That's interesting. I can actually believe it. In my car, the engine is quite capable of making the rear wheels move against full-on brakes (yes the rear brakes are disks, no I did not try this more than once.) But the front wheels stay locked and the car doesn't move.
This information (that non-African populations have some Neanderthal DNA) was in the textbook for the Anthropology class I took last semester. The textbook is Our Origins: Discovering Physical Anthropology (second edition.) If I had more time I'd look up the chapter and see what source they cite.
Teaching these kids the fundamentals of social engineering will help them recognize it and avoid being victimized by it. I think this is a really great idea.
The reason to use the metric system is to make unit conversion easy. There are two contexts where this comes in handy: scientific research and money. And indeed, we do use the metric system in that context just like everyone else. We also use 5, 10, and 100-based denominations in our currency.
However, there's no reason to do unit conversion at other times. Maybe this wasn't true in the 1970s when the UK switched, but these days, with embedded electronics installed in everything, all tricky arithmetic has been automated out of our day-to-day lives. (For example, this is why unit conversion is no longer important in navigation-- we have GPSs now.) Unlike a lot of people here, I don't reflexively see this as a bad thing.
Now, take a moment and think about how much work it would be to switch an entire country over to the metric system, especially one the size of the US. Think about the expense involved in replacing all the relevant signage-- both public expense and private expense. Think about the expense (and possibly even loss of life) originating from the confusion (Oh hey, the speed limit is 100...)
I don't think you can really justify that, just so you can figure out that if your house was a fishtank you'd need 6 million liters of water.
Old comment, sorry, but I know the answer-- SeaMonkey started using XUL and Gecko beginning with SeaMonkey 2.x. It's still somewhat more lightweight than Firefox. Composer etc. are still present.
I've got SeaMonkey running just fine (if a bit slowly) on almost anything besides Flash content. This is on PuppyLinux 4.0, on a Pentium 1 with 64 Mib of RAM (2 used up by integrated graphics.) Although this is an older version of SeaMonkey from before it used XUL.
I don't know if this issue has been raised before, but it doesn't fit the Free Software definition or OSI guidelines, thus neither FL or OSS. This is due to the restriction on potential uses. There can't be ANY restrictions on what the software can be used for.
Use dd and write down all your byte offsets.
Seriously though, go for EXT3 and make sure you don't *write* anything from Windows if you don't trust the drivers. Later on you can do an in-place upgrade to btrfs if you want.
Even assuming we know which encryption we're using, it's still not practical. I did some math, and if the password uses all kinds of special characters, numbers, and uppercase/lowercase numbers, it would take way more than 5 years for 1000 PS3s to crack a 10 character password. According go my calculations, it breaks down like this: 630720000000000 passwords/5 years/ps3 = 630720000000000000 passwords/5 years/1000 ps3s...
alphabet + numbers + shift key = 72 potential characters in a password...
72^10 = 3743906242624487424 possible 10 character passwords...
There's really no way you can pretend that Macintoshes are at all equivalently-priced to home-assembled PCs. And it isn't legal to run OS X on a non-Mac.
Boils right down to this--
In order to get a Macintosh with enough power to run this game, you'd have to shell out at least a thousand dollars. None of the developers have that kind of money to throw around right now, as far as I know.
And did you actually play the game? How can you judge the usability, graphics, audio, and whatever else without playing it, just because it doesn't support OS X?
Obviously I'm not saying you should install another OS just to play the game, but don't judge.
Don't know what to say, I have never personally encountered any of your problems, nor have I ever heard of anyone encountering those problems. Could have something to do with the Slashdot effect (I know whenever Icculus goes down, Galaxy starts up slower because it can't get the newsfeed from that server.) To be honest though, pretty much everyone else has gotten the game to work. Maybe it has usability issues, but its a fun game, and myself and thousands of others just manage to get by... somehow.
If it sucks, why is it the default option? The thing most users are likely to see first? "Hey, I know! Let's make sure users see the crummiest thing we have first, before entering the graphically intense, super-fun, awesome video game!"
How am I supposed to know? I didn't make the game, I have in the past suggested that galaxy be removed from the game, and to be honest your experiences with it are a very good argument that I could use in favor of its removal-- but the way you phrased it really doesn't come off as convincing or helpful.
I understand that, but how come it shows up when I'm trying to enter a game? And not, for example, when I'm already in a game and hit ~? And apparently there was some secret formula I had to type in there to join, and hell if I know what it is, so.
And if I hit escape, what happens? Jack shit. It just sits there, doing nothing. I gave it at least a full minute before giving up.
Okay, that really ought not to have happened and could have been a bug. I never ran into something like this. Then again, I haven't used galaxy in about a year. My experience with it is outdated. But once again, there's really no way anyone with your attitude is going to be taken seriously, especially by the developers.
Look, the game has awful usability, terrible quality, and obviously the makers of it simply do not give a shit. If this is the *best* user experience they can offer, I'm saying no thanks.
Some of your complaints are actually valid, but since you are so rude about them, it really nullifies any chance of anyone really being willing to resolve them. You seem to ignore, out of hand, any possibility that the developers might actually be open to suggestions (which in my experience they are.) You could have described what your experience was WITHOUT going off on that whole rant. It would have taken less typing on your part. Instead of writing this, right now I'd probably be helping you to get the game working. Instead, you chose to bash the game and flame. You've decided that the entire game is defined by a few things you don't like, AND THAT THE GAME WILL ALWAYS BE THAT WAY, thus the game will always suck. Keep in mind that you did this without even actually playing.
To be honest, I'm glad you decided not to play. Last thing we need is someone like you bitching over every last thing, during online play, in the IRC channel, or on the forums, and generally pissing everyone off.
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This release came just in time for no one to care anymore.
That's interesting. I can actually believe it. In my car, the engine is quite capable of making the rear wheels move against full-on brakes (yes the rear brakes are disks, no I did not try this more than once.) But the front wheels stay locked and the car doesn't move.
Well that's annoying. The brake/torque launch is great for getting a car off the line in a hurry. Details here: http://www.modernracer.com/tips/dragracinglaunchtechniques.html
Guy Fawkes masks. Everyone should start wearing Guy Fawkes masks.
Liberty dies when the right to carry a gun goes away. Until then, you could always just shoot the UAV out of the sky.
MS-DOS did not live to be 30.
That being said, there's nothing wrong with confirming existing scientific data with more studies-- but this is not a "new" discovery.
This information (that non-African populations have some Neanderthal DNA) was in the textbook for the Anthropology class I took last semester. The textbook is Our Origins: Discovering Physical Anthropology (second edition.) If I had more time I'd look up the chapter and see what source they cite.
The type of teenager who would even have the attention span for this kind of subject matter would be less likely to cause such problems.
Teaching these kids the fundamentals of social engineering will help them recognize it and avoid being victimized by it. I think this is a really great idea.
That's a very compelling argument for scientific research. But we already use the metric system in scientific research, so that's not in discussion.
The reason to use the metric system is to make unit conversion easy. There are two contexts where this comes in handy: scientific research and money. And indeed, we do use the metric system in that context just like everyone else. We also use 5, 10, and 100-based denominations in our currency. However, there's no reason to do unit conversion at other times. Maybe this wasn't true in the 1970s when the UK switched, but these days, with embedded electronics installed in everything, all tricky arithmetic has been automated out of our day-to-day lives. (For example, this is why unit conversion is no longer important in navigation-- we have GPSs now.) Unlike a lot of people here, I don't reflexively see this as a bad thing. Now, take a moment and think about how much work it would be to switch an entire country over to the metric system, especially one the size of the US. Think about the expense involved in replacing all the relevant signage-- both public expense and private expense. Think about the expense (and possibly even loss of life) originating from the confusion (Oh hey, the speed limit is 100...) I don't think you can really justify that, just so you can figure out that if your house was a fishtank you'd need 6 million liters of water.
Anyone know where I can get custom T-shirts printed?
BeOS had something like this, didn't it?
Old comment, sorry, but I know the answer-- SeaMonkey started using XUL and Gecko beginning with SeaMonkey 2.x. It's still somewhat more lightweight than Firefox. Composer etc. are still present.
I've got SeaMonkey running just fine (if a bit slowly) on almost anything besides Flash content. This is on PuppyLinux 4.0, on a Pentium 1 with 64 Mib of RAM (2 used up by integrated graphics.) Although this is an older version of SeaMonkey from before it used XUL.
I don't know if this issue has been raised before, but it doesn't fit the Free Software definition or OSI guidelines, thus neither FL or OSS. This is due to the restriction on potential uses. There can't be ANY restrictions on what the software can be used for.
I think the chances are very, very good that the original developers had the same problem you have.
Use dd and write down all your byte offsets. Seriously though, go for EXT3 and make sure you don't *write* anything from Windows if you don't trust the drivers. Later on you can do an in-place upgrade to btrfs if you want.
Even assuming we know which encryption we're using, it's still not practical. I did some math, and if the password uses all kinds of special characters, numbers, and uppercase/lowercase numbers, it would take way more than 5 years for 1000 PS3s to crack a 10 character password. According go my calculations, it breaks down like this: 630720000000000 passwords/5 years/ps3 = 630720000000000000 passwords/5 years/1000 ps3s... alphabet + numbers + shift key = 72 potential characters in a password... 72^10 = 3743906242624487424 possible 10 character passwords...
I run my own mailserver with a DYNDNS domain. I guess this means I have no right to demand that I notify myself if I read my own mail...?
There's really no way you can pretend that Macintoshes are at all equivalently-priced to home-assembled PCs. And it isn't legal to run OS X on a non-Mac.
Boils right down to this-- In order to get a Macintosh with enough power to run this game, you'd have to shell out at least a thousand dollars. None of the developers have that kind of money to throw around right now, as far as I know. And did you actually play the game? How can you judge the usability, graphics, audio, and whatever else without playing it, just because it doesn't support OS X? Obviously I'm not saying you should install another OS just to play the game, but don't judge.
Don't know what to say, I have never personally encountered any of your problems, nor have I ever heard of anyone encountering those problems. Could have something to do with the Slashdot effect (I know whenever Icculus goes down, Galaxy starts up slower because it can't get the newsfeed from that server.) To be honest though, pretty much everyone else has gotten the game to work. Maybe it has usability issues, but its a fun game, and myself and thousands of others just manage to get by... somehow.
If it sucks, why is it the default option? The thing most users are likely to see first? "Hey, I know! Let's make sure users see the crummiest thing we have first, before entering the graphically intense, super-fun, awesome video game!"
How am I supposed to know? I didn't make the game, I have in the past suggested that galaxy be removed from the game, and to be honest your experiences with it are a very good argument that I could use in favor of its removal-- but the way you phrased it really doesn't come off as convincing or helpful.
I understand that, but how come it shows up when I'm trying to enter a game? And not, for example, when I'm already in a game and hit ~? And apparently there was some secret formula I had to type in there to join, and hell if I know what it is, so.
And if I hit escape, what happens? Jack shit. It just sits there, doing nothing. I gave it at least a full minute before giving up.
Okay, that really ought not to have happened and could have been a bug. I never ran into something like this. Then again, I haven't used galaxy in about a year. My experience with it is outdated. But once again, there's really no way anyone with your attitude is going to be taken seriously, especially by the developers.
Look, the game has awful usability, terrible quality, and obviously the makers of it simply do not give a shit. If this is the *best* user experience they can offer, I'm saying no thanks.
Some of your complaints are actually valid, but since you are so rude about them, it really nullifies any chance of anyone really being willing to resolve them. You seem to ignore, out of hand, any possibility that the developers might actually be open to suggestions (which in my experience they are.) You could have described what your experience was WITHOUT going off on that whole rant. It would have taken less typing on your part. Instead of writing this, right now I'd probably be helping you to get the game working. Instead, you chose to bash the game and flame. You've decided that the entire game is defined by a few things you don't like, AND THAT THE GAME WILL ALWAYS BE THAT WAY, thus the game will always suck. Keep in mind that you did this without even actually playing.
To be honest, I'm glad you decided not to play. Last thing we need is someone like you bitching over every last thing, during online play, in the IRC channel, or on the forums, and generally pissing everyone off.