except that hacking the system of the game would probably be nothing like "hacking" the matrix in the movies (no, not that ssh thingie, that was happening INSIDE the matrix) or even the first game (*puke*)
sure you can, if it's a heavy enough package. that's why we (most european countries, i would guess) have a limit for "personal use", usually defined to be a few grams. no danger being hit by a 5-gram-bag, right? but as soon as we go up to, say a kilo of drugs, they can be - when thrown by a well-trained person with good aim - deadly. thats why we have stiff penalties for possession of those amounts.
The GPL violates the U.S. Constitution, together with copyright, antitrust and export control laws,
Not to mention that the GPL also violates the geneva convention, the declaration of human rights, the magna charta, the codex hammurabi, the ten commandments and CowboyNeal.
Ah, the wonderful world of ambiguous phrasing. Sorry for that. Of course, ssh -X works and i am very glad about that, too. What i meant to say was that vi is intended to work across slow networks where X is not an option.
Anyways, there are lots of people who enjoy working with vi, and there are lots of people who absolutely loathe it. If you hate vi and don't need the kind of minimalism it provides (or you can find that elsewhere) then don't use it. I, personally, like using the same editor (vim) in windows, X and on the console.
Oh yeah, now i almost hit [ESC]:wq instead of the "submit" button:)
What i meant to say was that for shell-based (text-only) programs (and not only shells themselves. all the pagers, man, and i would guess a gazillion other tools work exactly the same here), the standard behaviour on ctrl-c is to abort. Here on my windows box i have a port of vim in which you can even copy with ctrl-c, and maybe gvim on my linux box at home (i'm at work now, can't check) has that same function.
common computer themes, such as clicking on an 'x' in the corner to close
Good luck clicking inside a ssh session (no, tunnelling X through it is not an option). You can't just say "that's bad usability" without looking at the other design constraints. Obviously, if what you demand from a program and the assumptions under which it was developed conflict, you shouldn't use it.
in programs ctrl-c is copy
in unix shells (and dos shells, too), ctrl-c has a wholly different meaning. (and that meaning is at least as "standard" as using that combo for copying)
how could anyone ever think of this as intuitive?
after working with vi for a few minutes, using ":wq" for "write and quit" or ":q!" for "force quit (without writing) seems pretty natural.
like I said, without a gui and multiple windows maybe vi is the best, but now it's old and shit. just like cigarettes, if vi were invented today and not a relic of the past, they would be declared illegal for health reasons.
cigarettes make those who smoke them get cancer and other nasties. vi makes those who use it do their job (i assume your job doesn't involve editing files across text-only connections, see first paragraph) and retain their sanity.
to put it another way, tin openers are great for opening tins but if you try to do a casemod with only a tin opener you're likely to fail. but don't blame the tool for your wrong choice!
Have you tried opening the MSOffice document with OpenOffice? We had rather astounding results in my workplace, because OpenOffice not only opened the "corrupted" Word documents pretty much flawlessly, and when we saved them out in Word format not only could Word read them again, but they also were much smaller than the original, corrupted versions.
And yes, i really think it's funny that OOffice loads MSOffice documents better and more reliably than MSOffice itself, given the proprietary and not-really-standardized-and-documented file format.
Some on this thread have advocated just not buying the CD, but if I happen to really like the artist I have no alternative avenue for purchasing the content.
Just write a letter to the copyright owner (record label) requesting a license for downloading one copy of the cd off a p2p network. Make it a long letter. If you don't get a response within a week, write another such letter. If you don't get a response within two weeks, start calling them. Write another letter to the artist about their label's unwillingness to sell you his music. Continue making a fuzz for at least a year. After that, they'll probably press an unprotected disk just for you.
Producing files that are so messed up that Word itself cannot read them anymore.
We had several cases of this crap in our office, and my boss almost had a nervous breakdown, seeing the document she worked on for the last hours being corrupted beyond repair.
Of course, we could still open them with OpenOffice.org and save them back to Word format, often making the files a good bit smaller. And no, i'm not trolling or kidding you.
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except that hacking the system of the game would probably be nothing like "hacking" the matrix in the movies (no, not that ssh thingie, that was happening INSIDE the matrix) or even the first game (*puke*)
You greedy capitalist pig!
(you're thinking ".CENT", right?)
Like that did ever stop them from gaining market share.
imagine a beow... *runs away screaming*
Yeah, because "MSShell" is WAY more than eight characters!
sure you can, if it's a heavy enough package. that's why we (most european countries, i would guess) have a limit for "personal use", usually defined to be a few grams. no danger being hit by a 5-gram-bag, right? but as soon as we go up to, say a kilo of drugs, they can be - when thrown by a well-trained person with good aim - deadly. thats why we have stiff penalties for possession of those amounts.
They are illegal because they are drugs, and drugs are bad, mmmm-kay?!
actually there's a saying that goes like this:
:)
Someone who isn't a communist at the age of 18 has no heart. Someone who still is at the age of 30 has no brain.
you could probably say the same about anarchists
what for?
yeah they could also bundle the whole office package with windows and give everything away for free.
they don't, and this proves that M1RC05uXX is teh 6HeY!!!1!
Someone buy MS a few pounds of humour! Obviously Linux eats away their marketshare so quickly that they had to cut that budget.
And obviously they have macs at MS. How the hell would they develop mac software without having macs?
look in the mirror and you're creating roughly 100 kg of matter.
Not to mention that the GPL also violates the geneva convention, the declaration of human rights, the magna charta, the codex hammurabi, the ten commandments and CowboyNeal.
heh. you made me laugh. thank you very much.
Ah, the wonderful world of ambiguous phrasing. Sorry for that. Of course, ssh -X works and i am very glad about that, too. What i meant to say was that vi is intended to work across slow networks where X is not an option.
:)
Anyways, there are lots of people who enjoy working with vi, and there are lots of people who absolutely loathe it. If you hate vi and don't need the kind of minimalism it provides (or you can find that elsewhere) then don't use it. I, personally, like using the same editor (vim) in windows, X and on the console.
Oh yeah, now i almost hit [ESC]:wq instead of the "submit" button
What i meant to say was that for shell-based (text-only) programs (and not only shells themselves. all the pagers, man, and i would guess a gazillion other tools work exactly the same here), the standard behaviour on ctrl-c is to abort. Here on my windows box i have a port of vim in which you can even copy with ctrl-c, and maybe gvim on my linux box at home (i'm at work now, can't check) has that same function.
Good luck clicking inside a ssh session (no, tunnelling X through it is not an option). You can't just say "that's bad usability" without looking at the other design constraints. Obviously, if what you demand from a program and the assumptions under which it was developed conflict, you shouldn't use it.
in unix shells (and dos shells, too), ctrl-c has a wholly different meaning. (and that meaning is at least as "standard" as using that combo for copying)
after working with vi for a few minutes, using ":wq" for "write and quit" or ":q!" for "force quit (without writing) seems pretty natural.
cigarettes make those who smoke them get cancer and other nasties. vi makes those who use it do their job (i assume your job doesn't involve editing files across text-only connections, see first paragraph) and retain their sanity.
to put it another way, tin openers are great for opening tins but if you try to do a casemod with only a tin opener you're likely to fail. but don't blame the tool for your wrong choice!
Have you tried opening the MSOffice document with OpenOffice? We had rather astounding results in my workplace, because OpenOffice not only opened the "corrupted" Word documents pretty much flawlessly, and when we saved them out in Word format not only could Word read them again, but they also were much smaller than the original, corrupted versions.
And yes, i really think it's funny that OOffice loads MSOffice documents better and more reliably than MSOffice itself, given the proprietary and not-really-standardized-and-documented file format.
what if i press the shift key and then LEGALLY copy it?
must... resist... micro..soft...joke.... must...be...stroongg...
ah, WTF... You mean, he's WINDOWS?
You sound like a marketing guy.
*shouting over my shoulder*
Heat up the tar, oil the thumbscrews, we caught another one!
We are the MPAA. You violated our copyright. Two units are indeed on their way. You will suffer for your violations of basic corporate rights, pirate!
Just write a letter to the copyright owner (record label) requesting a license for downloading one copy of the cd off a p2p network. Make it a long letter. If you don't get a response within a week, write another such letter. If you don't get a response within two weeks, start calling them. Write another letter to the artist about their label's unwillingness to sell you his music. Continue making a fuzz for at least a year. After that, they'll probably press an unprotected disk just for you.
What a misnomer, i would call them "Anti-Buy".
Producing files that are so messed up that Word itself cannot read them anymore.
We had several cases of this crap in our office, and my boss almost had a nervous breakdown, seeing the document she worked on for the last hours being corrupted beyond repair.
Of course, we could still open them with OpenOffice.org and save them back to Word format, often making the files a good bit smaller. And no, i'm not trolling or kidding you.