Yep, and except for the Quarian fleet, all ships would run out of fuel before they got very far using "conventional" FTL. Those few ships that weren't obliterated in the gate explosions at any rate.
You hacked the game so it didn't destroy the Mass Effect gates? The Kobyashi Maru ending? You know, the things that, when destroyed, release enough energy to obliterate the solar system it is installed in as per the in-game encyclopedia?
It depends what you mean by "take care of it". In my city, I'm responsible for shoveling snow off of the sidewalk and for mowing the strip of grass between the sidewalk and the street, but I am not responsible for filling cracks or anything like that, the city takes care of that. It seems like a pretty reasonable compromise and probably better than the city running tiny snowplows up and down the sidewalks in the winter or something.
Are you kidding? The Xbone is everything Microsoft's customers said they wanted.
What? Oh, you're confused. Microsoft's customers aren't the people who buy their console, they're EA, Activision, etc... That's who the console was designed for.
Yep, I was glad that the last Mass Effect was the final game of the trilogy, because now I don't have to buy it again. Also, the game was such a disaster (IMHO) that it pretty much ruined the franchise for me anyway. I mean the books were horrible too, but they were tertiary, you could ignore them pretty easily. Having the final game suck harder than Phantom Menace was inexcusable.
Pulling a 1.7TB file over a modem would be quite the achievement though. I imagine you getting to 1.6TB and then mom picks up the phone and makes the carrier drop and you have to start all over again.
I lost a knife to the TSA a few years ago, so now whenever I have an early flight I stick the knife in my checked bags the day before so I don't automatically put it in my pocket at 4AM in the morning by force of habit.
I also started out on the C64, but since I lived in West Virginia there was nobody who understood assembler, nor any useful materials. Everything I knew about the machine I got out of the manual. The only assembler I knew was the code for the sprite generator, because that was given as an example in the manual. I sometimes wonder how different my life would have been if I had access to the kind of online resources kids do these days. Nothing quite as isolating as being seemingly the only person in the county with an interest in something.
I eventually moved on to Hypertalk (Hypercard) when my parents got a Mac LC. Back in the old days Apple would give you the full Hypercard development environment with your mac (System 7.0 days) which made it easy to get started. My mom even found a programming reference for it at the bookstore and it opened up a whole world to me. I'm still annoyed that Apple dumped Hypercard, it was a great gateway programming environment.
Nobody who says the words "Free Market" today means that. They're all referring to letting business do whatever they want without pesky regulations or consumer protections or anything like that. Fuck the commons, Free Market!
You see this all the time with crackpots.
"I invented a perpetual motion machine/cold fusion device/200mpg carburetor/etc...! I just need money to develop it!"
"Wonderful! Let me replicate the results first and we're in business!"
"NO WAY! You're just going to steal the technology and kill me and leave me in a ditch somewhere!!!"
If the process were legitimate, they would be more than happy to let you test it. All that paranoia is just an excuse to hide the fact that it's bullshit.
x86_64 support seems less critical for me. Sure you'll be limited to 4GB of memory, but it's a toy OS anyway. No chip is going to drop support for ia32 anytime soon (heck, they still support old 16 bit modes!). The lack of UEFI support however is going to seriously limit the number of machines it can be installed on in the near future. It's going to become hard to find machines that still have an old style BIOS on them.
Wow, they got SATA support on May 10, 2013? I wonder how long it will take them to implement UEFI support. Is it always going to be a decade behind?
My understanding is that Hurd has been held back because Stallman was a bit of a control freak and made it very difficult for the community to help him develop the kernel, even after his wrists went and he couldn't personally code anymore. Linus had a much much better attitude towards community development which allowed the Linux kernel to completely displace Hurd.
I really hope this means every XBox will come with a Cablecard slot in the back, just so Microsoft can cause every Cable Company manager's head to explode at the same time when they announce the feature.
Also, these are derivative works in most cases. They're not just putting FMV segments up, they're playing the game, adding content (commentaries for instance), and are getting stolen from just as much as Nintendo was previously. This would be like a cover band being required to pay all of their income to the original bands. Some sort of revenue sharing agreement is clearly needed.
I was talking about the binaries, not the source. The binaries are 256 bytes, as was mentioned in the writeup, but "compressed" they ended up around 260 bytes or so.
That's like complaining that oh no, you need to use Postscript, that's a DRIVER!!!
The point is that the OS comes with the Postscript driver, as well as PPD support. They'll never become obsolete and will always be supported by new versions of the OS.
Wait, MA doesn't have a concept of a life changing event for their enrollement process? That doesn't sound right. If you move into the state or have a baby or something you should be eligible to join regardless of what month it is.
The worst part is that zip actually increased the size of the programs by a few bytes. It was counterproductive here, although it did help shrink that relatively gigantic disk image.
I will never buy a non-Postscript printer ever again. Postscript printers mean you never have to mess with drivers, especially network Postscript printers.
You're asking the federal government to solve a state government problem. While they theoretically have the power to enact a sweeping federal legislation banning these sorts of laws, there is absolutely no political will for it. Not unless Elon Musk gets his butt over to Washington DC and breaks out the checkbook.
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Yep, and except for the Quarian fleet, all ships would run out of fuel before they got very far using "conventional" FTL. Those few ships that weren't obliterated in the gate explosions at any rate.
You hacked the game so it didn't destroy the Mass Effect gates? The Kobyashi Maru ending? You know, the things that, when destroyed, release enough energy to obliterate the solar system it is installed in as per the in-game encyclopedia?
Doesn't matter, they still killed the universe (to save it!) at the end of ME3 anyway.
It depends what you mean by "take care of it". In my city, I'm responsible for shoveling snow off of the sidewalk and for mowing the strip of grass between the sidewalk and the street, but I am not responsible for filling cracks or anything like that, the city takes care of that. It seems like a pretty reasonable compromise and probably better than the city running tiny snowplows up and down the sidewalks in the winter or something.
On the other hand, they'll probably be pretty well preserved now that they're encased in cement.
Are you kidding? The Xbone is everything Microsoft's customers said they wanted.
What? Oh, you're confused. Microsoft's customers aren't the people who buy their console, they're EA, Activision, etc... That's who the console was designed for.
Yep, I was glad that the last Mass Effect was the final game of the trilogy, because now I don't have to buy it again. Also, the game was such a disaster (IMHO) that it pretty much ruined the franchise for me anyway. I mean the books were horrible too, but they were tertiary, you could ignore them pretty easily. Having the final game suck harder than Phantom Menace was inexcusable.
That would be an interesting sci-fi device. The heat engine where the cold side is somehow anchored to absolute zero (or maybe just above it).
Don't you mean 56kbit/s? And really, 52kbit/s?
Pulling a 1.7TB file over a modem would be quite the achievement though. I imagine you getting to 1.6TB and then mom picks up the phone and makes the carrier drop and you have to start all over again.
I lost a knife to the TSA a few years ago, so now whenever I have an early flight I stick the knife in my checked bags the day before so I don't automatically put it in my pocket at 4AM in the morning by force of habit.
I also started out on the C64, but since I lived in West Virginia there was nobody who understood assembler, nor any useful materials. Everything I knew about the machine I got out of the manual. The only assembler I knew was the code for the sprite generator, because that was given as an example in the manual. I sometimes wonder how different my life would have been if I had access to the kind of online resources kids do these days. Nothing quite as isolating as being seemingly the only person in the county with an interest in something.
I eventually moved on to Hypertalk (Hypercard) when my parents got a Mac LC. Back in the old days Apple would give you the full Hypercard development environment with your mac (System 7.0 days) which made it easy to get started. My mom even found a programming reference for it at the bookstore and it opened up a whole world to me. I'm still annoyed that Apple dumped Hypercard, it was a great gateway programming environment.
Nobody who says the words "Free Market" today means that. They're all referring to letting business do whatever they want without pesky regulations or consumer protections or anything like that. Fuck the commons, Free Market!
I've never seen it either, but I know that it must happen because it's so obvious.
You see this all the time with crackpots.
"I invented a perpetual motion machine/cold fusion device/200mpg carburetor/etc...! I just need money to develop it!"
"Wonderful! Let me replicate the results first and we're in business!"
"NO WAY! You're just going to steal the technology and kill me and leave me in a ditch somewhere!!!"
If the process were legitimate, they would be more than happy to let you test it. All that paranoia is just an excuse to hide the fact that it's bullshit.
x86_64 support seems less critical for me. Sure you'll be limited to 4GB of memory, but it's a toy OS anyway. No chip is going to drop support for ia32 anytime soon (heck, they still support old 16 bit modes!). The lack of UEFI support however is going to seriously limit the number of machines it can be installed on in the near future. It's going to become hard to find machines that still have an old style BIOS on them.
Wow, they got SATA support on May 10, 2013? I wonder how long it will take them to implement UEFI support. Is it always going to be a decade behind?
My understanding is that Hurd has been held back because Stallman was a bit of a control freak and made it very difficult for the community to help him develop the kernel, even after his wrists went and he couldn't personally code anymore. Linus had a much much better attitude towards community development which allowed the Linux kernel to completely displace Hurd.
I really hope this means every XBox will come with a Cablecard slot in the back, just so Microsoft can cause every Cable Company manager's head to explode at the same time when they announce the feature.
So he's been burnt to a crisp?
I think he meant to say Doctrine of Fair Use.
Also, these are derivative works in most cases. They're not just putting FMV segments up, they're playing the game, adding content (commentaries for instance), and are getting stolen from just as much as Nintendo was previously. This would be like a cover band being required to pay all of their income to the original bands. Some sort of revenue sharing agreement is clearly needed.
I was talking about the binaries, not the source. The binaries are 256 bytes, as was mentioned in the writeup, but "compressed" they ended up around 260 bytes or so.
That's like complaining that oh no, you need to use Postscript, that's a DRIVER!!!
The point is that the OS comes with the Postscript driver, as well as PPD support. They'll never become obsolete and will always be supported by new versions of the OS.
Wait, MA doesn't have a concept of a life changing event for their enrollement process? That doesn't sound right. If you move into the state or have a baby or something you should be eligible to join regardless of what month it is.
The worst part is that zip actually increased the size of the programs by a few bytes. It was counterproductive here, although it did help shrink that relatively gigantic disk image.
I will never buy a non-Postscript printer ever again. Postscript printers mean you never have to mess with drivers, especially network Postscript printers.
You're asking the federal government to solve a state government problem. While they theoretically have the power to enact a sweeping federal legislation banning these sorts of laws, there is absolutely no political will for it. Not unless Elon Musk gets his butt over to Washington DC and breaks out the checkbook.