Please, it was Gore who started going that dangerous road.
No, he didn't. Gore wanted a full Florida recount, not to ignore the Electoral College. The only people to talk like that were Republicans on the possiblity that Gore would lose the popular vote but win the electoral vote. They never thought it could go the other way..........
His party shows no respect for our constitution claiming that suddenly it is important that he got majority of popular vote.
They respect the consitution just fine. They don't respect Bush.
In raw numbers Bush got more votes than Clinton ever did yet no one denied him mandate.
That might matter if Bush Jr. ran against Clinton, but he didn't so it doesn't. Also because Clinton did get a majoraty of the vote, unlike Bush.
At least I have some arguments to support my view of Clinton years while you rely purely on your dislike of W.Bush.
Sounds more like irrational hatred. Most Dems have irrational contempt for Bush, not irrational hatred like the GOP has for Clinton.
I don't think anyone would have a problem with face recognition software being used in an airport. We expect higher security there. What many of us don't want, is for such cameras and software to be installed in public places, a la Tampa. I don't want to walk from my school to a gas station and have 5 cameras watching me the whole time.
But in any case, why is this a "problem"? It's a "problem" that a game acts more realistically?
By "massive", I mean 90% of the earth's surface is either swamp or desert. Not only is it not realistic, its a PITA cause you have to convert all your terrain to hills if you want to save your citys' population.
If you think global warming is going to be a problem, then you should hurry up and conquer your enemies, right? (hmmm....)
That gets pretty hard to do when land is turning to swamp, destroying roads.
Wonder why this hasn't happened to you....different version maybe? I did try and find out where to change the setting, as this is open source and all, but I didn't have any luck.
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In Civilization II, the only pollution that has any effect on the world is that generated by the player....the AI doesn't make any. In FreeCiv, the rate of pollution seems to be about the same....but now its counted for each player, human and AI! So if you're playing with 5 AI's, you have 5 times as much pollution, so you tend to get massive global warming by the 1950's.
Ewoks do not bother any of my non-geek friends. Why do all geeks hate them with a passion, then?
Ewoks aren't hated because they are cute, they are hated because they are cute teddy bears who took out a legion of Star Wars. That was bullshit, and what you seem to have been missing.
WHY? A lot of people here seem to think that "if it's dark, it's good" or even "if it's not dark, it sucks". Again, WHY?
Nobody has ever said that. If the Ewoks were just peacefull forest dwellers, nobody would have cared.
It is perfectly possible to make a movie that appeals to kids WITHOUT making adults naseous, and vice versa. Just as you can leave sex, swearing, and extreme violence out of a movie, it is possible to leave out lame ass cutsy charachters like Jar Jar Binks that offend the intelligence of anyone older than 8.
The first Star Wars movie did this just fine. ROTJ and PM did not.
Its all about charging what the market will bear. You can also hear software companies whine about how much copyright infringment costs them, but an unprotected game (Quake 3) will cost just as much as one with super protection (Alice with Safedisk 2).
If they (record or software companies) really want to be principled, they'd charge less for stuff with protection. But they don't, and I doubt they ever will.
Sure you can trademark titles, but I doubt you can use that to stop someone from publishing a list of those titles, which is what cddb basically does.
i.e., Interscope could hypothetically sue Gracenote if they came out with an audio cd named Pretty Hate Machine, but I don't see how they could sue for printing (or even selling) a list of the tracks on the cd.
This story isn't about GnuCash, its about the problems that can arise with shared libraries. GnuCash was just an example.
how they've released a significant new version of a key Linux application...
You want some cheese with that whine? Its only a.x upgrade. Generally, the only.x upgrades that get mentioned on/. are kernel and xfree updates. If every little version upgrade of every little program that someone thinks is important was announed on/., it would turn into Freshmeat.
The right to keep and bear arms is not absolute, anymore than the right of free speech is absolute. You can own guns, but that right is restricted because a great many people are seriously wounded or killed by guns every year. Nobody has ever been killed by a porno mag or movie, and porn has never been proven to have a detrimental effect on people's health.
That is why those examples are relevant and why you should take your gun nut paranoia to some other discussion.
Lets see, if you're under 18 you face curfews (both late at night AND during the day when you "should be in school" even if you're home schooled). The drinking age has been raised to 21 almost everywhere, and the driving age and voting age aren't too far off. And of course you need to be "protected" from all sorts of things "for your own good".
On the flipside if you commit a crime in many of those same places you can be tried as an adult as young as 14. Something is fucked up when you can be tried as an adult for first degree murder when you aren't old enough to drive, let alone vote.
The company claims that its named after Aimee, the founders daughter. A lot of people here think thats bs, she used to go by Madeline and just changed her name so AOL would have a harder time suing them.
In the Great Scheme of Things (tm), cheats don't matter, but closed-source software, is a Bad Thing.
Um, no, when it comes to cheating in multiplayer games, having closed source is a GOOD THING. Not having the source makes it a great deal more difficult to add a "gimme 10,000 gold" to a game like Age of Empires or an aimbot for Half Life.
Denizens of slashdot, why, oh WHY are you worrying about what features are in closed source software?If the source were open, the source would be open.
Which does what, exactly, to cut down on cheating?
The issue is, always has been, and always will be FREEDOM.
No, the issue is about a company releasing lame drivers for their products that can interfer with other people's enjoyment of a game. And insisting that everybody does it your way (open source software) is no freedom at all.
John Carmack himself said that one of the things that made the DOOM community to strong was the hacking that other people did after they shipped it. But if someone wants to learn how 3D works, or just wants a new perspective on the game that's not ok?
Wow, ac's are dumb. Did you stop to think that maybe there's a difference between hacking an engine to learn/and/or make cool mods and hacking just so you can win?
If you want to reduce cheating, then don't play with cheaters -- how hard is that?
Basically impossible, does that answer your question? Where it is really hard is telling if a player is cheating or just very very good.
Maybe because this was a test of filesystems that work under Linux, not filesystems in general. To have a reliable test of NTFS, you'd have to use it under NT or Win2k, unless you wanted to do some shady benchmarking and use the developing NTFS driver for linux. Also, the point was do use the exact same commands for each filesystem...dd, rm, etc, which you couldn't do in Windows.
Fat32 was probably included because it's its so well supported and easy to do.
Why am I never surprised to hear an AMERICAN say something this stupid?
How nice of you to chastise someone for making ignorant, baiting comments by making ignorant, baiting comments.
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Nor does being in a Union.
He didn't say it was. They can be invaluable so you don't have to face off against your employer alone.
All being in a union guarantees is that you'll have absolutely no say in how your are treated. FUD. As a union member you can elect your union leaders, which is a lot more than you can do to pick your CEO.
What can you legally sell a used copy of MS Windows for? That's right boys and girls, you can't legally sell it at all, it has ZERO value!
Maybe if you live in a UCITA state, or have some signed agreement between you and MS. But for shrinkwraped software, first sale applies and I can sell my copy for however damn much I want. I could go on ebay (before they bent over for MS anyway) and sell my copy of Win98 for a million dollars to some sap and it would be perfectly legal.
I can't sell copies of my Win98 cd, but I can sell my copy that I own.
I chatted with a guy who works for a telecommunications firm in Little Rock, AK. The repo business has been big business for as long as he's been there (long before the dot-com crash). Seems that the ratio of people who care more about appearances than a decent standard of living is pretty high.
Its not uncommon to find a twenty something guy who drives around in a $40,000 car and a nice pair of clothes. But those are the *only* decent clothes he has, he lives in an efficiency (bare bones cheap housing) and works full time at McDonads and Wendys to pay for his car.
The guy I talked to parks in a lot that takes 5,000 or so cars, and half a dozen visits from repo guys are not uncommon. He also said its a great place to sell used cars.:)
Reiser is pretty nifty on my two 40 gig mp3 drives; I'm also using it for/home and/usr and am pretty happy with it.
One cavet: the version of reiser that comes with 2.4.x is incompatible with the versions for 2.2 kernels. Strange, as most distro's still use 2.2.... It was quite frustrating to back up my 50 gigs of mp3's to reformat my ext2 partitions, only to have to rebackup and reformat to the older reiserfs so it would work with 2.2.19.
Apple dealt with this problem by not putting FPU emulation in the 68K emulator. This killed off all the engineering apps, and another market segment was lost by the Mac.
Then those developers should have gotten off their lazy asses and rewritten their apps to take advantage of the PowerPC (as all serious developers eventually did). Instead they set a nice example for Be, who threw a tantrum and quit developing for the Mac because Apple didn't hold their hands every step of the way.
Side note: I really wansn't expecting my post to get modded up. Since Rob racheted up moderating, it seems you can fart on Slashdot and gain karma these days.
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so what has Gore done that makes him a criminal.
Please, it was Gore who started going that dangerous road.
No, he didn't. Gore wanted a full Florida recount, not to ignore the Electoral College. The only people to talk like that were Republicans on the possiblity that Gore would lose the popular vote but win the electoral vote. They never thought it could go the other way..........
His party shows no respect for our constitution claiming that suddenly it is important that he got majority of popular vote.
They respect the consitution just fine. They don't respect Bush.
In raw numbers Bush got more votes than Clinton ever did yet no one denied him mandate.
That might matter if Bush Jr. ran against Clinton, but he didn't so it doesn't. Also because Clinton did get a majoraty of the vote, unlike Bush.
At least I have some arguments to support my view of Clinton years while you rely purely on your dislike of W.Bush.
Sounds more like irrational hatred. Most Dems have irrational contempt for Bush, not irrational hatred like the GOP has for Clinton.
I don't think anyone would have a problem with face recognition software being used in an airport. We expect higher security there. What many of us don't want, is for such cameras and software to be installed in public places, a la Tampa. I don't want to walk from my school to a gas station and have 5 cameras watching me the whole time.
But in any case, why is this a "problem"? It's a "problem" that a game acts more realistically?
By "massive", I mean 90% of the earth's surface is either swamp or desert. Not only is it not realistic, its a PITA cause you have to convert all your terrain to hills if you want to save your citys' population.
If you think global warming is going to be a problem, then you should hurry up and conquer your enemies, right? (hmmm....)
That gets pretty hard to do when land is turning to swamp, destroying roads.
Wonder why this hasn't happened to you....different version maybe? I did try and find out where to change the setting, as this is open source and all, but I didn't have any luck.
In Civilization II, the only pollution that has any effect on the world is that generated by the player....the AI doesn't make any. In FreeCiv, the rate of pollution seems to be about the same....but now its counted for each player, human and AI! So if you're playing with 5 AI's, you have 5 times as much pollution, so you tend to get massive global warming by the 1950's.
legion of Storm Troopers, rather.
Ewoks do not bother any of my non-geek friends. Why do all geeks hate them with a passion, then?
Ewoks aren't hated because they are cute, they are hated because they are cute teddy bears who took out a legion of Star Wars. That was bullshit, and what you seem to have been missing.
WHY? A lot of people here seem to think that "if it's dark, it's good" or even "if it's not dark, it sucks". Again, WHY?
Nobody has ever said that. If the Ewoks were just peacefull forest dwellers, nobody would have cared.
Think about it.
It is perfectly possible to make a movie that appeals to kids WITHOUT making adults naseous, and vice versa. Just as you can leave sex, swearing, and extreme violence out of a movie, it is possible to leave out lame ass cutsy charachters like Jar Jar Binks that offend the intelligence of anyone older than 8.
The first Star Wars movie did this just fine. ROTJ and PM did not.
Its all about charging what the market will bear. You can also hear software companies whine about how much copyright infringment costs them, but an unprotected game (Quake 3) will cost just as much as one with super protection (Alice with Safedisk 2).
If they (record or software companies) really want to be principled, they'd charge less for stuff with protection. But they don't, and I doubt they ever will.
Sure you can trademark titles, but I doubt you can use that to stop someone from publishing a list of those titles, which is what cddb basically does.
i.e., Interscope could hypothetically sue Gracenote if they came out with an audio cd named Pretty Hate Machine, but I don't see how they could sue for printing (or even selling) a list of the tracks on the cd.
This story isn't about GnuCash, its about the problems that can arise with shared libraries. GnuCash was just an example.
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.x upgrade. Generally, the only .x upgrades that get mentioned on /. are kernel and xfree updates. If every little version upgrade of every little program that someone thinks is important was announed on /., it would turn into Freshmeat.
how they've released a significant new version of a key Linux application
You want some cheese with that whine? Its only a
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The right to keep and bear arms is not absolute, anymore than the right of free speech is absolute. You can own guns, but that right is restricted because a great many people are seriously wounded or killed by guns every year. Nobody has ever been killed by a porno mag or movie, and porn has never been proven to have a detrimental effect on people's health.
That is why those examples are relevant and why you should take your gun nut paranoia to some other discussion.
How many kids have accidently killed themselves while looking at their dad's porno collection?
How many gas stations or banks have been held up with an issue of Hustler?
Lets see, if you're under 18 you face curfews (both late at night AND during the day when you "should be in school" even if you're home schooled). The drinking age has been raised to 21 almost everywhere, and the driving age and voting age aren't too far off. And of course you need to be "protected" from all sorts of things "for your own good".
On the flipside if you commit a crime in many of those same places you can be tried as an adult as young as 14. Something is fucked up when you can be tried as an adult for first degree murder when you aren't old enough to drive, let alone vote.
The company claims that its named after Aimee, the founders daughter. A lot of people here think thats bs, she used to go by Madeline and just changed her name so AOL would have a harder time suing them.
But what if her middle name is Aimee?
In the Great Scheme of Things (tm), cheats don't matter, but closed-source software, is a Bad Thing.
Um, no, when it comes to cheating in multiplayer games, having closed source is a GOOD THING. Not having the source makes it a great deal more difficult to add a "gimme 10,000 gold" to a game like Age of Empires or an aimbot for Half Life.
Denizens of slashdot, why, oh WHY are you worrying about what features are in closed source software?If the source were open, the source would be open.
Which does what, exactly, to cut down on cheating?
The issue is, always has been, and always will be FREEDOM.
No, the issue is about a company releasing lame drivers for their products that can interfer with other people's enjoyment of a game. And insisting that everybody does it your way (open source software) is no freedom at all.
John Carmack himself said that one of the things that made the DOOM community to strong was the hacking that other people did after they shipped it. But if someone wants to learn how 3D works, or just wants a new perspective on the game that's not ok?
Wow, ac's are dumb. Did you stop to think that maybe there's a difference between hacking an engine to learn/and/or make cool mods and hacking just so you can win?
If you want to reduce cheating, then don't play with cheaters -- how hard is that?
Basically impossible, does that answer your question? Where it is really hard is telling if a player is cheating or just very very good.
Maybe because this was a test of filesystems that work under Linux, not filesystems in general. To have a reliable test of NTFS, you'd have to use it under NT or Win2k, unless you wanted to do some shady benchmarking and use the developing NTFS driver for linux. Also, the point was do use the exact same commands for each filesystem...dd, rm, etc, which you couldn't do in Windows.
Fat32 was probably included because it's its so well supported and easy to do.
Why am I never surprised to hear an AMERICAN say something this stupid?
How nice of you to chastise someone for making ignorant, baiting comments by making ignorant, baiting comments.
Nor does being in a Union.
He didn't say it was. They can be invaluable so you don't have to face off against your employer alone.
All being in a union guarantees is that you'll have absolutely no say in how your are treated.
FUD. As a union member you can elect your union leaders, which is a lot more than you can do to pick your CEO.
What can you legally sell a used copy of MS Windows for? That's right boys and girls, you can't legally sell it at all, it has ZERO value!
Maybe if you live in a UCITA state, or have some signed agreement between you and MS. But for shrinkwraped software, first sale applies and I can sell my copy for however damn much I want. I could go on ebay (before they bent over for MS anyway) and sell my copy of Win98 for a million dollars to some sap and it would be perfectly legal.
I can't sell copies of my Win98 cd, but I can sell my copy that I own.
I chatted with a guy who works for a telecommunications firm in Little Rock, AK. The repo business has been big business for as long as he's been there (long before the dot-com crash). Seems that the ratio of people who care more about appearances than a decent standard of living is pretty high.
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Its not uncommon to find a twenty something guy who drives around in a $40,000 car and a nice pair of clothes. But those are the *only* decent clothes he has, he lives in an efficiency (bare bones cheap housing) and works full time at McDonads and Wendys to pay for his car.
The guy I talked to parks in a lot that takes 5,000 or so cars, and half a dozen visits from repo guys are not uncommon. He also said its a great place to sell used cars.
Reiser is pretty nifty on my two 40 gig mp3 drives; I'm also using it for /home and /usr and am pretty happy with it.
One cavet: the version of reiser that comes with 2.4.x is incompatible with the versions for 2.2 kernels. Strange, as most distro's still use 2.2.... It was quite frustrating to back up my 50 gigs of mp3's to reformat my ext2 partitions, only to have to rebackup and reformat to the older reiserfs so it would work with 2.2.19.
Apple dealt with this problem by not putting FPU emulation in the 68K emulator. This killed off all the engineering apps, and another market segment was lost by the Mac.
Then those developers should have gotten off their lazy asses and rewritten their apps to take advantage of the PowerPC (as all serious developers eventually did). Instead they set a nice example for Be, who threw a tantrum and quit developing for the Mac because Apple didn't hold their hands every step of the way.
Side note: I really wansn't expecting my post to get modded up. Since Rob racheted up moderating, it seems you can fart on Slashdot and gain karma these days.