LPs --> CDs --> download from bittorrent. Some minimal packaging perhaps, in the form of.nfo files or other rubbish, but/dev/null never gets full!
But I do agree with your point.
This!
There are some games that I'll go back to again and again and again.My current one is Civilization IV. It was released in 2005 and I pirated it straight away to see if it would run acceptably on my low-end laptop. It did, and so I bought it, and the two subsequent expansion packs. Total cost = $AUS200. I must have played over a thousand hours of it. No chance I'd sell it!
Oh, and in the last month Firaxis released a final patch which ditched the DRM. Better late than never.
There are times when a steep learning curve is an advantage - I have recently set up Ubuntu on my wife's laptop and I doubt that she would be able to work out how to run malware on her system, even if she were suckered into trying.
Bell's theorem loosely states: No physical theory of local hidden variables can ever reproduce all of the predictions of quantum mechanics.
Quantum mechanics is inherently statistical and non-deterministic in nature. If Bell's theorem holds (and experiments have so far gone its way), then the only way to retrieve your deterministic universe from the clutches of quantum mechanics is to allow non-local effects - which brings in problems of instantaneous travel, faster-than-light communication etc...
Sorry Einstein, it looks like God DOES play dice with the universe.
The kilogram is the standard (SI) unit in the metric system, with the "mks" set (metres, kilograms, seconds) having replaced the previous "cgs" set (centimetres, grams, seconds) around the middle of last century.
I enjoyed the Starship Troopers movie. I hadn't read the book and though that the movie was basically an expensive B-grade science-fiction spoof. Later I read the book and couldn't work out how they got that movie from that book.
Would you like to find out more?
I'm not sure that uranium can really be classified as a "fossil fuel"... unless you expand the definition of fossil to include the remnants of dead stars as well as dead plants and animals.
The problem with "zero divided by zero equals zero" is that it is equally true that "zero divided by zero equals twelve". How many zeros does it take to equal zero? Zero, one, two, pi, anything. It's undefined.
And here ends my first slashdot post where I am literally arguing over nothing.
The biggest question, in my opinion, is what to do about people like Rupert Murdoch, who owns Fox News. He has found that he can exploit ignorance and weakness to make money. He is extraordinarily destructive to his country and to humankind in general.
Which is why we in Australia are glad that since 1985 he is no longer an Australian citizen and thus less destructive to our country!
There is a hilarious sketch in the British show "A Bit of Fry and Laurie" (staring Stephen Fry and Hugh "Dr House" Laurie) which is a take-off of "It's a Wonderful Life". There the angel visits a suicidal Rupert Murdoch and shows him how things would have been different without him - like a pub filled with happy people of different races playing chess. Murdoch says, this is great, I can make heaps of money off these people! And the angel pushes him off the bridge.
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It was never required to be compulsory... oh, and we've always been at war with Eastasia.
Can we really trust a political party run by Andrew Robinson, a known Cardassian spy?
Should not "themselves" be "himself"? Or theoretically "herself", but this is slashdot.
Great - something to do on Saturday night! Obligatory link
I'd much prefer to be called mercurial, martial or jovial than venereal! Or even a lunatic...
I had the same problem today even installing from repos... found a slightly odd workaround that worked at Ubuntu Forums.
Being Slashdot, the answer would be one that doesn't run on Linux :)
LPs --> CDs --> download from bittorrent. Some minimal packaging perhaps, in the form of .nfo files or other rubbish, but /dev/null never gets full!
But I do agree with your point.
There - fixed that for you. Just in case.
This! There are some games that I'll go back to again and again and again.My current one is Civilization IV. It was released in 2005 and I pirated it straight away to see if it would run acceptably on my low-end laptop. It did, and so I bought it, and the two subsequent expansion packs. Total cost = $AUS200. I must have played over a thousand hours of it. No chance I'd sell it! Oh, and in the last month Firaxis released a final patch which ditched the DRM. Better late than never.
... and then we're one step closer to "The Matrix".
Yeah, PIN number, like you punch into an ATM machine when it tells you to on the LCD display.
If only they'd form a coalition - think of all the free porn!
Queue... because it makes it easier to 'eliminate' them? "Your copyright has expired..." BANG BANG BANG.
I guess Oracle could send them into the Sun.
There are times when a steep learning curve is an advantage - I have recently set up Ubuntu on my wife's laptop and I doubt that she would be able to work out how to run malware on her system, even if she were suckered into trying.
The one magazine that I subscribe to has two subscription options - 1 Yr = $50, or 1 Yr + Auto-renew = $47.50.
MOD PARENT UP, +1 Violation of DCMA
Bell's theorem loosely states: No physical theory of local hidden variables can ever reproduce all of the predictions of quantum mechanics.
Quantum mechanics is inherently statistical and non-deterministic in nature. If Bell's theorem holds (and experiments have so far gone its way), then the only way to retrieve your deterministic universe from the clutches of quantum mechanics is to allow non-local effects - which brings in problems of instantaneous travel, faster-than-light communication etc...
Sorry Einstein, it looks like God DOES play dice with the universe.
The kilogram is the standard (SI) unit in the metric system, with the "mks" set (metres, kilograms, seconds) having replaced the previous "cgs" set (centimetres, grams, seconds) around the middle of last century.
I enjoyed the Starship Troopers movie. I hadn't read the book and though that the movie was basically an expensive B-grade science-fiction spoof. Later I read the book and couldn't work out how they got that movie from that book. Would you like to find out more?
I'm not sure that uranium can really be classified as a "fossil fuel"... unless you expand the definition of fossil to include the remnants of dead stars as well as dead plants and animals.
And yet we have the common practice of "mooning" - (I can't believe there's a wikipedia page for this).
The problem with "zero divided by zero equals zero" is that it is equally true that "zero divided by zero equals twelve". How many zeros does it take to equal zero? Zero, one, two, pi, anything. It's undefined. And here ends my first slashdot post where I am literally arguing over nothing.
The biggest question, in my opinion, is what to do about people like Rupert Murdoch, who owns Fox News. He has found that he can exploit ignorance and weakness to make money. He is extraordinarily destructive to his country and to humankind in general.
Which is why we in Australia are glad that since 1985 he is no longer an Australian citizen and thus less destructive to our country!
There is a hilarious sketch in the British show "A Bit of Fry and Laurie" (staring Stephen Fry and Hugh "Dr House" Laurie) which is a take-off of "It's a Wonderful Life". There the angel visits a suicidal Rupert Murdoch and shows him how things would have been different without him - like a pub filled with happy people of different races playing chess. Murdoch says, this is great, I can make heaps of money off these people! And the angel pushes him off the bridge.