No, the Mandriva urpmi GUIs are still pretty kludgy - or they feel like it at least. After using synaptic on PCLinuxOS, I'm loathed to go back to Mandriva's tools. That's tools, with an "s" - four separate apps for package installation, removal, updating, and for managing your repositories. You can't run them all at the same time either (IIRC), as each one will lock the RPM database for itself...
I'm using PureVision lenses - the ones that you wear for 30 days (including at night) - they are *far* more comfortable than my previous, take-them-out-at-night, monthly disposables, and they cause *no* redness in my eyes (which my previous ones did).
The only time my eyes feel dry or sore is when I've not been blinking for too long - like after playing a particularly intensive FPS match!
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Nevrax have developed the GPLed "Nevrax Library" (NeL), used by Nevrax's own MMORPG; The Saga of Ryzom: "NeL is a toolkit for the development of massively online universes. It provides the base technologies and a set of development methodologies for the development of both client and server code." http://www.nevrax.org/
I can't really comment on it's usefullness though, as I haven't looked deeply into it - I'm not a C++ developer.
I too was rather disappointed with how demanding Civ4 is on hardware - it's a TBS, not an FPS. It's even more demanding than they imply in the requirements as well - I would *not* "recommend" 512 MB RAM for it. Load and quit times were ridiculous for even "standard" sized maps. Blistering after I upped to 1.5GB though.
One thing I do love about this version though is it's fantastic moddability (with Python). It does seem somewhat slack on Firaxis' part though, when you have to use 3rd-party mods to fix bugs in the game - the trade (commerce) icon is the same as the money icon by default...
It's NOT the computer companies fault things have grown this way. They- like all companies- are a FOR-PROFIT venture, and will do whatever they think is the thing that will garner them the most profit. Period.
I wish people would stop peddling this line. A company's purpose is defined by the people who run it, not by some mystical property of company-ness. It just happens to be that most, but not all, companies seem to be run by people who desire money over anything else. Actually, perhaps not so much "just happens" - people driven to run a company are probably more likely to have money as their aim for doing so, because of the culture we live in.
So I say it IS the companies' fault, at least partially, that we're in the state we're in.
IIRC, In the UK, the official difference between biscuits and cakes is that, when left out for a while, biscuits go soggy, whereas cakes dry out. Because they're biscuit-sized and shaped, it had to be proven to the authorities (whomever they may be) that Jaffa Cakes were in fact cakes - they were threatened with a name change to "Jaffa Biscuits". I believe that this is because it's not a common occurance for Jaffa Cakes to last more than a few minutes after the packet has been opened...
Furniture from IKEA comes flat-packed with an alan key, and whilst an IKEA desk may not be a handmade mahogany desk with glass top, it is still a flat surface to work on. Does the fact you put it together out of pre-assembled components make it any less of a desk?
In the most general sense, no (assuming you put it together correctly), but it does make the quality of the desk an unknown quantity.
Without knowing what went into the manufacture of the individual components, you don't know if you were supplied with substandard parts, and hence at risk from part of it breaking, and the whole thing falling over without warning the first time your friend, who doesn't 'get' desks, tries to use it...
I was 'disconnected' from my ADSL a while back, not because any of my machines were infected, but because I'd tried scanning my company's IP.
My ISP had detected traffic on port 135 (some Windows thing exploited by malware), and automatically stopped forwarding any connections to or from my home machines. The only port which was allowed was port 80, and every web page request was redirected to a help page explaining what had happened.:)
After blocking port 135 at my router, all it took was clicking a link on the aforementioned web page, and my connection was restored automagically.
I'm not sure how you could mention the BBC's factual audio content without also mentioning the reith lectures, which are available for download (in Real format).:) They appear to have all the lectures from 1999 to the present, and several assorted older ones - going back to Bertrand Russel in 1948.
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No, the Mandriva urpmi GUIs are still pretty kludgy - or they feel like it at least. After using synaptic on PCLinuxOS, I'm loathed to go back to Mandriva's tools.
That's tools, with an "s" - four separate apps for package installation, removal, updating, and for managing your repositories. You can't run them all at the same time either (IIRC), as each one will lock the RPM database for itself...
I remember trying out one game that used the camera as a control mechanism; a cow-shooting game called "Blowcow".
Seriously.
*cough* -11.5/-11.0 *cough*
I'm using PureVision lenses - the ones that you wear for 30 days (including at night) - they are *far* more comfortable than my previous, take-them-out-at-night, monthly disposables, and they cause *no* redness in my eyes (which my previous ones did).
The only time my eyes feel dry or sore is when I've not been blinking for too long - like after playing a particularly intensive FPS match!
Nevrax have developed the GPLed "Nevrax Library" (NeL), used by Nevrax's own MMORPG; The Saga of Ryzom:
"NeL is a toolkit for the development of massively online universes. It provides the base technologies and a set of development methodologies for the development of both client and server code."
http://www.nevrax.org/
I can't really comment on it's usefullness though, as I haven't looked deeply into it - I'm not a C++ developer.
I too was rather disappointed with how demanding Civ4 is on hardware - it's a TBS, not an FPS. It's even more demanding than they imply in the requirements as well - I would *not* "recommend" 512 MB RAM for it. Load and quit times were ridiculous for even "standard" sized maps. Blistering after I upped to 1.5GB though.
One thing I do love about this version though is it's fantastic moddability (with Python).
It does seem somewhat slack on Firaxis' part though, when you have to use 3rd-party mods to fix bugs in the game - the trade (commerce) icon is the same as the money icon by default...
there is no location is the solar system that experiences "zero gravity"
Aren't Lagrange points effectively areas of "zero gravity"?
It's NOT the computer companies fault things have grown this way. They- like all companies- are a FOR-PROFIT venture, and will do whatever they think is the thing that will garner them the most profit. Period.
I wish people would stop peddling this line. A company's purpose is defined by the people who run it, not by some mystical property of company-ness. It just happens to be that most, but not all, companies seem to be run by people who desire money over anything else.
Actually, perhaps not so much "just happens" - people driven to run a company are probably more likely to have money as their aim for doing so, because of the culture we live in.
So I say it IS the companies' fault, at least partially, that we're in the state we're in.
You should watch more British films.
I think you just answered your own question.
IIRC, In the UK, the official difference between biscuits and cakes is that, when left out for a while, biscuits go soggy, whereas cakes dry out.
Because they're biscuit-sized and shaped, it had to be proven to the authorities (whomever they may be) that Jaffa Cakes were in fact cakes - they were threatened with a name change to "Jaffa Biscuits". I believe that this is because it's not a common occurance for Jaffa Cakes to last more than a few minutes after the packet has been opened...
Mmmmm....
Furniture from IKEA comes flat-packed with an alan key, and whilst an IKEA desk may not be a handmade mahogany desk with glass top, it is still a flat surface to work on. Does the fact you put it together out of pre-assembled components make it any less of a desk?
In the most general sense, no (assuming you put it together correctly), but it does make the quality of the desk an unknown quantity.
Without knowing what went into the manufacture of the individual components, you don't know if you were supplied with substandard parts, and hence at risk from part of it breaking, and the whole thing falling over without warning the first time your friend, who doesn't 'get' desks, tries to use it...
Neurons continually die off during a person's adult life, and you don't grow new ones...
Weren't rat neurons grown in the lab a while back?
Something about rat-brain-controlled stealth fighters...
Stay vigilant, fellow humans.
> Tides/Waves are the same thing.
Not so. Tides are caused by gravity, waves by the wind.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_power
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_power
I say "woot" at 23 minutes to 2pm every day.
I thought everyone did?
Apparently, there will be a European release, too! Woooo!
I was 'disconnected' from my ADSL a while back, not because any of my machines were infected, but because I'd tried scanning my company's IP. :)
My ISP had detected traffic on port 135 (some Windows thing exploited by malware), and automatically stopped forwarding any connections to or from my home machines. The only port which was allowed was port 80, and every web page request was redirected to a help page explaining what had happened.
After blocking port 135 at my router, all it took was clicking a link on the aforementioned web page, and my connection was restored automagically.
Rather well implemented, I thought.
But if you know it's right, you don't know precisely what it's right about.
I'm not sure how you could mention the BBC's factual audio content without also mentioning the reith lectures, which are available for download (in Real format). :)
They appear to have all the lectures from 1999 to the present, and several assorted older ones - going back to Bertrand Russel in 1948.
Ah but, like alcohol and tobacco, there is BIG money behind movies, music and tv.
They are on Yahoo finance - their symbol is "make.pa"
However, if in the past lefthandedness was often/usually beaten out of children, you would expect fewer lefties in older generations.
I was thinking; the White House
To quote Weird Al's Amish Paradise:
"I never wear buttons, but I got a cool hat"
I believe they use hook-and-eye fasteners, not buttons. It must be true, because I read it on the internet.
Hands are an imperial measurement also. They're most commonly used these days for measuring the height of horses.
google.com:
1 meter = 9.84251969 hands
I've been using USB flash drives in the "plug and play" manner since Mandrake 8.2!