One argument that I've seen against case insensitivity is that it is not very well defined. Especially with Unicode and other languages thrown in, mapping a letter to its upper/lowercase equivalent might not be so straightforward. Better to just making everything distinct that have users lose data because the filesystem author couldn't get it exactly right.
I don't necessarily agree with that argument, it's just one that I've seen that seemed to have some weight to it. I'm sure it can be worked out with some decent forethought, especially if that work went into a library that others could then reuse.
To expound a bit on the other reply, Debian's classification of "stable," "testing," and "unstable" refer to the entire repository's rate of change, not to the fitness of the packages. The stable tree sees very few package updates, mainly just security fixes, which is why the packages are usually so old; they don't update them so that server administrators don't have to worry about things changing. The unstable tree is where updated packages hit first, so it's changing all the time. As a repository, it's quite volatile.
As a regular user, I run against unstable because I want updates as soon as they're available, which is how I imagine other distributions like Fedora work. It doesn't mean your system will be unstable, and actually I've never had a package upgrade break my system. I guess I could be lucky on that count, though.
Candles and a magnifying glass? Luxury! When I was young, we didn't have glass or controllable fire, so we had to spend years training fireflies to simulate a lightsaber. We had some epic battles, but the dreaded Darth Frog was invincible.
(side note: which is more appropriate for gaming, farther or further?)
Farther is used as a measure of concrete distance. "I rode 5 miles farther than yesterday." You could maybe use it in this case if you're referring to the distance you've traveled in the game.
Further is used as a measure of relative degree. "He took that bad joke further than he should have." It would be more appropriate in this case, in my opinion, since game progression can't really be measured in distance. It's measured relative to past playings.
meaning they are the 1st party (because you do not buy Capcom games from Nintendo, you buy them from Capcom), the consumer is the 3rd party, and Nintendo is at best a 2nd party, and at worst pretty much totally uninvolved once the game gets to the stage of actually being sold.
I think Capcom and the consumer would be the first and second parties here (which is which depends on your point of view), because they are the ones involved in the transaction. Nintendo would be a third party with no involvement.
I'm not responding to whether or not allofmp3.com is legal, I've never used it so I don't really care. But I would like to respond to this:
allofmp3.com violates the spirit of the law, if not the exact wording. It is like saying that identity theft was legal because when it first started happening, there was no specific law against it.
Law makers and lawyers make a pretty big deal about the exact wording of laws. Of course judges get the final say when a law is being pressed in court, but in general it is the exact wording the counts. If the "spirit" of the law is broken enough, the law's exact wording will be changed or extended so that those offenders can actually be prosecuted in the future.
As to the second sentence, that's pretty much how it works in the US. The entire idea of being in a "free country" is that anything is legal unless there's a law against it. Laws restrict your freedoms, not grant them. Now we have a lot of laws, so most new situations (like identity theft) will already be covered by existing ones (anti-fraud laws). Otherwise, yes, if there is no law outlawing something, it is legal.
where did the change happen and when did I miss it? Microsoft announced $400 for a 20gb hdd version and everyone is all excited about it and doesn't think it's strange and they justify it instantly. Sony announces a $600 60gb hdd version and suddenly everyone shits their pants and can't understand why they are charging so much for it...what? A new processor is being used, a true next gen drive is in it, it can read just about every kind of card you can think of, yet no one can justify it, Yet when it comes to the 360 "oh yeah it's got that HDD that's why it's more" and that's it, that justifys the $100 higher over last generation?
People did bitch about the XBox360 price differences, and there are people now that are justifying the PS3 differences, so it's not all one or the other. On the other hand, not only is the premium PS3 $200 more than the premium XBox360, but $600 is just a huge chunk of money to many people. Sure $400 is pretty big too, but the XBox360 has already been out for months, so it's old news and people are used to by now. What I see people complaining about the most, though, is that they don't think that extra $200 is worth it, even if they are getting expensive tech for "a good deal." It's only a good deal if they want the extra stuff. Otherwise, it's just a bigger price tag.
The first graph on the page is the actual launch price, and lists $200 for the N64. The Wikipedia page for the N64 also agrees with that figure: "The Nintendo 64 cost $199 at launch in the United States."
The second graph is the price adjusted for inflation. That one gives $254 for the N64.
With a BSD option they can leverage the work of others, with no obligation to allow their improvements to be incorporated into the work they base their system upon.
So what? Obviously the developers who chose the BSD license had no problem with that, so what is the complaint here?
Safeway can track you too, even if you use cash to pay for everything, by using video cameras with facial recognition. It may be a way off yet before it's ubiquitous, but I bet not that far. Casinos use it already.
Soon the signs will read: Shirts and shoes required. Face masks prohibited.
Some people always prefer books because they force you to use your imagination.
I think this a red herring. Good books don't leave much to your imagination. They explain everything so that the author can ensure you get the image they want to convey, just like the director of a movie is doing. Long paragraphs about scene details are not uncommon in books.
In my opinion, the real reason many people like books more is because of depth. Movie's often can't go into all the nuances of something because of the time limit. Books can take longer to flesh everything out, such as character history and interaction. One example I like, since the movie is relatively popular, is The Princess Bride. The movie is good, but the depth you get from the book regarding the characters adds a lot to the story. Many people think the extra time to read the book is worth the additional depth. That's why they like books more.
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Nice summary, except you mixed up the meanings of affect.
You forgot to list the best web browser.
One argument that I've seen against case insensitivity is that it is not very well defined. Especially with Unicode and other languages thrown in, mapping a letter to its upper/lowercase equivalent might not be so straightforward. Better to just making everything distinct that have users lose data because the filesystem author couldn't get it exactly right.
I don't necessarily agree with that argument, it's just one that I've seen that seemed to have some weight to it. I'm sure it can be worked out with some decent forethought, especially if that work went into a library that others could then reuse.
To expound a bit on the other reply, Debian's classification of "stable," "testing," and "unstable" refer to the entire repository's rate of change, not to the fitness of the packages. The stable tree sees very few package updates, mainly just security fixes, which is why the packages are usually so old; they don't update them so that server administrators don't have to worry about things changing. The unstable tree is where updated packages hit first, so it's changing all the time. As a repository, it's quite volatile.
As a regular user, I run against unstable because I want updates as soon as they're available, which is how I imagine other distributions like Fedora work. It doesn't mean your system will be unstable, and actually I've never had a package upgrade break my system. I guess I could be lucky on that count, though.
Candles and a magnifying glass? Luxury! When I was young, we didn't have glass or controllable fire, so we had to spend years training fireflies to simulate a lightsaber. We had some epic battles, but the dreaded Darth Frog was invincible.
It's not too tough once you learn the basics of substitution and ranges.
I thought the point of the GPL was to encourage people to share and reuse code.
No, the point of the GPL is to ensure that the users have access to the source of the systems they use. That is all.
(side note: which is more appropriate for gaming, farther or further?)
Farther is used as a measure of concrete distance. "I rode 5 miles farther than yesterday." You could maybe use it in this case if you're referring to the distance you've traveled in the game.
Further is used as a measure of relative degree. "He took that bad joke further than he should have." It would be more appropriate in this case, in my opinion, since game progression can't really be measured in distance. It's measured relative to past playings.
be-fan, is that you?
meaning they are the 1st party (because you do not buy Capcom games from Nintendo, you buy them from Capcom), the consumer is the 3rd party, and Nintendo is at best a 2nd party, and at worst pretty much totally uninvolved once the game gets to the stage of actually being sold.
I think Capcom and the consumer would be the first and second parties here (which is which depends on your point of view), because they are the ones involved in the transaction. Nintendo would be a third party with no involvement.
Sure, it just depends on the family.
I'm not responding to whether or not allofmp3.com is legal, I've never used it so I don't really care. But I would like to respond to this:
allofmp3.com violates the spirit of the law, if not the exact wording. It is like saying that identity theft was legal because when it first started happening, there was no specific law against it.
Law makers and lawyers make a pretty big deal about the exact wording of laws. Of course judges get the final say when a law is being pressed in court, but in general it is the exact wording the counts. If the "spirit" of the law is broken enough, the law's exact wording will be changed or extended so that those offenders can actually be prosecuted in the future.
As to the second sentence, that's pretty much how it works in the US. The entire idea of being in a "free country" is that anything is legal unless there's a law against it. Laws restrict your freedoms, not grant them. Now we have a lot of laws, so most new situations (like identity theft) will already be covered by existing ones (anti-fraud laws). Otherwise, yes, if there is no law outlawing something, it is legal.
where did the change happen and when did I miss it? Microsoft announced $400 for a 20gb hdd version and everyone is all excited about it and doesn't think it's strange and they justify it instantly. Sony announces a $600 60gb hdd version and suddenly everyone shits their pants and can't understand why they are charging so much for it...what? A new processor is being used, a true next gen drive is in it, it can read just about every kind of card you can think of, yet no one can justify it, Yet when it comes to the 360 "oh yeah it's got that HDD that's why it's more" and that's it, that justifys the $100 higher over last generation?
People did bitch about the XBox360 price differences, and there are people now that are justifying the PS3 differences, so it's not all one or the other. On the other hand, not only is the premium PS3 $200 more than the premium XBox360, but $600 is just a huge chunk of money to many people. Sure $400 is pretty big too, but the XBox360 has already been out for months, so it's old news and people are used to by now. What I see people complaining about the most, though, is that they don't think that extra $200 is worth it, even if they are getting expensive tech for "a good deal." It's only a good deal if they want the extra stuff. Otherwise, it's just a bigger price tag.
People who don't get stereotyped are, in general, too boring to worry about.
The first graph on the page is the actual launch price, and lists $200 for the N64. The Wikipedia page for the N64 also agrees with that figure: "The Nintendo 64 cost $199 at launch in the United States."
The second graph is the price adjusted for inflation. That one gives $254 for the N64.
This is what I used when I switched to Dvorak:6 54.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/07/msg05
WTF is with that show? There's no game at all. Why do people think it's interesting?
With a BSD option they can leverage the work of others, with no obligation to allow their improvements to be incorporated into the work they base their system upon.
So what? Obviously the developers who chose the BSD license had no problem with that, so what is the complaint here?
Reading further, I see that the article agrees with you. Oh well.
A Catch 22 is a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" circumstance.
No, it isn't.
Safeway can track you too, even if you use cash to pay for everything, by using video cameras with facial recognition. It may be a way off yet before it's ubiquitous, but I bet not that far. Casinos use it already.
Soon the signs will read: Shirts and shoes required. Face masks prohibited.
An important distinction. Thanks for adding it.
Here's the short version.
BSD License: You can do basically anything.
GPL License: You can do basically anything, but you must make your modifications available.
Some people always prefer books because they force you to use your imagination.
I think this a red herring. Good books don't leave much to your imagination. They explain everything so that the author can ensure you get the image they want to convey, just like the director of a movie is doing. Long paragraphs about scene details are not uncommon in books.
In my opinion, the real reason many people like books more is because of depth. Movie's often can't go into all the nuances of something because of the time limit. Books can take longer to flesh everything out, such as character history and interaction. One example I like, since the movie is relatively popular, is The Princess Bride. The movie is good, but the depth you get from the book regarding the characters adds a lot to the story. Many people think the extra time to read the book is worth the additional depth. That's why they like books more.