And AFAIK, copyright infringement requires unauthorized *distribution*. Attempting to acquire bootleg material is, at best, a trivial offense. So what exactly are they claiming when they "notify" the ISPs?
my system has a lot more "gentoo" branding than any other word
Where? Except for the administration tools, Gentoo is about as vanilla as you can get without going to LFS. There's a USE flag called branding (off by default) that enables some Gentoo-branded splash screens, and there are plenty of Gentoo-related artwork packages you can install, but honestly I don't know what you're talking about. The only gratuitous logo I see during a normal day's work is the NVIDIA one, which I'm just too lazy to turn off.
It seems to me like a Pirates of the Caribbean MMORPG would just end up as a title tacked on to a game set in the era of the Spanish Main. There's not a whole lot of unique content or mythology in the movies, and therefore not many constraints. The possibilities are essentially the same as a MMO version of Sid Meier's Pirates!
Exactly. There's a reason Guild Wars is the only MMOG I've bought in years. At least the Diablos were free to play on Battle.net, which was more or less a "heavily instanced" MMOG, without the 3D chat rooms.
I never really thought about it before, but I have met...three girls, including my first girlfriend because of my guitar playing. Not exactly groupies, but close enough. And there's nothing quite like performing well in front of an audience.
Meh, just get a real guitar and play along with the song. It's not like powerchords are hard to play. Good choice with the song though..."Let's Go" is one of the few punk albums I really like.
It's not just educational stuff, either. There are quite a few communities only properly served by private trackers that are depressingly closed. If I wasn't living in the US, I would absolutely love to start a couple of my own, and not be a total dick when it comes to administration.
Yeah, what's with the draconian invite policies on these sites (eg, BitMe)? They're so fucking worried about "cheaters" that they block out people with unique material to share. It's an utterly pointless power trip.
As someone else said, an Open University would be very cool, both for current students around the world who want extra information/help, and those who just want to learn. All it really needs is a name and some minimal infrastructure. Wikiversity seems like a half-assed attempt; I'm sure someone can do better.
My major issue with Vista is RAM consumption. It runs horribly with less than 1GB of RAM, even if you turn off search and some other services, and switch to the classic theme. What the hell is it doing that chews up so much memory? This means that any game that does aggressive preloading (pretty please? I can't stand loading screens) suffers. As long as no game requires DirectX 10, there is no reason to move to Vista.
It doesn't really matter how amazingly wonderful Direct3D 10 is. It's going to be years before anyone but the most "hardcore" gamers (ie, people willing to spend $400+ for a two-slot power-sucking monstrosity) have DX10-compatible cards and Vista, so any game developer that doesn't want to lock out 95% of their audience will, at least, supply a DX9 renderer. Some will stay with DX9 because it's good enough, and hopefully some will realize they don't need to be fiddling with Direct3D themselves and move to cross-platform engines like OGRE.
I shudder to think what will happen to the pretty LCD screen just from carrying it around in my pocket every day. Unless they have some serious scratchproofing...
Alas, the one thing it's missing is a video recorder, so I couldn't make crappy-quality bootleg concert videos. I think I'll stick with my $20 clamshell phone for now.
Well, you asked a specific question. And I'm not sure why I put the speed of sound in quotes, though it does seem like an arbitrary concept if you look at it from the atomic level.
Sounds are transmitted by the vibration of particles. Any particle with mass moves at less than c, so it's impossible for the "speed of sound" to be greater than c.
Screw the Office and filesystem formats, those have been mostly reverseengineered. What they could do is publish complete API documentation, so it doesn't take Wine years to catch up.
Heh. In the past few years, MS has gotten a little less stupid about implementing backwards compatibility at all the wrong layers. I guess someone finally realized that Ye Olde FAT16 was put out of its misery ten years ago, and they were using an emulator for DOS compatibility anyway. I'll bet that typing c:\progra~1 in Explorer on Vista still works, though. *shudder*
I have actually done 'rm -rf/' once, it fails when some library (I'm guessing libc, I don't remember) is removed.
Well, I just tried it with a VM running reiserfs on a 2.6 kernel. It left behind/dev and its contents, plus the/proc and/sys directories, but otherwise there were no catastrophic errors and everything is gone. Time to revert...
Now, whether or not the rm command would fail once, say, glibc was removed would depend on the particular setup.
1) rm and everything else in/bin should be statically linked, so this is irrelevant.
2) One of the greatest features of *nix filesystems is that libraries that are in use can be replaced. As long as some program is still using the inode, the data won't be removed, just effectively invisible to anything that doesn't already have it open. Once the refcount reaches zero, it's removed. That's how rm could delete itself.
They prefer to solve problems with character interaction and stuff like that. Trying to shoehorn a starship combat simulation into the Trek universe is just not a wise thing to do.
An interesting point. I remember playing a Star Trek adventure game a LONG time ago (in the style of King's Quest 5-6), but I don't remember if it was any good. Maybe an RPG/FPS like Deus Ex or VTM: Bloodlines would work.
There are fundamental chemistry issues (energy, stability, etc.) that limits the likely composition and needs of any kind of life. There is a Wikipedia article that does a decent job of describing why even the more plausible forms of non-carbon based life are unlikely. Yes, there are many possibilities for life, but the laws of physics still apply.
Carl Sagan wrote some great material on the topic as well. I particularly like his reasoning on why it makes sense that any alien life would have developed the ability to sense a similar portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that we can.
NoScript is nice, but it could use a large default whitelist, something like the AdBlock Plus subscription options. It gets pretty tedious to allow every site manually, especially when some only break in subtle ways.
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And AFAIK, copyright infringement requires unauthorized *distribution*. Attempting to acquire bootleg material is, at best, a trivial offense. So what exactly are they claiming when they "notify" the ISPs?
It seems to me like a Pirates of the Caribbean MMORPG would just end up as a title tacked on to a game set in the era of the Spanish Main. There's not a whole lot of unique content or mythology in the movies, and therefore not many constraints. The possibilities are essentially the same as a MMO version of Sid Meier's Pirates!
Exactly. There's a reason Guild Wars is the only MMOG I've bought in years. At least the Diablos were free to play on Battle.net, which was more or less a "heavily instanced" MMOG, without the 3D chat rooms.
I never really thought about it before, but I have met...three girls, including my first girlfriend because of my guitar playing. Not exactly groupies, but close enough. And there's nothing quite like performing well in front of an audience.
I hope you don't mean this, which looks like a Playskool toy. And no matter what 1up says, this isn't anything like a Gibson Flying V.
Meh, just get a real guitar and play along with the song. It's not like powerchords are hard to play. Good choice with the song though..."Let's Go" is one of the few punk albums I really like.
It's not just educational stuff, either. There are quite a few communities only properly served by private trackers that are depressingly closed. If I wasn't living in the US, I would absolutely love to start a couple of my own, and not be a total dick when it comes to administration.
Yeah, what's with the draconian invite policies on these sites (eg, BitMe)? They're so fucking worried about "cheaters" that they block out people with unique material to share. It's an utterly pointless power trip.
As someone else said, an Open University would be very cool, both for current students around the world who want extra information/help, and those who just want to learn. All it really needs is a name and some minimal infrastructure. Wikiversity seems like a half-assed attempt; I'm sure someone can do better.
My major issue with Vista is RAM consumption. It runs horribly with less than 1GB of RAM, even if you turn off search and some other services, and switch to the classic theme. What the hell is it doing that chews up so much memory? This means that any game that does aggressive preloading (pretty please? I can't stand loading screens) suffers. As long as no game requires DirectX 10, there is no reason to move to Vista.
It doesn't really matter how amazingly wonderful Direct3D 10 is. It's going to be years before anyone but the most "hardcore" gamers (ie, people willing to spend $400+ for a two-slot power-sucking monstrosity) have DX10-compatible cards and Vista, so any game developer that doesn't want to lock out 95% of their audience will, at least, supply a DX9 renderer. Some will stay with DX9 because it's good enough, and hopefully some will realize they don't need to be fiddling with Direct3D themselves and move to cross-platform engines like OGRE.
I shudder to think what will happen to the pretty LCD screen just from carrying it around in my pocket every day. Unless they have some serious scratchproofing...
Alas, the one thing it's missing is a video recorder, so I couldn't make crappy-quality bootleg concert videos. I think I'll stick with my $20 clamshell phone for now.
Well, you asked a specific question. And I'm not sure why I put the speed of sound in quotes, though it does seem like an arbitrary concept if you look at it from the atomic level.
Sounds are transmitted by the vibration of particles. Any particle with mass moves at less than c, so it's impossible for the "speed of sound" to be greater than c.
Screw the Office and filesystem formats, those have been mostly reverse engineered. What they could do is publish complete API documentation, so it doesn't take Wine years to catch up.
Heh. In the past few years, MS has gotten a little less stupid about implementing backwards compatibility at all the wrong layers. I guess someone finally realized that Ye Olde FAT16 was put out of its misery ten years ago, and they were using an emulator for DOS compatibility anyway. I'll bet that typing c:\progra~1 in Explorer on Vista still works, though. *shudder*
2) One of the greatest features of *nix filesystems is that libraries that are in use can be replaced. As long as some program is still using the inode, the data won't be removed, just effectively invisible to anything that doesn't already have it open. Once the refcount reaches zero, it's removed. That's how rm could delete itself.
There are fundamental chemistry issues (energy, stability, etc.) that limits the likely composition and needs of any kind of life. There is a Wikipedia article that does a decent job of describing why even the more plausible forms of non-carbon based life are unlikely. Yes, there are many possibilities for life, but the laws of physics still apply.
Carl Sagan wrote some great material on the topic as well. I particularly like his reasoning on why it makes sense that any alien life would have developed the ability to sense a similar portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that we can.
NoScript is nice, but it could use a large default whitelist, something like the AdBlock Plus subscription options. It gets pretty tedious to allow every site manually, especially when some only break in subtle ways.