Legitimate literary field doesn't necessarily mean that they're going to be in the same lot as classics of literature or works that hold great meaning. Romance and other formulaic "trash" are considered legitimate literature, along with, more relevantly, fantasy novels. I've read a decent amount of fantasy, and it seems there are some good authors and some good books, but the majority of them are more poorly written that a lot of IF. IF would also probably be best compared to short stories, so comparing them to full length books which have 10 times as much time to immerse the reader is unfair.
"Some of these games are better than others", the same holds true for books and like most other things there will be a lot more crap than there will be anything of value.
That must have been in Sorceror which I never ended up getting in to. The way I always handle mazes or rooms with the same descriptions in IF games is to drop an item in each room and then map it all out, using the items on the ground as a reference. It seems like most mazes are really only a handful of rooms that just loop around in odd ways.
From the review.."I'd argue that the historical text-only criterion is becoming more questionable all the time."
I couldn't disagree more. The text-only games are a specific genre. Since they are a very influencial factor in modern games, that should definitely be addressed, but things are categorized for a reason. If you start lumping different types of games into the same category becasue of their influences, you'd end up with one big mass of gray. Deus Ex 2 was also influenced by games like Wing Commander & Wolfenstein 3d, but they don't fit in the same category. I also think that by bending the criteria you're also in some respect lessening the formats ability to stand on it's own, which it has proven itself more than capable of doing (obviously since there's a book about it).
That's what I was thinking. It shouldn't be depended on as any kind of security measure, but more of just thin cloak to make the existing security measures not horribly obvious. If you were connected through SSH though...would you really need to knock to remove access or might it not be easier to just write something to automatically remove the rule on logout, or after a login timeout.
It amazes me that lawyers, the upholders of justice among an unfair world, could have been the people behind spam. Surely they must have been ostracized by their benevolent peers.
Way to draw conclusions out of thin air. What I'm saying is that Linux is modularized with the focus of the base system remaining on security and power, and therefore the OS itself is far more secure than one where everything is interwoven into something far more complicated and therefore more likely problematic to maintain. Notice the only reason viruses were mentioned which was in connection with Wine...viruses haven't been an issue for *NIX systems, and the only type mentioned were Windows e-mail viruses which are usually caused by IBK's, and I'd think would only screw up your Wine environment...but if you wanted protection then yes....I guess it does depend on a virus checker. So I suppose in a horribly round-a-bout, isolated, virtually irrevelant way, in that sense Linux isn't any more secure than Windows.
I didn't realise KMail was an underlying program (or Wine for that matter). I'd defend launching that attachment too, part of Linux is the ability to do what you want, which includes opening viruses or making your computer horribly insecure should you chose to do so. It's not an e-mail client's job to tell you what you can and can't run. There should be a virus scan incorporated somewhere if you're dumb enough to open attachments like that.
And hopefully no one in Redmond would be stupid enough to open their mouths about viruses.
The modularity is definitely the key point. Linux has become more user friendly by adding more interfaces to underlying programs. Those programs are written with security and functionality in mind, adhering to the *NIX mindset, and none come to mind that have actually been changed to make them easier to use, only those that have provided helpful tools and those which provided cushy GUI interfaces, which also in general seem to implement decent security by default, at least as secure as a similar situation on Windows. As long as these interfaces are written to take advantage of the the security present in the underlying programs (which should be easily done since it's simpler than having to do both at once), the problem should be squelched. The Linux community wouldn't stand for it being insecure.
The problem isn't the lack of water, it's the overpopulation of the area. As the article stated there is already a large reservoir system, and there is a large number of natural fresh water sources. I live in the area in a town that has over 100 fresh water ponds. The population, although having not risen to the point of being overcrowded, has gone past the point that nature could easily support. Mankind doesn't develop in accordance with nature, adapting it's environment rather than adapting to it, and this is a result of and step in that process.
This project and conversation needs refinement. Both of those words are not only part of standard vocabulary, their meanings haven't been changed. Actually citing a first date for their use is slightly absurd, since they're just pre-existing terms which have become somewhat standard in a specific new field. A brief history of significant usage would be more accurate (not only inside Sci-Fi but also related to it). A short description of the chain which led the words from their original contexts to their Sci-Fi ones. "Avatar" for instance was aroudn in earlier video games (like Ultima), and I'd wager was used in pen and paper RPG's before that, all of which wuold have led to it's entry into Sci-Fi. "Case" is a computer term but it would be pointlessly foolish to cite the first time someone used it in that context.
Replacing razor blades are something that normal people wouldn't be afraid to do. The average person isn't going to want to pay in time or money to get something like that done every month for their computer (regardless of how little of either), and considering it would be a new inconvenience rather than something that's always been there, a massive amount of people would be alienated, and avoid the technology. From a business standpoint it would be far more profitable to get a new technology adopted by as many manufacturers as possible, so things like that will be avoided (and costs will be controlled). If, for some inane reason, you felt compelled to refill every couple of months and were willing to pay for it, then all the power to you, but blaming anyone other than yourself is like suing McDonald's for getting fat.
The system would probably designed so that the life of the cooling system would be long enough that the laptop would be outdated (on a decent scale) by the time it needed some kind of maintenence. A planned lifetime of about 5 years or so. When the time came the solution would probably be just to replace the mechanism rather than refill it (not to say that you couldn't do it anyway). The cost vs. life would be affordable though, and not having to worry about a way to refill the liquid would allow for greater control over the heat, and cheaper production costs. And for the non-techies who may have to endure this...the percentage would probably be about the same as laptop fans dying now.
You'd need a nanobong (or nanopipe or nanopapers, etc.) and a way to hold it. Then you'd just have to make sure you don't get pulled over by any cops with microscopes.
Before things are addressed on a chemical level, they need to be addressed on a psychological one. The educational system, at least in the States, has progressed very little in the past century, even though it has been pretty much established that different minds work different ways and the current methods for teaching cater to only a very small percentage of the people. All the choline in the world won't compensate for a lack of utilisation on what's already there, which, as it is, is most often neglected, or used in a way which results in burning out before full potential can be reached.
One big factor which is neglected in this article is compatibility. I don't do too much with video files but a decent amount with audio and sometimes there are formats with minor quality differences, but what ultimately decides which to use is how many players can handle it easily. It doesn't come into consideration quite as much for personal archiving and controlled environments, but even then you can't tell what the future will bring and a little flexibilty now saves time later.
Firstly...a lot of trilogies are one story, particularly modern ones, and if you wanted to pick nits then the Lord of the Rings is actually 6 books in 3 volumes (each "book" has 2 "book"s). It amazes me how irrelevantly technical people will be on/. . And if you want to dissect the English language then LOTR is one story, not one book (and the same could be said of the vast majority of trilogies, etc. (virtually all dramatic ones) including most of the works of some authors (Jack Kerouac for instance). It wasn't planned as one book nor was it originally released as one book nor was it even intended as a story to stand by itself, being surrounded by the thorough world that Tolkien created in other writings (like the Hobbit and those gathered in the Silmarillion). The same logic could be used to say that all 9 possible Star Wars movies are "one movie".
Peter Jackson hadn't heard of it....honestly...he would have to be one of the dumbest people on Earth to think that he directed a trilogy of movies based on a literary landmark (which is very often sold in a boxed set), and not see a boxed set coming. You can buy a boxed set of just about anything.
It seems like they've been pretty up front about the whole issue though. It's not like they waited for people to buy the first one, and then released the extended version, they said initially that they were going to do it, and then those people who couldn't wait or didn't want to spend as much money could buy the regular version. What they've done has made sense...the standard for the average person, the extended for the more die-hards. Wait until you have grounds before you start bitching. A boxed set is to be expected, and it will probably have some extra stuff, but I doubt it will be anything of real worth (a retrospective of awards and the experience without bonus footage or anything). Of course that'll still be worth it to the super die hard fans. Anyone that's complaining about all the releases of a movie...it's their problem if they feel that they're deprived from missing out on those extra couple minutes of inevitably irrelevant stuff, or paying all over again for them.
By judicial system I'm referring to all aspects of it, so there's no need to get into the semantics. Also...laws are in general left vague initially and then refined through the judicial system in the form of legal precedents and judgements from the larger courts, so it's all inextricably intertwined.
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Legitimate literary field doesn't necessarily mean that they're going to be in the same lot as classics of literature or works that hold great meaning. Romance and other formulaic "trash" are considered legitimate literature, along with, more relevantly, fantasy novels. I've read a decent amount of fantasy, and it seems there are some good authors and some good books, but the majority of them are more poorly written that a lot of IF. IF would also probably be best compared to short stories, so comparing them to full length books which have 10 times as much time to immerse the reader is unfair. "Some of these games are better than others", the same holds true for books and like most other things there will be a lot more crap than there will be anything of value.
That must have been in Sorceror which I never ended up getting in to. The way I always handle mazes or rooms with the same descriptions in IF games is to drop an item in each room and then map it all out, using the items on the ground as a reference. It seems like most mazes are really only a handful of rooms that just loop around in odd ways.
From the review.."I'd argue that the historical text-only criterion is becoming more questionable all the time." I couldn't disagree more. The text-only games are a specific genre. Since they are a very influencial factor in modern games, that should definitely be addressed, but things are categorized for a reason. If you start lumping different types of games into the same category becasue of their influences, you'd end up with one big mass of gray. Deus Ex 2 was also influenced by games like Wing Commander & Wolfenstein 3d, but they don't fit in the same category. I also think that by bending the criteria you're also in some respect lessening the formats ability to stand on it's own, which it has proven itself more than capable of doing (obviously since there's a book about it).
In other words...did anyone else not understand what IF is?
That's what I was thinking. It shouldn't be depended on as any kind of security measure, but more of just thin cloak to make the existing security measures not horribly obvious. If you were connected through SSH though...would you really need to knock to remove access or might it not be easier to just write something to automatically remove the rule on logout, or after a login timeout.
It amazes me that lawyers, the upholders of justice among an unfair world, could have been the people behind spam. Surely they must have been ostracized by their benevolent peers.
Way to draw conclusions out of thin air. What I'm saying is that Linux is modularized with the focus of the base system remaining on security and power, and therefore the OS itself is far more secure than one where everything is interwoven into something far more complicated and therefore more likely problematic to maintain. Notice the only reason viruses were mentioned which was in connection with Wine...viruses haven't been an issue for *NIX systems, and the only type mentioned were Windows e-mail viruses which are usually caused by IBK's, and I'd think would only screw up your Wine environment...but if you wanted protection then yes....I guess it does depend on a virus checker. So I suppose in a horribly round-a-bout, isolated, virtually irrevelant way, in that sense Linux isn't any more secure than Windows.
I didn't realise KMail was an underlying program (or Wine for that matter). I'd defend launching that attachment too, part of Linux is the ability to do what you want, which includes opening viruses or making your computer horribly insecure should you chose to do so. It's not an e-mail client's job to tell you what you can and can't run. There should be a virus scan incorporated somewhere if you're dumb enough to open attachments like that. And hopefully no one in Redmond would be stupid enough to open their mouths about viruses.
The modularity is definitely the key point. Linux has become more user friendly by adding more interfaces to underlying programs. Those programs are written with security and functionality in mind, adhering to the *NIX mindset, and none come to mind that have actually been changed to make them easier to use, only those that have provided helpful tools and those which provided cushy GUI interfaces, which also in general seem to implement decent security by default, at least as secure as a similar situation on Windows. As long as these interfaces are written to take advantage of the the security present in the underlying programs (which should be easily done since it's simpler than having to do both at once), the problem should be squelched. The Linux community wouldn't stand for it being insecure.
I like to pronounce FAQ as Fa-Q
like Tatooine?
The problem isn't the lack of water, it's the overpopulation of the area. As the article stated there is already a large reservoir system, and there is a large number of natural fresh water sources. I live in the area in a town that has over 100 fresh water ponds. The population, although having not risen to the point of being overcrowded, has gone past the point that nature could easily support. Mankind doesn't develop in accordance with nature, adapting it's environment rather than adapting to it, and this is a result of and step in that process.
If you're gonna be troll, at least try to be creative.
Everything's about beer, just get drunk while you read it (the secret of life). I wonder if Guinness beer is in the Guinness book for anything.
This project and conversation needs refinement. Both of those words are not only part of standard vocabulary, their meanings haven't been changed. Actually citing a first date for their use is slightly absurd, since they're just pre-existing terms which have become somewhat standard in a specific new field. A brief history of significant usage would be more accurate (not only inside Sci-Fi but also related to it). A short description of the chain which led the words from their original contexts to their Sci-Fi ones. "Avatar" for instance was aroudn in earlier video games (like Ultima), and I'd wager was used in pen and paper RPG's before that, all of which wuold have led to it's entry into Sci-Fi. "Case" is a computer term but it would be pointlessly foolish to cite the first time someone used it in that context.
Replacing razor blades are something that normal people wouldn't be afraid to do. The average person isn't going to want to pay in time or money to get something like that done every month for their computer (regardless of how little of either), and considering it would be a new inconvenience rather than something that's always been there, a massive amount of people would be alienated, and avoid the technology. From a business standpoint it would be far more profitable to get a new technology adopted by as many manufacturers as possible, so things like that will be avoided (and costs will be controlled). If, for some inane reason, you felt compelled to refill every couple of months and were willing to pay for it, then all the power to you, but blaming anyone other than yourself is like suing McDonald's for getting fat.
The system would probably designed so that the life of the cooling system would be long enough that the laptop would be outdated (on a decent scale) by the time it needed some kind of maintenence. A planned lifetime of about 5 years or so. When the time came the solution would probably be just to replace the mechanism rather than refill it (not to say that you couldn't do it anyway). The cost vs. life would be affordable though, and not having to worry about a way to refill the liquid would allow for greater control over the heat, and cheaper production costs. And for the non-techies who may have to endure this...the percentage would probably be about the same as laptop fans dying now.
You'd need a nanobong (or nanopipe or nanopapers, etc.) and a way to hold it. Then you'd just have to make sure you don't get pulled over by any cops with microscopes.
Before things are addressed on a chemical level, they need to be addressed on a psychological one. The educational system, at least in the States, has progressed very little in the past century, even though it has been pretty much established that different minds work different ways and the current methods for teaching cater to only a very small percentage of the people. All the choline in the world won't compensate for a lack of utilisation on what's already there, which, as it is, is most often neglected, or used in a way which results in burning out before full potential can be reached.
One big factor which is neglected in this article is compatibility. I don't do too much with video files but a decent amount with audio and sometimes there are formats with minor quality differences, but what ultimately decides which to use is how many players can handle it easily. It doesn't come into consideration quite as much for personal archiving and controlled environments, but even then you can't tell what the future will bring and a little flexibilty now saves time later.
Firstly...a lot of trilogies are one story, particularly modern ones, and if you wanted to pick nits then the Lord of the Rings is actually 6 books in 3 volumes (each "book" has 2 "book"s). It amazes me how irrelevantly technical people will be on /. . And if you want to dissect the English language then LOTR is one story, not one book (and the same could be said of the vast majority of trilogies, etc. (virtually all dramatic ones) including most of the works of some authors (Jack Kerouac for instance). It wasn't planned as one book nor was it originally released as one book nor was it even intended as a story to stand by itself, being surrounded by the thorough world that Tolkien created in other writings (like the Hobbit and those gathered in the Silmarillion). The same logic could be used to say that all 9 possible Star Wars movies are "one movie".
Peter Jackson hadn't heard of it....honestly...he would have to be one of the dumbest people on Earth to think that he directed a trilogy of movies based on a literary landmark (which is very often sold in a boxed set), and not see a boxed set coming. You can buy a boxed set of just about anything.
It seems like they've been pretty up front about the whole issue though. It's not like they waited for people to buy the first one, and then released the extended version, they said initially that they were going to do it, and then those people who couldn't wait or didn't want to spend as much money could buy the regular version. What they've done has made sense...the standard for the average person, the extended for the more die-hards. Wait until you have grounds before you start bitching. A boxed set is to be expected, and it will probably have some extra stuff, but I doubt it will be anything of real worth (a retrospective of awards and the experience without bonus footage or anything). Of course that'll still be worth it to the super die hard fans. Anyone that's complaining about all the releases of a movie...it's their problem if they feel that they're deprived from missing out on those extra couple minutes of inevitably irrelevant stuff, or paying all over again for them.
By judicial system I'm referring to all aspects of it, so there's no need to get into the semantics. Also...laws are in general left vague initially and then refined through the judicial system in the form of legal precedents and judgements from the larger courts, so it's all inextricably intertwined.
It's apparently a state by state difference. Several states have enacted a Physician Profile Law - Link which covers the bad stuff.