I always read replies, so thanks... But perhaps Steam has changed since I gave up on it. When I last used it, if you disconnected from the internet before going into offline mode then you could not play any games (for lack of "Authentication") until you got back online, even SP games.
7. Forget to perform some witchery when closing steam before disconnecting from the internet for a while, and find yourself unable to play any steam games until you can get back on the internet days or weeks later.
In Florida I once saw a business on a busy corner offer a $0.25 "toll" route through their parking lot, to bypass the light. Many people paid the quarter to skip the 2-3 minute wait for the light to cycle twice. I am surprised this is not more common, there are many places where I live now (Nashville) that this would work.
You realize that Ubuntu 7.10 is just the October 2007 release, right? the next version, 8.04, is the April 2008 release. Sauerbraten could make the version numbers more cryptic, but why? Sauerbraten doesn't HAVE minor revisions or alpha/beta versions. There is release, and there is svn, and that is all.
I am glad analog gaming got some play in this story. While Fluxx (and its descendants) are a bit childish, they do serve as a great gateway drug to get typical Americans interested in modern card and board games.
No way to tell if the guys collecting and tabulating the ballots were paid to alter the results. How about you WATCH them? Make ballot counting committees of multiple people from each political party and force them to count together and check each others' counts, and make the entire process a public event. Hold it in a high school gym, let [up to] a thousand interested citizens watch. I live in a voting precinct of about 10k people, and I know at least 50 of them would show up to watch this, out of a sense of civic duty or even just curiosity. ONE of those people is going to notice if some ballots marked A end up in the box for ballots marked B, and any of them can compare the scoreboard totals from their event with the reported totals for the next step up the chain of accumulation, probably available online and in a newspaper.
If I gave you a 1kg and 10kg weight, would you say they were ten times heavier/lighter? I would. And you would be wrong TWICE. First, for the reason under discussion above (which is to say, I disagree with you). Second, and a personal pet peeve of mine, because 10kg is NINE times heavier than 1kg. 2kg is "one time(s)" (1*1kg) heavier than 1kg. 10kg is ten times *AS HEAVY* as 1kg, but not ten times *HEAVIER*, the "er" implying that youre starting at the weight of the lighter thing, not at zero.
When I got my 2nd gen. iPod nano, I thought "wow, colour screen" and now I'm thinking "hmmm, no video." That's just Apple screwing customers over when it comes to new software. There's no reason you can't play video on your nano. Get rid of Apple's crappy iPod OS, join all the happy RockBox users.
Because the interface isn't really proven to be the best. It happens to be the most popular, for no other reason than inertia. Ribbons *MIGHT* be better, but it's a sad fact that people aren't looking for better interfaces, they are looking for the same old same old.
PS: Compare my usage to the "proven" QWERTY keyboard layout:)
The only thing keeping most companies using MS Office is inertia. It would be too much work to retrain people on a new interface with OpenOffice or KOffice or any other alternative. And Microsoft blew that argument to hell when they destroyed the "proven" interface of MS Office. The learning curve to go from MS Office 2003 to MS Office 2007 is *WORSE* than switching to OpenOffice, a point we have made very clear to our bosses where I work with regards to our recent switch to OpenOffice.
It takes no energy to move anything. It takes energy to *accelerate* 4000 pounds of metal. Which is a wholly different thing. The fuel efficiency of large (or small, for that matter) vehicles can be improved by way of decreases in friction and air resistance just as much as by improving the conversion efficiency of the drive train. Look at the Loremo for inspiration on the small-car side of things, they prioritized aerodynamics, and gained 50 MPG on their boxy counterpart.
The stuff you hear about has something to do with playing HD content from their computer over HDMI -- or something -- and nobody does that. Vista also cripples DRM'd HD content over DVI (without HDCP) and VGA, which PLENTY of people do. I know dozens of people who do laptop->TV via VGA and DVI on a regular basis, and maybe ten who have HTPCs of one sort or another connected via VGA or DVI. My current desktop has plenty of horsepower to run Vista, but no HDCP support, so god help me if I was using Vista to watch my HD content on my projector.
or C) don't use enough minutes to make a plan worthwhile.
That's me. I use maybe 60 minutes a month on average, and I know plenty of people who use less. On my prepaid plan, that costs about $21 (10 cents a minute, plus a dollar each day i use the phone, call it every other day, $6 + $15). Yes, it's a high per-minute fee, but $21 is cheaper than any plan that I have found (Cingular had a $30/mo 250-minute plan a while back, I think).
My point is that "free" and "free" are also not synonymous. Some software is free but not free, and some is free but not free, and some is both free and free. Two almost completely unrelated words that happen to be spelled and pronounced the same way in English. See how English fails us here? This is why you see people devolving to French (libre vs gratis), or syntax (free vs Free), or even examples (free-as-in-beer vs free-as-in-speech) to make the distinction more clear.
If a radical totalitarian government lets you out of jail for a week, you aren't really free. Sure, they "set you free", but they can put you back in jail any time they want. You might appear to be free for the moment, but that is not Freedom. You wont be Free until there are laws/controls in place to ensure that you and your children are not un-freed in the future. I hope that helps draw the distinction for you.
I disagree. PD code can be "locked back up", making it only provisionally or temporarily free. It takes a license to make code truly and lastingly Free, which is an important distinction to most people around here.
They install animated cursors that come with adware. I tell them to stop, spend 30 minutes removing. They install animated cursors that come with adware. I tell them to stop, spend 30 minutes removing. They open a.jpg.exe attachment from someone they don't know, get spyware and a trojan, thankfully the virus scanner catches the trojan. I tell them to stop, spend 30 minutes removing the spyware. Repeat ad nauseam... Next time, I take their computer away, usually when a windows reinstall is necessary. They finally get the message, and I don't have to waste 30 minutes per week with them any more.
If you have a better plan, feel free to propose it. The IT dept doesn't have carrots, just a stick.
It is good to be the IT guy in a company where a suitable punishment for opening virus-laden zip files is to take away someone's computer for a few days. People don't learn until it actually matters to them, and doing a week's planning on paper is really annoying to most modern office workers.
I did, and haven't. I am glad that people can learn about me by searching for my online persona. I would not want to associate with anyone who would handle that in a negative way, so why hide things?
Entering addresses, by the way, is basically required in order to take advantage of Google Maps' turn by turn directions. You are "basically" wrong. Google added the ability to drag and drop directions waypoints quite a while ago. As long as you can find your destination on the map you don't have to type the address, just drop the little 'pin' on it.
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I always read replies, so thanks... But perhaps Steam has changed since I gave up on it. When I last used it, if you disconnected from the internet before going into offline mode then you could not play any games (for lack of "Authentication") until you got back online, even SP games.
7. Forget to perform some witchery when closing steam before disconnecting from the internet for a while, and find yourself unable to play any steam games until you can get back on the internet days or weeks later.
In Florida I once saw a business on a busy corner offer a $0.25 "toll" route through their parking lot, to bypass the light. Many people paid the quarter to skip the 2-3 minute wait for the light to cycle twice. I am surprised this is not more common, there are many places where I live now (Nashville) that this would work.
Oh Screenshot Analyzing Oracle, what think thee of these?
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http://sauerbraten.sourceforge.net/newerer/screenshot_1931460.jpg
http://sauerbraten.sourceforge.net/newer/screenshot_732727.jpg
You realize that Ubuntu 7.10 is just the October 2007 release, right? the next version, 8.04, is the April 2008 release. Sauerbraten could make the version numbers more cryptic, but why? Sauerbraten doesn't HAVE minor revisions or alpha/beta versions. There is release, and there is svn, and that is all.
First would have to be TA Spring, a fully 3d reimplementation of Total Annihilation and many mods and maps for it.
Then Warzone 2100 (Resurrection), a revival of a great commercial RTS game that was Freed a few years ago.
Bos Wars is by far the best and most polished of all the games based on the Stratagus(formerly FreeCraft) engine, but
Also, Globulation 2 is pretty fun, if a bit less deep than the others in terms of strategic options.
Finally, Glest is a fun from-scratch fantasy RTS game, not as polished as the others though.
Those are the ones I have installed. Of them, I play TA Spring the most, and Glest the least.
I am glad analog gaming got some play in this story. While Fluxx (and its descendants) are a bit childish, they do serve as a great gateway drug to get typical Americans interested in modern card and board games.
Because the interface isn't really proven to be the best. It happens to be the most popular, for no other reason than inertia. Ribbons *MIGHT* be better, but it's a sad fact that people aren't looking for better interfaces, they are looking for the same old same old.
:)
PS: Compare my usage to the "proven" QWERTY keyboard layout
The only thing keeping most companies using MS Office is inertia. It would be too much work to retrain people on a new interface with OpenOffice or KOffice or any other alternative. And Microsoft blew that argument to hell when they destroyed the "proven" interface of MS Office. The learning curve to go from MS Office 2003 to MS Office 2007 is *WORSE* than switching to OpenOffice, a point we have made very clear to our bosses where I work with regards to our recent switch to OpenOffice.
It takes no energy to move anything. It takes energy to *accelerate* 4000 pounds of metal. Which is a wholly different thing. The fuel efficiency of large (or small, for that matter) vehicles can be improved by way of decreases in friction and air resistance just as much as by improving the conversion efficiency of the drive train. Look at the Loremo for inspiration on the small-car side of things, they prioritized aerodynamics, and gained 50 MPG on their boxy counterpart.
He is only at +3 to me... You should take alternate moderation weights into consideration when deciding not to mod up (or down) a 'capped' post.
or C) don't use enough minutes to make a plan worthwhile.
That's me. I use maybe 60 minutes a month on average, and I know plenty of people who use less. On my prepaid plan, that costs about $21 (10 cents a minute, plus a dollar each day i use the phone, call it every other day, $6 + $15). Yes, it's a high per-minute fee, but $21 is cheaper than any plan that I have found (Cingular had a $30/mo 250-minute plan a while back, I think).
My point is that "free" and "free" are also not synonymous. Some software is free but not free, and some is free but not free, and some is both free and free. Two almost completely unrelated words that happen to be spelled and pronounced the same way in English. See how English fails us here? This is why you see people devolving to French (libre vs gratis), or syntax (free vs Free), or even examples (free-as-in-beer vs free-as-in-speech) to make the distinction more clear.
If a radical totalitarian government lets you out of jail for a week, you aren't really free. Sure, they "set you free", but they can put you back in jail any time they want. You might appear to be free for the moment, but that is not Freedom. You wont be Free until there are laws/controls in place to ensure that you and your children are not un-freed in the future. I hope that helps draw the distinction for you.
I meant libre, not gratis. Don't blame me for English's failings.
I disagree. PD code can be "locked back up", making it only provisionally or temporarily free. It takes a license to make code truly and lastingly Free, which is an important distinction to most people around here.
They install animated cursors that come with adware. I tell them to stop, spend 30 minutes removing. .jpg.exe attachment from someone they don't know, get spyware and a trojan, thankfully the virus scanner catches the trojan. I tell them to stop, spend 30 minutes removing the spyware.
They install animated cursors that come with adware. I tell them to stop, spend 30 minutes removing.
They open a
Repeat ad nauseam...
Next time, I take their computer away, usually when a windows reinstall is necessary. They finally get the message, and I don't have to waste 30 minutes per week with them any more.
If you have a better plan, feel free to propose it. The IT dept doesn't have carrots, just a stick.
It is good to be the IT guy in a company where a suitable punishment for opening virus-laden zip files is to take away someone's computer for a few days. People don't learn until it actually matters to them, and doing a week's planning on paper is really annoying to most modern office workers.
I did, and haven't. I am glad that people can learn about me by searching for my online persona. I would not want to associate with anyone who would handle that in a negative way, so why hide things?