I agree with poster below. If you're that upset why don't you download it from pirate bay and donate them the retail cost of the game over paypal to some email address. Also moan about steam activation in the message as why you didn't buy.
That way you can argue you've bought it without the steam bullshit (it's what I do with music when I can)
I'm all for oil recovery from spills I really am. However I do wonder if recovery is the most efficient way of cleaning up a spill compared to breaking down the oil?
Anyone with knowledge able to confirm if recovery is the best course for cleanup?
Heh, I agree about the Community support officers! I was amongst the 3rd batch trained and when I passed a laughably short training the police had no idea on how to use me. Took them 2yrs to really figure it out and by then I got bored, decided that becoming a regular wasn't for me and moved into IT. The CSO's really are quite bad (even if a lot of them have their heart in the right place at least).
Specials in every city _would_ make the world a better place, simple as that. Career police tend to be the bullys. Hell, I wouldn't want to be a regular officer but I'm tempted as hell to be a special because they do get the full training. Just don't try and become a regular officer when you're a special since HR will hold that against you (why pay for something that you do for free).
I do take offence at calling special's plastic sir. It's the PCSO's that are plastic/diet coke/margarine of the police world:lol:
There should be a legal way of being a "superhero", which lets face it, unless they have something wrong with them means the person is not a vigilante but just wants to help.
For example, I live in London and here we have something called special constables who get regular police training and donate their spare time to being a police officer with all the privileges and titles of that role. For this they get free travel and expenses (basically lunch/dinner). Would it be so hard for cities all over the world to have similar programmes? If someone can pass the training AND they're doing it for free, they can be that superhero patrolling the neighbourhoods that career police aren't interested in, hell; if you keep patrolling the same neighbourhood you get attached to it and the people to you which means you can learn more as well about what needs to be done. We also have something called Safer Neighbourhoods for this as well, it can work in places outside of London I'm sure.
Spoken as an ex- community support officer in London so I might be biased for police slightly./Maq
If you accept that the internet will spit out your details at some point do this;
1. Sign up to dropbox (it's free and works on all platforms - including mobiles) 2. Get a copy of Keepassx, mac/windows version might have different name, never used them. 3. Store database of keepassx on dropbox so you've always got access to it. 4. Each website gets own generated password, short passwords for things you might need to type in on phone but still random.
This way, 1 bad event like this keeps you safe. I have both on my Android as well so it's with me always./Maq
I agree, the old plain Ericsson phones were solid imho. The R320 is still one of my favourite phones due to how solid it was, the T28 before it was the popular highend phone (whilst Nokia seemed to hold the low end with the 6210 or something?).
With Microsoft owning Nokia in all but name and Ericsson being taken out by Sony... the two big European phone operators are no longer. Sad day for me.
I'll happily be called obtuse on this but I would prefer an android phone being sold without vfat support or anything that microsoft thinks they own and the ability to add such capabilities would be paid for as a plugin directly from ms (like virtualbox does with premium modules). This way I can buy a phone knowing that microsoft won't be getting a penny out of me since I have no need for fat32 and people that do need it (say when they plug it into a windows computer something pops up saying "you'll need this to talk to windows".
What about mac users? Mac has access to extX does it? (I really don't know) if so then only windows users need to pay microsoft more money to use their os. Hell, maybe windows can come bundled with the ability to tether android devices to it.
Going from the N900 to the Galaxy S II when it turns up is going to be a culture shock, I honestly hadn't thought that video playback would be a concern.
You do make some good points. I'm thinking more of a cost and very pure paper to e-ink swap (where you don't really have much in the way of new features, which means the devices are treated like paper rather then fancy moving laptops running powerpoint slides).
I'd see it as a, get a bunch of big kindle devices (which don't exist so it makes my arguement a bit thin) but I imagine the cost would be far less then the ipad. Then you see how that goes. Once everyone is used to having e-paper, then you can think about having advanced e-paper that can do what you suggest.
If youre only replacing paper, you cant really beat e-ink. It would be pretty good as a straight swap.
I agree... but aren't the government looking for a paperless office? If you need something that can do more then a kindle-esque device then either have an ipad or maybe just get a laptop?
Not that I'm suggesting my very poor government tries to build it's own device but surely a tablet sized kindle would be better? Some of those documents must be pretty bug, surely e-ink is the way forward in that regard?
I find Ubuntu weighed down compared to others. Obviously purely anecdotal, but Debian seems much quicker and Gentoo (what I use) feels quicker even more so. BSD vs Gentoo would be a fairer fight.
Yes yes, I know after youve been compiling Gentoo for days it would be slower, but you cant argue against a cut to the bone system that Gentoo can provide. (which Ubuntu is anything but)
This isn't a troll. I want to buy this but wondering if anyone has tested this under wine, appdb reports garbage but they were pre-release versions. Payday on Thursday so hopefully appdb updated with at least a silver before then:)
I think your problem is and the reason I hate the game is that when you take over a village you get that option to either absorb it into your empire OR have it as some weird vassal state thing for a little while and incorporate it later. If you take over it straight away, that city's unhappiness will cause unhappiness in your empire so you have to wait until the AI builds some happiness buildings for you and the local people stop complaining that they were conquered.
I've also had the problem where you start taking over large parts of the stupid AI's empire and all of a sudden your empire is crying itself to sleep over all the happiness you have.
Civ5 won't be touched by me again until about 4 patches OR a very good mod. Civ4 and Alpha Centauri still rule the roost in my eyes.
From memory, if you run format in Solaris you'll get some more information on which disk is what.
As for the solaris naming convention you might need to look inside your system and work out which drive it is, the d0 means its the first disk on that controller, if you have more then one controller then you'll have more trouble working out which is which.
prtdiag will give you more information about whats in the box and you might be able to work out the controller through that AND delving into/dev/pci*/ it find out.
That's the command you are looking for. The zfs-fuse lists disks by id which means if you go into/dev/disks/by-id/ and do a ls -al you'll see which devices they are linked to.
It is done this way to make it easier in Linux, in BSD/Solaris the disks are by gpt name (well they were for me) so this keeps it sane.
As I said, I spoke to Michael Simms a couple of weeks ago over email to see what could be done about getting the license to the Linux port of Alpha Centauri so it could be patched and sold again, etc.
Didn't see any evidence that LGP had stopped working, they're a part time company mostly from what I gather, give them some credit!
Oh and as for SMAC, it seems Mr Simms tried hard; nay VERY HARD to get the rights to it but with no success, I'm hoping that if Steam does make it to Linux we can use that as the carrot to get a few of the older Loki titles back.
Buy another ps3, then you can use one exclusively for Linux and another for playing games. Certainly cheaper then the 10k blade or the cell expansion card you can get for a desktop that I've seen around.
Note - I am a Gentoo running Ps3 user. I will miss OtherOS. Time to get that tiny pc to sit next to my ps3.
There are a few bands I listen to that I want to get the album's for but according to riaaradar; they mostly under riaa labels. Is there a way to get their music without giving the label a penny?
Like buying from their site? Downloading it for free and donating said amount to them somehow?
I'm going to a Lacuna Coil concert tomorrow in North London (and their music isn't riaa tainted) but they are probably the only ones.
We don't no, we have the Human rights act (which IRC came from the mainland and the EU) which has very similar provisions to your constitution.
The issue is though, the goverment does what it wants because of those darn terrorists, we're not as crazy as america on the subject, our number one gripe seems to be peadophiles, according to the media there are several on every road and have more rights then the average person, etc etc.
Luckily/Unluckily we have the house of Lords who seem to block a lot of stuff that goes through the house of commons.
Well we have liberty groups, their main gripe from what I can tell is all the big brother cameras and terrorist "youve accessed xyz-islamrules.org - go to prision for several weeks while we investigate" It's quite scary actually.
The "funny" one was over the 7/7 bombings, we were posted to local train stations (with Walthomstow central getting extra attention) and we were to search anyone that could be a terrorist... and granny smith's, because granny smith's were needed so when the results got back to Scotland yard it wouldn't show that noone but young muslim males were be searched.
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I agree with poster below. If you're that upset why don't you download it from pirate bay and donate them the retail cost of the game over paypal to some email address. Also moan about steam activation in the message as why you didn't buy.
That way you can argue you've bought it without the steam bullshit (it's what I do with music when I can)
I'm all for oil recovery from spills I really am. However I do wonder if recovery is the most efficient way of cleaning up a spill compared to breaking down the oil?
Anyone with knowledge able to confirm if recovery is the best course for cleanup?
Heh, I agree about the Community support officers! I was amongst the 3rd batch trained and when I passed a laughably short training the police had no idea on how to use me. Took them 2yrs to really figure it out and by then I got bored, decided that becoming a regular wasn't for me and moved into IT. The CSO's really are quite bad (even if a lot of them have their heart in the right place at least).
Specials in every city _would_ make the world a better place, simple as that. Career police tend to be the bullys. Hell, I wouldn't want to be a regular officer but I'm tempted as hell to be a special because they do get the full training. Just don't try and become a regular officer when you're a special since HR will hold that against you (why pay for something that you do for free).
I do take offence at calling special's plastic sir. It's the PCSO's that are plastic/diet coke/margarine of the police world :lol:
There should be a legal way of being a "superhero", which lets face it, unless they have something wrong with them means the person is not a vigilante but just wants to help.
For example, I live in London and here we have something called special constables who get regular police training and donate their spare time to being a police officer with all the privileges and titles of that role. For this they get free travel and expenses (basically lunch/dinner). Would it be so hard for cities all over the world to have similar programmes? If someone can pass the training AND they're doing it for free, they can be that superhero patrolling the neighbourhoods that career police aren't interested in, hell; if you keep patrolling the same neighbourhood you get attached to it and the people to you which means you can learn more as well about what needs to be done. We also have something called Safer Neighbourhoods for this as well, it can work in places outside of London I'm sure.
Spoken as an ex- community support officer in London so I might be biased for police slightly. /Maq
If you accept that the internet will spit out your details at some point do this;
1. Sign up to dropbox (it's free and works on all platforms - including mobiles)
2. Get a copy of Keepassx, mac/windows version might have different name, never used them.
3. Store database of keepassx on dropbox so you've always got access to it.
4. Each website gets own generated password, short passwords for things you might need to type in on phone but still random.
This way, 1 bad event like this keeps you safe. I have both on my Android as well so it's with me always. /Maq
And went to my email and sure enough it's in my spam filter. So check there if you have missed it.
I agree, the old plain Ericsson phones were solid imho. The R320 is still one of my favourite phones due to how solid it was, the T28 before it was the popular highend phone (whilst Nokia seemed to hold the low end with the 6210 or something?).
With Microsoft owning Nokia in all but name and Ericsson being taken out by Sony... the two big European phone operators are no longer. Sad day for me.
Does anyone know if the usual Id Linux port will make it out of the labs? Chalk me down as a Linux sale if it does
I'll happily be called obtuse on this but I would prefer an android phone being sold without vfat support or anything that microsoft thinks they own and the ability to add such capabilities would be paid for as a plugin directly from ms (like virtualbox does with premium modules). This way I can buy a phone knowing that microsoft won't be getting a penny out of me since I have no need for fat32 and people that do need it (say when they plug it into a windows computer something pops up saying "you'll need this to talk to windows".
What about mac users? Mac has access to extX does it? (I really don't know) if so then only windows users need to pay microsoft more money to use their os. Hell, maybe windows can come bundled with the ability to tether android devices to it.
Going from the N900 to the Galaxy S II when it turns up is going to be a culture shock, I honestly hadn't thought that video playback would be a concern.
RIP N900 :(
(Yes I'm a bitter fanboy)
You do make some good points. I'm thinking more of a cost and very pure paper to e-ink swap (where you don't really have much in the way of new features, which means the devices are treated like paper rather then fancy moving laptops running powerpoint slides).
I'd see it as a, get a bunch of big kindle devices (which don't exist so it makes my arguement a bit thin) but I imagine the cost would be far less then the ipad. Then you see how that goes. Once everyone is used to having e-paper, then you can think about having advanced e-paper that can do what you suggest.
If youre only replacing paper, you cant really beat e-ink. It would be pretty good as a straight swap.
I agree... but aren't the government looking for a paperless office? If you need something that can do more then a kindle-esque device then either have an ipad or maybe just get a laptop?
Not that I'm suggesting my very poor government tries to build it's own device but surely a tablet sized kindle would be better? Some of those documents must be pretty bug, surely e-ink is the way forward in that regard?
Am I just being naive?
I find Ubuntu weighed down compared to others. Obviously purely anecdotal, but Debian seems much quicker and Gentoo (what I use) feels quicker even more so. BSD vs Gentoo would be a fairer fight.
Yes yes, I know after youve been compiling Gentoo for days it would be slower, but you cant argue against a cut to the bone system that Gentoo can provide. (which Ubuntu is anything but)
This isn't a troll. I want to buy this but wondering if anyone has tested this under wine, appdb reports garbage but they were pre-release versions. Payday on Thursday so hopefully appdb updated with at least a silver before then :)
I think your problem is and the reason I hate the game is that when you take over a village you get that option to either absorb it into your empire OR have it as some weird vassal state thing for a little while and incorporate it later. If you take over it straight away, that city's unhappiness will cause unhappiness in your empire so you have to wait until the AI builds some happiness buildings for you and the local people stop complaining that they were conquered.
I've also had the problem where you start taking over large parts of the stupid AI's empire and all of a sudden your empire is crying itself to sleep over all the happiness you have.
Civ5 won't be touched by me again until about 4 patches OR a very good mod. Civ4 and Alpha Centauri still rule the roost in my eyes.
Cheers,
Maq
From memory, if you run format in Solaris you'll get some more information on which disk is what.
As for the solaris naming convention you might need to look inside your system and work out which drive it is, the d0 means its the first disk on that controller, if you have more then one controller then you'll have more trouble working out which is which.
prtdiag will give you more information about whats in the box and you might be able to work out the controller through that AND delving into /dev/pci*/ it find out.
zpool status
That's the command you are looking for. The zfs-fuse lists disks by id which means if you go into /dev/disks/by-id/ and do a ls -al you'll see which devices they are linked to.
It is done this way to make it easier in Linux, in BSD/Solaris the disks are by gpt name (well they were for me) so this keeps it sane.
Hope it helps.
Maq
As I said, I spoke to Michael Simms a couple of weeks ago over email to see what could be done about getting the license to the Linux port of Alpha Centauri so it could be patched and sold again, etc.
Didn't see any evidence that LGP had stopped working, they're a part time company mostly from what I gather, give them some credit!
Oh and as for SMAC, it seems Mr Simms tried hard; nay VERY HARD to get the rights to it but with no success, I'm hoping that if Steam does make it to Linux we can use that as the carrot to get a few of the older Loki titles back.
Cheers,
Maquis196
Buy another ps3, then you can use one exclusively for Linux and another for playing games. Certainly cheaper then the 10k blade or the cell expansion card you can get for a desktop that I've seen around.
Note - I am a Gentoo running Ps3 user. I will miss OtherOS. Time to get that tiny pc to sit next to my ps3.
Maquis196
Thats nothing, sometimes you can just ask for a +5 mod.
How about it mods? +5 informative?
--Maquis196
There are a few bands I listen to that I want to get the album's for but according to riaaradar; they mostly under riaa labels. Is there a way to get their music without giving the label a penny?
Like buying from their site? Downloading it for free and donating said amount to them somehow?
I'm going to a Lacuna Coil concert tomorrow in North London (and their music isn't riaa tainted) but they are probably the only ones.
Lol Bill? Is that you?
The issue is though, the goverment does what it wants because of those darn terrorists, we're not as crazy as america on the subject, our number one gripe seems to be peadophiles, according to the media there are several on every road and have more rights then the average person, etc etc.
Luckily/Unluckily we have the house of Lords who seem to block a lot of stuff that goes through the house of commons.
Maquis196
The "funny" one was over the 7/7 bombings, we were posted to local train stations (with Walthomstow central getting extra attention) and we were to search anyone that could be a terrorist... and granny smith's, because granny smith's were needed so when the results got back to Scotland yard it wouldn't show that noone but young muslim males were be searched.
Maquis196