Sorry, but I'm not interested. I'm a huge Commodore fanboy, but the logo isn't even in colour. If you're going to try to cash in on the trademark you bought, at least do it right. I'll stick with running VICE and UAE on my openpandora, thanks. It has a keyboard, which makes it awesome at emulating computers with keyboards.
Interesting, I find old Star Trek MUCH more compelling than 2001. 2001 is SO PONDEROUS! The 10 minute docking sequences backed by classical music! kill me!
The details page for every piece of software available in the software center includes a "License" line which indicates the type of license, i.e "Proprietary" or "Open Source". If you care about whether your software is proprietary or not, you can just scroll down a bit to find out what license a piece of software uses. If you're the type of person who's willing to go to the effort of only using free-as-in-speech software then scrolling down really shouldn't be too hard.
Being able to do a "journalctl -b -1 -p err" is so much better than faffing around with grep and regex. (the line shows all log entries from the previous boot with the syslog severity level "error" and above, try that with grep!).
just playing around with "journalctl" for 10 minutes convinced me wholly.
So you've never tried using rsyslog to log to a database then?
Actually, the real reason behind this is that they were about to get their asses handed to them in court by the ACCC. They've been trying to fight the ACCC's lawsuit, claiming that Australian consumer protection laws don't apply to them (they do). As a last-ditch effort to avoid massive fines, they've decided to mostly comply with our laws, and it's simply easier to have one policy for all steam users rather than only offering refunds to Australians. Their wording is 100% spin.
Hah, you're doing well. I've had them take over 2 weeks just to send an autoreply.
Apparently they were dealing with the same "backlog" 6 months ago. Or perhaps they just have a permanent backlog... which would indicate that they should hire more support gorillas, or maybe ban their support gorillas from playing DOTA 2 on the job.
There are known caves on mars, see here (has pretty pictures).
It's hard to get imagery of caves in the side of canyons from orbit, and our rovers haven't been down into the canyons much if at all, so we haven't seen them yet, but I would be suprised if there wasn't. Water/limestone is not the only way they can form - e.g there are known lava tubes on mars. Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy has a habitat in a lava tube. And we know that mars had a lot of water in its past - what do you think formed the canyons?:)
Also the caves where we build habitats don't have to be in canyons. From a logistical point of view it's probably better if they're not, i.e it's difficult to land a spacecraft in a canyon and annoying to drive from your non-canyon spaceport to your canyon habitat.
I'm willing to bet on 50 bucks that this piece of crap will not gain even 0.5 marketshare in 5 years from now - if any.
I find it funny and sad how many people talk about how it will fail because it "wont find marketshare". This assertion demonstrates your complete lack of any understanding of what it is.
I assume that by "0.5 marketshare" you mean 0.5 percent? for that they'd have to produce more than a couple of hundred of devices. So, yeah, it's unlikely to ever get "0.5 marketshare". Which obviously means its a failure, because everybody wants marketshare, right?
Go back to drooling over your iphone, pawn, and just hope nobody's watching while you jerk off over apple's marketshare.
If you've ever made a complaint to the ACCC you'll know that they're awesome but their responses always boil down to "we dont have enough resources to investigate every complaint". The system is working as intended, yes... where the biggest dodgy operators are concerned. But it took the ACCC years to actually prosecute valve, and valve has enough resources to drag on litigation for months and months. It's effectively possible to get away with violating these laws if you're only a small operator. The ACCC does an excellent job, but they could always use more funding.
Of course, the problem might really be that the laws are such that to remain profitable, you have to change higher prices. I mean, think of a simple law like mandating that consumer products get 2 years of warranty. Pretty innocent, except it really means you're agreeing to the extended warranty - what may cover 90 days in the US with a 25% extended warranty to 2 years means that warranty price is built into the Australian price.
Or you could just not build shoddy crap that breaks within 2 years. Then you spin it in the US by making ads which say "won't require replacing after 18 months!"
The problem here is that consumer laws don't provide the protection you think they do. I'm not sure why you mention either the PSN or Steam as neither of those services seem to run afoul of anything in the laws.
Perhaps you should inform them that the consumer laws don't provide the protection they think it does, since you obviously know better.
For those who can't be bothered researching, Australian consumer protection laws guarantee us a refund in the event of a product that is not fit for purpose. For example, a game that doesn't run. If an item I have purchased is not it for purpose, then I am entitled to my choice of a refund or replacement. Furthermore, it's a violation of our consumer protection laws to say you don't give refunds, because you're legally required to.
I took "consumer technology" to mean "consumer-grade technology", which most certainly could include the app, regardless of how limited its userbase is - my intepretation was that (s)he was talking about quality, not public availability.
If you read the article, you'll see that:
When a new version of a runway map for Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport was distributed, it conflicted with an older version of the map stored on some pilots’ iPads
and:
pilots have been notified how to fix the bug, by deleting the app and re-installing it
That, right there, is consumer-grade technology and a consumer-grade fix. As opposed to well-thought-out, well-tested technology with failsafes and whatnot.
The article also says that the ipads "powered down", which would seem to indicate an issue with the consumer-grade hardware, too (assuming that's actually what happened).
I've been using xfce daily for over 3 years, it's great, I don't miss gnome at all. I do tend to use "alternate" taskbars though - cairo dock and avant window navigator.:)
Usually, I love leaks. But I hate whoever leaked this.
The temptation to just watch them all in a one-sitting GoT orgy is going to be seriously difficult to resist for the next 4 weeks.
But if I do that, I'll have to wait a month for more GoT. Waiting 7 days for each new episode is bad enough. Now I've got that wait plus the temptation to just watch the next one. Either way, the next 4 weeks are going to be torture.
I use vim quite a bit, but mostly when I'm in an ssh session. SciTE is among the first things I install on any new system, and Geany is a great little lightweight IDE (side note: it uses the SciTE engine, they're related).
IMHO big, heavyweight IDEs like eclipse do have their place, but the after using something like Geany they feel glacial.
Not really - Apple did more to bring the graphical UI to the masses. Microsoft copied it because they realised they were about to lose a massive amount of market share.
Meanwhile, Amiga users (and others) read about these "innovations", clicked the disconnect button in their BBS software, closed the window, sat back, and chuckled to themselves.
The only reasons Windows even sold was because people could run it on their existing hardware (like GEOS on C64), and Mac OS quickly got a reputation for being horribly unreliable (which is saying something given how reliable early Windows was).
Same for "the first time the start menu, task bar, minimize, maximize and close buttons are introduced on each window" (style errors aside: "start menu"/"task bar" on every window?), again min/max/close buttons were present on every window in early Lisa/MacOS, AmigaOS, Atari TOS, even Geos for C=64 way before MS copied it from Apple (who copied it from Xerox). The only thing Microsoft keeps (re)inventing is history. I guess stock prices aren't inflated high enough yet.
Not only this, but also Windows 2.0 and Windows 3.0 had minimize and maximize buttons. The only addition to window titlebars in Win95 was the close button (which was previously achieved by double-clicking on the menu button at the left of the window titlebar). Some quality research has obviously gone into this article.
Obligatory link to The Microsoft Hall Of Innovation. Looks like the site hasn't been maintained in quite a while and has been gone since 2010 or so, gotta love the wayback machine. I'd love to see an updated version.
I've been told a couple of times that calling/emailing/texting me is too hard, that they do all their socialising via facebook, and it's inconvenient to contact me any other way.
Setting aside all the privacy implications, If you can't be bothered talking to me as an individual rather than as part of a herd, I'm not really interested in anything you have to say.
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Sorry, but I'm not interested. I'm a huge Commodore fanboy, but the logo isn't even in colour. If you're going to try to cash in on the trademark you bought, at least do it right.
I'll stick with running VICE and UAE on my openpandora, thanks. It has a keyboard, which makes it awesome at emulating computers with keyboards.
Go read up on the C64GS before you make sweeping declarations. :P
Granted, the article is wrong - the GS was damn obscure, and the real C64 was indeed a real computer. But there was a console.
Interesting, I find old Star Trek MUCH more compelling than 2001. 2001 is SO PONDEROUS! The 10 minute docking sequences backed by classical music! kill me!
Forbidden Planet is goddamn awesome.
Thanks for your script. I modified it to also block posts from StartsWithABang just in case he comes back
So you don't see any problem with people being made to pay for a copy of windows they don't want and will never use?
I sure do.
The details page for every piece of software available in the software center includes a "License" line which indicates the type of license, i.e "Proprietary" or "Open Source". If you care about whether your software is proprietary or not, you can just scroll down a bit to find out what license a piece of software uses. If you're the type of person who's willing to go to the effort of only using free-as-in-speech software then scrolling down really shouldn't be too hard.
Yes, so I know the many limitations of doing so
Such as? I've never had any problems.
I adore the power of using sql queries on logs.
How does journalctl fare in terms of having a trigger set up to automatically do things with logs when they're inserted?
Being able to do a "journalctl -b -1 -p err" is so much better than faffing around with grep and regex. (the line shows all log entries from the previous boot with the syslog severity level "error" and above, try that with grep!).
just playing around with "journalctl" for 10 minutes convinced me wholly.
So you've never tried using rsyslog to log to a database then?
Actually, the real reason behind this is that they were about to get their asses handed to them in court by the ACCC. They've been trying to fight the ACCC's lawsuit, claiming that Australian consumer protection laws don't apply to them (they do). As a last-ditch effort to avoid massive fines, they've decided to mostly comply with our laws, and it's simply easier to have one policy for all steam users rather than only offering refunds to Australians. Their wording is 100% spin.
Hah, you're doing well. I've had them take over 2 weeks just to send an autoreply.
Apparently they were dealing with the same "backlog" 6 months ago. Or perhaps they just have a permanent backlog... which would indicate that they should hire more support gorillas, or maybe ban their support gorillas from playing DOTA 2 on the job.
There are known caves on mars, see here (has pretty pictures).
It's hard to get imagery of caves in the side of canyons from orbit, and our rovers haven't been down into the canyons much if at all, so we haven't seen them yet, but I would be suprised if there wasn't. Water/limestone is not the only way they can form - e.g there are known lava tubes on mars. Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy has a habitat in a lava tube. And we know that mars had a lot of water in its past - what do you think formed the canyons? :)
Also the caves where we build habitats don't have to be in canyons. From a logistical point of view it's probably better if they're not, i.e it's difficult to land a spacecraft in a canyon and annoying to drive from your non-canyon spaceport to your canyon habitat.
I'm willing to bet on 50 bucks that this piece of crap will not gain even 0.5 marketshare in 5 years from now - if any.
I find it funny and sad how many people talk about how it will fail because it "wont find marketshare". This assertion demonstrates your complete lack of any understanding of what it is.
I assume that by "0.5 marketshare" you mean 0.5 percent? for that they'd have to produce more than a couple of hundred of devices. So, yeah, it's unlikely to ever get "0.5 marketshare". Which obviously means its a failure, because everybody wants marketshare, right?
Go back to drooling over your iphone, pawn, and just hope nobody's watching while you jerk off over apple's marketshare.
a guy named Martin Bryant is calling me immoral?
Lol.
If you've ever made a complaint to the ACCC you'll know that they're awesome but their responses always boil down to "we dont have enough resources to investigate every complaint". The system is working as intended, yes... where the biggest dodgy operators are concerned. But it took the ACCC years to actually prosecute valve, and valve has enough resources to drag on litigation for months and months. It's effectively possible to get away with violating these laws if you're only a small operator. The ACCC does an excellent job, but they could always use more funding.
Of course, the problem might really be that the laws are such that to remain profitable, you have to change higher prices. I mean, think of a simple law like mandating that consumer products get 2 years of warranty. Pretty innocent, except it really means you're agreeing to the extended warranty - what may cover 90 days in the US with a 25% extended warranty to 2 years means that warranty price is built into the Australian price.
Or you could just not build shoddy crap that breaks within 2 years. Then you spin it in the US by making ads which say "won't require replacing after 18 months!"
The problem here is that consumer laws don't provide the protection you think they do. I'm not sure why you mention either the PSN or Steam as neither of those services seem to run afoul of anything in the laws.
I'm dont know or care about PSN, but the ACCC disagrees with you where steam is concerned.
Perhaps you should inform them that the consumer laws don't provide the protection they think it does, since you obviously know better.
For those who can't be bothered researching, Australian consumer protection laws guarantee us a refund in the event of a product that is not fit for purpose. For example, a game that doesn't run. If an item I have purchased is not it for purpose, then I am entitled to my choice of a refund or replacement. Furthermore, it's a violation of our consumer protection laws to say you don't give refunds, because you're legally required to.
I took "consumer technology" to mean "consumer-grade technology", which most certainly could include the app, regardless of how limited its userbase is - my intepretation was that (s)he was talking about quality, not public availability.
If you read the article, you'll see that:
When a new version of a runway map for Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport was distributed, it conflicted with an older version of the map stored on some pilots’ iPads
and:
pilots have been notified how to fix the bug, by deleting the app and re-installing it
That, right there, is consumer-grade technology and a consumer-grade fix. As opposed to well-thought-out, well-tested technology with failsafes and whatnot.
The article also says that the ipads "powered down", which would seem to indicate an issue with the consumer-grade hardware, too (assuming that's actually what happened).
I've been using xfce daily for over 3 years, it's great, I don't miss gnome at all. :)
I do tend to use "alternate" taskbars though - cairo dock and avant window navigator.
Usually, I love leaks. But I hate whoever leaked this.
The temptation to just watch them all in a one-sitting GoT orgy is going to be seriously difficult to resist for the next 4 weeks.
But if I do that, I'll have to wait a month for more GoT. Waiting 7 days for each new episode is bad enough. Now I've got that wait plus the temptation to just watch the next one. Either way, the next 4 weeks are going to be torture.
Bastard.
I use vim quite a bit, but mostly when I'm in an ssh session. SciTE is among the first things I install on any new system, and Geany is a great little lightweight IDE (side note: it uses the SciTE engine, they're related).
IMHO big, heavyweight IDEs like eclipse do have their place, but the after using something like Geany they feel glacial.
Same here. For me, It's gotten to the point that I look for the 'show whitespace' option even before setting tab width.
You might try SciTE and/or Geany
Not really - Apple did more to bring the graphical UI to the masses. Microsoft copied it because they realised they were about to lose a massive amount of market share.
Meanwhile, Amiga users (and others) read about these "innovations", clicked the disconnect button in their BBS software, closed the window, sat back, and chuckled to themselves.
The only reasons Windows even sold was because people could run it on their existing hardware (like GEOS on C64), and Mac OS quickly got a reputation for being horribly unreliable (which is saying something given how reliable early Windows was).
Same for "the first time the start menu, task bar, minimize, maximize and close buttons are introduced on each window" (style errors aside: "start menu"/"task bar" on every window?), again min/max/close buttons were present on every window in early Lisa/MacOS, AmigaOS, Atari TOS, even Geos for C=64 way before MS copied it from Apple (who copied it from Xerox). The only thing Microsoft keeps (re)inventing is history. I guess stock prices aren't inflated high enough yet.
Not only this, but also Windows 2.0 and Windows 3.0 had minimize and maximize buttons. The only addition to window titlebars in Win95 was the close button (which was previously achieved by double-clicking on the menu button at the left of the window titlebar). Some quality research has obviously gone into this article.
Obligatory link to The Microsoft Hall Of Innovation. Looks like the site hasn't been maintained in quite a while and has been gone since 2010 or so, gotta love the wayback machine. I'd love to see an updated version.
This.
I've been told a couple of times that calling/emailing/texting me is too hard, that they do all their socialising via facebook, and it's inconvenient to contact me any other way.
Setting aside all the privacy implications, If you can't be bothered talking to me as an individual rather than as part of a herd, I'm not really interested in anything you have to say.