the lord of the rings trilogy was quite well done. and better then i would of thought possible. The Hannibal lector series is also, in my opinion, very good and even better then the books.
No its not. And I think that it would be overly simplifying the situation to say that anything that causes a earthquake must be destroyed in said earthquake or it did not cause it.
It is called playing to your strengths. While producing well structured, well documented, clean and correct code in C would be quite a challenge it could never approach some of the new languages in these terms.
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That does not make sense, if you have a blank HD then you should not even be connected to the internet...
It is still a very hit and miss affair, many many USB drives will simply not work when doing this and I have had absolutely no luck installing XP with any USB device.
No, free doe not just have to mean money.
if it is physically harder then simply picking up the drink then it is not free and if there is any chance of getting charged for a criminal offence then it is not free.
But if for example you lived in a city that had a law that water fountains could not be used by African Americans on a Sunday (I would not be surprised if this actually existed somewhere), but this law was no longer enforced I would direct all African Americans who asked on a Sunday to the nearest water fountain.
It is not a far larger issue if it is offtopic.
And illegal is not everything, for example it is illegal to play Dominoes on Sunday.in Alabama.
I am not sure if that is true for over here in north america either.
Passwords have never been considered all that private.
Lots of companies make their employees give theirs out, and you always hear about court cased that involved a judge ordered password reveal.
I don't know what definition you are using, but in my books if you can get something without paying anything in return and absolutely no restrictions are placed on how you use that product then it is free in my books.
that looks decent, thanks for the tip. I will have to give this a try.
The op said nothing about preferring illegal or legal software only that it should be free.
Well I would imagine that picking games that recipients have not heard of might be a perk.
And in Alabama dominoes may not be played on Sunday by rule of law, but like abandon-ware that law is not and cannot be enforced therefore it is not really illegal. Note: obviously some companies are still around that hold the copyright to some of these abandon-ware games, so while no one has ever been prosecuted for abandoner-ware stealing it is theoretically possible.
Roms don't have to be illegal, you just have a smaller number to choose from if you are looking for freeware roms.
But it is not like everyone does not already pirate roms, lets face it the consoles and the original games are no longer produced if you wanted to pay money for them you would only be paying some used games store owner not anyone involved in making the game in the first place anyways.
Now you can make a very good argument that the developers of the game deserve your money, but I have yet to hear one for the owner of the used store.
Transmission is one of the worse bittorrent client available. Might as well just have them use a command line utility with the gui available in Transmission.
Never been a fan of gimp either, it it both too complicated and bloated for a simple paint replacement and does not have enough features to replace Photoshop.
For torrents you need uTorrent or its far crappier linux brother ktorrent.
and then for windows at least:
rename master
7-zip
agent ransack
chrome
Infra Recorder
Notepad++
And then for games I would recommend emulators and roms.
Dosbox, scummvm, Snex9x
And you could probably set up all of them to work directly from the drive (linux and windows both, since the emulators are all pretty small) with the games pre-installed.
I would recommend focusing on the games and picking something personally from you and not just 10,000 roms you found in a torrent.
Because for the apps at least either the receiver is technically savvy enough they he should already be able to find good software if he needs it or will not appreciated being able to search faster and better (agent ransack).
No just a small independent developer being funny.
But if there was absolutely nothing on earth they these poor cameras could see clearly then how are they useful in the first place?
And why would these be needed. There are already many structures easily visible form space and static, so why not just use one of those?
Rocks are not balls and you can still play catch, baseball, hockey, etc. with them.
I doubt that any EULAs would hold up in court.
Everyone knows that you are not supposed to read them and most of them are several pages long.
They are a joke and no one takes them seriously, for example: I have agreed to EULAs that told my not to do drugs.
" Its far more dangerous to let the Iranians have a working nuclear device than to worry about putting extra large pot holes all over their country."
The Iranians might say the same thing about the US.
It very well might be NP-complete (but probably more of a fuzzy NP complete as there a certain assumptions you can make about the content and it cannot be compressed down to a purely simple mathematical problem) but I think that if that were so that it would be NP-complete for humans as well as there is no best guess and good enough solution. And no human could even hold enough of the puzzle in their head to attempt any kind of effective solution.
So yes it might be hard to solve in a reasonable time with a computer, but even a every day computer should be millions of times faster at solving it then a human.
Or I might be comprehending the problem incorrectly.
Is it just me or does this make little to no sense.
You cannot scale putting together puzzle pieces because the same person needs to both see two pieces that go together and recognize that they match.
So yes more people help, but if there are 10 million pieces then the average person would have to look at over 1 million pieces before they have even seen two that go together.
And this seems like a very easy thing to computise.
You digitize the shredded documents.
You run a program that looks for similarities around the edges.
You stick likely candidates together and either ask for human confirmation or run a text recognition algorithm to see if the result makes sense.
Now this becomes harder if the direct edge of many of the shredded parts are blank, but still more then doable if you use spacing recognition(calc how big a space is in this document and look for the correspond amount of missing space on the other side), line up the text rows, and some basic word statistic (if you see "he ...", for example you are likely looking for a "T" on the right side of another strip).
And why would peaceful protesters who want to protest for more then one day not want to have a tent.
Is the line between peaceful protester and squatter that the protester wants ti sleep on the ground out in the rain and snow?
As far as i was aware everyone already knew that the brain did not sound out words every time you read one.
Only most of the time.
Personally, while some agree, I would say that the lord of the rings trilogy was quite well done.
and better then i would of thought possible.
The Hannibal lector series is also, in my opinion, very good and even better then the books.
No its not.
And I think that it would be overly simplifying the situation to say that anything that causes a earthquake must be destroyed in said earthquake or it did not cause it.
bouncy != slippery
It is called playing to your strengths.
While producing well structured, well documented, clean and correct code in C would be quite a challenge it could never approach some of the new languages in these terms.