Condoms are only effective at reducing relative risk vs unprotected connections by about 70 to 85% - source. As always, the only safe way is abstinence! Not that anyone around here will listen to that; I bet most/.'ers are in promiscuous mode...
I suppose what I'm really listening for isn't the engine itself, though. My focus is on the breaking wind and the tires rolling against the road.
If I could mod up just this section of your post (actually, that's a good idea! Modding up tagged sections of posts....) I would. Where I live they've replaced some of the road surfaces in our residential areas with a new surface thats almost silent. You can't really hear cars approaching anymore even when they're steaming past at 50mph. It's a nice long stretch of road so cars creeping up isn't a problem; I expect it's better for the people who live on the road too as they won't be able to hear cars flying past anymore!
Hurm, quoting and paragraph formatting seems to be be broken here on idle...or at least it's not appearing in preview!
One of the most common sensations (along with the sense of absolute terror at being ripped into a void in space/time) is the feeling of moving through between more than 3 dimensions of space. In my travels I usually feel like I'm spinning and being folded in about 7 different dimensions before my visions start to settle.
To anyone who decides to take me seriously, make sure you have a sober sitter:)
I remember a bug with a W2k service pack that completely disabled the network for non administrators. The word at the time was that even the testers ran as Admin all the time because trying to do anything as a normal user was such a pain.
I don't know about Macs but in Unix the whole running as a normal user thing is enforced by very strong developer policies. MS should have been stricter about enforcing similar polices before NT became mainstream; instead they're having to hack it in late in the game with stuff like UAC.
Also, I don't think people write malware for Windows because they don't care about the platform, it's just because it's the biggest target. If Unix/Mac/ was as huge on the desktop as Windows, that platform would be the target. It's just how it goes.
I'm willing to bet that 1/100,000 chance of dieing from a first dose of coke is mainly because only 1/100,000 people are able to afford that much coke for their first dose.
Seriously, if the chances of OD are the only things keeping you from dusting up I'd say you should give it a go. Get a gram cut it up into 10 equal sized lines. You'll almost certainly be OK. As with all new to you substances, read up on the Erowid page first though.
Of course the Coke trade is a dodgy business and you'll be giving money to bad people, so don't make a habit of it mmkay?
Check out this talk where RMS explains his views on copyright in more detail.
The short version is that he thinks there should be different categories of copyright. Tools, i.e. software and manuals, should be freely distributable and editable. Creative works such as films should enjoy protection but for a much more limited time (I think he said 10 to 15 years) with more freedom to create derivative work. I think he also had another category which I can't recall.
Oh yea, and using RMS and IP in the same post? I'm surprised someone hasn't marked you troll:)
Read the Subscriber Agreement. You don't own Steam titles, you just pay a one time fee for a permanent subscription. The GP is 100% correct.
The rumor goes that Gabe Newell promised that in the event of bankruptcy he'd release the master keys for Steam (anyone actually got a link for that? I couldn't find it with 1m of Googling), but given that agreement I find that unlikely. Those keys are the valuable property of Valve so in the event of Steam going under they'd be kept under lock and key and sold to the highest bidder.
When you're talking about blowing up a tourist nightclub in Bali, hypothetically speaking of course, then we have long left the theater of asymmetrical warfare and entered into criminal terrorism.
How about hospitals? Just the USA helped the Contras target a few of those in Nicaragua after those pesky Nicaraguans elected the Sandinistas. The USA knew about it at the time too.
I'm not saying that because "Teh USA SUX0RS!!!", just because it's the argument that those terrorists who blow up buses use. When those crazy Mullahs appear on TV and bang on about how the USA targets civilians, they're telling the truth.
America needs to be whiter than white on global human rights abuses before they start telling everyone else where to get off. I'm not saying this to be spiteful, I really do wish America stood up for human rights in a more consistent manner. Unfortunately your rulers seem to be more concerned with generating maximum profit for themselves, no matter what the cost to your country.
The union was supposed to be about protecting American jobs, not encouraging those who are breaking the law
I always thought that Unions were about recognising that under Industrial Capitalism you essentially have two groups of people - the Working Class and the owning Capitalist Class. As the capitalists have a monopoly on the means of production (a single worker can't setup a large car plant) the only option available to the workers for improving their lot in life is to organise together.
With that logic racism, nationalism, sexism, homophobia etc are all walls that keep working people divided. All that matters is keeping solidarity amongst working people so that strikes and other campaigns such as go slows or work to rules are effective.
As the Capitalists have figured out it's cheaper to use illegal migrants (no minimum wage!) obviously the unions want to bring them into the fold. In fact, unionising them is to your benefit! When they are in a successful union they'll get at least the same basic terms and conditions as legal workers! That removes the Capitalist incentive to employ them in the first place thereby levelling the playing field!
This isn't new btw. Unions have been recruiting illegal migrants for as long as there have been unions in the USA. The Justice for Janitors campaign involved a lot of illegal labour; you should watch the Ken Loach film Bread and Roses about the 1990 three week strike in LA - it also happens to be a very good film!
Title says it all. I'm convinced if Derek Smart had come up with a saner interface or at least put in a tutorial that went through all the many menus/options that it would have been a great freeform space sim.
As it is I rank it just below X3 for the same reason of being too hard to get in to, although obviously BC3K is a lot more extreme.
Just about the only mission based space combat game I enjoyed was TIE Fighter; I'm still waiting for a decent Elite style game. I know there's X3 but it's just so dull. Having to cruise around through jump-gates makes the start so slow and I've never been able to get past that.
I'd love a remake of Frontier, or even a version of First Encounters where the main plot line has been finished!
A quick Google doesn't turn up any links, but I'm sure I've read developer blogs / interviews where they've talked about the stats they've received back via Live, detailing how far most people complete their games. I know there are achievements and they'll certainly monitor how many people get those, but it seemed to be a little beyond that.
Personally, I don't mind. Difficulty tuning is hard; if developers what to use my game stats to make their games just right difficulty wise then I'm fine with that. Maybe they should be clearer upfront but this isn't like wire-tapping without a warrant.
My favourite one was the huge tube poster they did, it was as wide as about three train carriages, IIRC, and pasted onto the wall opposite the platform.
It showed the skyline of London at night all lit up with hundreds of those eyes looking down; The "SECURE BENEATH THE WATCHFUL EYES" tagline went right across it. When you were stood opposite waiting for a train it totally filled your field of vision - a masterpiece of totalitarian art!
Stuff like this makes me proud of our system of Ingsoc, always keeping us safe!
For Linux, Agreed. But when is Evince going to work in Windows ? Oh. Never ?? So what choice does a person using windows have ?
As soon as the Gnome libraries Evince depends on are ported, Evince will work. It's a WIP; you're correct in that it's currently a moot point but wrong to say never.
For Linux, Agreed. But when is Amarok going to work in Windows or with people's iPods? Oh. Never ?? So what alternateive choice does a person using windows have ?
It already works with iPods - not iTunes - and v2 works on Windows. You can build it yourself but of course nobody really wants to do that; we'll just have to wait until v2 comes out!
No repeated system restarts, but none ? What about when your kernel is updated ? What about VMWare needing to be recompiled once you HAVE rebooted ?
Key words, "no repeated system restarts". The kernel and anything that depends on specific kernel versions will cause a restart but kernel updates aren't too common. Windows update means a restart every time.
Yea I know I'm basically saying "at some point in the future" for Evince and Amarok, but tbh that future can't come quick enough for me - not having all my favourite utilities whenever I have to dual-boot for a game is such an annoyance. Until the software comes to free them, Windows users will just have to suffer the shackles of proprietary opression!
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Not even the same version on the same platform.
Wouldn't that be the same programme? So you're saying if you open it up n different times it'll render it n different ways??
Condoms are only effective at reducing relative risk vs unprotected connections by about 70 to 85% - source. As always, the only safe way is abstinence! Not that anyone around here will listen to that; I bet most /.'ers are in promiscuous mode...
I suppose what I'm really listening for isn't the engine itself, though. My focus is on the breaking wind and the tires rolling against the road.
If I could mod up just this section of your post (actually, that's a good idea! Modding up tagged sections of posts....) I would. Where I live they've replaced some of the road surfaces in our residential areas with a new surface thats almost silent. You can't really hear cars approaching anymore even when they're steaming past at 50mph. It's a nice long stretch of road so cars creeping up isn't a problem; I expect it's better for the people who live on the road too as they won't be able to hear cars flying past anymore!
Hurm, quoting and paragraph formatting seems to be be broken here on idle...or at least it's not appearing in preview!
One of the most common sensations (along with the sense of absolute terror at being ripped into a void in space/time) is the feeling of moving through between more than 3 dimensions of space. In my travels I usually feel like I'm spinning and being folded in about 7 different dimensions before my visions start to settle.
To anyone who decides to take me seriously, make sure you have a sober sitter :)
It's common to use it exactly like that here in the UK. I'm sure I've seen it used in that context on American TV shows too...
I remember a bug with a W2k service pack that completely disabled the network for non administrators. The word at the time was that even the testers ran as Admin all the time because trying to do anything as a normal user was such a pain.
I don't know about Macs but in Unix the whole running as a normal user thing is enforced by very strong developer policies. MS should have been stricter about enforcing similar polices before NT became mainstream; instead they're having to hack it in late in the game with stuff like UAC.
Also, I don't think people write malware for Windows because they don't care about the platform, it's just because it's the biggest target. If Unix/Mac/ was as huge on the desktop as Windows, that platform would be the target. It's just how it goes.
It's clearly a joke. Hope this gets nuked in M2!
Seriously, I tried googling - even putting it in quotes, which a n00b probably wouldn't think of - and the closest I got was a link to this article!
I'm not accusing those emails of being made up but I do think someone was pulling your leg :)
I'm willing to bet that 1/100,000 chance of dieing from a first dose of coke is mainly because only 1/100,000 people are able to afford that much coke for their first dose.
Seriously, if the chances of OD are the only things keeping you from dusting up I'd say you should give it a go. Get a gram cut it up into 10 equal sized lines. You'll almost certainly be OK. As with all new to you substances, read up on the Erowid page first though.
Of course the Coke trade is a dodgy business and you'll be giving money to bad people, so don't make a habit of it mmkay?
Hence him having to hassle his payment provider. If the patent didn't exist, everyone would be doing it.
Check out this talk where RMS explains his views on copyright in more detail.
The short version is that he thinks there should be different categories of copyright. Tools, i.e. software and manuals, should be freely distributable and editable. Creative works such as films should enjoy protection but for a much more limited time (I think he said 10 to 15 years) with more freedom to create derivative work. I think he also had another category which I can't recall.
Oh yea, and using RMS and IP in the same post? I'm surprised someone hasn't marked you troll :)
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Read the Subscriber Agreement. You don't own Steam titles, you just pay a one time fee for a permanent subscription. The GP is 100% correct.
The rumor goes that Gabe Newell promised that in the event of bankruptcy he'd release the master keys for Steam (anyone actually got a link for that? I couldn't find it with 1m of Googling), but given that agreement I find that unlikely. Those keys are the valuable property of Valve so in the event of Steam going under they'd be kept under lock and key and sold to the highest bidder.
DRM has become enough of a pain that I just don't play games anymore.
What, is GameCopyWorld down for you or something?
When you're talking about blowing up a tourist nightclub in Bali, hypothetically speaking of course, then we have long left the theater of asymmetrical warfare and entered into criminal terrorism.
How about hospitals? Just the USA helped the Contras target a few of those in Nicaragua after those pesky Nicaraguans elected the Sandinistas. The USA knew about it at the time too.
I'm not saying that because "Teh USA SUX0RS!!!", just because it's the argument that those terrorists who blow up buses use. When those crazy Mullahs appear on TV and bang on about how the USA targets civilians, they're telling the truth.
America needs to be whiter than white on global human rights abuses before they start telling everyone else where to get off. I'm not saying this to be spiteful, I really do wish America stood up for human rights in a more consistent manner. Unfortunately your rulers seem to be more concerned with generating maximum profit for themselves, no matter what the cost to your country.
That post may have been a little bad taste, doesn't deserve the troll marker though!
The union was supposed to be about protecting American jobs, not encouraging those who are breaking the law
I always thought that Unions were about recognising that under Industrial Capitalism you essentially have two groups of people - the Working Class and the owning Capitalist Class. As the capitalists have a monopoly on the means of production (a single worker can't setup a large car plant) the only option available to the workers for improving their lot in life is to organise together.
With that logic racism, nationalism, sexism, homophobia etc are all walls that keep working people divided. All that matters is keeping solidarity amongst working people so that strikes and other campaigns such as go slows or work to rules are effective.
As the Capitalists have figured out it's cheaper to use illegal migrants (no minimum wage!) obviously the unions want to bring them into the fold. In fact, unionising them is to your benefit! When they are in a successful union they'll get at least the same basic terms and conditions as legal workers! That removes the Capitalist incentive to employ them in the first place thereby levelling the playing field!
This isn't new btw. Unions have been recruiting illegal migrants for as long as there have been unions in the USA. The Justice for Janitors campaign involved a lot of illegal labour; you should watch the Ken Loach film Bread and Roses about the 1990 three week strike in LA - it also happens to be a very good film!
Thanks for the suggestion! Hopefully I should have it by the weekend :)
Title says it all. I'm convinced if Derek Smart had come up with a saner interface or at least put in a tutorial that went through all the many menus/options that it would have been a great freeform space sim.
As it is I rank it just below X3 for the same reason of being too hard to get in to, although obviously BC3K is a lot more extreme.
He was actually killed on an underground train.
Just about the only mission based space combat game I enjoyed was TIE Fighter; I'm still waiting for a decent Elite style game. I know there's X3 but it's just so dull. Having to cruise around through jump-gates makes the start so slow and I've never been able to get past that.
I'd love a remake of Frontier, or even a version of First Encounters where the main plot line has been finished!
A quick Google doesn't turn up any links, but I'm sure I've read developer blogs / interviews where they've talked about the stats they've received back via Live, detailing how far most people complete their games. I know there are achievements and they'll certainly monitor how many people get those, but it seemed to be a little beyond that.
Personally, I don't mind. Difficulty tuning is hard; if developers what to use my game stats to make their games just right difficulty wise then I'm fine with that. Maybe they should be clearer upfront but this isn't like wire-tapping without a warrant.
My favourite one was the huge tube poster they did, it was as wide as about three train carriages, IIRC, and pasted onto the wall opposite the platform.
It showed the skyline of London at night all lit up with hundreds of those eyes looking down; The "SECURE BENEATH THE WATCHFUL EYES" tagline went right across it. When you were stood opposite waiting for a train it totally filled your field of vision - a masterpiece of totalitarian art!
Stuff like this makes me proud of our system of Ingsoc, always keeping us safe!
For Linux, Agreed. But when is Evince going to work in Windows ? Oh. Never ?? So what choice does a person using windows have ?
As soon as the Gnome libraries Evince depends on are ported, Evince will work. It's a WIP; you're correct in that it's currently a moot point but wrong to say never.For Linux, Agreed. But when is Amarok going to work in Windows or with people's iPods? Oh. Never ?? So what alternateive choice does a person using windows have ?
It already works with iPods - not iTunes - and v2 works on Windows. You can build it yourself but of course nobody really wants to do that; we'll just have to wait until v2 comes out!No repeated system restarts, but none ? What about when your kernel is updated ? What about VMWare needing to be recompiled once you HAVE rebooted ?
Key words, "no repeated system restarts". The kernel and anything that depends on specific kernel versions will cause a restart but kernel updates aren't too common. Windows update means a restart every time.Yea I know I'm basically saying "at some point in the future" for Evince and Amarok, but tbh that future can't come quick enough for me - not having all my favourite utilities whenever I have to dual-boot for a game is such an annoyance. Until the software comes to free them, Windows users will just have to suffer the shackles of proprietary opression!
iTunes is awful. In Windows Anapod Explorer is better, but still annoying.
Thankfully Amarok is coming to Windows with v2, that should be released when it's ready.