Shouldn't even be that. GUI walkthrough requires thinking. Just a file (similar to a torrent file) that a user can download and execute that will automatically add a temporary source, grab & install the given packages, and throw out the source. Associate the tool with the type, and let the browser do it's business. Can put in lots of warnings and stuff too to scare off the n00bs from just being install-happy.
Now, that makes fetching packages through the web easy. Next, figure out how to make that easy for the provider.
Nonsense. There are numerous technical reasons for having contrary content included in the game that is not designed ever to be exposed to human eyes. For example, in the sims the models get naked, and are blurred - the blur code can be disabled. Alternately, a hypothetical game could actually model the characters as naked models and put clothes over them (similar to barbie dolls) for better cloth physics. I expect that will be happening in games in a few years. Likewise, if a scripted screen includes a naked model, but the camera shot only shoots from the neck up, then a case similar to rockstar could occur.
External content is external content - even if it's just flipping a bit.
Dunno about you, but where I come from calling on a cell-phone costs money, and TMs are dirt cheap. Hence the popularity of text messages. Especially for long-distance.
Not on MSN. MSN pass-and-hold depends on them being online. The lack of offline MSN messenging is the biggest annoyance when dealing with messenger users. I just use Miranda and don't care what client they're using, but always get annoyed when I find out I can't send a message because of the MSN network's missing feature. Email is not a substitute, as people have a lot less trouble ignoring a queued IM then just another email in their listing. I know I ignore my emails much more often than IMs.
Well, web-ify is a subset of various attempts at a larger, over-arching problem - the platform-agnostification and auto-deployment of software. Websites have 2 major infrastructure advangages out of their massive host of disadvantages: platform agnosticity (works on anything that has a modern browser, if well-made), and instant updates (you connect to the site to use it, so you're always on the latest version).
Other technologies have equally half-assed solutions to the same problems, with other various advantages and disadvantages. Various JIT + deployment systems make the same promises, and that seems to be the new focus of the industry.
The other focus is the bridging of handheld devices into full-fledged PCs, and the myriad UI problems that creates. Again, web-ifying provides something of a solution, as you can have a web browser on the handheld. Still, both the web and JIT applications have the problem that the tiny UI of handhelds makes a big mess of normal desktop apps.
Alternately, many people use a science-fictiony device called a "wallet" - in it they keep numerous handy documents and cards, many of which include the owner's name and identifying numbers. The "wallet" is often kept in the back pocket, which means that the deceased can be easily identified, provided that they die while wearing pants./joke off
Seriously, just get a metal fire-proof card with your name embossed on it and put it in your wallet. No fashion-accessory dog tags, no RFID tracking.
yup. I just saw Mr. and Mrs. Smith. That was original. Dunno about good, but original. Alternately, Hotel Rwanda (rented that recently) was based on a book iirc, and nobody can say it wasn't good.
Now, the thing is that movies based on good books are good. The problem is basing movies on stupid pop culture. Then again, one person's pop-culture is another one's literary classic.
I think you need to learn the meaning of irony. I'm referring to the fact that being a coder is naturally ego-gratifying, and even the most primitive programs tend to convince the writer of their own supreme intelligence.
The libertarian party needs to be taken away from the extremists. Right now they're about as credible as a bunch of vegans living in a commune would be as "leftists". The normal modern libertarian wants legal marijuana, tougher penalties on violence, lower welfare, lower taxes, lower gun control, and the gays to do whatever they want.
Meanwhile, the Libertarian party wants to abolish police forces and public schools. That's a little further afield than most "socially and fiscally liberal" people.
You're close, but off. WE wanted (the geeky) socially liberal, fiscally conservative. But we're young, male, intellectuals (mostly). Think about those who aren't. Think about the soccer moms. They're not just looking out for themselves, they're looking out for their kids, and are loaded up with defensive instincts. Think of all the people who are being pushed around by fearmongering news.
That's who the parties cater to now. Those who are afraid. That's what "Family Values" is all about - fear. Fear of the unkown, the expansion of things you don't like, fear of foreign influences on your life, fear of a million artificial ghosts who want to eat your kids. Look at the SUVs, the PTAs, the condo associations, etc. All fueld by terrified busybodies.
Of course, we're young and invincible, in a field that reaffirms our own mental godhood, so we don't feel that fear as much.
Parents are being trained to fear every second that their kids are away - of bad influences, of paedophiles, of another kid going nuts and killing them. Once fear takes hold, higher principles like freedom and democracy go out the window.
The unfortunate, silent fact is that Americans _want_ a nanny state. Not the '60s liberal nanny-state, where nanny feeds you and clothes you, but a nanny-state that just tells you what not to do, but doesn't actually care for you.
Seems they took the wrong approach. If the insulation is no longer important at launch, why not just blow the whole lot of the insulation off before it launches, when a thorough camera-check of the Shuttle-surface can be taken for a few minutes before liftoff?
Really? In that case, this could be the perfect distro for a n00b desktop to put on your legacy boxen (like an old P266). That's something that has been lacking for the switchers - a distro that will let a guy just take his old, outdated computer and wipe it and make it into a decent desktop so he can try out linux without screwing with his primary machine. There were only a few like that before (Vector, Libranet, Buffalo) and most of them didn't have widespread support (except Vector, but Vector's lightweight version was a retail product).
Well then, why not do that at least? They could keep the core gameplay and add a new plot - expand it out with some new factions and additional units, keeping the original game as a pure subset of the new game so that people who wanted classic gameplay could disable new features. Look at the success of CS:Source - how many people bought Half-Life 2 just for that?
Good god - put down the tinfoil hat. Remember all those slashdot axioms about attributing stupidity to evil, Occam's razor, and suchlike. Don't imagine a leftwing conspiracy, any more than one should imagine a right-wing conspiracy.
There are numerous reasons that a person could misguidedly become obsessed with environmentalism before resorting to bizarro communist paranoia. The field is littered with misinformation and disinformation from both sides, so it's no wonder that a good-hearted follower can get caught up in the mayhem.
That's just as much caused by local NIMBYism than large groups. Think how reactors get stopped - is it a large GreenPeace campaign where armies of college students shackle themselves to building sites? Or is it vocal soccer-moms who are scared about a meltdown happening near where they live? I'll bet it's the latter, because the former might look more impressive, but doesn't stop a goddamn thing.
Nimbyism isn't environmentalism, it's cowardice and ignorance. NIMBY people aren't in some long-view scenario where they worry about how to dispose of waste and whether it's long-term viable. They're looking out for #1 - they're worried that some impossible accident is gonna blow them all up.
You have too high an expectation of the commercial system. You expect that commercial education will mean that your kids can get a great education. I expect that, if parents are given the opportunity to send their kid to any school, and any school can get funding, that 60% of kids will end up at the Pepsi McSchool of Jesus.
Not all environmentalists are anti-nuclear. Iirc, when the Ontario government shut down it's nuke plants, the greenies cried bloody murder. In the States, the problem isn't that environmentalists don't want nuclear power, the problem is that they don't trust the Bush administration with it.
Oh, and yeah, there are a lot of dumb greenies who think it's still the '60s and all nuclear power is teh evil.
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Shouldn't even be that. GUI walkthrough requires thinking. Just a file (similar to a torrent file) that a user can download and execute that will automatically add a temporary source, grab & install the given packages, and throw out the source. Associate the tool with the type, and let the browser do it's business. Can put in lots of warnings and stuff too to scare off the n00bs from just being install-happy.
Now, that makes fetching packages through the web easy. Next, figure out how to make that easy for the provider.
Nonsense. There are numerous technical reasons for having contrary content included in the game that is not designed ever to be exposed to human eyes. For example, in the sims the models get naked, and are blurred - the blur code can be disabled. Alternately, a hypothetical game could actually model the characters as naked models and put clothes over them (similar to barbie dolls) for better cloth physics. I expect that will be happening in games in a few years. Likewise, if a scripted screen includes a naked model, but the camera shot only shoots from the neck up, then a case similar to rockstar could occur.
External content is external content - even if it's just flipping a bit.
Actually, iirc, the AR Max is actually modding the savegame when you do the Hot Coffee ps2 hack.
Dunno about you, but where I come from calling on a cell-phone costs money, and TMs are dirt cheap. Hence the popularity of text messages. Especially for long-distance.
Not on MSN. MSN pass-and-hold depends on them being online. The lack of offline MSN messenging is the biggest annoyance when dealing with messenger users. I just use Miranda and don't care what client they're using, but always get annoyed when I find out I can't send a message because of the MSN network's missing feature. Email is not a substitute, as people have a lot less trouble ignoring a queued IM then just another email in their listing. I know I ignore my emails much more often than IMs.
Well, web-ify is a subset of various attempts at a larger, over-arching problem - the platform-agnostification and auto-deployment of software. Websites have 2 major infrastructure advangages out of their massive host of disadvantages: platform agnosticity (works on anything that has a modern browser, if well-made), and instant updates (you connect to the site to use it, so you're always on the latest version).
Other technologies have equally half-assed solutions to the same problems, with other various advantages and disadvantages. Various JIT + deployment systems make the same promises, and that seems to be the new focus of the industry.
The other focus is the bridging of handheld devices into full-fledged PCs, and the myriad UI problems that creates. Again, web-ifying provides something of a solution, as you can have a web browser on the handheld. Still, both the web and JIT applications have the problem that the tiny UI of handhelds makes a big mess of normal desktop apps.
Alternately, many people use a science-fictiony device called a "wallet" - in it they keep numerous handy documents and cards, many of which include the owner's name and identifying numbers. The "wallet" is often kept in the back pocket, which means that the deceased can be easily identified, provided that they die while wearing pants. /joke off
Seriously, just get a metal fire-proof card with your name embossed on it and put it in your wallet. No fashion-accessory dog tags, no RFID tracking.
yup. I just saw Mr. and Mrs. Smith. That was original. Dunno about good, but original. Alternately, Hotel Rwanda (rented that recently) was based on a book iirc, and nobody can say it wasn't good.
Now, the thing is that movies based on good books are good. The problem is basing movies on stupid pop culture. Then again, one person's pop-culture is another one's literary classic.
giyf.
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3514.html
If it's behind the laser window, you're screwed. Optics are touchy to a level that can only be described as premenstrual.
That's great for letting the government know who leaked memo X, but what about the people? I mean, government of, by, and for and all that jazz.
I think you need to learn the meaning of irony. I'm referring to the fact that being a coder is naturally ego-gratifying, and even the most primitive programs tend to convince the writer of their own supreme intelligence.
Speak for yourself - mine's on my keychain. And yes, I want my cellphone to double as a calculator and PDA.
The libertarian party needs to be taken away from the extremists. Right now they're about as credible as a bunch of vegans living in a commune would be as "leftists". The normal modern libertarian wants legal marijuana, tougher penalties on violence, lower welfare, lower taxes, lower gun control, and the gays to do whatever they want.
Meanwhile, the Libertarian party wants to abolish police forces and public schools. That's a little further afield than most "socially and fiscally liberal" people.
You're close, but off. WE wanted (the geeky) socially liberal, fiscally conservative. But we're young, male, intellectuals (mostly). Think about those who aren't. Think about the soccer moms. They're not just looking out for themselves, they're looking out for their kids, and are loaded up with defensive instincts. Think of all the people who are being pushed around by fearmongering news.
That's who the parties cater to now. Those who are afraid. That's what "Family Values" is all about - fear. Fear of the unkown, the expansion of things you don't like, fear of foreign influences on your life, fear of a million artificial ghosts who want to eat your kids. Look at the SUVs, the PTAs, the condo associations, etc. All fueld by terrified busybodies.
Of course, we're young and invincible, in a field that reaffirms our own mental godhood, so we don't feel that fear as much.
Parents are being trained to fear every second that their kids are away - of bad influences, of paedophiles, of another kid going nuts and killing them. Once fear takes hold, higher principles like freedom and democracy go out the window.
The unfortunate, silent fact is that Americans _want_ a nanny state. Not the '60s liberal nanny-state, where nanny feeds you and clothes you, but a nanny-state that just tells you what not to do, but doesn't actually care for you.
Seems they took the wrong approach. If the insulation is no longer important at launch, why not just blow the whole lot of the insulation off before it launches, when a thorough camera-check of the Shuttle-surface can be taken for a few minutes before liftoff?
Well what the hell else are people paying those exhorbitant InstallShield license fees for?
Maybe now that people have heard of Inkscape, we can make the Open Clipart repository not suck.
Make clipart! Lots of it! Submit it to OpenClipart!
Really? In that case, this could be the perfect distro for a n00b desktop to put on your legacy boxen (like an old P266). That's something that has been lacking for the switchers - a distro that will let a guy just take his old, outdated computer and wipe it and make it into a decent desktop so he can try out linux without screwing with his primary machine. There were only a few like that before (Vector, Libranet, Buffalo) and most of them didn't have widespread support (except Vector, but Vector's lightweight version was a retail product).
Well then, why not do that at least? They could keep the core gameplay and add a new plot - expand it out with some new factions and additional units, keeping the original game as a pure subset of the new game so that people who wanted classic gameplay could disable new features. Look at the success of CS:Source - how many people bought Half-Life 2 just for that?
Good god - put down the tinfoil hat. Remember all those slashdot axioms about attributing stupidity to evil, Occam's razor, and suchlike. Don't imagine a leftwing conspiracy, any more than one should imagine a right-wing conspiracy.
There are numerous reasons that a person could misguidedly become obsessed with environmentalism before resorting to bizarro communist paranoia. The field is littered with misinformation and disinformation from both sides, so it's no wonder that a good-hearted follower can get caught up in the mayhem.
That's just as much caused by local NIMBYism than large groups. Think how reactors get stopped - is it a large GreenPeace campaign where armies of college students shackle themselves to building sites? Or is it vocal soccer-moms who are scared about a meltdown happening near where they live? I'll bet it's the latter, because the former might look more impressive, but doesn't stop a goddamn thing.
Nimbyism isn't environmentalism, it's cowardice and ignorance. NIMBY people aren't in some long-view scenario where they worry about how to dispose of waste and whether it's long-term viable. They're looking out for #1 - they're worried that some impossible accident is gonna blow them all up.
You have too high an expectation of the commercial system. You expect that commercial education will mean that your kids can get a great education. I expect that, if parents are given the opportunity to send their kid to any school, and any school can get funding, that 60% of kids will end up at the Pepsi McSchool of Jesus.
Not all environmentalists are anti-nuclear. Iirc, when the Ontario government shut down it's nuke plants, the greenies cried bloody murder. In the States, the problem isn't that environmentalists don't want nuclear power, the problem is that they don't trust the Bush administration with it.
Oh, and yeah, there are a lot of dumb greenies who think it's still the '60s and all nuclear power is teh evil.
As opposed to those charming private institutions that handle Chinese education, and handled American education back in the good old days.
Oh, wait, good education has been done by many government programs. Oops.
American education isn't bad because it's run by the government. It's bad because people don't give a crap about fixing it.