What's really worth noting is that when we're talking about ID and it's "Crown".. you have to realize that ID doesn't really have a big foundation to rest on at all. They have a grand total of 3 titles (Wolfenstien, Dooma and Quake) plus their sequels.
You're betraying a rather limited knowledge of gaming history there. Think back to the early 90s. Think back to the days when ID made games that weren't FPSes. Classics like the Commander Keen series. Hell, I bought a couple of those for my mother. I really don't see many people doing that with Doom 3.
Basically, I couldn't care less about Doom. What would make me happy would be for ID to drop all the horror crap they've been doing for the last ten years and go back to their real roots: humour, gameplay, value for money.
And that doesn't mean they have to stop pushing hardware to its limits. Those EGA scrolling routines were pretty damn impressive in their day.;)
I wonder if it'd be possible to create a binary patch for prebuilt binaries ?
For specific builds of individual programs, trivial. There are dozens of good, fast, and robust binary patching systems available - xdelta, bsdiff, and jojodiff are three F/OSS options. Of course, bandwidth is cheap enough these days that most people who use binaries can just download the new version in its entirety.
A general-purpose fix that could be applied to any application using a statically-linked zlib would be much harder, possibly even impossible. This is one of the major advantages of dynamic linking - that a security update to the library in question can automatically benefit any application that uses the library.
Tried it on level "C", the hardest. I got all ten questions right, although the stupid quiz only gave me 9/10. The one it thought I got wrong was this:
This sentence is [not] correct: I got married in '69 in my sisters' dress. You said: [it was correct] '69 is an informal way of writing the date 1969, it shows where the numbers are missing. Sisters', however, isn't correct. It should say sister's.
First, note the poor punctuation in the explanation (comma splice). The second sentence of the explanation is what's wrong, however. Both "sister's" and "sisters'" are correct forms of punctuation: the only way one can determine which is correct in any individual case is to know whether the dress in question belonged only to one sister, or was shared between several. In the absence of this information I judged the sentence according to whether it was well-formed (it was), and the bastards marked me down for not possessing the disambiguating information they had failed to give me.
We spell according to the Queen's English, and therefore we don't change the 'ise' endings to 'ize'.
Note, however, that the Oxford University Press, which is most certainly British, being attached to England's oldest university (indeed, the oldest English-speaking university in the world), and, as the publisher of the Oxford English Dictionary, is widely regarded as an authority on the Queen's English -- changes "-ise" to "-ize" as a basic principle of house style.
Which just goes to show that language is never as simple as you thought.;)
When you say you're convinced that the people who gripe so much about copyright law are those who would never create something themselves worth stealing, you're making the assumption that the only thing anyone wants to do with a copyrighted work is to consume it. That assumption is flawed.
For example, suppose I find a poem I love and want to set it to music. As it stands, I can write the music, but I can't publish it in sheet music form with the words of the poem included. In this example, I have done exactly what the publication of creative works is supposed to achieve: I have been inspired by one creative work to produce another creative work. But copyright law, as it stands, means that I will not live to see my creative work enjoyed as I intended it to be enjoyed.
(To the parrot-sheep who are about to say "diddums, stop whining and write your OWN poem instead of stealing someone else's": come back when you have some basic understanding of creativity and inspiration, kids. Reading up on the history of art and literature might give you some clues. Try the introduction to any decent edition of "Hamlet".)
Or consider an obscure foreign film. Suppose I discover it, realise its genius, and want to release an English version. I don't want to profit from someone else's work: I decide to release my translation in the form of a subtitle file that people can use with an original copy of the foreign DVD. But I can't. In this hypothetical case I'm not allowed to release it legally, because the copyright holders refuse to give me permission. And I won't ever be allowed to release it, because the term of copyright is longer than I shall live.
So - assuming nobody makes a commercial release, which is quite rare for obscure foreign films - nobody my age or older will ever see this film in English. What purpose is served by this?
(To the sheep-parrots: again, I've heard the arguments that "it's their work and they should be allowed to decide not to let it be translated if they want to". Yes, they have a right to hold out for a better deal. But the world has a right to benefit from their work, too. That's the whole point of having ANY limit on copyright terms.)
So: no, it's not just freeloaders who are inconvenienced by long copyright terms. Copyright also inhibits a wide variety of legitimate creative activities. It is my opinion that even a 50 year term would be unduly stifling: even assuming that an artist can continue creating to the age of 80 (which is unlikely), it would mean that anyone over the age of 30 would never be able to derive from new works. I can see how that can be considered reasonable, but I'm not sure I'll ever agree with that point of view.
As an individual informed consumer, I don't much care what enthusiasts are willing to pay - I want the best value for my money, which at the moment is the 820 over the 4200.
If you're interested in value for money, rather than high performance, then why are you insisting on getting a dual-core processor? Won't you get better value for money on a single-core processor?
Now, consider someone who knows relatively little about computers. When he see that the lowest priced Intel dual core proc is $250 and the lowest priced AMD dual core proc is $550, what do you think he's going to do?
He's not even going to make that comparison, because he doesn't know what the hell a dual core processor is. Instead, he's going to look at the processor lineups completely arbitrarily, comparing the numbers after the names rather than any actual benchmarks, and buy whatever looks best value for money on that principle.
No, wait, even that isn't true. What he's really going to do is go down to his local big computer superstore and buy whatever the salesman talks him into thinking he needs. If Intel's anti-competitive practices have ensured that his local computer superstore only sells Intel products, then he's not even going to have the opportunity to compare price/performance between the two brands, because he'll never realise he has the option.
You're still wrong, though. The right answer is that both "50's" and "50s" are acceptable in general English usage. (Individual house style rules will generally require one form or the other, but that is a matter of consistency, not correctness.)
By the way, if you want to be taken for an authority on matters of English usage, it would help your cause if you made a basic effort to begin sentences with capital letters and end them with some appropriate form of punctuation...
So they're introducing loads of new concepts, like religion and famous people. That's good. More depth is only going to be a good thing. (Maybe they could introduce "fundamentalist" units, which you can infiltrate into opposing civilisations in order to slow their science rates...)
But at the same time, they're dumbing other aspects down to the degree that units only have one combat stat, instead of separate attack and defence ratings?!
I'm really not sure I like that. Half the strategy of the early game comes from trying to keep a balance between fast-moving, hard-hitting units like chariots, and the slow but tough units like phalanxes that you need to hold onto the cities you capture with them. What's going to be the point of a phalanx in a game where a chariot has the same defensive ability and (presumably) moves twice as fast?
I really don't see the rationale behind this particular change. Did anyone really find the two-stat system to be hopelessly complicated?
But, maybe DLO isn't interested because they already make a similar product. I didn't see that mentioned in the dvforge article..
I can only deduce you didn't read the DVForge article, then, because the TransPod is mentioned directly by name no fewer than three times in it, including in the very first sentence.
Noksagt: How, exactly, are you claiming the GPLed code as your own? Planesdragon: By distributing / publishing it without the GPL. Noksagt: And where, precisely, did I advise doing that? Planesdragon: Right here.
Okay, let's look at the text of the "right here" post. What does it say?
The easiest way to force something under the GPL or other copyleft licenses is to make a derivative work from GPLed code. So consider using the GNU Scientific Library or something similar as your base. Your University will most likely not make you rewrite it and, if they have a legal department, will most likely not ask you to violate the GPL.
For a good piece on GPL in academia, see Releasing Free Software if you work at a University by Richard Stallman.
So, Planesdragon, would you care to identify the part of the post quoted above which you are managing to read as advocating distributing GPL'd code without the GPL? Because I've read it over several times, and I sure can't see any such thing.
Now, as you say, what Noksagt is suggesting might lose an academic his job if his contract stipulates that any work he produces must take a form that can both be kept proprietary and exploited commercially. But you have not identified any plausible scenario where the academic might be violating the GPL itself, nor have you given any examples of such contracts.
I believe the common phrase to use at this point is "put up or shut up".
And for those of us that already have most of the common songs?
You get to buy them yet again, of course. You may have 12,988 songs on your hard disk, but I bet you don't have them in the right proprietary DRM'd format...
"U+6c11 U+738b" most certainly is not pinyin - it is a pair of references to Chinese characters in the Unicode character set. The pinyin following them was intended to tell people which characters they were without having to look them up.
To be precise, the first was the same min2 as in min2 zhu3 "democracy", while the second, wang2, is a character identical to the zhu3 of "democracy", except that it lacks one tiny stroke at the top. The idea was that this would be as close conceptually as you could come to misspelling a word within the Chinese writing system, see?
(If Slashdot would only get with the 20th century and permit Unicode in postings - or even just parse HTML entities instead of stripping them - then this sort of misunderstanding would never happen...)
haeleth@guthlac$ uname -srpi FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE i386 GENERIC haeleth@guthlac$ pwd /usr/src/sys haeleth@guthlac$ find . -name *.c -or -name *.h -exec grep "belong here" {} \;
* XXX doesn't really belong here I guess...
* This doesn't really belong here, but I can't think of a better
* XXX doesn't really belong here I guess...
* XXX FIXME: probably does not belong here
* XXX FIXME: probably does not belong here /* XXX FIXME this does not belong here */
* XXX these don't really belong here; but for now they're
I'd say that's worse than the Linux sources, if one is judging quality by number of "doesn't belong here"s - all those FIXMEs and XXXes. Of course, it's a different BSD. I'm sure OpenBSD is perfect and entirely free of frivolous comments, unlike all these untrustworthy operating systems that are inexplicably more popular than it.
It fails to mention that The Lion King is not Disney's original story, but was instead plagiarized from Kimba the White Lion.
Amusing that you should present the claim in black and white terms, while linking to a Straight Dope article which, if you read it all the way through, does not end with the words "Disney are guilty as charged", but rather "[Disney's apologists make] a reasonable argument. But you be the judge."
For example, the "Kimba"/"Simba" thing is not as damning as it sounds because "simba" means "lion" - that is to say, it seems overwhelmingly probably that the names of the two lions in question are so similar because they have a common source, i.e. the Swahili language.
As for the plot similarities, Disney claims that they're all cliches anyway - the ex-Disney guy quoted in the Straight Dope article you linked to points out, quite correctly, that most of them appear in Hamlet. Oh, and just about every other Disney movie ever, too.
Let's just say that it is not at all obvious that Disney plagiarised Kimba. It's plausible that they did, and that site you've doubtless seen that compares frames of the two side by side certainly makes a strong case. But it's not as cut-and-dried as you're making it sound.
you can make their lives so much simpler with several aliases: [...] alias rename="mv"
BAD idea. DOS commands are not just Unix commands with vowels in; they work differently.
For example, in DOS you can do
C:\> ren *.txt *.bak
and that is the equivalent of
$ for t in *.txt; do mv $t ${t/%txt/bak}; done
...except it's not case sensitive. Note that it is not equivalent to
$ mv *.txt *.bak
which is what your dangerous alias will make people expect.
ALSO: Create a couple of directories in everyone's home dir named, "MyDocuments", "MyPictures", etc., so people don't even have to learn how to create a directory.
Most of the spam you get is lying. That does not alter the fact that there are thousands of lists out there that are genuine.
For example, have you ever recieved an unsolicited email from RARLAB telling you about a new version of WinRAR? I doubt it. I get such emails fairly regularly - because I genuinely, for real, quite literally willingly subscribed to their list.
This is an example of a newsletter relating to a commercial product, and I receive it because I subscribed voluntarily, and nobody who didn't subscribe voluntarily receives it. Will you concede that people who report that kind of mailing list as spam are just possibly mistaken?
So, yes, spammers lie. But there are a lot of people out there who are not spammers and do not lie. The proven fact that spammers lie does not make the people who are not spammers into spammers.
The fact that many Europeans speak English does not alter the fact that it is not feasible to release an English-only console in Europe. To do so in France, for example, would arouse such anger that your company's products would essentially be locked out of the French market for ever afterwards. (North American analogy: imagine releasing a product in Quebec with only English documentation.)
Why they can't release the English version in Britain, of course, is another question. It's not like they ever localise the English menus to use British spellings...
If you're running with something like Firefox's Flashblock extension then it doesn't degrade at all gracefully. You just get the usual click to play icon instead of the text.
They thought of that, as you'd know if you'd bothered to visit their site:
And hey, if you are using something like FlashBlock, which means you want to use Flash but only if it suits you, you may be interested in our Greasemonkey scripts which allow you to disable sIFR.
What's wrong with realism? Ultimately, what's wrong with every game made using exactly the same graphics engine? All it would mean would be that content would replace technology as the distinguishing factor between games. Nobody complains that live-action movies all look the same!
I'd have a hard time believing that Firefox itself can accidentally destroy all your data while you uninstall it, and I'd have an even harder time believing that that bug exists and the Microsoft trolls aren't shouting it from the rooftops.
The bug the parent is referring to is presumably https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23362 5 (bugzilla blocks Slashdot referers, copy and paste URL). The "bug" affects only Windows users who fail to install Firefox in a folder of its own. It does not cause Firefox to randomly wipe your hard disk.
In a lot of situations it is perfectly okay that the code blows up on errors, as the interpreter tells you what went wrong anyway.
Sorry, boss, our critical web application just crashed for the third time today because we didn't bother to catch any exceptions. But we've got a very informative error message, so that's no problem, right?
Well, it wouldn't be such a problem if the exception-casting code never made it into production systems because you were doing rigorous unit testing. Except we move on a little and discover that your attitude is that testing Python is unnecessary! I quote:
Unlike your code I don't have to run it through the interpreter or test it, because I know it will work just by looking at it.
Well, let's see whether your confidence is justified!
haeleth@cynewulf ~ $ cat test.py #!/usr/bin/python import sys for line in open(sys.argv[0], "r").readlines(): print line
$ cat example.txt This is an example.
haeleth@cynewulf ~ $./test.py example.txt #!/usr/bin/python import sys for line in open(sys.argv[0], "r").readlines(): print line
Hmm. Not exactly what the specification asked for. That's really rather impressive, you know - I begin to suspect I may have been trolled.
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What's really worth noting is that when we're talking about ID and it's "Crown" .. you have to realize that ID doesn't really have a big foundation to rest on at all. They have a grand total of 3 titles (Wolfenstien, Dooma and Quake) plus their sequels.
;)
You're betraying a rather limited knowledge of gaming history there. Think back to the early 90s. Think back to the days when ID made games that weren't FPSes. Classics like the Commander Keen series. Hell, I bought a couple of those for my mother. I really don't see many people doing that with Doom 3.
Basically, I couldn't care less about Doom. What would make me happy would be for ID to drop all the horror crap they've been doing for the last ten years and go back to their real roots: humour, gameplay, value for money.
And that doesn't mean they have to stop pushing hardware to its limits. Those EGA scrolling routines were pretty damn impressive in their day.
I wonder if it'd be possible to create a binary patch for prebuilt binaries ?
For specific builds of individual programs, trivial. There are dozens of good, fast, and robust binary patching systems available - xdelta, bsdiff, and jojodiff are three F/OSS options. Of course, bandwidth is cheap enough these days that most people who use binaries can just download the new version in its entirety.
A general-purpose fix that could be applied to any application using a statically-linked zlib would be much harder, possibly even impossible. This is one of the major advantages of dynamic linking - that a security update to the library in question can automatically benefit any application that uses the library.
Tried it on level "C", the hardest. I got all ten questions right, although the stupid quiz only gave me 9/10. The one it thought I got wrong was this:
This sentence is [not] correct: I got married in '69 in my sisters' dress.
You said: [it was correct]
'69 is an informal way of writing the date 1969, it shows where the numbers are missing. Sisters', however, isn't correct. It should say sister's.
First, note the poor punctuation in the explanation (comma splice). The second sentence of the explanation is what's wrong, however. Both "sister's" and "sisters'" are correct forms of punctuation: the only way one can determine which is correct in any individual case is to know whether the dress in question belonged only to one sister, or was shared between several. In the absence of this information I judged the sentence according to whether it was well-formed (it was), and the bastards marked me down for not possessing the disambiguating information they had failed to give me.
I hate multiple-choice questions that do that.
We spell according to the Queen's English, and therefore we don't change the 'ise' endings to 'ize'.
;)
Note, however, that the Oxford University Press, which is most certainly British, being attached to England's oldest university (indeed, the oldest English-speaking university in the world), and, as the publisher of the Oxford English Dictionary, is widely regarded as an authority on the Queen's English -- changes "-ise" to "-ize" as a basic principle of house style.
Which just goes to show that language is never as simple as you thought.
When you say you're convinced that the people who gripe so much about copyright law are those who would never create something themselves worth stealing, you're making the assumption that the only thing anyone wants to do with a copyrighted work is to consume it. That assumption is flawed.
For example, suppose I find a poem I love and want to set it to music. As it stands, I can write the music, but I can't publish it in sheet music form with the words of the poem included. In this example, I have done exactly what the publication of creative works is supposed to achieve: I have been inspired by one creative work to produce another creative work. But copyright law, as it stands, means that I will not live to see my creative work enjoyed as I intended it to be enjoyed.
(To the parrot-sheep who are about to say "diddums, stop whining and write your OWN poem instead of stealing someone else's": come back when you have some basic understanding of creativity and inspiration, kids. Reading up on the history of art and literature might give you some clues. Try the introduction to any decent edition of "Hamlet".)
Or consider an obscure foreign film. Suppose I discover it, realise its genius, and want to release an English version. I don't want to profit from someone else's work: I decide to release my translation in the form of a subtitle file that people can use with an original copy of the foreign DVD. But I can't. In this hypothetical case I'm not allowed to release it legally, because the copyright holders refuse to give me permission. And I won't ever be allowed to release it, because the term of copyright is longer than I shall live.
So - assuming nobody makes a commercial release, which is quite rare for obscure foreign films - nobody my age or older will ever see this film in English. What purpose is served by this?
(To the sheep-parrots: again, I've heard the arguments that "it's their work and they should be allowed to decide not to let it be translated if they want to". Yes, they have a right to hold out for a better deal. But the world has a right to benefit from their work, too. That's the whole point of having ANY limit on copyright terms.)
So: no, it's not just freeloaders who are inconvenienced by long copyright terms. Copyright also inhibits a wide variety of legitimate creative activities. It is my opinion that even a 50 year term would be unduly stifling: even assuming that an artist can continue creating to the age of 80 (which is unlikely), it would mean that anyone over the age of 30 would never be able to derive from new works. I can see how that can be considered reasonable, but I'm not sure I'll ever agree with that point of view.
As an individual informed consumer, I don't much care what enthusiasts are willing to pay - I want the best value for my money, which at the moment is the 820 over the 4200.
If you're interested in value for money, rather than high performance, then why are you insisting on getting a dual-core processor? Won't you get better value for money on a single-core processor?
Now, consider someone who knows relatively little about computers. When he see that the lowest priced Intel dual core proc is $250 and the lowest priced AMD dual core proc is $550, what do you think he's going to do?
He's not even going to make that comparison, because he doesn't know what the hell a dual core processor is. Instead, he's going to look at the processor lineups completely arbitrarily, comparing the numbers after the names rather than any actual benchmarks, and buy whatever looks best value for money on that principle.
No, wait, even that isn't true. What he's really going to do is go down to his local big computer superstore and buy whatever the salesman talks him into thinking he needs. If Intel's anti-competitive practices have ensured that his local computer superstore only sells Intel products, then he's not even going to have the opportunity to compare price/performance between the two brands, because he'll never realise he has the option.
Hence the lawsuit, in fact.
I'm saying that 50's is correct and 50s isn't
You're still wrong, though. The right answer is that both "50's" and "50s" are acceptable in general English usage. (Individual house style rules will generally require one form or the other, but that is a matter of consistency, not correctness.)
By the way, if you want to be taken for an authority on matters of English usage, it would help your cause if you made a basic effort to begin sentences with capital letters and end them with some appropriate form of punctuation...
So they're introducing loads of new concepts, like religion and famous people. That's good. More depth is only going to be a good thing. (Maybe they could introduce "fundamentalist" units, which you can infiltrate into opposing civilisations in order to slow their science rates...)
But at the same time, they're dumbing other aspects down to the degree that units only have one combat stat, instead of separate attack and defence ratings?!
I'm really not sure I like that. Half the strategy of the early game comes from trying to keep a balance between fast-moving, hard-hitting units like chariots, and the slow but tough units like phalanxes that you need to hold onto the cities you capture with them. What's going to be the point of a phalanx in a game where a chariot has the same defensive ability and (presumably) moves twice as fast?
I really don't see the rationale behind this particular change. Did anyone really find the two-stat system to be hopelessly complicated?
But, maybe DLO isn't interested because they already make a similar product. I didn't see that mentioned in the dvforge article..
I can only deduce you didn't read the DVForge article, then, because the TransPod is mentioned directly by name no fewer than three times in it, including in the very first sentence.
Planesdragon: By distributing / publishing it without the GPL.
Noksagt: And where, precisely, did I advise doing that?
Planesdragon: Right here.
Okay, let's look at the text of the "right here" post. What does it say?So, Planesdragon, would you care to identify the part of the post quoted above which you are managing to read as advocating distributing GPL'd code without the GPL? Because I've read it over several times, and I sure can't see any such thing.
Now, as you say, what Noksagt is suggesting might lose an academic his job if his contract stipulates that any work he produces must take a form that can both be kept proprietary and exploited commercially. But you have not identified any plausible scenario where the academic might be violating the GPL itself, nor have you given any examples of such contracts.
I believe the common phrase to use at this point is "put up or shut up".
And for those of us that already have most of the common songs?
You get to buy them yet again, of course. You may have 12,988 songs on your hard disk, but I bet you don't have them in the right proprietary DRM'd format...
"U+6c11 U+738b" most certainly is not pinyin - it is a pair of references to Chinese characters in the Unicode character set. The pinyin following them was intended to tell people which characters they were without having to look them up.
To be precise, the first was the same min2 as in min2 zhu3 "democracy", while the second, wang2, is a character identical to the zhu3 of "democracy", except that it lacks one tiny stroke at the top. The idea was that this would be as close conceptually as you could come to misspelling a word within the Chinese writing system, see?
(If Slashdot would only get with the 20th century and permit Unicode in postings - or even just parse HTML entities instead of stripping them - then this sort of misunderstanding would never happen...)
how do you write "dmeocarcy" in chinese?
:)
"mni zuh"?
More seriously, "U+6c11 U+738b" (min2 wang2) would be conceptually close.
It fails to mention that The Lion King is not Disney's original story, but was instead plagiarized from Kimba the White Lion.
Amusing that you should present the claim in black and white terms, while linking to a Straight Dope article which, if you read it all the way through, does not end with the words "Disney are guilty as charged", but rather "[Disney's apologists make] a reasonable argument. But you be the judge."
For example, the "Kimba"/"Simba" thing is not as damning as it sounds because "simba" means "lion" - that is to say, it seems overwhelmingly probably that the names of the two lions in question are so similar because they have a common source, i.e. the Swahili language.
As for the plot similarities, Disney claims that they're all cliches anyway - the ex-Disney guy quoted in the Straight Dope article you linked to points out, quite correctly, that most of them appear in Hamlet. Oh, and just about every other Disney movie ever, too.
Let's just say that it is not at all obvious that Disney plagiarised Kimba. It's plausible that they did, and that site you've doubtless seen that compares frames of the two side by side certainly makes a strong case. But it's not as cut-and-dried as you're making it sound.
[...]
alias rename="mv"
BAD idea. DOS commands are not just Unix commands with vowels in; they work differently.
For example, in DOS you can doand that is the equivalent of...except it's not case sensitive. Note that it is not equivalent towhich is what your dangerous alias will make people expect.
ALSO: Create a couple of directories in everyone's home dir named, "MyDocuments", "MyPictures", etc., so people don't even have to learn how to create a directory.
What - not just alias md="mkdir"?
Most the spam I get says I willingly subscribed.
Most of the spam you get is lying. That does not alter the fact that there are thousands of lists out there that are genuine.
For example, have you ever recieved an unsolicited email from RARLAB telling you about a new version of WinRAR? I doubt it. I get such emails fairly regularly - because I genuinely, for real, quite literally willingly subscribed to their list.
This is an example of a newsletter relating to a commercial product, and I receive it because I subscribed voluntarily, and nobody who didn't subscribe voluntarily receives it. Will you concede that people who report that kind of mailing list as spam are just possibly mistaken?
So, yes, spammers lie. But there are a lot of people out there who are not spammers and do not lie. The proven fact that spammers lie does not make the people who are not spammers into spammers.
Yes, folks, it's "Springtime for Vader"!
The fact that many Europeans speak English does not alter the fact that it is not feasible to release an English-only console in Europe. To do so in France, for example, would arouse such anger that your company's products would essentially be locked out of the French market for ever afterwards. (North American analogy: imagine releasing a product in Quebec with only English documentation.)
Why they can't release the English version in Britain, of course, is another question. It's not like they ever localise the English menus to use British spellings...
They thought of that, as you'd know if you'd bothered to visit their site:
How the hell did this man get a law degree?
You must have a really good spam filter, if you can't even hazard a guess.
When the funeral for Theodred is being held, Eowyn is singing in old english.
See if you can understand it - it is doubtful you can.
Ic hit cuthe understondan: ac gif thu ne canst, be thaem ic ne wundrie.
(Or something like that. My old English is a bit rusty.)
What's wrong with realism? Ultimately, what's wrong with every game made using exactly the same graphics engine? All it would mean would be that content would replace technology as the distinguishing factor between games. Nobody complains that live-action movies all look the same!
I'd have a hard time believing that Firefox itself can accidentally destroy all your data while you uninstall it, and I'd have an even harder time believing that that bug exists and the Microsoft trolls aren't shouting it from the rooftops.
2 5 (bugzilla blocks Slashdot referers, copy and paste URL). The "bug" affects only Windows users who fail to install Firefox in a folder of its own. It does not cause Firefox to randomly wipe your hard disk.
The bug the parent is referring to is presumably https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2336
Sorry, boss, our critical web application just crashed for the third time today because we didn't bother to catch any exceptions. But we've got a very informative error message, so that's no problem, right?
Well, it wouldn't be such a problem if the exception-casting code never made it into production systems because you were doing rigorous unit testing. Except we move on a little and discover that your attitude is that testing Python is unnecessary! I quote:
Unlike your code I don't have to run it through the interpreter or test it, because I know it will work just by looking at it.
Well, let's see whether your confidence is justified!Hmm. Not exactly what the specification asked for. That's really rather impressive, you know - I begin to suspect I may have been trolled.