Pretty simple if you already knew it. Otherwise, completely unintuitive. Why would I have to use tar when it's a.gz file? Why would I have to specify it's a file?
Well, if you google it, you'll know you need to run tar -xzvf. Otherwise, prepare for some agony. I recall spending an afternoon back in 1996 trying to figure out how to extract a file for the first time under linux. DOS was so easy, "unzip file.zip" or "unzip file.zip -d" if there was directory information inside. I tried gunzip, but that didn't do it. Eventually, after finally searching on-line, I figured out what I needed to do.
And I'm saying if you're really responsible, you've positioned yourself in such a way that you can afford things you want. The 360 has been out for years. If you still can't afford one but you want one, how responsible can you be?
Putting money in the bank for school instead of partying. Studying in college instead of partying. Moving to a small town and making good enough money to get on your feet instead of insisting on living in the big city and making starvation wages. There are plenty of sacrifices that are purely lifestyle. It's the responsible thing.
On the other hand, my rent and bills are 17% of my income, and not because I make six figures. It lets me have a different lifestyle than most people.
So what decisions did that man make that lead to him making so little money?
Responsibility is two sides of a coin, as I said before. It's easy to live within your means. What's hard is making sacrifices for years to really build a future.
My ex-girlfriend and I show the dichotomy. Between the two of us, our income was easily in the six figures. Because of the irresponsible way money was spent, we never had any money, we ended up deeply in debt, always waiting for our next paycheque to barely keep our heads above water. We lived in a house we couldn't afford, driving vehicles we couldn't afford, we took trips we couldn't afford, and at the end of the day our unsustainable lifestyles were more stressful than it was worth.
By contrast, today I drive a vehicle that's paid for, I live in an apartment I can easily afford the rent in, and rather than being one paycheque from oblivion and months behind on my bills, all my bills are paid several months ahead. As a result of my responsibility, I could easily run out and buy anything I want. I have savings, I have disposable income, I have the money to do whatever I want.
Maybe you're just not as responsible as you think?
FINALLY. Someone actually says something about games.
I tip my hat to you.
I'm probably going to end up with a PS3, if history is any indication. I ended up with a bunch of gamecube games for my Wii, and the GC had more going against it than the ps3. At the end of the day, it's not going to be linux, or some ethereal "power", it's going to be the games that make me buy a PS3, just like it was ironically the lack of games that convinced me to get rid of my Wii.
There are two sides to every equation. Truly responsible people can afford it, because they've made the choices and sacrifices they needed to be secure enough to get what they want.
Self-righteous and prick I'll take. It's the Internet. You either piss people off, or suck people off, or people don't bother stopping.
Irresponsible is a ridiculous charge, however. I'm debt-free, have a chunk of change in the bank, and a sizeable severance if I'm ever laid off. How's it irresponsible to own a few consoles?
It's very difficult to take the claims from bin Laden, Al Queda, and the CIA at face value, because they all have a large stake in denial.
Osama bin Laden needs to appear opposed to the West. Being trained and armed by the CIA would undermine his power.
Al Queda doesn't want to appear a mere puppet of the CIA, which they would if they were trained, funded, and armed by the West(It would make their push away from Osama bin Laden appear incongruent, further damaging their image, undermining their power).
The CIA, by contrast, doesn't at all want to appear even remotely associated with the 9/11 attacks. The mere thought at this point has damaged their reputation and their power, and if it were to become common wisdom and if it were to gain momentum in more populist circles, they could see their funding collapse.
I'm not saying they're lying, but I'm saying they're not trustworthy sources of information on this.
If nothing else, it would have made the moral absolutism that's in vogue much more tolerable. Acting in private like we're in a world of relatives and tough decisions, but acting in public like we're in a world of absolutes where we're good and all who oppose us evil is a troubling hypocrisy.
Most people don't realise that a nuclear bomb isn't really all that bad in the context of total war. It's big, but not really that big.
A single nuclear bomb is comparable to thousands of tonnes of TNT. That sounds big, but the problem is, we were already dropping thousands of tonnes of TNT on civilian areas. Radiation burns are a little scary, but no scarier than the actual burns caused by the massive fires when the allies firebombed Tokyo (More people were killed by the firebombing of Tokyo than either Hiroshima or Nagasaki).
Somehow, people have forgotten that war is shit. It's not glamorous. It's not honourable. War is like an animal clawing and biting to eat through a corpse to avoid drowning, ugly and without any redeeming aesthetic qualities. The mad scramble to survive no matter what the cost, against all morality.
That's ok, I don't understand either of you. I buy everything with cash I have. Even my mastercard is prepaid, so I'm never spending money that isn't mine. It's nice. Really easy to sleep during a recession.
You know, this whole discussion didn't make much sense to me until you said that.
I'm Canadian, and whenever I pay with my bank card the money is out of my account before I put the pad down. Likewise, if I deposit less than 1000 dollars into my bank account, it's in the account before I get the reciept. Same if I move money between my accounts. Same with my mastercard. When I make a purchase, it's processed so quickly I can hit the refresh button in my browser on the card's website and see my new balance right away.
It's always been like that for me, so the idea of transactions taking weeks to finish is alien to me.
Ah, The one I used was an Eee 701. Hooked it up to a 50" projection TV and watched streaming movies while visi. Shame they stopped including it with the 900.
"The origins of the group can be traced to the Soviet war in Afghanistan. The United States viewed the conflict in Afghanistan, with the Afghan Marxists and allied Soviet troops on one side and the native Afghan mujahedeen on the other, as a blatant case of Soviet expansionism and aggression. The U.S. channelled funds through Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency to the native Afghan mujahedeen fighting the Soviet occupation in a CIA program called Operation Cyclone."1
Let's go back to what I actually said to begin with -- ah, a third party site which shows that Sony's game division didn't make a profit last year. See, this is an actual contribution to discussion. By contrast, you've now wasted 4 posts on some lame aside about how you don't have a 360. Nobody cares that you don't have a 360. It doesn't add anything to the discussion. Quit wasting everyone's time.
We're in an age where some incredible games are being released. The indie scene is more alive than it's been since the days of Doom. When I bought my first indie game, Pontifex, back in 2000, it was a strange thing. Today, for the first time in history, you can actually buy an indie game right from your xbox. I bought Braid and N+ this weekend and it took about 20 seconds. The commercial scene has some incredible players, like Valve Software, who keep on churning out unique titles like Left 4 Dead and Portal.
Sure there are brownfest WWII shooters, but that's always been the case. Download a rompack for the SNES and NES, and see how many games are actually any good. You'll be shocked at the massive amount of crap you have to sift through to find the diamonds.
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Pretty simple if you already knew it. Otherwise, completely unintuitive. Why would I have to use tar when it's a .gz file? Why would I have to specify it's a file?
That's such a lie it's not even wrong.
You have a .tar.gz file. How do you open it?
Well, if you google it, you'll know you need to run tar -xzvf. Otherwise, prepare for some agony. I recall spending an afternoon back in 1996 trying to figure out how to extract a file for the first time under linux. DOS was so easy, "unzip file.zip" or "unzip file.zip -d" if there was directory information inside. I tried gunzip, but that didn't do it. Eventually, after finally searching on-line, I figured out what I needed to do.
Of course! -xzvf! That's so intuitive!
Dude, it's not flattering free sex if you're on the bottom.
And I'm saying if you're really responsible, you've positioned yourself in such a way that you can afford things you want. The 360 has been out for years. If you still can't afford one but you want one, how responsible can you be?
The cool thing is, there's no paradox.
Putting money in the bank for school instead of partying. Studying in college instead of partying. Moving to a small town and making good enough money to get on your feet instead of insisting on living in the big city and making starvation wages. There are plenty of sacrifices that are purely lifestyle. It's the responsible thing.
On the other hand, my rent and bills are 17% of my income, and not because I make six figures. It lets me have a different lifestyle than most people.
So what decisions did that man make that lead to him making so little money?
Responsibility is two sides of a coin, as I said before. It's easy to live within your means. What's hard is making sacrifices for years to really build a future.
I don't have any proof that they're lying. I just have reasonable reason to take their comments at face value.
My ex-girlfriend and I show the dichotomy. Between the two of us, our income was easily in the six figures. Because of the irresponsible way money was spent, we never had any money, we ended up deeply in debt, always waiting for our next paycheque to barely keep our heads above water. We lived in a house we couldn't afford, driving vehicles we couldn't afford, we took trips we couldn't afford, and at the end of the day our unsustainable lifestyles were more stressful than it was worth.
By contrast, today I drive a vehicle that's paid for, I live in an apartment I can easily afford the rent in, and rather than being one paycheque from oblivion and months behind on my bills, all my bills are paid several months ahead. As a result of my responsibility, I could easily run out and buy anything I want. I have savings, I have disposable income, I have the money to do whatever I want.
Maybe you're just not as responsible as you think?
FINALLY. Someone actually says something about games.
I tip my hat to you.
I'm probably going to end up with a PS3, if history is any indication. I ended up with a bunch of gamecube games for my Wii, and the GC had more going against it than the ps3. At the end of the day, it's not going to be linux, or some ethereal "power", it's going to be the games that make me buy a PS3, just like it was ironically the lack of games that convinced me to get rid of my Wii.
There are two sides to every equation. Truly responsible people can afford it, because they've made the choices and sacrifices they needed to be secure enough to get what they want.
Self-righteous and prick I'll take. It's the Internet. You either piss people off, or suck people off, or people don't bother stopping.
Irresponsible is a ridiculous charge, however. I'm debt-free, have a chunk of change in the bank, and a sizeable severance if I'm ever laid off. How's it irresponsible to own a few consoles?
So is my point less valid when applied to how much folding@home he can do?
It's very difficult to take the claims from bin Laden, Al Queda, and the CIA at face value, because they all have a large stake in denial.
Osama bin Laden needs to appear opposed to the West. Being trained and armed by the CIA would undermine his power.
Al Queda doesn't want to appear a mere puppet of the CIA, which they would if they were trained, funded, and armed by the West(It would make their push away from Osama bin Laden appear incongruent, further damaging their image, undermining their power).
The CIA, by contrast, doesn't at all want to appear even remotely associated with the 9/11 attacks. The mere thought at this point has damaged their reputation and their power, and if it were to become common wisdom and if it were to gain momentum in more populist circles, they could see their funding collapse.
I'm not saying they're lying, but I'm saying they're not trustworthy sources of information on this.
If nothing else, it would have made the moral absolutism that's in vogue much more tolerable. Acting in private like we're in a world of relatives and tough decisions, but acting in public like we're in a world of absolutes where we're good and all who oppose us evil is a troubling hypocrisy.
Most people don't realise that a nuclear bomb isn't really all that bad in the context of total war. It's big, but not really that big.
A single nuclear bomb is comparable to thousands of tonnes of TNT. That sounds big, but the problem is, we were already dropping thousands of tonnes of TNT on civilian areas. Radiation burns are a little scary, but no scarier than the actual burns caused by the massive fires when the allies firebombed Tokyo (More people were killed by the firebombing of Tokyo than either Hiroshima or Nagasaki).
Somehow, people have forgotten that war is shit. It's not glamorous. It's not honourable. War is like an animal clawing and biting to eat through a corpse to avoid drowning, ugly and without any redeeming aesthetic qualities. The mad scramble to survive no matter what the cost, against all morality.
That's ok, I don't understand either of you. I buy everything with cash I have. Even my mastercard is prepaid, so I'm never spending money that isn't mine. It's nice. Really easy to sleep during a recession.
You know, this whole discussion didn't make much sense to me until you said that.
I'm Canadian, and whenever I pay with my bank card the money is out of my account before I put the pad down. Likewise, if I deposit less than 1000 dollars into my bank account, it's in the account before I get the reciept. Same if I move money between my accounts. Same with my mastercard. When I make a purchase, it's processed so quickly I can hit the refresh button in my browser on the card's website and see my new balance right away.
It's always been like that for me, so the idea of transactions taking weeks to finish is alien to me.
Ah, The one I used was an Eee 701. Hooked it up to a 50" projection TV and watched streaming movies while visi. Shame they stopped including it with the 900.
"The origins of the group can be traced to the Soviet war in Afghanistan. The United States viewed the conflict in Afghanistan, with the Afghan Marxists and allied Soviet troops on one side and the native Afghan mujahedeen on the other, as a blatant case of Soviet expansionism and aggression. The U.S. channelled funds through Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency to the native Afghan mujahedeen fighting the Soviet occupation in a CIA program called Operation Cyclone."1
Cited, yo.
Let's go back to what I actually said to begin with -- ah, a third party site which shows that Sony's game division didn't make a profit last year. See, this is an actual contribution to discussion. By contrast, you've now wasted 4 posts on some lame aside about how you don't have a 360. Nobody cares that you don't have a 360. It doesn't add anything to the discussion. Quit wasting everyone's time.
That's generally what happens when you provide logistical support and a base of operations to a terrorist organization that attacks a Great Power.
Now I understand why the United States is imploding, it's suicide. "How DARE we fund Al Queda, who attacked....ourselves!"
I disagree.
We're in an age where some incredible games are being released. The indie scene is more alive than it's been since the days of Doom. When I bought my first indie game, Pontifex, back in 2000, it was a strange thing. Today, for the first time in history, you can actually buy an indie game right from your xbox. I bought Braid and N+ this weekend and it took about 20 seconds. The commercial scene has some incredible players, like Valve Software, who keep on churning out unique titles like Left 4 Dead and Portal.
Sure there are brownfest WWII shooters, but that's always been the case. Download a rompack for the SNES and NES, and see how many games are actually any good. You'll be shocked at the massive amount of crap you have to sift through to find the diamonds.
What do I look like, your dancing monkey?
So far, I've made a contribution to this discussion, and you've made none. I could keep on talking, and the score won't change.
It's funny that you mention that. I think of the dozen or so games I have for my console, only one has multiplayer anymore.
According to the site I linked to, Microsoft's game division made half a billion dollars last year.