OK, great. So, first you teach them that it's safe to open electrical devices without any precautions beyond removing the plug. Then you teach them that it's safe to bash parts around and they'll still work. Then they find a TV and kill themselves.
Or, teach them properly when they're old enough to not put toys into their mouths.:)
Good point. You can watch TV without being literate. Heck, you can watch it in a foreign language and still get the gist of it. But if you can't read, you can't get anywhere on a computer, unless your idea of fun is playing those educational games for 3-year olds.
Yes, spam harversters might use robots.txt to prioritize the pages you don't want them to get. But you can't do anything about them, especially if they hide behind a browser's user-agent:. The honest robots will honor your/robots.txt. However, you shouldn't use it for security. If there's a page you want to keep secret, you should set up some sort of authentication for it.
Think about this: UN was founded to be a tool of US policy, like Wilson intended the League to be. But then came widespread decolonization, and each of the former colonial powers wanted all its colonies in the UN to boost their influence. But the former colonies start voting independently. And the UN falls out of US control, and begins to try to function like it was rhetorically intended to function from the start.
So, the US doesn't like it. It does like NATO, though.
FUD refers to a specific marketroid strategy in the industry, although it may be generalized to other industries where the procedures may vary slightly.
"Competitor's product has serious problems. Don't buy it." "We're proud to announce something that's just like competitor's product, only better. It will be released sometime next quarter." "We're not really sure if competitor's product wasn't just made by a 6-year old." "Remember that product we announced? The schedule has slipped again, but don't worry: it's just around the corner, and it blows away competitor's product!"
...so long as you turn on No Disasters. And make sure you have funds for it to be auto-replaced every 40 years. Of course, if you wait for Fusion, it's much more cost-efficient, and it's completely safe even with No Disasters.
Actually, try Apple's Macintosh Portable, released around 91, though it may have been as much as 4 years earlier, because my memory is faded. It was a hideous machine, about 40 pounds for 40 MB HD and 4 MB RAM, and the screen was tiny. Went up on the shuttle a couple of times, replaced by the first batch of Powerbooks (the 100, 140, and 170).
This is a very difficult thing for a translator to do, even within the same language. You've not only got to deal with exaggerationsl, but inverse meanings.
Remember, movies are where Average "FBI Director" Joe gets his ideas about computers. So, it's no surprise that they're afraid of them. After all, computers can do absolutely anything, and you can anyway get past any encryption by typing `override password'.
Once the app has ~32 MB real RAM and ~P2-233/G3-233 (I may be overestimating, because I only play on machines way above the thresholds), the bottleneck is entirely in the graphics card. With a Voodoo2 12 MB, I get from 60 fps in normal play, to 200 fps when I zoom way in on a boring piece of land. (The latter is not something you'd ever do in normal gameplay.)
So, the real question is how well it runs on the lesser machines. If it's really just a question of OS overhead, you know the answer already.
Think about this: for every Win32/MacOS box sold, Bungie gets to keep all the money. They're both the developer and publisher, so everything that they sell the game to the resellers for, they get to keep.
But Loki is spending money paying coders to port the game. For each Linux box sold, Bungie gets a portion of the money, and Loki gets a portion of the money.
So, if they put all 3 versions in one box (I doubt they'd still fit on one CD, BTW), they wouldn't have any way to know whether the sale was a Linux sale or a Win32/MacOS sale.
I'm guessing he went back to play MTFL after playing whatever strange version of MII he reviewed. When you think of MII first and MTFL second, MTFL doesn't seem all that great.
The Win32/MacOS versions were coded simultaneously. All the datafiles are platform-independent, and Loki doesn't need to do anything to them.
What Loki is doing is taking the Win32/MacOS source (neither source nor binaries is freely distributable: if you don't like that, don't buy it) and porting it to Linux. The entire value of their service (other than publishing, if they're doing that themselves) is in the port of the app itself.
So, I really doubt they'll be releasing any binaries.
It seems the reviewer wasn't looking at the full game. He mentioned lots of features inaccurately, and obviously never saw certain levels. It wasn't anything critical, but the reviewer didn't come across as knowledgeable.
A) The W32 version had mouse issues with some mice. This was platform-specific. Go figure.
B) The game didn't allow unit deselection with the secondary mouse button, using it for gesture clicking instead. The option was put in with the 1.2 patch, so it should come right out of the box on the Linux version.
I don't know where the hell you get your data, but it's *way* off (I'm assuming you just pulled it out of your ass to defend your America sux d00dz position).
As for the poverty line, that's complete BS, I've grown up below the poverty line, and I haven't had a very hard time of it. In fact the amount of money made at the "poverty" line in the US in a year($1300) is what someone working at a government factory in china would make in 26 years($500/y).
btw, the unemployment levels in the US are about 3% just so you know
I don't know where the hell you get your data, but it's *way* off (I'm assuming you just pulled it out of your ass to defend your America ownz u position).
I don't know about the China figure (although it seems to ignore purchasing power), but a single US resident under 65 earning $8480/y is right at the poverty threshold.
Moral of the story is: either admit you're just estimating, or don't pretend your information is accurate. And never, ever flame someone for something that you yourself do.
Yes, I vote in nearly every election, right here in America. And no, I don't pay a poll tax, but I do take time off work. Time is a finite quantity that can (in many cases) be directly and tangibly linked to money. If I couldn't afford to take time off work, I wouldn't vote.
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If spammers start sending large messages with attachments, the user-end programs that allow you to delete messages without retrieving them won't help. Why? Because the huge bloated messages still need to be relayed all the way to the ISP, which still needs to store it until the user gets rid of it or retrieves is.
Luckily, I've found that most spam I get (not counting legitimate promotional mailing lists that I route to/dev/null) is short and plain text. Usenet spam is typically under 25 lines (including headers), although there are sometimes longer messages or huge crossposts about Jesus or Nostradamus or free cash or some other fable.
But for years I've dreamt about a system where I could retract my vote instantly if a politician didn't meet my standards.
It would make it a lot harder for those who wants to win based on a stupid election campaign instead of on track record and integrity.
Oh, that would be great. So politicians would be doubly careful to do only what would get them ahead in the polls the next day, because if they didn't, it might be a vicious circle of popularity/power decline.
I do agree that we need more frequent elections. Politicians, especially in the US, do stupid things and dismiss them as insignificant because they know people have short attention spans and will forget it by the next election.
Electronic voting isn't going to make the poor or uneducated or unintelligent vote. It's going to increase the number of votes from two categories:
Youth
The rich
The politicians will figure out which would be drawn in greater numbers, and poll further to find out how those specific demographic groups are likely to vote.
For example, if there are (hypothetically) 25 extra Democratic votes, and 20 extra Republican votes, this would become a "huge federal waste that inefficiently spends money on homeless shelters, which is the job of religious organizations". If there are 25 extra Republican votes, and 20 extra Democratic votes, this would become a "needless waste of government spending that should be spent on Social Security first".
Either way, voters are told they only have a choice of two evils. Bleah, silly American sheep.
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Or, teach them properly when they're old enough to not put toys into their mouths. :)
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Good point. You can watch TV without being literate. Heck, you can watch it in a foreign language and still get the gist of it. But if you can't read, you can't get anywhere on a computer, unless your idea of fun is playing those educational games for 3-year olds.
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Yes, spam harversters might use robots.txt to prioritize the pages you don't want them to get. But you can't do anything about them, especially if they hide behind a browser's user-agent:. The honest robots will honor your /robots.txt. However, you shouldn't use it for security. If there's a page you want to keep secret, you should set up some sort of authentication for it.
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So, the US doesn't like it. It does like NATO, though.
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FUD = Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt
FUD refers to a specific marketroid strategy in the industry, although it may be generalized to other industries where the procedures may vary slightly.
"Competitor's product has serious problems. Don't buy it."
"We're proud to announce something that's just like competitor's product, only better. It will be released sometime next quarter."
"We're not really sure if competitor's product wasn't just made by a 6-year old."
"Remember that product we announced? The schedule has slipped again, but don't worry: it's just around the corner, and it blows away competitor's product!"
FUD != general lies and misinformation
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...so long as you turn on No Disasters. And make sure you have funds for it to be auto-replaced every 40 years. Of course, if you wait for Fusion, it's much more cost-efficient, and it's completely safe even with No Disasters.
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Seriously? Maybe I just wasn't paying attention at the time, but I think AppleTalk was still the preferred networking flavor.
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Actually, try Apple's Macintosh Portable, released around 91, though it may have been as much as 4 years earlier, because my memory is faded. It was a hideous machine, about 40 pounds for 40 MB HD and 4 MB RAM, and the screen was tiny. Went up on the shuttle a couple of times, replaced by the first batch of Powerbooks (the 100, 140, and 170).
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This is a very difficult thing for a translator to do, even within the same language. You've not only got to deal with exaggerationsl, but inverse meanings.
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Remember, movies are where Average "FBI Director" Joe gets his ideas about computers. So, it's no surprise that they're afraid of them. After all, computers can do absolutely anything, and you can anyway get past any encryption by typing `override password'.
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So, the real question is how well it runs on the lesser machines. If it's really just a question of OS overhead, you know the answer already.
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But Loki is spending money paying coders to port the game. For each Linux box sold, Bungie gets a portion of the money, and Loki gets a portion of the money.
So, if they put all 3 versions in one box (I doubt they'd still fit on one CD, BTW), they wouldn't have any way to know whether the sale was a Linux sale or a Win32/MacOS sale.
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I'm guessing he went back to play MTFL after playing whatever strange version of MII he reviewed. When you think of MII first and MTFL second, MTFL doesn't seem all that great.
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What Loki is doing is taking the Win32/MacOS source (neither source nor binaries is freely distributable: if you don't like that, don't buy it) and porting it to Linux. The entire value of their service (other than publishing, if they're doing that themselves) is in the port of the app itself.
So, I really doubt they'll be releasing any binaries.
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Loathing is the mesh editor. Fear is the tag editor, including many mesh properties. I'm assuming they'll both be ported.
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It seems the reviewer wasn't looking at the full game. He mentioned lots of features inaccurately, and obviously never saw certain levels. It wasn't anything critical, but the reviewer didn't come across as knowledgeable.
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http://www.bungie.com/oni/
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A) The W32 version had mouse issues with some mice. This was platform-specific. Go figure.
B) The game didn't allow unit deselection with the secondary mouse button, using it for gesture clicking instead. The option was put in with the 1.2 patch, so it should come right out of the box on the Linux version.
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The W32 version used software rendering, D3D, or glide. Go figure.
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As for the poverty line, that's complete BS, I've grown up below the poverty line, and I haven't had a very hard time of it. In fact the amount of money made at the "poverty" line in the US in a year($1300) is what someone working at a government factory in china would make in 26 years($500/y).
btw, the unemployment levels in the US are about 3% just so you know
I don't know where the hell you get your data, but it's *way* off (I'm assuming you just pulled it out of your ass to defend your America ownz u position).
I don't know about the China figure (although it seems to ignore purchasing power), but a single US resident under 65 earning $8480/y is right at the poverty threshold.
Oh, and the unemployment rate for June was 4.3%.
Moral of the story is: either admit you're just estimating, or don't pretend your information is accurate. And never, ever flame someone for something that you yourself do.
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Yes, I vote in nearly every election, right here in America. And no, I don't pay a poll tax, but I do take time off work. Time is a finite quantity that can (in many cases) be directly and tangibly linked to money. If I couldn't afford to take time off work, I wouldn't vote.
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Luckily, I've found that most spam I get (not counting legitimate promotional mailing lists that I route to /dev/null) is short and plain text. Usenet spam is typically under 25 lines (including headers), although there are sometimes longer messages or huge crossposts about Jesus or Nostradamus or free cash or some other fable.
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It would make it a lot harder for those who wants to win based on a stupid election campaign instead of on track record and integrity.
Oh, that would be great. So politicians would be doubly careful to do only what would get them ahead in the polls the next day, because if they didn't, it might be a vicious circle of popularity/power decline.
I do agree that we need more frequent elections. Politicians, especially in the US, do stupid things and dismiss them as insignificant because they know people have short attention spans and will forget it by the next election.
Where annual elections end, tyranny begins!
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The politicians will figure out which would be drawn in greater numbers, and poll further to find out how those specific demographic groups are likely to vote.
For example, if there are (hypothetically) 25 extra Democratic votes, and 20 extra Republican votes, this would become a "huge federal waste that inefficiently spends money on homeless shelters, which is the job of religious organizations". If there are 25 extra Republican votes, and 20 extra Democratic votes, this would become a "needless waste of government spending that should be spent on Social Security first".
Either way, voters are told they only have a choice of two evils. Bleah, silly American sheep.
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Bullshit. Non-citizens pay the same amount of taxes as citizens, in the US at least.
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