You must be new here. Look the truth is, computers are complicated. If someone goes into the kitchen, and is cutting carrots with a deli slicer, and cuts off their fingers then the blame goes on the person who was doing the cutting, not on the deli slicer maker, and not on the farmer who grew the carrots. If a person doesn't understand the basic rules of keeping safe with something, they should not use whatever something they don't understand.
LOL American Beer is teh Suxxor!!! LOL. Just because there are American beers that do, indeed, suck does not mean that all American beer sucks. There are good American beers, just not the stuff that is sold across the country. Microbrews, and local beers tend to have actual flavor. And even the lack of flavors in the mass market beers isn't due to a lack of skill, but rather because of the taste of the consumers of American beer. That's right, the vast majority of the US beer drinking public likes Lagers and Pilsners that have that little flavor to them. They dislike the beer that comes from other places, because it has too strong of a flavor. Now, there are a few cost-cutting measures that large breweries have taken that makes their products no longer "Pure Beer", and that has hurt them in international competitions, and in the eyes of beer purists, but that doesn't change the fact that the best selling beer in the world is Bud Light.
Those people who were playing Humans and Zombies wore a distincive orange bandanna to mark them as fair targets, and reduce the number of bystanders accosted. Yes, LARPers can be annoying, but it sounded like the students were being pretty reasonable in TFA.
You mean, like.... Ummm.... I'm thinking here.... Windows Media Player for mac? That would be the sort of vindictive thing that would be awesome for MS to do in my not so humble opinion. Bonus points if they "forget" to fix their licence, and say that it has to be run under windows.
Consider that most universities consider themselves to be the social, as well as educational center of their students lives. Consider that many universities have roleplaying groups. Consider that many students are captive in the university, due to freshman housing requirements or visa requirements. Consider that this is a state school, paid for by public moneys. All of a sudden this gets to be a little less cut and dried. We're talking about groups of consenting adults having a little bit of fun and blowing off some steam, and even if it is a little odd, it's the sort of thing university students do, and given earlier posts in this article, it's probably one of the safer activities one can do on campus.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those! er, wow, I'm just getting more and more offtopic. Damn, they are using dumb terminals with enough power to run... their own dumb terminals.
Really? I'd always thought they were just smart terminals, along the lines of a VT100 or such. Hmmm... Interesting. Not that it matters much. A DOS based machine playing terminal, or a terminal playing terminal, doesn't matter.
Yes, but most books on regular expressions expect you to know what a regular expression is. And the depth to which regular expressions are covered in the discrete math book I used freshman year was shallow enough to give someone a broad overview without swamping them, assuming they have the mathmatical rigor to get that far. If they don't, then what they can gleam from a book on REs without knowing even that level of depth will be adequate for 99% of what REs are used for.
Well, depending on how much mathmatical background you have, I would say that a good place to start on regular expressions is to pick up a book on discrete mathmatics. Once you've mastered the concepts contained in it, you might want to move on to something that is more detailed about automota theory. Unfortunatly regular languages (the set of languages that can be expressed as regular expressions) require a bit of background to truly understand. That said, the description of them is rather simple, and if you only want to touch on them, and not get terribly in depth, just don't use everything that an RE or RL can do/be and you should be fine.
Then he should have been more carefull about the article he posted to. I can't be expected to magically know every story on everyone's slashdot that they could be responding to. Especially with a silly title like that comment has.
No, you don't get it. They purchased a piece of equpipment, and the manufacturer has made the equipment no longer function the way it originaly did. They did this without permission, and in a way that makes it impossible for them to exersize their rights under the original licence of the firmware on the hardware. This has nothing to do with a website, it has to do with the routers.
Depending on what genre you wish to publish, you may want to consider talking to Baen. They seem to have been doing pretty good with that model, though, the way that they expect donations is by you actually.... purchasing the book. They just don't put any electronic restrictions on the e-books. This is because people are more likely to buy books they have already read, or that are from an author they have already read. Oh, and obligatory LibraryWebsite and CD collection links
The way the founders intended it: No. The senate was supposed to represent the states, not the people. But, for quite some time they have had to worry about popular election, diluting the purpose of them as a preventative measure against the people. The constitution intened there to be a balance between the power of the states, the power of the people, and the power of the federal state. The federal state has eroded the power of the states by pandering to the people, and to their expectation of power. I'm not going to make a judgement on this trend eitehr way, other than to state that it exists.
Even beef cattle udders are larger than mare udders. And saggier. And beef cattle are surlier, and more aggressive, so that only addresses a small part of my whole rant.
Yeah, and breed them to be less surly, aggressive, and slow. Yeah. And maybe to not have horns. And while we're at it, make them have an easier hoof to shoe. And maybe change the size of the udders on the females, so that they don't get in the way of running, perhaps cutting them back so they are only big enough to hold the milk for their babies, instead of also excess production for humans. And...
Um, no, under the Khymer Rouge people were relocated from cities to farms, and forced to try and farm, and by and large failed, and starved to death. There was some butchery as well, but that wasn't the only way that people died under Pol Pot. And yes, there are infrastructure failures that do lead to starvation, not always production failures, however many countries lack the money to import significant amouts of food, the infrastructure to distribute the imported food, and the governmental integrity to actually distribute the food, instead of selling it to a richer country. The great agricultural behemoth is unwilling to have unlimited production of agricultural goods, because the last time they allowed it, it created widespread poverty in agricutural areas, before the Great Depression.
If we were to make such an attack, wouldn't that just be doing our duty as part of the unorganised militia of the USA. I mean, since every male from the age of 18-40 is already part of it, wouldn't it be part of doing our part to do war upon the infrastructure of the enemies of our nation, as much as it would be to do war upon invaders?
What does a cell phone have to do with a flat tire. A far more witty comeback would have been "The next time you get a flat tire I hope it's in the middle of the desert, and you realise that you droped your 4-way a few miles back, and your spare is flat" However the sort of creative cruelty that I've come to expect from Slashdot is clearly lacking from you. Now, if you'd care to try for a proper insult, please, go ahead, I have a quite thick skin, but at least make things make sense. Though, if you actualy are meaning that I'm incapable of changing a flat by myself, I think you might have more issues than simply being unable to come up with a proper dig. Thank you for trying. Oh, and please, log in next time you try to start a flame war with me, I find them far more entertaining when my partner is informed of my posts, so that they can do something resembling defending themselves.
Since I got modded down for an earlier overlord comment (Though, it's not like I'm hurting for Karma) I'll just say that this could be very much like in the movie mentioned in the subject of this post. On the other hand, It's not like it's a real suprise that advertisers get to know you, and, I'm not sure I'd be too upset by it. I mean, when Yahoo mail greets me by first name, I don't get worked up by it, nor when several other services do it. And this would just be a logical extention.
Well, Absolute Zero is a temperature that has been extrapolated from the ideal gas law. It is the temperature at which all kinetic energy in the molecules of a substance reaches 0. For more information on Absolute Zero, and teperature scales based on it take a look at this wikipedia page and please do not expect the rest of us to do you thinking for you in the future.
It depends on a few factors. First off, how is the game distributed, if it's distributed as staticly linked binaries, then installing it could be quite simple. Same if it is distributed as source code. If, like most complex non-open-source software, it is distributed as a dynamically linked binaries it would be more dificult to ensure proper installation, unless you knew what distrobution you would be installing it on. The typical Unix response to this has been to include all needed libraries with the program, and install everything to "/opt".
While this procedure can work, it does leave a bit to be desired. First, this defeats the purpose of dynamic linking, since you are copying the entire library to many places on the host. Second, if there are bug fixes, or other patches to the underlying libary, the program will not automatically receive those patches. So, you are stuck with either Dependancy Hell, or this mish-mash of combining the dynamic linking with static libaries, or full static linking of the binaries. Static linking of binaries works though, just look at how much software was developed for DOS. It's got disadvantages, but it does work.
The typical response to this mess by most Linux distros has been a package system. Think of it like MSI, but on some serious steriods. The package manager keeps track of what versions of what libaries have been installed, and can let a package know what is available on the system. The biggest problem with this is that there are a few incompatable package management systems, most notably Debian and RPM (Redhat Package Manager).
So, after all this confusion, the answer to your question is "It depends on how the distributer wants to distribute the software, and how many distros they wish to hit"
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You must be new here. Look the truth is, computers are complicated. If someone goes into the kitchen, and is cutting carrots with a deli slicer, and cuts off their fingers then the blame goes on the person who was doing the cutting, not on the deli slicer maker, and not on the farmer who grew the carrots. If a person doesn't understand the basic rules of keeping safe with something, they should not use whatever something they don't understand.
LOL American Beer is teh Suxxor!!! LOL. Just because there are American beers that do, indeed, suck does not mean that all American beer sucks. There are good American beers, just not the stuff that is sold across the country. Microbrews, and local beers tend to have actual flavor. And even the lack of flavors in the mass market beers isn't due to a lack of skill, but rather because of the taste of the consumers of American beer. That's right, the vast majority of the US beer drinking public likes Lagers and Pilsners that have that little flavor to them. They dislike the beer that comes from other places, because it has too strong of a flavor. Now, there are a few cost-cutting measures that large breweries have taken that makes their products no longer "Pure Beer", and that has hurt them in international competitions, and in the eyes of beer purists, but that doesn't change the fact that the best selling beer in the world is Bud Light.
You're getting the Data Center pens. Not as pretty as the ones for the unwashed masses, but at least they work, most of the time.
Because registered users start at 1. Only AC starts at 0, or very low karma users.
Those people who were playing Humans and Zombies wore a distincive orange bandanna to mark them as fair targets, and reduce the number of bystanders accosted. Yes, LARPers can be annoying, but it sounded like the students were being pretty reasonable in TFA.
You mean, like.... Ummm.... I'm thinking here.... Windows Media Player for mac? That would be the sort of vindictive thing that would be awesome for MS to do in my not so humble opinion. Bonus points if they "forget" to fix their licence, and say that it has to be run under windows.
Consider that most universities consider themselves to be the social, as well as educational center of their students lives. Consider that many universities have roleplaying groups. Consider that many students are captive in the university, due to freshman housing requirements or visa requirements. Consider that this is a state school, paid for by public moneys. All of a sudden this gets to be a little less cut and dried. We're talking about groups of consenting adults having a little bit of fun and blowing off some steam, and even if it is a little odd, it's the sort of thing university students do, and given earlier posts in this article, it's probably one of the safer activities one can do on campus.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those! er, wow, I'm just getting more and more offtopic. Damn, they are using dumb terminals with enough power to run... their own dumb terminals.
Really? I'd always thought they were just smart terminals, along the lines of a VT100 or such. Hmmm... Interesting. Not that it matters much. A DOS based machine playing terminal, or a terminal playing terminal, doesn't matter.
Yes, but most books on regular expressions expect you to know what a regular expression is. And the depth to which regular expressions are covered in the discrete math book I used freshman year was shallow enough to give someone a broad overview without swamping them, assuming they have the mathmatical rigor to get that far. If they don't, then what they can gleam from a book on REs without knowing even that level of depth will be adequate for 99% of what REs are used for.
Well, depending on how much mathmatical background you have, I would say that a good place to start on regular expressions is to pick up a book on discrete mathmatics. Once you've mastered the concepts contained in it, you might want to move on to something that is more detailed about automota theory. Unfortunatly regular languages (the set of languages that can be expressed as regular expressions) require a bit of background to truly understand. That said, the description of them is rather simple, and if you only want to touch on them, and not get terribly in depth, just don't use everything that an RE or RL can do/be and you should be fine.
Then he should have been more carefull about the article he posted to. I can't be expected to magically know every story on everyone's slashdot that they could be responding to. Especially with a silly title like that comment has.
No, you don't get it. They purchased a piece of equpipment, and the manufacturer has made the equipment no longer function the way it originaly did. They did this without permission, and in a way that makes it impossible for them to exersize their rights under the original licence of the firmware on the hardware. This has nothing to do with a website, it has to do with the routers.
Depending on what genre you wish to publish, you may want to consider talking to Baen. They seem to have been doing pretty good with that model, though, the way that they expect donations is by you actually.... purchasing the book. They just don't put any electronic restrictions on the e-books. This is because people are more likely to buy books they have already read, or that are from an author they have already read. Oh, and obligatory Library Website and CD collection links
The way the founders intended it: No. The senate was supposed to represent the states, not the people. But, for quite some time they have had to worry about popular election, diluting the purpose of them as a preventative measure against the people. The constitution intened there to be a balance between the power of the states, the power of the people, and the power of the federal state. The federal state has eroded the power of the states by pandering to the people, and to their expectation of power. I'm not going to make a judgement on this trend eitehr way, other than to state that it exists.
Even beef cattle udders are larger than mare udders. And saggier. And beef cattle are surlier, and more aggressive, so that only addresses a small part of my whole rant.
Yeah, and breed them to be less surly, aggressive, and slow. Yeah. And maybe to not have horns. And while we're at it, make them have an easier hoof to shoe. And maybe change the size of the udders on the females, so that they don't get in the way of running, perhaps cutting them back so they are only big enough to hold the milk for their babies, instead of also excess production for humans. And...
Um, no, under the Khymer Rouge people were relocated from cities to farms, and forced to try and farm, and by and large failed, and starved to death. There was some butchery as well, but that wasn't the only way that people died under Pol Pot. And yes, there are infrastructure failures that do lead to starvation, not always production failures, however many countries lack the money to import significant amouts of food, the infrastructure to distribute the imported food, and the governmental integrity to actually distribute the food, instead of selling it to a richer country. The great agricultural behemoth is unwilling to have unlimited production of agricultural goods, because the last time they allowed it, it created widespread poverty in agricutural areas, before the Great Depression.
If we were to make such an attack, wouldn't that just be doing our duty as part of the unorganised militia of the USA. I mean, since every male from the age of 18-40 is already part of it, wouldn't it be part of doing our part to do war upon the infrastructure of the enemies of our nation, as much as it would be to do war upon invaders?
Well, unless he finds out about his wife's girlfriend too. Then I think he can pretty much be sure of getting as much as he wants.
What does a cell phone have to do with a flat tire. A far more witty comeback would have been "The next time you get a flat tire I hope it's in the middle of the desert, and you realise that you droped your 4-way a few miles back, and your spare is flat" However the sort of creative cruelty that I've come to expect from Slashdot is clearly lacking from you. Now, if you'd care to try for a proper insult, please, go ahead, I have a quite thick skin, but at least make things make sense. Though, if you actualy are meaning that I'm incapable of changing a flat by myself, I think you might have more issues than simply being unable to come up with a proper dig. Thank you for trying. Oh, and please, log in next time you try to start a flame war with me, I find them far more entertaining when my partner is informed of my posts, so that they can do something resembling defending themselves.
Since I got modded down for an earlier overlord comment (Though, it's not like I'm hurting for Karma) I'll just say that this could be very much like in the movie mentioned in the subject of this post. On the other hand, It's not like it's a real suprise that advertisers get to know you, and, I'm not sure I'd be too upset by it. I mean, when Yahoo mail greets me by first name, I don't get worked up by it, nor when several other services do it. And this would just be a logical extention.
Well, Absolute Zero is a temperature that has been extrapolated from the ideal gas law. It is the temperature at which all kinetic energy in the molecules of a substance reaches 0. For more information on Absolute Zero, and teperature scales based on it take a look at this wikipedia page and please do not expect the rest of us to do you thinking for you in the future.
Welcome our new advertising overlords! Or something like that.
It depends on a few factors. First off, how is the game distributed, if it's distributed as staticly linked binaries, then installing it could be quite simple. Same if it is distributed as source code. If, like most complex non-open-source software, it is distributed as a dynamically linked binaries it would be more dificult to ensure proper installation, unless you knew what distrobution you would be installing it on. The typical Unix response to this has been to include all needed libraries with the program, and install everything to "/opt".
While this procedure can work, it does leave a bit to be desired. First, this defeats the purpose of dynamic linking, since you are copying the entire library to many places on the host. Second, if there are bug fixes, or other patches to the underlying libary, the program will not automatically receive those patches. So, you are stuck with either Dependancy Hell, or this mish-mash of combining the dynamic linking with static libaries, or full static linking of the binaries. Static linking of binaries works though, just look at how much software was developed for DOS. It's got disadvantages, but it does work.
The typical response to this mess by most Linux distros has been a package system. Think of it like MSI, but on some serious steriods. The package manager keeps track of what versions of what libaries have been installed, and can let a package know what is available on the system. The biggest problem with this is that there are a few incompatable package management systems, most notably Debian and RPM (Redhat Package Manager).
So, after all this confusion, the answer to your question is "It depends on how the distributer wants to distribute the software, and how many distros they wish to hit"