It does not have to be the Apple one, but I do hope that its a magnetic connector. Anyone who has tripped on their power cord* will likely hope so too.
*The power cord is really the only cord left and the only one I have tripped on; luckily I have never brought my laptop to the floor.
On the iPhone,/.'s left and right page columns are removed (I guess by CSS) so that the centre story column takes up the full width of the screen.
The only real problem is that the nested comments quickly run out of width when the nesting gets too deep. Oh and that floating Full/Abbreviated/Hidden thing on the left doesn't work, but then I don't use it on the desktop either.
I have not read the Apache licence, however I am given the impression its something near the BSD licence.
The difference between the GPLv2 and BSD is simple:
BSD Protects your right to fork the code and do with what you will.
GPL Protects your ability to merge forks, which in effect puts a limit on how you can fork the code in the first place.
So in the end, the choice is whether forking or merging is more important to you. Forking may mean more people can use your code. However others would argue the merging means more people can benefit from the collective contributions.
Unfortunately I can't really play it anymore, there seems to be no one to play with, bots are boring, and it is a total pain in the arse to install on a modern linux system (yes I know about icculus.org)
I have moonlight installed (what ever version Lenny has), and in Firefox add-ons->Plugins its listed as Silverlight Plug-in (1.0.30401.0).
However when I click play to see that advert it changes to a get Silverlight button.
I figured since I have flash 10 64bit installed (with flash block), I may as well install moonlight since there is a 64bit Debian package. I am not impressed that MS own website did not recognise it.
You assume that the router has a some firewall, acl or nat set, ie its not inherent. Also this is more for home users. However this worm is doing well in corporate networks, spreading from one co. to another via latops, and so negating any external firewall.
Isn't one of the most obvious arguments, that being able to sell your games frees up money to spend on new games?
I know in the UK parents would make their kid sell games they are no longer playing in order pay for the latest must have game (The parents then pay for any shortfall).
I would say this whole anti-secondary sale issue is another example of the blind greed that is currently taring down the banks.
That depends where you start from. If you use open*L libraries from the start while targeting Windows, with portability in mind. Then OSX and Linux come at little extra effort.
However if you build your game with DirectX then yes, it will cost more to port then you'll get in return. Keeping people tied to their platform is no doubt why MS provide DX for free.
I think with the rise of Ubuntu there could be a market for games on Linux (there probably already is on OSX). But it is still at the chicken and the egg state. No games on Linux means not many gamers using Linux. Not many gamers using Linux means no games for Linux.
I don't mean to sound like a troll. It just I am one of those odd people that prefers to use KDE (over GNOME), and likes to write GUI apps using GTK.
So while I dislike using GNOME, mainly for its lack of configurability and the how it makes me feel, I do really like KDE. Similarly I'm not keen on QT, but I do like GTK.
So why not have KDE on GTK? As a bonus KDE apps would obey the LANG var, instead of QT out-of-band language selection. (which makes running more then one language, simultaneously, difficult)
The are post complaining about the return rate. However FOI only applies to the Government and some public sector bodies, not to the private sector. Most of these cameras would have been run by non government companies. I would guess any of these companies receiving an FOI would have been advised by their solicitors that they don't need to act on them.
Making a request under the Data Protection Act would have been the correct thing to do. Since the 'data' on the tape is about you, so they have to respond under the law. However they can charge up to a massive £10 handling fee.
Modern banking does rely an some non understanding and/or acceptance of the system to work.
This video explains how banks today came to be, and why our governments are so entangled with them.
The UK government bailing northern rock doesn't surprise me, nor does their desire to keep some things out of the public eye. Its scary that our press can be silenced so easily.
If you play with steam 'offline' your not credited with any achievements. They are only awarded iff you have steam logged in. I would guess this is some sort of anti-cheat protection.
All I can say that the Orange Box promotion is a slap in the face for those of us that already have Half-Life 2 and Episode 1.
I see no sign of a Episode 2+Portal+Team Fortress (ie no HL2+E1) promotion (and pre-order discount), and who wants to pay for the same content twice?
I maybe wrong, but if so, then Steam has done a poor job of advertising any alternative promotions. Especially considering it already knows what games I own.
That link is to the second page, for those that like to read from the start
here is the first page
It seems that unless you have an account you can't click the links on the page to go back to the first page, but you can click next (from the first) and you can get to either page externally. Don't ask me why.
Some people don't like B5 because you can't drop into it. Unlike star trek with it's closed episodes, the B5 story spans 4 seasons (with some expansion in a fifth season).
I consider B5 to be one of the best sci-fi series ever made, and its long term story is one of the reasons for that.
I think that some other sci-fi series may have had a chance to come close to B5 (eg firefly) but never got the chance to last long enough.
Its a shame that it came to such a conclusion it was (would be) difficult to continue it. The creators do keep coming back to it, but never something quite so epic, and I had hoped that one of the spins offs (eg crusade) would have lived longer.
Anyway B5 will always remain as a definitive series for me.
UK does have laws protecting peoples privacy. Namely the Data Protection Act and Rights of Investigatory Powers Act. The first one controls disclosure as well as providing means for individuals to review the data kept about them. The second controls what a co. such as an ISP can do with the data (eg traffic logs) as well as what the authorities can do. The two together means that you have to be able to justify the data you keep and for how long you keep it. The network that I work for does not keep data for longer than 3 months, unless it relevent to some network issue/investigation, then its kept for 2 years; but never indefinately. Lastly there is also the Freedom of Information Act, which allows citizen access to all sorts of government and civil service information and documentation. So you can double check their procedures for example.
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It does not have to be the Apple one, but I do hope that its a magnetic connector. Anyone who has tripped on their power cord* will likely hope so too.
*The power cord is really the only cord left and the only one I have tripped on; luckily I have never brought my laptop to the floor.
NTFS or any other FUSE (MacFUSE) file system. However in a heterogeneous environment NTFS has the bonus of native Windows support.
There is NTFS-3G for Linux and Mac OS X
There is also an EXT2 Fuse FS (for Mac OS), and probably many other options.
Having said that, I have never had a problem with Linux's HFS+ write support.
You mean:
iPhone !Touch
If you still see websites as just online magazines then I guess you're somewhat stuck in the 1990's.
/. is using AJAX these days.
What you suggest is like asking: Why can't we make programmes also run on Windows 95, just without all the fancy effects of Aero?
Like it or not websites will become more interactive, even
See also Google Docs, or http://www.jsdesk.com/
You're obviously not a British football fan...
On the iPhone, /.'s left and right page columns are removed (I guess by CSS) so that the centre story column takes up the full width of the screen.
The only real problem is that the nested comments quickly run out of width when the nesting gets too deep. Oh and that floating Full/Abbreviated/Hidden thing on the left doesn't work, but then I don't use it on the desktop either.
The difference between the GPLv2 and BSD is simple:
So in the end, the choice is whether forking or merging is more important to you. Forking may mean more people can use your code. However others would argue the merging means more people can benefit from the collective contributions.
I have Tribes 2 for Linux and I loved playing it.
Unfortunately I can't really play it anymore, there seems to be no one to play with, bots are boring, and it is a total pain in the arse to install on a modern linux system (yes I know about icculus.org)
I have moonlight installed (what ever version Lenny has), and in Firefox add-ons->Plugins its listed as Silverlight Plug-in (1.0.30401.0).
However when I click play to see that advert it changes to a get Silverlight button.
I figured since I have flash 10 64bit installed (with flash block), I may as well install moonlight since there is a 64bit Debian package. I am not impressed that MS own website did not recognise it.
I will also need to find a flashblock equivalent.
You assume that the router has a some firewall, acl or nat set, ie its not inherent. Also this is more for home users. However this worm is doing well in corporate networks, spreading from one co. to another via latops, and so negating any external firewall.
Is there a list somewhere of all the humorous patents that IBM have applied for?
e.g. this one
Isn't one of the most obvious arguments, that being able to sell your games frees up money to spend on new games?
I know in the UK parents would make their kid sell games they are no longer playing in order pay for the latest must have game (The parents then pay for any shortfall).
I would say this whole anti-secondary sale issue is another example of the blind greed that is currently taring down the banks.
That depends where you start from. If you use open*L libraries from the start while targeting Windows, with portability in mind. Then OSX and Linux come at little extra effort.
However if you build your game with DirectX then yes, it will cost more to port then you'll get in return. Keeping people tied to their platform is no doubt why MS provide DX for free.
I think with the rise of Ubuntu there could be a market for games on Linux (there probably already is on OSX). But it is still at the chicken and the egg state. No games on Linux means not many gamers using Linux. Not many gamers using Linux means no games for Linux.
It already seems bogged down so try http://blogoscoped.com.nyud.net/google-chrome/
Maybe now they'll make a another Eternal Darkness for Nintendo. Sanity's Requiem was one of most favourite games for the game cube.
I don't mean to sound like a troll. It just I am one of those odd people that prefers to use KDE (over GNOME), and likes to write GUI apps using GTK.
So while I dislike using GNOME, mainly for its lack of configurability and the how it makes me feel, I do really like KDE. Similarly I'm not keen on QT, but I do like GTK.
So why not have KDE on GTK? As a bonus KDE apps would obey the LANG var, instead of QT out-of-band language selection. (which makes running more then one language, simultaneously, difficult)
The are post complaining about the return rate. However FOI only applies to the Government and some public sector bodies, not to the private sector. Most of these cameras would have been run by non government companies. I would guess any of these companies receiving an FOI would have been advised by their solicitors that they don't need to act on them.
Making a request under the Data Protection Act would have been the correct thing to do. Since the 'data' on the tape is about you, so they have to respond under the law. However they can charge up to a massive £10 handling fee.
Only volume (file) encryption is supported on Linux.
Not full system encryption, that is only available for MS Windows.
Modern banking does rely an some non understanding and/or acceptance of the system to work. This video explains how banks today came to be, and why our governments are so entangled with them. The UK government bailing northern rock doesn't surprise me, nor does their desire to keep some things out of the public eye. Its scary that our press can be silenced so easily.
The word has a strict meaning in this context, there is an RFC about it.
So this "Should" vs. "Shall" is a mute point, they meant what they said.
If you play with steam 'offline' your not credited with any achievements. They are only awarded iff you have steam logged in. I would guess this is some sort of anti-cheat protection.
All I can say that the Orange Box promotion is a slap in the face for those of us that already have Half-Life 2 and Episode 1.
I see no sign of a Episode 2+Portal+Team Fortress (ie no HL2+E1) promotion (and pre-order discount), and who wants to pay for the same content twice?
I maybe wrong, but if so, then Steam has done a poor job of advertising any alternative promotions. Especially considering it already knows what games I own.
That link is to the second page, for those that like to read from the start here is the first page
It seems that unless you have an account you can't click the links on the page to go back to the first page, but you can click next (from the first) and you can get to either page externally. Don't ask me why.
Some people don't like B5 because you can't drop into it. Unlike star trek with it's closed episodes, the B5 story spans 4 seasons (with some expansion in a fifth season).
I consider B5 to be one of the best sci-fi series ever made, and its long term story is one of the reasons for that.
I think that some other sci-fi series may have had a chance to come close to B5 (eg firefly) but never got the chance to last long enough.
Its a shame that it came to such a conclusion it was (would be) difficult to continue it. The creators do keep coming back to it, but never something quite so epic, and I had hoped that one of the spins offs (eg crusade) would have lived longer.
Anyway B5 will always remain as a definitive series for me.
UK does have laws protecting peoples privacy. Namely the Data Protection Act and Rights of Investigatory Powers Act. The first one controls disclosure as well as providing means for individuals to review the data kept about them. The second controls what a co. such as an ISP can do with the data (eg traffic logs) as well as what the authorities can do. The two together means that you have to be able to justify the data you keep and for how long you keep it. The network that I work for does not keep data for longer than 3 months, unless it relevent to some network issue/investigation, then its kept for 2 years; but never indefinately. Lastly there is also the Freedom of Information Act, which allows citizen access to all sorts of government and civil service information and documentation. So you can double check their procedures for example.