Seriously, you can take any keyboard that has extra keys and map them to whatever you want, whatever kind of symbol is on the keys. I happily use the 'windows key' as an extra meta key for emacs...
[...]because the character before death was generating a flood of replies never letting me quit the dialogue and killing that character was essential to the plot.
Ah. This wouldn't by chance have been the leader of the dark brotherhood? I had the same problem once. Right before I struck the final blow, the dialog would open and he'd talk me to death with no hope of escape.
For one, you can be sure they will remove stuff like that. Bethesda makes great games, but they have two problems. One of them is they don't want to lose any potential customers by including adult material. This clearly shows in Morrowind.
The second problem is it's probably gonna be just as buggy as I hear was Fallout 2. Again, Bethesda makes great games (I've been in love with the Elder Scrolls series for 9-10 years now), but their code never is as bugfree as you'd want it.
On the upside, other than the points mentioned above, you can expect superb gameplay and probably possibilities of including as much profanity, nudity etc as you want by means of plugins. Take Morrowind, there's countless nudity plugins for it...;) Also, I'm pretty sure they'll put efford into the manual. My Morrowind Game-of-the-Year version even came with several maps of the world:)
Some years ago, a friend of mine came to visit. I was just working on an important project when he burst in and tripped over the power cable of my PC which was firmly attached right to the wall socket next to the door - I had run out of wall sockets in the proximity of my PC.
He actually managed to rip the wall socket out of the wall. Power went away and I had to install a new socket. Also, I lost some of my work. Needless to say that I now have plenty of free sockets in close proximity of my PC.
Why is everyone so thrilled with DNS? I would think this being/. everyone would be happy about keeping their static IP addresses. Of course, it may be that those that actually work at ISPs know how much work this will generate for them and are trying to get out of it. Hold on we need as much IT busy work as we can generate. This would be perfect for generating jobs for IT!
Unfortunally, this would also mean the end of the net as we know it.
Routing in the internet works with Autonomous Systems (ASs) that consist of one or more IP networks. If someone wanted to take one or more IPs from one network with him, the network it belongs to would have to be split in two, and the IPs to move would have to become a network of their own. Among other inconveniences, this would mean the routing tables would be enlargened quite a bit. This of course would mean slowing down the whole network because lookups for IP networks would take longer. The IP authorities are trying their best to keep the routing tables as small as possible for exactly that reason, aggregating entries wherever possible. This ruling - if it persists - would counter all their effords and have devastating effects on service quality for everybody.
Get yourself a DVB card, the quality is much better and recording is a lot less trouble.
With analog tv tuner cards you need to encode everything while with a DVB card you can just capture an mpeg stream - a lot less can go wrong and you can always cap full resolution without having to worry about the speed of your cpu or harddisk.
What ever happened to the engineer's motto "The right tool for the right job"? I'm not a scripts person, but indubitably, all scripting languages have their specific advantages for specific applications. Imho, this whole thing is made for trolling and flaiming and not for anything else. It's just stupid.
After ~1990: cars have: engine, auto transmission, radiator, automatic distribution system, fuel injection, anti-lock breaking system, power steering...there's a lot more things that are electronically controled and regulated. But guess what? These things still break.
Now, I'm not a car mechanic, but... if one of those electronic gadgets break, do you think they gonna take em out and repair em? They'll hook up some gizmo to the car and that will say "hey, part xyz is broken" and then some sweaty, 40 year old guy will yank it out of the car and force some new or used and possibly even working part in. But I very much doubt anyone will try to repair the actual component.
Yes, that's right. You get a stupid error message and there's virtually no way to find out what is going on. So there was a network error. Details? Windows is not used exclusively by Dummies, you know? Why is there no way to get more info, like a real syslog (and not this sad excuse they call event log).
There's also the fact the influence you can exercise over the system in general is extremely limited. Theres a few secret registry settings you can fiddle with, but that's it. I recommend continueing to use windows to a lot of dummy users, but I loathe to help them with computer problems because it means having to fiddle with an OS that doesn't communicate with you.
There's a lot of other important things - no really usable shell, no compiler, no extensive collection of tools, you name it.
The solution is not "punishing" the market or whatever (can't find the right word), the solution would be lowering the prices, it's not like they NEED the liceses to be so expensive, is it?
According to this recent slashdot newsbit they do...
The article also mentions a MIPS chip AMD plans to put out to be targeted at the Handheld PC market. Imagine a 1.4ghz Pocket PC?
That platform is called AU and it's been out for quite a long time now - albeit a lot slower. These are aimed at the embedded market. I've worked with those and they're quite usable System-on-Chip (SoC) devices.
The development board I had had a AU1500 I think, complete with mini-PCI and all the other interfaces you could possibly want. It was clocked at something like 300-400 MHz, but in the embedded area, that usually is not as important as you might think. In fact, often enough CPUs get their clock reduced to minimize heat development and EM interferences produced by the device.
Because of that and many other things I doubt there's many applications where speed is the biggest issue. Features (many interfaces, a good number of general-purpose IOs [GPIOs]) are an important part of the success too. Having a great many interface components implemented in the CPU itself means that designing your own carrier board is much easier and faster, and thus also a lot cheaper.
Knowing them (I can see the building the servers are in from my window right now) I suspect some mustered-out Sun workstations.
I must say I was pretty surprised by this. They have an active LUG and all and I really thought they could handle something like this. Seems I was wrong. Or perhaps they didn't give it enough attention and now need time to fix it - eg block most asian IPs, install a lower cpu usage spam filter etc.
Is there an english version? I tried two internet translastions, but it was still unreadable.
Running it through google would have been my translation, but since that obviously didn't yield usable results, I'll give you a summary. It basically says that some members of the ruling parties opposed this new law, but that nevertheless the parties agreed they wanted this law -- especially the justice minister.
As for courts rejecting patenting software under the current legislation, this is true but not entirely relevant since we're talking about the EU instanting a regulation that requires every member country to adjust local laws to this regulation. This means courts no longer have any basis to rule against software patents.
And now the shit is going south. This is gonna mean a damn lot of trouble.
The only one profiting from it is the USA. Why would even a rather stupid gouverment have wanted that war as well?
The point I was trying to make is the one you picked up later in your reply - that if it had been to their advantage - economically or otherwise - they would have supported and even joint the action. For some 'sound' reasoning, ask politicians such as Blair/Berlusconi/Aznar.
PS: Whoo, after reading my post I think I have to add something: I used to live in the US. I like the people quite a bit. It's your leadership I can't stand.
Don't look at me, I live in Germany as well;) I feel the same though.
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...as a condom machine in the vatican.
Seriously, you can take any keyboard that has extra keys and map them to whatever you want, whatever kind of symbol is on the keys. I happily use the 'windows key' as an extra meta key for emacs...
That movie is so bad you hear the creaking sound of the styrofoam 'rocks' when they hit people...
I would hate to work there.
You wouldn't. They fired all the techs.
I had no idea it was possible to make vi even more annoying!
*ducks*
My 10 favorite linux configuration tools? Let's see:
- Left little finger
- Left ring finger
- Left middle finger
- Left index finger
- Left thumb
- Right little finger
- Right ring finger
- Right middle finger
- Right index finger
- Right thumb
Yapp, that sums it up nicely.I once did something for the duke and he named me boss of Hlaalu...even though I was already leader of house Redoran ;)
[...]because the character before death was generating a flood of replies never letting me quit the dialogue and killing that character was essential to the plot.
Ah. This wouldn't by chance have been the leader of the dark brotherhood? I had the same problem once. Right before I struck the final blow, the dialog would open and he'd talk me to death with no hope of escape.
Two things:
For one, you can be sure they will remove stuff like that. Bethesda makes great games, but they have two problems. One of them is they don't want to lose any potential customers by including adult material. This clearly shows in Morrowind.
The second problem is it's probably gonna be just as buggy as I hear was Fallout 2. Again, Bethesda makes great games (I've been in love with the Elder Scrolls series for 9-10 years now), but their code never is as bugfree as you'd want it.
On the upside, other than the points mentioned above, you can expect superb gameplay and probably possibilities of including as much profanity, nudity etc as you want by means of plugins. Take Morrowind, there's countless nudity plugins for it... ;) Also, I'm pretty sure they'll put efford into the manual. My Morrowind Game-of-the-Year version even came with several maps of the world :)
... if you don't think about it.
I'm a developer running my own business, so In a manner of speaking I do not have a job, not being employed by anyone. So perhaps he's right ;)
The farce will be with you...always.
Some years ago, a friend of mine came to visit. I was just working on an important project when he burst in and tripped over the power cable of my PC which was firmly attached right to the wall socket next to the door - I had run out of wall sockets in the proximity of my PC.
He actually managed to rip the wall socket out of the wall. Power went away and I had to install a new socket. Also, I lost some of my work. Needless to say that I now have plenty of free sockets in close proximity of my PC.
Why is everyone so thrilled with DNS? I would think this being /. everyone would be happy about keeping their static IP addresses. Of course, it may be that those that actually work at ISPs know how much work this will generate for them and are trying to get out of it. Hold on we need as much IT busy work as we can generate. This would be perfect for generating jobs for IT!
Unfortunally, this would also mean the end of the net as we know it.
Routing in the internet works with Autonomous Systems (ASs) that consist of one or more IP networks. If someone wanted to take one or more IPs from one network with him, the network it belongs to would have to be split in two, and the IPs to move would have to become a network of their own. Among other inconveniences, this would mean the routing tables would be enlargened quite a bit. This of course would mean slowing down the whole network because lookups for IP networks would take longer. The IP authorities are trying their best to keep the routing tables as small as possible for exactly that reason, aggregating entries wherever possible. This ruling - if it persists - would counter all their effords and have devastating effects on service quality for everybody.
That is why everyone is thrilled.
I don't have the room for a tv :[
Get yourself a DVB card, the quality is much better and recording is a lot less trouble.
With analog tv tuner cards you need to encode everything while with a DVB card you can just capture an mpeg stream - a lot less can go wrong and you can always cap full resolution without having to worry about the speed of your cpu or harddisk.
What ever happened to the engineer's motto "The right tool for the right job"? I'm not a scripts person, but indubitably, all scripting languages have their specific advantages for specific applications. Imho, this whole thing is made for trolling and flaiming and not for anything else. It's just stupid.
After ~1990: cars have: engine, auto transmission, radiator, automatic distribution system, fuel injection, anti-lock breaking system, power steering...there's a lot more things that are electronically controled and regulated. But guess what? These things still break.
Now, I'm not a car mechanic, but... if one of those electronic gadgets break, do you think they gonna take em out and repair em? They'll hook up some gizmo to the car and that will say "hey, part xyz is broken" and then some sweaty, 40 year old guy will yank it out of the car and force some new or used and possibly even working part in. But I very much doubt anyone will try to repair the actual component.
Yes, that's right. You get a stupid error message and there's virtually no way to find out what is going on. So there was a network error. Details? Windows is not used exclusively by Dummies, you know? Why is there no way to get more info, like a real syslog (and not this sad excuse they call event log).
There's also the fact the influence you can exercise over the system in general is extremely limited. Theres a few secret registry settings you can fiddle with, but that's it. I recommend continueing to use windows to a lot of dummy users, but I loathe to help them with computer problems because it means having to fiddle with an OS that doesn't communicate with you.
There's a lot of other important things - no really usable shell, no compiler, no extensive collection of tools, you name it.
The solution is not "punishing" the market or whatever (can't find the right word), the solution would be lowering the prices, it's not like they NEED the liceses to be so expensive, is it?
According to this recent slashdot newsbit they do...
The article also mentions a MIPS chip AMD plans to put out to be targeted at the Handheld PC market. Imagine a 1.4ghz Pocket PC?
That platform is called AU and it's been out for quite a long time now - albeit a lot slower. These are aimed at the embedded market. I've worked with those and they're quite usable System-on-Chip (SoC) devices.
The development board I had had a AU1500 I think, complete with mini-PCI and all the other interfaces you could possibly want. It was clocked at something like 300-400 MHz, but in the embedded area, that usually is not as important as you might think. In fact, often enough CPUs get their clock reduced to minimize heat development and EM interferences produced by the device.
Because of that and many other things I doubt there's many applications where speed is the biggest issue. Features (many interfaces, a good number of general-purpose IOs [GPIOs]) are an important part of the success too. Having a great many interface components implemented in the CPU itself means that designing your own carrier board is much easier and faster, and thus also a lot cheaper.
Knowing them (I can see the building the servers are in from my window right now) I suspect some mustered-out Sun workstations.
I must say I was pretty surprised by this. They have an active LUG and all and I really thought they could handle something like this. Seems I was wrong. Or perhaps they didn't give it enough attention and now need time to fix it - eg block most asian IPs, install a lower cpu usage spam filter etc.
Is there an english version? I tried two internet translastions, but it was still unreadable.
Running it through google would have been my translation, but since that obviously didn't yield usable results, I'll give you a summary. It basically says that some members of the ruling parties opposed this new law, but that nevertheless the parties agreed they wanted this law -- especially the justice minister.
As for courts rejecting patenting software under the current legislation, this is true but not entirely relevant since we're talking about the EU instanting a regulation that requires every member country to adjust local laws to this regulation. This means courts no longer have any basis to rule against software patents.
And now the shit is going south. This is gonna mean a damn lot of trouble.
Read this
You seem to have missed the point completely. This is not about what is, it is what is about to be.
(which was the other one?)
Afghanistan.
The only one profiting from it is the USA. Why would even a rather stupid gouverment have wanted that war as well?
The point I was trying to make is the one you picked up later in your reply - that if it had been to their advantage - economically or otherwise - they would have supported and even joint the action. For some 'sound' reasoning, ask politicians such as Blair/Berlusconi/Aznar.
PS: Whoo, after reading my post I think I have to add something: I used to live in the US. I like the people quite a bit. It's your leadership I can't stand.
Don't look at me, I live in Germany as well ;) I feel the same though.