Well, Debian tries hard to build its reputation for stability and security and sensibleness in general, but arrogantly modifying source code without sending it upstream for verification seriously undermines this.
And I'm not sure that it could be any more serious than when dealing with encryption.
The author of the 'orignal' claims that he has decompiled them and that the games use identical resources, even down to resources that the original author accidently left in but isn't actually used in the game.
Why not torrent for the whole lot? It's all been released under a creative-commons license after all. Go back and pay your $5 when the site is back up if you like it.
The usual way of telling a linux system which interpreter to use is the 'hash bang' in the first line of the script. So for python you'd use #!/usr/bin/python, or as a previous poster suggested to prevent incompatibility, #!/usr/bin/python2.6. For perl, something like #!/usr/bin/perl is used and the same system is used for bash scripts.
It prevents all the silliness with file extension associations;-) It's customary to use.py or.pl with python or perl scripts but it's not necessary.
"Just the idea that our elections would run on a closed-source,..."
You make good points and agree with all you say. But remember, even if the source was available that doesn't actually mean that the app running on the machine was compiled from precisely that code. Or even if it is, what about a boot sector type virus that subverts the software that subsequently runs?
In essence, there is no reason to use a machine to simply count. One corrupt person in a powerful place screws up the election. And corrupt people are as certain as the fact that my shit stinks. At least with hand counting the power that any one person has is lessened, especially if batches of votes are counted several times by random people (I assume this is what happens... surely this kind of redundancy is built in to the system?!)
Compression is kind of the "fairy dust" that record producers seem to believe makes their stuff sound better. It makes it sound louder, but it makes you tired. I've heard theories that it's the reason people tend to hit the SKIP button on their mp3 players so much. It's possible.
IMHO compressing the dynamic range is evil, but it does make music easier to listen to in noisy environments (car, bar jukebox, etc), so you don't have to keep adjusting the amp volume to hear the quiet bits. Classical music seems to be more traditionally produced, with the loud and quiet bits more faithfully reproduced.
Except the 'test drive' in this case (the whois search) costs almost nothing to the registrar (cost per search, that it), whereas a real test drive has more tangible costs. The whois service is more analogous to the car dealership providing a coffee whilst you browse the cars, IMHO.
no, you mean:... the clerk has instructed the competing businesses not to sell the jacket to anyone, and the jacket is still for sale to the general public from the original store at an inflated price.
How can FTP be '*much* more efficient'? Every single client is connecting to the one and the same server, ffs! No, FTP can be as quick if the server has a decent upload pipe. But for anyone that pays for upload, bittorrent is much more efficient use of bandwidth.
When you use P2P to hear a demo of an album then go on to buy the whole back catalogue. It's not fair use in legal terms, but certainly is in moral term.
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Of course, I'd rather eat my own balls than run Vista ;-)
Well, Debian tries hard to build its reputation for stability and security and sensibleness in general, but arrogantly modifying source code without sending it upstream for verification seriously undermines this.
And I'm not sure that it could be any more serious than when dealing with encryption.
Of course that type of experiment is entirely unethical and immoral and we'd have to disregard any result taken from it. Right? ;-)
Right?!
The wikipedia article indicates that the specifically designed fuel (JP-7) was extremely difficult to light.
You're an idiot.
"Remember, the have more money to have better attorneys."
Preview?! WTF is this supposed to mean?
errr... what the fuck?
Here's an idea... you go do something meaningful, you fucking wanker. Then come back and bitch. You make me sick.
The author of the 'orignal' claims that he has decompiled them and that the games use identical resources, even down to resources that the original author accidently left in but isn't actually used in the game.
If true that's beyond coincidence or imitation.
Why not torrent for the whole lot? It's all been released under a creative-commons license after all.
Go back and pay your $5 when the site is back up if you like it.
I calculate that it'd heat the grain of sand by 9 million kelvin (9Joules into a 10microgram grain with heat capcity of 1000J/KgK).
The usual way of telling a linux system which interpreter to use is the 'hash bang' in the first line of the script. So for python you'd use #!/usr/bin/python, or as a previous poster suggested to prevent incompatibility, #!/usr/bin/python2.6. For perl, something like #!/usr/bin/perl is used and the same system is used for bash scripts.
;-) It's customary to use .py or .pl with python or perl scripts but it's not necessary.
It prevents all the silliness with file extension associations
Poor troll.
"Just the idea that our elections would run on a closed-source,..."
You make good points and agree with all you say. But remember, even if the source was available that doesn't actually mean that the app running on the machine was compiled from precisely that code. Or even if it is, what about a boot sector type virus that subverts the software that subsequently runs?
In essence, there is no reason to use a machine to simply count. One corrupt person in a powerful place screws up the election. And corrupt people are as certain as the fact that my shit stinks. At least with hand counting the power that any one person has is lessened, especially if batches of votes are counted several times by random people (I assume this is what happens... surely this kind of redundancy is built in to the system?!)
humanity _is_ animal instinct ;-)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8100808442979626078
IMHO compressing the dynamic range is evil, but it does make music easier to listen to in noisy environments (car, bar jukebox, etc), so you don't have to keep adjusting the amp volume to hear the quiet bits. Classical music seems to be more traditionally produced, with the loud and quiet bits more faithfully reproduced.
Except the 'test drive' in this case (the whois search) costs almost nothing to the registrar (cost per search, that it), whereas a real test drive has more tangible costs. The whois service is more analogous to the car dealership providing a coffee whilst you browse the cars, IMHO.
no, you mean: ... the clerk has instructed the competing businesses not to sell the jacket to anyone, and the jacket is still for sale to the general public from the original store at an inflated price.
Whoops, forget to click 'post anonymously'? ;-)
How can FTP be '*much* more efficient'? Every single client is connecting to the one and the same server, ffs! No, FTP can be as quick if the server has a decent upload pipe. But for anyone that pays for upload, bittorrent is much more efficient use of bandwidth.
"When is P2P actually fair use?"
When you use P2P to hear a demo of an album then go on to buy the whole back catalogue. It's not fair use in legal terms, but certainly is in moral term.
or put said money into rehabilitation of addicts instead of wasting it on military action.
and *.99 price forces the cashier to open the til, I've heard, rather than just to pocket the round £10 (or dollars or whatever)
"It only goes bad when the sought improvements are not rational"
The sought improvements are always irrational because they are dependent upon a human's/humans' opinion, and therefore entirely subjective.
Eugenics is defined by the necessity to restrict certain citizens' reproductivity. This restriction is inherently evil and is never right. Ever.
I don't see any differences in either case. The scientists are still right :-p