x86_64 only means it won't run on 32bit processors, not that it won't run 32 bit software. There's no way they'd break that much software intentionally.
Off-topic, but appropriate reply to your post. Please don't waste your mod points; I've said this before on more appropriate topics.
Steam "Offline Mode" isn't for when your internet connection is down. It's for when you intend to take your game library away from your internet connections. Say you game on a laptop, and you want to take your games on holiday. You'd open up the Steam options, select "Cache my login details" if you don't already, and then you set Steam to "Offline Mode". This tells Steam that next time it loads, and until it's told otherwise, not to bother trying to contact Steam's servers, and allows you access to your games while offline.
What you are experiencing, and what happened to me for 3 days when BT "upgraded" my home broadband, is an unplanned period of lack of connectivity. Steam doesn't handle this well; It decides that because you haven't told Steam you're going to be offline, you're trying to play the games without a license (copied a friends' Steam library, for example) and locks you out. This is a feature of Steam, not a bug, and hence won't be fixed.
Now, ask yourself what safeguards you have if Valve goes into administration tomorrow, or they switch off the Steam servers. You have Gabe saying "Yeah, we pinky promise to patch it so you can get your games without authentication to our servers." That's it. Your $xxx of games are forfeit if Valve says so, and you can't do a thing about it. That's why I don't buy Steam games any more, and in my opinion nor should anybody else.
Good nerdgasm there, but useless in primary and mostly secondary education (up to 16). What they teach is basics, because basics is what is needed. You need to know that you can't swim through a brick, water will take the shape of its container, and 100% oxygen is bad for you. All of the advanced science stuff comes from being interested in a career, or just interested, in advanced sciences. Carpenters don't need to know the difference a fermion, lepton, boson, and quark, but they do need to know that glass won't run all over the window sill.
On a separate note: Otherwise. At least there's one word you colonials still spell correctly.:)
Just like I'm going to weigh a cosmologists opinions on the functioning of the universe over that of a television personality, or the Time Cube guy.
Your cosmologist is a qualified professional, with letters after his name and all (I would hope). I don't remember seeing a BSc in Being a Good Parent.
There are no experts or authorities on parenting, and those who claim to be are just giving you their opinion. If they were an expert, they would have written "The Book On Being A Good Parent" and "Raising the Perfect Child" and brought about a generation of impeccably behaved, altruistic individuals, but of course these books don't existt. There are books on methods for coping with the stresses of parenting, home tuition, weaning, first steps, potty training, all of the different little nuances of raising a child. However, there is no "authority". Therefore, I do see "appeal to authority" here as an invalid argument in this instance. The "authority" is just a guy with anecdotal experience backed up with overly vague statistics.
People aren't machines with instruction manuals, and different people respond to different stimuli... Differently. Raising a child is not a science.
Completely off-topic, but the word you're looking for is "legitimacy". I'm no grammar nazi, and I'm not trying to troll or put you down either; You seem quite literate. I just wouldn't like to think that you'd put such a non-word into a term paper / official document by mistake.
cows didn't evolve to give milk to humans, dairy cows were bread by us to do it
Same thing.
Well no... Cows give milk to other bovine. We just take it for ourselves. The calf doesn't benefit, so I'd disagree that this is evolutionary. Without the protection of humanity, livestock would perish quickly. Selective breeding isn't evolution in the natural sense, and clouding the terms is illogical.
Wow... I hadn't heard of that one before. For those who haven't heard of it either, it's actually called the Protect Children from Internet Pornographers Act. Good luck giving any constructive critisism of that bill without having to move out of your neighbourhood the next day.
Wrong. Mammals are able to metabolise the nutrients in breast milk as infants, but we are weaned and put onto solid foods. We lose the ability (enzymes) to metabolise milk properly.
Further, cows didn't evolve to give milk to humans, dairy cows were bread by us to do it, in the same way that other breeds of cow were bread for meat (dairy and beef cows are totally different; Go look at a comparison some time).
Same here. The question to ask is "Has this significantly negatively affected my life?" If not, more power to you. If you think so, it's never too late to get a professional opinion.
For my part, I am really very bright, but my mind wanders very easily; While sitting reading textbooks books at college, I could scan half a page of text before realising that I was singing a song to myself instead and had to re-read the whole thing again, and the same happens in conversation. Hence, I seem quiet and withdrawn a lot of the time. As you say, though, I have a steady relationship and a good job, so I don't think I've done too badly.
The question that really gets to me is "Could I be even better?"
Walk out of interviews where you're asked for these details, then post online so people in the sector know not to even apply there.
Ironic "Boycott Facebook login details requests at interviews" Facebook group anyone? We made Rage Against the Machine Christmas No. 1... Surely we can apply this logic to something which actually matters.
Yes, this is correct. However, you set your work PC to work in Offline Mode while you were online, caching your authentication token. If you hadn't done this and tried to launch Steam in Offline Mode, it will bomb out. This happened to me when my connection was down for 3 days, and is widely reported on the Steam forums.
Try it yourself; Go online, unplug your network connection, exit and restart Steam. Your games will be inaccessible.
Caveat emptor. This DRM doesn't affect me, as I don't buy games through Origin. Nor EA, Games for Windows, and no longer through Steam (posted about Offline Mode twice on the thread already, not explaining again).
Steam would be an example. I do have to be online to get the game, of course, since it is a download. However I can run it offline just fine. So my net goes down, no problem I can play my game.
Utter bullshit.
I'm not having a go at you; It's a statement of fact. Simulate a connection loss while Steam is online i.e. pull out your network cable (real world scenario here; consumer grade connections drop all the time) and reboot your PC. That's a common fix for connection loss, right? Now try and play your Steam games.
Oh look! You try and launch Steam in Offline Mode, but you get an error and Steam exits! What's that? Your games are inaccessible now? This is exactly what would happen if Steam folded tomorrow, or the servers were DDoS'd, or your connection went down for real?
Offline Mode is for when you plan to be offline, e.g. You take your laptop on holiday. You set Offline Mode, you reboot Steam, you can use it as normal. Unexpected loss of connectivity, though, results in total lockout. It's utterly, utterly abhorrent, and I have no further part in it. Current Steam games I play, but I won't buy any more of them. I encourage you to do the same, and let Valve know about it.
Concern is that the mass public aren't even aware of this and won't be UNTIL they go to try it in few years and realise they cannot play.
Then, eventually there will just by simply acceptance that this is normal.
Oh they're aware. Steam gamers are very aware.
Currently, the only way to access Steam games offline is to go into "Offline Mode" while you're online, which caches your auth token or something. If you don't do this, your games are inaccessible when offline.
This is the third time I've posted this, but it's important. If your connection goes down, Steam servers are on the fritz, your network card / router / modem dies etc. your Steam games are inaccessible. This applies to any and all online authentication DRM (some Games for Windows, Origin, many EA titles, to name some of them). After being burned by this issue for 3 days when BT "upgraded" my home connection, I don't buy any games on Steam, not even on sale, and I've told Valve as much. I'm also creating an archive of downloaded installation images and cracks for the games I've bought through Steam. I thoroughly encourage anyone else who values the products they've bought to do the same.
I'd like to see a "Slashdot TV" addition to the "Exclude stories by topic:" list in the Options > Exclusions section. I read/. in off-time and don't have sound on my workstation, so all it does is create animosity towards the editors.
I'll bet you £1000 that the Pound Sterling sign prior to the integer in this sentence is preceeded by the letter A with a circumflex above it. This has been broken since the change to Unicode was made, and never fixed.
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I hate the idea of a person setting another living person on fire, regardless of the reason, or lack thereof.
I would go so far as to say that if you don't agree, you don't belong in civilised society.
There was an oncoming aircraft on the same flight path 1000ft below.
I was going to call bullshit, but apparently not; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced_Vertical_Separation_Minima
What could possibly go... Oh, wait.
x86_64 only means it won't run on 32bit processors, not that it won't run 32 bit software. There's no way they'd break that much software intentionally.
Off-topic, but appropriate reply to your post. Please don't waste your mod points; I've said this before on more appropriate topics.
Steam "Offline Mode" isn't for when your internet connection is down. It's for when you intend to take your game library away from your internet connections. Say you game on a laptop, and you want to take your games on holiday. You'd open up the Steam options, select "Cache my login details" if you don't already, and then you set Steam to "Offline Mode". This tells Steam that next time it loads, and until it's told otherwise, not to bother trying to contact Steam's servers, and allows you access to your games while offline.
What you are experiencing, and what happened to me for 3 days when BT "upgraded" my home broadband, is an unplanned period of lack of connectivity. Steam doesn't handle this well; It decides that because you haven't told Steam you're going to be offline, you're trying to play the games without a license (copied a friends' Steam library, for example) and locks you out. This is a feature of Steam, not a bug, and hence won't be fixed.
Now, ask yourself what safeguards you have if Valve goes into administration tomorrow, or they switch off the Steam servers. You have Gabe saying "Yeah, we pinky promise to patch it so you can get your games without authentication to our servers." That's it. Your $xxx of games are forfeit if Valve says so, and you can't do a thing about it. That's why I don't buy Steam games any more, and in my opinion nor should anybody else.
The same can be said about capitalisation. The example I use is "While working on his farm, I had to help my Uncle Jack off a horse."
Now switch the J to lowercase. o_O
As far as I'm concerned, any "industry qualification" should just be called what they really are: Brand indoctrination
Good nerdgasm there, but useless in primary and mostly secondary education (up to 16). What they teach is basics, because basics is what is needed. You need to know that you can't swim through a brick, water will take the shape of its container, and 100% oxygen is bad for you. All of the advanced science stuff comes from being interested in a career, or just interested, in advanced sciences. Carpenters don't need to know the difference a fermion, lepton, boson, and quark, but they do need to know that glass won't run all over the window sill.
:)
On a separate note: Otherwise. At least there's one word you colonials still spell correctly.
Just like I'm going to weigh a cosmologists opinions on the functioning of the universe over that of a television personality, or the Time Cube guy.
Your cosmologist is a qualified professional, with letters after his name and all (I would hope). I don't remember seeing a BSc in Being a Good Parent.
There are no experts or authorities on parenting, and those who claim to be are just giving you their opinion. If they were an expert, they would have written "The Book On Being A Good Parent" and "Raising the Perfect Child" and brought about a generation of impeccably behaved, altruistic individuals, but of course these books don't existt. There are books on methods for coping with the stresses of parenting, home tuition, weaning, first steps, potty training, all of the different little nuances of raising a child. However, there is no "authority". Therefore, I do see "appeal to authority" here as an invalid argument in this instance. The "authority" is just a guy with anecdotal experience backed up with overly vague statistics.
People aren't machines with instruction manuals, and different people respond to different stimuli... Differently. Raising a child is not a science.
legitness
Completely off-topic, but the word you're looking for is "legitimacy". I'm no grammar nazi, and I'm not trying to troll or put you down either; You seem quite literate. I just wouldn't like to think that you'd put such a non-word into a term paper / official document by mistake.
cows didn't evolve to give milk to humans, dairy cows were bread by us to do it
Same thing.
Well no... Cows give milk to other bovine. We just take it for ourselves. The calf doesn't benefit, so I'd disagree that this is evolutionary. Without the protection of humanity, livestock would perish quickly. Selective breeding isn't evolution in the natural sense, and clouding the terms is illogical.
bread for meat
We're having a ham sandwich?
Ad hominem.
Wow... I hadn't heard of that one before. For those who haven't heard of it either, it's actually called the Protect Children from Internet Pornographers Act. Good luck giving any constructive critisism of that bill without having to move out of your neighbourhood the next day.
I am lost for words.
Wrong. Mammals are able to metabolise the nutrients in breast milk as infants, but we are weaned and put onto solid foods. We lose the ability (enzymes) to metabolise milk properly.
Further, cows didn't evolve to give milk to humans, dairy cows were bread by us to do it, in the same way that other breeds of cow were bread for meat (dairy and beef cows are totally different; Go look at a comparison some time).
Same here. The question to ask is "Has this significantly negatively affected my life?" If not, more power to you. If you think so, it's never too late to get a professional opinion.
For my part, I am really very bright, but my mind wanders very easily; While sitting reading textbooks books at college, I could scan half a page of text before realising that I was singing a song to myself instead and had to re-read the whole thing again, and the same happens in conversation. Hence, I seem quiet and withdrawn a lot of the time. As you say, though, I have a steady relationship and a good job, so I don't think I've done too badly.
The question that really gets to me is "Could I be even better?"
What an unnecessarily long way of saying "statistically frequent."
Walk out of interviews where you're asked for these details, then post online so people in the sector know not to even apply there.
Ironic "Boycott Facebook login details requests at interviews" Facebook group anyone? We made Rage Against the Machine Christmas No. 1... Surely we can apply this logic to something which actually matters.
British English keyboard layout, pressing Shift + 3 (Pound Sterling sign).
£ £ £
Nope, still broken.
Yes, this is correct. However, you set your work PC to work in Offline Mode while you were online, caching your authentication token. If you hadn't done this and tried to launch Steam in Offline Mode, it will bomb out. This happened to me when my connection was down for 3 days, and is widely reported on the Steam forums.
Try it yourself; Go online, unplug your network connection, exit and restart Steam. Your games will be inaccessible.
Sorry, no returns when buying through Origin.
Caveat emptor. This DRM doesn't affect me, as I don't buy games through Origin. Nor EA, Games for Windows, and no longer through Steam (posted about Offline Mode twice on the thread already, not explaining again).
Steam would be an example. I do have to be online to get the game, of course, since it is a download. However I can run it offline just fine. So my net goes down, no problem I can play my game.
Utter bullshit.
I'm not having a go at you; It's a statement of fact. Simulate a connection loss while Steam is online i.e. pull out your network cable (real world scenario here; consumer grade connections drop all the time) and reboot your PC. That's a common fix for connection loss, right? Now try and play your Steam games.
Oh look! You try and launch Steam in Offline Mode, but you get an error and Steam exits! What's that? Your games are inaccessible now? This is exactly what would happen if Steam folded tomorrow, or the servers were DDoS'd, or your connection went down for real?
Offline Mode is for when you plan to be offline, e.g. You take your laptop on holiday. You set Offline Mode, you reboot Steam, you can use it as normal. Unexpected loss of connectivity, though, results in total lockout. It's utterly, utterly abhorrent, and I have no further part in it. Current Steam games I play, but I won't buy any more of them. I encourage you to do the same, and let Valve know about it.
Concern is that the mass public aren't even aware of this and won't be UNTIL they go to try it in few years and realise they cannot play.
Then, eventually there will just by simply acceptance that this is normal.
Oh they're aware. Steam gamers are very aware.
Currently, the only way to access Steam games offline is to go into "Offline Mode" while you're online, which caches your auth token or something. If you don't do this, your games are inaccessible when offline.
This is the third time I've posted this, but it's important. If your connection goes down, Steam servers are on the fritz, your network card / router / modem dies etc. your Steam games are inaccessible. This applies to any and all online authentication DRM (some Games for Windows, Origin, many EA titles, to name some of them). After being burned by this issue for 3 days when BT "upgraded" my home connection, I don't buy any games on Steam, not even on sale, and I've told Valve as much. I'm also creating an archive of downloaded installation images and cracks for the games I've bought through Steam. I thoroughly encourage anyone else who values the products they've bought to do the same.
I'd like to see a "Slashdot TV" addition to the "Exclude stories by topic:" list in the Options > Exclusions section. I read /. in off-time and don't have sound on my workstation, so all it does is create animosity towards the editors.
Just like "we" were the first with UTF-8
Never had it working fully.
I'll bet you £1000 that the Pound Sterling sign prior to the integer in this sentence is preceeded by the letter A with a circumflex above it. This has been broken since the change to Unicode was made, and never fixed.
Well nobody's hacked my phone because my phone is dumb. It makes calls & accepts texts, and that's about it. It's a Nokia "Shorty OS"
Check out the SMS of Death. I know my old Nokia phone is exploitable, and that's about as dumb as it gets.
I'd link, but I'm at work.
Warning on a bag of mixed nuts in my local pub: "May contain traces of nuts."
I shit you not.
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