I don't think it would be to far off to consider this the logical evolutionairy step of the technological era; a lot of disabled people appear but among them there also are some extraordinarily bright people which have an even larger chance of surviving and reproducing.
To shoot debris where? You will end up with a lot more pieces of smaller debris which are just as dangerous.
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Read the text on the demo download page. I'm not sure if it's about the same problem you have, but there's a fix for some library-problems the game has on slackware.
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Assuming that one would base his opinion of a game that's not at all about it's graphics on the screenshots given on the website, I'd be inclined to think that one requires an imagination-module-upgrade.
The fact that they have the guts to put these screenshots online (they're boring indeed) can only mean two things: (1) it really has to have great gameplay or (2) they need to replace their marketing department:)
Just a thought... what most western governments are trying nowadays is to control the infrastructure of a country by regulation of natural monopolies. Why? Because they want an "Open" market. But that's not what I would call this; this is totally artificial and in a way unfair to the company that "happens to own the infrastructure". In my opinion this behaviour shows pretty cleary what the ideal situation would be: the government should provide the infrastructure by itself, just like roads etc. The services ran over these infrastructures (phone, internet, traffic, trains, blabla) can then easily be provided in a rather open market with multiple companies.
This can in a way even be extended to file formats, protocols and even API's but that would cripple development (so there should be legislation that all file formats, protocols and API's have to be open:)).
Anyway...we don't live in utopia, so don't bother...
Large in this case usually means infinite:) It's all about how the function t(n) behaves where t is the time necessary to compute the value of a certain function f(n) relative to n; it's not about comparing 2^128 to 128^1000 but about comparing 2x to x^2 and 2^x to log(x). Read Herbert S. Wilf's Algorithms and Complexity if you want to know more about it. It's the book we use in school (and it's downloadable for free).
The claimed losses of the music, movie and software industries are pure fabrication.
I can remember that in the year the production of music cassettes stopped, they claimed they lost a huge amount of money due to illegal copies (mainly Napster). It was really ocincidental that the loss was about equal to the turnover generated by the sale of MC's in the previous year:)
Without it's centrally-controlled frontpage and the moderation-system,/. would never have grown as large as it is now so alt.slashdot wouldn't have been nearly as interesting as slashdot.org. The strength of usenet is also it's problem; by making it open to everyone there's also no central control left.
In my case my CD-comsumption has only gone up since I've started to collect massive amounts of MP3s; I get in touch with much more new music and just want to buy it. And I'm sure I'm not the only one that does this.
So you couldn't run those apps-that-are-not-doing-anything-at-the-moment in the background before? And now you can? And that's because you have more cpu-power? Are you sure you didn't happen to buy some more memory as well? None of the applications you name are very cpu-intensive as far as I know. They can be (photoshop filters etc.) but usually aren't. Especially not when running in the background.
if you spend years working on something and sink it around a company
...and usually sell it to companies as well; they buy stuff when they need it. And hardly ever use illegal software (at least here in.nl that's my impression). Home-users on the contrary usually buy software when they buy a new computer (Windows, Office etc.) or when they finally have enough money (youth that buys games). Therefore I think the majority of the software that is pirated would not have been sold anyway and therefore the losses are no way near as large as projected; home-users use the software if they can get it illegaly but wouldn't buy it if they couldn't get it illegaly. And the type of home-user that really needs software is usually also the type that buys it. Except maybe for those that pirate Windows and Office, but I couldn't care less about Microsoft products and I think they're about the only exception to this.
At least, that's my impression...but who am I to speak about this when I only use free software?:P
Look at the weathermap carefully and you will notice that some links change color halfway. The only explanation that I can come up with is packetloss:)
Well I don't think it would be very usefull for stellar observation. Probably the air that comes out of the chimney is relatively hot and will distort the light above the tower. But I might be wrong:)
That's crazy. I run 2.4, and I've yet to have a single problem. What's that? I don't run real servers? How about a dual processor Pentium III and a DEC Alpha?
Whether something is a real server or not is not at all about the hardware it runs on, it's about what you use it for. And up to 2.4.16 you really don't want to run a 2.4 kernel on a server. Maybe you haven't had any problems with 2.4, but most people have. It would be much wiser to stick with one of the latest 2.2-kernels for a while until 2.4 has proven itself.
It's not much more expensive than an ordinary coal-plant when you take the effects of the waste of such plants, the cost of the coals and the costs to keep such a thing running in consideration. You'd also not want to scale it up but rather build a few more... never rely on a single source of power.
Not necessarily; the BIOS-code is duplicated 4 times on the chip so if the hardware doesn't require it to be duplicated 4 times and you'd only need 75% of the space (at most), you could install your own custom BIOS and then `downgrade' to the old BIOS by copying the duplicate that's left on the chip over the custom BIOS.
And if you cannot write only a part of the BIOS but must write everything at once, then I don't think it's very hard to read the BIOS into memory and then write it to the BIOS along with your own custom BIOS. Saving the BIOS to external media should be possible as well, but I don't know exactly what the legal issues with that are; would it be an illegal copy or would it be a fair-use-backup-copy as is allowed in most countries?
Being such an abiword-fan, maybe you can explain to me how I can make (decent) tables? Also I think 50% of the time people use Word to read Word-docs from others. And abiword just won't do that right unless you have a really simple document. And the other way around it's even worse; I typed a short document for a customer and sent it to them by email in MS Word format..or RTF..can't remember. Anyway, later I found out that all bullets had become smileys. The only thing AbiWord is good for, is typing documents without real tables which are not meant to communicate to others (because they unfortunately mostly use Word)
The bottom-line is: without really good MS Word support it just isn't going to be a serious replacement for Word anytime soon because it'll take an incredible long time to get a serious user base. And I really really hope I'm wrong about the tables...
Sue? On what charges? If one can be sued over this, manufacturers of VHS-tapes, paper, pencils and photo-paper would be in danger as well. Under that new law (SSCCA or something) this could possibly be considered illegal, but I believe there's nothing that can be done about this nowadays.
13. Strippers. The aggressive kind. You know, Bambi the Leather Terminator.
Or lapdancers:) They always tend to pick guys that really don't appreciate it:P Photograpic proof here, here and here. This guy was looking really pissed during a 10 minute lapdance (on his lap) with about 100 people watching>:-)
So that gives them a year or two to come up with a FireWire version of the device and until then their sales won't suffer because they're trying to sell something which the vast majority just cannot use without buying new hardware. By the way...with 10 gigs of space I don't really care about the speed since I can fit all of my favourites on it anyway.
Most people don't have firewire yet. Most PC-users, that is (and thus most people...). So there probably are a lot more customers for an USB-device than for a FireWire-device.
Yeah, since you put it that way, all any addiction is the lack of the will and sheer determination. Even alcohol, drugs, etc.
Well I think with harddrugs and alcohol, starting to use it really is a choice, but not being able to stop is in a way indeed the lack of the will and sheer determination, but also the fact that stopping to use it will make you physically ill. Really ill. So I think considering alcohol and drugs of the same order of magnitude as a gaming addiction (which should in my opinion not be called an addiction anyway; addictions have some sort of physical cause).
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Indeed. In fact all decisions taken while implementing should be documented. This will often even speed up programming; writing down what you're thinking is often a lot more clarifying (to yourself) than just thinking about it. But also things like `this is bubblesort' or `when you change this, also change that!' are very usefull.
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I don't think it would be to far off to consider this the logical evolutionairy step of the technological era; a lot of disabled people appear but among them there also are some extraordinarily bright people which have an even larger chance of surviving and reproducing.
To shoot debris where? You will end up with a lot more pieces of smaller debris which are just as dangerous.
Read the text on the demo download page. I'm not sure if it's about the same problem you have, but there's a fix for some library-problems the game has on slackware.
The fact that they have the guts to put these screenshots online (they're boring indeed) can only mean two things: (1) it really has to have great gameplay or (2) they need to replace their marketing department:)
This can in a way even be extended to file formats, protocols and even API's but that would cripple development (so there should be legislation that all file formats, protocols and API's have to be open:)).
Anyway...we don't live in utopia, so don't bother...
Large in this case usually means infinite:) It's all about how the function t(n) behaves where t is the time necessary to compute the value of a certain function f(n) relative to n; it's not about comparing 2^128 to 128^1000 but about comparing 2x to x^2 and 2^x to log(x). Read Herbert S. Wilf's Algorithms and Complexity if you want to know more about it. It's the book we use in school (and it's downloadable for free).
I can remember that in the year the production of music cassettes stopped, they claimed they lost a huge amount of money due to illegal copies (mainly Napster). It was really ocincidental that the loss was about equal to the turnover generated by the sale of MC's in the previous year:)
Had Linux chosen the same version-numbering-system as Windows, it would even have been at 4.x. Instead Linux chose to do 1.0->1.2->2.0->2.2.
Without it's centrally-controlled frontpage and the moderation-system, /. would never have grown as large as it is now so alt.slashdot wouldn't have been nearly as interesting as slashdot.org. The strength of usenet is also it's problem; by making it open to everyone there's also no central control left.
In my case my CD-comsumption has only gone up since I've started to collect massive amounts of MP3s; I get in touch with much more new music and just want to buy it. And I'm sure I'm not the only one that does this.
So you couldn't run those apps-that-are-not-doing-anything-at-the-moment in the background before? And now you can? And that's because you have more cpu-power? Are you sure you didn't happen to buy some more memory as well? None of the applications you name are very cpu-intensive as far as I know. They can be (photoshop filters etc.) but usually aren't. Especially not when running in the background.
...and usually sell it to companies as well; they buy stuff when they need it. And hardly ever use illegal software (at least here in .nl that's my impression). Home-users on the contrary usually buy software when they buy a new computer (Windows, Office etc.) or when they finally have enough money (youth that buys games). Therefore I think the majority of the software that is pirated would not have been sold anyway and therefore the losses are no way near as large as projected; home-users use the software if they can get it illegaly but wouldn't buy it if they couldn't get it illegaly. And the type of home-user that really needs software is usually also the type that buys it. Except maybe for those that pirate Windows and Office, but I couldn't care less about Microsoft products and I think they're about the only exception to this.
At least, that's my impression...but who am I to speak about this when I only use free software?:P
Look at the weathermap carefully and you will notice that some links change color halfway. The only explanation that I can come up with is packetloss:)
Well I don't think it would be very usefull for stellar observation. Probably the air that comes out of the chimney is relatively hot and will distort the light above the tower. But I might be wrong:)
Whether something is a real server or not is not at all about the hardware it runs on, it's about what you use it for. And up to 2.4.16 you really don't want to run a 2.4 kernel on a server. Maybe you haven't had any problems with 2.4, but most people have. It would be much wiser to stick with one of the latest 2.2-kernels for a while until 2.4 has proven itself.
It's not much more expensive than an ordinary coal-plant when you take the effects of the waste of such plants, the cost of the coals and the costs to keep such a thing running in consideration. You'd also not want to scale it up but rather build a few more... never rely on a single source of power.
And if you cannot write only a part of the BIOS but must write everything at once, then I don't think it's very hard to read the BIOS into memory and then write it to the BIOS along with your own custom BIOS. Saving the BIOS to external media should be possible as well, but I don't know exactly what the legal issues with that are; would it be an illegal copy or would it be a fair-use-backup-copy as is allowed in most countries?
The bottom-line is: without really good MS Word support it just isn't going to be a serious replacement for Word anytime soon because it'll take an incredible long time to get a serious user base. And I really really hope I'm wrong about the tables...
Gnumeric OTOH is a lot further IMHO.
Sue? On what charges? If one can be sued over this, manufacturers of VHS-tapes, paper, pencils and photo-paper would be in danger as well. Under that new law (SSCCA or something) this could possibly be considered illegal, but I believe there's nothing that can be done about this nowadays.
Or lapdancers:) They always tend to pick guys that really don't appreciate it:P Photograpic proof here, here and here. This guy was looking really pissed during a 10 minute lapdance (on his lap) with about 100 people watching>:-)
So that gives them a year or two to come up with a FireWire version of the device and until then their sales won't suffer because they're trying to sell something which the vast majority just cannot use without buying new hardware. By the way...with 10 gigs of space I don't really care about the speed since I can fit all of my favourites on it anyway.
Most people don't have firewire yet. Most PC-users, that is (and thus most people...). So there probably are a lot more customers for an USB-device than for a FireWire-device.
Well I think with harddrugs and alcohol, starting to use it really is a choice, but not being able to stop is in a way indeed the lack of the will and sheer determination, but also the fact that stopping to use it will make you physically ill. Really ill. So I think considering alcohol and drugs of the same order of magnitude as a gaming addiction (which should in my opinion not be called an addiction anyway; addictions have some sort of physical cause).
DISCLAIMER: I'm stoned and it took me over 5 minutes to type this.
Indeed. In fact all decisions taken while implementing should be documented. This will often even speed up programming; writing down what you're thinking is often a lot more clarifying (to yourself) than just thinking about it. But also things like `this is bubblesort' or `when you change this, also change that!' are very usefull.
Good code speaks for itself about what it does, but not about WHY it does something and that's were comments come in handy.