though non-linear RPGs are, for a variety of reasons, effectively dead
Precisely. Linear RPGs are incredibly boring to me. All the good nonlinear games (Darklands, Privateer, etc) are old. I have high hopes for TES: Oblivion, even though Morrowind wasn't that great.
My gut instinct tells me that there will be a Linux Port sometime
Why? No other Google software has been ported to Linux. Yes it's free, but it's still a shitty thing for them to do, considering how much of their infrastructure relies on Linux.
Who can get this kind of cash? How? If I raise $200,000 in a fund raiser for a candidate, and that candidate wins, how much of an ear do I get?
That's the most concise explanation of the USA's problems with campaign finance and corruption I've ever seen. Very nice.
It's an extremely serious problem, and one which I'm afraid has no solution. You can limit a candidate's funding all you want, but there will always be "independent" groups that can spend however much they want to say whatever they want. Or if you ban political advertising altogether, then the media will control the nation.
I suppose parliamentary systems where you vote for a party rather than an individual candidate might solve the problem to an extent, but they have their own flaws.
For now, the only option for the non-wealthy is to form a PAC so people with similar goals can buy their own politicians.
First, Moore's Law is about transistor density, which has nothing to do with hard drives. Secondly, hard drives haven't been getting any more reliable. That means all these hard drives have to be replaced every few years. It's a nightmare for long-term storage.
I think you're missing the point, which is that all that data is now much easier to lose, especially in the short term, if it's not taken care of properly.
This sounds freakishly like the old Do Not Call list. As in, it's a really stupid idea.
What are you talking about? The national Do Not Call list works. The whole point is that it's publicly available. What's the problem with that? It's now easy to prosecute violators.
This is a ridiculous statement, because there's no reasonable way to evaluate its truth. The FDA delays good drugs, but it also filters out the bad ones. There's no way to differentiate between good and bad without doing sufficient studies. Patients and doctors making "private choices" without enough trials are making uninformed, dangerous choices.
I'm sorry, but I'm sick and tired of the Libertarian "abolish the FDA" mantra.
Morover, Scott Kurz really doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same paragraph as Penny Arcade's Tycho -- his writing style is atrocious, his 'storyline' has no plot, and he personally backstabs fellow webcomic artists when he feels like it
Kurtz is a dick with idiotic opinions, but his comics are decent. PA doesn't really do storylines either, so it's not relevant to criticize PvP for lacking plot.
I'd strongly recommend against that. Webmin is okay for certain things, but it's horribly broken on many distros. The bigger distros (SuSE, Mandrake, Red Hat/Fedora) provide their own tools for administration; use them. Otherwise, you're best off doing it manually if you actually want to learn how things work.
Allowing parents to know if sexual predators live in their neighborhood is probably a good thing.
Why? What good can possibly be done with this information? Maybe you'll be excessively paranoid about your kids when they're out, but what good does that do anyone? Lock up the real criminals longer, don't bother with crap like this that encourages paranoia and lynch mobs.
two seconds of polite persuasion would have sufficed to explain to him you had Unix, and Unix was virus-free.
That's a bit silly. There have been tons of local and remote holes in Unix-like OSes. rkhunter is the first example of Unix "anti-virus" software that comes to mind.
Out of curiosity, what are your favorite Floyd albums, with and without Syd?
Well there were only one and a half albums with Syd, and they're good, but not my favorites either.
A rough ranking:
1. Meddle
2. WYWH / Animals
3. Atom Heart Mother
4. More / Obscured by Clouds
5. Dark Side
6. The Final Cut / The Wall
This really varies depending on my mood, though. I guess my problem with Dark Side is that "Great Gig" and "Money" sort of break the flow. And maybe the saxophone solos too. Don't get me wrong, it's a great album, but I think it's inconsistent.
I tend to think of buying the average CD as paying a few bucks for a handful of good songs, and then a bunch of filler thrown in for free.
This keeps coming up again and again, and I really have to wonder what "artists" you people are listening to. Stop buying pop crap, and you'll stop getting crap.
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Precisely. Linear RPGs are incredibly boring to me. All the good nonlinear games (Darklands, Privateer, etc) are old. I have high hopes for TES: Oblivion, even though Morrowind wasn't that great.
Why? No other Google software has been ported to Linux. Yes it's free, but it's still a shitty thing for them to do, considering how much of their infrastructure relies on Linux.
I really really hope that "promote" wasn't the verb you were looking for.
What useful information does this provide to terrorists that scouting out the area doesn't?
Ogg Media.
Also they better pull down all Adobe files because Acrobat is not open sourced.
PDF is an open format, with open-source readers available (at least on *nix).
That's the most concise explanation of the USA's problems with campaign finance and corruption I've ever seen. Very nice.
It's an extremely serious problem, and one which I'm afraid has no solution. You can limit a candidate's funding all you want, but there will always be "independent" groups that can spend however much they want to say whatever they want. Or if you ban political advertising altogether, then the media will control the nation.
I suppose parliamentary systems where you vote for a party rather than an individual candidate might solve the problem to an extent, but they have their own flaws.
For now, the only option for the non-wealthy is to form a PAC so people with similar goals can buy their own politicians.
What are you talking about?
First, Moore's Law is about transistor density, which has nothing to do with hard drives. Secondly, hard drives haven't been getting any more reliable. That means all these hard drives have to be replaced every few years. It's a nightmare for long-term storage.
I think you're missing the point, which is that all that data is now much easier to lose, especially in the short term, if it's not taken care of properly.
What are you talking about? The national Do Not Call list works. The whole point is that it's publicly available. What's the problem with that? It's now easy to prosecute violators.
Don't forget Photoshop!
This is a ridiculous statement, because there's no reasonable way to evaluate its truth. The FDA delays good drugs, but it also filters out the bad ones. There's no way to differentiate between good and bad without doing sufficient studies. Patients and doctors making "private choices" without enough trials are making uninformed, dangerous choices.
I'm sorry, but I'm sick and tired of the Libertarian "abolish the FDA" mantra.
How so? It just means that they'll have to improve their technology first. That doesn't seem like a setback to me.
Kurtz is a dick with idiotic opinions, but his comics are decent. PA doesn't really do storylines either, so it's not relevant to criticize PvP for lacking plot.
I'd strongly recommend against that. Webmin is okay for certain things, but it's horribly broken on many distros. The bigger distros (SuSE, Mandrake, Red Hat/Fedora) provide their own tools for administration; use them. Otherwise, you're best off doing it manually if you actually want to learn how things work.
Tip: over-explaining the joke makes it not funny. I don't think most of us had to consult a dictionary for that one.
This is not about success; this is about abusing a monopoly to gain another monopoly.
You're either wholly ignorant of the case, or you're the idiot.
bash and csh act the same? What planet are you on? I mean, tab completion alone...
Why? What good can possibly be done with this information? Maybe you'll be excessively paranoid about your kids when they're out, but what good does that do anyone? Lock up the real criminals longer, don't bother with crap like this that encourages paranoia and lynch mobs.
It'll probably come along with KDE4, which is being ported to Windows thanks to Qt4.
Never have, never will. Pure capitalism is just as impossible as pure communism.
That's a bit silly. There have been tons of local and remote holes in Unix-like OSes. rkhunter is the first example of Unix "anti-virus" software that comes to mind.
They do a lot more than that! I've just been downloading some Warren Zevon shows from their Live Music Archive.
Well there were only one and a half albums with Syd, and they're good, but not my favorites either.
A rough ranking:
1. Meddle
2. WYWH / Animals
3. Atom Heart Mother
4. More / Obscured by Clouds
5. Dark Side
6. The Final Cut / The Wall
This really varies depending on my mood, though. I guess my problem with Dark Side is that "Great Gig" and "Money" sort of break the flow. And maybe the saxophone solos too. Don't get me wrong, it's a great album, but I think it's inconsistent.
I never said that.
(which in regards to music is a very subjective term - one mans rubbish is another mans masterpiece).
Absolutely. I hold the fairly unpopular opinion that Dark Side of the Moon is overrated compared to other Floyd albums.
My current favorite example of a "perfect" album: Dancing in the Dragon's Jaws by Bruce Cockburn
This keeps coming up again and again, and I really have to wonder what "artists" you people are listening to. Stop buying pop crap, and you'll stop getting crap.