I personally found a Staff of the Apocolypse with 3 charges. Once you have that, you can dupe it up and pretty much just clear every level by casting 3 times, then portaling and repairing it.
Once people got item editors which allowed you to change the amount of charges to 99, it was even more useful.
Pfft! Archangel's Staff of Apocalypse, 255 charges. Much better. And why repair when you can just dupe a fully charged copy?:D
I wonder if double jeopardy laws would apply to such a situation in this country. I suppose it has everything to do with how the case was initially dismissed.
It wouldn't apply at all if the case was dismissed, would it? I thought you needed to be acquitted, but then IANAL.
Yes. It's the difference between a free society and anarchy. In a free society, laws limit the actions of people so that they cannot infringe on other people's freedom. Thus everyone remains as free as possible. Any more freedom would not increase total freedom, because it comes as the cost of taking away other people's freedom. In anarchy, with no limits at all, people can and do infringe on other people's freedom. The strongest remains as free as possible, and everyone else is oppressed, leaving very little freedom overall.
That my friend, is an oxymoron because freedom cannot have terms and conditions given that freedom is the lack of rules and regulations.
Very, very wrong. You cannot have freedom without rules and regulations, because without them, people are allowed to take away your freedom. Anarchy is just dictatorship by the strongest. Rule of law is what allows more than one person to be free.
Actually options 1 and 3 are both true if the [[ ]] section is present. If the license you received said "either version 2 or (at your option) any later version", then you have the right to distribute under the terms of GPLv2 regardless of any later versions that come out. In fact, you can have your pick of licenses from GPLv2 to GPLvX (where X is the latest version). Basically, when GPLv3 comes out, the software automatically becomes dual-licensed, under both GPLv2 and GPLv3 (since you have the option of using either).
So? does a low slashdot id equate to a knowledgeable, reasoned poster? I think not.
Sounds like a good metric to me!;)
On the original topic: There's no need to rush GPLv3 out the door. There's a perfectly good GPLv2 out there serving the community as we speak, so why rush? Might as well take the time to make sure everything is the best it can be before release. It's not a matter of being "complete" -- the first draft was a complete document. It's a matter of being as good as it can be. If there was nothing like it out there already, that'd be a good reason to release quickly, but since there is, might as well take all the time desired, heck, take all the time in the world, it's not like we need a GPLv3, the GPLv2 is perfectly serviceable.
They're talking about the original game (which I was an avid fan of back in 1985). You're talking about one of the many inevitable sequels (and one of the later ones IIRC).
And it holds enough music for an across-the-country road trip.
Maybe for you. Unfortunately, not for all of us. My listening habits defy analysis, and my tastes are pathologically eclectic. Since I have no idea what I'm going to want to listen to a half hour from now, and the options are ridiculously broad, a 4GB iPod would be way too small to hold enough music to keep me happy for an across-the-state drive, much less across-the-country. I know in that time I'll only listen to a tiny fraction of my music, but there's no way to determine ahead of time which fraction that will be.
Precisely. The Romans ruled a very pluralistic empire and had no desire to kill off anyone (well, leaving aside Carthage, of course). They didn't even really want your land, either. They wanted political control to a degree, and revenue -- if you did as they asked and gave them a piece of the action, they were happy.
Incidentally, Rome came to the defense of the Greeks several times before simply annexing Greece. They didn't consider themselves conquerors, they considered themselves the protectors of Greece. A euphemism? Perhaps. But it's how they saw themselves, even if it wasn't entirely true.
It should be pretty obvious that no search engine should interpret javascript, let alone remotely sourced javascript.
Granted. It's just that some people like to actually have empirical evidence for something before they conclude it's true, rather than say "that's how it should work" and then pretend they know something that they really don't, based on the way they think the universe should be rather than on any actual evidence of the way it actually is.
This is *exactly* what has been said about Wikipedia first. With things like this, you have to *try* to know for sure, so while this idea *may* not work, it definitely worth trying.
Are you suggesting we using an empirical methodology to discover the worth of an idea rather than just talking out our asses about why it certainly will or won't work without having tried it? You do know this is Slashdot, right? To any possible question, the answer is immediately and painfully obvious to anyone with half a brain. You've just lost several geek points for suggesting you don't already know exactly what there result will be.:p
This bill is a complete waste of time and taxpayer money. It is not the place of government (nor religion) to declare something a fact when it contradicts information obtained using the scientific process.
WTF?! You realize we're talking about whether to call Pluto a planet or not, right? This is a social convention, not a fact of nature. It's a societal decision about how we use words, it has nothing to do with any even remotely scientific process, nor can it possibly contradict information. If you think you should name your baby Dwight and your wife thinks he should be named Fred, you're not arguing about a fact of the world, nor is there a true and right answer, nor can either of you be correct or incorrect in any meaningful sense of the word.
It's highly amusing that there are some people who think there's some fact of the matter about what is or isn't a planet that's independent of what we arbitrarily choose to call a planet. The law in question is silly, granted, but it does not in any way at all whatsoever "contradict information obtained using the scientific process".
Given that I'm the center of the universe, anything that isn't obvious from my personal experience... well, I'll allow that it might exist, but it obviously can't be very prevalent.;)
Mmm. If everyone's experience was like that, it would be difficult to understand. Luckily, most people both have better performance than that (where the heck are you standing that you can move two feet and cause thousands of objects to load? Servers only hold 15k objects max, and they're a quarter km per side!), and are much better at finding things (hint: use the search tools).
Virtual land is not infinite, unless you really think Linden Labs has developed computers with infinite processor power and hard drives and are just hiding the fact from us. Not to mention infinite bandwidth and infinitely fast network switches, without which having the first couple of things wouldn't help.
And there's no Linden Policy against releasing land. The main problem right now is, they're releasing it as fast as they possibly can and are still developing a longer and longer backlog of orders for more. Demand has outstripped their ability to produce it, not to mention their ability to host it all on their existing network (although they've done a lot in the last couple of months to help improve that).
Saying LL has infinite land to give is like saying any real world real-estate agent has infinite land to sell. Sure, there's a finite amount of land on Earth, but there's like umpteen zillion planets in the galaxy with land no one has claimed yet. Surely, given that, land prices on Earth are way too high, right?
That logic doesn't work in the virtual world any more than in the real one. In both cases, there may theoretically be near infinite land, but in fact they're far far less available today than people would ideally like.
The framers of the constitution believed that this was a "self-evident" fact -- something that would be understood to be true by any reasonable person upon considered reflection, requiring no evidence beyond that.
Now, that's a rather controversial idea. But, whether we accept the existence of self-evident facts or not, it remains true that the U.S. Constitution was written by people who specifically did believe that rights were not granted by government. Rather, that rights are inherent in persons by their very nature. A government can, in this view, protect your rights, ignore your rights, or even infringe upon your rights. But it can't possibly grant you any rights nor remove any rights from you, since that's not something within the power of government. Government is just a collection of people, with no ability to make fundamental changes to human nature by fiat. To assume otherwise is to assume collections of people are somehow able to wield god-like powers simply by virtue of acting collectively, and that's absurd.
So, whether one accepts this premise or not, one needs to read the Constitution with the understand that it was written with this point of view in mind, and needs to be interpreted accordingly.
A repair satellite is an excellent stepping stone to doing actual industry in space. The fact that it still costs more to send a person up to do maintenance than it does to spend years on the ground working on "perfect" systems that are unrepairable for 20 years is just insane and testimony to how little NASA's manned space program has progressed in 40 years.
Part of the reason for so little progress is precisely that absurd emphasis on "manned". When we can build agents so much better adapted to the environment than us, why the heck are we wasting time trying to figure out how to get us there? It's like spending billions of dollars trying to rig up a system to allow your goldfish to breath and move on land so it can fetch your slippers and morning newspaper, when you could just get a dog.
I'm still laughing about how opening the source will created a "closed society of coders". The new FIC is coming, experienced C++ coders only, please! (/me dies laughing.)
Yes. At that low a pressure, your sweat will vaporize instantly as it comes out of your pores. As will any surface moisture on your skin the moment you're exposed to vacuum. You'll be quite dry, and I expect rather cool too.
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I have mod points, but I can't figure out how to dole out some negative karma to either the person sending in a link for an over six year old story, or the editor who approved it. >:(
The win is, add one or two lines to your apt-sources list, and the problem disappears entirely under Debian or Ubuntu, easily, cleanly, and without sending you into dependency hell, because unlike Red Had and Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu actually have usable package management systems.
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I personally found a Staff of the Apocolypse with 3 charges. Once you have that, you can dupe it up and pretty much just clear every level by casting 3 times, then portaling and repairing it.
Once people got item editors which allowed you to change the amount of charges to 99, it was even more useful.
Pfft! Archangel's Staff of Apocalypse, 255 charges. Much better. And why repair when you can just dupe a fully charged copy? :D
I wonder if double jeopardy laws would apply to such a situation in this country. I suppose it has everything to do with how the case was initially dismissed.
It wouldn't apply at all if the case was dismissed, would it? I thought you needed to be acquitted, but then IANAL.
Yes. It's the difference between a free society and anarchy. In a free society, laws limit the actions of people so that they cannot infringe on other people's freedom. Thus everyone remains as free as possible. Any more freedom would not increase total freedom, because it comes as the cost of taking away other people's freedom. In anarchy, with no limits at all, people can and do infringe on other people's freedom. The strongest remains as free as possible, and everyone else is oppressed, leaving very little freedom overall.
That my friend, is an oxymoron because freedom cannot have terms and conditions given that freedom is the lack of rules and regulations.
Very, very wrong. You cannot have freedom without rules and regulations, because without them, people are allowed to take away your freedom. Anarchy is just dictatorship by the strongest. Rule of law is what allows more than one person to be free.
Actually options 1 and 3 are both true if the [[ ]] section is present. If the license you received said "either version 2 or (at your option) any later version", then you have the right to distribute under the terms of GPLv2 regardless of any later versions that come out. In fact, you can have your pick of licenses from GPLv2 to GPLvX (where X is the latest version). Basically, when GPLv3 comes out, the software automatically becomes dual-licensed, under both GPLv2 and GPLv3 (since you have the option of using either).
So? does a low slashdot id equate to a knowledgeable, reasoned poster? I think not.
Sounds like a good metric to me! ;)
On the original topic: There's no need to rush GPLv3 out the door. There's a perfectly good GPLv2 out there serving the community as we speak, so why rush? Might as well take the time to make sure everything is the best it can be before release. It's not a matter of being "complete" -- the first draft was a complete document. It's a matter of being as good as it can be. If there was nothing like it out there already, that'd be a good reason to release quickly, but since there is, might as well take all the time desired, heck, take all the time in the world, it's not like we need a GPLv3, the GPLv2 is perfectly serviceable.
They're talking about the original game (which I was an avid fan of back in 1985). You're talking about one of the many inevitable sequels (and one of the later ones IIRC).
Three sir!
(Five is right out.)
I have no idea what any of what you said means, other than that if you're a moron, I'm probably not even sentient by comparison.
And it holds enough music for an across-the-country road trip.
Maybe for you. Unfortunately, not for all of us. My listening habits defy analysis, and my tastes are pathologically eclectic. Since I have no idea what I'm going to want to listen to a half hour from now, and the options are ridiculously broad, a 4GB iPod would be way too small to hold enough music to keep me happy for an across-the-state drive, much less across-the-country. I know in that time I'll only listen to a tiny fraction of my music, but there's no way to determine ahead of time which fraction that will be.
Precisely. The Romans ruled a very pluralistic empire and had no desire to kill off anyone (well, leaving aside Carthage, of course). They didn't even really want your land, either. They wanted political control to a degree, and revenue -- if you did as they asked and gave them a piece of the action, they were happy.
Incidentally, Rome came to the defense of the Greeks several times before simply annexing Greece. They didn't consider themselves conquerors, they considered themselves the protectors of Greece. A euphemism? Perhaps. But it's how they saw themselves, even if it wasn't entirely true.
It should be pretty obvious that no search engine should interpret javascript, let alone remotely sourced javascript.
Granted. It's just that some people like to actually have empirical evidence for something before they conclude it's true, rather than say "that's how it should work" and then pretend they know something that they really don't, based on the way they think the universe should be rather than on any actual evidence of the way it actually is.
This is *exactly* what has been said about Wikipedia first. With things like this, you have to *try* to know for sure, so while this idea *may* not work, it definitely worth trying.
Are you suggesting we using an empirical methodology to discover the worth of an idea rather than just talking out our asses about why it certainly will or won't work without having tried it? You do know this is Slashdot, right? To any possible question, the answer is immediately and painfully obvious to anyone with half a brain. You've just lost several geek points for suggesting you don't already know exactly what there result will be. :p
This bill is a complete waste of time and taxpayer money. It is not the place of government (nor religion) to declare something a fact when it contradicts information obtained using the scientific process.
WTF?! You realize we're talking about whether to call Pluto a planet or not, right? This is a social convention, not a fact of nature. It's a societal decision about how we use words, it has nothing to do with any even remotely scientific process, nor can it possibly contradict information. If you think you should name your baby Dwight and your wife thinks he should be named Fred, you're not arguing about a fact of the world, nor is there a true and right answer, nor can either of you be correct or incorrect in any meaningful sense of the word.
It's highly amusing that there are some people who think there's some fact of the matter about what is or isn't a planet that's independent of what we arbitrarily choose to call a planet. The law in question is silly, granted, but it does not in any way at all whatsoever "contradict information obtained using the scientific process".
Given that I'm the center of the universe, anything that isn't obvious from my personal experience... well, I'll allow that it might exist, but it obviously can't be very prevalent. ;)
Mmm. If everyone's experience was like that, it would be difficult to understand. Luckily, most people both have better performance than that (where the heck are you standing that you can move two feet and cause thousands of objects to load? Servers only hold 15k objects max, and they're a quarter km per side!), and are much better at finding things (hint: use the search tools).
Virtual land is not infinite, unless you really think Linden Labs has developed computers with infinite processor power and hard drives and are just hiding the fact from us. Not to mention infinite bandwidth and infinitely fast network switches, without which having the first couple of things wouldn't help.
And there's no Linden Policy against releasing land. The main problem right now is, they're releasing it as fast as they possibly can and are still developing a longer and longer backlog of orders for more. Demand has outstripped their ability to produce it, not to mention their ability to host it all on their existing network (although they've done a lot in the last couple of months to help improve that).
Saying LL has infinite land to give is like saying any real world real-estate agent has infinite land to sell. Sure, there's a finite amount of land on Earth, but there's like umpteen zillion planets in the galaxy with land no one has claimed yet. Surely, given that, land prices on Earth are way too high, right?
That logic doesn't work in the virtual world any more than in the real one. In both cases, there may theoretically be near infinite land, but in fact they're far far less available today than people would ideally like.
What evidence or reasoning supports this?
The framers of the constitution believed that this was a "self-evident" fact -- something that would be understood to be true by any reasonable person upon considered reflection, requiring no evidence beyond that.
Now, that's a rather controversial idea. But, whether we accept the existence of self-evident facts or not, it remains true that the U.S. Constitution was written by people who specifically did believe that rights were not granted by government. Rather, that rights are inherent in persons by their very nature. A government can, in this view, protect your rights, ignore your rights, or even infringe upon your rights. But it can't possibly grant you any rights nor remove any rights from you, since that's not something within the power of government. Government is just a collection of people, with no ability to make fundamental changes to human nature by fiat. To assume otherwise is to assume collections of people are somehow able to wield god-like powers simply by virtue of acting collectively, and that's absurd.
So, whether one accepts this premise or not, one needs to read the Constitution with the understand that it was written with this point of view in mind, and needs to be interpreted accordingly.
LOL
A repair satellite is an excellent stepping stone to doing actual industry in space. The fact that it still costs more to send a person up to do maintenance than it does to spend years on the ground working on "perfect" systems that are unrepairable for 20 years is just insane and testimony to how little NASA's manned space program has progressed in 40 years.
Part of the reason for so little progress is precisely that absurd emphasis on "manned". When we can build agents so much better adapted to the environment than us, why the heck are we wasting time trying to figure out how to get us there? It's like spending billions of dollars trying to rig up a system to allow your goldfish to breath and move on land so it can fetch your slippers and morning newspaper, when you could just get a dog.
As in Prokofy Neva? That's so on the mark! LOL
I'm still laughing about how opening the source will created a "closed society of coders". The new FIC is coming, experienced C++ coders only, please! (/me dies laughing.)
Yes. At that low a pressure, your sweat will vaporize instantly as it comes out of your pores. As will any surface moisture on your skin the moment you're exposed to vacuum. You'll be quite dry, and I expect rather cool too.
I have mod points, but I can't figure out how to dole out some negative karma to either the person sending in a link for an over six year old story, or the editor who approved it. >:(
Making a weapon requires foresight into the possible effects they may have. I seriously doubt chimps have such cognitive skills.
Why?
The win is, add one or two lines to your apt-sources list, and the problem disappears entirely under Debian or Ubuntu, easily, cleanly, and without sending you into dependency hell, because unlike Red Had and Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu actually have usable package management systems.