I'm also in Germany and I have both witnessed and participated in discussions of caffeine withdrawal. I can also attest to its existence... unfortunately.
Reyling on the moon? Hah! Good luck! Damn thing keeps disappearing all the time, god knows where, and even most of the time it is there parts of it have broken off or something!
Um yeah I really just wanted to answer your question about whether or not it can be satisfying to create a clone (whether it was rhetorical or not). It can be satisfying. And it can still be creative, because programming is always a creative task to some degree.
Whether you think it's right or wrong, I don't really care.
No. Sometimes the joy of development is just creating something that you set your mind to. Sure, the big picture creative part is great, but it's satisfying either way. And of course developing constantly involves creativity in coming up with solutions to problems, even if the macroscopic game design is a set goal from the start. It's also a really good way to learn, since you know where you want to end up and can initially spend all of your energy getting there.
Compare this to crafting a physical item (like, I dunno, a nice shelf, or anything from Instructables, or even cooking a nice dinner). This is also (ideally) a satisfying exercise, and even though the end result is more or less fixed, it involves a lot of creative thinking about little things.
By the same argument, developers ought to be ashamed for writing a Chess game (or crafting a real one, for that matter -- it's been done before, man!). Tetris is a staple game, it's a shame that the name is trademarked, and it's downright preposterous to send out notices to take down the clones which don't infringe on the trademark.
The comparison the books and movies is flawed: I don't watch the same movie two evenings in a row, and I might now want to watch two extremely similar movies in terms of characters and plot on two evenings in a row. Playing a game of skill such as Tetris five times in a row isn't such a problem though. The two are at opposite ends of the interactivity scale, with plot-heavy games in the middle.
Nice, and of course somebody did something very similar already: http://www.lalit.org/lab/javascript-css-font-detect Doesn't seem to work in Firefox/Ubuntu 10.10, though, it says true for fonts I don't have. Works in Chrome.
That said, even when it works reliably, you'd still need to enumerate all fonts you want to test. Since the font fingerprint relies on obscure fonts for accuracy, that'll be a pretty long list. It's probably doable, though.
I don't know if the immunity is stronger in Sweden, but in Germany it can be removed by a sort of vote by other members of parliament. And you're still liable for things you do while you're immune, it just means they can't charge you, imprison you or do things like search your house as long as you've still got it.
I agree. In fact, I don't want my browser to send out any kind of information on the fonts I've got installed. It's not a feature sites tend to use, so you might as well disable it. Any way to do that with Firefox?
It's a publicly traded multinational corporation. The world's fourth largest, in fact. I think it's pretty much transcended nationality. The CEO is Swedish, FWIW.
Urgh, yeah, that one is just horrible. The strangest thing is that it's only a problem when you chose to open the file immediately. If you save the file, and then open it (within the Firefox interface, e.g. by double clicking the download), it always seems to start the right program. Pathetic.
I think you ought to be able to keep the noise from cooling a (relatively) low-powered AMD or Intel desktop system within the sound envelope of multiple HDDs, particularly in a big case like the Define R2. And you're gonna need some forced air, anyway, to avoid baking the HDDs. Use a big enough heat sink and one of the more efficient CPU models and you might get away with no dedicated fan on the processor.
Is an Atom really up to the task of a (high performance) NAS? I mean, if you're going to build a dedicated storage server, you might as well set it up to saturate a Gigabit Ethernet link. And funky filesystem features like on-the-fly checksumming probably need some processing power. The AMD path which you mention seems more promising in that regard. I'd also go with more than 1 GB of RAM because it's not much of an investment and bigger caches are always nice. That said I've never put much thought into building a NAS, so maybe I'm way off.
It's not as bizarre as it first seems, that sense of the word is only used in the context of psychiatry. The M-W entry should have indicated that, though. Other dictionaries do mark it (and even the M-W Medical entry is more explicit).
Well you can parse that both ways: refuse (to create) and (follow) or refuse (to create and follow). Besides which, arguably the have fairly strict rules and they do follow them (maybe: as well as humanly possible). Those rules just create a situation where a fictional place from what is apparently a fairly popular show does have an article, while a fictional place from a less popular show doesn't.
Having a notability criterion where "one fictional place is more notable then the other" doesn't seem very unlikely or unreasonable. In fact, it seems almost mandatory. Otherwise, I could make up any number of fictional places and add them. Maybe give them the same name as real places and create disambiguation pages while I'm at it.
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I'm sure the military will start releasing unedited footage so that everybody can get a fair and balanced picture.
I'm also in Germany and I have both witnessed and participated in discussions of caffeine withdrawal. I can also attest to its existence... unfortunately.
Reyling on the moon? Hah! Good luck! Damn thing keeps disappearing all the time, god knows where, and even most of the time it is there parts of it have broken off or something!
Um yeah I really just wanted to answer your question about whether or not it can be satisfying to create a clone (whether it was rhetorical or not). It can be satisfying. And it can still be creative, because programming is always a creative task to some degree.
Whether you think it's right or wrong, I don't really care.
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No. Sometimes the joy of development is just creating something that you set your mind to. Sure, the big picture creative part is great, but it's satisfying either way. And of course developing constantly involves creativity in coming up with solutions to problems, even if the macroscopic game design is a set goal from the start. It's also a really good way to learn, since you know where you want to end up and can initially spend all of your energy getting there.
Compare this to crafting a physical item (like, I dunno, a nice shelf, or anything from Instructables, or even cooking a nice dinner). This is also (ideally) a satisfying exercise, and even though the end result is more or less fixed, it involves a lot of creative thinking about little things.
By the same argument, developers ought to be ashamed for writing a Chess game (or crafting a real one, for that matter -- it's been done before, man!). Tetris is a staple game, it's a shame that the name is trademarked, and it's downright preposterous to send out notices to take down the clones which don't infringe on the trademark.
The comparison the books and movies is flawed: I don't watch the same movie two evenings in a row, and I might now want to watch two extremely similar movies in terms of characters and plot on two evenings in a row. Playing a game of skill such as Tetris five times in a row isn't such a problem though. The two are at opposite ends of the interactivity scale, with plot-heavy games in the middle.
Violation of freedom of speech: deleting posts, which didn't happen. Exercising your freedom of ignoring other people's speech: browsing at +2.
Nice, and of course somebody did something very similar already: http://www.lalit.org/lab/javascript-css-font-detect Doesn't seem to work in Firefox/Ubuntu 10.10, though, it says true for fonts I don't have. Works in Chrome.
That said, even when it works reliably, you'd still need to enumerate all fonts you want to test. Since the font fingerprint relies on obscure fonts for accuracy, that'll be a pretty long list. It's probably doable, though.
I don't know if the immunity is stronger in Sweden, but in Germany it can be removed by a sort of vote by other members of parliament. And you're still liable for things you do while you're immune, it just means they can't charge you, imprison you or do things like search your house as long as you've still got it.
I agree. In fact, I don't want my browser to send out any kind of information on the fonts I've got installed. It's not a feature sites tend to use, so you might as well disable it. Any way to do that with Firefox?
For what it's worth, holding up an airplane with nothing more than an ink pen would be so badass.
While that is ordinarily not a reason to trust you, I guess I'll trust you on this. ;)
It's a publicly traded multinational corporation. The world's fourth largest, in fact. I think it's pretty much transcended nationality. The CEO is Swedish, FWIW.
Urgh, yeah, that one is just horrible. The strangest thing is that it's only a problem when you chose to open the file immediately. If you save the file, and then open it (within the Firefox interface, e.g. by double clicking the download), it always seems to start the right program. Pathetic.
I think you ought to be able to keep the noise from cooling a (relatively) low-powered AMD or Intel desktop system within the sound envelope of multiple HDDs, particularly in a big case like the Define R2. And you're gonna need some forced air, anyway, to avoid baking the HDDs. Use a big enough heat sink and one of the more efficient CPU models and you might get away with no dedicated fan on the processor.
Here's a hint, writing stuff in all caps doesn't make it true.
Isn't PA being used by pretty much all of the large, desktop-oriented Linux distros? Fedora, OpenSUSE and Ubuntu all seem to use it by default.
Is an Atom really up to the task of a (high performance) NAS? I mean, if you're going to build a dedicated storage server, you might as well set it up to saturate a Gigabit Ethernet link. And funky filesystem features like on-the-fly checksumming probably need some processing power. The AMD path which you mention seems more promising in that regard. I'd also go with more than 1 GB of RAM because it's not much of an investment and bigger caches are always nice. That said I've never put much thought into building a NAS, so maybe I'm way off.
It's not as bizarre as it first seems, that sense of the word is only used in the context of psychiatry. The M-W entry should have indicated that, though. Other dictionaries do mark it (and even the M-W Medical entry is more explicit).
To quote the uncle (aunt?) post: Dude, that's a user page. Anyone can put up anything on their user page.
Well you can parse that both ways: refuse (to create) and (follow) or refuse (to create and follow). Besides which, arguably the have fairly strict rules and they do follow them (maybe: as well as humanly possible). Those rules just create a situation where a fictional place from what is apparently a fairly popular show does have an article, while a fictional place from a less popular show doesn't.
Having a notability criterion where "one fictional place is more notable then the other" doesn't seem very unlikely or unreasonable. In fact, it seems almost mandatory. Otherwise, I could make up any number of fictional places and add them. Maybe give them the same name as real places and create disambiguation pages while I'm at it.
Well, Teller is kind of the ideal example for the proverb "if all you've got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."
Civ 4 was fantastic and Civ 5 seems to be a rather radical departure, breaking with many gameplay constants that AFAIK exist since Civ1.
You make it sound almost sinister.