OTOH, it would make it a lot easier to "censor" my kids' web browsing. Just like I don't let them watch XXX movies. Not all censorship is bad.
A porn domain won't fix that. There are a million things that aren't porn that I'm sure you don't want them to see. The only thing that will help you there is a ".kids" TLD with a central vetting authority. Of course, it would probably have to be US-only (or at least a ".us.kids", ".fr.kids", etc), as every country has their own idea about what's kid-friendly.
I'm with you. When I do want to play multiplayer it's with a group of friends I already know, not whoever happens to be on some server at the time. Not to mention now that we're all in our 30's, mostly with the families and responsibilities that go along with it, it would be nearly impossible to get us all together anyway. The pre-planned D&D sessions are tough enough.
In fact, the only time I really want multiplayer is co-op games I can play with my wife. We certainly don't need a server for that. (Although a better Gamecube selection, and better co-op modes in general would help a lot)
Wireless is not as fast and reliable as wired, and it's doubtful it ever will be. The hardest part of wiring is snaking it through the walls, especially in an old house. If it's gutted now this is the perfect opportunity for future proofing.
Dammit. That wasn't me, it was a friend of mine who wanted to say that but doesn't have an account. It was was supposed to go as AC. I have never been in the military, nor outside of North America and do not claim to have been.
Meanwhile, in Sudan, Ethiopia, Niger etc. many people who are starving are patiently waiting for food supplies to be handed out.
Huh, last time I was in Africa (in the military) we were providing security for relief agencies handing out food to those patient, peaceful people. I felt in danger of my life many times, just from them. Nevermind the roving packs of armed thugs and "warlords" whose hands those supplies would have ended up in where we not there.
I suggest you shut your fucking hole until you get a clue about the world.
No, you're thinking of a different game entirely. You could possibly be thinking of Operation Overkill, which worked similarly to how you described, except it was post-apocalyptic and nto fantasy. The Pit, The BBS door by Midas Touch, always was a gladiatorial game. At no point did it have dungeons. I was co-sysop of a BBS that ran The Pit (among other doors) for many years, and even resurected it (via telnet) in 2003. That was a weird experience, as the first thing I saw when I logged into The Pit was that I had been killed...by an old friend of ours who died of cancer in the late 90's. I guess his final login before the BBS went down was after mine.
You can download it here, along with the optional EGA terminal and see for yourself.
You didn't walk through dungeons. It was purely gladiatorial style combat, hence the name The Pit. You challenged different types of computer controlled opponents based on your skill level. You were always free to challange anyone, no matter what level you were, from slaves to gods. You could also attack other players, but you only had one shot (not three). Each player could be attacked (or deafated, I don't recall if it counted if they won) once, and then they were unavailable until next time they logged on.
If it works when I get it, I use it correctly, and it breaks in a short period of time (because of a hidden weakness in the product) I get it fixed for free.
Depends on the product. If your car is found to have a defect that could affect safety a recall will be issued and it will be fixed for free, even if you're not the original owner and it's 10 years later (I think that's the limit, I got a recall for an 8 year old car once).
Most of the MS patches are more akin to car recalls (I'm not taking about feature updates, or anything being security vulnerabilities). They don't affect physical safety, but they do cost millions and millions of dollars in damages. The patches should be free for the same reason car recalls are free. They're as devastating to others, often far more so, than just the owner.
You can't really blame Mandrake for the sound problem. The Latitude sound chips aren't well supported by any distro, the CP anyway. They claim to be, but you have to tweak them all.
As for RAM, it's a python-based graphical installer, what do you want? Text based is available if you need to stay slim. It's not like it uses that much RAM anyway. top resports it using 37 megs right now.
Mandrake 10.1 works fine for me on old hardware. The fastest system I own is this PII-866 with 256 megs (Rambus, unfortunately) and it has 10.1, as does my wife's old Dell Latitude CP (PII-233 with 128megs) and it runs acceptable there. Better than than Windows, certainly. The only thing I dislike is how long most KDE apps take to open, for no apparent reason. I seem to recall reading it was to do with a compilation flag Mandrake chose with KDE, and that it would be fixed in future versions, but I'm not certain.
Riding on other countries' vehicles doesn't exactly mean you have a manned space flight program. Unless you consider countries like Vietnam, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Syria to have manned space programs.
Expensive products like this aren't usually just "given" to the magazines to test. They're usually submitted for testing and must be returned afterwards.
The problem was not that I forgot the URL or wher to find the link, the problem was that I first read the story right when it was posted. Later, when I went to check on that ethernet status the page was Slashdotted and unresponsive. If SessionSaver would have cached the page that would have been useful though.
What tfa is saying is that eth0 port should work just fine under Debian ARM in big-endian mode
What it also says is that Debian ARM only supports little endian mode. I closed the page and now I can't get back to it, so I don't recall if he overcame this problem with the ethernet port.
Sure, and that was a great hack then. But this is much better. Now you can have a completely standard Debian ARM distro with all the packages available to it.
And what am I supposed to eat while I sit there in the dark waiting for the lights to come back on? Untoasted bread? I suppose the terrorists really have won.
No, no, set The Constitution aside. I'm talking about government here, plain and simple, not just one particular implementation of government.
Well, I don't really want to "set it aside", I find it to be the closest thing to an ideal system that has yet been created. If you really want to know the whys, many people have said it much better than I ever could. You could start with the Federalist papers.
What makes these four categories special, in your mind?
While we're at it, and in all seriousness, explain why we should subsidize anything. Why draw that line at all?
The Constitution, perhaps? Some of your questions, such as the military and roads, can be found in Section 1, Article 8. Another, police, is fairly self explanatory if less specficially defined. Enforcement is a major function of the executive branch. The Legislative creates, the Executive enforces, and the Judicial judges. Part of the system of checks and balances.
As for fire, you may have a point, but this is mostly handled at the municipal level so if you could create a private fire service, you may be able to get it accepted. There are private ambulance services already, so i think if it were feasible a private fire service would exist.
When you say "corporations and businesses" you really mean "people", because that's all they are. Do you think it's right to force people to sell something they find morally objectionable? Obviously you can make a case here for certain things like medications, but we're not talking about anything beyond luxury items even.
You will never, ever be unable to find someone to seel you anything that you want to buy provided it's legal. Maybe it'll cost more than you're willing to pay, but you'll be able to buy it.
I did indeed notice it. That would be why my first sentence after your quote was, "You're right about this though". I added the "for the wrong reasons" because "Compuserve-free" is not entirely accurate. Unisys was the patent holder on LZW, not CompuServe. CS licensed it from Unisys to make it available for their users in the GIF89 format, which is why it became associated with CompuServe but they weren't technically the "bad guys' here. CS didn't control LZW and couldn't have given it away if they wanted to. Licensing it was their only option, especially with how entrenched GIF was.
So bascically, the part after the first quote was correcting your statement about LZW, and the part after the second was supporting and expanding on your statement about what PNG was and is.
the fact that Unisys was collecting LZW (used by PNG) licenses from 1995 to 1999 also have something to do about that.
No, LZW was a major motivator for creating PNG, not a mark against it. PNG is LZW free. Also it isn't limited to 256 colors like GIF.
AFAIK, PNG was never aimed at replacing JPEG... its main aim was to provide a better, Compuserve-free GIF alternative.
You're right about that though, if not for the right reasons. PNG wasn't really designed to have anything to do with JPEG, they mostly serve different purposes. With the expiration of the LZW patent it's not really a "GIF replacement" anymore, because there's no longer any reason not to use GIF if it suits your needs. PNG has become simply another format with its own benefits (and a couple small drawbacks).
Indeed, but it's not an either/or situation, it's the same thing. If your character never grows or changes then every decision is equally as meaningless as those linear CRPGs.
Perhaps you could technically call it role playing in the sense that you are "playing a role", but not in any meaningful sense. I would argue that without growth, you are little more than an actor in a stage play. Sure it's satisfying in its own way but it's definitely not what we would consider role playing in this context.
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A porn domain won't fix that. There are a million things that aren't porn that I'm sure you don't want them to see. The only thing that will help you there is a ".kids" TLD with a central vetting authority. Of course, it would probably have to be US-only (or at least a ".us.kids", ".fr.kids", etc), as every country has their own idea about what's kid-friendly.
In fact, the only time I really want multiplayer is co-op games I can play with my wife. We certainly don't need a server for that. (Although a better Gamecube selection, and better co-op modes in general would help a lot)
Wireless is not as fast and reliable as wired, and it's doubtful it ever will be. The hardest part of wiring is snaking it through the walls, especially in an old house. If it's gutted now this is the perfect opportunity for future proofing.
Dammit. That wasn't me, it was a friend of mine who wanted to say that but doesn't have an account. It was was supposed to go as AC. I have never been in the military, nor outside of North America and do not claim to have been.
Huh, last time I was in Africa (in the military) we were providing security for relief agencies handing out food to those patient, peaceful people. I felt in danger of my life many times, just from them. Nevermind the roving packs of armed thugs and "warlords" whose hands those supplies would have ended up in where we not there.
I suggest you shut your fucking hole until you get a clue about the world.
You can download it here, along with the optional EGA terminal and see for yourself.
You didn't walk through dungeons. It was purely gladiatorial style combat, hence the name The Pit. You challenged different types of computer controlled opponents based on your skill level. You were always free to challange anyone, no matter what level you were, from slaves to gods. You could also attack other players, but you only had one shot (not three). Each player could be attacked (or deafated, I don't recall if it counted if they won) once, and then they were unavailable until next time they logged on.
Depends on the product. If your car is found to have a defect that could affect safety a recall will be issued and it will be fixed for free, even if you're not the original owner and it's 10 years later (I think that's the limit, I got a recall for an 8 year old car once).
Most of the MS patches are more akin to car recalls (I'm not taking about feature updates, or anything being security vulnerabilities). They don't affect physical safety, but they do cost millions and millions of dollars in damages. The patches should be free for the same reason car recalls are free. They're as devastating to others, often far more so, than just the owner.
Civ3 works. It's just barely playably on my pII-866 with only the onboard crappy video. I'm sure it would run great on anything from this century.
As for RAM, it's a python-based graphical installer, what do you want? Text based is available if you need to stay slim. It's not like it uses that much RAM anyway. top resports it using 37 megs right now.
I've never had that library issue you're talking about with compiling so I can't help you there.
Mandrake 10.1 works fine for me on old hardware. The fastest system I own is this PII-866 with 256 megs (Rambus, unfortunately) and it has 10.1, as does my wife's old Dell Latitude CP (PII-233 with 128megs) and it runs acceptable there. Better than than Windows, certainly. The only thing I dislike is how long most KDE apps take to open, for no apparent reason. I seem to recall reading it was to do with a compilation flag Mandrake chose with KDE, and that it would be fixed in future versions, but I'm not certain.
Riding on other countries' vehicles doesn't exactly mean you have a manned space flight program. Unless you consider countries like Vietnam, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Syria to have manned space programs.
Expensive products like this aren't usually just "given" to the magazines to test. They're usually submitted for testing and must be returned afterwards.
The problem was not that I forgot the URL or wher to find the link, the problem was that I first read the story right when it was posted. Later, when I went to check on that ethernet status the page was Slashdotted and unresponsive. If SessionSaver would have cached the page that would have been useful though.
What it also says is that Debian ARM only supports little endian mode. I closed the page and now I can't get back to it, so I don't recall if he overcame this problem with the ethernet port.
Sure, and that was a great hack then. But this is much better. Now you can have a completely standard Debian ARM distro with all the packages available to it.
And what am I supposed to eat while I sit there in the dark waiting for the lights to come back on? Untoasted bread? I suppose the terrorists really have won.
Well, I don't really want to "set it aside", I find it to be the closest thing to an ideal system that has yet been created. If you really want to know the whys, many people have said it much better than I ever could. You could start with the Federalist papers.
While we're at it, and in all seriousness, explain why we should subsidize anything. Why draw that line at all?
The Constitution, perhaps? Some of your questions, such as the military and roads, can be found in Section 1, Article 8. Another, police, is fairly self explanatory if less specficially defined. Enforcement is a major function of the executive branch. The Legislative creates, the Executive enforces, and the Judicial judges. Part of the system of checks and balances.
As for fire, you may have a point, but this is mostly handled at the municipal level so if you could create a private fire service, you may be able to get it accepted. There are private ambulance services already, so i think if it were feasible a private fire service would exist.
You will never, ever be unable to find someone to seel you anything that you want to buy provided it's legal. Maybe it'll cost more than you're willing to pay, but you'll be able to buy it.
I did indeed notice it. That would be why my first sentence after your quote was, "You're right about this though". I added the "for the wrong reasons" because "Compuserve-free" is not entirely accurate. Unisys was the patent holder on LZW, not CompuServe. CS licensed it from Unisys to make it available for their users in the GIF89 format, which is why it became associated with CompuServe but they weren't technically the "bad guys' here. CS didn't control LZW and couldn't have given it away if they wanted to. Licensing it was their only option, especially with how entrenched GIF was.
So bascically, the part after the first quote was correcting your statement about LZW, and the part after the second was supporting and expanding on your statement about what PNG was and is.
No, LZW was a major motivator for creating PNG, not a mark against it. PNG is LZW free. Also it isn't limited to 256 colors like GIF.
AFAIK, PNG was never aimed at replacing JPEG... its main aim was to provide a better, Compuserve-free GIF alternative.
You're right about that though, if not for the right reasons. PNG wasn't really designed to have anything to do with JPEG, they mostly serve different purposes. With the expiration of the LZW patent it's not really a "GIF replacement" anymore, because there's no longer any reason not to use GIF if it suits your needs. PNG has become simply another format with its own benefits (and a couple small drawbacks).
Indeed, but it's not an either/or situation, it's the same thing. If your character never grows or changes then every decision is equally as meaningless as those linear CRPGs.
Perhaps you could technically call it role playing in the sense that you are "playing a role", but not in any meaningful sense. I would argue that without growth, you are little more than an actor in a stage play. Sure it's satisfying in its own way but it's definitely not what we would consider role playing in this context.