Actually, the UK prison population rate is slightly more than one fourth of Russia's. (Source, PDF.) I haven't checked stats for alcohol related crime, and I don't think I will.
Yes, OS X is such a brilliant Unix that the chsh command will wipe out your default shell and replace it with/bin/(!) if you use it correctly. Sure it has a lot of unix-like functionality, but much of it is broken or severely limited.
We played touch rugby in a P.E. class once, and I've still got the marks to prove it. I didn't sue the school because I slipped on the gravel, though. Then again, I don't live in the lawsuit-happy USA.
Come to think of it, isn't GTA a tag simulation of sorts? I usually shout "TAG! You're it!" whenever I ram into the side of a police car. (Actually I don't, but I could if I would.)
Have you tried actually using it? It's been more than a year since I tried it, but it was a horrible mess at the time, as if someone decided to implement Vi with Emacs keybindings. Remaking GIMP with a Photoshop-like UI is fine, but not if the implementation is wrong on almost every level.
Just face it, you can't expect an armed rebellion against fascism from the gun-touting Texans. I'd say that the freedom to own guns is an effective feel-good measure in an oppressive state: Look, you can own a gun, you can speak freely, you can vote for Kodos. As long as nothing you do ever matters, you can have any freedom you want.
I can't see any adblock icon in Konqueror, but I use the functionality (right click on image--> block is easy enough). Hasn't this been in Konqueror for some time now?
It was tagged in the CVS or whatever they use before that. Debian's kdebase 3.5.5-1 was packaged at Wed, 4 Oct 2006 18:43:28 -0400. Kdebase 3.5.5a-1, based on KDE's tarball, was packaged at 10 Oct.
More or less. It's been in Debian Sid for some time now. I can't say I've noticed that many improvements, since KDE already worked pretty well for me. Konqueror seems slightly faster, and doesn't always crash when using a certain functionality on a certain Web 2.0 site.
If what he alleges is true, yes, but it seems far more likely that the poor man has completely lost it. You know, the story he told is not nearly as common as the story of the insane man who murdered his wife. I can see one reason for why he's a suspect.
Every now and then, I just need to get some adrenaline pumping. If I don't need much of it, a quick match against bots (The Longest Yard, hardcore level) will do nicely.
Well, the obvious difference in this case and Ratzinger's is the forum, or the function of the expression. Ratzinger wasn't speaking to Muslims to hurt them, he was speaking to a different group of people, and clearly quoting as an example (here's a translated excerpt). When a bunch of Muslims are offended by it, it's because they are manipulated, not because the Pope himself hurled abuse at them.
I agree with you that there is a problem to where to put the line as to what can be said, and that's why I don't want a semantic limit to freedom of speech. I want to consider it functionally: You should be free to express any idea you want to, but not to harm people (you already have that 'shouting fire in the theater' rule). As someone who's taken his nick from South Park, I obviously don't consider this line as where something is merely offensive.
And what if several people who happened to alreay agree with the sentiments expressed are reading it, and finally understand: they are not alone. There are other racist lunatics out there, and you shouldn't underestimate the power of a self-organized mob. It's not like the group that killed Anthony Walker were acting on the orders of a priest or a military officer.
Consider freedom of speech as a means for protecting the listeners' right to be informed, not as a religious dogma. Racial abuse is a serious problem, and you shouldn't need to listen to it if you don't want to.
Games? Of course not. But browsing the web, sending email, writing documents in OpenOffice.org, etc., all work well on a ~300 MHz computer, as long as it has enough RAM. Yes, even OpenOffice.org 2.0. A fresh XP install doesn't need more than 256 MB to run efficiently for simple tasks like that (it will boot with 128 MB), and will stay good until you install loads of crap on it.
Nerds lack a sense of irony, which is why you were modded down. However, you're actually partially right: Leonardo was a quite poor scientist and technologist.
I think there's only one thing you can predict about the market, which is that it won't stabilize. But I do believe Linux will gain some market share in the near future, probably with Windows Vista's excessive hardware demands, which I imagine will have an impact on battery life for laptops. If you can get a cheaper Linux laptop that lasts longer, works cooler, and lets you do whatever you need to do, then I can see many people preferring it. As it is, Linux doesn't really offer the non-geek user anything Windows doesn't.
It's true that you can reduce storytelling to combinations of a few abstract categories, but neither literature nor games are all about stories. That's why literary fiction traditionally is seen as three main genres: the dramatic, the lyric and the epic. Game genres don't correspond well to these, as you don't really have anything like lyrical or epic gaming. And while you can consider many games dramatic, they don't correspond to the main dramatic genres of comedy and tragedy. Besides, only games that include representation and roleplaying have much in common with the drama. Tetris, Pong and simulations are something else, completely.
If we split games into broad genres, we can try to reuse the magic number three: Character based representational games (games where you control a first or third person character in a 2d or 3d world). Characterless representational games (simulations, racing). Non-representational games (abstract puzzles like Tetris, Minesweeper and Solitaire, abstract action like Arkanoid).
Of course, all these will have undergenres, and they will also blend. An obvious problem is that it's very formal, and doesn't take into account that gaming experience will differ more within each category than between them. Quake III Arena has more in common with Pong (which I'm not sure whether to put into the second or third genre) than with The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion.
I suggest we rather focus on gameplay experience than formal features. That would create genres like action, strategy and puzzle. Oh, and simulation.
Send the board back? When I nuked a BIOS, the manufacturer just sent me a couple of BIOS chips. Replacing the chip is easier than taking the mainboard out of the case. The last time I flashed a BIOS, I did it from within Windows XP, with Asus Update. No problem.
You don't understand what a myth is, yet your comment is steeped in it:
Amazing: even as culturally advanced as we fancy ourselves, we still retain those ancient urges to believe in the fantastic.
This is mythology of the Star Trek generation. A myth isn't a story necessarily believed to be factually true (although it can be), it's rather believed to exemplify truth (and further, that "truth" doesn't need to be wrong). In Star Trek's case, you have plenty of stories that tell us about what, fundamentally, it is to be human (linked mainly to discovery, or to the difference man vs machine (Data), etc.), or to history as a journey from darkness to enlightenment. The fact that you believe Star Trek to be more truthful than Homer's Odyssey just shows that you're completely unaware of how myths work.
Haven't checked Sarge, but it's in Sid, version is 0.7r1692-2. An 8 MB download with the extras and SVG packages. Package: xaralx. I've tested it for five minutes, and I'm rather impressed.
Also, though not important for this particular driver, you have the advantage of using the same driver source on "unsupported" platforms. For instance, very few vendors support Linux with binary drivers for PPC, or even AMD64. Open drivers usually Just Work.
Maybe because Linux uses less RAM than Windows XP, or uses virtual memory better? Nvidia's driver code should be more or less the same, and there's no chance that cedega speeds up directx by converting it to OpenGL. I've had very good experiences with running Championship Manager under wine, and that's just a huge database.
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It would be nice to have a free, top-notch critical edition of Shakespeare's work, though. And the same for all other classics.
Actually, the UK prison population rate is slightly more than one fourth of Russia's. (Source, PDF.) I haven't checked stats for alcohol related crime, and I don't think I will.
Yes, OS X is such a brilliant Unix that the chsh command will wipe out your default shell and replace it with /bin/(!) if you use it correctly. Sure it has a lot of unix-like functionality, but much of it is broken or severely limited.
We played touch rugby in a P.E. class once, and I've still got the marks to prove it. I didn't sue the school because I slipped on the gravel, though. Then again, I don't live in the lawsuit-happy USA.
Come to think of it, isn't GTA a tag simulation of sorts? I usually shout "TAG! You're it!" whenever I ram into the side of a police car. (Actually I don't, but I could if I would.)
Have you tried actually using it? It's been more than a year since I tried it, but it was a horrible mess at the time, as if someone decided to implement Vi with Emacs keybindings. Remaking GIMP with a Photoshop-like UI is fine, but not if the implementation is wrong on almost every level.
Just face it, you can't expect an armed rebellion against fascism from the gun-touting Texans. I'd say that the freedom to own guns is an effective feel-good measure in an oppressive state: Look, you can own a gun, you can speak freely, you can vote for Kodos. As long as nothing you do ever matters, you can have any freedom you want.
I can't see any adblock icon in Konqueror, but I use the functionality (right click on image--> block is easy enough). Hasn't this been in Konqueror for some time now?
It was tagged in the CVS or whatever they use before that. Debian's kdebase 3.5.5-1 was packaged at Wed, 4 Oct 2006 18:43:28 -0400. Kdebase 3.5.5a-1, based on KDE's tarball, was packaged at 10 Oct.
More or less. It's been in Debian Sid for some time now. I can't say I've noticed that many improvements, since KDE already worked pretty well for me. Konqueror seems slightly faster, and doesn't always crash when using a certain functionality on a certain Web 2.0 site.
If what he alleges is true, yes, but it seems far more likely that the poor man has completely lost it. You know, the story he told is not nearly as common as the story of the insane man who murdered his wife. I can see one reason for why he's a suspect.
Every now and then, I just need to get some adrenaline pumping. If I don't need much of it, a quick match against bots (The Longest Yard, hardcore level) will do nicely.
Well, the obvious difference in this case and Ratzinger's is the forum, or the function of the expression. Ratzinger wasn't speaking to Muslims to hurt them, he was speaking to a different group of people, and clearly quoting as an example (here's a translated excerpt). When a bunch of Muslims are offended by it, it's because they are manipulated, not because the Pope himself hurled abuse at them.
I agree with you that there is a problem to where to put the line as to what can be said, and that's why I don't want a semantic limit to freedom of speech. I want to consider it functionally: You should be free to express any idea you want to, but not to harm people (you already have that 'shouting fire in the theater' rule). As someone who's taken his nick from South Park, I obviously don't consider this line as where something is merely offensive.
And what if several people who happened to alreay agree with the sentiments expressed are reading it, and finally understand: they are not alone. There are other racist lunatics out there, and you shouldn't underestimate the power of a self-organized mob. It's not like the group that killed Anthony Walker were acting on the orders of a priest or a military officer.
Consider freedom of speech as a means for protecting the listeners' right to be informed, not as a religious dogma. Racial abuse is a serious problem, and you shouldn't need to listen to it if you don't want to.
Games? Of course not. But browsing the web, sending email, writing documents in OpenOffice.org, etc., all work well on a ~300 MHz computer, as long as it has enough RAM. Yes, even OpenOffice.org 2.0. A fresh XP install doesn't need more than 256 MB to run efficiently for simple tasks like that (it will boot with 128 MB), and will stay good until you install loads of crap on it.
Nerds lack a sense of irony, which is why you were modded down. However, you're actually partially right: Leonardo was a quite poor scientist and technologist.
I think there's only one thing you can predict about the market, which is that it won't stabilize. But I do believe Linux will gain some market share in the near future, probably with Windows Vista's excessive hardware demands, which I imagine will have an impact on battery life for laptops. If you can get a cheaper Linux laptop that lasts longer, works cooler, and lets you do whatever you need to do, then I can see many people preferring it. As it is, Linux doesn't really offer the non-geek user anything Windows doesn't.
It's true that you can reduce storytelling to combinations of a few abstract categories, but neither literature nor games are all about stories. That's why literary fiction traditionally is seen as three main genres: the dramatic, the lyric and the epic. Game genres don't correspond well to these, as you don't really have anything like lyrical or epic gaming. And while you can consider many games dramatic, they don't correspond to the main dramatic genres of comedy and tragedy. Besides, only games that include representation and roleplaying have much in common with the drama. Tetris, Pong and simulations are something else, completely.
If we split games into broad genres, we can try to reuse the magic number three:
Character based representational games (games where you control a first or third person character in a 2d or 3d world).
Characterless representational games (simulations, racing).
Non-representational games (abstract puzzles like Tetris, Minesweeper and Solitaire, abstract action like Arkanoid).
Of course, all these will have undergenres, and they will also blend. An obvious problem is that it's very formal, and doesn't take into account that gaming experience will differ more within each category than between them. Quake III Arena has more in common with Pong (which I'm not sure whether to put into the second or third genre) than with The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion.
I suggest we rather focus on gameplay experience than formal features. That would create genres like action, strategy and puzzle. Oh, and simulation.
Send the board back? When I nuked a BIOS, the manufacturer just sent me a couple of BIOS chips. Replacing the chip is easier than taking the mainboard out of the case. The last time I flashed a BIOS, I did it from within Windows XP, with Asus Update. No problem.
If you're OSnews, the OS is a bunch of widgets.
Haven't checked Sarge, but it's in Sid, version is 0.7r1692-2. An 8 MB download with the extras and SVG packages. Package: xaralx. I've tested it for five minutes, and I'm rather impressed.
Are you seriously suggesting that Linspire has better support than Novell/Suse?
Also, though not important for this particular driver, you have the advantage of using the same driver source on "unsupported" platforms. For instance, very few vendors support Linux with binary drivers for PPC, or even AMD64. Open drivers usually Just Work.
But why should Archimedes give everyone execute rights to his writing?
Maybe because Linux uses less RAM than Windows XP, or uses virtual memory better? Nvidia's driver code should be more or less the same, and there's no chance that cedega speeds up directx by converting it to OpenGL. I've had very good experiences with running Championship Manager under wine, and that's just a huge database.