"may exchange each Eligible DVD for (i) a new MGM DVD from a list of 325 titles or (ii) $7.10"
In other words, they don't replace it with a proper release of the same friggin' movie? Grr... So now I just know my WarGames is butchered and there's not one thing I can do about it. Thanks a lot. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.:-/
Hehe, I was just going to post that "Oh, I felt pretty much like you, but I'm on SimplyMEPIS instead".;-)
I have no doubt Ubuntu is similar (haven't tried it) and it's to a large extent mostly about what window manager you choose. Anyway, with those kind of simple distros it's quite amazing it has never been done before. Just that they're focusing on one window manager is a brilliant move to me. I mean; choose a different distro if you don't like it. In the process of removing alternative stuff and focusing on a slick application setup they remove a ton of junk.
Yes, I'm happy to see those "next generation" distros aimed not to offer everything to the user on CD's and major customizability in the installer, to confuse newbies with hundreds of packages. I find these to be distros like Suse or Mandrake and think they to a large group of newbies are going in entirely the wrong direction. They simply just keep growing. To the point it's not even longer about bloat, but about confusion of package redundancy as well.
These new ones often aim for a 1 CD size, and there's not only Ubuntu for Gnome fans, but MEPIS for KDE fans, Yoper for a CPU optimized distro that's still easy to use. The effect of these are that they're less confusing, more stable (simply since less things can go wrong), and streamlined for new users.
I've always wanted Linux distros with a focus on ease of use while maintaining the greatness of, for example, being a full fledged Debian-based OS, and instead of focusing on giving the user an installer on 6 CD's or whatever, have it on one, and instead ensure the install/uninstall system is good, and focus on getting the stuff that's in right. Luckily I'm starting to see exactly those arrive now, and it has made me switch from Windows to dual booting with MEPIS Linux, throwing out my old buggy Mandrake 10 install that constantly kept producing crash dumps in my home directory silently for some reason, all since the fresh install of it.
Hehe, look at the standardization processes between companies and you'll see that it's more than hard.;-) After all these years, we're still living with disagreements on how the return character should look like.
When physicists thought they knew everything, they made the atom bomb.
... and nuclear reactors that are considered "essential" in many parts of the world today.
When chemists thought they knew everything, the made DDT.
... which has since then evolved into less environmentally harmful incectides, saving millions of lives from e.g. suffering from malaria.
What I'm trying to say is that no science is without their mistakes, but no progress is made either without the science. Taking away research like this might take away efficient vaccines or other currently unimaginable treatments that aren't really seen as unethatical by the general public, or has benefits many people believe outweighs the ethical problems, such as abortion.
These results might be because at the lower end of the scale, the correlation between brain size and body size falls apart. You simply can't have a brain where its size has no lower limit, to still control a body and its organism's behavior efficiently. We'd end up at less than a grain of sand for small organisms.:-)
Do you think it's a coincidence only mice have this strange relation, where whales have not? I don't think so.
So I'm pretty sure the grandparent is right anyway, if we aren't talking extremes.
Actually, that study of a group of 10 animals is to draw conclusions like you have done is... at best an oversimplification.
Research is one thing... actually creating hybrids (which will inevitably has a short and painful life) is really sick.
Yes, very short... Starting and ending on a laboratory dish. However, I agree that it should be considered what should be allowed to do after this stage.
Re:Sounds like a piracy crackdown, not a ban.
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Yes -- to make it clear, they're banning 50 illegal games, and in China they can be illegal both because they're pirated and because they conflict with whatever interests their government has. FIFA and Sims are probably among the former and BF Vietnam among the latter.
What *I* don't get is why they're illegalizing games that are "pirated". What does that mean? They saw a guy selling pirated copies of FIFA on the street, so then they're blocking imports of that game entirely? If that's the case -- wow... Now that would be an anti-piracy method unheard of.:-)
"To say that 3D Edit has a unique interface is a rather large understatement. The fact that the GUI is entirely rendered in 3D means that it diverges entirely from Windows standard features. There is no file menu along the top, and no button bar beneath. Instead, everything is operated using proprietary buttons and dialogues. With no context-sensitive help or tool tips, this takes some getting used to."
Eh, ouch.
"Almost all Windows apps put a handy Look in: drop down at the top of the File>Open dialogue, containing common destinations such as My Documents and drive letters. But with 3D Edit, finding files stored outside the default locations is a laborious task of cycling up and down directory tree structures in the Browser Tool. Theres no recent-files list either, and thats a further pain. The file dialogue is fundamental to using 3D Edit."
"The 3D Edit interface is full of such quirks. The bottom line is that a close read of the HTML-based manual is a necessity for anyone hoping to make any sense of this software."
Well...
Thanks, but do you offer this editor with a normal UI? No?
Okay let's say Bill is worth 50 billion dollars on paper. 750 million is something like 1.5% of his total worth? Is this a huge amount for him? It would be like if I had a hundred bucks and I gave the homeless guy on the street a $1.50
How much of your total worth do you use to donate?
I think it sounds like a pretty normal amont.
1.5% of my total worth would be much more than I donated for the Tsunami victims recently.
My question for you is why do the Slashbot continually claim that Firefox is so superior when it won't even render their favorite site correctly?
Because, even with this flaw, it's better than IE (the browser that's usually compared against)? I mean, Firefox isn't perfect, but IE is even less, from what I've seen.
If Slashdot doesn't render correctly how the hell can they claim that every site will work "just fine"?
Point me to a post where it has been said that all sites there is render just fine instead of just claiming something you think you've heard.
If their favorite site doesn't render correctly under Firefox do you really think that they are going to believe you when you tell them that it is better?
Depends on what they believe matters more, perfect rendering of Slashdot, or other issues like security problems. Also, Slashdot should render correctly in Firefox 1.1.
But since it's not an option to me to use a Cydoor-infested eXeem, I'll just use other software in replacement of this one, and maybe eXeem Lite for however long I can. For replacements, BT trackers are still around, alive and highly functional, and solve the whole deal with the Kazaaification eXeem might experience too. For more rare stuff than might be found on BT networks, there's always uncentralized networks like Kademlia. Slower downloads, but an amazing selection.
Indeed it does. It reinstalls Cydoor each time you run Exeem. No way I'm even touching this until a hacked version is released.;-) They threatened with bans if you used a hacked one, but that's a risk I'm willing to take.:-) It's not like alternatives like The Pirate Bay doesn't exist after all.
The world's largest P2P tracker was unharmed when MPAA went berserk and is at tracker.piratbyran.org.
There's sometimes some web server hickups and they've done some maintenance recently. The server load increased a lot when Suprnova entered hide & seek mode. Just wait a while if it's down and it should be online again, with thousands of torrents and seeders.;-)
How would supporting Ogg in addition "cripple" something? Heck, even if it supported Sony's proprietary format in addition, it wouldn't cripple anything.
I wonder if this mistake is really due to lack of routines. You say "only fly 9 days a month", this was the first construction of its kind ever, probably only with minor similarities to other probes as they're always heavily specialized for their tasks. And they have major projects like this resulting in actual launches (and not being cancelled) just how often? It's not too many times per decade, maybe just a handful.
It's kind of funny that these big mistakes can still happen, even after unit miscalculations causing Mars lander crashes and other embarrassing things. You'd expect they'd try to simulate as much as possible before launching it? In the former case with the Polar Lander (?), simulating the software, and in this case simply trying to get readings from the instruments? But since I'm literally not a rocket scientist, there just has to be some severe difficulties in making checklists by routine and simply trying the various features out?
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Arrgh, WarGames is on the list!!
But it says:
"may exchange each Eligible DVD for (i) a new MGM DVD from a list of 325 titles or (ii) $7.10"
In other words, they don't replace it with a proper release of the same friggin' movie? Grr... So now I just know my WarGames is butchered and there's not one thing I can do about it. Thanks a lot. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.
Hehe, I was just going to post that "Oh, I felt pretty much like you, but I'm on SimplyMEPIS instead". ;-)
I have no doubt Ubuntu is similar (haven't tried it) and it's to a large extent mostly about what window manager you choose. Anyway, with those kind of simple distros it's quite amazing it has never been done before. Just that they're focusing on one window manager is a brilliant move to me. I mean; choose a different distro if you don't like it. In the process of removing alternative stuff and focusing on a slick application setup they remove a ton of junk.
Yes, I'm happy to see those "next generation" distros aimed not to offer everything to the user on CD's and major customizability in the installer, to confuse newbies with hundreds of packages. I find these to be distros like Suse or Mandrake and think they to a large group of newbies are going in entirely the wrong direction. They simply just keep growing. To the point it's not even longer about bloat, but about confusion of package redundancy as well.
These new ones often aim for a 1 CD size, and there's not only Ubuntu for Gnome fans, but MEPIS for KDE fans, Yoper for a CPU optimized distro that's still easy to use. The effect of these are that they're less confusing, more stable (simply since less things can go wrong), and streamlined for new users.
I've always wanted Linux distros with a focus on ease of use while maintaining the greatness of, for example, being a full fledged Debian-based OS, and instead of focusing on giving the user an installer on 6 CD's or whatever, have it on one, and instead ensure the install/uninstall system is good, and focus on getting the stuff that's in right. Luckily I'm starting to see exactly those arrive now, and it has made me switch from Windows to dual booting with MEPIS Linux, throwing out my old buggy Mandrake 10 install that constantly kept producing crash dumps in my home directory silently for some reason, all since the fresh install of it.
See? that wasn't hard
;-) After all these years, we're still living with disagreements on how the return character should look like.
Hehe, look at the standardization processes between companies and you'll see that it's more than hard.
When chemists thought they knew everything, the made DDT.
What I'm trying to say is that no science is without their mistakes, but no progress is made either without the science. Taking away research like this might take away efficient vaccines or other currently unimaginable treatments that aren't really seen as unethatical by the general public, or has benefits many people believe outweighs the ethical problems, such as abortion.
Wrong.
:-)
Your argument at best is an oversimplification.
These results might be because at the lower end of the scale, the correlation between brain size and body size falls apart. You simply can't have a brain where its size has no lower limit, to still control a body and its organism's behavior efficiently. We'd end up at less than a grain of sand for small organisms.
Do you think it's a coincidence only mice have this strange relation, where whales have not? I don't think so.
So I'm pretty sure the grandparent is right anyway, if we aren't talking extremes.
Actually, that study of a group of 10 animals is to draw conclusions like you have done is... at best an oversimplification.
Research is one thing... actually creating hybrids (which will inevitably has a short and painful life) is really sick.
Yes, very short... Starting and ending on a laboratory dish. However, I agree that it should be considered what should be allowed to do after this stage.
Yes -- to make it clear, they're banning 50 illegal games, and in China they can be illegal both because they're pirated and because they conflict with whatever interests their government has. FIFA and Sims are probably among the former and BF Vietnam among the latter.
:-)
What *I* don't get is why they're illegalizing games that are "pirated". What does that mean? They saw a guy selling pirated copies of FIFA on the street, so then they're blocking imports of that game entirely? If that's the case -- wow... Now that would be an anti-piracy method unheard of.
Yes, it seems like a bitch to program in.
I thought the review showed this...
"To say that 3D Edit has a unique interface is a rather large understatement. The fact that the GUI is entirely rendered in 3D means that it diverges entirely from Windows standard features. There is no file menu along the top, and no button bar beneath. Instead, everything is operated using proprietary buttons and dialogues. With no context-sensitive help or tool tips, this takes some getting used to."
Eh, ouch.
"Almost all Windows apps put a handy Look in: drop down at the top of the File>Open dialogue, containing common destinations such as My Documents and drive letters. But with 3D Edit, finding files stored outside the default locations is a laborious task of cycling up and down directory tree structures in the Browser Tool. Theres no recent-files list either, and thats a further pain. The file dialogue is fundamental to using 3D Edit."
"The 3D Edit interface is full of such quirks. The bottom line is that a close read of the HTML-based manual is a necessity for anyone hoping to make any sense of this software."
Well...
Thanks, but do you offer this editor with a normal UI? No?
Okay let's say Bill is worth 50 billion dollars on paper. 750 million is something like 1.5% of his total worth? Is this a huge amount for him? It would be like if I had a hundred bucks and I gave the homeless guy on the street a $1.50
How much of your total worth do you use to donate?
I think it sounds like a pretty normal amont.
1.5% of my total worth would be much more than I donated for the Tsunami victims recently.
So, believe the suits or believe somebody who actually knows what he's talking about.
You mean the guy trying to sell his keyboard?
My question for you is why do the Slashbot continually claim that Firefox is so superior when it won't even render their favorite site correctly?
Because, even with this flaw, it's better than IE (the browser that's usually compared against)? I mean, Firefox isn't perfect, but IE is even less, from what I've seen.
If Slashdot doesn't render correctly how the hell can they claim that every site will work "just fine"?
Point me to a post where it has been said that all sites there is render just fine instead of just claiming something you think you've heard.
If their favorite site doesn't render correctly under Firefox do you really think that they are going to believe you when you tell them that it is better?
Depends on what they believe matters more, perfect rendering of Slashdot, or other issues like security problems. Also, Slashdot should render correctly in Firefox 1.1.
I'm going to call this Slackware 10.1 beta 1, because we're at a state where things are relatively stable.
:-)
WTF!
He shouldn't let his health condition affect what he labels the Slackware versions!
They've already said they'll try to do that.
But since it's not an option to me to use a Cydoor-infested eXeem, I'll just use other software in replacement of this one, and maybe eXeem Lite for however long I can. For replacements, BT trackers are still around, alive and highly functional, and solve the whole deal with the Kazaaification eXeem might experience too. For more rare stuff than might be found on BT networks, there's always uncentralized networks like Kademlia. Slower downloads, but an amazing selection.
That's a well known "problem".
:-)
And why you should have proofreaders for your books.
The company that created Exeem is located in the carribean. The MPAA/RIAA can't touch them.
:-)
;-)
It would help if you explained why?
You mean, as in no airport? lol, just kidding
I mean, they've managed to take international actions before, quite recently.
The current count of users is up to 30k. 25k joined within 30 minutes of it reaching a major news source.
:-)
Haha, what a grand victory for Cydoor and their partners.
The funny thing is that there are tons of huge regular BT sites still available.
It's closed source, so hard to know from an independent/unbiased analysis. :-p
Indeed it does. It reinstalls Cydoor each time you run Exeem. No way I'm even touching this until a hacked version is released. ;-) They threatened with bans if you used a hacked one, but that's a risk I'm willing to take. :-) It's not like alternatives like The Pirate Bay doesn't exist after all.
The world's largest P2P tracker was unharmed when MPAA went berserk and is at tracker.piratbyran.org.
;-)
There's sometimes some web server hickups and they've done some maintenance recently.
The server load increased a lot when Suprnova entered hide & seek mode.
Just wait a while if it's down and it should be online again, with thousands of torrents and seeders.
Hmm, well, I'd compare playing e.g. Grim Fandago through with reading an entertaining novel through. Not all games are Counterstrike. ;-)
How would supporting Ogg in addition "cripple" something?
Heck, even if it supported Sony's proprietary format in addition, it wouldn't cripple anything.
I wonder if this mistake is really due to lack of routines. You say "only fly 9 days a month", this was the first construction of its kind ever, probably only with minor similarities to other probes as they're always heavily specialized for their tasks. And they have major projects like this resulting in actual launches (and not being cancelled) just how often? It's not too many times per decade, maybe just a handful.
It's kind of funny that these big mistakes can still happen, even after unit miscalculations causing Mars lander crashes and other embarrassing things. You'd expect they'd try to simulate as much as possible before launching it? In the former case with the Polar Lander (?), simulating the software, and in this case simply trying to get readings from the instruments? But since I'm literally not a rocket scientist, there just has to be some severe difficulties in making checklists by routine and simply trying the various features out?